Our choice was California, because my wife had relatives in San Diego. I would recommend California to all prospective immigrants for:
- its moderate climate
- lots of opportunities to work
- the state is the largest fruit and vegetables supplier, which means that food prices are lower than any other place
- the great number of educational centers and occupational programs, at low cost or free tuition, funded by the state and the counties.

The last one is crucial for many immigrants, coming from poor countries and have no money for obtaining new profession or to advance their education. Later, when we moved to Florida I had the chance to compare some courses, and they were lengthier and more expensive than the same in California. I also took advantage of those opportunities and acquired a new profession, Certified Nursing Assistant, from one of the community colleges in San Diego.
Example for one such program is San Diego County Regional Occupational Program

All information about occupational and educational possibilities could be found at the public libraries, where there is also free Internet access.

The first recommendation: have enough funds to pay for your living for the first months. To find place to live might be very difficult at the beginning. We could not find such place for over a week, despite the efforts of our relatives. Why? All landlords wanted background check, or credit check ( your credit history ), which we simply did not have because we were new for the system. And that was also the first difference we encountered – we were coming from a culture where a short conversation and a handshake with the landlord do all.
And go to Social Security Administration Office and apply for for your Social Security Cards as soon as possible. You need photo ID ( your green card will arrive soon at the address given at the Immigration upon your arrival ) and SS Card when you apply for job and for other identification purposes.

Finding a job might also be a challenge. You will not have work history in the USA and most of the employers might simply disregard your job application. So, be humble and apply for jobs few only want to do – caregiver would be good choice.

After the initial period, to settle down your place to live and find your first job, things will go smoother.

Living in the USA

First of all I would like to clearly state:
I am glad that I had the chance to live and work in the USA and to meet all modest and humble native Americans, who taught me in one way or another and showed me how to work. I got something from every single person I met here. Some of the essential lessons in my life would not be possible to learn at the pace I did here.

I am aware what image has been created by movies, documentaries, magazines, Internet etc. in other people’s minds about USA and that most people immigrating here have expectations for a bright and carefree life amidst luxuries and lots of money. Living in the USA, however, has its price and it might be very high. Below are some of my own insights and realizations, based on 50+ years active life and experiences through other cultures.

Freedom
Americans proudly name their country “Land of Freedom”, but one of the first things my family and I experienced, was limited freedom. And it is logical. With all the numerous laws, rules and regulations, it is impossible to be free. It is valid even more for minors. They are so restricted in what they do or where they go, that our older daughter even refused to live here in the beginning. And later, the younger one also got fed up and joined her sister in Bulgaria for one full year until they were ready to come back and start working.
Just to give you an idea what I am talking about: I am grown up in Bulgaria during hard communistic time. In my childhood I use to do just anything and go any place throughout the country without “guardians”. And I literally mean “any place” – fields, forests, mountains, seaside etc.

Communication with other people
Another thing we faced pretty soon was: blinds on the windows and locked doors all over. You can live for months in one and the same apartment building without knowing your neighbor. People are scared to go out at dark or to leave even their windows open night time when they sleep. For a reason: too much violence in the streets – something that everybody admits.
I know that there are people who are coming here from places at war and for them it is a big relief to start new life here. But many are coming from cultures where people live true values of life and are but one big family – entire neighborhood is open and everybody is welcome everywhere. Fences are but symbolic.
Several years ago I talked to a Philippina, who could have lived in USA if she wanted, but she told me that it is too much to sacrifice for money. And I fully understood.

Punishment
To punish others for the mistakes they made is within the entire American culture. This is the reason that USA have the highest incarceration rate ( prisoners ) in the world. It is widely practiced by individuals, companies, institutions and even by US government abroad. And it is part of your daily life – where ever you go there is always paper or sign that if you do something wrong you will be prosecuted.

The above three points are, in my opinion, something anybody should consider before taking important decisions for life. There is something positive to learn from any culture on this planet and apply in your life and if you have already set your life priorities for God’s Love, you are safe everywhere.

God bless you

georgi

I also started reading science fiction like crazy, but there were also no answers . So, I turned to atheist and stopped my quest for God. Until the age of 42 when serious incident happened and I got all the time to think about the purpose of life on Earth.

And a magic series of happenings started:
A friend of mine gave me “Autobiography of a Yogi” ( it was not officially translated in Bulgaria at that time, but someone did it on his own and the book was forwarded from person to person in two parts ) and I finished the first part overnight. I was so much impressed, that immediately sat on the computer and typed “kriya yoga” in the search box. And the first link I clicked on was Cyberspace Ashram for Kriya Yoga ( never clicked on another link ). This is how I found Hans and I visited him in Germany. Ten months later my friend offered me to accompany him in his trip to Germany for free and I visited Hans again. Soon after that kundalini “awakening” started and I spent 3 days without sleep, most of the time lying on my back with tremendous flow of energy throughout my body and humming sound in my ears. A month later we immigrated to the USA.

Here I started to consciously feel the spiritual presence and spiritual guidance in my life.

One day I picked up one of those free newsletters offering jobs, opened it somewhere in the middle and the first thing I saw was posting by a company offering caregiver positions and free training. Instant flash in my mind “That’s it!”. I had always avoided direct contact with elderly, ill and dying people and facing death in general and that was exactly what I needed.

A bit later something similar happened to find nursing aide / CNA profession – this time with a posting card for preliminary CNA test.

And it went on.

Here I want to mention that, at that time, I was already doing Kriya Yoga on a daily basis, purifying my physical body by regular fasting ( clean water only ) and strict vegetarian diet.

How I perceive my spiritual guidance

It comes into my mind in the form of a thought, but not as result of my own brain activity. It appears in my mind instantly, the first thought ever, especially when I face a few choice situation. Just to give you an example: imagine you go to the store to buy certain thing and the associate there tells you that they have it in different variations. Before he even finishes his explanation, you already got the right one in your mind.
Now, I would like to confess that sometimes I disregard my spiritual guidance and do the things my Ego way. And I always regret about that and pay high price for my Ego decisions. Such happened last year, when I broke my leg, during my visit to Washington DC to renew my passport. I instantly got the right choice at Bulgarian Embassy, what and how to do it, but I disregarded it. I mention this just to show you how high the price might be.

Another thing to mention about my spiritual guidance is that sometimes I lose my awareness about it. It usually happens when I am pulled deep into “material world” like shopping or focusing too much on certain problems.

Spiritual presence in my life

It started early 2001 in a dream with Gurudeva. Later when I increased my kriya yoga practice I started feeling it regularly, especially when I am involved in loving actions.

How do I feel spiritual presence and who do I feel

Whenever I do something that creates happiness in other people I feel God and God’s Love. My Sahasrara chakra instantly opens and God’s bliss starts flowing through my entire system. Or whenever I approach people who need spiritual advice and ask for it, when I start talking God descends on the scene – all is light around. The same happens when I exchange pure love ( heart to heart ), no words, with certain people who are open. Needless to say: it always happens with my wife, when we look at each other eyes longer.
I also feel my Guru’s presence. I feel his aura and his love across the planet.
I also feel other beings if they are around, but when it is about God I only trust Gurudeva and do not pay attention to others.

God is Love and anybody can feel it even in a physical body. Change your mind, change your life, make love the only priority in your life and you will also start feeling it.

God bless you

Why? Because of the war between male and female world since thousands of years.

We had such situation many years ago and it was automatically solved after Spiritual marriage counseling done by a true expert. Happy life was the result and I have never been attracted by another woman ever since.

Now, a brief marriage counseling below.

To all women who are in the this position:

“Did you ever ask your husband what he would love to receive from you as a woman and how?”

If not, please do it. Make sure you have the most loving attitude and ask your him about all his dreams and desires. But before doing that, be honest and answer the questions:

“Do I love this man from the bottom of my heart? Do I want to forgive everything and anything? Am I ready to give him all?”

If your answer is positive, then just turn into sweet and loving wife ready to say “yes” anytime and you get back the best husband in the world. I assure you. Your happy life is just a second away from your “YES”.

If your brain, for any reason, prevents you from giving all to your husband anytime, or you are too proud to do so, then sign a divorce paper and give your husband freedom. This might be the most loving act you have eve done for him.

The lines below is my wife’s part of this marriage counseling:

If your husband is cheating, it is a warning that you fail to make him happy and truly love him. You have to understand with your heart what he is seeking outside your marriage. If you love this man and you feel you still want to spend your life with him in happiness just forgive him all now and attract him back in your home and in your heart with sweet angel love. Just say:

“Honey, I love you, I have been always loving you and I want to love you forever with all my heart and soul!”

Men are just like us women – human beings with hearts and souls hungry for love and care. Love each other again and dissolve the past mistakes in the power of your love – this is just the way we learn and spiritually progress to grow stronger in our hearts.

God bless you

galina and georgi

Honeymoon is a great “tool” for refreshing and re-establishing your happy life and is advised to be used on a regular basis.

Depending on your budget and preferences, honeymoon location could be an exotic Philippine island, green mountains in Nicaragua or any other place in the nature. The location has to be something both partners fully agree on. Avoid crowds and commercialized tourist destinations – all you need is but peace to make honey-love freely flow.

During your honeymoon do what you both love to do most together. Put away your watches, cell phones, laptops or other distractive gadgets. Forget your schedules and appointments. Forget about “civilization” – you can easily live without TV and newspapers and be more happy. Take all your time for each other and love each other anytime, any place.

Talk to each other and tell each other all that is important and has been withheld past months or years. Make sure there is nothing hidden or unspoken left between you two. Clear anything and everything with love.

Set a common and true goal in your life, if you have not already done, and commit to each other to achieve this goal side by side in good and bad times.

Of course, the best honeymoon would be if it is combined with spiritual retreat to speed up your spiritual development. Because God should be part of your relationship. Happy life is just impossible without God, since God is the source of all Love and happiness is but a result of applied love.

The text below is my wife’s share for this recipe:

Honeymoon is time to be spoiled with love – give each other a sweet, gentle massage or a bath; spend time in nature: swim in clean water, walk in a forest; eat fresh fruit and vegetables of your choice. Have fun together – dancing, singing, play your favorite music or enjoy the songs of the birds.

May love prevail and your life be always happy!

galina and georgi

This publication consists of two parts, written by husband and wife team and
showing the difference of male and female point of view on one and the same
matter.

Husband’s goal in life

After lots of different experiences, accompanied with pain and suffering, I
took a firm decision: it is time to end the cycle of re-incarnations on this
planet and join the world of Love God created for ALL his children.

My personal goal in life is: to reach God-Realization.

Husband’s values in life

• FREEDOM

All my life I have been striving for freedom – in just any aspect of my
life. The more I progress the more I realize the simple truth about freedom: it
is the greatest gift to all of us, but it is also the greatest responsibility
using it. For this reason, I strongly believe, the absolute freedom is achieved
in God only – when we are mature to use it with Love and for Love only.

• FAMILY

It is blessing to have partner in your life standing always by you, to love
you
and to be loved by you. Family is where all the basic lessons start and
where we learn to love, first a few, and then expand our love toward all.

• CARE for others, for self, for nature, for all that is of true value

• APPRECIATION of all useful, that other people share and do for our global
  society – all production, work and services, that make life possible

• FORGIVENESS
• RECONCILIATION
• INTEGRITY

And I also value qualities like:

• LOYALTY
• TRUTHFULNESS
• HONESTY
• HUMBLENESS
• MODESTY

Wife’s goal and values of life

My goal in life is to dissolve my karma and open my heart for all with true love and complete forgiveness and be ready to join the world of love in God

Values:

The most valuable is to share my life with my husband – to love and care for each
other and be happy together!

I highly appreciate:

• Sincerity and Honesty
• Humbleness
• Freedom
• Loyalty
• Forgiveness
• Readiness to help

The sooner we all set our true goal, the sooner we become one family again.

God bless all

galina and georgi

The first step toward this realization was the story that happened almost 10 years ago.

In October 2001, we spent almost a month on the beautiful island of Busuanga, Philippines. That month is the precious gift I ever had, because we spent all the time with someone who knows God and who has been continuously teaching and spiritually counseling us ever since – our Guru.

The place we stayed was a small garden type resort, where we were treated more like family members rather than tourists. So, we had all the time just for us: to start real husband-wife relationship. My wife was very open for God and got some precious gifts in addition to all the rest.

One day one of my teeth broke at the base ( I had a crown installed just month before and obviously the tooth had been filed too much at the base ) and I went to the local dentist to pull out the roots left in my lower jaw.
The extraction took around 45 minutes with 3 injections of anesthesia.

After all pushing and pulling, on my way back, I started already regretting that I visited the dentist. When I got to our cottage I suddenly remembered that the day before Guru told my wife that pain can very easily be “removed” from the body. I asked my wife to try to relieve my pain with God’s help. So, I lied in bed and my wife bent over me. I closed my eyes and opened my Sahasrara Chakra. And suddenly all pain went away – it was gone forever!

That was the most amazing thing that had happened to me so far.

Later on I have been shown how Love changes people’s hearts and lives, which just strengthened my faith – Love is the complete solution for all because God is Love.

God bless you.

Fahter’s day is comming soon and many women are looking for gifts for their husbands or even brainstorming: What can i get my “hubby” for fahters day? – wasting hours and spending money on shopping.

Lets think together about all material gifts that we can buy, order or create – how long the joy of getting them last – few minutes! Even the most expensive gift – sometimes turns to be the less useful or a burden to carry.

Sending Happy Father’s Day greeting cards from a wife to husband is obvious because it is the wife’s God’s given privilege to create all the happy husband’s days and nights!

Cooking his favorite dishes and desserts we do every day. We do pamper him with a gentle loving massage when he is tired and exhausted, we smile and care all the time.

What about our LOVE – a very special personalized gift that could fill his heart and make him truly happy – to give him the love he wants and needs the most, the image of love he has in his fantasy and dreams.

LOVE is the best gift from a happy wife to the husband who loves her!

We need to take our time, relax and feel the love and tenderness we could give to each other.

LOVE is a blessing that needs to be consumed, absorbed and enjoyed to create the precious feeling of happiness.

Fall is here – the golden season of beauty and bounty, of harvest festivals and celebration like the Thanksgiving tradition.

Nowadays we – the city people mast be thankful with every meal to the farmers who dedicate their life to produce our food and be grateful to God – the creator of this plentiful variety of fruit and vegetables to please every taste and nourish any need!

Soon is Thanksgiving – time to spend with our family, parents, children, relatives and friends – time for more love, time for grace and peace. It’s an occasion to forgive each other for all that went wrong in the past and get ready for the Holy Christmas with purity and calmness in our hearts!

Let’s make this Thanksgiving a feast of Peace, Grace and Love!

Please, feel invited to see and use our Thanksgiving greeting cards

Happy Thanksgiving!

with love

goergi and galina