July B 2017
Cover Story
Metaphysics
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Tori Hartman - The Chakra Wisdom
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Health & Healing 36 40
A Compassionate Guide to Obesity When Illness Reveals its Hidden Purpose
Spirituality 46 50
Is Heaven Trying to Get Your Attention? Communicating and Communing with Nature
OM Living 58 62 66
How to Live a Deep, Passionate Life How to Use Plants to Reduce Air Pollution in Your Home Is the One-Person Syndrome Limiting Your Business
Relationships 76
The Difference Between Liking and Loving
Illumination: Animal Communication - Cuddles Ask Whitedove
Personal Growth 96
What If Today Was Your Last Day? 100 The Pain of Loneliness & The Need to Belong 104 Receive Free Education from the GOYA School
Books 110 Book Spotlight - The MultiOrgasmic Diet
Chakra Wisdom Oracle: How to Read the Cards for Yourself and Others Tori Hartman, author interview with OMTimes Magazine Tori Hartman on the Chakra Wisdom Oracle Card Book OMTimes: I understand your new book, Chakra Wisdom Oracle: How to Read the Cards for Yourself and Others, is soon to be
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published by Watkins. And it is a step-by-step guide to help readers gain a profound understanding of your bestselling Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards? Tori Hartman: I would say that the idea is to use the reading techniques and concepts to master your own intuition. I don’t think we ever learn cards. I think we learn the techniques that are necessary to read cards, and then the entire realm of card reading opens to us. When I was learning to read Tarot, 25 years ago now, I studied with some great teachers, who all told me to look at the cards and tell them what the pictures meant, rather than the other way around. My single biggest frustration is when people email me and ask what a card means. The “meaning” is in the book, yet if it were that easy then wouldn’t everyone just “get” it? Learning to
intuitively read cards is like learning a new language. I’m oddly surprised when I go to a foreign country and can’t simply speak the language. As I can use intuitive reading skills, I always think I can speak any language with ease. Apparently, this is not the case. The last time I was in France, I told a gentleman in a bookstore that I wanted to “smoke him”. Languages are trickier to master than you think. So, my new book is about learning the tools and skills that will open the language of your intuition to you. The Fables of the Chakra Wisdom Oracle Can Bring Healing OMTimes: Why did you write this new book? Tori Hartman: There is a short and long answer to this. The short answer is that it’s always frustrated me that so many cool decks didn’t give more than a small leaflet or booklet
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A Compassionate Guide to Obesity by Kathryn Remati
The Obesity Epidemic and Getting Healthier Obesity is officially an epidemic, ranging from the overweight to the morbidly obese. According to recent studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “The prevalence of overweight children and adolescents and obesity in adults in the United
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States has increased over several decades.” This is not just an American problem, as more than a billion people worldwide are experiencing health problems due to extra weight. A deeper and holistic awareness of the overweight individual is necessary for any solutions to have long-lasting results. Instead of seeing the obese person as a statistic, a BMI or scale number, we can view the whole person as someone suffering emotionally, physically, and mentally. This is the first step to helping. Do not confuse compassion with pity. This is a call to better understand people suffering from misunderstanding most of their lives. If you are overweight, or know someone who is, here are a few facts to consider. These prove there are instances where the obese individual is thus perceived as a victim and not just an intentional consumer of calories.
Four Insightful Facts about Obesity 1.The human brain has craved high-fat and sugary
foods since prehistoric times to prepare for a long, lean winter in the cave. Our primitive brain still has those cravings, but is now easier to appease due to the evolution of our culture of convenience. Our ancestors were also more physically active than we are now. It seems logical under these circumstances that the population would grow heavier over time. The scientific community has coined the term “sitting disease” to describe the growing prevalence of our modern, tech-obsessed, sedentary lifestyle and its negative effects on our health. 2. Our subconscious mind is always awake and ready to be influenced by those knowing how to reach it to affect our behavior. Brian Wansink, Ph.D., the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, researches the “hidden persuaders” used by supermarkets, restaurants, and food marketers. External stimuli, such as music, color of the room, and label design, can subliminally encourage Omtimes.com
Is Heaven Trying to Get Your Attention? by John Holland
Feeling Those Heavensent Messages The veil between this world and the next (heaven) is very thin. As a medium, I have the ability to see beyond that veil and communicate with the Spirit World. I treat it with the utmost respect and never abuse the privilege that’s afforded to me.
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As I raise my own vibrations to make a connection, I always stop and honor their presence as I blend with their energy. I get to see and feel a soul in its entirety--youthful, beaming, and luminous--even if it’s for the briefest of moments. I celebrate their joys and their sadness, as well as their love. It is a blessing to do this work, but I’ve never considered it as a job and never take it for granted. The people who receive a message through me from loved ones on the Other-Side often tell me what a beautiful gift they’ve just received, but in reality, I’m the one who’s received the ultimate gift. It’s a chance for me to honor my soul purpose of being all that I can be as a spirit messenger to help others in their time of need. Communicating Alone Can Be Equally Insightful Communication and closeness with departed loved ones in heaven is also possible without necessarily sitting with a medium. So many people come to see me and express how much
they’d love to connect with the Other-Side for themselves, rather than receiving the information secondhand. To experience your own communication firsthand, it’s important to become aware. For example, the next time you’re thinking of someone who’s passed over, it could be because at that exact moment, they’re lovingly thinking of you, too. Be aware of each time you think of them and keep an open mind. As I often say: “Your loved ones are just a thought away.” As always, I urge you at the start to keep a record of your experiences in a journal. ‘Talking with Our Think’ and Child Chats with Heaven A beautiful story of this child’s belief in the power of thought illustrates my point perfectly. It revolves around a little girl named Daisy who passed to spirit at the very young age of ten. During her last days, Daisy looked up and told her mother that she was communicating with her little brother who had passed years earlier. In fact, Daisy
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How to Live a Deep, Passionate Life by Tony Samara
The Complexity of Living a Passionate Life “There is no passion to be found in playing small; in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.� --Nelson Mandela Living a deep, passionate life is quite a complex scenario. Do we simply wait until what is safe outside supports us? Do we wait until what seems okay outside supports us through the change?
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If so, then we will wait forever because the mind is never safe. The mind is fed from the ego, from a sense of control and dualism, and from the sense of believing that there is a future. However, there is no future, there is only this moment! The heart knows this, but the mind can’t go there. If we stay with this aspect of ourselves, there is never a safe thing. There may ‘seem’ to be safe things. This is because they are the feelings that come from the mind. These convince us that everything is okay because it feels good or feels like it is possible. Passionate Life: A Channel for the Divine Love Life is so complex! Yet, the divine is not some sort of joker sitting ‘up there’ watching us play games. He/she/it, the big picture, or whatever you like to call it, doesn’t sit anywhere other than inside of our heart. It is not a joker; rather, is really wanting each of us to acknowledge its experience. Once we acknowledge it, then the idea of love, the idealism, the picture that we have of love,
has no validity. What happens is that we experience love. We open inside, to a space that is so real that our mind begins to believe again in that space that it has forgotten. When this occurs, there is such a powerful feeling. Because what we have done and are doing, and what we create, is a channel where the divine deep inside of us is able to express itself. This offers not just love or projection, but rather the actual expansion of the divine into the experience of the mind, which the mind then cannot resist. Real Love - No Mind Can Resist It In the same way, we must ask ourselves, how can we escape from a structure that is us? There is only one way and every person that is totally free knows this. We must be totally and completely, be 100 percent passionate about everything that we do. The English word doesn’t convey what 100 percent passionate means. But, perhaps it could be defined as being 100 percent total, being totally involved and passionate about everything we do. Omtimes.com
Is the OnePerson Syndrome Limiting Your Business? by Simone Milasas
When Business is Me, Myself, and I “What can I do to improve the number of my clients?� This is a question that comes up frequently in my business seminars. Usually the person asking it loves what they do -
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whether it’s coaching or being a motivational speaker - but there are other aspects of their business that they don’t enjoy. The good news is, you don’t have to do it all. If marketing, making sales calls, answering email inquiries on time or book keeping is not something you truly enjoy, hire someone else to do it. That’s the joy of business! It’s not about having all the answers but rather having the tools to deal with any situation that arises and changing what’s not working for you. Often, when someone has founded and created their business from the ground up, they don’t want to hire extra staff. They say it costs a lot of money, it’s too complicated, how do you find the right people; there are so many different points of view about hiring staff. Joy of Business - So Many Ideas, So Little Time I have been there myself.
When Joy of Business first started, I employed one person who was great at technical systems. I had so many ideas and lots of things that I wanted to create, but each time we talked about them she said, “I’m not a creator”. She said it five times before I got it. I had been so comfortable with one employee that I didn’t want to step into the unknown area of hiring a second or third person. When I finally realized that my business needed a different energy I hired two more people. What Energy Does Your Business Require? There are three energies you require for a business to work. They are creator, connector, mover. It doesn’t have to be three people; it’s three energies. As the creator, you’re creating the energy of the whole business. Creators are visionaries; they are the ones who have a plethora of ideas and they come up with
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The Difference Between Liking and Loving by Bob Mangroo Life Lessons and Natural Philosophy Combine From the time we are small, we seek to figure out the difference between liking and loving. Someone once
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asked the Buddha, ‘What is the difference between I like you and I love you?’ The Buddha beautifully replied: ‘If you like a flower you will pluck it, if you love the flower you will water it daily. One who understands this understands life.’
or someone new. This type of thinking is common where people may abuse food, alcohol, shopping out of boredom, or quick relationships that come and go. As much as we may like quick pleasures, they are not long lasting as love.
Very often, we function from the perspective of liking but not loving. To like is to function from quick pleasure. If you pluck a flower and put it in a vase, the flower has already begun to die. Thus, quick pleasure never lasts. A flower that is plucked begins to fade, its fragrance dulls and soon the flower dries up. Pleasure is temporary; the feeling dies, the object of desire disappears and nothing is left except tiny fragments of memory.
Liking and Loving - What Brings Lasting Fulfillment? There is nothing wrong with pleasure, but when we rely heavily on pleasure for fulfillment this inevitably leads to disappointment. The feeling of pleasure vanishes quickly, and yet, we often fool ourselves into thinking that this good feeling will last forever. And, sadly enough it does not. No matter how hard we try, we will not (and cannot) find deep happiness through desperate pleasure.
When the pleasure for something is gone, we are quick to search for something
Pleasure is limited and it usually comes in a package and sits on a store shelf. Authentic
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Illumination::
Animal Communication with Cuddles by Lisa Shaw
Welcome to our first animal communication column for OMTimes magazine. I will be providing consultations which will be featured monthly.
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A reading is a telepathic conversation between the communicator and the animal, providing illumination to strengthen to solve problems, best serve our furry and feathered companions, and strengthen the humananimal bond.
Cuddles and Judi Reach Out for a Reading Judi got in touch, asking for insight with her dog, Cuddles. From Judi: I could use some advice with Cuddles. I adopted her in 2013 and we take her everywhere we can so she will be more social and not afraid of other people or dogs. Cuddles has done well with that. The issue is I see clients in my home, and she is very protective. Even if Cuddles has seen them several times before--barking, jumping and threatening stances whenever
they stand up, walk in, or walk out. If they are sitting, she calms down. Any ideas? When I read Cuddles, she immediately shows me two important things. The first is a small white dog, a poodle or Bichon Frise-type, with whom she was very close. Then she shows me a human baby being picked up by its mother. In both cases, she felt left out. Cuddles may have been in a home with two dogs and was very close to the other dog, who was the preferred pet. Being given up for adoption meant being separated from her friend, so there were two crushing issues with that one action, loss of friendship and knowledge that she was not wanted. This could be from this lifetime or a holdover of memory from
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What If Today Was Your Last Day? by Julie Geigle
If Today Was Your Last Day... In listening to a great song on the radio (If Today Was Your Last Day, by Nickelback), it got me to thinking. It is interesting how we spend so much time running around trying to get everything done. We fall into a heap on the couch
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at the end of the day, exhausted. Many keep a to-do list every day and really enjoy crossing things off. That used to be me, but then I began focusing on all the things I didn’t complete that I still had left to do. I realized it was creating more stress in my life than less. So, ditch the to-do list and start simply focusing on three things you want to complete in a day. Get up early, and set the intention of what the three most important things are you want to accomplish. For myself, 99.9 percent of the time when the day ends I now say, “Yes, I did that! I achieved my goal.” Feeling calm and confident, I can tackle another day. This gives us much less stress in our life than an endless to-do list. We may occasionally still write out long-term things we’d like to complete. But, do away with that daily to-do list. In its place, you will find life is a calmer, more peaceful place. It is possible to exist within a love vortex and create more love and joy in life.
Here is a bucket list of things I would do if today were my last day: Give my partner a smoldering kiss before they leave for work. Walk the dogs because there is nothing better than watching them get all excited when you say, “Who wants to go for a walk?” Take a long, hot, steamy bath with loads of Epsom salt and bubbles listening to soft music. Wear the sexiest undergarments in my drawer (this is the special occasion I have been waiting for) and those comfortable jeans with that favorite sweater I’ve had for 20 years and still look great in. Go out to that favorite breakfast joint with my sister. Watch old reruns of my favorite TV shows. Have bloody Marys with my besties for lunch; because yes, sometimes it is fun to be naughty like that.
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