Many years ago while at an intensive with Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha in N. Carolina she introduced us to an 'other-worldly' place. We went to this place as a group and it was very real walking along the dark pathway lined with foliage and mist. We all got to the destination and Grandmother let us explore and go our own way until the time that she called us back.
My path took me to what looked like a large underground cavern filled with shrouds of billowing dark, feather-light material that moved with the wind currents. Among these curtains stood two very tall, very slender, fully covered to the floor by thin capes, 'beings' - the likes of which I had never seen before. When I looked up into their faces all I could see were the huge almond shaped eyes and my own reflection looking back at me through them.
These beautiful beings were very loving and gentle. They greeted me with a 'welcome' and then took me in behind the billowing, flowing curtains and bade me rest. I don't remember any more than that except that I went totally blank, thinking and remembering nothing. When I awoke I felt different, more refreshed. On the return trip, I noticed that these beings floated beside me as I walked back to the place we met, and they never spoke, but communicated to me through their thoughts that I was invited back anytime I felt I needed to be rejuvenated.
I walked along the pathway intent on finding my way out and back to the group when I felt myself pulling someone or something as my arm stretched out behind me. I had no idea why I had picked up this extra baggage nor what it was until I looked behind me and saw one of the people who was in our group. I was literally dragging her out of this place! She was not looking at me - she was looking behind her and reaching out to some unseen force beyond my sight, while she appeared to be totally unaware of me.
Still, I felt the pull as I hauled her out of there, all the while thinking she would be lost if I were to let go.
Later, when we were walking along the beach to go back to our hotel, I caught up to her and asked her what had happened to her down there. She was wide-eyed in her response. "I saw my brother down there and I wasn't leaving!" I asked her if she knew how she had gotten out of there and she said she didn't have any idea.
Until that moment I wasn't sure that my experience with these Inter-Terrestrial beings was real. Many years later I once again thought of them and in need of rejuvenation of mind, body, spirit and emotions I revisited that long ago place and found the IT 'beings' once again. I spent the whole night in their care and awoke with a rejuvenated spirit, zest for life and something else which I haven't as yet identified. I'll update you when I find out what it is.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Give and Take of Relationship
Over 20 years ago, a group of us gathered in a suburb of Cleveland on a weekly basis. We always had a sacred pipe ceremony on Thursday evenings, what Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha would call "holding the gate".
After pipe, we would also have teachings there, as it was in this setting that I first began to study as a medicine apprentice with Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha.
At the time, I was married to a control freak who thought I could be controlled. It turned out that I couldn't because I would always listen first to what my spirit would tell me to do. As a result of following my heart, my relationship suffered. How could anyone consider that they can come between a person and what their heart is telling them? Yet, he would persist with threats of break-up and at times, violence, which he never carried out. It never mattered to me...I always did what was in my heart.
I have always tried to maintain a relationship while working with a spiritual elder and mentor but it has not always been easy for anyone living with me to understand what I was doing, or learning for that matter. How do you explain some of the things I'm writing in this blog to someone who is a born-again Christian? It simply did not compute with him. This would make me very sad because he would just push me further and further away, never trying to understand the dynamics of the give and take of relationships or the 'allowing' that goes with the word 'love', or the growth that comes with learning. It never occurred to him to join me in learning the ways of spirit. It simply was not his nature to think outside the box in our relationship.
One day while Grandmother Parisha was teaching at The Center in Cleveland she looked at me and said, "Merida, you could fill this room with your tears. I've seen many women break under the pressure that you hold for yourself." The sadness that I felt and held onto was making me ill. Holding onto emotion has never made the situation better but perhaps it is the way I try to make up for the guilt that I have always felt while learning and doing this healing walk and taking my time away from my family. Working and traveling and learning with Grandmother for the last 25 years was a passion that consumed me and fed my spirit, which nothing else seemed to be able to do. After studying with Grandmother and her teachings everything else seemed weak and watered down.
Now, years later, the fires I have walked through in relationship have hardened coal into diamonds and it seems that the experiences with the men whom I have chosen as relationship 'mirrors' have brought me to where I am now. I've lived with men who were either the children of alcoholics or alcoholics themselves. Not growing up with chemical dependency-related issues - I never recognized patterns that are well-documented in people with chemical dependency. I do now, though. So it was with the knowledge gleaned from living the life that I am able to recognize what others are going through.
NJ came in for a consultation. "I don't know exactly what it is that you do, but from reading your articles in the paper I just knew I had to come in and find out. My stress is making me hurt, especially through my arms and chest. I have relationship troubles with my husband and daughter and am at wits end!"
Well, that sounded familiar to me. NJ had no idea how to communicate her feelings so I encouraged her to read Dr. James Dobson's books. Dr. Dobson is a parenting and relationship expert whom I turned to when my daughter was very young. I found his books in the local library and they worked wonders for me and I've passed his name on to others.
I encouraged NJ to talk only about her own feelings and never place blame or judgement on her family. "Talking about how you 'feel' let's them know you're not attacking them and no one can deny you your own feelings. So say something like "I feel that you're moving further and further away from me because I don't know how to communicate with you." This was an entirely different concept for NJ who then told me I should give classes on all of this. I told her that people wouldn't come because I don't have PhD after my name and that I was in divorce court (again!) and didn't need to be giving anyone any classes.
She said the counselors she's gone to don't give you anything to work with. They just let you drone on and on about your problems without giving you anything of use to make the situation better. I told her about Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha and 'becoming the mirror' and how to mirror back what is happening in relationship. She kinda-sorta got the message but it does take some training.
Years ago, someone told me to go to counseling. I said, "By myself? Why? There are two of us involved. How can one person in a relationship go to counseling? If you're in a relationship and the other half won't go to counseling with you to figure out your problems in the relationship, then it must be time to end the relationship and the only counselor you need is a counselor at law."
Although it was a difficult decision to end this marriage I felt great relief when I finally initiated the process. I feel I've grown through both marriages and no longer need what is being reflected back at me from outdated mirrors. I'm off to bigger and broader horizons and looking forward to it!
After pipe, we would also have teachings there, as it was in this setting that I first began to study as a medicine apprentice with Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha.
At the time, I was married to a control freak who thought I could be controlled. It turned out that I couldn't because I would always listen first to what my spirit would tell me to do. As a result of following my heart, my relationship suffered. How could anyone consider that they can come between a person and what their heart is telling them? Yet, he would persist with threats of break-up and at times, violence, which he never carried out. It never mattered to me...I always did what was in my heart.
I have always tried to maintain a relationship while working with a spiritual elder and mentor but it has not always been easy for anyone living with me to understand what I was doing, or learning for that matter. How do you explain some of the things I'm writing in this blog to someone who is a born-again Christian? It simply did not compute with him. This would make me very sad because he would just push me further and further away, never trying to understand the dynamics of the give and take of relationships or the 'allowing' that goes with the word 'love', or the growth that comes with learning. It never occurred to him to join me in learning the ways of spirit. It simply was not his nature to think outside the box in our relationship.
One day while Grandmother Parisha was teaching at The Center in Cleveland she looked at me and said, "Merida, you could fill this room with your tears. I've seen many women break under the pressure that you hold for yourself." The sadness that I felt and held onto was making me ill. Holding onto emotion has never made the situation better but perhaps it is the way I try to make up for the guilt that I have always felt while learning and doing this healing walk and taking my time away from my family. Working and traveling and learning with Grandmother for the last 25 years was a passion that consumed me and fed my spirit, which nothing else seemed to be able to do. After studying with Grandmother and her teachings everything else seemed weak and watered down.
Now, years later, the fires I have walked through in relationship have hardened coal into diamonds and it seems that the experiences with the men whom I have chosen as relationship 'mirrors' have brought me to where I am now. I've lived with men who were either the children of alcoholics or alcoholics themselves. Not growing up with chemical dependency-related issues - I never recognized patterns that are well-documented in people with chemical dependency. I do now, though. So it was with the knowledge gleaned from living the life that I am able to recognize what others are going through.
NJ came in for a consultation. "I don't know exactly what it is that you do, but from reading your articles in the paper I just knew I had to come in and find out. My stress is making me hurt, especially through my arms and chest. I have relationship troubles with my husband and daughter and am at wits end!"
Well, that sounded familiar to me. NJ had no idea how to communicate her feelings so I encouraged her to read Dr. James Dobson's books. Dr. Dobson is a parenting and relationship expert whom I turned to when my daughter was very young. I found his books in the local library and they worked wonders for me and I've passed his name on to others.
I encouraged NJ to talk only about her own feelings and never place blame or judgement on her family. "Talking about how you 'feel' let's them know you're not attacking them and no one can deny you your own feelings. So say something like "I feel that you're moving further and further away from me because I don't know how to communicate with you." This was an entirely different concept for NJ who then told me I should give classes on all of this. I told her that people wouldn't come because I don't have PhD after my name and that I was in divorce court (again!) and didn't need to be giving anyone any classes.
She said the counselors she's gone to don't give you anything to work with. They just let you drone on and on about your problems without giving you anything of use to make the situation better. I told her about Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha and 'becoming the mirror' and how to mirror back what is happening in relationship. She kinda-sorta got the message but it does take some training.
Years ago, someone told me to go to counseling. I said, "By myself? Why? There are two of us involved. How can one person in a relationship go to counseling? If you're in a relationship and the other half won't go to counseling with you to figure out your problems in the relationship, then it must be time to end the relationship and the only counselor you need is a counselor at law."
Although it was a difficult decision to end this marriage I felt great relief when I finally initiated the process. I feel I've grown through both marriages and no longer need what is being reflected back at me from outdated mirrors. I'm off to bigger and broader horizons and looking forward to it!
Friday, January 14, 2011
A Journey to the Mojave Desert
Traveling with Grandmother PaRisHa is always an extraordinary experience. In the 25 plus years that I've known her it never ceases to amaze me that so much can happen in her presence.
Several years ago a group of us packed up and headed West to Arizona where we spent days and nights camping in the Mojave desert. It was with a lot of apprehension that I made the decision to go because, if truth be told, I don't like creepy crawly things such as the big three: scorpions, any kind of spider - especially ones as big as tarantulas, snakes - especially poisonous snakes.
So weeks before I made the decision to go sleep on the desert floor with all these critters I journeyed into the other worlds to see what would await me. This is akin to time travel because it took me into the future to see what I could see.....and this is what I saw:
I saw a lush, flowering, wet desert as though it had recently rained. I saw myself with my medicine walking stick and wondered why I would think to bring that with me. There would certainly be no real need for it and it would be a burden to carry it on the plane with me. I decided to leave the walking stick home where I thought it belonged. I noticed that we were camping in an area that was cleared of brush and leveled out. I saw that the creepy crawlies stayed to the outer reaches of the camp, as though out of respect for our being there. I saw this through their eyes and from their viewpoint in the desert. I knew in that moment that I would not encounter any of the things I disliked most and felt better about going on the trip.
As the day of my departure grew near, Grandmother PaRisHa sent emails from our desert destination saying that she had already set up camp. She said that when we got there we would be able to see the desert in all its flowering glory because it was raining there. Someone had been employed to come out and clear a section of the desert where we would be camping to make it easier for us to move around. So much of what I had seen in my journeying had already come to pass, before I even got there!
After arriving in Arizona, and while taking my 50 pound suitcase off the back of the vehicle in which we were traveling, I dropped the case on my foot. This was why I had seen myself with a walking stick. It took my foot about 5 days of the trip to heal back to where I could walk without assistance from a stick that someone had gleaned from the desert floor, since I didn't have mine with me.
I never did see any creepy crawlies walking around during the whole trip, something for which I was very grateful.
More to come.....
Several years ago a group of us packed up and headed West to Arizona where we spent days and nights camping in the Mojave desert. It was with a lot of apprehension that I made the decision to go because, if truth be told, I don't like creepy crawly things such as the big three: scorpions, any kind of spider - especially ones as big as tarantulas, snakes - especially poisonous snakes.
So weeks before I made the decision to go sleep on the desert floor with all these critters I journeyed into the other worlds to see what would await me. This is akin to time travel because it took me into the future to see what I could see.....and this is what I saw:
I saw a lush, flowering, wet desert as though it had recently rained. I saw myself with my medicine walking stick and wondered why I would think to bring that with me. There would certainly be no real need for it and it would be a burden to carry it on the plane with me. I decided to leave the walking stick home where I thought it belonged. I noticed that we were camping in an area that was cleared of brush and leveled out. I saw that the creepy crawlies stayed to the outer reaches of the camp, as though out of respect for our being there. I saw this through their eyes and from their viewpoint in the desert. I knew in that moment that I would not encounter any of the things I disliked most and felt better about going on the trip.
As the day of my departure grew near, Grandmother PaRisHa sent emails from our desert destination saying that she had already set up camp. She said that when we got there we would be able to see the desert in all its flowering glory because it was raining there. Someone had been employed to come out and clear a section of the desert where we would be camping to make it easier for us to move around. So much of what I had seen in my journeying had already come to pass, before I even got there!
After arriving in Arizona, and while taking my 50 pound suitcase off the back of the vehicle in which we were traveling, I dropped the case on my foot. This was why I had seen myself with a walking stick. It took my foot about 5 days of the trip to heal back to where I could walk without assistance from a stick that someone had gleaned from the desert floor, since I didn't have mine with me.
I never did see any creepy crawlies walking around during the whole trip, something for which I was very grateful.
More to come.....
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Holy Mole'!
Emails and the internet are indispensible to us in Winter. Here in Northern Ohio we don't get out as often as we would if we lived in the warmer sunshine states so our outreach is limited to on-line chats and emails. That's ok by me, though. I have quite an outreach through my website and facebook along with lots of emails. I regularly meet new people through these mediums as well as keeping up with old friends and acquaintances.
Another way I've met new people is through dance and fitness training. Living in the country on country roads is not the best place to walk or ride in nicer weather and near impossible in the winter months. Never having liked exercise for the sake of exercise I've signed up for Zumba, the latest craze in dance fitness. Salsa, merengue', cha-cha, ariba!! Ondole'! Holy Mole'! I must be crazy!! Just to move and learn new steps keeps the interest and excitement up and the hour goes fast when you're having fun.
Of course I can't kick like the tall, thin younger girls in the front row who can keep step perfectly with the instructor. They look like they could join the Rocketts on Broadway! I can't even move upper body in time with lower body! But who cares!? Not me and certainly no one else.
Strength training...now that's a challenge! I go religiously now. When I say 'religiously' I don't mean that kneeling is one of the prolonged postures that I stay in. Although I had to get an extra padded yoga mat because my knees needed more cushion. I remember the time I fell off the exercise ball and pulled my diaphragm muscle. Until then, I hadn't a clue that the diaphragm muscle could be 'pulled'! It created a sensation much like a hernia but was easily remedied.
Zumba three nights a week along with strength training on the 4th night is getting me out of the house and away from work. It is also helping me meet new people.
I have a tendency to hibernate in Winter. Ok....I have a tendency to hibernate all year long. Good thing Grandmother PaRisHa is consistent in her attempts to push me out of my shell. She's always saying "Get Out and Reach Out!" It's working. I feel less like a bear these days.
Another way I've met new people is through dance and fitness training. Living in the country on country roads is not the best place to walk or ride in nicer weather and near impossible in the winter months. Never having liked exercise for the sake of exercise I've signed up for Zumba, the latest craze in dance fitness. Salsa, merengue', cha-cha, ariba!! Ondole'! Holy Mole'! I must be crazy!! Just to move and learn new steps keeps the interest and excitement up and the hour goes fast when you're having fun.
Of course I can't kick like the tall, thin younger girls in the front row who can keep step perfectly with the instructor. They look like they could join the Rocketts on Broadway! I can't even move upper body in time with lower body! But who cares!? Not me and certainly no one else.
Strength training...now that's a challenge! I go religiously now. When I say 'religiously' I don't mean that kneeling is one of the prolonged postures that I stay in. Although I had to get an extra padded yoga mat because my knees needed more cushion. I remember the time I fell off the exercise ball and pulled my diaphragm muscle. Until then, I hadn't a clue that the diaphragm muscle could be 'pulled'! It created a sensation much like a hernia but was easily remedied.
Zumba three nights a week along with strength training on the 4th night is getting me out of the house and away from work. It is also helping me meet new people.
I have a tendency to hibernate in Winter. Ok....I have a tendency to hibernate all year long. Good thing Grandmother PaRisHa is consistent in her attempts to push me out of my shell. She's always saying "Get Out and Reach Out!" It's working. I feel less like a bear these days.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Wheel Of Self Destruction
Years ago when relationships were not easy I found them to be an object of obsession. One day, something clicked and I had an understanding that not all things are as they seem and to worry them or place blame was not something that helped any situation. It was at that time I adopted a mantra or a silent prayer to say whenever I would immerse myself in negative thinking. Realizing that I was being negative brought me to the threshold of prayer which always put me in a positive thought process. From then on I just 'let go and let God' or Creator, or the Mystery or whatever you wish to call a force greater than ourselves. If healing the emotions is what one desires, then adopting a prayer or mantra whenever you feel emotional or 'negative' may be something to consider. It certainly works for me. Prayer/mantra gives me strength and takes me out of a blame or downward spiraling emotional cycle.
The subject of much blame and judgement is the self. At times I would attack myself for doing or saying something I should not have done or said. This cycle is self-destructive and tends to set up a wheel of destruction that is difficult to stop as it can spiral out of control to a point where self-hatred erupts and further destroys, creating more hatred and self-judgement. So, instead of blaming 'me', I dropped all judgement of myself and all blame. Instead I would say that I did not like what I was DOING or what I was SAYING. By taking the 'self' out of the wheel of destruction it became easier to get off the wheel when I focused on the ACTION, which took pressure off of 'me'. It is easier and less destructive to say, "I really hate what I just did or what I just said instead of "I hate myself for saying that". It is less destructive to the self when you focus on the ACTION than it is to focus on the SELF. Eventually I learned not to say 'hate' at all. I would just say something like, "I didn't have to say that" or "I don't like what I did". Eventually I developed new pathways that would allow me to be more creative in my thought processes.
By just making this one seemingly small adjustment to my way of thinking of my 'self', I was able to stop the wheel of self-destruction and get off.
Once you get off the wheel of self-judgement and self-blame you feel a freedom that perhaps you've never felt before. This freedom from blame and judgement allows you to then stop blaming and judging others. What a rush when you free yourself of the burden of judgement and blame. I had so much more time to devote to things that mattered and were more positive. As a result, I am more optimistic and have more time to be creative. Once new pathways were created it was easier to fill my day with upbeat and positive choices. But first, I had to allow myself to grow from my own mistakes.
As Grandmother PaRisHa says, "Just one optimistic person, with a willingness to allow people to grow from mis-takes, can effect 90,000 others. Thats what one person can do."
The subject of much blame and judgement is the self. At times I would attack myself for doing or saying something I should not have done or said. This cycle is self-destructive and tends to set up a wheel of destruction that is difficult to stop as it can spiral out of control to a point where self-hatred erupts and further destroys, creating more hatred and self-judgement. So, instead of blaming 'me', I dropped all judgement of myself and all blame. Instead I would say that I did not like what I was DOING or what I was SAYING. By taking the 'self' out of the wheel of destruction it became easier to get off the wheel when I focused on the ACTION, which took pressure off of 'me'. It is easier and less destructive to say, "I really hate what I just did or what I just said instead of "I hate myself for saying that". It is less destructive to the self when you focus on the ACTION than it is to focus on the SELF. Eventually I learned not to say 'hate' at all. I would just say something like, "I didn't have to say that" or "I don't like what I did". Eventually I developed new pathways that would allow me to be more creative in my thought processes.
By just making this one seemingly small adjustment to my way of thinking of my 'self', I was able to stop the wheel of self-destruction and get off.
Once you get off the wheel of self-judgement and self-blame you feel a freedom that perhaps you've never felt before. This freedom from blame and judgement allows you to then stop blaming and judging others. What a rush when you free yourself of the burden of judgement and blame. I had so much more time to devote to things that mattered and were more positive. As a result, I am more optimistic and have more time to be creative. Once new pathways were created it was easier to fill my day with upbeat and positive choices. But first, I had to allow myself to grow from my own mistakes.
As Grandmother PaRisHa says, "Just one optimistic person, with a willingness to allow people to grow from mis-takes, can effect 90,000 others. Thats what one person can do."
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Energy and Oxygen Therapy
Recently, among my emails was a video of Greg Braden talking about a hospital in another country that featured healers working with energy to eradicate cancer. The UTube video is awesome! You can view it here: http://evolutionezine.com/curing-cancer/. Using nothing more than the power of mind and seeing the cancer as already healed, the energy work these healers are shown using with much success has been healing cancer patients at this hospital for eight years. Energy Therapy has been taught for many years and is increasingly being used along with western medicine. There are many energetic modalities and many fine teachers, a few of whom I met through massage school where I learned Touch For Health, Meridian Therapy, CranioSacral therapy, Reiki and Quantum Touch. Other teachers taught me QiGong Therapy, Theta Healing, and something I use consistently - Nuwati healing came from Grandmother PaRisHa along with Breath Therapy. The Nuwati healing is ideal for re-programming DNA, changing emotional programs.
One experience I've had was changing emotional patterns in a woman with a strict Menonite background. After about 5 weeks of twice weekly sessions, she, being the pattern breaker for all the negative genetic patterns in her family including shame, guilt and self-worth, was celebrated by all the spirits of the women in her genetic line showing up in a circle around her. All the hair on my arms was standing straight up as I looked at all the spirits of these women sitting to my left and right!
For several years now I have been writing articles and teaching classes on energy therapies. Many people have come and more are interested and being drawn to this work. I'm often in awe of how talented my students are and how they learn and integrate the information so quickly. They're like human sponges!
I have in my possession a DVD of what live red blood cells look like when they have been deprived of oxygen. The DVD is a before and after example of blood taken from people before they receive a treatment that stimulates oxygen absorption in the system. After receiving the treatment the blood is taken again and it is obvious how the red blood cells have recovered within a short period of time. It's an awesome DVD! I use it to show people what increased oxygenation can do for their blood cells. I've shown it dozens of times and people are always amazed at how sickly looking blood cells can become whole again in a matter of minutes just by increasing oxygen.
While there are several ways to increase oxygen in the blood, you may want to do your own research to find out which method would best suit you. One focus I've had is of helping people who can't exercise use the Passive Aerobic Exerciser to increase oxygen intake. It's easy, relaxing, very effective and you don't have to take anything or do anything but lie down and let the machine gently rock the body. It has been stated that every 5 minutes on this machine is the same as walking one brisk mile. I've done 20 minutes and the oxygen moving through my body is invigorating.
Another way to increase oxygen in the blood is less expensive, easy to do and is recommended by several experts. It has been around a while but was recently brought to our attention by Grandmother PaRisHa who sent some interesting articles along on how to do the Oxygen Therapy with 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide. You may want to read more about the therapy here: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/HydrogenPeroxide.html. If you want to continue to research H2O2, you may also get a lot more info from this article written by Dr. David G. Williams who states: "Chlorination of drinking water removes oxygen. Cooking and over-processing of our foods lowers their oxygen content. Unrestrained antibiotic use destroys beneficial oxygen-creating bacteria in the intestinal tract." Read the whole article here: http://purehealthsystems.com/hydrogen-peroxide-2.html.
So along with energy therapy, oxygenating the body with various therapies and exercise may help stimulate the immune system. I found it interesting in Dr. William's article that "we now know that vitamin C helps fight infections by producing hydrogen peroxide, which in turn stimulates the production of prostaglandins".
Hydrogen Peroxide therapy was prevalent before the advent of pharmaceuticals. There is a lot of information on the web so you may want to do your own research to learn more about the various ways to use this therapy such as oral use, intravenous therapy, baths, etc.
Stay tuned for more interesting experiences with energy therapy.
One experience I've had was changing emotional patterns in a woman with a strict Menonite background. After about 5 weeks of twice weekly sessions, she, being the pattern breaker for all the negative genetic patterns in her family including shame, guilt and self-worth, was celebrated by all the spirits of the women in her genetic line showing up in a circle around her. All the hair on my arms was standing straight up as I looked at all the spirits of these women sitting to my left and right!
For several years now I have been writing articles and teaching classes on energy therapies. Many people have come and more are interested and being drawn to this work. I'm often in awe of how talented my students are and how they learn and integrate the information so quickly. They're like human sponges!
I have in my possession a DVD of what live red blood cells look like when they have been deprived of oxygen. The DVD is a before and after example of blood taken from people before they receive a treatment that stimulates oxygen absorption in the system. After receiving the treatment the blood is taken again and it is obvious how the red blood cells have recovered within a short period of time. It's an awesome DVD! I use it to show people what increased oxygenation can do for their blood cells. I've shown it dozens of times and people are always amazed at how sickly looking blood cells can become whole again in a matter of minutes just by increasing oxygen.
While there are several ways to increase oxygen in the blood, you may want to do your own research to find out which method would best suit you. One focus I've had is of helping people who can't exercise use the Passive Aerobic Exerciser to increase oxygen intake. It's easy, relaxing, very effective and you don't have to take anything or do anything but lie down and let the machine gently rock the body. It has been stated that every 5 minutes on this machine is the same as walking one brisk mile. I've done 20 minutes and the oxygen moving through my body is invigorating.
Another way to increase oxygen in the blood is less expensive, easy to do and is recommended by several experts. It has been around a while but was recently brought to our attention by Grandmother PaRisHa who sent some interesting articles along on how to do the Oxygen Therapy with 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide. You may want to read more about the therapy here: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/HydrogenPeroxide.html. If you want to continue to research H2O2, you may also get a lot more info from this article written by Dr. David G. Williams who states: "Chlorination of drinking water removes oxygen. Cooking and over-processing of our foods lowers their oxygen content. Unrestrained antibiotic use destroys beneficial oxygen-creating bacteria in the intestinal tract." Read the whole article here: http://purehealthsystems.com/hydrogen-peroxide-2.html.
So along with energy therapy, oxygenating the body with various therapies and exercise may help stimulate the immune system. I found it interesting in Dr. William's article that "we now know that vitamin C helps fight infections by producing hydrogen peroxide, which in turn stimulates the production of prostaglandins".
Hydrogen Peroxide therapy was prevalent before the advent of pharmaceuticals. There is a lot of information on the web so you may want to do your own research to learn more about the various ways to use this therapy such as oral use, intravenous therapy, baths, etc.
Stay tuned for more interesting experiences with energy therapy.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Focus and Intent
Imagine your life was exactly the way you envisioned it. Wait. You don't envision your life the way you want it to be? You just take what is given and maybe complain about what you've got?
Well no wonder we need Grandmother PaRisHa, Bob Proctor and John Assaraf.
In case you don't know it, Bob Proctor and John Assaraf are motivational coaches and Grandmother PaRisHa is, well, many things: teacher, mentor, coach, spiritual guidance instructor, Medicine woman, Elder.
The point is that your life may not be what you want it to be because you don't plan it. All three people mentioned above talk about 'visioning' a life that appeals to you and then planning it and making it happen. That takes Focus. That takes Intent. Both focus and intent mean you know what you want and have a direction in which to move. As Bob Proctor says, "the Universe gives you exactly what you plan for. But without a plan you just have to take what the Universe throws your way. Maybe it's what you want and maybe it isn't." This happens because there is no focus of energy. This happens because there is no statement of intent.
Years ago I made a plan to give up smoking. I never smoked much, maybe 3 cigarettes a day but I was still addicted to those 3 cigarettes. I loved to smoke them and looked forward to the time of day when I could just relax with a cigarette or 3. I knew that I wanted to stop smoking altogether and so I planned for the day that would happen.
I wrote down the date about 3 months away that I would be able to pick up a cigarette, look at it and just not want it anymore. That was my intent. I focused my intent daily just one time in the morning when I woke up and just knew that by the specified date I would be able to say I had quit smoking.
Three months later I wasn't ready to quit but that didn't stop me from re-focusing my intent on another date which I again wrote down. By the second date I was rewarded. I picked up a cigarette and absolutely did not want it. I put it down and have never looked at a cigarette again nor have I had any desire or craving to smoke.
That took focus and intent. I had a plan and I followed it. I have been smoke free and my life without cigarettes is great.
Whenever I feel I want something, want to do something, need something in my life or whatever; I plan a course of action. I intend it and focus on it. I know that I can have anything, do anything, be anything as long as my consciousness allows for it. I keep growing and expanding in thought and awareness. This is important because it is a lack of awareness that keeps us from thinking big thoughts and dreaming big dreams. Some people are born with an expanded awareness. Others have to grow into it.
Planning life is an adventure in trust and optimism. Learning how to focus and intend a goal draws circumstances to us like the laser light on a pen focuses it's light in one spot. There are so many options to choose from, but unless you focus and intend what it is that you want you may never have anything because there is no plan to pick out of the ethers. Without a plan, it's all just a jumble that you have to sort through and take what comes your way.
Expanded thought, awareness, plan, focus, intent, action. All of these equal Results.
Write out your goal(s), make them big! Then intend how you want them to manifest, focus, plan and take the action to bring them about.
Watch what happens when you begin to learn to use your creativity. There is nothing you can't do or have!
Happy New Year!
Well no wonder we need Grandmother PaRisHa, Bob Proctor and John Assaraf.
In case you don't know it, Bob Proctor and John Assaraf are motivational coaches and Grandmother PaRisHa is, well, many things: teacher, mentor, coach, spiritual guidance instructor, Medicine woman, Elder.
The point is that your life may not be what you want it to be because you don't plan it. All three people mentioned above talk about 'visioning' a life that appeals to you and then planning it and making it happen. That takes Focus. That takes Intent. Both focus and intent mean you know what you want and have a direction in which to move. As Bob Proctor says, "the Universe gives you exactly what you plan for. But without a plan you just have to take what the Universe throws your way. Maybe it's what you want and maybe it isn't." This happens because there is no focus of energy. This happens because there is no statement of intent.
Years ago I made a plan to give up smoking. I never smoked much, maybe 3 cigarettes a day but I was still addicted to those 3 cigarettes. I loved to smoke them and looked forward to the time of day when I could just relax with a cigarette or 3. I knew that I wanted to stop smoking altogether and so I planned for the day that would happen.
I wrote down the date about 3 months away that I would be able to pick up a cigarette, look at it and just not want it anymore. That was my intent. I focused my intent daily just one time in the morning when I woke up and just knew that by the specified date I would be able to say I had quit smoking.
Three months later I wasn't ready to quit but that didn't stop me from re-focusing my intent on another date which I again wrote down. By the second date I was rewarded. I picked up a cigarette and absolutely did not want it. I put it down and have never looked at a cigarette again nor have I had any desire or craving to smoke.
That took focus and intent. I had a plan and I followed it. I have been smoke free and my life without cigarettes is great.
Whenever I feel I want something, want to do something, need something in my life or whatever; I plan a course of action. I intend it and focus on it. I know that I can have anything, do anything, be anything as long as my consciousness allows for it. I keep growing and expanding in thought and awareness. This is important because it is a lack of awareness that keeps us from thinking big thoughts and dreaming big dreams. Some people are born with an expanded awareness. Others have to grow into it.
Planning life is an adventure in trust and optimism. Learning how to focus and intend a goal draws circumstances to us like the laser light on a pen focuses it's light in one spot. There are so many options to choose from, but unless you focus and intend what it is that you want you may never have anything because there is no plan to pick out of the ethers. Without a plan, it's all just a jumble that you have to sort through and take what comes your way.
Expanded thought, awareness, plan, focus, intent, action. All of these equal Results.
Write out your goal(s), make them big! Then intend how you want them to manifest, focus, plan and take the action to bring them about.
Watch what happens when you begin to learn to use your creativity. There is nothing you can't do or have!
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
When You're Happy and You Know It
I've lived with some real characters and have been in work situations where many people were very unhappy. One of my friends whom I've known for many years always seems to be on anti-depressants. I don't believe I ever understood why. She lives in a modest home, has nice things and appears warm and friendly. She has many friends and acquaintances.
Recently I visited and we talked more intimately than we had ever spoken to each other before in our long history together. For instance, she never knew all the healing techniques I involve myself in. And she told me how miserable she is at work. How the 'younger' people have come in and how their attitudes are so 'different'.
I said, "so what do you care, you have 3 months left to work, and then you will retire. I would go in skipping and singing if it were me."
She couldn't see it that way. She insists that being in a miserable state of mind for the next 3 months is all that exists. "How can you deny being miserable for the next 3 months? How can you think that is going to change the fact that I'm miserable now? I don't know what to do about these women who hate me! I can't live like this, not being a part of any conversations, not being included in anything. It's awful! I don't want to do this for another week let alone 3 months!"
I had to look at her and see where she is. It made it easier to listen. She was talking to me, a woman who has lived with a man who did not speak for 3 years, who left the room when I walked into it, who did not and still does not include me in his life in any way, shape or form. A man who has left the building, mentally and emotionally and spiritually. No matter what I said or did, he would not leave. I work here so I can't leave. Stalemate. I hired an attorney. No longer need this kind of mirror reflecting old beliefs and patterns.
It brought 'home' the realization that we are not all alike, that we each have different strengths and weaknesses, that no matter how 'old' a person is doesn't mean we mature equally. Maybe it has nothing to do with maturity. Maybe it's just that we each deal with 'loneliness' differently.
I have a purpose in life. Since I was a child, my purpose has always been finding ways to help people. I live life helping other people be healthy, naturally. It keeps me sane and it keeps me on track and it keeps me happy. I find happiness within myself. Whenever I look outside for balance and peace I find it doesn't really exist outside of me. I am at peace and I see each new day as a blessing and an adventure that will open to possibilities. Everything is possible. Everything is new and exciting. I feel love no matter who or what is in my world because all that exists in me is love and it is through love that I view the world around me. At times I get off track, but then it comes back around and I know I can only make my world better, within me. If a person doesn't wish to engage in my world and wants to live in a darker place, I can still go within my own world and be happy and at peace.
Many times I find myself listening to the negative comments made in my home but that doesn't mean I have to engage. There are times when I mirror back a calmness and a peacefulness that says I am not engaging and the negativity stops. For a while. Sure, sometimes I have to fight, but when I do fight, it's for the right to be and to think my way, not anyone else's way. My thoughts, actions and feelings are mine and they've brought me through 60 years without anti-depressant drugs. I feel that is because I speak and act with integrity. When I know I've caused an imbalance I do something to balance it. Grandmother PaRisHa always said, "the only thing we truly have is our integrity".
I used to awaken every day, get out of bed and the first thing I would think is "Thank you, Creator, for this beautiful man in my life". He was a dream come true. I was always told that being thankful brings more things to be thankful for...maybe it wasn't the man I was supposed to be thankful for.
I've always had precognitive dreams sometimes years in advance of an emotional upheaval.
I dreamed the house was falling down around him and he ignored it. He didn't realize what was happening and when it hit him he literally drowned in emotion as it carried him away. He never looked back. I don't like these dreams, they always come true and there's never anything I can do to fix the situation, try as I may.
I put blue light around him all the time and just pray that he survives this break-up, somehow. I feel that perhaps he never had a knowing of how love really feels. I get this idea from something he said a while ago, that, "the dogs HATE when you do that!" I replied that the puppies are incapable of HATING anything.
When you've lived without knowing how love feels, how can you know to let it in..? How do you recognize love for what it is if you've never truly known how it feels? You think it's something else, something only your perceptions will allow because you have nothing to compare it with and nothing you think, do or say can touch what love is. So, many people live without knowing how to love or how it feels. When you live with one of them, it is nothing but sad.
Recently I visited and we talked more intimately than we had ever spoken to each other before in our long history together. For instance, she never knew all the healing techniques I involve myself in. And she told me how miserable she is at work. How the 'younger' people have come in and how their attitudes are so 'different'.
I said, "so what do you care, you have 3 months left to work, and then you will retire. I would go in skipping and singing if it were me."
She couldn't see it that way. She insists that being in a miserable state of mind for the next 3 months is all that exists. "How can you deny being miserable for the next 3 months? How can you think that is going to change the fact that I'm miserable now? I don't know what to do about these women who hate me! I can't live like this, not being a part of any conversations, not being included in anything. It's awful! I don't want to do this for another week let alone 3 months!"
I had to look at her and see where she is. It made it easier to listen. She was talking to me, a woman who has lived with a man who did not speak for 3 years, who left the room when I walked into it, who did not and still does not include me in his life in any way, shape or form. A man who has left the building, mentally and emotionally and spiritually. No matter what I said or did, he would not leave. I work here so I can't leave. Stalemate. I hired an attorney. No longer need this kind of mirror reflecting old beliefs and patterns.
It brought 'home' the realization that we are not all alike, that we each have different strengths and weaknesses, that no matter how 'old' a person is doesn't mean we mature equally. Maybe it has nothing to do with maturity. Maybe it's just that we each deal with 'loneliness' differently.
I have a purpose in life. Since I was a child, my purpose has always been finding ways to help people. I live life helping other people be healthy, naturally. It keeps me sane and it keeps me on track and it keeps me happy. I find happiness within myself. Whenever I look outside for balance and peace I find it doesn't really exist outside of me. I am at peace and I see each new day as a blessing and an adventure that will open to possibilities. Everything is possible. Everything is new and exciting. I feel love no matter who or what is in my world because all that exists in me is love and it is through love that I view the world around me. At times I get off track, but then it comes back around and I know I can only make my world better, within me. If a person doesn't wish to engage in my world and wants to live in a darker place, I can still go within my own world and be happy and at peace.
Many times I find myself listening to the negative comments made in my home but that doesn't mean I have to engage. There are times when I mirror back a calmness and a peacefulness that says I am not engaging and the negativity stops. For a while. Sure, sometimes I have to fight, but when I do fight, it's for the right to be and to think my way, not anyone else's way. My thoughts, actions and feelings are mine and they've brought me through 60 years without anti-depressant drugs. I feel that is because I speak and act with integrity. When I know I've caused an imbalance I do something to balance it. Grandmother PaRisHa always said, "the only thing we truly have is our integrity".
I used to awaken every day, get out of bed and the first thing I would think is "Thank you, Creator, for this beautiful man in my life". He was a dream come true. I was always told that being thankful brings more things to be thankful for...maybe it wasn't the man I was supposed to be thankful for.
I've always had precognitive dreams sometimes years in advance of an emotional upheaval.
I dreamed the house was falling down around him and he ignored it. He didn't realize what was happening and when it hit him he literally drowned in emotion as it carried him away. He never looked back. I don't like these dreams, they always come true and there's never anything I can do to fix the situation, try as I may.
I put blue light around him all the time and just pray that he survives this break-up, somehow. I feel that perhaps he never had a knowing of how love really feels. I get this idea from something he said a while ago, that, "the dogs HATE when you do that!" I replied that the puppies are incapable of HATING anything.
When you've lived without knowing how love feels, how can you know to let it in..? How do you recognize love for what it is if you've never truly known how it feels? You think it's something else, something only your perceptions will allow because you have nothing to compare it with and nothing you think, do or say can touch what love is. So, many people live without knowing how to love or how it feels. When you live with one of them, it is nothing but sad.
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