I do Tai Chi all year around, and do farm maintenance and swim in the warmer months, but in the Winter, I tend not to get much aerobic exercise. I recently found a method of exercise that is fun, quick, and can be done regardless of the weather!

Rebounding is an incredible exercise that benefits the entire body! Rebounding effects every cell in our bodies, and allows our body parts and functions to become stronger, more flexible and healthier. Cells expand and contract through up and down movement, which creates a sort of cellular massage that increases circulation, breaks up blockages, opens blood vessels, improves lymphatic drainage and strengthens the cell membrane.

I recently found out that there is a tremendous difference in the quality of rebounders and mini-trampolines. They are not all the same by any means! I talked with Brian Calvi, and was educated on what makes a good rebounder, and the difference in the quality of exercise when using the right equipment. He introduced me to the Cellerciser, which I purchased and have been using for several weeks now. I am already noticing that I feel more agile, have increased stamina, and my entire body feels more relaxed. I’m also having fun using the Cellerciser.

Rebounding with the right piece of equipment can give a boost to your exercise regimen.

For more information on the Cellerciser contact:
Brian Calvi at: 770-789-6162.

Positive beliefs can be very powerful. Negative beliefs can be just as powerful - in the medical profession they are called Nocebos. Dr. Clifton Meador gives an example of a patient who had esophageal cancer. He states “Everyone in the medical profession knows that no one is cured from esophageal cancer”. The patient was treated, and died in a few weeks. The autopsy showed that there was no esophageal cancer in his body. The patient had two small cancers in other places, neither of which was enough to kill him.

Meador told the Discovery Health Channel “He died with cancer but not from cancer. I thought he had cancer. He thought he had cancer. Everybody around him thought he had cancer…did I remove hope in some way?”

Troublesome nocebo cases suggest that physicians, parents, and teachers can remove hope by programming you to believe you are powerless. Henry Ford was right about the efficiency of assembly lines and he was right about the power of the mind: “If you believe you can or if you believe you can’t…you’re right.”
From “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.

One of the key benefits of energy work is to identify and remove limiting beliefs. There are numerous beliefs that we buy into, consciously and unconsciously. We are surrounded by them…as pervasive as the air we breathe. Numerous beliefs are based on research and expert opinion, or come to us through parents, teachers, peer groups, mentors, coaches….

From an energy perspective there is only one source of truth for each of us. The more we clear away our symptoms and support what we really want, the more confidence we have in our truth!

Happy Holidays!

This Newsletter is about more effectively communicating love and caring (to help make the Holidays even happier).

Most of us will be with family or friends for this time of thanksgiving and peace. These happy times can be spoiled by our preconceived notions and past experiences of difficulties with loved ones we are not normally with.

One way of avoiding potential difficulties is by more effectively communicating our love and caring with family members and friends as described in the book “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Coleman.

Gary states that we communicate love in five ways:

• Quality Time
• Words of Affirmation
• Gifts
• Acts of Service
• Physical Touch

There is the possibility of not communicating love effectively because our love languages are different. Suppose in a couple that person A feels loved when receiving Quality Time from person B. Person B feels loved when receiving Words of Affirmation or Gifts.

The challenge is that we communicate with others in the way we receive love. So person A gives Quality Time to B, and person B gives Words of Affirmation or Gifts to A. And each does not fully feel or appreciate what is being given!

A couple who have been together a long time each feel they completely love the other. On the other hand they don’t feel completely loved by the other. The reason is their love languages are not the same and they only communicate their love to the other through their own love language.

So how do you figure out how to communicate more in the ways that others feel love!

• Recall a few times when you have felt love coming from another and remember how they were communicating. Identify which of the five ways have most positive impact on you.
• Tell another person how you feel loved.
• Ask another person how they feel loved - tell them about the five ways of communicating love and ask which have the most impact on them.
• Communicate in ways that have most positive impact on the other person.
• If you want more guidance, read the book. Gary lists many ways to communicate each of the five languages. He also includes a self description section to help each person define their own love languages more completely.

This works with children and friends, too! Have a more loving time during the holidays and all year long!

The Great Way isn’t difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences. Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear. When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and earth are set apart. If you want to realize the truth, don’t be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. Not grasping the deeper meaning, you just trouble your mind’s serenity. As vast as infinite space, it is perfect and lacks nothing. But because you select and reject, you can’t perceive its true nature. Don’t get entangled in the world; don’t lose yourself in emptiness. Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.

If you don’t live the Tao, you fall into assertion or denial. Asserting that the world is real, you are blind to its deeper reality; denying that the world is real, you are blind to the selflessness of all things. The more you think about these matters, the farther you are from the trutTh. Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go. Returning to the root, you find the meaning; chasing appearances, you lose their source. At the moment of profound insight, you transcend both appearance and emptiness. Don’t keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.

For the mind in harmony with the Tao, all selfishness disappears. With not even a trace of self-doubt, you can trust the universe completely. All at once you are free, with nothing left to hold on to. All is empty, brilliant, perfect in its own being. In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non-self. If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is “Not-two.”

For the mind in harmony with the Tao, all selfishness disappears. With not even a trace of self-doubt, you can trust the universe completely.

In this “Not-two” nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded. The enlightened of all times and places have entered into this truth. In it there is no gain or loss; one instant is ten thousand years. There is no here, no there; infinity is right before your eyes. The tiny is as large as the vast when objective boundaries have vanished; the vast is as small as the tiny, when you don’t have external limits. Being is an aspect of non-being; non-being is no different from being. Until you understand this truth, you won’t see anything clearly. One is all; all are one. When you realize this, what reason for holiness or wisdom? The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving, is perfectly at peace; for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today.

From http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmSengTsan.htm

Seng-Ts’an was a Buddhist layman over forty years of age when he came to the second Patriarch, Hui-k’o, with a request that the master purify him of his sins. The response (see Hui-k’o on the Other Ch’an Masters page) inspired Seng-Ts’an to become a monk under Hui-k’o, leading to his enlightenment and succession as Patriarch. He died in 609, leaving us the priceless stanzas titled Hsin Hsin Ming, which are variously identified in English as Inscribed on the Believing Mind, On Trust in the Heart and The Mind of Absolute Trust. You’ll see that he’s giving directions on living in the Way, or Tao.

When we can be neutral about being sick, it only lasts for a few seconds or minutes instead of days and weeks. Neutrality results in no emotional attachment to illness. At times, we need to remind ourselves that sickness comes and goes with our thoughts. You can be stuck with a single thought or illness and then it can inevitalby get you down.

There is nothing solid and concrete about sickness even though it may be difficult to think this way when we are in the midst of an illness. Sickness comes in cycles and it is as cyclical as other events in our life. Shifting in and out of sickness can be fast. It only takes one second for you to feel sick, but it only takes one second to feel better.

When you feel menaced by illness, you will attract and create more symptoms of that sickness. When we feel neutral about the illness, we have less possibility of becoming sick. Be well and be ready for additional information that is outside the box.

Want to be drinking consistently high quality water with minimum effort and cost? We hear a lot about the poor quality of tap water and the shortage of quality water in parts of the US and in other parts of the world. Many people invest money and time in the many options available to improve the water we drink - bottled water, water filters, water treatment equipment, additives to water, etc.

These options take us from poor quality water to water that is healthy for and useful to us. I thought this was enough until I experienced water that actively enhances our health! Some points I learned are:

1. Our body keeps our blood within a very narrow alkaline range in order for us to remain healthy. Other fluids in our body need to be alkaline, too. We can support our bodies by drinking high quality alkaline water.
2. Quality of water can be tested beyond the normal water tests (which focus on hardness, bacteria, mineral content, etc.). Dr. Masaru Emoto has researched and found that pure high quality water forms a crystalline structure like a snow flake. http://www.thank-water.net/english/ He also found that our thoughts and words have a dramatic impact on water quality. Thoughts and feelings of appreciation, love, and support form high quality water/light crystals. Thoughts and feelings of judgment, criticism, and disrespect form low quality water/dark distorted crystals. Imagine what these thoughts and feelings do to the 70% of our body that is water!
3. We can get high quality water much more easily than we thought.
4. We can increase the quality of our thoughts and feelings, and therefore the quality of water in our body, much more easily than we have believed. The Positive Power of Being Neutral one-day workshop enables us to directly shift our thinking.

Happy drinking and thinking in this winter season!

Blue Solar Water

There have been many advances in the simple treatment and creation of very healthy water. I will describe one method in enough detail for any person to create their own high quality healthy water. I learned about this method from Dr. Hew Len (the Hawaiian therapist and Shaman whose work was described in the September Newsletter.)
He describes the water as Blue Solar Water, which is the color of a glacier. This color is said to connect us with divinity and open us up to receive inspiration to fulfill our purpose in life. I drink this water and find it helps to cleanse my body and help lift my spirit.

Creating Your Own Quality Water

All you need do to obtain this Blue Solar Water, is to fill a blue glass bottle with ordinary tap water. Place the bottle in direct sunlight for 60 minutes. If you can’t find a blue bottle, use clear glass and expose it to blue incandescent light. Cap the bottle with any nonmetal cover (don’t use the metal twist off cap that often comes on bottles). A piece of paper or coffee filter over the top works fine.

That’s it! The water can be stored or transported in any other type of container. You drink the Blue Solar Water like any other water. Also, you can add one drop to any other water to transform it. It can be used in cooking, for plants, and on skin after bathing!

A way of thinking about how it works is that a very small amount of an herb (for instance) is enough to make a homeopathic remedy very effective. When you are away from home, focus your attention on the water you are about to drink and on a vertical mid-line in your body and say “Blue Solar Water”, and it will also transform the water. If you want to explore other options for high quality water see:

www.miracle-2.com

http://www.lifeenrichmentseminars.com/
Raymon/index.htm
for a DVD “Energizes Water”, or

http://www.dowsers.info/toronto/water3.htm
for transcript of a speech.

Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients–without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t logical, so I dismissed the story.

However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho ‘oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn’t let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood “total responsibility” to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it’s out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We’re responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does–but that’s wrong.

The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.

He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal. “After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,” he told me. “Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications and those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.” I was in awe. “Not only that,” he went on, “but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.”

This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: “What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?”

“I was simply healing the part of me that created them,” he said. I didn’t understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life - simply because it is in your life - is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.

Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don’t like - is up for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho’oponopono means loving yourself. If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you.

I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients’ files?

“I just kept saying, I’m sorry and I love you over and over again”, he explained.

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.

This time, I decided to try Dr. Len’s method. I kept silently saying, I’m sorry and I love you, I didn’t say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn’t take any outward action to get that apology. I didn’t even write him back. Yet, by saying I love you, I somehow healed within me what was creating him.

I later attended a ho’oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He’s now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book’s vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

From Dr. Len: (http://hooponopono.org/index.html)

I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights:

1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.
2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.
3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a physical reality brimming with LOVE.
4. I am 100% responsible for creating my physical universe the way it is.
5. I am 100% responsible for correcting the cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.
6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything exists as thoughts in my mind.

The Yuen Method is an energy work that targets and removes specific root causes of symptoms (of pain, illness, injury, sadness, anger, depression, stress, fear, etc.). The Method dramatically increases our internal support for reaching our desired state! Seeing people’s symptoms going away quickly is often startling, and results in a change in beliefs and mindset that most people need in order to shift from a problem/disease orientation to a focus on wellness.

The essence of how the Yuen Method helps energy to shift is deceptively simple and can be learned by the vast majority of us, including children. It works by helping clients focus their energy along their mid line. This is not a transfer of energy from a practitioner to a client. It does not involve touch. It is an alignment of energy that eliminates root causes.

An example is:

George is a 65 year old who had Parkinson’s disease. When he arrived to participate in a two day Yuen Method Workshop, he shuffled in – he was only able to move each foot about 4 inches - his arms and hands were locked in an upward position in front of his chest. During the workshop he began to walk normally. During the third workshop he ran around the room and around the building.

The expectations for George were that he would have had the symptoms for life and that they would progressively get worse. Aligning George’s energy along his mid line eliminated the root causes and his symptoms went away!

From a Yuen Method perspective our symptoms serve as wakeup calls in our lives. We have “learned” that our options are to reduce, suppress or “learn to live with our symptoms.” To our credit, we believe that our innate inner wellness over time will bring us back to health. Most of the time it does. But what happens when, as in George’s situation, the symptoms persist, even with the application of many modalities? From a wellness perspective, symptoms are not an isolated aspect of life. They are a person’s communication system saying, “There’s some pattern that needs to be taken care of!”

From a Yuen Method perspective, our ailments and discomforts are created and supported by patterns of root causes and triggers, not unlike the roots of a hundred-year-old oak tree. These are energy blockages, consisting of conscious and non-conscious, overlapping layers of negative emotions, beliefs, experiences, memories, traumas, reactions, etc. They can be numerous and complex and limit the world we live in.

The Yuen Method is both rational and intuitive. The first step involves:

• letting go of beliefs about what can and cannot be done,
• understanding where our symptoms come from,
• building belief and confidence that profound shifts can take place,
• understanding how focusing along the mid line makes the energy strong and supports making shifts.

The second step is to learn and use a rational step-by-step protocol for defining the symptoms, the desired state, and how to measure symptom intensity and progress. The third step is to clear away the symptoms and build internal support for the desired state by mentally and intuitively:

• finding and clearing away root causes at as general a level as possible,
• finding and clearing away more specific roots as necessary,
• checking progress and continuing clearing until the roots are cleared away and the person has full energetic support for their desired state.

The Yuen Method helps create a major shift in perspective and well being. Profound improvement and rejuvenation become the norm!