Spirit Healing

Hypnotherapy for stopping smoking does work.  It not only can help someone stop smoking “cold turkey” but it can get someone interested in stopping smoking with the suggestions that are made during the session.  A study in 2007 found that half of the patients who smoked and had health problems were smoke free after 6 months.  The rate was better than those who were given only nicotine replacement therapy or attempted “cold turkey”.

I don’t know what was said in the hypnosis session but the better the suggestions–the more effective the tape. The free Meditations that I am offering on my website has neurolinguistic programming which means that it offers subliminal suggestions on the physical level, for those who are more “feelers”, subliminal suggestions on the visual level for those who learn faster on a visual level, and auditory suggestions for those who are auditory learners.   I also offers other hypnosis’s in my mediation section of the website.

We all know of the success of the book, The Secret.  It talks of the power of believing that you can achieve  your goals by believing that they will come true.  Breakthroughs in the law of physics have somewhat confirmed this statement by the experiments that show that the experimenter often has an influence on the outcome of a study.  Physicists that disagree have their own take what happens, I know, I have discussed it with them.  It’s kinda like talking to someone that thinks we aren’t in global warming because a certain politician said we aren’t and because of their party affiliation.  Whatever is true, It is better to try to do what you can for the environment to head off the worse scenario.

Believing that you can succeed is certainly a better option that thinking you can’t.  Again you try for the option that covers the most bases.  Negative thinking has been shown to do damage to the body.  Stress can actually kill the tiny connections in the brain making it more difficult to recall data.  We all like to be around a positive person–it’s like you feel better by being around their energy.  For those that can see auras, the more upbeat a person is,  the bigger and brighter the aura.  Our unconscious can sense these feelings even without thought.  We prefer to be around people more than others.

There are several problems however with the positive thinking hypothesis.  One, is that fears, illness, or a bad experience can nullify or damage our attempts to be positive.  At these times in our life, and there are plenty of them for the average person, we have to use some form of faith to help us get through the experience so that we don’t give up our dreams.  Suggestions include:  Always do the best you can–that is don’t commit the errors that God gave Moses:  the 10 commandments.  Those will keep you out of trouble to begin with.  Second, use your faith, whatever that is, to help you get through your problem.  Talk to a priest or clergy or counselor.  Pray, meditate, reflect, enjoy nature, get away, do whatever you can to give yourself a quiet time to “see the larger picture”.

The hardest part in believing in your dreams is to be too concerned with the outcome.  Anxiety, fear and feeling like it is a matter of life or death (accomplishing your goal) is another obstacle to not achieving your heart’s desire.  Static electricity that surrounds these emotions will decrease your chances.  Trust in yourself and your spirit, and a higher power to guide you in the right way.  Why is it so hard?  Because everyone here on planet earth is set in a stage of drama to “quicken” the development of your soul.  That’s why you are here.  There will always be something to keep you working on it while you are in our plant earth school.

How to buy a healthy organic free range turkey for Thanksgiving.

Perhaps California will begin a trend to improve the health of chickens. The average chicken farm has 250,000 chickens housed on top of each other–eight tiers high. Salmonella is so common that after the baby chickens are hatched and slid down a metal shaft they are given a shot of antibiotics. Most are born with Salmonella. Six or seven chickens are raised together in a tiny metal cage so tightly that they can’t open their wings. They never see daylight or a worm or have any kind of outdoor, free existence. We wonder why there is such a thing as bird flu. Eventually, if we don’t change our abuse of chickens, they may all die of bird flu or another mutating virus, exposing us as well. Already cases of human deaths from bird flu in Asia have been reported.

There is something you can do. (l) You can begin a campaign to ban chicken abuse in your state. (2) You can patronize the farms that raise free range, or pastured poultry. (3) You can find organic farms listed on the internet on www.greenpeople.org meat. (4) Buy and show the PBS film: The Natural History of the Chicken. (a delightful but non-activist film). (5) Shop in your local health food store meat section and ask them to order you a pasture raised chicken. If they only have organic or grain fed chicken at least they have been raised healthy enough that they haven’t required antibiotics. (6) Pay more for the organic chicken (a 3 lb. chicken will cost you about $7.00 instead of $3.50 but will be safer and far more delicious. (7) Eat less chicken. (8) Raise you own chickens (9) Patronize you local coops and buy from community chicken farmers (10) Send this blog to a friend.

Government refuses to ban BPA (bisphenol A) for baby bottles and food containers.

There is evidence that a chemical found in plastics used to make baby bottles and drinking cups may disrupt neural and behavioral development in fetuses, infants, children and adults. Health authorities believe that because BPA mimics estrogen it could be contributing to a major sex hormone problem in children and adults. Graedons’ People’s Pharmacy, P.O. Box 52027, Durham, NC 27717-2027 will mail a one-hour CD (CD670) for $16.00. This one hour CD is on Sex Hormone Disruption.

One study, reported in the American Medical Association Journal of 1500 adults found that 93% showed high levels of BPA in their bodies. Those with the highest levels of BPA were twice as likely to have heart disease or diabetes. The National Toxicology Program reported studies showing that high levels of BPA in people have a greater risk of developing uterine fibroids, breast cancer, decreased sperm counts and prostate cancer. But the scariest news was that babies and children are at the greatest risk and may possibly be candidates for early onset of puberty due to the effects of BPA on the prostate and mammary glands in infants and children.

The safer numbers on the bottom of plastic containers are 1, 2, and 5 (in the triangle or circle) on the container). NEVER use No. 7. Often, #7 will say it can be recycled although other numbers do too. Products marked with a number are often inside a small triangle or circle on the bottom of the article and you often need a magnifying glass to read it.

Sophie Uliano, author of Gorgeously Green, said that studies on canned food show that the plastic linings in cans leech out into the formula, soup and pasta. Therefore, stop buying any canned formula or soup that doesn’t claim to be BPA free. My suggestion: Instead of buying canned tomato soup, buy tomato juice or other vegetable juices in a glass container and heat in a stainless steel pan as soup.

Never cook or microwave in any type of plastic container—use only ceramic, enamel or glass plates. Don’t eat on plastic coated plates. BPA has raised concerns because it appears to mimic the effects of estrogen, interfering with hormone levels and cell signaling systems.

The challenge: Getting the government to ban BPA. Our personal challenge: Doing away with all our plastic wraps, plastic zip up containers, the plastic mustard jar, the plastic plates, feeding utensils, plastic containers of make-up, ointments, crèmes, garbage bags, etc. They are making biodegradable plastic bags now for garbage and storage bags that will not continue to pollute the environment.

Mary Dean Atwood, Ph.D.

Interesting interview I found on CBS about a health store owner being brave enough to remove the plastic BPA from her shelves since the government won’t do it to help people.

The Food and Drug Administration is now considering proposals that would put UNLABELED genetically altered meat in your grocery store! Despite warnings that genetically altered meat fed to animals causes birth defects, underweight off-spring, and PERMANENT generic changes in DNA. the government is listening to companies that want to sell their experimental meats.

Genetically, altered “aggressive” salmon that was farmed on the East Coast got swept out to sea during a storm and around the same time, I recall articles trying to explain the disappearance of large numbers of regular Salmon. Has anyone put the two events together? In checking a half dozen articles, and there are hundreds, I found no reference to this event. Then in a report by six highly distinguished institutes on the subject of escaped farmed salmon in the Atlantic regions, I thought surely genetically altered salmon would be mentioned. The first institute mentioned was The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research by Eva B Thorstad in an article entitled Incidence and Impacts of Escaped Farmed Atlantic Salmon in Nature, which is available on the internet.

Instead the article talks about the negative effects of “regular” salmon salmo salorthat escape and breed with farmed salmon. These included: reduced lifetime success, lowered individual fitness, decreases in production for at least two generations! Genetically altered fish, in comparison should be many times worse. Apparently, genetically engineered projects are so new that little is even known that this exists. Given the way our FDA operates, by the time the government figures it out, it will be too late.

For a set of DVDs that will keep you awake at night buy the GMO Trilogy (Genetically Modified Organisms) from www.seedsofdeception.com It is sponsored by an assortment of consumer groups interested informing everyone of the dangers that exist without strict regulation. One of the best articles warning of the problems was published over 8 years ago in the New York Times. It was by Carol Kaesuk Yoon and was entitled: Giant Genetically-Altered Salmon Set To Enter Unregulated US Market. So why are there so few articles linking the disappearance of both West Coast and East Coast salmon to “Frankenfish”.

That little voice “within” that gives us actual insight in what we need to do at any one moment, or divine intervention for help in our lives may lie dormant waiting for an opportunity to be recognized. So how do we find time to listen to our higher self, or a guardian angel that has suggestions for us? The immediate tasks at hand, those that need to be done in a given day usually get done because of necessity. You need to be at work or at a certain place or have household duties for family members that cannot go undone.

Time must be scheduled for being alone with yourself. If you live alone, you have no excuse although it is just as difficult to obtain. There is always the paper, the television, friends to e mail or call. So just like those good budget people that always put 10% of their money in savings first, (you notice I didn’t make a self reference on that one), you need to know when you are going to schedule your quiet time for the day.

Quiet time means nothing to do but sit and reflect. Walking usually has too many distractions and even being around pets who are wonderful to help reduce your blood pressure (while petting them) you are not being alone. You can sit in your car during your lunch break if you can find a parking place over by the side away from other cars. You can lay down in your car or sit and look out. Morning people can get up before other family members to give yourself 15 or 30 minutes. Yes, you can drink your coffee while contemplating. Night people can wait until everyone has gone to bed. Some people quiet themselves with a prayer or start with meditation. The mind needs to be quieted.

Have a small pad with you to write down anything that comes to mind that you consider important. You can present a question to yourself or ask for help from a divine source. Don’t consciously try to force an answer. Just sit with the issue and wait for an association or idea to come into your mind. At first it will be difficult and sometimes it won’t reveal itself until you have ended your guiet time, perhaps driving to work or doing laundry. A “soul” question may take a full six weeks to be answered. Sometimes it comes from a friend, or a flyer send to your house. It maybe a new opportunity that you want to take advantage of. Or it maybe a strong compulsion to do something you ordinarily would not do. Of course, such messages assume that you would never manipulate another person, that you are always honest and loyal and that you always try to follow the golden rule. With these rules in mind, trust that you will receive a divine answer.