Crystal Candle Shop Newsletter
November 2011 http://www.crystalcandle-shop.com
Greetings! Here we are already coming up on the Thanksgiving Holiday, my how time flies! Harvests are all gathered and it is now time to celebrate a plentiful harvest with a feast! Many feasts will be taking place across the world with gratitude for the bounty set before us. Here at Crystal Candle Shop we also like to show our gratitude for family, good friends, the lessons learned in the past year, and the bountiful love present in our lives. We would like to express at this time gratitude to all our loyal friends of Crystal Candle Shop, for all the emails we receive, for all the questions we are asked. Thank you! Blessings!
We have been busy gathering the prizes for our GIVE AWAY DRAWING and very soon and will be announcing our drawing and what will be given away! Stay in touch!
We are also in the process of adding a new product line in the near future! We are excited about this new line and hope you will be too!
Be sure to read our Article of the Month and our Recipe of the month! Visit Crystal Candle Shop today!
Insight Meditation
It is very hard to handle stressful situations. Every individual should learn how to become aware of it and accepting it. One form of meditation which is very effective in dealing with the problems and difficult situations of life is known as mindfulness mediation or insight meditation. This is often considered by many people as a miraculous technique.
It is a fact that frustrations, stress, disappointments, anger, and other related negative emotions affects the mind and body adversely. Such negative actions and emotions must be handled effectively. Likewise, set backs must be accepted truly without causing health problems. Insight meditation is like a medicine that helps people in dealing with negative situations and emotion in a manner that is most effective to them.
Insight meditation allows or requires individuals to become aware of their environment. They are more likely sensitive in perceiving each moment. Thus, they prefer to accept situations that are stressful rather than avoiding it. If you become aware about the internal status of your mind upon insight meditation, then you can learn to accept difficult circumstances without too much resistance.
By practicing insight meditation, you can train your mind in achieving a tranquil state without being affected by external forces. The mind is aided in developing the needed strength to obtain such peacefulness.
Today, the world around you is so busy, no time for meditating. But remember that wherever you are, it is your choice to become still or not. Set specific time and space where you can do insight meditation where nobody can disturb you.
You can start practicing insight meditation. Sit in an upright position with the legs crossed. Focus on your breath or something else like physical and mental processes that are helping you to become aware of your present inner state and thought patterns.
Always watch out for your breath. It does not leave you provided that you are conscious. Imagine that you breathe in spirit. When you are breathing out, you express spirit. Concentrate on the air that passes down from your nostrils, to your air passages, and to your lungs, and vice versa when you breathe out. Focusing on your breath can accomplish two things. Your concentration is slowly shifted away from the problems in your mind as well as it brings your focus to the Higher Power of your understanding.
Your practice of insight meditation lets you concentrate on your actions, thoughts, and present situation non-judgmentally. Insight meditation doesn’t encourage you to evaluate or think your past actions or take your thoughts on the uncertainty of the future. It trains and helps your mind not to be distracted by external disturbances, concentrate your thoughts, and relax your mind.
Insight meditation is conducted or practiced through formal and informal techniques. Formal insight meditation incorporates yoga. In this way, you can be aware and control your breathing patterns in connection with particular body movements. When you take every life’s experience with pleasure and enjoyment, then you are using an informal insight meditation.
The strategy used in insight meditation is insight or introspection wherein you get clear pictures of your inner states and thoughts, achieve thought concentration, and train your mind in perceiving situations and things more effectively.
So, you can say goodbye to your problems and live a better and a healthy life.
Blessings! www.crystalcandle-shop.com
Recipe of the Month
Cranberry Sauce Supreme
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup organic sugar
- 1 (12 ounce) package fresh organic cranberries
- 1 can organic mandarin oranges
- 1/2 cup chopped dried organic apricots
- 1/2 cup organic raisins
- 1 apple – peeled, cored and diced
- 1 pear – peeled, cored and diced
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Directions
Bring water to a boil and add sugar to dissolve. Add cranberries and all other ingredients. Reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes or until cranberries burst, stirring occasionally. Pour into a glass bowl and cool to room temperature. Serve.
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Company Mission Statement
To always supply our customers with only the highest quality products at the lowest prices available, while continuing to provide the best customer service possible. To assist spiritual seekers with knowledge, education and tools to enhance in the most positive manner their spiritual and personal growth.
Many Blessings—
Crystal Candle Shop
