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more easily because they are more connected to the benefit of the whole).
This 122 page report offers comprehensive evidence based recommendations for improving health and wellness, focusing on seven priority areas. These areas include:
Our world is changing. We must now evolve or die. We need to learn to • detach from belief systems, • surrender fundamental polar positions of extremes in favor of unified concepts, • accept the gifts inherent in the viewpoints of others, • have gratitude for every opportunity to grow and change, • cooperate rather than compete (including mind games and competitive sports), • live from love rather than from fear, and • accept energy rather than time as the basis of our existence. In the new reality, these ways of interacting with life may become more necessary than air. Without air, we die. Possibly as new humans, without a new attitude and a new perspective that is loving and nonjudgmental, we will also die. It is possible that an atmosphere created by beliefs that contain judgment and fear can be just as toxic as an atmosphere that contains only carbon dioxide. We cannot live without oxygen. Can we live without love? The concepts I have offered on my map to the new reality are limited by the use of human language, another aspect of duality and our current reality. I share as best I can, my hopes, my dreams, my questions, and my understanding. But all of these words come from the shared familiarity of the English language. To step out of familiarity into the new reality, I must share from the core of my being, from the place within me that is love. Communication occurs on more levels than mindful speech. Communication comes through the expressions on our faces and the energy we hold in our hearts. If I were able to truly communicate and connect with each of you reading this article, in the new reality I would step out of the zone of the familiar use of language, and I would simply give you a hug. B With love and light, Rebecca Smith Orleane Rebecca Smith Orleane, Ph.D. is the author of the International Award Winner for Visionary Fiction, Southern Piercings, The Return of the Feminine: Honoring the Cycles of Nature, and co-author of Ashland’s best seller, Conversations With Laarkmaa: A Pleiadian View of the New Reality. As Mayan Calendar scholar, she provides personal energetic charts for clients. She and her heartmate have a healing practice in Ashland, and they host weekly gatherings promoting peace, harmony, love, and human evolution. For more information about her work, see www.laarkmaa.com. © Copyright Rebecca Smith Orleane
Tobacco-free living, preventing drug abuse and alcohol use, healthy eating, active living, injury and violence-free living, reproductive and sexual health, mental and emotional well-being. You can get the entire report at: www.healthcare.gov/center/councils/nphpphc. “The national prevention strategy encourages partnerships among the federal, state, tribal, local, and territorial governments; business, industry and other private sector partners, philanthropic organizations, community and faith-based organizations and everyday Americans to improve health through prevention” said U.S. surgeon general Regina Benjamin, M.D. council chair. “For the first time in the history of our nation, we have developed a cross-section, integrated national strategy, that identifies priorities for improving the health of Americans.” The above information was borrowed from the August 2011 Chiropractic News Source, however the same information is being promoted by most media sources today. In a simple “nutshell” gaining back our health has to start with improving our choices of nutritious food, proper rest, pure water, proper exercises, sunshine, fresh air, and abstaining from all that is harmful to our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Remember there are no quick fixes when it comes to regaining your health. All changes should result from being focused on longterm benefits. Carefully guard your health…it is a priceless possession. Meditate upon the great Creator of the universe, and His gift of life to us. Be thankful and helpful to one and all…and you will be a winner! B Frank J Hurd, D.C., M.D. 541-472-1113 Dr. Hurd is a physician who specializes in preventive medicine. He and Rosalie, his wife, have authored the classic Ten Talents Cookbook. For more information visit: www.tentalents.net
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Holding The Light is now on display at Ashland Art Center, Ashland OR In this era when technology and urbanization are the norm for most of us, we have through ignorance and self-absorption come to a tipping point where we stand on the threshold of enormous responsibility and change. For eons it has been the indigenous peoples of our planet who are and have been the holders of the light for all of humanity. They live knowing that there is no separation between what we do and how that affects all creation. My heart’s desire is that we open to the wisdom that is in their teachings and contact our own inner wisdom and embrace what we have been given. It is a great honor and joy to create consciously, knowing our connection with this earth and all of its life. Whenever I start a project I feel inspired as I realize I’m part of the much larger act of creation. Then I feel humbled and at the same time exalted as I participate in that creation. This awareness first came to me when I was designing stained glass windows for a church. I was overwhelmed by the feeling of responsibility for how the stained glass would affect those who were within their environment. I became highly motivated to study the effects of color and shapes on us both physically and emotionally. I could truly see how what I create affects the current moment as well as all those moments that were to come. It was my intention to honor those dedicated to conscious creation that inspired the piece Holding The Light on the cover. This Continued on page 18 Healing Yourself Heals The Planet
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