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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Presence in all things]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[no  matter where you are no matter where you think you are no matter what you believe yourself to believe in matter in thought which is matter there is presence in all things the ever knowing You]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">no  matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">where you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter where you think you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter what you believe yourself to believe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">which is matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">there is</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">presence</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">all things</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the ever knowing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You</p>
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		<title>Change Takes Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought to yourself or heard someone say, &#8221; I thought I dealt with this! I thought it was over and done with! why did it take so long to deal with it..why Now? I have wasted all the years, why couldn&#8217;t I have dealt with this years ago?&#8217; Because change takes time, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever thought to yourself or heard someone say,</p>
<p>&#8221; I thought I dealt with this!</p>
<p>I thought it was over and done with!</p>
<p>why did it take so long to deal with it..why Now?</p>
<p>I have wasted all the years, why couldn&#8217;t I have dealt with this years ago?&#8217;</p>
<p>Because change takes time, like true love, it takes the understanding of time</p>
<p>and the acceptance that change only comes when you are ready..</p>
<p>and often we may think we are ready, but deep within we are not</p>
<p>Change takes time, and time can only be a helper if you see time as agent of change</p>
<p>Time goes in cycles , not in a straight line..</p>
<p>Change goes in cycles, not in a straight line..</p>
<p>There are no straight lines within the growing psyche,</p>
<p>in the inner expression of spiritual change there always is to be found a cycle</p>
<p>of change and time, like two different coloured flowers on one slender plant</p>
<p>Time needs change to give meaning to humanity</p>
<p>and Change needs Time to grow and mature</p>
<p>We are all children of time and change</p>
<p>They are two of  twelve great mysteries that give humanity the impulse of evolution.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma? Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma?</p>
<p>Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.</p>
<p>If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.</p>
<p>People often wonder &#8230;what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.</p>
<p>Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.</p>
<p>Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.</p>
<p>People often wonder&#8230; what Reincarnation is&#8230;</p>
<p>Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.</p>
<p>In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.</p>
<p>Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.   Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.</p>
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		<title>Happiness is trust Christopher Hansard[Happiness is a choice]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you happy? Can you ask yourself and find an answer? There is no quick answer, only a slow one that evolves as you experience your evolution through the challenges of life . Happiness comes and goes, but its sweetness is a reminder, that beneath the delights of happiness exists a greater joy and contentment [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you happy?</p>
<p>Can you ask yourself and find an answer?</p>
<p>There is no quick answer, only a slow one that evolves as you experience your evolution through the challenges of life .</p>
<p>Happiness comes and goes, but its sweetness is a reminder, that beneath the delights of happiness exists a greater joy and contentment that shows us all, the &#8216;being&#8217; , within the human..</p>
<p>Happiness improves our health and conscious, but the media has hijacked it, turning it into something &#8216;aspirational&#8217; like a fashion item or latest gizmo, happiness is for us to see beyond ourselves and to be thankful for the life we can make from the life we have.</p>
<p>Happiness is also a choice, both a belief, as an act of faith and a psychological state that shifts our consciousness.</p>
<p>How do we find happiness?</p>
<p>We need to look within for that is where its foundation lies,</p>
<p>and without, not in things, but in our relationships to people,</p>
<p>the natural world and the place we stand in,</p>
<p>as we express who we think we are.</p>
<p>Happiness is trust, a trust in the goodness of life, people and ones Self.</p>
<p>If you can not trust in these, then happiness takes time to emerge into your daily activities and thinking.</p>
<p>Happiness is waiting for you to claim it as your own.</p>
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