tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75800837969569348652024-02-18T19:20:35.515-08:00Boyds Wellness CenterBoydswellnesscenter.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890826947929004328noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-40919981570693451652016-08-07T12:23:00.000-07:002016-08-07T12:47:41.711-07:00Self-Sabotage - A New Take on It<div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: right;">
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Self-Sabotage - What is It? </h2>
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You know how it goes, right? You vow to lose 10 pounds so you'll be thin and trim for some event or other. You maybe go down 4 pounds, and then you give up, only to gain it, and maybe even more weight, right back again. </h4>
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Same with plans for cleaning out your book shelves or kitchen cabinets or making $ xx amount of money in the next month or so. </h4>
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You start in, get discouraged, revert back to your old ways.</h4>
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This train wreck bundles up in its midst the limiting thoughts, despair, self-blame, pain, and "Oh, Crap, Oh, Crap" responses that we are way too familiar with. </h4>
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The habitual programs run in the background and unconsciously act as anchors to hold our problems in place and sabotage our best efforts. </h4>
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Not only Elma's techniques, but SimplyHealed, and the writings of Genevieve Davis and Melody Fletcher all offer ways to clear these patterns. </h4>
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I can say this definitively: I am seriously excited about their effectiveness. </h4>
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I'd love to work with you to show you how amazing they can be.</h4>
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They can work to clear physical pain, emotional pain, and all kinds of limiting core beliefs that cluster together to keep us stuck.</h4>
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Boydswellnesscenter.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890826947929004328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-26735133923803238382012-11-24T11:24:00.000-08:002012-11-24T11:24:01.950-08:00The Healing Power of Gratitude<br />
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"If the only prayer you say in your life is 'thank you,' that would suffice." --Meister Eckhart</h3>
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Don't you love that sentiment--in theory?? Don't you find it hard to practice--in reality??<br />
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Sometimes life deals us a tough hand and reaching down and feeling any crumb of gratitude feels like an impossible task. How can one be grateful for a grim health diagnosis or the death of a loved one, for instance? Even if in our hearts, we may have an inkling that whatever it is, it is part of the soul's journey, ours or the loved one's, and just perfect in some way which we have yet to grasp, how do we get to that place of acceptance?<br />
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Often, it's the little things that get under our skin and push gratitude aside. Perhaps a colleague who has less experience than we at a job seems to be doing better, reaping professional awards we feel we deserve. And when that uncomfortable envy-jealousy thing creeps in, we can't stand ourselves. How can we be thankful for THAT?<br />
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Or maybe we wake up and realize that we have nothing in common with the person we fell in love with and married 35 years ago, yet part of us still loves this person. Or maybe our poker-playing (or bar-tending or you-name-it) kid is never going to get a "real" job and be self-sufficient. And how can any of <i>that</i> be gratitude-worthy?<br />
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We maybe have gotten into the habit of seeing our life (and ourselves) as lacking, so it takes a huge effort to focus on everything we've been given, and the miracles that are present. Every. Single. Day.<br />
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Research has shown that being grateful (even, "Wow, I made it through another day, in spite of this burden I've been carrying!") improves our health. It makes us more resilient, gives us higher energy levels, makes us more optimistic, and reduces stress.<br />
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Maybe We Don't HAVE to Run Away from Home</h3>
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Transitions, both happy or sad, whether developing a new business, changing jobs, dealing with loss, caring for an ill family member--all of these challenge us in multiple ways. Underneath it all, the test is how to love ourselves, no matter what. In other words, how NOT to run away from "home"--or our essence, our True Selves.<br>
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But how do we do that? Stress piles upon stress and we often revert to what author Kishori Aird, in her amazing book, "Essence," calls our "default programming." Those are all the inner, negative ways we have of beating ourselves up, as we've often done, time and time again. (To order the Aird book, go to p. 2 of "I recommend" box on the right column and click on the title. Boyds Wellness Ctr gets a tiny piece of revenue from books ordered from our website link. But that's NOT why I recommend books or why I esp love this one!)</div>
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Just a week or so ago, I was feeling really good! Good about my blog, good about the last several clients who had come, both for Akashic readings and for some energy work.<br>
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An energy-healing client in California whom I'd helped over the phone emailed me afterward to ask, "WHAT DID YOU DO? I feel so great!"</div>
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But this week, I fell into my default programs and the glass became half-empty, the rose-colored glass evaporated. I was relentless in my self-critique: "You are failing miserably. Look at you! Maybe it's time to pack it in."</div>
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Sometimes when we fall into our own rabbit holes, it's because we've been following someone else's ideas of what we should do or who we are--or someone else's "frequency."<br>
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Standing With Our Essence</h3>
Physicists studying superstring theory say all matter, including our thoughts and the atoms in our body, vibrate at a certain speed or frequency.<br>
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And yet, we often are NOT aligned with our core frequency or essence. We have to make a conscious effort to be in alignment. We need to intend, even command, that the rest of ourselves align with this frequency and stay true to it. The results of doing this consistently may surprise you.<br>
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For example, a man had agreed to go on a cruise with his sister and elderly parents. This was his sister's idea. She really wanted to take the old folks to Europe while they could still travel. Still, as the time to leave drew closer, the man (we'll call him Tom) felt uneasy about it and realized he was just going along to please his sister. He talked with his mother and asked if she'd be OK with his NOT going. She said that was fine. In fact, she was delighted to have Tom keep an eye on her house while they were gone. Tom not only did that, but things fell into line to enable him to buy a condo with the money he would've spent on the cruise. The entire condo-finding and purchase all went like clockwork. Tom was thrilled! He traded the misery of doing something to please someone else into a "dream come true" instead.<br>
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When we align ourselves with the frequency of our essence--instead of trying to please others or criticizing ourselves at every turn- we can experience these kinds of perfect moments. Of course, we will also have periods of doubt and pain. But we need not become discouraged. Gradually, if we make it a habit to affirm, "I am now one with my Essence. I am vibrating at the most optimum frequency for ME," we will acquire the strength to carry on, even during the most difficult of circumstances.<br>
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I have found these prayers to be especially healing when one feels overwhelmed and unable to pull oneself out of a negative slump. They are to be said aloud with clarity and confidence. The prayers are adapted from a powerful book by Susan G. Shumsky, entitled "Exploring Auras." It is available by clicking on the book title at right, which will take you to Amazon.com </div>
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<b><u>Thought-Form Healing
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I invoke the divine presence to eliminate<o:p></o:p></div>
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All negative beliefs and limitations that no longer serve
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I now dispel all negative thoughts and emotions, including
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All of these aspects that do not reflect the truth of my
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Are now lovingly lifted, transmuted, and transformed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the power of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am now open and free to embrace<o:p></o:p></div>
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Positive, Light-filled thoughts and emotions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I welcome healing and wholeness, peace, self-forgiveness,
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I AM in balance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I AM fully aligned with the Love, Power, Wisdom, and Grace
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I can let go, knowing that, no matter what, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thou art with me, and I with Thee.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you, God, and SO IT IS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I call forth the Holy Spirit,</div>
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The spirit of wholeness, love, and truth,<o:p></o:p></div>
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To illuminate the truth upon any and all <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thought forms, emotions, thought patterns, and
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That obscure the Presence of Spirit in this situation now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the healing Christ-ed light of the Holy Spirit I
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Structures, patterns, emotions, and belief systems.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This light of truth is permeating and suffusing completely<o:p></o:p></div>
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All negativity in this situation and place, <o:p></o:p></div>
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And in all states of consciousness related to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know that any and all negativity- -thought-forms,
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Are now easily lifted and dissolved <o:p></o:p></div>
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By the healing Christ-ed Light of truth of the Holy Spirit,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Into the nothingness of which they truly are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through this Holy Spirit power, they are now<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lifted, healed, and transmuted into the good<o:p></o:p></div>
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And they are now gone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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(Take a deep breath to release.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Holy Spirit now suffuses, shines upon,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lifts, and transmutes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Any and all negative thoughts, emotions, and related
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Into their Divine opposite, at the highest level of
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The negative is now lifted, transmuted, transformed,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the power of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The God in me is in control of my mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The God in me is empowered now,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the light of the Holy Spirit<o:p></o:p></div>
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With the power<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of the Holy Spirit and the Christ within me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am divinely protected and guided into uplifted, true,<o:p></o:p></div>
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More powerfully Christ-conscious living and being<o:p></o:p></div>
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Often, All It Takes is One Session . . .</h3>
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<u>Case Study # 1: </u>When my client, "Fred,"(not his real name) agreed to an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) session with me, he made it <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_tasting_descriptors" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Wine tasting descriptors">clear</a> he didn't really <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Belief">believe in</a> any of this <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_medicine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Energy medicine">energy-healing</a> business. But he was miserably uncomfortable after wrenching his back for the second time in a week. This time, the injury was serious enough, the pain bad enough, that he was willing to "try anything!" </h4>
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In working with resistance, EFT addresses it as though it were a client. "Oh, you're there and you're resisting. That's OK, we see you, and we accept you and we accept who we are, with all of these feelings." Usually, after we accept it, and acknowledge it, the resistance loses its charge and drops away. <br />
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So with Fred, I suggested he let his resistance speak up and give it a voice.<br />
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He just started tapping on how this method wasn't going to help, how it was all bull----, and a waste of time. We kept going with this line of tapping for maybe 5 minutes, round after round, until the resistant voice did finally crack.<br />
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Fred wept and wept and wept. He released all of the holding on, all of the stress of being so messed up physically, all of the pain of holding onto his pride.<br />
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"I don't want to go any further right now, but I do feel a whole lot better, and my back is better, too," he said.<br />
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<u>Case Study #2: </u>"Judy" (not her real name) was suffering from low self-esteem and was struggling to believe she had any personal value or worth. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Like many, she had grown up in a family where her emotions and views weren't valued. It wasn't a terrible family, but a fairly normal one. And because she was taught that her feelings and attitudes didn't matter, she grew up feeling "less than" and seeing the world through the eyes of victimhood. She relied on others to validate her, but, even when they did, she couldn't really take it in. </span></h4>
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<li>That morphed into more positive statements, "<b>It's safe to move into my power. It's safe to embrace myself and acknowledge my value and worth. I choose to release this negative pattern now." </b></li>
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It was remarkable to see the strength of this negative pattern fall away and to have Judy herself recognize it, smiling and admitting, "Phew! That was a huge cognitive-emotional shift. I'm worn out!"<br />
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<b>See the page, "Emotional Freedom Technique" for more about EFT, and the page,"Client Testimonials," for more brief case studies and client feedback on different energy-healing methods. </b></div>
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I just wanted to add some more thoughts, tips, on yesterday's blog post about the Benevolent Outcomes technique.<br />
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<b>If you have trouble with the concept of angels,</b> consider that you are making the requests of your wiser, Higher Self. <br />
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<b>"You can have virtually whatever you want, as long as you don't need it," says Dr. Joe Vitale.</b></blockquote>
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<li><b>Start with easy requests</b> for immediate feedback, such as parking spaces, finding a misplaced item, and such. This will boost your confidence in the method.</li>
<li><b>Make requesting </b>Benevolent Outcomes a habit daily.</li>
<li><b>Don't be afraid to ask</b> with emotion and feeling, then let go of the outcome, as per above.</li>
<li><b>Don't be afraid to ask </b>for even more than you can expect or imagine.</li>
<li><b>Thank your guardian angel</b>, or your Higher Self. </li>
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I recently have discovered a new twist on an ancient tool--namely, prayer. Specifically, the "most benevolent outcome" prayer process. </div>
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It's based on the work of author, Tom T. Moore, whose book, "The Gentle Way" is listed here to the right of this page. (If you do go to Amazon and buy it, or any of the other books listed, a tiny percentage of the sales come to me.)<br>
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This is a pretty non-denominational prayer technique, though it helps if you believe that unseen forces can have an effect on your life. You don't have to be a Christian or believe in angels. This prayer process still can reap results. </div>
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Some have written that Tom's technique, "worked PERFECTLY, and I had never been able to say that about any of the other modalities I had tried."</div>
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Tom T. Moore says that we all have what he calls a benevolent, invisible friend, near us. Many people refer to this as a guardian angel. This entity, whatever you want to call it, has our highest good and wellbeing at heart. But it is not allowed to directly intervene unless we ask it to. By requesting so-called Benevolent Outcomes, we are doing just that, asking for the help of this Being of Light. </div>
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<li>"I request the most benevolent outcome for a (situation, thing) you need help with. Thank you."</li>
<li>"I request a most benevolent outcome for receiving clear guidance to help me heal or to find the best healing path for me. Thank you.</li>
<li>"I request a most benevolent outcome for finding the right treatment to heal me from ______in the best possible way. Thank you."</li>
<li>"I request the most benevolent outcome for overcoming this pain." </li>
<li>"I ask any and all Beings of Light to assist the doctors and nurses in the procedure (name it) that I am undergoing. Thank you."</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"I ask any and all Beings of Light to assist the doctors and nurses in the procedure (name it) that (name of person) is undergoing. Thank you."</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"I ask any and all Beings of Light that whatever is causing (name of person's) symptoms will dissipate and be gone for good, if it is for her or his highest good. Thank you."</span></li>
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According to Dr. Michael Newton (his book, featured in the Amazon box to the right, "Journey of Souls" details actual interviews with those who have been led back to their pre-incarnation state), each human being lays out a life plan or soul contract before being born. This plan is meant to provide us with certain learning and experiences while on earth. (We have free will, of course, and frequently veer off track from our soul's plan.) But the difficult challenge we'd like to leave behind may be one our soul has chosen before we incarnated. In this case, the requests may not bring about a total healing or resolution. BUT, at the very least, making these requests can help lessen the severity of the lessons our souls have chosen and let us walk along a smoother path than we otherwise would.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Finally, don't forget, as with any prayer request, you may believe that a certain outcome is the best for you, while in a deeper, soul-level sense, it may not be. Looked at from a larger perspective, it just may be that we don't know what is for our best and highest good. </span></div>
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Dealing With Money Problems</h3>
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Many clients have expressed an ongoing concern in their lives with money issues. I am totally empathetic with these concerns, having had my share of financial challenges--and continuing to struggle with this even now. So what lies at the root of money problems?</div>
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There are many intertwined issues related to scarcity, real and imagined. For instance, if we grew up feeling we weren't deserving, feeling deprived, feeling habitually "less than" with all the shame, anger, and victimhood emotions attached to those feelings, then we may act all of those feelings out or re-create that entire drama with our money. </div>
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Perhaps when we were younger, we felt trapped in a place where nobody understood us. Now we have reinvented a financial crisis as a way (unconsciously) to hang on to that familiar feeling of being trapped. We have put ourselves in yet another box of our own making--and there is a certain comfortable familiarity in being there. If we were to step out of the box, we might make mistakes, we might not know what choices to pursue, who knows what might happen? </div>
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If we were ashamed in childhood, perhaps we keep ourselves in a state of shame now. Or maybe we're "showing" someone who made us feel terrible about ourselves by proving them right! So, out of habit, we act out our shame and our anger around money.</div>
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And there's an added bonus. This acting out gets us attention, sympathy, and makes us feel superior to all those cad-like materialistic, successful folks we know. Besides, it makes people want to rescue us. So we are victims and there's nothing we can do about it. You get the idea. All of the emotions that make up our story get played out around money.</div>
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Besides, our unconscious believes that if we don't hang on to our "story," rooted in all these conflicting emotions and patterns from early in life, we may not only lose the attention and sympathy and concern we're used to, but we may also wind up alone and abandoned. Or, even scarier, we might have to take responsibility for ourselves and learn how to manage our money wisely.</div>
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Either consciously or unconsciously, we may glorify the concept of struggle and hardship, poverty, and need. We may feel how noble we at the bottom rung of this vapid, materialistic world truly are!</div>
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In addition to these emotional residues of unworthiness, lack, shame, anger, deprivation, and similar thoughts and patterns, money issues may be tied to previous vows of poverty, karmic curses or binds for limiting abundance, or other etheric or past-life situations we may not be aware of. </div>
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To change a pattern of lack and limitation, at least 51% of our entire energy field needs to feel it is safe to do so. Here are some tips on how to do just that. </div><a href="https://boydswellnesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/10/money-money-money.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-45010148283324236042012-10-04T15:04:00.000-07:002012-10-04T15:13:01.466-07:00Unconditional Self-Love<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Greetings, Dear Ones,<br />
I recently was blessed to spend nearly a week at Glen Ivy Center in Corona, California--located about two hours or so east of Los Angeles. As you can see from the photos here, I was clearly NOT in Maryland anymore. And to me, that was especially exciting and wondrous!<br />
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I was part of a group of 20 people who had signed on to participate in an intensive retreat. We were focused on studying and learning all about "Healing Through the Akashic Records." Our wonderful teacher was Linda Howe, author of the book by the same name, and founder/director of the Linda Howe Center for Akashic Studies.<br />
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During the course of my time at Glen Ivy, I "got" Linda's amazingly simple, but effective, way to gently dismantle self-limiting beliefs and attitudes. It entailed simply saying to myself, "Of course you feel that way, Libby dear. Of course you're scared and worried about this, honey. And it's okay. We'll get through it. I'm here (I being my Higher Self or Soul) and together we'll figure it out. I'll help you find the way."<br />
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Linda taught us that nothing can change until you can accept who you are and where you are at the moment. A lot of methods such as the Law of Attraction have one overriding one's fears and self-doubts and affirming, affirming, affirming. But Linda teaches that we don't need to reject ourselves or abandon ourselves. In fact, only by acknowledging our woundedness fully and embracing it, can we allow ourselves to heal. For accepting "what is" dismantles the whole framework of self-rejection that many of us have spent a lifetime carefully constructing, often unconsciously. It's a framework that becomes a prison, keeping us entrapped in self-limiting judgments and patterns.<br />
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So, instead of pushing through our limiting emotions and fears, if we can hang in there with ourselves when we are feeling at our worst, when we're most upset, most frightened, most guilt-ridden, or anguished, we can turn to this technique, "Of course . . . ." And in that, we can find self-love and an inner calm.<br />
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From that more peaceful space, the Light can better shine on us. From that space, we can, if we follow this practice enough, find a new vision and a new hope for ourselves--while radiating out our Light to the rest of the world.<br />
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<i>Be well. Be blessed. Be at peace. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-44680282491175702852012-09-09T08:45:00.000-07:002012-09-09T08:45:28.853-07:00Transforming Our Negative Patterns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Do you claim you want to lose weight, feel better about yourself, forgive those who hurt you? Do you give it a shot, stumble, fall, draw back, and give up before you've gone too far? The people who market affirmations as the path to success would say you just haven't affirmed hard enough or held onto your vision with enough dedication and feeling. <br />
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In fact, the truth may be that our subconscious--which some say makes up 90% of our energy field-- just doesn't want us to succeed or part of us is too threatened with the idea of changing our familiar pattern, which has served to protect us and keep us safe all these years. We might not know who we'd be without our familiar "story" and struggles. So despite our persistence in "going on a diet" or vowing to "start now to feel better about myself" --or whatever your core issue is-- these attempts aren't fully aligned with our entire energy, and are almost bound to fail.<br />
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So, what's the answer? Should we just give up and say, "Well, I've tried before and failed, and besides, people don't or can't change who they are, so why bother?"<br />
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That's not particularly satisfying either, is it?<br />
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How about working toward your goal in little increments that don't feel too threatening. You can create an affirmation that feels realistic for where you are at the moment and use whatever energy healing technique you know (or ask me for help) to clear your resistance to it and to slowly and gently move toward your desired goal.<br />
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For instance, instead of affirming, "I'm going to lose 15 pounds in the next 6 weeks," which part of you might balk against and consider too radical, you could consider saying, "Even though I'm scared by the idea of having to lose weight because look how many times I've tried and failed in the past, I choose to begin to consider the possibility of shedding a pound in the next 10 days or so at a pace that feels right for me--and I choose to forgive myself for all the weight I've put on and to love and accept myself exactly as I am, anyway."<br />
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That kind of set-up statement or affirmation might feel a tad wordy, but it doesn't trigger an immediate, "Who you? Ha!" response from the part of you that sabotages your every effort. That's what happens when an affirmation you come up with is too strong, too sudden, or too scary. It often triggers too much back-talk, either subtle or obvious.<br />
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People with self-esteem issues could approach an affirmation like this: "Even though a huge part of me resists seeing myself as having any personal self-worth or value, another part of me knows I do--and I choose to strengthen this second part and heal the first part, starting now."<br />
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Having trouble forgiving someone? Try this: "Even though a huge part of me refuses to forgive (person), because, after all, look at what they did, which is unforgivable, another part of me is open to consider forgiving maybe by one percent that this happened, and forgiving that I've held onto it so long, knowing all this resentment and rage is harmful to me."<br />
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Just opening the door a tiny crack like this allows for the start of something new -- new energy, new patterning, new hope. I love the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) that energetically clears the meridians where old patterning is locked in, while helping "tap in" new affirmations. It's quite magical the way it addresses both the subconscious and the conscious and realigns your neural pathways to strengthen new, positive patterns. <br />
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Of course, I am open to helping you if you feel you need assistance. See "More Information" on this blog for details. Meantime, embrace who you are and the possibilities for your life with joy and love!<br />
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Got stress? Money problems? Relationship issues? Need to address a work situation or lose weight?<br />
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Of course, everyone has issues! In this blog post, I'd like to tell you about a great technique for resolving many common negative patterns in our lives.<br />
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You may have heard of it--it's called the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It's also sometimes called tapping. I've been into tapping for about two years or so, and it's a pretty awesome way to address your life's issues.<br />
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EFT is a meridian-based, stress-reduction technique, based on the idea that if you tap on the end points of certain acupuncture meridians, you can essentially reprogram you brain. The tapping interrupts the usual negative blah-blah that your unconscious mind sends along neural pathways, the self-talk that reenforces your limiting beliefs, yucky emotions, and repeated, dysfunctional patterns that have driven you most likely much of your life.<br />
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Many people believe, wrongly, that you really can't change you who are. Sure, you can maybe polish up the edges a bit, but basic insecurities, lack of confidence, perfectionism, persistent money problems? Can't change those, nope- say these folks. But with determination and an awareness that the brain is not fixed, but rather open to suggestion, as witness the rise in cognitive therapy's effectiveness, you can turn this stuff around, honest.<br />
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I saw change happen before my very eyes at a recent two-weekend-long series of EFT trainings I attended. Participants who were hung up on old painful traumas suddenly were laughing and smiling. Someone who had weight issues began to make the connection with where this had all come from and could lessen the hold that certain foods had over her. Others had new insights into emotionally abusive childhoods. I have long been a believer in EFT, but this training cemented my faith in it.<br />
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I am happy to now be offering a series of four EFT sessions (40 minutes each) at a package rate of four for $250 (total). (Sliding scale may be considered in certain cases.) Generally, with lifelong patterns, more than one session is required. I can coach you over the phone, should you find our location a bit hard to get to. Please think about it. I can't wait to work with you!<br />
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Call me and let me help you take charge of your life once and for all. This work is a true blessing to all who are willing to undertake it!<br />
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Sometimes the relationship we have with life, with ourselves, and with others can become difficult. Most of us are wounded by traumas in our lives--things that hit us unexpectedly over which we have no control--and scarred by injuries, whether physical, emotional, or mental. We often use our wounds against ourselves, seeing them as evidence of our imperfections. We tend to lose our perspective and can't seem to register our own goodness or the goodness of others.<br />
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It's during such times that you might want to consider having an Akashic reading. The Akashic Records hold the soul-level archive of every person and his or her journey, on a vibrational level. They contain the imprint of your soul--that is, "who you are at the level of your soul or the soul-level truth about you," as Linda Howe puts it.<br />
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Being in the Akashic Records during a Reading is akin to being awash in a beautiful, healing realm. You are enveloped in the higher wisdom, light, and energy of God. Here you don't have to hide or protect yourself. Instead, you can let go and feel yourself relax into the flow of the life force. Here you can find relief from all the woundedness, and get answers to some of your basic questions, such as how you could reframe your circumstances or what you need to understand to see things from a different point of view.<br />
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In the Records, there is no judgment, no fear, no resistance. You find out who you are in the eyes of Divinity, discovering aspects of yourself that you may have buried or rejected long ago. In this high-vibration, Light-filled place, you see, at last, the perfection of your soul.<br />
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<u>Gateway to Contentment: The Second Chakra</u></h3>
As explained in the last post, our chakras are spinning vortexes of energy within what is called the subtle body--a hidden field of energy that reflects our urges, emotions, habits, and imprints of all that has happened to us. They are like chambers that organize various aspects of the life force as it travels through us.<br />
The second chakra, located a few inches below the naval, is the seat of our sense of well-being, where we are able to take in the life energy needed to give expression to ideas and feelings, and where we experience pleasure. It's where we embrace ourselves and the sweetness of our bodies.<br />
The second chakra is home to our softer emotions, those involved with loving and enjoying life and with experiencing prosperity, abundance, and the excitement of a beautiful sunset, a wonderful meal, a lovely piece of music, and the joy of creating whether with words, paints, or just with our actions in the world.<br />
<b> If this chakra is balanced</b>, then we are trusting, attuned to our own feelings and needs, and able to feel deeply and to express emotions appropriately. We can experience contentment with life. We can respect and honor who we are and what we require to be happy, while not being overindulgent or overly self-involved.<br />
<b>If blocked, </b>we tend to be martyrs, sacrificing ourselves for others in order to maintain peace and stability. Yet, even so, we feel a deep sense of guilt, as if we were deserving of our suffering. We become caught up in rescuing and fixing other people's lives, giving up our own creativity and health to do so. We tend to be overly sensitive, shy, timid, and to attract rejection.<br />
<b>The demon of the second chakra is guilt. </b>When the right to our feelings is compromised, we feel guilty. Guilt says we shouldn't feel a certain way, or we shouldn't want this or need that. Guilt makes us further repress our feelings. (Of course, when we've done legitimate harm to another, then the absence of appropriate guilt is a problem.) Guilt is the demon when it inhibits us from fully experiencing the pleasures of being alive and when it encourages us to believe we're not worthy or deserving of receiving what others take for granted.<br />
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<i>Affirmations to Strengthen and Balance the 2nd Chakra</i></h3>
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<li><b><i>I am happy and content at all times. Nothing can upset me unless I let it. </i></b></li>
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<li><b><i>Life is sweet and I enjoy it.</i></b></li>
<li><b><i>I give myself permission to fully enjoy everything I do.</i></b></li>
<li><b><i>I enjoy being free and open to the goodness in and around me.</i></b></li>
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<i>Gotta Love Those Chakras!</i></h2>
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What are chakras? They're simply conductors of life energy within or just outside of our physical bodies. <span style="background-color: white;">We have seven major chakras and twenty-one minor ones. </span><span style="background-color: white;">When unblocked and open to about 60%, the healthy chakras allow this energy to flow freely through our physical and emotional bodies and the rest of our energy field. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> The flow of life energy in any chakra influences our mental, emotional, and physical states--and vice versa. Negative thoughts can block the flow of the energy through our chakras. </span></div>
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In other words, the chakras reflect our beliefs and respond to our thoughts and attitudes. By opening and balancing our chakras, we can increase the energy flow throughout ourselves, and so increase our joy and sense of well-being. </div>
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This is the first of several posts on each of the chakras. This one will address the lower-most or "root" chakra.</div>
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Root Chakra</h3>
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This chakra, located at the base of the spine, helps to ground us and makes us feel safe, both emotionally and physically. If balanced, it allows us to feel worthy and deserving of taking up space on the earth. If closed off or blocked, we feel unloved and view the world as a scary and uncertain place.</div>
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If, as infants and young kids, our earliest needs were met, then we generally will have a clear and balanced root chakra. Babies who are fed and whose needs are attended to when they cry, become adults who have a strong sense of self-worth and are secure in the sense that their needs will be met. Those who are repeatedly left alone to cry, grow up expecting disappointments later in life--and come to believe that they don't deserve to have their needs met. </div>
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This leads to a Victim mentality--the archetype of one who cannot effect change or take control of situations, but is vulnerable, ungrounded, and needy. Victims often are afraid, plagued by low self-esteem, and may act in self-destructive ways. Not trusting in the innate goodness of life, or of themselves, they inwardly believe, "It's not worth it" or "Life is unbearable." </div>
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The positive archetype for the Root Chakra is the Earth Mother, the source of all nourishment and of unconditional love. Those with a balanced, free-flowing Root Chakra, eat well, take good care of themselves, resting when need be and understanding what else they need--and letting themselves have it. They are discerning about how time is spent and with whom, separating themselves from highly dependent relationships which deplete them. </div>
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Healing the Archetype</h3>
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To move from a Victim mentality to an Earth Mother one, we need to acknowledge the truth about our lives and begin to take responsibility for who and where we are and how we feel. It may take time to release the sadness, grief, and anger, associated with change. But by asking ourselves what we've learned about ourselves and life from our past, we begin to free ourselves from the Victim stance. We can also begin to give ourselves simple pleasures: walks, gardening, practicing Tai Chi, yoga, taking aerobics, or going on vacation to a place you've always wanted to visit. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Try saying the following affirmations three times a day - pick two or three that you resonate with the most. </span></div>
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We are a part of a most magnificent world, as you can see by these shots taken on our recent trip to the Canadian Rockies. Everywhere we looked we were awed by the beauty. If you let yourself stop and look around, it's a good bet you can find something equally magnificent in your part of the world! </div>
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Why, you yourself are a magnificent soul! What can you do to bring out your very unique YOUness this day, that is the question?! </div>
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With many blessings, </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above the Athabasca River and beautiful Jasper, Alberta, Canada</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maligne River courses through a canyon, Jasper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calypso Orchids on Forest Floor, Jasper</td></tr>
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I remember reading once that if you really tune into nature, you can hear a song of joy that runs throughout creation. It's the harmony of love, really.<br />
As my Akashic teacher, Linda Howe, says, love is always available everywhere. It's just that we humans block the flow of love with our fear-based, negative judgments.<br />
Every time we say to ourselves, "My life shouldn't be this way," we are creating just that kind of blockage or wall of resistance.<br />
If we could just <i>accep</i>t and <i>allow</i> things, including ourselves and our lives, to just <i>be</i> without judgment, then we could let love flow in and through us.<br />
Can we, in spite of our failings and the perceived failings of others and the woundedness and difficulties of our lives, still honor ourselves and deeply accept and value ourselves?<br />
Can we forgive ourselves and others and fulfill the purpose of our journey on Earth, which is to learn to love--both ourselves and others--unconditionally, no matter what?<br />
In other words, can we join in the song of creation?<br />
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<b>Despite our sense of not being enough, not being OK, we are truly beings of Light.</b></h3>
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<li><b>I withdraw my energy from the past and release all barriers to self-love and self-compassion.</b></li>
<li><b>I release all need to hold any negative emotions, any self-blame, and any beliefs in lack and limitation which I created in the past. </b></li>
<li><b>I turn this situation over to Divinity, trusting in the knowledge that it will unfold perfectly and in accordance with my highest good. </b></li>
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The bleeding heart in our garden (above), like many Spring beauties, burst into bloom early this year.</div>
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And who could resist the exquisite shape, colors, and often-showy masses of flowering cherry and apple trees? (above)</div>
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So if you're feeling down, discouraged, and in need of healing, why not head outside and revel in the amazing, technicolor show awaiting you there? It's free to all, and no 3D glasses are required! </div>
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Don't forget, while you're gazing at such beauty, to acknowledge that your soul, too, is as splendid in its magnificence as these Springtime blossoms. That's because the same Divine essence flows through you. </div>
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Hello, Springtime! Or is it Summer?</h3>
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Yes, it's a tad unsettling to have everything bursting into bloom a few weeks early, and some Springtime blooms, including the lily of the valley, not blooming at all--perhaps thrown by the early heat! </div>
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Still, I couldn't resist bringing my camera along on this afternoon's pooch walk. All of these are either in my yard, or alongside it. </div>
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<i>No matter the weather,</i> <b><i>Bloom Where You're Planted!</i></b></h3>
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Have you ever noticed how the sun glistens off of a lake, dancing like diamonds before your eyes? Or have you seen a field of grasses in the winter, their rich shades of gold and yellow set off against the darker trees and logs nearby?</h4>
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<b>Now, imagine you are one with all of this creation and affirm that you are:</b><br />
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<li><b>open to receiving all of life's good things </b></li>
<li><b>learning to live in joy, peace, and in calm confidence</b></li>
<li><b>accepting yourself as worthy and of value exactly as you are </b></li>
<li><b>releasing all past hurt into the everlasting Arms of Love</b></li>
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We all know it's a truism that Spring is a time of renewal and rebirth. Yet there's no denying it (even when Spring arrives like a premature baby, a month or so early)!<br>
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Many energy-healing methods encourage us to take a look at ourselves and explore this idea of rebirth. How many of us see ourselves with compassion and kindness, after all? Don't we unconsciously beat ourselves up, bowing to that inner critic who is merciless in pointing out our flaws moment to moment?<br>
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Self-loathing creates its own kind of stress, and our over-attachment to limiting beliefs about ourselves is a major cause of illness.<br>
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I love the so-called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It has one tap on certain parts of the body (these parts being loosely based on acupuncture points) while affirming statements such as these:<br>
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<i>Even though I have long felt I wasn't good enough, I love and accept myself fully, and I honor myself for how difficult my struggle has been.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>Even though I have often felt bad about myself, I am ready to transform these limiting feelings and move toward total acceptance of myself, starting now.</i></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mild winter's day reveals patches of mud on the towpath along the C&0 Canal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bits of ice cling to the sides of the water-filled canal near Poolesville, Maryland</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We've been trying to get out for hikes and take advantage of some of the sunny, nice days we've had this month. The C&0 Canal's towpath is beautiful, even in the midst of February. I especially love the reflections of the trees in the stillness of the water and the bits of ice encrusting the canal's shallows.<div><br />
</div><div>It's hard to know what to make of this February. It's not quite Spring yet. But we've had quite a number of springlike days. Can we trust that we're through with winter and that no late-winter snows are going to drown the crocuses, just as they dare to open their tender, purple blossoms to the chill, ever-warming air?</div><div><br />
</div><div>It's hard to know what to make of ourselves sometimes, too. We have the tendency to want to rush through these ever-lengthening days of not-quite-spring, not-quite-winter. But if we stop and look, really look, there are wonders even amid the gray landscape of our interiors. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Might we dare to believe that beneath the cold, self-blaming thoughts, grim fears, and dark forebodings of our most chilling imaginings, there might be a sort of Springtime of hope and newness and emergent life? </div><div><br />
</div><div>Every morning I sit in silence and practice clearing away whatever is keeping me from feeling healed and whole. Slowly, slowly, like the ice melting from the canal's edges, I feel a bit better, a bit more ready to honor who I am, the struggles I've been through, even the wintery patches of my journey. Perhaps, if I keep at it, I won't have to work so hard to know, that even as the muddy, barren towpath is beautiful, no matter the season, so am I, whether in full Springtime bloom, or still encased in the shadows of winter. </div><div><br />
</div><div>In fact, there is perfection in us all, regardless of what season we find ourselves in.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>Even in the dead of winter, all I have to do is go outside and walk a little ways and I feel refreshed and renewed in spirit. We are blessed to live in a beautiful area with farmland, woods, and a bike trail nearby. The apple orchard behind our old farmhouse adds to the charm of our "home in the country" as our town is called. Just take a look at the images here and I think you'll agree. But no matter where you live, there is beauty, if you just hunt it out. Isn't that true?</div><div><br>
</div><div>I love stumbling upon beauty outside, and also, beauty in books. I recently came upon a helpful little volume, published just a few years ago. It's entitled, <i>How Successful People Think</i>, by John C. Maxwell. And it delivers what it promises. It's a helpful dose of left-brain thinking that brings the concept of how to think out a vision down to Earth and within reach. And it's full of quotable turns of phrase, such as this:</div><div> "Big thinkers who make things happen also create possibilities for others."</div><div> </div><div><br>
</div><a href="https://boydswellnesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome_20.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-19648654722445230222012-01-10T12:28:00.000-08:002012-01-10T12:28:09.039-08:00WELCOME!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Welcome to Libby Schleichert's Blog</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>on Energy Healing & Related Musings</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAa7NZUbiz-ECVPa7NYcorBwtYqLNBpKOUaJxVfnmeFCM9am27pEin_6BnUOcZTS_yQyUvMgp5CClD0mXYMHSXqnc8EPZ9hemii81XXsm_zjcFc27v3SvZg6W8mX52Dv6vMwNI5EDhFo/s1600/IMG_0313.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAa7NZUbiz-ECVPa7NYcorBwtYqLNBpKOUaJxVfnmeFCM9am27pEin_6BnUOcZTS_yQyUvMgp5CClD0mXYMHSXqnc8EPZ9hemii81XXsm_zjcFc27v3SvZg6W8mX52Dv6vMwNI5EDhFo/s400/IMG_0313.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was the week between Christmas and the New Year. We had driven up to Connecticut to see our son and to celebrate the holidays with him. We found ourselves hiking on a very cold and raw winter's day in the little known, unpopulated northern part of the state. Bob and I made our way along a steep trail in a beautiful hemlock forest. We were mostly concentrating on our feet to make sure we didn't go splat as the rocky trail was strewn with leaves and it was hard to make out exactly where to put each boot to prevent a nasty fall. But when we stopped for a moment, we looked up, and above the dark, winter forest, there appeared a blue, sun-washed sky and the fresh green of the hemlocks, standing brightly apart from the grays and browns of the bare trees. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It felt magical, a moment of transcendent stillness in the midst of the quiet forest. As we went along further, we came upon another magical sight: a small stream, dancing down over moss-covered rocks, singing out its gentle, wild lullaby as it tripped down the hillside. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQFlubH0zhuZxuYc01R63YEZQTWaglUX5Sw-i89V_Z0Mc0gnAFQdO6PHt1wUnpGAJWf5XdprkC32FxLQCMGWNzw45tb4UqrpDP44kw9WpRIId-WRG8e1yM4x_KZvyeqPq7u4JpuxIRzHw/s1600/IMG_0319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQFlubH0zhuZxuYc01R63YEZQTWaglUX5Sw-i89V_Z0Mc0gnAFQdO6PHt1wUnpGAJWf5XdprkC32FxLQCMGWNzw45tb4UqrpDP44kw9WpRIId-WRG8e1yM4x_KZvyeqPq7u4JpuxIRzHw/s640/IMG_0319.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">If it hadn't been about 15 degrees F., we might have lingered a while by the stream. Still, its soothing song followed us as we moved on. The smell of damp oak leaves mingled with fresh pine scents. An occasional blue jay alerted other forest-dwellers to our presence. But we saw not another soul, neither wild animal nor human. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And so there we were, more than 400 miles from home. But amid so much beauty, woods, streams, and then, finally, at hike's end, a lovely river, we felt embraced by Nature and closer than ever to the Source of all things. Wishing you all such a magical and wondrous New Year! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Winsted, CT, USA41.9212066 -73.06010779999996941.9018246 -73.090416299999973 41.9405886 -73.029799299999965tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580083796956934865.post-22778993478110648322011-12-21T12:27:00.001-08:002011-12-21T12:27:31.175-08:00WELCOME!<div style="text-align: center;">Welcome to Libby Schleichert's Blog--About Alternative Healing & Related Thoughts</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">December 21, 2011 - On Forgiveness and Mapping a New Path</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Did you ever notice how beautiful the countryside looks from high atop a mountain or ridge? You don't see the potholes in the roads, the old roof that might need repairing, or the broken-down car in the driveway. Everything appears just perfect. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Many people display the same split. From a ways off, they are smiling, pleasant-appearing, and well-dressed. But deep down, they feel inadequate, not good enough, and lacking whatever it is they feel that everyone else has and that they can never achieve--some sort of deep self-acceptance and an embracing of their true Divine essence. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This dichotomy between outer and inner, between the face we present and the way we feel deep down inside, becomes tougher to maintain in this, the season to make merry. In fact, short of downing one too many pints of wassail, it's often hard to join in the seasonal celebrations. We just don't feel very good about ourselves. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We may be holding ancient grudges, nursing useless guilts, beating up on ourselves for unnamed crimes, viewing our "not-quite-good-enough" performance as proof that we're inadequate human beings. If we're facing job loss or other crises, we "up" the ante and make it even tougher on ourselves to see the larger, beautiful picture of who we are and of all we have to offer the world. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So how do we get to that place of merriment this season? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">How about starting with healing our own inner critic, the one that reenforces our sense of guilt and inadequacy? With just a wave of the hand, as a kind of cue or message of intention, and a command to "forgive self," you can direct your unconscious to do this kind of healing, going all the way back to the very first time you felt humiliated and made to sense you didn't measure up, and coming all the way up to the present. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, in this season, Christians celebrate the birth of the one who, they believe, was born to free us of our sins. If that is your faith tradition, embrace it now anew, and pray for that very freeing. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Regardless of what your faith tradition, it's time to do whatever you can to clear away the layers of negative beliefs you are harboring about yourself and to allow your true selves to shine forth. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Here's a secret: like the valley seen from the ridge top, you, dear friends, have an inner beauty that, even upon closer inspection, holds up and is worthy of all the lovingkindness and mercy you can shower upon it.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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