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CONTENTS HEALTH & HEALING 38
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HOW ACUPUNCTURE HELPS DURING PREGNANCY GETTING IN-SYNC WITH YOUR NATURAL CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
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SPIRITUALITY 48
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YOUR LIFE IS YOUR PRAYER
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YOUR BODY IS ONE BIG PSYCHIC ANTENNA
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WHICH SPIRITUAL PRACTICE BENEFITS YOU THE MOST?
CHAMPIONSHIP HABITS: DR. ADOLPH BROWN III INTERVIEWED BY LIANE BUCK
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EIGHT SECRETS TO INTENTIONALLY CHANGE YOUR FORTUNE
ANIMAL SPIRITUALITY
RELATIONSHIP 86
REVISITING THE IDEA OF WINNING
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EUTHANASIA AND OUR ANIMAL FAMILIES
PERSONAL GROWTH 100
EMBRACING THE CHANGES
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HEALING FROM THE SEVERE CRITICISM, JUDGEMENT, AND BULLYING.
WORLD VISION 116
ENTANGLEMENT DANCE OF AN EVOLVING HUMANITY
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Dr. Adolph Brown is an American businessman, investor, author, urban and rural school educator, research-scientist, and keynote speaker. Dr. Adolph Brown is a life-long social justice advocate and a career teacher educator. He is best known for inspiring individuals to learn, laugh and lead, while as an implicit bias speaker, simultaneously reducing unconscious bias at every turn. He is the leading provider of anti-bias training in business and education. He is highly regarded as the "balcony" leadership speaker and highly skilled performance coach who gets you from where you are to where you want to be.
By Andrew Pacholyk MS LAc. For over 15 years, I have enjoyed helping women become pregnant with the healing art of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The rate of infertility cases has risen over the past 10 years due to many factors including environmental toxins, poor diets, the over prescribed use of birth control, as well as the hypervigilant push for young girls to freeze their eggs, prolonging pregnancy, and then having to do IVF (in-vitro fertilization) to have children. But once the miracle of pregnancy occurs, acupuncture can assist a woman with issues that arise during each trimester of their pregnancy. Consider looking at these symptoms grouped together by trimester. Nausea during pregnancy is one of the most significant disruptions during the first trimester. It seems at even the very onset of a pregnancy confirmation, the sights and smells of familiar and favorite foods now become the enemy. Acupuncture is a very effective treatment in reducing both the severity and incidence of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy. OMTIMES.COM
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Excellent DIY acupressure treatment can be done at the moment by placing two fingers parallel to the inside crease of the wrist (palm up). Where the second finger falls is the location of the point for nausea and vomiting. Called Pericardium 6, slowly massage this point deeply with one finger in a clockwise rotation for several minutes until the discomfort passes. Alternatively, consider a hot cup of ginger tea or taking a Vitamin B6 or B Complex liquid under the tongue. Spontaneous miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies are conditions that usually occur within the first 4 -16 weeks of pregnancy confirmation. Acupuncture treatments have often been effective in preventing these conditions or assisting the body through the process quicker if they, unfortunately, occur. During this time of pregnancy, acupuncture's benefits increase blood circulation, boost immunity, thickens the uterine lining, regulates hormones, and decrease stress. Newfound muscular and skeletal pains tend to be the norm as the baby grows and shifts your weight forward from your center of gravity during the first and second trimester. Back pain, rib pain, and pubic symphysis pain are joint during pregnancy and can be reduced with acupuncture. Sciatica is a frequent and common occurrence during the second and third trimesters. Sciatica is a sharp, shooting pain, often accompanied by tingling or numbness starting in the back or buttocks and radiating down the legs' back.
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR PRAYER by Sam Beasley and BJ Gallagher
Your life is your prayer. Whatever you've got going on in your life is what you've been praying for – sometimes consciously, often unconsciously. If you want something different in your life, you must pray a different prayer. You may not realize it – many people don't – but the decisions you make throughout the day, the attitudes you adopt, the conversations you have, the way you respond to other people, the thoughts you think are all prayers. The food you choose to eat is a prayer, the way you spend your money is a prayer – even the way you drive is a prayer! We are continually communing with the Divine throughout our daily lives – even in the most mundane activities.
And our prayers are always answered in the affirmative: "YES." Whatever you're thinking about will manifest in your life. If you are worrying, I don't have enough money, the Universe will say 'Yes, you don't have enough money.' If you're constantly lamenting to your friends, I don't have a man in my life, the Universe will respond, 'Yes, you don't have a man.' If you frequently complain, I'm fat, the Universe will answer, 'Yes, you're fat.' Your thoughts and words are prayers, and the Universe always gives you what you're praying for. So, if you want to change your life, change your prayer.
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By consciously choosing new thoughts, new conversations, and new behaviors – you can literally create a new experience for yourself. THE PROBLEM OF MIXED MESSAGES
Your negative belief will neutralize or cancel out your desire
One of the biggest challenges in getting what you desire in life is the problem of mixed messages. That is, without knowing it, you may be sending mixed messages in your prayers. For many people, there is a fundamental contradiction between wants and beliefs. They consciously pray for something they want – but unconsciously, they don't believe they'll ever get it.
For instance, if you're a woman who wants a loving man in your life, but deep down inside, you think you're too fat to attract such a man. Your negative belief will neutralize or cancel out your desire. In other words, you are offering up conflicting prayers without even realizing it. Your desire for a man is a prayer – but so is your belief that you're too fat. You're praying mixed messages. The man doesn't show up because beliefs are usually stronger than desires. Sound familiar? OMTIMES
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Which Spiritual Practice Benefits You the Most?
by Brooke Chaplan
Many paths lead from The foot of the mountain, But at the peak We all gaze at the Single bright moon. - Ikkyu
Many people work to become connected with a spiritual being or path throughout their entire lives. While everyone’s view may be different from the next, it’s important to choose spiritual practices that benefit you. Meditation, prayer, and augmenting spiritual powers are all ways people can connect spiritually with the world around them. Here are some tips to help you make an informed decision on the subject.
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UNDERSTAND WHAT SPIRITUAL PRACTICES ARE
You may have a good concept of what spirituality is. However, when it comes to describing spiritual practices, you may be drawing a blank. Spiritual practices, also referred to as disciplines, are daily practices to connect with their spiritual being. Some examples include breathing exercises, rituals, gratitude, ceremonies, chanting, and meditation. The more spiritual practices you discover, the more likely you will find ones that work best for you.
Learn About Individual Practices
You may have heard the names of spiritual practices used in the past. However, understanding each one really starts with doing some learning. You should make a list of potential spiritual practices and do a little research on each. In most cases, you can discover a lot about individual practices through internet research and video websites.
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Interview with authors Carol Kline & Gay Hendricks I eventually started working on the book with Gay, I didn't have his long-time personal experience with Luck as a conscious choice, so I struggled to internalize the idea. The shift came when I read this quote by Stanford professor and luck expert Tina Seelig:
Kathy Williams, the host of Sexy Mom Abundant Life, recently sat down with New York Times Best-Selling Authors Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline to talk about their most recent book. Kathy Williams: Gay and Carol, I think most people believe that Luck is a random occurrence. Your new book demonstrates that it can be a deliberate choice. Can you talk a bit about that? Carol Kline: Grasping the understanding that Luck wasn't random took some time for me.
Like most people, I've had great things happen to me, and unfortunate, even tragic, things happen to me. But the bottom line is that Luck never seemed to be something I could control. So, when Gay sent the original Conscious Luck manuscript for my professional opinion in 2011, and I saw those two words, "conscious" and "luck" together, it was mind-blowing for me. Wait, how can Luck be conscious? I was intrigued.
"Luck is rarely a lightning strike —isolated and dramatic—but a wind that blows constantly. You need to build a sail, made up of tiny behaviors, to catch the winds of Luck." I thought, wow, it's not something outside my control. There are things I can do to harness the winds of Luck.
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Kathy Williams: In the book, you outline eight Secrets and actions people can do to catch Luck's winds. What's the first thing that you recommend? Gay Hendricks: The first thing I recommend, which only takes 10 or 15 seconds but immediately gets you started on the right path, is this: make a commitment to being luckier today than you were yesterday. And then, make a commitment to being luckier tomorrow than you are today. Let's do that! Whatever you're doing right now—whether you're sitting, standing, or lying down —take a minute and make a commitment to increasing the Luck in your life. In my five decades of working with people to transform their lives, I've learned that every important self-change program starts with a willingness to change.But what really makes the transformation happen is when you make a commitment to it. So, if you can make a sincere commitment this moment to being luckier every day of your life, that's a great place to start.
"Luck is rarely a lightning strike..."
Kathy Williams: Ok, that's the first of your eight Secrets: Commit to being a VLP—a Very Lucky Person. You mention that the first four Secrets are like building a foundation: 1. Committing to Luck. 2. releasing your personal barriers to good fortune. 3. transforming shame into a magnet for Luck. I love that you use the word magnet—we're attracting Luck. Can you share a story about transforming shame into a magnet for Luck?
Our Animals and Euthanasia By Robyn M Fritz
Most of us will have to face the end of a beloved animal’s life. Here’s how to look at their body, mind, and spirit needs.
EUTHANASIA AND OUR ANIMAL FAMILIES
It’s the worst thing we face as a multi-species family: the death of a beloved animal. How do we decide between Euthanasia and allowing them to die naturally?
While we should turn to the veterinary community and the growing pet hospice movement for advice, we should be wary. These professionals don’t always recognize that animals have souls. That means they can fail to give our animals a voice in their own care. We who live with animals as family members and intelligent equals can change that dynamic. When the body is impossibly broken from disease, injury, or old age, we can support the dying process by allowing our loving hearts and animal communication to listen to our animals—and to ourselves. Body, Mind, and Spirit and Animal Euthanasia All multi-species families need good veterinary partners who share their beliefs on quality of life and care. Unfortunately, technology has moved beyond us, often pushing intervention without the insight to say “enough.” Without choice and compassion, we can end up pushing the body beyond what is physically possible, emotionally endurable, and spiritually useful.
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REVISITING THE IDEA OF WINNING BY LINDA BLOOM Creating a successful partnership does take work. The process is not for the faint of heart. But if we do our job, are aware and awake in the ways we take part in our relationship, we can expect the goodwill and cooperation to grow. An important part of our work is to become courageous, honest, assertive, direct, and respectful. We do not lapse into passiveaggressive behaviors that are highly destructive. If you’ve ever been in the middle of a painful breakdown with your partner and felt overwhelmed with rage, fear, pain, despair, or some combination of the above, you’re not alone.
"TAKING STEPS TO ENCOURAGE GOODWILL TO GROW"
Even couples that share good relationships can occasionally experience feelings like this. At these times, it can also seem that turning this situation into a “learning opportunity” just isn’t going to happen. The best that you can hope for is to do enough damage control to prevent things from falling into the “catastrophic” category. And even doing that is no small feat. This is not to say that we should avoid doing or saying things that could cause upsets. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. It does mean that whatever we do, we must take the necessary steps to bring about an outcome in which there is a net increase in goodwill between us, even if in the process of getting there, uncomfortable feelings arise. It is important that, at the very least, our response to distressing situations should not result in additional and unnecessary suffering to an already painful situation. OMTIMES. COM/ NOVEMBER 2020
Doing so may require self-restraint. Until we have developed enough inner strength to resist the temptation to indulge ourselves in defensive- aggressive reactions, our responses to the conflict will probably just add fuel to the fire. Fortunately, the opportunities to practice truth-talk and committed listening present themselves continually throughout our lives. It’s helpful to first identify the nature of our work to become more attuned to opportunities for practice that show up in our daily experience. Many of the people with whom we have worked have commented that once they realize their work, they notice that the practice opportunities present themselves on an ongoing basis.
Whether they are just seeing opportunities that have always been there, or whether there actually are more of these situations after the commitment to learning is made is any body’s guess. A more important question has to do with how we respond to these opportunities when they show up in front of us. Creating a successful partnership does take work. Despite our hopes that our partner (or we) will change overnight, instant transformation generally tends to be a rare occurrence. The process tends to be incremental rather than instantaneous. Relationship building can feel like we’re standing near a scorching fire. And then there are times when we think that we are standing IN the fire.
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Embracing the Changes By Judi Lynch
More than ever, we need the motivators, innovators, peacemakers, and kind-hearted to help build a better tomorrow through positive changes. Recent world events have certainly opened our eyes to the uncertainty of life on this planet. We have come so far in our knowledge and understanding of this Universe but not far enough in human coexistence.
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For most of us, life has changed as our daily existence morphed, and we had to adapt to new procedures. Working at home, homeschooling, eating in, wearing masks, riots, lost lives, the list goes on. There are so many changes and further information for our hearts and minds to accept. If we can and can find the resources, use this time to evolve with the changes in our lives. We may have to reach out or look within, but the first step is to make a plan. Gathering up our courage to start breaking down resistance to big and little changes in life. We can grow to change for the better, out of necessity, when facing life challenges. Holding onto people, places, and things that no longer bring us peace, joy and knowledge can keep us stagnant and without hope. Suppose we can see beyond our past beliefs and educate ourselves to new thoughts and ideas. In that case, we can let in a world of possibilities. Things we never considered or understood can be found in releasing the patterns and behaviors we cling to. Just as science makes new discoveries all the time, we can discover new and exciting ways to look at our lives.
When the world seems to be locked in disagreement and unrest, we see things in our own view of how it should be. It can be extremely frustrating to feel so much without being able to express it. It can be beneficial to take the time to explore why, where, and how we came upon our opinions and beliefs. We risk criticism, friendships, and support from others when we stand on specific ideas and situations. Still, if it is important enough, we find our voice. We also learn to listen to what others have to say with the patient's response and without judgmental reaction.
HEALING FROM THE SEVERE CRITICISM, JUDGMENT, & BULLYING by Johanna Kern
In these challenging times, we need to help each other to maintain our emotional health. If you, or someone you know, suffer from the aftermaths of criticism, judgment, or bullying - you need to know that you are not alone.
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KEEP TRYING – AND YOU WILL GET THERE. Repeated criticism can rob us of zest for life and even send our spirit into a dark corner. The number of suicides sadly keeps growing. Suicide is a global phenomenon, and close to 800 000 people die every year, one person every 40 seconds. While people who suffer from the aftermath of repeated criticism know that their fear of being judged might be sometimes irrational, they still can't help perpetuating their anxious thoughts and feelings. More than 75% of people worldwide experience the first symptoms of social anxiety during their childhood or early teenage years, and 15 million American adults have social anxiety. It could be related to the fact that many of us may have experienced criticism in our childhood and later, in our early youth, were rejected or ridiculed by other teenagers. That can result in developing deep social anxiety that gets in the way of going to work or doing other everyday things. As the human species, we are biologically wired to live in groups and communities to survive. Being rejected by our community creates in our subconscious a considerable threat to our survival. Here are some of the symptoms that keep occurring after being exposed to repeated criticism: On the emotional level: •Excessive self-consciousness and anxiety in social situations •Intense worry for days, weeks, or sometimes even months before an upcoming social event •Fear of being watched or judged by others, people we don't even know. •Fear that we'll embarrass or humiliate ourselves •Fear that others will notice that we are nervous OMTimes.com
Entanglement Dance of an Evolving Humanity
By Dagny Grant and Beth Donnelly
Growing pains‌evolution from one phase or stageof-being to another is often uncomfortable. People It is time to realize that taken outside of their comfort zones once whatever we do in our corner are inspired to make changes. of the world affects the natural world ecosystems, the Each action and reaction make a ripple in space, time, expansiveness of humanity, and history. Each action taken in kindness & empathy the cause of an effect, and each action taken in and how we dance together in isanger or fear is also the cause of an effect. the world's evolution. The ripple effect is always in We must decide where we want our momentum to action. carry us. Every single decision we make is an important one that defines the trajectory of entanglement, which encompasses the entire world. It's literally a ripple effect of energy. Suppose we wish to create a world where kindness, peace, and compassion are present. In that case, we must focus our personal dance toward that goal‌the entanglement dance of evolving humanity.
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