This inspirational video shows you how you can develop automatic habits which will make you happier ever-day. Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

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For those of you don't know Burt Goldman, now is the time to meet him.

Burt, also known as The American Monk, is a spiritual guru, praised teacher, recognized painter, awarded photographer, published author, ordained minister and an online entrepreneur.

Oh and did I mention, he is 81 years old?

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How fulfilling is your sex life? If you are at a point with your partner, where you want to explore new ways to improve your sex life together, and strengthen the bond which you share, then read on. It may be time for you to get all tangled up in tantric sex.

The word tantric means a tool for expansion, and tantric sex is just that, a way to expand the possibilities of your sex life, and open up a whole new number of opportunities.

So what will your sex life experience with this newly-found expansion?

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Our emotions, our behavior, and our perception of ourselves--all comes from our mind, specifically our thoughts. What have you been thinking about today? What are you thinking about right now? What do those thoughts say about you? About your life? And how well do they really match your plans for your life and your image of yourself?

Think about these 8 tips to think better--collected over the past 2,500 years, and then visit the blog post link at the bottom for some more inspiration.

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Welcome back! In this instalment, Part 14, of our FinerMinds series on Becoming Just Awesome I’m going to cover the distinction between being a Warrior versus being a Victim.

The warrior path, according to T. Harv Eker, is about recognizing that you create every moment of your life--understanding that your choices create your reality and your responses create your outcome. Ultimately, it’s about being accountable and taking responsibility for your life. The warrior recognizes that what they’re facing in their life--good or bad--is a result of choices and responses they have control over.

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Sleep is essential for a healthy body and mind. It cleanses our thoughts, aids our memory, rests our body and rejuvenates us to tackle every new day. In our sleep and our dreams, our brain organizes the sensory input we have received from the day, separating the useful information from the information that we don't need to retain.

In a normal sleep cycle, we go through 5 distinct stages. The first four stages are categorized as quiet sleep or non REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Stage 1 sleep is only for the first 5-10 minutes of sleep when the brain induces Theta waves. This is a stage between normal waking and sleep, and often if you wake a person in this stage--they find it hard to report being asleep. In stage 2 of sleep, the brain begins to produce bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain wave activity known as sleep spindles--stage 2 lasts for around 20 minutes--the heart rate begins to slow and temperature begins to decrease.

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Marcia Wieder

It's already the beginning of the second month this year--and the time has come to ask yourself: How many of my dreams have I already achieved in 2009? If you're struggling to achieve your dreams so far this year--we have an exclusive interview that will teach you how to achieve your dreams with Marcia Wieder.

Marcia Wieder is the dream coach of Americas #1 Success Coach--Jack Canfield. She believes that every person on the planet is a mere 10 steps away from achieving even their wildest dreams. Marcia goes into detail about the following ten step formula in a free exclusive interview for FinerMinds readers.

10-Step Formula to achieve your dreams from Marcia Wieder.

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Many of us are on a journey to unleash our true potential and try out different techniques and step-by-step formulas to become that person we're truly dreaming to be. Yet you might have heard that an average person is using only 3% of his brain potential. This leads to a question - what would happen if you could use your brains full potential?

Stephan Schwartz is someone who asked this question from himself -- and ended up with some astonishing achievements that some people would consider from the world of science fiction.

His story is so compelling that it couldn't be covered in this blog posting. We even had troubles finding a title for him -- adventurer, scientist, speaker and writer -- and many more that would be all accurate. He has produced numerous television documentaries, lead governmental expeditions that uncovered ancient treasures and had thousands of "normal" people making accurate future predictions, something they nor anybody else believed they could do.

His journey towards advanced personal development started as a young man, when he came across the concept of Remote Viewing. He became curious, and wanted to see what his mind was truly capable of and started to practice specific mental techniques to expand his non-conscious awareness.

Results were amazing. He became a recognized expert by the government, who not only revealed the location of the palace of Cleopatra, remains of one of Christopher Columbus’ caravels from his fourth voyage and many other long-searched ancient wonders, but he was also running breakthrough scientific research about the hidden powers of human consciousness. He was doing better than ever in his relationships and career and was even able to predict certain future events.

Yet he felt that something was missing, but couldn't quite point out what it was. The problem was that sometimes things came together with an amazing accuracy, but then again -- sometimes it just didn't seem to work with the same accuracy.

He asked himself: "If it sometimes works and I'm able -- just by using my mind -- to predict future events, could it work 100% of the time?"

On that day 8 years ago, he decided to find out what's the maximum a human mind could reach in crossing the borders of the known human consciousness. In his determination to find out all there is to discover about Remote Viewing he started to interview the most well known experts in the field: Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, Ingo Swann, James Spottiswood and Paul Smith, to name a few.

He asked probing questions, took down countless notes, and spent hundreds of sleepless nights compiling his findings. This journey took him straight down the rabbit hole and opened a whole new universe of opportunities.

As a result he not only became one of the most famous remote viewers of our time, having his methods taught at the University of Michigan and Esalen Institute on the Big Sur Coast of California, the world's most prestigious personal growth center. But above all his results with Remote Viewing shot through the roof. The accuracy, detail and consistency he demonstrated when predicting the future events and revealing information not visible through the eyes amazed even the most experienced remote viewers.

It's all about learning to focus

In his quest to expand the borders of reality as we know it, Stephan Schwartz discovered some astonishing truths that challenge the way most people are used to look at the world. Most people, when meeting with extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, automatically assume that those people were born with some extra-talents, so they don't even try to find out what's really going on.

What Schwartz discovered challenges this assumption to the core. He considers himself a very normal, a rather scientist type of a person. And after working with hundreds of "normal" people he soon saw a strong pattern, occurring over and over again -- most of the people participating in his workshops started to amaze themselves and others around them with some unbelievable abilities which they never knew they had. Schwartz is confident that most of the people can -- with proper training -- predict the future, sense what other people are doing on the other side of the world and many other things that are normally considered as more of a sci-fi movies thing.

Now what is truly astonishing is the simplicity of the whole technique -- in the core of unleashing your hidden mental powers lies such a simple technique that it's almost unbelievable that not everyone is using it. The key to unlock your potential -- now pay attention -- is simply to learn how to FOCUS. Stephan Schwartz says that Remote Viewing could be called a sort of mental martial art -- and like any martial art it's all about the right focus. Our mind is like a muscle -- the more you train it, the stronger it becomes. By training our focus and directing it to specific things we can soon "see" information that would stay hidden otherwise.

He brings a simple example of reading an interesting book -- many people have experienced a feeling of being so carried away with the story that you're experiencing a whole new world, in a completely other aspect of your consciousness. Remote Viewing is simply learning how to focus on this new aspect -- and use it in new practical ways.

If you've feel drawn to uncover your own hidden mental powers, listen to the exclusive FinerMinds interview that Vishen recently made with him. He's sharing some of the breakthrough experiments he made when working for the government and some astonishing discoveries with a group of students who had never practiced Remote Viewing before in their life.

PS: Stephan Schwartz expands in his interview the understanding of human abilities and the borders of our consciousness. Listen to the interview here