January B 2017
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Metaphysics
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Richard Gordon - Quantum Touch and Beyond
Health & Healing 38
5 Tips to Solve Your Aversion to Exercise
Spirituality 44 48
Building Bridges to Trust The Bhagavad-Gita – Ancient Jewel of Indian Wisdom
OM Living 56 60 64 68
Happiness as a Way of Life Do You Know Why You're A People-Pleaser 4 Tips for Helping Your Children Feel More Secure About Wearing Glasses OMTimes Radio Host Spotlight - Miriam Knight
Relationships 74
4 Tips in Communicating to Build Lasting Relationships
Stop Struggling: 10 Tarot Cards to Move You Forward
Astrology & Numerology 90
A Message for Lightworkers: 2017 Starts a New Nine Year Cycle
Personal Growth 96
Break Through the Barrier Between You and True Peace 100 How to Keep Your Motivation Going
Books 118 The Happiness Perspective
“Today, I have an incredible guest joining me today is Richard Gordon, who is an energy medicine pioneer, a visionary and the creator of Quantum Touch. Together we are going to discuss something that's near and dear to my heart, which is healing and energy, and we're going to explore what the next evolutionary steps may be that consciousness is taking us to, especially in the ever-expanding field of energy medicine. “
~Sylvia Henderson
Richard Gordon Quantum-Touch and Beyond
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The New Human, which was published in 2013. Richard's journey began while attending Christos School of Natural Healing in Taos, New Mexico in the 1970s where he discovered the power of working with energies in hands-on healing. This work led to a wide range of further discoveries as Richard began to explore all the energies around his hands. He eventually met an awe-inspiring healer named Bob Rasmussen, who had an extraordinary ability to heal people's bodies with his hands. Richard began apprenticing with Bob, and this is how Richard's work was born.
We’re going to talk about a remarkable hand on healing modality called Quantum touch, which is so effective and easy to learn that even children can learn to use it to heal themselves and others. And we are also going to talk about how energy medicine is evolving from hands on healing to something entirely different. Richard has over 37 years of experience in the field of energy medicine and is the best-selling author of Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal, which is published in 17 different languages, and the author of Your Healing Hands: The Polarity Experience, which is available in 10 different languages. He's also the author of Quantum Touch 2.0:
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Richard founded the Quantum Touch organization more than 16 years ago. This organization currently has more than 1,400 certified practitioners in over 50 countries around the globe. Their vision and mission are to help improve the health and quality of life for many people using simple, easy to learn energy healing techniques. With his expertise and passion for sharing the message about hands on healing, Richard has traveled around the world to speak at medical centers, conferences and chiropractic colleges. He was a faculty member at Heartwood Institute and the Holistic Health Institute.
5 Tips to Solve Your Aversion to Exercise by Rebecca Clio Gould
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Exercise. Some people love it, but even more people seem to hate it. Or, maybe hate is too strong of a word. But many people only do it because they feel like they should, not because they truly want to or enjoy it.
The truth is, being one of those women who really enjoys exercise, one of my greatest pleasures in life is a good cardio workout. If more than a day or two goes by without it, I can get cranky and depressed. Going to the gym or a class is not necessary to get my fix. Just getting up in the morning and popping in one of my Beach Body DVDs, working up a sweat with Shaun T, and setting myself up for an awesome day that way is enough. But let’s face it, I am a rare bird; unless you also live somewhere like Austin. Here, much of the city is obsessed with physical fitness and practically everyone and their mother seems to be a runner. But I digress. For many, exercise sounds like a chore, or even feel like a painful punishment, at least at first. But once we get into the groove of it or find activities
we truly enjoy, that will change. Don’t believe me? Try these tips:
Five Tips to Help Solve Aversion to Exercise 1. Think outside of the box. There is no reason for exercise to feel like a chore or like punishment. There are no rules saying you must go to the gym or go for a run or use workout DVDs. You don’t even need to work up a sweat. And if you get hung up on the words “exercise” or “workout,” then do not use them. Simply find activities that get you moving your body and are fun for you. Go for a walk, even if just around the block. Swim. Dance. Pull weeds--it can be so satisfying as well as great for your upper body. 2. Combine fun and fitness. The idea here is to combine your exercise time with something else--something fun! This could look like
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Building Bridges to Trust by John Holland
Building Bridges with Communication There are so many ways that we interact and communicate with each other on a daily basis. Be it face to face, on the phone, via email, social media, and endless text chats
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on different platforms! It can easily get overwhelming remembering what you’ve said to whom and in which mode! It’s easy to misinterpret a few words and for the trust to break down. For many of us who perhaps don’t find words of expression flow easily, it can be difficult to start the conversation. We might fear appearing stupid, vulnerable, or even imperfect. Don’t let this prevent you from making contact. It is often the first step in building that bridge of trust again.
Build Trust in Ways that Feel Right Find the most suitable method where you feel most comfortable. Initially, that might be email or text, (I prefer face-to-face) but the important thing is to open the door. By signaling a desire to interact more personally, sharing your thoughts and aspirations, dreams and even your spiritual philosophies can be liberating. Once you start
building the bridge of trust, you may well find that you’re able to share previously private thoughts and dreams in a more personal way, rather than the somewhat impersonal way of the past. Showing those you choose to trust displays a willingness to be open, to bare your soul and send out a signal that you’re receptive for others to become part of your life.
The Ripple Effect of Sharing Confidences Once you reach out, you will be surprised how the intimate confidences you share, not only have a ripple effect but inspire others to open their hearts and confide in you too. As this is my last article before the holiday season gets underway, I thought this an opportune time to talk about this subject, even though I’ve written about it before. Confiding in others can promote emotional closeness, and in doing so, often it’s a catalyst to dismantle past barriers that were caused
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Happiness as a Way of Life By Diane Wing, MA
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The Happiness Perspective: Seeing Your Life Differently We have the goal of being happy, yet do not give a thought as to what that looks like for us as an individual. We may see a commercial, movie, or a television program that has a character whose lifestyle might exemplify what we think would make us happy. Or we see a product that promises that once we get rid of that [annoying problem – insert yours here], then we will be happy. There’s even a movement that says that if we simplify our lives, then we will be happy. That may not be the case for those who take pleasure in juggling many things at once. The key is finding what works for the individual. What all these scenarios have in common is the false idea that “I’ll be happy when… [insert scenario here].”
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4 Tips in Communicating to Build Lasting Relationships by Colby Psychic Rebel
Do You Want to Build Lasting Relationships? As the year ends, we are all reminded of our accomplishments, setbacks and the disappointments we have experienced throughout the year. We may have lost old friends, gained new friends. Some of us either moved forward or struggled with
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failure in what we had hoped to achieve when initially setting our New Year’s resolutions’. Understanding that no year is a “perfect year” and not every moment is of “absolute bliss” can help us adjust and adapt to the flow of energy that each year embodies. There will always be peaks and valleys and when we can view these both as equally important, we can move forward freely. For each experience serves a purpose. When we hurt it’s easy to blame. Pointing a finger at the other person or situation alleviates our pain. Somehow, deflecting any personal responsibility justifies the demise in the relationship. We may even try to get others on our side. We tell our tale in hopes that they will empathize with us and comfort us in our time of self-pity.
An Open Heart is Key to Lasting Relationships Yet, the true sign of a spiritual being is one that can continuously open their heart and listen to those they hurt. Seeing both sides of a story is simply not enough, for we may
still try to “prove” our point. Yet, when we can open the gate of conversation then we can understand the underlying feelings of others. This is when understanding, compassion and empathy can occur. People get hurt and they shut down. They create these false scenarios and build emotional blocks based on perception, not on reality. Reality is not just one point of view. Reality is ALL points of view. It is the panorama of the experience. When we can love from this vantage point, the view is beautiful. We can then see that we are all one, and when one hurts, we all hurt. So many times, people throw away relationships, friendships and jobs based on perception and not on reality.
Communicating and Social Media In the day and age of social media, we have become afraid of being open to a conversation in which both people can sit, without judgement, and listen openly and freely. We are so quick to jump in and not even let the other person finish their sentence. Omtimes.com
Stop Struggling – 10 Tarot Cards to Move You Forward by Lisa Shaw
Struggling Can Lead to Blame and Strife Often, the external chaos we witness reflects of our own internal strife, connecting us to the world’s pain. In fact, it may be the opposite: the seeds
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of our discontent lie deep within us and we conveniently shift blame to others. Maybe life isn’t going right.
choices. The Tarot deck contains 78 powerful cards, but these 10 make visible our inner conflicts.
We knock on locked doors: applying for elusive jobs, seeking moves without luck, stagnating in relationships, feeling alienated. Maybe we hit one rockier patch, or feel taken advantage of yet again. Then we see a therapist to help us identify our own roles in these situations or consult a medium for angelic guidance. But, ultimately, we are responsible for identifying and releasing the causes of our discomfort.
Meditate on These 10 Tarot Cards for Added Insight
Reflect on 10 Tarot Cards in the Tarot Deck The traditional Tarot deck proves useful for such reflection. We needn’t be experienced readers to use the cards therapeutically. Insight and free association helps us glean meaning so we can address our subconscious
Meditate on each card, keeping your eyes relaxed. Your emotional intelligence will provide the answers you need. 1. Eight of Swords: imprisonment. A blindfolded, bound woman stands amid eight swords, her feet in a puddle. Behind her stands a castle on a cliff. Who is confining you? What do you not want to see? Who blindfolded her? Who’s in the castle? What emotional pattern placed you here? 2. Six of pentacles: abandonment. A woman and young boy on crutches crouch in the night, shoeless, walking against falling snow past
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Break Through the Barrier Between You and True Peace by Guy Finley
Do You Wish to Find True Peace? If we wish to find true peace, we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it
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is one with that Light whose life is the eternal present itself, even as the emanations of light and warmth are one with the sun from which they radiate. If our intuition can perceive that the above ideas are based in truth, then we should be naturally moved to ask the following question: If this peace we long for is inherent in this perfectly present moment we call the “Now,” what is it that keeps us from knowing the fulfillment of its promise within us? Let’s look.
The Happening of Our Days Through even casual observation, we can see that the primary governing body of our present self seems to be a mental and emotional construct whose sole occupation in life seems to be an ongoing consideration of what was and what will be. This activity amounts to what we experience as an endless weighing of our past and subsequent planning of
our future. Stated in another way, our lives are currently made up of what we name for ourselves as being good days or bad days. Of course, these “good” and “bad” days are labeled as such based on how they measure up to our desired expectations. Good days “happen” when we get what we desire, and bad days are . . . well, you know!
True Peace and Earthly Expression Now, one of the strange features about this present nature of ours is that even on “good” days-when we manage to achieve what we desire and feel a sense of satisfactionthis conditional peace often turns against us. Triumph becomes a kind of torment as we end up fearing we will lose the thing just gained. Poof goes our peace! We have another nature, one whose life and whose peace are the same character. This order of Self, and the Now that is the backdrop of its being, are as
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