Now I must admit that the technique involved scares me off a bit. I prefer just gardening in the sand and the idea that plants grow on fish tanks seems like rocket science to me. But there seem to be great resources on Youtube so why not go ahead with it and make it real this year.

1. Step one. Planning a place to set up an Aquaponic system.

I have thought about building a greenhouse in my garden for some time. I think the best way to start is using plastic as a cover. Not so organic but affordable. These are called Polytunnels.

Polytunnel

My little piece of garden at the back where I plan to make the greenery

Polytunnel here I come

The little piece of garden at the back of our long garden is perfect for a Polytunnel because it is surrounded by trees and will not catch too much wind. I only hope that there won’t fall any branches on it.

Great instruction for making a poly tunnel

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Since I like to save my veggies to make compost it made me feel like there was nothing left to compost if I’d give everything to the Guinea Pigs. So I looked it up in my big compost book if I could use the Guinea Pigs poop as fertilizer. And my book said yes! Guinea Piggy poop is perfect for the compost bin. So now we have a nice organic cycling thing going on. Poop rocks!

Guinea Pigs at the neighbors

Here you see the composting in progress, a Guinea Pig is eating... soon to be pooping yeah!

And there it is, tadaa! One weeks harvest of 100% unadulterated pure Guinea Pig poop

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On the threshold of 2012 we are uncertain about what time may hold for us. Ours is a time in which there are two energies at work: an ascending energy and a descending energy.

We are reminded constantly of the descending energy and its destabilizing effects on the world, increasing feelings of fear, anxiety and hopelessness.

Perhaps less visible, but assuredly more powerful, is the ascending energy. Like new growth below the ground in late winter, ascending energy is working quietly in the hearts and minds of people everywhere, shaping a new story. We see it in the surge of those seeking spiritual truth and in the hundreds of thousands of civil society organizations requesting transparency, authenticity, and a return to values.

We have a choice about which energy we affiliate with, about where we put our support. We make this choice at the level of thought. When we allow anger, greed, or fear into our thoughts, we strengthen the descending energy, and we lose our capacity for generosity and mercy.

When we meet situations with peace, love, and persistent happiness, when we are careful not to say or think anything that would hurt another’s heart, we amplify the energy of ascent.

We find these qualities inside of ourselves, as they have always been our true nature. But to find them ready in moments of need, we have to nurture them daily. To make the greatest contribution to the world at this time, keep the fire of goodness alive in your heart and mind. Fill yourself with the energies of peace, love and happiness and let them infuse your every action.

With love
BK Janki

From http://www.bkwsu.org/

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Methods Of Settling Our Karmic Debt

There are three methods of settling our karmic debts and setting ourselves free:

1. Practice Of Soul Consciousness
The first method is to increase the awareness of the self as soul and
reduce the illusion (false belief) that we are our body. This ensures that
all actions come from an inner state of peace, generosity and benevolence
(kindness), without any personal gain or conscious desire for any return.
This requires the gentle effort of constantly reminding ourselves who and
what we are — soul not body. Our identification with our body is so strong
that it can be drawn like a curtain across our consciousness in a second.
The path of a soul who is waking up spiritually is therefore one of waking
(awareness of self as soul) and sleeping (under the illusion that we are our
body), waking and sleeping. We tend to fluctuate between the two (like day
and night) until we find stability in soul-consciousness. This is why it
is important to awaken and stay awake, and for that it’s important to give
our mind and intellect good spiritual food (knowledge) and exercise
(meditation) every day to keep them fresh and alert.
Being soul-conscious, and acting from that consciousness, naturally heals
the scars (habits and tendencies) left by past negative actions which were
based on the illusion (false belief) of body-consciousness. The evidence
that our meditation is working is a lightness of the mind and an increasing
easiness in our interactions with others. These are the signs that we are
clearing our karmic debts. It is at this stage when we are gradually
transferring ourselves from body-consciousness to soul consciousness that we
will often find it helpful and supportive to be in the company of those who
are also practicing meditation, learning to be ‘soul-conscious’ and making
the same effort to awaken and to stay awake. It gives us the opportunity to
share experiences and learn from others. We will also be less likely to
find benefit or make progress in the company of those who continue to focus
mainly on the material world and who still see themselves only as physical

2. Self Transformation
The second way in which we can begin to clear our outstanding debts is by
giving back to those souls from whom we have in the past ‘taken’ and with
whom we now have some ‘karmic account’. However, this can take time,
especially if we imagine all the souls we have interacted with during many
births. We are sure to have one or two people in our life right now who
seem to have the capacity to cause feelings of discomfort inside us by
simply being in our presence. If we are serious about clearing our ‘karmic
accounts’, we will not avoid these people, nor will we go looking for them.
Instead, we can use these relationships as teachers and opportunities to
learn about ourselves. We can ask ourselves, “What is it within me that is
reacting to this person in this situation? Why am I creating this
discomfort in their presence?” In this way, we will see and understand what
we need to change within ourselves. We understand which sanskaras need to
be healed and transformed. It will always come down to something connected
with our own ego or attachment. Our inner healing will always begin with
the ‘letting go’ of something. When we identify what that is and when we do
‘let go’, we find it takes the negativity out of our thoughts and actions,
thereby breaking the patterns of negative energy exchange with others.
The moment we are aware that our own discomforts in relationships are due
to us and not due to others, we are halfway to self-change and the clearing
of karmic debts. The next step is to forgive ourselves, for wounding
ourselves with our negative thoughts and actions, and to forget the past. When
we do this work of inner healing, we automatically change our response to
the person or situation previously causing our discomfort. Our new
spiritual response is like a new step sequence in our dance with the other
person and if we change our step they have to change theirs. Or maybe they
are dancing the right steps and we learn to dance the right steps, too.
Whatever the case, the saying, “When we change, the world changes’, holds
true. If they don’t change, we will need to strengthen our own capacity to
be patient and check that we do not want them to change in a certain way as
a result of our own desires and expectations. If we do want them to change,
it means we are trying to control them in a subtle way, which means we still
have a selfish motive. This always results in frustration and failure as it
is not possible to control another human being.

3. Connecting With The Supreme Source
The third and most effective way to heal and clear the burden of our karmic
debt, both inside and outside, is through the process of meditation. In
meditation, we establish a direct link with the Supreme Soul, the Source of
spiritual love, light and power. When we are directly connected to the Sun
of spiritual energy, we can allow that energy to heal the negative sanskaras
(habits and tendencies) within our own consciousness. As our energy changes,
through our power of thought, we are able to send out that positive energy
towards those with whom we have some difficulty (karmic account). In
meditation, we open to the warmth of pure love and the spiritual light of
eternal truth from the Source, healing our own self and liberating ourselves
from the illusions (false beliefs) which made us create wrong-thoughts and
perform wrong actions in the first place. The illusion was simply in seeing
ourselves as limited, physical beings. This led us to believe that love,
happiness and peace were physical and to be found externally, which in turn
made us use others to get what we wanted. Healing has taken place when we
experience ourselves as souls, unlimited, spiritual beings and children of
the Supreme. Healing has become a reality when we rediscover our own
internal resource of love, happiness and peace. Only then will we begin to
see and perceive others in the same way. This spiritual vision transforms
the quality of energy we give to others which then heals and transforms
those relationships. Once we have fully healed our self-awareness, we can
act as instruments or mediums to bring that spiritual light from the Supreme
Source into the lives of others.

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Mind acts as a sieve between the soul & physical body. Negative mentalenergy blocks the sieve of mind thereby blocking the flow of spiritualenergy (peace, love etc.,) from the soul to the target organ. It alsoattracts microbes e.g.: bacteria, viruses, etc., oxidants, toxins towardscells of the target organ in the physical body, which damages the immunesystem thereby leading to disease over a period of time & diseaseconsciousness. Positive mental energy opens the sieve of mind therebyincreasing the flow of spiritual energy (peace, love etc.) from the soul tothe target organ. It protects the cells of the target organ in the physicalbody from microbes e.g. bacteria, viruses, oxidants, toxins etc. It attractshealing proteins, molecules and anti-oxidants and boosts the immune systemthereby leading to rapid recovery from disease and health-consciousness.

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‎”Children inhabit a world of ‘it is,’ now a world of ‘it isn’t.’ They come to us with their being brimming with potential. Each of our children has their own particular destiny to live out – their own karma, if you like. Because children carry a blueprint within them, they are often in touch with who they are and what they want to be in the world. We are chosen as their parents to help them actualize this. The trouble is that if we don’t pay close attention to them, we rob them of their right to live out their destiny. We end up imposing on them own own vision for them, rewriting their spiritual purpose according to our whims.”

Dr. Shefali Tsabary

Now watch this:

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On my return from a one month break on Empire Avenue, I immediately fell in love with the missioner shareholder messages. Of course,  who doesn’t want to earn 500 or 1000 eaves just by tweeting an article or Like a Facebook Page. For those who left Empire Avenue because they forecasted a dead end street, bummer. For those who stayed here is the light at the end of the tunnel. Shareholder messages with a mission is the escape. The clogging of EAv ends here.

Liquidity - money must roll

We can deflush our liquidity problem with a shareholder message AND enhance our influence online. Note that I, as a fairly new player, do not have a liquidity problem. I am always short of Eaves. Those who play longer and have a portfolio of 5000 accounts, gain so much daily dividend that they do not know what to do with their Eaves anymore. Out of boredom they create little games for themselves. Like little hamsters in a cage, trapped in a never ending hamster exercise wheel, many old-time players seem to get stuck into the game. Now the door of the hamster cage is open, but it looks like only a few ‘get it’.

Now that the door of the cage is open, who can see the light?

To build up your EAv income and score, your activity online on various networks is crucial. Just until these shareholder messages with a mission, most of the activity was inbound. Let alone a few percent of active players that found the art of enhancing each others networks outside EAv influences the score on EAv (and Klout). For some it even seems to be a day time job to Like, +, +K, retweet and comment on other players networks.

I have seen a dozen of Shareholder missions, but by far this one by Chris Pirillo is winning. Why? Because it is about supporting a greater cause. That is what online influence is all about. Chris’ recent Shareholder mission about the awareness of cyberbullying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STm9vTqR1Ps

Thank you for sharing this video with everybody – especially kids, teens, parents, and adults involved in education.

It’s okay to “Like” this video for the message we’re trying to spread – please help. You might just be saving a life – and that’s not an overstatement.

Now as soon as you have Eaves in your Empire Avenue bank, consider ‘donating’ them to greater causes. It will get back to you as a boomerang, for sure. #Karma

Enhance your influence online by using Empire Avenue.

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The strongest relationships that I have now were established previously. We knew each other in other lives and but in different roles. The daughter of some births ago returns now as the father, the best friend comes back as the sister etc. As long as the account exists, the interchange of actions between two souls continues. When there is nothing more to give or receive, the paths between the two souls separate by death, a break-up, a divorce or simply by the loss of contact. An e.g. of this is our school friends. Many of our friends whom we were close to in our school days, we are not in touch with today. Another e.g. is when we change jobs; we might lose complete contact with our old colleagues.

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Raja Yoga

“Yoga” in a general sense means a mental connection or union, achieved through remembrance. Whenever someone or something is remembered, then the soul is having yoga with that person or thing. At any moment, we are remembering people, places and things of the past or present, or we are imagining future events. We are continually using this power within, trying to find and maintain peace and happiness. We like to remember pleasant experiences and to entertain them as thoughts. We become “lost” in thought, detached from our immediate surroundings and problems. It is a natural ability of the soul to withdraw into itself in the face of external difficulties.

The same ability is used in Rajyoga meditation. The intellect, full of knowledge, is that which understands and remembers also. As long as the intellect remains fixed on the person or thing, the soul experiences its qualities. For example, when we remember a beautiful summer experience of relative peace and quiet, we re-experience the scenes, forget our problems and drift away. If we remember something painful or unpleasant, or someone’s faults, the mind is disturbed. The mind experiences different states according to the type of thoughts that arise. The thoughts depend on where the intellect is focused. In short, as is the consciousness so is the experience.

Raja Yoga, the highest yoga, or remembrance, works entirely on the level of mind, intellect and “sanskaras”, rather than focusing on bodily forms, postures or rituals. The first stage in Raja Yoga is to stabilize the self in the pure experience of the inner tranquility of the soul. At first, distracting thoughts may come to the mind. To be free from these, do not become involved in a struggle to contain or eradicate these wasteful thoughts, but merely step away from them. The next step is to stabilize the self on the form and qualities of the Supreme Being (God).

Learn to meditate in a Raja Yoga center near you: http://www.bkwsu.org

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