Reducing Stress with Breath

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Breath: The Mindful Means of Reducing Stress

By Shift Doctors
Breathing is something we all do ever day of our lives. How many of us are aware of how we are breathe or how deeply? We can breathe automatically without thinking about it or we can  breathe mindfully. When we choose to breathe mindfully, it can assist us to become more centered, lower our blood pressure and reduce stress. One technique for mindful breathing which has worked well for ourselves and our patients is utilizing this Rhythmic Breathing Exercise:

Rhythmic (or Box) Breathing is not only a helpful technique for rapidly decreasing stress, anxiety, heart rate or blood pressure, it also  prepares you for a meditation or a peaceful night’s sleep.

Think of your breathing pattern as if it were a box or rectangle drawn on a piece of paper with the breathing in being the left upward drawn line, holding your in-breath as the line on the top of the box from left to right, breathing out as the line going downward on the right side, and then the holding of the out-breath being the line from right to left on the bottom side of the rectangle. You slowly count the length of your breath going in, being held, or going out that is right for you. The length of your in-breath and out-breath should be the same count; just as the length of the held breath at top and bottom should be the same number of counts. As you practice your breathing, you might find that your box is actually a rectangle. Each person may find they have a different count from another person; and that is fine as we are all unique individuals. Just make certain that you are not strained in your breathing in or out or with the breath holds at top or bottom; if you find you are strained, then change the length of your counts for different sides of your “box” of breathing.

Once you find the pattern of your square or rectangular box that works best for you, go through 4 to 5 complete rounds of the rhythmic breathing and notice how your body and mind respond.

We hope this is helpful! Happy Shifting.

The Shift Doctors (Tracy Latz M.D., Marion Ross PhD)

www.shiftyourlife.com/2011/breath-the-mindful-means-of-reducing-stress/

Finding Passion and Purpose in Life

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The 5 Percent Trick: Finding Passion and Purpose in Life

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Albert ofUrbanMonk.Net.

Have you ever sat down and thought, “What is my purpose in life? What is my passion? Where do I go from here?”

These are some of the most common questions we have all struggled with. And I am not in a position to answer it – all I can offer in this article is an opinion, slightly different from the typical response.

Are Your Goals Yours?

This statement is everywhere, and yet it is ignored so often that it bears repeating: Your purpose is your own. No one can cramp themselves into another person’s definition of happiness and success and, well, expect to be happy and successful.

The difficulties arise at this point, because of our natural reactions: “Of course I am pursuing my own passion!” But are we?

Where do our ideas of success come from? Our parents, or the media, perhaps. Maybe society in general. Be rich; be handsome; be beautiful; be famous. Are these really your goals? Where did they really come from? Can you be absolutely sure that these things will make you happy? I’m not saying yes or no, I’m just asking. It is possible that these things truly do make you happy.

The Internal Goal

But why do I mention happiness and success in the same breath? The true goal behind what we pursue is often internal – and most of the time, this internal goal is simply to be happy. If you don’t believe me, try something simple: Look at a current external goal you have, and then begin to trace it down.

For example: You want a new job. Ask yourself why. Perhaps a higher salary, or to get away from a nasty employer? What then? An easier work environment or more free time. What then? What will you have? And simply repeat this process until you can’t get any more answers. Almost always, you will find that what you are left with is an internal goal.

One of my favorite stories – you might have heard it before. There was a big city businessman who once went on holiday to a faraway beach. One day he walked past a local fisherman who was lazing around, with his fishing rod in the water, enjoying the sun and a beer.

The city man’s mind went to work immediately. The fishing spot was a gold mine, and a serious fishing business would thrive in the area. “Why are you so stupid?” he asked the fisherman. “Get some boats, hire some extra hands, and in a few years you will turn your little shop into a million-dollar business!”

The local man asked him. “And what would you do once you have a million dollars?”

The city man stared back blankly. “Why, I would have so much free time I could sit around in the sun all day and drink beer!”

Again, this idea might seem so basic that it doesn’t need repeating. And yet it is resisted by many people as a knee-jerk reaction. I remember a speaker at a seminar once, who simply stated that one can be happy even if they are financially poor. That statement was met with a lot of sarcastic comments from the audience. And yet is it really so hard to believe?

A basic level of material resources are needed, yes. But beyond that, it really makes no difference. So why do we resist it or even feel the urge to attack such a statement? What does it challenge inside us? If one honestly tries to answer these questions, the answers can be revealing.

Turning Our Goals Around

And then what? Once we see our internal goals, try one thing. Turn the goals around – achieve the internal goals first. And if, after that, you still want the external goal, you’ll find it that much easier.

Do any of these sound familiar? Once I have money, I’ll be independent. Once I find a lover, I will have higher self-esteem. Once my spouse quits drinking so much, I will be happy.

Does the opposite not seem more logical? Develop your self-esteem first, and potential lovers will find you more attractive. Grow your independence and you will find it easier to make money. And perhaps if you are happier, your mate will not see the need to drink as much.

This road becomes easier to tread when we realize that internal goals are always achievable if we put in the time and effort. External goals can be subject to limitations that cannot be overcome, no matter how hard we try. It would be almost impossible for a sickly fifty year old to become a professional boxer, for instance. But if the man’s true, internal, goal was to build confidence, it does not matter how frail or old he is – it is always possible.

For those who don’t have an external purpose in mind, try seeking out an internal goal. Look to become happier, for instance, and as you begin to take steps, you might find that an external goal begins to reveal itself.

The Impermanency of Purpose

This becomes more important when we realize outer purposes are ultimately impermanent. Our external purpose changes to reflect our inner. Purposes are not permanent. Nothing is. Stop looking for something to do for the rest of your life – it might be possible to find something that lasts forever; but most likely it will simply change in accordance with your internal state and needs.

When I was younger, I put all my energies and time into the sport of boxing, even sacrificing work and study opportunities for my obsession. Boxing was a strange choice for me, because I didn’t have much talent, and I was the quiet, introverted type. But when I think back to it now, it made complete sense – it was to fulfill an intense inner need. I had to become stronger, more confident. I needed a safe outlet for my anger and frustration. When I achieved those goals, my obsession with boxing just dropped away on its own.

Deeply realizing that goals are impermanent will also contribute to our inner peace. Here is one to stimulate thought – if you are seeking fulfillment through your external purpose, what happens when it comes to an end? It is certainly admirable to aim to be the best parent you can be, for example, but what will happen when one day your children become old enough to leave the house? When that happens, one can cling to the purpose, resist, and suffer. Or one can simply let it go, and continue in peace.

The Need for Action

Naturally, there is a time for planning and thinking, but there is also a time for action. Many people who are seeking or rethinking their life purpose stay stuck in the introspection. Maybe they do this to avoid taking risks, for fear of leaving their comfort zone, to avoid disapproval, or any other fear. And in doing so, they remain stuck in a rut.

Sometimes, the best way to find a purpose in life is to go out there andtake action, even if we don’t know what we are doing!

My favorite tool at this stage is the 5% statement, created by Nathaniel Branden, who is widely considered to be the father of the self-esteem movement. It works by allowing you to take steps in small increments. Trying to change completely overnight, as some might suggest, often creates fear, uncertainty, and resistance.

A 5% statement is split into 2 halves. Examples would be:

If I were to be 5% more responsible today, I would ___________.
If I were to be 5% less lazy today, I would ___________.

The first part of the statement doesn’t have to change. But every morning when we wake up, we think of something that fills in blank, and then do it! As you can see, 5% is small and harmless enough to let us overcome our fears and procrastination. Being flexible enough to do different things everyday in pursuit of the same goal also keeps us from boredom and routine. Even better, it encourages us to think of new ideas to try (although we can simply do the same activity 5% more each time).

You can use this for anything you plan to do – begin a new exercise routine, reduce procrastination, improve your workflow, or even your personal relationships. And if 5% seems too little, don’t worry – it builds up rather beautifully.

Once momentum begins, sometimes the difficulty comes in stopping!

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Energy Protection for Sensitive People

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Energy Protection for Highly Sensitive People

Okay, you’ve determined that you are one of the highly sensitive people or Energy Healers — the people on the planet who can . . .

  • Sense energies
  • Perceive things others can’t
  • Pick up information from unknown sources (psi talents)
  • Take on Energy Fields
  • Feel the emotions of others around you or
  • Heal through nonphysical means

Highly sensitive people and Energy Healers are particularly susceptible to illness of body, mind, and emotions. It’s because you are bombarded daily with energies that affect you. And because you don’t know how to keep yourself from energetic harm.

So you must take action to protect yourself!

These are not skills that our culture teaches, because our society is ignorant of energies and the needs of highly sensitive people.

It is crucial for you as a highly sensitive person to take care of yourself in the onslaught of these energy fields.

And it is vital for you as an Energy Healer to learn command of your mind.

This article will show you how.

Your First Line of Energy Defense

The most important thing is to realise that you’re not crazy and you’re not making this up.

A common experience for highly sensitive people is not being believed. Your emotions may be all over the place; you may have symptoms no doctor can figure out; you may see things no one else can see.

But thinking it’s unreal only compounds the problem.

The second most important thing is that you do these things to help yourself.

Thinking about them isn’t enough. It’s a start… it can lead to doing them. Until you actually start living this way, though, you are flirting with danger.

Try it. Follow this program for a week,or better still a month.

Watch the difference in how you feel and how well your life works.

Commit Yourself To Optimism

Anyone who is intelligent and aware in these “interesting times” knows that there is plenty of bad news and doomsday hints.

Add to that being extremely sensitive and it is all too easy to fall into despair and hopelessness.

Don’t do it!!

No matter how tempting, how “realistic” or how inevitable it seems, you must avoid despair as much as possible.

Despair and hopelessness are the “dark side of the Force.” They will feed the forces of destruction just as fast as a coal-burning powerplant.

Especially when you are one of the highly sensitive people, someone who is closely intertwined with the earth energy field, you must be aware of what energy you are feeding into the world. Because every emotion you have, is a vibration that goes out to create more of itself in the world!

The earth energy field cannot afford any negativity!

Stay in hope. There are lots of signs that the world is changing in a positive way, that humanity is spiritually evolving.

This is possibly the most important thing you can do for your own well-being, as well as Mother Earth’s.

Become Aware Of What Is And Isn’t Yours

Highly sensitive people often take on other people’s energy and emotions. The first thing is to realize a crucial truth: IT’S OFTEN NOT YOURS.

You will be feeling things and you won’t realize that it’s not really your emotion, but one you’ve “caught” like a virus! Set up some safeguards for yourself.

  • Put notes around the house where you are likely to be, saying: “Check it out: is this mine?”
  • You can get a buddy system with friends who tends to be in sync with the energies. Check in every morning to see if you are having similar experiences.

It is such a relief to realize it’s not you! It’s not that you are messed up or crazy. It’s just that you’ve picked up an energy field, like a virus.

That is so easy to forget, especially while it’s happening!

What a weight off!

Feeling this relief alone is worth the little trouble of a few daily practices.

Once you realize it’s not yours, you can take appropriate action to help yourself, like these below. You will feel a lot better.

Do Your Emotional Work

Sometimes those feelings are yours. Awareness is necessary. You can’t avoid your own issues by blaming everything on energy fields.

Unpleasant, “negative” emotions are flags that something is wrong.

However, most people think it means that something is wrong in their life…

  • I’m angry because I didn’t get that job.
  • I’m sad because he’s not treating me nice.
  • I’m worried because I don’t know what will happen.

This is a delusion.

Negative emotions signal that something is going awry inside your mind. It is your thoughts that are messed up, not anything outside you.

When you have negative emotions, it’s a signal that you are telling yourself faulty ideas. You’re thinking in the wrong direction. You’re thinking you are separate from the Divine, an isolated individual, a human who is alive now and can die.

Take command of your thoughts.

Transform thoughts and beliefs that make you feel less happy for ones that make you feel more happy.

This obviously means that repressing your emotions, stuffing them down inside you is not going to help. All that does is bury the problem. It’s like disguising an infected finger by wearing gloves.

Not only does the problem escalate, when it’s shoved into the subconscious, but you also deny yourself one of the best tools the Divine has ever given you!

You must learn to understand what you are feeling, why you are feeling it and what thoughts are creating those emotions.

And then you must learn how to transform those emotions into what Swami Radha calls “refined feelings.” That is, feelings more aligned with Truth, with the Divine.

Because dwelling on those megative emotions is possibly even more harmful than repressing them!

As Wayne Dyer says, in How to Get What You Really Want, “To the extent that you dwell on negative emotions you will attract that in your life.”

Take Care of Your Physical Self

Much of the danger to highly sensitive people and Energy Healers can be averted by simple good health.

Highly sensitive people and Energy Healers are more porous, more susceptible to negative energy when tired, weak or ill. So anything you can do to promote your best health will protect you on an energy level.

Those basics are:

  • Regular healthy meals: organic, well-rounded, less-processed
  • Regular aerobic exercise and gentle stretching
  • Plenty of sleep
  • Mid-day relaxation
  • Meditation and plenty of quiet time to yourself
  • Water! Lots and lots of pure water (Water also absorbs and flushes negativity).

Minimize Negative Inputs

Everything has an energy. As Dr. David Hawkins writes, in Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, everything you come in contact with is giving off vibrations — music, books, tv shows, everything. Those vibrations reflect the energy of the person who made them, at the time of its creation.

And we pick up these emotions, when we are exposed to those things.

Highly sensitive people in particular are vulnerable to taking on these energies in our own bodies.

For that reason, IT IS VITAL to be conscious of what you are exposed to.

Avoid:

  • News in any form
  • TV shows (excluding Public Television)
  • Music that is less than inspiring
  • Movies that produce anything other than feelings of joy, hope, peace, and love
  • Books and magazines aimed at stimulating fear, anger, greed, competition, self-rejection, etc.
  • Gossip (talking about other people, even if what you’re saying is complimentary)
  • Negative people.

In short, stay away from anything that makes you feel less than harmonious.

The hardest one to avoid is often negative people, especially in the beginning. You’ve probably got some in your life and you may not want to exclude them. (This can include friends, co-workers, family, even pets.)

Just be aware that the more of these things you let into your life, the more you will be saturated with negative energy and the more work you will need to do simply to maintain equilibrium.

As Wayne Dyer says, “Some people exude negative energy because of their lifestyle, friends and thinking habits. They could be sending it out all the time or just part of the time. To the degree that you are sensitive and porous, being around these people will actually make you sick.“

Other people can get away with exposing themselves to all kinds of toxic energy. (Or, actually, they just don’t notice the effects as much.)

But highly sensitive people ingest toxic energies at their own risk!

Once you start reducing the amount of negative energy you take in, you will notice immediately when something has a bad energy. And you will feel much better when you limit your exposure!

Maximize Positive Inputs

Reducing toxic energy is only half the process. It’s like giving up eating high-fat, highly-processed fast-foods. You still need to eat food that is good for you.

Immerse yourself in positive thoughts and allow yourself to really FEEL good. This is one of the best things highly sensitive people can do for themselves.

Give yourself inspiring, uplifting entertainment…

  • Read inspirational books
  • Listen to uplifting CDs
  • Watch motivating DVDs
  • Spend a lot of time with nature and animals
  • Take meditation retreats
  • Sing spiritual songs and mantras all day long
  • Do fun, nurturing things like drawing mandalas, writing poetry, baking pastries… whatever inspires you and makes you feel glad to be alive
  • Be in silence for at least 20 minutes every single day.

The most important moments are when you are tired and near sleep or just waking up.

No matter what else you do, use these moments at the threshold of consciousness to think of positive things and generate positive energy in yourself.

This may be the most important thing highly sensitive people can do for themselves.

Feng Shui First Aid

A little feng shui can do highly sensitive people a lot of good!

The basics of feng shui to be aware of in this situation are…

  • Keep things both clean and tidy
  • Avoid clutter!
  • Keep things working properly – fix things that are broken or not working well
  • Avoid clutter!
  • Keep plenty of real plants and water around
  • Avoid clutter!

Discharging Negative Energy & Clarifying Your Energy Field

The second line of defense for highly sensitive people and energy healers is to…

  • discharge accumulated negative energy
  • purify and strengthen the boundaries of your personal energy field.

Discharging Negative Energy

As you know from other articles in this section, as a highly sensitive person you are vulnerable to taking on energy from people and energy fields around you.

These then feel like your own negativity. You will feel sick or angry or despairing or exhausted - thinking it’s got something to do with you, when in fact you’ve just absorbed that negative energy like a sponge!

For your health and well-being, you must discharge this accumulated negative energy.

Think of it like dusting your soul… daily housecleaning for highly sensitive people.

How to Discharge Negative Energy

Start by entering sacred space. Meditation is the best way to do that, when you are discharging negative energy.

Spend at least a few minutes in a meditative state, to open your connection to the Source of positive energy.

Then imagine all the negative energy that has collected within you. You might picture it as like a shadow or a heaviness, etc. Imagine it gathering together from all parts of your body and mind and moving toward the palms of your hands.

Put your palms on the Earth or in water. Or at least facing towards one of these elements.

I recommend

  • wild water – water flowing free – as best
  • water with sea salt added as second best
  • water you can enter with your body – like a bath or shower – third,
  • any other container of water after that

If you can’t reach either Earth or water, you can aim your palms toward fire (even a candleflame).

Allow the negative energy to move out of you and into that element.

At the same time, you can make a simple prayer for the Divine to fill you with Divine energy and take from you this negative emotion or energy.

Continue until you feel clear.

Earth, Fire, and Water all have an innate ability to take negative energy and transform it into something beneficial. It’s much the same as the way plant life takes in carbon dioxide and changes it into good fresh oxygen.

So giving negative energy to these sources can’t harm anything. In fact, it becomes the raw material for life-giving positive energy.

Do this as much as you need – there’s no such thing as too much discharging!

Most highly sensitive people will need this every day. If you are surrounded by things that are stressful or negatively charged, use it more often.

With practice, you will be able to discharge negative energy very quickly, no matter where you are. A shower is a great place or standing under a tree or in the sunlight or moonlight works as well.

Clarifying Your Energy Field

Now that you have cleansed your energy field, you need to actively purify and strengthen your personal energy field.

The basic idea is twofold…

  1. You draw a boundary around your personal energy field. You make your own field more solid, less permeable. And you tune it to accepting only positive energy. This helps keep unwanted other energies out.
  2. You fill your personal energy field with positive, healing energies.

There are various ways to do this. One of the best ways I know to empower and positively-charge this energy boundary is using the Divine Light Invocation.

Or a simpler version of a Light visualizations . . . Imagine and feel yourself being filled with Light. Imagine being radiant with light, like a temple shining out in the night. Feel and enjoy the great sense of well-being this gives.

You can do this one anywhere, at any time. It makes a good complement to the Divine Light Invocation.

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Transmuting Anger

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Many who come to Me with bodies filled with disease and decay will often say, “But I am happy. I have no worries or upsets. My life is great.” Then, in the next breath, they ask Me to take away their tumors, back pain, headaches, poverty, etc., without any interest or desire in addressing what gave them their pain in the first place. Seeing this condition in, literally, thousands of aspirants has compelled Me to share these gifts for transmuting negativity.

All negative feelings and emotions that are repressed or suppressed cause illness in the mind and body. The emotional body rules the physical. The fact that one’s issues are, perhaps, denied or truly unconscious is irrelevant. Just look at your body to know the truth. Your body is a flawless mirror and barometer for seeing and assessing the state of your consciousness. By reading the physical signs, the answer can very easily lead to the question. If your body is riddled with cancerous tumors, you have issues and something is “eating” away at you, whether or not you agree with that diagnosis. “As within, so without.” Your job is to ascertain the source and to deal with it.

I need to begin with a few basics. There is no such thing as a terminal disease. Nobody has ever died from cancer. Ever. Cancer is only an indicator from your soul that something in your consciousness needs serious adjustment. The physical plane is the densest plane of Creation and the very last place anything shows up. Your soul/God/the universe was sending you signs and messages long, long before the first cancer cell ever appeared. For most, cancer is the final call to change. There are only two reasons why cancer serves as the vehicle for millions to complete their embodiments: 1) the belief (consciously or unconsciously) that cancer is terminal; and/or 2) not sufficiently addressing the self-negativity which prompted the cancer cells to appear in order to get your attention.

Your body is a completely sealed ecosystem, designed and built from the perfection of God’s love and adoration as a model of God’s own immortality. As such, anything less than “perfect love” that you experience—on any level of your being—within that sealed ecosystem, you, alone, introduced into it. Therefore, you also have the power to get it out of your body, mind, aura, etc. Once you have adopted this belief system, you will have transcended the biggest illusion and will be best poised to receive all necessary assistance available to you.

The emotional body has a tiered structure. As it begins to thaw, anger is the first emotion to be accessed. Because it is at the surface of the emotional cauldron of negativity, it is also what is overtly projected onto others the most, as well as what unwittingly squirts out the seams of a heart and consciousness, frozen for years, and onto other people. The very deepest level of non-loving emotions is grief. There are very few people on Earth who even finish cleansing and clearing all their anger in the course of an entire lifetime. It is for these reasons that I shall focus this discourse on how to responsibly transmute and discharge anger, although these techniques can equally be used for sadness, grief, depression, frustration, lust, and many others.

Anger is a normal part of the human evolution of consciousness. Pretending that one does not have or feel any anger does not dissolve or dismiss that anger—nor does saying, “all is love, all is wonderful” rid one of anger. Pious lips do not make a pious heart. While affirmations and mantras are most certainly powerful healing and transmuting tools, they (in and of themselves) are not enough. Anyone who thinks they are is living in a very deep state of denial.

The human soul, body, and consciousness are designed and built from pure Love. They also feed only on pure Love for their life sustenance. Furthermore, anything less than perfect, unconditional love is poison in the human ecosystems—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Thus, any time you (as the sole creator and engineer of your life) introduce into your auric field anything less than pure Love, your soul (by Divine design) immediately takes action to expel that energy (poison) from all levels of your being. You have no “say” in this; it is the Law and Order of Creation. Your soul is constantly expelling the negativity from your body and mind. The better you are at holding it in (or inappropriately vomiting it on others), the quicker you are killing yourself. The poison must come out AND it must not be put onto others.

The use of positive affirmations is a crucial part of a healthy heart, mind, and body. The operative word is “part.” Form does follow thought. Where your thoughts take you is where your life follows. And since the spoken word wields the full power of Creation, whatever you speak, you create. This, naturally, applies to non-loving creations as well as loving ones.

Everything—including emotions—is energy. And energy, as most people know, can never be destroyed. It can only be altered from one form to another. It is from this fundamental scientific and spiritual truth that I am offering a set of iron-clad tools for transmuting the non-loving energy of anger into loving energy of various forms. (As I mentioned, these same tools can also be used to transmute other non-loving energies into pure, loving ones.)

It is very important to create a sacred space, prior to taking action, by speaking (silently or aloud) your knowingness that:  a) all your negativity—though very painful—is, on the highest plane of Creation, an illusion; b) all that you are feeling is of your own creation and nobody did anything “to” you; c) you are expressing this distortion and pain and offering it up to God to be taken from you, in sacredness and supplication, so that it no longer poisons your system.

In order to be successful with these techniques, you must first be willing to adhere to the one, most important, Golden Rule:  Never—but never—project your anger onto another human being, no matter how justified you feel your reasons might be. You would fare better without a tongue than to speak vulgar or mean words with the one God loaned to you. You would fare better without a hand than to raise yours against another, for any reason.

That having been said, the first method is that of direct transference. When you find the anger welling inside of you, find something upon which to “take it out.” My recommendations include these:  write all your anger on paper and then burn it; beat a cardboard box to smithereens with a stick or club; throw a kicking, thrashing fit on your bed; take an old object you no longer need and annihilate it; bury your face into a very thick pillow and scream like you have really wanted but never had the courage to; or stand, waist deep, in the ocean and scream all your pain and angst out to sea, giving it to Mother Earth (or deep in a forest, high on a mountain or cliff, etc.). These activities act as a poultice, drawing the poison out of your body. In all of these instances, you are to continue until you arrive at a peaceful place or until the limitations of your physical body prevent you from continuing (which is another way of knowing that you have finished).

The second technique is to redirect the energy of anger through physical exertion or exercise. There are two excellent vehicles you can use to achieve this. The first is to engage in one of your favorite sports or activities—jogging, swimming, weightlifting, rollerblading, etc. In this instance you are channeling and actually transforming the non-loving energy into a healthy and appropriate one.

The other vehicle in the physical exertion technique is to channel your anger into some household project: painting, construction, cleaning, or gardening. Choosing a project which is physically demanding or time-consuming, or one that you constantly find yourself procrastinating, is the best choice for this type of transformation. In this practice, the non-loving energy (anger) is again being transformed into love.
The third technique is one of My favorites, though each one may have occasions when it is best suited to your situation. This final technique is to move into service. When you find yourself “stuck” (a convenient euphemism for “unwilling”) in your anger, choose to do something for another as the means to transmute the anger and, thereby, return yourself to a loving space. The more negativity or non-love you need to purge, the more you need to serve another.

The best choices for accessing those nasty little morsels of anger that “get stuck in the cracks of your consciousness” are the activities you normally would not think of doing for another. Examples include:  going to a friend’s house and cooking dinner for the whole family (and doing the dishes afterwards); pulling all the weeds and tilling the soil in another’s garden; doing someone else’s laundry and ironing; washing and waxing your neighbor’s car, and the list goes on.

All of these techniques work 100% of the time. They are foolproof. The only conditions are that you stay in the chosen activity until you have shifted and, of course, that your activity does not violate another’s right to privacy, quiet, etc. Sadly, no matter with how many people I share these gifts, rarely have I seen individuals choose to take action in order to heal the anger and move back into love. Most often, ones choose (the coward’s way of) indulging in the negative emotion, wallowing in self-pity, and continuing to project their own refuse upon others. “It’s too hard” is one more excuse for remaining a victim. Just do it. If the solution were easy and meaningless, it would not be of any value to you. Read, again, the first line in this paragraph and ask yourself what is your objective. Is it to move out of anger (sadness, hopelessness, depression, etc.) or to enjoy it a while longer? Either choice is fine. Just be honest with yourself… it is your life; it is your body.

Please note that I listed the various techniques by increasing levels of consciousness. In other words, the “highest” path of love would invite one into service as the means for transmuting. At the same time, it is of vital importance to be honest with oneself. Thus, if in a given moment, your ego is not interested in “forgiveness” and it really just wants “good ole revenge,” then by all means get the steel pipe out and bash a cardboard box, or throw that fit on your bed, or go hit the punching bag while cursing the delusion out of your body until you are exhausted and/or at peace (or both). Do recognize, though, that at some point in your life, you will need to move out of victim consciousness.

Please bear in mind that, while these methods do transmute your negativity and move you back into a loving space, they do not negate the need to find the source of your anger. What I am offering are ways to restore the balance, peace, and equanimity which enables you to then address the disassociated parts of self which drew circumstances to you that resulted in your feelings of anger.

The closer your transmuting activity can be to the moments during which you are feeling the anger, the better. Sometimes you simply cannot leave what you are doing to engage in this way, although it is rare that you could not excuse yourself in any given situation, for at least a few minutes, to get clear and centered once again. When that happens, promise yourself that you will address the situation in your very next available moment.

Lastly, remember that every circumstance will stay in your aura (environment) until it has completed serving you in all the myriad ways you wanted, needed, chose, and created it to do… whether or not you agree, like it, or profess to the contrary. The universe sends you that for which you ask. If you refuse your own creation, the universe (as pure Love) assumes you did not hear the message or missed the sign and, therefore, sends the gift again—this time bigger and louder. Whatever you resist not only persists, but also intensifies.

If you are willing to take full ownership of all your circumstances and environments as being your own inner self projected outside of you for the purpose of self-reflection, correction, and refinement, and if you are willing to do whatever it takes to maintain and/or return to a loving space, then you are well on your way to a life of mastery and true inner peace.

- Louix Dor Dempriey

Last Update: 30 May 2011

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What are Affirmations?

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Affirmations are statements you repeat to yourself on a daily basis. Most of us are do this habitually and most of the time, it is in the form of negative self talk.

Using positive affirmations, that is affirming what it is you want your subconscious mind will believe it to be true and trigger positive action.

A positive affirmation needs to be meaningful to you. It needs to be short enough to remember. The trick is to repeat these positive affirmations with attention, conviction, interest and desire.

What we focus on grows and what we think about is what we attract.

 

Examples of Positive Affirmations.

  • I know that I deserve love and accept it now
  • I attract only healthy relationships
  • I express my needs and feelings
  • I am at peace and trust in the process of life
  • I choose love, joy and freedom.
  • I deserve prosperity and know that abundance flows through me

 

What is Acupressure?

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What is Acupressure?

 

 

 

 

 

Acupressure is an ancient Chinese technique based on the same theory of Acupuncture, only there are not needles used.

Meridians are energy pathways, and along these pathways flow energy, referred to as Chi. Along the meridians are points of energy. These points are called Acupressure or Acupuncture points.

Western Scientists have proven and mapped the existence of these points using electrical devices.

Acupressure stimulates the flow of energy throughout the body, activating the bodies own healing ability to fight illness and restore harmony.

Kinesiology FAQs

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Kinesiology FAQs

Facts

  • Kinesiology is a safe, natural, effective and complete complementary therapy.
  • It is a way of detecting imbalances in the body through muscle monitoring.
  • Kinesiology was devised by an American Chiropractor, Dr George Goodheart, in 1964.
  • Through muscle monitoring you can quickly identify precisely what is involved in any imbalance found, eg nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, emotional upset, food sensitivities, structural misalignments, poor energy flow or negative beliefs.
  • Treatment is then given according to the feedback the person’s body gives via muscle monitoring.
  • It may include acupressure, light touch, nutrition, flower remedies and energy balancing.
  • This holistic approach of simultaneously treating all the aspects of a person (emotional, nutritional, structural and energetic) ensures a quicker, more thorough return to health.

    What can it treat?

    Every health problem will have at least one imbalance, and every imbalance will have at least one component to it (chemical, mental, physical and energetic). Finding imbalances and treating them holistically is what Kinesiology is all about, so it can help with just about anything.

  • Skin disorders
  • Dyslexia
  • Fatigue
  • Food sensitivities
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Learning difficulties
  • Muscular aches and pains
  • Osteoporosis
  • PMS, PMT
  • Phobias
  • Post-operative pain

• Allergies
• Postural problems
• Accident trauma
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Back ache
• Breast pain and congestion • Depression
• Digestive problems
• Rheumatism

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Kinesiology FAQs

What happens in a Kinesiology treatment?

You can read all you like about Kinesiology but there is no substitute for trying it yourself. You’ll be amazed to see how it works and, of course, you’ll begin to feel the benefits.

Your Kinesiologist will first take a medical and lifestyle history. You can remain fully clothed in a Kinesiology session. The Kinesiologist will place your arms, legs or head into specific positions and then apply a light pressure. The quality of response to this pressure determines whether or not there is an imbalance in the muscle-organ-meridian circuit.

A muscle test, as used by Kinesiologists, does not measure the raw physical strength – imbalances even show up on bodybuilders!

Muscle testing gives the Kinesiologist information and feedback from your body about its condition. Since our bodies accumulate imbalances in a certain order, they will return to health quicker if the imbalances are treated in a certain order. Through muscle testing, a Kinesiologist can assess the order in which to treat the imbalances. Usually, once a priority imbalance has been treated, you will see that other related imbalances disappear immediately.

Based on feedback form the muscle test, you and the Kinesiologist can discover exactly what is involved in your imbalances and devise a treatment plan. It may include nutritional supplements, various emotional stress release techniques, Bach Flower Remedies, acupressure, gentle structural realignment, chakra balancing, light touch, firm reflex massage, suggested lifestyle changes and more. The exact treatment you receive depends on the feedback your body gives through the muscle test about what it needs to return to health.

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How Does Muscle Testing Work?

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How does muscle testing work?

The body is run by chemical and electrical signals sent from and to the brain through the spinal cord via the hard wired and fluid nervous system. All organs and tissues are controlled by the brain and nervous system. All of the hundreds of muscles are also controlled by and connected to the nervous system. We use this information to access the body itself to test for a wide variety of concerns, including the various body systems and the body’s reaction to foods and substances in the environment.

Muscle testing is the most direct, fastest, least expensive, non-invasive method to quickly and accurately determine what is causing your problems with minimal or no side effects. If something interferes with the transmission of these electrical impulses, disease (lack of ease of energy flow) eventually occurs. It is like a dimmer switch on a light fixture. If the electricity is lessened, the bulb becomes dimmer or completely dark. Likewise, if the chemical and electrical signals running your body that travel from brain to body part or muscle are interfered with, either mechanically by misaligned vertebrae, tight muscles, chemically by foods or other substances, your organ function can be adversely affected, and your muscles will weaken!

We can use this physiological fact to directly test your muscle response to determine what is wrong with your body and what is causing the dysfunction.

There have been a number of studies done looking at the effectiveness of muscle testing since it has become such a widely used approach to natural health care. Click here to view some of these.

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What is Muscle Monitoring?

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Muscle Testing

The human body is a very useful instrument that provides all kinds of information. For processing purposes there are various ways of utilizing the body of the client to provide feedback on how we are doing. One easy and effective way of getting feedback is through a method called Muscle Testing.
Muscle testing is also referred to as Applied Kinesiology. Chiropractors use it to find which parts of the body need adjustment, and to check if an adjustment has been successfully made. They use it combined with elaborate knowledge of the skeletal and musculatory system. If one touches certain key points of the body and at the same time tests if a certain muscle is weak or strong, that can indicate if that key point needs correction or not.

The interesting thing is that muscle testing works just as well on mental or emotional issues as on physical body parts. Basically one can put one’s attention on something and then test for a weak or strong response. That is something we can use.

See, the body is not as much of a liar as the conscious mind is. It is much more likely to give an honest assessment of what is going on than the person’s analytical thinking is. The body will give answers to things that are submerged and unknown to the conscious processes, and it will give answers without being biased by wishful thinking or social maneuvering.

Many different muscles could be used for the test. The easiest is usually to use the big deltoid muscles or the arms. The client stretches one arm straight out in front of her, or straight out to the side. The facilitator instructs her to resist and then presses down on the arm. And she notices if the arm holds up to being pressed down, or if it gives in and becomes weak. There is a certain knack to sensing it, but once one has got it, it is a very finite sign.

One would pick a muscle that tests strong when we don’t put attention on anything in particular. Then we will know that it means something when it tests weak when we bring up particular subjects.

There are much more elaborate systems of using and interpreting muscle testing. Different muscles seem to correspond to different organs along the lines of the meridians. If you want to study and use that, that could be useful, but it is beyond the scope of what we get into here. We simply find a muscle that is usually strong and we agree with the person that it will be our test. This agreement becomes to governing factor.

Basically, strong means “Yes” and weak means “No”. Whether a Yes or a No answer is most desirable depends on what we ask for, but most often we will ask in such a way that a strong response is good. As in “Do you feel good about yourself” – Test – should be strong, meaning “Yes”. If it is weak, we could then work on the issue of feeling good about oneself, with our usual processing techniques. And then, when we appear to have gotten somewhere, we could do a muscle test again to confirm it. If it is now strong when we ask the same question, then we have probably done a good job.

Muscle testing is a very finite way of testing. If nothing else, it appears very finite to the client. It provides a very tangible and convincing “proof” to the client that we have actually gotten a result. The client can much more easily invalidate purely mental and emotional results. Even if she feels good and she has found out something new, she might still convince herself a few days later that it was “just” something she imagined. But if we have tested it and we both realized that what used to be weak is now strong, that might weigh a lot more heavily in the favor of accepting the change that took place.

The muscles really do react to what one thinks and feels and imagines. But the test it fairly honest and unbiased. Whereas a purely analytical assessment of what one feels might not be as honest.

The facilitator can use muscle testing according to preference. It is just one of the tools that are available. You don’t have to use it for anything at all, or you can use it for every single issue that you work on with the client, that is up to you.

If you do a number of tests after one another the arm will eventually become tired. One can then switch over to the other arm, or take a rest for a moment.

Muscle testing can be used for a comprehensive test of items from a list or arrived at some other systematic way.

For example, you can read aloud, or let the client read from a list of possible items one could be allergic to, and you can test her arm for each one. This can give amazingly precise results.

Also, one can go over the client’s body and test each body part systematically. It can be done by mentioning it and having her put attention on it, or if it is an outer body part it can be touched lightly. And you test for each one if it is strong or weak. This indicates areas that should be worked on in one way or another.

A transformational process facilitator is not a health practitioner, so don’t pretend that you are. If the person needs medical attention, refer her to an appropriate practitioner. What you are addressing is the mental, emotional, and spiritual phenomena that can be found in the person’s world. Finding out what is there and changing it can have profound effects, also on health, but you aren’t going to promise that.

In using muscle testing, it is important that you are very precise in what you ask for or what you put attention on. If you give a sloppy unfocused question or direction you will get a confused answer.

There are many texts available on muscle testing that can give you a much more thorough understanding of its use than what is presented here.

http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP2/TP2A-67.HTML

8 Types of Imbalances that can occur in the Chakras

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Chakras In Detail

More to the Chakras then just being ‘blocked’.

Chakras in Detail

More to the Chakras than just being ‘blocked’

There seems to be a very simplistic view of the Chakras in our modern day society. I have heard lots of people recently, including Therapists, talking about ‘balancing a blocked chakra’. As a Kinesiologist who works alot with the Chakras on a daily basis I can tell you that there is so much more to the Chakra than just being blocked. The way the Chakra’s energy system is flowing or not flowing gives us incredible insight into what we are attracting or repelling in our lives. What characteristics we are demonstrating. At the beginning and at the end of a session, or when we are working on a goal, or resolving a particular issue. I do what I refer to as a ‘Chakra Profile”. This includes discovering exactly what is happening with the Chakras energy centre. When I am working with a client, I need to know what is happening in regards to the Yin/Yang aspect of the chakra. Yin is the energy that is being received from others, Yang is the energy that we are giving to others. I also need to know what is happening in regards to the Front/Back of the Chakra. The front relates to the persons inner world, the Back relates to their outer world. Then I find out if the Chakra is Over-energised or Under-energised. Too much energy flowing to the Chakras has a manic or obsessive characteristic where as too little energy flowing to the Chakras has the characteristics of being unable to give or receive.
Being able to gather this in depth information about how the Chakras energy systems are flowing gives me so much more insight into how this is affecting the client I am working with. This means, that there is 8 types of imbalances that can occur in the Chakra.

1. Front, yin, under energy
2. Front, yin, over energy
3. Front, yang, under energy
4. Front, yang, over energy
5. Back, yin , under energy
6. Back, yin, over energy
7. Back, yang, under energy
8. Back, yang over energy.

This gives me much more insight into what is happening in the persons world and also the tools needed to balance and clear the Chakras.

Clearly there is more to balancing, clearing and healing the Chakras than just working with a ‘blocked’ chakra.

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