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
How do we find Happiness?
Posted by msterilinn on Feb 8, 2008
I am in general a very happy person, in spite of circumstances, and this truly shows to all who come in contact with me. Today I would like to share a message from a friend, which touched my heart and spirit. It reminds me why each day, I look for the good in all things…
A fleeting moment, or a way of seeing?
Ask any number of people to describe a moment of “perfect” happiness. Some will talk about moments of deep peace experienced in a harmonious natural setting, of a forest dappled in sunshine, of a mountain summit looking out across a vast horizon, of the shores of a tranquil lake, of a night walk through snow under a starry sky, and so on. Others will refer to a long-awaited event: an exam they’ve aced, a sporting victory, meeting someone they’ve longed to meet, the birth of a child. Still others will speak of a moment of peaceful intimacy with their family or a loved one, or of having made someone else happy.
The common factor to all of these experiences would seem to be the momentary disappearance of inner conflicts. The person feels in harmony with the world and with herself. Someone enjoying such an experience, such as walking through a serene wilderness, has no particular expectations beyond the simple act of walking. She simply is, here and now, free and open.
For just a few moments, thoughts of the past are suppressed, the mind is not burdened with plans for the future, and the present moment is liberated from all mental constructs. This moment of respite, from which all sense of emotional urgency has vanished, is experienced as one of profound peace. For someone who has achieved a goal, completed a task, or won a victory, the tension they have long carried with them relaxes. The ensuing sense of release is felt as a deep calm, free of all expectation and fear.
But this experience is just a passing glimpse brought on by a particular set of circumstances. We call it a magic moment, a state of grace. And yet the difference between these flashes of happiness seized on the fly and the immutable peacefulness of the sage, for instance, is as great as that between the tiny section of sky seen through the eye of a needle and the limitless expanses of outer space. The two conditions differ in dimension, duration, and depth.
Even so, we can learn something from these fleeting moments, these lulls in our ceaseless struggles; they can give us a sense of what true plenitude might be and help us to recognize the conditions that favour it.
A Way of Being
I remember one afternoon as I was sitting on the steps of our monastery in Nepal. The monsoon storms had turned the courtyard into an expanse of muddy water and we had set out a path of bricks to serve as stepping-stones. A friend of mine came to the edge of the water, surveyed the scene with a look of disgust, and complained about every single brick as she made her way across. When she got to me, she rolled her eyes and said, “Yuck! What if I’d fallen into that filthy muck? Everything’s so dirty in this country!” Since I knew her well, I prudently nodded, hoping to offer her some comfort through my mute sympathy. A few minutes later, Raphaèle, another friend of mine, came to the path through the swamp. “Hup, hup, hup!” she sang as she hopped, reaching dry land with the cry “What fun!” Her eyes sparkling with joy, she added: “The great thing about the monsoon is that there’s no dust.” Two people, two ways of looking at things; six billion human beings, six billion worlds.
Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them. There will be no “hard fall” when things turn bad and he is confronted with adversity. He does not sink into depression, since his happiness rests on a solid foundation.
Once at an open meeting in Hong Kong, a young man rose from the audience to ask me: “Can you give me one reason why I should go on living?” This book is a humble response to that question, for happiness is above all a love of life.
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Excerpted with permission from Happiness: Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard (Little, Brown and Company, 2006). Ricard, a former biochemist and Buddhist monk.
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!
