<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Christopher Hansard &#187; The Heart</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/category/the-heart/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com</link>
	<description>Spirituality, Self-Knowledge and The Art of Living</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:57:24 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Fibres]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/12/22/christopher-hansard-fibres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/12/22/christopher-hansard-fibres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/12/22/christopher-hansard-fibres/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ever present is prescience in form and perception the prescience becomes presence but does not dwell in the moment but is the fibres of the moment with which you need to pluck and unravel to discover the illusion of the moment for in moment&#8217;s time is made.. the great cosmetic of form that seeks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">The ever present</p>
<p align="center">is prescience</p>
<p align="center">in form</p>
<p align="center">and perception</p>
<p align="center">the prescience</p>
<p align="center">becomes</p>
<p align="center"> presence</p>
<p align="center">but</p>
<p align="center">does not dwell in the moment</p>
<p align="center">but is the fibres of the moment</p>
<p align="center">with which you need to pluck and unravel</p>
<p align="center">to discover the illusion of the moment</p>
<p align="center">for in moment&#8217;s</p>
<p align="center"> time is made..</p>
<p align="center">the great cosmetic of form</p>
<p align="center">that seeks to remove the wrinkles</p>
<p align="center">in which all meaning is found</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/12/22/christopher-hansard-fibres/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>There is a Promise</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/11/there-is-a-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/11/there-is-a-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence and Becoming Still]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Living Impact Lifeskills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster:Christopher Hansard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tibetan Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tibetan Art of Serenity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Think Positive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/11/there-is-a-promise/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Promise that is hidden in all things it waits to be discovered offering words of love and hope of illumination and shows you the continuity of all things.. &#160; that there is one eternal season and that the stages of humanity are the spring, summer, autumn and winter the day and night [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">There is a Promise</p>
<p align="center">that is hidden</p>
<p align="center">in all things</p>
<p align="center">it waits to</p>
<p align="center">be discovered</p>
<p align="center">offering words</p>
<p align="center">of love</p>
<p align="center">and hope</p>
<p align="center">of illumination</p>
<p align="center">and shows</p>
<p align="center">you</p>
<p align="center">the continuity</p>
<p align="center">of all things..</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">that there is</p>
<p align="center">one eternal season</p>
<p align="center">and that the stages</p>
<p align="center">of humanity</p>
<p align="center">are the spring,</p>
<p align="center">summer,</p>
<p align="center">autumn and winter</p>
<p align="center">the day and night</p>
<p align="center">the first kiss of life</p>
<p align="center">the first kiss of death</p>
<p align="center">all contained in</p>
<p align="center">the query, question</p>
<p align="center">and surprise that makes you wonder</p>
<p align="center">what the promise itself may be..</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">we are all like incense on the wind</p>
<p align="center">we live as both fragrance, ash</p>
<p align="center">fire, dust, intent ,</p>
<p align="center">and</p>
<p align="center">for a time we burn</p>
<p align="center">and are gone</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">there is a promise</p>
<p align="center">it waits in the hearts</p>
<p align="center">of everyone</p>
<p align="center">a true romance</p>
<p align="center">of a soul&#8217;s meander through</p>
<p align="center">the psyche</p>
<p align="center">and the pyche&#8217;s leap</p>
<p align="center">to consciousness</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">we should take the time</p>
<p align="center">to bow to the humble</p>
<p align="center">and the small</p>
<p align="center">for in such things and people</p>
<p align="center">the promise speaks</p>
<p align="center">the most</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">if you search for god</p>
<p align="center">or happiness</p>
<p align="center">wealth or a brand new car</p>
<p align="center">a golden lover or bright new dream</p>
<p align="center">pause and stop</p>
<p align="center">to know that</p>
<p align="center">there is a promise</p>
<p align="center">dwelling in between</p>
<p align="center">the rush and rapture</p>
<p align="center">of what you call your life</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">There is a promise</p>
<p align="center">it waits for you</p>
<p align="center">every day and impression</p>
<p align="center">each passing year,</p>
<p align="center">in tears and laughter</p>
<p align="center">the promise waits</p>
<p align="center">a quiet voice, it speaks</p>
<p align="center">waiting for you to hear</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/11/there-is-a-promise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Change Takes Time</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/09/change-takes-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/09/change-takes-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are You an Imagineer?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are You Disatisfied?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bliss and Boredom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Meditation to Calm and Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissatisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend and Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life is like a Love Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIndfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projection and Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senses and Sensebilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence and Becoming Still]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choices You Make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Foolish and The Wise Parts of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Complete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Self-Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Do You Believe?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is the Path?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Will You Do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Christopher Hansard Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calcutta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Living Impact Lifeskills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/09/change-takes-time/</guid>
		<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>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/09/change-takes-time/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/13/christopher-hansard-karma-rebirth-and-reincarnation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/13/christopher-hansard-karma-rebirth-and-reincarnation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are You Disatisfied?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bliss and Boredom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Meditation to Calm and Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissatisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend and Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual ?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life is like a Love Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation Is Not Something You Can Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIndfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projection and Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebirth and Reincarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senses and Sensebilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence and Becoming Still]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence Is In Everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories for the Soul-A daily Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking Time to Communicate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choices You Make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Foolish and The Wise Parts of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Very First Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Complete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Self-Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Do You Believe?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is the Path?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hansard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Judgement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reincarnation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/13/christopher-hansard-karma-rebirth-and-reincarnation/</guid>
		<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>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/13/christopher-hansard-karma-rebirth-and-reincarnation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Becoming]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/03/becoming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/03/becoming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are You Disatisfied?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissatisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hansard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disatisfaction Artof Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do Not Gossip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentleness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Judgement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/03/becoming/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People rush in search of meaning, of &#8216;being&#8217;. People rush in search of understanding, of self-knowledge, as if Wisdom was running out of time, People clamour for sacred truths, for words of power and liberation&#8230; yet if they stopped, but for a moment, they would find what they seek in the atmosphere, in their own [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People rush in search of meaning, of &#8216;being&#8217;.</p>
<p>People rush in search of understanding, of self-knowledge, as if Wisdom was running out of time, People clamour for sacred truths, for words of power and liberation&#8230;</p>
<p>yet if they stopped, but for a moment, they would find what they seek in the atmosphere,</p>
<p>in their own homes, in their heart,</p>
<p>they would find that it all comes down to  &#8216;Becoming&#8217;</p>
<p>a state of openess and devotion to a simple experience, that within you now</p>
<p>is all that you need, and that all that you ever wanted to be or have or experience is in</p>
<p>a state of  &#8216;Becoming&#8217;, and essentially that is what we are made of, and who we are.</p>
<p>Becoming creates itself and leaves to knowledge of the heart.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/03/becoming/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Are You Happy?]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/29/are-you-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/29/are-you-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Meditation to Calm and Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend and Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual ?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life is like a Love Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation Is Not Something You Can Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIndfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projection and Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence Is In Everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choices You Make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Foolish and The Wise Parts of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Very First Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Complete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Self-Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Do You Believe?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Tibetan Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hansard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disatisfaction Artof Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do Not Gossip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentleness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Judgement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/29/are-you-happy/</guid>
		<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>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/29/are-you-happy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Gentleness; when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/27/gentleness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/27/gentleness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Meditation to Calm and Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend and Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual ?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life is like a Love Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation Is Not Something You Can Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIndfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projection and Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence Is In Everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choices You Make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Foolish and The Wise Parts of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Very First Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time and Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Complete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust is Self-Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Do You Believe?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/27/gentleness/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gentleness is the expression of interdependence and of the person who is unafraid of the connection with the varied experiences of Life. In a world where people are born unequal, gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare. Gentleness is the opportunity of communication and is the first step in true intimacy, of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gentleness is the expression of interdependence</p>
<p>and of the person who is unafraid of the connection</p>
<p>with the varied experiences of Life.<span id="more-52"></span></p>
<p>In a world where people are born unequal,</p>
<p>gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare.</p>
<p>Gentleness  is the opportunity of communication</p>
<p>and is the first step in true intimacy,</p>
<p>of the self, of your inner consciousness and with another.</p>
<p>Gentleness comes about when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves.</p>
<p>When we take the vow of the sacred marriage</p>
<p>between the dark and the light that rumbles through our everyday mind.</p>
<p>When we give up dogma, prejudice and set ideas,</p>
<p>burn away habits back to their original inspiration,</p>
<p>gentleness waits to be experienced.</p>
<p>Gentleness will come when invited.</p>
<p>It is not cautious but has spiritual courtesy.</p>
<p>If you want to experience gentleness</p>
<p>do not be afraid of the love that is revealed</p>
<p>to you in the experience of gentleness.</p>
<p>When the world goes mad and rowdy,</p>
<p>when people became overblown and pollute the world with their lack of care,</p>
<p>when hope seems to evaporate,</p>
<p>gentleness will still be with you.</p>
<p>Gentleness overcomes all things.</p>
<p>It creates renewal and rejuvenation of the heart.</p>
<p>To become gentle and to accept it with you</p>
<p>awakens the impulse within you to embrace  all things with out fear.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/27/gentleness/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pause</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/15/pause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/15/pause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation and Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Meditation to Calm and Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life is like a Love Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projection and Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choices You Make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Do You Believe?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/15/pause/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we due to the rush of our daily lives, find ourselves becoming stressed out, and lacking in focus and balance, we should try to pause&#8230; ..to pause.. and recall the moments when we were still, when we laughed, when we loved and when we had peace, and then promise to ourselves to give ourselves [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we due to the rush of our daily lives, find ourselves becoming stressed out, and lacking in focus and balance, we should try to pause&#8230;</p>
<p>..to pause.. and recall the moments when we were still, when we laughed,</p>
<p>when we loved and when we had peace, and then promise to ourselves to give ourselves the opportunity..to pause, reflect and change how we react to those things that  try to make us caught up in the rush of daily living.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/15/pause/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Heart Has A Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/07/the-heart-has-a-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/07/the-heart-has-a-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/07/the-heart-has-a-voice/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The heart has a voice, soft and quiet, it speaks in every beat The heart has a voice it moves in every human action, in our speech The heart has a voice and calls out your true name The heart has a voice and its language can be found in everything natural and manmade The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The heart has a voice, soft and quiet, it speaks in every beat</p>
<p>The heart has a voice it moves in every human action, in our speech</p>
<p>The heart has a voice and calls out your true name</p>
<p>The heart has a voice and its language can be found in everything natural and manmade</p>
<p>The heart has a voice, it calls us to love and to rise above all that seeks to bring us down</p>
<p>The heart has a voice, and a single word, a word heard differently to every ear,</p>
<p>The heart has a voice</p>
<p>Can you hear?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/07/the-heart-has-a-voice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/05/the-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/05/the-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Heart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/05/the-heart/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The heart cries and despairs, trembles and falters often in the cut and thrust of life&#8217;s challenges, when we experience the greatest challenges, hurts, and degredations, when we feel our souls to be thrashed and destroy by circumstance, when life hurts too much and we feel rootless and without a place to be or go, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The heart cries and despairs, trembles and falters often in the cut and thrust of life&#8217;s challenges,</p>
<p>when we experience the greatest challenges, hurts, and degredations, when we feel our souls to be thrashed and destroy by circumstance,</p>
<p>when life hurts too much and we feel rootless and without a place to be or go, and the winds of change have turned to sleet, hail and driving rain,</p>
<p>we need to remember that within us all is a voice that is always constantly and quietly calling to us reminding us,</p>
<p>&#8220;Be still, Be still, let your heart be still.&#8221;</p>
<p>In all of that if you truly hear, then the storm subsides</p>
<p>and all is still and the sound that you hear, is the beating of your heart,</p>
<p>each beat, sparking the light of eternity that dwells in your innermost still place.</p>
<p>Go there and life becomes still. And no troubles can cause you to be moved from the still constant place where your true identity dwells.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/05/the-heart/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

