Jeff DePalma - Certified Identity Protection Advisor

Jeff DePalma is a Certified Identity Protection Advisor, entrepreneur and author. In a roundabout way, his successful 15 year run in the mortgage business lead Jeff to his current position as a consumer advocate for Identity protection. As Jeff was working his way up to branch owner, it didn’t take long to see how credit was built and sometimes, devastatingly destroyed. While performing his various duties such as originating mortgages, Jeff came into contact with many clients whose lives had been turned upside down by the growing epidemic of identity theft. A combination of vocational burnout and an innate drive to right these injustices culminated in a paradigm shift. A few months after leaving the mortgage business for good, Jeff got his Identity Protection Advisor Certification. He then authored a popular e-Book on identity protection. “How to Protect Yourself from identity Thieves during the Holidays” is Jeff’s first e-Book on the subject and is available through http://www.holidayidentitytips .com Education:

A born leader with a head for business, Jeff got his bachelor in business administration with minor in marketing from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton Florida. There, he was elected president of the illustrious business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi. He lives in Southern New Jersey with wife Diane and son Gavin. When he’s educating people on how to protect themselves from identity thieves, he enjoys spending time in the great outdoors with his family .

Marc Halpern - Ayurveda and Yoga: Complete Care for the Body, Mind and Consciousness

Most everyone today is familiar with Yoga. Fewer are familiar with its sister science, Ayurveda. Together, Yoga and Ayurveda offer a complete system of care for body, mind and consciousness. Together, they lead each person toward peace of mind, happiness and optimal health. Ayurveda is the healing side of yoga. It is complete system of Holistic Medicine with specialties in both preventative and clinical medicine.

The list of therapeutic practices utilized by Ayurvedic practitioners is astounding and includes; diet, herbs, lifestyle, color therapy, aroma therapy, sound and music therapy, purification programs and yoga therapies, including meditation, yoga exercise and breathing practices. Using all of these “medicines,” ayurveda is a complete system healthcare. In India, patients with serious diseases go to Ayurvedic hospitals. In the United States, most Ayurvedic care is outpatient but a few centers such as the clinic at the California College of Ayurveda offer limited in-patient care as well.

The human body is much like a plant. When a plant receives everything it needs (the right temperature, soil, water, sunlight) the plant will have a deep rich color and lots of blossoms. Likewise, when a person receives everything she/he needs from their environment, that person will have a deep rich color and fully blossom reaching their full potential. This is the science of Ayurveda. The goal is a fully functional human being that is strong enough to stand up against stress and who body is able to resist disease. Once sick, the goal of ayurveda is to restore the normal physiology of the body and in doing so, support the body to heal itself. What is the ideal environment? Simply put, it is that which your body and mind find balancing. In Ayurveda, we recognize that there is no one environment that is right for everyone.

We are all unique individuals. Ayurveda calls this uniqueness our “constitution”. Your constitution was determined at conception and it is with you for the rest of your life. It determines what will support your body and mind and what will cause you to get out of balance and become sick. Your constitution is your unique physiology. Ayurveda describes three physiological functions: the function of motion; the function of metabolism, and the function of structure. Motion, metabolism and structure define who we are. In the language of Ayurveda these are called the three doshas and they are vata dosha, pitta dosha and kapha dosha respectively. Each of us has more or less of each function. Some people have a lot of motion and speak and move quickly. Others have a lot metabolism and digest both food and information quickly. Others have a lot of structure and have thick strong bones. Each person has their own balance of these three physiological functions in their body. Your unique balance is called your constitution. Due to the stresses of life, these three functions become altered and imbalances in motion, metabolism and structure define all disease and suffering from an ayurveda perspective.

The goal of Ayurvedic healing is to restore normal function to the body. This is achieved by creating an optimum environment for healing to take place. Your environment is everything that you take in through your senses. Herbs are utilized to quicken the process. Imagine a life of health and happiness. It is not only possible; there is a science behind creating it. Ayurveda is that science.

Dr. Marc Halpern is the Founder and President of the California College of Ayurveda. Established in 1995 in Nevada City, California, the college is the oldest school of Ayurvedic Medicine in the United States. He is also the author of the popular book, Healing Your Life; Lessons on the Path of Ayurveda. A leader in the profession, Dr. Halpern co-founded the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. He also sits on the advisory boards of several journals in both the United States and in India and has received awards in both countries for his service to the profession. A Doctor of Chiropractic, a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, a certified Yoga Teacher, a certified Specialist in Holistic Medicine, an author, teacher and businessman, Dr. Marc Halpern gives 100% to his passion for healing and removing the causes of suffering. www.ayurvedacollege.com www.healing-your-life.com

JJ Flizanes - Your Body Blueprint Part 1

When I read Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott’s book, If Love is a Game, These are the Rules, it was the first time I really understood the concept that how others treated me was a direct result of how I treated myself. When I could stand back and be objective about my behavior toward myself and what messages that sent out to others, I realized that the relationship I had to focus on most to get what I wanted was with myself. If I was not willing to treat myself like a queen, then how could I expect someone else to?

Your turn. How do you treat yourself? When you wake up in the morning, what do you say to yourself? Do you compliment or criticize your body? Do you try on clothes, pinpointing all of the negative things you can, secretly wishing you could have someone else’s body? This common practice of most women is the exact behavior that drives the fitness and weight loss industry—and I hate it. We focus on perfect bodies and how can I spot reduce this area so I will like myself, or so someone else will find me attractive and valuable?

The underlying emotion here is fear. Our actions are motivated consciously or subconsciously by either love or fear. Fear is defined as a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by present or imminent danger and a feeling of disquiet or apprehension. Fear can be a good tool when you think your life is in danger, but most people live in this emotion all day long with no such threat. Fear is uncomfortable to be in and around. Fear can also be defined as lack of trust. Love is defined as a deep, tender feeling of affection and care toward a person, such as that arising from kinship or a sense of oneness, and a person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction. Love feels good, and we seek it all the time.

We hold others as objects of our attention to give love to, and we want to receive love from others. How often do you deflect a compliment? Someone tells you that you look pretty, and you say, “Oh no, I just rolled out of bed, and I am having a bad hair day.” This blocks a compliment. And you are training them how to treat you. Many women do it because they have a hard time receiving. You want to feel attractive, then someone gives you a compliment, and you reject it. Can you see what message you are sending to that person? Why would anyone compliment you again?

Take out a sheet of paper and answer these questions to see what your body blueprint says about you based on every area of fitness and self-care, including exercise, diet, rest, play, and self-talk.

1. List all the thoughts you can remember you had today, from the time you woke up to now, about how you look or any judgments on your character. For example, if you made a mistake, did you quickly internalize with a thought like “I am so stupid,” or did you think “Oh well, glad I learned that now?” List all of your thoughts in a single column.

2. Underneath the last thought, write a list all the actions you did today, from taking a shower to eating breakfast. Also include things you would have like to have done or should have done and didn’t. For example, you did not take your supplements today. You should have one long vertical row that contains all the thoughts you were aware of today and all the actions you have accomplished so far. Now make another column to the right of the first one and answer these questions.

1. Next to the thoughts you had, write down if they were positive comments or negative. If you criticized yourself, that is negative. If you brushed your teeth, that is positive.

2. Next to the actions, write down a brief reason for doing that action and whether it came from love or fear. For example, if you wrote down ‘had a cup of coffee, went to work and skipped breakfast,’ do you think skipping breakfast was an act of love or disregard? You know the body needs fuel, so if the reason you skipped breakfast was because you were too busy, you put work before yourself, which sends the message that you are not as important as your work.

JJ Flizanes is the Director of Invisible Fitness. An Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core, JJ was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. She is a finalist for IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year 2011 and has been featured in many national magazines such as Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health. JJ’s passion is transforming men and women’s bodies and relationships through their fitness and self care routines.

James Craven - Tunnel Vision

Tim Emerson - Talk Story Radio

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Two perspectives hold us back from the healing, health and happiness we deserve.  

First, we don’t hold a clear vision of what health means.   We hold a idea of freedom from disease instead—if we aren’t sick, we’re healthy.   But there’s a world of difference among broken, not-broken, and thriving.   How many people get up in the morning feeling rested, grateful, and passionate about what they’re off to do that day, Monday through Sunday?    How many of us are spending that time with the people we really like, the kinds that jazz us up, as well as loved ones?  How many of us are doing the things that renew and sustain us, not just in the corner of a day, week, or year, but daily, even in the work we do?  And how many of us are living for someday, rather then appreciating in joy each moment of beauty? 

Truly, even if they manage to remain relatively disease-free, many people aren’t truly living, and we can’t really call this condition “health,” not mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or even physically—just look at the physical posture, facial expression, walk and breathing of such a frazzled creature.  It’s not healthy, and in fact, not infrequently precedes eventual disease.  Contrast this, for example, with health from the view of a shaman, who might ask not about medical symptoms but rather questions like “When did you stop singing?  When did you stop dancing?  When did you stop enjoying stories?”  Notice these too are physical symptoms—singing, dancing, smiling—but they are not only harbingers of illness, but also indicators of perhaps a better term than health:  well-being. 

I worked with a client recently who reported her chiropractor was amazed to see that her neck, injured in an auto accident the previous year, had straightened back into place (C1) and that her chronically high blood pressure had dropped to normal.  “Something else,” she told me.  “I found myself singing along with the radio in the car.  I can’t remember the last time I did that.”  Bingo.  Well-being. 

When we’re not sneezing, but still living for one day when things will be different, we aren’t healthy, and we need to learn to stop accepting this condition, and especially not as normal.  Our lives are supposed to feel good to us.  Instead, we waste them in embracing mediocrity, instead of insisting on living as we were meant to live, fully, passionately, vibrantly alive. 

Second, we don’t understand we are energy, frequency and vibration.  Yes, physics has told us this for over a century.  The technical aspects of this are not only well-known, but well-established as well.  What we perceive as matter is the interaction of vibrating energy frequencies.  It’s all we are—energy, frequency, vibration.   Here, we can look to not only our physical symptoms, but our emotions and thoughts as well.  If we aren’t feeling healthy, happy, peaceful emotions, we aren’t thinking quality thoughts.  Change the thoughts, and the feedback mechanism of the emotions changes with them.  And clarity and coherence of light at the spiritual level is reflected in clear, calm thoughts and emotions. 

This is healing.  On one level, it’s as easy as letting go of what’s not working—conditions, emotions, thoughts, spiritual practice…it’s all tuning to different vibrations and frequencies.  Energy flows where attention goes, and when we’re hurt, we focus on the hurt—physically, emotionally, mentally, even spiritually.   Stop.  It’s re-creating the pain.  Instead, let go.  All healing is releasing.  Whether physical pain, emotional, etc., just let it radiate out in all directions.  Try it—the pain will stop.  Feeling mentally overwhelmed?  Stop thinking.  Focus on your heart energy instead.  Feeling spiritually empty?  Construct a daily spiritual practice meaningful to you;  focusing here instead of the emptiness will work wonders day to day.

Focus on wellness, on how a healthy body works and feels, on what emotions you want to feel, on what thoughts you want, on what spiritual condition.  What do you want?  Focus on that—not on continually feeling the lack.  Feel the joy of living your desires in the Now.  You will be happy, whole, peaceful, joyful, balanced—and truly healthy.

Tim Emerson

Kwan Yin Healing

http://kwanyinhealing.com

Brian Smith - Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak

Yes, I admit it. Just like the book's title suggests - I was once a control freak. I was an "old school" micro-manager! But the good news is I've seen the errors of my ways and I'm here to confess my sins. In my 40+ year career of managing and leading others I've committed my fair share. Trust me - I've been there and done that, and have the t-shirt to prove it. I consider myself a card-carrying graduate of the "School of Hard Knocks". There is no question that if I knew then what I know now - I would have managed differently. I wrote this book in the hope that you can learn from my mistakes. "The Top Ten Sins Most Managers Make & How to Avoid Them." are woven into the ten chapters of this book.

Each chapter is dedicated to one of those sins. I've spent a lifetime working with and managing others as a general manager for a major corporation and an award winning entrepreneur. I know from my own experiences what works and what doesn't work when it comes to communicating and interacting effectively with people at all levels throughout the organization. After all, think of a job that you could do that didn't involve dealing with others. You'd be hard pressed to find one. Times have certainly changed. What you need to decide now is - will the management style that got you here - be the same style that will sustain you or get you to where you want to go? Are you promotable? Would you work for you? I think there has been a dramatic shift in the way that others want to be managed.

For the first in our lifetime there are four different generations working in the same workplace. Each generation communicates and interacts differently. Each generation manages and wants to be managed in a style that they like. I believe we're not born knowing how to manage or lead people effectively. It's a learned behaviour. We all start out making certain assumptions based on our past experiences and perceptions as to the kind of role we think managers and leaders should play. But we also have come to know from experience that our perceptions may not always be correct, and that sometimes, we have to change our way of thinking if we are to become better at what we do. Today's managers and leaders need to change the way they manage others to stay in step with a changing workforce.

Managers must do three things very well. They must be able to communicate, educate and delegate. "Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak - The Top Ten Sins Most Managers Make & How to Avoid Them." will teach you how. Don't put your career at risk. Learn to manage the 21 st Century way. Copyright © Brian Smith 2012. Not to be copied or reproduced without written permission.

Anita Haque - How to get rid of back pain and LOSE FAT at the same time!

Dr. Anita Haque is a practicing Chiropractor in Livermore, California who has teamed up with her husband and Fitness Expert, Don Parker to help people who have back pain and want to lose weight. “There seems to be an increased correlation between weight gain and back pain. The two issues not only affect each other but for many people with this issue, it is also what prevents them from getting better.” Dr. Anita explains. “We have found out from many of our patients who suffer with back pain that they are AFRAID to exercise because of causing more pain and/or further injury.”

This undeniably over time leads to increased weight gain and strain on their spines. It’s a negative cycle that Dr. Anita and Don Parker are passionate about putting an end to. That is why they put their heads together and teamed up to create 3 exercise routines for people who want to lose weight safely and suffer with back pain. They have found out that it is specific movements that will help strengthen the back and in many cases help to rehabilitate the back. A few tips you can begin immediately are:

1. Contract your stomach muscles and b-r-e-a-t-h! This is not only a gut reducer but it also protects the lower spine from injuries. Dr. Anita and Don Parker recommend doing this movement as much as possible but especially with bending, lifting, twisting and changing positions.

 2. Stay flexible! With 26 vertebrae that houses the spinal cord and the delicate connections between your brain and body, remaining flexible is vital to youth, and optimal functioning. Practicing a few simple stretches daily can be all that someone needs to do! Dr. Anita shows her patients regularly to lie on their backs and bring both knees to the chest and rock the knees side to side and up and down while breathing to open up the spine in the back and promote flexibility.

 3. Fitness expert and trainer Don Parker also recommends combing movements as much as possible for fat burning! This is easily demonstrated in their exercise videos as he performs exercises that work on the back, stomach, arms and legs in one exercise. He believes that exercise should be fun and provide the most amounts of results in the shortest period of time. He recommends combining strength training and cardiovascular movements together to decrease the amount of time needed to spend on exercise. For example you may want to do some conditioning movements of your chest while preforming squats for strengthening and fat burning at the same time!

So change it up and get creative when working out to minimize the time you spend at the gym. Keeping your spine healthy is what Dr. Anita Haque and Don Parker advocate for a healthy life and maximum functioning of your body. They also advocate with their video that weight loss does not have to be a struggle for someone who has back pain by preforming specific exercises which can be found at www.safeexerciseforweightloss.com . For more information you can either email Dr. Anita at drhaque@haquechiropractic.com or phone at (925)90-1960.

Marcia McMahon - Messages From John

I am so delighted to be a guest featured on Dorothy Mercer's Talk Story TV program airing this coming week. Today, Julia Widdup, the owner and producer of talk story TV asked me to submit a brief article. That is very ironic because today is December 8, 2012, and today is the anniversary of John’s remembrance!

I have been working with the spirit of John Lennon for some 7 or 8 years now as his scribe for both messages and lyrics to songs from the other side. Is that divine timing or what? I just finished polishing and editing the manuscript to be ready its for publication. As a longtime channel for John I can sense him all around me today just smiling, because he wants his fans to know how much he appreciated them and this material has never before been published!

I have been privileged to hear from the great John Lennon, and Princess Diana and they are both working from behind the scenes you might say, on world peace issues. I have published 3 other books; my 1st was titled Princess Diana's Message of Peace. John came to me with a special request in 2005 to put together messages and then lyrics- at the same time he also came to Robert Murray another channel for John Lennon. That is how my work began with John Lennon and in a short time I was given a radio show. John recommended I title this show” the Peaceful Planet” after the first’s song I channeled in with John. I hosted that show for some 5 years on www.bbsradio.com.

I now present to you a brief sample chapter from my book. “Strawberry Fields Remembrance” – 25 Years after John. As I watched the thousands gather at Strawberry Fields in Central Park, via television the evening of John’s anniversary of his tragic death some 25 years earlier, his image began to form in my living room. Suddenly, John stood before me, open faced, smiling and keen to give a heart-warming message to his fans from all over the world. I felt the strongest presence I ever had in my years of medium ship, and he even gave me the mental impression of how wonderful he looked and felt that evening. He was strong and handsome, clean-shaven with shorter hair that he is remembered for. Here is John’s message to his fans. My eyes, which were tear filled, dried up and I felt the most wonderful presence of unconditional love.

Whenever I channel John I connect to his loving vibration. He really was the world’s most sincere troubadour of love. John’s 25th Anniversary Message to His Fans Channeled by Marcia McMahon December 8, 2006 John: Hey, yeah, it’s me, John. I’m showing’ ya how I look now; you see, no scars, no fear. My hair is shorter and I’m clean-shaven! Read More About Marcia McMahon at: Showcase of Guests