Saturday, July 31, 2010

Beauty is in the Soul



For attractive lips,

Speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,

Seek out the good in people

For a slim figure,

Share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,

Let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,

Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,

Revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,

You'll find one at the end of your arm

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands,

one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!



By Sam Levinson, In One Era and Out the Other

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Mind/Body Connection


Have you ever been under chronic distress and gotten a tummy ach? That is because every time we have a thought, we have an emotion. Every time we have an emotion, it releases molecules of these emotions into our bodies.

According to Richard S. Lazarus, "Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize." In other words, it is a feeling of a loss of control.

Just so you know, stress is any type of change, even what we perceive to be good change. It is still change and it is stressful. 

There are many types of stress; however, here I am referring to distress. Of the distress, there are two types. One is acute and the other is chronic.

Acute stress is intense and short-lived. It's like when we are pulled over by a police officer. After the incident, we can calm back down, depending of course on whether we get a ticket or not.

Chronic stress is ongoing; we could have it for days, weeks, months, or even years. We have chronic stress when we are in an unhappy situation and we can't seem to find a way out. For example, a credit card bill that only grows despite payments. Or maintaining a relationship that seems bad to stay but worse to leave. We are constantly arguing with family members. We are caring for the sick or elderly.

As we know, distress is the fight or flight response. It is getting our body ready to fight or flee for our survival. When this happens, our pupils dilate, blood flows away from the digestive system to the muscles of the extremities so we have the energy to fight or run. Our heart rate increases and we are on high alert or jittery.


Although most of the time we do not have to fight or flee for our survival, but we still experience the body mechanisms of that process. Continuously releasing these stress chemicals into our bodies takes its toll on our emotional and physical well-being.

We are so used to having stress that most of the time we don't realize we have it. Some people get headaches because they tense their neck and shoulder muscles and constrict the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain.

It is difficult for our brains to function when we are under stress. When emotions go up, thinking ability goes down, we become forgetful and misplace things. Sleeping through the night becomes difficult and we become accident-prone.

The body has the ability to heal itself, but when the body is continuously out of balance, it becomes detrimental to our health, turning into physical symptoms and illness. Symptoms of illness whether physical, mental or emotional are the bodies ways of letting us know we are out of balance.

I will be teaching a free class on the Mind/Body Connection. Come and find out how to create balance and allow healing to take place in your life. To find out about attending classes based on universal principles, click here.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Thanks to Rapid Eye Technology

Testimony from the RET newsletter:


"Until that new experience with Rapid Eye Therapy, I didn’t realize how old experiences from a person’s early years could affect the rest of their life. Now I understand that when a child is faced with a traumatic event (which may not be viewed as traumatic by another observer), the child reacts in a particular manner. That reaction is called a traumatic memory and will affect how that person reacts in similar situations throughout the rest of his or her life. That same reaction in childhood may not work so well or seem so rational when unconsciously triggered as an adult. But, a particular undesirable and unconscious behavior leftover from a forgotten trauma can be released in literally a session or two.

In one session, I released a problem that I had worked on in weekly sessions of traditional psychotherapy for four years with no relief from my distress, no end to my compulsive thoughts!

In one session of Rapid Eye Therapy, I found the birth-place of that horrible negative voice that plagued me in every job and every project throughout my life, and then in the same session, released it, never to be plagued again. Impossible, you say? That’s what I said before RET, but now I’m a true believer, a convert, and would do nearly anything for another session of RET." - Kathryn DeLong, Port Townsend, WA

Abundance & Gratitude


We constantly have an abundance of whatever we believe we deserve. With gratitude for all of life's gifts, we will see abundance in our lives!
Think about it! The universe is abundant with so many things it boggles the mind. To start with, think about how many stars are in the night sky; or, how about the grains of sand are on the beaches and the ocean floor. Then there are earth's trees, blades of grass, or drops of water to consider. Even the amount of people living on the earth is mind boggling to me.


As we've learned from quantum physics, it's all energy. The energy is either a particle or a wave depending on our focus. When we are not focused, the energy is a wave. When we do focus our thoughts, the energy turns into a particle and a creation is born. That's why when we think about something we want, if we don't have limiting beliefs about having it, we will manifest it in our reality.


Some things I have focused on and made a reality in my life are my two kids. I wanted a daughter with red hair and I got one. I wanted a son with brown eyes and either blond or dark brown hair. I couldn't decide which. My son has brown eyes, he had blond hair as a child, and now as an adult, his hair is dark brown. Thinking back on it, it seems like magic and really, it is. We just need to believe. Remember the Dr. Wayne W. Dyer quote, "I'll see it when I believe it".


What are some of the things you have created in your life by focused attention?


I will be teaching a free class on Abundance & Gratitude. To find out about attending classes about universal principles, click here.


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