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

 

Malachi Stewart Talks About Healing from Sexual Abuse

Malachi's sexual abuse began when he was a mere first grader and continued to the end of his second grade year of school. His abuser was a young man that his mother had entrusted to walk him home from school since she could not afford the luxury of being a stay at home mom. They lived in an urban apartment building filled with single mothers who often left their children home alone. To them, it was better to leave your child alone while you go “win the bread” than to stay at home with them and live limited by the confines of public assistance. His mother would never have left him with a baby sitter because you simple couldn’t trust people to hold your child’s best interest as paramount. There are a lot of sick people in the world, so keeping Malachi home alone was her way of protecting him from those people. After meeting another single mother with a son in middle school, she found a solution to her problem. Surely, she felt she could trust him to be a companion for Malachi and keep him safe everyday as they made the block and a half journey home from school. Malachi begin to form a deep relationship with the young man and a brotherly bond. He trusted him, because that is what small children do; they trust the world around them and idolize the people they look up to. The naivety of a child is what makes them precious to many members of society but for a predator the scent of an innocent child without proper protection oozes like blood in shark filled waters. The ‘blood’ of Malachi's innocence was seeping into the waters of danger in great quantities as each day my trust grew stronger and the opportunities to capitalize on them multiplied. Finally, on a day where both their parents were just in the next room, the molestation began. It began with games and strange touches that lead to sexual acts. No one ever forgets the first time. The images never leave your mind of a first sexual experience stolen years before sexuality should be awakened and turned into something perverted. So what did Malachi do? He kept silent.

The abuse eventually stopped as his abuser replaced him with another victim. He never told another living soul; he tucked the memory of abuse away in his mind and hid them deeply into the sanctum of his soul where not even he would dare go to visit its archives. He wouldn't realize how much the abuse affected his life until he was almost an adult. It changed the way he valued himself as a person and framed the way he treated others and expected to be treated. It made Malachi very distrustful of others and very cold in relation. It defined his sexuality and caused him to equate intimacy with immorality and shame.

One of Malachi's favorite moments in the movie (based on the play/book) “For Colored Girls” is when one of the characters breaks into a soliloquy about how somebody almost walked away with all of her stuff. The character opens saying: “…stealing my [stuff] from me don’t make it yours, makes it stolen.
Somebody almost run off with all of my stuff & I was standing there looking at myself the whole time
& it wasn’t a spirit that took my stuff…. it was a man whose ego walked around like Rodan’s shadow…it was a man faster
 than my innocence…” This was exactly how he felt. Like somebody had come at the very start of his life, before the first crush and school dance, and walked away with all of 'his stuff'. They walked away with his self-image and left him self-aware. They walked away with his sexual freedom and left him sexually confused. They walked away with his innocence and left him corrupted. They walked away with the twinkle in his eyes and left deep sadness and a desire to be protected from an invisible monster. They walked away with his decision to give my body to someone one day by just just taking his body! They took his legs, thighs, his smile, his bruises and birth marks and left a little boy that he didn’t recognize; the thief left a boy who who was angry, afraid and insecure.

The WORSE part is that his abuser walked away with all of Malachi and no one even noticed! He had to get himself back. It was many years later, and after a lot of downward spirals and negative attempts to ‘self- medicate’, he finally realized what had happened to him wasn’t his fault. He finally realized he was a victim and not a participant. Malachi found himself a survivor that desperately wanted, no needed, to be an over-comer. So he started by taking back the first thing the abuser stole from him, HIS VOICE.

Malachi's first book, 'Journey to Malachi' is a result of that decision to take back his voice!  The follwing list is provided to help others regain their won voices as well.

For Male Survivors Support: http://www.malesurvivor.org/
To Contact a Help Hotline: http://www.rainn.org/
For Christian Counseling: http://www.miraculumcounsellingservices.com/
For Counseling on SSA: http://exodusinternational.org/

Craig Sim Webb Talks About Dreaming

Dreaming for Fun, Adventure, and Personal Transformation by Craig Sim Webb Dreams provide what star trek fans might call a nightly holodeck experience or what hi-tech buffs might see as the ultimate virtual reality, where there is no limit to graphics resolution, computing power or on-line storage. In dreams and in lucid dreams especially, where the world somewhat avails itself to the suggestions of the dreamer, adventure and intrigue are almost guaranteed because the usual laws of physics and of society no longer apply, and many of the apparent blocks set by age, sex, race or religion simply fall away. In dreams we can be the hero of our own adventure, find romance, fly, travel through "solid" objects, breathe underwater, and perform feats free from embarrassment, peer pressure, monetary limits, and even physical handicaps. The boundaries of imagination are the only limits. One can even follow in the footsteps of Tibetan monks who master lucid dreaming as a spiritual illumination stepping stone on the path to enlightenment. Watch upcoming columns for a further description of lucid dreams and tips on how to have them. "All my life I've taken wondrous adventures upon the wings of my imagination while dreaming. I have flown many nights, talked to bears, dogs, raccoons, and owls; I have swum with dolphins and whales, breathing underwater as if I had gills" (L.G. Chico, CA) “Heading up this passage to get refreshments ahead of a crowd of friends, I fill up this large glass with milk and notice a head of lettuce floating in it. This is odd and I wonder if I’m dreaming. To check, I catch someone's eye nearby, and he smiles and nods without me having to say anything. I consider taking off to fly, but the dream seems to be tugging at my chest with quite some force. It doesn't hurt, but it feels as if I should follow, so I give my mental okay and let it take me. I begin zooming horizontally and then down to the left, in some kind of dark void, accelerating until I'm really, really moving – faster than I've ever flown before. I hesitate, afraid that if I go any faster I won’t survive. But remembering again that it's just a dream, I urge myself past this fear. Immediately, my arms sort of ‘snap’ outwards a bit and I instantly accelerate to some tremendous velocity such that I seem to become nothing less than the quality of pure speed itself. After a short while, I slow and feel myself being "brought back together” to view where I have just been. There's an RCA electronic component in a small circuit of some kind and I realize I was just an electron! Very slowly, I awaken buzzing with energy, and my hands tingle for quite some time afterwards.” (C.W., Montreal, Qc) "I suddenly realize I'm dreaming from surprise and excitement, recognizing that I've become a salmon swimming upstream! Leaping high into the air, I climb a series of chutes. Then I flip onto the shore and the flipping sensation feels so odd that I awaken." (W.D., Palo Alto, CA) "Falling asleep, I remember wondering what truly 'knowing myself' would be like. Dreaming, I become aware of this incredible, indescribably powerful 'Love Light'. The thought comes that there is no power like it - it's absolutely non-judgmental, and dwarfs every worry or desire I've ever had. It is peace and simplicity and well-being. It includes sexuality but encompasses far more. Basking in what feels like 'an ocean of grace', I soon realize that I'm not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognizing myself." (C.W., Palo Alto, CA) Craig Sim Webb, Executive Director of the DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca), is a dream analyst/author/ researcher, as well as physicist/inventor, and performing/recording musical artist, who has done pioneering dream and lucid dream research at California’s Stanford University and at Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital. He has had the privilege to be an invited expert for major motion pictures, Fortune 500 corporations, and well over a thousand international TV, radio, print, and online media. To learn about the Dream Interpretation Mastery and Lucid Dreaming interactive online teleclass adventures Craig leads, please visit www.dreams.ca/teleclass.pdf, or email: training@dreams.ca