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NOURISHING YOURSELF

Why You Should Heal Yourself

By Patrick Arden McNally

October 10, 2007

I find so many people today who put their faith in doctors; they say, “The doctor will heal me.”  Its true that the doctor can prescribe ways to heal symptoms of a disease, but they don’t typically heal the ROOT CAUSE OF DISEASE.

In eastern medicine, the philosophy is that disease first occurs in the mind (emotional/mental beliefs).  It then manifests as a blockage in the Spirit (aura/soul body), and then finally manifests in the physical body as disease. To truly heal yourself, it is important to heal the limiting or “less-than-Love” beliefs from your being. There are many ways to do this, and I will list some of them below.

But first, Why Should You Heal Yourself?

Healing yourself brings about a higher vibration in your aura, which attracts to you a greater number of higher vibrational situations infused with Love, Peace, Prosperity, Joy and Health. It attracts to you people who live these virtues in their everyday life. Enjoy these as gifts from the Creator.

Complete health is totally within your reach.

All it takes is conscious awareness of your belief systems, and then the intent to change them to the highest vibration of Love. When you do this, your body will come to a complete state of health, regenerating your body quicker than it ages, and allowing a long life to pursue your dreams. Happiness is your divine birthright. Enjoy life. Learn to Love everything (which includes yourself), and you will find peace in this realm and the next.

Healing your belief systems help you to remove blocks to manifesting your goals and dreams. These are your divine birthright. You deserve them in every way, shape and form. The only thing holding you back from achieving your dreams - is you. Remove the blockages to achieving your dreams, and you will find they shall flow with grace and ease into your life.

Healing yourself helps to reduce the stress you feel in the world. You may be faced with the same situations, but they won’t stress you out any longer. You will come upon an angry person, and instead of being taken over and affected by their anger, you will look at it as a cry for Love, and you will send them that Love which in turn heals that situation.

You will have better relationships with your family, friends and co-workers. Healing yourself means finding a higher vibration of Love, which in turn, lets you see the Love in all people. You will find peace and forgiveness with your friends, family, and acquaintances.

Healing yourself heals others.

When you heal yourself, you release tension from the Universe, which brings a higher state of relaxation for all.  This helps others release tension which brings about a more relaxed state for All. Healing yourself Heals All. Loving yourself is Loving All. And Loving All is Loving yourself.

Healing yourself brings about a better world for you and you kin, and for all that dwell on this Loving Planet. You find new ways of living that are environmentally responsible, that bring Love to all people, which in turn betters the world for all people.

Global Shift.

There is a Global Shift in consciousness right now.  This shift will bring about Unity Consciousness (the concept that we are all One), which will create a more peaceful world where all will live in harmony.

To facilitate this shift smoothly, it is important to release outdated beliefs that no longer resonate with the world in this heightened state of Love. Healing yourself will help this process go smoothly and effortlessly. You will be brought to a higher state of Love; you are the one who gets to choose how easy it is.

If you don’t heal now, before your life takes a turn for the worse, it will bring you to a place where you are forced to choose between Releasing the Past (forgiveness), or living out your days in a state of disease.

Releasing does not have to be painful, it just requires that you change your belief systems to one of a higher Loving vibration. You can do this. I have faith in all of you to do this. It is simple.

There are many ways to heal yourself, and the following are suggestions to get you started:

• 1. Get Reiki/Energy Healing done. Reiki and Energy Healing provide you with the inertia to effortlessly release your old beliefs. These healing modalities remove blockages in the Spirit to help you move forward with your life, and in living a more Loving existence. If you feel called, Learn Reiki or other Energy healing systems such as Sechim, Chi Kung, etc.

• 2. DNA Activations. If you want to raise your vibration, this is one of the easiest ways to do it. DNA Activation connects the strand of DNA that science considers to be “junk DNA” to your DNA to create a 12-strand DNA molecule. This helps you connect to and anchor in the higher frequencies of spiritual energy to attract to you more high vibrational situations. You can do these for free at the Stage II attunement sections of  www.thewaveoflove.com.

• 3. Forgive yourself and others. By forgiving, you are releasing the past. There is no need for guilt, shame, fear, anger, hatred, or punishment. God does not punish, God Loves. God heals. Ask the Universe for healing, and it will be granted. Forgive yourself and others, and you are truly releasing the past so you can live a better now.

• 4. Soul Retrieval.  Get Soul Retrieval from a trained healer, or read the book Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval by Alberto Villoldo. His book teaches you step-by-step to heal your original wound that caused a part of your soul to leave you. You then retrieve that part of your soul, there by becoming whole again. This brings about many changes in cluing more energy, more Love, being less affected by negative emotions of others, and allowing you to fully step into your power and manifest your perfect destiny. The book also includes destiny retrieval to learn about the contracts you made to come in to the world, and then rewrite them in to a new contract which helps you achieve your goals and ambitions. More info at:  www.thefourwinds.com.

• 5. Journal everyday. Journaling helps us connect to our subconscious by letting out onto paper the emotions we are feeling. Have a gratitude journal and journal about the things you Love and are thankful for. Have another journal where you channel your negative emotions into, and then burn those pages that you write after you write them, there by transmuting your negative emotions into positive ones. I guarantee you will feel lighter and more joyous after each session. It only takes a little time a day to do this, but the outcome is so worth the time.

• 6. Look into Feng Shui. Feng Shui is the art of organizing your space. It allows for better flow of energy in your work and home environment. My friend told me once, the more your room is cluttered, the more your mind is cluttered, and I have found this to be true. Cleaning your house helps you clean your mind (and vice versa). Search for Feng Shui, and you will find many sites ready to help you on your journey.

• 7. Hypnosis.  Getting Hypnosis done can allow you to become conscious of patterns that you may have repressed that no longer serve you. You release these thoughts/emotions and become free of them to truly live a more happy life full of grace. There are many Hypnotherapy practitioners who can help you along your way.

• 8. Envision a better future for yourself and the world. See the Highest level of Peace, Love and Harmony in all things an hold that visualization for as long as you can. Because by doing that, you are manifesting the energies of that new reality to come down, and it will eventually unfold with grace and ease. Envision yourself working at your dream job, you can have this. You deserve it! Visualization it the key to manifestation. Use this power for the greatest good of all and you will be rewarded with the gifts it brings.

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Patrick Arden McNally is a Reiki Master/Teacher, Sechim Master/Teacher, and has channeled two new energy systems into the world.  Patrick McNally has a healing practice in Duluth, MN.

For more information, visit Mr. McNally’s website at:  www.thehealingpathduluth.com

Patrick McNally’s e-mail is: pmcnally2@angels.la

© 2007 Patrick Arden McNally.  All Rights Reserved.

SPIRITUALITY

Beingness, Doingness and Havingness

Excerpted from:  Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

First be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:  they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier.

Think of life as having three aspects: beingness, doingness and havingness.

Be
Beingness is the basic experience of being alive and conscious.  It is the experience we have in deep meditation, the experience of being totally complete and at rest within oneself.

Do
Doingness is movement and activity, it stems from the natural creative energy that flows through every living thing and is the source of our vitality.

Have
Havingness is the state of being in relationship with other people and things in the Universe.  It is the ability to allow and accept things and people into our lives; to comfortably occupy the same space with them.

Instead of living life backwards, it really works in the reverse.

First BE, then DO, and this results in HAVING.

You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you really want.

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Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
Published by New World Library, San Rafael, CA

© 1978 Shakti Gawain. All rights reserved.

SPIRITUALITY

What Is Religion?

By Eknath Easwaran

When I was a professor of English, one of my favorite authors was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a vigorous defender of the faith whose work sparkles with aphorisms. Once, as I recall, someone remarked to Chesterton, “What’s wrong with the world today is that people don’t have anything to believe in.”

“Rather say,” Chesterton replied, “that because people don’t have anything to believe in, they will believe in anything at all.”

I often remember this profound remark when I look at the pages of the daily papers, from the headlines to the entertainment section and the personals. Everywhere people seem to be at sea, without any pole star by which to chart their lives, and as a result our lives are in turmoil, our cities almost war zones, our planet endangered, and our precious young people left mostly on their own to make the choices that will determine, not only their own future, but the future of our society as well.

A Religious Renaissance

Here I would agree with Chesterton that what we need is nothing less than a wholehearted return to the timeless values of life – a spiritual revolution, a religious renaissance. This dramatic change could be brought about by our children and our children’s children if we begin to lay the foundations for it now.

And it wouldn’t take too many of us. A few groups in this country, a few groups in every country, a few groups from every religion would be enough – not talking about theology but practicing the disciplines that all the world’s great religions have given us for turning away from material satisfactions and learning to live for the welfare of all.

It is quite possible to see this happening in other fields of life than those we think of as spiritual. Unassuming leaders can arise in the home or community; they can arise in the church or synagogue or temple; they might even arise in politics, as Mahatma Gandhi showed. But I am not talking about spiritual giants like Gandhi; I am talking about ordinary people like you and me who make an extraordinary commitment to practicing the fundamental principles of religion in their daily lives.

Religion’s Two Wings

What are these fundamental principles? One of my lover’s quarrels with our modern civilization is that there is such a lamentable lack of understanding of the very basics of what religion means. Authorities say that very few people understand what quantum dynamics is; I would say even fewer understand what religion is. Religion has two wings: first, that God is present in every one of us; and second, that he can be realized – not after death, but in this life.

These two great truths are the very basis of religion, and if you look at any of the world’s great religious traditions, you will find that they all flow from the personal experience of someone who has made these discoveries in his or her own life.

The greatest misunderstanding about religion arises from our physical orientation. Many intelligent people assume that religion asserts a God who is “out there” somewhere, swinging in a hammock between two galaxies. Even great philosophers have fallen victim to this prejudice. I have been able to disarm such people by explaining, on the basis of my own personal experience, that God is closer to us than this body, dearer to us than this life. As the Sufis put it, he is closer to me than my jugular vein. God is not outside us somewhere; he is within us, in the very depths of our consciousness.

And not only within us: he is within everyone. People may be selfish, they may be violent, they may be causing a lot of trouble to everybody including themselves: God is still present in them and in every other human being on earth.

Second, it is possible for every one of us to realize this God within. In all the world’s great religions, this is the purpose of human life: to realize God in the depths of our consciousness.

“Knowing God,” then, means knowing who we really are. It means correcting the superstition that we are the product of physical and chemical forces, that our character is something we are born with and our destiny is something over which we have no control. It means discovering that we are not physical creatures that can be satisfied with physical gratifications, but spiritual beings made in the image of God.

This supreme discovery brings a complete transformation of character, consciousness, and conduct that cannot help making profound changes in the world around us. That is why I say that as I present it, religion is the solution to all the problems that burden us today. In a truly religious country we would have no wars, no violence, no exploitation, no pollution of air and water – for the simple reason that when you realize God, you see God in everyone. I don’t have to close my eyes in meditation to see God. I see nothing else. And I see, at the same time, that not only every human being but every living creature, the mountains, the rivers, the seas, the skies, the forests and the earth, are all one indivisible whole.

“You must watch my life,” said Mahatma Gandhi, “how I live, eat, sit, talk, behave in general. The sum total of all those in me is my religion.” That is what religion means, and I can sum up my work as an attempt to reach millions of people with this message so that they can lead lives that are healthier, happier, and vastly more fulfilling through the practice of meditation.

In this sense, the purpose of the spiritual life is, number one, to keep the body at its best. Just the opposite of what most people believe! We can see what it means in the life of Gandhi, so marvelously fit and vibrantly active even in his late seventies. Religion means keeping the body at its best not for the purpose of enjoying pleasure, but because the body is our instrument of loving service. We cannot lead a life of selfless service without a body at its best, and the body cannot function at its best until we observe all the physical disciplines of good health: nourishing food, regular exercise, wholesome recreation, sound sleep, and, most important of all, a mind at peace and a heart full of love.

Second, religion means joy that never leaves you. In every tradition, the mystics tell us that anything that comes and goes will not satisfy us. Only that which stays with us, which makes us more forgiving, more forbearing, more secure, more loving - that alone can satisfy the hunger in our hearts.

Third, religion means creativity at its best. This is something loftier than creativity in art or science. Your very life becomes a work of art. In no situation will you feel inadequate. Because the Lord is within you, your resources are infinite. You may not always find a solution to the problem facing you, but in whatever situation you are placed, you will be able to make a lasting contribution.

Lifting the Burden of Mortality

Last, and most important of all, the practice of the spiritual life gradually lifts the burden of physical identification. By keeping the body at its best, the mind at its best, the will at its best, and the intellect at its best, we can use all these faculties to slowly take off our identity with this jacket that is the physical body. That is all the body is: a jacket that we wear. But we think that is who we are – and we confuse others with their bodies, too, with the tragic result that we believe they are different from ourselves.

As meditation deepens, we see more and more clearly that we and others have 99 percent in common; the differences are only on the surface. With this discovery, every kind of discrimination on the basis of physical characteristics disappears.

All this is what religion means in practice, and that is why I believe there is no problem we face that does not have a spiritual solution.

www.easwaran.org

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From Blue Mountain, A Journal for Spiritual Living.
Written by Eknath Easwaran, founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.
Reprinted by permission of Nilgiri Press, P. O. Box 256, Tomales, CA 94971

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