November B 2017
Cover Story
Metaphysics
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Regula Curti - Awakening Beyond
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Health & Wellness 40 44
The Wisdom of Your Inner Healer 9 Effective Aromatherapy Remedies for Digestive Health
Spirituality 50 56 60
Transitioning from Human Being to Conscious Spirit Why You Should Unclutter Your Soul What Religion or Philosophy is the True One
OM Living 68 74
Abundance through Integrity How to Cultivate Wellness in your Life and Business
Relationships 82
Get Rid of Your Inner Bully
Sound Healing and The Colors of the Wind What is the Purpose of Life
Personal Growth 100 10 Unexpected Ways to Turn Motivation Into Success 104 Hollywood Stuntman’s Fear Blocking Technique 110 Learning the Difference Between Self-care and Self-love 114 The Word and the Womb
Awakening Beyond With everything in the world that can possibly divide people and nations, is there something that can unite us, find common ground between us and ultimately take us from
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the illusion of separation? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Regula Curti along with her husband Beat created the Beyond Foundation in 2007 using music to inspire mutual respect, compassion and dialogue between religions and cultures around the world and to awaken tolerance and love. This concept has grown and blossomed since 2008 with the release of three amazing albums and the just-released fourth creation Awakening Beyond. Victor Fuhrman: Good evening, Regula. Thank you so much for joining us. Regula Curti: Good evening, Victor. Thank you. Victor Fuhrman: Please share with our readers your personal story and how music became an integral part of your life. Regula Curti: Music was always a very important part of my life. I grew up with singing, with music, with playing the violin and especially also with realizing that, for me, singing and music has a healing effect. So, when I was sad, I would
go run to my room and play my violin and sing and feel good about it later. So, music, the healing aspect of music, was with me in my earliest childhood, and I dedicated this aspect to my entire life. Victor Fuhrman: And how did you get involved in yoga? Regula Curti: That was many years ago. I was in Thailand at a resort. I’d never done yoga, but they had a very nice teacher there. And the first lesson was touching me so much that I knew yoga will be a part of my life and a part of my health and part of my mental health, as well. I started to look deeper into yoga and found my own masters and teachers in India, especially Yogi Bhajan, who is the master of Kundalini Yogi. I was very much touched by this technology of yoga because there is so much singing involved - not just singing, soundings. And as a musician and singer, it’s just the right thing to do. And I continued this path, just kept in yoga. It gave me the Omtimes.com
The Wisdom of Your Inner Healer
How can you boost your immunity, repair damage in your body caused by poor health habits, and improve your health? Identifying what you need to do is often much
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easier than actually doing it. You might have insights into your health challenges but neglect to connect the dots between your actions and your beliefs and emotions. Those thoughts and feelings may be hidden from your conscious mind. To access them, you may have to become still and use techniques such as meditation and shamanic journeying that let you get past the obstacle of your conscious mind’s denial. Your conscious mind may be uncomfortable you are not making progress toward changing old habits and may resist admitting this is the case. The wisdom of your inner healer can help. A wise inner healer resides within each of us, and it knows why we continue to snack on sugary and salty treats even though we have vowed to break the habit. It knows why we make excuses for not meditating or exercising instead of just doing what
we said we were going to do. Awaken to the wisdom of your inner healer and the insights you gain might lead to breakthroughs. Your selfsabotage might cease as you come to work through what your conscious mind has not wanted to face. You may be stuck in old habits that no longer serve you because they make you feel happier in the short-run. You might not have considered how you might experience pleasure in the now yet also protect your health long-term. Maybe you enjoy bonding with friends when you eat foods you could get away with consuming years ago, before you developed health challenges related to your poor diet. Bonding with them over wine and cheese like you always did might make you feel accepted, loved, and part of a tribe of energetic people who have endless opportunities and their whole
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Transitioning from Human Being to Conscious Spirit
By Judi Lynch
Life on Earth is just part of a soul’s journey through the Universe. We incarnate through a miraculous process of life and transition back again to spirit in conscious evolution.
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Although it can be a controversial subject, many people have a natural curiosity about how our earthly missions will end. If we are believers in the spirit surviving the body’s death, then where will our soul reside without it? The world’s religions have different views on this. Some believe that we will be “asleep” until certain events “wake us up,” thinking this was about physical death. It may have been referencing our spiritual death while we are still breathing and that awakening occurs during our earth lifetime. There are many accounts of afterlife communication. Accurate, clear, concise knowledge from talented energy receivers who have validated scores of incredible information. Since most people don’t incarnate here with a manual, we live through or seek out spiritual
information from a myriad of sources. Those sources determine our belief system until/unless we seek out new, more evolved information offering proof enough to change our thinking. We can also choose to adopt a more ancient religion that appeals to our soul’s calling. If we can stay open-minded and think with an open-hearted willingness to accept ourselves as spiritual beings, we have the capability to witness and create miracles. Those miracles come in moments of connection and celebration of our spirits. The souls which reside in our fragile bodies are truly indestructible light filled orbs of energy. They can send along life-saving information, healing light, energy, and comfort in the darkest night of a human life. The universe is filled with the unseen life of these energies. Angels,
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Why you should Unclutter Your Soul By John Holland
Is it possible that when you clear out and unclutter parts of your life, that it, in turn, can help you on a soul level? The answer: YES!
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Recently I went to a book talk at a local bookstore to hear Kerri Richardson, a colleague and dear friend speak about her new book: “What Your Clutter Is Trying to Tell You Uncover the Message in the Mess and Reclaim Your Life. Kerri gave a fantastic and very inspirational talk on how and why clutter builds up in so many of our lives. When you clear clutter from your life – you’re making room for more positive things to come in and enter your life. When I say, “more things” to enter your life I don’t mean “more stuff.” By creating space, it allows for new opportunities, ideas, and additional mental capacity to take on new hobbies, learning, etc., as you’re energetically clearer. I was so inspired by Kerri’s talk that I set out to tackle a chore that I’ve been putting off for months and months! Ok, maybe years! Yes, I finally made the decision to clear out my storage unit. It was full of not only some of my “stuff” as I like to put
it, but friends had “stuff” stored there too! When my mom passed, I had stored her belongings and boxes in there with the intention of sorting them, but I never got around to it at the time. I realized that it has been 6 years since my mom passed and I was still hanging onto all her things that the family didn’t want or ever come look at it. The funny thing is I have a huge basement at home that’s half empty, and I’d often be reminded by friends how I could save the monthly fee for the storage unit! But I knew I needed to not just move the “stuff” but to get rid of it, donate it, sell or give away what was no longer needed or wanted. I realize now having completed the task, that clearing out something physical like this unit is similar to when you decide to clear up mental clutter too! I’d been telling myself: “John you really do need to go down and clear out your unit” for so long, that in a way, it became a mental
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Abundance through
INTEGRITY
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, while abundance is profusion, plentifulness, profuseness or copiousness. One may wonder
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what is the link between the two. Deep down, the heart knows our inner truth. That feeling which is certainly true, that every iota of our being resonates with. Our truth is that innate feeling which spontaneously jumps at us in the most unexpected manner. And we have to face it! The secret is to align with that truth, and create abundance in our lives. It is as simple as slicing to soul level and taking it straight from there. Billions of us are still making money, having relationships and living good lives.
What distinguishes integrity derived abundance from other forms? The issue is that not many are waking up to the truth! Yet they still are able to get by. Because at the top there are few eagles scaling the sky rest are following their flight. So goes for all of us one CEO, the rest employees. One GURU, the rest followers. One Michael
Jackson or Madonna, the rest amateur singers - so where is the cut? Surely it is the ability to dig deep and walk the toughest path of ‘truth’. We do not all need to be Guru’s, Madonna’s, Nelson Mandela’s, Jesus Christ’s or Admirals of US Navy, President of Singapore, or a COO of a large corporation, but we can still create abundance through integrity. It is as simple walking our path, for example, selling vegetables and becoming abundant that way. As the saying goes ‘what makes you happy makes you abundant’. If something in our lives is not making us happy, then it is time to ‘course correct’ or probably, to contemplate, reflect and go within to find the cause. This makes it possible for to switch gears and find the next best ‘happiness factor’. A tough call, but a necessary one if we want to sleep peacefully and breathe an air of ease.
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How to Cultivate Wellness in your Life and Business
The pace of our lives is becoming faster all the time. It is so easy to forget about making our wellness a priority; often, until there is a health or wellness issue at hand.
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Did you know, however, that what you put first is what grows? So, if you put work, work, work, got to get it done, got to meet the deadline, etc., first all the time, guess what? You get more to work, work, work to get done, done, done with more deadlines! It becomes never-ending. And where does your wellness end up?
I know the drill. I have been there and done that. I have delayed going to the bathroom because I just had to get this one thing finished first – which ended up dragging on and on (remember – what you put first grows!) How did I turn it around? I made the demand of myself to change, became committed
to making those changes, and consistently practiced making different choices. What I found, is that it really boils down to being mindful and listening to your body, and choosing to take action in line with what your body requires and desires consistently throughout the day, rather than strict rules about what you can and can’t do or should and shouldn’t do for enhanced wellness. And, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to cut down on your workload, or only work certain hours, etc. Everyone is an individual and has unique needs. Some people actually thrive on having a lot to do. That’s why you need to be mindful and listen to your body; to come to realize what does and doesn’t work for you. At first, I needed reminders. I used my smartphone to ping me at set intervals throughout the day, and even if I was super busy, I made my wellness a priority. It’s demand that you make of yourself, to ensure that it actually occurs.
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Get Rid of Your Inner Bully By Marcia Sirota, MD.
There’s a lot of bullying going on these days. We find it in schools, in the workplace and online.
authority figures around us. In fact, it becomes a big part of our inner monologue.
There’s one form of bullying that rarely gets talked about though, and it’s creating a lot of misery. I’m talking about self-bullying.
When the messages we take in are positive, we develop confidence and good self-worth; when we hear a lot of critical or rejecting messages, we develop what I call the “Inner Bully.”
When we grow up, we take in everything we hear from our parents, family members and
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The Inner Bully is the voice in
our head that tells us that we’re not smart, capable, attractive or lovable; it tells us not to bother trying something because we’re just going to fail; it tells us that we don’t deserve to be treated with love or respect. The Inner Bully says things like, “Who do you think you are?” when we dare to feel good about ourselves for something we’ve accomplished. It tells us, “Don’t get a swelled head!” This bully fills our mind with negative self-talk; it burdens us with guilt, shame and obligation, and always blames us for anything that goes wrong, even when it had nothing to do with us. It tells us that any success we achieve is an accident, so we won’t be able to recreate it, or that we must have cheated to get the good result. The Inner Bully oppresses us and makes it hard to create happiness and success. Depending on how powerful it is in our psyche -- which relates directly to how we were treated in childhood- this bully can really
mess things up for us. Ramona (not her real name) is a smart, capable and caring young woman who has struggled all her life to find success. Her Inner Bully was so strong that she had no faith in her abilities. Even when she accomplished good things, the Inner Bully would never allow her to take credit for them, so she had to see them as “a fluke,” or “no big deal.” Her confidence could never develop. When she received praise or a promotion because of her hard work, she panicked and became confused, as any measure of success contradicted what the Inner Bully was telling her about herself. Ramona was trapped in this selfdefeating belief system and was never going to be free. Fortunately, she decided to get help. She did some important work on herself and was able to see the Inner Bully for the liar and saboteur it really is. Ramona was able to let go of the negative self-talk. She could Omtimes.com
The Colors of the Wind
The wind whistles, roars and purrs. It teases, soothes, or rips us with cold stabs to match its winter song. Poetic? Yes, but literally and subtly true.
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As the speed of the wind increases, its pitch rises. A diminishing breeze sings a corresponding lower tone. When the wind dances, its movement speeds up, creating musical glissandos, with its pitch gradually changing like the howling of a wolf. How much fun it is to listen to the melodious voice - of the wind. You hear the wind and feel it caressing your skin. It “plays” with you, as if it is keeping you company. Notice how the air makes you “feel”. We all experience music that stirs our feelings. Likewise, listening to “wind choirs” strums your emotions, producing tiny nuances and subtle feelings. Your body has sensors in the skin, in which, you literally and subtly intake sound and yes, even the gentle purr of the wind. The wind is invasive. Energy from sound can transfer to many things, each with correlating frequencies. This happens all the time. Think to the emotive qualities of
a movie track. The movie is lifeless without the sounds and music animating it, but its music orchestrates our feelings. This is due to resonance, a phenomenon in which a vibrating force (such as sound) drives something else (such as emotions) to increase its vibrations. Air-stream sounds affect your emotions via resonance. Sounds and colors are related. The cycles per second of colored lights, taken down musical octaves, correlate to musical notes. Through resonance, the energy from a colored light causes its corresponding musical note to increase its vibrations. Native Americans Indians believe that the wind colors the sky. Literally it does. Colors correlate to emotions - as one may intuitively feel. Blue lights create a chilling feeling, while red ones emanate warmth. We even hear this in our language. Common examples include: “I was blue today”. “He is red
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10 Unexpected Ways to Turn Motivation Into Success By Joyce Cantu
They say that motivation is the fuel of life, necessary to propel a person to any sort of success, but it is by no means enough to achieve something
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significant. Filling up a car with petrol and starting it, will not take it anywhere if a driver does not know the right direction. The same is true when it comes to turning motivation into success. A lot of people have more than enough motivation, but they are clueless as to what they want to achieve with it, or, what is even more important, how to go about reaching their goals. It means that motivation, which is their important resource, is being wasted because it is not turned into success. To avoid the same thing happening to you, read through our 10 nuggets of advice that is provided by a custom paper writer who researched this topic properly interviewing around 20 people of different categories. 1. Set a Specific Goal One sure way to fail in
achieving anything is to set a goal as broad as “achieving success.“ It means that one’s efforts are not being focused, which inevitably leads to failure. To set a specific goal, these 6 questions must be answered: WHAT do I want to achieve? WHO is involved? WHY is this goal important to me? WHICH resources do I have? WHERE is it? WHEN can I achieve it? 2. Set a Measurable Goal To be able to track the progress and manage deadlines, it is important to set a measurable goal. For example, breaking a sports record is a measurable goal, because it answers these 3 questions: HOW much? HOW many? HOW will I know when it is accomplished? 3. Set Achievable Goal Perhaps you want to become a NASA astronaut, but you have unfixable eye problems, in which case setting such
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Hollywood Stuntman’s Fear Blocking Technique
My heartbeat rose as I stood silently in position on the movie sound stage of Captain America: First Avenger starring Chris Evans. I watched lighting technicians and cameramen make slight adjustments and I felt the wiremen secure the cables attached to my back. Sweat formed on my brow. Having captured Captain America with Omtimes.com
my flame-thrower in a previous scene, my character was to kill off his best friend “Bucky,” played by Sebastian Stan. This would all take place on board a moving train no less. I was to fire at “Bucky” and blow a hole in the side of the carriage. He would hang on briefly before falling to his death. Ultimately, an angry Captain America would retaliate and take me out
with his iconic shield. Thanks to the magic of Hollywood my demise was going to be dramatic -the wire connected to my back and a high-pressure gas cylinder would cause me to fly backwards 20ft through the air until I hit the end of the train carriage. Let me explain, this is no mean feat – I was wearing a costume that weighed almost the same as my body weight! Now, let’s go back to me standing on the sound stage before any of this happened and I was thrust backwards down the train carriage and into an unforgiving wall. As you can imagine in that moment my heart was racing. And just because I am the author of a book entitled The Fearless Path, it doesn’t mean I wasn’t experiencing any fear – far from it. I feel fear exactly as you do. I’m certainly no daredevil, despite
what you might expect of a member of The Hollywood Stuntmen’s Hall of Fame! Nor am I an “adrenaline junkie,” despite the Guinness World Records I hold. I’m careful. I a methodical and accurate in what I do, which is why I believe I have never broken a bone in my 21-year career. What has helped me immensely is the understanding the psychology of fear. I have learned that fear is caused by two conflicting thought patterns in the mind; one in the conscious mind, and one in the sub-conscious mind. I’m not speaking of that ancient knee-jerk fear of snakes or spiders located at the back of our brains--those fight or flight fears are there for a good reason. I mean the fears that hold us back in life. The fear of things that might happen and what people would think if they did. I have learned that our thoughts are vibrational and that thought waves are energetic. There is a link between our thoughts, our feelings, and the world we perceive around us. Indeed, there is definite Omtimes.com
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