Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: Awakening Exercise for Chapter 5: Dissolving the Pain-Body

Awakening Exercise for Chapter 5:Dissolving the Pain-Body
Adapted from Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now (p. 76–84)

The pain-body doesn't want you to observe it directly. The moment you observe the pain-body, feel its energy field within you and take your attention into it, the identification is broken. A higher dimension of consciousness comes in. It is called Presence. You are now the witness or the watcher of the pain-body.Here are three ways to observe and dissolve the pain-body:
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Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself in whatever form—it may be the awakening pain-body. This can take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your relationship and so on. Catch the pain-body the moment it awakens from its dormant stage.

Observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious.

Focus attention on the negative feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it—don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you.

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Ever Wonder What Your Chakra's Are Saying?

I was just looking through some ad's on the page here an noticed one I found to be interesting. After answering 40 or so questions it gave me this answer:

Your most positive energy is flowing from your Third Chakra

This chakra is located in your solar plexus, which is just below the breastbone. The third chakra represents one's ability to honor and accept the self. In your case, this chakra appears to be clear and unblocked so that positive energy can flow from it freely. Radiating positive energy from your third chakra indicates that you've cultivated higher wisdom concerning the important life lessons associated with this energy center. You're apt to treat yourself with kindness. You're also likely to forgive your mistakes rather than dwell on them unnecessarily.
Whether they're allowing positive energy to flow or preventing it from doing so, all seven of your body's chakras contribute to how you are feeling on a day-to-day basis. When they're balanced, you feel energized and at the top of your game. When they're unbalanced, you may feel tired or 'off'. While we have focused on identifying the one chakra that allows your positive energy to flow most freely, we have also discovered the ways your other six chakras are handling the passage of energy.

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Listening From The Heart

On last night's Millionaire Mastermind Roundtable Conference Call I spoke about Listening from the Heart. I wanted to make sure that if you were unable to make our FREE Conference Call (which we hold every Monday night at 7:30 pm PST at 646-519-5800 pin code 6195#) that you would still have the opportunity to benefit from the information presented.

Through my experiences of training and coaching and finding my way through this game we call life... I have come to understand that the fastest way to build a relationships is to truly care about the other person. This is true for both your personal, business or professional life. Perhaps just by listening from the heart is the best way to demonstrate that you care.

Heck, when I was growing up I did so much more listening than I did talking. Actually...let me rephrase that...I hardly ever talked and just about always listened! I was bit of a shy girl however it taught me some very valuable lessons. It allowed me to go beyond the words, to watch peoples mannerisms, their energy change, it allowed me to develop a sense of who they are and where they were coming from...just by listening to them.

So what is listening from the heart and how the heck do you do it?

Well, let me ask you this. Have you ever witnessed or perhaps yourself been involved in a conversation when only one person was actually present in the conversation?
For Example: You are on the phone with a friend, colleague or client, talking about something you are very passionate about and you get the feeling or perhaps you even hear then typing up an email or just waiting for a time when they can interrupt you so they can talk about whatever it is they want to talk about?

Now how did that instance make you feel? Did you loose a little bit of respect or trust for that person?

Now let me give you another example.
You are on the phone or in person talking about something you are very passionate about and while you are speaking you see that the person is looking you in the eyes, you can feel their sincerity and their connection with you and when it is their turn to speak...not only were they able to reflect back to you some of the points you had just mentioned but perhaps they can offer a similar situation that happened to them which tells you they were really listening.

So how will this information serve me or serve you?
This information will serve you in many ways. It will allow you to build deeper, stronger and more meaningful relationships with not only your family, friends and loved ones but also your clients, co-workers and business partners. It will allow you to connect on another, deeper lever. Listening from the heart is another form of connecting and whether you are in a sales environment or not, relationships are still being developed. It is up to you how deep you want to take them. Do you want a bunch of superficical relationships or do you want more meaningful ones? Do you want to walk into a room and know every ones name and only be able to comment on their attire that evening or how the weather has been or do you want to be able to engage in a conversation, perhaps even pick up where you left off because you listened with your heart and made a deeper connection? You and you alone must take 100% responsibility for the way things are if you don't like where you are at then make the decision right now to change them.

So if one of the most basic human needs is to be heard and understood and to have a connection with others...How in the world to do you give this gift of Listening from the Heart to others?

In other words, what must you do next for peak results?
1. First, you will want to shift your focus from your own thoughts to what the other person is saying. Listen with an open heart. Listen beyond what the words are that they are saying and listen to their feelings, their needs and their energy so you can truly understand the speaker.

2. At the same time you are giving 100% focus to the speaker, quiet your own internal dialogue (that talk that goes on in your head as we try to multi-task or think about what we are doing after the call such as picking up the kids or meeting up with someone for coffee).

3. Express interest by using body language, making eye contact, and sitting in a receptive posture (no arms crossed or slouching deep in your chair).

I would like to take this opportunity to challenge you all to choose one phone call a day to truly listen and understand the speaker on the other end of the line.

Also for the next 24 hours, avoid giving solutions or attempting to just fix a situation. Instead, support this person you are speaking with in finding their own way, this will build their confidence and increase accountability.

And lastly, practice listening from the Heart with a family member each and every day and see how positively they respond back to you! I guarantee you will see a shift in your relationship...one for the better.

With that in mind I want to thank you all for being here and connecting with me through this blog. I look forward to speaking with you in person and feel free to comment and give me your feedback as well.

Until then, Take Care!
Shay

Energy Medicine

PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY MEDICINE
David Feinstein, Ph.D.©2005


Energy medicine recognizes energy as a vital, living, moving force that determines much about health and happiness. In energy medicine, energy is the medicine, and energy is also the patient. You heal the body by activating its natural healing energies; you also heal the body by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance. Energy medicine is both a complement to other approaches to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. The essential principles of energy medicine include:


1.Energies—both electromagnetic energies and more subtle energies—form the dynamic infrastructure of the physical body.


2.The health of those energies–in terms of flow, balance, and harmony–is reflected in the health of the body.


3.Conversely, when the body is not healthy, corresponding disturbances in its energies can be identified and treated.


4.To overcome illness and maintain vibrant health, the body needs its energies to:
a. Move and have space to continue to move—energies may become blocked due to toxins, muscular or other constriction, prolonged stress, or interference from other energies.
b. Move in specific patterns—generally in harmony with the physical structures and functions that the energies animate and support. "Flow follows function."
c. Cross over—at all levels, from the microlevel of the double helix of DNA, extending to the macrolevel where the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side to the left.
d. Maintain a balance with other energies—the energies may lose their natural balance due to prolonged stress or other conditions that keep specific energy systems in a survival mode.


5.Flow, balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained within an energy system by:
a. tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points on the skin
b. tracing or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy pathways
c. exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects
d. focused use of the mind to move specific energies
e. surrounding an area with healing energies (one person’s energies impacts another’s)


THE EIGHT PRIMARY ENERGY SYSTEMS


People who "see energy" can describe with some precision the anatomy of the energy body, and their descriptions tend to corroborate one another. These descriptions are now backed by electromagnetic measurements, and they also correlate with descriptions of subtle energies found throughout the world, understood in each culture’s own terms and concepts. The meridians, chakras, and aura are three terms that have entered our language, but other energy systems have been identified as well. One of the individuals known for being able to "see" or clairvoyantly read the body’s energies, Donna Eden, describes eight energy systems that impact body and mind. The eight systems include:


1) Meridians 2) Chakras 3) Aura 4) The Basic Grid 5) Celtic weave 6) The Five Rhythms 7) Triple Warmer 8) Radiant Circuits


The following descriptions of the eight systems are built around eight analogies, each designed to give you a more concrete sense of the nature and function of one of these invisible systems.


1) The Meridians: In the way an artery carries blood, a meridian carries energy. As the body's energy bloodstream, the meridian system brings vitality and balance, removes blockages, adjusts metabolism, and even determines the speed and form of cellular change. The flow of the meridian energy pathways is as critical as the flow of blood. No energy, no life. Meridians affect every organ and every physiological system, including the immune, nervous, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, skeletal, muscular, and lymphatic systems. Each system is fed by at least one meridian. If a meridian's energy is obstructed or unregulated, the system it feeds is jeopardized. The meridians include fourteen tangible channels that carry energy into, through, and out of your body. Your meridian pathways also connect hundreds of tiny, distinct reservoirs of heat and electromagnetic energy along the surface of the skin. These are your acupuncture points, and they can be stimulated with needles or physical pressure to release or redistribute energy along the meridian pathway.


2) The Chakras: The word chakra translates from the Sanskrit as disk, vortex, or wheel. The chakras are concentrated centers of energy. Each major chakra in the human body is a center of swirling energy positioned at one of seven points, from the base of your spine to the top of your head. Where the meridians deliver their energy to the organs, the chakras bathe the organs in their energies. Each chakra supplies energy to specific organs, corresponds to a distinct aspect of your personality, and resonates (respectively, from the bottom to the top chakra) with one of seven universal principles having to do with survival, creativity, identity, love, expression, comprehension, or transcendence. Your chakras also code your experiences in their energies, just as memories are chemically coded in your neurons. An imprint of every emotionally significant event you have experienced is believed to be recorded in your chakra energies. A sensitive practitioner's hand held over a chakra may resonate with pain in a related organ, congestion in a lymph node, subtle abnormalities in heat or pulsing, areas of emotional turmoil, or even tune into a stored memory that might be addressed as part of the healing process.


3) The Aura: Your aura is a multi-layered shell of energy that emanates from your body and interacts with the energies of your environment. It is itself a protective atmosphere that surrounds you, filtering out many of the energies you encounter and drawing in others that you need. Like a space suit, your aura protects you from harmful energies. Like a radio antenna, it brings in energies with which it resonates. The aura is a conduit, a two-way antenna that brings in energy from the environment to your chakras and that sends energy from your chakras outward. When you feel happy, attractive, and spirited, your aura may fill an entire room. When you are sad, despondent, and somber, your aura crashes in on you, forming an energetic shell that isolates you from the world. Some people’s auras characteristically reach out and embrace you. Others keep you out like an electric fence. A study conducted by Valerie Hunt, a neurophysiologist at UCLA's Energy Fields Laboratory, compared "aura readings" with neurophysiological measures. The auras seen by eight practitioners not only corresponded with one another, they correlated with wave patterns picked up by electrodes on the skin at the spot that was being observed.


4) The Basic Grid: The basic grid is your body’s foundational energy. Like the chassis of a car, all the other energy systems ride on the energy of the basic grid. For instance, when you are lying down, it would appear to a seer such as Donna that each of your chakras sits upon this foundational energy. Grid energy is sturdy and fundamental. But severe trauma can damage and deform the grid, and when this occurs, it does not usually repair itself spontaneously. Rather, the other energy systems adjust themselves to the damaged grid, much as a personality may be formed around early traumatic experiences. Repairing a person’s basic grid is one of the most advanced and intense forms of energy therapy. If a grid’s structure or a car’s chassis is sound, you never notice it is there; if it is damaged, nothing else is quite right.


5) The Celtic Weave: The body’s energies spin, spiral, curve, twist, crisscross, and weave themselves into patterns of magnificent beauty. The equilibrium of this kaleidoscope of colors and shapes is maintained by an energy system known by different names to energy healers throughout the world. In the East, it has been called the "Tibetan energy ring." In yoga tradition, it is represented by two curved lines that cross seven times, symbolically encasing the seven chakras. In the West, it is seen in the caduceus, the intertwined serpents­also crossing seven times­found on the staff that is the symbol of the medical profession. Donna uses the term Celtic weave not only because she has a personal affinity with Celtic healing, but also because the pattern looks to her like the old Celtic drawings of a spiraling, sideways infinity sign, never beginning and never ending and sometimes forming a triple spiral. Like an invisible thread that keeps all the energy systems functioning as a single unit, the Celtic weave networks throughout and around the body in spiraling figure-eight patterns. The double helix of DNA is this pattern in microcosm. The left hemisphere’s control of the right side of the body and the right hemisphere’s control of the left side is this pattern writ large.


6) The Five Rhythms: Your meridians, chakras, aura, and other essential energies are influenced by a more pervasive energy system. Donna does not see it as a separate energy but rather as a rhythm that runs through all the others, leaving its vibratory imprint on physical attributes, health patterns, and personality traits. Mapped long ago in traditional Chinese medicine, all of life was categorized into five "elements," "movements," or "seasons" (there is no perfect translation­all three terms have been used, suggesting qualities of being both cyclical and substantial). These energies were considered the building blocks of the universe, providing a basis for understanding how the world works, how societies organize themselves, and what the human body needs to maintain health. Metaphors for describing these five distinct rhythms have drawn from concrete, observable elements of nature (water, wood, fire, earth, and metal) and from the seasons (winter, spring, summer, Indian summer, and autumn). Like the background music during a movie, the person's primary rhythm, in combination with the changing rhythms of life's seasons, directs the tone and mood of the entire energy system and sets the atmosphere of the life being lived.


7) The Triple Warmer: Triple warmer is the meridian that networks the energies of the immune system to attack an invader, and it mobilizes the body’s energies in an emergency for the fight-or-flight-or-freeze response. In carrying out these critical functions, it operates in ways that are so beyond the range of any other meridian that some consider it a system unto itself. Although the exact reasons for the term "triple warmer" are lost in antiquity, its energies work in conjunction with the hypothalamus gland, which is the body’s thermostat. The hypothalamus is also the instigator of the body’s emergency response. Like an army, triple warmer mobilizes during threat or perceived threat, coordinating all the other energy systems to activate the immune response, govern the fight/flight/freeze mechanism, and establish and maintain habitual responses to threat.


8) The Radiant Circuits: The radiant circuits function to ensure that all the other energy systems are working for the common good. They redistribute energies to where they are most needed, responding to any health challenge the body might encounter. In terms of evolution, the radiant circuits have been around longer than the meridians. Primitive organisms such as insects move their energies via the radiant circuits rather than through a meridian system, and the radiant circuits can be seen in the embryo before the meridians develop. As in the way that riverbeds are formed, it is as if radiant energies that habitually followed the same course became meridians. Where the meridians are tied to fixed pathways and specific organs, the radiant energies operate as fluid fields, embodying a distinct spontaneous intelligence. Like hyperlinks on a website, they jump instantly to wherever they are needed, bringing revitalization, joy, and spiritual connection. If triple warmer mobilizes your inner militia, the radiant circuits mobilize your inner mom, showering you with healing energy, providing life-sustaining resources, and lifting your morale.



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Principles of Holistic Medical Practice

According to AHMA: The American Holistic Medical Association

Principles of Holistic Medical Practice

1. Optimal health is the primary goal of holistic medical practice. It is the conscious pursuit of the highest level of functioning and balance of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of human experience, resulting in a dynamic state of being fully alive. This creates a condition of well-being regardless of the presence or absence of disease.

2. The Healing Power of Love. Holistic health care practitioners strive to meet the patient with grace, kindness, acceptance, and spirit without condition, as love is life’s most powerful healer.

3. Whole person. Holistic health care practitioners view people as the unity of body, mind, spirit and the systems in which they live.

4. Prevention and treatment. Holistic health care practitioners promote health, prevent illness and help raise awareness of dis-ease in our lives rather than merely managing symptoms. A holistic approach relieves symptoms, modifies contributing factors, and enhances the patient’s life system to optimize future well-being.

5. Innate Healing Power. All people have innate powers of healing in their bodies, minds and spirits. Holistic health care practitioners evoke and help patients utilize these powers to affect the healing process.

6. Integration of Healing Systems. Holistic health care practitioners embrace a lifetime of learning about all safe and effective options in diagnosis and treatment. These options come from a variety of traditions, and are selected in order to best meet the unique needs of the patient. The realm of choices may include lifestyle modification and complementary approaches as well as conventional drugs and surgery.

7. Relationship-centered care. The ideal practitioner-patient relationship is a partnership which encourages patient autonomy, and values the needs and insights of both parties. The quality of this relationship is an essential contributor to the healing process.

8. Individuality. Holistic health care practitioners focus patient care on the unique needs and nature of the person who has an illness rather than the illness that has the person.

9. Teaching by Example. Holistic health care practitioners continually work toward the personal incorporation of the principles of holistic health, which then profoundly influence the quality of the healing relationship.

10. Learning opportunities. All life experiences including birth, joy, suffering and the dying process are profound learning opportunities for both patients and health care practitioners.