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3 Ways to Create Emotional Bookmarks for Passive Peaceful States

We tag all the events in our lives with emotions. That’s the way we remember them. If we had no emotional attachment to the event at all, it would be very difficult to recall it. Events with strong emotions like excitement, fear or anxiety, those are easy to remember because the emotion is so strong. But what about something like peace, quiet and serenity? It’s a little difficult to remember and evoke that same sense when you’re remembering perhaps being at the beach like I am today. Because it’s so calming it’s almost a passive emotion.

KEY #1

Use all the senses. Remember on purpose. Create that memory. When you encode that memory, don’t just listen to the sound of the waves passively. Think in your mind- I am listening to the sound of the waves. It seems silly, but if you don’t actually make a mental note of the things that you see, it’s just sort of easy for them to slip away and you don’t remember them. So involve all of your senses and do it actively rather than passively: So you see the waves, listen to the waves, smelling the salty air, maybe even tasting the salt in the air, feeling the temperature, feeling the wind. Involve all the senses and do it on purpose.

KEY #2

Find something unique about the event. Perhaps in your life, having peace and calmness IS unique, but to many people who do experience that once in a while, you need to find something just a little bit more unique. Maybe note the day, the time of the year or create a strange name for it. Declare it a holiday. Declare “ this is my Peaceful-Coronado- Friday.” Simply giving something a name is a way of book marking it.

KEY #3 in Creating an Emotional Bookmark for Peaceful States

Allow yourself to crank up the volume on your emotions. You get to choose how happy you want to be. You can say “ I’m happy today” and leave it at that or you can say “you know what, I can choose to be ten times happier than I am right now” even though it kind of blows it out of proportion. Well I wouldn’t say feeling ten times or a 100 times more peaceful than I am right now is blowing it out of proportion. If I could feel 100 times more peaceful than I do right now, even though I’m feeling really good,  I’ll take it!

That’s a good thing.

#1 Use all the senses.

#2 Make it unique.

#3 Crank up the volume.

“In the body-mindscape, we can choose to hold on to the fortresses of doubt, or we can choose to create waves of change to smooth our path.” ~ H. K. Meglasson

One Brain For Sale – Condition – Used

In 1990 my new husband and I decided it would be a great idea to buy a boat to live on. So what if we didn’t know much about boating and so what if we both had the tendency to get sea sick in rough water. And so what if my father said “the definition of a boat is a hole in the water in which to pour money into.” We wanted a boat! We didn’t know squat about being boat owners but as penny-pinching newlyweds, we were willing to learn along the way.

We found a neat little 11-year-old 32 foot Bayliner Cruiser that fell within our current means and provided a place to hang our hats. Now having very limited knowledge of the history that our floating home had weathered, we really hadn’t suspected any of the hidden surprises that awaited us. From creaks and cracks, unfortunate ejecting propellers and stinky bilge pumps, learning the hard way where the only surface rock in the bay was, and getting by on one working engine without spinning in circles, we found ourselves in a world of repairing and compensating in order to maintain integrity, balance, and the ability to stay afloat. This is very much the same situation that we find ourselves in as adults when we suddenly realize that we’re leasing a pre-used brain.

read entire article  >> Meglasson, Heather “One Brain For Sale – Condition – Used.” One Brain For Sale – Condition – Used EzineArticles.com. http://ezinearticles.com/?One-­Brain-­For-­Sale-­-­-­Condition-­-­-­Used&id=4235666

GREAT Health is a Laughing Matter

One of my favorite things that Dr  says is

Laughing at you own self allows you not to take yourself seriously, but to take your responsibilities seriously. There is an ancient saying in India –” You are your own friend and enemy”. You are totally responsible for what happens in your life, Never blame others for it, because no one can harm or do anything wrong with you without your permission.

There are so many ways you can create laughter in your life but if you’re interested in joining a Laughter Yoga club, here is a link to Dr. K’s group finder.

Hahahappy laughing!

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One Courageous Woman’s Fight for Balance

Interview excerp taken from my new book Happiness On Tap; Go From Blah to Brilliant in 60 Seconds.

One of the most dynamic, energetic women I know has stared hard in the face of death several times and laughed. After being told she didn’t test for anything wrong, but it was very apparent there was, she made the choice to follow some recommendations that led her to a whole new world of health care options. The balance of her physical health was in chaos, and her regular physicians were not listening to her. Though it would have been easy to wallow in self-pity and cultivate depression, she did not give up on getting the attention she needed. She kept a very positive outlook to get through it, and uses the lessons she’s learned to teach others how to be proactive in their health, as well.

Cynthia K. Hansen Ellis

Professionally educated as a Social Worker with a love for people,  Cindy was able to get jobs with some of the top Health Care Organizations including Kaiser Permanente, and Pacificare. Here she learned the detailed ins and outs of Risk Management, Professional Liability, Regulatory Licensing, and Customer Service. She learned about the “systems”,  road blocks, insurance influence, and bottom line dollar. All of this opened her eyes to understanding the need to be (or have) your own personal advocate.

What influence initially made you accept the idea of using
non-traditional methods of healing?

“I wanted to make all the choice for my body from as much information as possible. Because my original diagnosis was auto-immune related, I believed that my body could help fix the problem, if helped.

When I moved to the Denver area and was seeing a doctor in Boulder, I found and saw lots of alternative options. It was right in front of me and when I talked with people about where to get care, information and treatments, lots of alternative options kept coming up. I was driven there by one person from a Sweet Adeline’s International chorus I coach in Colorado Springs, who has lupus (also auto-immune) and was seeing a very successful homeopathic provider in Boulder. Once I called him and got inside his world, many things opened to me. It was like a candy store of options.”

Cindy, do you think that If you had not believed that you could be helped in a non conventional way, that it’s possible that the healing process could have been sabotaged?

“My current cures are all related to homeopathic (non-western) ways. The total clearing of my blood clots from the spleenectomy was and is from Natto Kinesse, which is totally homeopathic and not seen as a treatment at all in western conventional medicine. The total curing of two cancers I had was from non-traditional treatments and the Vitamin A treatments. Also the APIS – the newest remedy – seems to have moved my blood levels in the normal range for the first time in five years. So these three things have totally assisted if not caused the cure. However, traditional doctors are not willing to respond, acknowledge or support my success. But they have no other explanation. They just don’t talk about it. But they are not treating me for any of these medical issues since they are not happening. So why did they stop? Was I cured? How did it happen? Why did they cancel future treatment and care? I feel they are not allowed to speak and work with these treatments since they are licensed by law to give me the ’standard’ approved course of action for insurance, licensing and protocol reason.”

How powerful is positive thinking?

“It is the number one reason I am where I am today. There is no other option. You have to have the belief that your fight and your strength, no matter how challenged, will get you through. Believe me – I have my days where I am not the most positive person about all the health challenges I have had. But when you look around, this is nothing compared to what others have survived. I think talking to others about what they can do – keeps you forward and in a good place on what you personally need to do. The focus needs to be outside. You need to have an outlet to educate, and then you get more educated. Also if you are in (somewhat) the public eye, you have an opportunity too that others don’t. When you talk about your challenges you have a choice how you and the illness will be perceived. If you approach it as a winner and survivor – you are impacting others as well.”

Cindy also learned that treatment options come in many different forms, from traditional western, historic eastern and multiple nutritional styles to physical exercise, spiritual and so much more. She is exploring all the options available to her, learning that treatments can be as individualized as the individual. With all this personal training, knowledge and experience she was able to overcome not one, not two, not even three, but four life threatening illnesses, from which she and her family were told, “She will not make it.” Learning about yourself and your body, you can overcome and accomplish anything you believe you can.

“Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.”

~Martin Luther

Sheila Ulrich

What a beautiful story of courage and hope and the unlimited possibilities. This is why we are here to ...

29 August 09 at 13:13

Mountain Musings

View of Cowles Mt from San Carlos

I often hike up San Diego’s Cowles Mountain with the intent to manifest a higher vibration that I can carry into the rest of my day. Traversing the same path sometimes 4 times a week allows me to look beyond the now familiar landmarks, boulders and switchbacks. Similar to how one looks beyond the words, notes and patterns of music once it’s been blazed repeatedly into the neural network allowing for fuller emotional performance, embellishment and nuance, my mountain is now the support which encourages amazing thinking, spiritual connection and personal growth.

Recently on the trail when it’s been hot out and I’ve felt sluggish or just beat, I’ve taken notice of the rise and fall in my energy and tried to notice what kinds of internal and external stimuli could be related to the change. If I argued with my children earlier or am stressing over the heat or I’m dwelling on a future painful telephone call, It seems to take forever to make it to the top and then I’ll pat myself on the back and call it good exercise when I make it. For in those cases, it is only the exercise that benefits me.   Stimuli such as thoughts about my lovely husband when he’s being amazingly supportive, the wonderful regular massage clients I will be seeing later that day or even the smiles of passing hikers tend to make my steps lighter and more effective. Listening to music or a good podcast also makes the journey rich and effortless and the benefits go far beyond the physical level. Am I doing anything different physically? Nope, it’s still the same beautiful sunny sky and  1-3/4  mile trek up 1592 feet to the highest point in San Diego.  Because thoughts are energy, they do affect us.  If anything has ever convinced me of that it is the mountain.

The mountain has become such a part of my life, such a part of me, that my thoughts have shifted from once needing to “conquer” the mountain where I pushed myself to get to the top in a certain amount of time, to thoughts of combining my energy with that of the mountain and allowing the mountain itself to pull me to the top where I belong. The 1/16 Lakota Sioux in me is compelled to accept the energetic role of  “daughter mountain” and I delight in silently adding the titles “sister” and “brother mountain” to my cheerful greetings of passing travelers.

My intuition lets me in on the secret of which travelers are there for physical exercise, which are running away and which are there to make a connection.  Many push forward, already concerned with the days work ahead or dwelling on current but far away issues.  Their mountain connection is buried deep inside. They very rarely make eye contact or say hello except out of habit. Some come to escape life and drown it out with hard exercise or loud music. The mountain helps to serve their purpose. They don’t see me. Then there are those who are in the moment of the experience and feel very present as they maintain eye contact in their greeting just long enough for a wonderful exchange of genuine connection to be made.

Achieving the rewarding summit doesn’t just allow for panoramic view of my external world but my personal internal world as well. The meditation of the mountain clears my mind and allows me to see my life with laser clarity, opens new avenues of thought and allows me the time and space to explore those blossoming ideas and concepts. The physical/emotional experience of visiting the mountain again and again with the joy and the peace of mind that I have come to manifest there consistently is echoed in the blazing of my neural pathways, accessable anytime I want to draw upon it, with what it feels like to really live in my authentic joyful self.

Ventego

I added your blog to bookmarks. And i'll read your articles more often!

2 August 09 at 23:29

Bunker

Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest.

6 August 09 at 03:35

We’re a Green Smoothie household now!

Two years ago, my in-laws got DH (Dear Husband) and I a really nice blender. It’s seen frappuccinos. It’s seen blended chai. It’s seen tortilla soup and it’s seen it’s share of frozen fruit mixes (not just margaritas either). Well recently I’ve been on a raw food kick. My kids are helping me like more veggies. (Yes you heard right.) My older DD (Darling Daughter) eats stuff I use to avoid: carrots, cucumbers, sprouts, alfalfa, radishes…and all without dressing or dip. (Yes I’m extremely lucky.) So I’ve been re-trying all of my avoidances and learning to like them.

Somehow an online uncook book found it’s way to my desktop and my fancy dancy blender has been getting a great work out. Strawberry banana smoothies, strawberry kiwi smoothies, cherry watermelon smoothies, celery, spinach, banana blueberry smoothies! No really! Who would have thought that the green stuff could go so well with the fruity stuff? Not me.  So I took a picture of one satisfied customer with a green smoothie smile…that’s my girl!

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15 August 09 at 14:59

Confusion of Clairity

I’ll be the first to admit that quite often I get in my own way. In my determined search for new ways to become more grounded and more connected with my intuition, I sometimes become too focused on making an outcome instead of listening and letting it happen. Though often the outcome is not the picture perfect one I have in mind, it all still manages to positively turn out the way it should no matter how many times I trip over myself to get there.

For two weeks, I kept thinking of a friend/client that I really wanted to connect with but never found the right moment. This weekend while out camping for meditation and clairity, I thought of her more often than not as she was just a few miles away, but somehow distraction kept me from listening to my inner voice that told me she needed me. My inner critic rebuffs the voice as a vain attempt at importance.

Who could need me?

An image of a hand painted pot filled with wheat grass and a paper flower framing a little blond girl as well as a big laminated collage of red images decorating a mother’s day poem by her sister give gentle reprimand to the critic. I look forward to coming home and preparing the house for the big family Mother’s Day dinner later that afternoon.

Perhaps distraction WAS part of the plan.

Unpacking camping gear and juggling food and house prep, I settle down a moment to check e-mail and there it was, an SOS from the very person I had been close to connecting with that morning AND she was asking for help. Frustration. Acute, undeniable frustration. I call immediately. A younger lady answers the phone before she does and I am somewhat relieved to hear sounds of friends and family in the background.

Turns out my friend has been thinking of me for weeks as well but she’s one of those positive people who loves to help others and doesn’t like to ask help for herself. It took a couple other people to convince her to contact Me and NOW at the 12th hour before a medical procedure.

I call her.

The synchronicity between us never ceases to amaze me as we soon discovered the similar tract of our thoughts and I convince her that there is no question in my coming out there so expect me at 8:00

I take a moment here to express my gratitude toward my family and friends. (xoxoxo) They don’t even balk at my need to excuse myself early from our gather and send all their best wishes with me as my practitioner and I make the 75 minute trek out to perform an intense energetic balancing session.

Okay, so what if I kept forgetting to email her or even poke her on facebook? So what if I kept being too distracted to call? And so what if I didn’t focus enough to look up her number on Saturday when I was just a couple miles away? Yep, I could have listened to my intuition and planned better to make a longer visit that was more convenient. BUT. But I wouldn’t trade how it did end up happening for the world. I had just gotten back from a get-away that was a powerful energy refill. I came home to a very warm and supporting family which filled me even more. The drive to her home was therapy in itself as the road wound gently though the spring canopies and provided incredible vistas. Very grounding. I felt 200% prepared to listen and feel intuitively what my friend needed. In essence, I planned Not to plan. I knew now that everything would work itself out.

derekpm

Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article.

12 July 09 at 14:34