Wouldn't it be nice if everyone worked with integrity and positivity instead of ego and fear. Wouldn't it be nice if we had advertisers who promoted their services on a positive note and not fear based or appealing to the ego. Wouldn't it be nice if the news focused more on positive events in the world and perhaps provided a balanced and spiritual approach to the negative ones? Wouldn't it be nice if we made our icons (people we idolise) from those who gave something of value to the world - made a positive impact, (and not just because they are famous or beautiful or rich). Wouldn't it be nice if we actually gave no media time to those who are only human and make a mistake and the media enjoyed hanging out to dry because their mistakes allow the unworthy to feel better about themselves (ego).
One organisation and one person of worthy note are making a difference and promoting positive impacts in the world. The first being the High Ideals Association which is promoting positivity, integrity and impact in business - imaging that!
The second person is author of the book Spiritual Business - Creating a Business from the Heart - Kate Forster. A most amazing way to realign and plan your business to a positive, values based, integrity based position. I highly recommend the book to anyone thinking of venturing into business or realigning their current business plan. I'm currently developing my final business plan with my new awesome partner Sharon Chisholm (a founding member of High Ideals) and it has made it not only enjoyable, but a soulful journey of self discovery, planning and goal setting.
A New Decade, Will it Bring You Peace & Joy?
At this time of year many people decide that this year will be different! This year they will make a change and for once and for all get off that treadmill! Then they make a goal, a date to start and throw themselves in to it or find reasons why they can't start this week. For those that throw themselves in at the deep end, only a few will make it to the other end. For those who don't, then the treadmill appears again, they revert to previous behaviour, they beat themselves up, they let down their family, friends and themselves and they get nowhere. Why does this happen!
A combination of factors keeps us on our treadmills but for the most part it's our pre-programming. For every experience from the mundane, to family and social upsets and to the extreme trauma's that occur in our lives, our unconscious mind looks at our previous experiences and determines how we react based on what we've done before (hence the concept of programming).
OK so here's an easy example. Sue wants to lose weight... her unconscious mind reacts to that thought by search for what happened the last time (or few) when she tried? Previously Sue lost some weight and everyone noticed and gave her lots of comments, she was really noticed. However, after a while, Sue found that it was really kind of annoying because they didn't say nice things to her before and she knows that there’s more to her than her looks! Then Sue went through some work stress and the weight crept back on again and she started to feel bad about myself again... and the comments stopped and she felt ashamed... thinking why can't I just keep it off!
Know anyone who's done this? Or stopped smoking only to start it up again a few months later? Or said that this year they were going to change their job because they hated the one they were in and yet didn’t do anything about it?
Your unconscious mind saw that it didn't work last time, or the time before and it wasn't much fun when you did, or it felt too unsafe to make the change permanent and therefore it uses the same program again or it tries to sabotage you from starting so that each effort has to be greater and bigger than the last time you tried.
Then when you combine the devastating physical effects of being stressed, you set yourself up for failure and worse... illness or dis-ease. If you want to know what stress can do to you, just watch this excert from David Marc, an expert in the psychology of eating, as he talks about the important role stress plays in digestion and how it can stop you from loosing weight.
On the other side of the coin, many people can remember a time when they did identify a new goal, one that they have never thought of before and it happened relatively easily. That's because their unconscious mind hasn't had a negative program to use before and most likely they truly did believe they could do it and so did it. However, the older you become, the harder it seems to launch into a goal and achieve it as we have a lot more experiences to prove to ourselves that we aren’t worthy, or failed before or are not clever, strong or have enough will power and so forth. We’ve been running these programs for years and we didn’t even know it!
So how do you re-program yourself when your programs are not working for you? Our minds use our five senses and are largely visual and auditory when we store our programs. What we need to do is reprogram our negative associations by searching and finding the memory (the one that set up the program in the first place) and release the trauma that we are still holding on to. Then the next step is to give it a new positive program instead. That way when your unconscious mind goes to look for the program it has one that is more empowering for you. It could also mean that many memories need to be resolved before the program is released. The process we use at the Coffs Body and Mind Connection is called Matrix Re-Imprinting and it is very gentle and relaxing. It can be done over the phone or face to face and can be used on one or a string of memories to release the old patterns and make way for the new ones. The new patterns can then be laid in through hypnosis and time line therapy and the outcome is a transformation of your future. Contact us today to rewrite your past and transform your future.
I'm absolutely enthralled at the moment with the idea that with modernisation and science, we've lost so much and put our earth, health and future at risk. The information that I have read and watched over the last week has been enlightening to say the least.
First one is the new book by Dan Brown - the Lost Symbol. Now, I do love Dan Brown's work, he writes such thrillers about historic data which sends people into frenzies on whether what he's written is fact or fiction. I'm not going to weigh into the debate. What I do like about his book, so far (I haven't finished it yet) is the mentioning of Noetic Science.... I didn't even know that this science existed and yet I work with it almost on a daily basis! www.noetic.org states that their mission is to advance the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation. How fantastic is that! The book explains that it is about the potential of the human consciousness to transform, heal and read the human information field or conscious blue print of every living thing on this planet.
The second piece of information I received yesterday is the film - The Living Matrix. I saw about 10 minutes of this at the EFT extravaganza conference I attended a couple of weeks ago and knew I had to see the whole thing. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone in the healing/alternative health or even mainstream medicine fields. It talks about the human morphogenic field which is energetic and which our cells use to determine how to react. The old Newtonian way of believing that we are machines does not hold true any longer and there is a split in the scientific world now between the old physics and the quantum physics world. This film shows how you can help yourself and tells you why you shouldn't just trust the current medical model to help you get well. It's too limited and they work in the dark about why you are unwell in the first place. Did you also know that it is well known that over 1/3 of medical cures are because of the Placebo effect? The Placebo effect is where the person's belief that the cure will work actually cures the person. The film provides one example where a number of arthritic patients were selected to have the same operation on their knees and half of them were only cut open and then closed and yet up to 3 years later they were saying how much better they were and had no further pain. Nothing had been done to them other than supplying stitches!
Lastly... I subscribe to the Food Matters newsletters and they have released this free 1/2 hour documentary on the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years. It shows how much we have lost in the green industrial revolution since the 1950s. I also love the fact that they have a spiritual approach to growing their own food and give thanks to the creator and to the mountains. Watch it here:
Today I've been learning a technique called Matrix Reimprinting and it has been totally fascinating. The science behind it is provided by Dr Bruce Lipton. The information is not new if you look deeper into spiritual practices like Buddhism and the Course in Miracles.
If you're interested in how our health is affected by our environment and beliefs then there are a number of Youtube interviews with Dr Lipton. Here's just one:
Dr Lipton talks about the importance of changing the pre-recorded tape we have going in our minds. He also offers a couple of ways to do this. Over the last week, I've learnt two other ways. One is the Matrix Reimprinting technique which uses EFT to change the tape (our unconscious or subconscious mind largely works with pictures) into new empowering pictures and releases the trauma that you may have experienced previously. After all, it is in the past, why would you want to hold onto it?! Especially if it is currently providing you with a trigger that brings about a behaviour you'd rather not have or do (such as over eating, anxiety attacks, yelling at the kids etc).
The second process goes towards creating new behaviours by changing our negative way of thinking. The technique is called DreamCatcher. For one minute a day, you write down what you would have/do/be if you had absolutely not limits on money, time or talent and seems impossible for you to have right now! The idea is not necessarily to reach for these ideas/items/desires, it's to retrain your mind into a more positive way of thinking. To stop arguing for your own limitations! What a wonderful idea that would be... here's what I put down in one minute..
I'd have my own Panda, Zoo and Nature reserve in Africa. Be the queen of animals so that I could stand up for their rights and repatriate animals out of captivity. Be a star in the universe. Own 10 different houses in all the continents of the planet. Open my own gallery in NYC full of my art.
So try it... one minute each day... challenge yourself to change your mindset. Like Dr Lipton says, you need to make it a habit.. so do it for at least 21 days and see the difference.
For as long as I can remember my family always had some form of veggie patch in suburbia Melbourne and Canberra. When I moved out of home, it wasn't until I moved into my first rental house that I could start growing veggies again and it didn't take me long to get back into it - even as a single mum at the time, I loved the idea of going out the back and picking what I was going to eat that night.
Most people don't bother. They just go to one of the big super markets and purchase their food there. It's convenient. But at what cost? Listen to any media these days and they are reporting higher obesity levels, increased cancer, diabetes and disorders such as ADHD and Autism. Food allergies and sensitivities have gone through the roof also. When are we going to realise that our move to production and processed food is in line with the increase of dis-ease and dis-orders we are experiencing today? A move to a natural, sustainable approach is on the way... not only because many people don't want chemical, genetically modified food, but because we have to.
How much more can you're body take? A veggie garden doesn't have to take hours each weekend and by getting the kids involved, then you create interest and ownership in the food that lands on the table. I found this Youtube movie inspiring, hopefully you will too.
I never thought I could go ga ga over a chook, after all they are just something you eat on a Sunday night aren't they? You just buy it at the supermarket and take it home and cook it. That was before my son was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of five. At that point we decided not to put him on the drug Ritalin or any other drug. What we did was clean up his diet and went organic where we could. Which wasn't very easy in the early 1990s. One of the most memorable moments was comparing his organic chicken breast to ours (purchased from the supermarket) and saw that his looked pink and healthy, whilst ours looked grey and off. The taste was different too. We ended up getting an organic Turkey for Christmas dinner that year and the taste was devine. It's hard to say that we went back to supermarket food, but we did. Cost and time was an element and the fact that Ben was swapping his gluetin free, sugar free, preservative free, organic food with other kids in the play ground. Somethings never went back into his diet (like Coke a Cola) and we limited what sugar and preservatives he had to help him. That and lots of love and changing primary schools to one that supported him and our decision not to put him on drugs helped Ben become the man he is today.
Since then, two other members of our family (niece and nephew) have been diagnosed with Autism and one sister is aggressively pursuing the link to diet and digestive issues now associated with this disorder. So she is now on the path I was 16 years ago and thankfully it's much easier to get organic food. We of course, supply her eggs from our amazing chickens who huddle around us for scraps and pellets and proudly announce arrival of their eggs by clucking rather loudly. We have a lovely male Bantam Rooster who is an absolute delight to have. He shows off to the girls, looks after them and is a pleasure to be around. We put him into a cage in the shed at night as he tends to crow at all hours of the morning and continually for about 5 minutes. He's used to the routine now and walks (and sometimes bounds) down to the chook yard in the morning.
We have a large chook yard (as shown in my last update show) and our new addition is a chook tractor. It was built out of scraps where possible and used giant bamboo for the frame. The bamboo was collected from a friends place down the road. In the tractor we have four of our old girls which were purchased for next to nothing from an egg farm. These girls do not lay very often but still enjoy the social life of a hens life. They scratch the dirt and create baths, fertilize where ever they go and generally prepare the bed for the next planting by eliminating old plants and all weeds. This is why I think they are amazing. They do this work for us, for next to nothing.. Occasionally we put Fifi in (a rooster we named as a chick when we didn't know she was a he), just to keep the girls amused (they hen peck him and put him in his place).
If you'd like to see what it looks like in action , click here:
If you prefer to put natural substances in your body so that you remain healthy and feel good and yet sometimes, despite trying to do all the right things, still getting sick then your mind body system is not working as efficiently as it could be.
If your plants get sick, you can apply compost, seaweed tea, mulch them, water them, and feed them with organic fertilising solutions. You nurse them back to health or you check the PH of the soil and nurse it back to health for the next planting. When we get sick, many of us are powerless to find out what is wrong quickly to restore the balance to the body so that you flourish again. We're force to go to a doctor or "expert" to help us deal with the symptoms of the problem.
When a body (or plant) is operating at its optimal level, each system, cell and atom is in constant communication with each other at all times. Through exposure to the stresses of day-to-day life, poor nutrition, and over exertion of the body, these lines of communication can become compromised and illness or decline in physical and /or emotional health occurs.
When you get sick and visit the doctor, any prescription of antiviral, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory or worse a cocktail of drugs is being taken in by your body and targeting the problem using a sledge hammer approach – killing more than it needs to and doing harm to the natural order of the mind body system. Taking too much medication ends up weakening our immune systems and making us more prone to more and more illnesses.
If you can imagine an iceberg – Western medicine mainly focuses on the tip of the iceberg (the symptoms and signs of disease) and what’s under the water (the cause) is not uncovered. The result can be years and years of visiting doctors and keeping the pharmaceutical companies stocks increasing. Eastern medicine goes towards looking at areas not widely understood in the western scientific world – the energy centres and meridian pathways which deal with the bodies energy system which govern the complex exchange of messages between organs, endocrines right down to cell level.
Except for such still rare and sometimes invasive applications, (EEG, EKG, PET and MRI scans), Western medicine has produced few treatment modalities to date that take full advantage of the ways the body’s energies can be directed to mediate the complex flow of biological information to restore health.
Natural health systems work with the body and do not rely upon chemicals to kill off bacteria or restore order. Many of these health systems you would know of, they include naturopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, yoga, acupuncture, and so forth. Some of these systems work more efficiently with your body if used regularly as a proactive (rather than reactive) measure to reduce stress and restore the body to a natural state before it brings on more serious illness. Regular applications of natural alternative methods can help keep the body healthy and more resistant to illnesses.
One of the most elaborately articulated sustainable models, and one that has held up relatively well to Western scientific scrutiny, is the practice of acupuncture. Some western medical schools are now offering Acupuncture as a learning module for new doctors. Acupuncture is not only among the oldest known medical treatments, extending back at least 4,500 years, it is one of the most widely used health care systems on the planet. The World Health Organization lists more than 50 conditions for which it is effective, including psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
However, many people do not like the idea of someone sticking needles in them and in addition to that issue, it relies upon you seeking the expertise of another person to have the procedure being done to you. What if there is a better way?
A relatively new approach has been formulated by an Australian pioneering man, John Veltheim, and is called The BodyTalk system (http://www.bodytalksystem.com/). BodyTalk is an astonishingly simple and effective holistic therapy that allows the body's energy systems to be re-synchronized so they can operate as nature intended.
BodyTalk is non evasive, does not require any medications or machinery and utilises the body’s natural abilities to heal itself. BodyTalk is considered the missing link between western medicine, eastern medicine and alternative therapies. It encompasses:
Western medical expertise
The energy dynamics of acupuncture (without the needles)
Osteopathic and Chiropractic philosophy
The clinical findings of applied kinesiology and
The insights of modern physics and mathematics.
Since 2005, the International BodyTalk Association has been offering a one day course for the layman, on 5 techniques which provide assistance to returning the body to optimal health and increase resilience to illnesses and injuries. Now that’s sustainable health. The course is called BodyTalk Access and is taught in over 39 countries, many of these where access to doctors and medicine is in short supply. In Australia, it’s becoming popular due to the shortage of GPs and or easy access to doctors. In Ben Franklin's words, the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" goes a long way to describe the good health and balance that can be found with BodyTalk Access as a part of your daily life.
The BodyTalk Access wellness routine helps your body maintain its best energetic balance so that it can maintain good health, thus preventing disease. Being proactive in your health routine is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It's right up there with eating healthfully, getting enough sleep and being physically active.
Each of the 5 techniques are easy to perform and if performed on a daily basis (approximately 10-15 minutes of your time). The course also provides techniques to allow you to respond quickly to any injury to stop the hurting, throbbing or swelling.
BodyTalk works with the premise that we can heal naturally if we address all the issues under the iceberg. Due to the fact that BodyTalk and BodyTalk Access only utilize the natural healing tools already found within us, this is a sustainable personal health practice. There are no medications prescribed or given, the techniques are totally non-invasive and they also do not require any outside tools or resources. BodyTalk Access is good for you and good for our planet!
In addition to being a health tool for you and your family, BodyTalk and BodyTalk access can be used on your animals, land and plants. For more information about BodyTalk and the BodyTalk Access course, please contact vanessa@love2live.com.au or come and listen to her talk at the November CROPO gathering.
