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Chronically depressed? I'm certain you've tried everything you could find and nothing seems to work. I'd like to offer you a simple, low cost, non-toxic approach that has worked well for my students and I believe it just might work for you too. Like the lotus growing in the mud, I used my emotional dysfunction as a ...

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With all our mental smarts, so many of us are still struggling with poor self esteem, aggressive behavior, depression, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, addiction and chronic stress. On top of all this, how many times have we squirmed in anguish when suddenly faced with the bedeviling frustration of losing a job, having ...

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I was at a party recently where I was telling someone about my book. Not everyone is enamored with the concept of self-healing and taking full responsibility for your healing journey. In this case, the woman I was speaking with said out loud what I believe a lot of us really want but don’t admit. She candidly admitted, “I don’t really want to figure it for myself. I want someone to tell me what is wrong and how to fix it.”

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To date, I haven’t met anyone that has told me they can see them, taste them or smell negative ions. Yet, in nature, they are there all around us. Visit the ocean and you are in the company of negative ions. Visit the mountains, splash around in a stream, or take a walk in the woods and you’ll be breathing in negative ions. How do you know when you are in the presence of negative ions? You feel better. You relax and you feel more at ease with yourself and with life. That’s because negative ions increase the levels of serotonin in your body.

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Someone recently asked me, “As an intuitive, how do you make decisions about what medical or healing care to receive? When I’m not feeling well or I’ve had an injury, I just go to the doctor. How do you figure out what to do?” No one had ever asked me that question. I really had to think about it. I made an agreement with Spirit many years ago that I would continue to strengthen my sound healing gift for the service of others. In return I expected that when I needed healing or medical help it would be obvious to me and the right help would be there at the right time.

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A while back my husband and I were in a class where we were asked to spend a day keeping a tally of how often we complained. I thought I was a pretty positive person so this exercise would be pretty easy to do. Oh my gosh, was I surprised to discover how often I was thinking complaining thoughts, though I wasn’t expressing them. I was complaining all right, just not out loud. We were also asked to notice our patterns of thoughts. Did we tend to complain about other friends, co-workers, politics, our bodies, our helplessness, injustice, past abuses, lovers, etc.?

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Have you ever considered making a change you knew would probably positively and significantly improve your health, and then chose not to do it? I know I have. Those are moments that became regrets. Those are the illnesses I suffered longer than necessary because I was ignoring the discomfort, hoping it would go away because I was too busy to deal with it. Even though I know better, I actually did that with a headache today. My head hurt and I took something for it that usually helps immediately. Nothing happened.

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Have you seen the movie, The Snow Walker? I know I don’t usually recommend films, but this one that I watched for the first time the other night, is worth telling you about if you are seriously dedicated to your self-healing. Now, I’m not going to give away the plot, but I am going to tell you that it is not a film about physical healing. However, it gives you a lot to consider when it comes to understanding what overwhelming challenges do for your spiritual and emotional evolution.

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Knowing how to approach your self-healing process can be a real quandary, particularly if you don’t have a favorite and specific energy healing modality. You can spend a lot of energy just figuring out how to think of self-healing in a general context. Recently, one of my readers asked a really great question regarding a general approach to self-healing. It was significant enough that I sent it to several of my colleagues for their consideration and comments.

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I was just going about my day, when a little voice in the back of my head said, “Turn on the television.” “What?” I argued with myself. “I don’t watch TV during the day. Sure, at night when I’m winding down my day, but day-time hours are for being productive.”

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Intuition is one of those elusive concepts that many of us know we should be using to enhance our opportunities for healing, but often, don’t quite know how to access. I remember a friend that had been a meditator for many years asking me how he would know when his intuition was speaking to him. I was taken aback. I had assumed that because he had been an active meditator at one time in his life, that he would automatically be open to and recognize his intuitive wisdom, but that was not the case.

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When someone comes to me looking for an instantaneous healing, I know we are not likely to make very much progress. Are you wondering why? Doesn’t it seem to make sense that the more the person is able to believe in instant healing, the more likely it is going to happen? Indeed, I love to offer healing sounds and support to people that believe in the power of energetic healing because we are most likely to get results. However, there is a difference between believing in miracles and looking for them. Someone looking for miracles is usually desperately hunting to find a solution.

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If you have an “incurable” condition, you may be asking yourself if there is any possibility that incurable conditions can be reversed. The answer is, “Yes.” Just because modern allopathic medicine may not have a cure, doesn’t mean that healing isn’t possible. The journey of self-healing is about discovering the power and the path within you. If you have read my book, “The Root of All Healing,” you know that when I was faced with MS, I decided I was not going to live with that forever.

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My healing took a huge leap forward when I discovered that my own sounds could heal. So one of the first skills I teach new sound healers to develop is the ability to sound their feelings. Why?

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A teacher once said to me, “Most people are lying to themselves most of the time.” “Yah, right,” I thought as I blew off the concept as nonsense. However, that kind of statement has a way of sticking with you, and I couldn’t get it out of my thoughts. “How often am I lying to myself?” I wondered.

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Some of the most significant feelings we have that can keep us trapped in our pain include, regret, guilt, and shame. Many of us have an easier time forgiving someone else than we do ourselves. If we don’t transform these feelings they easily lead to depression and even serious illnesses.

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This morning, as I was meditating, I had one of those special moments of awakening. As I was in the moment, I remembered that the last time I had a profound experience of awakening, I tried to cling to it, thinking, “I want life to be like this forever.” The moment I attached to the experience, it stopped.

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Have you had the experience of leaving a luscious other-worldly experience only to come back to this reality feeling cranky? I’ve caught myself more than once thinking to myself, “That’s real spiritual, Misa! Open your heart wide in compassion during your meditation and then, in this world, get critical with someone when they are trying to do their best.” Oddly, these instances seem to occur in proximity to the end of my meditations and dreams.

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It is your responsibility as the receiver of other people’s prayers to set the intention for prayers and energetic forms of spiritual healing that are in alignment with your own your clear desire. That means your intention needs to be very clear. A clear intention is dependent upon how you feel spiritually strong. Are you someone that visualizes, hears or feels things easily? Do you get strong impressions that are more like knowing something? Most of us have one or two means of spiritual perception that are strongest for us.

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The physical causes of back and neck pain vary widely from a herniated disc, osteoarthritis, spinal deformity from childhood, or an injury—with these being just some of the major causes. For more information about physical causes visit: http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/tc/low-back-pain-cause.

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Whenever I meditate on metaphysical roots, I encourage you to do the same. What you get for yourself might have more meaning for you personally, and there may be nuances in your own intuitive and psychic insights that could make a significant difference for you. Here is a definition for osteoporosis from the U.S. National Library of Medicine: Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to form enough new bone, when too much old bone is reabsorbed by the body, or both.

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Emotions tell stories about what is really going on. You’ve just got to be willing to sit with the uncomfortable ones long enough and with enough self-honesty to discover what they are telling you about what you need for your healing. This is going to make a lot more sense if I share a couple of poignant stories from my life. Years ago, I was in loving relationship where my sexual energy started to fully awaken and blossom.

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During this holiday season, if you spend more time with your family, you may find your buttons getting pushed. Here is the thing about healing. Those buttons—those are the very places where you store pent up feelings and ignore unmet core needs that lead to or contribute to illnesses. This holiday could provide a significant opportunity to do some fundamental healing that will allow your mind and body to find greater healing. Families are where our deepest unmet needs rise to the surface.

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This question came from one of my readers, and I think it is a really significant question to be asking. Limiting beliefs are often hidden from our view, so how are you supposed to do something about them if you don’t know what they are and how to find them.

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Depression affects many of us at some point in our lives. If you are suffering from a chronic condition, serious injury, loss, or emotional trauma, you might find yourself suffering from depression.

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Winter can be such a challenging time when it comes to depression. The days are shorter, in the US more people die in winter than in warmer seasons, and grey skies can dampen your spirits. Of course, physical illness, stress, emotional turmoil, and abusive experiences from our past or present all contribute. And if you are an empath you may have bouts of depression for reasons that may be difficult to trace. I spent many years being depressed, and recently, with the loss of a few people in my life, I found myself feeling the heavy feelings of depression once again.

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This can be one of the most revealing questions to ask yourself in regard to your self-healing journey: What does it mean, if I chose this illness or condition? It leads to the next question: If I did choose this, what was I hoping to discover or gain?

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I was recently asked a question regarding how to encourage cell renewal for a specific organ. Here is the wonder of energy healing: you don’t have to understand the organ or have a detailed intention in order to heal it energetically. Some years ago my doctor told me one of my fallopian tubes was collapsed. She understood I was an energy healer and was supportive when I told her I wanted to do some energy work before doing any further tests that might lead to surgery.

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Do you ever feel as though you have entered rat-race season starting about the end of November? We can become so caught in up in what we think we should be doing for the holidays that we lose track of how we really want to be feeling. We send holiday cards that wish each other peace and we sing beautiful songs about peace—all the while feeling stressed and cranky. And as many of us now know, stress is related to hundreds of today's illnesses. So being stressed just might become the cause of an illness this holiday season or exacerbate an existing condition.

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The Mayo clinic offers us this definition for osteoarthritis: "Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting millions of people around the world. Often called wear-and-tear arthritis, osteoarthritis occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down over time. While osteoarthritis can damage any joint in your body, the disorder most commonly affects joints in your hands, neck, lower back, knees and hips.

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The Mayo clinic offers us this definition for osteoarthritis: "Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting millions of people around the world. Often called wear-and-tear arthritis, osteoarthritis occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down over time. While osteoarthritis can damage any joint in your body, the disorder most commonly affects joints in your hands, neck, lower back, knees and hips.

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For many years I thought my real spiritual work would begin once I was fully healed. What I didn’t understand was that my self-healing was my spiritual path. It wasn’t that I needed to get better and then I would have the energy to devote to my spiritual awakening. It was the other way around. Discovering my unique spiritual gifts—and learning how to apply them in every area of my life including my healing and awakening—was the journey. In fact, much of my awakening has taken place as I have been focused on self-healing!

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How should you focus your attention for healing this year? Each year has a unique energy of its own. In order to bring the most to your healing intentions, you probably want to align with the natural and cosmic energies of the year. This year is about alignment.

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There is a strangely sad and lonely feeling that surrounds me. I feel sorrow well up in my eyes, as fluid dashes from my heavy stomach up past my throat, just stopping short of falling from my eyelashes as tears and caressing my cheeks. I know this moment is about discovery; possibly of self or something even greater; something universally spiritual, and yet, even in that knowledge, I am drawn deeper into my sadness.

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What intrigued me about this question from one of my readers is that if indeed the inquirer is asking about teeth, as opposed to gums or nerves, many of us have some misconceptions about bones being rigid and permanent once we become adults. If they are rigid and fixed, we might wonder if there is anything natural we can do to heal them. First let’s look at what bones need physically in order to be healthy and then we’ll look at the metaphysical nature of decaying teeth.

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First lets look at what the thyroid does for you physically, with this excerpt from http://www.emedicinehealth.com/thyroid_problems/article_em.htm: "The thyroid gland is located on the front part of the neck below the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple). The gland produces thyroid hormones, which regulate body metabolism. Thyroid hormones are important in regulating body energy, the body’s use of other hormones and vitamins, and the growth and maturation of body tissues.

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Right now is the perfect time to consider what works well for you in your self-healing. As you reflect upon last year, perhaps you will want to take some time to think about what has brought you the greatest healing. If you do this, I suggest becoming a real observer of your reality. (Something I talk about in greater depth in the first chapter of my book, The Root of All Healing.)

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There’s nothing better than losing yourself in an afte oon’s reading session; I thoroughly enjoy finding myself engrossed In the comings and goings of the characters of a good book, and the entire time I’m in that zone I am totally aware of how they’re affecting each other, good, bad and ugly! I get so involved in the story that I can’t wait to see if what I feel will eventuate, actually does. Life, I’ve realized, could be very similar.

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Emotional hungers you may not even be aware of can drive you to make choices and behave based on emotional need instead of what’s actually best for you. This kind of emotionally-driven behavior has natural consequences, most of them unwanted. To turn this around, there are some constructive steps you can take. Emotional Hungerr

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Emotional hungers you may not even be aware of can drive you to make choices and behave based on emotional need instead of what’s actually best for you. This kind of emotionally-driven behavior has natural consequences, most of them unwanted. To turn this around, there are some constructive steps you can take. Emotional Hungerr

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One of our readers wants to know about healing back injuries. Many, if not most, of us have injured our backs, so we know how debilitating it can be have back pain. Before we look at the energetic roots of back injuries, let’s take a look at the prevalence of back injuries that occur. Consider this information from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/backpain/detail_backpain.htm:

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This is such an excellent question. Guilt is at the core of many illnesses. Its partner is regret. As long as we are living in emotional pain rooted in the past, we are going to have a difficult time healing in the present. Guilt is anger with yourself for some choice you have made. The cells of the body can harbor the energy of guilt inside of them and when they do, your body inflames and congests in response. In fact, you may find that you heal, only to have a recurrence of a condition. Guilt doesn’t let us off the hook for very long and your physical symptoms may be reflecting that.

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When I was a teenager, I remember stopping at a convenience store, purchasing a box of six old fashioned doughnuts and then eating four of them in a row. It seems I was able to burn them off fairly quickly because my metabolism was moving quite fast, but I’m not convinced I was doing my body any favors with the processed sugar and bleached flour.

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As someone who has spent a lot of her time in the shop healing, I can really relate to this question. And yet, that’s what the journey is really all about—learning how to maintain such a positive and clear state of being that it is difficult for anything physical, mental or emotional to harm you.

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The way you speak about your negative thoughts is where speaking about them can actually give those thoughts power. Consider entering into this imaginary scenario with me. See if you can imagine your negative thoughts as a person in the room with you. You can give them a personality, a name, a form of some kind—whatever it takes to make them seem like something other than you for a moment.

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One of the most challenging times in our lives occurs when someone we love is in a coma and on life support. It can be excruciating if you are the one that needs to make the decision, or even observe the decision being made, regarding when to remove the life support.

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You want to heal so much. You are making positive changes in your life. You have decided to be completely committed to your health, but nothing is changing. You are up against some kind of resistance, but you don’t even know how to define it. You just know it is there. What’s happening? This is one of the most frustrating moments in healing. If you meet that resistance often enough, you might find yourself giving up healing entirely.

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One of the great ironies in life is that in order to accelerate your healing, you have to slow down. —Misa Hopkins, The Root of All Healing In our crazy, busy lives driving to the office, working in fast-paced environments, watching hours of television, and keeping up a rather intense pace until it’s time to go to bed, we are missing something vital to our health—connection with nature.

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Have you ever found yourself assuming responsibility for the reality you are experiencing, only to realize that instead of blaming someone else for how you are feeling, you are now blaming yourself? Shifting blame isn’t really assuming responsibility, but if you are like most of us, you have probably done it at some time. As you know, if you have read chapter five of my book, blame is a form of self-punishment that prevents healing from occurring. Blame perpetuates anger because we are looking for a way out of the helplessness that we are feeling. http://www.RootOfAllHealing.com

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As I’m writing a response to this question today, I am feeling tired. I’m not entirely sure whether I’ve taxed my body with what I’m currently healing or the planetary alignment is tugging on my energy. Fortunately, I’m feeling emotionally stable, though many years ago, emotional upheaval was the greatest pull on my energy.

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Insomnia challenges so many of us. I remember nights lying in bed thinking about everything I thought just had to be done, sacrificing my health and my rest to my busy mind. Resting is a natural state, but isn’t it interesting how many of us at some time in our lives have found it to be a state so difficult to experience? For those of us that live in cultures where achieving is revered, it can be difficult to accept that action and achieving are only half of the human equation for mastery as human beings.

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Depression underlies many physical conditions, either because it was part of the cause of the illness or because you are feeling the pressure of your physical limits. While my book, The Root of All Healing wasn’t intended to be a book about alleviating depression, as I began to answer this question, I realized how much of it really does speak to natural approaches to addressing depression. In a sense, it has to, because if you are healing the root cause of your illness, the root cause of your depression is part of or contributing to your physical and emotional challenges.

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If you are really ill or in pain, you want to get out of it just as fast as you can. You might find yourself inclined to do just about anything to get quick relief. As you probably know, relief from discomfort or pain is not necessarily the same as healing. You can be experiencing temporary relief, but still need healing.

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A few readers have asked me this question in each their own way, according to their personal spiritual beliefs. This is a very important question because our beliefs significantly affect our approaches to health and even the degree to which we heal. Beliefs like this are so easy to accept as our reality, and yet so limiting to our healing process. Discover more beliefs that can limit your healing at: http://misahopkins.com/beating-the-odds-free-special-report/rnr

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Your mental attitude has everything to do with how you get along with with others. If you have a positive attitude, you tend to create positive relationships, while a negative mental attitude breeds more of that same negativity. But how to improve your attitude if you need to? Where were you ever taught how to have a positive attitude, especially when differences arise? And because each of us is unique, each of us is different, and that can be a source of tension and conflict in any kind of relationship - intimate, work, ethnic, national.

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Anger is part of our human condition, which means we need to figure out strategies for recognizing it and then for managing it. We may experience it as a surge of inner heat as blood courses through our veins or a vague, unnamed discomfort that later breaks into consciousness. Or we might erupt like Mount Vesuvius, only then realizing we feel angry. But whichever way it manifests, anger can destabilize us, making us vulnerable to harming ourselves, others or both if we allow it to overtake reason and caution.

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Emotional pain from the past can lodge in the body and become physical pain in the present. If you ignore the emotional pain, you are basically ignoring the root cause of the physical pain, and may find yourself remaining in physical discomfort. This is a difficult concept for many of us to grasp—the connection between emotional stress and physical illness.

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Candida: What Is It? Candida is a yeast infection and can occur anywhere in your body - in local tissues such as eyes, mouth, ears, vaginal tract, urethra, prostate, breast - and also throughout your entire system. If it is systemic, it can cause a variety of symptoms, some of them merely inconvenient, others overwhelming, but all of them baffling. Why You Need To Know:

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If you have ever wondered if cells in your body can actually regenerate, they can. That might be very difficult to believe if you have a chronic condition or if you have been told there is no cure. But there is evidence that cells can and do regenerate.

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Creativity is a stimulant to intuition. Creative people often describe the source of their creativity as inspiration. Highly intuitive individuals will often describe their source of insight as inspiration. Stimulating your creativity is one way to develop your inspiration and intuitive abilities; therefore, receiving more messages about your healing from your inner well of wisdom.

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One of my readers asked about how to heal from diabetes. I love questions. They challenge me to dive in deeply into the spiritual and emotional roots behind illnesses.

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Are emotional hungers – ones you may not even be aware of – driving you to make choices based on emotional need instead of what’s actually best for you? If so, what kind of consequences might you expect, and what constructive steps can you take? Emotional Hunger

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After reading my recent article on Diabetes and Self-Healing, one of our readers told me that although she has diabetes, she believes she is quite adept at fulfilling the spiritual-emotional need behind this condition—acknowledging the sweetness in life. But that realization hadn’t caused her diabetes to go away. This is a significant observation in her journey.

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One of my readers asked about healing high blood pressure. You’ll read the results of my meditation regarding high blood pressure below, but first lets take a look at some research. According to an article at: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/high_blood_pressure/article_em.htm,rn"High blood pressure has become the second most common reason for medical office visits in the United States." Further this same article warns us:r

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This wonderful question came from several of our readers, and this one really struck home with me. I was once the queen of stress! Perhaps some of you feel that way, like you are or have been kings or queens of stress in your own life. When you have come to a pinnacle in which you are quite certain that you know stress intimately well, it is time for a retreat. I mean—stop the clock, no responsibilities, no one to take care of or answer to, no excuses, put the brakes on your life—retreat.

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One of our readers asked about healing in regard to arteries of the hearts, so I took this conce into meditation. I received a perspective about the spiritual and emotional nature of arteries that I thought many of us might appreciate. It is a little bit different than what Louise Hay so beautifully offers to us, but it is indeed in alignment with her perspective.

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As a Polarity Practitioner and Cranial Sacral Therapist, I see many clients who are seeking relief from the little understood condition of SAD (Seasonal Affected Disorder), CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue & Immune Deficiency Syndrome), ME (Myalgia Encephalomyelitis), FIBROMYALGIA and RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). Although there have been no cures found for these conditions, there are many self-help ideas that have worked for my clients and I would like to share some of these.

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It has frequently surprised students when I suggest that sound healing is as much, if not more, about quieting the mind and listening as it is about making sounds. Many of us can make sounds, but we access the sounds that have the ability to heal from the well of our silence.

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Muscular pains or tension have sounds. When you know the physical pain is associated with emotional pain, the physical pain can release when you honor the physical stress with sound. This can be very challenging for those of us taught to only make “nice” sounds. But discomfort is not particularly nice, and like most things in life, it likes to be recognized as it is, without being forced to change.

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One of my readers asked about healing rheumatoid arthritis, so I meditated with this and got some insights about the energetic belief behind this autoimmune disease. I was surprised to discover that this is an autoimmune disease, which I researched after I did the meditation. In my meditations with other auto-immune conditions, from an emotional and spiritual perspective the body is attacking itself because we have a self-attacking belief.

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Have you experienced this? Someone that loves you doesn’t agree with how you want to go about approaching your healing. Or maybe you are on the other side of this experience. Maybe you are the one that is really uncomfortable with your loved one’s choices.

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Over the years I have met a number of people that have been challenged by fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and MS. The vast majority have been women. Those seem to be the most common conditions I encounter with people, and I wondered if that was reflective of who I attract or rather universal. So I did some research. First, I explored some statistics and clinical information, then I meditated to discover if there is a common emotional and spiritual root.

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Do you ever feel like you are finally getting some relief from some symptoms when they start back up again? Have you ever found yourself following your treatment perfectly only to have the symptoms sneak in and out? One day you are feeling better than ever and the next day you are feeling your worst?

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One of the first things you need to do when you are choosing to fully engage in a self-healing practice is to quiet your body and mind, bringing your body into a relaxed state that allows healing to occur. Getting to this relaxed state is the challenge and the opportunity. As I discuss at greater length in my book, The Root of All Healing, you cannot heal by will alone. In other words, you can’t make healing happen. You open to healing by allowing it to happen.

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As someone that has provided healing support and readings to empaths for several years, I've discovered that not all empaths are alike. The way empaths process their empathic responses are different, and what they need to do to remain balanced mentally, physically and emotionally also vary. There is certainly some similarity in the very nature of being empathic, but I’ve been amazed at the unique ways in which empaths need to be present with their compassionate nature.

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The reasons we are afraid are, in many ways, as unique as we are, and often need to be addressed individually. But let us explore the root of fear as it relates to healing.

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One of my readers asked how she could regain her hearing. Since many of us loose acuity of one or more of our senses throughout our lives, her question could be significant for many of us to consider. Physically, how one regains hearing is as specific as how one lost it. There are dozens of physical causes for hearing loss and other sensory deprivations. Your healing approach is likely to be dependent upon the physical cause.

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Have you started yet? You know, have you started the process of telling yourself that this holiday season you can handle more than you really can? I used to be so good at doing that. I thought I was the holiday super woman so I’d be running around doing all kinds of activities, eating all kinds of foods that weren’t good for me, and staying up late getting ready for various festivities with family and friends. I spent so much time getting ready—including buying and wrapping “presents,” it was a wonder I ever actually enjoyed the season with my loved ones.

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I know this might sound really strange if you have never set a healing objective, but like all things we create, clarity of intention makes a difference in healing too. Of course, creating intentions that truly motivate you is where healing objectives can help you make and see progress. Before you grab your paper and pencil, I invite you to become very still for a moment and allow yourself to reflect on how you will feel in your body when you are well: —Perhaps you will feel flexible in your body or have more vitality.r

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In your healing journey, you may have heard about the importance of quieting your mind in order to receive intuitive insights and guidance to assist you in your healing. But if you have never meditated before, the thought of doing so can be overwhelming. And if you have ever sat down to meditate, only to become agitated and frustrated, as you experience the turbulent chatter of your mind and a body that it not used to being still, you may not be anxious to utilize quiet contemplation as a healing approach.

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A little known fact that every person who is healing should consider.

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When you are really feeling poorly, it is difficult to feel grateful, and yet it is one of the most important times to count your blessings. Why? When you allow the pain to cause you to be worried or upset, your energy field closes down and it is difficult for any treatment to get through your fears. Gratitude opens the heart and when the heart is open, healing energy is most effective.

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To the women of Hollywood - women like Alyssa Milano, Gabrielle Union, Ashley Judd, Lady Gaga, Queen Latifah, Kesha, Mo’Nique, Mira Sorvino, Teri Hatcher and many others: We didn’t realize how much we needed you to speak up and share your stories of sexual abuse, trauma and harassment. But now that you have, we see the ripple effects of healing that you’ve inspired. Thank you. You have ushered in a new paradigm for women, where we’re telling our stories too.

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If you aren’t certain about where to begin accessing your intuition or you want to be able to tap into more of your intuitive guidance, one of the best and most enjoyable ways to access you inner wisdom is through creative expression. Why? Inspiration and intuition are kissing cousins. Ask a gardener why she planted certain flowers together in a bed, and she’ll tell you about how they are compatible, of appropriate heights and widths and then she’ll end up telling you she just thought they would look good together.

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It took me a lot of years to figure this one out. I grew up in a family that practiced cynicism like a religion. Nothing was exempt from our familial cynical eye. Anything that wasn’t part of our family’s dogma was suspect and therefore, frequently ridiculed during the family meal or late night discussions.

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The greatest mysteries to healing in life are right here in front of us, part of us, each and every day. The reason we do not recognize them is because we are so busy surviving.We rarely slow down long enough to notice the spirit of life hidden within every living thing.

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The year 2012 is a universal event and it has been credited with being the time of a great shift in consciousness for humanity. But are we really able to predict what will happen on 21st December 2012? The Solstice on December 21, 2012 - precisely at 11:11 AM GMT - is purportedly the completion of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of the Ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar. Furthermore, it is thought to coincide with the end of a 26,000 year cycle and, perhaps, that of a greater (4 x 26000) 104,000 year cycle.

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The general appearance of the chakra can be visualised as a a twining plant with trumpetshaped flowers. The stalk of the flower reaches into the spine with the flower extending out from the spine to the outer body and etheric double. The divine energy from the Solar Logos pours into each centre. On the surface of the etheric double it sets up at right angels to itself and the energy pours forth. Then the secondary energy flows in a circular motion through the chakra. In a sense, it resembles the bar magnet and induction coil.

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The appearance and size of the chakras, to the clairvoyant, will vary as the size and brightness will depend on how spiritually developed the person, who is being viewed, is on their evolutionary path. The chakras can be divided into 3-groups simply called - Lower, middle, higher.

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The chakras have a specific location related to the physical body and detailed below is a table giving this information, plus the Sanskrit name of each chakra. Only the most significant chakras are featured. The body has many major and minor chakras, but in this article I will focus on the main chakras. Each chakra also has a specific number of spokes or petals and these indicate the primary and secondary force undulations as the energy enters the depression in the etheric body where the chakra is located.

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There is a lot written about the ego and how we have to try to ‘destroy’, ‘conquer’ or even ‘ignore it’. However the ego is an intricate part of us, it gives us self-esteem, self-importance, self-worth, self-respect, self-image, self-confidence - quite a few things really! So instead of trying to destroy it, why not try to work with it? The ego has been with us a long time and when we react to something through anger or fear, it is usually just because the ego/personality is reacting in fear of its own annihilation.

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The body has many major and minor chakras, but in this article I will focus on the main chakras. Each chakra also has a specific number of spokes or petals and these indicate the primary and secondary force undulations as the energy enters the depression in the etheric body where the chakra is located. The Basic or Root Chakrar The 1st centre is the Root or Basic Chakra, which has a primary force that radiates out with 4 spokes. As a result of this apparent quadrant, the basic chakra is often symbolically represented by a cross.

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The chakras are energy 'wheels' that are part of the human being's energetic body. They are not visible to the average man - but, as a person begins to develop his inner senses, an amazing and fascinating world opens before him. This new world which is now visible is not just the world of the astral or emotional plane, with its many denizens of elementals, ET's and thoughtforms, but the world of the chakras.

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There have been many illustrations of chakras drawn by clairvoyants with ‘inner sight’, and by artists relying on descriptions from clairvoyants. Following article will outline chakra illustrations including descriptions and the healing property of each colour. On the physical plane of existence, where colours are dulled because of the lower vibration experienced on this Plane, it would be very difficult to reproduce the chakra colours accurately as they are so vivid and bright in comparison.

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Chakra is a Sanskrit word which literally means, “the turning of the wheel of the Law”. (Refer The Chakras CW Leadbetter). The law is to do with the Laws of Nature as referred to within the Divine Plan (Theosophical Studies - HP Blavatsky). However, for this short article, we will conce ourselves mainly with the meaning of the chakras in relation to the Etheric Double of man. These chakras are wheel-like vortices which exist in the surface of the etheric double.

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The physical body is constantly undergoing change. The cells of the skin are constantly dying only to be renewed. It is not just the shape of the body or our skin that undergoes change, it is the organs, hair and nails - our physical appearance is constantly changing - naturally or unnaturally - if you observe the many different types of hair colour that are around. However, in order for these natural changes to keep on happening and indeed for the physical body to stay alive it needs supplies from 3 specific sources of nourishment: 1. Food to digest 2. Air to Breath 3.

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Back in the 5th century, Dionysius wrote a book called ‘The Celestial Hierarchy’. Here a 9-fold hierarchy of supe atural beings was postulated and, although other writers have modified it or added detail since, this has been the largely accepted version. That said, it appears to have been written for philosophical reasons – the groupings are not reflected in the Bible (although most are mentioned) nor did they correspond to the Angel experiences of the faithful. The order from high to low – in terms of perfection, spiritual evolvement etc.

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Materialism, at the beginning of the century, was really taking hold and the physical world has advanced more technologically, in the last 100 years, than could ever be imagined when the Wright Brothers made their first transAtlantic flight. It became very much a case of - if there was no empirical evidence and it was not scientifically provable - it did not exist.

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Now, one of the most potent forms of prana that the etheric body receives is the energy from the sun’s rays, termed in Theospophy (Alice Bailey’s - Treatise of Cosmic Fire) as "solar pranic emanations." To understand the effect the sun’s rays have on us requires a deeper understanding of the rays and their emanations. There are three main channels of contact, which have differing effects on the bodies that they contact. Generally, the affects are good and provide nourishment for our cells and physical bodies.

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So, what exactly is the energy body and how does it work? There has been a lot written about this phenomena and although it has yet to be fully corroborated by science and the medical world, it is believed in esoteric teachings that it is an integral part of a human’s being-ness and maintaining a healthy energy body enables a person to be free from physical and emotional ailments. The energy body is basically energy which surrounds the physical body. It is moulded around the physical body and therefore is a similar shape to the person it is part of.

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We cannot see our energy bodies but it is there and we have to look after it with energy healing, fresh air, good food, meditation and other spiritual practises. If we ignore our energy bodies - we ignore our own well-being. So the question is - what does ‘energy’ mean to us on a spiritual level? How did this talk of energy come about and where are we, as physical humans, in this big picture?

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We have many past lives and one of the purposes, in our present lifetime, is to clear the Karma associated with these past lives. Generally, ‘symptoms’ or ‘events’ in our life will signify a specific past life that is presenting - to be cleared.

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The Nature Spirits are all around us and acknowledging them can help if you are meditating in nature, doing energy healing or even growing plants in your garden. The Nature Spirits are extensions of the Angelic realm and the ancient writings suggest that, although they live on a higher plane than the physical plane of existence, these spirits (or Elementals) are at a low level of spiritual evolution. They have no will of their own and come under direction from a higher level. They act as the architects/builders of nature as we know it.

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When you first start practising with the interpretation of the Aura it can be discouraging if you do not see colours immediately. That is when pendulums are very useful; no only do they help you, when you first start, they later confirm what you are seeing! The Aura is the energy field that surrounds all matter – whether that is animate or inanimate. The aura also has lines of energy, which appear as radiant streams of energy extending one or two feet out into the auric field.

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The energy/etheric body and the subtler planes and sub planes of our planet really benefit from the sun’s rays which helps us to meditate better, develop our psychic skills, do deeper energy and pranic healing and help us live a stress-free and more contented life. The etheric body is the ‘web’ that keeps the physical-being separate from the inner worlds, if it was not for the etheric body, a person would be able to see everything in the astral/inner worlds. This would not be an ideal scenario, for most of humanity, who have an inherent fear of ghosts or anything not physical.

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There are numerous definitions of master. However, the word is said to come from ‘magister’, which is a teacher and expounder as well as an applier of the law (magistrate). Master also signifies achievement – mastery. >From the Occult Glossary: A Master is one who has his higher principles awakened and lives in them; and ordinary men do not. Ascended Master: The term 'Ascended Masters' refers to those souls who after many inca ations and life experiences, have mastered the lessons of the physical realm and then ascend - return to higher consciousness of thought and light.

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The Etheric body is composed of ‘Etheric matter’ and it is like a network which is permeated with Golden light from the higher planes of existence. In the etheric body there are all planes of existence from human, to emotional (astral) abstract thinking (Causal) even up to the Adi plane, which is the highest plane of existence within our solar system. It is also the web that protects a human from inadvertently accessing the inner worlds, which could have a detrimental affect on the person that is not prepared. In the lowest level, it is the ring-pass-not for average humanity.

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What is the meaning of Reinca ation? - It is the repeated entering into the physical.

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We often hear about Angels and Archangels and the like. The story is always a pleasant one with their nature that of goodness and kindness. The dictionary defines an angel as “A Spiritual, Celestial Being, superior to Man in power and intelligence”. But what happens when an Angel turns to the other side? The concept of falle Angels – Lucifer etc. – is a controversial one. However, it is generally accepted that some force or entity outside of ourselves is working to push us towards evil or away from God. Some of the Angels, because of pride, did not return God’s Love.

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A pendulum works on the principle that our nervous system responds to subtle energies that we may not even be aware of. We are always interacting with outside energies and we are not always consciously aware of this. The pendulum helps you link with those parts of you, which are aware of this electromagnetic interaction. it is estimated that the subconscious mind controls 90 percent of body and brain function.

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Man has always believed that there were beings or entities, not like themselves, who were in and around his space – but not on the same plane or vibration of existence. There were several different forms of these ‘spirits’. Keywords: Angels, angel, archangel, ghosts, spirits, higher beings, meditation, healing, what is an angel, about angels Article: What is an angel?

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Pranic Healing is one of the many energy healing modalities that are available throughout the modern world. It is a non-touch modality, unlike the energy healing of Reiki, which tends to have a more ‘hands-on‘ technique. Instead, Pranic Healing works with the inner aura and the outer aura as well as the health rays contained within the health aura. (Refer Miracles Through Pranic Healing Book - Master Choa Kok Sui) Master Choa Kok Sui (MCKS) (1952-2007), a Filipino-Chinese spiritual teacher, was the Founder of Pranic Healing.

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Take Action Now and Reclaim Your Strength, Health and Focus! Does your current injury keep you from participating in your athletic endeavors? Perhaps you have recurrent injuries that keep coming back no matter what you do? Or you feel drained and like you lost some focus and strive? You energy level is low? If you are a serious athlete – no matter what level – you want to feel great every day. You have your long- or short-term training plan, you eat right, you get enough sleep, to make it short - you already take good care of yourself.

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Yesterday, I caught the tail end of a conversation that got me thinking about pain, and how attached many of us our to our pain.

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Does a current injury keep you from participating in athletic endeavors? Perhaps you have persistent injuries that keep coming back, no matter what you do. Or you feel drained and as if you have lost focus and strive. Is your energy level low? Spring is a time of renewal. So here are seven steps you can take to make long-term changes that will help you recover, refocus and succeed. Start by making adjustments from the inside out. 1. Be optimistic. Simply create your own optimism. No matter what the situation, put a positive spin on it. Turn obstacles into opportunities.r

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Have you ever known a mother who couldn't breastfeed her child? Maybe you've been there yourself. When my niece gave birth to her second child, she naturally started nursing her beautiful baby boy. It's a natural desire for every mother to provide nourishment for her child.

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I worked with a client recently who deeply desired to live her passion. A part of that success meant speaking in front of large audiences about beliefs that she was very passionate about.

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Have you ever sat at the beach and watched the waves – the rhythmic patterns of the swells, the ebbs and flows? I'm so blessed to live by the ocean again. I love watching the waves flowing onto the shore, drawing back to sea. It brings such a peaceful feeling. Sometimes emotions can be like the waves. The swells, the ebbs and flows. But they don't always feel so peaceful. Sometimes they feel really uncomfortable and scary. Like the waves, they can feel very powerful and even dangerous – especially when a storm is brewing.

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<img src="http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HeartinLeavesonWoodenTable-300x287.jpg" alt="A heart from petals lying on a beautiful old wooden table"/> Last night I was driving home from visiting a friend. A temperate night in Florida, I had the window down enjoying the fresh ocean air. Driving along Indian River Drive, I began hearing screams and a woman’s voice. I saw a truck backed into a vacant lot, driver’s side door was open, no lights on. This is where the screaming was coming from.

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[Watch the video: http://youtu.be/xq2ggIBZ3zU] In last week's video on Boundary Setting, we talked about the idea of putting up a wall of protection. This takes a lot of energy. It's exhausting! And would you really want to walk around barricaded, trapped inside a wall? Instead we want to be like the oak tree - strong and solidly rooted into the ground. We don't want to be the leaves that get blown about every time the wind blows. We want to be the trunk and the roots - firmly rooted into the earth, grounded solid in who we are. Then the wind can blow and blow and not upset us.

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[Watch the video: http://youtu.be/PQbcIVX5T0I] I like to put a reframe on the topic of boundary-setting. Think about this: If you are walking around with boundaries all the way around you, think about what this looks like. Think about what this feels like. You are building a wall all the way around you like a fortress.

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Life is hard. It's full of challenges. It's meant to be that way – part of the journey. I grew up the daughter of a baker. I was a major sugarholic. Sweets and alcohol were staples in my diet – often in heavy doses. I had a few minor health challenges, but nothing I couldn't live with. I was content. I was unconscious to the ways that I used sugar and alcohol in my life – and content.

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Recently, I've been hearing more and more accounts of doctors and research studies concluding that the major contributing factor influencing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Intestinal Permeability (Leaky Gut Syndrome) and other digestive dysfunction is Stress.

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Carl Jung once said, "Nothing so affects the life of a child as a parent's unfulfilled life."

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Where I grew up, pollution was so heavy, the sky glowed orange and the smell of burning chemicals lingered in the air. I was born in 1963 on the Texas Gulf Coast near a conglomeration of oil refineries. I remember my aunt exclaiming with great surprise when she bought a new car with a guarantee on the paint job. She lived across the street from the refineries, and the air pollution honestly was bad enough to fade paint from a new car within a year. No kidding!

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<img src="http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/white-rose-cropped-300x273.jpg" width="168" height="151"/> I’ve been thinking about close of the year 2012. I usually think of the close of the year as a time for reflection and gratitude. But what came to me in this morning’s meditation was the topic of forgiveness. I thought to myself – I’m not holding any grudges. I can’t think of anyone I’m displeased with. Why forgiveness?

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Welcome to you and your guts! My friend, Susan Hamblen, and I were talking the other day, planning for our upcoming Belly Wisdom workshop. Both of us are "inspired" by how often we hear people, clenching their bellies, say, "If only I could get rid of this!" or "If this would just go away!" or "I just hate this!"

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The other day I was driving in my car and a dashboard light came on that I had never seen before. I thought to myself, "I'm WAY too busy to deal with a car issue - I don't even have time to stop and check it out." Fortunately, I had the owner's manual right in the glove box. I looked up the symbol - it just needed air in the tires. I could easily manage that when I stop for gas.

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Do you consider yourself a spiritually-connected person? I do, and yet I sometimes find myself falling short of caring for my physical body in a way that best serves me. I skip breakfast or the morning workout so I can cram in one more errand on the way to work; I commit to more tha I can comfortably deliver and end up short-changing my time for spiritual practices and meditation that I need to rejuvenate myself; or I eat too fast or don’t get enough sleep because someone I care about needs me.

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I woke up the other morning with a painful knot of gridlocked stress around my stomach. Great…that’s what we call a “fog” – a “freakin’ opportunity for growth”. Not so bad, though. It’s just an opportunity to trade out that knot for a gift of divine truth and grace, and that painful tension was the signal to let me know that this opportunity was coming. And it just so happened I had a healing session scheduled with a friend from Minneapolis. Perfect!

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Farmers know that certain crops need certain nutrients in order to grow successfully. Winter is the time when cover crops are planted. Different cover crops and fertilizers provide different nutrients for the soil. Often combinations of crops and fertilizers are used to affix a complement of nutrients into the soil where the spring crops will be planted. A good soil farmer knows this is imperative to a bountiful harvest for the coming seasons.

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There's a lot of talk about pH, and some of it sounds so confusing, even contradictory, that it's hard to know what's true and what to do for what reasons. I'm going to try to shed a little light on the subject.r

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I know no one likes being told their dis-eases are "psychological," and I'm not here to tell you that everything is in your head. I realize there's more to it than that. However, your digestive system has a mind of its own, and it is wired to be heavily influenced by its mind. I'm not talking about the mind in your head - I'm talking about the mind in your gut.

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If I had to give just one teaching about what I've learned in all of my studies, it would be this: To truly heal and optimally care for our bodies, we must see ourselves as one with all that is. We cannot see ourselves as separate from anything around us or within us.

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I had a client a few years back who called herself a Parkinsonian. She had lived with Parkinson’s disease for 20 years. She was in her 70’s at the time, and her body was quite frail. She held a strong identity as a Parkinsonian and spoke fondly of her fellow Parkinsonians in her weekly support group. None held any possibility of healing. That’s not what they were there for. They had come together to create community around their disease. They had collectively agreed on the path the disease would take them on, and they were walking it together.

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One of the best ways to identify parts of ourselves that need healing is to work with wishes and "wants". Let's say you're giving yourself a session about your relationship with your partner. You're upset about a fight that you had, and want to clear out as much painful emotion and as many limiting beliefs as possible, but you're feeling stuck about exactly what to tap on. Ask yourself this: If I could have anything in my relationship with my partner, what would it be? What do I WISH would happen here?

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Medical doctors estimate that as many as 90 percent of all people seeking medical care for any reason are doing so because of a stress-related disorder. Given millions of home foreclosures, jobs lost and parents unable to provide adequately for their children, these numbers are not surprising. Stress is our number one source of medical problems: stress chemicals such as cortisol cause heart disease, increase our sensation of physical pain, cripple our immune system, damage the cells of our brain, leach our energy, rob us of sleep and in the process, destroy our joy in living.

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There’s a relatively new healing technique that is growing in popularity with remarkable speed. It’s called EFT, which stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques. If you haven’t already heard of it, EFT is a safe and gentle form of energy medicine that is now being recommended by the American Psychiatric Association, and is widely used in VA hospitals in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Like acupuncture, EFT is a meridian-based therapy, but with EFT, no needles are used.

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Six years ago, on a chilly autumn afte oon, I sat down in my living room to meditate. I was feeling miserable and profoundly alone that day. As Eckhart Tolle would say, my pain-body was fully activated, and I thought: “I cannot do this by myself. I cannot sit here in this misery for an hour. I can’t do it. It’s too hard.” A moment later, in a chair across the room from me, the Virgin Mary appeared. She gazed at me with total love, enveloped in an aura of peace and compassion. It was instantly clear to me that in her eyes, I was perfect.

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JUST WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING IN YOUR BODY? Believe it or not, your everyday diet or your lack of it, can be a HUGE culprit, if you suffer from ANXIETY, DEPRESSION or FEARFUL feelings. These are foods that put ANXIETY/NERVOUS-TYPE issues on ‘STEROIDS’.

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MEDICATION 101 You can walk into the home of over 90% of people over 50 and find approximately 10–20 MEDICATIONS next to the bed or in the medicine cabinet. Of course, I made up the number of 90%, however, I believe that I'm really close…maybe a little over, maybe a little under. Whatever the case, it's WAY too many. We have truly become the medicated nation of our time. No doubt about that. We have "bought into" the idea that we NEED medication, by doctors, pharmacists, and practically everyone involved in the medical industry. We do NOT.

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YOU DECIDE. However, open your mind, without FEAR. Expand your Consciousness, without FEAR, so you can make yourself aware of situations BEYOND your understanding. The world is filled with SMOKE & MIRRORS, in a virtual ‘fun house’ that is inexhaustible and ever-evolving. It’s time for everyday people to have a RE-AWAKENING, in order to escape the SLAVERY of your SENSES, the SLAVERY of THOUGHTS (yours and others who are controlling yours), and the NEW life we are facing. It’s just the beginning. A PRE-CORONAVIRUS LOOK AT THINGS…

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WHAT DO MY TEETH HAVE TO DO WITH MY HEALTH? EVERYTHING. Whether you realize it or not, your mouth is an entryway for everything that goes into your body. If you’re letting the ‘Boogyman in’, you can’t help but get SCARY results. Yet, I’m getting a little ahead of myself.

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HOW DO YOU PERSONALLY THINK ABOUT MONEY? Money is one of those subjects EVERYBODY is IN on, in one way or another. Like the O’Jays sing, “For The Love Of Money, Money, Money, MONAAY!!!! Some people have to have it; some people really need it; people will steal from their mothers; people will rob their own brothers; a woman will sell her precious body for that mean, mean, mean green…money machine.” (You can check this song out on YouTube). It’s one of those oldies, but goodies, that has a lot to say about how ‘money thinkers with distorted thoughts’, operate.

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ARE YOU AWARE… I wanted to start by giving you a foundation you may or may not be aware of. This is how prayer ACTUALLY works: 1). We are ALL (everyone in the entire world) praying 24 hours, 7 days a week, by default. Our thoughts, our words, our actions, and most importantly, our Subconscious thinking (programmed since birth) are unfocused, rambling, non-formal prayers. These prayers NEVER stop and are consistently being answered, even when you’re unaware of it.

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REMEMBER…IT’S ALL CONNECTED… You can’t help heal your body unless you heal ALL OF IT…Body, Mind, & Spirit. When you neglect one, your body suffers somewhere. From what some of us have learned throughout life, SPIRIT comes FIRST. In more cases than we can count, we ONLY paid attention to that part of ourselves LAST, instead of FIRST, if we paid any attention at all. We can logically conclude, maybe we’re doing this “game of life’ BACKWARDS! SPIRIT FIRST… Set your FOUNDATION…the same way you would do a business plan or you would set a financial goal.

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INTRO… I looked up some answers to questions from the Internet about Meditation and couldn’t believe what I found! People who are guessing and/or totally misinformed about THE most powerful tool a person can have. It’s an UNSEEN force of POWER and unless you’ve never done it, or been taught correctly HOW to do it, you have ridiculous answers. That’s why, nowadays you can’t believe everything you read on the world wide web unless you have previous information about a subject, know someone who does, or know how to research for the correct information.

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We hear a LOT about detoxing the BODY these days. The Pros hang with the Master Cleanse. The Action-types go for the 3-day Fruit Fast. The ‘new kids on the block’ are singing the praises of the Cucumber Cleanse and the new scrumptious-looking Soup Detox, has many of us hanging on the edge of our seats.

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WHY THE EYES START GOING BAD When I was in my 20’s and maybe in my 30’s I felt I was infallible. Not even an inkling of anything, did I believe could ever happen to me, especially losing my vision. I took ‘life itself’, for granted, the way so many of us do.

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“…you realize that all along that there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it.’’ PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA HOW OUR FOUNDATION IS DEVELOPED This article applies to EVERYTHING, including the Coronavirus, or CV, I’ll call it from now on. Let’s cover some groundwork or a FOUNDATION for this discussion, to help you understand WHAT you can do to HELP yourself.

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You’d better pull up your antenna, invest in Superman ex-ray glasses, and order some extra-terrestrial hearing aids for this one, my friends. This boils down to some heavy understanding, on your part, to grasp the full reins of what I’m talking about here. Let’s start with the fact that our society has NO REAL CONCEPT (as a whole) how this vast Universe works, so I need to go back to some basic concepts before I get to the MEAT of this discussion.

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What ETHNICITY, RACE, or NATIONALITY is the ALL-POWERFUL, OMNIPRESENT Spirit of the Universe? You really wanna know? Bottomline. SPIRIT POSSESSES NONE OF THAT!

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When it comes to actual HEALTH CARE, America has been at the bottom of the list, forever! WHY? Because the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Pharmaceutical Association (APA) focus on their unending profits and ways to heighte SICK CARE. What is SICK CARE? It’s a way to keep us (you and me) sick, indefinitely, so we become the daily, monthly and yearly profit making machines, that they view us as.

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BACKGROUND & WHERE DO WE START… I’m sure you’ve heard more in the last month than you’ve ever thought you needed to know about Coronavirus. Some of that information is valid. Some is not. In this day and age, we get bombarded by information that MAY or MAY NOT be true.

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This is a question all of us should ask and ANSWER? Yes, we must answer it, as it leads to direction…even if you have no direction. 1) Are we here to see how much money we can make? 2) Are we here to see how elegant are cars can become? 3) Are we here to see how our IQ is better than someone else’s? 4) Are we here to have children, who are replicas of ourselves? 5) Are we here to be the most accomplished at our passions? 6) Are we here to tell others, we have the best religion? 7) Are we here to profess our love to someone special? 8) Are we her to find our soul mate?r

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Personally, I’m not waiting for a Vaccine. Even though, talking heads on TV are constantly PUSHING the idea that we have Some SUPER People…somewhere coming up with the MIRACLE answer to all our problems. Really? That’s not something we should just BLINDLY believe. When there’s someone I CAN TRUST, who doesn’t put ‘Profits over People’, who can tell me EXACTLY what’s in a particular vaccine and prove to me it’s what they say, then…. maybe I’ll take a vaccine? Remember Jonas Salk, with the POLIO Vaccine? HE was truly a pioneer BEYOND words, in the area of the polio vaccine.

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INTUITION is SUCH a BIG THING because it’s our Higher Selves talking to us on a level that our small intellect (or small intelligence) has NO WAY of reaching, on it’s own. For some odd reason, SOME people or MANY people think God ONLY talked to people in ancient history. This is totally UNTRUE. As Neale Donald Walsch noted in his books, ‘Conversations With God’, God talks to us all the time, everywhere, always and ALL ways. It’s whether or not, WE LISTEN. This is the ONE KEY to unlocking ‘our INTUITIONAL door. I can say this with CERTAINTY, because it happens to me a LOT.

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For almost 20 years now, I have been helping women find healing for their health, emotions, weight, body image and so much more. Time and time again, we find there is a powerlessness women experience that is beyond biology or hormones, and even the mind. It has a deep-seated root – a root based in FALSEHOOD. It’s time to reveal the TRUTH and SHOUT it from the mountain top! The lies and misperceptions: Our society carries a shaming of the woman, of being feminine, that leaves most women feeling a need to hide their light in order to feel safe.

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Create Miracles with Just Two Questions “Be present in the moment. Miracles can only happen in the now.” I have been asked many times, “Is it really possible to create miracles using just two questions?” The answer is a definite yes—if you are asking the right two questions. It is not only possible, but combining these two questions with any healing technique almost guarantees that you will start seeing miracles in your life.

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I stumbled into a pattern with blood types and protein. The original Blood Type Diet book says blood type O persons need more protein and higher quality because they are more physically active. After a few years of observing myself and clients, it came abundantly clear many spiritual types with type O blood, all variations, had various unresolved issues with accepting, embracing and coming to peace with expressing physical vitality, while in a human body. This karma does not apply to everyone with type O blood variations.

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We find ourselves in the midst of summer with August on the horizon. In many cultures, August is the harvest—the reaping the rewards of what you planted last spring. August is also a time to pause, reflect and refresh. This is the time to slow down a bit, take stock of where you are and where you are going. Are you still headed in the right direction achieving your goals or do you need to adjust your course? Are you getting what you want or is what you want still just out of reach? Are you enjoying the journey so far, or do you feel discouraged and upset about what is not happening?r

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What if you could recapture your vitality and health with one simple method? Wouldn’t you want to know how? Wouldn’t it be great to have a Healthy You and the freedom and power to make that happen? If you are like me, you’re always looking for ways to feel better. Maybe you are already pretty healthy and want some simple tools to keep you that way. Or maybe you are suffering from an illness and no matter what you do, you just aren’t getting better. Maybe you have some stubborn pounds you want to drop but are just not succeeding in getting to your desired weight.

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Speaking your Truth How often have we wanted to tell someone how we feel about them, about an action they have taken or something they have done to us. Instead of sitting down and having that conversation we have found ways to avoid it. To forget it in inertia or diversionary tactics, letting resentment, anger, hurt build up and erode not only our sense of well being but the well being of that relationshipr Whatever we feel for someone,whatever vibration we have for them, we are putting that out there. So if a friend lets you down, a partner upsets you and you say nothing.

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The value of our own healing How much value do you place on your own wellbeing and healing? In these financially precarious times it is tempting to skimp on what can be seen to be a luxury. But skimping on healing or resenting paying for it defeat the purpose Healing of any sort involves an exchange of energy. It was something Usui felt was paramount.

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Slow-Motion Forgiveness ~ Duplication Encouraged Also posted on NVC site HERE: https://www.cnvc.org/blog/2012/11/12/slow-motion-forgivenessservice-mark-nvcers-duplication-encouraged Self-forgiveness 101, the Missing Manualr Slow-Motion Forgiveness HealingToolbox.org, Best Practices in Energy Healing Gift experiential sessions ~ 310-280-1176 ~ Training available

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You found it! This is your ticket to the club of people healing themselves at a more rapid rate than the general public. This is your ticket to the lifestyle of healers—whether you practice with clients or not! In this lifestyle, if you do the work, it's possible to have a healing almost ...

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A Healing Toolbox article on Best Practices in Energy Healing Based on direct observation, myself and other Health and Medical Intuitives observe human cells are born healthy and know how to be healthy on their own. Human cells do not have to be taught how to be healthy; they are born knowing their job. This is Radical Cell-Wellness. Find the "why" part further on in this book. Cells dysfunction only when interfered with. Only two things can interfere with healthy cell function: - Physical toxins, accidents and nutritional deficiencies; that is, visible-tangible disturbances.r

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A Best Practices in Energy Healing system article from Healing Toolbox Bertrand Babinet was my teacher on this topic and I credit him with the idea: if personal and spiritual growth is your goal, your best friend is your reactivity. Why? Because reactivity is what pulls us out of balance. Find and release where your reactivity is out of balance, and you are that much freer.

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A Healing Toolbox, Best Practices in Energy Healing article To anyone feeling stuck in life, I wish to suggest a simple way to get UNstuck. "Being stuck" is exactly analogous to the "deer in head lights" phenomena, "Do I stay now or do I run now?" If where you are now is comfortable, both running and staying both have a cost. What if "being stuck" anywhere in life, is nothing more nor less tha FACING MULTIPLE ISSUES? This reframe makes "being stuck" a simple matter of disce ment Q: Disce ing what? I discer I'm STUCK! I don't know what to do.

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A solution to loneliness at least, an energetic solutio A Healing Toolbox article, Best practices in energy healing, 'with God as your Partner' I was feeling lonely yesterday. I had just completed all the heavy lifting on a big project, shooting and editing, a series of 15 videos, it had taken several weeks. After completing this, a wave of loneliness came over me, "crushing" me. The busyness and task focus of work had kept my personal loneliness at bay. So I got out my Healing Toolbox and considered what Tools That Heal I might have to address this.

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Whether you know it or not, you have a toolbox for self-healing. I like to call this your Healing Toolbox. Tools That Heal are any techniques, methods, tricks, information, protocols and concepts, you use to solve everyday problems for yourself, family, friends and clients. Some Tools are simple home remedies: what to do for a sunburn, poison ivy, sore feet. Nutritional, diet and lifestyle tools all count! Practical is as practical does! You also have familiar all-purpose Tools: curiosity, honesty, compassion, empathy, listening.

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Cycle of fulfillment, how we get our needs met How we nourish ourselves and get our needs met Cycle of fulfillment from Body-Mind Centering: Yield > push > reach > take hold (grab) > and pull in

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A Best Practices in Energy Healing article from Healing Toolbox. Also covered: bone bruises, hairline cracks, hairline fractures

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Depth of Issue ~ article 4 of 5 How deep is my issue? The iceberg metaphor If you ask, “How deep is my issue?” then Sigmund Freud's iceberg metaphor of the psyche illustrates "depth of issue" clearly Above the water line ~ The part we see above water, represents expressions, creativity, habits and behaviors we consciously choose and know. Everyone has at least two more levels of expressions:

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If you're like me, you want to be a better hugger. Keen observers of hugging often note how poorly many of us hug: too brief, too rushed, awkward posture, hugging only from the shoulders up, etc. At this rate, very few of us are getting to "four hugs a day," the established healthy minimum. I've often wondered about the phenomena of lousy hugging. It's another situation where many people are aware dysfunctional behavior but a safe place and effective language to talk about it are both lacking. Therefore, therapeutic directions to improve our hugging behavior escapes us.

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Our conscious self is our most isolated of our Three Selves This articles builds on topics begun in You Have Three Selves, Vol. 1, available at Amazon, Kindle, Scribd, etc Our basic self, inner child, and high self, guardian angel, can easily communicate and can always touch. They are more similar than different, cut from the same cloth, their frequency more similar than different, both are sub- and unconscious. Your conscious self is the most isolated of the three selves

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Chapter 1 of the book Radical Cell-Wellness--Especially for Women! from Tools That Heal Press Radical Cell-wellness for everyone, really, really short versio Based on direct observation, myself and other Health and Medical Intuitives observe human cells are born healthy and know how to be healthy on their own. Human cells do not have to be taught how to be healthy; they are born knowing their job. This is Radical Cell-Wellness. Find WHY they know how to be healthy from the start further on in this book. Cells dysfunction only when interfered with.

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A Healing Toolbox, Best Practices in Energy Healing article When we are stuck, we almost always are facing multiple problems--and do not recognize this. The other day a friend was sharing something of his inner experience that the secret of soul transcendence really works, that it's completely possible to dissolve negativity and declare it over. I told him I agreed. As someone who assists clients as a practitioner I see this over and over. As souls, we each have the capacity to release ourselves; much of this is done thru self-forgiveness.

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A "Just for Energy Healers" article, for healers, coaches, counselors and therapists of all kinds and their students. This addresses an issue in energy healing. It has less application to hands-on healing work and less application still to conventional massage, chiropractic, doctoring and medical technician occupations.

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A "Just for Energy Healers" article, for healers, coaches, counselors and therapists from Healing Toolbox, This addresses an issue in energy healing. It has less application to hands-on healing work and less application still to conventional massage, chiropractic, doctoring and medical technician occupations.

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Ellen Hodgson Brown is a active and courageous blogger on financial freedom and reform topics. Her book is highly recommended, find it at WebofDebt.com She gave me permission to share this excerpt from her book, Web of Debt, in an email I have from Oct 7, 2011. It is the only "put right" reading of this fairy tale known to me. The Wizard of Oz – Put Right! “Ounces is abbreviated oz, hence "Oz." Excerpted with permission from Chapter 1 of Web of Debt, LESSONS FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, abridged by BD, shared with permission.

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Depth of Issue ~ article 3 of 5 from Healing Toolbox Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping Rudolf Steiner pointed out, to the first Waldorf teachers in 1919, how none of us is awake 100% all day long in our so-called waking life. In fact we travel back and forth on this continuum between two poles, waking at one end and sleeping at the other end, all day long. Rudolf Steiner made "conscious-subconscious-unconscious" into something imaginative and artistic. He analogized them to: Waking <=> dreaming <=> sleeping

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Depth of Issue ~ article 2 of 5 We have issues on three frequency levels Because we have three levels of creativity, we have potential and capacity for three levels of unresolved issues. Conscious issues Conscious issues are things we know need attending to and "fixing." If you have a yak-yak, "monkey mind," this can include the nagging inner voice of the Inner Critic, if you can hear its words.

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Depth of Issue ~ article 5 of 5 from Healing Toolbox We have personal responsibility on three frequency levels Because we have three levels of creativity and unresolved issues, we have personal responsibility on three frequency levels. Conventional language tells us, “We are responsible for our creations on all levels” Three levels of creativity makes more clear what the heck they are talking about. Q: Wait--I don't like this idea. My plate is already full. I don't need any more responsibility.

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A Best Practices in Energy Healing article from Healing Toolbox Everyone reading this has more natural, built-in senses we can make more and better use of. Why don’t we have full use of all our senses? Cultural blinders put on us as children, learned thru osmosis, thru cultural conditioning, told us what to feel and how much to feel, what to see and how much to see, what to listen to and how much to listen. To the degree our cultural blinders reduce the openness of sensory channels babies come into the world with, “cultural blinders” are also “tunnel vision” imposed on our senses.

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Depth of Issue ~ article 1 of 5 from Healing Toolbox You have three levels of creativity, Or, What’s down there in my unconscious? Have an issue you're working on, trying to get at? How deep is that issue? Did you know we have different issues at different depths in our psyche? A HUGE benefit of Client-controlled Testing (CCT) self-muscle-testing of any kind, kinesiology testing (KT) of any kind, is the ability to discer DEPTH OF ISSUE, what depth your issue is active on.

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This is an account of one the strongest experiences of my life while serving as a Therapeutic Musician in Hospice Care. Music has probably been used to ease the dying process since time immemorial. I have had the privilege of being present when people die while playing prescriptive music to ease the transition process.r

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When you bought your home and moved into a new neighborhood, you checked out the local hospital, local public schools, the fire house, and the local grocery store. You were making sure that all of your needs were met. But do you do that for your wellness? Do you scope out resources before a crisis hits? In most cases, sadly no. What is a whole wellness team? A whole wellness team is a team of health professionals and doctors with group effort take care of all of your wellness needs; mind, body and spirit.

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Holistic Neurologyr Gut and head brain put right Excerpted, updated from Holistic Neurology, by Bruce Dickson. Subtitles: Our Two Nervous Systems, Head-spine and enteric (gut) brains, Neurology for purposes of personal growth, Physiological basis for Self-esteem and Self-concept (2016). Online here http://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Neurology-Our-Nervous-Systems-ebook/dp/B01C6H83J4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459632575&sr=1-1&keywords=holistic+neurology+in+books I have some good news for you. You have twice as much neurology as you were taught in school and med-school.

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As one ages and becomes challenged with a medical disorder, exercise still is important aspect of daily life. Some exercise is needed to help retain the function and flexibility of the body. The exercise that we do may not be at the levels earlier in our lives, so the effort and the length of time that we do the exercise will be reduced. If we can walk, it is a great way to help keep in shape, but there are other ways that we can move to give the body a full exercise workout and still do it gently.

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I was just a young doctor when I first toured the Heidelberg Castle in Germany. As is the case in many castles in Europe the narrow passage was dank and poorly lit. What light there was cast eerie shadows on the carefully placed stones that made up the walls leading to the alchemy lab. A sign on the wall read “No Photographs May Be Taken of the Alchemy Lab!” It struck me as odd at the time, that one could take pictures of any other room in the monstrously large Heidelberg Castle, just not this one.

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How many times do you just wolf-down your meal in a mad rush to finish before getting back to work? How many times are you eating out of obligation to just eat? How many times do you see undigested food in your stool? Gross, I know! Do you have food allergies? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questons it is likely you need to retrain yourself in how to eat on purpose. 1. Maintain regular and consistent mealtimes. It is better to eat five smaller meals than three large meals.

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Question of why some people heal, while others do not is not only interesting, but also very complex. When you begin to think about it and evaluate the reasons, it brings us to the path of discovering what true holistic approach to healing means. It helps us see why such an approach is so important. We must not neglect neither of its parts especially the spiritual element.

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If anywhere we can see the link between spiritual and physical wellness, it is in cases of addictive behavior. To successfully address and release any form of addictive behavior, we must be able to provide care and support to all parts of our being: to nurture our physical body, our mental and emotional state, our spiritual being, and also the social aspect of ourselves. Many times we see struggle in release of addictive behavior. That struggle can be lessened if care and nurturing are provided on all levels of one’s being.

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Green super-foods are very rich and abundant sources of nutrients that include algae, green plants, vegetables and grasses. These amazing foods contain not only a wide range of minerals and vitamins vital to our well-being, but also contain chlorophyll and variety of phytochemicals that offer our body protection from many unwanted conditions. In our home we strive to find different ways to take our greens every day. To increase the amount and effectiveness of our holistic living skills geared to create lasting well-being for each one of us, we love using the Green Abundance powder.

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Preparing an article like this is rather challenging because of such array and richness in the bounty of healthy nutritious foods Mother Nature offers us. The goal here is not to tell you that this are the "miracle" or the only "best foods" to eat for maintenance of health and well-being.

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Anitoxidants & Why We Need Them - A Brief Overivew There is definitely no lack of information about antioxidants. Their name is quickly becoming a part of everyone's vocabulary. They definitely are great allies in our jou ey of creating and maintaining wellness and health. However, we must realize that their use is not a substitute for a healthy diet, physical activity, and nurture and care for our mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.

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Headaches are one of the most common complaints within our society. Almost every day you will encounter someone who complains of a headache that day and looks for a way to make the pain go away. Why is it so difficult to truly make one headache free? What can we do about them? Thing that most people I know do about their headaches is reach for a pain reliever that will hopefully make their headache go away. Some go for over-the-counter pharmaceuticals that suppress the pain but deliver a long list of side effects we really are best to avoid.

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People have been drinking tea and using it for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. In recent years we have seen more research being done on the benefits of tea for our wellbeing and the results are confirming many of the traditional uses. There is a long way to go before we see a greater number of studies completed, but it should not be a reason for us to delay enjoying a delightful cup of tea and reaping the benefits. Green tea and black tea are most commonly thought of when we mention tea drinking and many studies are done on them specifically.

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There truly is no lack of processed foods designed to speak directly to and appeal to our children. Simple walk through any grocery store (even a health oriented grocery store) easily confirms this. Taking a closer look at the individual items and their ingredients reveals a rather sad picture. These foods seem to be abundant in fillers and artificial and chemical additives, while being seriously poor in nutritional value.

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It's great to learn Thai Massage techniques, but this is only the first step to becoming an excellent therapist. Here are twelve elements which are essential ingredients to study Thai Massage for best results. 1. Not getting stuck with a standard whole body routine or sequence

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Health and beauty of our skin is a very popular and important topic. There is an abundance of information and variety of advice on the topic of nurturing and creating a healthy, smooth, beautiful skin on your face and body. Market appears to be overcrowded with "miracle" creams, lotions, oils, and sprays and much confusion appears to be created about the whole subject. Often we wonder where do we even begin. The first and most important thing to realize and understand is that healthy skin begins on the inside.

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There is a lot of information available about the benefits of massage. It has been scientifically established that massage is good for your body. It is also good for your mind; it relaxes, destresses, and temporarily shuts off incessant mental chatter. I am lucky to live in Thailand where massage is not a luxury. At about $5.- an hour there is little reason not to indulge regularly in a Thai Massage. My personal measure for good massage is being able to fall asleep during the session.

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Language is sometimes not sufficient to convey meaning. Let's look at "love". You can love your wife, your children, your job, your cup of coffee in the morning, your new hunting rifle, God, or your country. Clearly loving God is a very different concept from loving your job. Loving your wife is a totally different emotion from loving your new hunting rifle. We use the same word "love", but its meaning changes depending on the context. The word by itself does not have meaning.

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Thai massage is part of a family of Asian healing arts – Japanese Shiatsu, Chinese Tui Na, Indian Yoga Therapy. They all share common elements which distinguish them from Western Swedish massage. • They are performed fully clothed, generally no oil is used. Therefore the technique has to be different from oil massage. Instead of long massaging strokes, pressure is applied by thumbs, hands, knees, forearms or feet.

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I have a cousin who chose to become a carpenter rather than going to college. Fortunately for him and those who benefit from his beautiful work, he did not heed the advice of many family members who told him he would fail and never make money without a college degree. Once, while he was on vacation, he came to my home in Hawaii. It was hot. At the time the only air conditioning I could afford was a window unit, but I had no window to put one in.

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Have you ever felt like you were holding a grudge against someone, even after you had consciously tried to forgive? All of us, at one time or another, need to forgive. It may be our spouse or a friend. It may be a co-worker or a former employer. After the mortgage and financial crises, some people may harbor resentment against real estate or stock brokers they feel gave them bad advice. In our hearts we know that holding onto negative feelings against others only harms us. So why is it so hard to forgive?

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I have a cousin who chose to become a carpenter rather than going to college. Fortunately for him and those who benefit from his beautiful work, he did not heed the advice of many family members who told him he would fail and never make money without a college degree. Once, while he was on vacation, he came to my home in Hawaii. It was hot. At the time the only air conditioning I could afford was a window unit, but I had no window to put one in.

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Recently, my wife and I went on vacation, and I had to explain to my nine year-old son why it was just the two of us going. I explained that mom and I needed time for just the two of us, just like he and I spend father and son time.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.rn ~ Nelson Mandela The word "empowerment" is tossed around a lot today in the field of personal growth and development. My students have referred to it as a goal, as a plan of action, or as a state of being. Yet when I have delved a little deeper with some of these students, they seem to have no clear definition of empowerment. One student even said “I don’t know what it means, but everyone is telling me that I should want it!”

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It's great that so many people are getting interested in the law of attraction, positive thought, and focusing on desires to bring them into existence. Many books and shows discussing these concepts are relating them to wealth and prosperity. Guess what? These same principles apply to weight reduction, as I discovered for myself.

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Thai Massage and yoga are part of the same family. About 2500 years ago Thai massage was introduced in Thailand by an Indian physician, a contemporary of Buddha. He brought with him his knowledge of yoga and yoga therapy. Therefore the term Thai Yoga Massage is very appropriate, although this term is not used at all in Thailand but only by western practicioners. First, yoga did not make it in Thailand

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Here in Thailand it is much easier to get a massage than in western countries. You just walk into one of countless massage shops and in most cases there is a therapist available right away. So that’s the easy part. But how do you know who will work on you - is it just the luck of the draw? Most shops have several therapists on staff. They are automatically assigned to the customers depending on their turn in the cue. However you don’t have to accept just any therapist. You can ask for anyone who you feel comfortable with.

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Recently I was sitting in my parked car waiting to collect my daughter from her drama lesson when an obviously angry woman in a small car tried several times to back into the space in front of me, which was easily long enough for a large car. I noted she had little skill in parking after several unsuccessful attempts that saw her hit the kerb at near right angles each time. Eventually she got her car in and backed it up very close to my car. She opened her door and gesticulated what I thought was, "Can I back up any more?" to which I politely signalled, "No".

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Let me share a powerful technique I have found for assisting anyone struggling to release their old patterns. Many of you will already have heard of Emotional Freedom Technique, commonly called EFT, and may even have tried it. It aims to rebalance the body by systematically tapping on various meridian points around the face and upper body and has been used successfully to treat anything from fear of heights to confidence.

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For many people the most difficult thing to master in their self-development jou ey is the ability to find Inner Stillness, that pure place within you that is your divine spark, your connection to all that is and the source of inspirational and transformational ideas. I would like to share with you a relatively simple technique I have developed that most people interested in self-development will be able to master with a little practice. First, find yourself a quiet, comfortable place where you can lie undisturbed for about 20 minutes.

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My garden is my pride and joy and it broke my heart to see the beautiful plants being cooked in place in the extreme heat over summer. Combined with the drought conditions, many of these plants appeared to die completely. Then the miracle happened. The inner Resilience of these plants refused to let them die and with the first decent rainfall they seemed to be rebo as green leaves appeared and the grass regenerated. All those plants that would normally have flowered over summer, but had been struggling to just exist, suddenly burst forth into bud.

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Daily stresses often manifest physically in constricted, shallow breathing. Try these easy, quick and most of all, effective, breathing techniques to restore calm rapidly. Bringing mind awareness to deepening the breath immediately turns on the parasympathetic restorative nervous system to safely help release accumulated stress. 3 DEEP BREATHS Ground and centre yourself quickly by taking 3 long, slow, deep breaths and in between each breath say the words ‘Deeper Relaxed’. CALMING BREATH / TUMMY BREATHING • Lie on your back or sit comfortably.

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2008 and the early part of 2009 saw global sharemarkets take a nose-dive as people watched their hard-ea ed savings in share investments and superannuation get substantially wiped off. The doom and gloom merchants, largely in the media, would have had us believe the global economy was irretrievably collapsing. The fear thus generated in people caused them to feel like powerless victims completely unable to control the direction of their life. Isn't it time we realise we have been controlled through media-generated fear and disaster for too long?

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I am sure you remember in 2008 and the early part of 2009 the doom and gloom merchants, largely in the media, that would have had us believe the global economy was irretrievably collapsing. The fear thus generated in people caused them to feel like powerless victims completely unable to control the direction of their life. Isn't it time we realise we have been controlled through media-generated fear and disaster for too long?

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Aromatherapy has been used across many cultures since ancient times. Ancient Egyptians used specific aromatherapy oils as they were mummifying a body. On the heads of guests they also placed scented wax cones that would melt progressively releasing the fragrances of the essential oils. In modern-day France, famous for its high quality lavender oils, essential oils can be used internally instead of medicine by trained aromatherapists.

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How often have you procrastinated about starting something important, creating unnecessary anxiety and worry, when it would have been a lot simpler and less stressful to just do it and get it out of the way? For many people the answer is probably more times than they care to remember. What causes us to know what we should do and yet we seem almost incapable of taking that first step towards accomplishing it? The answer is that our conscious mind is like the tip of the iceberg, with the vast majority of our patterns and beliefs residing in the 90% of our mind that we term the subconscious.

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This article will be of great benefit to you, even if you haven’t had any prior experience in healing with energy.

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It is all too common that sometime in a person's forties they undergo what is popularly termed a “mid-life” crisis. Either this is because they suddenly realise life is passing them by and they have not met the goals they aspired to in their twenties, or alte atively the person may have been “successful” in obtaining their goals, yet somehow their life is still devoid of meaning and they have a gnawing emptiness inside. Why?

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One of the most powerful gifts we can give ourselves is to forgive, both ourselves and others. In forgiving we are not condoning the behaviour of the person we perceive as having wronged us, but rather we are allowing ourselves to break the hold that person has on our lives. Feeling anger towards that person may have been well-justified, but unless it is dealt with and processed it becomes a corrosive aspect in our bodies, leading to physical disease and emotional illness.

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Working in the healing industry tends to draw compassionate, caring people as practitioners. Although this is ideally what clients / patients want from health professionals like counsellors, naturopaths, social workers, hypnotherapists, psychologists and so on, the common problem is that such practitioners usually are so busy giving to their clients that they forget to give back to themselves or have closed themselves off from receiving as much as they should energetically to remain energetically balanced.

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Even though our conscious mind knows we should not behave or react in a certain way to certain people or situations, we often do it anyway! We know we shouldn’t turn red in the face and sweat when we have to talk to our boss, we know we shouldn’t procrastinate getting our assignment done and we know we shouldn’t keep attracting the same kind of inappropriate partners, but we don’t seem to have any control over our actions.

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NLP REFRAMING OF STORED ANGER NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Reframing is easy to do to shift anything from a negative or blocked state into a clear or positive state. The basic technique is the same, no matter what the issue. First of all find what part of the body is holding on to the negative emotion. For instance, the liver commonly holds on to stored anger. Imagine what this trapped anger feels like with all your senses. What shape is it? What size is it? What colour is the anger? Is the anger hard or soft, rough or smooth? Is there a sound associated with it?

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Especially for professional healers, it is extremely important to clear your energy field from any of another person’s energetic “garbage” that you may inadvertently have taken on during that person’s healing session - a time when your energy field is connected to your client’s. Everyone can benefit from the simple techniques below to help keep you free of energetic dross from others and from your environment.

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Each and every one of us on a path of personal growth needs a toolbox of quick, easy and powerful techniques to help us release and move beyond our personal issues and blockages. The ones below are some of my personal favourites: YOGA POSITION FOR CALMNESS AND SLEEP • Lie on your back or sit with your left ankle over the right ankle.

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“Hypnosis” comes from the Greek word ipnos meaning “sleep”, but really hypnosis is not a sleep state, rather a natural state of deep relaxation. For most people this means lowering the brainwave frequency from waking (beta) to (alpha), the same level as in meditation.

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It has only been over the last year or so that I am beginning to understand just how powerful Sound is as healing force. As a stand-alone vibrational healing tool I feel it has been under-rated for too long. Meditating and toning as a group in pristine Tasmanian rainforest in 2007 sent our vibrations soaring as we focused on toning into our own chakras one by one, starting from the base up to beyond the crown to the 12th chakra or cosmic gateway.

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In order to keep ourselves in good energetic balance as healers we need to develop a daily routine for keeping ourselves centered and grounded.

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It is easy to get caught up in our materialistic society that equates feeling joyful and happy in life with acquiring material possessions. If we just have that new home, new car, new dress, etc, then we will be filled with joy...... or will we?

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One of the most frequent questions I get from my more spiritual clients is, “How can I reach my highest potential?” Not surprisingly, your lifestyle habits and preferences contribute substantially to whether or not you ever reach your highest potential. To do so, you must be in peak physical, mental, emotional and spiritual condition. Let’s examine 4 ways you can optimize your lifestyle to reach more of your Highest Potential: 1. Heed the nudges to change

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Early last year my daughter handed a $10 note back to an elderly lady, who had unwittingly dropped it in a shopping centre. In appreciation, the lady pulled out a bookmark from the bottom of her handbag as a gift with the following wonderful message:r

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Pardon my French, but that's how most people feel in frustration when they think they have done everything right to manifest their dreams using the Law of Attraction, yet nothing changes.

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How many times have you said to yourself, “I’ve been working on this issue for years, yet I just don’t seem to be making any progress. Why am I still stuck?” At times I’ve even been known to say to myself in exasperation, “But I thought I’d cleared that!” The issue can be anything at all – attracting abusive relationships, being stuck in financial struggle and lack and not being able to move through deep-seated fears, to name a few.

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You value your loved ones, you value your friends, you value your business, but how much do you really value YOURSELF? For healers and many other heart-based service professionals, such as massage therapists, life coaches and Reiki channels, the honest answer is not very much. Do Any of these 6 Signs Apply to You? 1. Not knowing what your real Needs arer

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Recently I was enjoying my lunch in the sunshine, sitting on a swinging seat in my garden, surrounded by fragrant flowers and chirping birds. I felt like the richest and most abundant person in the whole wide world. Even if someone had offered me a million dollars - cash - there and then, to never allow myself that wonderful experience again, I would have easily refused the money. Some things are just too valuable to put a monetary price on them. I already felt abundant and rich beyond measure.

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Want to discover how you can ‘Shine your Light’ brighter and reach your full potential as a Healer or Lightworker? As a professional healer I am often approached by other healers wanting to find ways to heal their own wounds and self-imposed limitations, so that they can ‘step out of their own way’ and really get on with using their healing gifts and knowledge for the benefit of each other, humanity and the planet. I have observed 5 key areas that healers and lightworkers need to address to reach their full potential and do their healing work at a much higher vibration.

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Children are to a degree necessarily imbalanced. They are in a constant state of change. Children seek to discover the limits of their control over their environment. What has become known as childhood infectious illnesses are the training ground of achieving and maintaining balance in their life as an adult. The ability to react appropriately to stimuli is a learning process. If a lion comes up and bites you, you should bleed! If a child is challenged by microbes their body should react appropriately by producing a fever and the lymph nodes should be activated.

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