To Find Yourself You Must Lose Your Words

...To find myself I have to lose my (whatall) - my words?

Yes, it's true. To find and reconnect with your authentic self, all preconceived ideas (words) about who you are; all needs, expectations and identifications with who you want be, have to be suspended... held away long enough to breakthrough to the insight that expressed these longings.

Consider this for a moment: Your true self is not a person, a place out there... or a thing to go find. Your real self isn't even any specific functioning form called "Your Name" at all. (Stay with this short article and see what you can find in yourself and in the gaps between my words

We all seek the same things ultimately. In my lifework as a spiritual author and teacher, what people most often tell me they seek in life is something like this:

Unconditional love and self-acceptance; meaningful and connected relationships with spouse, family and friends; sense of purpose; deep inner peace; and a feeling of security.

These feelings and longings for a meaningful sense of connection, purpose, love and peace are right on. It is just that the paths we use to try and fulfill these impulses are all wrong.

Be heartened: These universal feelings of the heart and longings of the mind are actually the wake-up impulse of the soul, leading you and me to a true discovery of self, meaning, love, and connection (...if we but discover the perceptual breakthrough and unique language of soul)!

Here's why I started this article with this phrase: "To find yourself you must lose your words".

Unconditional love, self-acceptance, meaningful connection with others, inner contentment, and a feeling of inner security can only be known when we give our self away.

You might be asking about now: "Why do I have to give my self away in order to find myself?...and what does that mean anyway?

We must lose our self in order to know and express our authentic self because it is the struggling attachments to our self-identified needs (and the constructs these forever set up) that are the self-imprisoning culprits blocking us from the very qualities we long to know and experience in life. Ironic? Yes, very! Paradoxical? Absolutely! Weird crazy-talk?.... Keep with this a moment:

I know this last paragraph may sound like crazy new age mumbo jumbo to your mind....It is frustratingly crazy-talk to the mind! The mind will never understand this realization I am pointing you toward. This is why people seeking and struggling won't find what they seek!

To understand and find what you seek, you must learn how to become the observer--witnessing of your life by moving your conscious awareness into a place of spontaneous relationship and presence with this very moment.

(Don't even worry if your mind doesn't get this or discounts and argues with it. That's the mind's job. See that and at the same time, drop down and listen with (what I call) "soft ears" from a place where the heart simply yearns. This heart-space will bring your closer to the doorway of breakthrough.)

Losing yourself into the present moment of awareness in order to find yourself:

• When one knows how to engage in the present moment from a place of curious and engaging "eyes wide open" dialogue (or what I have come to coin the Soul Arts process of awakening), then the self-identifications (all our words about who we are, are not, can be, can't be, should be, the troubles of our past, the issues of our present, and the fears of our future, etc) are seen through for the self-imprisoning and life-limiting constructs they create!

• When one experiences how to be in a dynamic, creative and conscious relationship with each present moment, there is an automatic new seating of consciousness from the authenticity of Self as witness. This is an awareness realization that is over and above the ego understanding of self or static identifications of form (which have their good and right places in life - just not here, in matters of insight, breakthrough, and the conscious shift of awareness that sets us free).

• When, as the observer-Witness, one becomes aware and awake to what it truly means to be in real relationship with life, there is simply the direct experience and expression of True Self and Authentic Being.

• When one is in the present moment and seeing the mechanisms of the mind from a place that is engaging and dialoguing with the truth of the moment, he/she is directly experiencing a spiritual breakthrough which some will call awakening, enlightenment, illumination or being born anew.

The really good news: Love, acceptance, healthy relationships, inner peace, a sense of meaning: All these we can experience and know in our life but for one error of understanding and approach:

The one mistake we make in our seeking to find, know and live our authentic self, is this: we keep trying to find it, get it, control it, own and manage it...from the ego-identified mind. This can and will never happen (not in any real way)! It cannot and will not ever happen, because the mind is the wrong tool for making this inner shift of realization. True self is not a "thing" at all!

The "how to find myself" bottom-line?...If you really truly want to know and express loving compassion and passionate purpose in your life, fall (more) in love with the art of a curious engaging relationship with each moment, than you are in fear of "getting it right; of solving it, of the illusion of security, of the fear of fear itself.

The mind can't really get this next sentence either (other than from an intellectual understanding):

• The only time & space in which you, I, or any one of us ever live, heal, love, serve, connect at all: is right here, in each right now.

• The only moment you can ever experience, express, or know what your heart and soul is seeking, is right here in the given moment...

• NOW is only ever where your authentic self will be experienced. (To really understand and know this, it has to be directly experienced here, and not merely intellectually followed as a concept for some expected future time.)

So please if you seek to live authentically and to know peace, purpose and passion, let your life become a living meditation.

Experience your life as it is meant to be: as a movement of consciousness ever evolving and dancing with and through this Being you call "you".

When this kind of fluid self-realization is consciously experienced and inwardly recognized (even just once) then the impulse of soul is awakened and that which you seek is already realized, here, now.

Don't believe it? Don't think you "get it"?

...One closing prayer: If you really seek inner truth and not just a quick-fix band-aid strategy of the mind, promising that which it cannot ever deliver, then I invite you to get curious and to engage with me in the magnificent genius and art of soul! Come step through the doorway of your soul's longing and fall into the love affair with life that awaits...

Understanding Rap Lyrics

If you fancy yourself a rap fan, do you actually know what the lyrics in the songs you like are sayingall Many people claim to be rap fans, yet don't know what the rapper is going on about. Rap can be very fast-paced so it isn't surprising that it can be hard to understand.

Lyrics are easy to find. Generally they'll be on the jacket of the CD, or in liner notes tucked inside. If not, you can almost always find lyrics online. Just run a search using the name of the song. Then, play the song while reading the lyrics. That's the easiest way to understand what is being said in the songs.

Commonly, parents worry about their children's musical choices. If you are a concerned parent, it is worth your while to scan the lyrics now and then. You may be unpleasantly surprised to find that your child is listening to songs with lyrics that don't reflect your values or ideals. You also can check CD labels on rap music. Many retailers will place a parental advisory sticker on a CD that has questionable content.

This is why rap music is so very controversial in the entertainment industry. No other form of music includes lyrics that are so blatantly objectionable. In many rap songs you'll hear content that is cruel, demeaning, impolite, and violent.

Some songs will include lyrics that detail drug use or talk about domestic violence. Some songs glorify the murder of police officers. Others talk about murder more generally, or encourage other illegal behavior. The artist will say "it's just for fun, it's entertainment," but often if you compare the lyrics with the lifestyle you can see a pretty good match.

These same artists will also claim that the industry compels them to write extreme songs. Shocking content helps rap music to sell.

Controversy is a great generator of PR, in fact. The more obnoxious lyrics are in a rap song, the more attention that song and artist are going to get. And that in turn equates to more sales. Some will purchase the music because it reflects their angry take on life. Others will buy it just because they are curious about the music that is causing so much of an uproar.

Don't assume that all rap artists follow that attention-getting tactic though. Plenty of rappers are looking to create top-notch music in their chosen medium, and have lyrics that are perfectly reasonable.

Using Find to Search Inside Word

If you have been working with Word documents for many times now, you know how you can search inside word using Find. This is the most utilized function when you are looking for strings of text within the document. This is also berry helpful and reliable. In addition to that, you do not have to download another program just so you can get the characters, numbers or any string in your Word document. Understanding this function and how it works can be very beneficial especially for those who like using Microsoft Word as their word processor.

It is not a secret that most of the computer users today employ Microsoft Word when they are creating documents, letters and any other type of writing. This is because it contains templates as well as other useful stuff such as grammar and spelling checkers. Now, if you have been working for several months on a certain document that is quite long and you need to look for a certain word there, you can use Find.

There are many reasons why people have to search within Word files for the strings of text. Some may have to change a name, a date or a place. Others may have found you that they commonly misspell some words and yet they are part of the dictionary so Word does not correct them. Whatever your reason is, the Find option is a great help for you. To access this, you can go to Edit menu and then click on the Find option. The keyboard shortcut is CTRL F. Now a dialog box will appear which has three tabs: Find, Replace and Go to. You can just stick to Find if you will only perform a word search.

The Find what box is where you will be typing the word or phrase that you are searching for. To see the results easily, you can check the "highlight all items found in" the "Main Document." There are other options that you can try if Word has returned some results that are not according to your preference. To do this, click on the More button. The dialog box will expand and then the Search Options will appear.

The first one allows you to select whether you want to search in the entire document or you can specify the direction of the search process whether it is downward or upward. Below this are a group of checkboxes with the first one being "Match case." This is helpful for those whoa real searching for abbreviations or anything that is case sensitive. The next one is "Find whole words only." This allows you to search for the exact match of the word or phrase that you have specified. Then, there are the "Use wildcards," "Sounds like," and "Find all word forms."

At the bottom, there are two buttons: Format and Special. Click on them and you will see the options for them. When you need to search inside Word, Find is a helpful tool within the application. Word search will be fast and precise.

Why it is More Difficult to Search in Excel Than in Word

Excel, unlike Word, has sheets that you can work with simultaneously. These sheets can be found right at the bottom of the Excel window shown as tabs. And just by looking at its appearance, seeing the cells can definitely make you say that to search in Excel files should be a more complicated process than to search in Word files.

Doing a search within a Word document is easy. There are two ways to do the search in Word documents. First is by accessing the Edit menu then clicking on Find. And the other way is through its shortcut counterpart. Just hit the Ctrl key together with the F key in your keyboard and you will pull up a box with a space for you to type in the words you want to search. If your Word document has multiple pages, you can position your cursor where your document starts and do the search from there and it will search the document, from page one, all the way to your last page.

The Ctrl+F can still work in Excel; however, it is a little tricky. Excel documents do not have pages; they have sheets instead. If you simply press Ctrl+F, it will only do a search on the current sheet that you are on. You won't include the other sheets in the search that you want to do for the entire document. Although manually doing the search for each sheet is still possible, and it wouldn't be too tedious, especially if you only have few sheets to work on. However, there is an even easier way to do the search.

These are the steps that you can do to make things easier if you want to find certain words or strings in all the sheets of your Excel document:

First is to right click any sheet that you have in your Excel document. The right click will bring out a menu. And from the said menu, click "Select All Sheets". Clicking on "Select All Sheets" puts your Excel document into Group Mode. You will know that you are already in Group Mode through two signs Excel is showing. The first sign is by looking at the tabs. The tabs are now white and the current active tab that you are in will be bolded. The second sign is by looking at the title bar. You will see the word "Group" written on the title bar.

Once in group mode, the Ctrl+F function will now work on all sheets that you have in the Excel document. Searching through all your sheets can be done in two ways. One way is by keeping the Find box open and just hit "Next" to find words. The other way is by closing the Find box and pressing Shift then F4 to find the words you are looking for.

After the search in Excel, it is important to remember to ungroup your Excel. By not doing so, whenever you work in future, all the edits that you do on a single sheet will also happen in the rest of your sheets available in the document.

Word Find Puzzle Maker

Word find puzzles (also known as "word jumbles" or "word searches") are a type of puzzle game. The objective of the game is to find words that are hidden within an array of letters. These games are not perhaps quite as difficult as some other kinds of pen and paper puzzles, but nevertheless many people enjoy solving them. Additionally, the relative ease of solving these puzzles makes them particularly attractive to children.

It should be remembered that word find puzzles can also have educational benefits, both in a K-12 environment, and for ESL (English as a Second Language) students. This is because solving these puzzles requires playing very close attention to the spelling of words.

It is possible to buy ready-made word find puzzles, but many teachers (and some parents) prefer to create their own puzzles. This allows them to tailor the difficulty of the puzzle, and the choice of words to be hidden within it, to their particular requirements.

Creating a puzzle yourself, is certainly possible, but it can require a lot of time and effort. It's quite difficult to find a way of arranging words such that have significant overlaps and intersections, especially if you are aiming to pack the puzzle into a relative small grid.

A better alternative to creating the puzzle by hand, is to get your computer to do the hard work. With the help of word find puzzle maker software, it becomes an easy task. You simply enter a list of words, click a button, and a puzzle is generated immediately. If you don't like the first puzzle design that appears, click the button again, and you can generate a new puzzle.

Word Search Printables

Word search puzzles are grids of letters arranged in rows and columns. At first glance they appear to be a completely random mishmash of letters, but if you look closely you can see within the grid that there are hidden words. The words may be placed horizontally (either left to right  or right to left), vertically (upwards or downwards) or diagonally.  The goal of the puzzle is to find the words hidden within the grid. Many people find these puzzles to be an interesting diversion, and you will often see this type of puzzle printed in magazines or newspapers. But it's not only adults who may enjoy these puzzles - many children like solving them too. 

Children's interest in these type of puzzles can be a good thing as solving a word search puzzle might help a child in a number of areas.-

* First, to solve the puzzle, a child must pay close and careful attention to the task - a child will soon learn that concentration and persistence pays off!

* Secondly, most word search puzzles are accompanied by a list of words to search for. Children may encounter new words through these puzzles, and thus expand their vocabulary.

* Thirdly, in order to find words with the puzzle grid, a child must pay close attention to the exact spelling of each of the words.

A parent or teacher wanting to expose children to word search puzzles could of course buy a printed book full of word search puzzles, but the problem with this is that you don't get to choose the words. An alternative idea is to make and print your own puzzles - with the help of appropriate word search puzzle maker software it's actually very quick and easy to do.  Using the right software also provides other advantages - you can print as many copies of each puzzle as you want, and you can even choose the size of the letter grid or directions words are hidden in (for example by turning off diagonal and backward directions), so as to adjust the puzzle difficulty.

Write Lyrics to a Song

"Only a genius can write lyrics to a song such as this!" you might have heard people say this often. Though this is supposed to be a compliment for the writer, normal humans need not think that writing lyrics is beyond their ability. While it is true that some people possess inborn talent which helps them create exceptional works, anyone who has an observant eye and knows a language can write lyrics to a song.

Usually, you write song lyrics after the music is ready. So, you already have an idea of the song's structure. Once you know the number of verses and choruses, you just need to think of a tale to tell. But, having an idea is not enough. Several great ideas have evaporated midway between the writer's brain and his pen. Therefore, it is important to get them on paper.

If you cannot get any ideas on to paper, stop forcing yourself to write lyrics to a song and start writing about random things. Write as if you were writing your personal diary. A thought of significance may arise out of nowhere and lead you to a beautiful song.

You must first decide about what to say and then how to say it. Your idea can be anything simple and abstract like love or god. But the way you present it makes a lot of difference. If you are describing an event, you may follow the classical unities of theatre and write lyrics to a song describing each second of reality or miniaturize reality by depicting a lifetime in a 3-minute song. This choice, however, is based on the intention of the song.

Adding a hook makes a song more durable. Though pop numbers have a lot of hooks and repetitions, it is not advisable to have too many repetitions since there is a risk of boring the listener even before he starts to like it. So, when you write lyrics to a song, use hooks and chorus economically to create maximum effect. Also, chorus is the aftertaste the listener can feel and hum after listening to the song. So, keep it as simple as possible.