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Which
Way to Enlightenment?
by Louise Mita
Which way to
enlightenment? Are you here on this planet reading this article? Then
you’re on your way!
Enlightenment is
different for everyone and comes to us in whatever form we require for
it to be perceived. Sometimes, a whisper is the wake up call; other
times, a swift kick in the pants is exactly what we need.
Those of us on a pro-active path will get constant “hits” from every
aspect of our life. It is not the culmination or ending of a journey, as
many believe; rather, it is the journey. You don’t have
to sit for years under a tree or wear orange robes to experience
enlightenment. You can find it daily, if you’re paying attention. (Or
it will find you, if you’re not!)
The “Aha!”
that you experience when you catch the punch-line of a joke; realizing
that an extra quarter in the parking meter buys peace of mind; and all
those old adages that come to fruition that you thought were clichés…
These gifts of information and knowledge that influence our rational
thought are examples of enlightenment that we commonly experience. We
may think we’re seeking enlightenment; but enlightenment is also
seeking us.
We can approach
our journey toward enlightenment from many directions, all of which will
succeed. Gaining insight into our foibles and conquering our fallacies
can only be accomplished through the acquisition of knowledge,
information and education. Let the schooling begin!
For example,
have you ever wondered why you fall asleep in that corner of the living
room all the time? Yet, when you go to bed you lay awake with your eyes
open for hours.
By studying Feng
Shui, you could determine your best directions for restful sleep as well
as productivity. Feng Shui, which means “wind-water,” is the art of
Chinese geomancy; the determination of the most auspicious potential of
the environment you inhabit. Based upon the relationship between time,
space, the I Ching (The Book of Changes), and the five elements
(fire, earth, metal, water and wood), a skilled practitioner can help to
reverse unfavorable conditions that might affect one’s health, wealth
and relationships.
Because of the
complexity of Feng Shui, many have oversimplified the principals, making
generalizations that could lead to unfortunate circumstances. “Put a
mirror in your entrance; paint the south wall red.” This is similar to
your physician telling you that buying an insurance policy will
guarantee good health!
On the other
hand, one can approach enlightenment from the inside-out.
Qi (pronounced
“Chee”) is the Chinese word for the universal life force. Qi is the
universal life force energy in everything from people, animals, and
plants to inanimate objects. Qi activation is a martial art technique
once considered secret and only bestowed upon worthy senior students
after decades of study. By learning to activate your Qi, your own
universal life force, you can lower your blood pressure, reduce your
heart rate, decrease tension and anxiety, improve digestion and
metabolism, increase oxygenation and slow down the aging process. Qi
activation will automatically put you in the alpha level of
consciousness, a meditative state once thought achieved by hours of
isolated contemplation and concentration. With skilled mastery, you can
acquire this technique within moments.
The more you
learn about yourself and what affects you internally and externally, the
more epiphanies you will experience. Learn about everything! Energy,
metaphysics, philosophy, psychology, anatomy, physiology, martial arts,
physical fitness, food, nutrition, agriculture, horticulture, husbandry,
geography, astronomy, astrology, science, mathematics, history, music,
art, dance, mechanics, carpentry, and spirituality – the list is
endless. Each new experience will shed light upon the last, ad
infinitum.
Seeking
enlightenment is an on-going journey that takes on many forms and stages
along the way. Understanding is the key to enlightenment. Self-awareness
and conscious living is the essence of focus. The continual quest for
improvement is the fuel. Realization is the birth. As my father once
said in his nineties, “There’s no such thing as an old fool, because
you don’t get old being a fool.”
Louise Mita is a certified
practitioner of Chinese Energetic Medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong, Feng Shui,
and the founder of Integrative Quantum Medicine and The Art Of Energy,
Inc.
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Creating
Life with Focus, Intention, Trust & Gratitude
Susan
Luce
Most likely you’ve already
heard or read that really there is no such thing as matter, right?
That when you look at things really closely – I mean really
closely – it all boils down to energy. That even atoms are not
solid matter, but composed of electrical charges. And that on a
larger, more personal scale, what we think we see and feel is really
in our mind but not there physically.
Let us keep this idea in mind
as we think about why our life unfolds in the way it does. In truth,
our mind and emotions have more power over our circumstances than we
may believe. This is why it is so important to watch ourselves and
the drama of our life; for if we are not paying attention, our
thoughts, emotions and feelings can easily take over.
It is said that when we die,
we “can’t take it with us.” Or, at least, we can’t take the
3D stuff with us. Maybe we can take something energetic with us –
perhaps feelings, understandings or faith. When we think in those
larger terms, we give ourselves a new perspective on how life works
and on what’s important in our life.
For example, let’s think
about why things happen. Do we just happen to be there in the midst
of whatever was going on in the first place? Do things simply happen
to us? Are we victims of circumstances? I say: No way, Jose!
It’s a useful experiment to
start paying attention to the relationship between our more
consistent thoughts or the more powerful feelings we have and
whatever is going on in our life. We might check and see if we
don’t truly create our own circumstances with those strong
thoughts and feelings. An idea I once heard and never forgot is:
“The Universe rearranges itself in order to accommodate your view
of reality.”
Most all of us have stories
about powerful coincidences in our lives. Perhaps you were thinking
about someone and suddenly that individual called you or you saw him
or her on the street. Or, maybe circumstances were such that you
really needed to rest but you refused to slow down, and then you got
sick and had to stay home in bed for a few days. Did you catch what
happened there? Duh!
Similar events may unfold to
illustrate how we get what we ask for, sometimes without even
knowing that we asked for it in the first place. For example, I’ve
noticed that when I want to take care of something and don’t seem
to have the time for it, the Universe will make that time available
for me. Clients might call and cancel appointments, thus freeing up
a certain time period in my day. Sometimes I wonder what’s going
on, and then later realize I needed that time to do something else
that was important.
If I’m low on cash and bills
are coming due, do I worry? I used to, but not anymore. I’m
responsible, work hard, take good care of things, and know that I
deserve to have what I need and am grateful for it. (Gratitude is
very important!) Soon, calls come in for massage appointments. Or,
someone will buy a prepaid punch card for a discount on six massages
just when I needed that much more money to make the mortgage
payment.
Sound too good to be true?
There is a catch. We have to truly believe that we always have what
we need. That takes trust in the Universe, which comes from paying
attention to our experiences. It helps to start noticing that we get
what we focus on, and that we always have what we need (sometimes
what we need is a lesson). When we whine about what we don’t have,
we are focusing on our lack. That creates more lack in our life. As
we focus on gratitude for having what we need, that comes to us as
well. It is important to be grateful (for the abundance, or the
lesson).
Some believe that prior to
this life on earth we volunteered to have the experience of bliss
removed from our memory so that we could become one with humanity.
In doing so, we would experience dysfunction, hopelessness and
despair in order to learn how to create divinity and raise the rest
of humanity with us to the light.
One of the hardest parts of
this process is accepting the fact that we deserve to have Heaven on
Earth. We’ve gotten used to lack and dysfunction. So, what to do?
If in our heart we desire to
let go of the negative experiences of the past, we can always ask
for divine help. It is there, just for us. We have done all the
suffering we need to do. We now have the ability to create success,
abundance, truth, peace, joy and harmonious relationships in our
lives. We do it with focus, intention, trust, and gratitude. It is
here, for all of us to experience.
Susan Luce has been a licensed
massage therapist in Anchorage for ten years. She can be reached at
Raven Bear Studio, 561-9609, or
www.ravenbear.net
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Recreating
Your Body Temple with Scalar Energy
Carol
Coleman
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new technologies, when combined with our understanding of
truth, can now be utilized as tools for ascension. |
We
are living in incredible times as science and spirituality come
together to present a new understanding of ourselves and our
environment. We are gaining new insights into the truth that
everything is energy and that we are all interconnected. This
understanding validates much of the spiritual doctrine and teachings
that have been handed down through the centuries by great saints,
gurus and master teachers. In addition, new technologies, when
combined with our understanding of truth, can now be utilized as
tools for ascension.
Just
as many great teachers have been telling us for eons, science shows
us that our physical bodies are affected by our energy state—not
the other way around. In fact, research from
Russia
has demonstrated that when a person dies, the energy patterns of
disease leave the body. (See note below.)
Energy patterns of the physical body become normalized after
an ill person makes his or her transition. This has profound
implications for how we create health or disease based on energy. It
has been shown that the energy level for cells to function optimally
should be at a frequency between 70 and 90 millivolts per second.
Cancerous cells have been found to vibrate at around the 13
millivolts per second range.
So,
if you don’t have enough energy, or if you are tired and dragging
through life, it is important to take a regular personal inventory
of those things that affect your energy. As we do our inventory
we need to ask ourselves, “Are we receiving quality thoughts,
foods and vibrational tools that raise our energy fields or are
we taking in substances that are depleting or toxic to our energy
fields?”
What
Is Scalar Energy?
Scalar
Wave energy is merely another application of healing energy. Although
there is much controversy around this subject, Scalar Energy is
readily found in nature and may be the same energy that carries our
thoughts and intentions. Upon researching the Energy
Enhancement System, the Tesla Society found this natural form
of energy, which is also similar to that of a Tesla Coil.
Scalar
Waves have always existed. Both Tesla and Albert Einstein
discovered practical applications of the scalar wave. Einstein
proposed the theory and proved mathematically that time and space
are relative—that scalar waves are non-linear, not electromagnetic
and exist in a five-dimensional space/time (a dimension where there
is no time or space). This means that scalar waves do not decay
with time or distance. Rather, these non-linear waves
propagate throughout the body via the crystalline lattice waves of
the elaborate collagen network, which is comprised of
extra--cellular space.
As
Lynn McTaggart illustrates in her book, The
Field, it is through the efforts of many independent
scientists working in a variety of disciplines throughout the world
that we are developing a new paradigm. “At our most elemental, we
are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings
and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of
energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating
energy field is the central engine of our being and our
consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.”
There
is no ‘me’ and ‘not-me’ duality to our bodies in relation to
the universe, but one underlying energy field. This field is
responsible for our mind’s highest functions, the information
source guiding the growth of our bodies. It is our brain, our heart,
our memory – indeed, a blueprint of the world for all time. The
field is the force, rather than germs or genes, that finally
determines whether we are healthy or ill, the force which must be
tapped in order to heal. We are attached and engaged, indivisible
from our world, and our only fundamental truth is our relationship
with it. ‘The
Field,’ as Einstein once succinctly put it, ‘is the only
reality.’
NOTE:
For more information on this topic, see:
1.
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/fristwall2.html
2. http://www.fosar-bludorf.com
3. http://www.ryze.com/view.php?who=vitaeb
In
addition, you may find the following Internet sites are beneficial:
Carol
Coleman has the only Energy Enhancement System which uses
scalar energy that is for public use in
Alaska
. Contact Carol at
(907) 399-3011 or (907) 235-1003. Happy Healing.
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How the
Body Works: Energy
by Kaycie Rosen
…whether
a person has thyroid disease, diabetes, heart disease, or
even is going through menopause, the primary and most
aggravating aspect of any illness is usually just feeling
so darn tired..
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I
was standing in my kitchen with a friend last night discussing some of
the more amazing people we know: A man who is considered a world
expert in his medical field, with dozens of articles in the works at
any one time. A woman whose life work is devoted to fostering
communication between warring groups in the
Middle East
. Single moms who simultaneously hold two jobs, raise four children,
and consistently appear happy and energetic. Friends who run 100-mile
races into their 50s. These people are inspiring because they display
incredible energy and vitality. So, what is it that distinguishes them
from others? Genetics? Nutrition? Joy? Passion? Necessity?
Why
do some people seem to possess a greater “vital force” than
others? On a similar note,
what causes that vitality to suddenly change? In my practice, the most
common problem my patients complain of is fatigue. This is because,
regardless of the process going on in the body, the end result is that
the disease diverts energy from fueling healthy function. So, whether
a person has thyroid disease, diabetes, heart disease, or even is
going through menopause, the primary and most aggravating aspect of
any illness is usually just feeling so darn tired.
So
what is “energy,” where does it come from, and why does everyone
seem to have a different amount? From a scientific perspective, when
we distill function to its most fundamental building blocks, our
bodies run on electricity. Our cells require electrons to maintain and
restore their structure as well as to fuel whatever function the cell
is performing. The fuel comes in the form of food and oxygen. We
breathe oxygen, which is bound to hemoglobin in our red blood cells,
then circulated through the blood vessels and delivered to all the
cells in our body. Similarly, when we eat food, it is absorbed, broken
down into glucose in the liver (or made into another molecule for
storage), bound to insulin, and circulated in the blood to all the
cells in the body.
When
glucose and oxygen reach the cell, they are sent to the mitochondria,
which is equivalent to a biological power plant. Oxygen goes to a
system called the electron transport chain, which takes available
electrons from the oxygen and binds it to carbon, creating carbon
dioxide, which is then circulated via the blood back to our lungs and
exhaled back into the environment (for the plants to use!). Glucose is
circulated through a process called glycolysis, then through another
called the Krebs cycle, where it is broken down and manipulated in
such a way that electrons are extracted from it as well. These
electrons are then used to fuel ATP, which is like human gasoline; it
fuels all the pumps necessary to make our cells do their jobs.
It
is important to remember that in addition to oxygen and glucose, a
variety of vitamins (particularly the B vitamins) and minerals
(particularly Magnesium, Potassium, and Calcium) are vital players in
the reactions that take place in this electron extraction process.
When we look at the bigger biochemical picture, it can be seen how
vital all the vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals are in addition
to the basic fats, carbohydrates and proteins for proper functioning
of the human system. Nutrition, in this view, becomes of critical
importance in maintaining vitality: if the system gets the right fuel,
it will run well. This is true for many people. I often see people in
my practice whose energy improves immeasurably when their nutrition
improves. However, we all know people who eat impeccably and still
feel exhausted and people who have very poor diets who feel much
better. So, this mechanical view obviously isn’t the whole picture.
In
Naturopathic Medicine, one of the fundamental principles upon which
the medicine is based is in Latin called
Vis
Medicatrix Naturae (the
Vis
), which in English means
the Healing Force of Nature. The definition of this force is that when
free of obstacles and given the proper nutrition, the
Vis
will bring every living thing into a state of perfect balance, or
health. Other long-standing healing traditions utilize similar
concepts; for example, Chinese medicine calls this fundamental energy chi and Ayurveda calls it prana.
Achieving health in these paradigms is based upon identifying
whatever force is blocking the
Vis
and then supporting the function of the organism so that it is able to
bring itself back into balance.
Although
it would seem to be simple, identifying the obstacles to health can be
multifactoral and quite challenging. Pathogenic organisms such as
bacteria and viruses are relatively easy to identify. However,
environmental toxins, allergens, emotional stressors, genetics and
dietary factors can be much trickier to evaluate because they play a
long-term and subtle role, and can easily overlap. One very clear
example of this is evaluating for toxic substances in a person’s
environment.
In
environmental medicine, we use a concept called Total Load, which
refers to the amount of burden the body is under from the sum of all
the toxins with which it interacts. The body can be viewed like a
bucket: it is strong and able to effectively process millions of
molecules each day from a tremendous number of sources and never
express symptoms—as long as its capacity is not exceeded. However,
as these factors build up, symptoms emerge as the bucket
“overflows.” In this case, there is not any one cause, but a
variety of assaults to the system. Removing the obstacle is thus more
like peeling the layers of an onion.
Similarly,
giving the body its proper nourishment can also be complex. Every
person has a basic set of nutritional needs. These are generally well
established and can be found in any nutritional textbook, or even by
checking the Recommended Daily Allowances on a food label. These
standards are useful and give us a baseline of what a human needs on a
minimum level to avoid specific illnesses. However, they do not give
us any idea of what an individual needs to achieve optimum health.
When a body is out of balance, each system is working at a different
rate. You can have the world’s healthiest lungs, for example, but if
your heart isn’t functioning you will still die from lack of oxygen
because your blood won’t circulate.
Once
we are able to determine the obstacles to health in the different
systems, it then becomes imperative to strengthen those systems that
aren’t working at a rate necessary to balance the whole. An example
of this is the treatment of eczema. Going back to environmental
medicine, a person may have been exposed to a toxic substance such as
a solvent, which harmed the liver and decreased the rate at which it
processes toxins. Because these toxins are staying in the body longer,
the body starts to have an immune reaction to them, which is expressed
as inflammation in the skin. In this case, the skin is not the root
cause of the problem. If we can boost the function of the liver, those
substances that are causing the reaction will be removed from the body
and the skin will eventually clear. So, beyond the basic RDA of
nutrients, it is important to specifically nourish those systems that
are out of balance. It is also important to remember that those
systems can include the organs, blood, skin, emotions, and spirit.
May
the months ahead bring you energy and vitality in good health!
Dr.
Kaycie Rosen practices Naturopathic Family Medicine at Total
Health, Inc. She can be
reached at 563-2929.
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