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WHERE WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT YOUR STORY? Interview with Byron Katie

SPIRITUALITY & SEX by Diane McCann

THE THREE BODIES by Dr Graham Williams

LOVE & RELATIONSHIP ADDICTION by Robert Mittiga

REALITY IS ENTIRELY NONINTELLECTUAL by Linda Clair

CHANGE YOUR STORY by Swami Dayananda

AVOIDING CANCER by Dr Talia Miller

LIVING THE AWAKENED LIFE by Phil Morimitsu

WEIGHT LOSS WITH INTEGRITY by Amanda Allen

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THE FREEDOM OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY by Julie Way

KITCK START YOUR LIFE by Graham Hoyle

THE PERILOUS QUEST OF THE HERO by Tra-ill Dowie

INVOKING RADIANCE by Scott Alexander King

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GETTING FREE OF THE INNER CRITIC by Persephone Maywald

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SELF COMPASSION by John Wood

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Richard Bach once wrote: “The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about those once in a while and watch your answers change.” The western mind is so overwhelmed by material pursuits that for many, this sort of questioning has taken a back seat. But if we stop and take a breath, beneath all the activity that keeps us asleep there’s an undercurrent that pulls each of us inwards, towards the unspoken ever-changing deepening in our hearts. If we take a few moments to consider Bach’s eternal questions we may surprise ourselves with the conclusions we reach … Here’s one set of answers, what are yours? 1. Where were you born? We were never born … from the beginningless beginning to the endless end we always were, always are and always will be. 2. Where is your home? Home is always here. Right where we are our heart is an open door into the eternal vastness that is our own true nature. Our home is always right where we stand. 3. Where are you going? Ah … the joys of travelling the inner path take us ever on into the Heart of God. In truth we go nowhere because we always encompass all and everything. The “going” is simply a deepening and awakening into the infinite expanse that reaches into the boundless ocean of Love and Mercy – God Itself. 4. What are we doing? In truth the “doer” is beyond the “me” that we all believe ourselves to be. The doing is done by the Divine through this form, witnessing the action of creation manifesting as “my life”, as this life. The “doing” is always simply happening. We are Its

instrument and the closer we come into alignment with the reality that always is, the simpler and clearer our life becomes. The doer is in fact one with the doing. Paraphrasing Nisagardatta Maharaj: “When the witness and the witness become one and you go beyond it, you’ve reached the supreme state.” Those of us who continue to ask the questions that fire the heart are kept awake by the pulsations of life that flood us constantly … yet for so many, this flow is so easily overlooked. This way of living is always available to those who know the keen call of Soul … to those who feel the impulse to come back in, and honour the yearning for the touch that continually awakens us to the gift that this life truly is. For those awake to the currents that flow through and sustain all life, each day is a silent celebration. Rumi draws a line in the sand ... either we join in the celebration or we rermain asleep. Those who don’t feel this Love Pulling them like a river, Those who don’t drink dawn Like a cup of spring water Or take in sunset like a supper, Let them sleep. This Love is beyond the study of theology, That old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, Sleep on. I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds And thrown it away. If you’re not completely naked, Wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, And sleep.

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Where would you be without YOUR STORY? An Interview with Byron Katie “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.” - Epictetus In her bestselling Loving What Is: Four Questions to Change your Life, Byron Katie introduces a simple but profound method of finding peace and happiness through questioning the mind. The heart of Katie’s approach - called The Work - is asking four questions that can help us shift our minds and see our problems in an entirely different light. The Work has been compared to Zen koans and Socratic questioning, and people describe it as spiritual or psychological. But it doesn’t stem from any tradition, Eastern or Western; it is American, easily accessible, down to earth, without pretense or lingo. It originated in the mind of an ordinary woman who had no intention of originating anything. Katie’s second book, I Need Your Love - Is That True? (Harmony Books, 2005) examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In the book, Katie helps the reader question everything he or she has been taught to do, say, or think in order to secure love, approval and appreciation from others and shows the way to find genuine, effortless love. Over the last 15 years, Katie has traveled the world, offering free public events, weekend workshops, conferences and a nine-day “school.” She doesn’t lecture or teach, but instead invites people to do The Work with her and with each other. Here, she shares the story of how The Work was born, and ways to learn to love what is. RD: I understand you teach and practice something called “The Work.” BK: Well, I don’t really “teach” anything. I just offer my own experience and a way to look at things differently. And I notice when people use this work, what I call “inquiry,” they experience a radical change in their lives. Their physical bodies, their mental and emotional selves, everything shifts so dramatically. It’s quite remarkable. The Work, or the inquiry, is based on four questions. The power is in the answers to those questions. People from a broad range of disciplines and practices - 12step programs, A Course in Miracles, Christianity - find these four questions helpful. The questions seem to apply to any spirituality or practice. RD: What are the four questions? BK: The first question is, “Is it true?” The second question is, “Can you absolutely know that it’s true?” The third question is, “How do you react when you think that thought?” What feelings do you get? How far do those feelings travel? And how do you treat other people and how do you treat yourself? How do you react when you think that thought? The fourth question is, “Who or what would you be without that thought?” In this moment, right now, who would you be without that? After the inquiry, the questions, I then invite people to turn those concepts around - to ask if the opposite is true, or if it makes as much sense or more sense than what they’re believing. I invite them to step for a moment out of denial. When people use these four questions, it invokes answers within them that are just mind-blowing. RD: Could you give us an example? BK: Suppose you start to look at what you’re thinking about yourself. Maybe you’re thinking, “My life is horrible; nothing ever works out for me, it’s never going to get any better.” And if you’re believing what you’re thinking, you are probably suffering terribly. If you were to inquire into that thought, you would begin by asking yourself, “Is it true?” Maybe your initial response is, “Yes, it’s true, look how bad my life is.”

Then you would go on to ask the second question: “Can I absolutely know that it’s true?” Well, you really can’t know that things will continue to be difficult or bad; everything could change in a split second. You could get a new job, your health could improve, you could find yourself in a wonderful relationship. You just don’t know. Then you would go on to the third question, “How do you react when you think that thought?” Well, when I think, “My life is horrible, nothing works out,” I feel instantly bad. I feel negative and depressed and hopeless. When I really notice how I react to that thought, I can start to understand how it’s running my life. Then you would go on to the fourth question, “Who would you be without that thought?” Who would you be if you didn’t think everything was going to go wrong? What would that feel like? Ask yourself that, then sit quietly and feel it. Don’t just think it or describe it - really feel it. RD: Is that all there is to it? BK: After the four questions, I invite people to then turn their statements around - called the “turnaround.” For example, suppose a woman thinks, “I am so unhappy in my marriage; I don’t love my husband.” After the four questions, we would turn her statement around. So, “I don’t love my husband” becomes, “I do love my husband.” I would invite her to feel that. She may realize her unhappiness in her marriage has nothing to do with her husband. It’s just a story that she’s telling herself, that she loves him or that she hates him. There’s another turnaround: from “I don’t love my husband” we come to “I don’t love myself.” (For more examples of how to do The Work, visit www.thework.org.) RD: Does your work presume, as some practices do, that people can awaken in a split second? BK: Awaken to what? What is there to awaken to? I’m sitting here talking to you. That’s all I’m awake to, and that’s enough. It’s a wonderful thing. I’m looking out the window, and it’s incredible, it’s beautiful, it’s life. I’m looking at my bicycle, and some trees, the sky, and it’s very beautiful. That’s all I need to be awake to. It’s a lot. It’s a whole world. RD: Tell me about your journey. How did you come to do this work? BK: I was extremely depressed for more than a decade, and I was full of so much rage, my children were afraid of me. There was no reason for my anger or depression. I had plenty of money, I had a wonderful home, my children were healthy, and yet it continued. I didn’t know what to do. I spent most of the last few years of that time shut up in my bedroom. I was terribly agoraphobic; I could barely leave the house. I stayed in bed for weeks at a time, not even bathing or brushing my teeth. It was very painful. I used to sleep on the floor; because my self-esteem was so low, I didn’t believe I deserved to sleep in the bed. Finally, I checked into a halfway house, and they put me in an attic room. A cockroach crawled over my foot, and I opened my eyes, and in the face of all that hopelessness and darkness, I experienced something that I can’t describe - I’ll just call it “joy.” Everything changed, and there was no reason for it. I just woke up without any concept of who or what I was. There was just no me. All my anger, my anxieties, my depression were gone. Nothing was unacceptable or separate any longer; everything just was as it was. What I saw in that moment was that when I believe what I think, I suffer, but when I question what I think, I

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don’t suffer. I’ve come to see this is true for everyone. As long as we believe what we think, our lives, our entire lives, develop out of that mental construct. RD: So, in that moment, in the attic, did you cease to believe what you thought? BK: Yes. It could be that I was so terrified of bugs, that when I saw the cockroach and felt it crawling on me, my mind couldn’t project past it. In that state of mindlessness, I just thought that nothing was true, and then I saw that everything was true. And that’s why I ask, “What is awakeness?” I’ve learned that for me to question my mind, to confront my beliefs, is to wake up from the nightmare. And it’s a process, because we may question one thing, and say, “Oh, my gosh. I believed that all my life. That’s crazy!” But then there are other concepts left to wake up to, so it takes some time. RD: But in your case, in the attic, it sounds less like a process and more like grace. BK: Yes, it was pure grace. RD: Was that experience of joy an isolated incident? Or did you go back to being depressed after that? BK: You know, that moment went back to the fourth question for me, “Who would you be without that thought?” Who would I be without the thoughts and beliefs in my depression and anxiety? From that moment, I haven’t experienced even a problem, and it’s been a long while. I have three children and five grandchildren, I have family, I have a life just like everyone else. But I refuse to go to the depression again, or the anger or anxiety. Maybe it was pure grace at that moment, but it has evolved since then into understanding. I understand my mind. It makes sense to me. And there’s nothing to be angry about. The place I’m in now is, “How can I help? What can I do from here?” That’s an amazing place to live. It’s real, and it’s natural; we’re all happiest when we’re helping other human beings. RD: So you didn’t have any kind of formal spiritual or psychological study? BK: No, I studied hell. And I thought it was forever. I was suicidal. I thought you had to die to be free. I didn’t think you could exist and be free of pain. No one told me there was a way out besides death. In a way, I suppose I did die. My children and husband didn’t recognize me at times after that; I was in the same body, but everything else about me was unrecognizable. It was such a radical shift, people began to call me a walk-in like an alien had walked into my body. RD: What did you tell your husband and your children when you came down from the attic? BK: I didn’t recognize them. They were like people I’d never seen before. I just had to start all over again. My ex-husband used to say it was like I’d fallen out of one tree and climbed into another. He would just wail through the house, “What did you do with her? I didn’t marry you! Where did she go?” He was so bitter, but he was very kind and concerned. After that point, we didn’t have a lot in common. RD: So you really didn’t have a way to explain to your children what had happened. How would you explain it to them now if you could go back and be there? BK: The way I would explain it is, I just broke down. It’s like I saw that nothing was true, and I saw that thought actually creates life. And without the story, there’s no life. No story, no world. It’s all projected. When the mind understands the mind, it’s a very beautiful thing. But if the mind starts projecting something that brings on a lot of anxiety or anger, then it’s time to question what you believe. It’s everyone’s responsibility to

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set themselves free of any mindset that’s dreadful; when they do, their life changes. When we question what we believe, we work with our minds, and we become kinder human beings. Fear is not kind; there’s a lot of cruelty in fear. And no one would be fearful if they knew how not to be. So, that’s what I do. Once I got back from the halfway house, my house started filling up, phones started ringing, and for an agoraphobic, that’s pretty radical. Soon, people begin to invite me to their homes, then their towns and their countries. They sometimes asked me if I was “enlightened.” I’m just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn’t. People want an institution built around me, but that doesn’t make sense to me. So I distilled my inner inquiry into the four questions that anyone can ask themselves. I call it the school for The Work it’s a way to put them through their own minds, to show them how to question their thoughts and beliefs. We work with people’s stressful thoughts - about their families, their children, their friends, their partners, their parents, anything that’s stressful. I put it all together so they can just fill in the blanks, and then learn how to question what they believe. The results are nothing short of miraculous. It’s nothing special about me. No one needs a teacher. We just need to know how to question what we believe. RD: I imagine there was some time between your experience in the attic and when you started to teach other people. BK: Actually, what happened was people noticed

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with depth and honesty. But not everyone’s in that space. RD: What do you mean by, “really ask the questions?” BK: Well, let’s say we believe the war in Iraq should come to an end, and that we should ship all the troops out of Iraq. If a person were to use those four questions on that belief, it might be hard to really look for other answers inside that perhaps might change their minds. For example, if we say, “I need George Bush to pull the troops out of Iraq,” we could ask, “Is that true? Is that what I need? Do I absolutely know that that’s what the world needs, that that’s what people in Iraq need? Can I absolutely know that that’s true?” We really ask the question and look for new answers. Then look at how we react when we think that thought, “Can I really know that’s true?” Look at any negativity it brings up. Some good things can come out of that kind of open, honest inquiry. But people’s minds often jump to, “I don’t even want to look at it. Of course we should get the troops out. It’s only right, people are dying, people are suffering, that’s all I need to know.” We shut down our minds, our inquiry, and stick to the beliefs we’re comfortable with, the ones we’re invested in. Most people don’t want to really, really go deep. Then comes the turnaround. If our starting belief is, “George Bush should pull the troops out of Iraq,” the turnaround is, “George Bush should not pull the troops out of Iraq.” It takes a very open mind just to look at that and to see rea-

sons why it could be better if he does not. Most people don’t want to look at it, to really question their beliefs. What people believe is their religion. They’re devoted to it. They can’t do those four questions; they are just too invested in what they believe. My religion was to believe I had to pick up my children’s socks. Everyday their socks were on the floor, and everyday I stuck to that religion - I picked them up. How did I react? I was brutal. I would yell. I would say things like, “You don’t appreciate me. You don’t listen to me. You don’t respect me.” It just went on and on and on - all that, over some socks on the floor. And no matter how much I yelled, everyday the socks would be there and everyday I would believe that they shouldn’t be. I was denying reality and I was creating war in my own home. And inside of me, what a story I had going. “I’m unloved, unappreciated, overworked.” Then I asked myself, “Who or what would I be without that story?” The socks are there one way or the other, but there are two ways of experiencing something. One is as the mother from hell, and the other is with a little understanding and acceptance: “Okay, the socks are on the floor. Now what can I do from here?” Obviously my children don’t mind - this is how they live. It’s me who doesn’t want the socks on the floor. So if the thought is “My children should pick up the socks” and I turn it around, it comes out, “I should pick up the socks.” I picked

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THE THREE BODIES One of the questions I always ask new students or clients is if they can tell me how much emotional training we generally get. The best answer I got was from a teenage school boy who said, ‘Well, you wing it!’ And that about sums it up, doesn’t it? We’re taught to look after our bodies very well – medicine, science and technology are extremely highly developed in our culture – and we get at least 10 years at school to train our minds. But for our emotions…? If you had lived in Tibet or India some years ago it would have been very different. Emotionally you would have had a good training, but your physical circumstances and health would have been influenced mostly by chance. The meditation tradition has developed the knowledge of our minds and emotions to the same degree that we have developed the knowledge of our bodies and the physical world. Of course we talk of our bodies, emotions and minds but we tend to see our minds as completely different from our bodies, and our emotions as determined by whatever happens to us in our lives. The idea of actually looking after our own emotional health, or even being able to, is not one we are generally familiar with. THE PHYSICAL BODY When we refer to our body, we mean our physical body. Our culture has studied it thoroughly, and developed a tradition of medicine and science which encompasses the entire range of physical knowledge from healing broken limbs to microbiology and neuroscience. However, the meditation tradition defines a body as anything that has a shape or form and a beginning and an end. If you look around at the objects in your room: this paper you are reading, the chairs and tables, lights, glasses and everything else, they all have a shape, a beginning and an end. Because they have a form, they exist in time and space, and having been created, will eventually disintegrate. So the definition holds for physical objects. Let’s look at our thoughts. THE MENTAL BODY If you examine any thought you will discover that you experience it as an image or a word. An image definitely has a shape, and so a beginning and an end – as does a word. So the definition also holds

for thoughts. In meditation, our whole range of mental processes – thoughts, images, conversations and memories – are also seen as a body. In the West, we use this concept when we speak of a body of knowledge. This is called the mental body. And so, even though we believe that our minds are very different from our bodies, you can see from this that they are not as different as we think. Yes, they are different in degree of course, but basically they are subject to the same limits and laws as our bodies. We are all familiar with our mental processes and thoughts and are well trained to look after our physical bodies. However, there is one more body. THE ENERGY BODY This body consists of all the inner sensations and emotions we experience. If you watch any sensation or emotion you will find it has a specific location in your physical body. It also has a beginning and an end and, when you examine it closely, a form. This surprises people until they are asked to draw or paint an emotion, and find they can. In the West, it is only recently that the energy body has been taken seriously – it was previously dismissed as imagination or vague emotions – and studied in natural medicine, where it is sometimes called the energetic body. The meditation tradition accepts all three bodies and has made a specialised study of the energy body. We discuss our energies all the time without noticing what we are saying. For example, we are full of energy, or lacking in energy. We have butterflies in the stomach, broken hearts, choked up throats and headaches of all kinds. The meditation tradition understands what causes these things, how they work and how to heal them. MAINTAINING PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH The concept of the three bodies allows us to view our mental and emotional lives quite differently. For example, we take for granted that our physical bodies need to be fed, so we have a number of meals each day. However, all of our aspects – physical, emotional and mental – follow the same laws. As they are all bodies, they all need to be fed to remain healthy. At some level we know this because we talk about food for the soul and food for the mind.

At school we learn how to read and write and fill our minds with knowledge, learning ideas and concepts. Our thinking could not operate without ideas and concepts – these are what feed our mental bodies and thoughts. If you meet someone who is starved of ideas and doesn’t know how to feed themselves mentally you will see all the symptoms of hunger. For example, an elderly person who has depended on local or family gossip to feed their minds but is now isolated in a nursing home, will languish for want of mental nourishment. When someone visits them they are hungry for the latest gossip. Many people whose work is emotionally demanding – for example, therapists, teachers, counsellors and doctors – become emotionally drained, literally drained of energy, because they have no idea how to feed their energy body. When people learn how to feed themselves emotionally it is a revelation as their energies recover. Meditation is the food of our energy bodies. You can use breathing meditation, either on its own or along with any of the other kinds of meditation. By knowing how to focus and direct your breath in meditation, you can restore and nourish your energies and keep yourself mentally and emotionally in good health. At Lifeflow we like to teach people how to have short snacks during the day and then a good meal when the time is there to do it. Dr. Graham Williams has thirty years’ experience in teaching meditation, is the Director of The Lifeflow Meditation Centre, a consultant with a national psychology company and an adjunct lecturer at Flinders University. He has released two classical music CDs and his new book Life in Balance will be available in November. A meditation CD is also available from The Lifeflow Centre, which provides regular meditation courses in their city studio and retreats in a relaxing hills setting. P 8353 0000 W www.lifeflow.com.au

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LIVING IN MEDITATION Therapy or Monkey Mind? Many people have asked me whether Rebirthing Breathwork is something that can help with their meditation practice. My answer is always the same... Rebirthing Breathwork was given to enable us to achieve effortless meditation. It does this by helping us make the transition to living in our hearts, as opposed to living in our heads, which results in the ‘Monkey mind’ which we try to stop in meditation. Disciples of God and enlightenment have been using one form of Rebirthing Breathwork (RBW) or another for aeons. RBW is THE shortcut to meditation. In the therapy we know as RBW, we go past our psychological defences and permanently release various levels of trauma ( trapped emotional energy and negative patterns of thinking, from gross trauma such as abuse to subtle trauma such as not getting our emotional needs met and deciding we weren’t worthy), which is the root of all of our automatic thought processes. Through RBW we permanently release the unconscious root of the automatic thinking, that we try to interrupt the surface symptoms of, in our meditation practice. It is like a weed. You can cut the surface off, but within time, since the roots are left, the weed comes back. So too, in meditation. We use our willpower to control or let go of our thoughts. We may have success for time periods, but the root behind the monkey mind style thinking is left, so the thoughts come back shortly. The ‘ever present now’ is lost again. Any body can have a bit of peace if they lock themselves in a room and close their eyes, but unless the roots of your inner chaos are removed, all it takes is for you to leave the room and interact with your parents, partner, boss, life in general, and bang – the inner chaos is back. RBW enables the permanent removal of this inner chaos and you get to live in the peace & stillness permanently. The mechanism can be explained on many levels. The main one I will focus on here is the phenomena of awakening the Kundalini energy. The awakening of the Kundalini energy can be likened to the awakening of the silent areas of the brain. We roughly use only 3 -10% (to be gener-

ous) of our brain. Awakening the Kundalini energy results in the equivalent of awakening the silent areas of not just the brain, but also our spiritual, bliss body & mind. The feelings that come with the awakening of the spiritual, bliss body & mind are experiences of stillness, ecstacy/ bliss, universal love, the splendourous highs of communion with God, connection with everyone, joy, etc . The Kundalini energy is the highest evolutionary mechanism available to human beings. It is what we experience enlightened states through, and at the end of the road it is that through which we become established in the enlightened state permanently. All traditions of attainment and spiritual discipline have as their end goal the awakening of the Kundalini energy. Literally, no matter what system you will use, it is designed by God to get you closer to him/her, it just may not be stated as such. So whether it is meditating, chanting, praying to Jesus, Devotion to your Guru, Tantra, Fasting & physical cleansing, Mantra, Chakra dance, Hatha Yoga or Pranayama... All of these practices raise the Kundalini energy to various degrees. The more the Kundalini energy is raised the more the Shakti energy, which is God Him/Herself, will flow through you. The more Shakti goes through your system, the more this high vibration energy will push out of your system all that is opposite - the low vibration energy of old & stale emotions such as fear, shame, anger, grief, and negative illusionary beliefs such as I am not loveable/not worthy/ not good enough/ I am seperate. Two critical thresholds are reached in this cleansing. When 25% of your emotional dross is burnt up, your heart is open enough to let God’s love, through the form of the Masters, do most of the cleansing, and a semblance of peace is attained along with temporary experiences of enlightened states. When 50% is burnt up, you attain liberated consciousness, enlightenment proper, where you are permanently established in the enlightened state. That’s right, even enlightened masters have baggage to work through. All of these disciplines will

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gradually cleanse you and will gradually help you achieve enlightened states. The truth also is that just like with anything else in life, there is the slow, ineffective and outdated way and then there is the relatively quick, effective and cutting edge way . I started serious meditation at the age of 14 daily. By the time I was 19/20 for periods, I would meditate up to 3 hours a day. As a result I awoke my Kundalini energy by the age of 20/21 enough to experience the first stages of becoming conscious on the subtle planes as my physical body slept, and started my process of merging with the one Self. With this came the most extreme periods of emotional catharsis as my system was cleansed of old emotional dross and illusion. We are talking years of daily grief release, anger and fear processing, emotions which I never even suspected were in me. With this passage also came the RBW. The main thing I learnt from the awakening was that what 1 hour of daily meditation for a month gives the average meditator, as far as raising the Kundalini energy and cleansing the system, approximately 1 cathartic style, RBW sessions will do the same. This is not to discredit meditation, on the contrary, I meditate everyday still, but combining the cleansing from RBW with meditation is always going to be the Royal Path for me. They are the King & Queen of Enlightenment. The Queen being the feminine principle of surrendering into your emotions that RBW is. Whilst the King being the male principle of focus and penetration, the concentration that meditation proper involves. Both are needed to attain the final & supreme integration. Jaan Jerabek has been facilitating Spiritual & Personal development programmes since age 20. Presently, age 34, he spends most of his time in private practice & training Breathwork & Counselling practitioners. Jaan Jerabek can be contacted on (02) 9985 7278 or more info about his work can be found at www.jaanjerabek.com

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Reality is entirely non-intellectual Q: I’ve been seeking enlightenment for many years. I‘ve read all kinds of books, I’ve been to workshops, and I’ve sat with quite a few teachers. Some teachers say seek, and meditate, others say don’t seek, don’t meditate. They all seem to be pointing to this non-dual reality. I think I’ve had glimpses of it, but I’m not even sure of that any more. I feel confused, and like I’m not getting anywhere. What should I do? Linda: You don’t need to read any more books. You know enough intellectually about the subject. You need to get into your body and start practising seriously – and stop flitting around going from teacher to teacher. Once you find an enlightened teacher who you resonate with – you’re not necessarily going to feel good about that teacher all the time because your mind is going to react to the energy of the teacher, particularly

when you start to get more and more deeply into it - but you need to commit to a teacher and a practice, and stay with it, and not scatter yourself. You really need to be single-pointed about this. The problem that a lot of people have is that they have a pretty good idea intellectually, but they’re not really committing themselves in a single-pointed way – and that’s really important – to be single-pointed about this, and serious about it. If you are serious about it, I could help you, but you’d need to commit to the practice that I would advise. This practice is simple; it’s the practice that I used, and many other people have used – and it works. You need to centre yourself and ground yourself in your body. You are probably too much in your head, and that’s why you’re confused. The more grounded you become in the body, the less confused you become, be-

cause you start to realise the intelligence of the body rather than the confusion of the intellect. Reality is entirely non-intellectual. Books can help to a certain degree - I’m not saying don’t ever read any books – and with some books, you’re going to be energetically affected, but there comes a time when you should just leave the books for a certain period, until you’re much more grounded and centred in the body – and start experiencing it yourself rather than reading about other people’s experiences. You need to be prepared to go through whatever it takes – and it takes a lot of courage, because a lot of fear will come up. One of the roles of a teacher is to be your anchor – your security and stability. So you need to have a lot of trust in your teacher, and the only way to trust is to find out in your own experience that what he or she is saying is true. Linda Clair is a non-sectarian teacher, and is also the author of the book ‘What do you Want?’ She teaches mainly at the Simple Meditation Centre in Crafers West in the Adelaide Hills. For more information, please phone David on 8339 7848 or visit www.simplemeditation.net

ADVANCED LIFE TRANSFORMATION The Relationship with Yourself 7 day residential Are you getting to your wits end trying different approaches & seeking answers to why you just cannot seem to ‘shift’ and change the things you have been stuck with? Are you looking for something that will give real & tangible results and not just the usual ‘feel better’, ‘improve relationships’, ‘succeed & live abundantly ‘ after a weekend type promises? Are you getting bored of hearing the same philosophies, that feel and sound like they are the repeated text of the ‘same old, same old’ books out there, and which do nothing to deepen your meditation & spiritual experience? Then this may be for you... Experiential process work is what 90% of this 7 day residential intensive consists of. Experiential process work is what transforms lives, not seminar based information sessions. This is a programme for individuals and couples who are serious about arriving at a new place in the relationship they have with themselves. The relationship with yourself, the real primary relationship we all have, forms the foundation of all of your relationships. Whether it is the relationship you have to your own self value/ worth, your relationship to your inner peace, whether it is the relationship you have with your family, workplace colleagues or your romantic partner. It is even the basis for the relationship you have with your life purpose and money. If you transform this primary relationship, the rest will follow. The themes for the experiential work of this 7 day programme include: • SELF WORTH/ SELF LOVE – The foundation of the Relationship with yourself • CONSCIOUS RELATIONSHIPS – Living in your power & heart with everyone • PERSONAL POWER, COMMUNICATION & BOUNDARIES – Conscious Relating in Action • DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES – How the ages we were wounded the most at result in our personalities & defences and how this wounding can be reversed. • SPIRITUAL PURIFICATIONS & DEEP CLEANSING – What cleansing your Chakras & Energy channels really looks & feels like. Spiritual purifications as taught by Babaji. Includes Home Breathwork, to keep yourself clear at home & help deepen meditation. The foundation work for these themes includes advanced forms or rebirthing breathwork such as water rebirthing & bioenergetics breathwork and process work designed by Jaan Jerabek who has been meditating since the age of 14 and facilitating programmes since age 20. Jaan has facilitated 100’s of residentials and group programmes and has taken 1000’s of people through the rebirthing process over the last 15 years.

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Mind & Hear t with SWAMI DAYANANDA

Change your story A regular column on exploring conscious living Let’s say it’s a beautiful day and you’re feeling content. No dramas at the moment. Then, in your relaxed state of contentment, suddenly you remember a time in the past when you wish it had been different. You wish you had done something other than what you did or you wish the other person had acted differently. Perhaps you wish you had made a different choice. Maybe listened to the “little voice” inside that told you to go in a different direction. What happens at these moments? Your blissful state has altered. Your feeling of expansion and being at one with the universe has become contracted or tense. Your energy depletes. You may have a physical sensation: you may feel a lump in your throat, emotional pain in your heart or anxiety in the navel area. Some people even get slight heart palpitations. Then what happens? Possibly you start criticising yourself, how you’re not good enough or clever enough or how you “should have known”. You become even more tense and your energy depletes even more.

UNRESOLVED ISSUES CAN CARRY NEGATIVITY What are these moments that deplete energy? They are unresolved issues that carry negativity. I call them glitches from the past. They can arise at any moment and especially become prominent when you are in heightened emotional reactions or circumstances. So, let’s say you have identified a moment when you think you should have acted differently and you feel bad about it. What difference does it make? It’s in the past and you can’t change the past. But . . . the bad feeling continues to arise in the present and may arise in the future. It obviously is an issue that remains unresolved. Certainly you can leave it that

way. In the moment that you notice a memory when you wish things had been different, you can simply sweep it away—and hope it doesn’t come back. But you also have the option of working with it more completely. You can dissolve the negative impact and stop losing energy.

ACCEPTANCE AND FORGIVENESS Through acceptance and forgiveness you can re-write the endings of each of your stories. Instead of an incident ending with “I wish it were different”, you can accept it fully. You can forgive yourself for your part in it and accept yourself for who you were at that moment in time. As you grow older and add to your experiences you become a different person. Even with similar physical appearances, mannerisms, pattern of speech and identical fingerprints, the thirty-year old you and the fourteen-year-old you are quite different. You no longer are who you used to be. You can forgive the naiveté, insensitivity, lack of experience, poor choices or bad tendencies of your past with love and acceptance. You can also accept and forgive the other person or other people, the circumstances, God, the universe—anyone or anything that you may have been blaming. At first, you might feel “I wish it were different but I can accept it the way it was.” Then after awhile the negative glitch can dissolve into “I can accept it the way it was.” In time, like the sweeter moments, you can allow these memories to arise without losing energy and embrace your life as it unfolds.

MEDITATION: ON ACCEPTANCE Take a moment to relax and focus on your inner being. Open yourself to the idea that everything in your remarkable life has happened the way it was supposed to happen.

Possibly even if you had acted differently, certain situations still might have been the same. Open yourself to accepting everything you are and everything that has happened to you. Close your eyes and meditate on acceptance.

INQUIRY: DISSOLVING UNRESOLVED ISSUES Do you have any unresolved issues? The next time you notice that you wish something had been different, focus on it. Be specific. What do you wish you had done differently? Voice it out loud. Have you changed your behaviour over the years or is this a pattern? Would you like to act differently in the future? Voice it out loud. Imagine talking to yourself as you were then and forgiving yourself for what you said or how you acted. Release any feeling of tension or criticism. Allow peace to arise.

CONTEMPLATION: ON CONTENTMENT The very essence of the light of your inner Self is contentment. Swami Dayananda (Nancy Jackson) is the author of 108 Meditations and is a regular feature writer for Australian Yoga Life magazine. She also is the Director of the Adelaide Shiva Yoga Meditation Centre at 79 Military Road, Semaphore. The Centre conducts Saturday night Satsangs, and courses on meditation and self-inquiry. Join us for Tuesday night study groups on the psychology and philosophy of yoga. Contact (08) 8242 4929 or www.meditationyoga.com.au for more information.

The master struggle of personal transformation is the confrontation between awareness or consciousness itself (the Self) and the ego. Transformation occurs when awareness is no longer trapped in the games of the ego and takes its place as the unconditional and loving presence that makes no judgement and takes no position. One of the greatest qualities to acquire along this path is an understanding of self compassion. Readings of Buddhists texts are full of references to the compassionate self, compassion for all sentient beings and compassion to alleviate suffering. Much to my amazement I recently came across some western scientific research on the very same thing. I never cease to be amazed by the fact that thousands of years of reflective philosophy accumulated in Buddhism still manages only now to surface in the psychology of the west. Self compassion according to western research is the ability to extend to the self unconditional and non-judgemental acceptance especially when suffering or in pain. There is no judgement of good or bad just acceptance of that which is observed in the self. Researchers have been very clear on the difference between self compassion and self esteem – a distinction I feel is fundamental to the transformative process. Self esteem is considered an ego enhancing and conditional regard for the self - it is judging the self as good (high self esteem) or bad (low self esteem). When self esteem is low the idea is to engage in self talk to make your self feel better about your self. Whichever way you look at it, changing self esteem is about manipulating conditional regard. Self esteem is about the ego making itself feel good about itself. Self esteem is considered to be difficult to change permanently. Many things can be done to make one self feel better in the short term

but in the long term this trait is difficult to shift. Self compassion on the other hand is the act of accepting without judgement or condition whatever positive or negative thoughts are going through the mind. Self compassion, more so than self esteem, has been shown to be positively correlated with good health, self acceptance, and acceptance of others, learning, initiative, lowered fear of failure and a decreased tendency to avoid negative or painful thoughts. The essence therefore of self compassion is to be able to defuse awareness from the thinking about self, whether it is good or bad. No harm will come from positive thinking about the self but remember it is conditional and it too will need to be surrendered as the journey through the ego continues. The researchers have found that self compassion is based on three key qualities. The first is self acceptance versus self criticism, where there is the capacity to observe self criticism but not indulge it or follow it through with further self attack. That which is observed is accepted (“at this moment I observe that my mind is being self critical”) but instead of criticism what is extended to the self is compassion. The second quality is the understanding that what you feel is a common part of the human condition versus I am the only one experiencing suffering. The suffering that is of the mind is the same suffering that affects all humankind and has done so for thousands of years. It is the human struggle of the mind. The struggle with thought and that which thought produces. The “I” of that struggle is the “we” of shared humanity. The specific content may differ from person to person but that which holds, perceives and organises the content is not different, it is the shared experience of humanity.

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The final quality is being mindful of the self criticism or emotion rather than over-identifying with it and acting it out. Having the ability to observe that which is playing out in the mind and at the same time being mindful enough to defuse from it, but also not to suppress it nor act it out is a quality of self compassion. What self compassion does is to help reduce the amount of noise in the ego by (1) observing the critical self or ego in action and therefore creating space in your awareness around it and (2)reducing the criticism of self criticism. Therefore awareness is free to see things as they are not as they appear through the window of self criticism. What self compassion also does is allow you to see that the suffering experienced is shared by all humanity, we are not different in this regard, we all suffer we all have our demons that we wrestle with. Understanding our own suffering therefore also helps us understand the suffering of all humankind. The other interesting point raised by the researchers is that self esteem building can often lead you to overlook underlying patterns that drive low self esteem. Self compassion because of its reliance on mindful awareness will more readily identify these underlying patterns as it allows them to emerge with sufficient awareness. Allowing these patterns to emerge adds another level to what compassion is extended to. The more that is in awareness, the more that compassion is extended to, the more likely we are able to free ourselves from these patterns to lead a rich and fulfilling life. The next time you feel self critical, self blaming, self damning or self hatred try observing the workings of the inner voice, don’t over identify with it nor suppress it - just allow it to be, accept that it is occurring and extend compassion to your self, understand that what you suffer is suffered by all of humanity – it is the working of the mind, and understand that you do not need to ‘act out’ the suffering. Then in the quiet space of the observer turn awareness to the manner in which you choose to respond and it may be that you both experience the suffering and at the same time act from love and acceptance.

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Where would you be without YOUR STORY? An Interview with Byron Katie Continued from page 4

up the socks for me, not for them, and it changed my life. It was like “Oh, my God. This is heaven with the socks off the floor.” It had nothing to do with them - they didn’t care that the socks were on the floor. It had to do with me all along. There are many ways of doing this work. Some people are openminded enough, and tired enough of the pain they’re in, that they’ll question what they believe and turn it around. And some people are so curious about the mind and have such a love of truth, that they love these questions and the turnarounds. And then some people will ask the questions and answer them, and they have not really done inquiry - often it’s a superficial process, and that’s okay, too. We lose our religions when we question what we believe, and there’s a great freedom in that. It just leaves us open to see something else, how beautiful life really is. RD: Some people derive comfort and security from their beliefs, and may feel that to discard them would be to discard security or comfort, and even perhaps to throw their fate to the winds. BK: Yes, and that’s the mindset that so many people have when they consider inquiry. And that’s okay - it’s not for everyone. But of course, when you inquire into your beliefs with an open mind and heart, the opposite happens. Any time we find the heart of a matter, the truth, we always come out kinder. RD: What brings most people to your work? Are they hurting or depressed? Are they just curious? BK: I think all of the above. They’re in pain, or they’re curious to see how their friends have shifted so radically - they want to know what happened, and they want it too. People with cancer, people who have lost a loved one, people who are depressed, who have had a tough divorce, who are basically unhappy. People who are worried about their security or their health. People who want to find God. RD: Do you mention God in your teaching? BK: A lot. But, you know, it’s

AWAKENING synonymous with reality for me. RD: Is that how you define God, as reality? BK: What I say is reality is, for me, God - because it rules. It is what it is. I’m sitting here talking to you, and it’s benevolent, magical. The story we superimpose upon reality is the problem. The story is what makes suffering possible. RD: Some would say that’s not superimposing; some would say it’s human nature to have desires, and that it’s inevitable that those desires will go unsatisfied. BK: Well, if we don’t believe what we think, where is desire? RD: It could still be a stirring inside. BK: Not without a concept. I see some bananas and some roses on a table; if I walk over and eat the banana, I see my desire in that moment, as I’m eating the banana. Then I’m looking at the roses; if my desire was to smell one of them, I would just notice that. And then when I was smelling the rose, that’s when I see my desire. It’s wonderful to live that way, because I don’t desire to eat the banana until I’m actually eating it; I don’t desire to smell the rose until I’m actually doing it. So all the desires are always met, but there’s no mental running all over the place and questioning, “Should I? Shouldn’t I?” RD: Suppose, for example, that you had the desire to send your son to a skiing camp or summer camp, but ... BK: I got excited just hearing that! I would grab my credit card, pick up the phone and enroll him. That’s exciting! That’s what I’d do if I had the desire, and I didn’t have a mind that told me why I shouldn’t. RD: But suppose you couldn’t afford it; wouldn’t that be irresponsible? BK: I would go to my son and say, “I just had the most fabulous thought to send you to camp. That’s what I want for you. I had pictures of you swimming and hiking and having a great time,” and I would share all of that with him. Then I’d say, “It occurred to me that I don’t have the money, but I want you to know what I want for you. And if you have any ideas of how we could bring this about, let’s talk. Here’s the amount of money we need, here’s the amount of money I have, and if you’re interested in going to camp, let’s talk about some ideas for getting the rest of the money.” Maybe it will be this year;

maybe it will be a couple of years from now. But it’s still exciting. You get to share your dreams with someone you love and care about. That’s how I live my life. It opens minds, and it opens hearts, and it creates true intimacy. RD: So you wouldn’t even wonder if that dream were reasonable or unreasonable? BK: Well, I just saw I didn’t have the money. That’s just the reality. Maybe my son has some ideas. Or maybe some other people whom I share this happy thought with have some ideas. The whole world opens up to a thought. It’s action, and it’s sharing, and it’s beautiful. RD: Some would see it as a guarantee for disappointment and pain for your son, so perhaps it’s best to avoid even talking about it. BK: But it puts the two of you in partnership, and it’s a shared goal and experience. I guess I just missed the pain. The sharing is so beautiful, and if he really wants it, who knows? If we work toward that dream together, the dream can come true. It’s a better place to live than in the isolated, lonely place of depression and pain and poverty both financial and emotional poverty. In that place, people see themselves as failures, and think the things they want aren’t possible. They don’t think they have the ability to open their hearts, to share and find ways to make things work, ways to receive. They’re just believing what they think. Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. Katie is the author of t h r e e bestselling books:Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, I Need Your Love—Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead and A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are, Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie was published in 2007, and Katie’s latest book, Who Would You Be Without Your Story?, Source: Nexuspub.com William Arntz

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Light & Sound with PHIL MORIMITSU

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A pracical spirituality for today As a young child, my initial ideas of God weren’t very positive. I remember whenever I felt the need to be holy or just wanted to scare myself, I’d go into our living room and pull out a drawer in an old wooden cabinet. There, I believed, was where God hid, right in that drawer, waiting to come out and do terrifying holy things whenever anyone opened it - a kind of Pandora’s Box in book form. The old Bible was huge, like an ancient leathercovered phone book. It smelled like the seats in a bus, and I could barely lift it. I wasn’t able to read yet, so all I could do was look at the greenish engravings that were sporadically placed throughout. God was easy to spot - He was the old, naked, grumpy guy flying around with all the angry flying babies threatening everyone. If someone did that in Chicago where I grew up, they’d throw you in the slammer. I concluded that if you were God, you could do what you wanted. About the same time period I was talking with my mother in the kitchen. “Where’s my soul?” I asked her. “Uh, err, it’s in your heart,” she stammered. “Oh. So which one goes to heaven when you die?” “Umm, they both do.” It sounded like mom didn’t know, so I didn’t press the issue, so in my child’s mind, I pieced together what happened when you died: your heart, a valentine-like thing, stuck itself together with your sole (at four years, old, I thought mom was talking about the beige shoe liners she wore to ease her corns), and together, these two things floated up to heaven to spend eternity with an old geezer in a perpetually bad mood. It didn’t sound worth going to heaven for. And so for a long time, I had a subconscious aversion to God. But also in my early years, I had a number of fascinating experiences - stuff I couldn’t explain. I remember this one time when I was about four years old, I was

lying in bed trying to sleep. I had my eyes closed and face buried in my pillow. In this dark, inner world, I could see thousands of tiny lights moving into the darkness. I could change the colours, and even the directions they moved. This one time, I made them red. Finally, I decided to ask my mom what they were. “Mom, what are those red lights moving around?” There was a brief silence as she struggled to wake up and make sense of my question. “Those are tail lights from the cars on the street,” she said, sleepily. She obviously thought I’d been staring out the window to the street. “Oh,” I said, and went back to bed. Around that same time, something odd happened when I was sick with a fever. After sleeping most of the day, a strange, high-pitched buzzing sound woke me up. I stumbled out of bed to try to find the source. I thought it was coming from the bathroom, which was near my bedroom. I climbed up on the sink to get a better listen. “What are you doing up there?” my mother asked incredulously as she passed by. “This light bulb is buzzing.” My mother cocked her head in confusion with a look of, what are you talking about? “There’s no sound coming from there.” I shrugged, climbed down from the sink and went back to bed. I could still hear the buzzing sound. I’d heard that most of my life, but no one seemed to know what it was. Fast-forward to the present: it took many years and hard experiences to erase my distorted ideas of God and spirituality, and I still catch myself having strange ideas about what God might or might not be. But in the meantime, I’ve learned what those funny lights and high-pitched sounds are - and they have a direct correlation on the worlds of spirit. Almost everyone I talk to also experiences the lights

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and hears sounds. At first when I ask, they look at me blankly, but when I describe them, they usually, say, “Oh, those lights and funny sounds. Yeah, I’ve heard and seen them all my life too. What are they?” In the meantime, I’ve had the good fortune to learn from some spiritually awakened individuals. They’ve taught me that those funny lights and sounds come from none other than God, the Creator Itself. When I first learned about this, I thought it must be some kind of mistake; sounds and lights a young child heard and saw, and even played around with. I’d always thought becoming spiritually awakened entailed serious, arduous disciplines that took years of ascetic behavior to attain, but it turns out, the key living an awakened life is something so subtle, so simple, a young child can grasp it. In the next two articles, I’ll share what I’ve learned about how those funny lights and sounds can totally transform your life. Phil Morimitsu is the author of two books that have gained him popularity with spiritual seekers around the globe: In the Company of ECK Masters and The Seeker. An American artist and writer, Morimitsu has traveled worldwide giving talks about his books and about Eckankar. Currently, he lives and works in Hong Kong.

Phil Morimitsu will be presenting Catching the Wave of Awakening a full day workshop in Adelaide in June 2009. For details and bookings phone Leo on (08) 8396 6752

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LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF YOUR HEART

Master Masteryy with JULIE WAY

The Freedom of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY In the early morning hours of the Sunday I was going to finish this article, I experienced a totally shocking, sleepless night of hell, featuring an axe wielding, drug crazed maniac cutting down the tree in front of my house as part of his terrorising me as revenge for me calling the police at 1am in the morning for all the violence and noise in the maisonette next door. (He does not live there). This was about 10% of the total drama that went on that night. Finally as I became more coherent after getting some sleep in the past 48 hours - I have had to ask myself in taking responsibility "How did I contribute to the creation of this?" And the answer came quietly and immediately. In the past 2 weeks I had promised myself to not approach next door from anger as I had previously in the past 9 months and consequently had that anger come back immediately in aggressive behaviour and repercussions of suffering for me. Instead, in the past 9 months when I had handed over my response to the noise and disruption next door to the Higher Self to reveal to me what to do, if anything – (because sometimes when I handed it over I did not need to do anything, it ceased immediately.) I always received an intuitive prompting of either approaching them in a gentle, loving, peaceful, friendly manner and received a positive, co-operative, friendly response or the disruption just stopped or the communication between me and the young man who rented next door, improved miraculously and he apologised and managed the situation peacefully and responsibly. Last weekend I did not keep that pledge and I had it come back at me in such a shocking, upsetting experience of suffering for me. This was where I was responsible, not as blame on me, yet as a call to put into action and act from the integrity of what I know - that I

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am 100% accountable for everything in my life even if I do not like it and this gives me the power of choice to have it/experience it differently by my attitude to anything. I always have a choice. The moment that music started blaring the first time I had an opportunity of choice – to either react from a level of anger, projection and feeling the victim (the ego’s response of defence and attack) or to pause and allow the response to come from my Higher Self when I handed it over and asked what to do, if anything. I create my reality and experiences of safety, love and peace or suffering - With either my ego identification as a defenseless victim of circumstance or the indescribable Love, peace and power within me. Last weekend I was being given the opportunity to either react from my ego/fear, or awaken and practice surrender over to the Higher Self-and allow myself to be guided at that level and then have a peaceful resolution come of it. Everything I see is a mirror of me in some form. The level of anger in me was the level of anger I saw outside of me in that angry man that was being presented to me as a learning experience revealing my unresolved and unforgiven fear, guilt and anger – which only requires love and forgiveness and from that miracles happen and things change.

THE WORLD IS SET UP TO WAKE US UP I wrote on page 39 of Personal Mastery ‘Most people are pressured to grow and change. …most people will not take responsibility for everything in their lives until they are forced to by circumstance. They only act (outside of what is familiar) when it gets so uncomfortable that they have to pay attention to what is happening and what they are feeling.” There comes a point in our growth and evolution that we are not cut the slack anymore to act out

of integrity with what we know – when we are called to account to act from what we know and speak about. When I listen to the voice of my Higher Self from my intuition then I receive only loving, peaceful and empowering experiences. When I do not listen to that intuitive, wise voice within me, I experience something I do not want. Not as punishment but as feedback. By taking responsibility for all of it and not judging myself or the situation I can trust it all, bless it, forgive it all by handing it over to the Higher Self to heal and thank it and the people concerned for teaching me so much and thus I am free from pain and suffering as this choice and healing shifts me into the real world where only the Love is real and anything that is not love has no power over me. PS: After writing the article and taking responsibility, forgiving, trusting and blessing., the persons concerned packed up and moved out by 6pm last night!! They had served me profoundly in getting this and no longer needed to be there to play that stuff out for me in that I was asked to practise what I preach to remember the lesson to love more than fear (even though it was very convincing in the fear factor at the time) it did not take me long to choose the truth and then to have it all change...

JULIE WAY© Julie Way is an Adelaide Rebirther/ Breath Therapist and Personal Development Consultant as well as the author of the book Personal Mastery She has recently published an inspirational booklet Thoughts for a Miraculous Life that is a herald to her third book The Miraculous Life© (work in progress) in which she expands on the above subject. Julie presents regular lectures in Adelaide on a Friday evenings. (See advertisement this issue.) She can be contacted P. 08-84439162 or julieway@ozemail.com.au See www.julieway.com.au

CONNECTING TO YOUR HEART: 1. Every morning when you wake up, ask your heart and soul to guide you. 2. You can say Dear Heart – talk to me. Tell me what you would love to do. Guide me to my passion, awaken my enthusiasm. Dear Soul, I ask that you open up my intuitive and healing abilities. Connect me to the people who will love me and help me grow. Lead me to the most expansive, beautiful and healing experi-

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I believe each person has two choices, to listen to their heart and follow its guidance or to deny and silence their heart’s voice. Most people have forgotten how to hear their hearts, because listening to one's heart requires one to take risks. It requires you to value yourself and to trust that the universe will support you. The majority of people in our society are discouraged from listening to their hearts by people who have denied their own hearts and feel threatened by someone who has the courage to follow their path. You need to realise that following your path does not mean that you will always experience joy and pleasure and everything will happen exactly how you want it to be. That is a destructive fantasy which will create disappointment, depression and anger when things are challenging. Your life purpose, which is what your heart desires for you to discover is available to help you grow, expand, learn lessons and live an empowered life. Each challenge you encounter on your path has been put there by you to help you know yourself. You learn about your inner life by becoming aware of what is happening in your outer life. Is it flowing or stagnant? Do you feel inspired or flat? Are you expanding or feeling stuck? Are you well or deteriorating? Are you dealing with challenges or pushing them away? Become aware of what types of people, situations, opportunities, challenges, jobs, health issues and money limitations you have. These will give you insights into your inner life, how you think about yourself, how you value yourself, what you think you deserve and what you can allow yourself to have. I believe that everyone needs to allow themselves the opportunity to go on a journey into themselves and through facing the difficult and challenging parts of themselves become empowered. You can not be told exactly how to take your journey, because no one else except you knows or has the ability to go on that journey. What has worked for someone else will not necessarily work for you. There is not one way or one formula. If there was we would all have the same experience of life, but we don’t, so there is always an opportunity to explore. Sometimes your explorations will lead you to the flames of ecstasy and other times into the throes of pain and exhaustion. You will learn both about what it feels like to be empowered and how in an instant that can change to dis-empowerment. And you will discover the power of choice; that no matter what has happened previously, you can choose again and again and again. In this choosing your soul will grow. As you allow it to grow, you will also allow it to guide you to miracles. These miracles may seem to occur randomly but they are not random at all.

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ences. Allow me to be of service and guidance to others. Teach me how to love myself and others. 3. Have a pen and piece of paper handy to write down any feelings, thoughts or messages you may receive. You may have a strong feeling to call someone, go somewhere, or do something. Listen to these feelings and follow them through even if you don’t understand them at the time. 4. Also, begin to be aware of the recurring signs that the universe sends you. This is when the same thing happens over and over again. What it is showing you is that you have not yet learnt an important lesson. 5. When you have completed the exercise, state: Everything happens to me in the perfect way in the perfect time with perfect results. Allow yourself to feel the truth of this statement. Whenever you feel stressed, you can remind yourself of this affirmation. Inna Segal is the creator of Visionary Intuitive Healing® and the best selling author of The Secret language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Healing. She has created over 30 powerful CDs to assist people with their self-healing. For more information about Inna and her work please visit www.innasegal.com

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PERSONAL GROWTH Getting Free of the (other person’s) Inner Critic We have all experienced criticism at one time or another, and we usually find it a very painful experience. When we are judged as lacking by others, we can feel scared, hurt, diminished, alone and angry. But most important, we no longer feel safe to just be who we truly are, or to explore and express our deeper personal and spiritual selves. In order to avoid judgment and that scary lack of safety, we try to manipulate our outer appearance into a shape that’s more acceptable to other people. We constrain our natural spontaneous flow, and put on a certain demeanour that is not really our own. It’s like putting on an overcoat that belongs to someone else – it hides who we really are and doesn’t fit us all that well. We end up with an ill-fitting patchwork coat with various pieces from different people. But each time we add another patch, we move further away from our own True Self or Essence, and find ourselves playing a kind of charade. This can become so habitual that we forget ourselves, and become lost in the prison of the opinions of others. So how can we start to reverse this movement away from Essence? How can we create a safe space in which we can be who we really are? In the previous article in this series of two, we looked at our own Inner Critic. We saw how it is mostly made up of parental shoulds, musts and oughts, and that it is based in the past. We also looked at some ways to defend ourselves from this critical inner voice. This article looks at ways to effectively defend ourselves from the criticism of others. The first thing we need to do is actually identify when we are being criticised. Criticism is always a blow, subtle or overt, to our innate worth and dignity, and a clue that we have been negatively judged is that we feel devalued, defective and diminished in some way. Identifying judgment is complicated by the fact that our critics are often those who love us the most, and have no desire to harm us. In fact, they’re often trying to help by highlighting our ‘faults’, but have

no idea how they’re affecting us. Letting them know how we feel not only creates a defence against criticism, but can help make them conscious of the unintentional harm done by their well-meant words. In learning to defend, it is very important to distinguish between the content and the attitude of the critical communication, because the same content can be delivered in very different ways. For example, we may be in the middle of a project at work. Our boss wants to communicate some ways in which it can be improved. She might communicate in a way that acknowledges our worth and our efforts, and conveys faith in our ability to rise to the challenge, leaving us feeling inspired and expanded. Or she might convey exactly the same feedback in a way that leaves us feeling devalued, diminished and incapable. What we need to defend ourselves against is not the content of a judgment, but the demeaning attitude behind it. This is crucial for effective defence, since engaging with the content often leads to endless inner and outer arguments, and seldom resolves the issue, because the content is actually not the problem. We just end up in a no-win argument, ‘You are a (fill in the blank)’ – ‘No I’m not’ – ‘Yes you are’ – and so on. So here are some strategies that can be useful in various situations and relationships. Notice that the aim is to change the tone of the interaction, to communicate with respect and clarity, and not to argue about the merits of the content. Humour. Poking gentle fun at ourselves for the very thing we’re being accused of can often defuse a criticism. For example, we might be in a situation where we are being told of all our faults in no uncertain terms. A good defence might be to say with a smile, “Wow, I guess I’m just not perfect yet!” Sometimes a humorous exaggeration works too, such as a lighthearted “A million sins in a single day – I must have been busy!” This humour defence can be very useful in work situations. Communicating the hurt. It hurts deeply to be criticised, and often the other is unaware of the hurt that’s being caused. Commu-

Spiritual Activism Transforming yourself – Transforming the world? “Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi nicating the hurt can be an effective way to stop the judgment, especially if the critic is someone who loves us. We can simply say, without criticising, “You’re hurting me, and I want you to stop.” Mobilising our anger. It’s both natural and useful to feel angry when we’re demeaned, and we can channel the energy of anger to good effect. We can say with firmness, “I’m not open to criticism. I will listen to respectful suggestions”. If this does work, we can say “You need to stop now”, or even just “Stop!”, and repeat firmly until the other person actually stops. If they are unable to stop, then we need to consider walking away from that interaction. Once we know that there’s a good chance that we can defend ourselves and keep our personal space safe from judgment, there is less need for the patchwork overcoat. We know that we have the power to stop criticism, and do not need to bend ourselves out of our God-given shape for fear of the judgment of others. The process of personal change and spiritual growth is delicate and vulnerable, and only possible when we feel safe to relax and explore. In a personal space of safety and self-respect, we have room to move. We can be curious about what’s under that coat of many patches, and in the process, start to move closer to the radiant Worth that is the Essence of who we truly are. Persephone Maywald has been a student of the Diamond Approach to self realization since 1986, and is a Teacher in Training in this spiritual path. She offers Individual Sessions in the Diamond Approach, and Book Study Groups on the writings of A.H.Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach. She is also a transpersonal psychologist. Contact her at 0435 014 821 or persephonem@optusnet.com.au. For more information on the Diamond Approach in Australia see www.diamondessence.com.au.

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Back in the early 70’s my husband and I were students in Southern Germany. We would go marching with all our fellow students, waving the flag against capitalism, thinking that we could change the world by our protests, screams and heated discussions. We were “anti” anything – capitalism, fascism and anything we thought was not “for the people”. We believed by marching and protesting we could finally emancipate the world. Not long after, my husband and I both had a big fight screaming back and forth at each other. But as it was happening it occurred to us both that it was so irrelevant – just senseless anger erupting out of our pores. We both realized that the change that needed to happen on the outside really needed to take place on the inside for both of us. As long as we carried that much anger and blame inside of us, it was impossible to change the external world. From one day to the next we packed all our bags, sold everything else, and were on our way to India to find somebody who could teach us how to change ourselves from the inside. We longed for a radical transformation so we travelled far and wide, finally to reach a mystery school in the heart of India. We became disciples of an Indian Guru and we surrendered our lives to one single goal: waking up to full consciousness through a fundamental inner revolution. I learned to meditate, to become still, and to love silence, to understand the technologies of calming the mind. But I also learned to open up my passion for love and for life. I learned to open up my heart. I studied Humanistic Psychology and Eastern meditation techniques. I learned to give birth to a new way of being and a new way of helping others. The main teaching was: “You first have to clean up your own house before you can help anybody else”. The transformation we were looking for had to happen inside. The Sufis call it:

CLEANING THE DUST FROM THE MIRROR OF YOUR HEART Having a human heart is a very unsafe and dangerous business. It is the source of great joy and happiness and yet at the same time can be the source of immense pain and anguish. It is obvious that we can be more effective and real when our hearts are open. We can be more authentic and less reac-

tive, and thus are more efficient agents for spiritual activism. However, as long as we are in reaction to somebody or some event, we are caught up creating even more entanglement and mess – no matter how good our intentions might be. It is hard to stay open when life challenges you with so many painful experiences. Our tendency is to create a pain-free zone by building a ring of protection and defensiveness around our heart. Unfortunately this also stops us from authentic giving and receiving. It stops us from experiencing and being Love. In the 21st century, on the one hand we are profoundly connected through the Internet, mobile phones, airplanes and technical devices to global communities and diverse cultures. Around the world technology has brought amazing opportunities of oneness and connectedness straight into our homes. On the other hand, deep down people are paradoxically more than ever disconnected and isolated from their own local communities, families and most of all from themselves. This isolation and disconnectedness actually creates great pain and suffering. We have more violence and drug abuse in our teenagers, more conflicts and prejudices, and wider gaps between rich and poor than ever before. Our reality is manipulated by the media for the benefit, it would seem, of the very few.

WHAT ACTUALLY DISCONNECTS US FROM OUR HEART? Having to be cool! Driven by media images today, everything is about being “cool”, looking cool and acting cool. Even my grandsons who are young and innocent English boys, are using that word constantly, everything has to be “cool”. To show yourself, to reveal your emotions and vulnerabilities is, from early on, a value and virtue that we have forgotten in our culture.

THE BELIEF THAT I HAVE TO DO IT ALONE

We are under the cultural idealization that we are heroes if we are strong, goal-oriented, thickskinned impervious individualists. Self-reliance is an overvalued concept and it has been given high significance. To be needy or to ask for help or to be seen as vulnerable is perceived as weakness, sometimes even cowardly and of low value. All this clouds over the true sense of our interdependence and co-creation. It supports ambition and winning instead of partnership, community, and mutual support.

Through idealizing individuality we actually isolate ourselves. It’s all about me, me, me! That again creates even more pain, frustration and separation. Above all it makes us never want to expose ourselves and be vulnerable. We avoid needing anybody. When we feel that need, we immediately feel ashamed and we deny it, as it brings up wounds of the past. But to need another and to be vulnerable is a fundamental condition of any human being, just as breathing is. It is one of the sources of our profoundest experiences of Love.

NOT BEING ALLOWED TO SHOW MY FEELINGS

Our emotional intelligence is usually overpowered by a very reasonable mind. To be emotional is often criticized as being feminine, or even wimpy. It is true that at times we need a functional and clear mind, but even scientific research shows that the heart has its own function. The heart cultivates the capacity for emotions, empathy, intuition and relational response. All this is necessary for the well being in our lives when relating with others. We need to learn to show our feelings and overcome that sense of embarrassment and fear of being an open and feeling person. How does one do that? Well it’s not by throwing all your stuff onto others and being irresponsible, but learning to stand up for what you feel, to be honest and to show what your heart is actually saying.

AVOIDING OLD WOUNDS OF HURTS AND BETRAYAL We get wounded and betrayed mostly in relationships and with friends and partners. Relationships fail, lovers lose their connection – we get betrayed, abandoned and often so very deeply hurt that we often unconsciously shut down and dissociate from ourselves. In order to avoid this seemingly unbearable pain we would rather isolate and protect ourselves than feel it. But fortunately we all share that same wound, that common ground – nobody is exempt. The question Continued on page 34

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Kick start your life The negativity of life can creep in around you without you being aware of it. Your worst enemy is your brain and the neural connections that run your life. Have you begun to notice small things that used to go smoothly are now a bit bumpy? People you want to turn up to support your life suddenly don’t show. Your health is not the same. Sales are down. People tell you to tighten up because the market is bad, or that times are tough, or that we are entering a recession. Your previous expectations now seem high and you begin to accept less than you would have in the past. Your energy and vitality seems less than it was. There seem to be too many balls in the air and if you stop juggling, your life will fall apart. You

just want your life to be easier. What you are telling me is that you have lost focus on the most important part of you. Yourself…. When did you last look at your goals and feel the desire to achieve them moving through your body. When did you last concentrate and focus your most powerful asset…. Your mind? The worst possible scenario is that you have entered this downward spiral and haven’t noticed. You may have only started it 2 weeks ago or maybe five years or more ago. If you’ve been feeling like I’ve described above then it's time to get something in the pipeline to arrest this downward spiral. Your life is like an ocean liner... turning it around can take some

time. The sooner you start to turn the more in control you will feel. The problem is related to your brain and the training you have had. Mostly this training has occurred when you were unaware it was happening. Are you like most people who have trouble remembering names and faces? Is it your experience when you meet some one, ten minutes later you can’t remember their name? It’s because you have a powerful subconscious neural pattern that allows you to have a poor memory. It probably began when you were a child… When did your mother ever tell you, you had a fool proof, fabulously accurate memory? Probably never. It’s more likely she said to you, “if your head wasn’t attached to your body you would forget to bring it”. And so you get to know at a subconscious level that you can’t remember anything and it’s a good thing that your head is attached. You continue through your life and others tell you how forgetful you are. You come to accept that your memory is poor. So now you have a neural set up to support not remembering. Now whenever you are introduced to someone your first subconscious thought is to forget their name. The question I have is, have you ever had any memory training? Have you ever read a book on how to improve your memory? Probably not. So unless you do something different about your memory it will never get any bet-

ter. In fact as you get older you can hear yourself telling yourself that a poor memory is the result of old age. It’s a result of a series of predetermined neural connections that you keep running because there is nothing else for your brain to activate, except the poor memory connections. It’s the same with being happy. You are about as happy as your subconscious will let you be. The problem is you learned how happy you can be from someone else, maybe they were incredibly unhappy … Every time you get a chance to feel happy you feel guilty….The same thing applies to how much money you have, how confident you are. Your neural subconscious connections direct your life without you being aware of them. All you see is the unhappy result of your learned thinking. The problem is, only you can fix it, and I guess this is why you read magazines like this one hoping to find someone to make your life better. In reality you have to find out how you can do it for yourself. Where you go from here is up to you. You can stay where you are…No effort required...or you can find out how to kick start your life. Graeme Hoyle began to show people how to have a happier future in 1986. He is based in Highgate. SA. For more information call (08) 82721550 or graemehoyle@bigpond.com

The Perilous Quest of the Hero

The great mythographer Joseph Campbell was asked why there are so many stories about the “Hero”. His response was, “because that is what is worth writing about”. There is no theme as important as the Hero’s journey. This importance is born out of the fundamental nature of being human. Life is a constant process of challenge and growth or failure, the hero’s journey as a mythological theme is born out of this basic human need. It represents both the facticity of the outer world and more profoundly the inner world. It is the latter that shall be the focus for this piece, as the ultimate task or trial of being human concerns the transformation of consciousness itself. It is the trials of life that summon man’s higher nature. Life evokes character. “By transcendence of life I mean those aforementioned experiences of the initiate who takes part in a sacred rite which reveals to him the perpetual continuation of life through transformation and renewal” (Jung, 1973).

The Hero’s journey fundamentally revolves around three key phases; a physical deed, a spiritual awakening or psychological deepening, followed by a return. This can be further broken down into eleven key motifs. 1. The world as it was 2. The Call – of the unconscious that must be answered 3. Refuse the Call – inner voice “this is too risky, stay safe” 4. The Wise Old Man or Woman – the guide who points the way, Merlin or Obi Wan 5. The Threshold – the hero leaves the world and sets out for the unknown 6. The Hero encounters the Tests – to develop his skills for the trial ahead 7. The Belly of the Whale – the slaying of the dragon, the descent into the unconscious to do battle with the over-identification with our ego or the masks we wear in the world 8. The Nadir – the hero meets his death. He emerges triumphant in the transformation of conscious-

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PERSONAL GROWTH ness or is broken and fails to renew. [The resurrection of Christ is perhaps the best known rendition of this component] 9. The Hero and the Gifts - Prometheus stealing the fire from the gods, Percival finding the Grail. 10. Return - emergence from the magical realm, transformed by his experience 11. Return with the Gifts – brings the gifts to the people, showing mastery of the mundane and the unconscious worlds. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION The Hero’s journey is sometimes called the ‘monomyth’, it is the one deed that is done by many and the

structure of the story is representative of a basic psychological orientation in all people. The Hero’s journey by nature, is such, that it perfectly represents the relation between the ‘egoself-separation’ and the ‘egoself-union’ cycle and the development of the ‘ego-selfaxis’. ‘The call’, the leaving of the egoic world and the commencement of the descent into the depths of the unknown psyche, requires that the previously held egoic views of the world must be placed into disillusionment in order to recognise the ‘Self’ - the treasure that lay hidden. In order to claim this ‘treasure’ or boon, the hero must, of course, sacrifice the ‘ego’ in order to be resurrected.

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This is the ultimate ordeal and the source of the pain and despair in the individuation process, and the true challenge of the Hero, to allow him to gain something larger. In the darkness of the ‘nadir’ and death of the Hero, where despair and meaninglessness sets in, the ego is submerged and the ‘libidinal’ or life forces, activate the unconscious, moving the Hero closer to the treasure of the Numinous [the encounter with the divine] It is at the point of defeat and death, that the Hero encounters his/her true nature, the archetype of the Self. The ego is confronted with the smallness of its role in the great cosmos of psyche. This knowledge is the gift which the Hero returns with, to live out a life in service of ‘Self’, free from the pain of over-identification with the ego, freely disposed to the internal forces of the individuation process, clearly demonstrating and establishing the ego-self axis and its role in the individuating process. The return for the Hero is the challenge of returning to a world where he looks the same outwardly, but is in fact profoundly different. The ego must emerge out of the waters of the unconscious and the Hero must cross the threshold between the human and the divine. The revelation here is, “The two kingdoms are actually one,” (Campbell, 1993). The Hero’s journey lies at the very centre of all human experience. As Jung said, “man has a soul and… there is a buried treasure in the field” (Edinger, 1992). The very heart of being human lies in the Heroic act, a point made by Otto Rank when he said, “in birth all men are born heroes” (Rank, 1959). The reasons for this are two fold. First any real human life must contain hardship, ordeal, suffering and struggle. A life without crisis is not a life, for it is these elements of life that evoke our character and higher nature (Eliade, 1958). Secondly, life without change is failure, therefore the process of disintegration and reformation is the transformation of consciousness itself and through this process rejuvenation of the vital and libinal forces occurs and this is a synonym for life and living (Elide, 1958). The examination of the Hero’s journey clearly demonstrates the power of the Hero motif, as a cross cultural and archetypal pattern for being fully human, by revealing the most intrinsic and fundamental aspects of psyche in the format of a culturally established mythos. This motif is one that can clearly guide all people to the Grail within, the Self. In the world of the transpersonal or integrated psychology, the journey of the Hero within is a powerfully transformative process that is then crafted into a ritual to bring the story from the inside - into life. Tra-ill Dowie - BA [Philosophy], BA [Sociology], Grad Dip Psychology, Dip Transpersonal Counselling, Dip Art Therapy, Masters Counselling, Grad Dip Jungian Studies, Masters in Mind and Society [current] Tra-ill is a Director and lecturer of the Ikon Institute of SA. Phone 0439 016 763 or visit www.ikoninstitutesa.com

BALANCE IN OUR LIFE Balance in all areas of our life is always important to our mental, emotional and physical health and perhaps even more so at this time of the year. At the time of writing, almost everyone I know is juggling Christmas shopping, work commitments, end of year functions, family get-togethers, celebrations and holiday plans. We know that some people thrive on activity and excitement, while others would rather crawl under a rock and wait till it passes. Both reactions are valid. The most important thing is that you feel happy and comfortable inside. Then what if you are one of those who only really feels comfortable when you have something to do? Many people spend their life working day and night. Others rush around doing things and if they find themselves with time left over, they remember something they just have to do. They are unable to take the time to relax. Some people go to parties and can only enjoy themselves if they drink or use drugs, while others quietly eat their way through the evening in order to feel good. Have you ever thought about why it is that some people seem to be obsessive in the way they do things? Could it be that this compulsive behaviour somehow helps them feel safe and good about themselves? Could it be that they are hiding from uncomfortable feelings of some kind? If you ask them why they behave like this, they always have some plausible reason as to why they have to do these things. When we are out of balance in any area of our life; be it work, social, recreational, mental, emotional or physical, there is usually some kind of underlying emotional unrest and the subsequent activities are helping us feel safe in some way – we are too busy to feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be like this. Hundreds of clients have reported major changes to their health and happiness as a result of restoring a happy balance in their life. With a little help, they have called on the infinite wisdom of their subconscious and let go of the inner tensions that previously ruled their world. For most, it is relatively simple to do. My name is Leaona Hamood, a former aerobics instructor of ten years, I have over 20 years experience in the Health and Fitness Industry and have always had a passion for a healthy mind and body. I am a qualified Private Subconscious-mind Healing (P.S.H.) therapist and studied under the founder and Principal of the International Centre for Subconscious-mind Training and Research (Qld). My aim in life has always been to help people emotionally and physically. I am available 7 days a week and most evenings and can be contacted for enquiries or appointments on 0419037830. My name is Michael Oster. I am a qualified Private Subconsciousmind Healing (P.S.H.) therapist and also a Registered Nurse of 20 years standing. My qualifications in PSH have come from studying directly under the founder and Principal of the International Centre for Subconsciousmind Training and Research (Qld). For the last ten years I have been working with people around behaviour change, particularly in the addictions area. I have a passion to see positive change and growth in people. If you feel like you’re ready for change, I can be contacted for enquiries or appointments on 0411174110. With permission and endorsed by I.C.S.T.R. (QLD) – ww.icstr.com.au

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Avoiding Cancer Breast Health Awareness Tips You can help yourself avoid breast cancer. Both men and women can take preventative steps for avoiding breast cancer and staying healthy. Essential life style options, within your control, include: · aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week · maintaining a positive mental attitude · breathwork and deepening body-awareness (yoga is great) · expressing your feelings to keep your energy flowing · eating healthy (organic, nonGMO) foods and taking the “right” supplements specifically for your body · avoiding toxicity by doing cleanses and staying away from the items listed below. Some things to avoid: · Any medication containing acetaminophen. Products such as Tylenol, Sudafid, Bromo seltzer,vicodin, and many others drive down the glutathione levels in the body. Glutathione is an essential antioxidant and detoxifier. · Aspartame (not to be confused with aspertate) has been proven to cause cancer in rats. It is a common ingredient in many no-sugar products such as yogurt, ice cream, desserts and carbonated beverages. Splenda is also harmful. · Toxins. Use toxin-free, organic products. Wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly with soapy water to remove chemical residues. Better yet, buy only or-

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FIVE POWERFUL FOODS FOR PROSTATE CANCER PREVENTION In the battle against prostate cancer, men need all the ammunition they can get—and five healthy foods can help them reduce their risk. An estimated 234,460 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year, many of which may be preventable with diet alone. A healthy

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REVOLUTIONISE YOUR HEALTH! The New Year is soon upon us and it’s about this time of year that many people think about setting their new year’s resolutions. What do you want to change in your life? Would you like to see your body fit and healthy? Are you sick of hearing negative self talk? Do wish you felt totally motivated? If you answered yes to any of these questions, a weight management program inspired by the ‘Law of Attraction’ could be the best way for you to achieve your goals. If you haven’t seen or heard of the movie ‘The Secret’, you might be wondering what The Law is and how on earth it can help you. Put simply, the Law of Attraction states that like, attracts like. So if your deepest thoughts and feelings are consistently more negative than positive, then your level of success will also be consistently more negative than positive. If you are overweight, the truth is that you did not get to be where you are overnight. Your mind carried out certain processes and patterns of thinking that brought you to the point you are at now. The weight gain is just a symptom of the belief system you created. Unfortunately, many people are keen to lose weight quickly through pills, fad diets or extreme exercise regimes. These methods may initially achieve some success, but it is often difficult to maintain momentum because the most important issue has still not been dealt with your mind. Losing weight in a healthy way and learning how to keep it off for years is not an easy task and it requires that you learn a new way of thinking. If you can uncover how you really feel about losing weight, you can change those patterns and habits and create an environment which supports your continued success. So take a few moments to ask yourself: Is it difficult to lose weight? Does being in shape mean dieting, hunger or denial of something?Do memories of past failures come to mind? Is exercise boring

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Selling in the Zone In previous issues of Inner Self, I mentioned that two of the four hats that a spiritual being in a small business usually wears are “The Specialist” hat and “The Marketer” hat. The third hat is “The Salesperson” hat. This is a hat that many spiritual people do NOT like to wear. The main reason for this is lack of understanding of what selling is. Selling has a very poor reputation in our marketplace because many people believe that to sell one must manipulate another to do something that they do not want to do – something that is not in their best interest to do. This kind of behaviour comes from a space of scarcity and fear. When you are wearing “The Salesperson” hat, your job is to help your prospective clients solve their problems with the help of your products and services. Your first job is to determine if the person you are meeting

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Spirituality & Sex Many spiritual people hold the belief that they can’t be sexual as well as spiritual and many sexual people don’t understand the gift of spirituality in that process. In our society we need to bring back the Spirit, the inspiration… in order to manifest our highest potential in sex. We need to cultivate the art of sexual ecstasy in order to reach higher states of consciousness on one hand and also to deepen our intimacy with the person we love. Sexual love could be viewed as a holy sacrament and it is now time to regain that sense of wholeness that can come when you find the missing piece of the spiritual jigsaw puzzle. Sexual energy is a physical expression of spiritual power that can unite us sexually and is a reflection of the underlying need in all of us to experience wholeness and create intimacy which can transcend our individual sense of separateness. Tantra is the highest form of sexuality and it takes the experience of orgasm to new dimensions. Dimensions in which genital orgasm culminates in body to body and soul to soul communion. Touching every level of your being. This is not orgasm as we may have known it. It is where the entire body vibrates beyond our conscious control and wave-like pulsations spread through our body, resulting in a melting into our beloved. This state actually alters consciousness. It is scientifically proven that Tantra greatly stimulates brain cells and creates a bridge between the right and left hemispheres fusing the intellect of the left with the intuitive faculties of the right. This results in the magic called Ecstasy. Endorphins increase, white blood cells work better etc.To reach a different plateau around sex requires a great deal of patience and a willingness to let go of what we thought to be true about sex which requires a refining process… a shifting in our consciousness from that which we have known, which however pleasurable, is nothing in comparison to what we can have. After all who taught us in the first place? No one educated in it I’m sure! For many it was not spoken about at all or if it was, often crudeness, lewdness and even porn came into play with lots of titilating laughter and an ‘uncomfortable’ feeling somewhere inside us. First step is to realize our sexuality is a gift and needs to be considered sacred. Sex by and of itself can be pretty boring and often people “do it” in order to release tension, stop frustration or simply to change the energy between lovers…None of these are good reasons to make love. We believe that it is up to men to awaken the Shakti Goddess in their beloved and women to awaken the intimacy and healer in their men. How many men even thought of themselves as being a healer? Step 2 is to slow down and consider your bodies. As a toucher, are you really “feeling” that warm,

tingly, smooth skin under your fingertips or is it just an entrée to the main course? As a touchee, can you even feel what your skin is saying under those fingertips? Check your bodies out. Is there a little pit in the bottom of the stomach that says you are a bit nervous, or tense; is your scalp tight waiting to see what happens next? How about spending a night just touching the skin and sharing what that touching and being touched feels like. Most of us are in such a rush to complete the event which of course results in orgasm (coming) whereas it should be called going because then it is all over. In an ancient tantric text it says “Stay with the fire in the beginning rather than the embers at the end.” Step 3. Relax!!! The more you relax the more you feel and the more you feel the more you can heal. When you learn to relax into your sexual energy instead of building it to peak and then releasing it you will find the outcome is more love and more energy available to you. Tantra is about learning to redirect that energy inward and upward. Tantra has another saying: In the west there is the valley which is the foreplay and the mountain which is the orgasm. In Tantric language the valley is the orgasm and the mountain is what else is possible! Step 4. Communicate. Most men would love to have a partner who asks for what they want or tells you when the button is in the off position? Most women do not have a clue what they like because they have not taken the time to find out! Communication is the biggest key to Tantra because in the words come the opportunity to learn about our beloved partner and what they really like… or not. Have a night where you don’t have orgasm as the end result but where your intention is to find out what works and what doesn’t. Unfortunately for men what worked on your first lovemaking session and maybe even the second then has a habit of never working again but you don’t know because no one tells you and yet for both partners there is an unsatisfied deep longing for more but no knowledge of how to get it because words don’t often come easily in the area of intimacy. Tantra is the highest octave of lovemaking you can possibly have and is considered to be a source of energy healing for both partners and the pathway to the transformation of your intimacy ability, your love making ability and your heart opening ability. The greatest gift you can give yourself is the Gift of Tantra. Diane McCann Mathews facilitates The Goddess Within for women and together with her husband Robert, runs Man’s Inner Journey for men and Tantra.for Couples. Contact her on 08 82481281 or beyondtheordinary@internode.on.net Web: www.tantraaustralia.com

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Love Addiction consists of three components: Romance, Relationship and Sexual Addiction. Love addiction is often perceived to be “less serious” than other process addictions i.e. compulsive sexual addictions, eating disorders or self-harm/mutilation addictions, perhaps, because it sounds “softer.” In reality it is extremely painful and can be very dangerous to both the addict and their partners. Many suicides, murders, stalking, rapes and other crimes of passion have their roots in this addiction. Our culture has traditionally glorified love addiction with the notion that we fall in love and live “happily ever after.” This ignores the groundwork that relationships require. Many love relationships depicted in the media are really love addicted relationships. In this country today we have around 60% divorce rate....and that is of marriages and doesn’t include defacto relationships. I believe this is one of the most common underlying factors, ADDICTED LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS.

The signs of Love and Relationship Addiction: • Lack of nurturing and attention when young • Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family • Compartmentalization of relationships from other areas of life • Outer facade of “having it all together” to hide internal disintegration • Mistake intensity for intimacy (drama driven relationships) • Hidden Pain • Seek to avoid rejection and abandonment at any cost • Afraid to trust anyone in a relationship • Inner rage over lack of nurturing, early abandonment • Depressed • Highly manipulative and controlling of others • Perceive attraction, attachment, and sex as basic human needs, on a par with food and water • Sense of worthlessness without a relationship or partner • Feelings that a relationship makes one whole, or more of a man or woman • Escalating tolerance for highrisk behaviour • Intense need to control self, others, circumstances • Presence of other addictive or compulsive problems • Insatiable appetite in area of difficulty (sex, love or attachment/ need.) • Using others, sex & relationships to alter mood or relieve emotional pain • Continual questioning of values and lifestyle • Driven, desperate, frantic personality • Confusion of sexual attraction with love (“Love” at first sight.) • Tendency to trade sexual activity for “love” or attachment • Existence of a secret “double life”

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• Refusal to acknowledge existence of problem • Defining out-of-control behaviour as normal • Defining “wants” as “needs” • Tendency to leave one relationship for another. (Inability to be without a relationship). • Attempts to replace lost relationships with a new one immediately Many of these symptoms are also elements of co-dependency and intimacy dysfunctions resulting from childhood abandonment, emotional and/or sexual abuse.

Characteristics of Love and Sex Addiction 1. Having few healthy boundaries, becoming sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to people without knowing them. 2. Fearing abandonment and loneliness, staying in and return to painful, destructive relationships, concealing dependency needs from one self and others, growing more isolated and alienated from oneself, friends and loved ones. 3. Fearing emotional and/or sexual deprivation, compulsively pursuing and involving oneself in one relationship after another, sometimes having more than one sexual or emotional liaison at a time. 4. Confusing love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued.

5. Feeling empty and incomplete when alone. Even though, fearing intimacy and commitment, continually searching for relationships and sexual contacts. 6. Sexualizing stress, guilt, loneliness, anger, shame, fear and envy. Using sex or emotional dependence as substitutes for nurturing, care, and support. 7. Using sex and emotional involvement to manipulate and control others. 8. Becoming immobilized or seriously distracted by romantic or sexual obsessions or fantasies. 9. Avoiding responsibility for oneself by attaching to people who are emotionally unavailable. 10. Staying enslaved to emotional dependency, romantic intrigue, or compulsive sexual activities. 11. To avoid feeling vulnerable, one may retreat from all intimate involvement, mistaking sexual and emotional anorexia for recovery. 12. Assigning magical qualities to others. Idealizing and pursuing them, then blame them for not fulfilling our fantasies and expectations.

The Characteristics of Healthy Love People in healthy relationships have the following characteristics. 1. They allow for individuality. 2. They experience both oneness with and separateness from another. 3. They bring out the best qualities in self and another. 4. They accept endings. 5. They experience openness to change and exploration. 6. They invite growth in the other person.

7. They experience true intimacy. 8. They feel the freedom to ask honestly for what is wanted. 9. They experience giving and receiving in the same way. 10. They do not attempt to change or control the other. 11. They encourage self-sufficiency of partners. 12. They accept limitations of self and other. 13. They do not seek unconditional love. 14. They accept and respect commitment. 15. They have a high self-esteem 16. They trust the memory of the beloved; they enjoy solitude. 17. They express feelings spontaneously. 18. They welcome closeness; risk vulnerability. 19. They care with detachment. 20. They affirm equality and personal power of self and other. Robert Mittiga is a an Addiction and Co-dependency specialist and the program director of GATS Counselling. If you identify with any of the above call us TODAY For a confidential assessment 08 8342 4599 or got to www.gatscounselling.com

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1 MJ Take a practical approach to gain control 2 3 4 5 MK Knowledge and information are what is re-

1 2 MK Take a lateral approach and be objective. 3 4 5 ML Sensitivity is heightened so it may pay to heed

1 ML Emotions may run high and undermine current matters.

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intuition. 6 ‡ 1st Quarter Moon L There is a need to harness energy to make the changes required. For some this may involve separation. For others, emotional reactions under provocation may be the catalyst. 7 MA Take action and accept the challenges that are presented.

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14 15 ME This is not the time to stand on ceremony; humility achieves better results.

16 17 MF Be careful that overt criticism does not undermine what has been achieved to date.

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Vibrational Healing & Western Medicine In 1990, when I lived in Britain, I was receiving treatment from an extraordinary and brilliant dentist in London. She was removing my countless amalgam fillings, a substance which had contributed hugely to my extremely low energy levels and dangerously poor health. At the end of each session, she would administer cranio-sacral therapy to me, to assist in my recovery from the invasiveness of the dental work. Her dental assistant was also trained to “Clear the aura” of any client who may need it. Here was a wonderful example of Western Medical professionals combining with various Complementary Modalities. After one particular session, she told me that, “In your work as a Sound and Colour Healer, you will, at some point in your life, start to talk more to your clients. The words that you will use will be just as powerful vibrationally as the sounds you create for them in their healing”. At that time, I did have a Degree in Psychology, but was not practising as a psychologist. I used whatever energy I had to practise exclusively as a Sound and Colour Healer, seeing this as a form of Complementary Medicine, in the branch of Vibrational Healing. On my return to Australia I

came to live in Alice Springs, to make a deep connection with the land, and with the Aboriginal people and their culture. I was receiving Vibrational Healing from the energies in the land, and storing up experiences for use with my own clients. At Uluru and Kata Tjuta, I was blessedly given permission by the local Elders to take my violin and other instruments into many sites around those powerful rocks, and to record whatever sounds I created in those places. One day I managed to identify the pitch of the sound of the wind which was blowing strongly around ever-so-red Uluru. Any guesses what the name of that sound was? You are right, C, of course. On another day I took a stethoscope to Kata Tjuta and placed it on the base of one of those giants. The vastness of the vibration in my ears was nothing short of amazing! All my healing work since that time has been inspired by and supported by those Vibrational Energies of the land in Central Australia. Today I now practice as both Psychologist and Healer, seeing both these as forms of Vibrational Healing. The services I offer include: Counselling (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), Relaxation, Metaphysi-

cal Therapy and Healing through Sound and Colour. I am very grateful to my longago dentist in London. I am delighted to know that Vibrational Healing can be offered within both Western Medical Therapies and Complementary Medical Modalities. Many of my clients say they feel the benefit of “receiving help from both sides of the fence”. Dian Booth, Master Sound and Colour Healer, B.A.(Hons) Psych. MAPS PO Box 1609 Alice Springs NT 0871, Tel 0417 800 219 Fax 8952 dian@soundhealing.com.au www.soundhealing.com

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Reconnective Healing Reconnective Healing is not a treatment or therapy and is much more than mere symptom relief of physical dis-ease. Healing is the bringing of balance and wholeness to the person on all levels; mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. In essence, true healing occurs in the removal of any interference that separates us from the perfection of the Universe and our divine connection to that essence. Reconnective Healing enables us to step into this new philosophy and level of healing, using frequencies that are both old and new –old because they have always existed within the universe, new because they haven’t been here on the planet before. Scientists, including Dr William Tiller, posit these frequencies are here for the very first time and that they help us to evolve mind, body and soul, producing benefits at every level, from cellular to spiritual, possibly restructuring our DNA. Many teachers and spiritual traditions, such as Greg Braden and the Mayan, suggest we have access to these new energies, light and information by way of “A Great Shift”. As a result of these shifts in time and consciousness, we are now able to connect with these expanded ‘parameters’ and ‘bandwidths’. You may even be noticing that time, consciousness, earth magnetics and weather patterns are shifting on the planet now. These new frequencies provide

the opportunity for us to move into balance at a higher level with the Universe and in deeper connection with ourselves. As a result of this connection and balance, physical healings will often unfold. Some say these frequencies connect us to our ‘perfect blueprint’ and/or higher self, as they reconnect our body, mind and spirit to healing on all levels. As Reconnective Healing practitioners, we are invited into the healing experience by our clients. We are entering into a healing equation where we are ‘listening’ with a different sense: receiving, never sending - the observer and the observed. Our role is to know that something is happening, not why something is happening, as we remain childlike and in awe of the entire experience. If it is appropriate for that person on their path to receive a healing then that is what will happen. Ongoing scientific studies, particularly by Dr Gary Schwarz and the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Professor William Tiller and Dr Konstantin Korotkov, have identified and corroborated the existence of these frequencies. Although they do not yet completely understand what is happening with Reconnective Healing they know these frequencies are dramatically more palpable, more expansive and help to bring about more dramatic results almost instantane-

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ously. All three research teams are currently conducting experiments to help us understand more about the uniqueness of the Reconnective Healing frequencies. In 1973 Dr J. J. Hurtak wrote the textbook “The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch” from information directly given to him in a face-to-face experience rather than “channelled”. These keys examine the puzzles of life and, in essence, provide both the scenario of an ongoing past/present/future cosmology and a blueprint for a new direction in humankind’s evolution into a higher state of consciousness. The text is a multilevel process of instruction which challenges us to go beyond the ordinary three-dimensional thinking of our rational intellect. Keys 3.1.4 and 3.1.7 directly Continued on page 25

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The Yin And Yang of Yoga Most people familiar with yoga, are familiar generally with yang yoga, as this tends to be more common in Western culture. Yang yoga stimulates the muscles in the body, encouraging strength and great physical health. Yin yoga, is a Taoist-influenced style of yoga and a less-known form of yoga. The most distinctive aspect of a yin yoga class is the emphasis on stretching the body’s connective tissues (e.g., ligaments, tendons and fascia) through extended holding of poses. Primary connective tissues include the hips, thighs and lower spinal area. These types of tissues do not stretch the muscles (as in the yang form of yoga) but they stretch and exercise the bone and joints areas of the body. Like Yang yoga Yin yoga belongs to the branch of Hatha yoga concerned with physical perfection to prevent straining in daily life and ensure comfort in long-seated meditation practices. Here it would be worth to examining the meaning of the sanskrit term Hatha. The word ‘hatha’ is derived from the two root terms, ‘ha’ meaning ‘the sun’ and ‘tha’ meaning ‘the moon’. Taken together, (and since yoga means union ) the term stands for ‘union of force’. Hence, central to Hatha Yoga disciplines is the harmonizing of its positive (sun) and negative (moon) currents. Yin yoga can be seen as the moon

whilst yang as the sun. Overall Taoist use the concept of yin and yang as relative terms, not absolutes; any phenomenon can only be yin or yang by comparison with something else. So in those terms Yin yoga is only Yin as far as comparing it to Yang yoga approaches whilst some position or aspect in either Yin or Yang may bare elements or aspects of the opposite. Analyzing various yoga techniques from the perspective of yin and yang, the most relevant aspect is the elasticity of the tissues involved. Yang tissues like muscles are more fluid-filled, soft, and elastic; yin tissues like connective tissue (ligaments, tendons, and fascia) and bones are dryer, harder, and stiffer. By extension, exercise that focuses on muscle tissue is yang; exercise that focuses on connective tissue is yin. So whilst Yin and Yang approaches, are essentially opposites in nature, they are also complimentary. Yin and yang are in constant flux and in need adjustment. Nothing in our known universe is constant. Yang yoga and other yang style physical exercises are needed to strengthen and tone the muscles and improve heart function. Over time however, if Yin yoga is not practiced, the body will weaken and the joints of the body will become susceptible to injury. As one ages, a lack of flexible joints in the body increases

the risk of pain. In this light it is fair to say that Yin yoga is a perfect match for Yang yoga, by having lubricated, flexible joints, yang practices will seem easier and a deeper stretch would become possible, but to much Yin and not enough Yang and the reverse can be true.

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Dance as a Pathway towards Wholeness Sacred dance, creative movement, free dance, movement meditations all speak of a process rather than a set technique that needs to be learned and followed. Dancing is a beautiful way to develop greater awareness of the movement of life force energy and a way to directly experience the connection that exists between mind, body and spirit. As we move into the Aquarian Age and the return of the Goddess energies, we can expand our understanding of dance, embracing the gifts it brings with new awareness. Dance has primarily been viewed as a form of entertainment, exercise and cultural celebration. Only in recent years has dance also enjoyed a deeper appreciation as a creative, nurturing, intuitive, healing and spiritual form of expression. My background began in formal dance training, culminating in a University degree and I went out into the world to teach my dance and perform. It wasn’t until I turned to dance as a healing modality for endometriosis and anxiety that my dance world really opened up. In a six year body and soul healing journey, I explored Creative dance, Dance therapy and BodyMind Centering which all led to deeper body awareness, insight and healing. It was in 2001 on a Spiritual quest in Egypt that my dancing stepped into the sacred realm. In seven ancient temples we followed the symbolic path of

the Chakras using sound and ritual. In the Temple of Hathor - the sensual goddess of love, music and beauty, I felt compelled to free dance through the ritual and awakened my soul purpose of creating Dancing the Chakras. The new consciousness now emerging is calling for a union and synthesis of the masculine and feminine elements and principals; mind and body, heaven and earth in balance. How exquisite to enter sacred space and dance our way towards this union. The breath guiding us deeper into our bodies and music, sound and stillness embracing us along the way. You do not need to “know” how to dance just follow your own rhythm, your own style and keep moving, surrendering and breathing. Dance brings insight into the relationship we have with ourselves and our world. It can directly guide us toward deeper awareness and connection as we surrender to the dance and release the grip of the rational mind. We can naturally move into partnership with the breath, body and mind as we dance our joy and pain, pleasure and sorrow. The beauty and power of the dance is that it carries us into and through these places and allows transformation and integration simply by embracing the journey and being fully present. Like a young child flowing freely from one state of being to the next, dancing as a creative and healing

tool can guide us through our inner worlds into a place of peace and stillness. This is the wisdom of the body in motion, an ancient wisdom that is returning as we rediscover how to feel fully at home in our bodies and connected to Mother Earth. Dancing through our own deep and personal experience is the path of wholeness and the path of embodying the Truth of who we are. As we raise our personal vibration through purifying and expanding our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions we in turn heal the Earth and all our relations. When the body is deeply, lovingly touched, heart opens, soul awakens. As the heart is opened, spirit moves. As the spirit moves the source of the dance is felt we are touched by the dance Linda Hartley Susan Howlett is a fully qualified dance teacher and reiki healer. Her course, Dancing the Chakras is a journey of self-awareness and integration; opening, clearing and harmonizing each of the seven key Chakras. Her intention is to create a supportive space for each individual to experience a deeper connection with their inner wisdom and intuitive guidance through the power and beauty of movement, meditation, sound and free dance. Contact Susan on 0403 318 683 or email earthstar@chariot.net.au

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Interview with Dr Richard Gerber An interview with Richard Gerber, author of Vibrational Medicine, about the range of treatments available, along with conventional medicine, in a holistic approach to healing. Richard Gerber, MD, is the author of the book, Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves, a publication that has been reviewed as ‘landmark’ and ‘encyclopedic’, and in many ways bridges the gap between science and esoteric healing. Vibrational Medicine cites hundreds of scientific studies that support the energy model of health and healing and presents the theoretical foundation for such therapies as homeopathy and acupuncture. Richard Brown: Can you tell our readers what vibrational medicine is exactly? Richard Gerber: Vibrational medicine is a diagnostic and healing approach to illness using energy in various forms and frequencies. As a therapy, vibrational medicine is the application of different types of energy for healing, including approaches as traditional as X-ray and radiation therapy for cancer, the use of electrical nerve stimulation for treating pain, and electromagnetic field stimulators for accelerating the healing of fractured bones. Even full spectrum light is used for treating seasonal affective disorders or the ‘winter blues’. However, vibrational medicine also covers the more subtle forms of treatment such as acupuncture, homeopathy, flower essences, therapeutic touch, and that sort of genre. The latter involve using subtle life-force medicine, but they are energetic therapies nonetheless. This is the spectrum from the more traditional to a range of therapies that stress treatment of the whole person, sometimes referred to as ‘complementary’ medicine. RB: How does orthodox medicine view complementary therapy? RG: I don’t see complementary medicine as an absolute alternative to orthodox healing procedures. I think that if the conventional medical community sees itself as being rejected by an alternative medical faction, this would create much more conflict than what I see as a gentler, more gradual transitional approach. Ultimately, what we need is a larger base of experimental evidence and research to support complementary vibrational therapies in order to convince the conventional medical community that they have value. There is much anecdotal evidence for vibrational therapies, but not always the type of rigidly controlled scientific studies that most doctors like to see. In some ways I see vibrational medicine as

an evolving sub–specialty of medicine. The vibrational approach, especially the subtle energy medicine approach, works by injecting selective frequencies of energy into the body that encourage the body’s own self-healing systems to do the work. Some of the most elegant approaches in the future for healing cancer and AIDS may involve the use of selective frequencies in energy medicine or even the use of electromagnetic fields in healing. There are indications this technology has been around for some time, but unfortunately it was suppressed.

UNSPOKEN BIAS RB: Do you feel there exists a bias within medicine against treatments that do not involve drugs or surgery? RG: I haven’t directly experienced it, but I think there is an unspoken bias that exists not only in the medical community, but also in the research community. I know people who have approached various research societies and foundations asking for grant money to study the use of a very effective energy medicine modality. Because the therapy was not pharmacologic, not drug oriented, they were not able to receive funding — just because the treatment didn’t fit into the paradigm that the foundation was trained to look at. That’s really very sad because the goal of medicine should be to heal illness, not to promote one system over another, especially if the one system is reaching its limitation. I think modern medicine is wonderful. We have very effective treatments for a variety of illnesses from which people died earlier in this century. But we are seeing the limitations of technological medicine in many ways: the high cost of medicine today limits people’s access to health care; in industrialized nations, chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer and heart disease are not curable, but are only palliated by our treatments. And in many cases the side effects of some of our treatments are worse than the disease. The potential of non-invasive energy medicine to benefit people at a much lower cost is phenomenal. However, because the drug industry is so entrenched within the medical system, when research money is granted, it is very much biased toward the pharmacologic approach. Molecular biology is the new buzzword, and systems that exist outside of that are not getting the research funds they deserve.

Vibrational medicine has the potential to scan the body not only for illness states, but also for a disposition toward illness, that is, a prephysical energetic disturbance that will lead to illness. There are a variety of diagnostic systems that are evolving. One of these involves assessing the acupuncture meridian system. If we can detect disturbances in the etheric body before physical disease develops, then we have the basis for a whole new level of preventive medicine, which we have never really seen before. One of the problems with the existing medical system is that we are so problem oriented that when a person has a very subtle illness, it’s very hard to pick up with conventional blood testing. The electroacupuncture diagnostic system is capable of reaching a very subtle level of diagnosis that is extremely impressive. The electroacupuncture system was compared with RAST blood allergy testing and showed good agreement in identifying allergic sensitivities. That’s the kind of testing we need to do. However, I think the electroacupuncture system goes way beyond what we can pick up with conventional blood tests. The acupuncture meridian system appears to be the interface between the physical body and the higher energy control systems. So you can not only pick up a disturbance that’s at the physical level, you can actually pick it up at the subtle energetic level before it is even manifest as illness. The treatment may be homeopathic remedies, flower essences, acupuncture, or it may involve a combination of these modalities, in addition to working with nutritional modification, lifestyle changes, and attitudinal and emotional changes. I don’t think we should look at vibrational medicine as individual modalities targeted against specific illnesses in the same way that allopathic medicine has evolved to think of the right drug for the right bug. If we are going to be truly holistic, we have to look at the whole person and design therapies that encompass the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of illness. RB: I’m sure many of our readers would agree that karma and reincarnation are factors that need to be considered in the healing process. How do you see these factors becoming integrated within mainstream medicine? RG: Vibrational medicine is the first scientific approach I’ve seen that is able to integrate science and

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spirituality, something which has unfortunately been left out of the medical model. It’s only by viewing the body as a multi-dimensional energy system that we begin to approach how the soul manifests through molecular biology, if you will. Ultimately, that comes down to the whole issue of reincarnation and karma. It’s a difficult issue to grasp, especially for the larger medical community. They still have problems buying into homeopathy, let alone reincarnation. I think it is an area we need to begin to explore. There are various people doing past life regression work who are beginning to envision the soul’s progress through life, and illness as an expression of obstacles the soul is trying to overcome in the whole process of learning. How karma fits into this is a very individualized thing. The vibrational practitioners influence the individual’s consciousness, helping them gain insight into the factors predisposing toward the creation of their illness, or why the illness crystallized at this time in their life. As to what are the effects of past life carry-overs, I don’t have a simple answer, and it’s something I’m still grappling with. What I have discovered is that the most powerful healing force in the universe is love, unconditional love. When you work from that level you begin to open up whole vistas of discovery in self-exploration and spiritual transformation. You begin a new level of healing, not just fixing the body, but helping the individual to grow to a whole new understanding of their life and their awareness as an evolving spiritual being.

SPIRITUAL UNIFICATION RB: Is there anything else you would like to mention? RG: I think we need to work together on a spiritual level if we are going to create the kind of healing research center that I have envisioned and that many others have dreamed of. In order for us to create a healing centre of lasting value and benefit to the planet, the scientists and the workers who come together will need to have a higher perspective of spiritual unification. We have to be aligned with the higher spiritual sense and purpose in order for us to manifest this goal. If we are, then I think we can really change the entire medical system. One of the secondary agendas of the healing research centre is to heal not just people, but the planet. R i c h a r d Gerber, M.D., received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine, and devoted his life to furthering research and clinical applications in the pioneering field of energy based medicine. He practiced internal medicine near his home in Livonia, Michigan, and lectured throughout America. Dr. Gerber’s book Vibrational Medicine is regarded as the definitive and most in-depth survey of energetic and alternative healing methods in print. He is also the author of A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine and Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century.

What Is Happening To Me? Have you found that everything around you is changing? Are you going through a crisis, whether it is small or major (usually one after the other)? Do you find yourself thinking there must be more to life than this? Do you feel like something is missing from your life but you haven’t got a clue what it is? Is the status of your health constantly changing? Then, you are preparing or are already taking part in the greatest evolutionary stage in the history of mankind. Some people may refer to it as ‘Ascension’. It is like you are being ‘awakened’ from a sleep you did not know you were having. So, fasten your seatbelt you are about to take on the greatest adventure of your life. A quest to find ’Your Truth’ and the answers to many questions, e.g. Who you really are, What your purpose is and Why you are here? Contrary to all the news reports of gloom and doom, trying to incite fear and keep control, this is the most exciting time to be on this planet. There has never before been so many Ascended Masters and Advanced Souls on the planet at the same time to take part in this great event. Their inner knowledge, past life experiences, their innate psychic abilities and their higher vibration will aid this process greatly. There are two parts to this evolutionary stage, a physical level and a spiritual level. On a spiritual level we are clearing and releasing all negativities including fears, negative core beliefs and negative belief systems on all levels. As we are clearing and releasing we are clearing the denser, heavier energies that vibrate at lower levels enabling us to raise our vibration and hold more ‘light’. Many of us have been raising our vibration continuously on a subconscious level for many years. As more and more people raise their vibration we have started to feel the connection to one another. With the introduction of the internet etc. we are able to communicate and seek information from all over the world, making us feel more connected as a planet. The Planet is also raising her vibration and clearing and releasing all denser energies with us (we are all working together), resulting in many climatic changes, earthquakes, floods, fires, droughts and famines. As we reach ‘critical mass’ (a high percentage of the Earth’s population), we all together (including the Planet) rise to higher dimensions and will continue to do so. On a physical level the human body is evolving on every level to enable us to live as a ‘spiritual being’ in a ‘human body’. Our brain is being recalibrated from working as ‘two halves’ (which creates our separateness from one another) to ‘one whole’. Our Senses are being recalibrated to enhance their capabilities. Many organs in our body are being recalibrated to allow more ‘light’ in each cell of our body. As we clear and release the negative energies we are holding in different parts of our body we will notice

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changes to our overall health and wellbeing. We may have illnesses that suddenly disappear and our ability to heal ourselves is enhanced giving us ‘self-empowerment’. There are also shifts in Energy caused by planetary alignments (never to be aligned in this lifetime again), Solar Flares, Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses; Full Moons to name a few that will also affect us emotionally. The combination of these two levels will allow us to develop our psychic abilities and change forever the way we live and think. The veils between the spiritual realm will become thinner enabling us to see and hear them more clearly than ever before (not just a chosen few). We will be able to communicate by telepathy, heal ourselves and others using energy (or hands-on healing) and work with the planet by being more attuned to Nature. These changes will enable us to live and feel from our heart centre and we will feel ‘love’ on all levels. There are many varied symptoms and side effects of this work that may be felt along the way. You must always seek medical advice if these symptoms continue as treatment may be required. These are a few: Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Phobias including Fear of large crowds or Public places (sensitivity to other peoples energies), Fatigue, Weight Gain (Buddha Belly), Low Blood Sugar (cravings for chocolate even if you don’t normally eat it), Heartburn, Short Term Memory Loss, Unable to remember simple words (having to describe what you mean e.g. “You know that thing you put water in …a glass”), Earaches (including high pitched noises and/or swooshing noises), Flu symptoms, Migraines, Emotional Ups and Downs (crying at the drop of a hat), Disorientation, Unusual Aches and Pains (different parts of the body), Vivid dreams. As we walk this path we will be given information when required by books, newspaper articles as well as being drawn to like-minded people to help us. Your guides and angels will be working with you as we transform and eventually you will be able to communicate with them. There will be many spiritual teachers, healers and spiritual counselors available to you to help with your progress. You must always use discernment and trust your judgment, if anything or anyone ‘Does not feel right’ then you must use this feeling to decide your path and your decisions. Good luck on this fantastic journey of discovery to find your truth. Remember, it is not the destination that is important it is the journey. Kerry Denice is a Spiritual Teacher, Healer and Counsellor specialising in assisting people through the process of spiritual awakening. Phone 8276 3421 www.kerrydenice.com

ENERGETIC HEALING RECONNECTIVE HEALING Continued from page 22 relate to the work of Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection which has been accessible on the planet since the frequencies were introduced through Dr Eric Pearl in 1993. They refer to new axiatonal lines (which we connect with through The Reconnection) connecting us to a fifth dimensional circulatory system, through which we bring light and information and all the hues of healing, drawing the basic energy for the renewing functions of the human evolutionary body and the complete regeneration of organ, and through a projection of light, selected individuals can be reconnected to the ‘perfect blueprint’ image. Reconnective Healing brings this light and information onto the planet. Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection operate outside the normal space and time dimensionality, thus creating experiences that transcend the five senses. It may begin with healing but is truly much more. This work is facilitating mankind’s advancement and connecting us to the next level of our evolution. For more information please visit www.TheReconnection.com. Anthony Craig is a Certified Reconnective Healing and Reconnection Practitioner and Mentor and is also a member of the Teacher Development Program. He travels extensively educating and expanding this work locally and worldwide and is available as a guest speaker. Anthony is available for appointments at Genesis Healing Centre, Glandore, ph 8297 7703 or see the advertisement for a practitioner in your area.

ULURU - the Spiritual Centre In the heart of our wonderful country is this amazing rock that just appears from nowhere, is awesome in size and energetically emanates an incredible energy that has the ability to transform negative energies. The Pitjinja and Yankajara people, known as the Anangu believe in two levels of the universe, Heaven and Earth. In the celestial world are the high vibrational Ancestors that can be called upon for support. The rock is sacred to the Anangu people and has history and stories that date back to the beginning of time. They are still able to connect and feel their ancestors calling them from the land around the rock. The rock is a part of a larger formation and spreads out underground far and wide and connects to Kata Tjuta some distance away. Sections of both sites are linked to sacred rituals, and are forbidden ground for Anangu of the opposite sex of those participating in the rituals in question. The local indigenous people of the area believe that there is a gigantic hollow beneath the ever changing colours of the rock and that this hollow resides an energy they call ‘Tjukurpa’, the Dreamtime. The word Tjukurpa also is used to refer to the entire history of an ancestral from the beginning to the end. In 2006 I had a ‘calling’ from the Rock and my own Ancestors who were telling me that it was time for me to facilitate my Energetic Healers course from there. I had been running a four module healers course for a

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number of years from the Adelaide Healing Energy Centre, this course took four months to complete. I was told by my ‘inner guidance’ that from now on the course was to be held as a ten-day retreat at Uluru, here people would meet from all states and countries. Although I trusted my guidance I was most apprehensive, how could people possibly digest the information that had taken most a number of months to work through and accept. With trepidation I set the first date and allowed it all to flow. I contacted an Aboriginal elder from the local Mutijulu community. As soon as I spoke to Bob Randall we had an instant connection, he knew I was coming and was prepared to work with me, we both felt the soul connection and guidance happening. At the same time a traditional female elder contacted me and wanted to know what my plans were because she felt that she had to ‘journey’ with me. I invited her to come on this first trip to this magic place. I recall our first day when the three of us were standing together at last looking into each others eyes, what an emotional reunion of souls, each of us having a piece of the puzzle knowing we were bought together for a reason yet unsure what it was to be. That was just the beginning as we still journey together years later. At the end of that first trip I could see that the intensity of the course together with the energy of the Rock and ten days living together as a small community was the right combination to create enormous change in each person’s life. That group and many others to follow would remember for the rest of their lives the ten days spent with their ‘soul’ family, and the many lessons learned. Since then I have come to understand the power of the area and learnt that the rock is like a giant iceberg, the rock mass you see on the surface is only a fragment compared to the massive area underground spreading over a very large area. The energy of the rock acts as an ‘amplifier’, as such it amplifies people's emotions, so when, as a group we are doing deep emotional work, participants' amplified emotions flow and any negative energies that need to be transmuted come up over the time until each person is touched in some way and transformation occurs. To be in the heart of this wonderful land of ours, away from the hustle and bustle of the city life, with clean air and a limited number of antennas and mobile phone towers means that our energetic centers can connect to our Higher Self so much easier. Plus the relaxed lifestyle and casual living brings one to a place of ‘relaxation and letting go’, which is also a necessary part of change. Add to this the amplification of the energies being transmitted from the Rock itself and you have a recipe that will have you shifting your perspectives at an incredible rate. This place is magical, and has the ability to create change for anyone within its parameter, however time is required! Many tourists visit the rock only to stay one or two nights, allowing for a walk around the base and perhaps allowing them to take in the vision of a sunset or sunrise yet they miss the most extraordinary part of the Rock. It isn’t in the beauty of the sunset or the vision of the great expanse of the place; the power of the Rock is in the energies that emanate from it. For you to truly ‘feel and experience’ the power of this place time is required, it cannot be rushed, it must be ‘experienced’. One or two nights can never be enough, it takes that time just to unwind and visually view all there is to see. I believe a minimum of four days is required to begin to ‘feel’ the power of this place. Time to meditate or sit quietly at the Rock, time to walk the parameter and to feel the various ener-

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Train in Europe’s Top Allergy Therapy Training as a BICOM Bioresonance Therapist will give you a rewarding career successfully treating allergy sufferers and chronically ill clients, with a flexible working environment. Already firmly established in Europe, this therapy is now flourishing in Australia and many therapists have waiting lists of over three months. Why is Bioresonance Therapy so popular? Over the past fifty years, people have become increasingly sick and allergy-related conditions such as asthma and eczema are

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Viruses Heavy Metals Chemicals Food Allergies Moulds, Fungus Radiation Stress OVERLOAD The Bioresonance View – chronic illness is the result of the individual’s body load of many strains Whatever the illness, everyone has their unique ‘signature’ of stressors and treatment is different in each case. With BICOM therapy we first

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This event is being held at the new centre “Answer Within”, located at 9 Timpson St, Port Adelaide over the long weekend in October. Open all 3 days between 10am 5pm. Various readers, healers and stalls to buy various products including jewellery, crystals and the latest healing products. Free workshops during the weekend covering various metaphsyical topics. Light refreshments are available. Live music during the weekend. Entry cost is $5, u/15 free. Tea, coffee or water are included in the entry price. Further details contact Margaret or Jenny on 08-8269 4861. Email psychicfair@hotmail.com

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the client’s unique and individual requirements on how to bring the circuit back into harmony. As people who are suffering distress can rarely be neutral or open minded about their situation, muscle monitoring is not performed by yourself but by a professional Kinesiologist. A professional Kinesiologist embraces all healing arts; honours eastern and western medicine, ancient philosophies and current trends, and most importantly the uniqueness of each individual. As the foundation of their work is so broad, their training is vast and varied, some choosing to specialise in specific areas such as children with learning difficulties, etheric healing, allergies, relationship problems, co-ordination, communication or self awareness. Muscle monitoring is an excellent tool that provides sensory awareness. It demonstrates effectively where stress and conflict are blocking energy flow, what is being depleted by that energy blockage, and what healing modality or technique will release the blockage allowing the energy to flow to where it is required. This often provides great insight into the cause of our pain and discomfort and the new chosen response to life that will be required to maintain health and well being. With an awakened self awareness the client not only feels much better after a session but also holds the tools to true change in their lives. Self awareness is and always will be your key to happiness, health and well being.

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peatedly will always produce the same results, any true change in life must be chosen by the conscious mind, a chosen response to life, instead of a reaction dictated by the subconscious. To become more conscious we must become more aware of our sensory perception on all levels of awareness; physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. As we become more aware of what our senses perceive the more we can consciously choose our response to life. As we develop and integrate our senses we open ourselves to psychic awareness. Sight becomes clairvoyance where we may gain the ability to see light vibrations as differing colours within the aura, hearing becomes clairaudience where we may gain the ability to hear sound vibrations, touch becomes psychometry where we may gain the ability to feel the multitude of energetic vibrations, and smell and taste become spiritual discernment and intuition. When all of these senses are synthesised at the highest level they create common sense or knowing. But what if you have not yet developed your sensory awareness? How can you tune into your vibrational self accurately and effectively, so that a new conscious response can be initiated creating the change required to bring your body, mind and spirit back into balance? Kinesiology is a science and an art that involves muscle monitoring to identify energy and vibrational imbalances on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual planes on both the conscious and subconscious levels. When muscle monitoring is performed with a neutral and open minded attitude it has the ability to provide the client with not only the circuit of energy which is out of balance/harmony but also

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SHARE AND SAVE THE WORLD “How can you be content with the modes within which you now live, when millions starve and die in squalor; when the rich parade their wealth before the poor; when each man is his neighbour’s enemy; when no man trusts his brother? For how long can you support this degradation? My Plan and My duty is to reveal to you a new way, a way forward which will permit the divine in man to shine forth.” (Maitreya’s Message no 81, 12 Sept 1979) Many are in despair over the dire conditions in the world today, and indeed, the human family is in crisis, beset on all sides by seemingly intractable problems: · 30,000 children die every day from hunger, contaminated water and preventable diseases · 2.8 billion people, almost half the world’s population, live on less than $2 a day. · $1.2 trillion is spent each year on arms and weapons systems · The world’s four wealthiest individuals together are richer than the poorest 1 billion people · Over 50 million people are refugees of war, hunger, and persecution · 200 animal and plant species die or disappear each day. Despite appearances however, and amid predictions of gloom and doom, British author and esotericist Benjamin Crème offers a powerful message of hope. In response to our urgent call for help THE WORLD TEACHER FOR ALL HUMANITY IS NOW HERE In every age, or in times of exceptional crisis, great spiritual teachers have come forth to show humanity its next evolutionary step. We have known some of them as Hercules, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed and the Christ. Each has given a body of teaching, a central and common

theme of which is ‘right human relations’. For example: · Christianity: “…All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them…” · Buddhism: “In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and familiars-by generosity, courtesy and benevolence, by treating them as he treats himself, and by being as good as his word.” · Hinduism: “Do not to others, which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.” · Islam: “No-one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” · Judaism: “What is hurtful to yourself, do not to your fellow man.” · Taoism: “Regard your neighbour’s gain as your gain and regard your neighbour’s loss as your own loss.” From such simple teachings men have historically constructed complex dogma and ritual, willing to kill and be killed in the name of their revered Teacher. Such religious intolerance has been, and continues to be, the basis for much of the discord and human suffering in the world. Only by discovering the common source of wisdom from which all their faiths have emerged will men truly understand their spiritual brotherhood, as children of the One Father-by whatever name they call Him. So mystical has been the view of the Christ presented down the centuries by the churches that many fear His judgement and omnipotent power; they await Him as God come to punish the wicked and reward the faithful. It is sadly to be regretted that such a distorted vision of the Christ should so have permeated human consciousness. No such being exists. In order to understand the true nature of the

Christ it is necessary to see Him as one among equal Sons of God, each endowed with full divine potential, differing only in the degree of manifestation of that divinity. Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ are not one and the same person. In fact, the title ‘Christ’ does not refer to an individual at all. It is the name of a function in the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom, that group of advanced beings Who guide the evolution of humanity from behind the scenes. Whoever stands at the head of this Hierarchy automatically becomes the World Teacher, known in the East as the ‘Bodhisattva’, during the term of His office. Maitreya, Who embodies the energy we call the ‘Christ Principle’, has held that office for over two millennia, and in Palestine. He manifested Himself as the Christ to inaugurate the Age of Pisces, then beginning. The method He used is called spiritual overshadowing, that is, His consciousness informed and guided the actions and teachings of His disciple Jesus. It was therefore the consciousness of the Christ, Maitreya, which was seen and experienced by those around Jesus. Now, at the dawning of the Aquarian age, Maitreya, the head of the Masters of Wisdom, and our eldest brother, has returned to the everyday world for the first time in thousands of years to inaugurate the age and to guide us out of the perilous situation we have created for ourselves. Maitreya will lead us to the recognition of our own divinity and our true identity as souls. He embodies the expectations of all the world’s religions for their awaited Teacher. For Christians He is The Christ, for Jews He is the Messiah, for Muslims He is the Imam Madhi, for Hindus He is a reincarnation of Krishna, for Bud-

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dhists He is Maitreya Buddha. He has not come as a religious teacher, he is here as an educator in the broadest sense-as The World Teacher for all humanity, religious or not. His primary concerns are the economic, political and social imbalances in the world today, and the spiritual crisis at their root. Inspiring humanity to see itself as one interdependent family, he will help us understand that the world’s food, raw materials, energy and technological resources belong to everyone and must be shared equitably. These resources, he says, are given by divine right for the sustenance of all humanity. Soon Maitreya will present us with two alternative scenarios of the future from which we must choose. We can continue in the selfish, greedy ways of the past and destroy ourselves and all life on earth, or we can accept the Principle of Sharing and create a brilliant new civilization that will guarantee a peaceful and prosperous future for humanity. Maitreya assures us, “My heart tells me your answer, your choice, and is glad”

TRANSMISSION MEDITATION – A SERVICE TO HUMANITY For those who want to help the world and build a stronger connection to their own soul, Transmission Meditation is the simplest way to do both-at the same time- says Benjamin Crème, who introduced this new form of meditation in 1974. Transmission Meditation is a group service activity which “steps down” the great spiritual energies that continually stream into our planet. During transmission, the Masters of Wisdom direct energies from the spiritual planes through the energy centers (chakras) of the

group members in a scientific manner. The transmission process, which makes the energies more useful to humanity, is similar to that of electrical transformers which step down the power between generators and household outlets. It is the creation, in co-operation with the Hierarchy of Masters, of a vortex or pool of higher energy for the benefit of humanity, gradually uplifting all life forms, changing our world for the better. Transmission Meditation is safe, scientific, non denominational, and extremely potent. It will not interfere with any other religious or spiritual practice. In fact it will enhance personal meditations

and any other service activities in which a person may be engaged. Some people receive spontaneous healings during the transmissions. There is never any fee to participate, and anyone may start a group with as few as three people. FOR MORE INFORMATION: visit www.shareinternational.org www.transmissionmeditation.org read any books by Benjamin Crème, Alice A. Bailey, Helena Blavatsky, or Helena Roerich Subscribe to Share International magazine Adelaide Transmission Meditation group phone Tony on (08)8558 1147 or Mob: 0428 592 209

The World Has Had Enough... of Hunger, Injustice, War. According to Benjamin Creme,

“In Answer to our call for help, as world teacher for all humanity... THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE” Without Sharing there can be no Justice. Without Justice there can be no Peace. Without Peace there can be no Future. More info phone Transmission Meditation on 0428 592 209 or visit www.shareintl.org Awakening Body, Mind, Spirit

The healing power of DANCE “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars…the stars form a circle, and in the centre we dance.” – Rumi Dance as a healing ritual aims to attain a state of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health…that is, to engage the whole being. Our body is our instrument.

THE PHYSICAL DANCE Dancing is a great way to build physical activity into our lives; evidence shows that having an inactive lifestyle has a negative impact on our health. Moving to mu-

sic stimulates the senses - sight, sound and touch - it’s great fun as well as being good for you. A recent Italian study found that people with heart failure who took up waltzing improved their heart health, their breathing and their quality of life significantly more than those who exercised by bicycling or walking on a treadmill. The dancers also reported slightly better results for sleep, mood, and their ability to have sex, pursue

ENERGETIC HEALING hobbies and do housework than the group that followed more traditional exercise programs. The British Heart Foundation agrees that dancing is a great way to stay in shape. Regular dancing reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and cancer. And you’ll enjoy yourself so much you’ll forget you’re exercising! Regular dancing will also help keep you trim. As you shimmy across the floor, you’ll be burning kilojoules. Dancing helps to reduce the risk of osteoporosis because the steps put a strain on your bones, helping them to stay strong and dense. The denser your bones are, the longer your bones will remain strong.

Other physical benefits include the skills you learn as you glide across the dance floor - poise and grace, coordination balance and muscle strength.

THE MENTAL DANCE Regular dance helps to keep your mind active as well as your body. Exercise improves circulation and helps prevent oxygen starvation to the brain, and remembering complex steps stimulates the working memory. The Einstein Aging Study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003, found that dancing helps prevent dementia. Groups of participants undertook six brain-stimulating hobbies reading, writing for pleasure, doing puzzles, board games or playing cards, group discussions and playing music; and 11 physical activities including team sports, swimming, bicycling and dance. Dance was the only physical activity that benefited the brain.

THE EMOTIONAL DANCE Certain types of dance allow you to explore the emotions through the dance – to dance with joy, to

dance with gratitude, to feel our emotions fully and move through them. When you dance this way, you are completely in the moment. What does dance then become? A form of moving meditation. Dance is also an expression of your personality and a way of exploring who you are. Dancing can also lift your mood, reduce your stress levels and the risk of depression.

THE SPIRITUAL DANCE Throughout history, humans have used dance as an integral part of ritual, prayer, and as a vehicle for reaching higher states of consciousness, for the purpose of healing, and to facilitate contact with the Divine. Unfortunately, there was a time when dancing was seen as a threat. The Christian church banned dancing and drumming in the church, as it represented worship of the Goddess. In the United States, Native Americans were banned from performing their sacred and traditional dancing and drumming up until 1978. Today, thankfully, dance as ritual and healing is becoming

popular once again. Gabrielle Roth’s Five Rhythms, for example, aim to take the dancer from the limited realm of the ego to the expanse of the soul. Roth says that our first creative task is to free the body to experience the power of being. The massive popularity of trance dancing in warehouses and forests all around the world taps into this same phenomenon of going beyond the body into the higher realms of being. It is in the integration of all of these parts of our ourselves – the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual – that we can transcend the limits of our everyday selves and healing can begin. Heather Millar is a teacher of Wu Tao – The Dancing Way, a form of healing dance based on the five elements in Chinese medicine. She is also a transpersonal counsellor and runs a transpersonal writing program. She can be contacted on heathermillar@iprimus.com.au. For more information on Wu Tao, go to www.wutaodance.com

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With so many looking for deeper and more meaningful spiritual information we are witnessing the reawakening of the Mystery School here in Adelaide. The Adelaide Mystery School is a school for the soul where we can explore our world within and without, beyond physical reality, through the mysteries and psychic and spiritual practices handed down over eons of time.

READING ‘THE TAROT’ INTUITIVELY

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Providing a basic system with an emphasis on developing your own psychic ability this course enables you to actually read the Tarot, regardless of previous experience. It incorporates both theory and practice to read individual cards and simple spreads.

Astrology is one of the most profound ways of discovering yourself and your place in the universe. Beginners level astrology enables you to learn the ‘language’ of Astrology – the planets, signs, houses, aspects and what this means when applied to your own birth chart.

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DREAMS AND SYMBOLS Learn not only how to interpret dreams but the meaning of symbols generally, the universal language of spirit communications. Once you have the basics in a:

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The size, shape, colour, type and lines of your hands can be likened to a map of your life. Learn to read this enthralling map through attending a

Join us in this very successful course to awaken and develop your psychic ability. Participants gain the basic theory and concepts of ‘energy’ combined with meditation and practical exercises, to intuit and perceive spiritual energies yourself.

Come and learn how each number has its own vibration and how this can be applied to understanding the purpose and cycles of your life.

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Founder, professional clairvoyant Cheryl Rae, welcomes renowned astrologer Alice Portman of the Adelaide School of Astrology as the first facilitator to amalgamate with the new Adelaide Mystery School. For the casual course goer through to the dedicated spiritual seeker… It is where we can expand our awareness of ourselves, our life and the universe…inevitably deepening our connection to our soul and all existence.

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Come along to meet and chat with Cheryl and Alice about courses at our Open Day 18th January 2009, 1-4pm Location: Rear 9 Moreland Avenue Mitchell Park SA 5043 • Phone: 8277 1792 See www.adelaidemysteryschool.com for further information COURSES COMMENCE 2009

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The Wake-Up Call Have you ever seen the movie The Matrix? For many people who feel the way the central character in the movie Neo did, mundane life no longer answers the inner call of “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose?” “What is this all about?” In the movie Neo is restless with everything in his life and wants to know more. He wants to know “What is the Matrix?” He is told he is The One. As a result of his relentless inner questioning and searching he is contacted by Morpheus (the God of dreams) and given a choice. He can swallow a blue pill and go back to his normal, uninspiring life or he can take the red pill and nothing will ever be the same again. He will have woken up! Perhaps you feel like Neo did and you have just swallowed the red pill. Everything is changing at lightening speed. Now in unprecedented numbers all over the planet, people are waking up and when they do they often feel confused about where to get good solid information on what is happening to them. Our soul intelligence is blossoming as we are seeking to know more about the invisible universe, the meaning of divinity and our place within this immortal structure. We want the truth of our own empowerment, beyond what the traditional route to spirituality, religion can offer. To know if you are experiencing a spiritual wake up call, ask yourself do any of the following statements describe me: • Do you feel like you have just woken up from a long sleep? • Does everything you have ever known now seem foreign to you?

•Are your friends and family saying “You’ve changed”? • Do you feel alone and alienated from those around you? • Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to break out of old patterns? • Do you feel an urgent need to find your life purpose? • Are friendships & relationships changing or become strained? • Do you feel like you want to go home and opt out of this earth trip? • Do you have an increased sensitivity to harsh environments, conversations, foods, people, sounds and smells? • Are you picking up on others feelings more easily and are not being able to decipher these from your own? • Is your personal style of clothing, music, speech, body shape and hair changing? • Are your sleep patterns changing? Perhaps there is more vivid or lucid dreaming or you are experiencing outer body trips (OBE’s). • Are you hearing high-pitched frequencies in one ear or the other as you are downloaded with higher frequencies? • Are you having increased instances of Déjà vu, where you get glimpses of memories that remind you this movie of your life has been played before? • Is alcohol affecting your system differently? • Do you have a sense of being off balance physically? • Are you experiencing headaches in various parts of your skull with a feeling of your brain being re-wired? • Do you have a new appreciation for nature and the cycles of life? • Do you want to travel to all those places you have been dreaming about, right now?

If you’re answer is yes to any and all of the above then welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life! When we came into this world and were born anew we remembered at first who we truly were and our divine origins. Then as we grew and become submersed into the dense energy of this planet we may have forgotten. A veil was drawn between us and the truth of our existence. We are taught not to think for ourselves and to accept mainstream ideas and information as the truth. Yet there comes a time for everyone when we question, “What is life?” and “Why am I here”? What makes us question is different for all. Perhaps an event, a life situation, perhaps the need to challenge ourselves, to overcome adversity, whatever it is for you know this; an honest “asking” will always serve to awaken one. We cannot be helped until we ask. “How do you ask?” Sometimes all that is required is for you to say silently within or yell it from the rooftops “I know I want something better than this for myself. I don’t know what it is, but there must be something else, bring it on, I’m ready!” Famous last words huh! With change comes fear and excitement all at once. Especially when you are becoming aware of the dual nature of the human being. That we are spirit in a physical embodiment here to experience a physical reality, something we could never achieve in the reality of spirit alone. This physical third dimensional world presents us with a myriad of delicious experiences and challenges (read growth) that we could never get if we weren’t inside a dense physical body or shell. So now that you've woken up, there are some pointers that can assist in getting you on track with understanding the voice of your soul: • Seek out information on the truth of human existence. The Internet is an awesome source of information, so are magazines and books. Remember to question everything! • Start a journal of your thoughts and experiences. Write in it regularly listing the synchronicities that are happening. • Record your dreams, even if it’s just a feeling you can remember at first.

•Trust your gut “feelings”. If it feels right, then it is right for you. • Know that it is not a race to see who can have the most knowledge and complete answers first. You are in a constant state of growth and unfolding and this is just as it should be. • Attend courses, which interest you on the metaphysical aspects of life. • Ask questions to people who have been where you are now, those who “understand” what you are going through. Forums can be great here. Avoid bombarding your friends with questions and insights, which they may not be able to comprehend if they have not woken up as you have. • Join a regular meditation group to teach you how to go within and hear the voice of your true self. • Keep your new ideas and thoughts to yourself whilst you are in the infancy stages of understanding what is happening. This will ensure friends do not put you off track as quite unknowingly they may wish to keep you asleep. And remember you are never alone. Just like Neo found at the end of the trilogy of The Matrix, he was The One he had been looking for all along. Once awakened we can never look back and nor would we want to. Embrace this great change in the sure knowledge that as one of the awakened ones you are on a sure fire path to heightened and quickened personal evolution. Elizabeth Peru is a Sound & Colour Healer and Soul Teacher based in Adelaide Australia providing a wide variety of regular Self-Development Workshops, Weekly Groups, Talks, Online Articles & Resources, Weekly and Monthly online energy reports, Personal Healing CD’s and In Person Healing sessions. Elizabeth also is the author of The Crystal City website highlighting the Adelaide and Atlantis soul connection. Phone: 0422 002 917 elizabeth@deltawaves.com.au Web: www.deltawaves.com.au www.thecrystalcity.net

EFT Releases Freeway Driving Fear When teacher Melanie started to panic while driving her car around Adelaide, she couldn’t understand it. This began to happen whenever she came to a freeway or a road curving off to one side. ‘I would just freeze and I couldn’t drive on,’ she said. Melanie had been driving for some time, if a little nervously, before this fear developed. Hearing that EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), the world’s fastestgrowing Energy Psychology Therapy, could dissolve phobias quickly and gently, she came to me for a session. To introduce her to EFT – an effective self help technique where you fingertap key acupressure points while focusing on a difficulty – we did four fast demonstration rounds. She focused on sadness she’d felt for three years, over a misunderstanding with a friend. She was astonished to lose the sadness so quickly. The driving difficulty tracked back to her first solo interstate drive. She had been enjoying driving, and had bought a chicken roll for lunch. However, soon after eating it, she began to feel strange – disoriented and ill. Fighting the worsening sensations, she kept driving when she could. Her heart now started pounding, she had to stop to vomit. She suspected food poisoning. She stopped at a roadhouse and vomited again. (Melanie has a vomiting phobia — which she can now deal with later through EFT.) Closer to home on the freeway, as she pressed on she became even more disoriented. She hallucinated that the (flat) road was rising up and down, felt she was speeding although the speedometer showed 10 kph, gripped the wheel desperately. Terrified, she pulled into the next truck layby,

hoping to find help, but it was empty. She tried to call her son in Adelaide but her cell phone would not operate. This was the worst part of her journey. Later the phone worked. Her son and a friend eventually arrived, and her son drove her car home with the friend following. In EFT terms, we tapped all over this series of events, for all the emotions, body sensations, disorientation, vomiting, her feelings when calling her son: helplessness, embarrassment that she, the mother, was out of control, guilt for bringing him out. When we tested the work, her anxiety was at zero. I asked her to remember the last time she had tried to drive on a freeway, and we collapsed emotions about that. I asked her to imagine she was now about to drive on a freeway. She easily imagined it. Later Melanie reported, ‘I can now drive on freeways! And the impact on my general driving has been very positive, I’m much more relaxed.’ ANNIE O’GRADY (Advanced EFT, Level 3) is an EFT practitioner and teacher. She consults in South Terrace, Adelaide, also does EFT sessions by phone locally and anywhere in the world (via phonecard). She holds Workshops in Adelaide and interstate, including by request. ‘Next Adelaide Workshop: ‘How to Manage Your Emotions — Fast — with EFT!’ www.EFTemotionalhealing.com annie@EFTemotionalhealing.com Tel. 08 8537 0447

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Invoking Radiance Whenever I think of the word radiance and contemplate the animals that best personify its true essence, I automatically look to the Unicorn, Peacock and the humble Bee. In these troubled times we should be looking to all animals as ambassadors of pride, strength and positive thinking because, each in their own way, they demonstrate self-respect, truth and honour. But the Unicorn, Peacock and Bee, in particular, champion beauty as their cause, while affording us the potency to shine and unlock doorways to power and spiritual enlightenment. For me, these three are truly the animals to seek counsel with when considering the meaning of radiance. We demonstrate radiance when we live life to its greatest potential and honour the gifts afforded us by Creation. When we radiate, life becomes easier. It is the way of Spirit to see all those who grit their teeth, figuratively walk to the edge of the cliff and take that leap of faith, supported and cradled. Life is like dominos. We can choose to leave them packed neatly in their box, but who wants to live life safely confined like that? We can tip them out and use them as they were intended … as a game, but, although riddled with chance, life is so much more than a game. Or, we can line them all up in a row and knock them over. Life is an

adventure worth partaking in, and to line one’s dominos up anticipating that, as they fall, one will, in turn, knock the next one over, is a reminder of this philosophy. We must take the chance that none of the dominos will fall crookedly, shift the balance and leave half the box standing. We have to expect that the last one will tumble, but only when it is its turn. We have to let all things occur in their own time, without pushing for things before their time or before we are ready to receive them. Bee encourages us to start all projects alone and celebrate the power of one. She visions her future and inherently believes in her right to shine. She takes her personal dream of greatness and builds her hive, after which she presents it to the people as an invitation to share. Those that believe in her vision join her and collectively help her to make her kingdom bigger and stronger; an empire that offers radiance and warmth to the world. Bee is the creator of honey. Honey is a wondrous substance, celebrated throughout history as a healing balm and a symbol of abundance. As the nectar of the gods and the essence of life, honey is the figurative embodiment of wealth and prosperity and, on a symbolic level, the correspondent to money. To harness the energies of Bee is to celebrate life and the

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power we all hold deep within our being. To understand that honey equals money is to realise the ability to bring one’s dreams to fruition with very little effort. Fuelled by the knowing that whatever one touches will figuratively ‘turn to gold’, there is nothing that cannot be achieved with the support of the not-so-humble Bee. But the rewards afforded us by Bee are shallow and transparent without the contribution of Peacock. Peacock lives a life of integrity. His path is impeccable: free of sin. Although he may strut proudly, assured of his beauty and confident that few people could argue, he is neither arrogant nor boastful. He walks his talk and only ever speaks truth because, despite his splendour, Peacock knows his flaws. He knows what it means to feel inadequate, unattractive and forsaken by God. According to legend, Peacock shrieks with alarm as a reminder to humanity of their connection to the Creator Spirit. It is a cry of despair, a lonely plea of ‘Help Me’ to the masses, a call for the people to walk with him and unite as a people so that we may reclaim our innate beauty and the relationship we forged with the Earth Mother at the beginning of time. He also screams each and every time he spies his unsightly legs. His scream represents confusion. After all, how could such an intensely beautiful creature as himself be blemished with such ugliness? Although he commiserates with legend, Peacock is at peace with the answer. Integrity calls for us to embrace inner beauty, to realise the strength found in knowing our worth and to never make excuses for whom and what we are. To walk a path of integrity means we never complain, show disrespect or judge, because what we perceive in others is usually indicative of how we feel about ourselves. When we display cynicism toward another, for example, it is usually a sign that we feel inner resentment about personal weakness or deficiency. When we vent frustration on another whose life seems devoid of limiting circumstance, we must look at ourselves and ask ‘why?’ A path of integrity calls for us to look at the answer we receive when we ask such questions and then integrate the lesson learned into our life. In doing so, we make our world that much richer for the experience. After all, no one is perfect because Spirit never intended us to be, but we can all endeavour to live immaculate lives, because that was part of the master plan. In order to live immaculate lives, we must live a life of Spirit. A life of Spirit does not mean a life of religion, indoctrination or fear, but rather a life of dedication, and the sort of commitment Spirit expects from us is simple and easy to honour. Spirit expects us to live whole, healthy and happy lives; to be aware and benevolent to the needs of others, responsible in our thoughts and accountable for our actions. To do this will see us ‘step up’ and evolve as a people. Often mistake for a Horse, the Unicorn is in fact Goat-like in nature and form. Endowed with cloven hooves, a beard and an erect tail, the true Unicorn, as the universal symbol of wholesome fertility, virtue, purity and truth, is a fine ambassador of Spirit’s ways and is capable of showing us the path that will see us climb out of the mundane into a place heaving with the miraculous. Embodying all that is protective, nurturing and providing, the Unicorn is the symbol of the Grandmother Energy. To harness the energy of the Unicorn and have it assist in one’s life, one must be prepared to work purely from a place of purity: to work from the heart and

to only radiate the essence of love. According to legend, only a virgin (a non-bleeding maiden or female child) could yoke and tame the Unicorn and claim the mystery and magic stored within the single horn as her own and, with this knowledge, she was capable of birthing her purpose. In today’s world, however, the pure of mind and true of heart are also capable of accessing her sacred wisdom by invoking her via their heart energy. Although this may seem a simple task, those working from the wrong space: from a place of greed, manipulation or jealousy, are said to incur hardship and grief because they are exploiting her true intent. Unicorn brings the love and support of Spirit into our lives. She offers strength, resilience and pride. She brings enlightenment and awareness of one’s Soul Purpose, the gift of Spirit referred to as ‘Personal Power’. But Unicorn only delivers this acumen to those who are committed to living faultlessly while celebrating all that life has to offer. Radiance is there for the taking. Are you ready to shimmer? Are you? Then welcome Bee, Peacock and Unicorn and integrate their lessons into your world. It’s that simple. Scott Alexander King is a teacher, animal psychic and ‘zoomancer’: an individual that examines the habits and appearance of animals to help explain or reveal the future path of other people. He is the best-selling author of ‘Animal Dreaming’, ‘Animal Messenger’, the ‘Animal Dreaming Oracle Cards’, ‘Creature Teacher Cards’ and ‘KIDS! Indigo Children and Cheeky Monkeys’. Scott is available for interviews, workshops and seminars. To learn more about Scott - and his publications - visit his official website www.animaldreaming.com <http:// www.animaldreaming.com/>

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Creating Change in the Present with Kinesiology Mahatma Ghandi (18691948) said “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”. This inspirational leader demonstrated that to have a peaceful world each individual must live a peaceful life, to live in an honest world then each of us must be honest, to live in a world of love and respect then we must be loving and respectful. He was a powerful, living example that it is possible for the world to change when each and every one of us takes responsibility for our emotions, thoughts and actions. He was a powerful, living example of the difference one person can make. He was a powerful, living example that any changes we make must come from within, a reminder that our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. And what an amazing modality Kinesiology is to assist us with the change process. It is unique in its ability to bring us into balance so we can change our reactive patterns of survival and respond positively in every moment, creating our inner and outer worlds in the way we desire them to be. And when we are in balance, responding to and creating our life, we are ‘present’. When we are able to live in the moment, we are ‘present’. When we are integrated on all levels, we are living in the ‘present’ moment . My great passion when working with clients is addressing emotional wellbeing, educating about emotional patterns that sabotage and assisting people to respond to life rather than reacting. Reacting is a fear based pattern of survival and it is not possible to create change when we are reacting. When we are reacting, we are unable to make choices in the moment. Our reactions are unconscious and designed to protect us. Our reactions have worked in the past and our subconscious mind knows they will work again in the future. Our subconscious mind uses them over and over until we find some way to change our reactive state. And this is where Kinesiology is such a highly effective tool in assisting us to create change. The fight/flight response, being a subconscious, reactive survival pat-

tern can be addressed effectively with Kinesiology because of its amazing power to deal with the cause of a problem and to work with the underlying subconscious survival programmes. What interests me in my work, are the forms of reacting that are more subtle than fear, the forms of reacting that take us out of the moment we are in and stop us from being ‘present’. Most of us can identify when we feel afraid – we experience sweaty palms, butterflies in our stomach, jelly legs, foggy thinking or any other physiological symptom of the fight/flight response. But what about other forms of reacting such as feeling guilt, shame, or resentment? What are the physiological responses to these forms of reaction? How does it feel to be reacting from these emotions? In 1936, Hans Selye discovered through his research that long lasting stress produced the same physiological responses as the fight/flight response. In this situation the body is unable to maintain homeostasis within normal limits and it resets the body’s systems to prepare to meet an emergency. Selye named this response the ‘general adaptive syndrome’, (GAS) and described the three stages: • The first stage of GAS is the initial alarm reaction which we know of as the fight/flight response. It is the reaction to a stressor that allows us to fight or run away. The brain becomes highly alert, the blood supply leaves the digestive organs and moves to the larger muscles and the heart works hard to pump enough blood to the brain and muscles. Nonessential bodily functions such as the digestive, reproductive and urinary systems shut down. • The second stage of GAS is the resistance stage and it allows the body to continue fighting the stressor long after the alarm reaction has gone. The resistance stage is needed to see us through a stressful episode and our bodies should return to normal. When the resistance stage fails and the stressor can not be overcome the GAS moves into the third stage of exhaustion.

• The third stage of GAS is exhaustion. The body becomes so depleted that the resistance stage cannot be maintained. In this stage we see wasting of muscle, suppression of the immune system, ulceration of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreatic disturbances. Looking at these 3 stages, it is easy to see how an unresolved emotional issue will continue to be a stressor if it remains hidden from our conscious awareness. The stressor remains unhealed and the body/brain system adapts for us so that we can get on with our lives. We remain completely unaware of what is really going on within us. That is of course, until our body lets us know! Our physical body is a powerful barometer of our emotional wellbeing when we listen to and feel its messages. It is our body that attempts to brings us back to the present moment with aches and pains, disease, tiredness and physical responses to people and situations. These subtle forms of reacting that stem from unresolved emotional issues have often been with us for so long we have no conscious memory of how they even came to be. These emotions with a more subtle reaction can be difficult to detect within ourselves. It is entirely possible to react from these subtle forms of emotion and be completely unaware of it. And nothing will take us out of the present moment more quickly than being in a reactive state and being unaware of it. We would like to change how we feel or respond to the situation but are unable to because we are reacting in the present moment from a past emotional memory. We are literally frozen in time, trapped in a long forgotten and entrenched pattern of reacting. Krebs (1998) tells us that events that happened to us as children are stored in our subconscious memory and that even though we have no recall of these events, they still have influence over us as adults because “…they have been encoded as implicit memory and are totally beyond your consciousness.” The power of Kinesiology, I find, is in being able to identify those un-

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resolved emotions that clients may be unaware of and bring them to conscious awareness. In my experience, this conscious awareness is very powerful, with clients feeling that they are in charge of their own emotional wellbeing. Knowing of, and being able to observe emotional reactions and responses, is a powerful tool in creating change in life. It pulls us out of being ‘in’ the emotional response and allows us to reflect and choose how to respond. And once we are observing ourselves and our emotions, rather than being ‘in’ them, we are responding to life and being present. We are living in the moment, able to choose our responses. We are then able to create the change we desire. When I ask my clients what they would like from their sessions in terms of their emotional wellbeing, the most common responses I get are happiness, inner peace, self confidence, success and improved relationships. Most people want their inner world to reflect these qualities and following Ghandi’s example this means being those qualities we desire. How can we do this though when we are reacting to life in fear based patterns of survival? With Kinesiology of course! The power of Kinesiology is in its ability to heal the cause of an issue. Using muscle testing, it is possible to identify the emotion that the subconscious mind is running on, which is then able to be shared with our clients. Using muscle testing and a data base of corrections, we are able to restore balance to the entire body/brain system so that responding to life is possible. Assisting clients to heal the past and become consciously aware of their emotional state in any given moment empowers them to choose their responses in the present moment and take responsibility for their emotional wellbeing. Kinesiology is a truly unique and powerful change agent with its ability to identify and heal the cause of emotional reactions and bring the body/brain system into balance. Once the reactive state has been healed it is possible to respond in the moment and create the change we want in our lives in each moment. And then it is possible, as Mahatma Ghandi suggests, to be the change we wish to see in our world. Penny Sarah, Dip.T., B.Ed., Dip.Kin., discovered Kinesiology when working as a teacher and found it a powerful tool for helping children learn. She left her teaching career and has been working with children and adults as a Kinesiologist for 10 years. Penny works and teaches Kinesiology from her clinics at Stonyfell and Dulwich. To contact her please phone 0432 446 591.

THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS In many cultures years ago the female was adored and worshipped just as much as the male god. Many artifacts have been unearthed of statues of the female form, all of these are very full breasted and large stomachs, certainly plenty of curves. In today’s society they would be considered extremely obese and even ugly as we females are indoctrinated with the ultra slim body that are so fashionable in today’s world. Centuries ago when we were tribal people the females were just as important in tribal life. The men hunted and protected their family while the women cared for them, when it came to the time to move on the men consulted the women who then had an intuitive get together and then told the men how many moons [days] they needed to travel and in which direction to the next good hunting grounds where they could stay for as long as they needed to. Over the years the female goddess was to become obsolete and the male god was all there is, yet we are told that we are made in the image of God. There is no wish to cause controversy here nor offense to anyone, it is just a very thinking thought. As to how or why this occurred the disempowerment of women occurred over the years. I can only presume yet it is evident it did happen. Today there is more and more female energy returning to mother earth at last which is empowering the females and bringing balance back again, for we desperately need the balance of the male and female energies which have been out of balance for so long. The majority of women are responding to the call for them to accept again and use their feminine energies not only for their family also for themselves and the benefit of our planet. What we call our psychic [soul] selves are emerging at a greater speed and the many women I have spoken to are agreeing it is happening to them and their friends. There are many men too who

are responding to the same call but they are reluctant to admit that they have a softer side to their nature due to the fact that the social image of a man has had to be a tough guy that did not cry even if badly hurt. Know the feeling men? Fallen out of the apple tree, broke a limb and dad says be a brave boy and do not cry. Thankfully there is not much of that attitude left in today’s world and men are discovering it's quite alright to openly show emotions. This is the female energy that balances the male which has been suppressed for so long. There are still areas in the world where the female is suppressed but for how long? The goddess energy will not be oppressed any longer for she is back to stay and women are beginning to get this awareness that they need to be what they truly are in their own right. Due to the way society and the individual's background has programmed us [our life lessons] often our thinking has been, I am not good enough, clever enough, stupid, and whatever else has been the put down we have gone through. Sound familiar? Now Females are being asked to take back what is rightfully theirs and accept that they are Beautiful Goddesses and are needed to use the female energy to help restore balance here.You may agree, you may not. it's your personal opinion, so why not just allow yourself to contemplate this if you disagree. If you agree then ask your inner self [soul] to help you open up more and more to this energy to say I am willing and watch the results you will be amazed. Blessings of love from God and Goddess. June Cox - is a Clairvoyant, spiritual healer and medium with a lifetime of experience, also specializing in life force energy healing, removing negative emotional blockages that inhibit spiritual growth. June presents beyond and back giving messages from the spirit world, proving life after death. Contact June on (08) 8277 0986

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RECLAIMING THE FUTURE - NEW VISIONS AND PROPHECIES FOR OUR WORLD Will the world end in 2012 and will spaceships or angels come to save those who have cleared all their karma and completed their ascension process? Well I do think the end of 2012 will be a little like the lead up to the Year 2K with outdated prophecies by Nostradamus and the Mayan Civilisation being rehashed regularly by the Media. I predicted Hurricane Katrina (within one week timing) and for 2008 the China Earthquakes and the recent Hurricanes on the East Coast of

USA. Now there isn’t huge Media interest in my predictions ever but I just want to say if I had died 500 years ago and my writings were recently discovered they would be dissected and I would be a famous dead prophet... ARE PROPHECIES ALWAYS CORRECT? Well, by the way in which they are received and recorded often certain things are changed slightly. I

often find my writings edited in magazines so what I see as vital is excluded or changed a little. Again sometimes the information is correct but it goes unreported as not significant in the media – I am sure this has happened to past prophets too! I once predicted banking problems in June 2007 – with banks withholding money. Well it happened on June 1 that year – all Westpac computers were down

when I went to withdraw some much needed cash. So all their customers were affected but only on that day – BUT it happened like this all month for me with credit cards and bank accounts not having the expected funds available – bank errors and delays were a regular part of my life. So I was glad I was a little forewarned and prepared at least. I believe individuals have the power to change their future – al-

though certain events will happen in their life they can change their future by their emotional response to situations. It’s harder to change the future for a group of very unhappy individuals and harder still for our damaged earth. Yes, the physical earth is alive – but would you like to be the earth? Well no! So wouldn’t you feel sick and throw up a Hurricane or crack up and create an earthquake occasionally?

You will note it's areas of great unrest and poverty that are often hardest hit by these events. You see humans affect our dear earth physically and energetically and by their emotional state. So the great challenge is how to heal and bring into peace all inhabitants of this earth THE WORLD IS ENDING Yes, like a frail elderly person on life support we can’t make this world live much longer so some of the Mayan Prophecies were correct there and these are the end times for the earth! But we know there is an afterlife – aren’t their enough mediums in the world who have proved that? So what if the world was simply to be allowed to pass peacefully into the light? It sounds scary but just as we all die so eventually will the earth. This process started December 20 last year, will accelerate in 2013 and will be complete by 2050. LIVING IN LIGHT IN 2013 So I don’t believe the earth will end with a nuclear holocaust, or we will all starve slowly to death. But we need to accept the world is changing its physical form and to prepare to live in a world with different physical laws. Our souls are divine and so are we – and so is the earth. So you need to connect to your soul and the soul of the earth in meditation. As you develop this connection you will always be in the right place at the right time. In 2013 many will wake up one day and realise the big shift has happened and will see light everywhere on earth. It will be smooth and easy if you are already meditating and working with Light, but for most they will see no change for several years. SOME WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR 2009 An increase in violence in South Africa. An increase in deaths from AIDS and a new form of AIDS emerges. In mid 2009 the focus will be on central Africa as another massacre occurs like in Rwanda. Ongoing droughts and starvation will see world assistance mobilised but not effective enough. China will have a much quieter year with just a few small tremors and no major earthquakes. Floods and storms affect Florida and New York next September but not a major hurricane. Mild to moderate Earthquakes in southern areas of USA in October. Major Earthquakes in Turkey end of July or August. Australia will continue to be the Lucky and Safe Country but with economic challenges our focus. ELISABETH JENSEN is a trance channel for many Angels and Divinities including the Egyptian Goddess Isis and Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet. You will find more helpful articles on her website www.isismysteryschool.com

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Spiritual Activism Continued from page 9 is, what is driving us at such a deep level to keep running away from that pain? So much in our lives is about avoiding that deep and seemingly unbearable pain of separation. It becomes evident in so many different ways. It might show up as avoiding the wound of rejection by trying to create the opposite – wanting desperately to belong and thus covering up the pain of not belonging and being abandoned. It might show up as pleasing everybody, so you feel accepted and liked by everybody, so you don’t have to feel the pain of rejection. It might show up as an attitude of “fuck you”, I don’t need anybody – because I don’t want to face the pain of feeling so utterly helpless and dependant. It might show up as the need to be successful so people can admire and acknowledge you, so you don’t have to feel the pain of not being seen – the excruciating pain of humiliation. It might show up in dysfunctional and unhappy relationships, where you hold onto each other; and yet out of fear of loosing security and safety, are unable to let go, and at the same time hate being with each other. It might show up in being a workaholic, so you don’t have to feel the pain of not being loved for who you really are – and in its place you are only being loved and seen if you generate excellent achievements. As one can see the wounds and hurts can show up in so many ways, unique to each of us. We’ll do anything to avoid that pain. It reminds us of a state of helplessness when we were small babies, powerless in the times when nobody was there for us. It was too much to bear that hurt when our needs were not met. Our ego and personality structure came into existence and created strategies to avoid that pain. We needed those strategies to survive often impossible and unbearable situations. Now we are grown up we still need these strategies for survival, using the power of the mind to gain a sense of control. But as necessary as this sometimes is, it covers up the deep pain of separation that is at the core of our being. And nobody is alone in this – we all have the same pain. Yet as human beings we all deeply long for oneness; we all deeply long for “coming home”, for being at peace with ourselves and the world around us.

KEY: FEEL YOUR FEELINGS And here is one of the keys to our inner treasure: The access to oneness, serenity, harmony and peace is through feeling that pain of separation. And even more surprising, once you dare to let yourself feel it, you will find in the centre of that pain there is timeless eternal unconditional Love waiting for you. The more you hide the pain and compensate for it, the more confused and lost you will feel. The way out is in: Allow yourself to feel your feelings. And then slowly learn to share your feelings in a re-

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THE KEY: OPENING OUR HEARTS So how do we open our hearts after years of shutting down and playing safe? It needs practice and it needs courage. Just as we develop awareness and mindfulness through meditation, so we can develop heart-fullness by paying attention to our hearts, and listening within. Allowing ourselves to feel all that is in us slowly but surely gives us room to open up. Acceptance of what is there creates a true ground for experiencing our feelings. To allow our fears and hurts to speak to us enables a much deeper sense of compassion and empathy. In the end, and paradoxically, I don’t think that you can change anything inside, and make yourself a “better” person. In my experience of 35 years of intense self-exploration and therapy, I find that actually nothing really has changed; yet I have found a grounded place to accept myself in my fullness. That means with all my difficulties and all my gifts, with the darkness and the light. The personality or ego is still there functioning in its own way, yet it has lost its charge. And with it left all its hostility and darkness behind. It just is as it is. Through acceptance I have a ground to stand on, a ground that is not entangled with the ego, but embracing all that I am with love and compassion. I often just sit for 15 minutes and put my hand on my heart and allow myself to open up to feelings. I give myself permission for any feelings, not only the “good “ ones. Without effort or pressure, slowly my heart and its sensations and feelings start to reveal themselves. Slowly I learn to really trust my feelings and see that they are not so threatening as I thought they would be, and learn to deal with them gracefully. As a result I can see that this approach to my spiritual activism and involvement has changed my life. I am more open to my feelings and less blaming of others. The more I am in touch with my own heart the more I can feel the heart of others. This creates peace instead of polarization. At the core of spiritual activism is the notion that when I am connected with my heart, I am acting in honesty and transparency with the whole. If everybody would be transparent and open there would be no need, no possibility, to hide anymore. We would learn to trust instead of hiding and performing. What you put out is what you receive back. The universe is an echo system. If my heart is truly compassionate it will be reflected; if it is closed that will immediately be felt and reflected by the world too. Spiritual activism starts right inside my heart and inside my being. The change we want to see in the world has to start right inside me.

ALL THE BARRIERS ARE ON MY SIDE. What is separating me from you is Continued on page 36

The Way of the Awakened Heart

Simply put, spiritual awakening occurs through persistent conscious recognition of the divine presence within. Conscious awareness of the Now leads directly to the awakened heart or Self Realisation, a significant step on the road to enlightenment. In this state you are master of your own universe, but what does that really mean and how do you go about achieving it? Recently I was asked to facilitate a workshop for the Eckankar Australian seminar, the title was, Personal Keys to Enrich Your Everyday Life. Leading up to this event, life was showing me that my greatest teacher was indeed experience herself as usual. I was faced with a series of challenging times at work, placed in a dysfunctional self-managing team environment. This experience set up a bigger challenge; to find simple, practical solutions in my daily life to lift me above the clash of personalities, the constant bickering, the open hostility between people and the habitual gossiping. How does a person focussed on spiritual growth deal with situations such as these in a balanced and uplifting way? The above experience unknown to me at the time was just what I needed. I learned to become emotionally detached but not aloof. It is the opposite of denial or suppression of emotions. It meant accepting the situation at work and the accompanying feelings associated with it for what they were. Then learn to appreciate the unfolding lessons knowing they would eventually give birth to a greater expression of spiritual freedom. I needed to give the people involved personal space or inner freedom to do their ‘thing’ even though I didn’t agree with them. This meant learning to practice the Law of Non-Interference. By learning to give people psychic space you in turn give yourself inner freedom. The operative word for me at

the time was learning. A major key to living life centred in the present moment is mastering the art of acceptance. Acceptance as a process is extremely powerful. It allows us to cut through the human mind’s propensity to cast forth past and future projections of what allegedly should have been or of what should be expected in the future. Past and future conditions are illusions that we often unconsciously fall into rather than accepting the Now. Future and past are non-real events aligned only to the time track continuum of duality located in worlds of time, space and matter. The time-space continuum is only a very narrow spectrum of reality in comparison to the whole of reality. To enable us to let go of illusions or to broaden our perspective on reality, we look to the numenon or non-dual reality of the present moment. A preliminary stage of enlightenment is reached through contemplating and realising the existence of the ‘I AM’. Acceptance of the ‘I Am’ state or Soul Consciousness brings us into the hereness, isness and nowness of life. An enriched spiritual life, it first begins by acceptance of what IS, or put simply, by allowing the non-dual reality of Soul to be the foundation of life every moment of every day. As we practice accepting life as a series of ‘nows’ a universal reality emerges. We cross the bridge from the human condition to permanent awareness of our divine nature. In this heightened state life’s challenges transform into opportunities that have the potency to propel us into a continuous spiritual adventure. The dual worlds are not disregarded as some would advocate, they are recognised for what they truly are, waking dream worlds where our present state of acceptance is mirrored in the world

around us. Life communicates with us, through us and within us as in a multi-dimensional dream world. Our spiritual eye opens; we behold simple coincidences as one of the many ways the Master Power communicates with us to teach us its ways. For example, random sentences spoken by a passing stranger suddenly stand out to us and become golden tongued wisdom, giving us the exact information or insight we need at precisely the exact moment. Every awakened moment becomes a valuable opportunity to connect more completely with the Source of All. A truck drives passed with a sign on the side that tells us something important about our health. The world opens up to us like never before. With our spiritual eye opened we see the wonder and awe of life and the part we play in it. By accepting unconditionally, all that life offers, we swiftly unfold into our highest ideals. One of those is SelfRealisation and being a co-worker with the Master Power It should be no surprise to us that life in the dual worlds eventually brings plenty of adversity, one of the fruits of spiritual purification. Through adversity we become skilled at accepting and facing up to life’s biggest challenges, discovering ways to resolve them. In short we learn to let go of the ego and rely upon our inner nature. This is how spiritual strength is born. It leads to spiritual freedom, total inner trust and reliance on the Master Power or Holy Spirit to supply our spiritual needs. Truth casts no shadows. It has always been standing before us. We had only forgotten how to see it. So we adopt the ‘I Am’ point of view, we look to the purity of the Self, for the wisdom to lessen our karmic load. No matter where we are on the lifespan, we have our personal weak points that need

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strengthening. By facing up to life’s challenges we diminish the ego. We awaken the reality of the present moment. Now is the only reality. All else is illusion or Maya of the mind. The true spiritual awakening begins with Self Realisation gained through purification. It leads to God Realisation, the full awakening of the heart to divine love, wisdom and power, where we become a co-worker with God. What do we do to allow this to occur? How do we adopt the Soul point of view and live in the present moment? How do we step into the impersonal self to diminish our karmic burdens and experience life without doubts or fears? For nearly 30 years Eckankar’s contemplative spiritual exercises have worked for me. They continue to help me to live a spiritually balanced life. Most of that time has been spent tuning into the audible life current, Spirit, for 30 minutes a day, facing up to the truth within, dealing with past life and present karma, and then realising the I AM quality within on a moment to moment basis. When one commits to the enlightened life, all experiences, are designed to lead you back to what is commonly known in the western world as Soul consciousness, our essential beingness. In the east this essential spark of Divine consciousness is known as the Atman or Jiva. When the Divine Self is realised, it is expressed by having sure inner direction. One develops an openness and ability to surrender fears and concerns to the direction of the Master Power, the Holy Spirit or Inner Master. One then knows how to trust his own heart and inner perception. The mind no longer interferes with our perceptions or creates doubt because a Self-Realised person is no longer controlled by the mind. Self Realisation is the first major step in spiritual unfoldment. A more significant and final phase is known as God Realisation recognized in the East as Nirvikalpa, the state of total at-onement with the object of contemplation, namely the God Power. It’s not surprising that the person who commits to living in the now seeking Self Realisation and God Realisation travels the way of the Awakened Heart. The Soul becomes a vehicle for the God Power. Spiritual unfoldment centred upon that translates into becoming more loving; you simply bring more love, passion and grace into life for all to share. If you want to see, hear, feel and move within the heartbeat of God in a spiritually balanced way, I recommend you begin the journey by attending the workshop, Self Realisation -The Way of The Awakened Heart. With personal dedication and commitment it is possible to attain enlightenment in this lifetime. You can learn the art of following your own path back to the Source of all life today.

The Way of the Awakened Heart Saturday 24 January 2009 1:30 – 4:30 pm To awaken to the truth of our divine nature totally transforms our life. The first step to God Consciousness, known as Self Realisation, is a major entry point into the Higher Worlds of God. This workshop will explore just what it is to live as Soul and how to awaken the Heart Presented by Nigel Bell. Nigel is a High Initiate and teacher in Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God, and is deeply interested in the awakening process.

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HOLIDAYS WITH A DIFFERENCE Spiritual Activism Continued from page 34

Empowering Women through Travel The happy, excited faces of the six women as they embarked on the Sacred Feminine Tour of Europe 2008 were a familiar sight to us. As guides on our fourth European tour, seeing their anticipation of visiting some of the most spectacular places on Earth, to experience things only previously read about in books or seen on TV, was tangible. An opportunity to have fun with a small group and to be fully supported, living life NOT just reading about it, was about to begin. We knew that delights awaited them in the great cities of the world and because we were such a small group, even though there were some sights we didn’t want to miss, we could go with the flow of the moment and take time to soak up the atmosphere and energies of wherever we were. There was a sense of excitement about visiting some magnificent healing places, such as bathing in the sacred waters at Lourdes in southern France. Dr. Masuro Emoto in his book ‘the Messages in Water’ says this water is filled with fervent prayer and love and has a very powerful healing energy. We remembered from previous visits the sensations of the energy, the cleansing and the opening of our hearts, the experience profound and life changing. The after-hours access visit to Stonehenge, where we sent our love into the Earth and experienced a clean powerful feminine energy. Visiting Glastonbury, steeped in Goddess culture, climbing the Tor - the ancient Isle of Avalon, drinking from the healing waters of Chalice Wells and the possibility of discovering a Crop Circle. We had been very fortunate in both previous tours to sit in the very centre. 2007’s circle had been very fresh - only 2 days old. There was also a sense of uncertainty from some of the women. Many had not been outside Aus-

tralia, whilst others had travelled extensively. However we trusted from experience that after a short time they would bond and become comfortable with the travelling process. They had all come together with one common theme - they wanted to travel the world yet didn’t want to go alone and the thought of joining a large bus tour and being herded around like sheep didn’t appeal . Some were divorced, others widowed, some with partners who didn’t want to travel, some single. Fortunately women are taking control of their lives and fulfilling their lifetime dreams, with or without a partner. We knew that this tour was a very empowering and wondrous growing experience which broadened horizons, and opened minds. We have had amazing positive feedback from our previous travellers. Travelling, although exciting, can be challenging. Our experience from previous years though, confirmed for us that when a group of women come together and support and encourage each other, magic and miracles can occur. The 2008 trip didn’t disappoint – life changing experiences happened and friendships developed that will potentially last forever. Roll on 2009! Mary Hamilton-Smith and Sandy Walker have been running tours since 2005 as an extension to their ground-breaking Personal Development Workshops, Seven Paths to Personal Power and Chrysalis, which they have run for the last 8 years. Passionate about supporting woman, the trips are another avenue in this support. Next 21 days tour departs May 1 st 2009 to Singapore-Rome-FlorenceVenice-Paris-Lourdes-LondonSouth West England –GlastonburyStonehenge. Ph 08)70014003 www.orionwomentravel.com or www.orionwomen4women.com

my wall; my beliefs, my righteousness, my victimhood or my unwillingness to take responsibility for my actions. As long as I can see my unique way of building separation, I can recognize why I need to blame the other for my unhappiness, thus owning my feelings instead of creating war or disruption on the outside. We have to face our inner struggle, our inner saboteur, terrorist or tyrant, before we can truly bring peace to the world, and make a true change. It takes courage and tremendous willingness to own all our feelings and not make others responsible for them. It is a challenge not to blame the outer manifestations but instead to face our inner demons and darkness. But only through this inner transformation can we authentically live a life of spiritual activism and unity. Once our heart awakens we can experience a greater power and knowing of our infinite potential. Once we experience our true nature all the old restrictions fade away and reveal our divinity. Then this becomes a simple part of our everyday existence. Our heart, once it is open, connects us to the heart of the world and thus we can step into being the guardian of this beautiful planet and take up our global responsibility with humility and love. This is the time! Never before are so many people waking up and preparing for this enormous collective shift. This is the time, now is the moment. Turiya Hanover takes a radical approach to the personal and social problems of our present time, bringing spiritual activism to a whole new level of global involvement through simple but extremely powerful principles. She has been leading The “Path Of Love” process in Australia and worldwide for many years, (www.pathoflove.net) and has thirty-five years experience in a range of healing modalities including Trauma Solutions, Counseling, Family Constellations, Leadership Training, Enneagram and the Diamond Essence Work. Contact Details for Turiya Hanover and the Path of Love Process: 02 66847935 or 0432291913 australia@pathoflove.net www.pathoflove.net

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Adelaide Cosmic Pages - Major mind, body and spirit bookstore; 338-340 King William St, Adelaide. Phone 8231 9105. Bliss Organic Café - Organic, fairtrade, music art, lifestyle; 7 Compton Street, Adelaide. Phone 8231 0205. New Dimensions Bookshop - Alternative philosophies bookshop sice 1968, 310 South Tce Adelaide. Phone 8223 4877. Sagarmatha Souvenirs - Wonderful range of Nepali gifts & spiritual artifacts; 13 Hindley Street, Adelaide. Phone 8410 8733 1920 Boutique - Shop 22, Adelaide Arcade SA 5000. Phone Melissa on 0418 891 967

Foodwise - Full supply of organic produce; 7 Jetty Road Largs Bay. Phone 8242 7882.

Beverley Natalie’s Total Beauty Care - 654 Port Rd, Beverley SA. Phone 8244 8270.

Cheltenham Linda Brook - Reading, healing, reiki, pastlife & massage; 25 High Street, Cheltenham. Phone 8240 0864.

Christies Beach Yoga To Health - Yoga Classes & Workshops. Phone Louise Wiggins on 8386 0571.

Clarence Park Body Revive Vibrosaun and Massage Therapy Centre. 53 East Ave, Clarence Pk. Phone 8351 5000.

Crafers West Simple Meditation Centre - Linda & David Clair, meditation, counselling. 66 Emmett Rd, Crafers West. Phone 8339 7848.

Glen Osmond Adelaide Hills Natural Health Centre - Quality, Experienced Naturpathic Services. Abergeldie House Holistic Centre, 548 Portrush Rd, Glen Osmond. Phone 8338 2620 Organic to Go. Cafe and Food store. 365a + 363b Glen Osmond Rd, Glen Osmond. Phone 8379 2131.

Glenelg The Organic Store - Certified organic fruit & veg & groceries. 37 Broadway, Glenelg. Phone 8295 7767.

Goodwood The Eternal Spirit - Retail Shop & Healing Centre; 100 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood. Phone 8271 9666.

Greenacres SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre - Reiki, metaphysical and crystal shop; 55 Fosters Road, Greenacres. Phone 8266 3276.

Hamley Bridge Wolfmoon - Native American products, incense, Reiki. 7 Light St., Hamley Bridge. Phone 8528 2266 or 0488 776 706.

Kensington Park Rainbowtree - organic baby products including clothing, toys, modern cloth nappies and slings. Fiona House Kahuna Bodywork, Holistic Massage, Polarity Therapy, SCIO Bio-feedback

Pt Adelaide The Answer Within. Alternative Health & Lifestyle Studio. 9 Timpson St, Pt Adelaide. Phone 0403 850 619 or 8447 3158.

Pt Augusta Alternative Choices - Incense, Crystals, Singing Bowls, Books, Jewellery. Phone 8641 0251. 140 Carlton Parade, Pt Augusta.

Magill A Life Abundant - For all your health needs; 587 Magill Road, Magill. Phone 8333 3144.

Meadows

Isis Dimensions - Wholistic Healing, spiritual workshops / retreats for women, men & children; www.numberswork.com. Phone 8370 3509

Nirvana Massage & Piercing Studio - Reflexology, Therapeutic Massage & Body Piercing. Shop 9, 81 Prospect Rd, Prospect. Phone 8344 8850

Lobethal

B & D Farm Paris Creek P/L - Producers of organic bio/dynamic milk, yogurt, quark, butter & cheeses; www.bdfarmpariscreek.com.au; Phone 8388 3339.

Belair

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Heart of the Hills Market - Food, treasures, arts & crafts. 1 Lobethal Rd, Lobethal. Phone 8389 5615.

Aldinga Beach

Phoenix Rising Healing Centre Healings, Meditations, Readings, Workshops. 675 Grange Rd.Grange. Phone 0411 034 177.

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Largs Bay

Marie's Crystal Cave. New Age store. Corner of Shephard Rd and Gordon St Aldinga Beach. Phone Marie on 8556 5692.

Grange

and Food Mentoring 0416 473 163 Sue Upton - Sports/Remedial and Relaxation Massage, Aromatherapy and Pregnancy Massage 0420 241 851. 320 Magill Road, Kensington Park phone 8332 8733

Mile End Move into Harmony - Louise Taylor Vibration, Polarity, Craniosacral Therapy, Shiatsu Massage & Foot Reflexology; Suite 4, 224 to 226, South Road, Mile End. Phone 8354 4196.

Moonta Bay Soul Radiance – Healings, meditation, workshops. Phone - Jenny 0408930991

Morphett Vale Back To Basics - Kathleen Smith. 188B Main South Rd, Morphett Vale. Phone 8186 4433.

Newton Go Vita - Go get health, go stay healthy; Shop 20, 299 Montacute Road, Newton. Phone 8337 9818.

Pt Elliot Authenticity Health Retreat - Rest, relax, rejuvenate at authenticity; 1432 Waterport Rd, Pt Elliot. Phone 8554 2088

Pt Pirie Beauty for You - Full range of beauty services, therapeutic massage, Bowen Therapy. 23 Alexander St., Pt Pirie. Phone Natalie on 8632 6505.

Semaphore Ocean Organic Therapies - Remedial Massage - Health & Wellbeing therapies. Rebecca Barter. 103a Semaphore Rd, Semaphore. Phone 0419 819 653.

Smithfield In Balance Health and Wellness Centre. 39 Anderson Walk, Smithfield. 7380 0045 or www.inbalancehealthventre.com.au over 30 different therapies available.

Stepney Sagarmatha Restaurant - Delicious, authentic Nepali cuisine; 62-64 Payenham Road, Stepney. Phone 8363 6291

Stirling

Adelaide Training College of Complementary Medicine - Natural Therapy college, products & services; 3/297 Montacute Road, Newton. Phone 8365 0811.

Vital Harmony - Experience the Vital Harmony of the Adelaide Hills, 13 Druids Ave, Stirling. Phone 8370 8557.

Norwood

The Old Market Shed - Health food, fruit and vegetables; 9 Dawson St Strathalbyn. Phone 8536 3777.

AMCAL Pharmacy Norwood - Shop 12, 161-169 The Parade. Phone 8332 1085. Healthy Life Norwood - Natural Health food store; Coles Norwood Mall, (164 Rear), The Parade Norwood. Phone 8332 1085.

Strathalbyn

Tanunda The Sanctuary Health and Healing Centre - 106 Murray Street, Tanunda. Telephone (08) 8563 0388 or visit www.thesanctuaryhealingcentre.com.au

Noarlunga

Torrensville

Earth Magic - Unique Meaningful new-age gifts; Shop 111, Colonades Shopping Centre, Noarlunga. Phone 8382 0811.

Blend Body care Urban Retreat. Aromatherapy products & treatment services. 26 Huntriss St Torrensville. Phone 8354 2006.

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Tranmere

YouYa Collections - Beautiful ingredients to enrich life: high quality loose teas, natural body and skin care products, artwork and gifts... Shop 7/152 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide. Phone 8361 6866.

Spiritual Visions - Clairvoyant Crystal Practitioner and Workshops. Shop 22, 172 Glynburn Rd, Tranmere. Phone 0428 523 900

Romeo’s Organics - North Adelaide Village. 71-79 O’Connel St, Nth Adelaide. Phone 8361 9150

O'Halloran Hill Sue's Place for Nails & Astrology Charts. Sue Hooley. 5 Paul Court, O'Halloran Hill. Phone 8381 9442.

Orroroo The Orroroo Medicine Shop - Vitamins, Herbal Products, Pharmaceuticals & Gifts. 10 Second St, Orroroo.

Plympton Julie’s Bodycare - Massage, Reiki, Numerology, Past Life Therapy. 57B Bray St, Plympton Pk. Phone 8371 4311 or 0412 348 249

Prospect Balance & Beyond - Readings, Gifts, Energy work, Workshops; at 80a Prospect Rd, Prospect. Ph. 0408 172 356 or visit

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Welland Ceramica 2000 - 76 Grange Rd, Welland. Phone Barbara on 8346 6653.

Whyalla Divinely Guided Therapies. Whyalla's healing centre. Workshops, angel miracles, Isis Healing, Bpwen Therapy, Massage, Crystals, Books,cards, candles and more.Shop 5, 77/79 Essington Lewis Ave. Whyalla. Phone 0423 873 746.

Willunga Duck Inn Cafe - Organic Coffee, Good food. 8a Hill St, Willunga. Ph: 8556 2822

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Get Reconnected with a range of healing, readings & massage options available now at Genesis Healing Centre, 37 Beckman St, Glandore. For more information phone 8297 7703 or visit www.genesishealing.com.au

Discovering your True Self Nature,empowers and heals relationships. Create fulfilling life experiences with Compassion and Awareness. Ph;Robbie 08 8556 2450

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COMPANIONSHIP Spiritual/Psychicly aware female 40’s interested in meeting like-minded male & female, share information & experiences. The spiritual path can be a lonely one. Karen 8254 2942

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES Need Insurance? Join the IICT for Australia’s Lowest Price for Membership and Discounted Practitioner Insurance Package covering all your modalities under the one banner. Membership Benefits include: 400 plus Modalities. Welcome to Join; Advertising Opportunities, Discount Insurance plus Practitioner Directory. To find out how you can benefit visit: www.iict.com.au or call: 1300 653 981 Bowen, Massage, Myofascial Release, Reflexology, Detox Foot Spa. Magill. www.bowen2massage.com.au Call 1300 884 782

Open Healing/Reading Day held Bimonthly. Alternative healing includes Reiki, Massage, Shiatsu etc. SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre (nonprofit) 55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone 8266 3276.

HEALTH & HEALING Asian Remedial Therapy. Acupressure (No needles!), Shiatsu,Reflexology. Remedial Therapies that get results! Great rates, Flexible hours, Health Fund rebates. Marion, Mobile and Corporate. tony@waytobetterhealth.com.au or call/text 0414 516 165 Wise and Healthy Intuitive Reading and Planning, for Chronoic Illness specialising in Chronic Fatigue and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome. Phone 8240 5648. STOP STRUGGLING. Private Subconscious-mind Healing (P.S.H.) has helped many people with problems such as: addictions, anxiety, low selfesteem and many other stress-related problems. To achieve permanent inner healing, gently Phone P.S.H. Therapists Leaona Hamood 0419 037 830 or Michael Oster 0411 174 110 for an appointment Many people only require from 1-4 sessions Constipation, Bowel Health Problems, digestion, elimination info. www.qkbowelhealth.com We have over 30 different Therapies, Workshops and Classes, set in very relaxing surroundings. Our practitioners come with years of experience and are very passionate about their work. 39 Anderson Walk, Smithfield Ph: 8254 6778. Gifts, CD’s, Crystals, Books and lots more. We care about YOU ! www.inbalancehealthcentre.com.au Massage Certificate Courses. Start a new career with our 5 & 10 day Intensives. Please Call 1800 987 987 for Free info kit www.brandonraynor.com

HOME SERVICES Saver Painting. Home and commercial. Environment Friendly. Free prompt quotes. Pensioner discount. “We care.” Ph mobile 0415 514 122.

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A new centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling in Pt Adelaide. Navigation through Life. For an appointment ph 0438 509 207

Want to understand Iridology? Announcing “The Integrated Iridology Fundamentals Flashbook”. 64 full colour pages. Photos and explanations. $44. (02) 4358 1234 www.iridologyonline.com

COURSES 8 week Course - 7 February to 28 March 2009, Kundalini Dance workshop 13 December and 11 April. Saturdays 3-5pm at The Centre OM, City. Bookings - Susan Howlett on 0403 318 683 earthstar@chariot.net.au

DRUMMING The Percussion House Team presents...African Drumming Workshops - 6 week course commencing soon, drums supplied, suit all levels incl beginners.Great for body, mind and spirit.Information - phone Rusty on 0400 761 392, or visit www.thepercussionhouse.com.au

EMPLOYMENT Telephone salesperson required, experienced or school-leaver trainee position available selling advertising for InnerSelf Newspaper, from our office at Highbury. Phone 8396 6752.

GIFTS Fantastic range of Balinese style homewares and garden decor direct from the importer. Uplift yourself and your surrounds, visit www.batu.com.au or phone (02) 9526 6401

JEWELLERY Beadz N Jewelz for all your beading supplies,tools,crystals,gemstones,custom made jewellery & tiaras,dichroic & lampwork glass,& much much more. 4 Roder Court St Agnes 5097, ph 8395 3195 or visit www.beadznjewelz.com.au

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Pame Price – IB Coaching Counselling, Conflict Management, Career Development, Reiki, healing, general wellness programs. Ph 0419038434. ibc@ibcoaching.com.au Free Monthly ezine - www.ibcoaching.com.au

MEDITATION 10-day in Silence - Vipassana meditation retreat in Victor Harbour Decem– 23 rd 2008 ber 12 th www.dhamma.org.au / 8278 8278

NEW CONSCIOUSNESS A call to awaken. Step beyond past limitations into your full divine expression. Classes now in Adelaide. www.divinecreators.com.au. New

Consciousness Teacher, Keryn Lee. 0408 857 620

ORGANICS Organic Food Store & Cafe. At Wild Thyme, we believe wholeheartedly in safe, seasonal and sustainable organic food. When you shop or dine at Wild Thyme, you have made a choice to support local farmers, manufacturers who support fair trade and people who believe real food is essential to our wellbeing. Open 7 days. 101-103 Melbourne St North Adelaide. 83618888 www.wildthyme.net.au

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Courses available with Listening Ears Services. Weekend Retreats, Reiki Level 1to Master/teacher, Numerology, Tarot, Phone Pame 0882421783 email listears1@chariot.net.au, www.listeningears.net

PRANIC HEALING Treat physical and emotional ailments through Pranic Healing. Treating the cause not just the symptoms. Private readingsalso available. contact TJ at Life Inspirations on 8254 1453 or 0413 590 106.

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SA Reiki Healing and Teaching Centre. (Est 1990) non-profit assoc. & Metaphysical & Crystal Shop. Great range of crystals, Feng Shui products, Cards, books, music, gifts. Healing every Wednesday & Friday – Donation only. Reiki classes and various workshops held regularly at 55 Fosters Road, Greenacres. For more info – Phone: (08) 8266 3276. Free Report Reveals... "The Shocking Truth About Colloidal Silver" Call Now 08 9368 0288 For Your Free Copy, Please Quote Ref# Ismm A Life Abundant. Stocking a huge range for your body and soul; from vitamins to crystals to practitioners. Visit www.alifeabundant.com.au or come see us at 587 Magill Road, Magill. Ph: 8333 3144. Belle Fleur Lavender - Australia’s premium natural lavender skincare range of products, includung gift packs. Wholesale and retail available. www.bellefleurlavender.com.au

PSYCHICS Tarot/Clairvoyant readings – Psychic Development Group vacancy – Spirit Guide Meditation CDs for sale $25.00 Authorized Marriage Celebrant. Tel: (08) 8376 9090 Liz / Fred Welling (Glenelg) Master Psychic Medium. 98% accu-

rate. 38 years experrience. I can come to you. $30.00 per. Phone: 0433 145 110 Accurate Psychic Tarot/Phone readings. Spiritual Guidings, any issue. Theta Healing, Remove Fears/Blockages. Heal from the past. Carolyn 0438 790 641 Clairvoyant/Psychic, Medium, Tarot, Angel Cards etc. www.magicalvisions.com Genuine Medium. 20 years experience Australia and Internationally. Strong clear readings, personal or business. In person (Melbourne), phone, email. Ian Rogers 0412 432 398 iproger@bigpond.net.au

PSYCHIC FAIRS Psychic Fair at the Medicine Wheel. Body workers, readers etc etc etc. November 22 & 23, 11-5pm. Cnr Newton & Hambledon Rds, Campbelltown. Phone 8336 2323

Rebirthing a transformational journey. In historic Gawler, with Sue Marshall, Breathwork Practitioner. Enquiries welcome, 85 221 848. More information, www.australianbreathworkassociation.org.au

REIKI ARC Inc. Australian Reiki Connection. Australia’s Leading REIKI Association Est. 1997 - Run by Members for Members with fellowship and support. Access to Insurance. FREE Membership of [AARP] Association Australian Reiki Professionals National Referral Directory. Discounts on Massage Tables, Music CD’s Salt lamps. Informative website & Forum ARC INK Quarterly Magazine. SA State Rep. Christine Sinclair Ph. 0411 604 753 National ph 1300 130 975 www.australianreikiconnection.com.au

READINGS Reading Day. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month. $20 per 30 minutes. Professional readers. For bookings phone SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre (non-profit)55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone (08) 8266 3276

SA Reiki Healing and Teaching Centre (est 1990) non-profit ossoc. Reiki I & II classes and various workshops held regularly. 55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone (08) 8266 3276.

Secret Numerology. Learn how to use the gifts you have to create the life you deserve. Ph 0433 930 011 email helen@stoneartists.com.au Hand written chart with 1/2 hr consult $80

Practitioners needed to share new clinic in Woodville area. Phone 8346 0478.

PRIVATE READINGS with Donna. Acclaimed and Experienced Clairvoyant/ Intuitive; Lifepath Readings; Tarot, Aura, Channelling, Numerology & Psychometry. Ph: 0409 099 948 Northern Sydney. By Appointment.

REBIRTHING Rebirthing is a safe, simple breathing technique that can change your life. Rebirthing/ Breathwork uses the breath to activate, release and heal stored cellular memory. Ideal to use when you want your life to change. The Australian Academy of Rebirthing/ Breathwork verifies the integrity and professionalism of the following members. Susan Altschwager - Birkenhead (08) 8449 2534 Trevor Applebee - Mawson Lakes 0418 836 261 Bronwyn Barter - Mawson Lakes (08) 8260 2086 Elise Carr - Allenby Gardens 0417809198 Jillian Trowbridge - Geranium 0408 813 401 Veronica Reinders - Mt. Pleasant 0438 880 894 Kate Moody - Adelaide 0439 995 730 Angela Mcpherson - Salisbury Heights (08) 8258 4433 Gabby Enright - Seacombe Gardens (08) 8377 2415

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Practitioners, we have quality rooms to rent. Also conference workshop room. Phone 8254 6778. debbie@inbalancehealthcentre.com.au New holistic medical practice on Melbourne Street North Adelaide requires professional health practitioners as contractors. Please call George 0402 110 775. The Answer Within. Consultation rooms, Studio and large areas for hire in Port Adelaide. Contact Penny for more information on 84473158

SPIRITUAL TRAVEL Womens Sacred Tour of Europe 2009. Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Crop Circles, Lourdes, Mind Body Spirit Festival London, Rome, Florence Venice, Paris. www.orionwomentravel.com ph 08) 70014003

SPIRITUALITY Know Thyself as Soul Foundation. Sant Mat is a practical spiritual path based on meditation, ethical living, service to others and love for all creation. Its goal is to enable the soul to return to and merge with its source; the purpose of human life described by mystics of all traditions. Discipline and dedication are essential, as is the help of a competent living Master. Entry is via a preparation program. There is no

charge at any stage. For further info call 1800 462 193 or visit www.santmat.net.au. Searching for Truth? The teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg will provide you with many helpful insights. Call 0298881066 or write to Swedenborg Centre, 1 Avon Road, North Ryde, 2113 for free book/info pack.

TAI CHI Taoist Tai Chi taijiquan internal arts of health. Beginners classes: North Adelaide, Kurralta Park, Adelaide and the hills. 0423776955 www.taoist.org.au

WORKSHOPS Channeling, Spiritual Healing, Tarot and Psychic Development. To be the inspiration of our own destiny from Our Higher Self, Angelic Wisdom and Spirit, we build the bridges to know, see, hear and feel their power in love and light. Serenity Training 8337 7081 www.serenitytraining.com.au

WORSHIP SERVICES You are invited to an ECK Worship Service on the first Sunday of each month. Each service focuses on an aspect of Eckankar, featuring a reading from the ECK works, singing HU, talks, and a group discussion of spiritual principles at work in everyday life. The service lasts about an hour. Attendance is free. Join others seeking to bring more insight and divine love into their lives at this special celebration of the Light and Sound of God. There is an opportunity afterwards to enjoy a chat and some light refreshments, and to meet new (or old) like-minded friends. Held at Payneham Community Centre, 374 Payneham Rd Payneham. Phone 8388 8891 or 8396 1379. Free HU CD for every newcomer. Visit www.eckankar.org

YOGA At Burnside. Gentle, easy and supportive classes to help you gradually improve fitness and remove stress. Phone Linda Veale on (08) 8337 6763.

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ZEN CHI STIMULATES THE FLOW OF OXYGEN THROUGHOUT THE BODY For a healthy body and stress free exercise just put aside 15 minutes morning and/or evening – zen chi is a passive exercise machine stimulating the flow of oxygen throughout the body – it relieves tension and stress – digestive imbalance – insomnia – is a proven technique for the relief of fluid retention, varicose veins, diabetes, when swaying back and forth the movement relieves stress and tension on the spinal column and is a no impact form of exercise – a fantastic machine to assist in the function of internal organs(increases your metabolic rate) - you just lie there and breathe normally – a glass of watch before use helps to detoxify the body and a glass afterwards is great for lymphatic drainage start your exercise with 5 minutes and increase to 15 minutes – when you are finished lie still and accept the wonderful relaxing feeling that takes over the body creating totally oxygenation with any high impact exercise. A fantastic Xmas gift. $250 includes Free lambswool and Tens machine and free delivery.Ph (07) 3279 4308 or 0411 865 196.

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CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS from The Eternal Spirit Sound is a form of vibrational medicine and works as a form of healing because everything in the universe is in a state of vibration. The sounds emitted from Crystal Singing Bowls bring out change by transmitting energy into the atmosphere, filling the person’s aura with vibrational radiance and hence, release and dissolve the energy

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blockages within the person’s body and chakras. The Eternal Spirit currently has Crystal Singing Bowls that are made of 99.8% silicon quartz. We deal directly with the supplier and thus are able to achieve reasonably priced bowls. Prices start as low as $249 for an 8" and up to $699 for an 18". All sizes correspond to different musical notes and chakras of the body. Also, we are offering a generous 15% discount for anyone wishing to buy all seven bowls as a set.The Eternal Spirit, 100 Goodwood Rd., Goodwood. Phone 8271 9666 or visit www.theeternalspirit.com.au

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Life is Your Prayer BY NEALE DONALD WALSCH Prayer is the most important part of the human experience. It is the most important part of our daily activities. The reason it is the most important part of our experience and our activities is because it is the process by which we create our lives. It should be understood by anyone examining the subject of prayer that everything we think, see, and do is a prayer. Life is a prayer in the sense that it is a continuous request to the universe and its God to present us with what we choose and desire. God understands our desires not just through the occasional utterances that we call “prayers” in the traditional sense, but through every thought we think, every word we speak, and everything we do. Our thoughts, our words, and our actions are our prayers. Most people do not think of life as a constant prayer; most people believe they are praying only when involved in that deliberate, peculiar activity we know as prayer. Thus, many people feel that their prayers either go unanswered or are answered sporadically and only in the affirmative. But the truth is, prayer does not begin with kneeling down, or lighting a votive candle, or sitting in meditation, or picking up our prayer beads, or performing some outward or inner ritual. If we understood that every word, thought, and action was a prayer sent right to God, a request sent right to the Heavens, I believe we would change much of what we think, say, and do. Further, I believe we would better understand why our more formalized prayers seem to be answered only sporadically, if at all. For here is what really happens: In our formalized prayers we seek God’s intercession or intervention in our affairs, hoping that God will somehow alter or create something for us. Yet these formal prayers only take a moment or two each day, or for some, each week. The rest of our time — probably 95 to 99 percent — is spent sending, oftentimes unwittingly, prayers to God that work exactly in the opposite direction of our formal prayers. So we pray for one thing and we go out and do another. Or we pray for one thing and we go out and think another. Let me give you a typical example. We may pray for greater abundance in our life, or for help with a financial problem. Those prayers are earnestly offered, earnestly said, and earnestly sent to God during our formal, ritualized time for prayer. Then for the rest of the week we go around harbouring thoughts of insufficiency, saying words of insufficiency, and demonstrating insufficiency in the everyday actions of our lives. So 95 percent of the time we send prayers that affirm we don’t have enough and 5 percent of the time we ask God to bring us

enough. It is very difficult for the universe to grant us our wishes when 95 percent of the time we are, in fact, asking for something else. This is the single most misunderstood aspect of prayer in our human experience. This truth is that the universe is a giant xerox, sending us, all the time, the answer to our prayers. And we are, in fact, sending prayers to the universe all the time, from morning till night, from birth till death. This is at once both empowering and, for people who are unwilling to take the responsibility it inherently creates, frightening. Only for those who understand the great gift that God has given us — the gift of our ability to create what we want — does this form of prayer seem inviting. For those unable to accept this level of responsibility for their actions, this form of prayer — morning to night, birth to death, in the shape of our words, thoughts, and actions — seems intimidating at best and unacceptable at worst. Only when we are willing to accept that our words are creative, our thoughts are creative, and our actions are creative, could this be attractive. Many are unwilling to accept this as truth because they are not very proud of the majority of their thoughts, words, and actions and certainly don’t want them to be considered as actual requests to God. And yet they are. The injunction then is to speak, think, and act in a way of which we can be proud — in a way that sends to God our grandest thoughts and produces our highest visions and thus creates Heaven on Earth for all of us. The thoughts expressed here are not new nor are they what one would usually think of as “new age”. As a matter of fact, a wonderful minister at the Marble Cathedral in New York City named Dr. Norman Vincent Peale spoke many of these same words when he authored what is arguably one of the world’s ten most famous books, The Power of Positive Thinking. What Dr. Peale said is what I am saying here: Your entire life is your prayer. When we become consciously aware of this, and when we accept this truth with joy, our entire lives change — sometimes virtually overnight and other times more slowly and subtly. When we accept this truth, we suddenly understand that God is our best friend and has given us tools of unlimited power to create the reality we seek to experience. I have had the beautiful gift of experiencing my own conversation with God, and the most urgent prayer of my life has been answered through that conversation. Every question I ever had in my life was answered in that conversation, including how best to pray. Two important points about prayer were made in that conversation.

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NEALE DONALD WALSCH The first point is that the most powerful prayer is the prayer of gratitude. When we thank God in advance for what we wish to use and experience in our lives, we affirm that we have already received it and all that is awaiting is our perception of receiving it. Therefore, the power of a prayer exists in direct proportion to the degree of gratitude contained within the prayer. The most extraordinary prayer I have ever heard is one sentence I find myself saying continually throughout my life: “Thank you God for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.” This prayer has moved me through the most difficult moments in my life into peace and equanimity and even serenity. My second major point about prayer is that everyone may have a conversation with God. The process by which we communicate with God and by which God communicates with us is open to all of us, not just to a select few — not to the prophets, the sages, and the wisdom bringers of all time but to the butchers, the bakers, and the candlestick makers, and the barbers, lawyers, homemakers, politicians, teachers, and airline pilots — all of us. God’s communications with us is two-way, not one-way. God says to us that it is not necessary to pray a prayer of supplication. A prayer of supplication is a statement that we do not now have something, or we would not be asking for it. Therefore, asking for something literally pushes it away, for one does not ask for something one already has. In the request, then, is hidden our scarcity. That statement produces the result of not having. That is why all the great sages and all the great teachers of all the world’s mystical and religious traditions, bar none, have said to pray a prayer of gratitude. Thank you, God, for allowing me to know that this problem has already been solved for me. Then go on with your day and notice the miracle. Neale Donald Walsch lives with his wife, Nancy, at Heart Light, a retreat site they have founded in the woodlands of southern Oregon. Together they have formed ReCreation, an organization whole goal is to give people back to themselves. Walsch is continually touring the country, answering requests for lectures, and hosting workshops to support and spread the messages contained in Conversations with God. Visit his website at http:// www.conversationswithgod.org/

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