tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15637475213989004012012-01-05T21:03:56.073-08:00Inner HealersHealing from the InsideINNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.comBlogger1981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-75998864732213641872012-01-05T21:02:00.000-08:002012-01-05T21:03:56.085-08:00The Violet Flame: The Alchemist's Dream, by Chris Donaldson.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For centuries, alchemists have sought to change base metals into gold. But the transmutation of metals like lead into gold is symbolic of a higher and more noble alchemy -- the alchemy of self-transformation.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Self-transformation was the goal of the most spiritual of alchemists. They sought a way to change the lead of negative human energy into the gold of divine energy, and some of them achieved this by using the violet flame. But first, let's explore what the violet flame is, what it does and how it works. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame (also called the violet fire) is a unique spiritual energy that can help you in all areas of your life. It can heal emotional and physical problems, improve your relationships, help you to grow spiritually, or just make life easier. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The flame is the essence of a unique spiritual light. Mystics of all ages have glimpsed a "spiritual spectrum" behind the physical spectrum. Radiant colors, more pure and rare than those found on earth, emanate from a brilliant, "inner" divine light. Just as a ray of sunlight passing through a prism refracts into seven colors, spiritual light splits into seven colors, or "rays" - each of which has specific divine qualities. The violet flame comes forth from the violet ray, which has the qualities of mercy, forgiveness, freedom and transmutation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The color violet has long been associated with spirituality. Having the highest frequency in the visible spectrum, violet is at the point of transition to the next octave of light. To the ancients, this transcendental color was a spiritual rather than a physical phenomenon. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saints and adepts throughout the ages have known how to use the violet flame, but it was only released to the public earlier this century by an Ascended Master called Saint Germain. Ascended Masters are enlightened spiritual beings who once walked the earth like you and me. They balanced their karma (paid their debts to life) and fulfilled their reason for being. They then ascended, or reunited with God. You probably already know the names of a few Ascended Masters - Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha and Krishna.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What the Violet Flame Does</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ever wish there was a way you could wipe out your past mistakes? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While you can't go back in time, the violet flame has the power to erase, or transmute the cause, the effect, and even the memory of our past mistakes. Transmutation means to change - to alter in form, appearance or nature. The violet flame changes negative energy into positive energy, darkness into light, "fate" into opportunity. The flame also erases the resultant "bad karma" of our mistakes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our past actions - both good and bad - do come back to us. This is the law of karma. This impersonal cosmic law decrees that whatever we do comes full circle to our doorstep for resolution; simply, what goes around comes around. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In general, most people must pay their debt to life, or "balance" their karma, by selflessly reaching out and helping others, by working through misfortunes that come their way, or by passing through diseases or other forms of personal suffering. But it need not be so with the violet flame! The violet flame is able to transmute or mitigate our negative karma before it comes back to us. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the physical level, the violet flame can help heal our bodies by removing the karma that makes us vulnerable to illness and disease. But the real cause of disease is often rooted in our mental, emotional and spiritual states. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, we are discovering more and more about how our thoughts and emotions can affect our health. Research has shown that hatred and other negative thoughts and feelings actually create excess amounts of acid in the body that it cannot assimilate. These negative thoughts and feelings often originate in emotional and psychological problems, which the violet flame can help to resolve. The scars of old hurts and painful memories may be healed and dissolved when the healing balm of the violet flame is applied.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How the Violet Flame Works</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame works by changing "vibrations". In physics, vibration is the speed of oscillation - the speed at which something moves back and forth. On the atomic level, vibration can be understood to be the speed at which electrons orbit around the nucleus of the atom. The violet flame works by changing vibrations on this level. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Atoms are mostly empty space. The empty space between the nucleus and the electrons is where negative energy and karma can become stuck. When the atoms in our bodies and auras become clogged with this negativity, the electrons whirl slower and slower, and we begin to resonate more with negativity, and less with light - we have a lower vibration, and become less spiritual. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame transmutes this negative energy. It does not simply surround and remove the energy, but transforms it into light. Because there is less density within the atom, the electrons whirl faster and faster, thereby raising your vibration. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you have a higher vibration, there is more spiritual energy in your body. Acupuncturists and yogis know that optimum health comes when this spiritual energy flows freely throughout the body. The violet flame frees up this energy and re-establishes harmony and equilibrium, propelling you into a more spiritual state of being.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Alchemist's Dream</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame is a tool of self-transformation. Physical experiments in alchemy whereby base metals are transformed into gold are symbolic of what the violet flame does. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In medieval times, alchemists attempted to transmute base metals into gold, using heat to separate the "subtle" from the "gross". While there have always been alchemists who sought to create wealth by transmuting base metals, this process of transmutation is symbolic of a higher and more noble alchemy - the alchemy of self-transformation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alchemists of the Spirit did not seek physical wealth, but spiritual wealth. They sought to transform themselves into more spiritual beings, by becoming more loving, wise and compassionate. The violet flame has the capacity to bring about this transformation by transmuting negative elements within ourselves. It has the unique ability to transform fear into courage, anxiety into peace and hatred into love. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alchemists of all ages have sought the mystical philosophers' stone. Early alchemists pored over minutely ciphered texts in search of this stone. For them, it was worth a lifetime to decode the mystery of this "stone" which symbolized the transmutation of the lower animal nature into the highest and divine. The coveted philosophers' stone - "the stone which is no stone" - was not physical, but spiritual, and created out of fire. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some alchemists did discover the secret of the violet flame. According to Neoplatonist alchemists, the philosophers' stone was a self-transforming fire that would lead their souls upward, by drawing up to the Spirit all qualities which dragged downward and opposed the spiritual essences. In the process, the "hard and refractory materials" in their bodies would be transmuted into a rare and more luminous material. In this sacred experiment, they said the alchemist would become "like the gods", pursuing "the gold of the wise and not the vulgar metal". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Transmutation, then, was not just a process which turned base metals into gold, but a spiritual process which raised the soul into a state of unity with the Divine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>How to Use the Violet Flame</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame is practical and easy to use. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Find a place where you won't be disturbed, and sit comfortably in a straight chair with your spine and head erect, legs and arms uncrossed and feet flat on the floor. Rest your hands on your upper legs, with palms facing upwards. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violet flame is invoked through "decreeing" - a unique form of spoken prayer utilizing visualization and meditation. One of the simplest decrees to the violet flame is: "I AM a being of violet fire! I AM the purity God desires!" Take a few, slow deep breaths and center in your heart. Start out slowly, giving the decree with love, devotion and feeling. Repeat the decree three or nine times to begin with; you can gradually increase this to 36, 72 or even 144 repetitions. Repeating the decree strengthens its power and draws down more light. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you are familiar with the decree, you can close your eyes while giving it and concentrate on visualizing the violet flame. See yourself before a large bonfire, about nine feet high and six feet wide. Color it violet in your imagination, and see the flames pulsating and undulating in endless shades of violet with gradations of purple and pink. Then see yourself stepping into the flame, so the violet flame is where you physically are. See your body as transparent, with the flames curling up from beneath your feet, passing through and around your body, clear up over your head.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Often the words of a violet flame decree invoke ideas for other violet flame visualizations - decreeing is meant to be fun so be creative and use your imagination!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To those who have developed their spiritual sight, the violet flame appears as a physical violet fire. You may also be able to "see" the violet flame at work with your inner eye, by concentrating on the spiritual center between your eyebrows. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also use the violet flame to help family and friends. Just visualize the violet flame around them while you give the decree, and add a prayer before you start. The violet flame can also help others that you might not be aware of. After you have finished decreeing, you can ask: "In the name of the Christ within me, I ask that this violet flame be multiplied and used to assist all souls on this planet who are in need. I thank you and accept it done according to the will of God." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even a few minutes of violet flame will produce results, but persistence is needed to penetrate age-old habits you would like to change. You can start out with just a few minutes of violet flame in the morning to help you through the day, and you can add the violet flame to whatever prayers or meditations you currently practice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What Do Others Think of the Violet Flame?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's what people who have used the violet flame say: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Well, I think a lot clearer. I feel lighter. I'm a lot more sensitive to vibrations. And I feel the movement of light almost physically rather than just at subtle levels." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"My relations with people are lighter and more smooth. I don't have that sense of friction." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"At one time I was heavy on drugs and I knew I'd gone too far. The violet flame has cleared up my memory so that now I can think clearly and creatively." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It gives me emotional control and the ability to be more sensitive to the thoughts of God."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The violet flame is amazing. It's opened up so many creative areas of my life. It's a science and a great gift from God. It has revolutionized my life in so many ways. It has allowed me to realize the real potential of my soul, by bringing me closer to God and my personal mission. On more than one occasion the violet flame has healed me of illnesses that have afflicted my body, especially chronic back problems."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"As a surgeon for 10 years, I am humbled by learning about this science. Practicing this has brought amazing results in my life and my medical practice." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can use the violet flame and experience the healing, transformation and spiritual upliftment that alchemists of the Spirit have sought for centuries. But if you want the violet flame to help you, you have to work with it. Try it for yourself!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Decrees to the violet flame</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I AM the violet flame </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In action in me now </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">To Light alone I bow </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In mighty cosmic power </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the light of God </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shining every hour </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blazing like a sun </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM God's sacred power </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Freeing every one</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Summit Lighthouse</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Violet flame decree for forgiveness </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM Forgiveness acting here, </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Casting out all doubt and fear, </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Setting men forever free </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With wings of cosmic Victory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM calling in full power </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Forgiveness every hour; </div><div style="text-align: justify;">To all life in every place </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I flood forth forgiving Grace. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Summit Lighthouse</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Radiant spiral violet flame</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiant spiral violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Descend, now blaze through me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiant spiral violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Set free, set free, set free</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiant violet flame, O come,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Expand and blaze thy light through me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiant violet flame, O come,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reveal God's power for all to see</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiant violet flame, O come,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awake the earth and set it free</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiance of the violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Expand and blaze through me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiance of the violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Expand for all to see</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiance of the violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Establish Mercy's outpost here</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radiance of the violet flame,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come, transmute now all fear</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Summit Lighthouse</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Violet Flame Is </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Breath of God inside each cell </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pulsing out the cosmic time </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Energizing mind and heart </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sustaining God's creation now </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all love, With all love, With all love </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shimmering in a crystal cave </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Searching out all hidden pain </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consuming cause and core of fear </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Revealing now the inner name </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all peace, With all peace, With all peace </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flashing like a lightning bolt </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stretching through the galaxies </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Connecting soul and Spirit now </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raising you to cosmic heights </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I AM the violet flame </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all power, With all power, With all power</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Temple of the Presence</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Violet flame decree for healing the Earth</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now blaze and blaze and blaze</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To raise and raise and raise</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The earth and all thereon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The earth and all thereon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The earth and all thereon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now blaze and blaze and blaze</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To raise and raise and raise</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plants and all God's creatures</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plants and all God's creatures</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plants and all God's creatures</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now blaze and blaze and blaze</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet flame, come, violet flame</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To raise and raise and raise</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The air, the sea, the land</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The air, the sea, the land</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The air, the sea, the land</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Summit Lighthouse</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Let Freedom Roll</i> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Holy Christ/Buddha Self in me,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hear me now, I do decree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let violet fire of freedom roll</div><div style="text-align: justify;">’Round the world to make all whole.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saturate the air, the sea, the land</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At Saint Germain’s divine command.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let wisdom reign, God-power grow,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let love prevail and mercy flow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let war now cease and evil bind,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reveal the truth to all mankind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Compel all leaders to be just,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For liberty is now a must.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Defuse all plots, expose all lies,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let Portia rule and justice rise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now Zadkiel and Amethyst,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consume all darkness, East and West.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">May anarchy and terror fail,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">God-government and hope prevail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O violet fire of Omri-Tas,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now blaze with blest Oromasis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">O masters, angels, now appear,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We see perfection everywhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We pray with you, both near and far,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">’Til earth becomes the Freedom Star.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© The Hearts Center</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">---</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">To read the original post, click here: <a href="http://thevioletflame.tripod.com/">http://thevioletflame.tripod.com/</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7599886473221364187?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-72290240955957720252011-12-28T22:28:00.000-08:002011-12-28T22:29:55.001-08:00Develop a gratitude practice to open your heart and rewire your brain, by Melanie Greenberg.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Gratitude is an integral part of a spiritual practice</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends."-Ralph Waldo Emerson</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Experiencing and expressing gratitude is an important part of any spiritual practice. It opens the heart and activates positive emotion centers in the brain. Regular practice of gratitude can change the way our brain neurons fire into more positive automatic patterns. The positive emotions we evoke can soothe distress and broaden our thinking patterns so we develop a larger and more expansive view of our lives. Gratitude is an emotion of connectedness, which reminds us we are part of a larger universe with all living things. Below are some of my favorite quotes about gratitude to help inspire you and deepen your thinking about finding an enduring place for gratitude in your own life.<br /><br /><i>The Seven Best Gratitude Quotes</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
-- WIlliam James</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
-- Oprah Winfrey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." – Epictetus</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>How to Bring Gratitude into Your Life</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To begin bringing gratitude into your life, you can deliberately meditate on all the things in your own life that help you or give you pleasure. You can also write a gratitude diary, posting pictures and writing about the things you feel grateful for each day. The holidays are a great time to express your gratitude to friends and family by writing cards and exchanging thoughtful, personal gifts. Baking cookies for neighbors or sharing food with the poor are other ways to express appreciation for the abundance of food that we have in this country. Gratitude can lead to feelings of love, appreciation, generosity, and compassion, which further open our hearts and help rewire our brains to fire in more positive ways.</div><br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, life coach, and expert on mind-body health and wellness, behavioral and integrative medicine who has published research in many of the top academic journals in her field. Previously a Professor, she is now a practicing clinical psychologist, national speaker, author, and media consultant Melanie served on the editorial boards of the academic journals Health Psychology and Annals of Behavioral Medicine and as Co-Chair of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Special Interest Group for the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Melanie is frequently quoted in national media, including Men’s Health, Arthritis Today, Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today. Match.com, and cnn.com. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Find out about her therapy services: <a href="http://melaniegreenbergphd.com/marin-psychologist">http://melaniegreenbergphd.com/marin-psychologist</a> and r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ead her blog : <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express</a>.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7229024095595772025?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-26375665714031570222011-11-25T16:24:00.001-08:002011-11-25T16:31:40.546-08:00The frequency is rising, is there a point to being this uncomfortable? by Linda West.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here we are with another year almost done. I just want to say ‘wow’, that’s it, just ‘wow’….I have been watching the changes going on in our world and I am even more convinced that the Spiritual frequency is certainly rising. As I have stated before the Angels told me that the years between 2008 and 2012 would be ‘interesting’, ‘wow’ to say the least. When I was told that, the details were sketchy, because the Feminine Creative Energy was rising on this planet and more and more people, male and female alike were embracing it at a higher rate than ‘we’ had expected. Way to go, humans opening up to more love. So if this is true, why is there so much chaos and uncertainty? Very good question……..<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I was a teenager in the late 60′s, like so many of you, us “Babyboomers”….that was a time like no other….the war, the protests, the establishments, the murders of so many leaders. They were murdered because they carried a vision of the higher energy and what could be. Did their energy came to the Earth too soon? So many did not want the energy that these souls carried to happen, it meant change! No death happens without making an impact somewhere and certainly the death of those leaders still have impact today, including some 54,000 plus who died in Vietnam…..I was in the 3rd grade when the announcement that President Kennedy was shot came over the loud speaker, I went home from school and my mother was crying …….and so it went. There were people fighting to keep Black people from being able to ride in the front seat of a bus, seriously? They fought to keep them from integrating in the schools, What the ***?. We as a people with the leadership of Lyndon Johnson upheld with a great battle civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and “War on Poverty.” This was the sixties, many amazing accomplishments while the battle to keep so many of these things from happening raged on with tremendous struggle while the ‘Babyboomers” protested the war, inequality and marched for more freedom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was the ‘Age of Aquarius’ aptly put in the song of the same name by the 5th Dimension…..</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(When the moon is in the Seventh House, )</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(And Jupiter aligns with Mars,)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Then peace will guide the planets,)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(And love will steer the stars,)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Age of Aquarius. Aquarius! Aquarius!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harmony and understanding,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sympathy and trust abounding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(No more falsehoods or derisions.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Golden living dreams of visions,)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">((Mystic crystal revelation,))</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(And the mind’s true liberation.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aquarius! Aquarius!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All that coming together in the 60′s, that went well, kinda, sorta!! Believe it or not this was the first wave of major changes that needed to happen on Earth. You see humans had the “BOMB”, with a few egotistical decisions the planet could be destroyed crushed and sent out of orbit in pieces, okay, yes, worst case scenario, but could we actually take that chance with humans?……….so ‘They’ came, leaders of unique heartfelt quality and wisdom, any doubts, remember the ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’, whew, that was close…..and lets not forget the drills in school to hide under your desk in case of nuclear attack, yeah, that sure made us feel better!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Okay that was than and this is now …….the higher frequency came in the 60′s and now, yep, you got it, here we go again! Before the crash in 2008, we were living in a false economy, spurred on by greed and lies, while we became complacent on what was happening around us. We allowed ‘leaders’ (I use that term loosely) to steal our elections, start wars that should have never happened, should I go on? Well, you get the picture……what happened to our Spiritual Connection? For so many it was consumed by stuff, the false economy and the need for more physical stimulation….yes, we became complacent!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rising of the Feminine Creative Energy gave way to a frequency that compelled those who embraced it to love more, see beyond the physical and realize their connection in a most powerful way, their connection to the Source energy. Sooooo, the illusion that was created had to crash, and it did in the fall of 2008. The money bubble burst and many all over the world fell in frequency as they realized their illusion could no longer hold water or air or physical reality. Survival took our Energy to “First Chakra” issues, money, our physical world connection, gone……now what? 2009 turned into a void as many tried to find their footing in this new reality. By 2010 many moved into “2nd Chakra” , learning a new way to live, creativity, how to survive with this new reality of less instead of more….many found their spiritual connection growing, as the old reality passed away with much physical property loss and the new understanding of what ‘creating your own reality’ really meant…….</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This shake-up from the Recession, with many corporations taking advantage of the situations created by this ‘crash’, they have suffered no pain in this time of change, they have made money and want to make more off the backs of the elderly, sick, impoverished, the least among us…the interesting thing is the least among us has increased in this changing frequency. Now like the sixties, people are waking up, they are ‘occupying’ protesting as they move into “3rd Chakra” energy, the third chakra is the center of self esteem……people are screaming ‘I deserve more’, and they are angry….This is great! The center of self-esteem if working properly does not allow itself to get stomped on or taken advantage of…good job humans you are moving up in frequency, much to my and others relief.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now what? 2012 will lead us to more changes in frequency, these energy changes have a major affect on each of us emotionally, physically and of course spiritually. You will see more protests and more voices speaking out…and of course those who have ‘worldly power and money’ will be fighting twice as hard to keep their control over you, your power and your money. But you see their worldly power causes them great fear because unlike spiritual power which comes from Source, God/dess, their power can be taken away and they know it by us rising up protesting, occupying!!…while the spiritual power is always meeting our needs, wants and desires and cannot be taken away.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My next Blog will give you specifics on how to function in this higher energy and look for my predictions blog coming up..we’ll all see how ‘predictions ‘ pan out. Check out my event schedule for a town near you to get this info in person and please check out my YouTube video 2012, part one & two….ladies you’ll appreciate it, it was a good hair day! http://www.youtube.com/user/Lindawestmedium?feature=mhee#p/u/1/tkKYtIInviE</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the meantime….</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Welcome to Earth, Spiritual being!!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Linda holds a Masters Degree in Metaphysics and is a certified Angel Reader by Dr. Doreen Virtue. Linda is the author of the acclaimed book, 8 Keys: A Special Delivery Message from the Angels and is the Radio Show Host of Empowered Life with Linda West, Thursdays, 11am PST on BlogTalk Radio.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-2637566571403157022?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-67591881969368061702011-11-25T15:09:00.001-08:002011-11-25T15:35:00.814-08:00Meditation: Truth On All Four Bodies, by Kahu Fred Sterling.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One of the most proficient ways to focus our minds on this third-dimensional journey of healing is through the art of meditation. To meditate on anything requires tapping into your super consciousness and attaining complete and utmost clarity. Anything less will get you somewhere short of the truth you seek.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your meditation must be supremely genuine, practiced with positivity, and never questioned on any level. In order to accomplish such unquestioning faith in your meditation, you must know and understand truth in all four bodies. If you have any hope of attaining the highest possibility in a meditation, you must know what truth feels like at that level. It is a feeling unmatched by any other human feeling. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Knowing truth on all levels during a meditation will enable you to receive information at the highest level of understanding, a level that brings the clarity that nothing is beyond your reach. From that space, you will strive to make clarity and communication your only reality. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Practice this form of meditation. Your commitment to this ancient art is the most consistent way of recognizing that you are a product of the only perfect "form" of light, and that you are always on a journey of love. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">©Fred Sterling</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-- </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">For more than 20 years, Kahu Fred Sterling has served as the exclusive medium for Master Guide Kirael, a seventh dimensional guardian spirit. He is the author of six books including Kirael: The Great Shift and Kirael: The Ten Principles of Consciously Creating . He shares his passionate messages via workshops , articles , audio recordings , and webcasts on <a href="http://www.Kirael.com/">www.Kirael.com</a>. Kahu Sterling is also a gifted healer and pioneer of the Signature Cell HealingTM modality .</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-6759188196936806170?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-14489990235101209662011-11-17T18:09:00.001-08:002011-11-17T18:17:57.145-08:00Sexual Freedom: Time for Uplifting Sex, by Ambika Wauters.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">These could be great sexual times. Time to feel alive in our bodies, vital in our energy and free in our self expression. We are at a pivotal point in human development where human sexual activity can be open and fun.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The strict limitations which confined sex only to marriage or permanent relationships is changing. This is an important time to consider rekindling the warmth, love and heart of sexuality. Time to take sex out of the brothel and away from sneaky interludes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are living in a time of acute tension in our daily life. We need sex now more now than ever to help discharge tension; free up and discharge mental, emotional and even physical toxicity. Sex keeps us vital, youthful and puts a lilt in our step. We have some choices to make about what is acceptable to us, what we want and who we want to enjoy it with.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sex needs to be free and flowing. It also wants firm boundaries that keep us safe and healthy. It must be safe above all, both physically and emotionally, for us to feel free to let go and be as sexual as we dare. It must be consensual, with honored agreements to respect the wishes of our partner. It absolutely must be desired by both partners to be fun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Get the ground rules of your life in place. Know your limits, know yourself!!! We all have a need for sexual expression. If we give ourselves permission it can be uplifting and support our lives in healthy ways. Time to choose love, choose pleasure and balance in our striving.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are now free to enjoy sex alone without shame, with committed partners or with a variety of different people, if we choose. We are free to say we want one partner or many. Whatever we say is alright, as long as the free choice is ours. There are no right or wrongs except what we allow to limit or define our sexual boundaries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The moral hazard of being covert, dishonest, cheating in spite of commitment should be carefully considered. This is not about sex as much as it is about being naughty or perpetrating hurt on someone who we think controls our lives. That’s not sex. It’s immaturity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People who are hurtful through indiscrete sexual exploitation create mistrust that leaves an indelible scar on the spirit. It can take a woman a life time of daily forgiveness to deal with a man who has cheated on her. Men can lose all sense of their worth when a woman goes with another man. The human spirit is powerful. It is also delicate and, often, fragile, lest we forget.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, if no agreement exists between people and each is free to explore sexual opportunities, as they wish, less hurt is likely to happen. Freedom can exist inside relationship and marriage as well as outside. It takes mature people to allow freedom in their relationship. The boundaries must be agreed upon before hand so no one is hurt or left wanting. Freedom comes with the responsibility to handle it wisely and do no harm. Few are capable of that level of freedom but it is possible. Polyamorie and the books of Taj Anapol are wonderful resources for those seeking more information about multiple partners.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If there is no commitment or bond holding two people to monogamy then each is free to choose how they want to portion out their sexual activity. Look carefully in the field and see if there is anyone that attracts you, or appeals to you who holds the promise of delivering pleasure. You may be surprised to spend a day at the mall or on a long train ride surmising who would be a fun sexual partner. It sure makes the time pass quickly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Real sexual freedom suggests we are each responsible for our own sex lives. That means the quality of our experience, whom we share our deepest and most intimate sexual fantasies with, are in our charge. If we want it dirty, naughty or punishing we may want to look at what drives these desires to be diminished or punished.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we are jealous, insecure or afraid we may want to look at what is under our need to manipulate another to change his or her life for us. That is how children look at life. It isn’t healthy and it isn’t mature. Growing up means we are able to handle the emotions that accompany sex. It would be silly to think there is no emotional upheaval with sex. There is. Nothing will bring up emotions faster and with more urgency then sex.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How we handle our feelings is the key. No victims and no martyrs wanted in this arena. Mature sex, free or not, asks us to find our empowerment at every level. It asks us to live in our integrity, do the right and loving thing with those we truly care about and look at what sex brings up. In some cases we may need to look at our bitterness, anger, sense of abandonment or disappointment. We are capable of healing all these residual emotions long left unconscious. Till sex forced them to the surface of consciousness like an erupting volcano.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Healthy sexuality between consenting adults can be fun. It can be erotic, enjoyable, deeply releasing and healing. It’s a joy to participate in sex with yourself, your friends or your beloved when there is no stake in holding a person to your vision of how they should be or what they have to do afterwards to prove you are alright or that they love you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let’s take sex out of the dark ages and give it a new face. Let’s make it open to exploration, free from guilt, shame or punishment. And let’s keep it honest so we don’t abuse or hurt people we love. Telling the truth about what we want is a creative act of kindness to ourselves. Creativity can be a story, it can be a painting or a little play acting out what we want. Let’s start making sex fun. It can be a new form of erotic pleasure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sex still has some dark overtones. Nothing has more drama or emotional charge attached to it than sex; especially illicit sex, or forbidden sex. We still want to kill people who betray and cheat on us. We get crazy when our partner wants sex with someone else. We punish and diminish ourselves when we feel we are not enough to please someone we love. Are we no more evolved than this? Do we love ourselves less for what someone has done out of their own insecurity?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What a waste of time and emotional energy to lie, cheat and be naughty. Let’s bring desire into a safe haven and let it find wholesome expression. If we were able to say sex is an expression of our creative mind, the drive of our hormones and the love in our heart to connect with someone why would we punish ourselves or hurt another for this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finding wholesome boundaries around sexual conduct protects us. It helps us enjoy ourselves through the natural, wholesome expression of pleasure. Pleasure is the foundation of life and fundamental to enjoying good sex. Without it as the underpinning of our physical life we dry up and our spirit shrivels, not to mention certain body parts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If sexuality is not for you then let’s discuss some of the things that can help rekindle your vitality, stimulate sexuality in wholesome, healthy ways. This can help you establish pleasure as one of the primary foundations of your life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s time to explore pleasure and sex as a basis for living well. Yes, pleasure and sexuality are both linked to healthy longevity. Through sexuality we find a good release for pent up physical and emotional energy, either partnered or through masturbation. Through sex we arouse the primary life force that drives us forward through the challenges and obstacles in front of us each day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A natural and pleasurable sexual release can sustain us during a long work day, allow us to help others with their problems without feeling drained and help us manage stress that would otherwise take us to our knees. Sex completes the circle of giving.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pleasure comes in many forms, but it primarily is a sensual function that involves awakening our nerve receptors to joy, delight and even bliss. It helps us know we are alright, amidst trial, challenge and the daily plodding through we all face from time to time. It feeds us at a fundamental level where we absolutely know life is good and so are we.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_428960559"></span>here<span id="goog_428960560"></span></a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ambikawauters.com/">Ambika Wauters</a> CCH, RS.HOM(NA) is the director of the Institute of Life Energy Medicine. She is a classically trained homeopath, certified by the Council of Homeopathic Certification, and a member of the Society of Homeopaths, formerly in the UK and currently in the USA. She received her diploma in homeopathic medicine from The School of Homeopathic Medicine, North Yorkshire, Britain, and was a member of the Society of Homeopaths in the UK, from 1995-1998 before returning to America. Ambika has worked in the corporate sector offering homeopathy and holistic healing consultations to the John Lewis Partnership, Visa International, Piatkus Publishing and Cranfield School of Business Management, all in the UK. She currently maintains a private practice in classical homeopathy with people around the globe. Ambika is author of twenty books on chakras, homeopathy, and the realm of angels. Her work is translated into over ten languages. She is currently writing about healing martyrdom and finding fulfillment in freedom, creativity and sexuality. Ambika is the inventor of Pure Fulfillment Feminine Lubricant. This product provides natural solutions to diminished libido in women. It is made from natural herbal compounds in a homeopathic base. Pure Fulfillment can be purchased on her web site and found online at purefulfillment@gmail.com. Ambika‘s work supports total regeneration. She works with products developed by Stem Cell Products, LLC, that enhance beauty, give energy and promote vitality. These products include Signals, for beautiful skin, ModeraXL, a neuro-transmittor used to stop addictions and feed the depleted brain, and Trigger, a non sugar, non-caffeinated energy drink that gives physical strength and fortitude.</span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-1448999023510120966?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-17010603943736706102011-11-17T16:33:00.001-08:002011-11-17T16:39:48.908-08:00Does your identity help or hinder you?, by Eliana Gilad.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Does your identity help or hinder you?<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've just returned from an inspiring weekend with my community of friends who practice The Work of Byron Katie. We meet once a month for focused self inquiry and enjoying the company of one another.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is your "Identity"?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What do you identify yourself with? How do you describe yourself? Does this create a sense of stress or joy in your life?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We explored the various ways in which the roles, feelings and thoughts we identify with may be causing us undo stress. Funny how the most basic of identities e.g. "I am a woman", when consciously questioned, can bring up a mixed bag of feelings. Questioning thoughts, also allows for questioning feelings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Are you really who you think you are?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who is it who decides what you think? Parents? Society? Schools? Friends? Media? There are so many influences within which we are raised. We are influenced by those around us. Yet it is we who decide how we think.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let's look at two children in the same household, who experience similar experiences. Each will interpret it differently. For example, my parents limited the amount of time that my brother and I could watch television. They gave us each one hour a week to choose the program we each wanted to watch. I was more of a book worm... one program a week was plenty for me. I never developed a heavy television habit. I actually threw my television out in the late 1980's preferring to live directly in life's drama.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My brother, on the other hand, went to the opposite direction. He wanted more television. In fact, he ended up going into television production on a professional basis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Same household, same parents, same situation... two totally different outcomes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is your identity helping or hindering your progress?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As we inquired more deeply into these basic assumptions e.g. I am a woman, I am my parents daughter, my brother's sister etc... I unearthed a long held belief that "If I speak and live my truth, I will be nailed on the cross". I asked someone to ask me the four basic questions which helped me to take an objective look at a basic belief that has been running inside of me for what seems like a million lifetimes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This deeply rooted fear has kept me from fully giving the gifts I have to give and hindered me from fully enjoying the fruits of my labor. When I turned the sentence around to look at it from a different perspective, I was astounded to see that: When I speak and live my truth, I will be safe and supported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, I am hereby publicly claim my intent to speak and live my truth. Writing this post is one example of that. Committing to make more music is another. It's time that I come out more fully. Expect to be hearing more from me in the near future. I have alot to share.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What about you? How does your identity help or hinder you? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post <a href="http://inspirationalmessage.blogspot.com/2011/11/does-your-identity-help-or-hinder-you.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Since 1994 Eliana Gilad has worked with thousands of healthcare professionals, coaches, yoga teachers, spiritual healers and peace leaders, helping them to reconnect to the Source of their authentic and natural voice. Eliana has dedicated her life to revive the ancient healing music practices of the biblical prophetess Miriam through the creation of Voices of Eden music. The music was medically researched for three years at Meir Hospital Neonatal ward and found to lower blood pressure, heart rate, increase focus and quality of sleep amongst the neonates, their parents and the medical staff. Gilad has presented with Dr. Masaru Emoto (Messages from Water) who has also researched her music, and has been invited to present before the United Nations three times. Eliana becomes filled with joy when helping her clients reconnect to the Source of their authentic and natural voices. She has produced three cds and two books. She composes ancient healing and transformational music. <a href="http://www.ecstatic-energy.com/stress-free-holiday-teleclass/">Join her "From Holiday Stress to Holiday Spirit" 11/28 Free Teleclass.</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-1701060394373670610?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-5497631483144336532011-11-08T16:43:00.000-08:002011-11-08T17:20:43.463-08:00The Spiritual Journey: In Search of the Holy Grail, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">The fully armored knight on his faithful steed presented itself to my mind this morning as a perfect metaphor for us as spiritual travelers on the path.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The knight’s horse represents our physical body that literally carries us to the destination of our own directing. It’s tenacity and loyalty is unfaltering in its service to us. This horse, our body, is sure-footed, it does not need our prompting about where to place its next step, and the better we care for it, the better it serves us and the more assured we are of reaching our destination.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The armor represents the defenses of the mind-made self; it is the ego, armored and stiff. Though it protects us from harm, it is clumsy and heavy, and it impedes our being able to move freely. Nonetheless it is part of the necessary equipment without which we could not be knights at all.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Self inside the armor represents our authentic being. It is that which dons the armor and guides and directs us: this higher self determines the goal of our pilgrimage for it is a faithful servant to a greater cause; that of finding the holy grail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This holy grail that our knight/Self roams the earth in search of is the recognition and remembrance of our own divinity: it comes to us through the inner divine feminine – represented by the cup of our longing which seeks only to be filled by the flowing grace of the One True Source.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The knight’s journey is our journey – it is the journey to wholeness, peace and the reality of who we essentially are.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blessings on your way to finding its grace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Lynne Forrest is a non-traditional practitioner who has been in private practice for twenty six years, and the author of a new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/beyondvictim">Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness</a>. Find her on the web at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/">www.lynneforrest.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/blog">www.lynneforrest.com/blog</a>. These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/html/another_way.html">Another Way Center</a>: (423) 698-0814.</span></div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-549763148314433653?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-10674820709456355792011-11-08T16:36:00.001-08:002011-11-08T17:20:58.777-08:00Cultivating Miracles, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When I was in India several years ago, I noticed that belief in miracles was commonplace. There was an attitude of wide acceptance and even expectation of the occurrence of miracles. Miracles were marketed much the way we might advertise autos or hi-fashion. Unlike our culture where eyebrows are often raised at the prospect, the east seems to accept the miraculous as an everyday part of life.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We in the west have much “over” the eastern culture as far as material comforts, but I can’t help but envy a bit their inculcated belief in miracles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Isn’t it interesting that most Christians today have no trouble believing that miracles were frequent during the times of Jesus? But those same individuals view with cynicism or outright denial that such phenomena is possible in todays world. What happened?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">First of all, what are miracles? The American Heritage Dictionary defines them as that which “…appears inexplicable by the laws of nature … supernatural in origin or an act of God …(and) excites admiring awe”. In addition, I’ve found miracles to be a manifestation of Divine intervention. I’ve also come to see that what we call “problems” often pave the way to miracles! It seems that it’s often the painful events in our life which serve as avenues for the phenomenal to take place. Perhaps the only way some of us can expand into our fuller selves is when trouble shakes us out of our ruts enough for the exceptional to occur.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Course In Miracles says, “miracles are a natural expression of love. When they do not occur, something has gone wrong”. It goes on to say that they are everyone’s right …”Love is expressed through miracles”. Love generates miracles, as well. When we learn to engender love, wonders naturally follow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I myself, am a firm believer in miracles. I’ve trained myself to see them everyday. I’ve come to understand miracles as everyday occurrences waiting only for my acknowledgment. If we only count as miracles those of “burning bush” proportions, then we miss out on the marvels that surround us. Just because something happens often doesn’t make it any less a wonder! Take, as example, the sprouting forth of that tiny flower you planted or the birth of a kitten. It seems that we take for granted the awe of life about us. In other words we ignore the daily marvels. Life becomes ordinary and mundane. Depression can result.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Synchronicity is one type of miracle. Having the very person you needed to see show up at the right moment is more than coincidence. How many times have you been thinking of a friend you haven’t seen in awhile only to answer the phone and find their voice on the other end? Very often, synchronicities serve to indicate that we’re on track in our lives. It’s as if the Universe sends us little blessings by way of synchronistic events in order to support us along our way. I’m reminded of a recent example in my own life. Having that morning decided I was ready to add a kitten to our pet family, my significant other and I went bike riding. We stopped by a fresh puddle in front of a little farm house in order to allow our dog, Shiloh to drink. A lady came out on the porch of the house to greet us. We were chatting amicably, when I noticed a cat behind her. Following my instincts, I inquired if she had kittens. She immediately lit up. “Why yes, do you want one?” And that’s how life gifted us with Kitty Black Jack! There are no accidents or coincidences, only small, often practical miracles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is possible to cultivate a life where wonders abound. First we must acknowledge that anything alive is made up of the miraculous! Other preparation is necessary, however, before we can begin to recognize and call forth personal miracles. For instance, in order to invoke the miraculous into our life we must cultivate an attitude of gratitude. We begin to practice seeing with appreciation even tribulations in our life. By fostering a grateful mind-set, based on the understanding that even hardship comes bearing gifts we open ourselves to the miraculous. This intentional mental state is one, which in time, overflows the heart to allow a softening into abundance. Gratitude conquers fear and creates love. Thankfulness is the essential component of the energy we call love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In order to give up fear we must also learn how to ally with our Death! Dying is our most essential fear. Until we can begin to accept the concept of dissolution we will have difficulty relishing life. Birth and Death are aspects of the same cycle, inseparable from each other. Where there is one, you will inevitably find the other. The physical body is merely the final of many “deaths” through which we are required to go. Mini demises occur each minute of the day for every one of us – through the breath. Now there’s a true miracle! Nothing is alive that doesn’t breath. And yet, if we study it, we see that each breath includes both an inspiration(to bring life into/birth) and an expiration (to release/expire/die). Therefore, breathing itself is a microcosmic example of the birth-death process. We breathe life in and then let it go with every breath we take. That is, unless you’re like some clients I’ve observed who take a deep breath and hold it. Their out breath is imperceptible. This is not an uncommon way to breathe in a culture where we are afraid to let go of anything, even our breath! Could this be an example of the fear of dying? The unconscious mind seems to say, “Breathe in life and hold on for all you’re worth … don’t relinquish it, you may die!” (It might be of interest to note that the clients with whom I’ve observed this phenomena are usually survivors of some life threatening situation such as physical or sexual abuse, early childhood illness or exceptional birth trauma.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anxiety is the genesis of control. All need for domination comes from fear. The more we struggle for control the greater our internal apprehension.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just as breathing demonstrates the birth/death cycle, every act of creation includes some kind of dissolution or demise. Go ahead, think about it a minute. If you want to build a new house, what has to happen? Doesn’t the ground have to be cleared? All the vegetation and trees have to be sacrificed before the foundation can be laid. If you start a new business, don’t you have to leave the old job behind, ie “die” to it, before the other can take place? Death and Birth are both names for the doorway into transition. A child dies to the womb in order to be born into the world. Every time we move to a new place, or make any kind of change, there is something that must be left behind or sacrificed. Birth/death … death/birth, it is the cycle of life … simply the way it is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What does the birth/death cycle have to do with miracles, you ask? Surrender, let-go, death-by-whatever-name, clears the way for acts of divinity. Relinquishment is required before something wondrous can happen. We must become unclenched before there is space enough for the extraordinary to take place. Learning how to let-go is a basic ingredient for cultivating ground for the supernatural. Nothing outside the expected can happen as long as I’m trying to control outcomes in my life. Control means holding on, holding back, or closing down around something. It narrows the scope of possibilities, making it very difficult for the supernatural to work in one’s life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Physical tension is but another form of anxiety based control. What is tension, if not resistance? And resistance is another word for fear. When we clench the body, we obstruct “flow”. Flow is that which carries Divine Order … “Thy Will(not mine)be done”. From Source, miracles come. Fear is the antithesis of awe. Awe is the natural result of surrender.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are only able to let go into a state of gratitude when we believe there is something greater in charge of the Universe. This means that a basic premise for accepting miracles is a belief in a Universal Plan. Carl Jung was once asked if he believed in God. He replied, “I don’t believe, I know!” When we operate out of faith, we find ourselves having a daily spiritual experience with Source, which in turn, strengthens our knowing. One way we get to “know” Source is through acknowledging the wonders around us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The conscious use of invocation is one way of getting to see the magic of miracles manifest before our very eyes. Invocation is a type of prayer wherein we visualize that which we desire, thereby calling it into our lives. The truth is we invoke unconsciously all the time. Every time we say things like, “I can’t do that” or “I’ll never have such and such …”, we are, in fact, creating our reality through a fear based invocation. When we realize the power of thought we can begin to call Universal Support into our lives consciously. Take time to notice how many things you “invoke” into your life by the way you talk to yourself. If you are anxiety driven, then you will hear yourself talk very negatively to yourself. Be aware as you do this that you are reinforcing into reality the very things you are negating.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But when we exchange those negative reinforcers with a focus on gratitude, we can begin to transform our lives from that of the mundane into the extraordinary. We can start to live lives full of magic, where dreams come true, manifesting in and through us in wondrous fashion. Our reality becomes a place of heretofore unheard of possibilities through the practice of faith, surrender and gratefulness. The heart opens to love and replaces the constriction once created from fear. Only then can the miraculous become everyday reality.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">--<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Lynne Forrest is a non-traditional practitioner who has been in private practice for twenty six years, and the author of a new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/beyondvictim">Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness</a>. Find her on the web at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/">www.lynneforrest.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/blog">www.lynneforrest.com/blog</a>. These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/html/another_way.html">Another Way Center</a>: (423) 698-0814.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-1067482070945635579?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-26233644986755351212011-11-04T23:07:00.000-07:002011-11-04T23:08:06.318-07:00Easy Does It, by Mary Cook M.A., R.A.S.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Addictions are not easy. It’s a heavy burden to feed these insatiable, ever expanding beasts. And their stories are filled with anger, despair, insanity and trauma. As addiction progresses, artificial euphoria and symbolic power diminish in length of time and intensity, while cravings for gratification increase. Ultimately, addictions backfire bringing more pain and problems than previously experienced. This presents an opportunity for addicts to glimpse a bit of truth about their calamitous condition, and stimulate curiosity as to its relief.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Willfulness and inattentiveness interfere with awareness of both earthly and Heavenly assistance, giving rise to feelings of isolation and overwhelming responsibilities. The fellowship of recovery offers warm welcome, genuine acceptance, helpfulness, honesty, humor and understanding. There is a tangible sense of lightness, relaxation, gratitude and contentment here. This is the energy of living in solution and ease.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Negative self image accompanies addiction, generating harsh judgments, unreasonable resentments and pessimism. Poor esteem is linked to repeating negative habits of thoughts, feelings and actions, and the loss of a whole integrated sense of self. Allowing a Higher Power and recovery support people to disrupt these habits and teach healthier behaviors and attitudes gives rise to compassion and optimism. Personal inventory brings insight, and motivates healing and positive change. As transformations occur, past negative energies are relinquished and a deeper, truer self emerges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Doing our part in life requires persistent, patient, positive intention and efforts toward our task. When our actions are a series of starts and stops, half hearted measures, resistance, avoidance, procrastination or resentment concerning the task, we either fail or experience limited or superficial success. When our actions are accompanied with mindfulness, and acceptance or enjoyment of the process of learning, we are practicing “easy does it”. Continuous change, full engagement with life and divine partnership is our true nature. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trial and error is what is required to move forward in life, and to expand our experiences and consciousness. Our mistakes, pain and problems provide an opportunity for us to delve more deeply into ourselves, reach out for help, and practice closer contact with our Higher Power. Every thought, feeling and action is an energetic force with far reaching effects on the planet. Whether we are carrying an infant, working at the office, painting a portrait, or praying for world peace, we are stewards of this world. Every moment that we align body, heart, mind and spirit in our task, is a gift of grace to the planet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are rooms of redemption all over the world welcoming addicts. And it is up to each of us to decide how profoundly we wish to change our story. The vision from addiction is delusional; cut off from common sense, intuition and logic and as needy as a drowning person’s gasp for air. It requires tremendous courage and support to starve the beast of addiction. It requires humility to walk through darkness and surrender all that we know. But this is how we see that our story arose from confusion and pain and its’ resulting defenses and defects. We are inspired by those who have reclaimed their light and inner treasure, and we are invited into spiritual communion. It is here that we exchange our heavy burdens for gratitude, and sit together on hallowed ground. It is here in this great banquet of soul nourishment, where a new story begins.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM</a></b> Mary Cook is the author of “Grace Lost and Found: From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity”, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, etc. She has 35 years of clinical practice and 29 years of university teaching experience. Mary is a national speaker and has a private practice in San Pedro, CA. She is available for telephone and office counseling, guided meditation, speaking engagements and in-service training. Contact her at <a href="mailto:MaryCookMA@att.net" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">MaryCookMA@att.net</a> and see her website for further information. </span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-2623364498675535121?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-49215405874607910032011-11-04T22:58:00.000-07:002011-11-05T19:23:00.503-07:00Freedom, by Mary Cook M.A., R.A.S.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We can enslave ourselves to addictions, compulsions, codependency, power, money and materialism, thereby blocking our hearts. We can become slaves to worry, fear, hate, anger and depression and thus forfeit our faith. We can become slaves to pride, prejudice, arrogance, self-righteousness, greed, entitlement and violence, and we sacrifice conscious awareness of our soul. <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When we treat ourselves and others as commodities to use, abuse, exploit, neglect or endanger, we dishonor and deny divine heritage. When we feel empty, broken, damaged and demeaned, we have forgotten the spirit within us. The tyranny of cravings and excessive willfulness dehumanize and despiritualize life, leaving us without satisfaction or serenity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Retaliation, over-controlling and entitlement deepen and lengthen suffering and wounds. Symptoms and cravings do not define a person or a life. They are messages from parts of us that need attention, understanding and healing. It is not obtaining what we think we need from others or life, which creates health and happiness, for we are no longer infants. It is not waiting until our ship comes in or we win the lottery that will fulfill us. The solution lies in what we give, and what we give up right now, to promote health and happiness. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We can learn to compassionately contain pain, as we would hold a precious, crying child. We can practice active solutions that engage the healing power of love and focus on what we can positively create, rather than what we fear and hate. We can cease enabling, cooperating and participating in negativity, and commit to healthy, responsible personal caretaking and stewardship. We can demonstrate clear boundaries with anyone who would harm us, and pray for them as we pray for ourselves. We can direct our attention to healing, learning, growing and ultimately transforming our wounds and problems into character assets and spiritual principles. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We can relinquish greed for gratitude, chaos for serenity, and self-righteousness for humility. We can exchange anger and blame for compassion and understanding. We can transform violence into peace and reverence for life. These are the promises of surrendering negative energies and defense mechanisms, and living in solution. We are meant to not only give up our unhealthy habits but to awaken to the realization of all that we were created to be, and to share that with the world. This is the promised freedom of recovery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is helpful to identify our highest reasons for living, and what forces within us interfere with their fruition. We can discover our healthy talents, interests and dreams, and commit to supporting their evolution. We can increase our awareness of deep inner guidance and notice how it communicates with us; whether from feelings, visions, intuition or external signs. When we override higher consciousness and defer to habits, external pressure, laziness or fear, we lose integrity. Integrity is the foundation for self-esteem. When we lack genuine esteem, defense mechanisms attempt to compensate for this. Defenses backfire when they are over-used, resulting in the appearance of character defects and symptoms, that tell us that we are not well. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The recovery of wellness and integrity does not occur from demonstrating occasional acts of kindness and expressing gratitude when it is convenient or self-serving. It is rather a permanent alliance with a sense of wholeness and divinity. We must allow ourselves to fully feel what we love in ourselves, others, nature, animals, the planet, life, and our God. We can experience awe and wonder at any age. We can determine what we most wish to communicate with the world, and what we wish to learn from our world. When we become still and quiet, we can see deeply into the essence and the interconnectedness of life. We can pay closer attention to the ways in which we experience holiness, miracles, blessings, divine intervention, guidance and love from our Higher Power. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Freedom from external “fixes” allows us to live with open, loving hearts. Freedom from negative emotions enlarges and deepens our faith. Freedom from unhealthy behaviors lets us live from our soul’s purpose. Remembering that in our core, we are all magnificent miracles, propels us to demonstrate the highest humanitarian and spiritual values. Freedom arises from full recognition of our highest self, our unique purpose, and how we serve others in this life. The more that this recognition becomes reality, the more of Heaven we bring to earth. There is no greater freedom than this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---</div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM/">WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM</a></b> Mary Cook is the author of “Grace Lost andFound: From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity”, availablefrom Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, etc. She has 35 years of clinical practice and 29 years of universityteaching experience. Mary is a nationalspeaker and has a private practice in San Pedro, CA. She is available for telephone and officecounseling, guided meditation, speaking engagements and in-servicetraining. Contact her at <a href="mailto:MaryCookMA@att.net">MaryCookMA@att.net</a> and see her website forfurther information. </span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4921540587460791003?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-73252848559365329262011-11-03T22:52:00.000-07:002011-11-03T22:53:24.581-07:00Number Sequences, by Doreen Virtue.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Number Sequences from the Angels<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Excerpt from Book <a href="http://spiritlibrary.com/books/doreen-virtue/healing-with-the-angels">Healing with the Angels</a> by Doreen Virtue</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The angels do their best to get our attention and to communicate with us. In this way, they help us heal our own lives. However, we often discount the signs they give us, writing them off as mere coincidences or our imagination. The angels say: "We can't write our messages to you in the sky. You've got to pay attention and believe when you see any patterns forming in your life especially in response to any questions or prayers you've posed. When you hear the same song repeatedly or see the same number sequence, who do you think is behind this? Your angels, of course!" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Number Sequences</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your angels often communicate messages to you by showing you sequences of numbers. They do this in two ways. First, they subtly whisper in your ear so you'll look up in time to notice the clock's time or a phone number on a billboard. The angels hope you'll be aware that you're seeing this same number sequence repeatedly. For instance, you may frequently see the number sequence 111, and it seems every time you look at a clock the time reads 1:11 or 11:11.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The second way in which angels show you meaningful number sequences is by physically arranging for, say, a car to drive in front of you that has a specific license plate number they want you to see. Those who are aware of this phenomenon become adept at reading the meaning of various license plates. In this way, the angels will actually give you detailed messages. Here are the basic meanings of various number sequences. However, your own angels will tell you if your situation holds a different meaning for you. Ask your angels, "What are you trying to tell me?" and they'll happily give you additional information to help decode their numeric meanings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">111 - Monitor your thoughts carefully, and be sure to only think about what you want, not what you don't want. This sequence is a sign that there is a gate of opportunity opening up, and your thoughts are manifesting into form at record speeds. The 111 is like the bright light of a flash bulb. It means the universe has just taken a snapshot of your thoughts and is manifesting them into form. Are you pleased with what thoughts the universe has captured? If not, correct your thoughts (ask your angels to help you with this if you have difficulty controlling or monitoring your thoughts).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">222 - Our newly planted ideas are beginning to grow into reality. Keep watering and nurturing them, and soon they will push through the soil so you can see evidence of your manifestation. In other words, don't quit five minutes before the miracle. Your manifestation is soon going to be evident to you, so keep up the good work! Keep holding positive thoughts, keep affirming, and continue visualizing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">333 - The Ascended Masters are near you, desiring you to know that you have their help, love, and companionship. Call upon the Ascended Masters often, especially when you see the number 3 patterns around you. Some of the more famous Ascended Masters include: Jesus, Moses, Mary, Quan Yin, and Yogananda.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">444 - The angels are surrounding you now, reassuring you of their love and help. Don't worry because the angels' help is nearby.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">555 - Buckle your seatbelts. A major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being "positive" or "negative," since all change is but a natural part of life's flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">666 - Your thoughts are out of balance right now, focused too much on the material world. This number sequence asks you to balance your thoughts between heaven and earth. Like the famous "Sermon on the Mount," the angels ask you to focus on spirit and service, and know your material and emotional needs will automatically be met as a result.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">777 - The angels applaud you, congratulations, you're on a roll! Keep up the good work and know your wish is coming true. This is an extremely positive sign and means you should also expect more miracles to occur.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">888 - A phase of your life is about to end, and this is a sign to give you forewarning to prepare. This number sequence may mean you are winding up an emotional career, or relationship phase. It also means there is light at the end of the tunnel. In addition, it means, "The crops are ripe. Don't wait to pick and enjoy them." In other words, don't procrastinate making your move or enjoying fruits of your labor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">999 - Completion. This is the end of a big phase in your personal or global life. Also, it is a message to lightworkers involved in Earth healing and means, "Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">000 - A reminder you are one with God, and to feel the presence of your Creator's love within you. Also, it is a sign that a situation has gone full circle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Number Combinations</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The angels will often give you a message that involves a combination of two or more numbers. Here are the basic meanings of triple-digit, two-number combinations. If your messages contain three or more numbers, blend the answers from the different number combinations. For instance, if you continually notice the sequence 312, use the meaning of the 3 and 1 number combination, plus the 1 and 2 combination.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or, if you feel guided, add the numbers together. Keep adding the subsequent digits together until you have a single-digit number. Then, look at the meaning for that particular number from the previously outlined list of number sequences that contain identical numbers, (i.e. 111, 222, 333, etc.).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 1's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 2's such as 121 or 112 - Our thoughts are like seeds that are beginning to sprout. You may have already seen some evidence of the fruition of your desires. These are signs that things will and re growing in your aspired direction. Keep the faith!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 3's, such as 133 or 113 - The ascended masters are working with you on your thought processes. In many ways, they are acting as mentors, teaching you the ancient wisdom involved in manifestation. They are sending you energy to keep you from feeling discouraged, and encouragement to stay focused on the true goals of your soul. Additionally, the ascended masters may be offering you advice, guidance, and suggestions on your life purpose. Always, however, they teach that every creation begins at the level of thought and idea. Ask them to help you choose wisely that which you want.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 4's, such as 114 or 144 - The angels are emphasizing strongly that you watch your thoughts right now. They counsel you to make a wish, as you are in a gateway that will manifest your thoughts right at this moment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">(NOTE: 411means "Ask the angels for some vital information that you need right now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 5's, such as 115, or 551 - Your thoughts are creating the changes in your life. Keep steering your thoughts in your desired direction. If the changes that you see forthcoming are not desired, you can stop or alter them by modifying your thoughts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 6's, such as 116 or 661 - Keep your thoughts heavenward, and let go of materially minded worries. (Note: 611 means "Ask for help in repairing something in the material world that is irritating or bothering you right now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 7's, such as 117 or 771 - This is confirmation that you are doing great. You are on the right path, so keep going! This is a sign that you have chosen your thoughts well and that you should focus more steadily on your objectives. Be sure to add appropriate emotions to your thoughts; for instance, feeling grateful for the gifts you have in life. Gratitude will speed the process of your manifestations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 8's, such as 118 or 881 - You are nearing the end of a significant phase of your life. If you are tired of some part of your life, be glad that it will soon be healed or replaced with something better. Surrender and release those parts of your life that aren't working, as your thoughts of a better life are coming to pass.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 9's, such as 119 or 991 - A new door has opened for you as a product of your thoughts. You have the opportunity to stare your thoughts in the face and come eye-to-eye with your own creations. Let the old fall away, as it is replaced with the new in accordance with your desires.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1's and 0's, such as 100 or 110 - Powerful Divine guidance from God and the angels asks you to alter your thoughts. Perhaps you have been praying to be happier and healthier. If so, this is an answer to your prayers. God knows that the solution you seek is born within your thoughts. Ask God to guide the direction of your thoughts and support you during your time of transition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 2's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 1's, such as 221 or 112 - Our thoughts are like seeds that are beginning to sprout. You may have already seen some evidence of the fruition of your desires. These are signs that things will and re growing in your aspired direction. Keep the faith!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 3's, such as 223 or 323 - The ascended masters are working with you as co-creators of your new project. They are telling you that they share your excitement and know that everything is working out well for you. The masters can see that your future is already guaranteed to be filled with the happiness you seek. Enjoy this new phase of your life!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 4's, such as 224 or 244 - As it says in the spiritual text, A Course in Miracles, "The angels nurse your newborn purpose." This is a sign that you have help from above in making your desired transitions. This is a time when you especially need to know that you're not alone. The 2 and 4 number sequences are a signal from your angels to tell you that they're working very closely with you right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 5's, such as 255 or 225 - Your prayers and intentions have been clear, strong, and without reservations; therefore, expect a change to come about faster than you may have foreseen. Don't let it throw you when your wishes come true. They may come about in unexpected ways, so hold on to your faith. Talk to God often, and ask for reassurance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 6's, such as 266 or 262 - A new purchase or acquisition is coming your way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 7's, such as 277 or 272 - Have you recently applied for a new job, admission to school, or a loan? These numbers signal good news. They ask you o hang tight and not allow your faith to waver.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 8's, such as 288 or 282 - One door is beginning to open, and another door is beginning to close. Be sure to listen to your intuition very closely right now, as it will guide you to take steps that will ensure your steady abundance during these transitions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 9's, such as 299 or 292 - If you've recently suffered a loss (job, lover, etc.), expect it to be replaced in the very near future. Everything is working in your favor, although there may be so much behind-scenes activity involved that you wonder if God has forgotten you. Worry not! Feel the energy of your life, which is moving forward right now. You are not being punished by your recent loss. The universe is, instead, preparing you for newness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2's and 0's, such as 200 or 202 - God wants you to know that he has not forgotten or abandoned you. He loves you very, very much! In fact, God is orchestrating a wonderful new phase of your life. Talk to God often, and you'll feel this forthcoming miracle. God also reminds you of the importance of "Divine Timing." Sometimes, certain factors need to fall into place first before your desired outcome can be reached. As long as you hold onto your faith, there is nothing blocking you from attaining your desire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 3's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 1's, such as 311 or 313 - The ascended masters are working with you on your thought processes. In many ways, they are acting as mentors, teaching you the ancient wisdom involved in manifestation. They are sending you energy to keep you from feeling discouraged, and encouragement to stay focused on the true goals of your soul. Additionally, the ascended masters may be offering you advice, guidance, and suggestions on your life purpose. Always, however, they teach that every creation begins at the level of thought and idea. Ask them to help you choose wisely that which you want.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 2's, such as 322 or 332 - The ascended masters are working with you as co-creators of your new project. They are telling you that they share your excitement and know that everything is working out well for you. The masters can see that your future is already guaranteed to be filled with the happiness you seek. Enjoy this new phase of your life!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 4's, such as 334 or 344 - You have a lot of help around you right now! Both the ascended masters and the angels are here to assist, guide, and love you. Reach out to them, as they are reaching out to you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 5's, such as 353 or 335 - The ascended masters want to prepare you for a big life change that is imminent. They want you to know that they are holding your hand through this change and that everything will be alright. Embrace the change, and look for the blessing within it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 6's, such as 363 or 336 - Your ascended masters are helping you manifest the material items you need for your Divine life purpose. Whether that means money for tuition or outlets for you to conduct your teaching or healing work, the masters are working to bring it to you. They want you to know that you deserve to receive this help, as it will better enable you to give to others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 7's, such as 377 or 373 - The ascended masters are joyful. Not only do they see your true inner Divinity, but they also agree with the path you have chosen. They want you to know that you deserve happiness, and to allow the flow of holy bliss that comes with your Divine heritage and chosen path.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 8's, such as 338 or 383 - "Keep going," the masters say to you. Boost the energy and focus of your thoughts and feelings. Realign your outlook with the knowledge of your oneness with God, everyone, and all life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 9's, such as 393 or 339 - This is a strong message to let go of situations in your life that aren't in integrity or that have served their purpose. Do not artificially hang on to situations because of fear. Know that each and every moment you are taken care of. It is vital that you hold a positive viewpoint about yourself and your future. This viewpoint actually creates what you experience, so ask the masters to help you choose your thoughts from the high point of love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3's and 0's, such as 300 or 330 - God and the ascended masters are trying to get your attention, most likely with respect to a matter related to your Divine purpose. Is there any guidance that you've been ignoring lately? If so, you may be feeling stuck right now. This number sequence is heaven's way of alerting you to the fact that you must do your part in the co-creation process. This means listening to and following your Divine guidance to take certain actions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 4's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 1's, such as 441 or 411 - The angels are emphasizing strongly that you watch your thoughts right now. They counsel you to make a wish, as you are in a gateway that will manifest your thoughts right at this moment. (NOTE: 411 means "Ask the angels for some vital information that you need right now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 2's, such as 442 or 422 - As it says in the spiritual text, A Course in Miracles, "The angels nurse your newborn purpose." This is a sign that you have help from above in making your desired transitions. This is a time when you especially need to know that you're not alone. The 2 and 4 number sequences are a signal from your angels to tell you that they're working very closely with you right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 3's, such as 443 or 433 - You have a lot of help around you right now! Both the ascended masters and the angels are here to assist, guide, and love you. Reach out to them, as they are reaching out to you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 5's, such as 455 or 445 - Your angels are involved in one of your significant life changes right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 6's, such as 445 or 466 - Your angels caution you that your focus is too much on the material world. They ask you to surrender your worries to them so that they can intervene. Balance your focus between heaven and earth, and know that your supply is truly unlimited, especially when you work hand-in-hand with the Divine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 7's, such as 477 or 447 - The angels congratulate you and say, "Keep up the great work! You are on a roll. Keep your thoughts focused, because it's having a big and positive effect."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 8's, such as 488 or 448 - This is a message from your angels that a phase of your life is about to end. They want you to know that as things slow down, they are with you and will be helping to guide you to a new situation better suited to your needs, desires, and purpose.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 9's, such as 494 or 449 - The angels say to you that it is time to let go of a situation that has ended. They remind you that, as one door closes, another opens. The angels are certainly helping you to open new doors and to heal from any pain that accompanies the transition that you are now undergoing. Please ask your angels to help you have faith that these endings and beginnings are answers to your prayers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4's and 0's, such as 440 or 400 - God and the angels want you to know that you are very, very loved. They ask you to take a moment to feel this love, as it will answer many of your questions and resolve any challenge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 5's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 1's, such as 511 or 515 - Your thoughts are creating the changes in your life. Keep steering your thoughts in your desired direction. If the changes that you see forthcoming are not desired, you can stop or alter them by modifying your thoughts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 2's, such as 522 or 552 - Your prayers and intentions have been clear, strong, and without reservations; therefore, expect a change to come about faster than you may have foreseen. Don't let it throw you when your wishes come true. They may come about in unexpected ways, so hold on to your faith. Talk to God often, and ask for reassurance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 3's, such as 533 or 553 - The ascended masters want to prepare you for a big life change that is imminent. They want you to know that they are holding your hand through this change and that everything will be alright. Embrace the change, and look for the blessing within it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 4's, such as 554 or 544 - Your angels are involved in one of your significant life changes right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5' and 6's, such as 556 or 566 - Your material life is changing significantly, such as a new home, car, or other possession.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 7's, such as 577 or 575 - This is a validation that you are "on target" with an impending change that will enrich you either physically, emotionally, or intellectually - or a combination of all three. Stay on course and you will soon see the evidence of how the changes add to your own life and to that of those around you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 8's, such as 588 or 558 - This number sequence signifies that you are in the 11th hour, right before the change. Do not fear it, as you will be supported and loved throughout this change, which is now imminent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 9's, such as 599 or 595 - In order for the new change to manifest, it's important to release the past. This number sequence asks you to let go of the old and know that it served a vital function during its time. However, life is fluid and change is inevitable Know that the new is standing at your doorway, waiting for you to let it in. You invite the new in as you detach with love from the old.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5's and 0's, such as 500 or 550 - An important message that lets you know that your life changes are in Divine and perfect order. They are a gift from God and in alignment with God's will for your higher self.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 6's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 1's, such as 611 or 661 - Keep your thoughts heavenward, and let go of materially minded worries. (Note: 611 means "Ask for help in repairing something in the material world that is irritating or bothering you right now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 2's, such as 622 or 662 - A new purchase or acquisition is coming your way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 3's, such as 663 or 633 - Your ascended masters are helping you manifest the material items you need for your Divine life purpose. Whether that means money for tuition or outlets for you to conduct your teaching or healing work, the masters are working to bring it to you. They want you to know that you deserve to receive this help, as it will better enable you to give to others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 4's, such as 644 or 664 - Your angels caution you that your focus is too much on the material world. They ask you to surrender your worries to them so that they can intervene. Balance your focus between heaven and earth, and know that your supply is truly unlimited, especially when you work hand-in-hand with the Divine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6' and 5's, such as 665 or 655 - Your material life is changing significantly, such as a new home, car, or other possession.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 7's, such as 667 or 677 - A validation that your thoughts and work with the material world are right on the mark. You have successfully balanced your thoughts and activities so that you are taking care of the mind, body, and spirit. Keep up the great work!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 8's, such as 668 or 688- You are about to part ways with something in your material world, such as selling a possession. If you do not intend to lose or sell anything in your material life, you can change your thoughts and alter this direction. However, if you are intent on selling or detaching material in your life, consider this a sign that your wish is about to come true.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 9's, such as 669 or 699 - Detach from your material items, especially if you have had any obsession with any particular type of material possession. This number sequence asks you to let go and detach. Also, this is a message that something in your life is about to be replaced with something better. Be open to receiving new possessions that exceed your expectations, as you are ready to be upgraded. You deserve the best!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6's and 0's, such as 600 or 660 - This is a message from your Creator about your material life. Divine guidance from God asks you to focus less on Earthly desires. It's not that God is asking you to live an impoverished life, but rather, that your Creator asks you to try a more spiritual approach to having your needs met. Know that God is within you and is your source for everything you need. Simply hold faith and gratitude, and be open to signs or new opportunities that will bring your material needs to you. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all the rest will be added to you" is the heart of this number sequence's message. You can get more information on this process by reading The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price (published by Hay House) or by reading "The Sermon on the Mount" in the Gospel of Matthew.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 7's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 1's, such as 711 or 771 - This is confirmation that you are doing great. You are on the right path, so keep going! This is a sign that you have chosen your thoughts well and that you should focus more steadily on your objectives. Be sure to add appropriate emotions to your thoughts; for instance, feeling grateful for the gifts you have in life. Gratitude will speed the process of your manifestations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 2's, such as 722 or 772 - Have you recently applied for a new job, admission to school, or a loan? These numbers signal good news. They ask you o hang tight and not allow your faith to waver.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 3's, such as 773 or 733 - The ascended masters are joyful. Not only do they see your true inner Divinity, but they also agree with the path you have chosen. They want you to know that you deserve happiness, and to allow the flow of holy bliss that comes with your Divine heritage and chosen path.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 4's, such as 774 or 744 - The angels congratulate you and say, "Keep up the great work! You are on a roll. Keep your thoughts focused, because it's having a big and positive effect."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 5's, such as 775 or 755 - This is a validation that you are "on target" with an impending change that will enrich you either physically, emotionally, or intellectually - or a combination of all three. Stay on course and you will soon see the evidence of how the changes add to your own life and to that of those around you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 6's, such as 776 or 766 - A validation that your thoughts and work with the material world are right on the mark. You have successfully balanced your thoughts and activities so that you are taking care of the mind, body, and spirit. Keep up the great work!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 8's, such as 778 or 788 - Have you been feeling that some part of your life, such as a job or relationship, is ending? This is validation that your feelings are correct. The end could mean a significant positive change in the situation, or it could mean that some part of your life is nearing completion. Regardless, this number sequence heralds geed news about a forthcoming positive change involving the completion of an intense situation. Hang tight, because your life is about to get easier.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 9's, such as 779 or 799 - Congratulations! You are shedding old parts of your life that no longer fit who you are. You are living a more authentic life that is in integrity with your highest view of yourself. This number sequence applauds your decisions to live honestly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7's and 0's, such as 700 or 770 - An "atta boy" or "atta girl" directly from God, giving you accolades for the mental, spiritual, and physical work you've been doing. You are helping yourself and many other people with your current path, and God asks you to continue with your great work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 8's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 1's, such as 811 or 881 - You are nearing the end of a significant phase of your life. If you are tired of some part of your life, be glad that it will soon be healed or replaced with something better. Surrender and release those parts of your life that aren't working, as your thoughts of a better life are coming to pass.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 2's, such as 822 or 882 - One door is beginning to open, and another door is beginning to close. Be sure to listen to your intuition very closely right now, as it will guide you to take steps that will ensure your steady abundance during these transitions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 3's, such a 883 or 833 - "Keep going," the masters say to you. Boost the energy and focus of your thoughts and feelings. Realign your outlook with the knowledge of your oneness with God, everyone, and all life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 4's, such as 884 or 844 - This is a message from your angels that a phase of your life is about to end. They want you to know that as things slow down, they are with you and will be helping to guide you to a new situation better suited to your needs, desires, and purpose.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 5's, such as 885 or 855 - This number sequence signifies that you are in the 11th hour, right before the change. Do not fear it, as you will be supported and loved throughout this change, which is now imminent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 6's, such as 886 or 866 - You are about to part ways with something in your material world, such as selling a possession. If you do not intend to lose or sell anything in your material life, you can change your thoughts and alter this direction. However, if you are intent on selling or detaching material in your life, consider this a sign that your wish is about to come true.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 7's, such as 887 or 877 - Have you been feeling that some part of your life, such as a job or relationship, is ending? This is validation that your feelings are correct. The end could mean a significant positive change in the situation, or it could mean that some part of your life is nearing completion. Regardless, this number sequence heralds geed news about a forthcoming positive change involving the completion of an intense situation. Hang tight, because your life is about to get easier.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 9's, such as 889 or 899 - Some significant phase in your life has come to an end, bringing with it other events that will also end in a domino effect. Like a train coming to the end of the line, one car will stop while the following train cars will take a moment to slow down before stopping. This number sequence is a message that you are going through a chain of events, where many parts of your life are slowing and stopping. Worry not, though, because these changes are necessary for new sequences and circumstances to begin for you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8's and 0's, such as 800 or 808 - A message from your Divine Creator, signifying that the impending endings are part of your overall Diving plan. They are answers to your prayers, and in alignment with God's will for you. Ask God to help allay any fears or worries you may have about these upcoming changes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 9's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 1's, such as 991 or 919 - A new door has opened for you as a product of your thoughts. You have the opportunity to stare your thoughts in the face and come eye-to-eye with your own creations. Let the old fall away, as it is replaced with the new in accordance with your desires.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 2's, such as 992 or 922 - If you've recently suffered a loss (job, lover, etc.), expect it to be replaced in the very near future. Everything is working in your favor, although there may be so much behind-scenes activity involved that you wonder if God has forgotten you. Worry not! Feel the energy of your life, which is moving forward right now. You are not being punished by your recent loss. The universe is, instead, preparing you for newness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 3's, such as 993 or 939 - This is a strong message to let go of situations in your life that aren't in integrity or that have served their purpose. Do not artificially hang on to situations because of fear. Know that each and every moment you are taken care of. It is vital that you hold a positive viewpoint about yourself and your future. This viewpoint actually creates what you experience, so ask the masters to help you choose your thoughts from the high point of love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 4's, such as 994 or 944 - The angels say to you that it is time to let go of a situation that has ended. They remind you that, as one door closes, another opens. The angels are certainly helping you to open new doors and to heal from any pain that accompanies the transition that you are now undergoing. Please ask your angels to help you have faith that these endings and beginnings are answers to your prayers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 5's, such as 959 or 995 - In order for the new change to manifest, it's important to release the past. This number sequence asks you to let go of the old and know that it served a vital function during its time. However, life is fluid and change is inevitable. Know that the new is standing at your doorway, waiting for you to let it in. You invite the new in as you detach with love from the old.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 6's, such as 966 or 996 - Detach from your material items, especially if you have had any obsession with any particular type of material possession. This number sequence asks you to let go and detach. Also, this is a message that something in your life is about to be replaced with something better. Be open to receiving new possessions that exceed your expectations, as you are ready to be upgraded. You deserve the best!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 7's, such as 977 or 997 - Congratulations! You are shedding old parts of your life that no longer fit who you are. You are living a more authentic life that is in integrity with your highest view of yourself. This number sequence applauds your decisions to live honestly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 8's, such as 998 or 988 - Some significant phase in your life has come to an end, bringing with it other events that will also end in a domino effect. Like a train coming to the end of the line, one car will stop while the following train cars will take a moment to slow down before stopping. This number sequence is a message that you are going through a chain of events, where many parts of your life are slowing and stopping. Worry not, though, because these changes are necessary for new sequences and circumstances to begin for you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9's and 0's, such as 900 or 909 - This is a message from your Creator signifying that the part of your life that has just ended is Divinely guided. Nothing is ever truly lost. There is no death, and there are no accidents. Your recent life change, in which a significant part of your life has been halted or altered, is actually an answer to your prayer. God is letting you know that He is not taking anything away from you or "causing" your loss. Rather, your life plan or prayers called this life change to you, through your own God-given power. Be willing to forgive everyone involved so that you can be light and free as you enter into a beautiful new phase of life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Combinations of 0's</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 1's, such as 001 or 010 - Powerful Divine guidance from God and the angels asks you to alter your thoughts. Perhaps you have been praying to be happier and healthier. If so, this is an answer to your prayers. God knows that the solution you seek is born within your thoughts. Ask God to guide the direction of your thoughts and support you during your time of transition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 2's, such as 002 or 020 - God wants you to know that he has not forgotten or abandoned you. He loves you very, very much! In fact, God is orchestrating a wonderful new phase of your life. Talk to God often, and you'll feel this forthcoming miracle. God also reminds you of the importance of "Divine Timing." Sometimes, certain factors need to fall into place first before your desired outcome can be reached. As long as you hold onto your faith, there is nothing blocking you from attaining your desire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 3's, such as 003 or 300 - God and the ascended masters are trying to get your attention, most likely with respect to a matter related to your Divine purpose. Is there any guidance that you've been ignoring lately? If so, you may be feeling stuck right now. This number sequence is heaven's way of alerting you to the fact that you must to your part in the co-creation process. This means listening to and following your Divine guidance to take certain actions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 4's, such as 040 or 400 - God and the angels want you to know that you are very, very loved. They ask you to take a moment to feel this love, as it will answer many of your questions and resolve any challenge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 5's, such as 050 or 055 - An important message that lets you know that your life changes are in Divine and perfect order. They are a gift from God and in alignment with God's will for your higher self.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 6's, such as 006 or 066 - This is a message from your Creator about your material life. Divine guidance from God asks you to focus less on Earthly desires. It's not that God is asking you to live an impoverished life, but rather, that your Creator asks you to try a more spiritual approach to having your needs met. Know that God id within you and is your source for everything you need. Simply hold faith and gratitude, and be open to signs or new opportunities that will bring your material needs to you. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all the rest will be added to you" is the heart of this number sequence's message. You can get more information on this process by reading The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price (published by Hay House) or by reading "The Sermon on the Mount" in the Gospel of Matthew.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 7's, such as 007 or 070 - An "atta boy" or "atta girl" directly from God, giving you accolades for the mental, spiritual, and physical work you've been doing. You are helping yourself and many other people with your current path, and God asks you to continue with your great work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 8's, such as 088 or 080 - A message from your Divine Creator, signifying that the impending endings are part of your overall Diving plan. They are answers to your prayers, and in alignment with God's will for you. Ask God to help allay any fears or worries you may have about these upcoming changes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0's and 9's, such as 099 or 090 - This is a message from your Creator signifying that the part of your life that has just ended is Divinely guided. Nothing is ever truly lost. There is no death, and there are no accidents. Your recent life change, in which a significant part of your life has been halted or altered, is actually an answer to your prayer. God is letting you know that He is not taking anything away from you or "causing" your loss. Rather, your life plan or prayers called this life change to you, through your own God-given power. Be willing to forgive everyone involved so that you can be light and free as you enter into a beautiful new phase of life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post <a href="http://spiritlibrary.com/doreen-virtue/number-sequences-from-the-angels">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7325284855936532926?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-73292721512795165542011-11-01T22:57:00.000-07:002011-11-01T22:57:55.834-07:00Life: Your Perfect Teacher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Many of us long to find a spiritual teacher or guru. We may feel unsure of how to practice our spirituality without one, or we may long for someone who has attained a higher level of insight to lead the way for us. Some of us have been looking for years to no avail and feel frustrated and even lost. The good news is that the greatest teacher you could ever want is always with you-that is your life.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The people and situations we encounter every day have much to teach us when we are open to receiving their wisdom. Often we don't recognize our teachers because they may not look or act like our idea of a guru, yet they may embody great wisdom. In addition, some people teach us by showing us what we don't want to do. All the situations in our lives, from the insignificant to the major, conspire to teach us exactly what we need to be learning at any given time. Patience, compassion, perseverance, honesty, letting go-all these are covered in the classroom of the teacher that is your life. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We can help ourselves to remember this perfect teacher each day with a few simple words. Each morning we might find a moment to say, "I acknowledge and honor the teacher that is my life. May I be wise enough to recognize the teachers and lessons that I encounter today, and may I be open to receiving their wisdom." We might also take some time each day to consider what our lives are trying to teach us at this time. A difficult phase in your relationship with your child may be teaching you to let go. The homeless person you see every day may be showing you the boundaries of your compassion and generosity. A spate of lost items may be asking you to be more present to physical reality. Trust your intuition on the nature of the lesson at hand, work at your own pace, and ask as many questions as you want. Your life has all the answers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can read the original post <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/5643.html">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7329272151279516554?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-73833714366755630442011-10-30T11:05:00.000-07:002011-10-30T11:06:00.383-07:00Breakthrough Discovery Shows How The Brain Copes With Stress, by Rupert Sheperd.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A research team from the University of Leicester say they have discovered the nerve cells in the brain that are responsible for coping with stress.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Neuroscientists seem to have made an important move forwards in their understanding of stress and the brain's role in mitigating its impact. They say they discovered 'thin" and 'mushroom like' nerve cells that are responsible for learning and memory. More importantly they say it's possible for these cells to alter what is remembered after the fact, so that painful or traumatic memories are lessened. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There appears to be a particular protein produced to help the brain adjust for stressful experiences, lessening the effect and the way the memory is stored. Thus mice lacking this particular protein were found to be less out going and tended to try to hide in the dark, in what researchers concluded was a more cautious response to an unpleasant memory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr Pawlak, from the University Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, said: </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Every day stress "reshapes" the brain - nerve cells change their morphology, the number of connections with other cells and the way they communicate with other neurons. In most cases these responses are adaptive and beneficial - " they help the brain to cope with stress and shape adequate behavioural reaction. However, upon severe stress things can get out of control, the brain "buffering" capacity is exhausted and the nerve cells in the hippocampus - " an area of the brain responsible for learning and memory - start to withdraw their processes, don't effectively communicate with other cells and show signs of disease."</blockquote><blockquote>Dr Pawlak said : </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"One strategy that brain cells particularly like to use to cope with stress is changing the shape of tiny processes they normally employ to exchange information with other neurons, called dendritic spines. Spines can be as small as 1/1000 of a millimeter and have various shapes. Some spines (called "thin" spines) are like children - very mobile and inquisitive, constantly change shape and "conversation" partners - " they help us learn new things. Once spines learn, they change into mature "couch potatoes" - " they are mushroom-shaped, have stable connections, do not change partners and do not like to move". </blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The Mushroom spines help us remember things we once learned - but bad memories can be over inhibitive. Very stressful experiences would be better if forgotten quickly or clear memories of them may cause anxiety disorders. There is a constant work in process inside the brain that tries to balance what we should remember and what should be clouded or forgotten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The work was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and is likely to be important for understanding stress-related psychiatric diseases in humans. The work was supported by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant from the European Commission. Dr Robert Pawlak, lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Leicester, said the discovery had identified that production of the protein by the brain may assist individuals from experiencing "too much anxiety" and help the brain to better cope with various adverse life events.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr Robert Pawlak continues : </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We have identified a protein that the brain produces in response to stress in order to reduce the number of mushroom spines and therefore reduce future anxiety associated with stressful events. This protein, lipocalin-2, is normally not produced, but its fabrication dramatically increases in response to stress in the hippocampus. When we added lipocalin-2 to neurons in culture the way it occurs on stress, neurons started losing their "memory spines" -" the mature, mushroom-shaped ones. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We therefore asked -" what if we remove lipocalin-2 from the brain and subject mice to stress? Would that affect the way they react? To this end we used mice in which the lipocalin-2 gene was disrupted and found that, on stress, they were more anxious than normal mice. For example, they were less "outgoing" and preferred hiding in dark, enclosed spaces instead of exploring the neighborhood normally. We found that in these mice mushroom spines were more readily formed in the brain after stress and therefore they had stronger memories of the stressful event.</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The Identification of lipocalin-2 as a new player the brain uses to help us cope with stress is an important step towards decoding molecular mechanisms of stress that, if not functioning correctly may lead to stress-related psychiatric diseases.</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Stress-related psychological and mental disturbances are extremely common and affect more than 30% of the population. We are keen to investigate whether the mechanisms discovered by us apply to humans and could help inform clinical strategies to deal with anxiety disorders and depression".</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Rupert Shepherd reporting for Medical News Today.com</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235379.php">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7383371436675563044?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-46363411156411064422011-10-30T10:55:00.000-07:002011-10-30T10:55:22.458-07:00Let Go and Let Flow.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Taking a leap of faith.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Published on October 27th, in "Daily Om".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>When you make a leap of faith you can accomplish almost anything you set out to do.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many people, in heeding the guidance of their souls, find themselves contemplating goals that seem outrageous or unattainable. In the mind’s eye, these individuals stand at the edge of a precipice and look out over the abyss at the fruit of their ambition. Some resist the urge to jump, paralyzed by the gap between their current circumstances and the life of their dreams. Others make a leap of faith into the unknown, unsure of what they will encounter but certain that they will gain more in their attempts than they would bowing to self-protective instincts. This leap can be exceedingly difficult for individuals with control issues because the act of embracing uncertainty requires them to trust that surrender will net them the rewards they seek. Yet when you make a leap of faith, believing without a doubt that you will land safely on the other side, you can accomplish almost anything you set out to do. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There have no doubt been times in your life when you chose to go where the universal flow took you. Yet you may encounter instances in which your objectives require you to step outside of the boundaries of your established comfort zone so that you may freely and actively jettison yourself into a new phase of your life. While you may fear what seems to be the inevitable fall, consider that in all likelihood you will find yourself flying. A successful leap of faith requires your attention, as it is the quiet and often indistinct voice of your inner self that will point you toward your ultimate destination. Understand that the leap across the chasm of ambiguity may challenge you in unforeseen ways but you will make it across if you trust yourself. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If your mind and heart resist, you can dampen this resistance by building a bridge of knowledge. The more you know about the leap you are poised to take, the smaller the gap between “here” and “there” will appear to be. Your courageous leap of faith can lead you into uncharted territory, enabling you to build a new, more adventurous life. Though you may anticipate that fear will be your guide on your journey across the abyss, you will likely discover that exhilaration is your constant companion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post <a href="http://here./">here.</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4636341115641106442?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-47306662965895870062011-10-30T10:29:00.000-07:002011-10-30T10:31:51.597-07:00Paying It Forward, by Maria Khalife.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Consciously Choose to Begin Paying it Forward.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Action expresses priorities.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">~ M. Gandhi</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In our world today, the things that make the big news are the “big things.” Even the most humble things only get addressed when they become a big movement, such as the publicity around the charitable works of Mother Theresa and “paying it forward”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Does this mean that unless we do those “big things,” our lives are valueless? Absolutely not. We have the capability to consciously choose to do small things and in this way, we create value for ourselves, the others in our lives, and the world at large. When you change your baby’s diaper, you create health and harmony for your child – which let’s your neighbors rest well at night – which allows for greater productivity for him at work the next day – which permits the company where he works to flourish – which heightens the profitability and success of the country where he lives, and so on, and so on. And remember, this chain of events had very humble beginnings and it the idea behind paying it forward.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We humans are united, whether we realize it or not. My writing this can actually end up bringing peace to the middle east! And it can give a glimmer of hope to someone in another country who reads it and internalizes its message.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All that we do, all that we think affects everyone else, and their actions are reflected out to others. It’s an endless activity. What may seem insignificant can pass from you to another and from them to another.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is really wonderful is that you can consciously choose to be a source of great joy, of unconditional love, of caring inspiration, or you can be a source of doubt, of worry, of anxiety, or of emotional pain. The choice is entirely yours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your impact on the world is far reaching. If you can gain that vision of paying it forward and allow it to become the talisman representing your life and the message you want to send forth, you will cause ripples in the world as they move outward from yourself. You can create a wonderfully positive radiation that will wrap itself around all of mankind and serve to better the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The folks you touch most immediately in your inner circle, can be encouraged to “pay it forward.” If you do something wonderful and encourage the next person to pay it forward, the whole world will benefit. And if someone does something wonderful for you as a freely-given gift, you can take that and pay it forward so that soon enough, the entire world is humming more happily. Once charitable act, one thought-filled action will snowball and become a wonderful gift that will someday bless someone many lengths from your life, but affect them nonetheless.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can consciously choose to live your life from this moment forward to be the starting place of great goodness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consciously smile at both friends and strangers. Consciously give away compliments. Consciously entertain the ability to bring laughter into conversations. Consciously offer graciousness to all with whom you come into contact. You will create a ripple effect beginning with you out into the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I think it would be an interesting experiment to consciously choose for this month to be the initiator of good will. Look for ways to be kind, charitable, happy, and gracious and watch what happens in the lives of those to whom you start paying it forward to. Generosity generates. If you will keep track of all the effects that you can see, I have an educated hunch that great good will accrue to you and your circle of friends. It’s worth a try!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">~ Robert Brault</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post here: <a href="http://omtimes.com/2011/09/paying-it-forward/">Source: OM Times Magazine (http://s.tt/13ylG)</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4730666296589587006?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-52385622580764851302011-10-30T09:27:00.000-07:002011-10-30T09:28:00.665-07:00Self-Sabotage: The Enemy Within.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">We all get in our own way occasionally and some people do it repeatedly. Self-sabotaging behavior results from the same cause, a misguided attempt to rescue ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">By Edward A. Selby, Timothy Pychyl, Hara Estroff Marano, Adi Jaffe, published on September 06, 2011 - last reviewed on September 20, 2011.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Are you sabotaging yourself? Some people drink, some procrastinate, others are just way too modest. How do you get in your own way?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Dodging Emotions: The Help That Harms</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We often get into trouble trying to escape intense negative feelings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone does it sometimes. Some do it regularly—shoot themselves in the foot or put obstacles in their own chosen path. Behavior is self-sabotaging when in attempting to solve or cope with a problem, it instigates new problems, interferes with long-term goals, and unsettles relationships.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Comfort eating is a common form of self-sabotage, especially when a person has weight concerns; self-medicating with drugs or alcohol is another common form, although procrastination may be the most common of all. Less common is self-injury/cutting to escape painful emotions, or going on shopping sprees when one can't afford the merchandise. <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/dodging-emotions-the-help-harms">Click here for more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Procrastination: Oops, Where Did the Day Go?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We fool ourselves in the minute-by-minute choices we make.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to self-sabotage, procrastination is king. Why? Because procrastination is the gap between intention and action, and it is in this gap that the self operates. The undermining behavior lies in not closing the gap.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We make an intention to act, the time comes, but instead of acting we get lost in our own deliberation, making excuses to justify an unnecessary and potentially harmful delay. Who makes this decision? We do. The self, in fact, sabotages its own intention. <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/procrastination-oops-where-did-the-day-go">Click here for more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Extreme Modesty: The Case of the Disappearing Self</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a point at which ingratiation is corrosive, and women too often find it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Self-sabotage can show up in the strangest places. Take the recent neuroscience lecture in New York, which was followed by the customary question and answer period. Eventually, the speaker announced there was time for only two more questions, and a female neuroscientist, probably in her late 30s, wound up with the last slot. But instead of asking her question straightaway, she fell into what might best be described as a self-effacing dance. "Oh my gosh," she said, curling around the microphone stand as if to disappear into it, "I'm the last questioner. I feel almost guilty." She declared her near-guilt again before posing her question. I forgot the question. But the prologue was memorable—it made the audience squirm. <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/extreme-modesty-the-case-the-disappearing-self">Click here for more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Addiction: The Long Slide</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I Did All the Things I Wasn't Supposed to Do"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Self-sabotage is not an act, it's a process, a complex, tragic process that pits people against their own thoughts and impulses. Though we all make mistakes, a true self-saboteur continues to try to fix those mistakes by top-loading them with increasingly bad decisions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Addicts, for example, present a parade of excuses and delusional thinking while avoiding the painful, decisive action necessary to set their lives right. All too often we hear stories of talented individuals who, despite much potential, allowed drugs and alcohol to drag them down. For some, this is fodder for celebrity gossip and tabloid junk. For me, it's the story of my life. <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/addiction-the-long-slide">Click here for more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original post <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/self-sabotage-the-enemy-within">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-5238562258076485130?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-82401324615108320522011-10-30T08:58:00.000-07:002011-10-30T09:00:27.487-07:00Power vs. Personal Empowerment by Andrea Mathews, L.P.C.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Which one gives you more control?<br />Published on October 13, 2011 by Andrea Mathews, L.P.C. in Traversing the Inner Terrain.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Power assumes the right to control others. Personal empowerment assumes no such power, but recognizes complete responsibility for self and the choices made by self. Those sound like pretty clear definitions, but the urge to exert power over others might blur the lines between each. So, we need to clarify.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When a child in the family is allowed to dominate the emotions and behaviors of parents and other siblings in the family, that child has been given too much power. We are not talking about Super-children. We are talking about children who will ultimately grow up to be bullies. These children grow up believing that they should have power over others. That others should conform to their wishes. This is power—not personal empowerment. This person believes that the only way s/he will be okay is to wield power over others. Otherwise, he is vulnerable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whether a person is raised to be a bully or not, however, s/he may subtly bully others through manipulation and outright emotional blackmail. Emotional blackmail occurs when the blackmailer threatens another's most vulnerable emotion if certain requirements are not met—as in: "I won't speak to you if you tell so-and-so my business." The blackmailed is supposed to be so afraid of not being spoken to that s/he will give in. This can even be taken to another level by threatening to cut off the relationship all together. Many times this type of manipulation can be subtle, as in some of the following ways:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li>Flattery is supposed to get you anywhere, right?</li><li>I sacrifice for you, and now you owe me.</li><li>Withholding information until certain information is given.</li><li>Gossip for power—I tell you about another to both make them look bad, and win your favor.</li><li>Withholding affection until you give what I want.</li><li>"I'm just trying to help" as another way of saying, I'm just trying to change you.</li><li>Maudlin expressions of emotion in an attempt to solicit the emotional response of another.</li><li>Little niceties offered in an attempt to gain favor.</li><li>Little "white lies" used in an attempt to deny our own authenticity—like when Aunt Ginny calls and asks us to come over for supper and we refuse because we have this other thing we just HAVE to do.</li><li>Pleasing others in order to make sure that I am always liked.</li><li>While we may say to ourselves that these things are part of the social fabric and are essential to getting along with others, like all other attempts to gain power over others, they deny us our own personal empowerment.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Personal empowerment does not need to have power over others, for it knows that regardless of what others do, self is still in charge of making self okay. So, if you withhold affection because I won't do what you want, then I can take care of my own needs for affection—i.e. by seeking it out from people who don't need to hold me hostage to it. Personal empowerment knows that happiness is an inside job. Personal empowerment doesn't wait on the world or the people in that world to respond in a certain way before it can garner peace-of-mind. Peace-of-mind comes from within. Personal empowerment does not wait for a vacation to learn how to rest. It does not wait on someone else to change in order to create happiness for the self. It can tell Aunt Ginny, "I have other plans" without explaining or feeling the need to carry Aunt Ginny's response around. Personal empowerment knows that Aunt Ginny is in charge of her own feelings and responses and that whatever spin she puts on my response to her request also belongs to her. Over all, personal empowerment knows where I stop and you begin. It knows that the only thing I can be responsible for is me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Power, on the other hand gives responsibility for that "me" to other people. They have the power to make or break my happiness, which is why I need to control them. So, you see, power, is actually a form of powerlessness. Power says if I don't control you, then I can't be okay. Personal empowerment says, I know how to take care of my truest self, no matter what you do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We tend to think, however, that personal empowerment implies some kind of hardness or coldness, so that we don't care about other people. We don't care what they think of us, we don't care if we hurt their feelings, we are cold people. No. On the contrary, personal empowerment is very vulnerable to the emotions and attachments of living. Yet, it knows that the self is responsible for these. Therefore, others do not create emotions in me, and I can't create them in others. And my attachments are based on a mutual respect and honesty-and if the other person is not going to be honest, I must still be honest with myself. Whatever the other person does is their choice and I will not attempt to control that. I'd rather put my energy into taking care of what is true inside of me. In fact, the person who is empowered is one who knows that any attempt to control another person is all an illusion. We cannot control others, at all, ever.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If it appears to be true that my manipulation made you do something, what I'm missing out on is the fact that for whatever reason, you chose to do that something. In other words, you agreed to do it. You chose it. And the person who is empowered knows this to the marrow of his bones.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The only problem is that there are many people who don't know this, and who operate as if it isn't so. And it is these people who think that they should be controlling others, and that if they don't they cannot be happy or attain whatever goal they wish to attain. And so, even the empowered person will run into people who will attempt to control her. But if she knows the truth-that she cannot be controlled; that she is 100% responsible for her own choices; that she is 100% responsible for her own happiness and peace-of-mind-then she will make conscious choices to own what is hers and let go of the rest. And she will create happiness out of whatever situation with which she is presented. It may take some time and effort, but she can do it, because she has all the power over her own life.<br /><br />Read the original post <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201110/power-vs-personal-empowerment">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-8240132461510832052?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-64446658456417794592011-10-30T08:49:00.000-07:002011-10-30T08:50:06.832-07:00Powerlessness as Power, by Andrea Mathews, L.P.C.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Power of the Victim Identity.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Published on October 27, 2011 by Andrea Mathews, L.P.C. in Traversing the Inner Terrain.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">"I can't help it!" "I had no choice." "You just don't understand." "I didn't mean it!" "You ruined my life!" "You made me do it!" These are the words of someone who has a Victim identity. But while they convey powerlessness, they are actually quite powerful.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They are powerful because other people believe these words have merit. And these people very often take the power that is being handed to them with these words. They are then putty in the hands of the Victim, picking up the responsibility for the Victim's life. But these words are not true. It isn't true that a person can have "no choice." It isn't true that we "can't help" doing what we do. It isn't true that we can do something without at least unconsciously meaning to do it. It isn't true that someone can ruin another person's life. It isn't true that other people can make us do things. And the most powerful words of all--you just don't understand--are meant to put the icing on the cake, for these words say that the Victim is so special that no one can understand his dilemma, which means this Victim wins the Victim contest, hands down.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We've already discovered how the Victim develops the Victim identity; what we need to know now is how it works today. Basically what it does is allow the Victim to disown any responsibility for her life. No. Others are responsible for her life, her choices, her intentions, her ability to get back up after being knocked down, and her ability to have say-so over her own actions. All of these belong to someone else. At least that's the way the Victim sees it. And if the Victim's victim sees it that way too, then the Victim has all the power. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In order for the Victim to begin to stop playing the Victim role and take on a more genuine sense of self, he pretty much has to be surrounded with people who will not be manipulated into being controlled by the Victim's powerlessness. This means that we are going to have to start getting down to the truth when it comes to the concept of personal responsibility. So, let's talk about that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I say, "I can't help it," usually followed by "You just don't understand," what I am saying is I have no say-so over my own words, beliefs and behaviors. I am a leaf floating on the surface of the raging ocean, nanoseconds away from being swallowed into the depths. I can't examine my beliefs and decide whether or not they are valid. I can't look at the motivation behind my actions and learn what it is that I'm up to. I can't check my behavior long enough to reflect on what I'm doing. I can't decide on another behavior. I'm a puppet. And I know who is pulling my strings-it is YOU!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But there's a reason why "I can't help it" is followed by "You just don't understand." It's because I know that when I say "I can't help it" you are likely to say, "Of course, you can help it," and then what will I do? But if I say "You just don't understand," I've just thrown down the trump card. Now it doesn't matter what you say, I'll always be able to say that you don't understand. And of course, you don't understand because how could you--who suffers much less than I--ever come to grips with the depths and heights of my suffering? So, no, I really can't help it--and you will never, ever understand that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now the recipient of this manipulative effort has a choice. He can cave and just do what it is that the Victim says he needs. Or, he can walk away, telling the Victim, good luck with that. Of course, if one person is not willing to take on the job of taking care of poor Victim, then it's likely that someone else will. But if--by some miracle, or the fact that the Victim has already burned all of his bridges--everyone of any significance to the Victim realizes that the Victim is really just manipulating and refuses to fall for it, then it is possible that the Victim will begin to lay a foundation on which to build his own life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The same is true of the "I have no choice" mantra. This is a common mantra even for people who don't usually play the Victim. But it isn't true. There are always options. This is a hard one to swallow when we consider that we have laws on the books about provocation, and how a person can be provoked to commit a crime. It's hard to do when we think in black and white categories, so that we think that there's always only one or two choices, and if it's two, well then one of them is the wrong one. But regardless of how hard it is, it can be done--it's our choice. No matter how dire the situation, there are some options.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If someone accosts me in a parking lot and threatens to kill me if I don't get in his car, I have choices. I can get in the car. I can scream. I can fight. I can stand there and tell him that I'm not leaving, so I guess he is going to have to kill me. I can jump and run around insanely so that he won't want me anymore. I can get in the car long enough to get that gun out of my purse, pocket, or bra, and shoot him. That's five options already and there are others. And of course, one would have to be in that situation to assess the feasibility of each option. But there are options. This does not mean that the victim of such a kidnapping or rape or other such assault is to blame for what happened, anymore than the survivor of an auto-accident caused by a drunk driver is responsible for what happened. But it does mean that there are always options. And it also means that once we have survived such an ordeal, we are still responsible for creating a life for ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, how can someone else ruin my life? No matter what someone else does, I'm still in charge of what I do with it after that, because it is my life. It belongs to me. We all watched in amazement as Christopher Reeve took back the power to run his own life from his wheelchair. And the truth is it wouldn't have mattered whether it was a drunk man's bus that hit him on the street or a horse-riding accident; he was still a quadriplegic. But he proved to us that our lives still belong to us--no matter what. The only way that someone can ruin my life is if I give them total control over it. And since even if I do that, no one can really take that control, it is not possible for someone else to ruin my life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You made me do it?" Seriously? Only if I am your puppet can you make me do or feel or think anything. As we just learned from the previous blog--we have no control over others. Choice is always operative. And it is just as true that others have no control over us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have all the power. So the only question left then is, how are we going to use it?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the original article <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201110/powerlessness-power">here</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-6444665845641779459?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-13952547893169027232011-10-30T08:05:00.000-07:002011-10-30T08:07:15.482-07:0010 Tips to Help You Pick a Good Partner, by Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Tips for making good choices about dating, relating and mating.<br />Published on October 21, 2011 by Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D. in Emotional Fitness<br /><br />Some people have what I have come to call "broken pickers." They just can't seem to pick good partners for themselves. If this is something you're dealing with, here are some tips for making good choices when it comes to dating and mating.<br /><br />1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>People will tell you exactly who they are; it's up to you to listen. If someone says they're usually in a bad mood or don't know how to be monogamous, hear what they are saying and don't think you can change them.<br /><br />2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Take a test drive. Go for an eight-hour drive with your intended. Whatever difficulties you may have will make themselves painfully obvious. This test is not for the faint of heart or for those with heart conditions.<br /><br />3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Look for someone who is kind and loving. If you're really lucky, your partner will also have a family who taught him or her how to be that way. Having in-laws who treat you like a member of the family will make your life much nicer.<br /><br />4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make sure the person you're seeing doesn't smoke, even if you do. If he or she is a nonsmoker, it may get you to stop. Think of it this way: you're choosing happiness over death.<br /><br />5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Find someone you can talk to. As time passes, this quality is more important than looks, money, or position. If you can't talk to your partner or cry on his or her shoulder, it's not going to be a good match.<br /><br />6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make sure you have the basics in common. For example, if one of you wants children and the other doesn't, it's a deal breaker. Spiritual and political differences can also be difficult to deal with. As we age, our feelings in these areas tend to intensify.<br /><br />7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make sure that you have enough differences that, if you are unable to go out, you can still entertain each other. If someone is just like you, it might get a little boring as time goes by.<br /><br />8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Physical compatibility has more to do with touch than it does with sex. If you're a tactile person, you need to be with someone who shares that desire. People's desire for sex changes over a lifetime, but our need for touch remains fairly constant.<br /><br />9.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beware of people who want to get married immediately. Engagements were created for a reason. They used to call them "handfasts," and they lasted for a year and a day. Things move much quicker these days, but it's wise to know someone for at least six months before getting engaged.<br /><br />10.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Find someone who makes you laugh. A sense of humor can help you overcome many of life's obstacles. If someone can make you smile when you don't feel like it, that's a great quality.<br /><br />There are no guarantees in life. It isn't possible to be absolutely sure about anyone. Take your time; listen to your friends and to your intuition. Picking the right person for the right reasons at the right time is an art form.<br /><br />Read the original post <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emotional-fitness/201110/10-tips-help-you-pick-good-partner">here</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-1395254789316902723?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-80432155912264507392011-10-28T23:11:00.000-07:002011-10-28T23:11:37.179-07:00The Healing of Emotion, by Chris Griscom.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Excerpt from book <a href="http://lightinstitute.com/site/store/books.html">The Healing of Emotion.</a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">by <a href="http://chrisgriscom.com/site/about.html">Chris Griscom.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Fearless Self emerges as we extend our vocabulary of participation to the world beyond our immediate family. The people who form our close karmic pool of Soul friends—our parents, siblings, partners, and children—are the ones who are the most dangerous to our ego and our manipulation of truth, because they so easily penetrate our magnetic field to push the buttons that force us to respond and change. But as our world stretches out, we have the opportunity to discover the unlimited extent of familiarity from the perspective of the Soul. There are no strangers!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Each being we encounter, even from a distance, is placed in that synchronous space to teach us to reflect on the self. It is of great service to our conscious awareness to take up the practice of observing the world by asking ourselves, “How is this reflected in me?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We crack open the shell of compassion when we look upon the beggar, the liar, and the killer as a part of our own psyche. As we take up the power to look on the world and see it as a mirror of ourselves, we begin to find the strength to pass through fear to the other side…to the shore of Knowing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This glimmer of recognition offers us the power of participation. As the heart enters the fray, we can grasp whole new dimensions of relativity that can be used for problem solving on a global level—because from the dimension of the individual we expand to the reality of the group. The earth, in all her living wisdom, is signaling to us that we must now acknowledge our mutual bond, the irrevocable link between ourselves and all other species and life forms, and begin to move together with holographic consciousness to clear levels of karmic relationships and complexities—not just of individuals, but of whole groups of individuals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are discovering, none too soon, that we can bring group consciousness up out of the abyss of the past to form new alliances that include the coupling of great power and love, great giving and receiving.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As we develop the conscious capacity to be the witness to our interaction with the people who appear on our life screen, we begin to actually learn how to direct the play.</div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-8043215591226450739?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-34258959831829731312011-10-21T15:15:00.000-07:002011-10-21T15:17:18.278-07:00DNA Speaks Through Your Heart, by Toni Petrinovich.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Your DNA works as a biological Internet through your heart creating a coherent wavelength in your vibratory frequency. Let’s put the two of them together and show you how they create access to multi-dimensional information, create health and wellbeing in your bodies while awakening you to your Self as Source.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">DNA transmits information back and forth much the same as the Internet does. It responds to your words, your thoughts and your feelings. It is influenced by your frequency. When you are at peace, coherent and feeling love, your DNA unwinds, reproduces and carries on the processes of life, including accessing information for and within you. When you are stressed, anxious and incoherent, it tightens up and puts itself into a protective mode.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your heart contains its own knowledge. It has its own brain and it contains its own nerve system. Your heart stores the knowledge of what you really desire, what will bring you to a state of the greatest sense of peace and is only awaiting your attention to its knowledge base.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, too, the DNA is a data storage and communication device. It accepts your language, your thoughts, your feelings and acts accordingly. You can actually change the function of your DNA and your genes by what you say and what you think.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What do your words say to your DNA? Do you express in uplifting, inspiring words? What feelings do you pay attention to? What feelings do you hold on to because you're afraid to let go of them? All of the words, thoughts and feelings that make up your typical day tell your DNA what to do. The result is how you feel about life and how healthy you are. Remember, fear suppresses your growth and expansion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, remember, DNA doesn't differentiate. It doesn't say, "Well, she is saying that it's a lousy day, but I know she doesn't mean it so I won't pay attention to her." It hears you say it's a lousy day and accepts the words at face value. It accepts what you feel and it acts upon your instructions. You are in control of your DNA. You are the creator of the world you speak, think and feel into existence – that with which you resonate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coherency is a wavelength wherein the troughs and crests are equal. This is a very comfortable vibration to be around. You know when you say someone has "good vibes"? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That is because they are coherent. Incoherent vibrations do not feel good . . . to anyone. AND, DNA is a coherent wavelength in its frequency so it naturally seeks coherency with which to resonate. In other words, it is healthiest when the vibrations it feels from you are coherent. Then it knows that its environment is thriving and healthy. The DNAexpands, replicates and continues growth expression. It also opens itself to receive any information you may wish to access since its coherent conduit is a perfect receiver. This includes information flowing from and within all dimensions. Life relies on coherent energy as much as it relies on DNA. If your energy is not coherent, your body is in shutdown. It is protecting itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, heart knows the frequency of life; it knows that life is seeking other coherent life. The heart can flood your body with coherency when you place your intention on your well-being, when you pay attention to your heart’s yearning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you pay attention to your heart space and breathe rhythmic, harmonious breaths, it is easy to think thoughts of well-being and appreciation which then fill the very fluid of your cells, flood your DNA. You establish a sense of peace within you. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Often, the mind says, "But, what about _______________?” You can fill in the blank here depending upon your own experiences in life. The mind may be afraid that if you are not careful and fearful something bad will happen. That is when you want to absolve whatever thought is being offered. Put it back into solution, back into the universe's cosmic recycling program to be re-created into more energy giving life. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The coherent heart tells the body how to manage its systems. Because the heart is the strongest electromagnetic organ, it can literally give your body its marching orders and your body will fall right into line with it. Then you are coherent within all of your bodies and your DNA feels this coherency within you. It responds to your sense of well-being. Remember, your body is an environment and every cell within you is reliant on that environment being coherent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the heart, your DNA and your body experience this coherence, doors open to other dimensions because all life, all creation, responds to this coherency. Energy and information respond to the resonant frequency you are creating. Information has energy; energy has information. Energy is the power in the information. Information is the purpose of energy. They are a team.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You become the doorway for multi-dimensional information and your coherent brain (in step with your heart) is able to translate the information that comes through that doorway. And this applies to energy as well, you see, because information and energy work hand in hand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your yearning ceases and you are aware of "home" because you are now in resonance with the frequency of All That Is. You are in resonance with the intention of manifested life. Coherency IS the intention of creation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your DNA/heart connection creates open communication between you and your body. It is an pening to the Omni-dimensional information you wish to receive. Your DNA/heart connection contains your ability to transcend dimensions, to actually know your life beyond the physical realm. Basically, you are a wormhole, a short cut among dimensions/frequencies of information.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich is a Master Teacher, mystic and quantum physical researcher with a ministerial doctorate in metaphysics. She is the author of </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">The Call – Awakening the</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Angelic Human,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> and its accompanying CD, DNA Re-Awakening, </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">You – A Field Guide, Finding an End to Seeking</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">DeLight of the Orbs and Speaking of Light</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">. Toni teaches metaphysics and the sacred connection within through her Meta yoU classes, guided meditation CDs, DVD production and video presentations. <a href="http://www.youaresacred.com/">www.youaresacred.com</a></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-3425895983182973131?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-55660914835746698122011-10-20T15:13:00.000-07:002011-10-20T15:16:15.990-07:00The Eight Phases of Initiation of the Divine Feminine, by Isha Lerner.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Our life as a woman is a deep experience …it is profound. Our bodies carry the template of the feminine vessel, the oceans, the flowers, and the infinite space of darkness that births the inner light into Life Form. Our personal rhythms are mirrored by the Moon Phases.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have a natural tendency to, flow, move in and out of emotion, nurture, receive, give, and extend our wisdom through art, writing, teaching, dancing, healing, magic, ritual, prayer, leadership and partnership. It is our right to choose to be alone, or to share our life with others; to be silent, or to speak out. Our deepest power, however, is found through our intention to be whole, free, and unbound by fears, patterns, and thoughts. It is a blessing to witness clients around the world, (myself included) who choose to become conscious of Her right to blossom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Women and men alike are guided by the gravitational pull of the moon and each month the moon travels through eight phases; each phase corresponds to an energy cycle that can affect our everyday life. I have connected each moon phase with a particular flower essences that are resonate with the energy field of each moon phase. You are not required to memorize these phases, and you don’t need to watch the moon calendar if you aren’t inclined. These phases can serve as a mirror from which you may come to understand represent various mood swings encountered throughout the month. I hope these flower essences and the information provided will assist you in finding your way through the everyday ups and downs of your busy life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The New Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Nurturing our Connection with Nature and the Primal Flow of Life</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this stage our souls are learning to become responsive and receptive to the soul of Gaia, The Earth Mother, as She offers us a template from which to birth anew. We purify our emotions, align our bodies, learn how to perceive and think with the living forces of the Soul. Our work is embodiment into the Earth once again…for it is a re-incarnation of sorts…a time to advance once again upon the Wheel of Life refreshed, cleansed, and prepared for new choices and opportunities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Star Tulip-Listen to the Soul voice of the earth</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rose-Develop loving compassion and consideration on earth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Crescent Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Discovering The Magic of New Beginnings</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We begin this journey by recognizing our emotions and all of our exploration continues to enrich and extend the emotional soil of our New Beginnings. We check into our belief systems concerning family, values, and cultural surroundings and begin to take charge of a new rhythm and order in life. We come to see clearly the past has meant and how we have moved to recreate a healthy new life that is based on intelligent emotion. We all need to attend to this new template of health during the Crescent Moon Phase if we wish to walk the wheel of the soul toward future growth in health and mental clarity. At this stage we can unlock the door of the future and extend our vision forward.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mariposa Lily: Helps us redeem our relationship with the Mother archetype on all levels.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Baby Blue Eyes: Addresses early childhood wounding from the father which can lead to mistrust in the adult life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>First Quarter Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Grounding Ideas, Visions, and Physical Embodiment</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The soul is the mediator between body and spirit…Only by developing a vibrant relationship with the physical body may we meet our full destiny. The First Quarter Phase of the Moon represents a time in life when one is beginning to fully manifest their work in the world and embody the grace of being alive. This phase develops courage, intention, discipline, and focus. The trials of the physical body teach us to surrender, endure, and accept. We literally come to our senses as we experience the joy of physical existence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Manzanita: Strengthens the core between the body and earth. Builds acceptance of Body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Crab Apple: Assists to cleanse all aspects of shame, regret, judgment, and core guilt from the body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shooting Star: For those who have a strong spiritual inclination and resistance to incarnation in a physical body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Gibbous Moon Phase</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Quickening of Consciousness and Alchemical Transformation</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this phase of life on the wheel one is able to learn from the experiences of life, and by doing so, continue to evolve, adapt, and transform. The mind grasps the basic lessons it needs to move forward and continue the quest toward fulfillment. One is gathering lots of new information and learning many new things. The motive is to move outward, to extend the energies toward activity and new experience. This is not a time to squander energy or time. This is an inner time of expansion and hope.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Madia: To develop concentration and focus</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cosmos: To draw down the forces of spiritual learning into new experiences and expression.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Morning Glory: To stay in touch with healthy life rhythms and body connections.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Full Moon Phase</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Fulfillment and Life Purpose</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this phase in life the soul comes into deeper contact with the world by developing a need to serve from within. The soul needs to listen to life purpose and shine the inner light of inspiration into studies, work, service, and personal relationships. Finding life purpose often means breaking away from limiting beliefs and imposed on yourself and by others. This phase addresses the ability to give back to family and the world at large.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mountain Pride: To follow one’s own path with conviction and endurance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sweet Pea: For developing a sense of place and a feeling of community. Connection to one’s earthly environment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Disseminating Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Sensitivity and Artistry: Building a Chalice of the Soul</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a time to develop a deep satisfaction with all that has been gained and, like a great vessel, hold the elixir of joy for all to partake. Share you gift, sing your song, stand in the world and be one with your passions. Create sanctuary in you life with all you do. Create ritual, join in ceremony, and tip the chalice and let the joy pour out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iris: The most fundamental essence for awakening the soul to its own creativity and inspiration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indian Paintbrush: Paintbrush of the soul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Third Quarter Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Transformation: Discovering the Shadow</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this phase the soul digs deeper into its shadow side. Here we examine how we have been hurt and how we have hurt others. The key to grow internally again. Life opened the door to a wide band of experience in the previous phases. Now the soul must check into the terrain of the subconscious once again at yet another level of evolution and awakening. The descent into darkness is a necessary element in the soul’s evolution. One must face the inner truth of actions and life behaviors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Black-Eyed Susan: To learn to recognize and accept darker or hidden aspects in our actions and emotions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Black Cohosh: To come to terms with shadow elements in the human soul in unseen ways.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Balsamic Moon</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Cultivating the Spiritual Self</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This offers the spiritual light that shines within offering us a look at our true identity from deep with the cavern of our ego. After a journey into the dark shadow the soul now finds reprieve with the study of religion, spiritual studies, and meditation. At this level one must veil the outer sense of self and take the time to explore the mystical regions of ones nature. It is a time of quiet receptivity…and endings. One nears the time when the New Moon will once again crack open the way for rebirth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Flower Essences</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lotus: To find the balance of the crown charka with the root of life purpose.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cat’s Ear: To listen to the internal voice and receive its guidance.<br /><br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Isha Lerner an international astrologer, tarot scholar, consultant, flower essence practitioner, internationally renowned author, and owner of the Power of Flowers Essence Company. She has lectured internationally and is well known for her expertise and research into fairy tale mythology, the study of archetype, her karmic imprint and past life astrological counseling known as Power Mapping, and the symbolic association of the human soul and nature. Read the original article <a href="http://www.ishalerner.com/blog_2/?p=61">here</a>.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-5566091483574669812?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-74045440238374462382011-10-20T15:08:00.000-07:002011-10-20T15:15:42.679-07:00Magnetism, the Human Body and Nature, by Isha Lerner.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Until relatively recently, scientists believed that life was mostly a biochemical process. The idea that magnetic fields could significantly influence living systems seemed far-fetched. Perspectives have shifted rapidly, however, and many scientists now believe that fundamentally we are electromagnetic creatures. This radical paradigm shift has profound medical implications because modern medicine has focused on biochemical processes. If these processes are influenced by our electromagnetic nature, any healing approach that focuses exclusively on them will, ultimately, be limited.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Life’s Magnetic Nature</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Examples of life’s magnetic nature are now plentiful. Many creatures, such as homing pigeons, butterflies, and bees navigate using Earth’s magnetic field. Even humans can roughly sense magnetic direction. These abilities, in part, appear to be mediated through a magnetic substance called magnetite, which has been discovered in the tissue, including the human brain, of many living things. Researchers have found magnetite clusters near the brain’s all-important, magnetically-sensitive pineal gland, which secretes hormones affecting the entire body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not only are we affected by magnetic fields but we also generate them. For example, scientists can measure the brain and heart’s magnetic fields with instruments called the magnetoencephalograph and magnetocardiogram, respectively. Life’s magnetic potential is so great that we can even defy gravity under the right circumstances. For example, scientists can levitate frogs by using high-intensity magnetic fields. When subjected to such strong fields, spinning electrons within the frog align themselves to cumulatively create a small magnetic field. Like a compass needle repulsed by a bar magnet, the large external field repels the frog’s small field sufficiently to counteract gravity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Life’s magnetic frequencies are found to increase with the use of light. Density defies movement and light increases its flow within all life forms, including the human body. In nature, the atomic realm of the material world moves at a slower rate than the auric light-filled realm. This realm, which is composed of the quickened impulse of energy that is essential to all form, is known as the devic realm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our physical body and its magnetic field align with gravity. Light and the healing forces of love, emotion, music, sound and color vibrate with a frequency that is quickened, and seemingly invisible. We cannot touch or feel it; however, we do have direct contact with its force on a daily basis. An essential aspect of vibrational healing connects us to this indirect, yet potent energy field on a conscious level.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When magnets are placed on different parts of the human body they can affect the rotation of our auric energies:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Evidence suggests that roughly 80% of chronic pain sufferers could benefit from magnetic therapy…When held against the skin, magnets relax capillary walls, thereby boosting blood flow to the painful area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ancient Hindus recognized that within the body the Chakra System has seven different points of energy that rotate back and forth. The human body’s energetic axis is supposed to flow in an uninterrupted cyclical pattern, and when this cycle is interrupted, or if a Chakra is “clogged,” it can be detrimental to one’s health. Magnets placed on the body can help to unblock improperly spinning Chakra energy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human beings have an intuitive connection to the earth that is partially an energetic magnetic draw, and partially a spiritual connection to the core of the earth’s sensitivities. Sometimes we are capable of extra-sensory perception relating to the earth and our current location. Certain extra-sensitive people can sense the location of water buried deep within the earth with dowsing rods:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1970, Duane Chadwick of Utah State University carried out a series of experiments on 150 dowsers and found that the dowser's rod movements were related to minute variations of the Earth's magnetic field.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The likeness between the earth’s physical make-up and the human body is striking: as liquids flow through our internal organs, water also moves deep down within the inner layers of our planet. Some of us have a magical, intuitive ability to sense this body-earth link with dowsing rods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flowers and humans share this energetic bond, as well. We are synergistically connected biochemically and research offers evidence that nature and humanity are profoundly interdependent. An out of balance energy system will eventually withdraw its own life force. Our connection with the floral world facilitates a balancing of the energies of light and gravity. Nature can be seen as a medicine chest to the soul, for flowers are a vital living essence of earth, sending out subtle wavelengths of light that penetrate into form.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On a vibrational level, humanity may increase its sensibilities by aligning to the highest essence of the plant: flower essences. Flower essences contain the essential energetic life template of the flower’s magnetic energy. When taken orally, the magnetic field of the plant is absorbed into the density of the life form and offers an expansive infusion of light filled properties.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the evolutionary impulse quickens and humanity undergoes various magnetic shifts in energy, our human nervous systems mirror these changes. We have every opportunity to reconnect to the magnetic forces needed to maintain health and balance through education and the use of vibrational medicine. We are gifted with opportunities to work within a vibrational framework that is progressive and in attunement with nature and science. Our evolution is dependent upon this vital flow of magnetic energy to heal body and earth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Isha Lerner an international astrologer, tarot scholar, consultant, flower essence practitioner, internationally renowned author, and owner of the Power of Flowers Essence Company. She has lectured internationally and is well known for her expertise and research into fairy tale mythology, the study of archetype, her karmic imprint and past life astrological counseling known as Power Mapping, and the symbolic association of the human soul and nature. Read the original article <a href="http://www.ishalerner.com/blog_2/?p=67">here</a>.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7404544023837446238?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-79090270513670718312011-10-07T13:22:00.000-07:002011-11-08T17:21:21.418-08:00Basic Guiding Principles of Reality, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For most of our lives we simply believed whatever thoughts we had, without questioning them at all. But once we start questioning our thought assumptions we begin to suspect that we are not who we thought. That realization may cause a sense of separation.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Questioning our thoughts (especially the limiting ones) takes us out of our mind-made identities and leaves us the task of re-discovering our true nature. We discover our right relationship with reality by coming to understand its basic guiding principles. We learn to replace our old limiting self-concepts by using these principles instead; otherwise we are left wandering, and wondering who we are and what our relationship with the Universe is. I’ve included these principles below – they are the basic truths I fall back on to help me determine the reality of my thoughts. I hope they help you too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the basic principles of reality, as I see them:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. We are free agents, able to choose what thoughts we will believe. The thoughts we believe will determine the quality of our life experience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Our thoughts determine our vibrational frequency. When we believe we are at the mercy of a heartless, fearful world, we see ourselves as victims and will experience low fre quency thoughts and feelings (thoughts that create fear, depression, isolation, resentment, jealousy, etc). When we believe we are protected, loved and prompted by a Loving Source, we experience high frequency feelings (love, safety, acceptance, joy, satisfaction, peace, etc). The frequency we line up with (called alignment) determines the quality of our life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. We are made up of a trinity: mental/spirit, soul/emotion, and physical body. Balancing these three aspects brings us into alignment with the highest possible frequency: Source.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. The world acts as a mirror that reflects our own state of consciousness. We project our beliefs onto the world where they are reflected back to us. We then react in ways that prove to us that what we believe is true. We tend to think our beliefs come from our life experiences, but the opposite is true: our experiences most often come from what we believe. This is how we create our personal reality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Our personal reality comes from what we believe. Our beliefs become the reality we see and experience in physical form. In other words, we manifest our beliefs. If we have beliefs that breed feelings of peace and harmony, we will see peace and harmony all around us. If our beliefs are full of strife and conflict, then strife and conflict will be our reality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Life is cyclic in nature. Like a wheel, life goes round and round; sometimes we are on top, sometimes we are on the bottom, but how we see these rotations determines how we are affected by the wheel of life, not the circumstances of life. We either perceive ourselves as victims and feel at the mercy of life’s ups and downs, or we move into observer consciousness and witness life as a reflection of our own mind from which we can learn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. All of our feelings and behavior come from what we think and believe and not from external causes. There are no exceptions. In other words, we act the way we do because of the thoughts we believe. We will automatically act according to the beliefs we hold as true.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8. What we focus on expands. Attention is a way of directing energy and automatically feeds whatever we are paying attention to. That means the more we resist something the bigger it gets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9. Whatever we judge and condemn within ourselves, we deny and then project onto something or someone outside ourselves that we then judge and fight. What we judge as unacceptable in others is something we have not admitted or accepted in ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">10. There are no mistakes, no coincidences in life. Everything happens for a reason and/or has a purpose. To see it any other way is to be in victim consciousness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">11. There is another reality. It is the deep peace that is always available in the eternal, present moment, no matter what else is going on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12. We are emanations of what I call the One Universal Mind, or simply, Source that is ever present and always radiating its benevolent Light (consciousness) upon us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">13. Everything is made of Source energy and vibrates at its own particular frequency. We are vibrational beings who are attracted to (and who attract to us) people and situations with a similar vibrational frequency.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14. Source is always here for us. It reaches out to us just as we seek it. It never stops supporting us, and is closer to us than our own skin.<br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Lynne Forrest is a non-traditional practitioner who has been in private practice for twenty six years, and the author of a new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/beyondvictim">Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness</a>. Find her on the web at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/">www.lynneforrest.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/blog">www.lynneforrest.com/blog</a>. These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/html/another_way.html">Another Way Center</a>: (423) 698-0814.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7909027051367071831?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-58594310592999982522011-10-07T13:20:00.000-07:002011-11-08T17:21:51.282-08:00Reality’s Guiding Principles: What You Resist Persists, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are basic universal principles that define Reality. Wise men of every generation have observed these universal principles at work in the natural world.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, we know that Reality is a medium that supports life, in the same way that water is a medium that supports aquatic life. We know from our wisdom teachers that this medium of Reality is made -up of what we call “energy.” Alchemists say that all life is made of the same one substance. Therefore we know that every thing, all forms of life, seen and unseen, are made of this same universal substance, energy. Reality is energy manifested.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We see the workings of the energy principles that operate Reality on every level, and in every arena, of our lives; whatever the expression of energy may be, whether it’s a human body or a mountain, the ocean or an animal, furniture or rain – no matter what form energy takes, it will act according to the principles that govern it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, one of the principles we observe regarding the nature of energy, no matter it’s form, is that it does not go away, it merely changes form, like when you drop salt crystals into warm water: the crystals disappear, but if you dip your finger in the remaining water, you will taste the evidence of the salt still very much present. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! All form simply changes form – (yes, this includes YOU too!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iron turns to rust, bodies to dust, ice to water, grain to fodder,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All life goes through the death/birth cycle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Egg to infant, seed to plant, bud to flower, harvest to sower,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All life is renewed in this ongoing cycle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When we learn and observe guiding principles in our life, we have the chance to align with Reality through them, so that we can experience the joy, peace, and kindness of Reality. We can choose to use universal principles that govern energy, nature, and physics to guide our own lives:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here’s an example of a principal about how energy moves that can be observed on many levels of Reality, including our own inner workings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">First, here’s the principle: ‘what we resist, persists.’ In other words, the harder we push at something, the harder it pushes back. These words reflect Newton’s third law of motion, (his summation of this particular guiding principle), which is: “for every force there is an equal and opposite force.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We observe this principle of Reality at work in the medium of water as follows:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine you are standing in a swimming pool with water up to your shoulders. You suddenly see something you want on the other side of the pool and so you start trying to move fast through the water to get to it. What happens? The faster we try to go, the harder it gets to move ahead, right? The harder you try to push the water aside, the harder it is to move. This is the Reality of life – the more we try to force life, the more resistance we meet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like when you’re running late and trying to get to your appointment fast by racing across town … what happens? Traffic lights go red as you approach, cars pull out in front of you, old ladies limp across the street in front of you, etc. right?! When we try to push life, life pushes back. It’s the law of Reality in motion!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or, like when you don’t like something your loved one is doing so you confront them angrily and then they respond to your resistance with defiance and anger. The same principle applies – what we resist, persists – every time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because the mind is made of energy, (it and all its components, such as thoughts, beliefs, feelings), we know that it operates by the same universal laws that govern energy on the physical level, and on the mental/emotional level. By studying external manifestations of energy at work in nature we get better at seeing how those same governing principles that apply in nature are also at work within the medium of our own minds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This allows us not only to understand the workings of the world, but of our own mind, as well. Through that understanding we learn how to cooperate with certain basic guiding principles (such as those I rely on for daily peace) to achieve a life with less resistance, and more effortless doing.<br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Lynne Forrest is a non-traditional practitioner who has been in private practice for twenty six years, and the author of a new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/beyondvictim">Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness</a>. Find her on the web at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/">www.lynneforrest.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/blog">www.lynneforrest.com/blog</a>. These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/html/another_way.html">Another Way Center</a>: (423) 698-0814.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-5859431059299998252?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-78492380316645682392011-10-04T17:48:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:25:59.689-07:00How to Commit Suicide, by Carma Dillon.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Excerpt from e-book "How to Commit Suicide", by Carma Dillon.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />If you're like me, and you got on the internet tonight looking for how to commit suicide (and make it look like an accident), for a cup of coffee, I'll tell you my story... I'm still here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>...The human ego is a bizarre creature very much like a black hole. It takes itself far too seriously. It gives itself too much weight.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What was the trap that caused me to experience death wishes to the point that I would actually get out of my fetal position in bed, put my fingers to keys, and do what I had successfully evaded for two decades--to take a step toward contemplation. To entertain the idea. My son was not yet five years old. Yet, at that instant, he did not exist in my mind. Only the death wish existed and the urge to ponder it, but instead of reaching for the phone and calling Tim or Kat, I sat at my husband's computer and typed those words. I clicked on the page that seemed to be most relevant--Good Samaritans are that clever.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>My mind is foggy about exactly what happened next...</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of my healing journey, I published this true story of a low point in my life and what helped me climb out of the pit. If you're suicidal and you don't have a dollar to spare, send me a message and I will give you a code to download from the publisher for free. If you can afford to help me keep a roof over our heads while my son goes to community college, thank you for your support!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Purchase <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85749">How to Commit Suicide</a> or <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/saardu">contact the author</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7849238031664568239?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-57632590090828373342011-09-19T10:43:00.000-07:002011-09-19T10:48:11.214-07:008 Keys - A Special Delivery Message from the Angels, by Linda West.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Excerpt from book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Keys-Special-Delivery-Message-Angels/dp/0984114238">8 Keys, A Special Delivery Message from the Angels</a>".<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Taken from the foreword "A Personal Message from Linda West".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the time that has passed since this message from the angels was first presented to me, once again, I find that the angels will have their way! After the first printing of this book, so much has come to light about the rising of the Goddess in the Earth during this time that the angels with whom I communicate feel it important to reflect now upon the changes that have resulted. One major change that they insist upon is in reference to the perception we have about our Source, whom we call “God.” I still call that source God. But contrary to the images most of us grew up with of a male persona – Father God – the image that the angels have shaped in my mind, and the one that they want to share with you is much more amorphous, having no gender and no particular shape but definitely demonstrates the softer, more nurturing nature of a female.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The stereotypes we know of as male energy – using physical strength and political/economical power in order to bring about change and to rule in the world – are giving way to those characteristics we most often associate with female energy, i.e., intuition, spirituality, and empowerment by healing and nurturing.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Science has shown us that all humans are first conceived as females, and males develop from that form. Because all human conception has the possibility of becoming male or remaining female, this duality of nature remains within us throughout our lives We each retain the essence of our opposite, which waxes and wanes along our lifeline, and is allowing us now to be affected by the rising power of the Goddess. That Goddess dwells within each of us, male and female alike.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whether you are a male reader or a female, your female characteristics will become stronger with the rising Goddess. This does not mean that males will become female, or that any of us will reflect more or less of the gender we are. But accepting that we are both female AND male will help us to understand and benefit from the changes that are taking shape in the world.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This means that struggling against change will be less effective than understanding and working with the changes. That “powering” through your difficulties will not bring you the end results you expect, and it is more likely that persistent pursuit of your goals will bring you success more effectively than aggressive pursuit. By embracing patience, perseverance, and a willingness to welcome the Goddess within you, you will find the path to your goals made much easier.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the most effective ways to begin to work with these changes is to relax our need to identify with our Divine Source in a specific gender form and to change the descriptive words we attach to it. So in this edition I have changed, wherever possible, the words I use to give name to this Source in order to help you free yourself from the images that limit your acceptance, so that you may if you so choose, wander into the possibilities offered by a God who is everything and withholds nothing from you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With these thoughts in mind, please accept this offering from the angels for the gift it is. Feel free to entertain the thought of the presence of angels in your life – starting now.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />You can read more about the book, here: <a href="http://voiceoftheangels.com/8KeysPromo.pdf">http://voiceoftheangels.com/8KeysPromo.pdf</a>. You can find more about psychic medium Linda West, here: <a href="http://lindawest-medium.com/">http://lindawest-medium.com/</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-5763259009082837334?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-41106968148207171122011-09-14T09:27:00.000-07:002011-09-19T10:43:52.472-07:00Grace Lost and Found, by Mary Cook.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Excerpt of Book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Lost-Found-Compulsions-Satisfaction/dp/1573244686">"Grace Lost and Found": From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity</a>.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Addictions, Compulsions, and Recovery<br />Chapter 1</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even if we were born genetically predisposed to addiction and were chronically given drugs and traumatized in our childhood, we are still responsible for our adult livers today and for our recovery. Acting out, hostile dependency, rebellion, and vindictiveness serve only to keep us bound to an unhealthy past and to people who harmed us. Typically, we direct aggression toward those whom we see as responsible for our harm, toward ourselves, toward anyone who at least unconsciously reminds us of our pain and conflicts, including our children. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wherever our negative feelings or actions are aimed, recovery urges us to redirect this energy toward resolution. Maintaining negativity toward ourselves deepens our wounds. Maintaining negativity toward others reinforces attachments to problematic behaviors and attitudes. Needing or wanting other to change so that we can heal keeps us stuck in unfulfilled childhood dependency. All of these scenarios recreate familiar pain and problems and we feel increasingly less capable and confident in our lives. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Solution is Up to Us </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not one of the twelve steps tells us to seek amends from others. Recovery relies only on our changing to more mature behavior. Inherent in addiction is avoidance of appropriate responsibility. We court illusions of power through picking up weapons, rather than weeping for lost innocence and protection. We hide pain through alerting perceptions of internal and external reality, rendering us helpless to find solutions. We create false selves from defensive adaptations to dysfunction, and then wonder why we feel so alone and empty. Our relationships reflect impoverishment and degradation. We are dishonest, disloyal, diseased, and devoid of true love and wisdom. We sit on a massive mountain of wreckage waiting for a short dose of counterfeit paradise from a bottle, needle, or pipe. We are in no position to hold others accountable at this stage. We must desperately desire recovery with the same passion with which we pursued drugs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 12 steps are designed to help us recognize our unhealthy patterns from whom and from what experiences they originate. Exploring our early lives in the fourth step yields the most valuable information in this regard. We may learn that our destructiveness to ourselves or others is a response to unhealed abuse or trauma in childhood. Perhaps we married someone who seems cold, critical, and distant like our fathers were. Codependency and controlling behaviors may stem from being over-responsible for an addict parent. Deprivation of important psychological needs may have resulted in compulsive stealing. Childhood sexual molestation can trigger later prostitution. Unhealthy family enmeshment may translate into fear of relationships. Whatever problems we suffered in childhood they were not due to our being impossibly challenging children, nor because we deserved the treatment we received. It is our responsibility, however, to transform dysfunction into new healthy thinking, feeling, and behavior.<br /><br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.marycookma.com/">Mary Cook</a> is the author of “Grace Lost and Found: From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity”, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, etc. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">She has 35 years of clinical practice and 29 years of university teaching experience. She is a national speaker and has a private practice in San Pedro, CA. Mary is available for telephone and office counseling, guided meditation, speaking engagements and in-service training.</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4110696814820717112?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-81804464475878082072011-09-12T22:55:00.000-07:002011-09-12T23:09:49.155-07:00Why Are You Here and Does It Have to Be YOUR Way? by Toni Petrinovich<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Recently, I was sent a set of questions regarding human beings incarnating on earth. Since each of the questions reflects a particular belief system, I am going to use them to fuel the fire investigating why you believe what you believe. So this writing is both an article and a practice of examining where your beliefs come from and how they influence your life. I am sure you have been exposed to the term "a learning curve". It means that what you are learning impresses itself upon your mind most emphatically the first time you hear it or learn about it. From there on, the information makes less of an impression as you align yourself with it. It begins to become part of your knowledge.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, too, is there a curve to your spiritual expansion. The difference between learning something cognitively and expanding spiritually is that the linear knowledge is usually based upon empirical evidence while the spiritual expansion is without limits.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What can stifle the acceptance of your expansion is the belief systems you begin to adopt as you expand. The initial information you received that made you aware of your expanding presence can take on a "this is the only truth" hue. Then it moves from becoming the catalyst to expansion and becomes an attachment to what you believe your reality is comprised of in your "newly found" expanding awareness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The trick to Mastery is letting go of every thing that you believe is creating the experience of the expansion and simply letting it happen. So today we look at simply letting it be. Does this make you uncomfortable? Do you need to keep things "your way"?<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Why do we come here to this dimension called Earth to expand?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i><br /><i>Come</i> here? Where are “we coming <i>from</i>”? All is a state of consciousness. When you go to sleep at night and dream do you leave “here”? No. You are simply in a different state of consciousness that human beings call the dream state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, too, is earth yet another dream state. You <i>are</i>. That is all. You simply <i>are</i>. In that <i>beingness</i>, you allow yourself to consciously emerge in different aspects of being aware. Human beings call this “being alive”. When you are not in your bodies you are considered <i>dead</i> and <i>gone</i>. The body may stop living yet the consciousness <i>is very much alive</i> and is expanding in its next state of awareness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, back to the question, why do we come here to expand? Why not? It’s here or </div><div style="text-align: justify;">somewhere else. Why not here?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Earth has duality, polarity and contrast and it offers a certain expansion experience, but why do you suppose it is so important to have this experience of free will if it is not likely that we need it in other </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>realms?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we begin to look at the belief system involved. Why would this experience be any more important than any other experience except for the hubris of humanity? Human beings (through their ego personality) foster a viewpoint that is completely self-reflective. <i>If it is not about me, what good is it?</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So this question reflects there is a belief that having this experience is important because it involves free will. Would you have it be differently? Would you like to give up the contrast and free will and then . . . what?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is there an emphasis on learning the experience of free because <i>we will need it in other realms?</i> What is so important about free will? Could it simply be another experience exercised here; perhaps in other realms, perhaps not? Can you simply <i>let it be?</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Under all of this questioning is the present viewpoint within mass consciousness that things need to change, the earth needs healing because humanity is running amuck, etc. Could it not be possible that everything simply is and that is all you need to pay attention to so as to feel your own contentment? Why does everything have to have some important, spiritual, off-the-charts meaning? Why do you </div><div style="text-align: justify;">believe that what is is not perfect exactly as it is? <i>If science is looking for the source of gravity (and they are), perhaps it is the weight of the good intentions of human beings weighing the earth down.</i> After all, isn’t part of the issue your inability to change things according to your belief system that makes you think something needs to be fixed?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human beings want to feel important . . . so this realm must be important . . . otherwise, oh, dear . . . perhaps you are not so overwhelmingly better than everything else after all! The hardest thought for a human being is that he/she is only as important as they see themselves and that importance is for them alone. There is such attachment to being important or as a friend of mine once said, “being the <i>one</i>”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Is it a sort of lesson we have to experience? Is it like passing a grade to move on to experience other dimensions?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Oh, this is one of my favorites – the <i>lesson</i> (drum roll, please). From the moment you could understand your native tongue, mom and dad taught you <i>lessons</i> about life. Then you went to school and the teacher taught you <i>lessons</i> – right up through college or university. Emerging into the world of business, homemaking, life itself is seen as a <i>lesson</i> since everything is “teaching” you something. The connotation here, again, is that something is wrong and needs to be corrected by the <i>lesson</i>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">You, as a human being, need to be <i>fixed</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>How about this?</i> Life is experience. No one actually teaches you anything(though they would like to believe they are). Mom and Dad superimpose their fears on you. The schools attempt to inculcate you in society’s values (all depending upon the school. I went to Catholic school and was taught everything </div><div style="text-align: justify;">differently, including history.) By the time you arrive at the beginning of maturity, you are so immersed within the benefits of being taught a lesson that you know no other way because you need to learn; you need to be fixed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How about this? Life is experience. Stop being attached to having to learn something. Rather, focus your attention on experiencing what you want your life to be. If you want a <i>lesson</i>, that <i>is</i> it – you are a human <i>being</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. What is the reason to come to Earth? Why would a Soul choose to experience duality, contrast or polarity? There must be a bigger reason?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I will begin my response here with another question: Why not? Let’s pretend we </div><div style="text-align: justify;">are eavesdropping on an inner conversation being held in the realm of soul life </div><div style="text-align: justify;">between lives:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Hmmm, what’s next? I’m feeling like an experience. Hmmm, what to choose. I could become aware of earth and really shake it up. After all, that frequency is filled with excitement and I could get really lost in it. Or I could focus in dimension _____ (fill in the blank); haven’t done that in a long time. I wonder if they’re still playing that game where they attempt to separate their one </div><div style="text-align: justify;">consciousness. Hmmm . . . </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“You know, I remember that earth was about to begin remembering itself. Now that could be fun. Become focused there again (last couple of times were a kick!), lose myself in earth’s amnesia and see what happens to remembering. Or maybe I won’t remember this time around. I’ll just play. Don’t really care. It’s all infinite. Okay, focus “earth”; let’s choose a body.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s earth or another focus of consciousness. The choice is yours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5. Why wouldn't we just choose to stay in a higher realm that would seem </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>more pleasant?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Again, I will answer with a question or two. How do you know you didn’t choose to stay in another realm and then later decided to focus here? How do you know or believe that other realms are more pleasant? And what in the world is a <i>higher realm</i>?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The answer to each of those questions is one: belief. Someone told you that there are higher realms. Someone told you that they are better or more pleasant. Someone told you that being <i>here</i> is less than being <i>there</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Realms, planes, dimensions – each of these words means a set of frequencies. Frequency is the number of times a wave moves up and down in its length. There are no realms, planes or dimensions to go to. <i>You can’t get on a plane and travel to the 13th dimension.</i> You <i>can</i> focus your consciousness on a frequency that you describe as the 13th dimension yet that doesn’t mean that is what it is. It is only </div><div style="text-align: justify;">true for you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All reality is relative – hence, the word reality. What is “real” to you is what is “relative” to you. The word “relative” stems from the Latin <i>relatus</i> – to carry back. So what is <i>relative</i> to you is based upon your perception of any realm as the information is carried back to you. Since you are a standing wave transmitting and receiving simultaneously, you can only <i>receive</i> what you <i>transmit</i>. It is your personal reality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>6. Are we all just lower evolved Beings that need to go through this realm to expand?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Now here is a great example of a belief system housing much, much attachment within the human race. If you really want to know where all of these beliefs stem from read the works of Zecharia Sitchin and the origin of religion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I will be brief here. In the origin of the species is the memory of being subjected to beings that were seen as “gods”. This belief is the basis for the Christian Bible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since most religious beliefs alive in planet earth rely on there being a <i>lesser</i> and a <i>greater</i> to control the population, mass consciousness has bought heavily into this belief system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Holding this belief in your reality keeps you small, restricts your self-worth, diminishes your ability to follow your passion in life, subjects you to the whims of others, leaves you feeling unfulfilled and strengthens your sense of separation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you know (rather than believe) that you are Source Consciousness in form focusing in this frequency dimension, no one and no thing can subjugate you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, it is also very easy then to step back and let it all <i>be</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>7. Is there some truth to karma? Do we come to Earth to amend karma from other incarnations?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Karma: the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Question: Who or what would do the punishing or rewarding? What belief system does this stem from and why would you want to believe it is true? See the answer(s) to question 6 and take some time to understand how all of these beliefs were created to control a population during a specific time in history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the same time, there may be a feeling that you would like to focus consciousness in a certain frequency dimension that you have experienced to bring better understanding of a certain aspect of it i.e., you have been a female in the earth dimension so it would be fun to focus on being a male, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>8. Why would we come from a place that we are AWAKE and then come here to REMEMBER to awaken? Or have we elected to come here to help Earth in some way?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Questions: What does “awake” mean to you? How do you know you were “awake” in another dimension? Who told you that you were? You couldn’t possibly know that you were because if that were true, you would not ask this question. Once you are awake, you remain awake – whatever that means to you. It is all relative. It is all your personal reality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The idea of being awake is the recognition, the remembrance, that there is no separation – of any thing, any one, any where. There is no space or time. Once you are aware of that you are awake and you will remain so. The fact that you are asking the question means that you are getting very close to remembering that you are awake. Forgetting that you are awake is not only experienced in the earth </div><div style="text-align: justify;">realm, it is experienced in many other dimensions, as well. Re-membering is the basis of the fun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is Source sourcing itself as all experiences simultaneously, infinitely. Read that sentence again. Source IS all simultaneous experience infinitely; that means in every connotation <i>of</i> time or space, every idea of <i>no</i> time or no space, infinitely, everywhere and no where.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is no judge.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is no suffering unless you choose to experience your reality as something that you don’t like.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If your experience is outside of your alignment with your passion, you will experience it as suffering.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You will attempt to fix it or place the blame for the “wrongs” of the world on someone or something.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">All you need do is re-focus on your passion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source is experiencing itself as you as your passion.<br /><br /></div>--<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich is a Master Teacher, mysticand quantum physical researcher with a ministerial doctorate in metaphysics. She is the author of </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Call – Awakening the</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Angelic Human,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> and its accompanying CD,DNA Re-Awakening, </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">You –A Field Guide, Finding an End to Seeking</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">DeLight of the Orbs and Speakingof Light</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. Toni teaches metaphysics and the sacred connection withinthrough her Meta yoU classes, guided meditation CDs, DVD production and videopresentations. www.youaresacred.com</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-8180446447587808207?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-3059230781776727122011-09-12T15:48:00.000-07:002011-11-08T17:22:08.545-08:00Parenting, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Often we tend to think, that as parents, our job is to protect our offspring from experiencing pain. Naturally we want them to have only positive life experiences. However, this is often not realistic. Even if we were able to micro-manage our childrens lives and so prevent them from hardship, we wouldn’t be doing them any favors. As a matter of fact, we most likely would be hindering their growth!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a friend of mine once replied to his mother in response to her profuse apology for having failed him, “But mom, you’re implying you don’t like the way I’ve turned out! We both know it took every thing I’ve been through to be who I am today and I happen to like the me I’ve become! Don’t you?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course we should do everything possible to learn how to be the best parents we can be! Reading how-to books about healthier communication with our children and exchanging ideas with other parents is important. Seeking family counseling when it’s indicated can be essential for proper healing. But it’s also important that we as parents understand that our job is not about preventing our children’s pain. We can’t! We do and say things to our children that feel and in fact are abusive in spite of our best efforts. There’s no preventing it. Children do not get through childhood unscathed. And, more important … Perhaps they’re not supposed to!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What if childhood was designed by nature to be an initiation? Could it be that the wounds of childhood are part of the necessary journey towards be coming mature and capable adults? We certainly know that how children respond to adverse circumstances will influence them for the rest of their life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many third world cultures pre meditate rites of passage for their youth. If you were to study some of these initiation rites for African or Aboriginal tribes, you might be disturbed at the severity of the trials set in place. Adolescent boys, for instance, might be sent out, naked and hungry, into the jungle and not allowed to return until they killed a predatory animal. A hardship of some type must be endured by each youth in order to be accepted as a worthy adult member of the tribe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is easy for us to judge such rites as uncivilized and cruel. We might even describe them as abusive behavior, unjustly wrought against the youth of a people who don’t know any better. We tend to think that we are “too civilized” to indulge in such painfully primal practices. But it doesn’t take listening to many of our own people’s hor rendous childhood histories to see how rampant incivility is in this country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whereas initiations are per formed with deliberate intention among tribal peoples, we leave it to accident or happen stance. Theirs are rites which have been designed by tribal elders for centuries. Their practices originate out of an ancient under standing that people are shaped and strengthened by what they go through. There is an acknowledgement that strong character is built from struggle … that victory is hard earned. They understand that self mastery and fulfillment results from overcoming hardship.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Every one of us has endured some type of initiation through childhood. Unfortunately, it was probably performed with out intention, or even awareness. A rite of passage gone awry, we are too often kicked through the doorway of life by parents who were themselves mindlessly initiated. As a result, we fail to glean the possibilities that might have come from our adversities. No one ever shared with us that strength comes from pain endured. That patience and tenacity is earned through long standing tribulation. That compassion, and a sense of otherness is gained from heart break. Instead, we saw nothing beyond cruelty as the reason for some of the things we endured. We balked at the idea that any thing positive could have possibly come from such horrendous treatment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rather than being able to see strength of character or resilience as attributes we have earned through hard times, we learn instead to shrink away from life, avoiding pain at all costs. Out of this aversion to internal duress, we tend to either repeat what was done to us, or swing to the opposite extreme, vowing never to do to our children what was done to us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But, we too are destined to become the unwitting initiators of our children. Our own unhealed childhoods prompt us to unconsciously react in ways which end up wounding them. Even our attempts to protect them can be hurtful: Jenna’s father, who had witnessed his own father sexually abuse his sisters. He went to great extremes in order to prevent the possibility that he might ever demonstrate such behavior with his own daughter. He acted in the only way he knew to prevent such a thing from happening. He avoided her. She took his shun as rejection. His attempt to protect her left her with an abandonment wound she has struggled with through out her life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes, through our efforts to cushion our children from struggle we end up depriving them of important, albeit painful lessons. Children need to experience some hardship in order to learn how to deal with the inevitable blows of real life. If ones early years are too easy, then one does not acquire the necessary skills for dealing with life. Besides, childhood hardship may very well be a rite of passage designed to direct us towards finding our very purpose for being here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Child hood is not supposed to be a protected environment, free from all tribulation! Nature designed children to be tough and resilient so that they can with stand the falling down and knocking about that inevitably goes with the business of growing up. This is how they find out what works and what doesn’t. They must learn through experience the survival skills they will need later in life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Children are not supposed to be treated as fragile, delicate pieces of break able stuff! And if we treat them so then we risk instilling in them a lack of confidence towards being able to handle life. We have become so worried that we are going to be seen as abusers, that we are afraid to do anything that might cause our children discomfort! It’s as if we think it’s somehow wrong to discipline or set restrictions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are beginning to see a backlash as a result of such over-therapied thinking. Our children are turning on us. With self will run riot, these undisciplined children have never known appropriate boundaries. When we become afraid of our children they become that which is to be feared.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our children need to sense that we are in charge. They need freedom within structure. This gives them an assurance of safety from which they can create, express, and explore. It’s necessary for us as parents to provide a balance between limitation and liberty which is age-appropriate. Instead, parents tend to go to extremes. Neither being too demanding nor being wishy-washy push overs work well. Having more “yes’s” than “no’s” in a childs life does work. But the “no’s” need to be final! Every child deserves to know what his or her bottom lines are! Dealing with limits is one of the important tasks of childhood. It is part of the preparation for life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also our job, as parents, is to let our children know that life is not fair, or pain less. That it is not designed to be. That, in fact, they will be better prepared to handle life as a result of the deprivations they must endure. We help them under stand that childhood can be a rite of passage designed to direct them towards finding their very purpose. Their most painful times can actually strengthen and refine them into being the best they can be, especially with a little guidance. But we must let them face their ordeals with out running interference for them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The greatest truth that we can arrive at regarding our children is to understand that they are not ours. We do not own them. We are given a very beautiful and sacred trust with them. That is all. This blood connection we have with them assigns us the responsibility and the right to come into real, authentic relationship with them. A relationship fraught with tears and anger, distance and rebuff, as well as joy and love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Neither are they extensions of us. They will probably see the world very differently than we do. We can not predict or manage how that will be. Accepting these truths can free us. We are not responsible for how they turn out … we are responsible for how we turn out. Their respond-ability is up to them. We can not govern that. It is their choice. Like them, we can only decide what we will do with what life hands us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we had been given to understand that childhood is an initiation, how might we be different? If our parents had understood that their job was to take us through often painful rites of passage, how differently might we have turned out? What if we had been given a frame work of understanding such as tribal people provide their children throughrites of passage? A frame work that said, “Yes, this is going to be hard … you may not even live through it … but there is purpose to it. Through this ordeal you will find new meaning. You will come away better prepared to deal with your life. Your ability to handle these hard times will determine your very success. You will be stronger. You may even find your life’s purpose.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have the opportunity to make conscious our roles as initiators for our children. It’s up to us to do the best we can to treat our children with respect without standing in the way of their life experiences. Allow them the refinement which their struggles can bring. This is our challenge.<br /><br />--<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">Lynne Forrest is a non-traditional practitioner who has been in private practice for twenty six years, and the author of a new book, <a href="http://amzn.to/beyondvictim">Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness</a>. Find her on the web at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/">www.lynneforrest.com</a> or <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/blog">www.lynneforrest.com/blog</a>. These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at <a href="http://www.lynneforrest.com/html/another_way.html">Another Way Center</a>: (423) 698-0814.</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-305923078177672712?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-41328778013004655252011-09-08T14:12:00.000-07:002011-09-12T17:27:08.619-07:00Compulsions and Health, by Mary Cook.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One of the hallmarks of compulsive disorders is the inability to satiate craving, for other than brief periods of time, after which more intense craving results. This dynamic amplifies, the longer the compulsion has been practiced. In later stages of compulsive and addictive disorders, the level of desperation to avoid non-drugged or non-modified internal states is formidable. The farther we travel from honest reflection and compassionate personal inquiry, the more problems and pain we create and attract. The more we focus on escaping and artificially altering discomfort, the more negative energy we give and receive, and the greater helplessness and hopelessness we experience. Our world becomes smaller because we are empowering our ego personality, which directs us from habit and fear. We are increasingly controlled and imprisoned by dark forces inside and around us, because we have made the object of our compulsion our Higher Power. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Compulsions represent areas where we need healing. We cannot obtain sufficient sex to compensate for the lack of healthy role models and demonstrations of mature love in our life. Compulsions with food will not insure our safety, our sense of control, nor will they satisfy our needs to nourish ourselves mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. The adrenalin highs and fantasy life of the compulsive gambler do not counter depression from past lack of consistent emotional support and personal appreciation. Compulsive shopping, money and material possessions cannot compete with commitments to personal healing and spiritual growth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Compulsive aggression or violence gives the outward illusion of power and control, but actually amplifies internal feelings of vulnerability and helplessness. A life style of crises, drama or excessive busyness and over-stimulation, intensifies and increases the frequency of personal painful thoughts, feelings and memories. All efforts to block out pain, act upon it aggressively or escape it through artificial euphoria or defensiveness, compounds and complicates our original problem and its roots. Just as material gifts cannot possibly compensate for sick, toxic, abusive, or unavailable parents, empowering the minds’ incessant desires and demands does not result in happiness and health. Instead, it leads to feelings of despair and emptiness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When our behaviors are attempts to defend against or release painful feelings that are not processed, healed, understood or integrated in a mature manner, we attract and create more experiences that trigger the same painful feelings. When we are afraid of true intimacy, we block emotionally vulnerable connections with others. Doing so indicates that we have previously disconnected from a meaningful, heartfelt relationship with ourselves. Relationships then are typically superficial and focused on satisfying objectified needs. Sometimes this pattern exists only in romantic or family relationships, because vulnerability to pain is greater there. When we relate to others primarily from our mind, rather than from our heart and soul, the essence of true bonding and spiritual energy is missing. Thus relationships do not evolve to challenge and enrich us, but rather remain stagnant or deteriorate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The effects of compulsive disorders on our bodies can be primary or secondary. Alcohol and other drug addictions, eating disorders and sexual compulsions have a direct negative impact on physical health. Other compulsions as with gambling, shopping and work lead to damage from excessive adrenalin in the system. With the exception of physical sensations which trigger the compulsion, we become desensitized to our body as a valuable guide and vehicle for spiritual growth on earth. The over-focus on habitually satisfying the five senses and compulsive desires, prevents us from experiencing physical balance, harmony and a sense of wholeness. As compulsive disorders progress, healthy sleep, exercise and diet suffer. All of this opens the door to numerous health problems and disease.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Compulsions reinforce the less evolved part of our brain and interfere with higher brain functioning. Thus we remain mentally in a state of survival with a high level of stress hormones present. Habit is perpetuated and our mental focus is limited to seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. How we think and feel about ourselves lacks depth and breadth. Our thoughts focus on obtaining, wanting and needing, which means we view ourselves as insufficient, incomplete and deprived. Understanding ourselves and life is severely limited because we are not living creatively and proactively.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Compulsions greatly interfere with conscious awareness of our spiritual being, our faith, and our relationship with our Higher Power. Interactions with others devoid of spiritual energy are draining and difficult. True happiness, health, love, and life fulfillment is beyond our reach. Since spirit and soul make up our core essence and are the only part of us that is eternal, we remain in a downward spiral of negativity until we become willing to re-examine and change how we’ve been living. One of the hallmarks of spiritual recovery is lack of strong craving, for we know what is of primary importance is contained within us and our relationship to our true Higher Power.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">-- </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.marycookma.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.marycookma.com/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Mary Cook is the author of “Grace Lost and Found: From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity”, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, etc. </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Lost-Found-Compulsions-Satisfaction/dp/1573244686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257717933&sr=1-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Lost-Found-Compulsions-Satisfaction/dp/1573244686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257717933&sr=1-1</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> She has 35 years of clinical practice and 29 years of university teaching experience. She is a national speaker and has a private practice in San Pedro, CA. Mary is available for telephone and office counseling, guided meditation, speaking engagements and in-service training. Click </span><a href="http://WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM/compheal.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> to read the original post.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4132877801300465525?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-6355154369813834772011-09-08T13:40:00.000-07:002011-09-08T13:45:22.408-07:00Colon Hydrotherapy, by Clara McComber.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Colon Hydrotherapy is an ancient method of natural healing, utilizing water to cleanse and heal the body. Enemas are a basic form of Colon Hydrotherapy in its most basic form that more people are familiar with. Enemas are recorded as early as 1500 B.C. in the “Ebers Papyrus”, an ancient Egyptian medical document.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the early 1900’s, several physicians brought attention to Colon Hydrotherapy. James A Wiltsie M.D. and Joseph Waddington M.D. both placed tremendous value on the therapeutic benefit of this modality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Waddington once stated: “Abnormal functioning of the intestinal canal is the precursor of much ill health, especially of chronic disease condition . Restoration of physiologic intestinal elimination is often first, but, too often ignored, important preliminary to eventual restoration of the health in general.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Wiltsie followed through the theory by saying: “Our knowledge of normal and abnormal physiology of the colon, and of its pathology and management, has not kept pace with that of many organs and systems of the body. As long as we continue to assume that the colon will take care of itself, just that long we will remain in complete ignorance of perhaps the most importance of fill health in the whole body.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, physicians, naturopathic doctors and chiropractors recommend Colon Hydrotherapy as part of a holistic healing program.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Douglas M. Brodie, M.D. of Reno, Nevada, an oncologist and homeopath was quoted in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients ( August/September 2000 issue in the article “Value of Colon Hydrotherapy Verified by Medical Professionals ): “ I do recommend that most of my cancer patients take colon hydrotherapy or ‘colonic irrigation’ because they often improve by having such treatment…..It’s better than an enema, which is merely a lower bowel cleanse, as opposed to a colonic which is a thorough cleanse of the entire bowel. It’s similar to comparing the diagnostic efficacy of a sigmoidoscopy of the short end of the bowel to a colonoscopy which takes in the whole bowel. An enema only goes so far. Colon Hydrotherapy is the best cleansing and detoxifier for the gastrointestinal tract that anybody could want. I do promote its use.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colon Hydrotherapy cleanses the colon by using water as a medium to loosen and break down the impacted material through repeated flushing with varied water temperature, so that the material can be flushed out and can no longer harm the body or inhibit assimilation and elimination. Also, the colon muscles are exercised during this process; in time, it is possible for muscle tone to be regained and the distended colon to be reshaped. Of course, Colon Hydrotherapy helps to hydrate the body. Our bodies are over 70 % water. In addition, there are reflex points in the colon connected to every system and organ in the body. Thus, as the colon is cleansed, the reflex points can be better stimulated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The colon or large intestine can be viewed as the sewer system of the body. It is at the end of the digestive tract/alimentary canal and is 5 to 5 ½ feet long.; it is an organ that is made up of muscle tissue that move toxic materials and waste along and out of the body through peristaltic action ( wave like motions ). When waste builds up in the colon, then putrefaction occurs i.e. decay; think of a trash can that has had food waste sitting in it for a while and how rotting takes place. Consequently, autointoxification occurs as the toxins are back-flushed through the entire body because the colon is backed up, and the entire body is contaminated. Toxins can be found in every cell, organ and system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When a person is constipated, the walls of the colon are lined with impacted accumulated feces, which provides a good home and breeding ground for bacteria, parasites and candida albicans. Oftentimes, hardened mucous, also known as mucoid placque, is part of the impacted material which can contribute to even more constipation as the peristaltic action of the colon muscles is hampered.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Constipation can be caused by insufficient hydration, insufficient intake of fiber, unhealthy nutrition, imbalanced inner ecology ( including lower count of good bacteria to bad bacteria in the colon ), chemicals, environmental toxins ( endotoxins and exotoxins ), high emotional tension, stress, injury, trauma, to name just some factors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a healthy colon, the ratio of good bacteria ( flora ) to bad bacteria is 80/20; in an unhealthy colon the ratio of good bacteria to bad bacteria can be totally reversed to 20/80.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In order to cleanse the body, a thorough cleaning of the colon has to be the first step of an effective cleansing program. Thus, the other systems of elimination, including the liver, kidneys, lungs, skin and lymphatic system can systematically release built-up toxins and be able to function optimally also. It’s basically a domino effect.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It takes time for toxic material to build up, sometimes years, which can create for a body to exhibit “dis-ease”. Keeping this in mind, it then takes time to reverse the process through cleaning the body with the assistance of Colon Hydrotherapy and other cleanses.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When the colon is eliminating waste material efficiently, then the whole digestion tract benefits and the assimilation of nutrients is optimized.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">80 % of the immune cells are located in the colon. The immune system cannot be built up in a toxic body, only in a body with a minimal amount of accumulated toxic material. At this point in time on this planet, our enviroment is polluted to such a degree that cleansing on a periodic basis ( frequency and timing depending on a person’s health condition, where a person lives and other personal factors ) is important. We take our cars in for regular tune-ups, lubing and changing of fluids to keep them in good, safe working conditions. Similarly and more importantly, I feel that our bodies need periodic cleansing, good nutrition, love, joy and care not only for good health, but to be able to be strong and vibrant vehicles for our spirit, to hold more and more light and higher and higher frequencies as we evolve.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indications for Colon Hydrotherapy: the history and physical examination of the patient (by the physician) would dictate the need for colon hydrotherapy in the overall treatment plan. Colon Hydrotherapy has been shown to be beneficial for the following conditions:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Acute Fecal Impaction</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Constipation</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Colitis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Diarrhea</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Parasitic Infection</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Atonic Colon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Mucous Colitis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Fever Therapy</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Hyper/Hypothermia</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Paraplegics & Quadriplegics (Bowel Training)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Prevention</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Abdominal Distention/Flatulence</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Hemorrhoids (mild to moderate)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Intestinal Toxemia</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Nutrient Supplementation via Rectum</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Diverticulosis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Balance Physiologic Flora of Large Intestine</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Preparation for Diagnostic Study of the Large Intestine</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Barium Enema</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Sigmoidscopy and Colonoscopy</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Surgery</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indications under prescription and direct physician supervision:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Diverticulitis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Ulcerative Colitis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Crohn’s Disease</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Contraindications for Colon Hydrotherapy:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Severe Cardiac Disease; i.e. uncontrolled hypertension, congestive heart failure of organic valve disease</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Aneurysm</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Severe Anemia</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· GI Hemorrhage/perforation</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Severe hemorrhoids</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Cirrhosis</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Carcinoma of the Colon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Fissures/Fistulas</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Advance Pregnancy</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Abdominal Hernia</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Recent Colon Surgery</div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Renal Insufficiency</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Environmental Toxins:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Environmental toxins can be found in the air, (indoor air is 70% more polluted than outdoor air), water, and soil. Toxic material can be also found in food, cleaning products, personal care products, furniture, carpeting, paints, etc. Hazardous material is released into the air from cars and various industries. What you put on your body ( lotions, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, makeup etc.) is as important as what you eat since your skin is the largest organ of your body and will absorb whatever you put on it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Environmental toxins belong to the group that is termed primary toxic suppressors (the term coined by Dr. William R. Kellas and Dr. Andrea Sharon Dworkin, authors of “Surviving the Toxic Crisis”). Primary environmental toxins come from electromagnetic pollution (power lines, cell phones, computers, microwaves, etc.), chemicals/solvents, metals, air and water pollution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> As an example, chlorine, which is added to water to disinfect it, is a health challenge as it combines with other pollutants. In a ten minute average shower, the human body can absorb the same amount of chlorine as if you drank 20 gallons of tap water. In addition, hot water from a shower releases chloroform, one of many chemicals which has been linked to increased incidences of colon and rectal cancer as well as bladder cancer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(“Terrain is Everything” by Susan Stockton). Shower filters and whole house water filtration systems are available to filter out chlorine and other chemicals from water. Taking this simple step not only benefits your health but also improves the condition of your skin and your hair.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Heavy metals can be found in the air, water, in the pipes of houses, cans, seafood, to name a few. Mercury poses a significant health challenge to the gastrointestinal tract. Silver dental fillings are comprised of 50% of mercury; the other 50% is comprised of other metals. Mercury toxicity can cause constipation, bloating gas, rashes, and frequent night urination. Mercury accumulated in the system interferes with the assimilation of nutrients and waste excretion from the cells and harms the immune system (“Surviving the Toxic Crisis” by Dr. William R. Kellas and Dr. Andrea Sharon Dworkin). In my years of practice as a Colon Hydrotherapist, I have witnessed people with the condition of candidiasis, particularly in severe cases (imbalance of yeast/fungus in the system), being able to balance the condition when they address the issue of mercury also.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Holistic doctors and natural healthcare practitioners can provide simple tests to measure the levels of toxicity of heavy metals in the body. Intravenous chelation, oral chelation, and chelation through suppositories are various ways that can help clear heavy metals out of the body, plus vegetable juicing using cilantro in the mixture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aluminum is another prevalent metal found in cookware, aluminum foil, antiperspirant, antacids, paint, cosmetics, baking powder and some over the counter drugs. Aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer’s Disease. All toxic metals have adverse affect on our health.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Emotional and Spiritual Aspects to Healing:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The body is of the densest vibration in this dimension. The body is affected by thoughts, emotions, stress, nutrition, level of hydration, and the environment, including planetary alignment, sun flares and earth activity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On my own healing journey and in my years of practice as a healer, I have had the experience and the privilege of witnessing people healing on the spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical levels. Besides cleansing and nutritional support, spiritual practices, emotional healing, working with the subconscious mind and re-educating belief systems that are without benefit, has helped greatly to heal me and others on all levels.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first chakra ( root chakra ), the second chakra (the sacral chakra) and the third chakra (the solar plexus chakra), are energy centers associated with the bottom half of the torso. The fourth chakra (the heart chakra), the fifth chakra (the throat chakra), the sixth chakra (the brow chakra) and the seventh chakra (the crown chakra) are associated with the upper torso. In my experience, the issues corresponding to the first three chakras need to be addressed and healed first before the upper chakras can be further opened, healed and balanced. For example, safety issues need to be healed in order for the heart chakra to be opened. Issues around the first chakra are related to survival/ security issues including safety issues, support, money, shelter, food, to name a few. The primary emotion is of fear.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Issues associated with the second chakra are primarily related to sexuality and creativity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Issues around the third chakra (which run through the transverse colon) are related to power, will and potency.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first three chakras listed above, are associated with the lower torso where the colon resides. According to Louise Hay, author of “You Can Heal Your Life”, probable cause of dis-ease in the colon is the fear of letting go of the past; holding onto the past. Her suggested affirmation for this is “I easily release that which I no longer need. The past is over and I am free”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Karol Truman, author of “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die” (revised and updated edition 2003), further delineates the issues of the three sections of the colon: Ascending: not being generous to yourself (need to be). Transverse: not being open/truthful to self and others. Descending: unable to be relaxed within yourself. Old belief systems are stored in the colon energetically. In my years as a Colon Hydrotherapist, I have seen over and over again when people verbalize what is challenging for them and also emote at the same time, the body releases much quicker and in copious amounts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My own daily spiritual practices include meditation, prayers, blessings, and journaling. I journal to release and heal emotions and also to work with the subconscious mind with the tool of non-dominant handwriting (for a right hander, the non-dominant hand would be the left hand; for the left hander, the non-dominant hand would be the right hand) to access what is hidden and that I am not aware of. Through the process of non-dominant hand writing, the ego is bypassed and much information can be gathered from the right brain. Through this powerful yet simple tool, one can dialogue with the unconscious internal aspects of self, such as the inner child, the critic, the judge, the perfectionist, the controller, in order to uncover hidden issues so that they can be brought forth to be healed. What you uncover, discover, can be healed and transformed. What you are not aware of, runs your life. I dialogue with the internal aspects of self regarding the issues that need to be healed which include the first three chakra issues listed previously.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On my path and in my work of assisting others on their healing path, I have experienced and witnessed negative thoughts and challenging feelings affecting the body, which can create challenges in the body if they are not addressed and healed. In addition, a toxic body can also affect the brain, thinking and emotions. Hence, it is important to not only cleanse the body through therapies such as Colon Hydrotherapy, other cleanses and holistic healing therapies, but to work actively on a regular basis to clear emotional toxins, heal the related emotional traumas and spiritual and psychological wounds. Since there is zero separation of the spirit, mind and body, it is vital to address healing in all these areas. One can only become whole and healthy when there is conscious commitment to healing based on self love and self acceptance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Through my own journey of healing, as I worked with cleansing my body, working with my emotional, psychological and spiritual healing, my body has shifted and healed dramatically. I have lived through a number of experiences, including anorexia nervosa at the age of 18 (down to 58 pounds), severe immune disorders, spinal surgery, plus severe breathing challenges in the lungs and nose and severe depression, all of which are now healed. Today, I am strong, healthy, vibrant and thriving with my own business assisting others to heal on all levels. I have much more joy, peace and balance in my life, for which I am very grateful. I continue to learn, heal, grow and evolve. I feel honored to be of service to others and to be able to make a contribution from the lessons of my experiences and completions.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Clara McComber was born in Hong Kong, In 1981, she moved to the United States to study music at the University of Redlands in California where she received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Piano Performance. In 1991, due to severe health challenges related to the immune system, respiratory system and past traumas, Clara moved to Flagstaff, Arizona where she connected with holistic healers who were instrumental in assisting her journey to wellness. n 2000, with her health dramatically improved, Clara started her holistic healing practice, the Center for Radiant Health, based in Flagstaff, Arizona. Today, she is a teacher, speaker, intuitive healer and Certified Colon Hydro-therapist. Her intent is to be of service to others and to empower them to make changes and heal on all levels. Click here to see the original post: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://powerofradiance.com/Teaching.html">http://powerofradiance.com/Teaching.html</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-635515436981383477?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-62755939576982111562011-09-08T12:54:00.000-07:002011-09-08T12:56:08.253-07:00Your Divinity and Your Personality, by Shelly Dressel.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ultimately, this channel was taking the one from the first of this month (July 2011) about manifesting a million dollars to the next level. During this channel, the Goddess assisted each person in creating a deeper connection within them. From that connection, she was able to help show how to accept more of who you are. This can manifest in different ways. Sometimes it’s about being able to accomplish things. Other times it’s an inner awareness that goes beyond specific words.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Much of this channel consisted of the Goddess assisting people with discerning what is their divinity and what is personality. As she refers to personality, it’s that whole of what makes you human. Some may refer to this as their ego. Her point in bringing up the difference is for people to find within themselves which is which. When you build a life based on desires from your personality, it may feel disconnected, empty and shallow. When you recognize what your divinity is and what evolves from that it will feel rich, fulfilled, content and expanded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In most people, it’s a combination; the key for you to discern is where is the foundation for the majority of your life, your intention or your awareness. She also assisted you in creating an alignment from your stream of consciousness through your I AM presence so that you could know more of who you are and what you have to draw from in terms of past experiences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Therefore, when it comes to manifesting anything within your life, the stronger, more centered you are on a foundation of divinity; the greater your potentials and more expanded your manifestation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nama sika; venia benya I AM the one, I AM the whole</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I greet you beloved family. I send out my love to each one of you. I flow to you the essence of who I am, so that I may feel the alignment of who you are!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is such a joy to be able to come and share this time with you. It feels as if there is so much happening, not only in the entire world, but within each one of you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It feels as if everybody is shifting and moving at a much more accelerated pace than they have been in the past. This is in response to the ascension process, but it is also in response to the choices that you make within your life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I invite everyone to take this moment and make a choice to feel relaxed, to let go whatever may be around you and allow yourself to think only of this moment. Think only of no breath, your consciousness and your intention to go where ever these energies may take you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I always appreciate speaking a bit at the very beginning like this, because I can see you letting go the tension and the burdens that you carry around with you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So now, as you are ready to do so, I invite you to take in one more deep breath breathing down within the center of your being and then as you breathe out; consciously let go your physical body. Allow your consciousness to release in such a way that it shifts into the space of the magnetic grid.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As it arrives here within this space let yourself feel what it is. This is the space where you connect with your higher self. This is the space where you allow an even greater amount of your divinity to link with you. Feel it and take it in for what it is to you. Some may have a perception of interlocking pathways; some may feel a space of pure consciousness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you are ready to do so, I invite you to let go the magnetic pull of the earth. I invite you to let your energies expand in such a way that you can feel the essence of the crystalline grid. As you allow yourself to merge within this space open to the feel the various shifts in consciousness and energy as they flow through here. Some may have a perception of the gradients and energy, others may just have a sense of it all, as one energy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I invite you to shift once more; this time, allow yourself to shift into the space of the soul plane. Reach out for your divinity. As you have a sense of opening up the flow of your consciousness put forth the intention to link with your I AM presence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you feel this essence, as you feel this energy move within and around you, allow yourself to open to the perception of the many, many, many facets that make up who you are. As you allow your consciousness to shift in such a way you take in even more of the variances that have created who you are.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I the Goddess move in and amongst all of you. I reach out and embrace each one of you. As I do so, you will find yourself shifting into the space of the All That Is. As you arrive here within the All That Is, I invite you to let yourself fly as if you are flying free.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you know this is a place of creation. This is a place where you can truly be who you are. You can practice various potentials. You can get to know the various aspects of not only this life but that make up your divinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As we are gathering within this space I’m listening to the various communications that you send to me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is much that I would like to speak with you about this evening. The last time that we work together, we worked on the steps that it would take to manifest $1 million. There was so much fun and excitement around that experience!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I gave you some steps that you can follow. I worked with your energy to assist in releasing whatever may be standing in the way and then by the end of the whole evening, I saw everybody in the space of collecting their million dollars up to 10 and 20 million. There were a number of people, who had decided to just think even bigger. This is by no means the only way to do this, it is but one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I wanted to come back and revisit this again with this journey this evening. I invite you to take in a deep breath, and as you do so reach out as if you are being handed --perhaps a check, perhaps a money order, perhaps the cash for $1 million, and as you take this into your hand let yourself feel, whatever it is, that goes through you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Allow yourself to tap into even more deeply what this experience is for you. The vast majority of you are now very comfortable with this amount of money. So I would like to take this in a couple of different directions this evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the things that I would like to speak with you about is what might be divine thoughts or divine actions versus those that are based in your ego. Now, through Shelly we sometimes we refer to your ego as your personality. If I speak either one of those they are intended to be interchangeable, because when we speak of one’s personality everyone knows they get a feel for what that is about that individual. When we speak of one’s ego, it is sometimes associated in a negative connotation or as a limited connotation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And so for the purpose of what we are doing we will call your personality or your ego that part of you that is your human existence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you take in a deep breath and you let your focus go within your heart center allow yourself to be here in the space of the All That Is and really truly know and feel your divinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now for this next step, some of you may have a specific sense or idea and others may have just a very vague sense. But I would like you to have a sense of turning around and looking back at your divinity. As you do this I invite you to follow your energies as if through a stream of consciousness so that you may link with your I AM presence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you do so, ask to know what some of your lifetimes may have been. Again it may be a general sense of knowledge, it may be specific. If you are coming up blank then take in a deep breath with me, [Deep breath] and as I breathe through I’d clear out the energies and invite you to once more look towards this space and be open to truly feel the alignment with your divinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many of you feel this as a wash of love. You feel it as a wash of strength. You may see or sense it in other manners. It is important for you to be open and acknowledge who you are at your core being.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you consider things in your daily life, consider yourself as you are walking through your life. You are very conscious of the aspects of the elements that come in as your divinity. As you consider some of the accomplishments in your life, there may be a part of you that has a sense of feeling; “I did it, I accomplished my goal and I did it”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I invite you to go to that place in your life when you’ve had that feeling. As you do so in this moment in time, as you are in that space of alignment, open up and for some it may feel as if you are peeling away a couple of layers but peel away until you get down to your core being and when you align with this accomplishment; let yourself have a sense of your foundation was it to your divinity or was it based in your personality. For many it’s a blend of the two and often times it’s difficult to discern one from the other.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, I invite you to consider again; perhaps it’s an accomplishment, but consider a time in your life in which you succeeded. Perhaps you won at a game, perhaps you won an award. Who knows what it may be. But consider a time in which you were acknowledged for your accomplishment and it felt good but perhaps there was something lacking.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The question here is; did it feel like whatever you are seeking had its foundation in your personality or your ego aspect as opposed to your divinity? There is a difference. I know how much all of you have been very dedicated upon your personal journey. You have chosen what you seek to have. You have chosen to create a greater alignment with your divinity. You have chosen to move to the ascension process in whatever form that may mean to you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us consider accomplishments that you may seek to have in your everyday life. Think of yourself in the life that you are living and think of some of the things. Let’s start with that you may already have. Are there perhaps many either materialistic or things outside of yourself that you surround yourself with?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let me be very clear upfront that there is absolutely nothing wrong with having lots of material things around you. It’s a glorious way for you to experience life; and I believe that everybody should have as much of whatever it is that they seek to have. Now having said that let’s come back around to the things that you have within your life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you consider some of them, does it give you a sense of accomplishment or does it align with you within your heart center and within your divinity as it manifests in your physical being? Now you may say; “it all feels the same” and that’s fine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Continue to go through your life, perhaps think of some of the accomplishments that you’ve had. Have their perhaps been things that you have accomplished or experienced and you did so because it would give you perhaps a certain status or perhaps it would give you the job you are seeking, the home you wish to have? My purpose here is for you to consider the things that you have manifested or that you have wanted and when you tap into these energies you can feel the difference.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is an alignment with me when I am in my connection to divinity and then other things that you have done or accomplished, and it feels somewhat disconnected from you. It feels like something you did and you enjoyed it and it was just what you wanted, but it left you feeling empty or perhaps alone and lonely. Whenever you have accomplished something that you were seeking to have and it leads you with a sense of emptiness, loneliness or disconnect, then you have shifted away from your divinity and into your personality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you consider whatever it is that you seek to have, is it something that makes you joyous and happy from within your inner being or is it something that you feel is going to make you happy once you get there? It is sometimes very difficult to ascertain the differences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I would therefore invite you to begin to practice asking yourself that question. Do I want this because it’s in alignment with my divinity and my soul choice? You may at first get the, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know answer. You may always get that answer. But my sense is that the more you ask that question of yourself with the pure intention of awareness you will begin to discern very easily: is this based in my divinity, or is based in my ego and personality?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You may find as you begin to create an even deeper alignment with your divinity through this exercise that you manifest even greater material things within your life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let’s come back around to that million dollars that we’ve been talking about for this month, of money, meaning July 2011. As you are here within your divinity and as you link with your human self upon the earth, I invite you to again step into that space of the money that I handed you just a bit go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With this greater clarity, what is your sense of having this money within your money, within your money field, ha-ha within your energy field?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am noticing that a number of you recognize that you have barriers in place because manifesting a large amount of money is not divine or manifesting this amount of money is materialistic and that’s a negative thing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So even though you may want it in a part of you there is another part of you equally strongly putting on the brakes and throwing up barriers. So breathe down deeply within yourself and as you do so have a sense of clearing out any resistance, clear out belief that no longer work for you, clear out any obstructions that you may have.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you seek to have a greater understanding of the alignment between this value or this amount of money then reach in to your I AM presence. I can guarantee that every single one of you at one point or another throughout this stream of your consciousness has had riches beyond what you could imagine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, you have already done this. You already have it set up and available to you as a support mechanism. Breathe deeply inviting the flow of that support and inviting the flow of that energy to come up within you creating a greater foundation within you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am going to shift gears and ask you another question. Has there ever been an occasion within your life in which you thought you were capable of amazing things? Perhaps it was a creativity within you, perhaps it’s your intelligence, perhaps it’s your ability to organize, who knows what it may be.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But is there anything within your life that you’ve considered and then perhaps it was when you were growing up and your parents said this or perhaps you yourself have said this, ”Oh, that’s okay, lots of people can do that.” In other words, you downplay your ability.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps another phrase that you may have used with yourself or someone have may have used with you is “you’re egotistical if you think that”. And again that time I use the word ego because you all know what it means.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here within the space of the All That Is, I invite you to look within your heart and think about these things within your life, these times when you truly are magnificent, these times when you are immense in your energies. Think about it and I invite you to be completely honest with yourself and accept that; yes, that is you and yes, you have that ability.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you move through your days and you ask yourself that question, ‘is this divinity or is this ego or personality’? In particular, when it comes to these things or maybe one thing, whatever it may be that is unique to you and that you know makes you special then I invite you to open an feel the flow, feel it as it washes through you, feel what it is to acknowledge this within.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I see in so many of you right now that it’s almost a relief to acknowledge it because it is as if there is something inside of you that has been wanting to make itself known, that has been wanting to get your attention, but because you are either being humble or you didn’t want to make more of yourself, you ignored it and you pushed it down.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is your opportunity to let that come up, let it come out [Deep breath] and let it pour forth from you. Again, what a relief this is! As I look at you I see so many of you coming into your own. I see you acknowledging who you are and accepting your ability. This is not always something easy for you to do. Some of you may think it comes with responsibilities or it comes with attachments. What I believe can assist you in all aspects of your life is for you to open, recognize what this is and accept it as yourself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you accept this within, you are acknowledging something that you put forth as your divinity before you came into and you’ve lived this life. You need not tell another single person about this. It is yours, it is private, it is you, about you, for you, because it is you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you connect with something within you and it feels hollow, it doesn’t feel like it’s your own, I invite you to ask that question. Is this divinity or is it personality?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You may find that some of those things that you have taken on are based in personality as opposed to divinity and therefore you can let it go. If you have self-imposed responsibilities or actions and you can recognize that it’s really not here as a means of supporting your divinity, you can let it go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you consider actions that you may be taking or aspects of your life that you are perhaps living because someone else expects it of you, you can let it go. Now, if there’s something that someone else expects and you choose to have that and you recognize that it comes from your divinity, that’s a completely different story. But, if they are actions that you are taking perhaps the life you are living and it is based on someone else’s choice and desire, I invite you to let that go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you take ownership of who you are you grow in your divinity and you grow in your awareness. As you accept this person that you have always secretly thought you are and these abilities within yourself that you thought, “yes, that is something I can do” and you take it on, you blend it within you, you recognize that “this is being true to myself”, then feel how much you grow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes it may be difficult to let go of someone else’s expectations of you, but you will find that the more that you are connected within your divinity, the more that you are living your life from that space of honoring who you are; then these other things will fall away from you and you will find that it will be without trauma and without difficulty.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am especially excited about what is taking place tonight! I believe in all of you and I believe that as you step into your divinity so very completely, that the joy will emanate from you. You will be at peace. You will be content with all that is happening within your life. And as for the million dollars, it will easily expand into as much or as little as you would like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you are living your lives over the next several weeks, I invite you to do whatever it is you need to do so that you may be true to who you are. If you don’t know who you are then, begin by asking; “does this create joy within my heart as I take these steps or this action?” Another question you may ask yourself, “What is it that makes me feel happy when I contemplate doing it?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The direction to help you find out what is soul driven is by following those things that assist you to feel happy, excited, content or expanded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right now, I invite you to look around. Look around, not only here in the space of the All That Is, but look around at your life on earth from the perspective of the All That Is. Are there things that you would like to shift? Do so now with the intention that it will be easier for you to do it in your daily life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you consider all that is happening ask yourself the question; “is this my divinity, or is this my personality?” I see many of you flying around, expanding, playing with energies, moving in many, many different directions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I invite you all to come back as a group. If you seek to return here to play by all means do so but for now, as you come back as a group, look around at each other and as you do so, see them from the eyes of your divinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">~~ Ansaluia ~~ As you consider that word, you are expanding your own divinity; you are acknowledging your divinity and you are looking at the others around you and seeing them as their divinity. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s what leads life or it’s what allows life to continue to grow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, coming up with in the midst of all of you is the hologram of both the earth and the new earth. As you consider who you are from your divinity, and who you are in your everyday life, I invite you to send that flow into the hologram. As this flow continues to move down, let yourself feel or sense the empowered movement of energy as it comes through you. The hologram itself begins to radiate light. Some of this light is filled with color; other is just a pure white light.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These holograms once they are filled up begin to shift. They move through space, that which is aligned with the new earth shifts to the crystalline grid out towards the new earth and the hologram of your earth moves down to the energy of your physical world. It moves into the center of the earth itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It links with the crystals that make up the center. It links with the other dimensions in energies and begins to emanate out from the center of the earth and as this is emanating outward it comes up through the earth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It comes up in such a way that it assists in shifting the collective consciousness; it also comes up from the earth into your physical body. I invite you as you feel this energy, recognize that this is you! It is you as your divinity. It is you being filled up with the knowledge of who you are and the potential for who you are and where you can go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let it wash over you and then you send it out from you into your community, into the ethers, into the magnetic grid and that is another means of creating an energy field that will support you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you allow your consciousness to return once more to the All That Is, I invite you to consider how you are already feeling yourself become grounded. Know that you can come back here at any time and practice recognizing what is your divinity and what is personality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take with you all that you are and allow yourself to shift so that you may go back into the soul plane. As you come within this space, look at your divinity. There may be even more that you discern about who you are. Allow yourself to shift. Perhaps there is a greater amount of your divinity that will stay here within this space but as much as is in alignment with you, will come with you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You move through the energies of the crystalline grid, you feel yourself in that crystalline vibration as if amplifying and creating an alignment that will help you in manifesting within your life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You move through there into the magnetic grid. As you move through the magnetic grid you feel the magnetic pull of the earth. You feel yourself coming back down within your physical body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Allow yourself to expand as much as you need to, so that you can flow your consciousness, so that you may flow your awareness within and around who you are right now at this moment. As you allow yourself to adjust, take a moment and ask yourself; “here I am back on earth, back in my physical reality, what about me is unique or perhaps special or perhaps the greatest reflection of my divinity?” Allow yourself to accept that this is you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Allow yourself to accept the immensity of who you can be and as you create an alignment that becomes stronger and stronger within you, you find that so much manifests around you. Perhaps it manifests in a physical way, perhaps in relationships, perhaps it’s in finding satisfaction, peace or contentment. Be open and allow for everything to flow within and around you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And we thank everybody. For those of you still in the queue, we apologize that we were unable to help you this evening or get to your question but know that if you go inside and as you continue to expand in this way that we’ve been speaking of that many of you will get the answers yourself and you do probably have some insights already, but trust in yourself, trust in your transformation, trust in this ever growing awareness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Know that you are not alone, that you are always connected, not only to your own divinity but you are connected to the Angels, the guides, myself and the All That Is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am ever with you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ansaluia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Shelly Dressel channeling the Goddess of Creation. All rights are reserved. You are welcome to share this channel, but we ask you not take any portion of it out of the body of the channel and to retain this copyright message. For further information please check out our website: www.goddesslight.net</span></div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-6275593957698211156?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-11419015428196238362011-09-07T21:06:00.001-07:002011-09-07T21:10:33.029-07:00It's Not Love that makes the World go Round - It's Guilt!, by Eileen Borris.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The most important issue to deal with in the forgiveness process is our feelings of guilt. We can have a hard enough time getting in touch with our anger. Getting in touch with our guilt is even more difficult. None of us like to feel that awful feeling in the pit of our stomach. And for those of us feeling guilty for what we have done, that guilt blocks any possibility for us to feel love which we feel so unworthy of. When we don’t accept love we can’t be healed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is another reason why it is so important to uncover our guilt. If we pretend that the guilt buried within ourselves doesn’t exist, the only thing we can do with these feelings is literally place that guilt on someone else. Since guilt includes all the negative feelings we believe to be true about ourselves, now we only see those negatives in the people around us. We become very judgmental because of the lack of love within ourselves, and we attack others through the filter of our guilt. As soon as something happens to us, we can only see the situation through our negative thinking caused by our guilt. Until we recognize what we are doing, we will continue to blame others and have a distorted view of what actually happened. We need to learn how to see through our smoke screens and own our guilt</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So how do we work with our guilt? </div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Don’t be afraid to talk about your feelings of guilt and recognize that as awful as a situation may be, we did the best we could.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Take responsibility for your choices and if you are the one who needs forgiveness realize that now that you can see what you have done – you can choose again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Keep in mind that holding on to guilt and being stuck in a victim role is a choice, too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Accept responsibility for your emotional reactions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Listen within.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To help yourself heal your guilt and move forward in your personal forgiveness process take out your journal and ask yourself “What do I feel guilty of in relation to this situation?” Explore what comes up without judgment. Don’t be afraid to reach back in time for feelings of guilt. This is part of your healing process. Feel your feelings as they surface and be open to what they want to say to you. Is there something now or in the past that needs healing and if so, what actions can I take to heal it? Even if it is clear that you did nothing to the perpetrator, you still may have feelings of guilt. If there is something that you feel ashamed of, explore those feelings to get to the roots of your wound. This action will uncover something you need to forgive yourself for. Journal with whatever comes up. You will probably have to repeat this journal exercise a number of times before you are able to release some of your guilt. Guilt runs deep. It is important that you be gentle with yourself as you do this work. After you have explored your guilt feelings ask yourself, “How have I place my feelings of guilt on others, such as through blaming or judging? What can I do differently now?” Go deep within and listen.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://findingforgiveness.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-19T08%3A27%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7">here</a> to see the original post.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-1141901542819623836?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-41848631122729812392011-09-07T18:13:00.000-07:002011-09-07T18:18:54.862-07:00Which Child Were You? Roles By Birth, by Lynne Forrest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The way our parents responded to us as children was based on factors beyond our control. Sometimes our relationship with family is based pure and simply upon where we are in the birth order. Sure, there are other factors; for instance the way parents relate to each other, including how they meet their own needs -- not to mention each child’s unique personality. These factors certainly play a part in how family members interact with each other, however, it is widely recognized among family system professionals that a first born child will be received very differently than a second and so on. And there are specific characteristics that apply to each birth assignment, irregardless of the unique qualities or personality of that particular child. In other words, not who we are but the order in which we are born will determine our place in the family and very likely impact us for the rest of our lives.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> When our emotional and physical needs are met as children we grow up believing that we have a right to be here and that we are capable, lovable and able to take care of ourselves. But getting those personal needs met depends on how well the needs of the family have been met. Inevitably the needs of the “system” (family unit) will take priority over the individuals within it. The system needs are essential for a family’s functioning and survival and they will be met even if it means ruthlessly sacrificing the well-being of the children. The family unit is most important because it provides a sort of check and balance that stabalizes and holds things together. For instance, if the head of the family is alcoholic, the system’s need for worth and respectability may be compromised. It has to look elsewhere to supply these vital missing ingredients. The firstborn child is the obvious choice. Without any kind of conscious “volunteering” this child may automatically feel the pressure to be the ultra responsible and respectable one in dad’s stead in order to to fill the void or make up for dad’s lack. Simply by virtue of being the first child, he or she becomes the family hero, whose job it is to do whatever it takes to insure that the family is seen as whole and functional. The child’s needs are not considered. They have taken a back seat to the demands of the family unit. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What are the System’s Needs?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> The home environment is supposed to be a safe harbor -- a place to escape from external stress-- a place where family members can relax and be themselves. It should be an enjoyable environment where fun, humor and entertainment can be had. Worth, health, relief and stress-resolve are some of the more important needs that a system has. If the parents do not see themselves as having value and esteem, both individually and as a couple, than the system starts out at a disadvantage, causing the system to have to look elsewhere for its needs. Each family has its own idea about exactly what will satisfy those needs. One family looks to hard work as the way to gain a sense of worth for instance, while another thinks esteem comes through intelligence or being well-educated. But when adults from dysfunction with wounded histories come together and start a new family, they often have no idea about how to meet their unconscious need to “look the part” of functionality and health. Instead they unconsciously look to their children to provide these vital needs. This means that rather than focusing on what’s best for their child, they, in one way or another, expect their children to supply their own unmet needs and then resort to blame when it doesn’t work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Children are very impressionable. They pick up on often subtle clues from their caretakers and the environment around them and in this way they figure out what is expected of them. Because they start out without a sense of identity they look to their primary caregivers for personal definition. They gain much of this information from their interaction with family. Children are continously busy interpreting the messages they receive and from these sources they formulate beliefs that shape their idea of self. In other words these interpretations become their self-definition. When a system is burdened with trying to meet its own unmet needs the child gets lost in the shuffle-- their needs go unmet and this sends negative messages . One obvious deletorious message for instance is “My needs (therefore I) are not important”. Instead of feeling loved and accepted for who they are, children turn instead to their assigned role (based on what the system needs at the time of their birth) to gain a sense of identity, belonging and validity. By the time children are three, four or five years old, their identity, based on their assigned family role is firmly in place. Of course, none of this is conscious. Children have no idea that they are not the role they are playing --nor does the family. They have become absolutely entangled and identified with an often maladaptive, even destructive way of relating to the world around them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What are the classic “Assigned Roles”?:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was Virginia Satir that originally recognized that particular roles with distinct characteristics occur in families. She found that these roles often occur by birth order and named and described them accordingly. It's important to remember that roles are unconsciously assigned as children are born into the family, not chosen by the individual child. These roles have nothing to do with what the child wants, nor is it based on a child's best interests or native characteristics. Assignment is an unconscious determination made simply on a combination of birth order and the particular needs of the family at the time of birth. The “severity” to which a role is carried out is depends on the degree of family dysfunction. The more dysfunctional the more pronounced and therefore limiting the roles will be. In more functional families, family roles are less defined. In really healthy families you will find an absence of roles -- this is rare. From a hierarchy of system needs, every role is assigned based on the most pressing need of the family at the time of each child’s birth. Let’s start with the firstborn whose assignment most often is to meet the system’s need for worth. These roles are not carved in granite, however. Depending on surrounding circumstances, the order of roles may vary. Sometimes a first child will be the scapegoat for instance. For instance, if there is already a primary hero in the family who might feel threatened by competition, another hero might be forbidden. Or if the first child is female in a family where males are more important ... or vice versa, then perhaps the second child will be a hero and the firstborn will take on secondborn characteristics. Also, when there is more than 4-5 years between children, the roles may start over. In other words if there is two children born within a couple of years and then another child comes along ten years later, the third child may take on characteristics of a first born rather than a typical thirdborn. Twins are interesting. I’ve never met a set of twins that did not know who was the oldest, even if it’s only a matter of minutes. Often the roles will go accordingly, but I’ve also seen it occur, especially in large families that the twins may both play the same role. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Hero</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstborn children, as previously noted, are very often assigned to a "Hero" Position. Characteristics of this role include being the responsible one whose job it is to bring worth to the family. They may attain this by being an achiever; the family's "shining star". Whatever the family most values will be where this child excells. Often acting as a "little parent", or parental confidante, these children are scripted to get their own personal needs met by becoming whatever it is their family esteems as worthy. People who have lived their lives in this role often have had to sacrifice their childhood. Eternally grown up, (even at age five) and in charge of taking care of everyone and everything around them, they are often seen as accomplished, capable problem solvers and achievers. The price paid however, is often the loss of knowing how to relax or enjoy life. Their spontaneity and passion for life had to be hidden away because of the overwhelming responsibility they took on. As a result they tend to be highly successful but serious and intense about life. A typical message reported by one “hero” firstborn was; “Dad told me I had to be mom’s little man and that I was to take care of my younger brothers. That meant I got punnished if they did something wrong”. It’s pretty easy to guess that this child grew up with a strong need to be always in control of everything and everyone around him. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Scapegoat</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Second born children often are designated as the "scapegoat" .Their role is to bring the family a sense of health and well-being by becoming the one who is unhealthy or simply "the bad apple". By becoming the primary problem, scapegoats take the pressure off the family to look for further dysfunction. Irregardless of what other problems might be going on family members can simply point at the scapegoat and say, "If it weren't for her/him ...this would be a perfectly healthy family!" Being the one targeted as being sick, defective or unruly, this "bad seed" acts out the unresolved issues of the family. The degree of acting out will depend upon how much dysfunction there is in the family. The more disturbed the family, the worse this kid acts out. The assigned scapegoat sacrifices their own well-being in order to take on the underlying sickness of the family. By doing so, they, rather than the alcoholic or abusive parent, are targeted as being the problem. Their poor behavior is in actuality often simply a loud proclamation that the family needs help.... Often it is the scapegoat who gets the family in therapy and thus brings about a chance for healing. By acting out the family’s dysfunction, the scapegoat becomes a key, of sorts, for family intervention. Unfortunately more often, the child (and those around him/her) see only themselves as the problem. As one scapegoat reported, “I remember being five years old and wondering why I was so bad -- what was wrong with me?” Scapegoats often feel misunderstood and like they don’t fit in. “I spent my childhood looking for evidence that I was adopted because I was SO different than the others ... I simply did not belong,” cited one typical second born client. These folks buy into the idea of their badness and often spend their whole life living out a self destructive script, including drug and alcohol abuse, poor anger management and extremely negative relating patterns. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Lost Child</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Third born children are most often designated as the "Lost Child". This child comes along at a time when the energy of the family is spent. By the time the family has applauded all of the Hero’s achievements and exhausted thier efforts trying to straighten out the scapegoat there is nothing left for the thirdborn child. The message this child gets then is that they are supposed to need nothing -- “Just be good, will ya? Be nice and quiet and take care of yourself”. So this child often complies by emotionally withdrawing. As a matter of fact, most of us can recognize a lost child because they are the one whose name you can’t ever quite recall ... or you’ll find yourself looking right over them as if they were not there. They are so good at retracting their energy, that they literally seem to disappear. These children are often loners who turn to fantasy through books or computers. Because they have learned not to expect anyone to be there for them, they often repress their needs. This leads to a common complaint of feeling empty inside ... “it feels like if you were to thump me I’d ring like an empty barrel”, said one client, a classic lost child. They may attempt instead to fill this void with food, leading to eating disorders and/or unconsciously take on illnesses, such as asthma or allergies in order to get the time and attention they need for survival in a barren environment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Mascot</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fourth born children are typically designated as the "mascot". The primary assigned duty here is one of distraction. Mascots often become the family entertainer or clown, using humor or clumsy antics as a way to break tension when things get out of hand at home. Often, when they are the "baby" of the family, they are treated as if they are too little or too dumb to understand what’s going on in the family. “I felt as if everybody else knew what was going on, except me. I was always trying to catch up and catch on to life”, said one typical mascot. There is often a life time pattern of confusion about how to handle life for the mascot, as a result. The family, buying into a notion that this child is fragile and needs protection often hides reality from them. It’s been well documented that family secrets get passed down and acted out. It is not uncommon for the mascot to live a totally chaotic life, even ending up in a mental institution depending on the amout of dysfunction with which he or she is unconsciously carrying and acting out for the family. Dysfunction tends to “roll downhill”, so to speak, which means that the more unstable the family the crazier this child feels. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If there are five or more children in a family, the roles may start over, depending on factors such as the age difference between siblings. An only child may play each of the various roles at different times depending on the systems primary need of the moment, or children may combine roles. It’s common, for instance, for a scapegoat to take on the role of mascot when there are only three children in a family. Again it depends on the family needs. Role order and description are not carved in granite, however it is surprising how often individuals identify with them. What I have given here is a very brief description, but I hope it will help you begin to explore your own family role. We don’t have to be stuck in these roles forever. By bringing them into consciousness we can begin the process of challenging them and changing the way we relate ... to ourselves and those around us.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at Another Way Center: (423) 698-0814. 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In fact the opposite is true. The real truth is that guilt is the glue that holds our painful habits and active addictions in place. There has never been a practicing alcoholic, for instance that was not eaten up with shame and guilt (no matter how hard they may act otherwise) about their using pattern. What they don’t realize is that until they can let go of the guilt around their condition they cannot change it. Guilt keeps us from accepting the “what is” of our situation – as a matter of fact it is a form of resisting reality. And our subconscious reacts in an interesting way to resistance.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When we come into a bullying, shaming sort of relationship with the subconscious, it reacts in a backlash sort of way. According to *Eckhert Tolle, the “law of opposite reaction” gets sets in motion. In other words the subconscious fights back. Have you ever noticed that the more someone disapproves of your behavior the more you feel compelled to engage in it? It may be that you sincerely WANT to do better - you may actually even “try” – and fail. Then you tell yourself that you just CAN’T change and feel terribly flawed and guilty about your weakness. Maybe the criticism sets up a rebellion in you to which you respond with anger telling yourself that you don’t WANT to change – that, as a matter of fact, you’re going to do it now for spite, if for no other reason. Even then, on some level, there is guilt. Any way you go when this dynamic is in place it compounds guilt and binds us to the behavior even more than before. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This blaming style of self-interaction is one we practice within ourselves all the time. Begin to listen for your “guilt language”. For instance, how often do you use the words “should” and “shouldn’t”? How about judgment labels like “good” and “bad” or “right” and “wrong”? These are all guilt producers designed to resist the reality of what is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not so long ago, I began to notice the way I talked to myself about food. I was amazed to discover that I felt guilt over literally every bite I put in my mouth. It was either “not the right time to eat” or it was the “wrong choice” of food. I complained to myself that what I was eating was “too fattening” or “not enough protein” or that it had too many carbohydrates or too much sugar, white flour or salt – the negative self-talk went on and on about my eating practices. Is it any surprise that I continually battled over my weight? So I decided to take radical action. As an experiment for the next few weeks I gave myself complete permission to eat whatever I wanted with one condition - to put down the guilt about it. In other words when I felt the urge to comment negatively about my choices I simply reminded myself of the permission I’d given myself to eat what I wanted. The results of my experiment were astounding. As soon as I gave up creating a negative internal environment for myself through constant criticism I felt better. This allowed me to stay present while I ate. Being present made it possible for me to make conscious choices that led to healthier decisions about my food intake. I found myself eating less; but more than that – I actually started savoring what I ate. And yes I ate chocolate! But, instead of half a box at a time I found I was content to eat one small piece after a meal. Because there was no guilt I could relax and enjoy every precious morsel and be satisfied with that. Because I was feeling inner harmony rather than guilt I found myself wanting to feed myself better, i.e. make healthy choices. I was no longer running to hide (i.e. go unconscious) every time I ate. Instead I found myself consulting my body around mealtime – asking what would truly satisfy it. I found that in the absence of negative self talk my food choices began to change. I truly WANTED to eat healthy foods with enjoyment! My weight began to stabilize but even better, the sense of inner peace that comes with self-acceptance settled in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This important time of discovery helped me realize the potency of guilt. I realized that when we treat ourselves poorly we abandon ship - we literally check out. That means we are no longer living in the present moment – we go unconscious. We have what might be called a “zombie moment”. In that state we act mindlessly and then, of course our choices will not be necessarily what’s best for us. Easing up on guilt and self-negativity allows us to align with what is truly in our best interest if for no other reason than because we feel better about ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alcoholics Anonymous is a good example of how self-acceptance works. What is the first thing an alcoholic encounters when he finally finds his or her way into an AA meeting? What happens there probably feels unbelievable to the newcomer. For what she sees is a room full of other self professed addicts who are announcing OPENLY that they are alcoholic and that their lives are unmanageable! What she finds is complete acceptance within those walls - of each other and themselves, as suffering alcoholics. What the fledgling addict finds is an acceptance of what is - without recrimination, moralizing or guilt about her “problem”. It may be the first time in her life that this alcoholic has encountered acceptance around something that has heretofore caused deep shame. Amazingly enough, these fellow addicts are smiling and often joyful about a plight that the newcomer has been trying to hide! Such acceptance allows space – space for the addict to step back and see the reality of his or her situation without denial. (Denial is a form of unconsciousness that always follows on the coat tails of shame and guilt.) From that space he or she is able to make appropriate choices because they are in a position to better see their reality (including factual consequences of past choices) without blame or shame. But the space resulting from self-acceptance also allows something even more important to take place. It creates room for the flow of Source to take place in the addict’s life. In AA it’s verbalized in the third step, “Made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God, as we understood Him”. When we accept ourselves just as we are – warts and all, we create the space for alignment with a Universal Partner that can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Going unconscious keeps us from being plugged into the Awesome Source of Power that is available only in this moment. Much the same way that a lamp can only shine when it’s plugged into the electrical current, we can only be “alight” with consciousness when we are plugged in to that Source that provides us with vital life giving and healing substance. Connection automatically happens when we come back to this moment. I remind myself constantly of Eckhert’s simple and yet profoundly true statement, “Life can only happen in this moment.” In other words, only the present is real. Neither past not future exist, they are but figments of our imagination. By definition then, the aliveness of Source can only be found and aligned with in the NOW. If I’m lost in a self-remorseful past I’m missing this opportunity to align with the One Thing that can heal. When I am plugged into that Source I am available for prompting. When I am connected, that God Force (or whatever you choose to call it) inspires me to choose wisely that which will truly serve me best.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The example given about AA is relevant for every one of us whether we struggle with some form of chemical abuse or not. We are all attached or addicted to some kind of false and painful belief about ourselves that limits our life expression – it’s not a matter of whether we are but more of what forms our addiction takes. Most of us have bought into a story on some level that convinces us that we are defective, inept, unable to do anything right – basically unacceptable and unlovable. Beneath the surface of consciousness we are constantly talking to ourselves about these inadequacies, ever reminding ourselves of this “truth” and looking for evidence of it. Guilt is the binding force that reinforces these painful and limiting ideas about us. Through this negative inner dialogue we actually perpetuate feelings of self-doubt and low self-esteem which drives us further into unconsciousness and out of the here and now. Not only do we then feel worse but also by doing so we are disconnecting ourselves from the One Source that can alleviate and heal the situation. Only through releasing guilt are we able to come back into our bodies, abide in present reality and authentically unfold into the unique selves we were meant to be.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">These articles are copyrighted material. All rights are reserved. No part of these articles may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without first obtaining the written permission of the author. Permission for reproduction may be requested by contacting Lynne at Another Way Center: (423) 698-0814. Click here to read the original post: </span><a href="http://lynneforrest.com/html/the_guilt_bind.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://lynneforrest.com/html/the_guilt_bind.html</span></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-8505067872197457363?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-69099899060468535062011-08-31T23:44:00.001-07:002011-09-12T22:57:14.630-07:00Summit 2012 ~ Beyond Chaos! (by Toni Petrinovich)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i><b>St. George UT – September 16 – 18, 2011</b></i><br /><i><b>What you can expect</b></i><br /><br />As in all transitions, there is chaos because additional information is attempting to enter the system. First there is destruction so that there can be construction. This is a rebirth. The Mayans call it the World of the Fifth Sun.<br />It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator and the Earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.<br />At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world's spiritual traditions.<br /><br />The Maya called an era a “sun” but the exact time span is not clear. In the Popul Vuh, the book of Mayan creation mythology, there were 3 unsuccessful attempts at creating humans, and the gods were successful on the 4th attempt. Therefore, current humans are the “fourth creation” and we are now living in the “fourth sun.” As this era draws to a close, we enter the “fifth sun” and a new age or creation begins. But, does a sun refer to a cycle of 13 baktuns (5200 tun or 5125.26 solar years)? Or does a sun refer to a much larger cycle of 5 of these 13-baktun cycles (26,000 tun or 25,626.28 solar years)? Another key question is when did the sun cycle begin and end?<br /><br />The Fifth Sun will call attention to ether – this represents spiritual energy. This is not about religion or spirituality, per se. It is about the connecting force that is the matrix within all of us. While meditation and prayer are good, it is more important to know your Self clearly. That is the only way you can contribute.<br /><br /><b><i>Prophecy</i></b><br /><br />Many prophecies are converging right now. The material world is changing. Look at the revolutions around the world. Apocalypse is the "lifting of the veil".<br /><br />Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the Earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it raising all to a higher level of vibration. Change is accelerating now and it will continue to accelerate.<br /><br />Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The Mayan elders of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way. Everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.<br /><br /><b><i>Changing Humanity</i></b><br /><br />The best part about how humanity is changing is that nobody knows how the change will manifest. Many people believe they know based upon their religious beliefs, etc. yet no one really knows what we are capable of since we have not been here before.<br /><br />Everything and everyone is shifting. No matter what the subject -from what you eat (think about the radiation covering the earth; should we eat less?) to how you meditate. Some practices will begin to become difficult and will be abandoned with perhaps no thing taking their place. Something actually has taken place of the old practices yet each individual is going to have to sit down and feel what is true in that regard for him/her. Following the definitions of others will become extinct.<br /><br />Think about the difference in communication – we have come from riders taking news from village to village, to writing letters and then the printing press, to telegraph – now we have the Internet. Soon we will have remembered mental telepathy and will simply know not only what others are thinking and feeling, we will know access to what is called Cosmic Consciousness – the Mind of God.<br /><br />This is what we are talking about at the Summit 2012 in St. George UT in September because I know we can see into our collective future given the right set of circumstances. I intend to create those circumstances so when people leave they will have a very good idea of where they have the ability of going. Right now it is incomprehensible and that is what I keep telling people. You don't know. Your mind does not know. Your heart does know yet you don't use your heart so you can't know.<br /><br /><b><i>Realignment is already occurring</i></b><br /><br />Remember in the realm of the invisible, there is no time. We rely on time because of our rotation around the sun. Yet time is relative as Einstein proved and it is even more relative when you are allowing the etheric (remember the Mayan prophecy) to emphasize itself in your life. Take meditation for example. During the timelessness of meditation, time passes in a different way than when you are, say, fixing a meal.<br /><br />Since the myth of the great ending has been a continuing saga for humanity, people keep looking to the future to be "saved". The western world has become a society that looks to someone or some other thing to save them (911, etc.). So there is this looking outward to something else while, actually, it is all occurring right now.<br /><br /><b><i>What is to be expected?</i></b><br /><br />To start with consider what is being experienced right now. Each of you think about all of the experiences you have had in life and how they have led you to right now. Now think about how you interpret those experiences. Good or bad? Fun or scary? Since you have all of this experience under your belt, you can know that there are dozens upon dozens of new experiences available for you right now and you have to decide what they will be.<br /><br />What people are basically doing right now is attempting to gravitate toward the frequency of love (whatever that means for them). Look at the revolutions that are going on. People are rebelling because the government has not been one of love, of caring for the people. It has been one of control. So the people join in like frequency and create a demand for respect (which is love), freedom (which is definitely love) and a government that is responsible within its own love to the people.<br /><br />In the same way, everyone that people have worshipped or held in high esteem will become the true mirror for them. People will begin to realize that they are the same as these people they have put on pedestals. They will begin to act the way that they have worshipped for years. How this will change the world! It is autonomy. It is freedom. It is no longer living by rules that do not serve the Whole.<br /><br />Those who are not aware may be afraid. They will look everywhere for answers. I ask, "Are you willing to be that answer?" You will most likely be very surprised at some of the people in your environment who come forward and ask you to assist them in understanding. Will you be ready to assist them? This is not to say that<br /><br />you have to make them know in the same way that you know. You simply want to be able to give them of your love so they will realize there is no thing to fear.<br /><br />Some people may be angry at that which they do not understand. This is where you patience and appreciation of their standpoint come in. This does not mean that you must condone what they are doing or saying. It does mean that you can only assist them by not judging them. Rather, be a mirror of peace and resiliency so that they, too, may realize that this is possible.<br /><br /><b><i>"Symptoms" of the change</i></b><br /><br />Old structures are collapsing. This includes the areas in which a person's physiology is not being supported by their lifestyle. As the faster frequencies of the invisible (going back to the ether and the Mayans) become more visible because humanity is beginning to align with those frequencies, all of the areas in which the body is not performing optimally will be affected.<br /><br />Since many people believe that many changes are occurring, they find they have resistance to certain changes in their life or in their environment. This sets up an incoherent frequency in the body and it rebels in the only way it knows how ~ by exerting its influence over the consciousness. It says in so many words, "If you continue in this way, I will cause you pain. Then you will pay attention to me and do something to cause the end of the pain." The body only knows how to communicate in one way – by making the user of the body feel something.<br /><br />When you change the way you perceive life, then all of the changes will occur within your body. Feel the love that is possible for yourself first and then let it flow out to the environment around you and then to the world at large. It is magnificent experience you are having in form.<br /><br />What your body is desiring of you is your recognition that it is the house of your Divinity. Rather than following the mass consciousness and all of its fear and confusion, think and feel for your Self. Demand that you respect yourself so well that your body will feel it deeply. Then all of the confused frequencies will dissolve and resolution will be felt in the body.<br /><br />Basically, look at the opposite of what you call your symptoms. If you find it hard to breathe and have allergies, recognize that you are now ready to receive more prana from the ether (there we have that word again). If you have difficulty eating, realize that you must utilize much purer food. If you have trouble sleeping, use the time you are awake to rest inside a silent meditation which will also rest your body, etc.<br /><br /><b><i>Summit 2012 – Beyond Chaos!</i></b><br /><br />Summit 2012 – Beyond Chaos! is intentioned to take the participants and me beyond the idea of chaos. Since chaos means that more information is attempting to enter a system we are going to open the portal very wide for all of the information that we, as a collective in that room and then to the Whole, hold for the unfolding of the transfiguring of ourselves and the earth.<br /><br />Since this conference is a mutual experience, it much more about the vibration that will be created within our mutual field and much less about the specifics of the presentation. Yes, I will definitely have a format to present. Yet, that format will have ebb and flow in it so that the audience will be activating within me the words I say, the questions they ask and the responses we receive together. This is what is called a unified field – a field of union in which we all take part.<br /><br />In other words, it is not so much what I will present as what we will experience together in those moments. The unified field that we will manifest together will create the dynamic outcome. One aspect that I can promise: Everyone attending will go home knowing what they are. I can definitely promise that.<br /><br />We will also experience a very high frequency transmission because of the intention with which we have created this Summit. The focus of releasing constraints and opening to the limitlessness of our true nature will shift all of the attendees into an enormously higher frequency than that with which they arrived.<br /><br />Also, the Light Orbs or as I call them, the Whole Light Beings, have promised me that they are going to appear and after lunch will hold a Q&A session for the participants. I have not spoken for the Light Orbs in public yet so this will be a new experience for all of us. Before the Q&A, the WLB are going to talk a bit about the new generations being born and what they mean to the changes in earth.<br /><br /><b><i>Preparation for transformation</i></b><br /><br />First, and this is the most important, slow down. Find a pace that is a slow pace where you have time to be present with each moment. Without this application within your life, all else will be much more difficult. Then allot at least ½ hour a day (more if you will) to sitting with yourself in sacred silence. I say "sacred" silence because you will be offering yourself the opportunity to go into what I call the Holy of Holies of your heart's temple. You will be sitting with the divine within you – the Presence of Your Essence.<br /><br />As you do these two things – slow down and sit in silence – your entire life is going to change. Everything will take on a much different meaning. You will not believe this until you do it. And don’t "try" to do it. That's like "trying to do surgery" or "trying to drive a car". Either you are doing it or you are not. So make this first and foremost and then all of the other experiences you have in your life with fall into place.<br /><br />Then when you have gotten used to being quiet, you can begin listening to the voice of your soul, your heart. It will speak so loudly and clearly to you. That which is usually a whisper will become an overriding voice that will literally take over (in a very sweet way) the commanding voice of your mind. This will hold you through all of the transformations.<br /><br /><b><i>Fear</i></b><br /><br />There is no thing at all to fear if you are able to remain in a state of love without expectation or anticipation. That is a big one. What causes the fear is when the anticipated or expected results are not seen. Then the supposed love disappears and people become very afraid. Since no one knows where each of us is going to be experiencing in the next moment, what is there to fear?<br /><br />Remember that if you allow yourself to remain in fear, then you are resonating with those who are living in confusion and, as a standing wave (transmitting and receiving simultaneously), you can only bring more confusion and fear into your life by doing so.<br /><br /><b><i>Within the transformation</i></b><br /><br />People will begin to realize that no thing is wrong. They will understand what it means to have multi-dimensional communication going on. That is another reason why it is important to slow down and listen. You can't hear on the telephone when you are talking.<br /><br />People's biology will catch up with their transformation and the symptoms of change will be less. They will realize they have control over what is happening in their lives and blame will appear useless.<br /><br />Clair powers will become more every day. People will begin to understand their natural clair powers and use them. That is one reason why I emphasize that people learn to stand up for themselves and be authentic. You cannot find your extra-sensory abilities when you are cowering beneath the fear of suppression. You must be coherent. You must be present within your own field for this to take place.<br /><br />Come to the Summit ~ and fly! See <a href="http://www.sacredspaceswa.com/summit2012.cfm">www.sacredspaceswa.com/summit2012.cfm</a><br /><br />--<br /><!--StartFragment--><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich is a Master Teacher, mysticand quantum physical researcher with a ministerial doctorate in metaphysics. She is the author of </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Call – Awakening the</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Angelic Human,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> and its accompanying CD,DNA Re-Awakening, </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">You –A Field Guide, Finding an End to Seeking</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">DeLight of the Orbs and Speakingof Light</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. Toni teaches metaphysics and the sacred connection withinthrough her Meta yoU classes, guided meditation CDs, DVD production and videopresentations. www.youaresacred.com</span><o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment--></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-6909989906046853506?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-43755408216039162802011-08-30T02:03:00.000-07:002011-08-30T02:05:50.810-07:00Cancer ~ A Symptom of a Dis-Ease, Not THE Dis-Ease (by Carlos Garcia, M.D.)<div>The irrefutable truth is that in spite of hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars spent both in public funding and private donations to the numerous research facilities, we are no closer today in the ‘fight against cancer ‘ than we were when America declared war on it. With a constant cure rate of 3% starting in the mid-1930’s, it is no wonder that spin doctors have demonized cancer to be a deadly illness. For anything less than an insurmountable illness would lead any reasonable individual to the logical conclusion of: </div><div>a)the researchers, and there is no shortage thereof, from Harvard to UCLA and from Seattle to Miami, NIH and CDC are either extremely stupid or </div><div>b)there is / are cures but the financial loss of said release would literally cripple the American economy and thus the 97% death rate is statistically acceptable for the overall economic benefit of corporate America –mengelerian economics if you ask me </div><div>Josef Mengele, known to many by the term the angel of death, was a medical doctor, a member of the Nazi SS and the head of ‘research” at Auschwitz death camp, where death was an art form of the most gruesome kind. Yes, given the right circumstances, even those who swore an oath to help his fellow man, can become willing participants in political economics, and the cost of human life. Approximately 400,000 deaths are attributed to Josef Mengele, the Cancer Statistics from NCI/ACS claims the following: </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Note: You can compare 2001 estimated statistics below: </div><div>All types of cancers except basal and squamous cell skin cancers and in situ carcinomas except urinary bladder cancer: 1,284,900 new cases, and an estimated 555,500 deaths in the year 2002. </div><div>The breakdown of some of these cancers are as follows: </div><div>An estimated 205,000 new cases of Breast Cancer, with an estimated number of deaths at 40,000. </div><div>An estimated 189,000 new cases of Prostate Cancer, with 30,200 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 183,200 new cases of Lung and bronchial Cancer, with 161,400 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 279,100 new cases of Genital system cancers, with 57,100 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 30,300 new cases and 29,700 deaths due to Pancreatic Cancer. </div><div>An estimated 107,300 new cases of Colon Cancer, with 48,100 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 17,000 new cases of brain and nervous system cancers, with 13,100 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 30,800 new cases of leukemias, with 21,700 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 2,400 new cases of bone and joint cancer, with 1,300 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 28,900 oral and pharynx cancers, with 7,400 estimated deaths. </div><div>An estimated 58,300 new cases of skin cancer, such as skin melanoma (excluding basal & squamous), with an estimated 9,600 deaths.</div><div>Multiple myeloma - an estimated 14,600 new cases and 10,800 deaths </div><div>Lymphomas - an estimated 60,900 new cases and 25,800 death </div><div>Other and unspecified primary sites - an estimated 30,200 new cases, with 43,700 deaths. </div><div>For childhood cancers, an estimated 9,100 new cases are expected to occur among children aged 0 -14, with 1,400 deaths. Cancer is the chief cause of death by disease in children between the ages of 1 and 14. </div><div>This same report gives the actual reported cancer deaths for 1999. It doesn't show the figures for 2000 or 2001. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>A total of 549,838 cancer deaths were recorded in 1999 in the United States, up by 8,306 deaths compared with 1998. Adjusting for changes in rules for selecting underlying cause of death reduced the increase in the number of cancer deaths to 4,624. Cancer deaths accounted for 23 percent of all deaths, ranking second only to death from heart disease. When deaths were categorized by age and sex, cancer was by far the leading cause of death among women aged 40 to 79 and among men aged 60 to 79. In contrast, cancer ranked fifth as a cause of death among men aged 20 to 39. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Among men under age 40, leukemia was the most common fatal cancer, while lung and bronchus cancer ranked first for men aged 40 years and older. Colorectal cancer was the second most common site causing death among men 40 to 79 years old. Among women under age 20, leukemia was the leading cause of cancer death; breast cancer ranked first as the cause of cancer death for women between age 20 to 59 years, and lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer death for women aged 60 years and above. </div><div>SO MUCH FOR REAL MEDICINE, THE SCIENCE </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Now lets talk about REAL MEDICINE THE ART: </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Every kind of cancer has at least one person who has learned how to live again in spite of dogma. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Many of you still believe that food, drinking, smoking, pollution and stress are the leading causes of cancer. However I beg to differ. Within reason, none of these will cause the symptom of cancer, so my thinking evolves. So what causes the symptom I call cancer? Why is it that some who eat poorly and abuse their bodies so live to a ripe old age free from this symptom, while others who do eat well, exercise and live well within the confines of social norms get this symptom? Could our concept of cancer, namely that of mutated cells, be way too simplistic? Could cancer be part of an intricate self-survival process? Can cancer be a rude wakening, an alarm? Can cancer be our body’s last-ditch effort to get us to focus on what is truly important? What is truly important to YOU? Who are YOU? How do you define yourself? When is the last time that you thought about these all too important, yet overlooked questions? </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Many afflicted by this symptom claim that their fate is doomed by genetics. If genetics seals anyone’s fate, then how has that particular gene pool survived the millennia that man has existed? What happened to the survival of the fittest and all that rot? Could genetics be the next ruse proposed by the system? What roles do fear, anger, hopelessness, self-disrespect, dogma, self-pity and victimization play in the outcome of anyone afflicted with this symptom called cancer? </div><div>
<br /></div><div>The one irrefutable reality about the journey of cancer is that change WILL come. It matters not that you are uncomfortable with change; it will come. The question that begs to be asked is: Will you be alive to embrace, appreciate and participate in it, or will you be a passive observer from the great beyond? The choice IS yours to alone to make. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>I have told all of you that our bodies are programmed to heal. If this is so, then cancer is a paradox, in that dogma states that it kills 97% of the time. How can this be? How can nature, program us to heal, while allowing a so-called lethal disease to flourish within us? Where does our spirit fit into all this? Dogmatic western medical teachings ignore the spirit. They must, there is no money is custom medical care for the masses. It is so much easier and profitable to state to the right you live to the left you die, so was Mengele’s approach, than it is to practice the medical arts. Its modern corollary many be: if you are strong enough or lucky enough to survive the ‘well intentioned’ poisoning, burning and cutting, then perhaps you earn the right to continue living. Unlike the 1940’s, our modern, yet well intentioned cruelty, is not reserved just for the Jews anymore, everyone is enticed to participate. Scare tactics are a standard, and well orchestrated in today’s medical economics –you MUST sign consent today or else die by tomorrow … </div><div>
<br /></div><div>But if survival is only 3% with cutting, burning and poisoning, then why avoid the spiritual journey? In fact why not embrace it? If it is that cancer is a symptom, what is its source? What is the root cause of this symptom called cancer? Those who triumph over this symptom embrace the journey allowing you to mold change, and grow with it. After all, the choices made by you have gotten you where you are, namely at Utopia. Please remember cancer is a change in and of itself, and at that it is an equal opportunity offender: rich/poor, young/old, male/female, smoker/non-smoker, famous/not etc. are all afflicted. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>How are you to embrace this welcomed or unwelcomed change? I recommend enthusiastically. The key feature to address is, what makes anyone think that they deserve to die? I cannot fathom any of you doing anything deserving of a death sentence with absolutely no exit strategy. Life/Nature is not this cruel, however man is; just ask anyone who survived any death camp, European or Asian. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Thus we have the great divide: The Being and The Human. Dogma teaches us to embrace humanity, but what is that? Define Humanity? Is just the quality of being humane? How about all the human inhabitants on earth? Define human? Is it just bipedal primates? Define being? A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently, a living creature. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>The human is organic; the being is spiritual. Without a being, the human cannot exist. However the being can exist without the human. So can it be that our human existence through choices made during our life mutates us to such a state as to threaten our being’s survival, and that by doing so, cancer the symptom emerges as the imminent threat caused by our current human existence upon our being? Moreover, if cancer is an early or late warning symptom, of imminent danger to our being, then addressing and embracing change to enable our being to live again should resolve this symptom, and it does. This is my experience. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>In fact, it is my clinical experience that as long as the root cause of a cancer is skirted, no one should be surprised at a recurrence of the same or different cancer. To my thinking, the symptom of cancer more often than not emerges from an internal self-struggle between and within the patient. Yes, within just you. Cancer does not involve God. You may want to drag him into this conflict, but remember that we all have free will and free choice. I cannot recall any choice in which God interfered and or made a guest appearance. However, I can recall my ‘gut’ speaking to me on numerous occasions and my ignoring such advise. This so called ‘gut feeling’ I believe is our being’s way of speaking with us. However our being is powerless to effectuate physical response unless our brain participates. I think that a disjoint between our being, our mind, and our brain, our organ exists within anyone with any chronic life threatening illness. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Yet in order for our brain to participate, we must first listen and then trust ourselves. Self-trust is pathognomonically missing in all cancer campers. Thus trust in oneself is paramount in redeeming oneself from choices past made. Again God has nothing to do with trusting yourself. Remember he gave us all free will and freedom of choice. You have the freedom to choose to trust yourself, but only if you dare to do so again. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>How do you relearn to trust yourself? The first step in regaining trust with anyone or anything is through forgiveness. Forgiveness allows anyone to zero out your account. Remember, you alone can balance out any of your accounts. You are not empowered to balance anyone else’s account. No one else is empowered, unless by you, to hold your account out of balance. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Thus at Utopia, the first asset we relinquish and return to its rightful owner is your self-empowerment. Remember, I state that only YOU can cure YOU. I concede that I can only cure me. Allopathic medicine tries to disenfranchise you but making sure that you relinquish your empowerment, your inate free will of choice. This is the same freedom that got you into the mess that you are in, however, whereas it is human to err, it also is divine to forgive. Both of these properties are found within each and every one of us. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Thus I believe that our divine being, the spark of life, your sole is empowered to forgive, and it is willing to do so, but only if you trust yourself, and if you choose to do so. So it comes down to you versus you or you with you. The choice is yours to make.</div><div>
<br /></div><div><b>The Art Of Bullet Proofing </b></div><div>I have discussed offering the ability to make yourselves ‘bullet proof’. The issue has been: How Doc? </div><div>1.Identify the issue </div><div>a.If there is more than one component, and or person, then dissect it into individual incidents / issues </div><div>2.Identify the people or circumstance associated with each issue / incident </div><div>a.Make a list of the people involved within each incident </div><div>3.Assess YOUR participation </div><div>4.Identify if YOU need to apologize to anyone </div><div>a.If so, do so </div><div>5.Apologize to YOURSELF for getting involved willingly or not with that issue </div><div>6.By apologizing to anyone that YOU think requires an apology from YOU, and by apologizing to yourself, you have effectively zeroed out the account (the incident) from all negative energy associated </div><div>7.If the people to whom you apologize reject your apology, that is THEIR problem NOT YOURS, do NOT let them suck you back into the black vortex </div><div>a.Once you make an honest apology, rejection is not an option </div><div>b.An offer to pay rejected is payment made </div><div>8.If YOU are owed an apology </div><div>a.If you get it great – graciously accept it </div><div>b.If you do NOT get it, then use your ability and your power of forgiving others for their ignorance and lack of social grace </div><div>i.If you do NOT forgive them, then the account, the incident, will never zero out and you will be stuck in a silly negative vortex </div><div>9.FORGIVE others for their participation in the incident </div><div>10.FORGIVE yourself for your participation in the incident </div><div>11.Choose to remember or forget the incident as you deem necessary </div><div>12.The account is now zeroed out </div><div>13.You can move forward knowing that the incident is behind you, and that all negative baggage associated with that incident is neutralized, i.e. zeroed out</div><div>
<br /></div><div><div>Carlos Garcia, M.D., Director of Medicine, Utopia Wellness.</div><div><a href="http://utopiaawaits.com/">http://utopiaawaits.com </a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-4375540821603916280?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-80810482006933102512011-08-30T01:36:00.000-07:002011-08-30T01:45:34.915-07:00True Forgiveness vs. Pardoning (by Pamela Gregory).<div>Knowing the importance of forgiveness and ACHIEVING forgiveness, are two entirely different matters. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>For the past two thousand years, we've been taught that forgiveness is about forgiving someone else, yourself or God for a perceived injustice done to you, or something you did to them. Unfortunately, we were taught the improper definition of forgiveness. Instead of forgiveness, what we've been taught is pardoning. Pardoning, or excusing someone for wrong or injust actions or behaviors is a nice thing to do, but it doesn't bring about the healing power of forgiveness as it was intended. The pain and trauma is still trapped inside you, waiting to be triggered at a later point in time. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>True forgiveness is about cancelling the false reality within you that is causing you pain. No one outside of you is the cause of your pain and upset...trigger YES, cause NO. It ABSOLUTELY FEELS like their fault, I know. But that is our defense mechanism that will forever keep us blaming everybody else, so we never have to look at the part we created in it. We've ALL done it...until we know a better way...the only way...to heal our past and false realities.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>I've been teaching the healing power of forgivenses for many, many years...but what I was teaching was the pardoning version. When I came across the work of Dr. Michael Ryce, I felt the truth of what he was teaching and thus adopted some of his key teachings into mine. It's powerful, powerful stuff! Let me warn you...once on this path, you'll never look back...AND you'll never again say, "You made me mad!" </div><div> </div><div>Perhaps for the first time, there is a tool that can help you fully forgive once and for all. The process I've been searching for my entire life and have found to be the most effective beyond all others to assist in clearing and freeing your forgiveness issues I found in Dr. Ryce's teachings. .</div><div>
<br /></div><div>One of the processes Dr. Michael Ryce uses is called <a href="http://www.whyagain.com/_Reality_Mngmt_NEW_12_STEP_01_2010.pdf">The Reality Management Worksheets</a>. Using this worksheet will allow you to discharge the hostility and fear you've been caring in your DNA your entire life, and even that of previous generations. Sounds CRAZY I know...but I've witnessed this for myself and it's a very real probability, as well as possibility...</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Studies now show that the lack of forgiveness has measurable impact on our bodies. Continuing to carry yesterday's hurts with you will hurt you far more than anyone else. When you harbor resentment, hostility or fear, it festers in your body and can cause a multitude of problems, including chronic and even terminal conditions. Traumatic emotional issues literally eat away at the body. Anger releases high voltage toxic chemicals and hormones inside your body, damaging organs and your ability to think creatively. These contribute to a wide variety of diseases such as heart attack, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, ulcers, migraines, and high blood pressure, and many others. People with a variety of illnesses have had symptoms lessen, and even disappear when they achieved forgiveness.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>If you wish to RESTORE your body's emotional and energetic balance back to the perfection you were created as (and still are) you'll invest the time and effort to heal your past, your false realities and return to a place of love. You can run from this task...but you cannot hide. Your pain will remain with you, and future generations until you heal it. The buck stops here...all healing is an inside job</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Holding onto grievances is really a decision to continue to suffer. True forgiveness is the ONLY way to release us from a painful past.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>"Our Essential Nature, as Human Beings, is Love. The work of healing is to remove anything that is unlike our True Nature so that we come back to the experience of Love 24/7/365." Dr. Michael Ryce.</div><div>
<br /></div><div><div>Pamela has spent over 25 years in the health and wellness industry as a fitness trainer, holistic health practitioner, and nutritional consultant. Her greatest passion is to research empowering ways to help people heal themselves. The primary focus of her work today is in helping others to heal through teaching the principles of the Law of LOVE. </div><div>
<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pamela's approach to resolving forgiveness and other issues is very unique. She incorporates several energy medicine healing modalities, including kinesiology, to identify and RESTORE the body's emotional and energetic balance, back to the time before the event which triggered it. This creates a bio-chemical, physiological shift in the body, allowing your mind, body, and soul to return to it's natural state of health. To see the original post, click here: </span><a href="http://pamelagregory.com/Heart_Forgiveness.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://pamelagregory.com/Heart_Forgiveness.html</span></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-8081048200693310251?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-73999212358058962632011-08-30T01:28:00.000-07:002011-08-30T01:33:47.103-07:00Giving Away Your Power - And Reclaiming it Through Forgiveness (by Dr. Eileen Borris)<div>Are you still holding on to hurtful feelings about something that has happened in the past? Pain can be difficult to let go of. And yet have you ever realized that by holding on to these painful feelings you are giving away your power and control to the person who has hurt you? The truth is, when we blame another person for how we feel, we give them power and control over our emotional well-being. Since we already feel hurt by what was done to us, giving people control will only add to and prolong our suffering.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Think about it for a moment. Why would we want to give any control over to someone else who in many cases doesn’t really care about us, some of whom may even be cruel to us? After a while, if we continually blame the same person over and over again it becomes a habit and we get caught in a groove which becomes deeper and deeper. This leads us down the road of feeling helpless and hopeless and definitely like a victim. We now have become disempowered at someone else’s hands.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>There is one point I would like to stress. Holding people accountable for their action is not the same as blaming them for how you feel. People can be forgiven for what they have done and also need to be held accountable for their actions. What leads to unnecessary suffering is making people responsible for your continued suffering. Remember, forgiveness allows us to regain our power, breaking the unhealthy behavior created by our anger, guilt or fear. Forgiveness requires that we do our inner work and it is this inner work which will set us free. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Exercise: Think of a time when you gave away your power to someone who may not have cared for you. It could be a cruel and abusive parent or relative, or a friend that didn’t necessarily have your best interest at heart. Or it could be a business associate who did something implying that it was “just business” totally disregarding how hard you may have worked. Or it could be a lover or spouse who has betrayed you.</div><div>Ask yourself – why am I spending so much time blaming so and so. Who is it really hurting? Why am I choosing to stay stuck in the past instead of living in the present moment and creating a more productive and peaceful future? Haven’t I suffered enough? Now look into the present and future where this situation is no longer an issue. What does your life look like now? How does it feel to be free of this burden? What have you learned about yourself? Now take a deep relaxing breathe and think about all the things to be thankful for. Hold gratitude and joy in your heart and go on with the rest of your day.</div><div>
<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dr. Borris-Dunchunstang, is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Paradise Valley, Arizona. She specializes in marriage counseling and couples counseling and works with indviduals dealing with relationship difficulties. Dr. Eileen R. Borris- Dunchunstang, is also the Director of Training for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington DC. She designs and implements training programs in international conflict resolution incorporating processes of forgiveness, trauma healing and reconciliation within international peacebuilding. To see the original post, click here: </span><a href="http://findingforgiveness.blogspot.com/2010/03/giving-away-your-power-and-reclaiming.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://findingforgiveness.blogspot.com/2010/03/giving-away-your-power-and-reclaiming.html</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1563747521398900401-7399921235805896263?l=innerhealers-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>INNER HEALERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639627237880279068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563747521398900401.post-8660955312021916512011-08-28T12:55:00.000-07:002011-09-12T15:00:32.560-07:00The Three Faces of Victim (by Lynne Forrest)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Whether we know it, or not, most of us react to life as victims. Whenever we refuse to take responsibility for ourselves, we are unconsciously choosing to react as victim. This inevitably creates feelings of anger, fear, guilt or inadequacy and leaves us feeling betrayed, or taken advantage of by others.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Victim-hood can be defined by the three positions beautifully outlined in a diagram developed by a well respected psychiatrist, and teacher of Transactional Analysis, named Stephen Karpman. He calls it the “drama triangle”, I will refer to it as the victim triangle. Having discovered this resource some thirty years ago, it has become one of the more important tools in my personal and professional life. The more I teach and apply the victim triangle to relationship the deeper my appreciation grows for this simple, powerfully accurate instrument.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/SV3Z0XS3T-w/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SV3Z0XS3T-w&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SV3Z0XS3T-w&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve sometimes referred to the victim triangle as a "shame generator" because through it we unconsciously re-enact painful life themes that create shame. This has the effect of reinforcing old, painful beliefs that keep us stuck in a limited version of reality.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">I believe that every dysfunctional interaction, in relationship with other or self, takes place on the victim triangle. But until we become conscious of these dynamics, we cannot transform them. And unless we transform them, we cannot move forward on our journey towards re-claiming emotional, mental and spiritual well-being.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">The three roles on the victim triangle are Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim. Karpman placed these three roles on an inverted triangle and described them as being the three aspects, or faces of victim. No matter where we may start out on the triangle, victim is where we end up, therefore no matter what role we’re in on the triangle, we’re in victimhood. If we’re on the triangle we’re living as victims, plain and simple!</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEnZpIIn_68/TlqdeYyscMI/AAAAAAAAAu4/3kyj-Z_wMWk/s1600/triangle.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645998228239052994" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEnZpIIn_68/TlqdeYyscMI/AAAAAAAAAu4/3kyj-Z_wMWk/s320/triangle.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 190px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 320px;" /></a></span></div><div class="style24" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Each person has a primary or most familiar role - what I call their “starting gate” position. This is the place from which we generally enter, or “get hooked” onto, the triangle. We first learn our starting gate position in our family of origin. Although we each have a role with which we most identify, once we’re on the triangle, we automatically rotate through all the positions, going completely around the triangle, sometimes in a matter of minutes, or even seconds, many times every day.</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/tN3sD6Vr3PE/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tN3sD6Vr3PE&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tN3sD6Vr3PE&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Starting gate Rescuers (SGR) see themselves as “helpers” and “caretakers”. They need someone to rescue (victim) in order to feel vital and important. It's difficult for SGR’s to recognize themselves as ever being in a victim position - they’re the ones with the answers after all.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Starting Gate Persecutors (SGP), on the other hand, identify themselves primarily as victims. They are usually in complete denial about their blaming tactics. When it is pointed out to them, they argue that attack is warranted and necessary for self protection. These two - the Rescuer and the Persecutor - are the two opposite extremes of Victim. But again, regardless of where we start out on the triangle, all roles eventually end up in victim. It's inevitable.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">You may notice that both the Persecutor and Rescuer are on the upper end of the triangle. These roles assume a “one-up” position over others, meaning they relate as though they are better, stronger, smarter, or more-together than the victim. Sooner or later the victim, who is in the one-down position at the bottom of the triangle, develops a metaphorical "crick in the neck" from always looking up. Feeling “looked down upon” or “worth- less than” the others, the Victim builds resentment and sooner or later, retaliation follows. A natural progression from victim to persecutor follows. This generally moves the persecutor or rescuer into victim. Reminiscent of a not-so-musical game of musical chairs, all players sooner or later rotate positions.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Here's an example: Dad comes home from work to find mom and Junior engaged in battle. "Clean up your room or else," mom threatens. Dad immediately comes to the rescue. "Mom," he might say, "give the boy a break. He’s been at school all day".</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Any one of several possibilities might follow. Perhaps Mom, feeling victimized by Dad, will turn her wrath on him. In that case, dad is moved from Rescuer to Victim. They, then might do a few quick trips around the triangle with Junior on the sidelines.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Or maybe Junior joins Dad in a persecutory "Let's gang up on mom" approach, or then again, maybe Junior will turn on Dad, rescuing Mom, with, "Mind your own business, Dad. I don't need your help!" So it goes, with endless variation, but nonetheless, pinging from corner to corner on the triangle. For many families, it's the only way they know to interact.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Our starting-gate position on the victim triangle is not only where we most often enter the triangle, it is also the role through which we actually define ourselves. It becomes a strong part of our identity. Each starting-gate position has its own particular way of seeing and reacting to the world. We all have unconscious core beliefs acquired in childhood, derived from our interpretation of early family encounters. These become “life themes” that predispose us towards the unconscious selection of a particular starting gate position on the triangle.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Sally’s mother was an invalid who was addicted to prescription drugs. From Sally’s earliest memory she reported feeling ultimately responsible for her mother. Instead of getting appropriate care from a parent who was concerned for her well being, she became the “little parent” of a mother who played the part of a helpless child. This childhood scenario set Sally up with a “life script” that predisposed her towards becoming a Starting Gate Rescuer (SGR). Care-taking others became her primary way of relating to others.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">SGR’s, like Sally have an unconscious core belief that might go something like this; “My needs are not important ... I am only valued for what I can do for others”. Of course, believing these ideas requires that she have someone in her life she can rescue (a victim). How else will someone like Sally get to feel valuable and worthwhile? </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Sally would never admit to being a victim because in her mind she is the one who must have the answers. Nonetheless, she does, in fact, rotate through victim on the triangle on a regular basis. A SGR in the victim role becomes a martyr, complaining loudly, "After all I've done for you ... this is the thanks I get!"</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Starting Gate Persecutors (SGP's), on the other hand, do see themselves as victims in need of protection. This is how they can so easily justify their vengeful behavior ... “They asked for it and they got what they deserved", That’s the way they see it. Their core belief might go something like this; “The world is dangerous, people can’t be trusted so I need to get them before they hurt me.” This attitude sets them up to think that they must strike out in order to defend against inevitable attack.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Whereas a SGR may move into the role of persecutor by withdrawing their care-taking, (“That’s it - I’m not doing anything else for you!”) a SGP rescues in a way that is almost as painful as when they persecute.</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Bob is a doctor who often justified hurting others. Attack is his primary way of dealing with inconvenience, frustration or pain. Once, for instance, he mentioned running into a patient of his on the golf course. Our dialogue went something like this:</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">“Lynne, can you believe that patient had the nerve to ask me to treat his bad knee, right then and there, on my only day off?"</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">“Yeah”, I replied, “some people just don’t have appropriate boundaries. How did you handle it?”</span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">"Oh, I took him to my office for a treatment, all right,” he chuckled, “and I gave him a steroid shot he’ll never forget!</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">In other words Bob rescued his inconsiderate patient but in a way that “punished” him for daring to be so bold. To Bob, his action seemed rational, even justified. His patient had infringed on his free time, therefore, he believed, his patient deserved the rough treatment he got. This is a prime example of SGP thinking. Bob didn’t realize that he could have just said no to his patients request for treatment. He did not have to feel victimized by, nor did he need to rescue his patient. Setting boundaries never occurred to Bob as an option. In his mind he had been treated unjustly and therefore he had the right, even the obligation, to get even.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Victims also have core beliefs that set them up for their starting gate position on the triangle. Starting Gate Victim’s (SGV's) believe they cannot take care of themselves. They see themselves as consistently unable to handle life. They even rescue from a one-down position, saying things to their potential rescuer like "You're the only one who can help me.” These are words that any SGR longs to hear!</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Starting gate positions are generally set-up in childhood. For instance, if a parent does not ask their children to take age-appropriate responsibility for themselves, they may grow up either to become adults who feel inadequate at taking care of themselves (starting gate victim) or become resentful adults who blame others when they don’t get care-taken. (a persecutor role). Either way, they are set up for a lifetime on the victim triangle.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="style24" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">There are many variations, and each case needs to be individua