I was asked a question about Prana for my newsletter and realized it is a great subject and often not discussed unless you roam around people who do yoga.  Even then, yogis usually talk about it in terms of breath and techniques.  The newsletter has some detail of how to enhance the receiving of Prana [...]]]> I was asked a question about Prana for my newsletter and realized it is a great subject and often not discussed unless you roam around people who do yoga.  Even then, yogis usually talk about it in terms of breath and techniques.  The newsletter has some detail of how to enhance the receiving of Prana in your life.

A healthy living person is filled with Prana, Qi or Universal Life force. Prana penetrates every aspect of life, it is in every physical system, from your digestive system to circulatory system, skeletal, muscular and nervous system. Prana goes to every part of your body, enriching it and keeping it strong and healthy. Prana does the work of repairing, maintaining and growing the body. Prana not only powers the physical processes but the creative processes as well. All these functions are done under the direction of the Mind. Much of the direction is unconscious, for instance you don’t remind your heart to continue beating or direct the body to manage the many hormonal functions always at work in your body.

The Mind regulates the distribution, gathering and storage of Prana. The Mind gives as much possible Prana to whatever part of the body needs it. It does not does not hold back any Prana. The Mind will direct all of its stored Prana to any area that needs it if in crisis.

Prana is not something that is created. Prana is everywhere. We gather Prana to us.  Prana is stored in the Solar Plexus or the third Chakra.  If I had you in one of my Medical Intuitive classes or Map of Manifestation Classes, I would be able to explain all the ramifications of Prana being stored in the Solar Plexus.  At this time let’s just say that Prana storage is the main focus of preventative health care. Prana storage and distribution is the reason the digestive system and esteem/ego issues are stressed in any comprehensive holistic healing practice.

When you have an abunance of Prana you begin to radiate energy and life.  You become both magnetic and electric.  People and situations are attracted to you.  You also send Prana to others to elevate others because it is not meant to be kept to oneself.

Take into account that everything you do requires Prana.  Learning how to gather Prana consciously is one of the most important ways you can impact your life and others.

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When was the last time you laughed so hard you could hardly catch your breath? Generating laughter is one of the best things you can do for yourself and others.

Studies have shown that laughter can do wonderful things for you.  Laughter creates movement in your energy body [...]]]>

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When was the last time you laughed so hard you could hardly catch your breath? Generating laughter is one of the best things you can do for yourself and others.

Studies have shown that laughter can do wonderful things for you.  Laughter creates movement in your energy body as well.  Laughter is mostly energetic, which is why it is so contagious.

The body has three barriers to the outside world, each of which are opportunities to defend itself from negative forces or incorporate positive forces.

The first layer is the aura, the second is the skin and alimentary canal and finally the immune system.

Laughter on an energetic level strengthens each of these layers.  Laughter also removes or moves the stagnant energies in these layers.

When you have a good laugh the aura gets revitalized and fluffed.  Every time the aura gets revitalized the aura will bounce negative energies from entering your system.  The laughter also serves to move the negative vibrations out of your aura. If you had a picture of your aura, you would see it get brighter and change color. The more you consistently laugh you will find your aura remain brighter. There’s a reason for the sparkle in someones eye when thinking of something funny. That sparkle is light that shines throughout your energy body.

• Laughter fluffs up the aura by sending vibrations through the auric field.  The movement of your body as you laugh contributes to the aura fluffing.

• Positive thoughts are predominant while laughing.  It is impossible to have negative thoughts while laughing.

• Laughter rejuvenates the chakras, nadis and meridians.

• Laughter combats fear, worry and stress.

The act of laughing brings oxygen into your body.  Your skin and blood becomes revitalized when you have more oxygen.  The brain receives more oxygen, signaling the autonomic nervous system.  The autonomic nervous system, tells the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) that all is well.  The relaxation of the sympathetic system allows for more flow of blood towards the skin.  Strengthening the barrier against items that might pass this barrier.

These are some of the benefits to the immune system.

1. Boosts the immune system
2. Lowers blood pressure
3. Reduces stress hormones
4. Increases muscle flexion
5. Boosts immune function
6. Raises levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies.
7. Triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers
8. Produces a general sense of well-being.

What to do…

If you are suffering from any form of dis-ease, physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.  Remember to laugh.  You will feel better.

A day is wasted when there is no laughter in it.  So laugh, tell a joke, take yourself lightly, watch a funny movie.  Smile.  Make laughter a habit.

If you feel you can’t spontaneously laugh… watch this video.   I promise this is good energy medicine.

The next thing to do is share this with your friends and family.  After all laughter is contagious.  Have a good laugh with everyone you know.  If you have a funny joke or story, please share it in the comments below.

Come back often and laugh with me. Let’s make some fun energy medicine together and send squeels of laughter throughout our lives and out to our world.

Sometimes we know exactly what our pets need and other times we just don’t have enough information. If breaks our hearts when our pet is in need and we just can’t find a good solution to help them. I live in Florida where we get some pretty big storms, both my cat and dog tell [...]]]> Sometimes we know exactly what our pets need and other times we just don’t have enough information. If breaks our hearts when our pet is in need and we just can’t find a good solution to help them. I live in Florida where we get some pretty big storms, both my cat and dog tell me that one is about to happen and they make sure to have a paw, tail or head touching me during the storm. I think its their way of saying… “Mom send me some healing energy.” Thank you Lisa for sharing your story. Ubu is my beloved 15 year old rescued yellow lab. Since we adopted him 12 years ago he has exhibited many fears: tall people, long sticks, loud noises. Ubu, like many other dogs, is terrified of thunderstorms. During storms he goes into the closet, his hideout, and begins drooling, hyperventilating and crying. I have slept many nights in the closet trying to calm him down. The experience has been so taxing that we have tried everything including veterinary prescribed drugs. While the drugs seemed to work, he would get very lethargic, so we stopped them. Recently, as I was Twittering about my experience with Ubu during a storm, my Twitter friend Medical Intuitive Mirit Turley recommended Rescue Remedy. Rescue Remedy is a natural stress relief formula for humans, but safe for pets. It became the answer to the problem, I put a few drops in his water before the storm arrives and he is able to handle the storm with no side effects, no hyperventilating, no crying, and better yet, no sleeping in the closet for me. He recently slept through a storm and his snoring was actually competing with the thunder. I am grateful for my Twitter friend and for Rescue Remedy.

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Wendy was a woman who lived on her own in Queens, NY  She lived a very simple life.  She had a few close friends and a daughter who was distant.  Wendy’s job was not too stressful. She could go to work and come home and do her crafts and take care of her home.  Wendy [...]]]> Wendy was a woman who lived on her own in Queens, NY  She lived a very simple life.  She had a few close friends and a daughter who was distant.  Wendy’s job was not too stressful. She could go to work and come home and do her crafts and take care of her home.  Wendy lived a simple life.  When I first met Wendy, she never complained.  Wendy was satisfied with her life.  No major dramas in her life and she liked it that way.

When Wendy was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer or adenocarcinoma, she was told that she had six months to live.  Wendy didn’t notice the changes in her body or additional pain, because she had become used to her body being in pain.  She couldn’t remember a day without pain since she was in her early 20′s.  Wendy had some undiagnosable pain, which today there would be more exploration of her possibly have other chronic diseases like fibromyalgia.

Wendy confided in her good friend Carol, a nurse who was exploring energy healing and was experienced in alternative/herbal therapies.  This was at a time when I was completely untested as a healer.  I had only worked with people who had some pain. Carol had met me at a crystal healing class, where we teamed up in groups of 4 channeling healing energy of crystals to assist people in their healing.

When I first met Wendy she was bright and full of cheer.  She had accepted her physician’s diagnosis and treatment.  She decided would receive chemotherapy treatments and she was open to other ways of healing.  The only thing Wendy was sad about was losing her hair.  She knew that she was going to lose her hair from the chemotherapy treatments.

Wendy agreed to see us twice a week.  Carol suggested that Wendy start taking an herbal remedy called ESSIAC TEA to help detoxify the effects of the chemotherapy.  The first time we met with Wendy as a group to do healing, the effects where immediately noticeable.  Wendy was tired and not her usual bright self.  One of the most shocking things about Wendy was that she had lost her hair within two weeks of beginning chemotherapy.  This was Wendy’s first lesson about the power of the mind.  She had convinced herself that she would lose her hair and she did with amazing rapidity.

Week in and week out we visited Wendy in her apartment spending anywhere from an hour and a half to three hours with her in session.  Some days were good others not so good.  Slowly Wendy’s life story came out and we began to see the emotional components of Wendy’s cancer.

I now know through my studies and observations as a medical intuitive that each type of cancer has a specific mental and emotional component.  At the time I was only concerned with healing the physical body and if the emotional, mental and spiritual components were attended to that was a bonus.

Wendy’s started talking about her issues at work and how she couldn’t stomach the people she worked with.  She revealed that she didn’t like the person her daughter had become and that there was a great gulf between them.   Eventually underneath the calm loving exterior, Wendy began to reveal emotions of resentment, pain, jealousy that she never admitted to herself.  She also revealed dreams that she had of things she wanted to do in her life and the relationship she wanted to have with the only living member of her family, her daughter.

We began to outline a plan for Wendy of how to change the relationships she had in her life.   We started with the least scary to most scary.  Healing her relationship with her daughter was the scariest thing she faced.  She even admitted that it was scarier to her than facing her cancer and possible death.  Slowly Wendy started confronting her co-workers.  She forgave those she needed to forgive and place boundaries around others.  With each person she completed her unfinished business with Wendy seemed to get stronger.  Finally she was ready to deal with her daughter.  Wendy started believing that it was a matter of life or death that she forgive her daughter and get on good speaking terms with her.  In one swift move Wendy accomplished this.  She said this was the scariest thing she had ever done in her life.  Somehow she was able to forgive her daughter and renewed a close relationship with her.

With each step Wendy got stronger and stronger, there was a glow to her skin, no more pale skin.  Wendy had more energy and she began to dream of the things she would do when the chemotherapy was done and she was healed.  Wendy felt like she was healed, she no longer wanted us to come to her home twice a week, she wanted us once a week and then reduced to every other week.  After three months, Wendy went to the oncologist, when she was tested for the cancer again.  Wendy was called into the office for the results.  Her oncologist told her the news.  Actually he apologized, he was sorry but apparently Wendy had been mis-diagnosed as they did not find any cancer, he said.  Wendy was ecstatic, and at the same time she was angry at her doctor, because just like any good patient, Wendy had undergone several tests when she received her diagnosis and had gotten several opinions.  Her Doctor simply refused to believe that the work she had done with her herbs, diet changes, and inner work.  He preferred to believe that she never had cancer in the first place.  But Wendy knew better, then left on her dreamtrip to Alaska.

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Most information about allergies discuss what the specific allergen is and how once found out what needs to be avoided. Information about the emotions and the psychology of an allergy sufferer is often left out of the picture.

Types of allergies include food, and environmental. Some say that there is another which can be called [...]]]> Most information about allergies discuss what the specific allergen is and how once found out what needs to be avoided. Information about the emotions and the psychology of an allergy sufferer is often left out of the picture.

Types of allergies include food, and environmental. Some say that there is another which can be called situational. For those of you who are reading this and are highly intuitive or sensitive, you know what this is. I’ll save that discussion for another post. Each of these allergic substances are considered stress by the mind.

Allergic reactions occur when the immune system reacts to stress in an inappropriate way. Instead of digesting properly or cleaning the air that has been inhaled it reacts in a predetermined manner.

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Dr Hans Selye, who wrote the book “The Stress of Life” and father of “stress” research coined the term, “General Adaptation Syndrome”, or GAS which is a great way to view allergic reactions..

1. ALARM REACTION Adrenaline and a variety of hormones is released to combat the stress and to stay in control.  The muscles tense, the heart beats faster, the breathing and perspiration increases, the eyes dilate, the stomach may clench.  Once the cause of the stress is removed, the body will go back to normal.
2. RESISTANCE OR ADAPTATION occurs when the stress isn’t resolved.  Hormones that increase blood sugar levels to sustain energy and raise blood pressure are released. The adrenal cortex (outer covering) produces hormones to continue battling the stress.  Should there be a  prolonged period of time with no relief, sufferers become prone to fatigue, concentration lapses, irritability and lethargy as the effort to sustain arousal slides into negative stress.
3. EXHAUSTION Finally, the body has run out of its reserve of body energy and immunity. Mental, physical and emotional resources suffer heavily. The body experiences “adrenal exhaustion”. The blood sugar levels decrease as the adrenals become depleted, leading to decreased stress tolerance, progressive mental and physical exhaustion, illness and collapse.

Allergens continue to enter the body unless they are removed.  Unfortunately there have also been studies of people who suffer from hay fever will begin to sneeze when exposed to a picture of a meadow.  At this stage the mind does not differentiate what is real from the unreal.  To it everything it sees or perceives is real and in the case of the picture a potential threat.
Symptoms:

Aches and Pains: stomach, intestine, back, joints, chest, head (migraine), pain over and behind left eye.

Respiratory symptoms: feelings of breathlessness, poor lung expansion, asthma (wheezy), catarrh, phlegm, sore throat, tonsillitis, severely damaged throat membranes, bronchitis, chest pains, burning chest, nasal discharge, post-nasal drip, rhinitis, ‘sudden outpouring of fluid from nose, eyes, back of throat’, hay fever, sneezing, sinusitis, colds and congestion, night cough.

Gastro-intestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, feeling ill most of the time, bloated feeling, colic, constipation, diarrhea, passage of mucous, passage of blood, evil smelling wind, pain in stomach, intestinal cramps.

Mental symptoms: agoraphobia and other phobias, panic, general unease and anxiety, mental confusion, fatigue and lethargy, depression, inability to concentrate, learning difficulty, poor coordination, dyslexia, shaking, mood swings, illogical, dizziness, memory loss, insomnia, light headedness.

Behavioral symptoms: temper outbursts, obstreperous, disobedient, hyperactive, aggressive, cannot stop talking, difficulty making friends, being dishonest.

Skin symptoms: dermatitis, hives, eczema, burning lips, dry skin patches, itching, swelling and blisters, red weals, sores on face, ulcers, perspiration, dandruff.

Cardiovascular symptoms: pain around heart, racing heart, palpitations and irregularities, flushes, erratic pulse.

General symptoms: cancer with metastases, arthritis, swollen glands, constant infections, ear infections, flu type symptoms, M.E/Chronic Fatigue type symptoms, swollen body and eyes, weight gain, hypoglycemia, bed wetting, fluid retention, thrush, eyestrain, ulcerated mouth, ‘stroke’ effect down left hand side, dry vagina, inflamed knees, ‘incurable’ kidney disease, red face and flushes, weight loss, muscle problems.

When the total stress load is more than the body and the adrenal glands can cope with, that is when allergic symptoms appear. If the stress load can be lightened, they will tend to disappear. In other words, if the total body load of stress is high, the threshold at which allergic symptoms appear will be low, and vice versa. So basically the treatment for all allergic disease is the same; lower the total stress load.

WAYS OF REDUCING THE BODY’S TOXIC LOAD TO REDUCE STRESS

1. Avoid poor food choices: under stress the body loses the ability to metabolize foods correctly. This is called allergy. The foods that cannot be used correctly, become in effect, poisonous. To minimize this source of poisoning, avoid allergic foods and substances. The rule of thumb for recognising allergens (allergic substances) is that they are usually the things you do not like and never eat (these cause no trouble) or else the things you are over-fond of and eat a great deal. Of the nutritious foods, the commonest allergen by far is cow’s milk, the second is wheat. Can be other grains and sometimes soy.
2. Reduce chemicals in your environment. If you notice that you cannot take a full deep breath around any substance in your environment remove it from your surroundings.  Your body is signaling you that it does not want to process this type of air. Avoid polluting the air with sprays, perfumes, quick drying solvents, glues, oven cleaners, other cleaners with a chemical smell, gas heaters, pesticides, petrol fumes, smoke, tobacco smoke, paints, etc. Baking soda paste is an excellent cleaner for many surfaces.



3. Avoid Negative emotions: Hormones generated by negative emotions such as fear and resentment are very potent, and toxic in excess. To minimise them replace fear with belief in a good outcome, and belief in God’s love and protection. Replace resentment with forgiveness; forgiveness means saying “It doesn’t matter.” Fear is the root of all evil; resentment is its by-product.
4. Drink purified water – your body is made of 80% water, replenish it with clean water when thirsty
5. Eat clean foods – buy as organically as possible and learn to cook in a healthy style, without the fats, oils and sugars. Avoid white foods and processed foods.

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