When I was very ill, years ago, I called my elder and teacher. What she told me surprised me. I thought she would tell me to come over to her house for healing. Instead, she told me to get out my crystals, sit down and heal myself.

What I wanted is what most of us want when we are really feeling bad. I wanted someone to fix me. I was sick and I wanted to be pampered and attended to by someone else. It didn’t occur to me that for anyone to be able to help, the true healing needed to begin with me.

Even though I didn’t particularly “want” to do healing work on myself, I followed her instructions and in the process discovered a power within myself I had not yet tapped into.

Because of my teacher’s wise instruction I have since learned that when I need to heal, I begin doing the work first and if I still need support, I open to Divine guidance in locating the right and best healer to help me. Doing my work first has given me some significant results:

1) I often discover I can heal entirely with my own energetic healing gifts and/or healing knowledge I have already acquired.

2) I access new levels of spiritual awareness and healing ability I might not have otherwise reached

3) If I do need assistance, I have already established an inner field of commitment and dedication to my healing that attracts the right healer or doctor to assist me

4) If needed, the right person to provide me with help frequently enters my physical space before I ever even need to ask for help

5) Or, within one or two phone calls, I am with the perfect person to assist me.

I don’t shop around any more for the right diagnosis, doctor, healer, technique or treatment. Why not? Because my own energetic field is charged and committed enough to easily draw in the right insight, person, or treatment.

I have gotten quite used to this way of approaching healing—that’s the way my colleagues and students approach healing too, but a few weeks ago I was reminded that some of us don’t know there is a more effective way, and we are still shopping.

I was at a party recently where I was talking to a woman about the people I have met who have dramatic stories of self-healing that occurred when they applied themselves fully in understanding their conditions and responding to their intuitive guidance. Her response reminded me that not everyone is enamored with taking full responsibility for their healing journey.

In this case, the woman I was speaking with said out loud what I believe a lot of us really want but don’t admit. She candidly said, “I don’t really want to figure it for myself. I want someone to tell me what is wrong and how to fix it.” She is still looking for someone to make the diagnosis and prescription without her active involvement.

Now, sometimes you are fortunate enough to find a doctor or healer that really is able to nail it the first time. They know exactly what is wrong and exactly what treatment solves the problem. You do what they say and you heal. This can happen often enough, that you could easily believe this is the best way to approach healing all of the time.

However sometimes, as many of us know who have experienced chronic illnesses, diagnosis is more challenging than it might appear, and you end up going to one doctor after another and one healer after another, perhaps getting some relief, but never quite getting complete healing.

Finally, when we are about to give up, in a moment of awakening we realize we had better get a little more personally involved. And just maybe we need to get some insights from a higher dimension. That’s when we finally surrender the search for someone to diagnose and fix us. When we stop shopping and get involved, the healing journey actually begins.

Who wants to heal themselves, especially when you are feeling really bad? Quite possibly, no one. Who wants to get still and listen for intuitive guidance about what is happening and what you need to do? Possibly, not many of us. But I suspect my teacher’s wisdom applies for many of us.

If we truly want to heal, we are the first ones that need to be committed, open to our guidance and become actively involved. Then, if we still need help, we have primed the pump for the right help to be drawn to us.

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Just this afternoon I was struck by a comment a beloved friend made…

“Our Problems are small relative to the horror that is happening in the World – It Makes Me So Angry To Learn…”

I then listened for a few minutes as he began to list the horrors going on around him -and I realized how quickly I could add to the list.  Seems everywhere you look in the world today something horrible is taking place – from Devastating EarthQuakes to Erupting Volcanoes, to Whole Countries Facing Economic Collapse, the list goes on and on and on…

And I realized as I listened to him how much these stories have infiltrated our lives.  Turn on the TV to get a weather forecast and listen to the horrors of the Oil Spill off the coast of Louisiana,  turn on the computer to check your emails and find the latest on the coal mine collapse, check the kids backpack and find the list detailing the dangers of Swine Flu, overhear people talking in the SuperMarket wondering what next product will be pulled from the shelf because of Ecoli…

Let’s face it – anyone who expects the world to be a fearful place has lots of evidence to prove their point.

So – I have to ask – how does all this make you feel?  As you consider the list of reasons why the world is falling apart do you feel empowered, large, ready to make a different in the world?  Does your light shine and your smile radiate?  Are you inclined to fill you day with life enhancing activities and Random Acts of Kindness?

Or does it make you feel fearful and small  or angry and indignant.  Do you find yourself talking about the stories and looking to place blame and building it up in your head until you can’t help but conclude that the world is filled with big problems – much bigger than your little ones – and you should be grateful for what you got because so many have so much less..

I know how it makes me feel when i let myself go there…

And when I said as much to my friend – when I suggested that perhaps it would be better if we kept our focus on what feels good – on what we want to expand – he struggled with the idea because for him it felt like a denial of what is and his truth demands that he remains present with the what is being shown to him in the world.

And I could see his point.  I mean – whether we like it or not these stories are all around us – and unless we close ourselves completely from the world the stories will find us one way or another – and to deny that they exist will not keep them from infiltrating our subconscious and affecting our experience of the world.

As we talked an idea came to me – a way where we can all be present with the stories we are hearing in such a way that we – collectively -transform them.

To help make this idea clearer I want to first refer you to two posts that have been previously published in the ezine…

Quite some time ago I published an article “Worry and Love Cannot Occupy the Same Space“, did you read it?  I would love to know what you think about it.

In another article in the Ezine we introduced the concept of Mind Viruses – a really interesting read and an important concept – so if you aren’t familiar with it why don’t you take a quick read and then come back – I can wait for you

What if we look at all this talk about Natural Disasters and Terrorist Attacks and Economic Ruin as  Mind Viruses that are affecting us and – by our fear based response – are being spread.

And then what if we create  New Mind Viruses – Let’s Call Them “Happiness Viruses” – that we infect each other with – that are Stronger than the Fear Viruses – and that we Feed and Care For and Help Grow  and Spread- and then we – by our intention – move them into those same spaces that had been occupied by the Fear Viruses

Just Imagine – Within the Context of  “What You Focus on Expands” – What the World Will Be Like If We Really Make This Viral?

Looks Good – Right?

So Let’s Get Started…

Step I: Pick the World Fear Virus You Wish to Transform – whichever one is uppermost in your mind – name it and put it aside for the moment (in other words don’t focus and feed it – just say hi)

Step II: Get Happy and share

Remember a story – an event in your life – a video you have seen – a meal you shared – that makes you feel happy. Take the time to share it in the comment section below (it will become part of the viral portion of this plan).  If its a video – watch it – if its a short story – read it – a memory – write it out for us and then take the time to really relive it – remembering the sounds, pictures and feelings until your whole being is filled with happiness.

Something that makes me happy – every time – Laughter

Step III: While remaining in the state of happiness direct your thought toward the Fear Story.  Picture the happiness flowing over and through the devastation and heartache.  See the light increase and the people involved smile.  Use the power of your imagination to change the story into one of love and happiness.  And stay with it for as long as the happiness within you remains strong (once you practice this for awhile you will find that the happiness within you begins to grow as you flow it over the story of fear – at which time stay with it for as long as you want)

Step IV: Repeat Often – daily if you can – and switch up the happiness stories you use.  Bookmark this post and come back and read other peoples happiness stories and use those – and add more of your own.  And also let us know in what ways the Happiness Virus is transforming your own life experience.

Step V: Spread the Virus!!! – Let’s not contain this within the confines of our small community.  Share the link  http://evolutionezine.com/happiness-virus with your friends, on twitter, on facebook – where ever and however you can.  We may not have the power of  Network TV,  Newspaper, Yahoo or Google – but we do have each other – and if everyone who reads this post shares their experience – and then gets just 3 friends to participate – who then get 3 friends – who then get….

Well – then – before we know it we will have infected the World !!!

One more thing and then I will leave you too it.  Because it’s one way I stay happy I will be choosing a comment a day – for as long as comments keep coming in – and will gift the writer with something from our store.

So – what are you waiting for – let’s get happy

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About the Author

Cyndi Krupp has spent the last ten years in study, meditation, contemplation and prayer and the more she learns the more she realizes she hasn’t yet begun to scratch the surface. Through her work putting together the weekly Evolution Ezine she intends to bring to the world community as many different approaches to Living Our Highest Best Life that she can.

There are Many Ways up the Mountain

Cyndi appreciates any and all comments about the Ezine – what’s been appreciated – and how you feel  it can be made more effective.  She is also always looking for content ideas and articles – Have Something you want to Share?  Just Let her know by visiting http://evolutionezine.com/share/

And, As Always, She is Sending Much Joy to You and Gives Thanks that We  All Get To Share This Magnificent Journey Together…

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Note: Although this was written in response to the recent quake in Haiti, this healing information is helpful for any difficult situation, anywhere, anytime.

Do large-scale disasters seem overwhelming to you?
You can learn to face your fears, and you can utilize your awareness to help make a healing difference in the situation.

Are you willing to learn how you can make a difference– to go deeper than your fear, so that you can tap into a greater power that we all have access to?
Staying in fear is easy. Going beyond fear may take some work, but you can do it. Use the methods described here to understand how to cope, and learn how you can help make a difference in the world.

How could you make a difference in such a vast situation?
If you can hold a positive intention, you can make a difference. Everything in the world is a physical expression of an underlying grid, or network of energy. You can help this energy shift and heal.

How can your intentions possibly make a difference on the physical plane?
If you can imagine a new possibility, you can help shift the energy of a situation. At first, it may seem that you are only imagining the shift. You are shifting the underlying energy of the situation, along with the healing work of thousands of other people. Together, you are all making a difference in the energy. And this shifts the situation, gradually, by helping the situation re-align itself with the universe in the most helpful way.

How can you clear negative energy?
If you can massage the shoulders of a friend, you have the basic skill to help lift negative energy away.
If you can imagine an ice cube melting on a hot sidewalk, you have the basic imagination ability that can help shift negative energies.

A philosophical question that may have arisen in your mind. . .
Is it the karma of people in a troubled region to experience the difficulty that they are now experiencing? The answer is that yes, to some extent, it is their karma. Karma simply refers to repeated patterns. However, it is also your karma, as one who is aware of the situation, to help to the extent that you can. In other words, you can help change the pattern. And that is why you are exploring these healing methods now– because you intuitively recognize that whatever led you to recognize a particular situation, you yourself recognize that you can be part of the solution. The assistance you give now makes the planet a more safe and positive place for you and your family, and for everyone else as well. If you like, consider your assistance as the creation of good karma. Or simply as something you choose to do to help make the planet a better place for everyone.

Here is how you can use these basic skills to make a difference for the planet. . .
These principles work, and they are effective for you whether you are working within a religious framework, or whether you are seeking understanding of fundamental laws of the universe. When you utilize these principles of basic energy healing, you are cooperating with the cosmic intelligence of this universe, whatever name you may give to this essential intelligence. Thank you for co-creating a better world for all.

1. Face your own personal fear:

- Notice your breathing, and notice where your breath is flowing in your body.

- Notice the tense spots. Gently breathe into these areas.

- The tense spots are the fear, trapped in your body. There is nothing wrong with having fear, because it is a natural response. So, there is nothing to judge.

- Just breathe into the tense spots in your body, and the fear will gradually melt and flow away. It may not release entirely, and that is fine. You do not need to be perfect to help heal a situation.

- Imagine that you are embracing and loving the parts of yourself that feel the fear. Tell yourself:
I love myself, even when I feel fear.
I forgive myself for feeling fear.
Even though some fear is present, I can still help heal this situation.

- Let the fear energy within you flow through your heart, and circulate through your body. Your heart actually has the power to transform your fear into a healthy energy. As it circulates through your body, it actually becomes positive energy. Prove this for yourself.

2. Recognize that you are protected:

- You exist amidst the infinite universal energy. It is all around you. And, it is within you. Whatever name you call it, recognize that it contains the energies for healing, balance, and protection.

- Imagine this universal energy in which you exist, however you would like to imagine this energy. You may feel it, see it, hear it, or you may just know that it is there.

- Breathe it in. Do this calmly and gently. Imagine that this moment expands, so that you have infinite time to breathe.

- Let the universal energy remind you that you are part of the universe. As you sense this connection, begin to get a sense of peace and hope. Sense that more is possible than you may have realized. Remember that you can use any name or concept you prefer to describe this universal energy.

3. Get perspective, or distance, from the situation you wish to heal:

- Imagine the situation located at a safe distance from you– this keeps you from feeling overwhelmed or surrounded by the situation that you wish to heal.

- Imagine the situation as being small– for example, imagine an earthquake site as a small map of the region. Place it about 10-20 feet, or 3-6 meters, in front of you. This keeps it manageable, and is much easier for you to work with.

- It is fine if you see the region in a symbolic way, such as a small map, or a small ball of energy. This frees you from unnecessary details, and lets you work with the essential matters of energy balancing.

- Get the universal perspective on the situation– see the situation, however big it may seem to be, as a small dot amidst the infinite universe. This helps you bring universal healing energy to the situation, and frees you from becoming overwhelmed by the size of the situation.

4. Connect the situation with universal healing energy. Whether you call the energy God, Allah, Brahma, Sat Nam, Great Spirit, Chi, Divine Intelligence, or simply Universal Energy:

- What does the healing energy look like? The universal intelligence has no particular form, because it is the underlying consciousness that creates and vitalizes everything in the universe. So, keep it simple. Just imagine it as a sparkling energy that is everywhere.

- You are imagining the situation that needs healing in front of you, at a safe distance, surrounded by the universal intelligence of the entire universe. And so there is definitely enough healing energy for this situation. You do not have to use your own personal energy to heal this situation.

- Use your hands to massage the universal energy through the situation needing healing. Massage the universal energy directly through the situation, as if the situation were flexible enough to let the universal energy easily flow through. Remember– you are working with the essential energy of the situation, and that is why it is flexible. You are not trying to force healing energy into the physical level of reality.

- Massage the universal energy towards the situation needing healing, and massage the stagnant energy away from the situation. Let the universal energy dissolve the stagnant energy.

5. Lift the heavy energies of the situation away:

- A challenged situation tends to have vast accumulations of heavy, stuck energy. It is much easier to confront if you see the situation as small, and at a safe distance from you.

- Imagine that your hands are made of energy, and that they are protected by universal energy. You might imagine your hands as protected by large energy gloves.

- Use your hands to life the heavy stuck energies away from the situation.

- Imagine that the heavy energy becomes softer and lighter as you work with it.

- Move the stuck energies at a great distance from the planet, and massage the energies into the universe, so that the stuck energies disperse and dissolve in the universe. This is actually a form of recycling, because the energies will then be available to the universe as fresh new energy.

- Each time you help release energy, you reduce the pain and pressure in the region you are assisting.

- Work gradually– release a little energy at a time. Do no try to release it all at once, because that is only going to create frustration. Each time you release and dissolve some negative energy, you are improving the situation safely and gradually.

- As you release the surface layers of stuck energy, you may notice deeper stuck energies. Be patient, and calmly help these deeper energies release and dissolve as well.

6. Expand the positive spiritual, or universal essence of the region:

- Everything in the universe has a core essence of universal energy. Whether you call it divine energy, or just universal intelligence, it is the basic vibration of which this universe is made.

- Imagine this universal essential energy as a universal spark of light, vibrating in the center of the region. You are imagining this universal spark as shining within every aspect of the region. Remember that you are seeing the region at a safe distance in front of you.

- With your hands– protected, if you like, by energy gloves– reach towards the spark, and help it expand. Massage the spark, so that it spreads throughout the region. Help the spark shine outwards, in all directions. This helps the universal essence in the region flow to every aspect there– the people, the land, the houses, and everything else in the region.

- Massage the universal spark in the region outwards, so that it unites with the embracing presence of the universe. Then massage the surrounding universal energy directly into the region. And so you are massaging back and forth, from the region out to the surrounding universe, and from the surrounding universe back to the region. This weaves the region into alignment with the universe.

7. Assisting with specific needs in the region:

- Now that you have worked with the underlying energetic blocks in the situation, you have helped create more clarity, balance, and universal alignment in that area. You can now help with improving the specific needs of the region, such as:

need for food, need for shelter, need for healing, need for calmness, need for love, need for feeling connected to the universe, and much more.

- Do you remember seeing the region surrounded by the infinite universe? Within that universal energy are the specific energies of food, shelter, love, healing, and any other specific energy you can imagine.

- What does the energy of Food look like? Just imagine a sparkling energy surrounding the region. Let this sparkling energy represent Food. Why would this make a difference? Because when the underlying universal energy of something is present, it is easier for that substance to manifest in appropriate ways.

- Use your hands to help massage the energy of Food, from the surrounding universal energy, and weave this energy throughout the region. Massage the energy of Food directly into the energy fabric of the region.

- Use your hands to help massage the energy of Love, from the surrounding universal energy, and weave this love-energy throughout the region. Massage the Love directly into the energy fabric of the region.

- Remember that these gifts from the universe are flowing directly from the universe to the region. The gifts are not flowing from you. You are a catalyst. You are not the source.

8. You have helped heal the energy in a region. Now what?

- You have helped create an energy shift in a region. This shift affects everything else on the planet.

- Imagine the planet in front of you. Imagine it as being small, like a little globe. Put it at a safe distance from you.

- On that little planetary globe, see the region where you were helping with healing. See the region as a little spark on the planet.

- With your light-gloved energy hands, massage the energy between that region and the rest of the planet. This helps balance the energy between that region and the entire planet. Massage back and forth, between the region and the planet, and you will notice that the entire planet becomes smoother and more balanced.

- Now see the planet as a little globe, surrounded by the sparkling energy of the universe.

- Massage between the planet and the surrounding universe. This creates balance for the entire planet.

9. Release from the process, and set the positive flow in motion:

- Gently release the image of the planet, of the region, and of everything that you were working with. It is time to let the healing process function on its own.

- You can come back to the healing process anytime. However, you must not stay linked to the situation, because that would be draining to you, and would not help the region. If you wish to work with these methods later today or tomorrow, that is fine. Each time you participate in universal healing work, you bring the region to a new level.

- You may have high hopes, and you may be delighted to see that your participation is helping. However, it is just as likely that you will find that troubles continue on the physical plane. Be patient with yourself. You have helped create genuine good, and yet you are co-creating with a situation that may take time to heal.

- You may wonder, at times, if it is worthwhile to assist. It is. You are helping make a difference. The virtues of patience have been taught for thousands of years, and for a good reason. Your strong emotional reactions only create pain for you and for others. Patience is a challenging lesson, but a necessary one.

10. Stabilize your energy, and continue with your day:

- You started by noticing your breathing. Notice your breathing now.

- Notice where you are breathing in your body. Breathe into those areas that are still tense, and love and forgive yourself for any fear or tension.

- Use your energy hands to smooth your own energy. Massage all around yourself, as if smoothing and integrating your energy.

- Use your energy hands to lift any stuck or heavy energy off of your body and out of your energy field. Imagine that you are lifting the energy out of yourself, and releasing it to the universe so it can be recycled. You may have to do this several times, as energy often releases in layers, rather than all at once.

- Imagine a sparkling healing vibration all around you. Use your imagination, for imagination is the pathway to accessing subtle universal energy. This is your direct connection with the universal energy. Breathe it in, and feel that every pore in your skin is receiving this energy. Let the universal energy receive any stagnant energy releasing from you, so that the released energy can be recycled. Now you are ready to continue with your day.

Why does this method not utilize the words and concepts of name your favorite religion or teaching here?
I have specifically not mentioned many words and concepts that you may prefer to use. However, I do encourage you to substitute your preferred words and concepts when you practice these methods. These methods are a framework for you. Do use the methods in a way that is in alignment with your beliefs and understandings about reality.

Thank You for helping make a difference on the planet. Recognize that your work has helped make a shift in a good direction. Understand that you, and millions of others, each working in their own way, are co-creating a more positive world. Thank you for helping manifest heaven on earth.

Many Blessings,

Joel Bruce Wallach

jwuniverse@earthlink.net

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Nowadays, the terms “energy work,” “healing” and “cleansing” are used and understood by a lot more people than perhaps ten or fifteen years ago. This is due, in large part, to the renaissance of holistic health and a widespread appreciation for living and healing ourselves, naturally.

But prolific, respected authors such as Carolyn Myss, Sandra Ingerman, Wayne Dyer and Scott Cunningham, have asserted that focusing on one’s well-being by way of eating and living holistically, is not enough. Essential, yes – but not enough. It is imperative, these voices unanimously echoed, to keep our energy clear. What, specifically, is meant by “energy”? I am referring to the energy in our own bodies and that of the environment in which we live. Clearing and charging our personal and home energy, can and should be done, these experts say, routinely and with conviction.

If Asian medicine is correct, and the Chi, or energetic force that both enlivens and animates the body, requires a clear path upon which to flow; if Ayurvedic medicine is correct, and our health is directly affected by the state of our energy; if the global Reiki movement is correct and human beings are able to respond positively to a Universal energy that can heal mind, body and spirit as well as cleanse and infuse places and things with healing energy- then could Myss, Ingerman, Dyer and Cunningham be correct? Could it be possible that “the big picture” for humans – wellness, harmony and prosperity – begins with clear, uncluttered energy?

I believe so. Considered by a lot of my readers and students to be an old time mystic living in a modern world, I’ve been writing and speaking about energy for some time now. At the forefront of my passionate proclamations about energy work, is one idea: keeping oneself and one’s home cleansed of harmful, contrary, inhibiting or negative energy, is vital. If we do not, then all the positive thinking and holistic practices in the world will be met with resistance. It makes good, clear sense to me that if we can remove some of the “orange cones” so to speak, those things that block our flow and create obstacles, shouldn’t we do that?

I cannot take much credit for this powerful idea. It’s a practice we’re seeing a lot of now – cleansing oneself and one’s home of negative energies. One very popular method is known as smudging. This is the practice of waving smoke from a purification herb over us, as a way to cleanse or purify. Interestingly, though you hear a lot of people refer to this practice as Native American in origin, this custom is found in the lore, writings and current traditions of many indigenous cultures. Michael Harner wrote about the Shamanic smudging in Peru and Ecuador; Barbara Tedlock noted the practice of herbal fumigation among descendents of the Maya currently residing in the Highlands of Guatemala and the modern day shamans of Siberia. A friend of mine, a man who is a direct descendent of a New York Seneca tribe, tells me he was taught that traditional botanicals to use for smudging are dried white sage, dried cedar wood and dried, braided sweetgrass. We can go back even further; the ancient Egyptians left behind a recipe for their signature incense, Kyphi. This ritual incense included a great many ingredients, among them frankincense – noted for it’s ability to purify, protect and cleanse.

In each of these instances, smudging is what took place – a cleansing of one’s personal energy and the energy in one’s environment, through the smoldering of sacred, powerful botanicals. We can do the same today. Many spiritual groups practice smudging and some modern holistic healers have identified that other natural items such as crystals, some gemstones and herbs, also cleanse or purify. Very often, we find that lunar phases empower this kind of work, depending upon the time of the month and the type of work being done. Farmers and agricultural folk have always known this.

For cleansing energetically, it is best to send away unwanted, negative energy as the moon is waning, or decreasing in light. To draw in or increase positive energy, it is best to work as the moon is waxing, or growing in light. You should check a calendar to determine the dates for current and upcoming moon phases. Botanical or energetic items may be acquired from a health food store or new age shop.

Here are two of my favorite ways to cleanse negative energy and increase positive energy, below. It may seem that these practices are simplistic in nature. Easy, they are. Simplistic, they are not. Please note that each of the items used for cleansing negativity or increasing positivity, are energetic in nature, and thus powerful in themselves. When items are combined with each other, joined with our intention and further fortified by the antiquity of the custom, we are effecting very powerful practices, indeed.

CLEANSING NEGATIVE ENERGY ON THE WANING MOON or FULL MOON
Note: Waning moon is that period of time between the Full and New Moon. This cleansing may be performed on the Waning Moon or on the Full Moon.

NEEDED:
1. Dried white sage (in bulk or bundled together as an herbal wand) or dried sweetgrass.
2. 1 piece of hematite, a silvery-black stone
3. 1 white candle

Any time of the day or night when the moon is waning, light dried white sage or sweetgrass. Beginning with yourself, take up the hematite in one hand and with your other hand, wave the smoke first around your head area. Next wave the smoke down your entire body, along your extended arms, down each leg and underneath each foot. It is thought that the smoke clears the body’s energetic aura of impurities, “trapping” them in the fumigation and taking the negative energies heavenward to be released or recycled.

Next, smudge your home. Start in the room you consider to be the hub; for many this is the kitchen. For some, the hub of the home is their office or living room. Carrying the smoldering herb in one hand and the piece of hematite in the other, walk clockwise around each room. Wave the smoldering sage or sweetgrass smoke throughout, including the corners and closets. Custom dictates that one leave a door or window open while performing this type of cleansing, so that the negative energy has somewhere to go, a way to get out.

When you are finished smudging, light a white candle to affirm the release and clearing of negative energy from yourself and your home. Visualize purifying white light permeating your home and sealing it as cleansed. Carry the hematite with you; it is magnetic in nature and will continue absorbing negative energy around and on, the person in posession of it.
AFFIRMING POSITIVE ENERGY ON THE WAXING MOON or NEW MOON
Note: Waxing moon is that period of time between the New and Full Moon. This positive energy blessing may be performed on the Waxing Moon or on the New Moon.

NEEDED:
1. Peels from 1 orange, a handful of rose petals and a tablespoon of dried cloves or star anise
2. 1 quartz crystal point or polished quartz crystal
3. 1 white or purple candle

Any time of the day or night when the moon is waxing, fill a small saucepan with water and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat to the lowest setting. Add all botanical ingredients, including the orange peels, rose petals and cloves or star anise. Give the mixture a stir with a wooden spoon. As the scented steam rises, see your home being filled and blessed with positive energy. According to holistic aromatherapy, orange peels facilitate blessings and harmony; rose petals encourage unconditional love, loving communication and expression; cloves and star anise protect against harm. If you like, you can gather “handfuls” of the aromatic steam and “wash” it over your face, inhaling the scent and thus allowing the energies to affect your consciousness. As water evaporates, add more cool water to the pot. With the addition of more water, the potency of the aroma may subside. You may add more botanicals – just be sure to include all the ingredients.

Light a white or purple candle to align with high, Divine energies. This further adds to the potency of your intention. Set the quartz crystal, which is a natural conductor of electricity and a powerful magnifier, near to the simmering pot and lit candle. In this way, you are boosting the energetic power of your aromatherapy and positive energy candle. After a while, you may carry the crystal with you as a way of boosting and magnifying your own positive energy.

KEEPING THE QUARTZ & HEMATITE CLEANSED

Experienced crystal connoisseurs know that while quartz does not retain outside energy nearly at the rate or volume hematite does, both stones must be cleansed and recharged regularly. A good timetable is to cleanse and charge stones monthly, depending on the frequency of their use. You may smudge the quartz crystal and hematite, removing negative energies from them in this way. Another effective method is to hold the stones under cold running water. To charge (restore) hematite, place it on a window sill in the sun or out in the grass or on your front step, in the sun. You will notice the hematite will get very hot; this is part of the charging process. To charge quartz crystal, it may also be placed in sunlight to magnify and restore its’ energy. Alternately, you may bury quartz crystal in the earth, leaving it deep in clean soil for no less than one week, or as much as one month. When you are ready, dig up the quartz and gently wash it off.

ABOUT THE WRITER JO LYNNE GIANVECCHIO-VALERIE is an author and lover of all things holistic. She has been Editor in Chief of holistic and new age print magazines, and was on the production team for the PBS Television Show Nature’s Wisdom Television, which she eventually co-hosted.
Jo Lynne’s latest work is her debut book titled, A Tale For All Seasons: Magical Stories For Heart And Soul. She is the founder of The Natural Food Cupboard and facilitates spiritual circles, workshops and events. Jo Lynne holds a BA in Journalism, Creative Writing and Literature; she is a Reiki Master, Certified Herbalist and Licensed Holistic Aromatherapist. Learn more about Jo Lynne on her web-site, www.JoLynneValerie.com

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Empathy And Forgiveness

Even if you can grasp and accept that you are God–like, Divine Source Energy, love, and oneness, most people cannot or do not want to believe that in some way they have attracted everything and everyone in their life. The relationships and situations we find ourselves in are the mirror of our thoughts and feelings. It can actually function as a wonderful feedback system to let us see and learn about ourselves. It’s also an excellent demonstration of our power to create. Your thoughts and feelings attract to you people and situations that directly reveal your deepest beliefs about yourself and the world. As Bruce Lipton just noted, we develop these beliefs early in life.

From day one we begin to react to our environment, doing our best to adapt and survive. We acquire beliefs from our parents, in particular, about what is right and wrong, who we are, and how we’re supposed to present ourselves to the world. And when we violate any of these learned beliefs, we begin to develop guilt and shame. We develop a “shadow” side of our selves. We try to hide it and deny it, and one way to cope with these uncomfortable feelings is to suppress or repress them, and take them out of our conscious memory. Another way is to blame and project what we rejected or denied about ourselves onto others. In psychology this is called scapegoating or projection.

I’d really like you to think about this because if we could look at what we judge about ourselves and others, we could see it as a way to understand ourselves so much better. Truly, like the law of attraction, the people in your life (including your pets and co-workers) are mirrors of you – the good and the bad. It takes courage to accept that what we don’t like about others is what we consciously or subconsciously don’t want to acknowledge in ourselves.

Experiences of guilt, shame, and rejection are how your “inner critic” is born. Psychologists, Hal and Sidra Stone discuss this concept well in their book, Embracing Your Inner Critic. We all to some degree, early in life, develop insecurities and fears largely based on our parents’ beliefs. And, like it or not, we become a lot like our parents. Actually, your inner critic is primarily the voice of your parents. As children, we may feel alone and afraid, and want to reach out for love and to feel safe, but we usually can’t for fear of further rejection if we’re not measuring up to our parents’ or other’s ideals.

In my case I developed my father’s perfectionist tendencies, “If you’re going to do something, do it right. You should be willing to sign your name to whatever you do.” I similarly learned from him a definite defensiveness, rigidity, and cut off from my feelings: “If you want to cry, I’ll give you something to cry about.” I had to do it his way.

The research and common sense are that you feel best and are most healthy when you are able to be yourself, when you are being unique. You didn’t learn to be unique. Most of us learned to conform to the beliefs and values of our parents. You weren’t stupid – if you were going to be yelled at and made to feel unworthy and unloved for not obeying your parents or other authority figures, you’re going to soon catch on. You learn to equate love with conforming.

Your inner critic, like your ego, is simply a survival mechanism doing its best to help you make it in the world. As you experience more and more thoughts and feelings of separation and fear vs. oneness and love, you subconsciously create aspects or sub personalities of yourself that you come to believe are who you really are. They include your inner critic, rule maker, pleaser, responsible parents, and other selves. These “selves” that you call your personality, were developed by your subconscious, and take over when you’re feeling vulnerable. And your beliefs about who you are will be reflected in your primary relationships in particular. They are your mirrors.

In marriage, for example, you will attract someone who carries your “disowned selves”, the parts you’ve somehow learned are socially unacceptable. I tend to say that you marry your opposite. One of the most common observations I’ve made is that one of you will be significantly more self-centered, and one of you will be more of a nurturer. One of you can’t wait to throw things out, and the other wants to hoard and save. If you really think about this, it can make you wonder why in the world you married this person. You can be so different. The reason is that at an energetic level, you attract others to fill in your void and to balance you. Interestingly, all of the qualities that you are looking for in another are within you (“Oz never did give nothin’ to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have”). And those who push your buttons, or who you overvalue, are your best teachers. Your beliefs at a vibratory level attracted you to each other. If only we could see our relationships this way, and how we can help one another instead of judging and wanting to change them.

Interestingly, the best way to change them is to change yourself. As you learn to love and accept yourself, it changes your energy and the way others relate to you. If you change, they have to change also. Believe me, this doesn’t always go smoothly, but the key is your becoming more aware of the truth of who you are and assuming a conscious, caring role in relation to “the inner critic”. Your inner critic can become a special ability to spot problems, and a warning system that you’re out of balance. This is the role of your emotions.

In their many books, Esther and Jerry Hicks refer to an “emotional guidance system.” How you feel is an indication of how well you are aligned with the truth of who you are. Are you aligned with Divine Source, and allowing this Energy to flow? If so, you will feel good. This is the same with your health. A major premise in shamanism is that medical symptoms are what I call benevolent messengers. They’re feedback letting you know that you’re out of balance or alignment. And when you rebalance, your symptoms have no reason for being, and go away. If we are willing to be more introspective, and really see ourselves as a bunch of sub personalities that we have acquired, like our ego, as a misguided way to survive, we can begin to see our True Self. Ideally you want to meditate and really learn to access your True Essence. You need to realign. You must learn to love and accept yourself. Empathy and forgiveness are essential to this process.

Many therapies embrace this approach. It is important to empathize with yourself, not criticize. I believe that criticism is the most stressful thing you can do or have done to you. It’s the epitome of “Don’t be yourself.” This was a major message in Doctor’s Orders:Go Fishing.

I learned what most people want is peace of mind. And when I thought about when we have it and how to get it, I realized that it comes largely when we’re “going fishing” (doing what we really love). But, remember, people found this too selfish. This was their shadow and inner critic at work. They came to believe that everyone else should come first. You don’t get peace of mind running around trying to please everyone. That will get you crazy since everyone has at least a little different idea about most everything. Even religions can’t agree on what’s right!

So, whenever you find yourself becoming stressed, or your buttons are being pushed, take time as soon as possible to sit down and get in touch with that part of yourself that’s feeling out of sorts. Be in touch with your feelings. Don’t judge them or try to change them. Treat yourself like you would a best friend. If a best friend were struggling and asked for your help, ideally you wouldn’t judge or try to change this person. You would be there for your friend. And whatever it took, you would stay by your friend. That’s what you need to do for yourself. I call it loving yourself. You need to learn to accept and love yourself just like you accept and love best friends. You can see their warts and foibles, and you love them just the same. Similarly, be there for yourself. Do this for yourself. Love yourself.

I believe that self-love or loving yourself is the core issue that underlies all of our concerns. This is the same as knowing who you truly are: one with God or Divine Source. For if you really understand that you are one with God, and if you love God, then you must also love yourself. I used to joke that if I could create a new diagnostic code for physical or mental disorders, it would be called “Forgotten Identity.” We have forgotten the truth of who we are, and this loss of connection to our Essential Nature causes or contributes to a breakdown in our health. We must stop the self-criticism, and learn to forgive ourselves for not living up to some learned, arbitrary ideal that came from our parents, community, or culture.

Excerpted from Why Love Heals (Heartfelt Intent Publications, Eagle Point, OR)

© 2009 Dean Shrock, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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Dean Shrock, Ph.D. served as Director of Mind-Body Medicine for a group of 40 cancer centers. Here he discovered that the one thing we’re all looking for is peace of mind. His books, Doctor’s Orders: Go Fishing and Why Love Heals, reveal how to find it. The secret is finding your joy. This is the key to accessing the life force quantum energy that flows through everything. This all-pervasive energy is best described as love. This is why Dr. Shrock’s research concluded that you need to feel loved and cared for. This allows for the flow of this life-giving energy. He then realized that healthcare must address the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. Now after more than 30 years of study and practice, Dr. Shrock has dedicated his life to writing and teaching how to find your own true joy, greater health, and a deeper sense of inner love.

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Preface—How This Book Can Help You

If you are reading this book, you have probably tried more than one healing methodology, yet are experiencing minimal to no progress in your healing. There are reasons many of us continue to suffer through illness and The Root of All Healing will reveal some of the reasons people don’t heal, as well as offer simple yet significant insights that can help you experience true and lasting healing.

Many of us have accepted the conventional practice of giving up our personal power and leaving it to the “experts.” This conventional wisdom is based on an old model, dating back to the 1600’s, of treating the body more like a machine or an object that needed to be completely understood and controlled. It became an accepted belief that only people with certain educational expertise were able to repair the body when it became ill or injured. Though the intentions of any given expert may be notable, their skills extensive, and their ability to help us heal profound, this surrendering of power often leaves us feeling completely helpless to the will of our bodies and the current knowledge and theories of others. It has been my observation such feelings of powerlessness can keep us remaining ill until we discover the hidden powers of self-healing within us.

While the body may indeed be the physical vehicle of the human journey, and a vehicle better treated as it is better understood, the journey of the human is about the evolution of the spirit as much as it is about the functions of the body. Without spirit our progress is limited, for it is human spirit that overcomes the greatest challenges, drives us to discover greater knowledge, and sustains us in hope. It is the human spirit that beats the odds and continually redefines the playing field of human existence.

The foundation of The Root of All Healing is about claiming our personal power and recognizing our healing as a Divine journey that each of us embarks upon through our bodies, minds, emotions and spirits in our own unique ways. The healing journey gives us an opportunity, through our ineffable spirits, to discover our personal power—the living, breathing reality of our own creative and divine nature.

When I say spiritual or Divine, I am not talking about religion. Religion is not a necessary ingredient for healing—not even faith healing. If that were true, I would have been dead many years ago, along with many of my closest friends and colleagues. While I hold a deep respect for religions, I consider myself as a spiritual person rather than a religious one. When I speak about the spiritual or Divine, I am talking about a power within life that flows through all of us that we can access in our personal journeys of healing. How you define that power for yourself is entirely up to you.

I urge you to read this book from beginning to end. I tend to be one of those people who like to flip open to pages anywhere in the book and read for a while. This would not be the best way to read this book. My first career was as a teacher, and so this book is written with new concepts building upon previous ones. You will get the most out of it by reading one consecutive page at a time. I know this is contrary to our “sound bite” oriented world, but claiming one’s power in healing is more like a seven course meal than a fast-food fix.

If you were inspired to pick up this book, then you are someone who is probably very dedicated to your well-being and I commend your dedication, even if you may be feeling discouraged, frustrated, or stuck at the moment. I understand those feelings very well, so know from the beginning I fully empathize with you. Because I can’t stand to be stuck, I had to discover hope. I had to discover the profound healing power within me. Because I didn’t have a lot of money to put into professional assistance, I had to find the well of healing wisdom living within my subconscious and apply it with conviction for my own well-being. In truth, it would have been easier to linger in despair. So if you are reading this book, I trust you are someone who is willing to engage your will and creativity to becoming healed. My deepest desire is that in reading this book, you will find the source of your own hope—and more importantly, a deeper commitment to your own power to heal.

Introduction—Where the Healing Begins

In 1994, I received a call from my brother telling me my mother was in the hospital and not expected to live through the week. I had not spoken to my mother in years because I had chosen to take some time away from her in order to do some deep emotional healing around our relationship. My brother and I sensed she wanted some closure before she crossed over, so I made the decision to go to her quickly. While making the trip home, I reassured myself I would create emotional safety and understanding with my mother so that I could continue my life, and she could cross over with love and resolution between us. We had not seen each other for two years, and from the perspective of some, I was the prodigal daughter returning home. From my perspective, I had finally completed enough of my personal physical and emotional healing to be able to hold space for the emotional pain she was in and had been in most of her life.

When I arrived at the hospital in the late afternoon, I was told a nurse had given her an extra dose of morphine because family and staff were concerned about how Mom would react to me coming home. Deep inside I knew Mom would be just fine. Because I no longer carried anger and resentment toward my mother, I was confident I could stand calmly in my center with whatever feelings she might be having at this time. By holding both of us in this sacred way, I knew I could help her access her own truth and finally experience some deep emotional tranquility. Knowing my mother, I was certain she would want to make peace with me before releasing herself from this physical world, and I was ready to help her find her freedom.

Taking a deep, centering breath, I walked into her room, over to her bedside, and reached for her hand. I told her I had resolved the painful memories of my childhood and that everything was all right. She looked deep into my eyes, like a child hoping to find acceptance, asking for my forgiveness. Finally she found the words to tell me she was sorry and assured me she loved me. I didn’t tell her I forgave her. I told her I understood. After years of inner healing work, I knew real forgiveness comes when the resentments are gone and in its place we truly understand the source of our own pain and the pain of others.

We talked a while with a depth of regard and concern I had never experienced before that day. As the sun fell behind the hills, my mother grew quieter as the morphine finally demanded she sleep. Without even thinking, I started humming to her, the same way I hummed my brothers and sister to sleep when I was a child. A beautiful Native American chant, unknown to me until that moment, spontaneously welled up from my heart and as my mother listened she wept, perhaps her own Native blood stirred by the music.

The doctors didn’t know what was wrong with my mother. She was too weak for exploratory surgery so they put her on a penicillin drip for any possible infection along with some morphine for the pain, and given her condition, recommended the family be called. After singing my song, and without any warning, I discovered the source of her current physical pain. I could suddenly see inside her body where I observed what I would describe as a bronchial infection. I could see nothing wrong with her heart, which was a major source of concern to her doctor. Silently, I asked her spirit what she needed. I then saw a beautiful and bright emerald green light fill the places inside her where I had seen the infection. I watched in quiet awe as the green transformed into white and the vision disappeared.

By this time the sun was completely behind the hill and my sister, as if on cue, walked into the darkening room. Enveloped in the hallowed moment of day becoming night, she sat down next to my mother. I was already holding one of Mom’s hands. She picked up the other and reached for my empty hand. There the three women of our family sat in the silence and the darkness—for the first time ever, being together without words.

About an hour later, my dad, brothers, nieces and nephews found their way to Mom’s room. Instead of lying weakly on the bed like a woman who was getting ready to die, my mother was sitting up in bed laughing with the rest of her rowdy family, cheeks full of color and beaming. When the doctor came in to check on her, he looked puzzled as Mom asked him when she could go home. He had to agree she was looking much better, held her a day for observation and sent her home, assuming the penicillin drip had helped her. She stayed with us here on earth for another three months before finally making her journey to the other side.

I received a profound gift from my mother before she left this earth. After witnessing the power of love, sound, and intention heal my mother, I launched myself into an even deeper journey of my own emotional and physical healing, eventually evolving into opportunities to help others as well. Since that day, sometimes on my own and sometimes with the help of competent physicians, alternative healers, and my own energy medicine I have healed myself from a life-threatening hormone imbalance, and a collapsing ovary and fallopian tube. I completely sealed up a cut, normally requiring stitches, within less than 24 hours using sound and intention. I have stopped colds with nothing more than sound and symbols, healed infections with light and sound, and freed myself from limitations of multiple sclerosis using my own sound medicine.

I have been privileged to support people in their healing journeys as together we healed a weak heart by growing a new heart valve, sealed an intestinal rupture that had caused intestinal fluid to seep out into the body, stabilized the activity of red and white blood cells, eliminated cancerous tumors and more. I find these moments to be wonderful reminders about our healing potential as humans. Each time profound healing occurs for someone I am able to help or for me, I am humbled as I witness our tremendous capacity to re-create ourselves over and over into healthier, more vital beings.

I am equally touched by the power of the human spirit. In my first career, as a Special Education teacher, I spent one year teaching terminally ill children in their homes. Over time some of the children made their transition to the other side, but before they left each one of them made an imprint on the hearts of many of us who were privileged to know them. Though their bodies grew weaker, their spirits soared, resilient and strong in their loving regard and compassion for others. They taught me that healing is a journey, sometimes resulting in great physical achievement as they frequently brought themselves back from the brink of death and sometimes resulting in the great spiritual awareness that occurs when we cross over.

Those I have known who have embraced their healing journey have further shown me that the true power and measure of our existence here on earth is in how we live out our lives. Because illness insists we pay attention to how we are living, healing becomes an opportunity to look at what truly gives meaning to our lives. As we determine what is truly important to us, we discover the essence of who we are. This may be the single greatest gift the healing journey gives to us.

A year or so before my father died, I asked him what he perceived to be the mission of his life. He bowed his head thoughtfully, then looked intently into my eyes and said, “I’m here to suffer for the people.” My father was a deeply spiritual man, so when I asked him to explain it was no surprise to hear him tell me he willingly accepted suffering so that others would not have to. For him, this was a form of prayer. Both of my parents died from cancer. Indeed they both suffered greatly before they made their journey to the other side of the veil. At least I have the comfort of knowing my father accepted suffering willingly, finding personal strength by offering it up for the well-being of others. I also realize he may have chosen suffering that was never necessary for him to endure. However, because of his willingness to share his mission with me, I learned something important about healing from my father.

When illness grabs hold of me and I am suffering, I remind myself that my father and other compassionate people who have gone before him have offered prayers that their suffering be the last suffering. Then I ask myself if I am willing to receive the gift of their prayers. I ask myself if I am willing to let go of the suffering, and devote my strength to finding my relief and complete wellness. Sometimes relief comes quickly. Sometimes it comes after much effort. And if relief is slow in coming, like my father, I offer up my suffering as a prayer that perhaps someone in greater pain than me will find relief in this moment.

Because of my mother and father’s influence, and their painful deaths, I am devoted to healing myself and supporting others in finding freedom from pain. I am delighted when I can offer healing support and relief from pain to my client or when I release myself from physical and emotional pain. I am greatly pleased when I can maintain for myself and help others maintain vigorous health and well-being through thoughtful daily practices. I have become committed to the concept of creating life physically free and happy, and that is the life I live today.

Healing is a journey, so what I have to share in this book is what I have discovered along the way. Some of the discoveries I share may seem unbelievable, others may seem extremely obvious, and when it comes to healing I find it is the obvious that often eludes us. Though I have been actively involved in natural healing for over 15 years, I am constantly in awe of how the simplest treatment, or the slightest change of perception or behavior (that in retrospect seems obvious) can make a vast difference in my health. As this awareness has become increasingly apparent, I have made a commitment to break through my preconceived perceptions about what needs to be healed and how healing is supposed to occur, allowing a greater mystery to unfold itself in my body as I witness how healing truly can be. Because I now allow myself to enter fully into the mystery of healing, without so many preconceived concepts or sole reliance on conventional treatments, seeming miraculous occurrences become normal occurrences. I look at some of these “miraculous” healings with the realization I have witnessed only the surface of the potential that lives within us all.

Some of my own real-life stories I debated sharing because for some they will seem too fantastic. For me, they were simply a part of my journey. Some of these healing stories are moments where the mystery unveiled itself and I experienced what I knew to be ancient, and yet for me, new ways of gentle healing. I include them because they speak to the great healing potential I believe lives inside every one of us. During the moments I touch that potential, I am inspired to continue on in my day-to-day journey, and it is my hope these stories will inspire others as well in their own unique healing journeys.

Whenever I am helping someone, I am very clear the healing journey is theirs, not mine. More than once I have had someone come to me looking for a miracle cure. They are tired of being sick and want to get on with fulfilling their life purpose, or at least more meaningful work. This is certainly understandable. There have been many times, in my own journey, I desperately wished someone would take out a magic wand and cure me. I had so many goals I would have been accomplishing if I just felt better. It is very difficult to even think about creating prosperity, engaging in a new career, or attracting the love of your life when you don’t feel well. I’m not at all surprised when someone comes looking to me for a fast answer.

Yet, whenever someone thinks they need me in order to heal and they are not active participants in their own healing, I know we won’t get very far. As I have said before, healing is a personal journey. I can help and that is all. The true healing happens between the person choosing to be healed and his or her own relationship with the Divine power that dwells within them. The healing journey is each person’s opportunity to discover the life-giving, creative force of the Divine living within their own consciousness, and so I can be of assistance, but I certainly can’t do it for someone.

Sometimes we do indeed witness what appear to be instant healings. In my experience, this happens when someone is in a very receptive space with heart and mind fully ready to receive complete healing. More often; however, healing is a process of time, where the person is releasing old, stuck patterns that keep them feeling ill and replacing those patterns with healthier beliefs and habits. Or the person is teaching their body over time to respond in a different manner to an agent inside their body that has been wreaking havoc. Even with seemingly instant healings, the person who is healed will then need to fully embrace the new behavior or belief that allowed full healing to occur, and weave this new awareness into daily consciousness.

Healing is a practice of dedication and self-love, because very often getting to the root cause–the source of the condition is necessary for full and complete recovery. New belief systems and patterns of behavior need to be deeply anchored in both the subconscious and conscious mind if healing transformation is going to last. Especially in the cases of chronic illness and depression, making sure both the physical and emotional bodies are addressed is imperative if the healed person wants to prevent recurrences.

Even if a medical practitioner is adequately helping me treat the source of my physical discomfort, I know after years of self-healing work, there is a strong likelihood I will find an emotional root behind or accompanying the physical pain. I make sure I treat the physical and emotional roots, or the emotional effects, of the illness. I don’t tend to see much separation any more between physical and emotional pain, because I know before I experience complete well-being, I need to heal on every level. For example, when I had been exposed to environmental toxins, I knew I needed to respond to my emotional feelings about having been affected by something in my environment I didn’t put there. And when my hormones were extremely out of balance (I was an adult woman producing as much testosterone as a boy in puberty.), I knew I needed to understand and heal the psychological reason my female body was becoming male, seemingly on its own and without my conscious permission.

To understand my abnormal hormone production, I began listening to urgings from my silent meditations to embrace yet more stillness and less activity in my life. In a process of getting quiet and listening with compassion to my thoughts and feelings, I uncovered and healed the abuse that caused me to break faith with being feminine. Along with talk therapy, well-prescribed hormone therapy, some deep emotional processing, and the support of skilled healers from several healing disciplines, I finally brought my body and emotions into balance.

I have found the same to be true for my clients. Those who address the emotional content behind or accompanying the physical illness tend to heal more rapidly and with more lasting results. When someone tells me no physical treatment they have tried is making any long-term difference, I recommend they consult their emotions. Buried feelings of emotional pain are often blocking even the most aggressive healing treatments, or they can even cause resistance in identifying and fully receiving the best treatment for our condition. More than once, I have recommended my client enter into therapy with a psychologist so they can understand their emotions, experience self-compassion, and ultimately heal by developing stabilizing perspectives that calm the influence of overwhelming emotions.

Every now and then, a new client tells me I couldn’t possibly understand how difficult the journey has been for them because my life is so easy. Their observation is understandable, because I do live a fairly effortless and very fulfilling life—now. However, in the past, my own emotional or physical pain has been so intense, I entertained thoughts of suicide, so I know how daunting the healing journey can be. At one point, after years of a constant roller coaster ride with my health and emotions, I finally said to myself, “Stop dancing on the edge. Make a choice. Do you want to live or die?” “And self,” I said, “don’t answer until you know which decision you are willing to accept with complete and full responsibility for the outcome.”

Obviously, I chose to live and with that choice, I consciously made a commitment to discover how to live a happy, healthy life. I told myself I would not accept constant or chronic illness, or depression as a way of living. I would do whatever it took to live the life I wanted to live. That commitment eventually led me to a journey of significant self-healing and with it came momentous personal growth. There were many times I didn’t know how to create the happiness and wellness I desired on my own. At those times I sought help, and was blessed to find some wonderful healers from various disciplines. Like the people who sometimes come to me, I frequently wished one of the healers would take away my pain. As often as I yearned for an outside fix, there was a friend or therapist in my life reminding me that while it was good to receive help—the comfort, love, reassurances, worthiness, relief from my agony, and ultimately the creation of a self-loving life of health and happiness was truly within me—if I was willing to access that power.

In my case, as it has been for many of my clients, I needed help because I had been ill for so long I barely remembered what wellness felt like. When I got relief from my physical or emotional pain even for minutes, I could remember how wellness and happiness felt. I benefited from having someone assist me so that I could remember and hold those feelings in my awareness. Fortunately, my healers coached me to reinforce and affirm those feeling of health and happiness. As I reinforced the feelings I wanted to be experiencing, eventually, the painful, hurtful feelings were replaced with calm, peace and physical freedom.

Although now I do the vast majority of my personal healing work on my own, when I do seek medical assistance or alternative healing, I remain clear that I am the master of my body. Receiving aid whether holistic or conventional is a means of intelligently promoting my wellness, and my health is my job—not anyone else’s. I do not treat the symptoms and assume the problem is gone. I use natural remedies, energy, prayers, and knowledgeable advice, and an occasional over-the-counter medicine to reinforce my internal commitment to health, until my commitment becomes my daily reality without the help of remedies and assistance. This intensity of commitment has been the catalyst not only for creating health, but more importantly, for developing a profound relationship with the Divine power within me.

Someone once said to me, “All paths lead to the Divine.” When it comes to embracing my healing journey, those words became truth in action. Discovering the power of the Divine nature living inside me was and still is the greatest gift of the healing process. Learning how to heal myself from one ailment after another became paths or classrooms for understanding the ability of Divine creation that lived within me. Gradually, as the need for physical healing has decreased, I have been able to apply the same basic steps used in creating healing for creating greater happiness and fulfillment.

The human being’s ability to heal is extraordinary. The power of love and intention a person can generate for healing is remarkable. Using the power of your mind and heart is in complete alignment with the laws of nature. Bodies regenerate themselves naturally. Sometimes we need to help our bodies remember how to do that healthily and if we choose to do this consciously, we embark on a healing journey.

I have discovered that when I invite healing in absolute clarity and love, my cells respond to their master—me. In that moment I am giving voice to the will of the Divine as it flows through me, and I have witnessed others discover this source of the Divine within themselves. The healing journey gives us the opportunity to discover this essence in profound and mysterious ways, with each experience being as unique as the individual who embarks on the journey. Exactly how you or I believe or experience the Divine is not important. However, in order to heal at your core it is important to know there is a power, energy, or source flowing through all of life including you, and you have the ability to access that source whenever you wish. You may give this source whatever name speaks to your soul. I call it the Divine.

For those of you reading this book who may be standing very close to your transition to the other side, I see merging with the Divine in such completeness as the goal of the spiritual and healing journey. Sometimes, the greatest act of healing is to surrender to the call to return home. More than once I have sung someone’s sacred song as they died to this body and their souls entered the Divine light. I have seen and felt how splendid this act of ultimate surrender and gift of freedom can be. You may find the steps in this book serve you in your journey of surrender as well as someone who is going to be staying on this planet a while longer, because ultimately the healing journey is about a deeper awareness of the Divine presence within you.

As you read these seven healing steps, perhaps you will allow my reflections to stimulate your own thoughts and feelings about healing. This book simply offers guidelines—suggestions—born from years of observing the overall journey. However, the journey that counts for you is your own journey. May this book support you in accessing the root of your own healing, the Divine within you, so that you may experience a healthier, happier, more fulfilling existence.

In my heart and songs,

Reverend Misa

Let Me Support You

Thank you for allowing me the space to share with you this important foundation of my journey. I hope it has already begun to remind you of things you knew, and touch parts of you that have perhaps been waiting to be awakened.

If you would like to purchase the book to complete the journey we have started together here, you may find it on Amazon books at:  The Root of All Healing

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I Love my Job

I just got to spend an hour talking to Krystalya Marie’ and Misa Hopkins about the benefits of Energy Medicine and its use for Cold and Flu Prevention (as well as its effectiveness as a treatment once the symptoms have appeared)

During this hour we learned how each of them energetically address the DNA to train it to recognize and fight off new and former virus strains for the prevention and relief of Colds and Flu. We learned how the vibration of sound works and how it can assist the body in it’s healing, and how the energy of an image can also be used separately or in conjunction with the Sound Medicine to bring the body into a balanced healthy state.

And we had some of our questions answered.

Thanks to everyone who joined us on the call – we loved having you.  And for anyone who could not be with us live – no fear – just right click on any of the following links to download the audio replay.

You will be glad you did.

Right Click on any button below to download an mp3 recording of “Energy Medicine for Cold and Flu Prevention”

And to learn more about The Virus Protection Pack that Krystalya and Misa have created for all of our benefits visit -Staying Healthy Through the Cold and Flu Season

If you are curious and haven’t yet experienced the work of these two very powerful healers be sure to listen to the teleseminar conducted with Misa that caused me to say: “Wow the telseminar just ended a few minutes ago and my energy system is still buzzing” Sound Medicine TeleSeminar , or check out Krystalya’s healing symbols at:  You are Going to Have to Try It To Believe It

p.s.  Krystalya and Misa have agreed to continue to answer our questions – so please feel free to use the comment section below to ask your questions and they will check in regularly and answer as best they can.

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Over the past 10 months we have introduced you to Sound Healer Misa Hopkins (Sound Medicine) and Energy Healer Krystalya Marie’ (Healing with Symbols). I have worked with both of these woman separately and have found, in each case, tremendous success.

And now they have joined together in a way that benefits us all.

On November 18th at 1:00 EST  join in as Misa and Krystalya discuss the benefits of Energy Medicine for Cold and Flu prevention.  Learn how each of them energetically address the DNA to train it to recognize and fight off new and former virus strains for the prevention and relief of Colds and Flu.  Learn how the vibration of sound works and how it can assist the body in it’s healing, and how the energy of an image can also be used separately or in conjunction with the Sound Medicine to bring the body into a balanced healthy state.  Also, discover how your emotions, thoughts and beliefs affect the state of your wellbeing.

If you are curious and haven’t yet experienced the work of these two very powerful healers be sure to listen to the teleseminar conducted with Misa that caused me to say: “Wow the telseminar just ended a few minutes ago and my energy system is still buzzing” Sound Medicine TeleSeminar , or check out Krystalya’s healing symbols at:  You are Going to Have to Try It To Believe It

To Get the Details for this Event – and to Let Us know What Questions You Would Like Answered – just Visit….

Energy Medicine for Cold and Flu Prevention

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I Am In The Universe
The Universe Is In My Body
The Universe and I Combine Together

The Master Teacher of any discipline has the ability to take what had appeared complicated and make it simple.

This is what  Master Chunyi Lin has done with the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong to the benefit of thousands.

The gentle movements and easy meditations he teaches can help you if you suffer from arthritis… back pain… migraines… heart and circulatory diseases… weight problems… digestive ailments… autoimmune disorders… reproductive issues… depression… low energy… and other health problems.

Click here to download a free 51-page booklet to learn how the process works — and why it should work for you (included is a sample you can try right away).

Watch the following two videos for more about Qigong Master Chunyi Lin.  The first is a News Report introducing the work, the second a sample of one of the basic exercises.

Demonstrating Spring Forest Qigong

(to watch directly on youtube: Demonstrating Spring Forest Qigong)

Moving Yin and Yang

(to watch directly on youtube: Moving Yin and Yang)

Because of the huge successes people are having with this program we have made arrangements for any of our  Evolution Ezine family who feel drawn to Spring Forest Qigong to get a Special Price…

Just $99.95 (normally $145.00) for the Basic or $244.95 (normally $340.00) for the Deluxe!

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You can order now at the links below…

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Master Chunyi Lin’s Deluxe Kit
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You have within you an amazing power that can bring about miraculous outcomes. The power that you have has been known to cure incurable diseases, build billion dollar empires, paint masterpieces, create great sports dynasties, and build lifestyles with abundance, great friends and loving families.

The light switch that turns all this power on is visualization. We all use visualization either consciously or unconsciously. The people who systematically and consciously use visualization in their daily lives create amazing success. While many successes are more wonderful than big, some accomplishments are so great the individuals with the vision seem to be head and shoulders above the rest of us. They are the super athletes like Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods, businessmen like Walt Disney, the super rich, top entertainers and almost anyone you can think of who has created an exceptional life. Visualization is such a powerful tool it really pays to exercise the skill to visualize as part of our daily routine.

Visualization is a process of giving directions to the unconscious mind. It is estimated that 90 percent of our minds are unconscious. When we visualize we say to the unconscious “Here is what I want to happen”. The unconscious then sends back to our consciousness ideas and inspirations necessary to make our instructions a reality.

It seems like magic, when your visualization, like prayer, activates the Law Of Attraction. In totally unexplained, seemingly accidental, or coincidental ways you attract the right situation, people, and any needed resources. Most really successful people will tell you they worked hard but they were very lucky or fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

How do you get started?

You can just start where you are, but first let’s look at some do’s and do not’s.  Visualization of your dreams should be fun and never a chore. It should not be a routine or emotionally bland. This is a feeling universe, and the more emotion you can put into the experience the better. It is a very a light hearted, peaceful and happy exercise. After all it is your dream and you can make it whatever you like. Remember the more you practice the easier it gets.

Keep in mind that visualization is very powerful and you should never visualize what you do not want, because you will get whatever you focus on: good or bad.

While you are visualizing your dreams keep it light and playful. Practice using all your emotions during each session. As you run your mind movie, just jump into it and be there in the present as you feel the breeze or temperature, smell the flowers or salty air, hear the sounds, feel the warm sun, see the people enjoying themselves etc. etc.

The reason I get excited about this topic has everything to do with living because of it. I am going to share with you an example of how visualization worked in a real live health goal.

I had two usually fatal diseases and my goal was to get well. My guide asked me to imagine what my problem looked like. (If you have a health problem just let your imagination run wild, you might think you have a pac man character that is eating your problem or see sharks swimming in your bloodstreams and eating the bad stuff.)

At first I just couldn’t see what my problems look like. Then it just came to me that I had been fighting a great, fire breathing, flying, dragon. Once I knew how it looked, I decided I needed a weapon to fight with. In my movie, I imagined a light saber from the star wars movie as my weapon. As I would start my visualization the dragon would swoop down and I would just leap on its back and imagine I had a harness holding me on. It would be a wild ride and sometimes the dragon would land on a mountain top and I would realize if I killed it there I would have a long walk home. It was usually wild fighting, serious but fun.

I could feel the wind when we flew and the heat when he breathed fire. Of course after a few fights I saw myself killing the dragon. It was an intense fight and killing the dragon gave me a real emotional charge and in my heart I just knew the diseases were gone and my body was now healing itself.

Visualizations after the kill involved friends and me raking the ground that was kicked up during the fight. This was my vision and after I killed the dragon I felt I needed to tell everyone that I had fought and won.

I bought toy dragons and cut their heads off and put them all over the house and everyone joined in and we all knew I had killed my dragon. Everyone in my family always pointed out the headless dragons to visitors.

Deciding what you want to visualize.

This process is not limited to getting healthy. It works on weight loss, finding your truth love, creating wealth, getting promoted, etc. Once you realize that whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve is really true, what you desire is at your fingertips.

My testimony to the power of using guided visualization is a powerful story. I recovered from blindness and two fatal diseases. The diseases lasted 4½ years. After I started using guided visualization the recovery took 3½ months. Details of my story are at Learning to Dance in The Rain

Cyndi’s Note: I first “met” Ross Craft when he emailed us last May, shortly after I began my journey with Bells Palsy type symptoms.  I sat and read his book in one sitting and then listened to his Fountain of Youth Recording (both of which he offers via the link above).  I listened to the recording once – and then for reasons I won’t even begin to try and understand I listened to it again.  After that I was hooked – and for the next several weeks – when the Bells Palsy symptoms were pretty intense – I found myself returning to the recording again and again and again – sometimes as many as 5 or 6 times a day.  Each time I listened to the recording I felt soothed and rested and somehow more whole.  No one will ever be able to convince me that his story – as well as the Fountain of Youth Recording was not a gift from the Universe and I am eternally grateful.

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