Your Xbox 360 Has 3 Flashing Red Lights - Now What?
If you are one of the thousands of XBox 360 owners who have experienced the dreaded XBox 360 3 Red Lights problem, you no doubt can relate to that sinking feeling one gets when their favorite gaming system goes down for the count. Reactions range from sad to mad to confused to "HELP!". But in reality, when an X360 flashes 3 red lights, there's really no need to panic, or even to get bent out of shape at all. The fact of the matter is you've got a lot of company. Every day the list of Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death sufferers grows by hundreds. So, what do you do next?
First of all, put the emotions aside. They do not get you any closer to solving the problem and back to playing your favorite X360 game. What will get you back playing is knowing what your repair options are and choosing the best one for your situation. Basically, there are 3 general courses of action that 99% of XBox 360 owners should choose from. These 3 options are summarized below. See which one fits your situation, then take action and get the unit fixed.
Your 3 options are:
1. If your XBox 360 is still covered by Microsoft's warranty, by far your best bet is to ship it back to Microsoft's designated repair facility and get if fixed by them. The up side is that it won't cost you anything and will get done right and permanently. The downside is that you'll be without your XBox 360 for possibly 2-3 weeks. It's a long time, but is worth it to keep your warranty intact and to get a professional, permanent repair.
If you XBox 360 is not covered by Microsoft's warranty anymore, you've narrowed your options down to two. They are:
2. Send your XBox 360 out to a 3rd party repair service for the fix. The 3 red lights problem has become so prevalent that a small industry has sprung up specifically to capitalize on the business opportunity. These repair shops charge anywhere from $50-$75 and will usually get your XBox back to you in 7-10 days. Like the microsoft fix, it is done professionally and it is permanent. This option is best for people who would rather not pop open their XBox and take a stab at fixing it themselves (see below). So if you are not technically inclined, or just want to be sure to get a fix that is done right, this is probably your best bet. If you are not comfortable popping open your Xbox yourself and doing some simple repairs, then contact a 3rd party repair service Google it. You should find some repair facilities in your general area.
3. This option is for the compulsive "do-it-yourselfer". The fix for the XBox 360 3 red lights problem is really not that difficult and can be done at home in about an hour using simple hand tools that most households will already have on hand. If you are comfortable popping open a computer to add a peripheral device or are just a die-hard "I've got to fix this myself" kind of person, you can buy an XBox 360 fix-it guide for about $25. These guides take you step-by-step through the repair process and people using them are successful about 95% of the time. So if you are mechanically inclined, this option is your best bet. It's fast and easy and you will be back playing your favorite game in about 60 minutes from the time you start the repair. It beats being without your games for a week of more.
This article has outlined the 3 options for fixing the XBox 360 3 Red Lights problem. Which one you choose is dependent on whether you are still covered by your original warranty, whether you want to spend money having someone else fix the X360 for you, and how mechanically inclined you are. Each of the 3 options works. It's just a matter of choosing the one that best fits your particular situation.
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The Chakra Song
We may feel we are familiar with the practices of prayer or meditation and we may have tried these unsuccessfully and wondered why such time honored avenues to self empowerment have failed to work in our lives. We may hear many testimonies that describe the effective power to transform our lives which these practices can bestow upon us and we may have felt frustrated that we have not learned how to use these tools to make ourselves feel happier, healthier or more content. Now a new tool, the Chakra Song, is available which may help you to realize the goals you may have felt you might never be able to attain.
Many healing traditions all refer to an energetic body that is the template for our physical body and which is directly related to our health, happiness and wellbeing. This energetic body has nodes of energy called chakras which are directly related to different aspects of our health and how we manifest our lives in this world. When the energetic body is functioning poorly we may work to heal it; one of the most fundamental parts of the work we must do to heal our energetic bodies is to cleanse our chakras of stagnant energy.
Clearing our chakras has immense benefit. Our natural energy flow can be bogged down by so many different things. Anything which creates stress impedes the health of our energetic body, that part of us which is healed by practices like reiki, yoga or acupuncture. When the energetic body is healthy our minds work better, our emotions are healthier, and our physical bodies become healthier as well.
Our energetic bodies respond to our thoughts. This is why when we are conflicted or angry or depressed our energetic bodies become damaged and then function poorly. This is also why simple meditation or prayer can be so effective at restoring us to a state of wellbeing in body mind and spirit. By focusing our thoughts on healing our energetic body we restore ourselves to happiness, health and wellbeing.
It can sometimes be very difficult to learn how to meditate or pray effectively. Our minds are often too bemired by inner turmoil or too easily distracted by external and irrelevant influences. It takes patience to learn to quiet our thoughts so that we may empty ourselves of all the beliefs and conditions which may get in the way of successful prayer or meditation.
We must learn to recognize that many of our thoughts are vicious circles that never arrive at any functional conclusion but simple run about and about in circles endlessly consuming our minds and our time. Once we see that this is true we may begin to recognize when thoughts of this nature arise in our minds and begin to interrupt them, to stop thinking them. The more we practice not thinking these consuming thoughts the more we free our minds to think in healthier ways and the closer we become to realizing true internal peace.
In that peaceful state we can focus our thoughts more clearly on those things which really matter most to us, like our health. We can take control of our wellbeing and direct ourselves to become healthier, happier and more content. This works because everything that is manifest in the physical plane of this world begins as a thought form in our energetic bodies. By cleansing and healing our energetic bodies we create an effective thought form or mental template for our state of being which is healthier, happier and more fulfilling.
This template then manifests in the physical world by making our bodies healthier and bringing us new opportunities to enhance our lives and the lives of those we love. In this manner, the simple quiet practices of prayer or meditation become transformational tools with which we can effectively change our lives and make the world around us a happier, healthier more abundant place for all of us to share.
To help with the visualization work related to cleansing my chakras I decided to write a song. Song is one of the most powerful tools in my life. The music is borrowed from the Popcorn part of the soundtrack from the movie A Clockwork Orange. I chose this music because it is so happy, light and energizing. I hope you will find the music for this song and will then enjoy it as much as I have. This song works! It has practically written itself. My chakra visualizations are much stronger and clearer. What's more, as I was composing this song during my drive home from work I had scarcely any pain, typically driving has been a very painful activity for me because of needing to grasp the steering wheel, even when I remember to use my open palm against the steering wheel rather than grasp it the pain while driving has been pretty bad. No more! please feel free to modify this song in any way that works best for you.
The Chakra Song
In my root chakra I find - red life energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
Its vitality that strengthens me and helps me to survive
Now the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your root chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower
In my loin chakra I find - hot orange energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
It is sexual; it inspires me, it helps me to create
Now the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your loin chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower
In my mind chakra I find - yellow energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
It is teaching me; it makes me free, it helps me to be me
Now the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your mind chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower
In my heart chakra I find - sweet green energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
It is compassionate; its full of love, it helps me be healthy
Now the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your heart chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower
In my voice chakra I find - loud blue energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
It communicates; it speaks to thee, it sings along with me
Now the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your voice chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower
In my brow chakra I find - purple energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
Its intuitive; it knows the truth, it helps me to perceive
Now the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your brow chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower
In my crown chakra I find - violet white energy divine
It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me
Its the god I am, my divinity; it realizes me
It connects me to infinity and all that I can be
Now the violet white chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat the line above until your crown chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...
Yes, the violet white chakra power opens like a flower
Now you know the chakra song; so we all can sing along
Now the divine rainbow chakra powers open like a flower
...Repeat until all of your chakras are clearly visualized together then move to the YES line...
Yes, the divine rainbow chakra powers open like a flower
Now the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your root chakras 4 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...
Yes, the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower
Now the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your loin chakras 6 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...
Yes, the inspiring hot orange power opens like a flower
Now the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your mind chakras 10 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...
Yes, the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower
Now the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your heart chakras 12 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...
Yes, the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower
Now the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your voice chakras 16 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...
Yes, the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower
Now the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your brow chakras 2 petals stretch into descending cords of energy that weave back and forth through your lower chakras like a caduceus symbol then move to the YES line...
Yes, the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower
Now the violet white chakra power opens like a flower
...Repeat until your crown chakras 40 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy and a solid broad cord of white energy connects your crown to the heavens then move to the YES line...
Yes, the violet white chakra power opens like a flower
Now the lovely rainbow chakra powers open like a flower
...Repeat until all your chakras radiating cords mingle their energy in your energetic body then move to the YES line...
Yes, the lovely rainbow chakra powers open like a flower
Now the divine living chakra powers open like a flower
...Repeat until your crown chakra is connected to the heavens by a strong white cord then move to the YES line...
Yes, the divine living chakra powers open like a flower
Now all the divine living chakra powers open like a flower
Once you have experienced the connection from the heavens to the crown chakra open wide follow up by singing the Beach Boys Good Vibrations; make up the lyrics as you go using any positive affirmations you like that describe yourself as a happy healthy human being whose good fortune brings you everything you may wish for.
please note that your visualization of the chakras may take some time, many years for me, but I have now given you the key that turned the trick with me. Dont worry about where you visualize these at first, it can be easier to visualize them in front of your minds eye and then later transfer them to their respective places within your energetic body.
Chakra Descriptions Crown Chakra - located on the top of the head, it is connected to your divinity
Third Eye (Brow) Chakra - between the eyebrows, related to intuition & ESP
Throat (Voice) Chakra - near the larynx, related to speech & self-expression
Heart Chakra - below the sternum, related to healing, love & compassion
Solar Plexus (Mind) Chakra - behind the navel, related to power & mental functions
Sacrum (Loin) Chakra - behind the sex organs, related to sex, emotion & creativity
Root Chakra - below the base of the spine, related to security, instinct & survival
Your visualizations need not be complex at first and may begin with the individual chakra colors which you may then try to shape into balls of light. As you get better at visualizing balls of color for the chakras start to visualize the petals of each chakra as they appear on the surface pointing inward. Then visualize the petals unfolding outward from the center to form flower shapes. As the flower shapes appear visualize the petals stretching out into cords of energy that radiate outward like stars. Later as you visualize all the chakras radiating watch as the rays of the brow chakra descend through all the chakras in a weaving pattern like a caduceus. The rays of the other chakras will mingle with one another filling out your energetic body.
Today my energetic body resembled a tree covered in vines with all the chakras within it glowing and radiating and merging their energies into all the subtle leaves (organs or nodes) of my energetic body.
BIO: Fledgling author Greg Gourdian has worked with the general public as a psychic reader for a little over four years from 1981 to 1986. Much of his written work is channeled, although he will admit that he has no idea who many of the sources for his channeled work may be. He has many strange tales to tell regarding his spiritual journey and he attempts to tell his tales in a humorous or entertaining manner. While not an accredited teacher, Greg has taught classes in psychology, sociology, metaphysics and parapsychology.
Visit Greg's blog at http://tangledintime.blogspot.com/
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