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Here is a link to an excellent piece by Daniel Pinchbeck on the oil spill, our transitional times, opportunities and challenges, as well as some great comments on our power and collective transformation. 

It is long but very thought provoking, eye opening, scary and hopeful if you read all the way to the last two paragraphs! Lots of food for thought in the comment section as well. What do YOU think?

http://www.realitysandwich.com/gulf_oil_spill_unfolding_prophecy

Guru Tim Reports On Stress From Across the Globe

Guru Tim has been traveling the globe with Tony Pace and observing the cultural climate in various places in the world regarding stress.

 Listen to hear:

 What are people saying?

How is stress experienced in different cultures?

What are the ways people in other countries cope with ”world stress”?

 MOST IMPORTANTLY, we will be discussing healthy ways that you can move beyond coping, away from suffering and into flourishing despite the external triggers.

Join us live or on the web at 10 A.M., Monday, June 28, 2010 or listen to the download at your leisure.

“Venerating the past in itself will not solve the world’s problems. We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven, to earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time as they destroy one another.

From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the world.”

– Chogyam Trungpa, “The sacred Path of the Warrior”

How are you doing developing your state of “nowness?”

It takes energy to move beyond fear.  We must go to a level other than the cognitive to alleviate fear and anxiety.  A preventative approach is very helpful. By reconditioning our nervous systems through daily meditation or deep relaxation training we develop stronger systems that do not knee jerk into a fear response as easily. This also makes us more keenly aware of when a feeling is beginning and we can release it earlier rather than later when it has had time to build into something too difficult to manage.

 Introspection that helps identify old unprocessed material that may be causing your system to be overly sensitive is also useful. In addition, if there are long standing issues in regard to chronic anxiety and fear then a nutritional status check is warranted. Our systems need certain nutrients to function properly. The ability to maintain proper inner balance is made more difficult if the proper nutrients are not available.

 Learning skills that work to ‘erase’ the effects of old input and unconscious automatic reactions are also useful. These methods can work ‘on the spot’ to reduce fear and anxiety as well as erasing lifelong patterns. The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is one such approach.  Emotional Freedom and Healing is another.

Meditation techniques that help you learn how to remain present and open to difficult feelings with no resistance, simply observing them without your normal responses can be very powerful ways of releasing embedded patterns of fear.

 Breathwork is another technique that functions well as an on the spot remedy as well as a preventative one. Most people who experience a great deal of fear or anxiety have breathing patterns that are a contributing factor.  Sit quiet for a moment and listen to your pattern.  After you get a sense for it, breathe consciously.  Breathe slowly and deeply.  Pull your breath as deep into your abdomen as you can.  Hold it for a few seconds and then slowly let it go.  Repeating this process for five or ten minutes at a time is an excellent way to bring yourself into the present moment.

 Ultimately, developing higher consciousness, an ability to live from a higher level of awareness or the authentic self, is perhaps the best solution to alleviating fear and anxiety. However, it is important to remember that this is a process and not an event. It requires a deep fundamental shift within, a commitment and participation in order to be cultivated and become a way of BEING. 

 Shift to being present at all times.  You will then live in the space where fear does not exist.

Both our recorded programs, 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery and Feng Shui and Chakras: Inner and Outer Balance, include helpful information about releasing fear, as well as guided exercises to help you learn methods to permanently release fear’s grasp.

Although fear may seem to have many causes, it is said that the primary underlying cause is fear of death.  Fear of death is a fear of bringing something to an end. That “something” comes in many disguises.  Some of the disguises you may be familiar with are fear of being wrong, fear of not being good enough, fear of not measuring up to someone else’s expectations, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, fear of the unknown.  Fear of change can be due to the sadness of saying goodbye and leaving someone or something behind, as well as fear of the unknown future looming ahead after the loss.

 There are certainly situations in life that justify a fear response. In those cases it is a good thing that our adrenaline pumps and we are given the energy to fight or flee. In those cases we are prepared to do what is needed to get out of harm’s way and return to safety. Once safety returns our natural balancing mechanism brings us back to a neutral state.

 The problem comes when this same fear response is activated by things that are not life threatening. In our present culture it is not unusual for this natural self-protective mechanism to be overly sensitized and active. This can result in a sense of chronic anxiety and tension or a hair trigger response to the smallest stimuli. All that fascinating fight/ flight/freeze physiology has been activated and has nowhere to go as it is not used up in the effort to regain safety.  As a result our fear deepens and limits our daily lives.

 When this occurs there tends to be an emotional paralysis or overload that happens which is accompanied by an inability to think clearly and make good decisions and choices. When our systems are thus set in motion we can feel as if we are under a threat to our lives; it all feels that important as our neurology and biochemistry rocks and rolls within causing us to feel out of control. We have all had that feeling that our minds know that our reactions are over the top but that knowing seems useless to calm our emotions.

 It takes energy to move beyond fear.  We must go to a level other than the cognitive to alleviate fear and anxiety.  

Tomorrow—moving beyond fear.

What does it mean to reinvent yourself? How do you do it? What are the steps?

 Join us on Monday at 10 A.M. when we will be talking with Debby Hoffman Adair about this topic. Debby will be sharing her experience and expertise in regards to transitioning through major changes in our lives.

 Debby is an award winning presenter, and the president of Positive Results Seminars. Her programs reflect her mission statement: to help people see the possibilities within themselves and create the results they want—Positive Results! Her programs are filled with information, motivation, inspiration, and of course—Fun!

 We hope you will join us as Debby shares how she reinvented herself from house wife to entrepreneur, overcame shyness, conquered her fear of public speaking, and transformed herself into a professional speaker and author.

If you cannot join us live, please listen to the recording at your leisure.

Climb Your Ladder of Success Without Running Out of Gas!: The Simple Truth on How to Revitalize Your Body and Ignite Your Energy for Lifelong Success

April 19th features the incredible talent, knowledge and passion of John Rowley. John is a #1 National Best Selling Author, International Speaker, Entrepreneur, World’s leading Lifestyle Strategist, TV Personality, Fitness Celebrity, and continues … Inspiring Millions to action! John is the pioneer in combining peak performance principles with physical and spiritual disciplines for complete and lasting success. His credentials include being a college athlete whose career was cut short by a near fatal car accident, a career as a janitor and the nerve to tackle the high powered world of Manhattan real estate and the dynamic international field of bodybuilding and fitness. He was one of the youngest SR. VP’s of any major real estate company in Manhattan, owned a gym which received international attention when it was featured in the movie, Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. Today John is an in demand speaker, author and resource to much of the media including Fox News, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart radio, etc. As a Peak Performance Coach and Lifestyle Strategist, John delivers his powerful message worldwide. In his 1st book, “Climb Your Ladder of Success Without Running out of Gas!” John shares the powerful lessons he learned while having one foot in the business world and the other in the fitness arena and how when combined enhance every area of your life.

Life is an intimate ongoing dance between our personal energy and that of the universe. Science is now affirming what philosophers and sages have been telling us for centuries. We live in a participatory universe. What we do, and how we think, feel, and believe all have an energetic reality. This energetic reality not only impacts us but also others and the planet itself.

ExcerptedChakras and Feng Shui: Inner and Outer Balance

If you have not yet become aware of the Global Coherence Initiative, here is a brief video talking about the background of the project, as well as the goal of using the interaction of personal and global energy to promote a better world for us all.

Here’s the second half of the video in the last post. Bruce Lipton’s latest book is well worth reading. It is relevant for working with your personal health/life as well as adding suport and information about how to participate in evolving our future as a planet!

Great explanation of belief, DNA, healing and power of the mind!