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In the discussion of honing the art of presentation, the focus is quite often centered on the speaker’s talent, with little emphasis on the importance of the information they are being tasked to relate. It is obvious that the techniques associated with audience interaction comprise a large percentage of the formula for success. A good speaker can work around the weaknesses of their material, apply limited resources, overcome poorly packaged information, deal with time constraints, and still manage to get the point across well enough to produce the desired result - a happy and impressed audience.By the same token, if the presenter must struggle with substandard material, difficult to manage tools, technology that does not work as planned, or inappropriate media formats, this situation can scuttle the effort to engage an audience as much as poor speaking techniques. Skillful application of visual aids allows the presenter to appeal to the audience on a variety of sensory levels. If you are an eloquent speaker, but your presentation is permeated with illegible, handwritten scrawling on an overhead projector or white board, the things being captured by the eyes become incongruent with the sounds reaching the ears. While you fumble with turning pages on a flip chart which contains information that is hard to see from the back of a room, or struggle to find the slides, programs, documents or locations of information on a disjointed computer based presentation, you are ensuring the need for you to compensate even more with your speaking talent.Choosing the right tools for your presentation is a critical element of your success. You should always know ahead of time what sort of facility you will be working with, understand how your audience will be situated, and take the time you need to practice smooth interactio

velopment. The Spiritual Guru holds and preserves the keys of metaphysical (mystical/magickal) development. By applying the keys (the cosmic laws and spiritual principles) that the Guru transmits to his disciples, it would be possible to acquire a spiritual consciousness (the Kingdom of Heaven) and consume the fruits of the Tree of Life (a constant awareness of one's immortality).

In the early days of Christianity, "priests" functioned as Gurus and not merely as preachers. In the centuries that followed, the priesthood lost the keys to Heaven because of their corruption and degeneration. They subsequently grew envious of those that did possess the keys, the gnosis or spiritual, esoteric knowledge. This was one of the factors that instigated the attack of the orthodoxy upon the Christian sects called Gnostics. These Gnostics were the custodians of the secret, esoteric, spiritual teachings

Electronic Organizing Techniques - The Best Way To Go
Methods for personal organization seem to be a never ending search for ideas that work. Depending on the individual personality, some things that work well for one person do not work as well for another. To achieve the maximum benefit from a personal organization system, there are a number of things that need to be factored into the solution. If you own a computer, there are software tools that contain everything you need to establish an effective method for organizing information, scheduling your time, and creating a custom plan that is unique to your individual needs. You can use your computer to assist with organizing things that are both on and off the system.Regardless of the combination of tools you might use to plan your day and organize your work, the most valuable, and most neglected weapon in your arsenal is your computer. The best way to start an effective plan is to adopt the working perspective that you are the creative person with all the ideas and purposes, while your computer is the mechanism for performing the repetitive, tedious memory work that would otherwise be cluttering your own brain.Using the virtual world of the computer, it is possible to get things done faster and more efficiently than in the physical shuffling of binders, calendars, and scraps of paper stuck to the refrigerator to remind you it is time to pay the electric bill. For quick reminders, computer software can produce electronic “sticky notes” or pop up reminder messages to keep you organized in managing the volatile day to day activities and events that require quick action and attention. For a personal organization system design, there is other calendar based software that will allow you to design a customized, categorized planning function to keep track of events, things to do, journals, appointments, contacts, d

The Need for a Guru

In the spiritual, metaphysical path, various disciplines and exercises are conducted to aid the awakening and the unfoldment of the faculties and virtues of the divinity within. To attune with the Higher Self, one is required to undergo the process of purification and to carry-out meditative exercises. Meditation, concentration, visualizations, chanting, esoteric rituals, and other spiritual disciplines are utilized as aids on the path of spiritual and metaphysical development. In order to tread the metaphysical path a spiritual teacher or Guru is indispensable as a way-shower. The Guru or Adept having been on the spiritual path for many years, or for the greater part of his/her life, or even for several lifetimes is qualified to guide the enthusiastic aspirant. Treading the spiritual path alone without outside assistance and guidance is a difficult task. Only a few great souls are able to do this. However, it should be noted that according to tradition and occult revelation, even great souls like Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad had Guru-Chela relationships with Spiritual Masters, both physical and non-physical. External spiritual preceptors are here to "push" or motivate the aspirant, just as the inner divine Master is present within our beings to "pull" us inwards, to help us gravitate towards the Inner Light.

Learning from books has its disadvantages; firstly, one is unable to bask in the presence of a Guru. A genuine Guru radiates powerful energies that stimulate slumbering souls in his immediate vicinity. The Master's aura prompts the energy-level of those around him to step-up in frequency. By constantly being in the presence of a Guru one gradually transforms one's microcosmic vehicles to a higher expression. One accelerates spiritually by being in the proximity of a Spiritual Preceptor. It is like a magnet that induces iron bits to become magnetized just as it is simply by the association.

Secondly, books do not provide all of the keys or knowledge necessary that would open metaphysical doorways to higher worlds or to higher states of awareness. Many keys are omitted in books. Thirdly, books hardly present a two-way interaction that a Guru-Chela relationship offers. From these three points (and there are more) it can be seen how necessary it is to have a Way-Shower. Genuine spiritual/metaphysical teachers are not easily found or met. One meets a real Spiritual Guide partially because of spiritual merit. There is an occult saying, "When the student is ready the Master appears." The student has to prepare himself for the Master's advent by attaining a certain soul-level, by spiritual works and study. It should be realized, however, that those individuals passing themselves off as Spiritual Gurus and Metaphysical Masters are hardly what they claim themselves to be. Here lies the problem for the occult tyro--how to discern the true Master from the "false prophet," or the wolf in sheep clothing and the true Shepherd of the Spirit.

In the traditional teachings of Christianity we are told that St.Peter, one of the Apostles of Christ, guards the portals to the Kingdom of Heaven. He holds within his hands various keys that would unlock the gate and allow the soul to pass the threshold and enter into a world of heavenly delight, to a land where one could pluck and eat the fruits of the Tree of Life. The average Christian interprets this teaching literally. In truth, this is merely an allegory, an esoteric precept referring to the principle that a Spiritual Guru or Murshid, (St.Peter) is necessary to guide one's spiritual development. The Spiritual Guru holds and preserves the keys of metaphysical (mystical/magickal) development. By applying the keys (the cosmic laws and spiritual principles) that the Guru transmits to his disciples, it would be possible to acquire a spiritual consciousness (the Kingdom of Heaven) and consume the fruits of the Tree of Life (a constant awareness of one's immortality).

Blogging for Dollars
Blogging can be important to your business. It is difficult enough getting traffic to your website without ignoring one of the best ways to do it. Search engines love blogs because they present ever changing content.Website content is essential to interest visitors and keep them on your site, and too many sites keep the same old content week after week and month after month. While search engines like content, they soon notice if your website is remaining static, with nothing fresh coming on-stream. Blogs present ever changing content and so help you gain, and maintain, high listings in search engine indices for your keywords.That is reason number one, and a very important reason since a good search engine listing will provide you with lots of free traffic. Many people spend thousands on getting seen on the first page of Google with Adwords, and if you can achieve that without paying, and can retain your position through the ever changing content provided by blogging, then you have an advantage over your competition.The second reason, and also an important one to many, is that blogging is easy to do. There is free software available to manage your blog, and it takes very little time to set a blog up. Many people think that they take a lot of time and effort to run, but a few minutes two or three times a week is all that is required. Some blogs are updated weekly and others daily, but there is no set rule. Whatever suits you best is good enough, as long as it is changing at least once a week to keep the spiders happy.The third good thing about a blog is that people volunteer to receive it, so you don’t have the problem of spamming that you would if sent out emails. They take your blog because they want it and they like the content. Additionally, blogs cannot be filtered in the same way as sp

eat souls are able to do this. However, it should be noted that according to tradition and occult revelation, even great souls like Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad had Guru-Chela relationships with Spiritual Masters, both physical and non-physical. External spiritual preceptors are here to "push" or motivate the aspirant, just as the inner divine Master is present within our beings to "pull" us inwards, to help us gravitate towards the Inner Light.

How to Choose a Niche Market and Get an Excellent Result
I am very impressed to come across a very powerful concept on how to choose a niche market. What is a niche? A niche is a special area of demand for a product or services. To be successful in your online business, you will have to focus on the area of business that interest many people and the demand for such product or services must be high. Some of the reason why many new businesses fail is because they are focusing on the area where there is no great public interest at the time. Before any one will venture into the business arena, the concept of niche must be understood and digested.How can you find a niche market? I came across this simple but effective way of finding niches. To find a niche the first place to look is Clickbank. Clickbank is a market place where product and services are listed in the order of sales. So immediately you will be able to see which product and services are in high demand. Feel free to browse round clickbank . I will suggest you find about five such product or services.After completing the first stage, you will take the five chosen products or services through to the second stage. This stage is called the survey of the shotgun splatter. What does this mean? For a product or service to pass a shotgun splatter test, it must have many related a products and services. This is important because it will be very easy for you to expand your business in the future to those other related products and services. You have to think and write down as many related business you can do in each of the five niches you have earlier chosen through clickbank.Take three niches with highest shotgun splatter possibility into the next stage of the process. This stage involves the analysis of average sales price per niche. Our aim here is to find the average sales price in the three remaining niches.

n the proximity of a Spiritual Preceptor. It is like a magnet that induces iron bits to become magnetized just as it is simply by the association.

The Best Meal Plan For Your Diet Personality
If you eat less than 3 meals a day looks like you don't care about your body. Spending most of your time eating or snacking plus forgetting to take your 1 hour exercise...I don't need to mention what would be the effect, but I strongly recommend you to read carefully these 3 eating plans, described bellow, and select the one you like most and think it's easy to follow.Plan 1Eat your breakfast, kiss your kids and go to work. Don't even think about food before the lunch-time. You will say: "This is easy, lunch is my first meal for the day." OK, but how many times you eat after lunch? I am not talking about your main meals, I am talking about snacks. If you have a solid breakfast perhaps you won't need candies, cookies etc. between lunch and dinner.At dinner eat only low calories foods and take a walk with your family. Enjoy yourself, forget about food. When you are back at home go to bed earlier than normal, so you can't get hungry again for the rest of the day.Plan 2If you are like me and most of my friends, you just don't have time for breakfast. I need to wake up at 6 am to have a breakfast before going to work. I like to sleep to the last moment, drink a cup of coffee and go out. I am not saying that is healthy, but it's my real way of life.What do you need to do in this case? Have a solid lunch with your fellows, but don't go too far thinking: "That's all, I will miss the dinner". Take a small meal in about 3 hours. Remember: no candies, only low calories foods.When you are back at home make sure that at least 5 hours passed, since your light afternoon meal, before eating again. It is highly important to have a light dinner again, or you will put some additional weight. After that take a walk or do whatever you want, but stay away from the kitchen. that those individuals passing themselves off as Spiritual Gurus and Metaphysical Masters are hardly what they claim themselves to be. Here lies the problem for the occult tyro--how to discern the true Master from the "false prophet," or the wolf in sheep clothing and the true Shepherd of the Spirit.

Ten Ways to get Your Resume to the Top of the Pile
Any advantage that you can get to help get your resume to the top of the pile is worth looking at. I have some employment agency contacts that I asked about what people can do to put them to the front of the line when the jobs are being handed out. I’ve put together their replies. These tips apply to whether your going for a permanent or contract position.1. As in every business, personal relationships are crucial. If you have any agents with whom you have a good relationship, keep in touch with them, especially if you have done a good job for them in the past2. Send your resume out to as many agencies as possible. It does no harm, and they take most notice of you when your resume first arrives. Often it is sent around to all the sales people at the company. Send out a certain amount each week, e.g. ten, to keep you in the mind’s eye of at least some agents3. Make sure that your resume is presentable and easily readable. Make sure that your best skills are right at the front. Don’t clutter up your resume with old skills and ones that you don’t have much experience in – unless they’re very marketable4. Keep calling agencies even though it is soul-destroying. Keep yourself in the front of their minds. The right job might have just come in and you’ll be at the front of the line. Out of sight, out of mind. If you haven’t been in touch for a while, they’ll probably assume that you’re off the market for whatever reason. Have a list of agencies that you call every two weeks, calling a selection of them every day5. Always, always, always adapt your resume for each job that you are applying for rather than just sending out your standard resume. It’s not the job of the agent or the employer to find the skills that they are looking for. It’s up to you to bring it to their attention. They may have dozen

Now it should be realized that not all Spiritual Gurus are of the same evolutionary level. They are of various initiatory grades. Some Gurus offer their services specifically to the masses, to the average person on the street; others are here on the physical plane to help higher-evolved persons, or those of disciple status to attain the first and second planetary initiation. Rarely do we find Gurus who are real Adepts and Masters guiding those who have heard the call of the soul to attain liberation, enlightenment, and the ascension. Each person who is interested in metaphysical and spiritual culture will find himself at the doorstep of the Guru most appropriate to his present state of soul development. When he grows spiritually to a certain point with the guidance of his Preceptor, he may eventually find himself being led to other Gurus of a higher grade or different ray-ashram for further esoteric instructions or for developing a different soul-quality..

Metaphysical Development

In the Path of metaphysical development it would be advantageous and worthwhile for the spiritual aspirant to study the spiritual teachings of various religions and philosophies. Anything that would help refine one's soul-character and expand one's metaphysical knowledge is beneficial. The student should be equally comfortable studying the teachings of Alchemy or Zen. By the exploring of various teachings we do not imply that one should build one's spiritual philosophy upon the foundation of syncretism. This would hardly work if we strive to integrate the superficial, dogmatic aspects of religion. What we would like students of metaphysics to probe is the essence or core of religions, back to the source of all religions, or to the Gupta Vidya--the Ageless Teachings. In the Old Testament, for instance, we were admonished by God to walk the ancient paths (Jeremiah 6:16). This "ancient path" is an esoteric term for the Ageless teachings, or the Ancient Wisdom. Followers of the "New Age" movement may consider the revelations received through the phenomenon of "channeling" as something novel; however, the essence of what is revealed is nothing new and is to be found in the spiritual teachings of all ancient cultures. We admonish the novice not to focus on or speculate too much upon what lies above in the cosmos. It really does not matter what or who lies "up there," whether it is "Ashtar," "Kryon," or the "Pleaidians," or any other beings flitting around in their merkabah vehicles; what really matters is what lies within you. Pay attention to that, to the task at hand. Improve your character, your spirituality, your evolutionary status, and your awareness. Unfold unconditional love and compassion. Beware of self-complacency and arrogance, thinking that you know everything, or more than others.

The first step of spiritual unfoldment is the purification of the lower aspects of the microcosm of all psychical and physical toxins, negative energies, psychological complexes and fixations, karmic effects, record, and memory; and the transcendence of the false ego. Not only should these unwanted energies be discarded or transmuted, the spiritual aspirant should also be vigilant that they no longer be generated by the mind and emotions or attracted into the microcosmic force-field by establishing a point of attraction through negative thinking and feeling. Conversely, the aspirant should strive to express the divine qualities of the Spirit, such as compassion, tolerance, affection, beauty, order, generosity, selfless

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