Let Your Favorite Color Guide Your Career – Careers Articles.

In today’s challenging economy, you have more career opportunities than you might think. Modernize your dream career into a higher paying, more job opening niche or related occupation. Don’t be afraid to get nosey and take the time to look around or invest in developing a specialized skill inside your chosen field. Use every opportunity to network and promote yourself.

• Everywhere you go, ask questions like, “What do you do during your workday?” “What’s fun, not fun?” “Any opening in your company?”
• Be a temp. Ask for short term assignments so you can taste different jobs and learn about opportunities.
• Join career specific organizations and get your friends on board.

Dreams come true with niche-specific educational training or on-the-job experience. Looking for the perfect niche? Consider the scientifically valid Dewey Color System test that measures career satisfaction at record-breaking accuracy. It lists the top 50 careers suited for you, plus hundreds of related occupations, niches and career specific organizations. To provide accurate and thorough results, data was obtained from 750,000 CareerBuilder online users.

– Take the Dewey Color System test

In order to take the test, you first have to choose the color you like most from yellow, blue and red. Then choose which color you like most from green, purple and orange. Remember your choices and see what your selected combination says about your career prospects:

Yellow-Green

If you selected yellow and green: Your ability to understand others’ viewpoints and diplomatically express your thoughts increases efficiency. You know how to make products, systems, and services best fit the environment.

Make more money by seeking careers where you can assemble support structures or make living situations more comfortable.

Consider niches as in landscape architecture or real estate sales, or consider a career as a counselor, designer or social worker.

Yellow-Purple

If you selected yellow and purple: You prefer fast-growing companies with non-repetitive jobs that offer a constant barrage of fresh perspectives and non-stop new tasks. Your ability to communicate with finesse breaks down barriers and opens profitable doors.

Make more money by developing and communicating strategies for project-oriented settings that involve constant change.

Consider niches as a public relations representative, corporate communications manager, youth counselor or radio/TV announcer.

Yellow-Orange

If you selected yellow and orange: You know about the newest available resources, pertinent facts, or innovative ways to solve workday pressures. Your open-minded yet analytical approach creates must-do activities and programs.

Make more money by inventing new ways to market your business, better utilizing resources and talents, or making what you do more efficient.

Consider niches as a statistician, geologist, researcher, librarian or product developer.

Blue-Green

If you selected blue and green: You are at your best when you can anchor others with supportive suggestions. Your personable listening skills make you a success with colleagues, customers or clients who trust you with even their most crucial decisions.

Make more money by seeking environments that give you the opportunity to manage people, information or workplace environments.

Consider niches as a writer, actor, accountant, psychologist or departmental manager.

Blue-Purple

If you selected blue and purple: Use your big-picture thinking to develop new markets, new ideas and new businesses. You can see what’s missing and know how to get things done.

Make more money by working in environments where you can organize, develop and bring situations, people or markets together.

Consider niches in advertising and sales or as a public relations representative, trial lawyer or research scientist

Blue-Orange

If you choose blue and orange: You’re a natural both at developing new products or procedures and delegating tasks. You prefer a busy environment because you enjoy learning. Pressure stimulates you.

Make more money in careers where you can gauge productivity, analyze efficiency, and oversee or implement change.

Consider niches as an operations manager, civil engineer, builder or product salesperson.

Red-Green

If you selected red and green: You know value and how to best use resources to make money. Your practical guidance keeps others focused on the bottom line and expenditures under budget.

Make more money in positions where you decide how to best utilized resources or spend money.

Consider Niches as a securities manager, auditor, banker, teacher, property manager, nurse or surgeon.

Red-Purple

If you selected red and purple: When others speak, you sort out the facts from the emotions and establish a step-by-step action plan. You know how to calm those around you and offer quick solutions.

Make more money by selecting work environments where you’re in control of all necessary resources and can offer win-win suggestions.

Consider niches as a human resources interviewer/manager, event planner, editor or executive assistant.

Red-Orange

If you selected red and orange: You use facts compiled from past mistakes and successes to deliver strong opinions that are hard to refute. Others learn invaluable information from your critiques about the efficiency of a project.

Make more money in areas where you can sail your own ship by constantly examining, in detail, what needs to be done and express your opinion when things go off course.

Consider niches as a budget analyst, computer support specialist, production manager, manufacturing manager or business owner.

Ervin Laszlo: 10 Questions to Test Your Consciousness.

Einstein said that we can’t solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that gave rise to the problem. His insight applies also to the domain of consciousness: we can’t solve the problems of our time with the same kind of consciousness that created them. We live in global times, yet most of us have a tribal kind of consciousness — it’s me or you, my group or yours, and whoever isn’t with us is against us. The continuation of tribal consciousness is nothing less than a recipe for disaster in a world of nuclear weapons, environmental devastation, increasing population and dwindling resources.

There can be no doubt: if we’re going to live sustainably and in peace with each other, we must all shift from a tribal to a planetary consciousness.

But just what is planetary consciousness? Here is how we defined it in the Manifesto on Planetary Consciousness that I drafted with the Dalai Lama and other luminaries of the Club of Budapest in 1996: “Planetary consciousness is knowing as well as feeling the vital interdependence and essential oneness of humankind, and the conscious adoption of the ethic and the ethos that this entails.”

It was our conclusion at that time that the evolution of planetary consciousness was the foundational imperative for the survival of the human species. I remain more convinced than ever that this is the case.

But what do you think? Assuming you agree that we must evolve beyond tribalism if we are to survive, would you consider yourself to have planetary consciousness? Here are 10 questions that I believe, if answered honestly, will tell you whether you do.

Do you:

1. Satisfy your basic needs without diminishing other people’s chances of satisfying theirs?
2. Pursue your own happiness with due regard for the similar pursuit of others?
3. Respect the right to economic development for all people, wherever they live and whatever their ethnic origin or belief system?
4. Live in a way that respects the integrity of nature around you?
5. Work with like-minded people to safeguard and restore your local environment?
6. Require your government to relate to other nations peacefully and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing the legitimate aspirations of all the members of the international community?
7. Buy from companies that accept responsibility for stakeholders at all levels of the supply chain?
8. Consume media that provides unbiased information relevant to you and your community?
9. Do something to help at least one other person escape the hopeless struggles and abject humiliations of extreme poverty?
10. Believe all young people are entitled to the education they need to be productive members of their community?

Answering these ten questions with an honest yes doesn’t call for money or power. It calls for dedication and solidarity, for the spirit that creates true community, both locally and globally.

The evolution of planetary consciousness is without question an imperative for human survival on our planet. In its absence it’s difficult to see how all seven billion of us will be able to live in peace — or even just survive. To paraphrase Gandhi, “Live consciously, so that all of us may live.”

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Your Mind Is Like a Beautiful Garden, So Plant Happy Seeds!.

It is now being proven scientifically that a happy and healthy outlook to both ourselves and to life affects our mind in many noticeable ways. We do not get such a mindset by ignoring or denying negative feelings and pretending to be happy. Rather, we do it by becoming a good gardener, methodically and carefully removing the weeds of discontent while cultivating beautiful flowers.

Qualities such as kindness, compassion and forgiveness are the seeds we want to plant in order to cultivate a beautiful garden. But the self-centered ego’s need for grasping, gaining and selfishness easily buries them. We are all capable of losing our cool, getting caught up in hot emotions and causing harm. When we only focus on our own concerns and problems we become too self-engrossed to really acknowledge anyone else’s issues. These are the weeds we need to pull up, as are moments of closed-heartedness or anger, self-doubt and insecurity. We can bring mercy and tenderness to those places, to the wounded parts, so the fight within us can come to an end. And when we step beyond ourselves, then the ability to cultivate kind and caring qualities becomes possible.

When Ed was going through a difficult patch in his life he realized that he was stuck in his mind, which felt like being stuck in a paper bag. He had nowhere to go, just caught up in his own issues. It was like his mind was overcome by weeds, with no flowers to be found. He finally realized that our true mind is like the sky. Just as the sky has storms, wind, rain, and tornadoes, but is not affected by these things, so our true mind has worries, upsets and fears, but need not be affected by them.

In our recent book, BE THE CHANGE, we interviewed over 100 inspired people in all walks of life who verify the importance of transforming anger and self-negation into acceptance and generosity. Among them is scientist Richard Davidson who, along with the Dalai Lama and psychologist Daniel Goleman, has opened the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here, a team of researchers will study such qualities as kindness, compassion and forgiveness, and how they affect the brain. The fact that such brilliant people have established this center highlights the importance of developing positive thinking versus maintaining negative thinking, such as self-dislike, anger and hatred.

Meditation is hugely important in this. In fact, kindness and compassion are such clear outcomes of meditation that there is now an overwhelming amount of research showing how meditation stimulates the circuits in the brain associated with contentment, happiness and the feel-good factor. Dr Davidson has scientifically studied Buddhist monks while they were meditating. When asked to focus on compassion, their brains reflected a remarkable generation of clarity and intensified kindness. The center is probably the only place in the world where there is a meditation room next to the lab!

“By training the mind, we can actually change the brain toward greater contentment,” says Dr. Davidson in Be The Change, How Meditation Can Transform You and the World. “There is certainly evidence to show that meditation practices designed to cultivate compassion and loving kindness change the brain in many positive ways.”

A regular practice of meditation can produce discernible changes in the brain in a matter of just eight weeks, which indicates that we can quite purposefully and systematically develop qualities such as kindness and compassion. ‘Be Good and Do Good’ is a great mantra for this!

To feel the difference in yourself try the practice below, or one of our meditation CD’s.

Pulling Weeds Meditation
Find a comfortable and upright place to sit. Take a few deep breaths, then watch the flow of your breath as it enters and leaves.

Now bring your focus to your heart, and as you breathe in feel as if your heart is opening and softening; as you breathe out, release any tension or resistance.

Now visualize yourself walking in a beautiful but overgrown garden. All sorts of colorful flowers surround you, but among them are numerous weeds.

You find a place to sit amidst the plants and with awareness you mindfully begin to remove the weeds. Each one represents a negative aspect of yourself or your life. Name it as you remove it, and watch it leave your mind as you discard.

The more weeds you remove the lighter you feel, as if a weight is being removed from you. As you do this, the flowers are growing stronger and brighter.

Stay here as long as you like. You may not have time to pull up all the weeds, so before you leave promise that you will be back again to remove some more.

When you are ready, silently repeat three times, “May I be happy, may my mind be like a beautiful garden.” Take a deep breath and let it go. Then fill the rest of your day with kindness and smiles.

What weeds do you need to pull out of your garden? Do comment below. You can receive notice of our blogs every Tuesday by checking Become a Fan at the top.

You can learn more in our award-winning book: BE THE CHANGE, How Meditation Can Transform You and the World, or from our three meditation CD’s.

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Female Celebrities by Astrological Star Sign

Again, which group would you like to hang out with!?

Aries: Emma Watson, Jennie Garth, Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart, Lady Gaga, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robin Wright Penn, Mariah Carey, Mandy Moore, Jenna Jameson.

Taurus: Tori Spelling, Uma Thurman, Valerie Bertinelli, Penelope Cruz, Renee Zellweger, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Janet Jackson, Jessica Alba.

Gemini: Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Paula Abdul, Naomi Campbell, Angelina Jolie, Alanis Morissette, Adriana Lima.

Cancer: Jessica Simpson, Meryl Streep, Pam Anderson, Selma Blair, Liv Tyler, Kathy Bates, Courtney Love, Cyndi Lauper.

Leo: Evangeline Lilly, Martha Stewart, Whitney Houston, Martina McBride, Kate Beckinsale, Madonna, Kyra Sedgwick, Hilary Swank, Sandra Bullock.

Virgo: Cameron Diaz, Beyonce Knowles, Evan Rachel Wood, Sophia Loren, Salma Hayek, Shaniah Twain, Amy Winehouse, Claudia Schiffer, Faith Hill.

Libra: Kate Winslet, Kelly Preston, Kim Kardashian,Vanessa Marcil, Mira Sorvino, Hillary Duff, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Silverstone, Catherine Zeta Jones, Dita Von Teese, Gwyneth Paltrow, Heather Locklear.

Scorpio: Anne Hathaway, Winona Ryder, Toni Colette, Aishwarya Rai, Bjork, Grace Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Julia Roberts, Calista Flockhart, Jenny McCarthy, Rebecca Romijn, Tara Reid.

Sagittarius: Tyra Banks, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Connelly, Julianne Moore, Elisha Cuthbert, Christina Aquilera, Britney Spears, Alyssa Milano.

Capricorn: Susan Lucci, Kirstie Alley, Eliza Dushku, Betty White, January Jones, Michelle Obama, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kate Moss.

Aquarius: Jane Seymour, Alicia Keys, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres, Denise Richards, Elizabeth Banks, Shakira, Geena Davis, Mischa Barton, Tiffani Thiessen, Paris Hilton, Kelly Rowland, Jennifer Aniston, Diane Lane.

Pisces: Drew Barrymore, Rihanna, Kristin Davis, Eva Longoria, Patricia Heaton, Jessica Biel, Dakota Fanning, Eva Mendez, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carrie Underwood, Vanessa Williams, Cindy Crawford.

Beauty.com – Cosmetics, Skin Care, Fragrances, Beauty and Makeup Tips.

Two of our favorite things here at Solutions Psychics are horoscopes and beauty products!  I could not resist sharing this page from beauty.com.    Enjoy!  Do you think the products fit with the astrological sign?

	If you don’t slow down, you’re going to burn yourself out. Life is short. Try and find ways to relax and enjoy it. The Borghese Sweet Tranquility Set is a great way to start. This 10-piece set contains everything you need to create a mini spa at home. Take a deep breath, and take this opportunity to enjoy a little pampering.
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	You’re especially magnetic this month. In work relationships, this means it’s a good time to share ideas and assert your influence over others. If you’re hoping to attract love, then you’re in luck! It could be headed your way soon. Increase your chances by making yourself even more “attractive” with Smashbox Hyperlash Mascara. We’re talking ultra-dramatic, amazingly long, clump-free lashes.
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	This is a time to rest and recharge. Think about the things in your life that are dragging you down and eliminate them. On the flip side, there are quick and easy ways to boost your health. Take this opportunity to evaluate your vitamins and supplements. Wild Sockeye Salmon Oil is called the superstar of supplements. It’s the purest and most powerful source of Omega 3 and DMAE–both key ingredients in improving the health of your skin.
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	The focus for you this month is business and accomplishing as much as possible. You have lots to get done and you aren’t fooling around. Even when it comes to your makeup. You don’t have time to constantly be touching up your lip color. That’s why you need Jane Iredale Lip Fixation. It’s pretty, polished, and designed to be super long wearing. So you can keep your mind on your work–not your lips.
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	Routine tends to bother you now, as you’re instinctively drawn towards anything that brings you out of the everyday. What better way to shake things up than with the new flat-look nail polish from Knockout. Matte Nail Color in Match is a deep, hot pink that dries to a smooth, flat finish in no time at all.
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	May is your month for socializing. If you’re feeling a little restless, some time away from the ordinary may be in order. Like a mini-vacation getaway with friends. Or even just a lunchtime walk in the park. But be sure to arm yourself. Use Sun Serenity from Phytomer before and after you face the sun to protect your complexion from signs of aging caused by UV rays.
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	Personal growth is at an all-time high, while energy may be running a little low. Extra sleep would help significantly. While you’re at it, take that extra time in bed and use it to your advantage. philosophy® help me is a nighttime retinol treatment that targets large pores, discoloration, and fine lines.  We can all use a little help at one time or another.
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	If you’re not usually enthusiastic and bold, this is a great time to kick it up a notch. Indulge your hunger for travel, or at least surround yourself with scents and images of faraway places. The new fragrance citron de vigne from fresh invokes the sun-drenched days, earthy vines, and sparkling wines of France’s Champagne region. C’est magnifique! .
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	You’ve never been afraid to stand out in a crowd. And this month the planets support your desire to call attention to yourself. Be creative with your makeup and find new ways to get different results. Like with Stila’s Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Liner. This highly pigmented, waterproof eye liner makes a dramatic statement with staying power.
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	You’re ready for a change and this is a good month to make one. Shake things up with an über sexy shimmer of gold that really calls attention to your free spirit–as well as your glorious tan. Step out of your beauty routine and try something new, like Urban Decay’s Summer of Love Palette with gorgeous golden shades sure to make you a stand out.
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	Your curiosity is piqued by a large variety of things this month. Which could make it a good time to come up with solutions to a number of problems. If one of those issues is troublesome skin, why not investigate some new options. DDF recently introduced a breakthrough device that delivers microdermabrasion results that are as effective as a professional treatment. DDF Revolve 400X delivers significant results with pore appearance and fine lines around your eyes. Watch your complexion glow!
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	You tend to get wrapped up in yourself and your activities. But this is a time to give other people a little extra time and attention. Siblings, neighbors, close relatives, friends, and co-workers may play a more important role than usual in your life. If all this extra activity finds you spending less time on your appearance, no problem. Alterna makes a Dry Shampoo that gives your hair that just-washed look in a lot less time. So you can put the focus on others without letting your hair pay the price.
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Susan Piver: Love, Spirituality and Four Noble Truths.

I have been a student of Buddhism since 1995, and the study and practice of dharma inform my actions, friendships and creative focus. When you become a Buddhist, part of the commitment is to take off the training wheels and do your best to put the dharma into play in all situations. It’s no longer theoretical. It is your life. It’s a fun, scary, and noble challenge.

When the Buddha became enlightened, the first thing he handed out was the four noble truths and upon becoming a Buddhist, they are your benchmarks.

1. Life is suffering. (Doesn’t mean “life sucks,” by the way. More like, “life changes.”)
2. Suffering is caused by attachment. (Wanting things to be other than they are.)
3. It is possible to stop suffering. (Phew.)
4. There is an eight-fold path to liberate yourself from suffering, which includes such things as Right Speech, Right Action and so on.

There have been countless words written on each of these four and you could definitely spend a lifetime in contemplation of just one of them. To apply them to everyday life means to accept that things won’t ever quite work out (at least not in any conventional sense); that when you hold on to anything too tightly (even the idea of not holding on to anything too tightly), it backfires; you can definitely figure all this out and, finally, that there is a step-by-step explanation for how to do so, via practices, insights, devotion and so on.

Okay, all very well and good. It’s not like I can do any of this, but I am fairly diligent about trying to in every area of my life. Well, every area but one. Work — check. Money — check. Family — check. Society — check. Romantic relationships — check NOT.

When it comes to love and partnership, I definitely try to wiggle out of the four noble truths. I can halfway toy with accepting that everything changes, even that I will die and this body will be a corpse. But when it comes to love — I need that to be permanent. There, I said it. When my husband tells me he loves me, that cannot change or I’m going to be very, very upset. When we make a commitment to share our lives with each other, that too must be rock solid. When he disappoints or angers me, I have every right to expect him to change. And when it comes to acknowledging that one way or another, this relationship will definitely end, well, I just need that not to be true. Otherwise it is simply unbearable.

(I believe that this, by the way, is why most relationships fail, because to come to terms with this last truth is just too painful. It’s easier to break up with someone because they don’t make you laugh/take you seriously/earn enough money/eat dairy, but really I think it’s because, at some point, we become unbearably precious to each other. But I digress.)

Even among deeply practiced and skillful Buddhists, I can’t help but notice that it is difficult to apply the dharma to anything that involves love and medically unrelated nakedness. When it comes to relationships, we believe our version of reality is absolutely solid and correct. There is no oxygen when you feel neglected, dismissed, suffocated, or enraged by the one you love. Oddly, it is our intimate relationships that most challenge our ability to be open, non-judgmental, compassionate, and kind.

The hardest people to love are the ones you, well, really love. What is up with that?

Unfortunately, I don’t know, but I still think about it all the time. It may be useful to take a look at the four noble truths again and try really, really hard to language them to apply to relationships. I’ll go first. Let me know what you think.

1. Relationships are uncomfortable.
Right? Whether you’re on a blind date, worrying if you’ll like each other or have been married for 20 years, groaning yet again “why are you doing that thing that I’ve asked you eleventy billion times not to do?” there is a kind of discomfort. Of course, there are also times of sheer delight and deeply gratifying intimacy, but even in the sweet moments, there is the shock of dissolution.

I’ve come to think that the most deeply loving gesture I can make within my relationship is to tolerate my own discomfort — to recognize my feelings and leave the story behind; to cease & desist threatening my husband with consequences should he fail to be the person I need him to be rather than the person he is. There are only so many times you can choose your make-believe husband over your real one before he balks. Hard.

Too, there is something magical, yes magical, about this discomfort. You’re right there, never quite in your comfort zone. Always a tiny bit on the edge, like you’re trying something new for the very first time. Which, when it comes to love, is not such a bad approach. Brilliance and inspiration and everything fresh is discovered on this edge, including how to open your heart beyond what you ever thought possible.

2. Thinking they’re supposed to be comfortable is what makes them uncomfortable.
It is pretty hard to get away from the idea that love is supposed to make you happy. No, wait, it is supposed to make you happy — if happy means alive, open, giving, and touchable. When it’s defined as safe and predictable, getting what you want, or finding the perfect man/woman, we might run into a few problems.

When we say we’re looking for love, most of us really mean we’re looking for safety, a way to get comfortable. We’re looking for someone to love us first, and then we will love them back. (99.9 percent of relationship self-help books are about how to get love, not how to give it. That’s kind of odd, no?!) “Relationship” is equated with a protective cocoon. It’s understandable. Loving is so vulnerable, maybe the most vulnerable thing you can do. Love is not for sissies.

There is nothing less safe than love. Love means opening again and again to your beloved, yourself, and your world, and seeing what happens next. The moment you try to make it safe, it ceases to be love. Believe me, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be very smart, practical, and skillful when it comes to your relationships. But relationships and love are two separate things.

3. It is absolutely possible to love and be loved unconditionally.
You know this is true. You know it from experience. You are in the house of unconditional love every time you are touched beyond thought by the beauty of your fellow human beings, and every time one has been touched by you. Even something as simple as the smile a stranger gives you when you hold the door for him or her qualifies. Or when you are moved by the success of someone you love and feel it as your own. When you are touched by someone’s sadness and want to help. When you open your eyes, you see that such moments are taking place all the time. These agenda-less instances of opening to another are, IMHO, unconditional love. I mean, they are unconditional, right? You’re not putting any conditions on things when you simply feel them spontaneously. I rest my case.

4. There is a path that teaches you how and it really works.
You can practice becoming comfortable with discomfort. The sitting practice of meditation teaches you how, exactly, directly, perfectly.

You can practice letting your dear ones — and yourself — off the hook for not being perfect. The traditional practice of Maitri (also known as Metta or Lovingkindness) teaches you how — exactly, directly, perfectly.

And you can practice letting life in, allowing people, circumstance, your own brilliance and your own foibles to touch you deeply. When you know how to navigate from discomfort back to equilibrium through the practice of meditation and can extend yourself to others fearlessly by cultivating loving kindness, you can stop looking for love. You have made your life into love itself.

The 8 Most Common Types of Dreams — And What They Mean – Lemondrop.com.

Are our dreams — those wild, fantastic and definitely uncensored jumbles of images that bombard us in our sleep — just a retweet of our day’s events, or are they more?

And can you open your mind to the possibility that your dreams might actually come bearing gifts — valuable gifts that could help you gain guidance, solve problems and figure out your magic formula for meeting the man of your dreams or getting the raise you’ve been seeking?

I believe the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes. In my experience I’ve found dreams to be therapeutic, cathartic, predictive, cleansing, healing, inspiring, rebuilding and processing.

In order to make sense of these multi-faceted, multi-purposed, multi-layered and multi-platinum gifts that you awaken with each morning, it is helpful to know how to categorize them.

In fact, there are telltale signs within each dream to help you discern whether it’s helping you process information, release negativity, embrace your shadow side, break through limitations, predict the future, receive inspiration from your higher self, or create a life, well, of your dreams.

Below, the eight most common types of dreams, what they mean, and how knowing can work to your advantage.

1. Processing Dreams
These dreams can feel quite annoying in that they are a rehashing of the events of your day — in other words, “sleep-working.” (And who needs that?) Processing dreams are a way for our subconscious to digest the bazillion message units we are exposed to all day. In these dreams you are tying up loose ends from the office or rehearsing ways to resolve a conversation that went awry.

As tedious as these dreams may feel they can give you a tremendous advantage (like eyes in the back of your head), like a rehearsal before a play. You can also think of your processing dreams as your own personal after-hours assistant whose job is to render spotless the messy office of your mind. Every night while you’re asleep she (or he, whatever turns you on) gets out the Dustbuster and cleans up the clutter, files important documents, discards irrelevant scraps, and helps find solutions and ideas for questions that were posed throughout the day. Is it any wonder that when you are unsure about a decision you say, “Let me sleep on it.”

2. Venting Dreams
These are your nightmares where you’re being chased, falling, failing a test or arriving naked to a job interview. Venting dreams can be, let’s face it, terrifying. But before you delete these unwanted dreams from your psychological inbox, consider that they can either help you get ready for an important opportunity (like cautioning you to prepare for your job interview instead of winging it) or help you release beliefs that are blocking the full breadth of your creativity and passion (think about how great you feel after a good cry). Think “out with the old, in with the new” or “you can’t heal what you can’t feel.”

3. Integration Dreams
You dream that you or someone else is acting out in an extreme way that you either greatly admire or seriously judge (i.e., pole dancing in the lobby at work.) What this dream is trying to teach you is that this character or behavior is a vital aspect of you (as disturbing as that may sound), and in embracing it you become more whole. In other words, the behavior you’re busy judging may be a part of yourself you’re afraid to embrace — or secretly dislike.

4. Breakdown/Breakthrough Dreams
Dreams of disaster, death, fires, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, oh my! These dreams are indicative of great change on the horizon. If you are a creature of habit who clings to routine then these dreams might be helping you to loosen up and break out of business as usual, so you can be prepared for what’s next. The trick is to embrace change, since it is an inevitable part of the adventure of life.

5. Recurring Dreams
Your recurring dreams are like a Secret Agent on a mission for the S.I.A. (Subconscious Intelligence Agency). Their mission: to deliver a message to your conscious mind that will enhance your well-being and happiness, should you choose to accept it. Until the mission is accomplished, the agent (repetitive dream) will try again and again until the message is received and decoded successfully. Pay attention to the clues!

6. Precognitive Dreams
These are dreams where you look into the dreamtime crystal ball and actually see the future. You can never quite be sure that yours is a precognitive dream until an aspect of it plays out in “real” life. But here’s a clue that your dream may be prophetic: You dream of people, places and situations that are future extensions of what is currently taking place in your life. (For example, you dream of engagement-ring shopping and you wake up and he actually pops the question.)

7. Prophetic Dreams
Prophetic dreams are like your own personal Burning Bush that can, if you heed their messages, reveal more than any psychic ever could. How they work: you dream of a wise, loving being (i.e. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Ammachi, Gandhi, your departed pet, a favorite grandparent, etc.) and you feel that you’ve been given a gift or taught a life lesson. Make this dream a real part of your conscious reality by writing down its message and recalling the feeling this dream gave you, often.

8. Wish-Fulfillment Dreams
A wish-fulfillment dream, like a genie in a bottle, aligns you with the resonance of your heart’s and soul’s desires. Just as people who are wealthy attract more wealth to them and happy people attract more of what makes them happy, when you move in the direction of your dreams by acting as if they’ve already come true, you add velocity to the process of manifestation. Wish-fulfillment dreams might include dreams about an upcoming vacation, an ideal scene at work, or the resolution of a conflict that you’ve had with a sibling. Because your subconscious mind cannot discern between actual events and that which is vividly imagined, your wish-fulfillment dreams actually create an energetic map that can lead you from where you are to where you would like to be.
Dream Doctor Kelly Sullivan Walden is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and author of the bestselling book “I Had the Strangest Dream … The Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century” as well as “Discover Your Inner Goddess Queen … An Inspirational Journey From Drama Queen to Goddess Queen.” Kelly is featured regularly on Fox News as well as in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Bride, Seventeen and US Weekly. She is the creator/founder of The Dream Project, a nonprofit organization bridging the gap between the United Nations and inner-city schoolkids.

Developing Your 5 Clair Senses – Rebecca Rosen – Oprah.com.

*Rebecca Rosen does not work with us, but this article is excellent so I wanted to share it with all of you! – Renee

Early on when I was developing my spiritual connection, I battled with tremendous self-doubt. It was hard for me to not compare my particular style of connecting with other mediums’ experiences. It was clear to me that many mediums actually did “see” dead people or ghostlike apparitions. I wondered, “If I’m not seeing these ghosts standing next to the person I’m reading for, does that mean I’m not really connecting to spirit?” Meanwhile, I was, in fact, receiving profound validations or evidence from spirits to convince both the people I worked with and myself. There was a genuine connection being made.

As I started to explore the language of spirit and better understand how intuition works, I realized that my dominant way of receiving intuitive information was a more auditory experience rather than a visual one. The irony was that once I let go of my desire to “see,” I started to recognize spirit energy as sparks of light, orbs and swirling wisps around the room. With time, I learned that while we have one or two dominant physical senses, we also have dominant intuitive senses and that we all connect with spirit in our own unique way. Our job is to figure out what way that is and then simply embrace it. And that’s exactly what I’m going to help you to do.

Like radio waves, spiritual information is constantly being broadcast around us, so it’s really just a matter of learning how to tune in to it. To interpret what spirit is broadcasting, you’ll be using your five senses just like you do in your day-to-day life. And just as you may feel that some of your senses are more reliable than others for making everyday judgments, you have senses, or clairs, that are stronger for connecting with spirit.

The clair senses are types of psychic abilities that correspond with the five senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting. When I tap into my intuition and spirit energy, my mind and body become flooded with mental impressions: thoughts, feelings, images, sounds, tastes and smells. To help you determine what your dominant clairs are, let me start by first explaining what they are and how our preferred senses shape our lives.

Clairvoyance means clear seeing.
This is when visions past, present and future flash through our mind’s eye, or third eye, much like a daydream. Many of us are highly visual and able to understand an idea best when we see it written or sketched out as an image on a computer screen or on a canvas. Visual people often choose to be artists, builders, photographers, decorators, designers and so forth. If this sounds familiar, your clairvoyance is most likely a dominant sense.

Clairaudience means clear hearing.
This is when we hear words, sounds or music in our own mind’s voice. On rare occasions, spirit may be able to create audible sound, though this takes a tremendous amount of focused energy. Some of us best retain and comprehend information when we hear it spoken aloud. Our natural talents tend to lie in our auditory faculties, often making us gifted musicians, singers, writers and public speakers. If this feels right to you, clairaudience may be a leading sense for you.

Clairsentience means clear feeling.
This entails feeling a person’s or spirit’s emotions or feeling another’s physical pain. Many of us are clairsentient without consciously being aware of it. When we get a strong “gut” feeling, positive or negative, about someone we just met or when we get the “chills” for no apparent reason, we may be tuning into the emotional energy of a person or a spirit around us. When we are highly sensitive and are in tune with not only our own feelings, but also the feelings of others, this makes us natural healers and caregivers. We often feel inspired to pursue careers as doctors, therapists, counselors, nannies and teachers. If this is you, clairsentience is at the top of your senses list.

Clairalience means clear smelling.
This is being able to smell odors that don’t have any kind of physical source. Instances of this could include smelling the perfume or the cigarette smoke of a deceased relative, used as a sign of their presence around us. When our sense of smell is strong and distinct, we may find that certain smells connect us to past memories or we may be drawn to working as a florist, a wine taster or a perfume fragrance creator.

Clairgustance means clear tasting.
This is the ability to taste something that isn’t actually there. This experience oftentimes comes from out of the blue when a deceased loved one is attempting to communicate a memory or association we have with a particular food or beverage that reminds us of them. If we have a heightened sense of taste, this would make us natural chefs, bakers or food critics.

Claircognizance means clear knowing.
This is when we have knowledge of people or events that we would not normally have knowledge about. Spirit impresses us with truths that simply pop into our minds from out of nowhere. An example of this would be a premonition: a forewarning of something that will happen in the future. Claircognizance requires tremendous faith because there’s often no practical explanation for why we suddenly “know” something. Many philosophers, professors, doctors, scientists, religious and spiritual leaders and powerful sales and business leaders tend to be highly intuitive and seem to just know the facts with a sense of certainty. If this is you, consider claircognizance as one of your dominant senses.

Now, how do you recognize what your preferred or dominant style of sensing is? Begin by sitting in a comfortable place where you won’t be distracted for a few minutes. Scan the area around you, taking in all details and feelings of where you are. Then close your eyes and focus on your breath. Breathe deeply and slowly as you mentally review what caught your attention when you scanned the room. Was it the sight of something that stood out, the sound of something that you heard, the feeling of something registering in your stomach or heart, a taste or smell that suddenly appeared or a strong thought about something that hit you from out of the blue?

Still not sure what your dominant clair is? In my book Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You,chapter 5 “Tap the Source” offers a variety of exercises that pertain to each clair to help you better understand and sharpen your particular style of sensing. Believe it or not, we have access to all clairs and can strengthen them with practice and time.

Once you are aware of the different ways your intuition and Spirit can speak to you, a door is opened to this powerful guidance, which will assist you in creating a meaningful and magical spiritual journey.

Rebecca Rosen has served as a bridge between this world and those who have crossed over to the other side for the past 10 years. Her work has led to many guest appearances, including Entertainment Tonight, The Rachael Ray Show and Nightline, and her first book, Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You (HarperCollins). Due to the high and growing demand for spiritual truth, she has committed herself full time to serving as a medium and also educates thousands of people around the country with her seminars, lectures and workshops. Learn more about Rebecca by visiting her website.

Yes! You are psychic! I am psychic. All you have to do is learn about your psychic ability and how to further develop your psychic ability.

Every one of us has intuition.  There is a certain sense that comes over us when we enter different situations.  Sometimes you know things are going to work out great, or that a certain person is a good person.  Sometimes you feel like you need to run away from a situation or person.  Either way, they are feelings of intuition.

Paying attention and listening are very important in tuning in to intuition.  Some of the smartest people use their intuition to foresee different outcomes.  Being realistic is also very important.  Thinking about the situation that you have a question about and being self reflective is very important.

Readers often find it difficult to read and predict for themselves.  It is often because he or she is too close to the situation and is having a hard time stepping back and being realistic.  This is why many readers call us!  Readers like to get readings to help solve their own problems.  This is also the reason we are such a successful psychic hotline.  Many of our clients are psychic themselves and are too close to the situation to get a good read.

Meditation and self reflection are essential in being a psychic reader.  It cleanses the energy between readings and keeps readings fresh.  It also helps with the psychic’s overall health.  It can be stressful on the body to do many readings without ample break time.  That is why we always give the readers a break between readings.  It gives them time to get their intuition and energy back.  Professional psychics have trained themselves to be able to pick up their energy quickly.  For a regular person using intuition, it can be difficult to tune in at first.  But with practice, studying and meditation, you can be a psychic reader!  Just be patient, it takes time.

Brad Pitt’s Psychic Speaks.

You know I could not resist this article!! – Renee

Brad Pitt may have no use for religion, but his psychic tells Life & Style he is very spiritual and often seeks divine advice.

Life & Style’s press release follows:

When super dad Brad Pitt has tough decisions to make, he turns to a surprising source–his psychic! Life & Style has learned that psychic Ron Bard has helped Brad through many important moments in his life. “Yes, Brad has come to me for a reading,” Bard tells Life & Style exclusively. “I know him both personally and through my business. He is very, very spiritual.”

Brad first visited Bard while married to Jen and filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Angelina. While he’s keeping his visions of Brad’s future to himself, Bard tells Life & Style, “I meet a lot of celebrities in this business, and he’s truly one of the nicest people. He’s gracious and generous, just such a great person.”

Brad’s psychic describes himself as “an adviser to some of the richest and most powerful people around the world…from powerful CEOs of American and Japanese conglomerates to Hollywood celebrities.” Earlier this year, he founded a paranormal social networking site, of all things, with his friend, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer.