Our spiritual self is like the garden in our backyard with acres of diamond.
There are unlimited riches to be discovered within us, if we are aligned with our spiritual self.

In “Recovering the Soul”, Larry Dossey. M.D. said that the human mind exists somewhere in time and space in concert with the physical body, which opens it up to boundless opportunities:

“Suppose for the moment that we could show that the human mind is nonvocal; that it is ultimately independent of the physical brain and body, and that as a correlate it transcends time and space. This I believe would rank in importance far beyond anything ever discovered, past or present, about the human organism. This discovery would strike a chord of hope about our inner nature that has been silenced in an age of science; it would stir a new vision of the human as triumphant over fresh and blood. It would anchor the human spirit once again on the side of God instead of randomness, chance and decay. It would spur the human will to greatness instead of expediency and self service… And once again we might recover something that has been notably absent in our experience of late; the human soul.”

Despite its importance in our personal growth, our spiritual self is often relegated to second fiddle when we are hopelessly brainwashed by years of formal training in quantitative and analytical skill; all of which are left-brain dominant skills.

Despite its importance in our personal growth, our spiritual self is often relegated to second fiddle when we are hopelessly brainwashed by years of formal training in quantitative and analytical skill; all of which are left-brain dominant skills.

Our spiritual self opens up a new paradigm for personal growth. It can potentially move us to a new dimension of possibilities that we otherwise would never encounter.

Think about many highly successful corporate executives, who changed course to pursue their spiritual self by doing communities services, pursuing spirituality, committing to nature preservation, etc. Success takes a different meaning for these executives who have all “been there, done that”.

The human spirit is our ultimate home.

All the tools that we acquired with our mind power will not make us a complete human being, if the human spirit is lacking. Our spiritual self is the finest aspect of our personality. It brings freedom from fear and pain, and gives purpose and meaning to our life.

We often start our career defining what we know to be success, and work for it passionately year after year. Many of us reached varying degree of success in career and life, only to start rethinking what it all means. Many find that the success they have achieved does not satisfy the deeper yearning within their spiritual self. Despite the financial and social success, we find ourselves insecure and unhappy. We realized that, without spiritual fulfillment, all our achievements become meaningless. If we are not successful as human beings, all the material success looks painfully shallow.

Too often, underlying the glamorous and successful life that we see in our society are personal misery that stems from unfulfilled spiritual needs. And so, more and more people embarked on a journey of spiritual awareness, to develop the three powerful spiritual skills: A sense of wholeness and community, humility, and love.

Sense of Wholeness and Community

Our sense of wholeness and community empowers us with the recognition that we are part of something greater than ourselves –a relationship, a family, and a community. Our ability to act for a greater good of others enriches our spiritual self and frees our mind from self-centeredness.

It is commonly observed that breakdown of cooperation occurs quickly in organizations where superiors are “only out for themselves”, and corporate policies don’t respect individual needs and concerns. Such environment only fosters disloyalty, apathy, and self-serving behaviors.

Humility

With humility, we realize that we are a small but integral part of something greater than our own small self. That is the key value that builds the belonging of people.

Humility seems to run contrary to a world where everyone is trained and encouraged to be the best. The word “humility” conjures the impression of weakness, meekness, lack of drive, and easily taken advantage of. It is hard to associate humility with personal power.

Humility is one of the most powerful qualities that arise from inner strength and health. We experience humility through a deep sense of awe when we participate in the birth of a child, gaze at the stars, experience the power of thunderstorm, or experience the awe and beauty of nature. These experiences strike a chord deeply with our spiritual self.

I remember the younger days when I participated in school brass band performance, Chinese orchestra concert, and public choir performance, those are truly humbling experiences. The performers, crews, and the audience are all integral part of the whole experience that is transcendental. At the end of the performance, everyone leave the hall with a feeling of kinship with everyone there. There was no longer any need to feel more important than the next person. Everyone was part of the unique awe-inspiring experience.

Our sense of awe opens up our spirit of humility and nourishes our spiritual self, making us a better human being.

Love

Love is shown in selfless giving, be it money, time, care, concerns, and attention. The more you love, the less fearful you become. The more you give, the more abundance you gain. Love and selfless giving release us from the limitation of our ego.

It is interesting to know how the nature of pain is related to love. Whenever we experience pain, whether physical or psychological, we experience a boundary or limit. Many people who suffer chronic pain, which medication or surgery can no longer help, learn to eliminate pain by visualizing and eliminating the boundary lines around the pain. Once the boundary is removed, the pain no longer exists. This is usually done by relaxation, concentration and imagery.

If we take this to a broader scale, our life suffers pain whenever there are limitations and boundary that we could not overcome, be it physically, emotionally or psychologically. These limitations are mostly created by our ego. And love is the powerful force that could break and dissolve all the limitations.

The more we are aligned with our spiritual self, the more we are able to work on our ego to break these limitations, which is the essence of inner healing. This is the path to boundless and abundant living. This is what success is all about.

What is psychic intuition?

Is it the source of unlimited intelligence that lies within our human mind, which holds the ultimate success secrets for our life?

There is surprising evidence to this question, both from first-hand experiences as well as laboratory evidence. Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author of “Think and Grow Rich” and “The Laws of Success” believed that the human mind was capable of tapping into universal fields of intelligence to access ideas and inspiration.

Napoleon Hill writes:

“The great artists, writers, musicians and poets became great because they acquire the habit of relying upon the still, small voice that speaks from within, through the faculty of creative imagination. It is a fact well known to people who have keen imaginations that their best ideas come through so-called ‘hunches’.”

Hill wrote about how one inventor from Maryland, the late Dr. Elmer R. Gates, used this technique to come up with over 200 patents. Gates would sit in his soundproof laboratory equipped with a pad of writing paper.
He would shut off the lights and ponder on the known factors of the invention on which he was working. He would remain in this position until his psychic intuition started to flow, when ideas began to “flash” into his mind in connection with the unknown factors of the invention.

On one occasion, ideas came so fast to Gates that he was forced to write for almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he examined his work he found that they contained a minute description of principles that had no parallel among the known data of the scientific world. Moreover the answer to his problem was intelligently presented in those notes. This is the amazing power of psychic intuition at work.

The greatest inventor of our time, Thomas Alva Edison, used a similar technique. Edison was known for taking frequent naps in the middle of the day. It is likely that during these naps he was entering the deep level of relaxation, when his mind gained access to the source of psychic intuition. He would often come out of these naps with the solution to problems that had been bugging him. Edison was awarded 1368 distinct patents and invented, among other things, the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the film projector, and the first motion picture.

Edison was known to have said,

“Ideas come from space. This may seem impossible and hard to believe but it’s true. Ideas come from out of space.”

Your Psychic Intuition Is Your Idea Bank

Where do creative ideas come from? The brain? The mind?

For best-selling author Richard Bach, the idea came from a bird. Bach said this in an interview quoted in the November 1972 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

“I was walking along one night, worrying about the rent, when I heard this voice say, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. But no one was there. I had absolutely no idea what it meant. When I got home, I suddenly had a vision of a seagull flying along, and I began to write. The story certainly didn’t spring from any conscious invention on my part. I just put down what I saw.”

Today, based on brain research findings, we know that these ideas come from his psychic intuition, which is only accessible when the mind is calm and reach a deep level of relaxation.

Psychic Intuition in the Business World

Does the psychic intuition have applications in the world of business?

Professor John Mihalasky, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, seems to think so. In experiments he performed with company CEOs he observed that the CEOs who performed best in tests of intuition also tended to be the ones with the best success rates at running their business.

What is the implication of such psychic intuition power?

With this mind-blowing knowledge concerning the power of our psychic intuition, it is like being given the map to the great treasure that can serve you and your life forever. Anyone who has mastered the key to developing intuition will have found the ultimate success secrets.
Napoleon Hill suggested in his book “The Laws of Success” that the most successful people of his time had learned to tap into their sixth sense (or psychic intuition):

“A genius is a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to a point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought”.
This concept of tapping into a universal source of ideas through psychic intuition also finds applications in the world of science and technology. You can have access to your own psychic intuition power, if you are willing to learn. The following is a simple technique you can use for developing intuition.

The Basic Psychic Intuition Technique

Meditation is the key exercise that brings you to a state where you can access the power of your psychic intuition. When you have meditated deeply to reach your alpha level, think of the problem you wish to solve. When you quiet your mind during meditation you open the channel for higher wisdom and guidance to come to you through your intuitive mind.
Analyze the problem from all aspects and bring to mind all points of information or data you have on the problem. Frame the specific questions in your mind.

Now let your mind wander. Jot down any interesting ideas or thoughts that come to you. The answer may come to you through words, mental pictures or feelings.

Mastering the control of psychic intuition is akin to finding your success secrets in life. However, like any critical life skills, the skill of controlling your psychic intuition takes patience and perseverance to learn and master.

We all know that the human brain controls all the organs in our body to perform millions of activities everyday.

But do you know in more specific detail how your brain functions?

Do you know that you can increase your brainpower by simply following some simple daily brain exercises?

The Science of Human Brain

Experiments of brain research conducted by research institutions have found that the human brain operates on a small amount of electrical energy. This electric current vibrates at different speeds. Like the way your heart beats, your brain vibrates at a certain number of times every second. The level of your brain’s activity, as determined by your brain’s rhythm or vibration frequency, can have significant impact on the quality of your life. If you can slow down your brain waves, you can control your mind to perform at the same level as the high achievers.

Understanding The Brain Frequency

The normal human brain can vibrate at four different frequencies: Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta.

Beta state is the normal conscious state of mind when we are awake. This is the state where people conduct more than 90 percent of their daily activities.

Alpha state is a frequency lower than Beta, where a person is somewhere between being awake and asleep.

At Theta, the speed of the brain’s vibration is even lower than Alpha, when the mind is associated with deep, comfortable sleep. Lastly, at Delta, a person is at a deep sleep or completely unconscious.

When a person becomes stressed, fearful, angry, nervous, or feels any stirring emotion, the brain’s vibration frequency increases. The more stressed we become, the more rapidly our brain waves vibrate. All negative thoughts, as well as anger, fear, and compulsive cravings, tend to be fast. On the other hand, slower brain waves are associated with people who are calm, confident, and at ease. Positive thoughts like love, patience, and understanding, are slow.

What Is The Benefits of Slowing Down Our Minds?

When the human brain is regularly tuned to a slower frequency such as the Alpha state, it can produce profound impact on all aspects of our well-being -from mental, physical to emotional. Science has proved that slowing down our minds can bring upon the following benefits:

• We can control our mind to focus completely in the present.
• We can remain calm even while under pressure.
• We can accelerate our learning.
• When we perform affirmations and creative visualization, it is more effective at the Alpha level of mind.
• We can go into the state of deep relaxation, which is important to our health and emotional wellbeing.
• It is conducive to creative thinking, intuition, and problem solving.

Why Should We Learn to Slow Down Our Brain Frequency?

Scientists have gathered conclusive results from brain research to show that most people do their thinking at the Beta level, while only a minority of the population are natural Alpha thinkers. Unfortunately, this common experience of the Beta level of mind is not the ideal state of mind for learning and working. When we think and work at Beta state, we are prone to errors and misjudgments. So, why are people not thinking at Alpha level?

With some brain exercises and the right environment, it is not difficult to consciously slow down our mind to enter into Alpha state of mind. However, there is a problem that most people encounter in accessing the Alpha state – there is a tendency to fall asleep when their brain frequency slows down to Alpha. For most people who are not trained, it is difficult to stay awake during Alpha state.

The Alpha is the state at which we can connect to our subconscious mind and unleash the maximum potential of our mind. However, if you are unable to remain awake at Alpha state, there is no way to conduct any activities to utilize this high productive state of mind. The high achievers are the minority group of people who are able to stay awake at the Alpha level and perform their thinking at this deeper level of mind.

What Is The Benefits Of Being In Alpha State?

When the human brain is at Alpha state, it is deeply relaxed with greatly expanded awareness. It is capable of higher level of tasks that are not possible during Beta state such as the following:
When thinking at the Alpha level your awareness is vastly expanded such that you can see the whole, or what we known as the big picture. It is said that the Beta frequency is for looking at the trees while the Alpha frequency is for looking at the forest.

Its heightened state of awareness enables the mind to sense and receive information that is not available or accessible to the five senses. It possesses a high level of senses called intuition.

It is able to produce more creative ideas, and have a sharper problem solving skill.

The mind operating at this frequency is capable of lateral thinking at an exponential speed, many times more powerful than the super-computer.

The knowledge of how our human brain works opens up the ways on how we can increase our brainpower. The key is to deliberately and consciously, through daily brain exercise, brings your brain into the Alpha state. Like a magnet that gets stronger the more you charge it with electricity, you can live a more successful life if you can tune your mind to the Alpha state more regularly and skillfully.

1. Brain exercises that are just that brain exercises, and nothing more.

2. Brain exercises as a by-product.

3. Brain exercises with a purpose.

Conquests of Camelot is an adventure game designed by Christy Marx. The game has some good puzzles and riddles. Below are all those riddles that can be found in the game.

1. Three lives have I, Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I? 
A: Water.

2. Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?
A: Iceberg.

3. When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty nothing moves me, I have two skins one without and one within. What am I?
A: Glove.

4. If a man carried my burden he would break his back. I am not rich, but leave silver in my track. What am I?
A: Snail.

5. My life can be measured in hour, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow wind is my foe. What am I?
A: Candle.

6. To unravel me you need a simple key, no key that was made by locksmith’s hand, but a key that only I will understand. What am I?
A: Riddle.

7. Weight in my belly, Trees on my back, Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack. What am I?
A: Ship

8. If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me nothing will matter. What am I?
A: Heart.

9. I turn around once, what is out will not get in. I turn around again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
A: Key.

10. I am only useful when I am full, yet I am always full of holes. What am I?
A: Net.

11. You can see nothing else when you look in my face, I will look you in the eye and I will never lie. What am I?
A: Mirror.

12. I drive men mad for love of me, Easily beaten, never free. What am I?
A: Gold.

13. Glittering points that downward thrust, sparkling spears that never
rust. What am I?
A: Icicles.

14. When set loose I fly away, never so cursed as when I go astray. What am I?
A: Arrow.

15. When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I?
A: Wine.

16. I am always hungry, I must always be fed, the finger I lick will soon turn red. What am I?
A: Fire.

17. Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun. What am I?
A: Shadow.

18. Bright as diamonds, loud as thunder, never still, a thing of wonder. What am I?
A: Waterfall.

19. You heard me before, yet you hear me again, then I die, ’til you call me again. What am I?
A: Echo.

20. Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, a lady’s delight. What am I?
A: Pearl.

21. Until I am measured I am not known, yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
A: Time.

22. All about, but cannot be see, can be captured, cannot be held, no
throat, but can be heard. What am I?
A: Air.

23. I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay’s feather, and lapis lazuli. What am I?
A: Blue.

24. I go around in circles but always straight ahead, never complain no matter where I am led. What am I?
A: Wheel.

25. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet at the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. What am I?
A: Music.

26. I sleep within a sturdy dome, when I travel my shield is my home. What am I?
A: Turtle.

What Does This Tell Us?