Healing our Bodies with Self-Love
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 27, 2008
With much Love and Light, I would like to offer the following to all my fellow human beings…
Our physical bodies are only an aspect of what we truly are. In reality, we are beings of light and energy. The concept of “the Force” described in the Stars Wars movies is surprisingly accurate. Our minds and bodies are shaped by our consciousness, thoughts, and intentions. Our bodies are the conduits of life energy that flows through the Universe. When we run low on life energy we become “dis-eased” and eventually diseased. Just as matter and energy are interchangeable, thought and energy are interchangeable. Just like energy can be thought of as having a specific frequency (like tuning into a radio station at a certain frequency), thoughts have different frequencies as well. Not unlike radio waves or microwaves or light waves, they are broadcast beyond our specific brains.
“Reality is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror.” ~ Remez Sasson
Light waves are electromagnetic radiation that comes to us from the sun. Their frequencies are such that they have a positive impact on our bodies. Gamma radiation is also a type of electromagnetic energy at a different frequency that has a very destructive effect on our bodies. Thoughts and intentions also generate energetic fields that have either positive or negative effects upon our lives. The thoughts and intentions that have negative energetic effects on our spirit and our body include shame, guilt, anger, fear and false pride. These include activities such as criticizing, blaming, judging, withdrawing, hiding, punishing, attacking and so on. The thoughts and intentions that have positive energetic effects on our souls and bodies include acceptance, openness, love, joy, peacefulness curiosity, compassion, and reverence. They include activities such as acceptance, forgiveness, kindness, love, understand ing connection, and empathy.
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ Louise L. Hay
There are certain people whom everyone likes to be around. We often say, “I like their energy”. We are absolutely correct about this. These people do broadcast good energy. There are other people we do not want to be around for just the opposite reason. We are all aware of this. But it goes much deeper than this. When we walk around criticizing, judging and blaming others or ourselves we weaken our life energy. When we go though our life being angry and negative towards others or ourselves we generate negative energy that makes us feel bad and makes us suffer immediately. The impact of this energy continues to affect us over time. Eventually these negative thought patterns create negative energy fields that disrupt the body’s physical functioning and can in some cases create dis-ease.
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” ~ Gary Zukav
On the flip side, we gain create positive energy in our mind-body by giving love and accepting energies to ourselves and others. In fact, the vibration of love will literally create physical healing in the body. The more loving energy you send towards yourself, the healthier you will be and the more energy you will have. The vibration of love has been scientifically proven to alter the shape and structure of physical molecules such as water. According to current scientific studies, water molecules are directly effected by the words, sounds and thoughts they are exposed to. Since your physical body is made up of more than 70% water, it is continuously impacted by the vibrations of negative or positive words you send into it.
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” ~ Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Consciously sending loving energy to your own being will create amazing shifts in your physical body on a molecular level. As you start daily send loving thoughts and feeling into every cell of your body, you will start to heal your mind-body, and experience a dramatic shift in your energy field. You will naturally feel more energized, alive, and healthier as you continue to bathe your cells to the healing energy of self-love.
Sending you loving and healing blessings,
Margot Zaher and Jafree Ozwald
Please support Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 26, 2008
I would like to take this moment to offer support for a friend and participant in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk. Please take her plea into consideration for this most worthwhile of causes!
A letter from Laura…
Hi again all!
Just wanted to ask again for your support in sponsoring me in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk. Please go to my Avon Participant page and make a donation. No donation is too small. Also your donation is tax deductible!
You can simply go to www.avonwalk.org select The tab for Los Angeles 2008 then select the tab at the top of the page “make a donation” then select the tab “donate to a participant” click “Los Angeles 2008″ then you can enter my name in the search field!!!
“Laura Webster”
Again, no donation is too small. Please help me make the necessary fundraising goal of $1800.00. Heck it would be lovely to exceed the minimum and really help this worthy cause!
Thanks Again,
Laura
For 2 days and 39 miles, you have the opportunity to dramatically impact the lives of millions affected by breast cancer worldwide. By participating in the Avon Walk, you’ll allow medically under-insured women and men to receive the screening, support, and treatment they require. And leading-edge research teams will be powered by the cure all because of you. Take the first step. Register today!
Simple pleasures.. cruisin’ along the beach
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 23, 2008
This simply has to be one of my most favourite past times… lots of sunshine, a fresh breeze, good company and a beach cruiser bike! Just imagine how wonderful and comfortable it would be to take a leisurely ride along the beach on one of these sweet bikes.
Well, if you are looking to add a cruiser to your bike collection, you may wish to consider a place I found recently. CruiserStyle.com seems fairly new, yet I am seeing that they are adding some quality cruisers as they grow. Although I haven’t bought a bike from them myself, as of yet, I thought the 26″ Shimano 7-Speed Deluxe Beach Cruiser for Ladies looks like a mellow ride. I could definately see myself comfortably cruising along the beach to my hearts content on one of these babies!
Now, these cruisers are not for the speed demons looking for a thrill whilst out biking. Although some days I am out for speed and distance, sometimes my sense of adventure calls for a beach cruiser bike so I can just kick back and enjoy the scenery and daydream, while perhaps looking forward to a romantic picnic on the beach, or possibly exploring new places. It just depends upon my mood. As each day unfolds, I feel like a new person as I live and grow. So… some days I just feel like cruisin’.
Enjoy!
Good Therapy to Empower our Lives
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 21, 2008
What is it that brings about an inner peace to bring harmony into our lives? Many people have had negative experiences which can be detrimental to our happiness as well as our health and well being. There are always those who try to influence us, through either words or actions, as to how they think we should feel or behave. Such experiences can leave emotional and spiritual scars. Finding true, lasting, good therapy can sometimes prove to be quite difficult. Not everyone is truly out for our best interests, so much as their own.
Let us look into this a bit further.
Empowering therapists maintain the belief that people can grow, heal, and transform. This hope is held no matter how intense one’s defenses and wounds are. People can heal if they want to and if they can contribute to their own growth whatever is sufficient and necessary to that end. When a therapist views a person as fundamentally flawed or incapable of change, the person is more likely to feel and become flawed. Yet, when a good therapist sees beyond a person’s wounds and defenses and holds in mind their true nature, the person is more likely to discover their own true nature for themselves. Some people may not heal in this lifetime, but let the therapist not be an additional barrier to whatever other obstacles may be presenting.
Good therapy often times needs to go deep. There seems to be a split in the mental health field between approaches that emphasize cognitive solutions and those that emphasize emotional or body oriented healing. Both are important. In many instances, the depth of our emotional traumas are buried deep within ourselves. Reaching these extreme emotional depths of hidden pain is a very delicate process, and must be approached very carefully.
If you, or someone you know, is in need of good therapy to Empower your Life, and wish to find a counselor or therapist, perhaps you may like to visit www.goodtherapy.org, and browse through their extensive selection of therapists. As always, use your good judgement and choose wisely.
As quoted from Good Therapy…
Our Purpose…
“There is a movement toward more collaborative, empowering, and nonpathological forms of psychotherapy. We promote this movement by helping people find therapists and counselors who believe “people are proficient,” capable of feeling peaceful and satisfied with life, and can, with a bit of guidance, access their own wisdom and healing potential to overcome the obstacles to health & happiness.”
~Love and Light to All
“Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.” ~ Carl Jung
Fragrance and Essential Oils
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 13, 2008
Winter is a time when we enjoy the safe and warm comfort of staying inside our homes. It is the time of year when we may start to feel lethargic, depressed, or irritable. Even though winter brings special holidays that make us want to feel festive and optimistic and you can feel spring coming, we become affected by the lack of sunshine in our lives. To combat the winter blues, we love to surround ourselves with pleasant scents.
Essential oils may bring balance to our hearts and peace to our minds. They may help to cleanse, release, and balance our thoughts. Let the aromatherapy shine. Scent has a great effect on our emotions. Scientists are increasingly interested in the connection between fragrance and memory triggers in the limbic brain. They are also researching pheromones - fragrant substances that may influence physical attraction. Personal attraction or aversion is influenced by odor. Without the ability to smell, there would be very little attraction. Our body has special glands that produce a very personal perfume that changes according to our mood or state of health. Fragrance may create well-being or discomfort. If you have difficulty adapting to a new situation, or letting go of the past, a new fragrance may help create a fresh mood. It may help you change your attitude or find a new positive reaction. A pure essential oil will not create an aggressive feeling; rather it will have a positive, balancing effect.
We each have our own personal reaction to every scent. Smells, moods, and short and long term memories are all stored in the limbic part of our brain. Dangerous or negative odors set our subconscious in the awareness stage. Positive smells like our babies’ skin or our mothers’ fragrance will bring a pleasant reminder of a positive experience for decades.
Helping our body and psyche with scent has a history stretching back for many centuries. The very beginning of the practice of medicine has been connected with mythical rituals, magic, or religion. We may say that the history of scent began with incense burners and has continued through experience with aromas and essential oils up to the present day. The methods of treatment were based on philosophical ideas that looked at a direct connection between man and nature. In ancient civilizations, medicinal herbs were evaluated by their taste and smell. An interesting example from the history of essential oils is thyme. The name “Thyme” is derived from the Greek word Thymiama (incense) and means courage, health, or sacrifice. It was a sign of high respect in ancient Greece to say to someone that he “smells of thyme”. Roman soldiers often added thyme to their baths to give themselves strength, health, and courage.
Rosemary played an important part in the Roman tradition of eliminating evil spirits. In the Middle Ages, it was a part of Hungarian water, a distillate of rosemary, lavender, and turpentine. According to alchemistic understanding, this was the first water of life. Many preserving properties were attributed to Carmelite water, a distillate of lemon balm, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
The seductive power of scent has always been known. The sense of smell may help create love and desire. Smell influences us much more than we think. The natural scent of flowers, essential oils, and compositions in the form of perfume, are more than just a pleasant smell. They can promote relaxation, sensuality, or spiritual depth. According to research on flowers by P. Jellinek, “esters of phenylacetic acids, fatty aldehydes, and alcohols are responsible for the aphrodisiac effect of various flower scents (jasmine, neroli).”
Extensive studies by occupational psychologists have shown that lemon or rosemary scent may help with concentration, nutmeg may reduce stress, and lavender, interestingly, promotes a desire to buy things. Large Japanese companies are using scent throughout their employees’ workstations to help improve their performance - lemon in the morning for pick-me-up feelings, rose at lunch time for relaxation, and wood scents in the evening for stimulation and refreshment.
Another interesting discussion would focus on stress levels in our civilization. More and more studies are being done to prove that essential oils interact well with the receptors of the psychosomatic network and they may, in a soft and gentle way, restore harmony in our systems.
Aromatherapy is using the knowledge of the effect of scents on the body and mind. With the help of the purest essential oils we may influence our stage of mood or form of somatic anomalies. Compared with synthetic products, aromatherapy has a much higher risk-free profile.
Enjoy a ride on the wave of Happiness
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 1, 2008
When I was a child, as a rule, I was quite calm and at peace. I did not get angry often, nor did I hold resentments. I would just let things go, knowing I had little control over my life, being that I was just a child. Most of the adults in my life treated me with kindness, as my nature was a kind one, so I now feel I was pretty lucky in this way. This was not so for my sister, who grew up in exactly the same environment. She kicked and fought every step of the way. She was not very kind or understanding, so she rebelled against most situations. This led to many difficulties, and a lot of negative emotions, to say the least. I tried to keep her out of trouble as often as possible, being her big sister, yet it did not work very often. She would ‘never’ let anything go! I just seemed to know that the easiest way to enjoying my childhood was to shrug most things off, and follow my imagination to places more interesting than the things happening in our adults world. All in all, I had a pretty good childhood.
Ah, but little did I know that being an adult did not automatically give me total control over my circumstances. I had to learn, through painful experience, how to determine that which was under my control from that which was not. And I had to learn all over again what it means to ‘just let go’. It was not easy. My nature is gentle and loving, yet I have a very strong will. I could be hurt easily, and it took a while to figure out that I had done nothing to deserve this pain, and though I could not control the actions of others, I could control my own reactions. This sometimes infuriated those choosing to inflict pain through emotions, yet I would react calmly and step back from that which was not mine to own.
I have experienced great depths of sadness, yet I choose to be happy in this moment. Those who come in contact with me react to this, and come away from the encounter with good feelings as well. It truly is contagious! Oh, I walk with my eyes wide open, and I do see all the horrors in this world. I just choose not to despair, and to do what I may to help restore the balance. The universe is composed of the Yin and the Yang. Good and bad. This is just how it is. I walk in the Light and choose to offer Love to those I may, and to help those who cannot help themselves. Ergo this blog, among other things.
When I find something that strikes a positive note in the music of my world, I like to make mention of it. I believe I may have found something of benefit. If there are folks out there that need help, and are experiencing self doubts and unhappiness, perhaps one would like to learn how “The Sedona Method” can help you become truly happy now.
Secret teacher Marci Shimoff’s new book “Happy For No Reason” reveals that Mariel Heminway avoids the depression that plagued her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, with The Sedona Method. They are even offering a free DVD, CD and MP3 to get you started on the road to lasting happiness, peace, success and emotional well being.
Nearing the end of a recent Sedona Method Retreat held in Sedona, AZ, one of the attendees spoke about her experience. As quoted…
“I’m struck by how many of us are from different countries and different cultures, yet we came together this week. There were no cultural boundaries, no race boundaries, no religious boundaries – we all just came together as One World.”
The Sedona Method is a key to happiness and is part of a wave of happiness sweeping the planet. Perhaps we would like to jump out there and enjoy a ride on the wave of happiness!
