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I’m going to suggest a simple practice which is a manner of opening up to multi-dimensional perception. You have a sheet of paper that you drew on a circle on. You get another round object that is smaller in circumference than the first circle. You draw that smaller circle in the center of your original circle. If it’s too small, you’ll notice that this won’t work. If you get it too small, then your perception will focus either on one circle or on the other circle. If you get it too largein other words, if the new circle is too much the size of your original circlethen they just blend as a band. You want it not too small and not too large. It sounds like a nursery rhyme. Ideally, the new circle should be about two-thirds the size of the original circle. Then you sit down and you do your gazing practice. What you do is, you’re gazing at both circles at the same time.

You’re seeing them in your field of awareness simultaneously. And you’re not trying to make one or the other disappear. Something really interesting will begin to happen. What happens is that you begin to feel, in your perception, radiance coming out of one circle and going into the other. Now that radiance is a movement of energy that you are perceiving.

Its as if there’s some kind of energy exchange between the two circles. There is an energy exchange between the two circles. The new circle has to be the right size; if you make it a quarter of your original circle, it doesn’t work. If you make it 90% of your original circle, it won’t work either. You want to be somewhere around 65 to 70% of the size of your original circle. In gazing at these two circles, you are actually beginning to feel something like concentric waves. In fact, they will actually begin to expand beyond the outer circle.

We spoke about a circle being a two-dimensional figure, mathematically its x2 + y2=1. If we wanted to make a three-dimensional figure, mathematically it would be x2 + y2 + z2 = 1. We’d have depth there. We would actually have a sphere. We would have dimensional depth there, like a ball, a sphere, or the earth.

Then we go to four-dimensionality, which we call the dimension of time. From the perception of three dimensions, four-dimensionality is like a ball being inflated to its maximum inflation and then deflating and going back to being a one-dimensional dot like the expanding and contracting universe.

When we go to five dimensions, what we’re seeing is not from the perspective of the third, but from the perspective of the fourth. What we are seeing is a vortex, spinning with a center. What we’re doing is that we’re beginning to perceive four-dimensionality going into five-dimensionality.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.

While sitting here tonight, watching the conclusion of “There Are No Children Here,” my heart pulsated as I heard a little innocent boy say, “When I wake up in the morning, I feel good that God gave me another chance to stay alive.” This statement as innocent as it was, was true to him because of where he lived, and the lethal possibilities that he faced daily of being killed by someone’s bullet.

Oh — I thought, just how much do I really mean those words when I wake up in the morning? Are those words as true to me as they are to this little boy, or have they become a ritual — empty words with no meaning?

In our often-stressful lives, we are constantly absorbed by negativisms, feeling that our troubles are insurmountable and that no one else in this world is troubled by such circumstances.

We are often absorbed by meaningless thanksgivings — being thankful only in empty words for the things that we have. We are so absorbed with the things that we do not have, that we effortlessly forget about the things that we do have. Things such as loved ones, a place to lay our heads, food on our tables and clothes on our backs. Things such as — LIFE.

Things that we often complain about — that we often yearn — overpoweringly forces us to forget to be thankful for what we have. While we are often concerned with the things in life that we feel like we cannot live without, there are millions of others, of young girls and boys, men and women, who are genuinely thankful to just be alive.

Just to be alive — is enough alone to be thankful. Take out time — this day — to just be thankful.

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Motivational Speaker, Audrina Jones Bunton was born the seventh of eight children in her household in Pinehurst, North Carolina into a loving and committed Christian home. As she has 2 children, over 40 nieces and nephews and great- nieces and nephews, it is not unusual to find her under the same roof with many of her maternal five-generation family on weekends and on holidays. In her youth, she fondly recalls traveling throughout the U.S. with her family, as her parents ministered from state to state year after yearhelping people as they traveled.

A graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Audrina is a Competent Toastmaster of Toastmasters International and serves as the North Carolina District Sergeant At Arms. She is a former counselor of the Durham Pregnancy Support Services, a Christian-oriented crisis pregnancy center in Durham, North Carolina and is currently a Social Research Assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Audrina is currently studying at the Master’s Divinity School in Evansville, Indiana with a combined concentration in Biblical Counseling and IABC certification.

She also serves as the Youth Director at the Come As You Are Evangelistic Center in Aberdeen, North Carolina where her mother, Lydia Jones is the pastor.

Modeling after a song that her mother so often sings, and one that Martin Luther King, Jr. often quoted, her life and speeches are based on the following lyrics, “If I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer somebody with a word or song, If I can show somebody he’s traveling wrong, Then my living will not be in vain.”

Audrina resides with her husband William, and 2 children, Audrina Lorraine and William Woodrow.

Have you ever thought? What inspires YOU? What is it that drives you day in and day out? What is it that inspires you?

We think of creative people as being inspired and ask about their work. What inspired you to paint, draw, produce this piece of work? What inspired you to make this? Usually the answer is: a book, poem, film, experience, person, a place or in Cole Porter’s case the ‘phone call from the director’.

Something else or someone else inspired the artist, the songwriter. But what about the person in a regular job? What inspires you?

“Inspiration is a desire to live life without flinching. To take a risk and possibly fail.
To act on your emotions, creativity, ability and beliefs. To take criticism but have the faith in yourself to do it anyway. Bloody hard work, but then hard work never
killed anyone (or so my Dad says). Oh, and I find foster parents inspiring.
They pick up the pieces when the fundamental teachings and rules of our society fail. If I were religious I’d ask God to bless em.”
Carolyn Tomley
(Sydney Morning Herald website).

What is it that inspires you?

You can begin to see that if nothing inspires you or excites you or lights up your life you are really missing something. You are just like a robot performing task after task. We believe that deep down you have a place where you can be touched. You have a place that is solely ours. Solely for you to show the world. Can you name it?

What inspires me, is the thought that I am more than my body. My limitations are only down to my thoughts. Thus I want to keep pushing the boundaries to find out what is there. Find out what I can communicate to the world. I am inspired by the fact that through what I do I may enable another person to open their mind. To remove the blinkers and reach their possibilities.

Julie is inspired by life. All that is around her. To Julie, inspiration is a rush of adrenalin, a rush of energy that creates a clearing in her thinking. It’s that time when you see something from a different perspective and say to yourself, Why didn’t see it like this before?

For Julie, inspiration is like the prisoner who says you can do whatever you like to my body but you can’t touch my soul, my reason for living.

But what inspires you? What makes you go to that space where you continue to do what you do for hour after hour, when you forget the need to eat and drink. What is it that inspires you?

Some artists suggest that it is their imagination that inspires them. The need to tell the world what is going on in their heads. The links that they make. The different ways of viewing the world. After all literature, music and visual arts are all about the originator communicating with the rest of us.

So inspiration appears to be linked with the need to communicate with others. It may not be in words. But we feel it is about communication. What about you? What are you inspired to communicate?

Inspiration is linked to innovation. To introduce new ways of seeing things. Inspiration is a way of understanding the essence of ourselves. Understanding who we are and what we dream about. Whatever it is that inspires you, it is the core of your very being. So what is it?

Perhaps the role of inspiration is to wake us up from a big sleep. A sleep where everyday is the same. Where we contribute to the world but at the same time we don’t contribute because there is nothing of us in there. Perhaps the role of inspiration is to get us to become involved with the world rather than be a bystander, an observer.

This was definitely the situation for Alice Foote MacDougall, an American Business woman before the second world war. Like many of her era she was driven by her husband’s financial failure and the necessity of supporting her three young children.

…the opportunity offered by life to women is far in excess of any offered to men.
To be the inspiration is more than to be the tool. To create the world,
a greater thing than to reform it.

When we tap into whatever it is that inspires us we become a full member of society. We are able to share our ideas, thoughts and emotions. As we share and show our dreams, emotions and ideas and thoughts then we gradually become to understand the person we truly are.

So, the role of inspiration is more than we first thought. More that just a drive to action. It actually enables you to understand the very essence of yourself and what you have to offer the world.

Inspiration gives you understanding.
Inspiration gives you an identity.
Inspiration gives you a way of being.

Can you really live without knowing what inspires you?

Good luck

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