The important thing to bear in mind, while practicing affirmations, is that because the mind has a tendency to use words while thinking, it is helpful to use them in such a way as to uplift the mind in cooperation with divine inspiration.

Here are some points to remember while you repeat uplifting word-phrases and melodies during the day:

(See also: Life Transforming Affirmations , Affirmations, Practising Affirmations, Life Transforming Affirmations, Essence of Affirmations, Faith and Belief, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Body Mind and Soul)

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Ireland - Literature and the arts. Main articles: Irish literature, and Irish art, and [[]], and [[]]See also:

Ireland, Ireland - Politics, Ireland - Geography, Ireland - Flags of Ireland, Ireland - History, Ireland - History since partition, Ireland - Irish Independence: The Irish Free State Éire Ireland, Ireland - Northern Ireland, Ireland - Sport, Ireland - Culture, Ireland - Literature and the arts, Ireland - Music and dance, Ireland - Demographics, Ireland - Infrastructure, Ireland - Transport, Ireland - Energy

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Music of Brazil - Colonial music. The earliest known descriptions of music in Brazil date from 1578, when Jean De Léry, a French Calvinist pastor, published Viagem à Terra do Brasil (Journey to the Land of Brazil). He described the dances and transcribed the music of the Tupi people. In 1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa wrote Tratado Descritivo do Brasil about the music of several native Braz ...

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Music of Brazil, Music of Brazil - Brazilian music history, Music of Brazil - Colonial music, Music of Brazil - Independent Brazil, Music of Brazil - Classical music, Music of Brazil - Folk music, Music of Brazil - Indigenous music, Music of Brazil - Eastern Amazônia, Music of Brazil - Popular music, Music of Brazil - Música Popular Brasileira, Music of Brazil - Choro, Music of Brazil - Bossa nova, Music of Brazil - Tropicalia, Music of Brazil - Música nordestina, Music of Brazil - Repentismo, Music of Brazil - Frevo, Music of Brazil - Forró, Music of Brazil - Rock, Music of Brazil - Heavy Metal, Music of Brazil - Raggamuffin Dancehall, Music of Brazil - Afro Brazilian music, Music of Brazil - Samba, Music of Brazil - Capoeira music, Music of Brazil - Maracatu, Music of Brazil - Afoxê, Music of Brazil - Samba-reggae, Music of Brazil - Music of Salvador: Late 60s to mid-70s, Music of Brazil - Other Afro-Brazilian music genres

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Apollo is considered to have dominion over plague, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism, Shamans, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. Apollo had a famous oracle in Crete and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae. Apollo is known as the leader of the Muses ("musagetes") and director of their choir. His attributes include: swans, wolves, dolphins, bows and arrows, a laurel crown, the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. The sacrificial tripod is anothe ...

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Apollo, Apollo - Worship, Apollo - Etymology of the name, Apollo - Apollo in art, Apollo - Appellations, Apollo - Birth, Apollo - Youth, Apollo - Apollo and Admetus, Apollo - Apollo During the Trojan War, Apollo - Niobe, Apollo - Apollo's romantic life and children, Apollo - Heterosexual relationships, Apollo - Homosexual relationships, Apollo - Apollo and the Birth of Hermes, Apollo - Other stories, Apollo - Musical contests, Apollo - Miscellaneous, Apollo - Spoken-word myths - audio files, Apollo - Apollo in popular culture

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Chennai's culture reflects its diverse population. The city is known for its classical dance shows and Hindu temples. Every December, Chennai holds a five week-long Music Season, which has been described as one of the world's largest cultural events. The Music Season encompasses performances (kutcheries) of traditional Carnatic music by hundreds of artists in and around the city. Chennai is also known for the classical Indian dance, the Bharatanatyam, which is also the official dance of Tamil Nadu. An important cultural centre for Bharatanatyam is Ka ...

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Chennai, Chennai - History, Chennai - Geography, Chennai - Climate, Chennai - Layout, Chennai - Administration, Chennai - Economy, Chennai - Demographics, Chennai - Culture, Chennai - Tourism, Chennai - Transport, Chennai - Media, Chennai - Education, Chennai - Sports

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Rabindranath Tagore lived up to his name. Rabi means the Sun and like the Sun's rays the myriad-minded "Great Sentinel" - as Mahatma Gandhi called him - never failed to dazzle with his creative genius, enlightening us with his sagacious insight.

Tagore's songs, poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters, and paintings take us through his personal reflection of reality, which soon become our own because they touch the core of our heart, bonding us with nature. His writings are a heartfelt appeal for universal peace, love and harmony.

(See also: Rabindranath Tagore , Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

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Although they began their career as an interesting New Wave art-school band in the tradition of Roxy Music, the band's quick rise to stardom, their polished good looks, and their embrace of the teen press seemed to have doused their chances of favour from music critics. The British music press was particularly venomous. During the 1980s, Duran Duran were considered the quintessential manufactured, throw-away pop group – not too different from other boy bands created by behind-the-scenes managers (Menudo, New Kids On The Block, *NSYNC). Whi ...

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Duran Duran, Duran Duran - History of Duran Duran, Duran Duran - 1978–1980: Origins, Duran Duran - 1981–1982: A band is launched, Duran Duran - 1983–1984: On top of the world, Duran Duran - 1985: The band falls apart, Duran Duran - 1986–1991: Waning success, Duran Duran - 1992–1996: A second climb another fall, Duran Duran - 1997–2000: Soldiering on, Duran Duran - 2001–2005: A highly anticipated reunion, Duran Duran - 2006 and beyond: World Tour and a New Album, Duran Duran - Influence, Duran Duran - Video pioneers, Duran Duran - Discography, Duran Duran - Line Ups

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For a detailed listing of albums, singles, and production/songwriting work Prince has done for other musicians, please see Prince discography. Prince artist - Top Twenty albums. The following albums reached the Top Twenty on either the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart, or the UK Albums Chart. Prince artist - Top Ten singles. The following singles reached the Top Ten on one or more of the following charts: the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Mus ...

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Prince artist, Prince artist - Biography, Prince artist - Uptown: Early years, Prince artist - Controversy: Early career 1975–1983, Prince artist - Purple Rain: Chart success 1983–1993, Prince artist - Chaos and Disorder: 1994–2003, Prince artist - Musicology: 2004 to present, Prince artist - Discography, Prince artist - Top Twenty albums, Prince artist - Top Ten singles, Prince artist - Filmography, Prince artist - Protégés and Associates, Prince artist - Pseudonyms

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Bharatanatyam is thought to have been created by Bharata Muni, a Hindu sage, who wrote the Natya Shastra, the most important ancient treatise on classical Indian dance. It is also called the fifth Veda in reference to the foundation of Hindu religion and philosophy, from which sprang the related South Indian musical tradition of Carnatic music. However, there are references to Rishi Agastya teaching his disciples a different form o ...

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Bharatanatyam, Bharatanatyam - Traditional roots, Bharatanatyam - Essential ideas, Bharatanatyam - Medieval decline, Bharatanatyam - Modern rebirth, Bharatanatyam - Technique, Bharatanatyam - Elements, Bharatanatyam - Other elements, Bharatanatyam - Dancers, Bharatanatyam - Gurus and Dancers

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The Jains understand karma, however, in quite a different fashion from the way this is understood in Western philosophy. Karma exists only as the result of the actions of living beings. Jains are most concerned with the human actions, since only human beings have the ability to choose between right and wrong. Thus, the Jains emphasise on karma and this is the recognition that perfect or imperfect condition of each and every person is the result of his own karma.

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Over the next few years they achieved their greatest commercial success and continued to demonstrate their versatility. In 1980 the medium tempo dance single, "He's So Shy", reached number three on the charts, and the following year a slow, sultry, country and western flavoured song "Slow Hand" reached number two. "American Music" and "Should I Do It" were 1950s pop, while "I'm So Excited" was a frenetic contemporary dance track. All were significant hits. With the advent of MTV the sisters were able to exploit their visual style and ...

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Pointer Sisters, Pointer Sisters - Early Days, Pointer Sisters - First success as recording artists, Pointer Sisters - The quartet becomes a trio, Pointer Sisters - The height of their success, Pointer Sisters - Albums, Pointer Sisters - Singles

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A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). It is typically for a solo singer, though may also be a duet, trio, or for more voices (works with more than one voice to a part, however, are considered choral). The words of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, although they may be religious verses or free prose. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is betwe ...

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• Song - Cultural types
• Song - Art songs
• Song - Popular songs
• Song - Folk songs
• Song - Song forms

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Ptah, or Pthah (Egypt, Egyptian). The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which "creation" or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos.

A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is "giver of life" and the self-born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery-gods; and the Targum of Jerusalem says: "Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah"; hence he is Mahat the "divine wisdom"; though from another aspect he is Swabhavat, the self-created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the Ritual of the Dead says, after calling Ptah "father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance": "Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, being born by the renewal of thine own substance from whom proceeds substance".

(See also: Ptah, Pthah , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,)

Main article: Albanian folk music Albanian folk music falls into three sylistic groups, with other important music areas around Shkoder and Tirana; the major groupings are the Ghegs of the north and southern Labs and Tosks. The northern and southern traditions are contrasted by the "rugged and heroic" tone of the north and the "relaxed, gentle and exceptionally beautiful" form of the south. These disparate styles are unified by "the intensity that both performers and listeners give to their music as a medium for patriotic expre ...

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Music of Albania, Music of Albania - Characteristics, Music of Albania - Folk music, Music of Albania - Northern Albania, Music of Albania - Southern Albania, Music of Albania - Popular music, Music of Albania - 1930s art song, Music of Albania - 1950s and beyond, Music of Albania - Albanian music in Macedonia and Kosovo, Music of Albania - Classical music, Music of Albania - Sound samples, Music of Albania - Notes

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The relationship (particularly, the relative value) of classical music and popular music is a controversial question. Some partisans of classical music may claim that classical music constitutes art and popular music only light entertainment. However, many popular works show a high level of artistry and musical innovation and many classical works are unabashedly crowd-pleasing. The elevation of classical music to a position of special value is closely connected to the conce ...

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Popular music, Popular music - Definitions, Popular music - Theories of popular music, Popular music - The nature of popular music, Popular music - Popular music as a business enterprise, Popular music - Performance of popular music by amateurs, Popular music - Form, Popular music - Performers, Popular music - Genres, Popular music - Genres that are not popular music, Popular music - Classical music and popular music, Popular music - Complexity, Popular music - Influences between classical and popular music, Popular music - A List of Albums Generally Considered to be a Band's Magnum Opus, Popular music - Sources

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Belly dance is a Western name coined for a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. In the Arabic language it is known as Raqs Sharqi and in Turkish as Oryantal dansı, which is translated as "Dance of the East". For Europeans, this translation sounded like a perfect fit, hence it was also known as "Oriental dance", "danse Oriental", "Exotic oriental dance", "Oriental belly dance" and the like. The term "Raqs Sharqi" is claimed to be originated in Egypt. The name suggested an exotic ...

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• Belly dance - General
• Belly dance - Raqs Sharqi
• Belly dance - Turkish forms
• Belly dance - Belly dancing in the Western world
• Belly dance - Belly Dance in the U.S.A
• Belly dance - Male belly dancing
• Belly dance - Health and belly dancing

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The Bee Gees have been incredibly successful, selling in excess of 180 million records and singles worldwide. Their songs have been covered by singers including Elvis, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone and newer acts like Steps and Destiny's Child. Songs written by the Gibbs but better known in versions by other artists include, "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman, "Chain Reaction" by Diana Ross, "Emotion" by Samantha Sang and Destiny's Child, "Guilty" by Barbra Streisand, "Heartbreaker" by Dionne Warwick and "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rog ...

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Bee Gees, Bee Gees - Early history, Bee Gees - 1960s in England, Bee Gees - 1970s: Saturday Night Fever, Bee Gees - 1980s and 1990s, Bee Gees - Later years, Bee Gees - Current news, Bee Gees - Awards and success, Bee Gees - Original Albums, Bee Gees - Compilations, Bee Gees - International Hit Singles, Bee Gees - Band, Bee Gees - Parodies of the Bee Gees

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Video game List of cycles - Music and rhythm cycles. Interval cycle - Physics of music - Rhythm - Song cycle ...

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List of cycles, List of cycles - Measuring physical cycles, List of cycles - General listing of waves, List of cycles - Mathematics of waves and cycles, List of cycles - Time and calendar cycles, List of cycles - Astronomical cycles, List of cycles - Geological cycles, List of cycles - Climate and weather cycles, List of cycles - Biological and medical cycles, List of cycles - Agricultural cycles, List of cycles - Brain waves and cycles, List of cycles - Physics cycles, List of cycles - Electromagnetic spectrum, List of cycles - Sound waves, List of cycles - Psychological cycles, List of cycles - Economic and business cycles, List of cycles - Social and political cycles, List of cycles - Art and recreational cycles, List of cycles - Music and rhythm cycles, List of cycles - Religious mythological and spiritual cycles, List of cycles - Cycles of War

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As youths, the members of The Beatles were enthusiastic followers of Elvis Presley, first and foremost, and later, of British rock-and-rollers, notably Cliff Richard and The Shadows, whose stage presence and female following were often cited by the band as one of their inspirations to begin performing publicly. At the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon declared "Before Elvis, there was nothing." In comments recorded for the Anthology TV series all four band members spoke of him in glowing terms, with George Harrison (showing his knack ...

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The Beatles, The Beatles - History, The Beatles - Studio style evolution, The Beatles - In film, The Beatles - Influences and music, The Beatles - Band members, The Beatles - Early members, The Beatles - Song catalogue, The Beatles - Trivia, The Beatles - Song samples

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The traditional concept of man was that of a materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral person, sinner or saint. A divided man is miserable. He is neither healthy nor whole; the other half that has been denied will go on taking revenge. It will find ways and means to overcome the part you have imposed upon yourself. You will become a battleground, there will be civil war.

In the past we were unable to create real human beings; we made humanoids. A humanoid is one who looks like a human being but is utterly challenged. He has not been allowed to bloom in his totality. He is adhoora, and because he is half is always tense; he cannot celebrate. Celebration is the fragrance of being whole.

(See also: Osho , Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

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Anahata Sounds

Anahata sounds are the mystic sounds heard by the Yogin during his meditation. It is a sign of the purification of Nadis. Some students can clearly hear it through any one of the ears and some by both the ears. There are loud as well as subtle sounds.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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A professional Bharatanatyam dancer must demonstrate a number of qualities. As Sangitaratnakara puts it, the true dance is connected to the beauty of the body, therefore any other dance is simply a parody (VII.1246). The AbhinayaDarpana has a sloka that describes Patra Prana Dasha Smrutaha - the ten essentials of the dancer: Javaha (Agility), Sthirathvam (Steadiness), Rekhacha (graceful lines), Bhramari(balance in pirouettes), Drishtir (glance), Shramaha (hard work), Medha (intelligence), Shraddha(devotion), Vacho (go ...

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Bharatanatyam, Bharatanatyam - Traditional roots, Bharatanatyam - Essential ideas, Bharatanatyam - Medieval decline, Bharatanatyam - Modern rebirth, Bharatanatyam - Technique, Bharatanatyam - Elements, Bharatanatyam - Other elements, Bharatanatyam - Dancers, Bharatanatyam - Gurus and Dancers

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