Posts Tagged ‘religion’

Celtic Tattoos

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

The Celts are an ancient people, who almost certainly came from India many thousands of years ago. After getting to Italy, they made their way north-east through France to the United Kingdom. The Gauls were dominant in France by the time the Romans got there a little more than two thousand years ago, but the Celts were rock-solid in the UK.

In those days, the Celts lived all around the UK, but the Roman invasion pushed them back into the extremities of the land. As the Romans defeated the Celts in south-east Britain, the tribes either moved to Scotland or Wales or they mixed with the Roman invaders.

British Celts were well-known for their skin modifications, which is the modern terminology for tattoos and body art. The Celts and the Picts were body painters extraodinnaire. However, that was before Christianity. After Christianity came to the UK, the Celtic Cross became an vital symbol of Celtic symbology.

However, there are other Celtic symbols as well. The Welsh dragon is a Celtic symbol too. The Celts believed in fairies, so fairies are also Celtic symbols. The legends of King Arthur and the knights of the round table are also Celtic, as is Avalon and Camelot, no matter what the English tell you.

Ireland is also a prominent Celtic country and numerous Celtic symbols come from there as well, The famous Claddagh Ring is a typical Celtic design – the never-ending strings or ropes of time. Druids are also a powerful symbol of Celtic culture and the druids held oak trees in high esteem.

Retro is a big thing in modern fashion as people are beginning to disbelieve the myth that times will always be better. Young people are searching back for a restarting point, but as that is hard to find, they are picking up on symbols of their history. For lots of people of British origin, this is Celtic.

For others, it is just the romanticism of Celtic folklore. The Mabignogion, fairies, druids, dragons, King Arthur and the knights of the round table are all powerful images in peoples’ subconscious. People like to fantasise about the supernatural in these days of the cold, calculating computers, which govern our lives.

If you want to have a Celtic tattoo, you are almost certainly of Celtic descent and so you will already have a concept of the sort of tattoo that you want to have. It may be a decent idea to look for a tattoo artist who has knowledge of Celtic traditions and Celtic tattoos. This way, you may be more certain of the authenticity of your tattoo, if you are not au fe with Celtic images or tattoos.

Celtic tattoos could be classed as tribal tattoos – north-estern European tribal tattoos, but what most people do not know is that Britain was called that because its peoples wore body art and the Scottish Picts were known as that because they wore skin paint. The Celts were among the first to use body art, but absolutely not the only ones.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on quite a lot of subjects, but is at present involved with anchor tatoos. If you would like to know more go to our web site at White Ink Tatoo.

The Meanings Of Flower Tattoos

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

There are trends in tattooing, just like there are in jewellery, hairstyles and most other items and one of the rising trends is flower tattoos. This has much to do with the fact that more and more women like tattoos these days than ever before particularly in the Developed world. The good things about flower tattoos is that you do not have to modify them if you become divorced and their significance is not blatant.

Flower tattoos can have a subtle meaning or no meaning at all, depending on the whim of the wearer. If you opt to think that flowers have a extraordinary significance, then every type of flower or each arrangement of flowers may mean something different as well. ‘Say it with flowers’ is an old marketing slogan.

So, what do flower tattoos mean? Well, every nationality or each continent might understand something else by different flowers but here we will take a look at what many tattoo artists and tattooees say is intended by flower tattoos.

In general, flower tattoos conjure up thoughts of nature, airiness, light and gentility. Flowers remind us of life and even life despite adversity. ‘Per Ardua Ad Astra’ as the Royal Air Force saying goes. Who does not look for the first snowdrops or crocuses in the spring as a signal that the winter is drawing to a close?

If you think about the meaning of the colour of roses, it may help you pick what colour flower tattoo you want. For instance, a white flower may stand for clean living, purity, modesty or chastity. Red might mean the opposite or at the very least passionate. Yellow has the meaning of friendship or ‘friendly’ in roses. A quick search on Google will reveal the meaning of dozens of rose colours.

We all have our idea of what roses mean in the Developed world, but the same sort of meaning is attributed to the waterlily or the Lotus Blossom in the East. The Lotus Blossom has the additional meaning of good fortune, peace and tranquility. In other parts of the world, the Acacia flower denotes love and friendship

In Ireland, the Shamrock is the plant of good luck and numerous people of Irish descent wear a shamrock tattoo on their arm. Other well-liked flower tattoos in the West are Violets, which are said to represent a love of home, hearth and garden, because it is an old plant that often grew in cottages and hedgerows.

The Iris is said to symbolize wisdom and perception and the Magnolia a love of nature and, in particular, flowers themselves. The favourite flower tattoo in Wales is the Daffodil, the national flower of Wales. If you are not certain what meaning you would like to express with a flower tattoo, why not make up a posy of your favourite flowers and have that tattooed on?

Flower tattoos are better than words or the more traditional tattoos like anchors, because their meaning is ambiguous and you never need regret having the tattoo done, if you undergo a radical change in your life.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on quite a lot of topics, but is currently involved with the Barcode Tatoo. If you would like to know more go to our website at White Ink Tatoo.

So, You Would like To Join A Church?

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

It is a well-known fact that more people used to go to church than they do now – in the Developed world at least – and it is another well-known fact that it tends to be the older people who go to church, perhaps because they would like to hedge their bets before it gets a little late. Well, now the Baby Boomers are becoming old, so does that mean that the Western religions will see a revitalization?

It is also the case that people have got used to travelling away from their town of birth to find work, which has been made easier by a better infrastructure, better public transport and cheaper cars, so many people might find themselves in an region, where they have lived for years, but where they do not know traditional institutions like the churches.

So what should someone do if they want to (re)kindle their religious custom at church in a town where they do not know anything of the churches, their histories or their clergy?

Well, the first and most obvious question to answer is: which denomination do you believe in the most? Let’s suppose you reply ‘Catholic’; if there is no Catholic Church in the region, would you be happy to go to a Protestant Church – a Baptist or a Methodist Church? The same is true of other religions, but I cannot give names with the same amount of assurance as when talking about Christianity.

If you are unsure, you are in a better place than many, because you can go on a fact-finding tour without any preconceptions. So, if you do not know which church or even which religion you favour, go to another one every week.

Sunday is not always the best day to go to a Christian church because it is the most crowded day of the week, but you will see on the notice board outside or in the foyer which other days the church holds services on.

If you are a white ‘Christian’ type, do not feel that you may not go into churches of denominations from all over the world, but take a little time to do some research first so that you do not flagrantly upset any customs or taboos.

For example, lots of religions forbid the wearing of shoes in church and some require that the head is covered. Ask a friend to go with you if you are uncertain. People of all religions are happy to take visitors who are sincere in their quest for enlightenment. Language may be your biggest stumbling block with religions established abroad.

If going into a church of an unfamiliar religion is too much, you could look on Google for on line forums that deal with the religion that you are interested in. That way, you are more likely to find information in your own language as well. There are many English-language forums on Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and more.

If you do walk into an unknown church alone, sit towards the back but endeavour not to sit yards and yards from the closest person or you will feel isolated. It is best to sit towards the back though because then you are not intruding and you can leave if you are not comfortable.

When the service is over, do not be in a hurry to leave. Merely sit there quietly, reading through the hymn book.

Give it ten minutes or so. By then, someone ought to have noticed that they have a stranger in their midst and someone should have come over to see how you are.

Some churches will even offer you tea or coffee, biscuits and a chat. This is your chance to see how friendly the congregation is. If no-one comes to you to introduce themselves, I personally would not go back there.

If no-one comes over to you, say hello to the person who gave the service on the way out, but endeavour to be one of the last out so that they have the time to talk to you if they want to. Again, if they only shake your hand, mutter something about ‘nice to see you again’ and move on to the next one, so would I – I would move onto the next church.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is currently concerned with religious beliefs in China. If you would like to kcurrently more go to What is Religious Belief?

Ways To Get Your Child Interested In Religion

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

Whether you yourself have an interest in religion or not, there might come a time when you consider it your duty to offer your child the chance to discover religion for itself. You might be an atheist or you might have a particular creed or religion that you prefer, but is that a reason to make your child follow you?

Most children do not associate church with fun (and you might well argue that fun has nothing to with it), so how to you inspire an interest in religion? There seem to be just two ways: you can either make it more fun or you can force them. We all know that force tends to have the opposite effect from the one required, so how do you make going to church fun or at least interesting?

The beginning of going to church alone for most children is Sunday School, so you could start there. This is not about you or your religious education, so whatever you believe, you could go along to the Sunday Schools of a few local churches and find out what activities they hold.

If the Sunday school is dull and boring, your child will not remain there and may be put off for decades or even life. Going to church or to Sunday schools ought to be about religious education and moral guidance not about coercion and indoctrination.

You do not have to have faith in everything your religious instructor tells you to become a decent, moral, religious person no matter which denomination you belong to. There are not many religious teachers in any church who would say that they ‘know it all’. If they did they would not have to to pray for guidance themselves!

Events that young children may find interesting are approximately the same as those they would do in a standard school, but with a slightly more religious bent. These include: painting, drawing, singing, reading, story-telling, playing and sports. The extra reading practice at Sunday school may truly give your child the edge when it comes to the state school curriculum as well.

Older children will like sport, dancing (barn dances, line-dancing, ballroom dancing), singing, putting on plays and discussion classes. Children outside this environment will almost certainly never act in a play or never learn to Tango in their lives, yet it is a godsend in life to have done it at least once.

Debating is another skill that most individuals do not have either. Learning fund raising and public speaking are excellent skills that are not taught frequently in state schools any more either.

If your children do not like the Sunday school that you would like them to attend, let them go to another one. Any extra education is better than none or roaming the streets. In my case, my parents were Spiritualists, but my mother’s family were Catholics.

My school was Church of Wales (similar to the Church of England), the Boy Scouts I was in were Methodists, but they went to a Baptist Church because it was closer. I enjoyed the singing in all the churches and I still know the songs 45 years later!

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with Korean religious belief. If you would like to know more go to What is Religious Belief?

Finding Holy Bible Passages

Friday, February 10th, 2012

The Bible isn’t justa religious book, but it’s also a publication providing you with many people with the help they are searching for in their life. For a long time, the Holy Bible may be assisting many individuals get the clarity and inspiration they need in life and it is an excellent source for anyone trying to find inspiration. The scriptures in the Bible have been inspiring and uplifting individuals for a long period and even though many of the scriptures are thousands of years old, they’re nevertheless able to be related to modern day society. For this reason so many people use the Bible a lot more than any other kind of selfhelp publication to obtain the assistance they are searching for in everyday life. Many of the Bible scriptures will train and encourage people on how to change their lives for the better.

Holy Bible passages not just aid people get the solutions they are seeking but they also help many people far better realize and carry out God’s will. Many individuals are looking for differente points using their Bible sentiments. Many people could be looking for impressive pick -me-ups to get them through the day, while others might be searching for additional information on methods they are able to far better serve God in their life. Numerous Somebody sentiments are able to supply people with the challenging solutions they are looking for to life’s daily most challenging questions. Lots of people can easily find solutions on all sorts of topics ranging from love and happiness to work and money. The key nonetheless is to be able to find these passages within the Holy Bible.

Many individuals, with all of various kinds of beliefs, are capable of finding ideas while using words of God. The Bible is definitely a large source that may be difficult to look through to find a specific Bible verse on the subject you are searching for info or assistance with. Some people might be trying to find Bible verses on love, family, authority or just life. Other Folks could be looking for details on forgiveness or sentiments that particularly pertain to men or women. There are other people who may also be trying to find verses within the Bible which have been positive or uplifting.

Also, many individuals will appear for Bible passages that they can reveal at special activities like baptisms, weddings or graduations. Locating the perfect passage for your health is in fact less difficult than many individuals think, due to internet. Presently there are web sites that will help you search through different types of Bible verses until you find one that will be ideal for your situation or function. Doing this is among the simplest ways to make certain that you will find the assistance and support that you are looking for in the Bible.

Lots of people discover durability in several Bible sentiments, and several individuals are looking for certain verses they can share with other folks or use for his or her personal gain. This can now be carried out without having to read through the whole Holy Bible from start to finish. With the internet lots of people can certainly find the perfect Bible saying they want for very own situation.

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Increasing Your Intuition Within The wilderness

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

You then will probably discover with your intuition that just after a while your focus will usually fade from this inner sensation and that you will naturally be attracted to an additional internal sensation. Simply go to this sensation and be with it. Follow the inner sensations throughout your system. Much like a dance of sensing yourself within your system. Going from one place to a different one.

As you practice this internal heading off with the senses you will notice that you naturally begin to feel more within your body. That your body starts to get up and that you begin to enter a rich dimension of internal feeling. Much like another dimension opening up.

You are able to actively heighten these sensations within your body deeper by breathing into them. As you become aware of a sensing yourself within your system, begin to notice the delicate textures inside this feeling. Then imagine that you are breathing into this feeling with every in breath. That as you breathe in to the feeling the sensation expands and grows. While you breathe in the feeling gets to be more extreme, that you can feel noticeably of all the feeling as you breathe in to the sensations. Permitting the feeling to develop and broaden on each breath you take in. Feeling more of all the feeling inside your system on every in breath.

While you tap in deeper into this dimension of inner sensing yourself and discover more of all the texture and delicate nuances you are able to then heighten your sense of feeling even more noticeably. You are able to do that by beginning to explore how the dimension about you interacts and is connected to your inner feeling world.

For example, as you start you are able to then begin to become conscious of how and exactly where exterior stimuli feels inside your body. When you do this you will begin to start to be aware of the way it feels to sit down under the shade of the tree and exactly where inside your body you feel these sensations. Much like whenever you are standing on the mountain peak. How and exactly where you’re feeling this within your body. Rather than how and where you’re feeling whenever you are beside a stream at the bottom of the valley. You’ll begin to notice how and exactly where the dimension external of your perception of self feels inside.

For example, discover exactly where and the way it feels to deepen your intuition within your system whenever you look in the green leaves of the tree. Then notice exactly where and the way this feels different whenever you look at the blue sky. And where and the way this feels different when you glance at leaves on your forest floor.

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Rite Of Passage: Tap Into the Place To complete Your Nature Wander

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

While you do your rite of passage you’ll probably start to note that just about every object and element you look at within the wilderness may have a unique feeling and texture within you. Merely let go of stress, place your focus on the inner sensations inside your system and notice the feeling within of what you are with.

Similar to the sound forms that you hear within your environment around you. With practice you will notice exactly where inside your system the sound of a bird feels and the way this feels. Likewise with the sound of wind blowing through the trees.

Merely place your focus inside and notice exactly where inside your system you’re feeling this and how it feels. Similarly with the sound forms of flowing streams, the sound of an animal, the falling of the twig or even the rustle of long grass in the wind. Put your focus inside to exactly where and the way this feels. You don’t need to describe it but to just be with the feeling inside your body of how this external object is inside. Being with your sensation. Of being with the feeling of that which you can hear.

As you walk within nature on your rite of passage, also become conscious of the smells around you and the way these feel within you. How the scent of grime feels different of the smell of a crushed leaf. How the scent of bark on the tree feels different to the scent of the rotting log on your earth. How the scent of grass in a clearing feels unique to the scent of the trickling stream.

Similarly with your different tastes. How the taste of the leaf feels unique to the taste of a particular kind of bark. Exactly where in your system you feel this taste and being conscious of how this feels inside your system. Becoming aware of how different tastes really feel inside your system.

While you wander you can also place your focus on the tactile feeling of different wilderness elements and at the same time become aware of all the inner sensations of exactly where and how this feels inside your system. While you put your cheek slowly against the trunk of the tree, exactly where on the inside of one’s system do you feel this? Put your focus and awareness on this place within your system, notice the way it feels and breathe into it to expand the feeling. An internal feeling world once being in sync with your outer dimension external of one’s sense of self.

Go on a rite of passage in the wilderness and find your life purpose.

Inner Peace And Relaxed Is Saw Within The wilderness

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

This really is the way it is to ‘be with’ a state of inner peace within the wilderness. Simply being with what it actually is you are being with. In a state of innocence. This really is when your state of present consciousness begins to slow down. Once the current moment begins to turn out to be an eternity. When time begins to distort and also you start feeling there’s no separation between your self and another object within nature. You’ll likely also start to see that what blocks becoming in the present is what occurs within your thoughts. And also you may probably begin to see that this way of living is always there and just waiting for you to drop into once more.

This experience of being with is a powerful way to enter your heart stroll. You will see a great deal more detail in the messages that the wilderness is eager to tell you. You’ll begin to discover you are able to see your whole current life inside a leaf. The phrase ‘leaf’ being but an additional label.

As soon as you are out of your mind and into a sense of inner peace, the next phase of the heart walk is to get into your senses. To be out of your thoughts and come into your senses. For this enables for your doorway into the religious realm to open up. To raise the veil in to the religious dimension.

You do this by heightening each of your five senses.

Conventional indigenous tribes who reside with the wilderness and the land have heightened and extremely tuned senses. They require these heightened senses to be able to survive. For example they need a big field of vision to be able to pick up the subtle actions of animals. They need a highly tuned sense of what they hear to be able to pick up the distant noises of animals and birds. They need a highly tuned perception of scent to detect subtle scents of trails and animals within the surrounding area. Similarly with taste and also the sense of feeling.

When the five predominant senses are highly tuned we will then become much more attuned towards the sixth sense of perception. To the religious sense. To the force that moves us. To the synchronicities, messages and symbols the creator is continually giving us via nature. We are able to then tap into these messages to get our life path and clarity on our objective, as well as where we must be able to go and what we are to do at each second in time.

So the initial spot to start entering in to the religious dimension is by heightening each of your five senses.

Being within nature permits you to drop into a sense of inner peace and also to discover your authentic self in the wilderness.

Forming A Spiritual Connection With the Element Within Nature

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

After experiencing this heightening of your spiritual sense of audio, you will probably start to notice you really are a great deal much more aware in the sounds bordering you. That whenever you are in a conversation with somebody that you can listen to them yet at the same time you are aware in the sound forms of the birds or perhaps the rustle of the leaves in the wind around you. That you can also be focused on the sound but also aware of the other sounds surrounding you.

This is similar to how native indigenous people hear the wilderness. For when they are out hunting they should be fully conscious of their environment. In both a visual sense in addition to an audible perception. So when I’ve checked into and become conscious in the sounds around me, I then have a couple of moments to walk exactly where I feel drawn in this state of heightened hearing. At the same time I play with going within in 3-D eyesight whilst also being in stereo surround sound. The planet becomes a different location whilst walking in this state. It becomes much more alive. More real. Once practicing and combining with no tension within your body, every second starts to become an eternity. Extended. Expanded. For when you start expanding your senses you’re beginning to open up the doors and also to melt into the current eternal moment.

The perception of sight and sense of sound are each outward senses. We glance outward and we hear outwards. For most people, they are our two predominant senses. As soon as they’re expanded it’s simpler to tap in to the spiritual world past the one we usually know.

However, you are able to go deeper by expanding more of your senses.

The next perception I have participants broaden and explore on a heart walk is their perception of scent. So far as the schism of senses is concerned, each smell and taste are grouped together. They’re both inner senses and they’re both chemical reactions that occur inside our body.

The sense of scent is usually ignored inside our culture. We’re forever stuffing down our organic perception of smell by placing on deodorants, spraying rooms with deodorizers and eliminating almost all of the smell that comes our way. We even justify ourselves for generating smells. Over time, this cultural aversion to smells has dulled our sense of scent in a way that we are unable to pick up the scent of a trail as native indigenous individuals once did.

Your spiritual relationship with the land will give you the way to connect with life noticeably more deeply.

Meditation: How you can Drop Into the Knowledge Of the Earth

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

When I had finished my meditation and was in my automobile driving towards the spot within the forest park I’d think about the intention I had set for my heart stroll. Frequently I would pull over when I had gotten an understanding about the intention and jot this insight down.

Then when I’d get to the carpark I would spend a while tapping into the location. I would spend a while grounding myself by placing my feet on the earth and sending roots down. I would spend some time tapping into the stream, rocks, trees, birds and say hello to all of them. Then I would spend a while feeling into the land past what I could physically see.

Following this I’d usually then place my hands straight on to the earth and again place energy into my intention for the heart stroll. After connecting in I would then really feel into the correct time for me to begin heading off on my heart stroll. This was mainly via asking the land as to when the correct time was to enter and then going by going with the feeling of when to enter the bushland.

Once you have gone and sat at your spot in nature and connected with it, the following stage in the heart walk is to tap ion even more deeply with the land. The rationale for this is that the answers around your intention will probably be found in the insights you receive in the land. The nearer your connection when tapping into the land, the deeper you’ll really feel to the insights the land is telling you.

Before connecting deeper to the land, I again put power into my intention. This assists me to once more become clear regarding why I’m performing the heart walk around an intention that’s important to me. To put energy into my intention I will look again at the bullet list in my heart stroll notepad again. Then I’ll squat down, put my hands directly onto the earth and imagine as hard as I can about my intention. Once we think fully about something, we use as much power as when we walk. Therefore by thinking a lot about your intention you will be putting power into it. And because you have placed your hands on the earth, it puts this power outwards into the land about you.

Spreading the energy of your meditation intention along the land not just modifies the physical elements within the wilderness to line up and give you the insights but will also change your perception. You will find you become more open and perceptive of the insights nature is attempting to tell you.

After putting energy in to the intention I will then spend a few moments to change my way of thinking. I’ll begin to look around me and have a few moments to be aware of what I’m grateful for and why. For instance, I may notice a bird singing in the distance and I will mentally enter into a state of gratitude for that bird’s song and why I am grateful for it. For example, that may be simply because I get to feel and listen to the birds inner beauty coming out into the environment around me.

Learn how to deepen your meditation to connect with the earth.