January A 2019
Cover Story 28
Marianne Williamson: The Politics of Love
Health & Wellness 52
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New Year Healthy You! 2019 5 Essential Oils for Soul Healing 3 Steps on the Path to Spiritual Awakening
Spirituality 68 72
Feeling Stuck? Let Synchronicity Help Nothing New Under the Year
OM Living 80 84 92
How to Apply Feng Shui to Your Aquarium Mystical Experiences of Lights in Meditation Feng Shui: Reenergize your Home this Winter
Relationships
104 The Seven Secrets for Success in 2019 108 Cancel These Three Painful Relationship Patterns 114 8 Little Things That Happy Couples Do Every Day
Metaphysics
120 The 2019 Arcane: The Hanged Man 124 Celebrity Predictions 2019 138 The 2019 New Year’s Resolutions for Personal Growth
Personal Growth 144 The Transformative Experience of Grief 148 Twelve Ways To Lift Our Spirits
Marianne Williamson: The Politics of Love Interview by Victor Fuhrman When I grew up in the 1960’s and seventies, there was a sense of rebirth and renewal in our country. Many of us started looking upon one another and brother and sister and embraced the ideas of sharing, caring love and peace.
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We lived these ideals as best we could with the hope that future generations would equally embrace them. Somewhere along the way, we have strayed from that path. We have birthed a generation of divisiveness, egobased actions, and fear. Is there a way that we can return to the spirit of embracing diversity, caring for one another and moving from fear to love? My interviewee this week, Marianne Williamson, says there is. Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, activist, and author of four #1 New York Times bestselling books. She has been one of America’s most wellknown public voices for more than three decades. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Good Morning America, and Bill Maher. A quote from the megabestseller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, Enchanted Love, A Year of Miracles, and Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment. Her newest book, A Politics of Love: Handbook for a New American Revolution, will be published soon. Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 11 million meals. Marianne also co-founded the Peace Alliance. She joins us to discuss her new book, and her exploration of a possible run to become the next president of the United States. Welcome, Marianne. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON: Thank you so much for having me.
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NEW YEAR HEALTHY YOU! Â By Elson Haas, MD
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YOUR HEALTH STARTS WITH YOU! Moreover, this begins with how you think about your health and the words you tell yourself in the depths of your mind. That’s where affirmations have power. As the core of my 5 Keys to Staying Healthy, ATTITUDE is essential to how we approach our self-care. We can heal so much if we don’t undermine ourselves with negative self-talk, but focus on loving and supportive mind messages.
That’s a good place to start, and yet, there’s also nutrition, of course, exercise, stress reduction, and quality sleep, making up my 5 Keys to Staying Healthy. I have created a free course on my website to help you work with these 5 Keys and evaluate your lifestyle. The New Year is a great time for such a review. Your resolutions are focused on your own specific life and ideally are both visionary and practical, specific and achievable. Consider these tips which cover a wide array of life activities, and of course, add some of your own!
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5 Essential Oils for Soul Healing
(excerpt from Andrew Pacholyk MS L. Ac ‘s new book, Lead Us To A Place ~ your spiritual journey through life’s seasons) Spirituality comes when you are ready to look at it.
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In truth, our connection to spirit comes by way of looking inward. Yet subtle clues can come from external sources that intrigue us or connect to our emotions. Nature holds the secrets to so many lessons in spirituality. Not only does our connection to spirit express itself through nature, but it is also the fundamental building blocks of life’s answers. Essential oils are the actual essence or spirit of nature’s gifts. They are extracted from the flowers and herbs by way of either cold-pressing as with citrus fruits, or by steam distillation as with plants & flowers. These pure oil extracts have therapeutic properties to be used in many different forms of healing and health. Recalling a scent from a specific memory or special time in your life is a transforming experience. The Essential Oils Rose: (Rosa damascena) The mother of all flowers, the Rose has amazing powers of
love, trust, and self-acceptance. Roses are representative of faith, hope, and love and have the qualities to restore the very center of one’s being. A gentle tonic of the heart rose oil’s psychological properties lie mainly in its effect on the mind, the center of our emotional being. Rose oil calms and supports the heart and helps to nourish the soul! Lavender: (Lavender cassia) is one of the most used and most notable essential oils in the Materia Aromatica. This flower oil is used as an antiseptic, antibiotic, anti-depressant, and immune stimulant. It helps with issues of sleep or anxiety due to its sedative properties. Best known for treating burns and blisters, wounds (cell regenerator, minimizes swelling and scarring), insect bites, stings, and heat exhaustion. Avoid during the first trimester of pregnancy. Peppermint: (Mentha piperita) is the most extensively used of all the volatile oils, both medicinally and commercially. The original antispasmodic action of this essential oil is most often used and adds to Omtimes.com
Healing Crisis: 3 Steps on the Path to Spiritual Awakening Courtney Marchesani
At times we are faced with a painful set of unusual physical symptoms and we land in our doctor’s office anxious. It feels that our mind-bodyspirit is not our own. Invaded by environmental toxins, our
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Central Nervous System (CNS) is menaced and our doctors are puzzled to its ideology. We wear thin, wrestling with the dilemma of a healing crisis. We tell our health story and find no resolution. It retraumatizes our psyche when there is no clear outcome. We become stuck in medical limbo, awaiting results and hoping for a diagnosis. The result is a let-down when there is no clear healing path forward. A vicious cycle begins, and we become stuck between the two worlds of modern and spiritual healing. When we see a healing crisis through a spiritual lens, we can understand its purpose. This is an ancient art and over time has faced extinction. Modern medicine can’t identify the soul’s mission through an illness that indicates a spiritual calling. Often, a healing crisis indicates a more profound awakening of consciousness. There are three distinctive signs that are the stepping stones to guide us through the labyrinth of our healing journey.
Initiation, True Identity, and Acceptance Doctors look at a set of symptoms like a constellation and interpret a diagnosis. Rarely do they consider the existential reasons of a debilitating illness. If elusive, it’s labelled a mystery illness that doesn’t respond to treatment and may be a sign of initiation into the spirit world. Symptoms may be sudden, due to trauma, accident, or connected to a childhood event. It is a psychic portal to a spiritual realm where healing is waiting for exploration. It may feel like a profound identity crisis and that we are on the cusp of madness. The Initiation Initiation is an experience achieved through visions, dreams or synchronicity. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung spoke universal symbolism and the collective unconscious which holds archetypal imagery that connects us to a universal language of symbols. Jung’s archetypal method served as an intra-psychic instinct
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Feeling Stuck? Let Synchronicity Help! By John Holland
On my last radio show, a woman was telling me how she felt stuck about her next career move. She didn’t know what to do. I gave her some advice that I’d heard
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a long time ago which has often resonated with people: “Sometimes you have to live into the answer.” It’s not uncommon to feel stuck when you don’t know which option to take, which direction to go, or which offer is for your highest good. It happens to many people – myself included. We get caught in the trap of feeling that you have to be doing, doing, doing! By contrast, I think it’s okay to be – to pause and reflect for a while – to take stock of what works and what doesn’t. Another metaphor or saying I often use is: Sometimes it’s the right decision to grab the oars and steer yourself to a goal or desire. Yet other times it’s also okay to put the oars down and see where the current or river of life takes you. Hence the saying: “Living into the answer.” When I go through such times of feeling a little stuck, I take time out to pray, meditate, and ask synchronicity to help me.
Synchronicities and socalled coincidences are clear signs that the Divine Source is knocking on your door. Sometimes it could be a soft tap - or for those times when you’re not paying attention, it could be a loud bang! A source working through synchronicity can manifest itself in some pretty unique ways. I have my own definition and refer to them as divine nudges. Have you heard the same phrase or saying from more than one person in a day? Do the same numbers keep randomly showing all over the place? Has someone mentioned the same person you were thinking of? Have you met someone out of the blue which seemed to answer a question that you were asking yourself? These are all signs for you to pause, be open, and
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Nothing New Under the Year
As we enter the New Year, we all hope this year will be better than the last one, and new and wonderful things will come to us. We seek to
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improve our worldly situations and become better people. But what if the most wonderful thing that could happen would be to realize that we live in a universe absolutely and eternally dedicated to our well-being? While listening to a classical music radio station, I heard the show’s host announce a cantata by J.S. Bach entitled, “The Spirit Soothes our Weakness.” I was struck by the title, as appropriate today as it was 300 years ago when Bach composed the piece. Even while Bach’s world was radically different than ours, the issues he dealt with were the same. He, too, was plagued by the insistence of the deluded self, and he, too, recognized the empowerment of a spirit-guided life. In that awakening, the apparent chasm of time dissolves, and we are joined. King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” The more I explore what appears to be new and different, the more I realize
that, while the world goes through constant change, the truth is impeccably reliable. What works always works and what doesn’t work never works. All else is detail. It is not the parade of events that makes evolution, but the upgrade of consciousness. If there is an evolution, it is the awakening to the presence and power of a kindly reality that far transcends worldly events. Here we come to the juiciest of paradoxes: To become new, we must recognize that we never change. Healing comes in claiming our inherent eternality. The personality seeks to gain newness by manipulating people, things, and events. The soul needs no newness because it is eternally whole. The part of you that seeks change is not the part that will be fulfilled. What needs to change is to gain the awareness that you don’t need to change. I told you this paradox is juicy! A Course in Miracles tells us, “Seek not to change the world,
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Mystical Experiences of Lights in Meditation By IndiaDivine.org
Various kinds of lights manifest during meditation due to concentration. In the beginning, a bright, white light, the size of a pin’s point
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will appear in the forehead in Trikuti which corresponds to the Ajna Chakra of the astral body. With the eyes closed, you will notice different colored lights such as white, yellow, red, smoky, blue, green, mixed color; flashes like lightning, like fire, burning charcoal, fire-flies, the moon, the sun, and stars. These lights appear in the mental space, Chidakasha. These are all Tanmatric lights. Tanmatric lights Each Tanmatra has its own specific color. Prithvi (earth) Tanmatra has a yellow light; Apas (water) Tanmatra has a white light; Agni (fire) Tanmatra has a red light; Vayu (air) Tanmatra has a
smoky light, and Akasha (ether) Tanmatra has a blue light. Yellow and white lights are usually seen. Red and blue lights are barely noticeable. In general, there is a combination of white and yellow lights. In the beginning, small balls of white light floating about before your eyes. When you first observe this, know that the mind is becoming steadier, and that you are progressing in concentration. After some months the size of the light will increase, and you will see a full blaze of white light, bigger than the sun. In the beginning, these lights are not steady. They come and disappear immediately.
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Feng Shui: Reenergize your Home this Winter By Omtimes
Winter always ends up being a time of more stillness, of coziness and just of being. The Winter is naturally a “yin� season; A quieter, more reflective period that
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encourages us to spend more time in the house, with our loved ones. Winter is the season of the element water There are five elements for Feng Shui: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. The Element Water is an essential component in the field of Feng Shui. Water represents intuition: the inner knowledge that allows the water element to guide you into a space of confidence. Enjoy the winter time to refuel, dream and plan changes to make in the next initial stages. Winter is a time when the earth breaths, like a gestation period, it prepares to sustain life for another year. It offers us particular time for introspection. By creating a cozy and harmonious home during this period, the house itself will help you stay attentive and cheerful at this time of year.
When winter seems to be creeping, purifying our homes with new energy may just be healing. Read more about some Feng Shui remedies to organize your living space making it brighter, warmer, while staying in tune with the season. Feng Shui remedies for Winter Months Clean Your Home With Citrus With the cold, we have not opened the windows for a long time, and the energy and air of our houses can be tremendously stagnant. Fortunately, there is a simple cure to raise liveliness, refresh the air and prevent the accumulation of bacteria in our homes during these months: citrus Citrus oils are more than pleasant smells. They are among the most useful essential oils. Just a few drops of lemon or orange oil will increase the power
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The Seven Secrets for Success in 2019 By Marcia Sirota, MD.
People are always posting articles about the secrets to success, but many of these blogs suffer from a lack of common sense. All those tips for “quick and easy� success is pandering to a segment of the Omtimes.com
population that wants to do well without having to work for it. Unfortunately, the writers of these blogs are perpetrating a common yet dangerous myth.
worked hard for it, success tastes sweet. We feel like we’re put in our best effort and it has paid off. We can enjoy and appreciate the results of all our hard work.
Only a tiny proportion of the population is super lucky, and everything happens to come easily to them. For the clear majority of us, the first secret to success is that if we want to do well, it’s going to take work.
There’s no substitute for selfdiscipline. Successful people do the work, even when they’re tired, not in the mood, or would rather do just about anything else. This quality really separates the successful people from the not-so-successful ones. Consistent effort over time is what counts; not doing the work only when we’re in the mood to work. When we can buckle down and get it done, even when we’re tired, or it isn’t fun, we’re going to reap the greatest rewards.
Here’s my 2019 list of the seven secrets for real and lasting success. Follow these tips, and you’ll be well on your way to be your best self and living your best life! Put in the time and effort. We wish it weren’t the case, but there’s no short-cut to success. Even those who are extremely talented will still need to put in the work to achieve their goals. The good news is that the more we do, the more skilled we become, so over time we’re bound to perfect our craft, whatever it is. Plus, when things come too easily, we miss out on that feeling of pride and accomplishment. Instead, we feel, deep down, like we cheated so we can’t fully enjoy our success. But, when we’ve
Silence the inner critic. For many people, there’s a voice in our head that’s always ready to put us down, undermine our confidence, criticize our efforts or tell us that nothing short of perfection is acceptable. Unfortunately, that “inner critic” won’t help us succeed. On the contrary; it can demoralize us or even paralyze our efforts. Any successful person will tell you that they don’t have or don’t listen to the negative selftalk. If you want to succeed, you absolutely must do the same. Omtimes.com
Cancel These Three Painful Relationship Patterns Before They Get Started By Guy Finley
Often when someone feels wronged by their partner they demand “payment� for the pain they feel unjustly inflicted upon them. History proves they will argue until this well-established Omtimes.com
pattern completes itself. Unable to resolve who’s to blame for the pain, one or the other will either storm off to brood over the mistreatment or decide that “retreat” is the better part of valor and make some kind of peace offering, perhaps an apology. In the long run, neither of these “solutions” makes any real difference. Their suffering passes into the night, but not the unseen reasons for it. For our love to thrive, everything about this kind of pain-driven pattern must be shattered. Acting from any part of this old pattern – while hoping for a new result – is like polishing old shoes that no longer fit, hoping the shine will change how they feel when you put them on! Following are three simple examples of such futile actions: Painful Pattern #1: Avoiding the Issue by “Agreeing to Disagree”
Near the “end” of a disagreement with your partner that has no end in sight one might say: “Let’s agree to disagree.” Now, maybe this technique has some benefit if you’re at a party and a political discussion turns nasty. But what happens with our partner when, because of something they’ve done, or refuse to do – there’s a conflict between us – where we want them to agree that the problem at hand is their fault, but that’s not how they see it? The fallback pattern of “agreeing to disagree” does nothing to change the onesided parts of us whose false perceptions and demands set us against each other in the first place. And when similar events recur, it’s not our “agreement” that we revisit; rather, it is we who are visited by the “wind and fury” of opposing forces whose continuing collision ensures that our original confrontation goes on...and on.
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8 Little Things That Happy Couples do Every Day By Ascending Hearts The way to the happiness of marriage is cherishing the little things. Once, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, said that “happiness is something that is sought, something
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that is built.” Often, we waste our time in search of great things, great demonstrations of love and affection, but we neglect a truth that applies mainly to love and happiness it is through small things that great things are accomplished. When I think of the way to be happy or to build a great love, I always think of a great tree and how this marvelous work of nature, capable of withstanding storms and strong winds, came from such a small seed. This seed, little by little, grows with modest efforts to create its roots and to pierce the earth, little by little, to become something grandiose. The path to a happy life for two people also begins as a small seed and, little by little can become something beautiful. A well-nurtured love that sustains joy and grace can withstand the worst storms. Like a seed that grows little by little, we can also do at least 8 small things, daily, to make a relationship happier.
1. Stop to say, “good morning,” to say “I love you.” Some studies have already proven that the way we spend the first few minutes of a morning, or even a late afternoon at home, influences the environment that will live the rest of the day or the night. When we wake up in the morning, what’s the first thing we do? Do we choose to smile, look at our side and say a “good morning” full of love? Or when the husband (or wife) comes home will they stop for everything to give a kiss or a hug, and ask how the day went? They are small gestures that can brighten the life of a couple early in the day or at the end of a day’s work 2. Talk about your problems Arguing is synonymous with debating problems. Often issues are ignored because they are afraid of creating confusion. It is normal for a person to get angry when
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WHAT’S IN THE STARS? CELEBRITY PREDICTIONS SPIRITUAL MEDIUM MICHELLE WHITEDOVE LOOKS INTO THE FUTURE TO GLIMPSE WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2019 AND BEYOND
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Kate & Will Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Oh no! For Prince William I see the possibility of a tragic accident in a helicopter, seems like a search and rescue operation gone wrong. Â This could change everything! Please pray for him.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Her inner light shines just as princess Diana did. She is a kind and loving soul and will do much humanitarian work in the future. .
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"THE TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE OF GRIEF
THE PARABLE OF THE TRAVELLING DOLL By Humanity Healing
A year before his death, the writer Franz Kafka saw in one of Berlin's park, a girl who was desperate because she had lost her doll. It’s 1923. Franz Kafka is 40. Every afternoon, he is walking in a park near his home. Kafka, the story goes, that it was this last time he had visited Berlin. In one afternoon, he encounters a young girl called Elsi in a park awash in tears.  That little girl had lost her doll and was desolated. Kafka offered to help the child to look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Not able to locate the doll, and to soothe the girl, Kafka composed a letter from the doll to the child, to explain her disappearance. Kafka was planning to read it to her when they met again. Kafka makes up a story to. He tells the girl that her doll has gone off on a journey.
Transformative experience alters us externally as well as internally.
Here is an opening passage of one of the letters, to see the rich construction that the author performs: "Dear Elsi, first of all, I'm sorry to have left so suddenly without saying goodbye. I'm sorry, and I hope you're not angry. Sometimes we do things without realizing it, or we react to what our instinct does not say, and we hurt who we do not want. It's just that the farewells are sad, and I did not want you to cry or try to convince me to stay any longer. Now I know that you will be more at peace knowing that I am well, will rejoice for both of us. You must know that to live is to keep going forward, to enjoy every moment, every opportunity and necessity [...] You taught me many things, made me a good doll. Thanks to you I am free to do this ... " ‘Please do not grieve me, I have gone on a long journey to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.’ OMTimes | Jan 2019
Twelve Ways To Lift Our Spirits By Judi Lynch
Many of us need a reminder now and then to slow down and recharge ourselves in body, mind and soul. We get so caught up in everything and everyone else around us that we forget how to
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nourish ourselves with a little extra self-care. Our energy frequencies govern our abilities to heal ourselves in a myriad of ways. When we become run down in thought our bodies eventually pick up the signals, and we can become depressed or physically ill. Here are several methods to help pull us up from our anxieties and life challenges, apply as needed.
mood. The Earth has healing powers and properties that are magical and mystical. Sitting by a stream of clear water washing over rocks and feeling a cool breeze can be an amazing experience. The realization of the power that this connection has to our soul self, along with the inner thoughts of being, bring in a spiritual clarity that can lay hidden in primal thoughts.
Visualize Solutions. When we are facing life-changing issues, it can be less stressful to focus on creative solutions with future scenarios to visualize the outcome you would like to manifest. Instead of concentrating all your energy on the drama of the challenge, take charge of the way it makes you feel. Are you empowered to find a solution or defeated by the thought? Solving your problems creates positive, productive energies your soul thrives upon.
Forgive Ourselves. For all the things we didn’t understand when we were younger and more naïve. For all the things we didn’t say or do out of fear or anxiety. For any chances, we may have missed or people we might have hurt. For all the times we didn’t listen to our soul guidance and steered off course. Everything we do here is to learn something. To evolve and grow into the ideal of humanity at its best, we test ourselves. In those tests, we or someone else learns to move on. To let go of the hurt or shame we have felt, we rise above our need to be right or perfect and appreciate the lesson.
Take a nature break. With no electronics walk, run, hike, or bike outside! Just being among the trees, grass, dirt and animal life can make an incredible difference in our
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