Tattoo Designs - Rites Of Past Has Become The Fashion Statement Of Present

Tattoos have served as customs in the past in some indigenous people around the world, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, marks of status and rank, pledges of love, punishment, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and impact of tattoos varies from place to place and also varies in cultures. But presently there has been a twist in the concept of being tattooed. Maximum people choose to be tattooed for cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, religious, and magical reasons, and to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups, including criminal gangs or law-abiding subculture. Yantra Tattoo in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, is common and popular and is used for protection against evil.

Tattooing has become popular these days thus adding extra bonus to your fashion statement. It is really difficult to assort the tattoo design that appeals your senses from the different types tattoos available. You can even create your own to stand out from the crowd. There are some very brilliant styles and designs assorted according to their popularity, usage and designs for your convenience that you can go for and they are Rose Tattoos, Dragon Tattoos, Tribal Tattoos, Celtic Tattoos and Lower Back Tattoos are to be the few to be mention.

Let us find out what is the reason behind the popularity behind these tattoos. Beginning with:

1. Rose Tattoos: It comes in various colors that depict different emotions. For instance white rose represents purity of soul and innocence, where a red rose symbolizes passion and blooming love and a pink rose portrays profound love. Therefore these tattoos will go well with romantic people portraying their emotions in the form of tattoo.

2. Dragon Tattoos: These tattoos designs are generally used on the arms and whole of the back area symbolizing the strength of the wearer.

3. Tribal Tattoos: Tribal tattoo designs are one of the most famous since hundreds of years undergoing several changes meet the expectations and requirements of the people. The changes could be seen in the colors and equipments used. Modern tattooing machines and guns have replaced the bone needles, styluses and sticks and the black work designs on arms and legs have been replaced by colorful designs on the entire body.

4. Celtic Tattoos: the craze for this type of tattoos has broke the boundaries Celtic Heritage creating more interesting tattoo design by mixing it with other the famous tribal tattoos.

5. Lower Back Tattoos: Lower back tattoo designs dragon, lotus, winged hearts, tribal symbols and butterfly in the waist region of the females tattoos are powerful enough to incite sensuality and interest in the minds of the onlookers.

Selection of tattoo design depends on how portray your emotions and style.

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Essential Oils - How Did Anointing in the Christian Church Become the "Last Rites?"

Early in the Church's life, anointing was for healing of any physical or mental illness (possession by evil spirits). Gradually over the next few hundred years, this anointing became one associated with the forgiveness of sin. This was a public forgiveness where the penitent was paraded out into the town square for all to see that this individual was a sinner. The price tag for this anointing for the forgiveness of sin was not only a large donation to the church, but this person was forbidden by law to ever marry, and if they were already married, they could not have sexual relations with their spouse. And, if male, they could never hold public office. Most decided to forgo this anointing until later in life-maybe at the end! The prevailing belief was that one could not enter into heaven without this "final anointing."

Anointing eventually was performed just for the seriously ill and was combined with penitence and absolution for sin. The prayers used in this anointing ritual were ironically for physical healing and the parts of the body in pain were anointed in the form of a cross. By the 9th century the ritual had become the Last Rites reserved for the final moments in this life. People naturally did not seek this anointing until they were gravely ill, primarily because of the heavy penances that were assigned for their absolution from sin. Gradually the prayers for physical healing were dropped and the focus of the ritual was on deathbed preparation and absolution for one's sins. Oil was no longer placed on the parts of the body that hurt but only on the senses, feet, and hands with prayers asking for forgiveness for sin. It was in this form that the ritual became a sacrament of the church. The final blow to anointing in the Christian church was the Council of Trent in 1551 declared that this anointing (unction) was reserved only for the dying, at the final moments of life. Healing in the Christian Church essentially ceased for the next 500 years.

After the Reformation in the 1500's the laying-on of hands and anointing along with its required donations fell into disfavor among most of the new Christian denominations and the use of blessed oils and many other Christian rituals were not only discarded but deemed as nothing more than play-acting. The Roman Catholic Church continued its practice of blessed oil for this final anointing even though the true meaning of anointing for healing of physical and spiritual health appeared to be lost.

It was actually not until the last 40 years, a lapse of over 500 years, that a renewed interest in the healing power of anointing with oil began to reshape the Catholic Church's understanding of the anointing of the sick. There has now been a return to the early church's use of blessed oil albeit a symbolic gesture, for healing the sick and not waiting until death. This interest in anointing has also touched many Protestant churches who do not have a tradition of anointing the sick. Many are investigating and experimenting with blessing oil for the purpose of healing those sick in body, mind and spirit in their communities. They are trying to reconnect with early Christian roots and in the process, create their own rituals.

Anointing with oil is beginning to become a sign of hope for many who suffer physically, emotionally and spiritually. Who is leading the way? Lay people for the most part who are seeking spiritual and as well as physical healing. For more information on our story of Christian healing and how we lost sight of it, you may wish to investigate a program of healing that tells our true story. We are coming full circle back to the actions of the Early Christians that were aimed at healing physical and spiritual ills.

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You can also read more about our fascinating history of healing in Christianity and how we can reclaim it today in my books: Called Into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch, and Healing Oils Healing Hands, Discovering the Power of Prayer, Hands On Healing and Anointing. You can find them on my web site at http://www.ISHAhealing.com/HealingStore/tabid/348/Default.aspx

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