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HELPING YOU DISCOVER YOUR SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS WITH ANIMALS
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7 Strategies for Empaths to Heal Trauma & PTSD By Judith Orloff MD
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How to Learn More about Your Strengths and Weaknesses The Heart of an Empath Flat Earth Theory and the New Dark Ages
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The secret is that there is no real secret to getting a vehicle to last a long time. The difference is maintenance.
According to pet ownership, statistics and America in the UK are both nations that really love their pets as is evidenced by the huge success of books and movies about dogs, horses, and animals. The characters like Lassie, flicker, a dog's purpose. And Marley and me, it's clear that to most of us, our pets are not just dumb animals, but could the role that they are here to play in our lives be greater even than many of us have considered? Could it be that our animals are here to help us evolve as Souls? MacKinnon is a gifted, intuitive and soul connection coach who's appeared on national TV and in numerous radio stations around the world.
A faculty member of the Omega Institute, the Lily Dale Assembly and the Kripalu Center. She's the founder of the Danielle MacKinnon scored of animal communication, and she's a popular facilitator of online and in-person seminars in animal communication, soul
contracts, and intuitive senses. Danielle MacKinnon joins us today to share how we can develop our spiritual connection with animals and discover what they are in our lives to teach us. Sandra Sedgbeer: Danielle, your book Animal Lessons, discovering your spiritual connections with animals, focuses on the idea that animals are in our lives to help us evolve as souls.
Empaths and sensitive people often experience some level of posttraumatic stress. This is, in part, because they’re on sensory overload for so many years their systems are flooded with adrenaline. Other reasons include early
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neglect, abuse, or simply that they didn’t feel “seen” or have their sensitivities supported in their families. I’ve written about this topic in my new book, “Thriving as an Empath.” Early trauma can come in many forms. Possible sources include: • Hearing your parents or siblings frequently argue • Being repeatedly yelled at • Physical and/or emotional abuse • Being shamed or blamed for being “overly sensitive.” • Being bullied Even experiencing intense ongoing household noise and chaos can feel traumatic. An empathic child’s highly sensitive system can absorb more stress than others would in these situations. When empaths are exposed to early trauma or abuse, their young nervous system may develop without healing making them hypervigilant. They can become exquisitely attuned to their environment to ward off threats and ensure they are safe or enter a state of hyperarousal. This
hypervigilance is extremely draining for empaths. Your past can still affect you now. When you are exposed to a similar stimulus as an adult, such as a disagreement with your partner, you may have an exaggerated emotional response because you are flashing back to the original trauma. (This is similar to a veteran who misreads a car backfiring as an exploding bomb.) With post-traumatic stress, your system can’t fully return to its calmer state before the upset or even the initial incident. You are never quite at rest and remain aware of protecting yourself from further threats. Empaths are often mistaken for being aloof or snobbish, but others don’t realize that the distance you seem to keep is because you’re focused on protecting yourself and ensuring that the ground is solid. The Buddhists say, there is always a groundless ground there to support you. Even when you are inundated with excessive stimulation, the groundless ground is always there. Omtimes.com
HOW DO CRYSTAL HEALING WORKS?
ABSENT HEALING USING CRYSTAL
Stones and crystals can function as energy amplifiers, their main strength is the ability to amplify and direct our own energies and frequencies. Therefore, the most important thing when dealing with stones and crystals is to be able to tune our vibrations with those stones, improving and enhancing our resources. We may bring to our benefit the internalizing the vibrational characteristics of the stones and crystals we are needing by constantly working with them.
The importance of knowing them is that they help us become aware of our internal processes, thereby participating more consciously, achieving more balance, harmony, and inner fulfillment. Â We know that the diversity of conflicts, imbalances, and problematic situations in our daily lives is immense. Sometimes external aid is the support we need to turn this moment of crisis into one of learning and evolution. Holistic Therapy offers us this help with its stones and crystals. A path of balance between our inner truth, our essence, and our personality.
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OMTIMES magazine Oct • A 2019 The type of therapy’s goal is to be aware of the things that are important to our “Higher Self”, things that bring soul satisfaction, as well as help us deal with family conflicts, eliminate hurts and anger, soften moments of insecurity, offer an extra dose of self-love and selfconfidence, bring more mental tranquility and clarity of vision. Several techniques of holistic therapy make use of stones and crystals to work on deep, delicate and difficult issues, such as Reiki, Puncture Massage Therapy and Energy Harmonization (with stones and crystals in the Chakras). Each of these techniques is special and extremely effective. The choice of the “best” technique is made through a good analysis by the part of the professional Therapist to identify the energy imbalances that are currently acting and in which fields (energetic, emotional, mental and physical). Only then, it can be decided which Technique would work most effectively on a particular person. That is, there is a better technique for one person at a given time, but there is no better technique than another. Stones and crystals can be used in various ways daily. They can also be used to facilitate absence healing. NOMADIC
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How to Speak to Someone with Chronic Pain
When I was suffering from chronic pain, I noticed people were decidedly awkward around me. Their sentences became hesitant and stifled. They were noticeably uncomfortable with my condition, and they had no idea how to truly communicate helpfully.
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Once you understand what’s happening inside the brain of a chronic pain sufferer, you can more easily converse with them. The human body is a finely tuned instrument honed over countless generations to endure at least long enough to reproduce. Our nervous system is designed to react to stimuli in our environment so that we survive regardless of the adversity we encounter. We come equipped with a powerful threat assessment system that moves us toward safety. In people who are chronically stressed, this system becomes dysregulated, and we feel we are constantly under threat. The whole body is doing all it can to handle the effects of stress. So, understand that chronic pain as a response to stress is an adaptive behavior, however maladjusted it may be to the sufferer’s current reality. Chronic pain is a disease of the brain. No matter where we feel the sensation of pain
in the body, it is the brain’s perception that is driving the sensation we feel. The way chronic pain changes the brain sheds light on its solution and ways to help when you are with a chronic pain sufferer. The brain becomes chaotic, restive, and hypervigilant. Problems show up, such as difficulty with memory, focus, sleeping, and impulse control. A chronic pain sufferer experiences higher levels of anxiety and depression because of the insidiously negative bias in the brain. Since chaos reigns in the brain of chronic pain sufferers, things that bring ease and peace are effective in healing such changes. In a nutshell, when we bring calmness back into the system through the mind, body, and spirit, we have direct access to healing chronic pain. Too often, sufferers of chronic pain feel we are somehow at fault for the pain we feel. Yet, we haven’t
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Listening to the Body Through Illness by Nicola Lucie Have you ever noticed how much we have become disconnected from the body? How we have forgotten how to listen to it when something is wrong? Yes, we have started to pay attention, making changes to our diets, bringing in supplements, turning to alternative
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therapies to relax and soothe, engaging in yoga and meditation and so forth, yet when it comes to the deeper signals the body is trying to communicate to us, we have the tendency to bypass them completely. We all have something ‘wrong’ with us at some point in our lives - illness, disease, or malaise - manifesting as the physical, the mental, the emotional, sexual, or spiritual. Sometimes we will have to take a day off as a result, while others will completely wipe us out, forcing us to change our lifestyles and our way of being. We look to the external to heal - the medicines, balms, and therapies - to ease the symptoms, to make them go away, to lighten the load so we can function again as normal. Yet, amidst the crisis, whether long term or short term, in our need to fix and control, to fight, take flight or completely ignore, we miss the vital messages which are signaling an imbalance
much deeper than the actual physiological, mental or emotional symptoms. As a Shamanic Practitioner who specializes in shadow integration work, every woman I have had the honor of working with has something out of balance, and the first question I ask them is - “Have you asked your body why it has manifested this?” Imagine, asking someone who has MS, or Lymes Disease, or even Cancer, why they have manifested it, yet this is the very question that nobody has ever asked them and although they look at me shocked and surprised, and it triggers something in them, the answer is always, no! Yet it’s the simplest of questions and one that prompts them to suddenly see themselves and their relationship to their body in a completely different light. It’s as if a lightbulb suddenly flashes in their head, and they wonder why they had never thought of this before.
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The Inner Experience of Truth Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. –Aristotle I have always felt most alive when telling the truth when the sudden utterance from within—be it a question or a feeling—rings through the entirety of me. And though I’ve been trained to focus on the objective rewards of truth, such as insight and understanding, I realize now in my sixties that it is really the experience of truth—the empowerment of the authentic—that has kept me going.
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While uttering the truth or questioning the truth, electricity is turned on that connects us to that immeasurable vastness so close but always out of view. When experiencing the truth, especially the truth of feeling, I feel most like a dolphin breaking surface only to dive. The affirming thing about such moments is that they are wonderfully contagious. In a room full of skeptics, one truthful utterance can shift the entire ground of dialogue, even if no one else dares to say a word. As a young man, I had no idea of any of this, any more than a hawk is aware of its aerodynamics. Now, I can see that this desire not to be alone in truth-seeking and truthspeaking is what made me want to be a teacher. I really didn’t want to talk about anything outside of truth. I wanted to examine everything by sharing, reflecting, and questioning whatever I would meet through the lens of authentic feeling. With the exception of a few friends, I couldn’t find such companionship readily in the world, and so, without realizing it, I began to write and teach
in order to create a sacred place where the experience of honest truth could happen. This very quickly necessitated my introducing my students to the vastness out of view and to their own experience of authentic feeling, so we could enter this sacred place together. I’ve also learned that each time we experience truth—each time we suffer or love—the range of our compassion widens. Like a mud-filled pipe that is hollowed out by rain to carry water underground, the force of each experience clears us out. Listening, expressing, and writing are conscious ways to clear ourselves out and to expose and extend the range of what we feel. And so, the poet or artist in us is that deep part of who we are that keeps extending the range of our compassion. Throughout history, those afraid of the life of feelings have undermined their power and dismissed their rightful role in experiencing truth. For much of my life, I’ve been called a Romantic, which is true, but not complete. It’s like defining the sea by its surface. Romantic is a term that has been diminished Omtimes.com
The 7 Relationship Pitfalls of Oblivious People
Relationships aren’t always easy. Sometimes they go smoothly, and we feel like things are effortless between the other person and us, but sometimes we encounter someone who can really make a lot of trouble for us.
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Quite often, there are signs of trouble early on. We can protect ourselves from difficult people if we pay close attention to these “red flags.” If we don’t pay attention to the red flags that warn us of a difficult person in our presence or if we’re in denial about the possibility that someone is problematic, we’re going to be at a distinct disadvantage when someone like this comes along. On the other hand, if we’re on the ball and paying attention, we can spot the difficult people at work, at school, and at home and we can choose how to handle them, either by steering clear of them or by dealing with these difficult people as strategically and effectively as possible. Some folks don’t want to believe that there are difficult people among us. They want to believe that everyone is just as nice, reasonable, honest, and considerate as they are, even when presented with ample evidence of the opposite. When red flags are
waving in their face, they close their eyes and pretend to themselves that everything is fine. I call these people “oblivious,” not because they lack intelligence but because they’re willfully ignorant of the dangers lurking at work, school and at home. These oblivious individuals convince themselves that everything’s okay, but they’re putting themselves in peril. When we refuse to acknowledge the possibility that someone is problematic, we’re in danger of being exploited, manipulated and mistreated. Here are 7 relationship pitfalls of oblivious people at school, home and work: When you’re oblivious, you’re easy to trick, con, and manipulate. When you’re unwilling to face the fact that difficult people are out there ready to prey on you, you set yourself up as the perfect victim for these unscrupulous individuals.
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Heal the Feminine through Healing your Relationship with your Mother By Humanity Healing
Working the feminine in us is also healing our relationship with the mother. According to Bert Hellinger, a psychotherapist who created Family Constellations, and formulated the Systemic Laws of Love and Life, our personal “Success has the face of our mother.� Omtimes.com
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but... you can’t go home again... you can’t go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. Thomas Wolfe He who does not achieve accomplishments in life, or ever had a successful, affective loving and enriching relationship, or had a healthy relationship with money, never attained intentional goals, or been happy in life, feels that way because “he didn’t accept the mother.” The Mother is the archetype that carries your creative powers. To accept the mother means to take her wholeheartedly, without judgment; lovingly in the heart, regardless of how the rearing, the upbringing, and the relationship with her were; whether or not you felt loved enough or the way you imagined to be “proper;”
whether unjustly punished, deprived or even feeling abandoned. I know many people, friends, students, patients, who, hearing these words with an anguished expression of anger or suffering, claim this to be an impossible task! They fail, and many sincerely claim they do not want, to open up to the possibility of acceptance. They carry deep hurts, abnormal scars that superficially cover chronic and sometimes incurable soul wounds. In today’s world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free. Mata Amritanandamayi However, there is no way to say yes to Life without a maternal acceptance, before saying YES to our mother. Life was delivered to us through this woman: we
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What Is The Imposter Syndrome?
When Jess came into my clinic in Manchester, she looked every inch the successful woman. Immaculately groomed, wearing a sharp suit and sporting an equally sharp haircut, accomplishment oozed from her every pore. A 42-year-
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old senior executive in a large international corporation, she had the salary, the car and all the perks that spelled ‘made i.’ So, why was she at my clinic? As she sank into a comfortable chair and began to explain her problem, her demeanor underwent a transformation. Her shoulders began to slump, her voice wavered, her knees shook, and her fingers began twisting around each other as she talked. Her entire confident manner crumbled before my eyes as she ‘confessed’ that it was all fake; all of her successes were built on luck, she explained, and she was actually really bad at her job. While she had managed to pull the wool over the eyes of her colleagues and bosses for many years, she was sure they would uncover her secret soon. She stood to lose everything, but that wasn’t even the biggest problem; the greater issue was that she was struggling to live with being a ‘fake’ – she felt that she should quit her job before she was exposed, and go and do something more suited to her real abilities. It would mean less money and perks, but at least she would be honest with herself.
Welcome to the world of Imposter Syndrome. It is a secret world, inhabited by successful people from all walks of life who have one thing in common – they believe that they are not really good enough. They might be men or women, young or old. And imposter beliefs are not always related to work; I have met ‘imposters’ who feel they are not good enough parents, husbands, wives, friends, or even not good enough human beings. These are all variations of Imposter Syndrome, especially when there is little objective evidence to support the sufferers firmly held self-beliefs that they are frauds. So, what is Imposter Syndrome? The term ‘Imposter Syndrome’ or ‘Imposter Phenomenon,’ was first coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in a paper entitled ‘The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention’1. The condition was described as being ‘internal experience of intellectual phonies’ that afflicted some high-achieving Omtimes.com
Personal Enrichment: How to Learn More about Your Strengths and Weaknesses by Rachelle Wilber
It should always be among your top goals in life to improve. You should never be satisfied with who are you as a human being. It’s always wise to try to keep getting better and better. If you’re all about personal improvement, you should make a point to get in touch with all of your Omtimes.com
weaknesses and strengths. Learning about these things can be an indisputable gamechanger. Participate in Meditation and Yoga Sessions Meditation and yoga are two examples of activities that can aid people who care about wellness. They’re also two activities that can come in handy for people who want to get in touch with themselves. If you want to attain superior mental clarity, then you should start taking part in routine meditation and yoga sessions. Deep breathing exercises can help you pinpoint many truths about yourself. Pretend You’re Someone Else for a Day It can be hard to walk in other peoples’ shoes. If you want to be able to identify your own weaknesses and strengths, however, doing so can make an excellent first step. Try to assess your personality from the viewpoint of an outsider. Imagine how your actions make people feel. Think about how your actions affect others around you. Think about how they may affect you from a
distance as well. Speak with Honest Friends and Family Members Discussions with honest and sincere friends and family members can often accommodate people who want to be able to pinpoint the things that are good and bad about them. You should engage in candid and open conversations with people who are looking out for you. Ask them to give you constructive criticism that pertains to who you are as a human being. Ask for positive feedback, too. Your goal should be to accentuate the positives. Test out an App There are in-depth apps these days that can empower individuals who want to be able to discover their weaknesses and strengths. If you test out this kind of app, you may be able to learn invaluable lessons that pertain to your personality and direction in this world. Grasping interpersonal communication matters can do wonders for people want to understand who they are.
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The Heart of an Empath By Judi Lynch
More than ever, humanity needs love and healing. It is empathy that changes and recharges the light of the soul. Empathy will bring us back to purpose and keep the light of hope alive. Empathy is one of the signs of emotional intelligence. It is the ability to understand another from their point of reference and emotionally feel what they feel. This means to feel a Omtimes.com
person’s joy as well as their pain. To look through the lens of their eyes and experience their events as if they were ours. There are kinds and degrees of empathy, and according to psychology it is both a part of our evolution and a learned skill or behavior. A person described as an empath is highly sensitive to other vibrational energies and experiences emotions physically as well. They are the first to feel, experience, offer help and when they say they care it is obvious. Dealing with loud noises, crowds, negative outlooks, cruelty of any kind can also set off alarms which elevate anxiety and fear. Learning how to function at a higher level during these events is key in maintaining emotional balance and keeping a positive outlook. The empath has a variety of abilities and skills which go along with this life theme. Their Earth missions are complicated and varied. The life plans they’ve made are not easy. Empathy involves caring from the deepest levels of the heart. It is the core of our humanity, the reason we can love unconditionally. For an empath,
it can be very confusing to understand if the feelings belong to them or someone else. An empath is capable of reading thoughts, emotions, and intentions of another person. It happens all the time although most people aren’t aware of it. Intuition is heightened, spiritual energy is at high volume. Psychic ability develops through our empathy with practice and devotion. When a psychic is highly empathetic, they are extremely accurate with reading and interpreting messages for others from spirit. They send out an energy of peace which helps put others at ease which helps develop trust between the reader and the person receiving the reading. Empaths can help protect their energy fields by remembering to detach in many situations. Being able to understand another and offering comfort along with channeling positive energy (without depleting their own) is key. Empaths can heal themselves and others without taking on the negative energy as their own. Meditation, self-care and a Omtimes.com
Flat Earth Theory and the New Dark Ages
Astonishingly, there has been a movement that has been gaining strength in recent years called the Flat Earth Movement. Yes. Some people claim that the earth is flat: an undeniable, nostalgic, and medieval Omtimes.com
mindset. Many have questioned whether Flat Earth is a movement or a conspiracy theory, but, in fact, it is both. It is possible to have a belief in both God and Science. They are not mutually exclusive. Even with the separation between science and faith (God), we need not ignore scientific facts and discoveries relating to our own origin, to support a metaphysical and theological line of thought for the source of all creation and life on this planet. In fact, maintaining the balance between what is plausible, and keeping our mind open to mysteries of faith is essential to bringing us closer to the truth. Evidential Science is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of facts. It is important to understand that the Flat-Earthers are not just skeptical of the facts surrounding spherical earth, they refuse scientific methods and evidence because they are only inclined to accept “facts�
that may confirm their theories, a classic case of confirmation bias. What is puzzling is that, how is it possible in the 21st century that there are still people doubting such an undeniable truth, and what does this have to do with spirituality, light, and darkness? At first, we may think that it is only ignorance, in a sense a lack of knowledge, but behind these visions concealed by lack of knowledge, we find darkness and strange interests. I will not bother to expose the obvious here, that is, I will not present arguments that prove that the Earth is not flat, that is, in fact, a sphere, a globe, so as not to mock the intelligence of the reader nor to waste our time. The idea is to understand the evil forces that feed on man’s spiritual unconsciousness and ignorance, as a warning to the importance of liberation through knowledge. Also, to point out that God will never be defeated by Omtimes.com
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