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Metaphysics
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Carl Greer - Change the Story of Your Health
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Health & Healing 38 42
Identifying with Your Health Story Create Your Own Homeopathic Remedies with Reiki
Spirituality 48 52
Chanting your Way to Enlightenment Who Sent the Ants?
OM Living 60 66
5 Miraculous Ways to Live Better OMTimes Radio Spotlight – Sandie Sedgbeer
The Heart of the Feminine Struggle The Worlds are an Effect of Sound
Personal Growth 88 92 96
How About Your Success Path? Courage is a Choice The Importance of Being an Independent Thinker
Books 102 Change the Story of Your Health
Carl Greer Change the Story of Your Health by Sandra Sedgbeer
Change Your Health with Shamanic & Jungian Techniques What if you could, despite aging, injuries, health conditions and illnesses, not only return to the state of health that you previously
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enjoyed but even improve upon it? If that sounds like an impossible dream, stay tuned, because the story of our health is more in our control than we may think and this week’s guest, Clinical Psychologist and Shamanic Practitioner, Carl Greer, is not only going to tell us why this is so, but also provide some remarkable real-life stories to prove it. The author of the awardwinning book “Change Your Story, Change Your Life,” Carl Greer is a long-time successful Entrepreneur and Clinical Psychologist, Jungian Analyst, and Shamanic Practitioner.
from successful entrepreneur to clinical psychology and shamanism. I mean, what was it that was the impulse for that? CARL GREER: I grew up in a businessoriented household where I thought my life would be working in the steel industry, as my Dad had done. So, summers I worked in the steel mills and I got a degree in metallurgy electrical engineering, but I was not really fulfilled in those types of activities. So, I ended up becoming a businessman, not in the steel industry.
His latest book, “Change the Story of Your Health Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing,” offers practical tools for reframing our experiences so that we can experience less stress, greater well-being, and even better physical health, if we are willing to identify our health story and begin rewriting it. SANDRA SEDGBEER: Carl, tell us a little bit about your transition
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Create Your Own Homeopathic Remedies with Reiki by Regina Chouza
Homeopathic Remedies with Reiki Can Bring Relief Reiki is a simple healing tool that we can use to bring peace to mind, body and spirit. To do so, we need only attend a
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Level One class, and voilà! You have Reiki for life. It has many practical applications that can help us find peace in our daily lives, bringing light to our consciousness. While it certainly is relaxing to book a session with a Reiki practitioner, learning to channel this energy may prove to be a better investment in the long term! Reiki can be channeled in many ways, including chakra balancing, which allows us to bring the mind, body and spirit into alignment; meditating on the Reiki principles and enhancing our mindfulness and trust; and of course, creating our own homeopathic remedies when we need a bit of relief.
Let’s Begin with Reiki Mikao Usui discovered Reiki in the early 1920’s. A lifelong Buddhist, Usui believed that satori (enlightenment) could be reached through meditation, prayer and fasting. As legend has it, thus began the climb up Japan’s Mount
Kurumaya. Usui resolved to meditate for twenty-one days and nights until he reached satori or died trying. Instead, Usui got Reiki. In the west, we know Reiki primarily as a healing technique, although its Buddhist foundations also give us the benefits of a spiritual path. The word Reiki can be translated as Rei = divine intelligence, and Ki = life force energy. Reiki healers channel this universal spiritual energy through their palm chakras to their clients facilitating the recipient’s self-healing process. It can also be channeled quite easily for self-healing purposes, which should be covered in any Reiki Level One class. Beyond spiritual healing, the core principles involve living one day at a time, self-mastery, gratitude, honor and respect.
How Do Homeopathic Remedies Work? Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars, colloquially referred to as ‘like cures
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Chanting Your Way to Enlightenment by John Holland
Discover the Importance of Chanting Meditation I often write about the important of balancing your mind, body, and spirit with all the usual routines and practices, such as exercise,
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healthy eating, and a balanced work routine. But there’s another way to achieve an even greater sense of wellbeing and enlightenment as well as a stronger connection with the Divine. I’m talking about meditation, but not just regular meditation - I’m referring to chanting. What better way to bring all the bodily senses together, than through the connection of vibrational sound? It touches your mind, your emotions, as well as your essential organs, such as your lungs and heart. It’s a wonderful way to de-stress and become more conscious and aware.
Many Ways to Chant Relaxing in Your Own Vibration There are many ways to chant, regardless of how selfconscious you may be. You can meditate with a pre-recorded chanting track or devise
your own chants. The most important part is that you’re better doing this totally alone. If you have a quiet space you can relax in, then all the better as you won’t be worrying what the neighbors will think, or your partner hearing you making weird noises! Chanting meditations raise the level of your own vibrations, and enable you to reach a higher spiritual plane. Whatever sound, word, or phrase you decide to use, choose something unique and personal to you. It can help to bolster your spirit when you feel depleted.
Liberate the Soul with Chanting Equally, chanting meditations can liberate the soul, so you feel as though you’re floating, without all the pressures of your normal life. It’s when you reach this place that you can often find answers to questions plaguing you, a
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5 Miraculous Ways to Live Better by Rachelle Wilber Happy and Healthy Go Hand in Hand Human happiness is not a concrete concept; actually, quite the opposite. If the whole world knew exactly what would make them happy, everything would be much simpler. What is known, however, is that happiness and healthiness go hand in hand. This does not mean just physical health. Mental and emotional health are also vital. Here is a list of 5 things that make humans feel happy and healthy.
Five Ways to Feel Happy and Healthy Exercise Everyone knows that exercise leads to better health. However, it is not just physical health that is impacted by developing a more active lifestyle. Exercise releases endorphins in the brain that can make people feel happier emotionally. Omtimes.com
Education Education can give a feeling of self-worth. Pursue a college degree or just take a class. Get that master of nursing online that you’ve been looking into
for a while. Pursuing education is a wonderful outlet for mental health and happiness, and a more advanced degree may help your financial life as well. Eliminate Stress Stress can cause physical and emotional worry. Pinpoint the aspects of life that are stressful and eliminate them. Is your job stressful? Consider looking for a new one. Are you worried about debt? Make a plan to get out of debt. Once you vocalize what the issue really is, it is much easier to tackle any problem.
Start saving for that dream vacation. Or, just explore things in your home state that you have not seen. There is a lot of life to live out there, so go experience something. Go to a play you haven’t seen. Eat at a restaurant you have never tried. It will refresh your outlook on the world. Health and happiness are something that we often wish for but rarely know how to achieve. At the end of the day, the only person responsible for health and happiness is yourself. You only get one life, so live it to the fullest.
Get a Pet Animals are a lot of responsibility, so this is not a decision to take lightly. Pets can provide companionship and loyalty that can definitely help their owners feel happier. Visit a local animal shelter and look for a pet that fits your needs. This way, you will feel good about adopting the animal as well. Go Somewhere New Traveling is something that can open the mind and soul. Seeing sights and meeting all sorts of different people is enlightening.
About the Author Rachelle Wilber is a freelance writer living in the San Diego, California area. She graduated from San Diego State University with her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Media Studies. She tries to find an interest in all topics and themes, which prompts her writing. When she isn’t on her porch writing in the sun, you can find her shopping, at the beach, or at the gym. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook: @RachelleWilber; https://www.facebook.com/profile. php?id=100009221637700
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The Heart of the Feminine Strug g le by Elohim Yael
Explaining the Feminine Struggle with Lilith This third article in the Lilith series focuses on the heart of the feminine struggle. In our previous articles, we discussed how Lilith represents the
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untamed wife - those parts of the feminine that escaped into humanity’s shadow rather than be constrained. Falling into the shadow, the masculine and the remaining aspect of the feminine hide Lilith and the feminine qualities she represents. In our previous articles on Lilith (Lilith, Shadowing the Feminine Dilemma and Making Lilith and Her Shadow Visible Again), we saw how throwing light on all our inner shadow parts not only contributes to reconciliation between the two aspects of the feminine with the masculine, but also to experiencing a deeper layer of inner freedom. To truly come to peace with the heart of the inner feminine struggle, Lilith shows us another key. As with her choice to escape the harsh reality of the masculine-oriented system, the feminine stepped into a trap. This snare is the illusion of restraint in freedom, and the
story of Hagar, Abraham, and Sarah explains this.
The Chosen One Abraham, married to Sarah, was promised many descendants. As Sarah believed herself to be too old to conceive, she offered her slave Hagar to Abraham as a second wife. Hagar then gave birth to Ismael and later Sarah also became pregnant with a son called Isaac. This brought up the question of which son had the first rights. Hagar and Ismael drew the short straw and went to the desert. They end up nearby Mecca. Ismael is known to be the ancestor of the Arabs and Isaac, ancestor of the Jews. Several themes are played out in this bible story. The most striking is how brothers, men and women were subjected to a great divide for centuries to come. It marks who is or wants to be ‘the chosen one’ and points out what is to be preferred and protected.
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How About Your Success Path? by Maria Khalife
Success, Promise, and Purpose Come Together Do you have the success mindset of living a life filled with promise and purpose? Or, have you been lead down a path that looks unhappy and hopeless? We know a few folks
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who view life through a film of gloom, an unwillingness to relinquish this mindset, and without work habits that will help them to change.
Do you have a dream? What Do You Want to Achieve? Do you know what you want to achieve in your lifetime? If you are not clued in to your promise and purpose, here are a few questions to ask: Do you know where (or on what) to lend your attention? We live in a busy, hurryscurry world. We are faced daily with looking at all these things tugging at us, so that we can categorize them into Must Do Now and Save for Later categories. One of the nice things about learning how to prioritize
is that we learn those Save for Later items always come up a second and third time courtesy of life’s wisdom. So, we can know that at some later date, we can move them into the Must Do Now category. We will recognize when the time is right. Am I generally positive or negative minded? Earl Nightingale said, “You become what you think about all day long.” Take a long, honest look to see if you’ve developed a habit of positivity or negativity. That said, it is positivity that we need if we want to be a success. We all encounter roadblocks, but don’t let them get you down! In fact, do these blocks even deserve any attention at all? Why clutter up your mind with a negative inventory? If you’re focused on forward
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