When I am afraid ...

Long time no blog. This is a long overdue post. I had been bringing my kids and family to a church near to my house, on and off, a few times.  Each time also gave me good impression, many things to chew on, and some inner strength. Guess when time and schedule permits, we would be going there more often.

I remember the very first time, when I was with my younger son Lincoln in the younger kids class, I learnt about golden verse like "When I am afraid, I put my TRUST in You" from Psalm. Also, the Parable of Sower from Matthew, about the seed growing on different level of soil (faith) and how the environment affect the growing of the seed into a plant.  The teachings and sharing by the teenage leader, and some young teacher, are simply truthful from their heart, and inspiring.  I had learnt about those teachings when since young (I went to a Christian Primary school, and a Catholic Secondary school, even took Bible Studies in my O-Level exam, and got an distinction), but never had thought about the meanings behind are so deep.  Yet, can be explained to kids in an interesting manner that you will feel amazed on the kids response :)

Today, the topic was on "Hope", and "Faith" which are quite abstract concept and not easy to explain, but the young teachers were able to pull it through. When I was watching one video being shown to this combined class comprises of Pri3 onwards kids, my eyes were moisted.  The simple cartoon was from Korea. http://youtu.be/Kusgx612VMs

 

Please have a look if you have few minutes to spare.  You will feel much relieved that it has been all worth the wait, and the 'hard work'.  Now I know why people are crazy about K-Drama. The song and video is simply touching, and certainly has created a huge impact on me.  I had taken the above photo on one Saturday morning after slight drizzling in the East Coast Park near my home.  Now I know why I had taken the foot print.  It must have been about the footprint in the sand poem by Mary Stevenson.  The one set of foot print is when God was carrying us, when we were down, during our most trying periods.

Towards the end of this morning Sunday class, I was pleasantly surprised that the closing was about the book "Heaven is for Real" that the young teacher read recently, on the little boy Colton's short stay in Heaven for just about 3 minutes, and come back to tell his story.  My two lovely sons though have not read the book, shouted that they knew about the story (as I had downloaded the iPhone App before, and they must have been reading it many times).  Grin.  Do have a look at my other blogpost, when I reviewed about this interesting Heaven is for Real book.  It was a fun read.  Have a good week ahead folks!! Talk later.

Saved by the Light

 

Got the above book in first photo from the Taiwan book publisher recently. Was attracted by the title, on many prophesies that were made by this man, who had come back from a close shave of death. In fact, he had died 2 times before he wrote his first book "Saved by the Light". He is no other than Dannion Brinkley - a New York Times best selling author, by his three book series: 1. "Saved by the Light", 2. "At Peace in the Light", and last one - 3. "Secrets of the Light".

Instead of getting more details on the prophesies that was shown to Dannion in twelve boxes (or video tapes?) - that was in 1975, this book is more light hearted on his encounters when he was called back and shown the magnificent aspects of Heaven. There he went thru the holistic whole life review - and switched role to re-experience those he had hurt before, from other person's perspective. He described a lot more in his second death (think was a heart surgery) when he cheated death again. Both times he had a brief encounter, but was called back to earth, as he still has his unfinished business. This book was a light read. Then, I began to search and realize that I actually had and read his third book years ago in 2009.

The second photo is Secrets of the Light Chinese version (right), and the original English version (left) which I must have bought also sometime later (not yet read). I recently re-read the Chinese one. Just a quick update: this guy is real. The way he described his cerebral experience echoes a lot with Swendenborg's work. The only difference is that he described in such details that I have to say he must have personal experienced it, that left a profound imprint in his mind. The book will be a good tool book on really how to live the heaven life or create Heaven on Earth. I shall give a more detailed report after I finish reading the English original text. Just a preview, inside this last book, Dannion and the co-author (his wife) actually laid down the formula very clearly, using

A fourfold path to Power
1. The Power in Love
2. The Power in Choice
3. The Power in Belief
4. The Power in Prayer
These he called them the foundation.

And share how to live up the "7 Lessons from Heaven"  - more to come later. Stay tuned!!

Swedenborg's Great Gift

I first come across Swedenborg's work from a Japanese manga. It intrigues me a lot, as it describes his adventure between Heaven, Hell and the Soul world in great details. Reading the comic book is like having gone thru the same journey with him, as it's full of pictures and lots of visual impact.

Think I have seen this book around in Singapore few months back or last year. Didn't buy it until no more stock left. Anyway, I got it directly shipped from Taiwan the publisher, at a cheaper deal :) so still not missing much I hope.

A little intro about Emanuel Swedenborg. He was a talented Sweden scientist lived in the 16th centuries, often compared as great as Sir Isaac Newton. He experienced a life turning event when he was 57 years old, as he described Lord had chosen him to be the spoke person, to share his experiences when he was able to go back and forth between Earthly realm and other realms (Heavens, Hells and intermediate Soul worlds) using an out of body near death experience (NDE) that he could exercise at will and at ease. Since then, he had dropped his scientific work, and devoted his next 27 years, experiencing and recording a lot of literatures - there are many yet to be published. Swedenborg even prophesied the date he would die 1 year beforehand, and tried to expedite to finish the unfinished work until the last day.

This book is actually translated from Korean text, whereby Swedenborg Foundation condensed the key teachings - to serve as an intro into Swedenborg's world.

To cut it short, I like this book not just about its description on eternaity of soul, the different levels within Heaven and Hell (3 each), but especially also on why and how could we get back to our heavenly Home (aka Heaven) while we are in this earthy Home.

The path is simple: Love God, and love Others (ie People). (愛神，愛人)

Our ticket to heaven can only be earned when we are doing above two while we are on earth. In fact, one should blend in with others, not detached, and start to (re)pick up our long lost skill - by starting to love own-self, our family, neighbors, colleagues, company, nation and the Earth. It's so simple, but we just forgotten about it when we grow up, and buried by surrounding distractions.

The other point I like most, is on Free will and why is it the greatest gift from God. It's again simple - with free will, man kind can make decision, same as God. I read elsewhere before that Angels do not possess free will, as they have returned it back to God long back, so that their sole existence is to serve God. If even Angel does not have free will, while we human do have, how profound is this, that God as creator and parent has given this greatest gift to it's children!!

Like the front cover of this book says, just by browsing few pages of Swedenborg's book may change one's life perspective forever. Please grab one if you can. I am sure I will read it again from time to time, to familiarize myself to the way back to my true home :).  Hope you can, too! :)

Living from the Heart <3

Long time no blog. I just attended a Heart meditation workshop over a 4 days period, still trying to let the dusts settled in my heart on what I have learnt, and what I have changed. This blog post hopes to share some of my insights - thus far.

The workshop was based on Drunvalo Melchizedek's materials and his teachings. Start from a glimpse of sacred geometry, thru to calling of our angels to support us, revealing our true nature (we are eternal souls) and finding our soul purpose on earth, thru to healing work to clear our past emotional baggages and let love shine thru us, to open our hearts, and let us know "To Give is to Get"- when we do it with heartfelt love. All these are just prep work to get to next stage, which is to enter into a sacred space in our heart, and from another tiny space within the sacred space, that's the portal for us to connect to the Source and to get our third eye opened, our MerKaBa (our personal energy toroidal field) activated, before entering into the heart based creation process (whereby only positive stuff can be created, unlike mind based creation due to polarity nature, very often -ve thing will also get manifested unknowingly). The Unity breathing technique also reminds us about the love of Mother Earth and Father Sun have to us - every divine child on this planet. The fuzzy energy sensation feeling will keep me all pumped up and attune at the right vibes all day long, just like a long stamina smart phone (grin) that the battery never get depleted until you want to.

A lot of fellow workshop mates felt changes happened, and I am no exception. I would say my mind is clearer now - just like another veil has been lifted thus can see a further horizon, and more intuitive now. Perhaps, my once asleep sixth sense has finally come back. Welcome back. :) and the teachings and experience I gained from other spiritual workshops the dots start to connect now. What a good feeling.

The workshop talks a lot about our hearts, and the importance to shift our consciousness from mind based to heart based.

There are many times the teacher referenced to Yeshua (Jesus) famous quote "unless you turn and become like childlike, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven". This echoes exactly as another quote I heard it years ago, when a HK author Ronald Fung (溤兩努) shared with me when he was leaving with me after his speech in my university campus "成大人者, 必不失其赤子之心" loosely translated as "To be a great person, one must not forego his/her childlike heart". Heart again!!

The revelations I got from this workshop are immensely useful for me to carry on my life in a steadfast manner now. For this I am forever grateful to my teacher Amun Brown, the organizer Kingsley Sok, and all the soul class mates for their unreserved sharings during the class. We all felt like a family reunion.

Before I end this post, let me share just one more finding- which I saw it from another FB message lately after the workshop. It is about the Chinese words 開心, which means joy or happiness. It's made up of 2 words: Open開 and Heart心, so ancient Chinese already discover the secret to happiness i.e. to achieve a blissful state, one must keep his/ her heart open, or vice versa, when our hearts are opened, there should be no reason we won't have joy while we are in this earthy world.

Let's keep our hearts opening, more and more, and day by day, okay?? :)

Have a great day, till I next write, please take care for yourself and your heart too.

Heartfelt thanks and love from my heart to yours...

PS: To my Singaporean friends or those stay nearby, if you are interested to know more about this subject, when is the next intake timing (end Oct), please feel free to contact me. Be still, and listen to your heart. It will tell you what to do. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Energy Mgmt: Sleep Cycle iPhone App

After back to HQ, I have been to more lunch time talks these days. One recent one I went to was about Energy Management. 

The speaker Dr John Ng says very often people mixed up Time Management with Energy Management.  Poor energy mgmt will most probably lead to poor time mgmt, but not necessary the other way round. 

We need to identify those Energy Depleter vs Energy Energizer.  Energy is such a life force that without preserving it, it will not be possible for one to pursue the goals we set forth. 

There are 5 levels of Energy, for which the speaker dwelt a lot on first 2 only, owing to time limit. 

1.  Physical Energy

2.  Emotional Energy

3.  Mental Energy

4.  Social Energy

5.  Spiritual Energy

When one achieves the optimum experience, the FLOW pattern will appear.  In other words, one finds true purpose and start to be in the game. 

A)  To re-coup and prepare for Physical Energy, is none other than having good sleep, enough rest, take in healthy food and have exercise. Sounds simple, isn't it?

B)  To get into Emotional Energy, one needs to know ourself and others, thus will adapt the right strategy when dealing with others.  The speaker uses simple grid: Introvert vs Extrovert, and Task vs Person. 

So for I&T quadrant person: need to give them clear agenda, time to prepare and think, and a safe environment before they will speak up.

On the other end, for an E&P person, they will like to speak up even without encouragement, and brain storm will sure work for them etc

Knowing basic personality difference is yet another simple yet effective strategy to adapt the different style accordingly, without draining one's energy unnecessarily. 

There are few key points which I couldn't recall under which topics, but noted down for sharing anyway:

* Past experience will determine our response to Present and Future.  Unless we find value and meaning in the past Bad experience, we will always live through the past -- beware, need to Move on!!

* What you Fire, you Wire

* What you Focus, you Magnify

I did follow the Speaker advice to take One action and practise it. Which is to download the Sleep Cycle iPhone app - a fantastic sleeping pattern and alarm app, that makes use of iPhone's sensitive accelerometer to detect your body movement and determine the optimum time to wake you up at the right moment i.e. when one is in the slightest wake up period.  I had tried a few nights and had to admit it is pretty accurate.  I was gently awaken by a very soothing alarm that I felt refreshed. The app actually tracks stats and can do further analysis.  A wonderful app that I come to use it so late.  Had heard about it sometime ago. :P

For those interested to learn more about the speaker Dr John Ng, one can find more info from his company website:www.meta.com.sg.

In particular, on Energy management topic, John actually created a few blogposts for this:

http://meta.com.sg/?s=Energy+time+management

Have fun exploring Sleep Cycle app, sorry Android phone users. Oops!! :)

Self Praise Diary

Have been reading this book written by a Japanese lady author, practicing it for over 1 week, and found some amazing results - thus intends to share over here how it works.

Basically, to boost up one's self esteem and keep one motivated, maintain a positive perspective, and be able to bounce back from trough in shortest time possible - build up some mental resilience- is very easy. You just need to spend few minutes a day, jotting down the journal of self praises into your personal diary. Yes, that's it. It costs next to nothing apart from a writing pad, a pen and few minutes of your time.

Few things to take note:

1. The encouraging words to our own-self needs to be handwritten! This aims to exercise our prefrontal part of the brain (前額業), and make the positive thinking circuit wider and deeper!

2. It takes time and time taken varies between different individuals. There's no comparison. Some see positive impact and changes happening as soon as weeks or days. The key is to have the momentum, patience and persistence.

3. The praises or words can be praising anything: good behavior, positive feeling, decision made, action taken against difficult situations etc. It's to be intimate and true fully reflects how one feels, and seeing progress made, albeit how little it is at the start

The self praise dairy has helped many depression patients coming out from their self sabotage and withdrawal state. It also helps to counter the self denial mentality that is deep rooted in most Asians' mindset that self boasting or brag is not to be condoned with.

It was most touching when I read the part many readers shared their diary and witnessed their progress - some dated recent back to Mar 2011 tsunami disaster, and how practicing self praise dairy has given them strength to carry on with the recovery work, and still maintain positive outlook to LIFE.

Guess all this boils down to 2 things:

1. We need to love ourselves first before we can extend the love to others, and help influence them to seek greater love - which is universal. Universe loves us, all of us, and want us to remain in this state - which is our natural birth right.

2. The change starts from with-in before it gets extended to with-out. Self soul searching is again the key. Change yourself, and the world will be changed!

If you have not been getting praises from others or your love ones, why not start the ball rolling by giving yourselves a well deserved pat on your own back! :) Have fun journaling. You never know if you never try.

Sequel to Water: Love & Gratitude blogpost

Think I wrote about an experiment 2 years ago of putting a "Love & Gratitude" sticker to my mug to make the water taste sweeter - because of molecular resonance as reflected by these 2 powerful words - Love and Gratitude.

Was wondering why I am particularly fond of these 2 words. I accidental got the idea this afternoon while I was have a shower - no kidding. One often get a flash back of inspiration or message when your mind is wandering.

They are indeed the initials of my beloved sons' names. L & G. Bingo. Love is for Lincoln, whereas Gratitude is for Gordon.

We exert great love to my young son Lincoln as he had developed asthma since he was about one year old, in and out hospital A&E numerous times. With tender loving care by my wife (& encouragement from me also), Lin is a strong boy now. He recently just completed his first public Chinese WuShu performance, before he entered into Primary1 cheerfully. Lin has a remarkable smile and friendly disposition that is hard to forget. :)

For my elder son Gordon is another miracle which I still remember vividly the day when I first heard from the gynae doc that my wife was pregnant. The initial month was a bit roller coaster - we discovered late, and the condition was quite unstable. My wife was having medical leave at home just lying down, and couldn't move around - to that extent. I still remember calling the gynae on one Sunday morning for emergency check-up. Thank God the second trimester onwards things had become smooth. Gor is a Primary 3 boy now, and cheerful and loving to his younger brother. For this I am external grateful to our creator God and the universe.

I am just about to discover more and more new and good things. I am ready for more. Bring it on please. :)

PS: I supposed to write a blogpost on Dec21,2012 - but for some reason was sick for 3 days since Dec21. Think there's a reason I shouldn't have written that post. :)