Breath

 I breathe in and all dissolves. I breathe out and create anew.  Every breath is an opportunity to create.   I get to choose that creation as I am recreated with every breath. 

Your genes do NOT control your destiny…

This is such an important message to listen to daily to remind yourself of the power you have within you to create health. BRUCE LIPTON does a great job of breaking down how your cells and signaling works in the body to help you create better health. Do yourself and you health and wellbeing a favor and watch this often. Let it become imprinted in your life.

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Questions to ponder as we wrap up 2021….Reflection is the key to more powerful creation.

It is vital to reflect on our year and ask fundamental questions of ourselves.

Our reality is created by what we focus on and what we give energy to. Without focus we get swept away on the current of the world and the prevailing energy and I for one do not wish to be swept away on the current of prevailing fear and separation.

It is in the reflection that we can refine what it is we wish to shift, clear and create in the year to come.

Reflection helps us refine our focus.

2021 taught me that without focus I lose my connection to myself and to the source of all, the divine energy that permeates everything. It also taught me what a powerful creator I am as far as creating both the good and the bad, depending on what state my consciousness is in, or was in.

 

I need to accept that we are all on our own journey and that we are all divine regardless of our position on our timeline. I must focus on my own inner tapestry and how I wish to weave my unique threads into the tapestry of the Universe. How do I wish to enhance it, add to it with more vibrancy and beauty?

How am I going to show up in 2022 after reflection of what worked and didn’t work this past year. What fueled my passions and created greater wellbeing and what didn’t.

Take the time to reflect and create a plan for the year ahead, a master plan. You can keep breaking this down into smaller part to focus on monthly, weekly and daily. 

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail…I am sure you have heard this before.

With the aid of the above 10 questions, I hope you get more clarity and can create that which you wish to experience and achieve in 2022. Blessings to you and all of humanity.

Who am I and what do I want?

 These are very powerful questions that we must answer. We must keep asking until we discover the deep truth.

We are not our gender, our jobs, our titles, our bodies or even our thoughts. We are so much more than that. We are divine energy expressed in a physical body. And it doesn't matter how much of this we know on an intellectual level. It is important to experience this truth on a cellular level and this can only be achieved through asking this question sincerely everyday and quietly waiting (or sitting in silence)for your body to respond. 

Asking what do I want is the next step and wading through the superficial answers, that are just the top layer and more an egoic response than the true desire of you soul, is key. 

Once you know who you truly are and that all are connected, you cannot live your life the same way any longer. You desire to live a heart centered life widely benefiting all.

AND this is why these questions are vital at this time. We must stop hurting each other and believing we are better than anyone else. Only in discovering our true nature will we be kinder and more compassionate with ourselves and others.  We will start creating a world and life that is empowering, enriching and all encompassing.

Find your answers by sincerely searching and finding a spiritual/soulful practice that allows you to reach deep within where all truth lies.

I personally like meditation, energy healing and balancing and have used numerous other modalities to support me on my journey of deeper self discovery and my quest for enlightenment. (EFT, Emotion Code Healing, healing touch, BodynBrain, Brain education, energy readings, past life regression etc.)

Fear and Immunity

HOW FEAR AFFECTS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley

Why your health may be severely suffering during the COVID19 outbreak, even if you are not exposed: The scariest part of this pandemic

This isn’t going to be an article trying to convince you the COVID-19 virus isn’t something to worry about, because right now having some fears come up is unavoidable. I primarily attribute this to the media is pushing intense fear/panic at us, by using inaccurate footage1 of overcrowded hospitals in NYC (but it was actually Italy), deaths attributed to COVID19 when the person in question is actually alive and well2, or died from other causes.  

The United States as a whole is in a moral panic. Will our jobs be okay? Will the stock market crash? Will we all get sick and die? Do we have enough toilet paper in our house to last six more months?  

We have to learn how to deal with this “moral panic”3 that is way more likely to infect our minds than our lungs.

Long-Term Stress and Physical Consequences

First I want to say that it is not inherently abnormal to jump to fear in a state of “crisis”. This is a protective and paramount mechanism that humans have instilled within them: to SURVIVE.  

However, this mechanism is meant for short bursts only. When we are in this state of fear and worry for extended periods of time, it will physically cause issues. Countless studies4 have shown this correlation: how “chronic stress has a significant effect on the immune system that ultimately manifest in illness”.  

It has been shown to increase the risk of diabetes by altering insulin needs. Stress can cause peptic ulcers or ulcerative colitis, as it can alter the acid in the stomach (side note: low stomach acid is not a good thing, more on PPIs and their dangers here5). Chronic stress and worrying over your fears can also lead to plaque build up in arteries7. It also has a stronger correlation with psychiatric illness, like depression6 and schizophrenia.  There are also recent studies that show a link between stress and tumor development (cancer) and suppression of natural killer cells (the ones that usually destroy cancer in our bodies)8,9.  

According to Occupational Health and Safety news and the National Council on compensation of insurance, “up to 90% of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related complaints.”4

Fear and the Immune System

Exposure to acute stress, trauma, and fear have been shown in both mice and humans to compromise immune function10 and impair lymphocyte function (lymphocytes are our white blood cells that fight viruses). Fear and stress makes you more vulnerable to infectious diseases.

Strategies to Combat Fear

One technique you can use for fear when it comes up is deep belly breathing with positive affirmations. This helps coax the body into a relaxation mode, and it is very helpful in stressful situations when you feel any anxiety rising up. By breathing down deeply into your belly (not expanding your chest), you are stimulating the Vagus nerve, which runs along the diaphragm to put your body back into parasympathetic mode (calming, slows heart rate, helps digestion).  It’s hard to catch yourself before going into the rabbit hole of fear, but it is very helpful, and possible with practice!

1. When you feel the fear and the “what-if” thoughts start to rise up. Stop right where you are. Close your eyes.
2. Find a positive affirmation of truth that completely counters the previous worry. For example: for fear of disease, use “My body is strong, healthy, and I trust my immune system”. Or for fear of financial loss, use “I am capable of anything, and trust that God has my back in this”.  Find whatever works for you. 
3. Place your hands over your lower belly, with your pointer and middle fingers touching. 
4. Breath deep into your belly through your nose. Your hands should separate slightly as you breathe in.
5. Breathe out all the way, slowly through your mouth. 
6. Do 10-20 deep breaths, then open your eyes and notice if you feel more grounded and stable. 

References: 

1. CBS News admits ‘mistake’ after airing footage of overcrowded Italian hospital in report about NYC.  https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-news-admits-mistake-after-airing-footage-of-overcrowded-nyc-hospital-that-was-actually-in-italy?fbclid=IwAR2K5S_9AXRF5_W25JtFrRcLe37N1dCMGuNeEhShpQICf9OfxkKNZROZEfY
2. Pasco Man Surprised To See Florida Announce His Coronavirus Death.  https://patch.com/florida/landolakes/pasco-man-surprised-see-state-announce-death-coronavirus
3. The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/202002/the-coronavirus-is-much-worse-you-think?fbclid=IwAR0kuhEMZepWK_C3mwpOI-jw5uRYDUE026sdXLwExd8bf5-Ac9s7CYjVj8s
4. Life Event, Stress, and Illness. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341916/
5. Low Stomach Acid and Why it Matters.  https://www.naturecurefamilyhealth.com/articles/low-stomach-acid-and-why-it-matters/
6. The effects of stressful like events on depression. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9046559
7. Stress and coronary heart disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3325022
8. Evidence that stress and surgical interventions promote tumor development by suppressing natural killer cell activity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10074922
9. Anxiety and pain suppress the natural killer cell activity in oral surgery outpatients.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11402277
10. What Happens When Your Immune System Gets Stressed Out?  https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-happens-when-your-immune-system-gets-stressed-out

There are lightbulb moments...

You know those moments where the lift does go all  the way to the top floor  and opens up to a whole new realization. A place where I suddenly get that you create your own reality and energy flows where attention goes, with such clarity.

This was one of those moments:
I'm standing in the line at the post office in a, all is right with the world and peace to all frame of mind, just watching as the world unfolds in front of me.  There is a whole discussion between the server and the client and it is obvious that english is neither ones first language.
The post office server is trying really hard to explain something to the client and the client is trying harder to understand. This is holding up the line and the discussion is loud enough for all to hear but not really understand either...kinda like watching a train smash.

I could feel the energy of frustration rising and started to understand that this is the point where most would be sending daggers and loads of frustrated energy to these two individuals, and it dawned on me that this is where I had the power to shift the energy. I could feed the frustration and send that energy to them and they would take even longer to understand each other or I could send them positive energy, or "love"
I term it this way because to me the energy of love contains patience, understanding, tolerance and compassion and feels good. Now some may scoff at this and call it new age mumbo jumbo or worse but when I think of the positive reality I wish to create or how I would like it to look and feel, its love.

Sending them this energy will help them reach an understanding much faster and move the line along and I can keep my peaceful feeling and get out of there sooner and continue the flow of my day. Another way to look at this would be to visualize them finally "getting" each other and watching the line move on.
Another incident where this applies for me would be when a baby is screaming on a plane as its ears cannot equalize and we generally just wish it would shut up. I am sure if everyone on the plane sent good vibes, good energy or "love", instead of the opposite feelings or energy, the baby would be able to settle down and nature could take it's course.....

Anyhow, the post office moment did make me think about how I move through my day and how my energy and thoughts and feelings affect what I create. It was my moment of clarity!

The Fifth Agreement

Don Miguel wrote "The Four Agreements", a book I really loved and now had his follow up out and I highly recommend it!
This is what he says:






AS don Miguel says, "By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world."