To anyone who has been intrigued by the idea of creative visualization but felt hesitant or possibly a bit intimidated, Stacie Coller offers reassurance and hope. Coller is a certified hypnotist and a Reiki Master, as well as an artist and workshop facilitator. She has also written a book called Awake in Angelscape. In her [...]
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Words and Thoughts, Toxicity and Suppression
Posted in global community, healing the planet, healing the self, invisible world, positive thinking, spirituality, transformation, tagged anger, est training, healing, hostility, illness, invisible world, negative energy, Paul Theroux, power, Robert Frost, Sergio Aragones, Stephen Gaskin, suppressed communication, thoughtcrime, toxic thoughts, transformation on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sandra Ingerman wrote and made available online a very powerful essay called “How to Heal Toxic Thoughts.” It’s about the negative energy we send out, and how unconscious of it we often are. She tells about a dream that brought her a powerful message about “psychic punches.” These are impalpable, intangible attacks done with weapons [...]
Plants, Minerals, and Healing
Posted in good news, healing the self, therapy, tagged anthocyanins, antioxidant, aromatherapy, bilberry, blueberries, diabetes, Groshan Fabiola, headache, healing the self, health, Kathleen Blanchard, lemon grass, lemongrass, memory, minerals, natural remedies, Robert Preidt, Ross Heaven, Sabrina Rashid, sin eating, stones on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bilberry and Blood Sugar In BusinessWeek, Robert Preidt reports on research findings about the bilberry. For mice anyway, bilberry extract can help keep blood sugar levels where they are supposed to be, and there is hope that the same goes for humans. Eventually they would like to show that bilberry can help people who are [...]
Words and Beyond Words
Posted in book reviews, healing the planet, healing the self, positive thinking, practice, self-talk, shamanism, spirituality, words and language, tagged affirmations, Alberto Villaldo, blessings, empathy, global warming, Hank Wesselman, healing, Ian McEwan, integrity, language, Mick Brown, self-talk, therapy, transparency, words on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ian McEwan, the British novelist who confounds many expectations, was recently interviewed by Mick Brown for the Telegraph. (Brown too knows something about words, having written six books himself.) McEwan expects to take some heat for his new novel, Solar, which is about global warming. Citing the classifications made by Stewart Brand (of Whole Earth [...]
Toxic Cells and Toxic Thoughts
Posted in event, good news, healing the planet, healing the self, practice, teachers, therapy, transformation, tagged anger, cancer, disease, don Juan, Edward Abbey, Francoise Sagan, Gail Walker, Gina Kolata, healing, Mina Bissell, organs, research, shamanic practice, Stephen Gaskin, symposium, toxic cells, toxic thoughts, tumors on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, has been working for years in the field of tumor biology. She has made some astonishing discoveries that have influenced new generations of scientists, including the facts that cancer is not only a disease of the cell, but a disease of the organ; and there is an experimentally demonstrable mechanism [...]
Shamans of Asia
Posted in animals, children, global community, healing the self, practice, shamanism, transformation, tagged autism, Byambasuren Davaa, Dina Oyun, Galina Angarova, healing, horses, Kevin Bubriski, Kunsang Hyolmo, L. Kent Wolgamott, Mongolia, Nepal, sacred sites, shamanic healing, shamanic practice, shamanism, Siberia, singing, Slava Cheltuev, The Horse Boy, traditional music, Tuva on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kunsang Hyolmo is a social worker and a lover of traditional music, who has posted wonderful video clips of people drumming and chanting at a shaman festival in the Nepalese Himalayas. A shaman is known there as a Bhombo or a Jhankri, and shamanic practice is so integrated into everyday life that it’s not even [...]
Tools, Crafts, and Artifacts of Shamanism
Posted in healing the self, invisible world, practice, shamanism, spirituality, tagged amulets, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, ceremonial robes, crafting, creativity, drums, H. K. Gresham, Hank Wesselman, helping spirits, inspiration, Jose Stevens, Karen Furr, Leopard Man, masks, power, rattles, Sandra Ingerman, shaman regalia, shamanic artifacts, shamanic practice, shamanic tools, Shipibo, songs, soul-crafting, spirit world, St. Francis, woven song on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At Shamanista.com, H. K. Gresham has created some information resource pages, one of which is titled “Masks and Other Shaman Regalia.” In a clear and useful way, the author explains why the various objects are significant. For instance, donning a ceremonial robe is a signal to the shaman’s self and to the community that the [...]
Sacred Movement, Sacred Dance
Posted in dance, global community, healing the planet, healing the self, practice, spirituality, teachers, therapy, transformation, tagged creativity, Dances of Universal Peace, ecstatic dance, Elizabeth Gilbert, genius, global community, hula, peace, religion, Samuel L. Lewis, TED talks, tradition, transformation on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Dances of Universal Peace were assembled in their current form by Samuel L. Lewis late in the 1960s. In a quiet setting, participants, dressed in comfortable, loose clothing, join hands in a circle. In its center are the musicians, and the leader, who teaches the movements and words, and sometimes relates a little history [...]
Transformational Breathing, or Turbo Therapy
Posted in healing the planet, healing the self, new beginnings, practice, teachers, therapy, transformation, tagged addiction, Alan Dolan, alternative medicine, breathwork, conscious breathing, energy, healing, Judith Kravitz, meditation, Stephanie Theobald, transformation, transformational breathing, turbo therapy, Yoko Ono on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Journalist and novelist Stephanie Theobald, who may know more about celebrities than anyone on the planet, notes that Goldie Hawn and Deepak Chopra have been into transformational breathing for many years. On Times Online, Theobald shares with us her own experience, including her history as a willing but unsuccessful beneficiary of various alternative medicine modalities [...]
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