Important Wisdom of Tao by Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha

At the end of 2008, Master Sha received a new 75-line Tao teaching from the Divine which has been published in his book, Tao I: The Way of All Life (Atria Books, May 2010.) Each line contains the key essence of the ancient Tao wisdom, but there are many profound new divine teachings applicable to the challenges of modern-day living. The following is an adapted article:

People who have not studied Tao, and even people who have, may think that Tao is very sacred, mysterious, and hard to understand. They may know that it is very profound, ancient, and sacred philosophy, wisdom, and practices. They may relate Tao with images of saints and sages with long, completely white hair and yet with perfectly smooth skin and baby faces, full of youthful vitality and flexibility. They may relate Tao to secret practices for energy, rejuvenation, longevity, and even immortality. They may relate Tao to fairy-tale stories about saints who could fly, disappear, and move instantly from one place to another without a vehicle.
 
Tao is The Way. Tao is the source of all universes. Tao is the universal principles and laws. Tao creates everything. All spiritual beings in all realms may not use the same words, but they all strive to reach Tao, to reach oneness with Tao. When you do, the frequency of your whole body, including all systems, organs, and cells, will have been completely transformed to Tao frequency. To meld with Tao is to reach immortality. Only then can you reach fan lao huan tong, which means to return your soul, mind, and body to the purity and health of a baby.
 
In history, there are a few very rare people who lived beyond the age of two hundred. My Tao lineage founder, Peng Zu, the teacher of Lao Zi, lived to the age of eight hundred eighty. In the Peng Zu Tao lineage that I am very honored to hold, there have been several masters who lived for two hundred to four hundred years. The founder of tai chi lived for about four hundred fifty years. The sacred Tao writings describe one Tao master who lived for more than fifteen hundred years. A sacred Buddhist book describes one Buddhist father who lived for more than twelve hundred years.
 
I know that this is very difficult to believe. The way that most people on Mother Earth live their lives at this time makes it impossible for them to reach these ages. However, those who have have done practices that have put them in great alignment with the Divine and the Tao, with the frequency and vibration of the Divine and the Tao. They have lived their lives as unconditional universal servants with no separation between their daily life and their life of practice. This is how some have reached what seem to be unbelievable ages.
 
When one practices Tao, Heaven blesses. Heaven will pour Heaven’s liquid to the Tao practitioner’s brain. This sacred liquid will then go through the palate into the mouth. This Heaven’s sacred liquid carries Heaven’s nutrients to nourish every cell of the body. The Tao practitioner can do a special fasting practice (Bi Gu) to purify soul, heart, mind, and body. The aim is to build a divine and Tao light body in order to reach fan lao huan tong, eternal youthfulness, and move further, to reach the level of a human saint, a Mother Earth saint, a Heaven saint, and a Tao saint.
 
Mother Earth is in a transition period. This means Mother Earth is going through purification. Many natural disasters are occurring. Humanity is also suffering from sickness, depression, anxiety, fear, and many other imbalances on Mother Earth. At this historic moment, to study and practice Tao in order to balance humanity, Mother Earth, and all universes is important beyond any explanation.
 
The Divine and Tao are preparing sacred and secret training to prepare people to become divine servants to help humanity, Mother Earth, and all universes pass through this difficult time of transition and purification. The practices will accelerate the transformation of every Tao practitioner beyond comprehension. Soul Mind Body Transplants and other special treasures are presented in my book Tao I that can transform one’s frequency from head to toe, skin to bone, as well a 5-stage training program that I am opening to select applicants.
 
During Tao training, Tao practitioners could gain amazing divine and Tao abilities beyond imagination. But remember my teaching: The more power you are given, the more divine and Tao abilities you receive for healing, rejuvenation, and life transformation, the more you should be a quiet and humble servant. To reach immortality is to be a better servant. It is to balance humanity, Mother Earth, Heaven, and all universes. The more you serve, the more you receive blessings from Tao.
 
We are the sons and daughters of Tao. We must take good care of our health to serve Tao.  Let us gather the Tao secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and especially the practical techniques and treasures to strengthen our health and balance our soul, heart, mind, and body. Let us balance ourselves first. Then balance our family. Then balance society. Then balance cities, countries, Mother Earth, and all universes. This is the final goal of studying and practicing Tao.
 
Let us join hearts and souls together on our Tao journey. Let us join hearts and souls together to reach Tao.
 
Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha is considered one of the most powerful healers of our time. He was trained as a conventional medical doctor and a doctor of traditional Chinese Medicine. The founder of the Institute of Soul Healing and EnlightenmentT, he has authored several New York Times bestsellers on Soul Healing and the Power of Soul. Tao I: The Way of All Life is the sixth book in his Soul Power Series. Dr. Sha is teaching a Soul Healing Weekend Workshop in Longmont, Colorado on October 29 through 31^st.  Click here to learn more or to register for this exciting event!

Combining 5,000-year-old wisdom of the East and breakthrough discoveries of modern science and spirituality, Master Sha shares unique wisdom, knowledge and practices to address modern-day challenges. He is the 373rd generation lineage holder of the venerated sage Peng Zu, the teacher of Lao Zi, known throughout China as the “Long Life Star.” Dr. Sha is also grandmaster of many ancient disciplines, including tai chi, qi gong, feng shui and the I Ching.  
Find out more on www. DrSha.com  and  www.FacebookDrSha.com <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Sha/12614691001> . 

INNOCENCE AND WISDOM by Dr. Steven Farmer

For a period of time my daughter Catherine and grandson Jaden stayed with me at a house I used to live in. There were a number of steps to climb to get to the driveway where her car was parked, and sometimes she would be in a hurry because she was late. I’d be in my office where I could see them when they came through the gate from the downstairs apartment. Catherine would get frustrated with Jaden because he would suddenly become fascinated with a tiny bug, or entranced with the shape and color of a particular leaf on a plant. She’d have to hurry him along, sometimes patiently and sometimes with an edge to her voice.

Whenever I’d take a walk with him I’d have to ‘dial down’ because of the entirely different pace he was on and his tendency to become quickly focused on something that I would ordinarily miss. Good teachers, aren’t they? There is such an innocence to their way of being, something we adults may long to recapture but typically viewing it as something best left for the younger generation.

 Sometimes we may wonder how to regaing that mysterious sense of awe with which children approach the world. We’re drawn to it yet it may seem foreign to us, buried as if a distant memory of a time when life seemed easier, when we could literally “take” our time in moving about life. 

So how to recapture this innocence? For an answer to this I turn to the Osho Zen Tarot. It’s the only Tarot deck that I’ve become familiar with, and the “Innocence” card from the Major Arcana speaks to this question.           “The innocence that comes from a deep experience of life is childlike, but not childish. The innocence of children is beautiful, but ignorant. It will be replaced by mistrust and doubt as the child grows and learns that the world can be a dangerous and threatening place. But the innocence of a life lived fully has a quality of wisdom and acceptance of the ever-changing wonder of life.”  

I particular appreciate this astute comment because it accounts for the trials and tribulations that we human beings face as we age, yet with this comes the wisdom that allows the return to childlike innocence. Yes, we can get caught up in the suffering, but with awareness and attention to what’s truly important, we can heal these wounds of the past and capture that state of grace that is available to us as we align our egoic self with our Higher Self.

 Dr. Steven Farmer is the author of the several best-selling products including Earth Magic, Animal Spirit Guides, Power Animal Oracle Cards, Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards, Power Animals, and Sacred Ceremony,. He’s also host of his own radio show, The Shamanic Hotline, on HayHouseRadio.com. Dr. Farmer is a shamanic practitioner, ordained minister, hypnotherapist, former college professor and former psychotherapist, offering workshops and presentations on a variety of shamanic healing and earth centered spirituality topics and also offers private shamanic healing sessions. He makes his home in Laguna Beach, California. For further information, go to www.DrStevenFarmer.com.

What Is Tantra? By Helena Malin

I have been a teacher of the Tantric art of conscious loving for over 15 years, and I am still learning more to share with you. I think we can always improve on a good thing and Tantra has shown me that our capacity for pleasure is unlimited! I can’t think of any better frontier to explore! 

What is Tantra? 

Primarily, Tantra is a spiritual path of the heart and consciousness that utilizes the power of pleasure and well-being to help create a more loving, fun-filled juicy, ecstatic life.  

What I mean by ‘spiritual’ is exploration of life where the focus of the journeyer’s attention is upon discovering the world through the relationship to self and others (expanding awareness.)   A spiritual path is an avenue of philosophy, study, attitude and approach, to life and living that facilitates greater awareness and connection to Source (or whatever name you use for God.)    

The Tantric path seeks expanded awareness of the self and the Universe, and our role in the journey we call life experience.   Some might call this the journey toward enlightenment…and it is.  To experience enlightenment is merely to have a more expanded awareness than you had before.  So, in a sense, we are all enlightened, and becoming more so every day.  Tantra sees this exploration as a joyful adventure, encouraging us to question, step out of the box of tradition, and expand our experiences to more fully live as we discover the myriad wonders this world has to offer.  Thus, the pursuit of freedom of expression, as well as experience is an essential element to the Tantric lifestyle. 

In Tantra, we see the heart as the mid-point between our spiritual nature and our physical nature. It is the place where the two merge to become a fully integrated spirit in physical being in this third dimensional reality. Thus, as we express the energy of our truth through the heart’s compassion and knowledge, as a filter for all of our choices and actions, we are sharing the best of what we have to offer to others.   This is the way we learn to trust ourselves enough to rely on our inner truth to guide us. 

Short Definition of Tantra 

Tantra is both a science and an art that originates from ancient knowledge in East India, Tibet, Egypt, and China. It is a spiritual path focusing on the power of our creative life force that we commonly refer to as sexual energy. Tantra offers techniques to enhance arousal and one’s lovemaking skills, as well as one’s entire life, through a deeper understanding and mastery of our life force/libido. 

Tantra is a form of yoga that offers a philosophy and practices showing how to generate, enhance and consciously direct life force energy that can awaken, arouse, enlighten, and heal the self and others. Tantra literally means weaving together the polarities of the male and female forces. Through tantric synergistic union and orgasm, we can generate harmony and balance to all aspects of the human psyche, mind and body. 

Primarily, Tantra is a path of the heart and a path of pleasure. It is about loving the self enough to create a life of deep enjoyment by consciously intending and choosing actions and activities that bring the greatest pleasure and nurturance to the soul. It is also a path of joyous service from whence the giving comes from a cup that is therefore always consciously kept full. 

Through sacred sex, Tantra teaches fine and sophisticated arts of giving and receiving optimum pleasure for the self and partner — thereby achieving transcendence, or union with the divine, through sexual pleasure and extended orgasm. In orgasm we are truly in the moment – in the place of no mind through which we are the most receptive to our natural bliss – aligned with the high frequency of divine energy and enlightenment. 

Tantra teaches that through an in-depth awareness of all aspects of the self, and also through honoring, adoring and worshiping your partner as the embodiment of God/Goddess, one can find and allow the power of that pure love light to shine forth from within to brighten and bring more joy to the world. 

The Path of Pleasure

Tantra suggests that pleasure is the best (and most fun) vehicle to create more of the life that we want.  We all know that our basic nature is to move towards pleasure – away from pain. Tantra asks why are we not making more of our choices based on what gives us pleasure? When we are fully fed, satiated and well-nurtured, we are certainly more pleasant to be around and effective. Have you ever noticed how your patience level diminishes when you have had too little sleep, but your day goes so much better when you have had a blissful, restful night? 

Tantra suggests an enlightened form of selfishness. This is a form of loving the self. We are the only one’s who really know what we want from life and love – and as an adult, we are the only one’s truly responsible for making sure that we get that! In doing so, we have an overflowing bounty of loving energy from which to give to others. We are thus no longer bound in any way by fear of lack in our personal experience and we can give so much more freely with joy! And if we love ourselves well, we also have more centered and clear love to share. 

The Tantric Relationship 

A Tantric relationship is one in which both partners live their lives according to Tantric philosophy: choosing to see, love, and honor each other as the embodiment of Divine expression – invoking the highest spiritual enlightenment in one another, consciously creating their lives and union based on unconditional love, allowing, and receiving. Their choices are based on the highest expressions of loving, pleasure, and freedom, while supporting each other’s spiritual journeys, of exploration and growth and joy as much as they can! 

About The Author:  For more than 15 years, Helena Malin has been a dynamic force in the Los Angeles community as a Life, Relationship & Sex Coach. As a lecturer, author and media personality, she has brought a renewed sense of potential for a better life and world. She has a successful private practice teaching workshops and helping individuals and couples in bettering their lives and relationships through her training in many different counseling and healing modalities. Learn more about Helena at www.LovenLifeTools.com.

Letting Go Is Easier Than You Think by Laureen Falco

I always use to hang on to things forever.  Pieces of paper, old school books, old clothes that I couldn’t even fit into any more, everything had sentimental value.  I think I attributed hanging on to things to losing so much growing up.  

I grew up with an alcoholic father in a very unstable environment. We moved around a lot.  I would hang on to memories, friendships, places and things in order to provide some sense of ‘normal’ as my father sank into his depression.   

Over the years, I would get incredibly upset if I lost anything.  I would obsess for days, cry and be distraught.  Every little thing I lost was somehow attributed to the ‘big’ losses in my life.  I’ve had to work through a lot of pain and fear to understand why it was so hard for me to let go of the past.  I literally clung to my past for dear life.  Although some of my siblings would state that I was stuck in the past for a few years, I truly believe that I needed to do that in order to heal.

As I began to understand why I hold on to memories and things of the past, it became easier to eventually let go.  I was trying to make things right, to achieve some sort of ‘normal’ in my mind.   

 It seems when things weren’t going right in my life, I would dig into my database of painful memories and bring them to the surface again in order to beat myself up. As I worked through the painful memories of my childhood, I began to trust my Higher Power and to let go.  Little by little, I began to open up my world and see the possibilities that lay before me.  I realized that I was holding myself back by clinging to old stuff that no longer benefited me.

It wasn’t easy, and yet it took years for me to understand this process, but I learned my lesson well.   I now look forward to releasing old things in my life in order to create a vacancy to be filled by new opportunities and positive experiences.   I now realize that hanging on to old furniture, clothing, bad memories or even bad relationships was a way of keeping me stuck, and not moving forward. 

I’d had to work on my faith in order for me to see that I do have a positive, limitless future.  For years, I couldn’t see it.  It was like I was in a box, but I couldn’t get out.  I’m not only scratching my way out of the box, I’m tearing it down, stacking up the cardboard and bringing it to the recycling bin! 

Just last week, I had a huge release of my past life.  I had furniture, clothing, home accessories in storage for almost two years.  I sold my house in order to start a new life.  I thought that somehow I could incorporate all of this stuff into my new life, but found out that I had grown so much, that it wasn’t me anymore.  So for two years, I paid more in storage than what the furniture, clothing, books, etc. was worth! 

I decided enough was enough, and scheduled a big garage sale.  I rented a U-Haul truck and hired two workers to help me move the stuff to my parent’s house for a one-day-only garage sale.  I put ads in the paper and online and even helped my family clean out the garage.

It was a huge relief to let go of these thing and I thoroughly enjoyed selling everything.  Only one item – a beautiful designer couch – brought a tear to my eye to sell.  People bought the furniture easily, without haggling.  They were great to talk with and we sold almost everything.  We did make a lot of money, and I ended up giving the couch to my parents, so I’ll see it all the time!  It literally worked out perfect.  I brought the keys back to the storage shed, and I cut my expenses in half. 

I can’t even begin to explain the feeling of relief inside myself.  It’s like I’m walking around so much lighter!  I’ve opened up a whole new area in my life that I’m waiting to fill with positive, exciting opportunities.

Thrive Not Survive: Embracing the Spiritual Journey by Althea Treakle-Provost

When Source guides my soul to learn, I listen, take action and trust the process. To answer Source’s call requires changes, which often defy conventional thinking, to awaken the spirit. Energetic shifts and transitions, emotional and mental triggers that lead to spiritual transformations are part of the spiritual journey.

My soul led me to New Zealand where my third eye painfully opened and for the first time in my life, Source received my full attention. There were no distractions, other than pain, to keep me from being present to spirit. Each spiritual journey started out in the same way. I began to feel magnetically pulled in the direction Source wanted me to choose. Inner feelings led to conscious day dreaming where flashes of inspiration would form within in my minds eye. If I ignored my feelings, the messages would become stronger, and inner agitation would prevail.

Sometimes, spiritual journeys enable talents to unfold, spark creative interest, and test the readiness of the heart to flower. While visiting Mexico, I experienced massive soul retrieval allowing me to remember soul talents, recognize people who have traveled with me for many lifetimes, and healing techniques involving sound and hand placement. I also experienced, what some would call, a near-death experience. I physically felt what it is like for the body to die.

The spiritual process requires a death of some sort. Death always involves attachment. I suspect one of Source’s favorite words is “Detach.” Source probably started the motto: “If you hear it once, you will hear it a thousand times.” There is irony in this statement for when I have been down on my knees, surrendering attachment with every aspect of my being, wholeheartedly willing to let go of things, people, places, the mind – everything – I am given more things or told to wait. Nevertheless, I am soul rich from the experiences. I trust more deeply, listen with appreciation and embrace life more fully.

Having yielded to my intuition over the years, I am able to recognize when others receive a similar call to face their spirit and grow their soul. Yesterday, my dad and I met at the airport to spend an hour together during his layover to India. We exchanged our heartfelt goodbyes without tears because we both knew his lifelong dream of going to India was upon him. I recognized that his spirit was asking him to make this change so I felt joyful.

My dad left behind his mortgage-free, powered-by-nature home. He said goodbye to lifelong friends, easy opportunities to make money, his dog that gave birth to five puppies, and all the accouterments that one gathers over a lifetime. He did so responsibly and with an open heart. Well… he did not leave everything behind, accompanying his travel are 400 pounds or 181 kilograms of luggage filled with creature comforts. My dad refers to his luggage as “The necessities of a gentleman.” I simply smiled, gave him a hug and said, “Have fun and when you melt down, call me. I love you.”

Spiritual change is difficult for the personality-mind to understand. The personality-mind survives on repetition and familiarity often attaching itself to people and situations that no longer serve the spirit. When the spirit tries to break free from the holding pattern of redundancy, a battle between the personality-mind and spirit ensues.

When I tell inquiring minds that my dad just left to India with a one-way ticket, I typically receive a response suggesting the idea is crazy, and my dad is a mad hatter. Yesterday, after returning from the airport, I stopped to mail a book. I bumped into Lakshmi, a friend from the gym and native daughter of India. I shared the news about my father, and she immediately offered the familiar, long drawn out “Whyyyyy?” Except Lakshmi used hand gestures, throwing her hands in the air as if she heard something crazy. My American friends typically respond by rolling their eyes. I just laugh. Lakshmi, who just returned from Mumbai after a two-month visit, offered her experience as an example of what will happen to my dad. She said, “On the fifth day, Mumbai welcomed me back with diarrhea, vomiting, and a trip to the doctor for a shot in the bum.” I said, “I’ll think of you when my dad arrives in that space.”

For some people, radical changes are necessary for the heart and spirit to take center stage in one’s life. Like my dad, I share the understanding that life offers you a one-way ticket back to Source with all items checked at the door. I am here to learn soul lessons, as Source lights the way for my spirit to thrive and grow. Perhaps an unconventional road but a road traveled with love.

©Althea Treakle-Provost, 2010 – All Rights Reserved.

Althea Treakle-Provost is a Colorado-based clairvoyant that offers real life stories to bridge the understanding and application of spiritual lessons. She helps to open minds and lighten hearts.  Currently, she is completing a book on the journey to self empowerment, providing knowledge that helps others awaken to their power.    You can follow Althea on Facebook or Twitter or through her web page at http://theasheart.com.

The Cardinal Renaissance – 8-Planet Configuration in Cardinal Cross by Chrissie Blaze

A powerful planetary configuration involving no less than eight planets in our Solar System has been building up for some months, and peaked on August 6 and 7, 2010. These planets were at the beginning of the Cardinal Signs, i.e. Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn — the signs of action — and this is known astrologically as a “Cardinal Cross”. I call this configuration The Cardinal Renaissance because I see it as a time of potential rebirth if we use its positive power in Spiritual ways, and have lectured and blogged about this powerful configuration for many months.

I would like to say a little more about this spectacular alignment because there is nothing quite like it for 500 years into the future. Nothing is by chance and we need to do our best to make the most of these tremendous planetary energies because the impact will be felt years into the future. The choices and actions we take now will be key in creating a better future for ourselves, our families – and the family of humanity.

The eight planets involved in The Cardinal Renaissance are the slower-moving outer planets Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter and the personal planets, Mercury, Mars, Venus. Also on August 6 and 7, the Moon was involved, helping to spark this alignment, in another of the Cardinal signs, Cancer.  The only planets “left out” are the Sun and Neptune.

It is called a “Cardinal cross” because the planets are in square formation with four squares (90 degree angles) and two oppositions (180 degrees) and they are in the Cardinal signs of Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn.  To qualify to be a Cardinal Cross it is essential to have four squares and two oppositions.
In this case there are not four squares but ten.  There are not two oppositions but seven so, therefore, we have some extremely intense and powerful planetary energy.

We should think about the nature of the Cardinal signs – action-packed, impatient and wanting to do things instantly, to take action. Many people are rather fearful of this, especially if they have planets in one of the Cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn, or one of these Signs rising.

You will feel it particularly if you have a planet at the beginning of one of these signs but all Cardinal signs, and actually all people in one degree or another, will feel it.  We should not fear this, because the energy from the planets is always beneficent, urging us towards divinity through evolution and growth. It is how we interpret the energy that is often the problem.
How will this Affect Us?

Now, since the planets are in Cardinal signs, we should expect to see – over the next time period – events happening to us that move us in the right direction. Things that have been unresolved; that have been negative or moving in the wrong direction can now move towards a positive conclusion with a little right effort from us.  The Universe is wanting us to set things right and is helping us to do so!

If we have been laboring under false delusions, we can expect the truth to be revealed. It may be with a relationship, a situation, a career, or belief system.  If we have been less than honest with ourselves, the truth will be pointed out to us through other people or through those mysterious things called “circumstances”.

As I said in my lecture on The Cardinal Renaissance, we can expect to see revelations in the world media, with the truth coming out, and already we have seen revelations about UFOs, which I predicted. We are being energized so that we can become better human beings.  The action is rather like the Eclipses in that they compel change and this can be difficult or can be very liberating.

One thing that we shall find is that when the dust has settled there is more clarity about what is true and what is smoke and mirrors. How best to handle this alignment is to take action ourselves in the right way.

It is often difficult to know what is the correct way, of course, because we all have a different path to follow. However, the common path we all must follow – sooner rather than later – is towards a greater humanity; a greater expression of our inherent divinity. And, since these are in the Cardinal signs, expression through action is what is required in the form of service and assistance to others, healing, help, prayer and many other compassionate ways. Also, we need to be scrupulously honest about ourselves and our motives. Positivity is the key; faith; love, courage; all those qualities of the true Spiritual activist that this Cardinal Renaissance is urging us to be.

The Great Change

Some people are anxious about December 21, 2012 thinking that either the world will end or we shall all become Adepts overnight. The truth is neither will happen and we shall reach December 22 and wonder what all the fuss was about. What is happening today and tomorrow is all preparation for the Great Change – this move from one great Age of consciousness to another. From the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, these 2160 year cycles when humanity as a whole experiences tests and challenges so that we as a whole grow towards a more enlightened consciousness, and begin to act as one brotherhood of man that we are.

For updates on the unfolding alignment “The Cardinal Renaissance,” and its effects please visit my blog, “Aquarius Rising,” on my website at www.chrissieblaze.com.

© Chrissie Blaze, 2006.  Chrissie Blaze is an international speaker, astrologer and author of eight published books including  Power Prayer: A Program for Unlocking Your Spiritual Strength, Adams Media, 2003. (Co-author, Gary Blaze; Foreword, Marianne Williamson).  Her latest book due to be published Summer 2010 is Deeper Into Love: 7 Keys to a Heart-Based Spirituality. For info, news and views, please visit http://www.chrissieblaze.com

If You Dream It… It Will come, Part Two By Katelon T. Jeffereys

In part one of this article I discussed the purpose of dream boards, the “science” of why they are useful and how to create one.  In part two, I am going to discuss other variations of traditional dream boards.  

As I mentioned in part one, dream boards have traditionally been made of poster board, tag board, poster paper, using pictures cut out from magazines or newspapers, brochures and advertisements.  I have also used the online dream board tools on Oprah.com and Tut.com, Mike Dooley’s website, but in doing a search there are many other online options available. I enjoyed them but prefer the “hard copy” ones that I can place on my walls. I have enjoyed the resource of finding pictures online to gather on a page and print out, and typing up words that describe feelings I’d like to have, places I’d like to travel to, situations I am desiring to manifest. 

I have purchased greeting cards that picture places I’d like to be and put them up on my walls, tropical decorations from party stores to hang on my walls, made posters of words like “BELIEVE”, “TRUST”, “JOY, printed them out and hung them on mirrors as well as writing words on my mirror to read as I look at my face in the mirror. I even travel with the word “Yes” on my steering wheel, to remind myself that yes, I am supported, yes, I can manifest my dreams, saying yes to life and being open. 

I have typed out desired itineraries, placed a series of pictures of where I’d like to travel to, starting with a picture of my car and me, then placing arrows and pictures to create a visual of this journey.  I have printed out brochures from workshops I’d like to take and glued them to bright poster board.  The important thing is to clearly depict pictures and words that create an emotional response, and show how you’d like to feel, what you’d like to have or be doing in your life. 

Another option I have used and enjoy is putting pictures in a photo
album. I like this because when you look at photo albums they are pictures of things that have already happened and this is how you want to feel, as if these things and conditions you’ve pictured have already manifested in your life!  You can have a different page for each part of your life such as, spirituality, career, relationship, health, finances, family, etc. 

One time I had placed the words “gemstone necklaces” on one of my dream boards.  I forgot about it, even though I would walk by the dream board on my wall every day.  Awhile later, I found myself in a steady trade with a woman who made beaded hair barrettes.  At one point, I didn’t want any more barrettes and she suggested that I might like these various gemstone necklaces she also sold.  After acquiring several of these during our trades, I looked at my dream board and laughed, realizing that I had manifested this particular goal without even being conscious of doing so!! 

The other thing I have been playing with lately is “mind movies”. I had received an email offering six free mini mind movies, on different topics, with music, slides of affirmations and slides of pictures, essentially being a movie dream board.  After watching these for a few days I decided that I should figure out how to make my own and found Microsoft Moviemaker on my computer and have made two so far.  

I found various pictures online, saved them in a folder, wrote out a script using One Commands (www.commandingwealth.com), and affirmations, then created slides with the commands and affirmations, interspersed them with the various pictures, added music, effects and transition effects and now watch them daily, too.  There is a website, www.onetruemedia, that offers free tools to make your own mini movies, too. Of course you can also go to www.mindmovies.com and they sell a kit for making mind movies, too.

Whatever technique you choose, have fun, enjoy the process and savor the journey.  And send us a comment below to share your favorite tool for dreaming!

Katelon Jeffereys has been an intrepid and passionate explorer on the path of spirituality since early childhood.  Undaunted by growing up aware of a world that many denied, she has pursued her prayer for a world of peace, harmony, love and light for all.  She has been a wellness therapist, coach and teacher for over 31 years, trained in 15 mind/body/spiritual therapies that enhance her innate wisdom and memories from other lives, and her ongoing study in energy medicine and other modalities. She has used NLP, hypnotherapy, applied kinesiology, EFT, Spiritual response therapy and One Commands, for the use of assisting in goal manifestation.  Katelon has years of experience working with both adults and children, in schools, small and large businesses and in private practice.  She is honored to be a midwife in their journey to living their highest manifestations.  Learn more about Katelon and her work at www.empowerandbalance.com

IF YOU DREAM IT…IT WILL COME! (Part One) By Katelon T. Jeffereys

The law of attraction has become THE buzzword in the last several years through the books and trainings of Esther and Jerry Hicks, Mike Dooley’s work, the movie “The Secret” and others. But it has been around a very long time.  Charles Haanel wrote his book “The Master Key System” in 1912, and Wallace D. Wattles, wrote his book “The Science of Getting Rich” in 1910. And way before that, most spiritual texts, including the bible, speak of prayer and focusing on what it is you desire, believing that it will manifest.  Dream boards are one of the tools of this spiritual law and manifestation tool.

There is a part of the brain called the reticular activating system. This is the part of your brain that affects the sleep/awake cycle, arousal (mental) and also where you place your attention.  The brain is bombarded throughout the day with sounds, sights, sensations, smells, etc. and your brain decides what to focus on.  Quantum physics has demonstrated that our DNA has various programs imbedded in it and what we focus on will keep being produced in our bodies and lives.   We essentially keep those programs turned on, and because our brain likes similarity, our brain will continue to notice those symptoms in our body and situations in our lives.  We are thus programming our lives as a computer programmer programs a computer. However, we can also “turn on” other programs in our DNA, by choosing to focus our attention on something different, and then we begin to literally “gather evidence” that matches that choice. Those changes can now show up in our bodies and lives.

Hypnotherapy, NLP, goal setting, EFT (emotional freedom technique),  One Commands, visualization, affirmations and other mind/body therapies use this information to shut down the unwanted brain setting that has been focusing on what we don’t want and then re-setting the brain and unconscious to focus on what we desire.

I like dream boards and variations of it, because they place your goals and desires in your view, and pictures help elicit more of an emotional response vs. just the words in a written affirmation or goal.  It is recommended that you view your dream boards for several minutes twice a day.  I like to use EFT tapping while looking at my dream boards, and you can also use one of the “stress release tools” at www.empowerandbalance.com to help focus your attention and defuse any subconscious blocks you may have to manifesting your desires.

So here’s quick and easy steps for creating your dream boards:

1. Figure out what you want, how you want to feel, what you want to do

and ask yourself “What is important about that?”.    Continue to ask
that question to get to the deepest value that you are looking for such
as freedom, joy, relaxation, health, peace, and fulfillment.

1. Find pictures that depict those conditions, situations, relationships, objects, places, feelings and/or type and print out or write words that define and describe them as well. Remember to ad pictures of yourself.

3.  Gather poster board, poster paper, cardboard, or whatever base you’d

like to use, a glue stick or poster tape, glitter, stickers, markers, color-

ful wrapping paper, whatever you’d like for decorations.  Let yourself

play with the arrangement, paying attention to the emotions you are

feeling as you put this dream board together. You want to create a

dream board that lifts you up, places you IN the picture, as if you are

living it all NOW!!.

1. If you notice limiting thoughts or emotions coming up when you look at

your dream board, you can use One Commands, EFT, the tools on my website  or any other mind/body technique to clear and defuse it and align yourself with your dreams!

Most of all have fun, relax and allow your dreams to come to you! Happy Dreaming!

Katelon Jeffereys has been an intrepid and passionate explorer on the path of spirituality since early childhood.  Undaunted by growing up aware of a world that many denied, she has pursued her prayer for a world of peace, harmony, love and light for all.  She has been a wellness therapist, coach and teacher for over 31 years, trained in 15 mind/body/spiritual therapies that enhance her innate wisdom and memories from other lives, and her ongoing study in energy medicine and other modalities. She has used NLP, hypnotherapy, applied kinesiology, EFT, Spiritual response therapy and One Commands, for the use of assisting in goal manifestation.  Katelon has years of experience working with both adults and children, in schools, small and large businesses and in private practice.  She is honored to be a midwife in their journey to living their highest manifestations.  Learn more about Katelon and her work at www.empowerandbalance.com

Cultivating Appreciation by Chrissie Blaze

When we prepare ourselves for a deeper, inward journey, we must first examine our attitudes and priorities. We all want to feel better, and have different things that make us feel so. We may believe that if we had a million dollars we would feel better. We may think if we were married we would feel better, if we had new clothes, or a new home. The secret is to obtain the same mental state without the external things.

There are people who appear to have everything, but live mean and miserable lives. Others seem to have very little and yet are filled with abundance and joy. This, of course, is proof that our attitude is not created by what we have, but by what we are. Our mental state does not own us; we have the power to change it if we wish, but to change a mental state, we first desire to do so. Once we desire a more positive mental state, we can then seek ways to create this.

One way is through developing positive attitudes such as gratitude, appreciation and thankfulness. Recent studies performed at the Institute of Heart Math with 28 vials of DNA proved that these attitudes have a beneficial effect on DNA, lengthening and relaxing the strands. Conversely, when we are anxious and fearful our DNA tightens and many of the DNA codes actually shut down! Showing appreciation and gratitude is not only good for others it is also good for us.

By being appreciative we are acknowledging that we are fortunate recipients of life and its abundance, not victims of that mysterious thing called “circumstance.” These qualities can be cultivated within us through inward reflection. They come as a result of wisdom, of experience, of realizing the precious gift of life, and the reality of our higher selves. Once we learn to look deeper within ourselves, we will see abundance, tolerance and love – aspects of the Divine Spark within– instead of scarcity and judgment.

Many of the so-called “primitive” cultures would not dream of going through a day without giving thanks to the Earth for her abundant fruits, to the Sun for the warmth and life it brings, as well as for the food they eat and the stars that cloak the skies at night. In our modern civilization, it is strange that few people even think of offering thanks to Mother Earth, this living, breathing Intelligence who supplies us with all that we need on our journey through evolution

Native Americans and other indigenous peoples realize that the Earth is a sentient life form, indeed a Goddess. She has protected and nurtured us for thousands of years; she has endured our hatred of each other, our disregard of the delicate balance of her nature, our explosions, dumping of radioactive waste – the list is awful and endless. She continues to protect us from the perils of outer space and provides us with a home suited to our needs. It is very strange that few of us give thanks for this, but instead take it for granted.

We bask in the warm life-giving rays of the sun and yet do not give it a second thought. It is a strange quirk of human nature that when there is a total solar eclipse, people will travel thousands of miles to see this miracle of nature. They will watch it in hushed reverence and be awed when the birds suddenly stop singing and a hush descends to herald in this majestic event. At these times of loss, we become suddenly aware of the power of the Sun and its life-giving rays. However, on every other day we take this great gift for granted and are even considered odd if we give thanks for this source of life in our solar system. It is a strange quirk of mankind that we appreciate things when we lose them!

Cultivate a positive attitude by practicing the following meditation:

Reflect upon the beauty of nature and give thanks for its abundance. Offer your thanks to the Sun for its warmth and life, the Earth for her abundant fruits, the trees and the stars. If possible do this exercise outside in nature. Take off your shoes if you like. Once you feel attuned to nature, open yourself up by being very still and peaceful. Do not be in a mentally active state but be open and receptive. Now send out your thanks from your mind’s eye, or imagination as a brilliant white light. Do this with every ounce of your love and feeling. Wait a few moments then try and analyze what you receive back. This is a powerful beautiful practice that you can do at any time, especially when you are outside.

Chrissie Blaze is a public speaker, author and astrologer. For further information, please visit http://www.chrissieblaze.com

All The World’s A Stage By Julie Bragg

Shirley MacLaine. The name alone makes me smile. It evokes memories of a girl sitting in front of my Dad’s record player, listening to the Sweet Charity soundtrack for hours on end. Sitting with my Mom on Sunday afternoons, blissfully watching our Shirley favorites like The Apartment, My Geisha and The Turning Point. Like her, I spent years in dance classes, learning those Fosse moves, perfecting “If My Friends Could See Me Now” as one of my signature songs.

Shirley Maclaine. The name also produces visions of past-lives (both mine and hers). It brings to mind her first book, Out On A Limb, a book that made me feel I was not on my own. It was then I began to see the light, and she was my beacon.

Shirley MacLaine. Thanks to Satiama, Bella Spark Productions, and the Center for Spiritual Living-Seattle, I had the opportunity to listen to her share her thoughtful words and rich experiences with a group of beautiful souls at The Beneroya Hall, in Seattle Washington in June. The evening was transformational.

Ms. MacLaine began the evening discussing a favorite topic of mine: “Life is just show business.”  Being the Artistic Director of a theater company, this makes perfect sense to me. The talk began with the concept of maya: the realization that we indeed create our own reality.  We each make our own ‘films’ or ‘shows.’ We write our own script, cast the players, decorate our set, put on our costumes and make-up. We , alone, design our personal dramas. Here’s the best part: if we don’t like the evolution of the plot, WE CAN REWRITE THE SCENES!

Shirley then went on to share some of her wonderful book, Camino.  She shared with us her deeply personal discoveries made upon her 30-day pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostella de Camino, and her tales of deep connections made during her walk upon this ‘ancient, enchanted’ path. This Spanish road is said to reflect the energies of the stars above it, and her recollection during that journey of her life as a gypsy girl transported us all back to a time long ago and far away. 

Shirley MacLaine and Steven Hawking. Shirley’s retelling of the events discussed at her momentous meeting with Steven Hawking ranged from black holes and string theory to ETs and the thought that they may not be so friendly, but may be able to help us. They spoke of change in the world: “Everything will change, the only thing constant is our tie to God.” Shirley noted that Steven had pictures of both Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe on his wall.

Shirley MacLaine and 2012. She believes, as many of us do, that on 12/12/12 the alignment of the planets will line up with our chakras. It will be at the time where a great many of us will find balance and enlightenment. Synchronicity. We will be the ones who are the beacons for the rest of the world, “guiding the ships to our shore,” the Shore of Truth on the banks of the River of Peace.

Shirley feels the shift: the movement of the tectonic plates, climate change, and the oil spill in the Gulf.  “The way we define reality is shifting,” she said, and that hopefully this catastrophic event will be the biggest and best wake-up call humanity has ever had.  She shared her idea for a “very expensive spiritual boot camp for Ccrporate Leaders” made us all laugh with hope for our Earth.

“An Evening with Shirley MacLaine” concluded with a wonderfully giving question and answer period.  Many audience members shared personal dreams and admiration for this icon. When asked her favorite leading man, she quickly replied, “Jack Nickelson, of course” and her favorite character, “Aurora Greenway,” from Terms of Endearment, because of her contradictions.  When a friend of mine asked her how best to prepare ourselves for 2012 she laughed and replied, “Hot fudge sundaes.”

We were treated to a visit from her sweet Jack Russell terrier, Terry, who took a turn about the stage, and then Shirley took a final question and left us with the words of another great artist whose work has had a great impact on my life,” All the world’s a stage.” I agree with William Shakespeare, but I also know we are here to strut, not fret. I am grateful to have had the pleasure to spend the evening with one of my heroes.

 

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