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THE PRESENCE & STILLNESS IN OUR LIVES Interview with Eckhart Tolle

PEACE BEYOND THE MIND by His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo

LIVING IN HARMONY WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE Interview with Byron Katie

HEALTH & WELLBEING

REWEAVING YOUR LIFE WEB by Scott Alexander King

WHO'S THE OBSERVER? by Mas Rogers

THETA HEALING by Susanne Meaney

HOW EFT ELIMINATES EMOTIONAL EATING

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THE MASAI WARRIORS & CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES by Dr Tunbridge

SEXUAL FRUSTRATION & SPIRITUALITY by John Wood

SPRING CLEAN YOUR EXERCISE ROUTINE by Lynda Pugliese

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY by Patricia Farnsworth

SCHOOL YARD BULLYING by Marilla Stain

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WORKING WITH DEPRESSION CONSCIOUSLY by Bronwyn Barter

WORKING ON THE BUSINESS by Michelle Stanton

EMBRACING YOUR INNER MUSE by Elizabeth Peru

CAN'T YOU SEE I AM WORKING? by C. J. Hayden

SPACE TIME MOTION by Peter Blasch

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FLUSHING AWAY WEALTH? by Cindy Coleman

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There is a direct way in, back in to the Source of our own true nature. So often however, we stuggle with methods and techniques, unable to see past the doctrine of our beliefs that bind us to our present state of consciousness. There is always another way, a simpler and more direct way into the Truth before us and almost always it requires a gentler approach, a less effortful approach, one that cuts through the unexamined beliefs that obstruct this moment just as it is. Ryokan reminds us, “With no-mind, blossoms invite the butterfly. With no-mind, the butterfly visits the blossom. When the flower blooms, the butterfly comes.” On the coast of Guinea there’s a group of Africans who, following their forefathers’ ancient way of cultivating salt, spend 3 months of the year away from their villages, camped on the seashore near the swamp marshes where they gather to cultivate salt, the way they’ve always done it. They would spend hours gathering wood, chopping it down to feed the fires that needed to be kept constantly burning. For every kilo of salt they would end up harvesting, they needed to produce 3 kilos of firewood. The women would fill endless buckets of muddy water from the ocean’s edge and cart them back to the fires burning in their huts, throwing the mix of mud and brine into great tubs that would boil continuously. Slowly salt would crystalize and form at the surface which they would then skim up and pour into tubs. This arduous and extremely time consuming process would eat up their days and nights, bringing together enough salt to sell for a few meager dollars to help them through the rest of the year. This process was not only labour intensive and time-consuming but extremely hazardous to their health, with most of the people dying young, especially the women who slaved over the hot stinging smoke bellowing from the fires, causing damage to their eyes and lungs. One day, a group of Westerners arrived. They introduced the modern salt cultivation process of preparing salt-pans and utilizing the sun for evaporation, demonstrating the ease and effectiveness of this simple proc-

ess. The villagers couldn’t believe it could possibly be this easy: Simply allowing the sun to do the work through the natural process of evaporation instead of the vast amounts of time and effort they were so used to. They were so incredulous that they even spied on the salt workers from the West at night to see if they’d secretly added chemicals of some sort into the process. It took quite a bit of convincing that they needn’t work as hard for equal or better results, as nature would do the bulk of the work for them. Many of us deal with our own unfoldment in the same way. Unable to let go of the antiquated efforting methods of the past, we fail to see that the “technique” has taken over our “awakening”, we’ve allowed the form to get in the way of our continued deepening and realisation of the Presence - who and what we really are in this moment. The above story illustrates the challenge of being human. We can be extremely inventive and resourceful using our minds, yet we can also become attached to patterns and approaches that are comfortable and familiar. If we yearn for Truth however, we can never settle for the past, only this moment will ever do... Being present is the first and final step. There's no point in trying to get anywhere else, we’ll always have to return to the present moment for this is all there really is. All thoughts of tomorrow, furrowing into our brow, really don’t have any bearing on the reality that we seek. Our minds flow with thinking, most of it totally unconscious because of one little trick that continues to escape our attention: we believe our thoughts to be real. They’re not of course, they’re only thoughts about what was, what is and what may be... only thoughts. When we finally come to see this “Great Imposter” that so dominates our attention, we realise just how insidious this deception is. And at that moment we can change our life forever by no longer believing in the mind’s dictates by choosing instead to “breathe and be here” at every turn. Make the most of each moment, Leo and Enza

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The PRESENCE & STILLNESS in our lives An Interview with Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle

by Dan Churman I came to know Eckhart Tolle’s work in stages; first via the printed words of his best-selling “The Power Of Now”, “Stillness Speaks”and "A New Earth", and finally in person for this interview in upstate New York. Each encounter brought me closer to the man’s stillness and his wisdom, which I gauged by the stillness I felt within myself as I absorbed what he had to say. Eckhart has a magical, elfin quality about him, and was dressed in a button-down cardigan and corduroy pants. He speaks very softly, but as we got into our conversation, he became quite animated and impassioned. Our hour went by rapidly, and neither one of us moved much from our spots on the sofa as the meeting went on. DC: Being aware that silence says it all, to begin speaking does feel somewhat silly. On the other hand, sometimes words carry the perfume of the silence, or point back to the silence. In reading your books and listening to your talks, it seems that what you are saying points back to stillness—and that is how you live your life. ET: Yes. I’m aware that a sense of stillness comes through in the books. Somehow, there’s a certain power that goes beyond the words, and that’s the place where art originates. A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness. Somehow, and nobody knows how, the essence of the unmanifested, of the stillness, flows into the work. DC: The work becomes a carrier of the stillness. A person can also become a work of art, in that sense. ET: When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves. DC: From what you say in your first book, The Power of Now, this dissolution occurred spontaneously for you, at a time when you were deeply depressed. ET: It happened when the pain became truly unbearable. Usually, even though the mind says, “I can’t stand it anymore,” you can still stand it. You have not yet reached the point where the little egoic me is dissolved. But when the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies. DC: Sometimes not until actual physical death. ET: Yes, unfortunately. Collective egos function in the same way. When the ego

dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins. DC: So over time the little me sows the seeds of its own destruction. ET: That’s right, and after this self-destruction is when the real spiritual teaching comes. It’s beyond words. Words are just a little signpost that say, “I don’t need suffering anymore, and I don’t need time.” With that realization comes the end of all spiritual seeking, when it’s truly realized that you don’t need suffering and you don’t need time. The two go together, but it often takes time to realize that you don’t need time anymore. [Laughter] That’s the paradox and spiritual truth can often only be captured through some kind of paradox. DC: How does a spiritual teaching work toward the dissolution of the ego? ET: Well, first there are the signposts— the words—that point you in the right direction. But the main teaching is that of presence itself, which is very hard to talk about. You come into the field of presence, which has no past to it, no future, no time. That field of presence is the teaching and the true teacher. It dissolves time in you; it dissolves the conditioning of the mind, which is also time; and it dissolves the conditioned entity, the me, which is also time. It also dissolves the suffering that has accumulated, including what I call the “pain body”—the accumulated suffering from the past. All of that, in the presence of presence, begins to dissolve, and that’s the true teaching. That’s why presence is so beautiful and why people want to be close to a teacher. It’s not the form of the teacher; the attraction is to be in the presence of presence. It’s a very powerful thing to sit with somebody who looks like somebody but is not somebody. When there’s somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there’s a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself. There’s an almost magnetic pull of being. It gets pulled out of you, forward, and it meets all of the other being’s being. Words are not really necessary for that to happen. They can be floating on the surface. Being recognizes itself. People come together, being in response to being. That’s the beauty of it. DC: It seems that there are tastes of this presence all along the way. And each taste informs... ET: These glimpses are tastes of stillness and the power that is in the stillness. It doesn’t matter how long the glimpse may last. It’s not measured in time, and it’s not even a memorable experience, as such. In a

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way, one could almost say that a glimpse of stillness is the absence of any experience, since stillness itself can’t really be called an experience. And it is not memorable; the mind doesn’t know what to do with it. At best, the mind might remember something peripheral about that moment when the stillness came. It might remember: “I was climbing a mountain and suddenly, when I got to the top, there was an incredible sense of peace all around and within.” The mind had stopped at that moment. In the physical exertion and the overwhelming beauty, there was a momentary cessation of thinking. I know some people who often have glimpses of stillness, but then noise obscures it again. Usually the noise is the little me, a mental image. The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn’t even recognize it and certainly can’t remember it. DC: You mean that the ego wants to get back to its problems: “Let me remember what my problems are so I can have a sense of reality again.” ET: Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There’s something that wants the opposite. I was walking along the shore this morning, and the ocean seemed completely still. Yet huge waves were coming in and out of the stillness, breaking like thunder. This thunder is like the thunder of stillness. The waves are like waves of bliss, of unconditioned consciousness. It is vast. The waves break, then stillness again. Then another wave comes, very silently. These waves come from within now in many humans. It sometimes seems as if it’s happening to the whole world, to everybody. Occasionally, though, when I switch on the TV, I realize, “Oh, no, it’s not happening to everybody.” [Laughter] Compared to the waves, this mental noise is like trying to drown out the sound of the ocean with musical instruments. DC: How do you think about practices that “cultivate” presence? ET: Well, at a certain stage practice may be helpful, but I don’t teach practices. The power of presence doesn’t really need it. Presence is teaching, stillness is teaching, so it would be unnecessary to have a practice. Of course, there may be certain people who haven’t yet had an opening to presence and are not drawn to it; so for them practice may be initially helpful—until it becomes a hindrance. Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That’s important to realize. Every practice will have

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to be relinquished at some point; it’s a question of knowing when that point has been reached. Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance. DC: How so? ET: In a very subtle way, ego comes in. I sometimes see it when I look at meditators who have a lot of strong “doing” going on. It might be the sense “I’m going to get there” or “I’m there already, because I’m the best meditator.” The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it’s your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one’s identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I’m a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I’m no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering. Another hindrance of practice is that it usually has steps, which require time to go through or time to become good at. Because it takes time, a practice can’t really take you there. Only when time is removed—either it collapses or is removed through the power of a teaching—do you realize that you are already “there.” DC: What about Buddhist meditation practices? ET: There are some Buddhist practices that are very simple, such as Zen, where you’re just sitting and watching. It’s perhaps no practice, and that’s the best kind. Sometimes people ask me about vipassana saying, “Oh, when you talk about feeling the inner body, that reminds me of vipassana.” Of course, it is the same principle—that is, inhabiting the body. So vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind. If anybody reading this interview feels a reaction at this moment, that might be a sign that there’s an ego identification with their practice, and it’s time to let go. [Laughter] DC: I have often heard the comment that people can wake up without a practice, but then they go back to sleep. The conclusion is that the practice is necessary to stay awake. ET: A practice can be helpful, but didn’t the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore? Continued on page 42

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PEACE beyond the MIND His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo, one of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers alive today and holder of the Dzogchen lineage, reveals how we can experience clarity and peace by simply resting our body, energy and mind His Eminence the 7 th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo, is one of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers alive today and holder of the Dzogchen lineage. Upon the request of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, His Eminence re-established Dzogchen Monastery in south India and has dedicated his life to the service of others through the charitable activity of Dzogchen Sri Senha Charitable Society and Shenpen. In this short teaching His Eminence Dzogchen Rinpoche reveals how we can experience clarity and peace by simply resting our body, energy and mind.

bring us continuous benefit not just temporary relief. When we are lying on the beach, our minds are still active and we are distracted by everything that is going on around us. We become unsettled so we read a book, then listen to our mp3 player and check our mo-

bile phones for text messages. We daydream and make stories in our minds, planning our social calendar for the rest of the week. Even though we think we are, we are not really resting. The present moment escapes us when we are always active. We look for happiness outside of ourselves, in relationships with others, in external events or through material possessions, but this constant search drains us of our energy. We then carry out many actions without thinking or considering their consequences. We make mistakes and sometimes our actions upset others, causing arguments or problems. Then like a boomerang, our actions come back to disturb us. This only adds to our stress and we have less energy than before, but if we knew how to rest the body, energy and mind every day could be a holiday. By resting our speech we rest our energy. We rarely rest our voices. We are often gossiping about other people’s business, talking on the telephone, sending text messages and discussing the celebrity news from magazines. In a world governed by technology, many of us spend the entire day seated in front of a computer frantically sending emails. We think that the more we do, the more we can achieve but this sort of pace can only cause us more suffering. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is said that when we talk too much our lung (energy) increases. When lung increases, it destabilises the natural balance in the body, affecting our well being. If we talk less, we will produce fewer thoughts and fewer problems. It may seem unusual to be told that it is beneficial to talk less. We often think that to be successful we must be heard above the rest. Some

His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche people are desperate to be heard and to have their ideas listened to. Some are so desperate that they end up shouting when they talk! All the subjects that we discuss are the plans orchestrated by our mind, so the mind is never resting. If we wish to experience inner peace we must learn to rest our speech. When I say that we should rest our speech, it includes all forms of communica-

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tion. We should try also not to be so hectic in our correspondence and aim to respond in a calm way. Sometimes we receive a hurtful email and we are too quick to respond. Once we press the send button we cannot retrieve our email. By not responding immediately, this allows us to create space within our mind. A spacious atmosphere will support the Dzogchen view, a view that can see all aspects of a situation; cause and effect, action and result. When we are mindful of our speech we are able to rest our mind. If we pay attention to our thoughts and speech throughout the day, our meditation will become easier. My teacher once told me, “When you are in private watch your mind and when you are in public watch your mouth”. I find this to be very helpful

advice. At first it may seem difficult to rest the mind. If we watch our mind, we will see a shower of thoughts; millions of thoughts come and go, all day long. But if we are patient and just simply sit and rest the mind, it will gradually begin to slow down and our thoughts will lessen. Naturally space will develop and we will experience clarity that is free from labels and attachments. It is a peace that is beyond the mind. It is our natural state that can simply be experienced by resting. The ancient Dzogchen lineage has a very simple method for resting the mind. When we rest the mind in Dzogchen everything will rest naturally. There is one antidote for all emotions. It’s so simple and so natural. We don’t need to sit in the lotus position; we can stand or even walk. If we try to force our mind to rest and sit with our back straight like a statue, it only causes the body to become tense. With the Dzogchen method, we can even rest when we are dating, shopping and cooking. To rest the mind is very natural and there is no need

to create any thing. There is no need to be afraid, we won’t lose ourselves, instead we will discover our natural being, just as it is. Resting the body, energy and mind is a real, authentic peace, a great peace that is the heart of the Dzogchen teachings. Edited Public Talk: Resting the mind Paris, April 2008

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BALANCING MIND AND BODY THE MONKEY AND THE ELEPHANT Every time you meditate you bring yourself to your natural state of balance – physically, emotionally and mentally. It’s simple to learn and easy to do. It’s also a very blissful thing to do, and at Lifeflow we also show you how to recognise when you are in this state of balance But why do it? It goes against everything we are taught is right and good: to be busy and to keep achieving. In America now, it is even considered a weakness to be still. Well, we have forgotten how difficult it was to learn how to walk. And, in our culture, we have no training at all in how to “walk” emotionally, let alone how to “run”. And so we plough on, driving ourselves harder and faster, without having any idea of how our emotions work, or how to look after ourselves emotionally, or even that we need to.

PHYSICAL BALANCE When we learn to walk as very young children, the most difficult thing to do is to stand up and keep our balance. Until we do this, walking is impossible. Every athlete understands how crucial finding and maintaining their balance is. Swimmers and runners in particular shake and move their bodies to warm and loosen up before a race, then stabilise and position themselves on the blocks. If they are even slightly off-balance when they start, they will progressively lose their balance as they move. By the time they regain their balance, assuming that they do, they will have lost the race anyway.

EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL BALANCE It’s exactly the same emotionally and mentally. If you are emotionally out of balance and do something in that state, you become further and further out of balance. This explains why “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. The key to becoming aware of your emotional states and working with

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them skillfully is to know the point of emotional balance and be able to achieve it when you need to. The same applies mentally. Much of our thinking is inefficient and unproductive, and this has profound implications, particularly in the workplace. Often when people are stressed or tired at work they push on, overriding the needs of their body. When you push hard, your work ceases to flow and, although you don’t realise it, your thinking can become inefficient and the work often needs to be redone.

THE MONKEY AND THE ELEPHANT The meditation tradition has a wonderful image which illustrates exactly how our minds and bodies work together. It is a monkey riding on the back of an elephant. The monkey is our conscious mind or our Thinking Mind. This is our mind as we know it, where we think about things, plan and remember. This is also the mind we identify as “our mind”. It’s also quite young in the scheme of things, and evolved only about 35,000 years ago. The monkey has a wonderful view––it can see clearly where it is going and where it has come from. It jumps around, grabbing at whatever it can. It doesn’t even know the elephant exists, let alone that it is riding the elephant’s back. The elephant is our body – our Emotions and Instincts. Our instincts pre-date human history, and our emotions developed around 50.000,000 years ago. Our instincts and emotions also form the subconscious part of our brain. The elephant has no awareness of the monkey either. It is only concerned with what is immediately in front of it and its immediate needs for survival, responding to its deep-seated instincts. It simply goes where it has been conditioned to go. While the monkey is small and quick, the elephant is large and slow. The monkey doesn’t realise it is not deciding where it is going––it’s

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literally being taken for a ride by the elephant. Because it can see, it has the illusion of making decisions, but it can’t get anywhere without the elephant. In fact, because the elephant carries the monkey, the monkey goes where the elephant goes. However, the elephant has nothing like the view of the monkey. It cannot plan or see the past and future. It is slow and powerful and motivated by its instincts. This image demonstrates that the monkey is totally dependent on the elephant. The elephant could survive without the monkey, but the monkey is literally riding on the elephant’s back. This explains why neat, well-planned decisions often have little relationship with what happens on the ground.

WHAT DOES MEDITATION DO? Putting it simply, meditation brings your thinking (the monkey) and your emotions and instincts (the elephant) to their balance point, where they are both still. At this point the monkey and the elephant are connected and can then work together. They can talk to each other and the results can be extraordinary. Our plans can be linked to the reality of our lives and bodies, so that we achieve what we set out to achieve. A young elite cricketer came to me to learn meditation because, as he said, he had trained his body and now he knew he had to train his mind. After learning to meditate he achieved his first 100 runs, and was delighted. Also, by knowing how to balance your mind and emotions you can maintain them in good health. Our mental and emotional health can also have a profound effect on our physical health. Dr Andrew Weill in his book Spontaneous Healing, says that all illnesses have an element of stress playing in. We have much more control over our emotional and mental

ENLIGHTENMENT health than we realise, and learning how to use meditation can save us from many of the problems that have become endemic and which are totally preventable. The monkey, with its clear view can gather information and plan ahead. The elephant decides where the action is, but can’t see into the future. The monkey can see the best place to go but the elephant has to take them there. Dr. Graham Williams has thirty years’ experience in teaching

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VAJRAYOGINI THANGKA Vajrayogini embodies the wisdom energy of fearlessness and transformation. To recognize her as inseparable from the emptiness of one’s innermost nature is to stand blowing on a sun and moon disc and to trample beneath one’s feet the petty emotions and preoccupations that confine us to the unenlightened state. To embody Vajrayogini’s exalted qualities is to be naked before the world and adorned only in bone ornaments and a necklace of fifty – one skulls – the trophies of having severed the roots of all mental illusions. In her right hand, Vajrayogini holds a curved knife and, in the other, a skull cup filled with blood. Holding aloft this essence of the life force – or by other accounts, the nectar of choice less awareness – she pours it down her open throat. A Tantric staff rests against her left shoulder, symbolizing the awakening of bliss within the psychic channel that parallels the spine and flowers at the heart. As a female icon of enlightened energy, Vajrayogini transforms worldly passions into luminous awareness. Vajrayogini is the female form of an enlightened Buddha , the one who brings all actions to miraculous fruition.

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Living with Enlightenment My partner, Dave, is often asked about how things have changed in our relationship in the last few years and what it’s like living with an enlightened woman. In response to these questions he has written the following article. When I was very young, I sought something. I had little idea of what it was, or how to find it, but I seemed compelled to seek it. I would catch glimpses of it sometimes in Nature, especially in wilderness, but then it would be gone, even though the wilderness was still all around me. It felt like a deep peace, a sense of infinite possibility. At some stage later on I discovered that what I sought was called enlightenment. I read books, cover to cover, again and again. I asked a lot of questions. Over time I managed to absorb the knowledge that enlightenment is right here, but we are cut off from it by the illusion that we have (or are) a separate self. I read more books, I meditated and spent time in wild places. Eventually, it occurred to me that I needed a teacher – not in a book, but in the flesh. My search then changed its direction. I met a few genuinely enlightened teachers, and these meetings had a profound effect on me. I started to see having a teacher as an essential part of the process – and began a long journey of facing my ignorance and learning how to overcome it. When I first met Linda, she had such a clarity about her that I was sure she must have been an experienced meditator. I was puzzled, and I admit, dismayed when I found out that she had no interest whatsoever in meditation, my stack of spiritual books, or even my absolutely amazing insights. Despite this, there was a very strong attraction between us, and we were somehow on the same wavelength. This was in 1980 – ancient history. My attempts over many years to interest her in spiritual matters all came to nought. She would listen politely, but it bored her. In the early nineties I managed to drag her along to meet one of my teachers, Peter Jones. Something happened in that meeting that would change our lives forever. I was gobsmacked. Enlightenment suddenly became her main interest. She poured an enormous amount of energy into meditation and spent as much time as she possibly could with Peter. She even started reading my books. Before long it became obvious to me that she was far more conscious than I was. What happened to Linda over the next eight years has been documented and published in other places; I will not go into it here. But the outcome of it is that for the past few years I have been living with an enlightened teacher. After all my years of searching for teachers,

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this is an odd sort of outcome for me I suppose, but an extraordinary one for which I am hugely grateful. Over these past years I have encountered a lot of curiosity – which is totally understandable when someone openly claims enlightenment. The purpose of this writing is to answer the curiosity in a broader and more formal way than I have til now. I hope to be able to shine some light on the reality of this amazing state from a different angle. Some of the questions I’ve been asked are · What’s it like living with an enlightened woman? · How has Linda changed since she became enlightened? · How has her enlightenment affected you? These questions are closely related, so I’ll answer them together. Linda has said of enlightenment – “[It] is a state of indescribable peace, a deep passionate peace.” She is in this state every moment. It is a radically different way of being. So how does it manifest in daily life? How can you see it? It shows itself in subtle ways. Some people don’t notice it at all because she is so ordinary. But if you look, you start to see it. There is a noticeable lack of fear in all its forms. Every situation is met directly, unflinchingly. In fact none of what we normally call negative emotions ever appear, except sometimes for a brief instant, and I can tell that they have virtually no effect on her. There is the spontaneity of a child coupled with deep wisdom. This is probably one of the biggest observable changes. Before enlightenment, I would say Linda was averagely emotional. She became upset, sad, anxious and depressed from time to time as most

of us do. But not any more. This has had a profound effect on our relationship. These emotional states are foreign territory to her now, so when I become emotional, she can’t feel what I’m feeling. She feels compassion for me when I’m emotional, but she can’t really relate to what I’m feeling because she can only dimly remember what it was like to suffer from emotional pain. This can become frustrating, but ultimately I am forced to take responsibility for my own emotions. Detachment is another sign of enlightenment, and a challenge in relationship. Most relationships have an element of need, and whether we like to admit it or not, most of us enjoy the feeling of being needed. It seems to give us some security. I know that deep down Linda doesn’t need me. I know she loves me and enjoys my company, but she doesn’t need me. And I need her, so there is a kind of inequality in this, which provides plenty of opportunities for my insecure ego to make a meal of it. Since she has been teaching, people have openly praised Linda, often in very strong terms, and it is obvious that she is totally unaffected by it. This has been very interesting for me to watch. There is no pride, no embarrassment, no reaction. There has always been much interest in and debate about desires in the enlightened state. Desires are the source of our suffering, according to the Buddha. But how could you live without them? Linda certainly has desires. Their range has changed quite dramatically, but she still has desires. They are most often for simple things like going for a walk, or seeing her children, but the main difference is that she is not at all attached to her desires. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t matter. There is no worry, no wishing or wanting no projection of desires into the future. Plans are made, recorded, and then forgotten until their time comes.

Being around enlightened energy a lot of the time has its obvious benefits, but its challenges too. My awareness has received a huge boost, but I can easily become lazy. I can coast along on it, and slacken off on my work. It’s been hard for me but I have come to terms with it. There was a time when my ‘stuff’ didn’t appear much at all, but that was a kind of honeymoon period. The mind hates enlightened energy, and eventually it has to try to assert itself and play its games. Otherwise, it fears, it will die. Territory has certainly been won, but my mind is pretty much as devious and desperate as anyone else’s, and it has shown its resolve to fight until the last ditch, regardless of the stiff opposition it now faces. I feel, as I said earlier, huge gratitude for my situation. There is an undeniable ‘meant-to-be’ feeling about everything that has happened. Whether we’re aware of it or not, enlightenment is what we all want. We want to be free from suffering and unhappiness – free from our unconsciously self-imposed limitations. For me, it’s happening slowly but steadily. I see enlightenment embodied right in front of me every day. This is the most important factor. It keeps me from straying too far from the path. David Clair is Linda’s partner and student. He is also a freelance book editor. He can be contacted by phone – 8339 7848 or email – david@simplemeditation.net. Linda Clair is a non-sectarian teacher, and is also the author of the book ‘What do you Want?’ She teaches mainly at the Simple Meditation Centre in Crafers West in the Adelaide Hills. For more information, please phone David on 8339 7848 or visit www.simplemeditation.net

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Meditation & the Mind A regular column on exploring conscious living Everyone’s familiar with the mind. It’s the part of you that thinks, makes decisions and works through challenges. It’s what gets you through everyday life from dressing to signing contracts. And, it supervises your working, eating, cleaning and listening to music, even when you’re not paying attention. The mind is great. Have you noticed that the mind is usually talking? Depending on how calm or agitated it is, the mind chatters in endless commentary. This might include memories, fantasies, information, plans, judgment and personal history. The mind engages you in people and events you are interested in. For example, if you are not interested in cooking, your mind will pass over that information. If you are interested in sport, you might seek out and be engaged in newspaper articles about sport. If you are not bothered by a particular phone call, the mind will not dwell on it. If you are bothered, the mind can become obsessed. WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? Let’s take a look at your mind. Right now you can turn your focus from reading and understanding this article to a more broader experience of noticing the mind in the state of reading. With this change in attention you experience looking within. You might also detect a slight increase of energy or interest. One technique of meditation is to get to know your mind and what it’s thinking. Is it filled with criticism or fairly neutral? Struggling with negativity or generally positive? What kinds of thoughts does your mind focus on? Problems and solutions, relationships, things that fuel anger? If you spend just 10 minutes a

day specifically focusing on the nature of your thoughts you will get to know your mind better. Another technique of meditation is to witness the thoughts. Imagine you are watching a Reality TV show based in your head. Just observe your mind. When you understand what your mind is thinking, you are better equipped to make decisions about whether or not you want to continue the same patterns. For example, if you discover you spend a lot of time worrying or criticising yourself, you might want to investigate options for change. BEYOND THE MIND Where is the mind, anyway? Often we refer to the mind as in our head. The mind might be a mechanism of the brain, but doctors and scientists can’t physically touch the mind. It is invisible yet it exists as strongly and firmly as your arm. The mind is supremely powerful and also remarkably subtle. The mind generates thoughts, but from where? Right now, take another moment to focus on the mind and try to find the creation of a single thought. It arises out of your own consciousness, which is even more subtle and more powerful than the mind. Your consciousness is the foundation of your being. You could call it your inner Self, higher Self or spiritual Self. It is the part of you that has always been with you, beyond the waking, dream and deep sleep states, from earliest childhood, through changes in where you live, what you do and what you think. Your spiritual Self is who you are at your best and the essence of your being. Meditation provides the time to focus on your spiritual Self and investigate your mind. When you can disengage in

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the thoughts of the mind and go beyond, you can sit in a state of clarity and connectedness. MEDITATION: GREATER THAN THE MIND The practice of meditation is the awareness that something greater than the mind exists within. Sometimes it’s easy to let go of thoughts and sit in your own present awareness. But when the mind is agitated and wants to engage your attention, focus instead on your spiritual Self, consciousness itself. Whenever the mind strays and wants to again engage your attention, focus again on your own consciousness, the experience beyond the mind. Close your eyes and meditate on being greater than the mind. INQUIRY: WHAT AM I THINKING? The next time you recognise you are in strong emotion, turn within and ask yourself, “What am I thinking?” See if you can identify thoughts that are adding to your agitation. If you dropped that thinking would you feel more calm or uplifted? CONTEMPLATION: DISENGAGING FROM THE MIND Hundreds of thousands of thoughts pass by your mind. You don’t have to engage in any of them. Swami Dayananda (Nancy Jackson) is the Director of the Adelaide Shiva Yoga Meditation Centre at 79 Military Road, Semaphore. The Centre conducts Saturday night Satsangs, study groups and courses on meditation and self-inquiry. Next Foundation Meditation Workshops August 10, September 7. “Release Yourself into a Deeper Experience” half-day workshop, August 17. Contact (08) 8242 4929 or www.meditationyoga.com.au for more information.

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GETTING FREE from the Inner Critic The Inner Critic is a formidable barrier to personal development and spiritual growth. Although it tries to help us by telling us how to live, its prescriptions for life are based on the past rather than the present, and do not allow us to simply be here in the now. We find ourselves reacting to its insistent inner messages rather than responding creatively to the unique circumstances of each moment. Our lives become dull, constrained and repetitive, rather than open, fresh and alive. So what can we do about this situation? Fortunately, there are a number of effective techniques for freeing ourselves from the bondage of the Inner Critic.

IDENTIFY THE INNER VOICE The first step is to consciously identify the voice of the Inner Critic. At first, it feels like part of us, but as we listen more closely, we realize that we have heard those messages before. Usually, we hear the voices of our parents. It’s their job to prepare us for life, and in that process they give us many shoulds, musts, and have to’s. They can also get angry with us, or doubt our capabilities. As children, we naturally absorb these messages, and they slowly combine to create our own Inner Critic. Typical messages are “Anger is bad”, “Big boys (or girls) don’t cry”, “Don’t trust anyone”, “You’re stupid” and so on.

UNDERSTAND ITS INTENTIONS The Inner Critic is actually trying to help us as best it can. At first we can experience its messages as supportive, and fear that if we let go of its guidance, we will really mess up our lives. We need to see our understandable attachment to it before we can start to contemplate not having it. This takes courage and trust that, deep inside, we are OK, we do have the innate capacity to know what is truly right and can thrive in the process of manifesting it.

UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM The problem is that the Inner Critic’s guidance is based in the past. It is basically formed between the ages of 4 and 7, and so comes from the limited perspective of a child. Young children love repetition, and have a deep need for consistent rules. So the Inner Critic becomes the rules that keep on repeating themselves in a one-size-fits-all kind of way. Thus there is no way that the inner critic can allow us to “be here now”, creatively and appropriately responding to the unique needs of the present moment. We come to see that the Inner Critic, in trying to help us, is actually stopping our realization. It keeps us stuck, repeating the same old patterns over and over again. However, even seeing this is often not enough. So we need to learn ways to actively disengage. Different methods work at different times for different folks, but these are some that I have found useful. Try what appeals to you, and see what happens.

FEEL THE HURT The fundamental message of the Inner Critic is that we are not OK, that we are somehow defective. This wounds us deeply and destroys our self-esteem. As we hear the not-OK message, we need to take the time to truly contact the deep pain it causes. We can then tell the Inner Critic “You’re hurting me, and I want you to stop”. The more deeply we can allow the hurt, the more we summon the inner kindness that stops the selfabuse.

USE HUMOUR Poking fun at the Inner Critic often deflates it completely. For example, we can take its criticism to absurd lengths. “Yes, I AM bad, I’m the wickedest, horriblest nastiest person that ever lived and I’m about to go take up a teaching position in the University of Evil”.

When we hear that familiar nagging voice, we can turn around and yell back. We can mobilize our justifiable anger at the emotional abuse that our Inner Critic heaps on us. When we hear “You’re stupid” or “You should … “ we can yell “Shut Up” or “Stop!” or “No, I won’t”. It’s best to keep it short and simple. Just as a small child reacts much more to emotional content than words, fewer words and more force will better stop our Inner Critic. It’s best to keep going with as much energy as we can until the voice actually is silenced. Hint - a good place to do this is in the car.

LIVING FREE The Inner Critic is a persistent voice, and we usually need to disengage from it over and over again. But as we quieten its insistent judgmental commentary, what we find is a the wonderful open spaciousness beyond the incessant activity of the mind. It is only within this space that the true self can arise. This self does not engage in fixed recipes for life, but has all the guidance and creativity it needs to live out its true potential. It is wise, compassionate and peaceful, and knows innately the right action in every unfolding moment of life.

Out beyond notions of wrong doing or right doing There is a field. I’ll meet you there Rumi

FURTHER READING This article is necessarily a brief introduction to working with the Inner Critic. For an enlightened, thorough treatment of the topic, I highly recommend “Soul Without Shame” by Byron Brown. Includes do-ityourself exercises. Persephone Maywald has been a student of the Diamond Approach to self realization since 1986, and is a Teacher in Training in this spiritual path. She offers Individual Sessions in the Diamond Approach, and Book Study Groups on the writings of A.H.Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach. She is also a transpersonal psychologist. Contact her at 0435 014 821 or persephonem@optusnet.com.au. For more information on the Diamond Approach in Australia see www.diamondessence.com.au.

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Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are An Interview with Byron Katie By Sunny Massaud Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. Based on Byron Katie’s direct experience of how suffering is created and ended. Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. SM: What happened in 1986? BK: I was very suicidal, very depressed. Agoraphobic. Paranoid. Really pretty hopeless. Just obsessing the suicide. Many years. So I went to this halfway house and…the women were so afraid of me that I was put in an attic — that was the only way I could stay. They put me in an attic up above. And I slept on the floor in there. And one morning I was asleep on the floor and I felt this thing crawl over my foot and I looked down and it was a cockroach. I opened my eyes and… [pause] what was born was not me…and, the way I tell it is…she rose, she walked, she apparently talked. She was delighted. It is so ecstatic to be born and not born. It sees, and sees everything, without a concept. It’s amazing. SM: Now, you’re in the attic, the cockroach crawls over your foot, and you have an opening of some sort? BK: That’s it. Most definitely. SM: Would it work to call it a sustained transcendent experience? BK: I would say, yes. Everything. It transcended itself and itself was everything. It totally transcended that. It’s like this. Every moment’s like this. It’s like if you… [lifts hand in front of face] is to be amazed. Just to see this hand, is amazing! I mean, I eat that food [points to the food], I am eating myself. It is so good! I mean, every moment, It is Itself now. But to see this, you get still with that. Or this. And you die. You dissolve into

it. Anyone would. Just to get still. And I call it, who we are without a story. But it’s…I call it love, because I don’t have another word. But just to see my hand in front of my face, or my foot, or the table, or anything, it’s to see it for the first time. Here are the words that I would use: ‘It’s a privilege beyond what can be told.’ It’s self experiencing the mere image of itself…born [inaudible — in love?]. They said this is your husband. I said, good. These are your children. I said, good. Your name is Katie. Okie dokey. SM: So you truly had a disidentification. Even of memory? BK: Everything. Everything. Everything. SM: So how did your behaviour change? BK: Radically. Radically. Extreme opposite. It took a 180-degree shift. Totally. Total shift. SM: So, some practical things: You were spending vast quantities of time in bed, you were depressed, and when the shift occurred? BK: None. SM: No time in bed? BK: None. Three hours sleep and not eating. SM: Do you know if you were dreaming when you’d sleep? BK: Mmmm. Same as awake. Nothing real here. Nothing real there. Is a dream. SM: So there was a lot of energy? And how did it affect your physical behaviour? BK: No one told me what was going on. What was typical for me was to hit the streets. Open my eyes, and just hit the streets. Maybe encounter someone, this would not be unusual, and just walk up and just naturally put my arms around them…or walk beside them and take their hand and walk. And maybe they would move away… frightened. And I would say something like, ‘why are you pretending not to know

me, why are you pretending not to care about me, why are you pretending not to love me? Why are you pretending not to recognise me?’ And so, I could see the fear in their eyes, because It starts to shift from there. I call it ‘love meets itself’. It doesn’t care where, it doesn’t care what. It just does. So that’s how I met people. SM: How has your relationship with your body changed? BK: Um. I had one, now I don’t [laughs]. Um. Just total love. Just absolutely… I used to ask my children to just look at these hands and fingers…how the light hit it and touched it and just…maybe I would just ask them to come look at my foot or something and just marvel. It didn’t matter whether it was their foot or my foot it was…new. New. New. Took about three years for it to even begin to balance. SM: Many seekers are aspiring toward having a sustained transcendent experience. Can an STE be prepared for? BK: If I say, if I talk about, ‘I want to be enlightened…’ it implies a future. And there isn’t any. And then we attach to…one by one, by one, by one… I call it ‘they get married and have babies.’ It’s reincarnation. You start with the…the I arises, and if you don’t notice, then it has a baby and a baby and a baby and it splits, it’s a cellular… [laughs] thing… it’s like the atoms splitting… I call it instantaneous unenlightenment. But if you’ll notice, then it ends. There’s no more reincarnation. So if you don’t notice, it continues. And that’s time and space and place. It’s an illusion. Like an internal optical illusion. So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, ‘who cares if you’re enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?’ And that’s what the investigation’s about. I mean, that’s all there is. I mean

we’re so attached to the concept we’re in, that we really…it’s such a vivid movie that it would imply a past and future with it all in it. It’s just a concept now. So it is just in the moment now. There’s no division point in it. There’s nowhere where you know where it differentiates. It is so good. It, this transcendence thing is just a beginning. Until it comes back for itself and claims it, transcendence is just a beginning. It’s just a concept. And that’s what you were saying. It’s a concept that people aspire to and they don’t re-enter. And I don’t know why people don’t speak of it. But transcendence, there’s nothing in it. When It comes back for Itself, the mere image of Itself… It’s intoxicated. Couldn’t have anything else. It’s a matter of total greed. SM: What is? BK: Itself. It would have everything. It would just preen in front of the mirror. And you are that…and that…that beauty, and old and young, tall and short, and all things, and a flower and a tree…undivided. And that’s only a beginning. SM: So, if I were to one day wake up and be having some kind of transcendent experience, how would I know? BK: You don’t. You don’t even care. There’s no one to care. I can’t even put it into words… self-love? [That would] be a guess. Words are always going to fall short, which is a sweet thing. SM: Where would I feel located? BK: Everywhere. Everywhere your eyes see. SM: So my consciousness would be bigger than this location? BK: Yeah. When I’m driving in a car, everything’s coming into me. It ends there. I am the beginning and the end of all of it. SM: Why are people so afraid? BK: Well, where would you be without your story? SM: Many people may say, they think that what they’d be is dead. BK: Well, that’s my experience. SM: Although you are alive. BK: According to you. Limited to your story. SM: So if the story isn’t there… BK: Nothing. SM: You would be nothing? BK: That’s my experience. SM: And do you know why the mind is afraid of becoming nothing? BK: Well, it’s, it’s death. Actually, it is, it’s peace. And it longs for it.

SM: Is there anyone living or dead, whom you believe experiences or has experienced sustained transcendence? BK: Everyone. But they say not. SM: Are sustained transcendent experiences related to global change, world peace, or a larger significance than personal transformation? BK: I am devoted to total world peace. I am the world. Of course I would have all the parts of me showing in that place within me for the party. I supply a way, a path home and they follow it or not. As it should be. SM: Any last words? BK: If I were to ask anything, I would ask that you wrote nothing and that would be truer. And if you think it would serve, you could just write whatever you want. Katie is the author of : Loving What

Byron Katie Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (with Stephen Mitchell), I Need Your Love—Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead (with Michael Katz), A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are (with Stephen Mitchell) and Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie.

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My Pet Mind (Part 2)

Who’s the Observer? In case you’ve not read my previous story, or if you have read and enjoyed it, I shall briefly summarise the sequence of events that led to the teaching contained, and how it impacted upon me. In 1981, I arrived in Taipei. I moved into a small backpacker hostel near the centre of town. During my stay there, a combination of sheer serendipity and my innate curiosity led me to encounter a very unusual man, who lived in the apartment next door of the hostel. The first time I met Tang (as the he was called) he invited me to visit his mountain temple- an offer I happily accepted. As it turned out, the isolated temple was just the sort of place I’d been praying for, in order to continue my contemplative life style. Fortunately, the temple was badly in need of a caretaker. The superstitious Chinese would never hold up a hand to live alone under such isolated conditions, where ghosts most likely abound. Thus, I got the job and continued to enjoy it for the next 5 years. One of the most important assets of my long retreat was the relationship that developed with Tang, as he was a man of great wisdom. He never called himself my “Master” or even “teacher,” but simply my “guardian.” As time and events unfolded, I realised that “guardian” referred to the responsibility he shouldered of overseeing my spiritual unfoldment. Every week or two, Tang and his inner circle of followers would arrive at the temple to stay the weekend. During that time Tang would always make time for me. The first such occasion was during the time of the autumn Festival. On this occasion, he took me to a secret little clearing among the bamboo thickets surrounding the temple, where he dispensed his first teaching to me, related to the training of the mind. Tang had quickly noticed that I relished the duty of looking after the temple dogs, with whom I had a great affinity. So, in his first pointers on mind training, he shrewdly based his advice along the metaphor of training dogs. In my journal,

I summarised these pointers as taming the dogs-of-mind. Tang’s opening suggestion was that “Dogs should not be kept on leashes unless they are out of control. There’s no reason to restrain the natural curiosity of the mind, but if one becomes infatuated by fantasy, it’s necessary to put the mind on the leash of practice.” So far, so good. My ego felt safe. Nothing particularly challenging there. I’d heard it many times before. However, I was utterly unprepared for Tang’s conclusive bomb shell: “Since most people live in fantasy most of the time, we have to begin with the practice of restraining the mind, only to re-direct it to what is Real.” He paused to let me make an entry into my diary. Then he paused a bit longer to make sure his words had sunk in, then continued, “You can know what is Real because it never changes… it is permanent. It is already, always Real. Fantasies are continually arising and vanishing. Thoughts are the root of fantasy. Thoughts, by their very nature, are all impermanent.” After Tang and his retinue retreated back to Taipei, I began to study the pointers he had given me, so that I could begin to put them into practice. It was in the meditation that the “rubber hit the road,” and I gradually understood the profound practicality of his teaching. Tang’s last statement, in particular, was a powerful call to action. It was unavoidable. There was just no way my cringing ego could get around it. For the next two weeks after Tang’s departure, I wished I’d never heard those words, “You can know what’s real, because it never changes…(whereas) fantasy is continually arising and vanishing.” These statements became a declaration of stupidity, an affront to my rational faculties. How on earth could everything observable, including my own thoughts, be labelled with the infernal title: “fantasy!” I became so confused, so infuriated, that I would shoot up in the middle of my meditation, casting off all attempts at self-inquiry, like a crumpled piece of trash. I’d rush through the open

temple doors and into the hiddenness of the nearby bamboo grove. The problem was not only the futile recognition of just how fantasy-filled my mind was, but the complementary challenge that this never-changing non-thing, the Real. My thinking mind just could not grapple with such an impossible, irrational paradox. I began to abhor my meditation practice. For so long this “sitting quietly doing nothing” had served me so beautifully, imbuing the daily round with peace and tranquillity. Now the mind raged like Niagara Falls. I was on the precipice. I began to abandon all efforts to understand anything. One morning, having returned to the bamboo thicket once again, I unexpectedly found myself in the little clearing where Tang had first taken me. This was the place where he revealed how to tame the dogs-of-mind. Recognising the place, I became so frustrated that I threw myself on the ground, with the begrudging selfaccusation: “Drama King!” –Then something changed. I began to laugh out loud at my whole shabby state of being. I continued to laugh, with more and more gusto, as I turned over onto my back. Tears streamed down my cheeks until I just couldn’t laugh any longer. I felt a deep relaxation filling my whole body and mind. For some time I remained in an empty, spacious state of mind. Suddenly, out of that horizonless sea of stillness, I heard a voice “Open your eyes.” Without question, I automatically complied. Suddenly, the brightness of the sun irradiated every corner of consciousness. I was instantly taken back to that day when Tang triggered the inner sun of One-ness, shining even more brightly than the solar orb of nature. Upon that recollection, I returned to the experience of energy rushing up my spine to open portals within my brain, exposing Reality without limit. Instantly I realised that “reality” is just a word, a reference for That which is beyond words. Out of this stateless state, Tang’s voice emerged once again. His tone was matter-of-fact: “When you are in the

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process of throttling the mind’s habit of needless thinking, you must do so gently. All dogs may be subdued by loving kindness.” I remained there on the grass for a while longer, just breathing, allowing the mind to float pleasantly in the sky of thoughtlessness. Suddenly I opened my eyes wide, the sun once again pouring in. It was getting late… the dogs must be ravenous. I gathered my self, stood up, and briefly bowed to the little clearing, expressing gratitude to the guardian nature spirits, then made haste back down to the temple. The path led to the back of the temple, then around the side to the front. When I rounded the corner revealing the front of the temple I encountered a very unexpected scene. The three temple dogs lounged in the sun, the front doors of the temple were flung wide open, with plumes of fragrant incense billowing out across the spacious patio, where Tang’s car rested in the shade. I walked over to observe the inside of the temple. Tang’s back was to me. He was making his last offering to the effigy of Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion. Then, placing the three sticks in the sand bowl, he abruptly turned and walked over to me, his eyes cast down, his face sombre. My stomach quivered with expectancy. As he stopped in front of me, his eyes lifted to meet mine. His eyebrows lifted and his expression shifted to one of amusement. “I’ve fed the dogs,” Tang spoke in a reassuring tone. “Your dogs are hungry too!” His eyes sparkled forth under the mysterious half-closed lids. His smile widened. “Come, let’s sit on the patio where it’s warm.” Rubbing his hands together in the chill of the autumn morning, he went to his car to fetch a small knap sack. I knew what the contents were likely to be. We settled at a small table overlooking the vast Pacific, far below. He withdrew his familiar flask from the bag, then placed two small cups on the table, and carefully filled them with the steaming, fragrant Oolong (tea). Tang took a sip, gazing off toward the horizon, uttering a soft “mmm” of appreciation. Meanwhile, I too felt a gathering mood of contentment as the sparkling sun and the stimulating tea warmed my bones. Yet, in my belly a mood of apprehension lingered. From my pocket I fetched my journal and pen, preparing to record Tang’s soothing advice. Without averting his trance-like gaze out toward the ocean, Tang began to speak. “In these days since I’ve been away, you have had a taste of suffering. When the tail of thoughts wag the dog of inner self, there’s no refuge for the busy mind, caught in the web of illusion.” He paused, then turned to face me, smiling. Still facing me, he continued, “There is no need to regret such mistakes! Remember that all dogs-of-thought may be subdued by loving kindness. It is only natural for thoughts to stray into the realms of fantasy. It is unnatural to scold yourself too severely for these wanderings. But, you are a Shiou Tao Ren (one who cultivates the path of Tao/Truth). You cannot let yourself sink into

Mas with Tang 09/1982 apathy. The only way forward is the Right Insight, rightly applied. Tang paused while I caught up with my journaling. He poured another cup of tea and once again sipped it is silence. As I finished my journaling, I noticed that Tang began to breathe more deeply, making a curious little sound in his throat. Without intending to, I too began to breathe deeper and deeper, until my eyelids became tired and gradually shut. I could now notice that little sound in Tang’s throat was now being heard at the very centre of my brain… then, after a while, it vanished. My eyes fluttered open. I was looking out toward the horizon… the same horizon as Tang’s; the same perception. The voice of an inner intention arose within mind: The wall, The view, Portals of perception now fully open. With those words, a magnificent kaleidoscope of sensation gradually appeared in my field of awareness: Rise and fall of the belly as the breathing came and went, Panorama of the skin rubbing against the clothes, Weight of the feet on the ground, Sounds of the breeze as if though whistling through my brain, along with the busy chorus of birdsong all around. Deeper, within the cells and neurons, much more subtle sensations, impossible to describe, yet all this happening in perfect harmony, in every moment, with absolutely no effort. From the midst of this feast of perception, the voice of the intention quietly beckoned me, more persistent this time: The wall, The view, Fully Open the portals of perception. For the first time, I noticed that the view, streaming into consciousness, had now altered… the point of perception was higher, and my feet were standing above… yes, upon the wall, with 200 metres of sheer, naked cliff face just below. A great peace descended upon me as my sense of being expanded out to saturate the surroundings. The inner and outer perceptions fused as a vast, harmonious presence. Consciousness expanded on out, releasing into a universal acceptance of All-That-Is. The senses were One- complete in every part, with every breath. Indeed, every breath was It… that One. Gradually, I became aware of a warmth in the centre of my back. There was a knowing that it was Tang’s reassuring touch. It became more and more firm. Slowly, slowly the hand pushed forward, softly, gently, encouraging. And then, still gentle but more firm than ever, that pushing, reassuring, releasing… the senses completely exhilarated, soaring out into the

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vast horizon, far above the cliff face, the mountains, far beyond any body or any separate self. All that remained was the awesome Is-ness. That moment easily stretched out beyond any concept of eternity. A small babbling sound appeared. Gradually the word “tea” surfaced into awareness. At that, the sense of the present effortlessly emerged. There was Tang’s hand and wrist, pouring the last cup of tea. When the last drop fell he looked up at me, and, as our eyes connected, I knew that there was, in reality, no “Tang” any more than there was a separate “Mas “ Actually, in every successive moment there is only a universal continuum, surfacing as an aspect of consciousness, seeming to relate and exchange with other apparent aspects. It was all perfect. No adjustments needed… nor even possible! Tang slowly turned to gaze out toward the horizon once again. There was a hand reaching out toward a journal once again. Hey! That’s my hand—my journal! I couldn’t help but laugh out loud! Meanwhile, Tang quietly took a sip of this last cup, pausing as I settled down. Then he turned to me with a big smile. He spoke slowly and evenly, “Yes, there’s nothing to do but smile, smile, smile. Once you know, there’s nothing more to do.” He paused, smiling widely, then continued; “Now you know… just let go. The appearance of life, as it is, with all the deceptive thoughts and emotions… this is all at One with what we might call the continuum of reality. Now you know that all apparent saboteurs, as well as positive and loving intentions, are only momentary wrinkles of reality, arising and vanishing, moment by moment. Your freedom— your smile—is in fact just about letting go of your illusion that somewhere there is a separate entity called “Mas” who wishes to control, to separate the good from the bad, the desirable from the undesirable. That is the meaning of let go. You must die to the illusion before you can be born into eternal life.” As Tang completed that sentence, and I completed writing it, I dropped my pen on the ground, hardly noticing. I felt absolutely amazed and liberated by the simplicity of these words. And, yes, I noticed an involuntary smile on my lips… what more was there to do? Tang quietly produced a tea towel, carefully wiped and packed up his flask and cups. We then sat for an indeterminate time—perhaps an eternity or two—gazing out onto the horizon.

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SPIRITUALITY

SEXUAL FRUSTRATION &

Joy . . . Are You Feeling It?

If you can’t feel it, it’s time to find it!

SPIRITUALITY Part 2

How do you know whether it is the primal sexual urge or the ego and its desires and lust driving your sexual needs? The difference can be found in the way you react if there is no sexual union. If you are coming from a space of love, then frustration should be limited, as love is unconditional and accepting. If you are coming from a space of primal urge, desire, lust, or the ego needs of validation or greed, then frustration will be more evident and potent and drag in with it all the other pitiful stories and psychological baggage of the ego. When you next experience sexual frustration ask yourself – ‘what am I feeling?’ If frustration exists in the sexual experience of relationship, this is not a moment of unconditional love, but it is an opportunity for growth. And the growth is likely to come from a calling to see beyond your desires and ego needs – to see what forms the basis for your sexual frustration. And the answer will always be an attachment to a sexual desire. The acid test is therefore to recognise that whatever it is you seek from the sexual experience, whether it is love, gratification, a great physical experience, power, and validation etc, that feeling state exists inside you anyway. You don’t need to find it anywhere or through any experience; you are it already. So what do you do when desire raises its head? Desire should not be considered the enemy. It’s not the desire that is the problem, for that is a natural extension of having an ego; it is not the pleasure, for that is a natural extension and gift of being in this body, it is not the wanting or the lust for they are the makings of the ego – it is the attachment. It is the attachment to these experiences that creates the sexual frustration that is the block to the expression of love in sexual union, but at the same time can become the lesson that propels us into greater understanding, the core of which is spiritual growth. The key to this growth is

non-attachment. How is non-attachment achieved? 1. AWARENESS – being aware of the feeling body and what is driving the need for sex (primal sexual urge, sexual desire, lust, baggage) 2. ACCEPTANCE - recognise it for what it is without judging or blaming your self 3. INTEGRATION - accept it, recognise it, integrate it into the self – don’t suppress. Don’t blame others for your sexual frustration, recognise what is projected and own it. 4. YOUR HIGHER SELF - you are already the feeling you are seeking through the sexual experience. What helps to dissolve the attachment is talking it through with someone who knows about desires, in particular sexual frustration. Also, circulate the sexual energy, for it is creative and pure – don’t waste it. This energy can be transmuted by visualising, moving it around and focusing the energy on the heart centre. You can also meditate on it – just observe it without attachment or judgement. The energy can be released physically through exercise, yoga or some creative pursuit. Finally, practice surrender; surrender the sexual ego and the ego to your higher self.

One of the greatest challenges to seeking spiritual lessons from sexual frustration is knowing when you are suppressing your frustration. Suppressing the frustration means suppressing the spiritual lesson. How do you know when you are suppressing? 1. Suppressed sexual desire will rot and project as moods such as sulking 2. Criticising and blaming your partner 3. It will attack your conditioned history and bring up your psychological baggage and then be projected in non loving ways 4. Desire for other sexual partners 5. Sexual fantasy and dreams 6. Attachment to sexual images such as pornography 7. Excessive vicarious release through physical activity from masturbation through to exercise So where does spirituality emerge in the story of sexual frustration? First and foremost we must not forget that the spirit of life, the essence of all that is, the unconditional expression of love and consciousness – is in everything and is everywhere. It exists in lust. It exists in desire. The totality of every experience is spiritual. This is a perfect universe and in it are unseen lessons just waiting for awareness to capture. Sexual union,

sexual frustration, sexual abstinence are all spirituality in action. Secondly, sexual frustration is a call to take a journey towards understanding desire and attachment. It is not a journey of shame or self-condemnation because desire exists. And the journey reaches its highest point when attachment is released from desire in a field of loving acceptance. For every desire that is satisfied there is equal opportunity for it to be frustrated and this is a neverending cycle of need and desire, need and desire. You are already everything that you seek from sexual union and when this is recognised you are free to experience the beauty of sexual union without attachment. John Wood PhD is a psychologist and author with over 25 years experience in the area of personal change and growth. He conducts seminars, talks and has recently released ‘Truth: A Journal for Personal Transformation’. For more information go to www.soulpresence.com.au or email John at john@soulpresence.com.au

How do you find it? This was the question I often asked myself when I was younger and suffering with anxiety and depression and with an increasing desire to not be here on this planet anymore. I felt dark and alone with a great temptation to stay under the quilt on my bed for the whole day. I called for guidance. You know those times … when in the darkness you call to God or whoever is out there for an answer. The answer did come. The answer was .. you are not your mind. If you want to come out of that darkness then move beyond your mind. What? Move outside of my mind??? Are you crazy? Yep, my guidance answered. If you want to become sane and find joy, you are going to have to get that mind of yours in perspective. When your mind is out of control, they taught me, then the world has an appearance of darkness. Step out of your mind and you will open to light, sanity and joy. So how am I supposed to do that? And aren’t people who are out of their minds the crazy ones ... I don’t want everyone to think I’m nuts! The mind isn’t you, they said, it’s just a patterning of fear … the mind needs directing … it needs loving guidance. If you feel alone then that mind needs some love. Love my mind? Yep! Calm it down and give it some peace and direction. So I have to step out of my mind to find joy? Yep! OK then, I thought, so how am I supposed to do that! You watch it, they said, you see it for what it is, you don’t believe in it anymore. So what do I believe in? If I don’t have my mind, who am I and where am I? I was starting to feel a bit weird at this point. I felt a bit unstable. I

had thought the mind was me … my anchor point. Lose the mind and where on earth am I? The answer came. Let your mind gently go and you find the real you. The real me? Sounds a bit out there. The real me is beyond the mind? You find the real you by observing that mind of yours and not reacting to it so much … not believing everything it says. If it says … I hate that person.. or this world stinks … or I am ugly or old or useless … then just watch it. You don’t have to believe the game it plays. Time to step out of your mind … get some peace. Oh yeah, some peace sounds good, I thought, sometimes I just feel so exhausted … like I want to get off of this crazy wheel … like I am getting nowhere. The way to find joy is to allow the clouds of your mind to part. Let the sunshine in! Watch the mind, you are bigger than the mind. Let the mind take its rightful place under your wing … guide it from above! Time to wake up to the you that is beyond your mind. So who am I … I am not the mind … who am I? You, beautiful one, are Light. Let go of your belief that your mind is you and you let go to joy. You are the sunshine you are looking for. And come to think of it, who are you who is answering these questions? Ah … glad you asked … that is another talk we will have to have! Beverley is a spiritual healer and teacher. Beverley and Paulette run regular informative meditation/ healing sessions that assist you heal, release the past and open to joy. Ph Beverley 0423 234 792 Paulette 0419 851 378

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5 Principles for PEACE If what is happening to you right now feels too much for you to handle - the fact that you are sick of trying, struggling with life or a particular person or situation is a clue that you are doing things on your own energy and you do not need to. When your pain threshold has reached it's limit and finally you find yourself so backed into a corner of this world because you have been giving power to the things that are not of love that you cannot stand the pain/depression/guilt/ fear/anger/despair etc., then it will force you to let go of doing it your way with struggle and open to allowing a force much greater than the things of this world to remedy the place you find yourself in. It takes humility as strength to ask for help and surrender the problems and the solution over to the Whole Mind - the Higher Self/Holy Spirit. This is a higher place in your mind that will and can do it for you because it operates outside of the thinking of this world and what you are experiencing right now. Being 100% responsible for your life means that you created your experience here yes, but not necessarily at this level of mind - you created it at another level so you would grow and learn from it what is Real which is Love and what is not. Trust what is happening no matter what without understanding it first. This lessens the resistance you have to what is happening through your judgment of it by suspending that judgement and allows a softening and openness to healing, guidance and resolution that you so wish for. Forgive. Be willing to forgive

where you find yourself with just your willingness being the part you play and the rest you hand over to the Higher Self with the words -’I am willing to forgive this and I release it to the Higher Self.’ It is actually not your job to nut it all out and struggle and suffer with things in any way - that is your conditioning and thinking of being in this human world, yet not the paradigm of the Real World based on and in Love. Your little self or human ego-self actually does not do the forgiveness and healing of your experiences. It is handed over to the Real Self to do - your job is just to hand it over. A Course in Miracles say that it is actually personally insulting to the degree to which we have to do the work of forgiving/ healing! The discipline in each moment is to continually practise handing any thought that is not of love or peace with a willingness to forgive over to the Higher Self to heal. Love - another step is to just be willing to love what you see -what you are experiencing that is not Love. To give power only to the Love in you and others and a willingness to love and see love than anything else. When we choose Love over anything else then we have the experience of Love - just to evoke the power of Love in any circumstance will transform it miraculously! You can do this by simply saying ‘I allow Love and Peace to decide for me here.’ rather than your thoughts of fear, pain, depression, anger or hurt etc. We always have a choice about how we think about something.

Simply evoking the power and spirit of Love transforms things in an alchemical way. Either through trusting, blessing, forgiving or gratitude -evoking the Power of Love brings you into a world that is not of this world as it is a world of non-separation, of an absence of fear - a world of only Peace, Love, Trust, Safety, Perfection and more. This all may sound like pretty words - however this is my experience and the proof is in the pudding and in the practise. Bless. Another form of evoking Love and relinquishment of your perspective of pain and suffering is to be willing to bless everything in your life as perfect and with love. And yes, as you experience your daily living, you may find that you first react (unconsciously) from your human self with blame and anger – this is exactly the moment to recognise that you have an opportunity to consciously experience and practise blessing rather than blaming. Finally, Thank the experience, the person or where you are because you can because it is perfect without your judgment and is the ideal recipe for your growth and evolution now – this brings us back to the fact that you can trust it! The 5 Principles for Peace are all one with each other. Practice the above consistently and your life will change miraculously! Julie Way is an Adelaide Rebirther and Personal Development Consultant as well as the author of the book Personal Mastery She has recently published an inspirational booklet Thoughts for a Miraculous Life that is a herald to her third book The Miraculous Life© (work in progress) in which she expands on the above subject. Julie presents regular lectures in Adelaide on a Friday evenings. (See advertisement this issue.) She can be contacted on 08-8443 9162 or julieway@ozemail.com.au See www.julieway.com.au

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ARE YOUR WORTHY? In the last few years I have travelled all over Europe, Asia and Australia. On my travels I have met people from all over the world, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Singapore, Japan, NZ, America etc. I have worked with thousands people through one on one healing sessions, workshops, distance healing and public speaking. Yet no matter where I am or who am I dealing with, whether it be a well known actor, singer, a businessman, sportsman, a fashion designer, a mother or a politician I still come across the same challenge. Most people, no matter how successful they have become, deep down don’t think they are good enough. So where does this feeling come from? Is it personal or universal? After all how could most people feel good enough when they are confronted with the belief of original sin. Then while growing up they are encouraged to compete against everyone they meet whether it is a sibling, friend, another student or even at times their parents.

I AM VALUABLE While speaking in London at an event with over 200 people I asked people to repeat over and over again I am valuable, I am worthy of great things. It was incredible to see the tears begin to stream down peoples faces. After my presentation many people came up to me to say thank you for recognising their worth. One woman told me that she has been on a spiritual journey for 15 years but she could not accept that she was valuable and worthy of great things.

FEELING WORTHLESS In my best selling book The Secret Language of Your Body I wrote that people that have low self esteem and don’t value themselves are of-

ten overlooked for promotions, sporting activities, friendships and opportunities. This can often lead them to feel victimised and to attract hardships and difficulties. Feeling worthless can also lead to depression and fatigue, leaving one feeling disappointed and unmotivated. On a physical level low self esteem can lead to acne, weight problems, diabetes, genital herpes, ovarian cancer, scleroderma, ulcers, warts and memory loss.

CASE STUDY I worked with Jane, a 45 year old woman with two children who felt worthless. Her husband treated her like a house slave, her children would use guilt to get their own way and her boss was constantly criticising and putting Jane down. Jane was overweight, exhausted and at a loss in her life. She felt like she was a matt that people could walk over. I encouraged Jane to recognise her strength and become aware of what she was good at. I also talked to her about being a divine, valuable soul. Jane came to on of my workshops on The Secret Language of Your Body. She participated in an exercises where you had to look into a strangers eyes and look beyond their exterior into their soul. It is a beautiful process to recognise peoples value no matter what they do or don’t do. Jane had an incredible experience of seeing her workshop partners soul. She said it was the most exhilarating experience she ever had. Inspired Jane then tuned in within herself and saw her own soul. She recognised that she gave away her power to others and believed the negative things people had told her. With this recognition Jane made a promise to herself

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that she would begin to value herself. This meant she would ask herself if she wanted to do something before agreeing to it. She also stopped being a slave to her husband and children and encouraged them to be more independent. Jane began to look after herself, she started eating healthy, exercising, buying nice clothes and doing things she loved. Her boss could not recognise her. She was so impressed by Jane’s transformation that she gave Jane a 30% raise. Because Jane started to respect and value herself so did other people. You can begin to release low self esteem with the following process from The Secret Language of Your Body.

RELEASING LOW SELF ESTEEM AND UNWORTHINESS Place your hands on the part of your body where you feel unworthiness most intensely. Breathe into the area for a few moments, while allowing any emotion to rise to the surface with little resistance. Then relax your hands.

PROCESS Divine Healing Intelligence, using the orange-red flame of purification please dissolve all thoughts, feelings and experiences of unworthiness and low self esteem. Help me to release all victim consciousness, limitation, fatigue, and stress from my body, mind, emotions and energy field. Melt away any hardship, difficulties or criticism that I have attracted and bring back my confidence, faith and inner power. Thank you. Observe the orange-red flame move through your body, mind, emotions and energy field and begin to dissolve all negative thoughts, words, feelings, memories and images of unworthiness, low self esteem, victim consciousness, fatigue and hardship. Inna Segal is the creator of Visionary Intuitive Healing® and the best selling author of The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Healing. Inna, who travels world-wide leading courses on healing, is also a television presenter. For further information please visit www.innasegal.com or call +61 3 95788979. Inna will be presenting courses around Australia in 2008, as part of her world tour.

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SCHOOL YARD BULLYING Is your child being bullied? What is bullying? What are the effects of bullying? These are just a few questions that parents and children will ask throughout their school life. Bullying begins when another person intimidates by using deliberate actions, behaviours or words. Most schools will advocate an affective bullying procedure in place. As a parent of three boys myself it is vital that you are aware of what these procedures are, if any, and how the school approaches, in the long term and short term the ‘bully’, the self-suffering child who is being bullied, and those whose witness the bullying. As every person or child immediately involved will be affected to some degree. My eldest son Angus, describes bullying as, “The bully does not feel comfortable with themselves and does not like themselves, so they think it feels good to take it out on people smaller than them, to make themselves feel good”. Out of the mouth of babes, how apt. To bully is often

to gain control in some way. The ramifications of bullying without intervention will create emotional disturbances, which can sometimes manifest itself in the physical form. These can be wideranging and quite devastating for the family. As parents we want to recognize any signs that our children display. As all children are individual, so will be the signs! These can range from becoming introverted, tears, aggressive, eating disorders, refusal to attend school, anxiety attacks, sleep disorders, behavioural issues and so the list goes on! Of course I also relate these emotional and physical disturbances to the ‘bully’ also. The self-esteem of these children is often at such low ebb, they need care, nurturing and a positive role model over time to promote and encourage positive behaviour. This by all means does not happen overnight, hence the need for a procedure that is long lasting and positive for all involved. HOW TO HELP · Always listen to your child, acknowledging what they have said

and what they are saying. Take note of body language, are they closed when talking to you, or open. Reassure your child that it is not their fault, and never put words in to their mouth, like maybe they didn’t mean it that way. · Always validate what they are saying, even if you feel they are being too sensitive. · Do not take the ‘power of be’ in to your own hands and deal directly with the child or family yourself. · Discuss the issues with your child’s teacher; ensuring that the teacher is aware of exactly how your child is feeling. Find out how and what procedures and or strategies will be put in to place to enable your child feels safe at school once more. If you feel that it is not enough then discuss your thoughts and feelings with the Principal. Never quash your own feelings in regard to anything of this nature, as you as their parent have every right to question. · Work together on what can help your child to cope with the conflict. You can begin by drawing a circle, writing the issue in the middle, surrounding the issue write who is affected, what are the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of each involved. This is called ‘Conflict Mapping’. · Use visualization with your child. You can tailor one specifically to suit your child. One that I like to use is by asking them to imagine their favourite colour balloon surrounding them, or encasing them, this is their protection and

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nothing can penetrate the barriers. Hurtful words wash over them like a wave and disappear. Animals can also be used that represent something to your child, like a fire breathing dragon that comes to wield their magical sword to swallow up the negativity. Have fun and play with this, you will find something that works well for you and your child. · Creative therapy of any kind I find is extremely useful; again this can be tailored to suit the age, stage and developmental needs of your child. Sand play is a good way to tell stories, using little people or figurines. This is a good one especially if your child withdraws and doesn’t like to talk, by using figurines the child can literally extricate themselves as being the person who is being hurt, either physically or emotionally and place it on to a character in their story. When this occurs you can then talk through the emotions that your child is experiencing. · Try not to label your child as being ‘bullied’ as this can often add to their already feelings of self loathing. We want to encourage feelings of self worth and love. As we all know when these feelings are in place our spiritual, physical and emotional being is at peace and we can continue to learn and grow in our wonderful world. When situations such as these, are handled with care and sensitivity it will assist in developing theory of the mind and encourage positive social skills. Structures

that are in place early, with ongoing positive role models, assists children’s emotional stability and ongoing feelings of self- worth. These children then blossom in to healthy adolescents, having learnt, and still learning positive social skills to take them into adulthood. Peace be with you and your family. Marilla Stain, is a counsellor for children and adolescents. Her philosophy as a counsellor is to encourage and promote self esteem

in a safe and nurturing environment and assist children to rediscover their inner child through creative expression and above all embrace and celebrate their uniqueness. Therefore to achieve this, it also important for her to work with the family, extended family and any other services that will assist in the healing process. While working Marilla likes to work with variety of resources and materials like play-dough, clay, textas, crayons, reading books, sand play and journals. She can be contacted on 0411 512 677.

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Depression, a word that has entered into all our lives at some stage. It may be a state that you have felt yourself or someone close to you has been feeling depressed, maybe a family member has been through the condition or still is in that state of dis-ease. Friends, family or self, it doesn’t matter, it is not a comfortable place to be. The condition of depression is described as ‘a depressed mood, low self esteem, feelings of guilt and regret, lack of interest in life and work, low energy and in some cases, loss of appetite and sleeplessness’.This should not be confused with the state of grief, which is

experienced after a loss of some kind. Many if not all of the above symptoms described above are part of a typical human journey. If everyone who has ever had any of those symptoms that are associated with depression were diagnosed as being depressed, every human being on the planet would be a sufferer of depression. Now, before you leap to the conclusion that there is no sympathy here, for those suffering this dis-ease I strongly urge you to continue reading! In the process of learning to experience, endure, and work through situations and hurdles in life a certain amount of upset can be felt. All change is accompanied with emotion to some degree. Change can be felt as exciting, fearful, wonderous, and many other feelings. It is to the extent that we learn to accept and overcome our challenges that we become stronger and more able and better equipped to handle the next part of our journey here. The new science about brain development, shows us that the more we learn to cope with our stresses the stronger some areas of the brain become. The opposite is also unfortunately true. If we allow stress to be maintained for extended periods of time certain parts of the brain can become smaller and therefore we are less able to manage our stress later. The Kyoto monks during a visit to Adelaide gave a whole new perspective on the condition of depression. Their teaching was, that depressed people are very in tune with

their lives. Being depressed and sad is the correct feeling for those souls. They are depressed because there is something that is not in harmony with their lives, and they are feeling sad and uncomfortable because they are not living with peace. There is no false happiness for these souls. They are directly in connection with their spirit which is telling them that things are not OK at present. Far better that they are being honest with themselves. They should be celebrated for being in touch with their feelings! Instead of that, we make them wrong, tell them that they have an illness and drug the daylights out of them. No amount of drugs can change their situation. The person who is experiencing the discomfort is the only person who is able to make the changes necessary and create a happier existence for themselves. With 121 million people worldwide affected by depression (W.H.O. 2007) it seems to me that the whole world is wanting a state of change. It has been predicted that by 2020 depression alone will constitute one of the world's largest health problems worldwide. What does this say about our planetary population? Unhappy yes, on the crest of a change most definitely. Now, what we need to do is empower each other, to have the courage to make the changes that are necessary for better, happier lives. Depression rather than be seen as an illness could be seen as a symptom of an unhappy set of circumstances. I have observed many people who have been feeling depressed, find much relief and happiness by naming the cause of their disease. Making changes in their lives towards better circumstances , even small changes, can revive the lost hope and bring a person out of the helpless and hopeless feelings of depression. Depressed people need support to change

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Embracing Your Inner Muse At some point in our lives we have all heard of the well-known expressions, “She is the woman behind the man” or “She was his muse” or “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” These sayings have made their way into popular culture because there is an element of truth behind them. We can relate to them because we have seen circumstances in our own experiences where these sayings were true. But, have you ever wondered where in the world psyche these sayings emanate from? Have you ever mused over where inspiration comes from? Why is it that some people are always fonts of inspiration and yet so many others don’t even believe they have a creative bone in their body? To address this issue we need to understand about the dual flow nature of energy in our universe. We live in a universe where polarities (polar opposites) both positive and negative exist. There is both a masculine and feminine flow existent within all living things. Science knows that 90% of the known universe out there is invisible, but it does exist, because it holds the visible together. If we follow the modicum, as Above, So

Below, then there is also 90% of everything that exists that is invisible around us, down here. Part of this invisible matter is the feminine and masculine force. When we speak of inspiration or being “in-spirit” we are referring to the feminine flow of nature. Within both women and men exists a dual-flow of feminine and masculine energy. Some women are very polarised in their masculine energy with a reduced flow of femininity and vice-versa and indeed some men are very polarised in their feminine flow with a reduced flow of masculinity. When we meet women and men who are overly polarised one way or the other they may come across as overly feminine or overly masculine. We may feel a sense of imbalance and unease within them; they almost become a parody of popularised male and female stereotypes. However, it is possible and indeed entirely healthy and whole making to embrace both our feminine and masculine natural flow. When we meet a woman or man who is working with both their feminine and masculine energy hand in hand, we feel at ease, uplifted, and connected beyond words. We are given permission to unblock and release years of self-

sabotage which we may have been conditioned to use based on the female and male role models we had around us growing up. So how do we recognise a healthy balance of feminine and masculine flow within us? And more to the point how do we achieve it in our own lives? If you can imagine that the human body is a giant electrical receiver and transmitter of cosmic energy (masculine) flowing in from above and earth energy (feminine) flowing in from below. The two flows mix and become one within the body via a tube of light which runs up and down our spinal column. Now imagine the body split into two halves with the right hemisphere of our brain responsible for the left side of the body from the left eye down. The right hemisphere of our brain processes vast amounts of the feminine flow. It is our creative, imaginative and intuitive feminine centre. When our right brain is engaged we are sparking with ideas constantly. Our soul loves the right brain to be alive and vibrant and we can nurture this centre by using our imagination every day via daydreaming, meditation and appreciating beauty in all its forms. The right side of the brain is also never in a hurry; it knows ultimate patience, as it truly believes in timelessness. Thus, it is an utterly feminine quality to be trusting and patient. The left hemisphere of the brain works with our logical, linear, action-based, masculine flow. It awaits its cues from the right brain’s activation of feminine ideas and creativity. Once the feminine has come up with an idea it passes this vibration onto the masculine flow, which then says “Thank you for coming up with the idea, now I will action it for you”. Our masculine energy then takes the idea and turns it into a concrete viable reality. The left side of our body receives energy and messages and then gives

them to the right side to give out. It is a dual flow system working in constant co-operation with the natural cycle of in and out. Thus, both women and men have within them their own muse and their own hero of ideas and creativity. There is no such thing as requiring a muse to be outside of you. We can and do receive inspiration from within everyday. We have only to tap into this vibration and then engage our masculine to be a complete soul based unit. This is the secret of genius. To be functioning in both the feminine and masculine flow as one. It takes courage and wisdom because you will no longer require your needy selfishness of other's energy to inspire you. You will be your own little powerhouse, an individual who will stand out in the crowd. Begin integration of the two flows today by making the decision to truly stand in your power as a complete person with nothing missing. Ask the Divine (of which you are a part) for both your feminine and masculine flow to be fully activated and then run with the information and insight that flows to you. The universe is awaiting your call. When will you pick up the inter-dimensional telephone and dial? Elizabeth Peru is a professional Sound & Colour Healer based in Adelaide Australia whose business Deltawaves provides a wide variety of Self-Development Courses, Weekly Groups, Talks, Online Articles & Resources, a FREE Monthly Online E-zine and Personal Energy Therapy Sessions. Elizabeth Peru also teaches throughout Asia and has recently launched The Crystal City website highlighting the Adelaide and Atlantis connection. Phone: 0422 002 917 elizabeth@deltawaves.com.au Web: www.deltawaves.com.au www.thecrystalcity.net

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What is the SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND? ADDICTION: A Spiritual Crisis! THE THIRST FOR WHOLENESS AND ADDICTION At one time or another, most of us feel some degree of emptiness, loneliness, inadequacy, idealism, or spiritual longing. We recognise the discontent, the desire to escape pain, and the tendency to seek answers in activities, substances, or relationships. This sense of restlessness and the spiritual longing is familiar to many of us. Over the many years of treating addiction and co-dependency I have heard many people talk about a non-specific hunger for something that seems to be missing in their lives. They describe a gnawing emptiness within that is never filled. This insistent stirring from within is so intense that it can, at times, be painful. It seems to originate at one’s very core, and for some of us, it feels even stronger than our sexual drive or our hunger for food. I was aware of it as a child, and I tried somehow to fill it by spending hours and hours playing pinball machines and snooker, watching television and listening to music on my transistor radio, or participating in sports. I struggled with it as a teenager, I felt it as a young adult when I looked at a particularly magnificent painting, read an eloquent poem, or watched an exquisite dance. And it manifested during a multitude of other restive moments. The pit of my stomach felt empty, my heart hurt, and my entire being aspired toward something I could not identify. As I grew, the ache in my soul increasingly permeated all aspects of my life. I felt monumentally homesick for something undefined, for an unnamed entity, place, or experience. Nothing I did seemed to alleviate the yearning within me. There are, I am sure, some fortunate people who feel this longing but do not act upon it in painful ways. However, many people identify the spiritual yearning as a persistent voice in their lives, one they often confuse with their everyday aspirations. At first, they identify it as the desire to excel on the playing field, to develop their intellect, to get into the right university, or to meet the man or woman of their dreams. Perhaps they feel an overwhelming craving for a certain model of car, for a new outfit, or for sexual contact. This fundamental appetite might manifest in the abuse of food, alcohol, nicotine, or other drugs. Some people feel a general dissatisfaction in their marriage and find them-

selves longing for something more: a new house, a baby, a significant change in their partner’s behaviour, or a completely different relationship. They feel discontented, as though something is lacking. Perhaps more money would bring happiness, or a better social position, or a new job. I loved my wife and kids, was satisfied with my business, and felt reasonably good about my accomplishments. But something was missing. I found myself thinking about moving to another state or country and even trying another line of business. I soon began to gamble too much, as well as abuse various mood altering drugs. After a while, I realized that none of those things would help my feelings of emptiness, and in fact, they had begun to cause more problems than they would solve. I felt stuck. The irony is, no external activities or substances satisfy the initial craving or the feelings of emptiness. Many people attain the object of their desire, and the incessant ache remains. One person may win the lotto or player-of-theyear award for football, another earn an advanced degree from a prestigious university. Someone else might capture the heart of a perfect mate, make enough money, and live in the style he or she has always wished for. Yet, even in the midst of the bounty that is meant to bring satisfaction and fulfilment, the yearning persists, perhaps even magnified by the achievements, which only remind us of the emptiness within. Many recovering addicts and alcoholics report that once the physical craving for the drug or behaviour is eliminated, a deeper craving still remains. As a culture, we do not have

many sanctioned frame-works in which to deeply experience and satisfy the yearning for wholeness. As a result, people of all ages distort and misdirect this immensely strong impulse into addictions of all kinds, and co-dependency, not only addictions involving the use of chemicals (alcohol & drugs), but also eating disorders, sexual and love addictions, and addictions to power, money, relationships, gambling, and countless other addictive activities. What is this free-floating yearning? I believe that Jung was right. This intense and at times painful craving is deep thirst for our own wholeness, our spiritual identity, our divine source, or God. This place of wholeness we seek is our spiritual core, an essential component of our nature. Development of a relationship with this inner source is a common, and necessary, aspect of human existence. I believe that this thirst for wholeness is the main driving force in the ever increasing rates of addiction in our society. Unless this factor is addressed in recovery and addiction treatment, the individual is always going to remain at high risk of relapse or in danger of switching addictions. Simply stopping our addictive behaviours or replacing them with legal substitute drugs is not enough and doesn’t work. For more information contact Robert Mittiga, (Addiction and Codependency Specialist), Program Director of GATS Counselling & Treatment Services, P.O. Box 6411 Halifax Street SA 5000 Ph: (08) 8223 4555 Mobile 0400 801 557 (7days) www.gatscounselling.com

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While our conscious mind is the rational, decision-making part of our mind, there are also many things that we do subconsciously – things we are not consciously aware of. The subconscious is the part that is in control of all that is subconsciously initiated, whether it is mental, emotional or physical. Although no one has ever seen one (the same applies to the conscious mind for that matter), we know it is the part of us that automatically feels and responds, without us consciously making it happen. It has an imprinted memory or impression of every feeling from when we first begin to feel – even in the womb, before we learn to speak. The subconscious is that more intuitive, creative part of us that holds the key to all of our life experiences. It controls all our emotional feelings, our creative imagination, and our ability to meditate and dream. It allows us to walk down the street, dance, or drive a car safely, while our conscious mind is thinking about something else entirely. It is a part of our ‘inner self’ that is in charge of our automatic responses, our ability to heal, and our ability to experience love, happiness, fear, depression etc.

When a person is unable to change unwanted feelings, responses or behaviours through conscious effort or will power, it is usually an indication of subconscious conflicts. While they remain, they can, and often do, lead to unwanted symptoms. Consciously, we are usually only aware of the symptoms, not the inner conflicts. Our subconscious mind is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ – it simply IS. It takes care of us and protects us and gives us the ability to be ‘human’. That means being sad or unhealthy as well as happy and healthy. More importantly, with the appropriate help, it also has the ability to make changes to many everyday emotional and physical problems. Private Subconscious-mind Healing (P.S.H.) therapy enables people to use their own natural inner abilities to resolve underlying causes of subconscious problems with the guidance of a gentle effective and non-invasive approach. With permission and endorsed by I.C.S.T.R. (QLD) Leaona Hamood, former aerobics instructor of ten years, has over 20 years experience in the Health and Fitness Industry and has al-

ways had a passion for a healthy mind and body. She is a qualified Private Subconsciousmind Healing (P.S.H.) therapist and studied under the founder and Principal of the International Centre for Subconscious-mind Training and Research (Qld). Her aim in life has always been to help people emotionally and physically. She is available 7 days a week and most evenings and can be contacted for enquiries or appointments on 0419 037830. Michael Oster is a qualified Private Subconsciousmind Healing (P.S.H.) therapist and also a Registered Nurse of 20 years standing. He hs studied directly under the founder and Principal of the International Centre for Subconsciousmind Training and Research (Qld). For the last ten years he has been working with people around behaviour change, particularly in the addictions area. His passion is to see positive change and growth in people. If you feel like you’re ready for change, contact Michael for enquiries or appointments on 0411 174 110.

THE DRAMA OF MAN AND WOMAN The Dharma of Man and Woman

Love’s Longing A poem by Bernie Prior In her fullness she came, bursting from the nowhere the now-here from within me, immediate , radiantly in her full dancing form she shone before me. Enticingly she drew me to know her, experience her shifting light forms. Deeper and deeper she sang me into her woman, her womb of life experience . Manifest me! Manifest me! she cried out loud. Experience me! Experience me! she sang out loud. Burn for me! Die for me! Do not let go! she screamed. Until it is done, when you and I are One. What could I do but hold her tight in my burning arms of passion, until she and I burned no more. As quickly as she came, She disappeared. Did she ever exist? Was I just dreaming?

There are so many paradoxes in the attraction of man and woman. Perhaps you can gleam them shining through this poem. For this attraction has behind it the powers and forces of the universe. You cannot help yourselves, man and woman you are nature, attracted to and enchanted by the otherness of your polar opposite. The pull to know each other, as the pure masculine and the pure feminine, already within the very essence of your being, the beauty and wonder of reality beyond form and the potential to manifest this as your life together in One–ness. This is the magnet that is attracting you to each other, to be fully in the pure knowingness of what you are beyond egoity and give constantly new form to the love you are realising within your attraction, as you are both pulled to be freed in and by the heart from all norms, values, religions, spiritual paths, all science and knowledge. This is absolutely unavoidable in realising your true nature as the embodiment of divine man and divine woman. The pain is in transcending these norms without distraction and hesitation. All norms must be totally surrendered into the openness of what this newness of love, this continued deepening of newness of love reveals. This is the drama that we all fear, feel and know when the first ‘taste’ of love’s goldenness (that that is already in union) has been drowned by our selfish self-consideration, that constantly arises when we have not understood that our attraction to each other was not

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for ourselves as egoic characters but for the transformation and embodied wholeness of what the masculine and feminine already are as their true nature, their golden identity beyond egoity. Man and woman are already One in the deep, the Whole of nature itself, manifesting in two aspects of the One. Wholeheartedly living this knowledge (that they are One) and embracing “the drama” in and as whatever form it manifests in, makes an end to the old drama of man and woman, much of which is unconsciously indulged in. Man and woman within their attraction have to learn to bow down to each other within the heart and cease deluding themselves, playing hiding games, pretending they are not responsible for the drama and furthermore not responsible for manifesting love on the earth. EMBRACE THE DRAMA- THIS IS LOVE’S DHARMA! Bernie travels the Earth sharing from Realised consciousness on the truth of life and man and woman in partnership. He speaks passionately not only of absolute truth but also the truth behind man and woman, their expressions as masculine and feminine principles, and their original purpose and function as divine partners in existence. For more information visit www.bernieprior.org, email australia@bernieprior.org or phone 0419 849 394

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Love your LIVER and LIVE longer A healthy liver is the key to efficient fat metabolism and weight control. The liver is the gateway to the body and takes the load off our precious immune system. Here are the main functions of the liver : ~It is responsible for the production of bile which is stored in the gallbladder and released when required for the digestion of fats. ~The liver stores glucose in the form of glycogen which is converted back to glucose again when needed for energy. ~It also plays an important role in the metabolism of protein and fats. It stores the vitamins A, D, K, B12 and folate and synthesizes blood clotting factors. ~Another important role is as a detoxifier, breaking down or transforming substances like ammonia, metabolic waste, drugs, alcohol and chemicals, so that they can be excreted. These may also be referred to as “xenobiotic” chemi-

cals. If we examine the liver under a microscope, we will see rows of liver cells separated by spaces which act like a filter or sieve, through which the bloodstream flows. The liver filter is designed to remove toxic matter such as dead cells, microorganisms, chemicals, drugs and particulate debris from the bloodstream. The liver filter is called the sinusoidal system, and contains specialized cells known as Kupffer cells which ingest and break down toxic matter.

GOOD LIVER HEALTH TIPS 1. Take a good liver tonic . Drink plenty of pure water to hydrate all your cells and flush out toxins. 2. Take a Selenium supplement in a dose of Selenomethionine 100 to 200mcg daily. There is a wealth of good research about the healing properties of selenium. Selenium exerts anti-viral, anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects in the body. 3. Take a vitamin C supplement

in a dose of 2000mg daily – twotime Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, tells us that the fact that out bodies cannot make their own vitamin C is an evolutionary defect and I agree with him. 4. Start raw juicing – good things to juice for the liver are cabbage (red and purple), carrot, beetroot, orange, lemon, limes, ginger root, fresh herbs such as basil, parsley, mint, coriander/cilantro, thyme and oregano, apples and a touch of red onion (Spanish onion) or garlic cloves – juice everyday if you can, or at least regularly. If the juice is too strong dilute it with water, celery and/or extra apple. 5. If you are overweight check your liver with an ultrasound scan – if your liver is fatty follow a low carbohydrate diet. If you have excess fat in the liver it will make you feel tired and sluggish. 6. If you are stressed, work on your sleep and try to improve it; I recommend that you get at least 7 hours sleep a night. Deep restful sleep repairs the body and improves the immune system’s ability to fight viruses. 7. Magnesium can help your sleep patterns and reduces stress – I call magnesium the great relaxer! 8. Make sure you are getting enough omega 3 fatty acids in your diet – eat more oily fish or take fish oil capsules. The predominant fat in your brain is omega 3 and many people are deficient in this, because like vitamin C, your body cannot make its own precious sup-

plies. By following these tips you will experience: 1. Increased energy levels. 2. Detoxification and cleansing of the blood stream. 3. Reduction of inflammation and degenerative diseases. 4. Better immune function. 5. Efficient fat metabolism. 6. Weight control.

WHO CAN BENEFIT For the thousands of patients who suffer with overburdened immune systems, chronic fatigue, obesity, fatty livers and recurring blocked arteries (even after bypass surgery). Remember that a healthy liver will reduce depression and moodiness and therefore enable you to laugh more and not get too overheated or as the Chinese say “gung ho” about life’s little tribulations. “Love your LIVER and LIVE longer”

Nutrition affects multiple generations of offspring Nutrition is now proven to affect multiple generations of offspring. In other words, the nutritional state of the parents is carried and expressed through multiple generations of offspring.This is groundbreaking news. It is nothing short of a revolution in life science because it shows that DNA is *not* the sole source of inheritance. “Epigenetic factors” such as diet and chemical toxins are now being understood as the controlling factors of genetic expression.This means DNA is not the master plan for health. It also means that genes don’t automatically manifest disease (except in rare cases) and that we can control our health outcomes through nutrition and avoidance of chemical pollutants.This research has huge implications that go beyond the scope of today’s article. It’s almost as groundbreaking as the discovery of DNA itself. If Watson and Crick could see this now, they’d be fascinated... (Source: Healthy News Service, 15/11/2007)

Dr Sandra Cabot has written several very popular books on health and she is very well known under this name. Dr Cabot’s best selling “The Liver Cleansing Diet” book was awarded The Australian People’s Choice Award in 1997. Dr Sandra Cabot is a registered medical doctor in the states of NSW and Queensland Australia, where she has busy medical practices and works with other medical doctors, naturopaths and nutritionists.

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The Masai Warriors and Cardiovascular Diseases Scientists have been puzzled as to why the Masai do not develop cardiovascular disease despite being on a diet that contradicts current modern guidelines of healthy eating . They eat a diet that is high in animal fats and low in carbohydrates. In the Masai this results in perfect blood lipid profiles and low waist measurements . The study shows the average energy expenditure in the Masai was 2,500 calories a day higher more than basic requirements. This equates to a westerner walking 20 km a day ( British Journal of Sports Medicine 2007.044966)

Why then does this combination of low carb, high fat and high exercise work? It is the carbohydrates that cause the damage. All carbohydrates (whether

low or high GI ) cause the release of insulin. This insulin opens transport pores in the micro vessel intimal membrane and move the glucose from the blood into the cell. After the energy requirements for the body have been met by converting this glucose into glycogen then the rest will be converted into FFA’s . The intimal cells can only clear the FFA’s out by converting them into fat. If in the western diet the intake exceeds the body’s output needs then the intimal cells will fill with FFA’s and reduce the body’s ability to take the glucose out of the blood. This results in osmotic damage to the intimal cell membrane and cracks form in it due to dehydration. Exposure of lipophilic protein in the cracks make the liver produce increased

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ouput of cholesterol to coat and protect the cell membranes. And so it is the CARBOHYDRATES that is producing the increase in cholesterol. By increasing exercise and not having very many carbs, then input equals expenditure and lipid profiles are maintained as normal, and there is no development of vascular disease or need to store excess energy as fats. Dr Peter Tunbridge is a medical doctor with a special interest in Hormones and Metabolic Medicine. He is author of THE HUMAN CODE, a manual of survival of the Human Race. He will be running a regular column in which he will be interpreting current Medical Literature and explaining the findings. He runs a private Practice in Adelaide , and hold an academic position of Lecturer in Clinical Medicine with the University of Adelaide. He was a Scientist before he became a Doctor.

If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise ~Author Unknown

PARKINSON’S Pesticides found to be a major cause

Pesticides may be a direct cause of Parkinson’s disease, a new study has found. As a result, farmers and people living on farms who are regularly exposed to the chemicals may be at greater risk than people in the general population. Herbicides and insecticides - and especially those that contain organochlorine and organopho-sphorous compounds - ‘significantly’ increase the risk of Parkinson’s, the researchers said. Well-water, often suspected of being another cause of Parkinson’s, didn’t have any adverse affect. The researchers based their conclusions on 319 Parkinson’s cases. (Source: BMC Neurology, 2008; 8: 6).

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with AMANDA ALLEN Happiness, health and vitality are realised as a result of the choices that we make. When we make informed, life enhancing choices on a consistent basis, the seeds that we sow soon bare fruit. Following on from my article in last edition, we begin to look in more detail at two keys to realising your inner health and wellbeing; in this article we’ll focus on the simple and vital elements of hydration and thinking!

WATER A Hairy Bag of Water We’re all just big hairy bags of water! Our bones are 25% water. The muscles that drive our movement are 75% water, the brain is 76% water, the blood that carries our nutrients is 82% water, and the lungs that provide our oxygen are approximately 90% water. Every cell and organ of our body depends upon the presence of water to function, to maintain a stable internal and external environment, to allow the delivery of sufficient nutrients and the removal of waste. Water is the lubricant that forms the base for saliva and the fluids surrounding the joints. It regulates body temperature and assists with oxygen transport. What would we do without water? We can survive without food for prolonged periods of time, but we cannot survive without water. Supply of water to the body is critical. The quantity and quality of water consumed impacts greatly on our health, vitality and performance.

QUALITY Clean water is a scarce commodity. Because tap water is commonly contaminated, it is treated by sedimentation, filtration, chemical conditioning, and then disinfected with chlorine to make it ‘drinkable’. Toxic metals, pesticides, bacteria and chemicals can still be present when water comes out of the tap. The human body will not function to its potential if we continually ingest poisons.

SO WHAT ARE THE BEST WATER SOURCES? · Bottled spring water , espe-

cially ‘organic and alkaline’ varieties · Filtered rain or tap water - carbon or reverse osmosis filtration systems are best

QUANTITY Dehydrate a muscle by only 3% and you cause about 10% loss of contractile strength and an 8% loss of speed! For a sub 30 minute Olympic 10km runner, this adds 2 minutes to their time. This is the difference between first and last… (Paul Chek) APPROXIMATELY 90% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION IS DEHYDRATED…

SO HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? Use the following formula to determine how much water you need to drink as a minimum each day, before exercise: Body Weight x 0.033 = litres per day e.g. 70kg x 0.033 = 2.31litres/ day

SOURCES OF FLUID LOSS: Respiration: (1-2 litres/day) Perspiration: light activity (1-2 litres/day) heavy activity 1-3 litres/ day) Urination (1-2 litres/day) Defecation: (0.1 litres/day) Diarrhoea (up to 25 litres/day)

SIDE EFFECTS OF DEHYDRATION INCLUDE: Fatigue, Constipation, Migraine headaches, Dry skin, Premature ageing, Weight gain and fluid retention, Depression, Heartburn, Arthritis, Poor recovery from physical activity, High blood pressure, Digestive disorders, Confusion Its your choice, consuming water giver health and vitality, dehydration gives the side effects of dehydration listed above…plant the seeds of health and vitality today.

THOUGHTS “We are the only creatures on the planet that can change our biology through our thoughts, feelings, and intentions. The cells of your body eavesdrop on your thoughts, and

are constantly being changed by them. When you fall in love, positive thoughts and emotions course through your body, strengthening your immune system. Conversely, dark thoughts and feelings of depression leave you vulnerable to illness” says Deepak Chopra. Hundreds of studies over the past 3 decades have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the beliefs of the mind. Our thoughts are creative. They are like seeds that develop into physical form if nurtured. Physical manifestation can take place when we repeatedly focus on specific thoughts and direct energy and feeling into them. This being the case, it is important to remember that every thought we have is capable of affecting our lives – positively or negatively.

AS WE THINK…SO WE BECOME Positive thinking is a powerful healing tool. In western society we tend to treat illness and disease with medicine only. Added to this, we often do not identify the true source of disease. What we think is the source, is often merely an effect of the deeper, subtler cause. The mind has a large part to play in our overall health. Habitual negative thinking is a root cause of many diseases. Conversely, habitual positive thinking contributes greatly to good health and wellbeing. When we are aware of the influence of our thoughts, we are inclined to accept responsibility for the creation of our life experiences. We are creative beings. Like it or not, we are responsible for creating our lot. We are not victims of anyone or anything… except our own thoughts. Through harnessing the mind we have the ability to take control of our lives and create greater levels of health and wellbeing. Creating new patterns of thinking takes time and commitment. Every moment of every day provides an opportunity to practice. Try bringing awareness to your

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thoughts. See yourself as separate from your thoughts and practice observing them. Avoid dwelling on negative thoughts. When they do arise, acknowledge them for what they are but do not fight them. Indifference is the key. Let them know that they are an unwelcome guest and ask them to leave your mind. Then fill the vacuum with positive, loving thoughts. The more you practice this technique, the more habitual it will become and you will soon find that destructive thoughts decrease in intensity and regularity. Amanda Allen is a former State, National and World Champion Triathlete. A Personal Trainer, Wholistic Lifestyle Coach, Massage Therapist, Level 2 Sports Coach and Workplace Trainer. She has studied Wholistic Psychology and is currently engaged in Yoga Teacher Training. She has a Bachelor of Management. Amanda is proprietor of Realise Personal Training – a wholistic health and fitness practice based in Adelaide. For more information contact: 1800 202 909 www.realisept.com.au

Alzheimer’s: Is it a disease of the Western diet? Alzheimer’s and dementia may be a result of the Western diet, new research suggests. People who eat a diet that’s rich in fish, omega-3 oils, fruits and vegetables are up to 60 per cent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s whereas people who consume large amounts of omega-6 oils, such as sunflower and grape seed, double their chances of suffering dementia. It’s reckoned that the omega-3/omega-6 imbalance in the processed and fast-food diet of the West is so out of kilter that people on average are consuming 30 times more omega-6 than is good for them. Diet has been highlighted as the main factor in determining whether we enjoy our full mental capabilities until the end. A French study tracked the diet and progress of 8,085 men and women over the age of 65 who did not have dementia at the beginning of the trial. In the four years’ followup, 183 of the participants developed Alzheimer’s and a further 98 had dementia. The researchers found that people who regularly consumed omega-3 oils, such as canola oil, flaxseed and walnut, reduced their risk of dementia by 60 per cent compared to those who do not regularly consume the oils. People who ate fruits and vegetables every day reduced their risk of dementia by 30 per cent. (Source: Neurology, 2007; 69: 1921-30).

Warmer days are coming. Summer tops and shorts will soon take front spot in our wardrobes. Whether you have been consistently exercising through the cooler months or you have been a little like a bear hibernating through winter, it is now time to spring clean your exercise regime. Sticking with the same routine week after week, month after month only leads to plateaus in weight goals and fitness gains. Just like spring cleaning a cupboard, discarding that which no longer serves you and adding in new bright ideas that do, can breath new life into your routine and help you get the results you want. There are the three change keys a Personal Fitness Trainer will engage to spice up your routine and put you back on track to achieving the results you want. Changing what you do, How you do it and Why you do it will get those results moving once again.

CHANGING WHAT YOU DO If you have been walking or running the same distance/route for a number of months now or you have been using the same piece of cardio equipment at the gym and doing the same time and resistance on that equipment, changing it for a different activity will help challenge your body in new ways. It will help challenge muscles, joints, nerves and your heart to adapt and become stronger, fitter and more capable than before. Continuing with the same distance or time on the treadmill that you have been doing for the past few months probably no longer challenges your body and where there is little challenge there is little progress. If you are using a treadmill, try changing to a bike, rower or cross trainer. It may feel hard at first but your body will adapt quickly and with that adaptation comes results. If you are walking/running outdoors try choosing another route. Finding a few hills or off road tracks will force you to use your body in different and more challenging ways and will also make your outing more interesting. Adding a couple of resistance training (weight training) sessions a week to your routine will also help burn extra calories and improve your strength and capabilities.

CHANING HOW YOU DO IT The biggest mistake people make with their exercise routine is making it comfortable. To continue getting results you must continue to challenge your body so it can continue to adapt, get stronger and more capable. In order to improve your huffy puffy capability your huffy puffy exercise should be challenging. Not intense but a little uncomfortable. Instead of doing your walk at a pace where you can easily hold a conversation try alternating a walk and a jog. 1min walking with 1 min jogging. If you are already jogging try alternating your jog with a fast run. 1min jog-

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ging with 1 min fast running. This is called interval training and if done properly can burn more calories in 20 minutes than walking for a whole hour. If resistance training is part of your routine, remember to continually get results, you must continually be changing the weight that you are lifting and changing the exercises that you are doing. If you are not sure how to do this your gym staff should easily be able to assist you.

CHANGING WHY YOU DO IT Finding a new motivation to exercise can refresh you mentally and emotionally. Training for a fun run for example can give your exercise more purpose than just exercising to burn calories. Taking part in a fat loss competition can give your exercise more purpose than just doing it because you think you should. Training specifically to be stronger, faster and more capable for sport helps you enjoy your sport more and helps your team win! For most people however the ideal routine for general fitness and weight management would involve Huffy Puffy Exercise 3 – 5 times per week and 2 Resistance Training Sessions a week. Remember there are many ways to achieve this. For some it is in a gym, for others it’s a bushwalk or a beach run. For those that love music a dance class is a great addition to the week and if you like a bit of competition get involved in your local sporting club. It is important to find activity that you enjoy and that works around your work and family commitments. By simply adding the above three change keys to what it is you like to do you will have yourself ready for the sleeveless tops and shorts in time for the warmer months ahead. Please note if you have not exercised in some time it is important to start slowly and seek the advice of your health care professional before starting any exercise program Lynda Pugliese, BAppSc (Recreation) PT is a Personal Fitness Trainer who specialises in Helping People become the Fit Healthy People they have always wanted to be. She Teaches the Successful 5 months Better Bods Program and Presents Regularly to Community and Corporate Groups in the areas of Health, Fitness and Personal Success. She may be contacted on 8165 2772 or at betterbods@bigpond.com

HEALTHY LIVING The Undeniable Order of UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE There is an undeniable order in the universe as we know it; the sun rises and sets, the earth spins and travels around the sun, there are cycles of the moon, tides rise and fall, gravity, etc. The first principle of Chiropractic recognizes this order in all things and calls it Universal Intelligence. Chiropractic also recognizes that every child on earth is born with an underlying, infinite order of intelligence that controls and regulates the function of every cell every minute of life; it keeps you alive and healthy. We call this innate intelligence or lifeforce and understand it is a part of the bigger picture of Universal Intelligence. This unseen, unfelt, undetectable intelligence is carried via the nervous system to your cells. Science tells us that when

any of the bones of your spine misalign (Chiropractors call this subluxation) they can alter the flow of innate intelligence producing dysfunctional cells and lowering our maximum health potential. This altered intelligence can cause many of the health problems facing us today. Regardless of how you feel, your state of health is directly related to your cell function. The main job of the Chiropractor is to locate subluxations and over time help the body correct these spinal misalignments. Allowing the reconnection of innate intelligence to the cells and restoring normal cell function. Turning on your power and helping you realize your magnificence. This is true healing, replacing dysfunctional cells with normal

Craniosacral Therapy cells. Chiropractic adjustments awaken your innate, allowing the greatest doctor in the world the one who specializes in you alone to do its work. In the end, the power that made your body heals your body and Chiropractic adjustments help turn on your healing power, possibly creating better health than you have experienced in years, the actual health your deserve. Have your spine checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic today to get yourself started on the road to magnificence, because it’s the smart thing to do. Call to reserve your seat for the next public seminar: Understanding Stress and Dealing with it Better Charles F Williamson DC Phone: 08 8242 1581 Fax: 08 82421851 charlesthechiro@bigpond.com.au www.backbythebeach.com

Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on healing technique, whereby therapists gently mobilize and release the Craniosacral system, which includes the soft tissue of the head (cranium), the spine down to its tail end (the sacral area) and the pelvis. It focuses on the movement of the cerebrospinal fluid, which is produced on a constant basis in structures within the brain. The movement of spinal fluid within and around the central nervous system is believed to create a vital body rhythm, equally important to health and well-being as the beating of the heart or the breath. Craniosacral Therapy helps to boost general well-being, reduce stress, improve quality of sleep, increase energy and enhance the functioning of all the body’s organs via the nervous system. It is a non-intrusive therapy that works with the entire structure, physiology, mind and spirit. For a treatment, clients usually lay on a massage table and the therapist

works through light clothing. It is a very gentle and profoundly relaxing procedure that lasts between 40 to 60 minutes. Craniosacral Therapy can treat a wide range of conditions and can be used to treat all age groups including babies and young children.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY IS USEFUL FOR: · Migraines and headaches · Chronic neck and back pain · Motor coordination impairments · Stress and tension related problems · Infantile disorders · Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries · Chronic fatigue · Scoliosis · Central nervous system disorders · Emotional difficulties · Temperomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) · Autism of certain types · Learning disabilities · Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

(PTSD) · Orthopedic problems · Digestive disorders and colic · And many other conditions Patricia Farnsworth RCST is one of Australia’s leading practitioners in Craniosacral Therapy with over 20 years of experience and is a registered member of the Craniosacral Therapy association of Australia . Visit us at www.patriciafarnsworth.com To find a practitioner in your area, please visit www.craniosacraltherapy.org.au

BECOME A QUALIFIED CRANIOSACRAL THERAPIST Patricia Farnsworth, DRM, RCST is Australia’s leading educator and Practitioner in Myofascial Release and Craniosacral Therapy. CLASSES & COURSES HELD REGULARLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR For more information and a free guide please phone 8231 4933 or visit

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By obtaining a complete nutrition and lifestyle assessment you will gain the knowledge to stay alive NUTRITION Starts with eating the right food for you! Before obtaining a nutritional assessment as to your body type and lifestyle, everyone will benefit from eating fresh wholesome produce such as fruit and vegetables. Eat food that makes you feel alive! By replacing low nutritional food with wholesome food the body will start eliminating excess waste and toxins. You may experience a bit of discomfort in the beginning! Never eat unless you are hungry; remember most times drink will stop your hunger pains. Drink 30 minutes before or after meals. Start your day with drinking 2 glasses of water.

EXERCISE Perspiration is one of the essential elimination processes of toxins from the body. Yoga is a great way of massaging your internal organs. Walking daily for at least 40 minutes will aid several elimination channels.

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In an ideal world we’d eat food that came from the earth and ideally, that didn’t involve killing any sentient being. In an ideal world, we would live in harmony with the earth, which would mean a symbiosis between earth and man. Earth would provide, and man would safeguard – much like the relationship our indigenous friends once enjoyed with their land. In earth terms it wasn’t long ago that we all had this ideal relationship. After all, · We only ate grains when we discovered stone tools. · We only ate dairy after domestication of livestock. · We only regularly ate salt when we began to mine, process, and transport it. · We only began eating meat regularly when we domesticated livestock. · We only began consuming sugar after the industrial revolution made processed sugar available. The only thing that has NOT changed in any significant form in this same period is our own physiology and our method of digesting food. It’s true to say that we are still a paleolithic humanoid attempting a lifestyle that has swept ahead of our evolutionary ability to digest. If this was not so, how can we explain the fact that 1 in 3 people are gluten intolerant and a further vast number unconsciously dairy intolerant? And how do we explain the 1 in 2, and 1 in 3 cancer attrition rate for men and women? Our bodies simply have not caught up with managing what we eat and drink, or how we live today. The most fundamental change we can observe over the centuries has been from a basically alkaline diet to an extremely acidic diet. Walk through the wild world and you’ll see your former foods; almost all with the ability to complement your natural alkaline internal pH balance. Scan your supermarket aisle and you’ll see the opposite: thousands of foods with additives, sugar, corn syrup and more; all acidic! In my eight years of studying acid/alkaline balance I can count the naturally alkaline people I have met on one hand. Everyone else is in a state of what doctors call mild acidosis, from food, from pollutants, from food additives and from stress. “The average person eats an alarming 14 pounds of food additives per year.” – Elizabeth Lipski, M.S., C.C.N. So why haven’t we heard our medicos telling us that we should be more alkaline? Because, sadly, it’s too simple. Alkaline balance is so fundamental that a medico trained to offer symptom-based care isn’t going to advise patients about a health strategy that isn’t

backed up by double blind studies. Yet, double-blind studies only happen when there is a payoff in pharmaceutical dollar terms. Big Pharma can’t patent it, so you won’t find studies except, perhaps, to discredit it. Unfortunately, acidosis, once begun, creates its own vicious cycle. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, for instance, has been described as a descending spiral of stress causing acidity causing inflammation causing pain causing stress causing acidity. “Every disease in the human body, including high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia and stress, turns the body acidic.” – Dr Victor Marcial-Vega, Oncologist and Medical Researcher. After digestion and metabolism, the foods we eat break down to either an acid or an alkaline ‘ash’ which ends up in our blood. Grains, fish, meat, poultry, shellfish, cheese, milk, and salt all produce acid. Take a look at your own diet and count the food groups that are acidifying you! At the same time, our greens and fruit intake has dramatically decreased. And that’s just our diet acidifiers; we also acidify through stress, pollution and simple metabolic waste production, to the point where Dr Linda Frasetto of the University of California says that we are at an evolutionary turning point. She says our body now stores the flood of acid in fat, just to protect the kidneys form overwork and failure. Never before in our evolutionary history has this happened, and it is reflected as we look around us at the sea of obesity. Is it any wonder that people who begin to alkalize report weight loss – even to the point of alkaline water drinkers losing weight without any diet change! If we see our body as a machine, then our blood is our fuel transport, our lubricant, our energy supplier and our maintenance system. Our circulatory system’s 100,000 kilometres hold 30 trillion red blood cells responsible for supporting 60 trillion body cells. It is naturally alkaline, with a normal pH level of between 7.35 and 7.45. An alkaline diet seeks to support this pH level (as it did in the past). It follows that a diet high in acidproducing foods disrupts this balance and causes the loss of essential minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium, as the body tries to restore its vital balance. In my years of consulting, I have observed that even a low acidosis person is prone to every bug that comes on the scene, because an acid/alkaline imbalance appears to set off a whole string of compensating imbalances in the body, making eve-

rything work less effectively. We become like a high performance car running on substandard fuel. ALKALIZING: THE REASON WHY “Under a mountain of fat, many obese people are starving to death because they are not getting what they need.” – Rudolph Ballentine, N.,D., A growing group of scientists and medical practitioners (Dr Robert O. Young, Dr Theodore Baroody, Dr Susan Lark, Dr Sherry Rogers, Dr Susan Brown...) are now reporting on the link between an acid-producing diet and subsequent disease. Enlightened practitioners may recommend alkalizing if a person has the following symptoms and other illnesses have been ruled out · Lack of energy · Excessive mucous production · Nasal congestion · Frequent colds and flu · Anxiety, nervousness, irritability · Ovarian cysts, polycystic ovaries, benign breast cysts · Headache Although your own medico may agree that increased consumption of fruit and vegetables and reduced intake of meat, salt, and refined grains is beneficial to health, many still can’t quite grasp that an acidproducing diet is the foundation of chronic illness. Yet even in the annals of conventional medicine, there is strong evidence that alkalizing may help prevent the formation of calcium kidney stones, osteoporosis, and age-related muscle wasting. BUT WHY DOES ALKALIZING WORK? It’s hard for many people to accept that a simple diet change can affect your future health as profoundly as we Alkalarians claim. Yet over the years I have accumulated a drawer full of unsolicited stories from people telling me that long term health conditions have dramatically changed within weeks of going alkaline. The most common changes reported include reduced inflammation of joints, reduced gastric problems, reduced arthritic symptoms, increased energy, better sleep patterns, more hydrated skin and so many more I can’t even list them here. Alkalizing works because we are almost without exception, overly acidic. Because we’ve been over-acidic for most of our life, we accept that life is about colds, flus, strange maladies and lack of energy. We blame the moon, the Prime Minister, the 7pm news.. but seldom face the fact that we are self-sabotaging through our mouth. After many years, I have come to the conclusion that we are actually addicted to acid. The Coke,

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the burger, the sweets, the icecream.. our ‘just one more’ philosophy disguises a deeper truth; that we are actually emotionally and physically addicted to these foods, and our mood swings caused by the food become a reason to indulge in the food. Feeling bad? Have a coffee, a Coke, a cake! Now you feel good, .but soon you’ll feel bad again as your acid/sugar high wears off. Whether you are a heroin addict or an acid/sugar addict, one thing must happen; you need to accept that you are addicted for change to happen. Trapped within an out of balance body it’s very difficult to think clearly, much less accept that you are an addict. However, those who even decide to test the theory through food and water change invariably report a mental change of attitude – a clarifying, a re-awakening of the mind-body connection. It’s not hard to see why. We all accept that the mind and body are not separately operating systems and that the mind feeds on input from the body, so a body returning to balance will naturally return the mind that inhabits it to the same sense of balance. Common reports are “I can think clearly again!” or “I am getting messages from my body again – it wants this change!” HOW TO ALKALIZE Food and water are ideal starting points to re-alkalize. Meditation, a walk in the bush, breathing exercises all help. It hasn’t been easy to find a good reference for the most alkalizing foods, but a new book, “The Acid Alkaline Food Guide” by Dr Susan E. Brown has set the standard. She uses the latest German research that renders most prior references obsolete. It’s a book that will sit on your kitchen bench and become the reference for all of your food purchases. It also has an excellent guide to the “whys and wherefores” of alkaline balance. People initially contemplating alkalizing sometimes get a fright when I mention my own alkalizing breakfast. I love to sauté Chinese greens with a variety of alkalizing vegetables in organic coconut oil. If I am really peckish I may add a couple of eggs at the last minute. And what did I eat before this? Fruit salad! That is, until I realised that a large bowl of fruit salad was also a large bowl of acidifying fructose. (fruit sugar). I love and look forward to my green breakfast, yet many people think they couldn’t possibly mimic my taste. That’s because they are thinking acidic. I have seen their tastes spontaneously change as they alkalize and their acid addictions begin to depart. Remember that we are looking for a diet that gives an 80/20 ratio of food that produces an alkaline result to food giving an acid result.

Some people call me up and ask me why I like coconut oil when it is acidic. I reply that I’m not trying to eliminate acids from my diet; we need them. They provide the energy we live on, but I am always trying to include foods that increase my alkaline “ash” result, but not at the expense of nutritional needs! Korean-American Sang Whang, author of Reverse Aging, an “alkalizing bible” now translated into many languages, began alkalizing with ionized water at age 56 after being told he would have to take blood pressure medications for the rest of his life. Now a drug free 75, he is my ideal of how I want to be when I notch up another 14 years. He is alive, alert and full of life. He explains his food selection criteria by explaining how food is metabolised. “We think of food for good health, but we don’t even know what’s in the foods. An absolute majority of our foods (98%) is made of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen... these elements are the energy-giving elements of foods. They give us energy by burning with oxygen. After burning, they become acidic waste, such as acetic acid, cholesterol, lactic acid, fatty acid, carbonic acid, uric acid, nitro-oxide and ammonia. The remaining 2% of the food are alkaline minerals and/or acid minerals, such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, sulphur, chlorine, fluoride, iodine, etc. depending on which minerals are more predominant, we classify food as alkaline food or acid food.” – Sang Whang, author of Reverse Aging Because we are attempting to increase the alkaline storehouse in our blood, and because our blood is 90% water, it makes sense to drink alkaline water. Be aware that there are two sorts of alkaline water. One is ordinary water with alkaline minerals added. The other is alkaline ionized water which is alkaline by removal of the acids in the water. Of the two, I believe the latter is far more useful because it does not add acid minerals along with the alkaline ones. The ionizing process also makes the water far wetter than any other water so it is wonderfully hydrating, which accounts for the many women who report healthier complexions and skin tone. This “wetter water” means that the molecules in ionized alkaline water group in far smaller clusters, which, to my mind, means it has the capability to penetrate the fat stores and neutralise acid toxins stored therein. Many users also use water as a starting point in their alkaline journey. Perhaps this is because as the body alkalizes it begins to give stronger messages to the addictmind about the foods it now wants.

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Drinkers often report an unexpected and better new food preference including reduced “sweet tooth”. I should mention that I began drinking alkaline ionized water eight years ago, and as a result of my experience I began importing alkalizers, and still do so. I am 61 years of age and never felt better! There have been a couple of articles recently written locally condemning alkaline water, citing one study of baby rats. This study has since been discredited, but publishers still persist in quoting it. It isn’t coincidence that any health strategy that can help people without high cost attracts adverse press. In this case, the articles are all written by the purveyor of a competitor water filter that does not have the same ionizing ability. “I have administered over 5000 gallons of this water for about every health situation imaginable. I feel that restructured alkaline water can benefit everyone. After years of very positive continuous clinical experiments that I am conducting with hundreds of clients using electronically restructured alkaline water, it is my opinion that this technology will change the way in which all health providers and the public will approach their health in the coming years.” – Dr Theodore Baroody, author of Alkalize or Die SUMMARIZING · Alkaline neutralises acids; it's a scientific fact. · You can change to an alkaline diet without major stress if you really want to. · An alkaline diet does not mean just spinach. · Help is at hand; arm yourself with a food guide and get alkalizing! · You are only returning to your natural state; you are not starting a diet your body isn’t designed for! · Acidosis is progressive. Rust never sleeps. Acidosis = rust= oxidation = ageing. · Alkalizing is natural. Alkalizing = energizing = immunizing = longevity. Almost every advertisement we see these days uses the word “natural”. It is my view that “natural” means becoming closer to nature – and nature has not changed in its relationship to humans. We are the ones that have changed. “Natural” therefore, is the process of returning to what we really are... naturally! Ian is the Managing Director of ION LIFE, Alkaline Specialists. He may be contacted via his website, www.ionlife.info Refences: Minich DM, Bland JS. Acid-alkaline balance: role in chronic disease and detoxification. AlternativeTherapies in Health and Medicine. 13.4 (2007): 62-65.

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Are you stuck in a rut? Do your fears hold you back? Are you sick of procrastinating?

Working ON the Business In the previous issue of InnerSelf, I mentioned that the first of the four hats that a spiritual being in a small business usually wears is “The Specialist” hat. The second hat is “The Marketer” hat. When you wear this hat, you are working ON the vision of your business and the goals, strategies and plans for manifesting the vision. Many spiritual people avoid working ON their businesses for two primary reasons: 1. They don’t know how to create a business/marketing plan 2. They feel stressed when they try to work with goals and plan If you are unsure about how to create a business/marketing plan, I recommend that you contact your nearest Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) and seek some FREE mentoring. The South Australian Government provides small businesses with a whole host of free advice and assistance in this area.

REPLACE GOALS WITH POTENTIALITIES If you feel stressed when working with goals and plans, I highly recommend that you replace the word “goals” with “potentialities”. The reason for this is that a “goal” has a quality of MUST achieve about it. When you believe that you MUST achieve something, fear and anxiety arises.

WHY IS THIS SO? This is because the future is unpredictable. This means that there is never any guarantee that a particu-

lar outcome will actually take place at a fixed time in the future. Therefore, the potential for failure arises the moment you try to set a goal, in the unpredictable future, which you MUST achieve – even if the probability of failure can be calculated at a miniscule 0.001 percent. The word potentiality has all the positive qualities that goals provide, such as direction, purpose, motivation, inspiration and passion, without creating emotional disturbance. You remain relaxed and at peace. The reason for this is that the word potentiality is congruent with the reality that the future is unpredictable and therefore avoids the impossible notion of “MUST achieve”. The potential to achieve is obviously infinitely possible! Setting potentialities instead of goals also readily allows for exceeding the potentiality or realising another, different but more beneficial potentiality. It allows you to be more flexible – able to quickly change direction when the world around you changes, as it always does, without feeling like a failure.

THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY It is also very useful to realise that your plan is only a best guess. It does not become reality until the moment arises. Therefore, do not be fixated on having to follow your plan to the letter. Unexpected opportunities and challenges may arise and you will need to change your plans accordingly.

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do not set visions, goals or plans. Life just unfolds and the business grows organically. This is a great way to build your business in the early stages when you are a oneperson business. If your business grows beyond that, you would need to communicate to your team the vision of where the business is going so that everyone heads in the same direction. There is no need to plan in minute detail for the next 5 years. The world is changing so rapidly these days that the assumptions that your plans are based on will change beyond recognition very quickly. I recommend you have a broad vision 3 years out and plan the next 3-12 months. Always keep in mind that the plan is NOT the reality and be open to changing your plans as the world changes around you. Remember that a plan is a dynamic, ever-changing, living document – it is NOT set in concrete! Michelle Stanton (08) 8356 4160 is the Author of “The Timeless World – Debunk Your Fears and Discover Heaven on Earth” www.zonehigh.com To find out more about working in a state of peace and joy, attend our Breakfast in the Zone on the first Thursday of each month at Café Vagabondo in North Adelaide.

Too often, striving for what you desire comes with a high personal price tag. You sacrifice your time, energy and money and ignore the deepest part of yourself that knows what is right for you. Sometimes, you find yourself wondering if it has to be this way because you feel you are worthy of being more, doing more or having more in your life. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way because you can break through your limitations and create the life you desire. The last few decades have brought about amazing changes in the field of human technology. Innovative approaches such as Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherapy have supercharged the complementary therapies industry and created what we now refer to as a ‘Breakthrough Coach’. The traditional view of coaching and therapy as being a method of re-visiting old ground, focusing on the past and force feeding information is no longer true. A coach in today’s world utilises a diverse range of techniques which empower you to define and focus on what you want and create a magical future for yourself. A good coaching relationship will also create a supportive environment which promotes understanding, change and awareness. A vital part of this change process is NLP, which is one of the hottest coaching technologies on the planet. It can be used to find a solution for a never-ending array of difficulties, in a range of contexts. You can utilise tools which help you lose weight, increase your sales performance or teach your child to spell better. NLP empowers you to create dynamic personal change, organise your thinking, gain control of your emotional state and live life without fear. As if this wasn’t enough, add Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherapy into the mix and you have created a process for human change that is surpassed by none!

These techniques assist you to remove negative emotions, let go of limiting beliefs and free yourself from stress and anxiety. You will gain the power to get motivated, stay motivated and create the future that YOU really want. It is time to stop making the same mistakes and start making the right decisions. If you remain on your current path, will your fears stop you from taking resolute action and achieving the results you desire? The fear of stepping into the unknown and being completely accountable for your life is not uncommon. Many people do feel comfortable in their ‘box’ but some have a nagging feeling that a piece of the puzzle is missing. Every once in a while they sneak their toe outside to see how it feels and at the first sign of discomfort, they whip it back in again. This is the action point. Either they stay where they are and choose not to move forward, or they actually step outside and surrender themselves to the wonderful potentialities of life. Breakthrough Coaching is about getting the very best out of someone and enabling them to make those decisions which move them towards action. It is simple to produce lifelong growth and change by identifying and adjusting motivational strategies and drivers. The process encourages people to experience positive learning and gain a strong desire to create a more fulfilling future. If you have been wondering how to transform your life but don’t know where to begin, then Breakthrough Coaching is most definitely for you. However, if you would prefer to learn about the relationship between mind, body, emotions and actions then an NLP Practitioner course is another great solution! The powerful techniques allow you to understand and direct human experience, communication and behaviour so you can create what you want in virtually every realm of your life. You can also assist others to produce the changes

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Can’t You See I’m Working? For many working parents, telecommuting or a home business may seem like the answer to your prayers. You want to have more time with your kids and greater flexibility, so you take the leap, install a second phone line, and set up a computer in the dining room. But the first thing you may discover is that working from home includes many unexpected distractions. Children, your spouse, neighbours, and the family dog come and go. They make loud noises, ask for your help, or interrupt to ask a “quick question,” always just long enough to break your concentration. Your family and friends don’t seem to understand that you’re working. They ask you to run errands, expect you to handle chores, and want to chat on the phone. When you see the pile of laundry or stack of dishes sitting there waiting, you may be tempted to take time out from work to clean up a bit. You’d like to keep your house livable and be available to the people you care about, but it’s just too much for one person to manage. When can you get any work done? The way out of this dilemma is to set clear boundaries on your space, time, and responsibilities. If your office has a door, try having “open-door” time and “closed-door” time. When your door is open, the kids can come say hello, ask questions, or tell you about their day. When the door is closed, it means “Do Not Disturb.” Setting regular working hours will help you manage your time better as well as give some guidelines to your family. Build your hours around the family activities that are important to you. If your kids get home at 2:00, for example, set up your work day from 8:30 to 2:00 and 4:00 to 6:00. Your schedule can change each week to allow for your children’s activities, when necessary. Choose how many work hours per week makes sense for you, design a schedule, and post it on your office door. Highlight the open times, and let everyone know that’s when you are available to them. Start by listing all the jobs that need to be done for the household, and who does them now. Instead of assigning chores, try asking each family member to volunteer for something. If there are lots of tasks left over, be sure to ask if they really need to be done, or done as often. (Dusting, for example, may need to go by the wayside.) If you are doing chores during time you could be making money, consider hiring someone else to clean your house, service the car, or drive the kids to afterschool activities. When one of your boundaries gets tested, learn to hold the line. If you give in even once, don’t expect the boundary to hold up. Try making the closed door, posted schedule, or job roster the bad guy instead of yourself. Instead of, “I’m too busy to talk right now — you’ll have to wait,” say, “The door is closed now, would you please come back when it’s open?” When friends phone during work time, ask them to call back after hours. And when someone doesn’t do one of their chores, don’t do it for them. Serving a meal on dirty dishes may seem extreme, but it will get the message across. C.J. Hayden is the author of Get Clients NOW! Thousands of business owners and salespeople have used her simple sales and marketing system to double or triple their income.

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Give yourself Space, allow yourself Time and you will have the Motion to move forward in your life. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a group of people who went abseiling, some had tried it before and came back and shared their thrills with their friends and decided this was too good to keep to themselves. “Now is the time”, they decided, and all went out together to experience something that would change their lives forever. As they climbed higher the warmth of the sun filled them with joy. As they breathed in the fresh air the air of anticipation grew. They set their ropes and secured themselves, first one then another, next the one who had never done it stood at the cliff’s edge. His ropes set, he edged his way forward, his inner voice was telling him to show caution, “Is this what you should be doing?” There was a moment of hesitation, contemplating the next step. He considered these things then embraced the benefits, the opportunity to experience the new and unfamiliar. He began his descent. The sensation of trusting in his ropes and himself brought a sense of freedom and excitement second to none. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a point in all our lives where we find ourselves wanting, wanting to go further, wanting to move in areas that we thought difficult. When you have had enough of wandering and searching for the direction you want to go, then Coaching offers you the opportunity to make the change. Coaching is a powerful process that supports you in releasing your true potential and in making changes in your life. Self responsibility is one of the pillars of self-esteem. It includes being responsible for the achievement of your desire, for your choices and actions, for the quality of your communication and for your own personal happiness. Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes. Allow yourself to put the past behind you and embrace all that life is offering

you. Coaching is the opportunity for you to take control of your life and set the direction you want to go. Through the use of Time Line Therapy®, NLP and specific coaching techniques you will learn how to take control of your life and live a life that is full of passion and purpose! Coaching is available now for you to enable you to bring about the changes you want so you can then step forward. Coaching can be done either over the phone or face to face. Either way the results are the same; Life changing! Now is the time to phone or email to start the journey that will change your life. Embrace the benefits, the opportunity to experience the new and unfamiliar. You have climbed the mountain, now experience the sensation of trusting in your ropes, this will bring a sense of freedom and excitement second to none. There are various options available that will enable you to experience coaching and the best it has to offer to you. Find which package will best serve your needs and enable you to experience the greatest change and growth in your life. As you step into this you will know the benefits, benefits that will enable you to step out and experience the fullness of life. Peter Blasch is a Business Coach, Personal Development Coach, Time Line Practitioner and Neuro Linguistic Practitioner - NLP. His company, Space Time Motion, is affiliated with coaches Australia wide. Coaching can be done either over the phone or face to face. Either way the results are the same; Life changing! For more information, contact Peter Blasch at Space Time Motion Mobile: 0408 036 153 Email: peterblasch@gmail.com

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Communicating with Yourself- Self talk Six Steps for Change By Peter Blasch “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your communication with yourself and with others.” SELF-TALK – Communicating with yourself! We have 65,000 thoughts per day, yet for some of us we only recall 10 of these! Our conscious thoughts are always looking to keep us safe and from harms way. For this to happen it will get us doing things that won’t alert it to danger e.g. like doing extreme sports. As we listen to our conscious mind, the less we will be willing to do. 1 . BE AWARE of what you are telling yourself 2 . IF YOU COMMUNICATE doubt, or fear, or procrastination, thank your conscious mind for wanting to protect you, and then say, “But I’m going to do this anyway” 3 . DON’T DENY the doubt, communicate with it rather than try to shut it down. Denying it will just cause it to come up stronger next time 4 . DETERMINE what your intention is, so that you can remind yourself why something is important to you. For example, if you want to do something for a friend, and your self-doubt is saying to put it off, remind yourself that your intention is to be a friend, and that means connecting with your friend. 5 . KNOW THAT YOU HAVE a choice with how you communicate with yourself. It isn’t chance...your thoughts are a reflection of you… so make the choice to choose thoughts that will empower you 6. AS YOU BEGIN the selfdoubt from your inner voice will get louder, because it’s scared of the changes you’re making… this is normal… persist! For more info contact Peter Blasch Mobile: 0408 036 153 peterblasch@gmail.com

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How to Achieve Financial Abundance with a Home Business and what to look for This issue the cards selected give two very simple ideas which, if implemented now, will prove to be invaluable as time goes on…

Card No M04 Join your local Library All the business information you could want is available FREE… This may not sound very innovative and you may even think, how’s this going to help me grow my business? Well, once you’ve visited your Library and seen the abundance of Business / Marketing / Management books, you’ll begin to realise. It’s up to you, the more you read, the more you can learn about running a small business successfully. You can read the (auto)biographies of successful business people and find out how they did it. Anita Rodick’s ‘Business As Usual’, is an interesting read, or you may find some hidden gems from Richard Branson’s series of books from Screw It, Let’s Do It to Sir Richard Branson, The Autobiography. Don’t try to re-invent the wheel, take tried and tested ideas and implement them into the way you operate your business. The E-myth (and revisited) by Michael Gerber is a popular book, the E stands for Entrepreneur (not electronic which is what I thought when I first heard about it!) I think there is something for everyone in that book, or Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company one Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz. Getting Things Done by David Allen. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – powerful lessons in personal change, by Stephen R Covey. Are more about self discipline when running a business. There are hundreds, if not thousands, so go and explore. Most Libraries now have a sizeable on-line library so you can view reference books in the comfort of your own home!

Have you ever seriously thought about what it would be like to be financially free and how you go about getting there? The way most Australians think is not big enough when it comes to their own potential. We blame our financial difficulty on the government and rising interest rates, but we can surge forward, step away from the pack and our usual rigid way of thinking and free that entrepreneurial spirit! Mindset – Many home businesses are 99% mindset. You must begin with the right kind of thinking. Create a vision and put that vision out to the universe. What are you going to attract into your new life? “I’m going to attract an opportunity that suits my personality. I can work part-time around my existing job, which will assist me in becoming financially abundant.” Send this vision - what the vision looks and feels like - out to the universe each morning when you wake up and every evening when

you go to bed. Whenever your mind wanders, send it straight back to your vision - the universe wants us to succeed, recognise what is put in front of us and take action! Re-set your income goals – “I will have $100,000 in my bank account by December 2008”. Even if that figure seems outrageous, put it out there and see. Be clear on what you want – do you want a business or do you want a job? A business requires time, effort and usually some kind of investment. A job doesn’t require investment but also doesn’t offer the kind of profits most home businesses offer. Take action and research – look for an opportunity. Why wait to turn your life around? Get active. Many job sites have home business sections, Google self employment. Get a feel for the different things out there. If you have an industry you would like to work in, research that industry, sooner or later you will find a home business that offers what you’re looking for. If

Card No M16 - Make today your monthly ‘Marketing’ day Yes, one day a month is enough – to start with… Put today’s date in your diary every month to the end of the year as your monthly ‘Marketing Day’. Instead of thinking about Marketing occasionally - and then putting it off because you can find something ‘more enjoyable’ to do - keep all your ideas in a folder and deal with them one day per month. By creating this space in your diary, you will begin to get comfortable with Marketing yourself and your business. Over time you can increase your Marketing days to two per month, three per month and eventually once a week.

WHERE TO START Marketing is a way for you to ‘Creatively Communicate’ to your potential clients what you do. M52 Cards have been designed specifically to help practitioners with marketing concepts to help them build their businesses. If you already market your business on a regular basis, use the M52 cards weekly, visit the website and follow the guidelines to implement each marketing idea. If you don’t already have a deck of M52™ Cards now’s your chance to win one. Send us your name, contact details and in 25 words or less tell us why you should win a deck of M52™ Cards. For more information phone 0411 086 746 or (03) 9017 5455

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not – create one! The vibe – Like anything, we always have a feeling. If you find a website or an ad, go with your gut! If it feels right, it probably is! Leave your details to be contacted. Always leave a phone number – not just an email address. Information should always be provided free. Choose to leave your details for an opportunity that doesn’t make you pay money to get any initial information. Home business companies usually have a system that the Associates like to follow to the “T”. Don’t mess with this system. When called you will likely go through an interview process, just go with the flow and answer the questions! They are probably interviewing you to see if you match what they offer. You will get your hands on the nuts and bolts, but a tiny bit of patience is required sometimes! If you feel like you’re being sold to – forget it! From my experience, you do not want anyone to join your organization if they have to be sold into it. They will more than likely end up wasting your time and not have success anyway. Just go for it! Most home businesses will require an investment - this is definitely positive. If you are going to sign up for something that costs $10 and promises $300,000 a year – I would presume it is a scam? An investment from $1500 that offers a potential $400,000 first year income sounds a lot healthier! But of course you must look at what you will receive in return. Take that well-informed risk – if everything feels right, you have done your due diligence, and you are happy with the method that has directed you to this point - then take that informed risk and give it a go! An investment of $1500 is small for the profits usually on offer. Most home businesses originate in the USA – this is a good thing! USA has the highest amount of home business opportunities in the world so they have the strictest laws in relation to them. If it’s US based, it’s probably best!

Don’t give up after 8 weeks! All types of home businesses take patience, action and momentum. You cannot expect to sack your boss and earn $100,000 in 2 months. The average time it should take to profit from a home business is 3 months (depending on your own variables) but of course your success is only up to YOU. Three months is when your momentum has kicked in and you are starting to build your business and see results … hold on for the ride! The main reasons holding people back from experiencing financial success are excuses. If you have one excuse for not moving forward then I can guarantee you will come up with more! I don’t have the money, I don’t have the

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TOILET FENG SHUI? In Feng Shui, many people are concerned regarding one particular area that is present in any house or property, the toilet. Many are worried that their washrooms may be emitting “Sha Qi” or unknowingly flushing away their own wealth. These worries are no laughing matter and it is time to straighten things out where the toilet Feng Shui is concerned. A long time ago toilets were regarded with vile and disgust. This is understandable as sanitation technology was still primitive back then. Underground piping and sewage had not yet been invented. Consequently, toilets were situated far away from the living area of a house. Today however, the opposite holds true for toilets – they are built inside the house, with some being quiet lavish, thanks to the modern sewage system. But it seems that the taboo of toilets still lingers in our minds. Is a built-in toilet bad for health and wealth? Firstly, if a toilet is left dirty and unsanitary, obviously it becomes a breeding haven for bacteria. It is only a matter of time before one falls sick because of this. Is it fair to attribute this to Feng Shui?

MODERN TECHNOLOGY The arrival of toilet-flushing technology also causes some new worries – will flushing the toilet drain away wealth prospects? This perhaps stems from the earlier misconception that water represents “wealth”. While water governs “wealth aspects”, the element itself does not directly represent “money”. So flushing away the toilet is not equivalent to flushing away money. The more Feng Shui savvy may ask: “What if the wealth star is located inside the toilet? Wouldn’t that be flushing it away then?” A “wealth star” located inside a toilet becomes a problem not because of the toilet itself but because we are unable to be influenced by any “wealth Qi”. In order for any kind of Qi ( whether good or bad Qi ) to influence people, the person has to be exposed to the Qi for an extended period of time. The toilet is obviously not a feasible place to be spending hours, thus its “wealth generating” abilities cannot be maximized. This also applies to storerooms where there is no human interaction. That is why the three major aspects – main door, stove and bedroom – should be located in an area with good Qi.

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Reweaving our LIFE WEB Spider helps us to remember that we are the creators of our own lives, solely responsible for the directions we choose. Spider reassures us that if we do not like what we have chosen, we can choose again. Just as the Spider reweaves her damaged web each morning, we, too, can redirect our chosen lifepath. As long as the web is strong enough to harness our dreams, we have the power to change direction. We each form a vital strand in the Web of Life. Without our productive input, the Web’s integrity is breached, weakened and deemed incomplete. The Spider weaves her web in the cool of the evening and then sits at peace within its centre, waiting to ensnare passing insects. Each evening the Spider pulls apart the web from the day before and reweaves it, making it stronger, grander and more efficient than its predecessor. Spider weaves each strand of her web with great care and respect, for she knows that to neglect the quality of just one strand may result in the entire web proving useless as a source of nourishment. Life is like the Spider’s web. It should be lived from its centre, in the now, with each morning seen as a chance to start afresh. Each of us represents an individual thread in the Great Web of Life. Each of us depends upon the authenticity of those next to us and,

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ENERGY HEALING stones to Power. From the moment we are born to the day we shed our robes and return to Spirit, we figuratively visit all four corners of the world. We collect from each what we find interesting or valid and leave the rest behind, thus forming our own set of values and beliefs based on experience. Experience is the source of all personal wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge. Knowledge is Power. Power invites Purpose. Purpose is what we all yearn for, although it can prove as elusive as a Fox. Purpose represents the sacred gift found inherently within each of us; the gift of Spirit labelled as Medicine by the ancient cultures. It is our personal interpretation of what creativity was meant to represent. We are all born with Personal Medicine; a sacred, unique ability or knowing that, once realised, must be held close to one’s heart, but never selfishly kept solely to oneself. This is the sacred wisdom of Spider. This article is an extract from Scott Alexander King’s new CD (soon to be released, published by Blue Angel Gallery Australia) – ‘HEALING WITH THE ANIMALS’. Scott Alexander King is a teacher, animal psychic and ‘zoomancer’: an individual that examines the habits and appearance of animals to help explain or reveal the future path of other people. He is the best-selling author of ‘Animal Dreaming’, ‘Animal Messenger’, the ‘Animal Dreaming Oracle Cards’ and ‘KIDS! Indigo Children and Cheeky Monkeys’. Scott is available for interviews, workshops and seminars. To learn more about Scott - and his publications - visit his official website www.animaldreaming.com

THETA HEALING Do you feel frustrated that things are not happening for you physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually? Theta healing may be the answer for you. To open up your life to many new and exciting possibilities theta healing has the tools to help you achieve all you may desire. This amazing modality is far reaching and has many applications: · By looking at the beliefs you have and changing those that no longer serve you · By helping you to look at yourself in a different way and feel better about yourself · By healing any physical challenges in your body that no longer serve you · By clearing all the blocks that keep you from achieving the life you desire · By helping you achieve true self empowerment through having clarity and understanding of yourself on a much deeper level · By releasing fears that block you from being the amazing being who you truly are and stopping you from living the amazing life of your dreams · By discovering and being able to nurture your inner child to help you towards being in peace and harmony within yourself · And many more I have changed many things in my own life including a 25kg weight loss, freeing myself from a number of physical ailments that were holding me back and seeing my spiritual path unblocking and clearly unfolding before me. I now attract in to my own life relationships that are healthy and harmonious and am free from being trapped

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ENERGY HEALING within you and me. This shift cannot come from the mind – we can see all too well where the ‘reign of the mind’ has led us. Nor can it come only from the heart. Effectively what is needed is a great transformative healing of the human species, a healing so deep and vast that all of our dimensions, mind and heart included, will be transformed in its wake. The Laika have long known that in order to be effective, any healing must be addressed at the dimension of Spirit. Any healing that is aimed solely at the physical, emotional or psychic levels is little better than applying a bandaid to a tumour – it does not address the hidden issue. The Munay Ki are the 9 Initiation Rites of the Laika and they are crafted to work directly on the Luminous Body, the spiritual ‘envelope’ or ‘aura’ that surrounds the physical body and that carries and stores the imprints of past impressions such as trauma and abuse from our past, our genetic inheritance and even imprints from past lives. These Nine Rites, as their names suggest, are tailored to affect different aspects of our being as well as the multi-dimensional levels of our existence. These are the Rites: The Healer’s Rite The Bands of Power Rite The Harmony Rite The Seer’s Rite The Daykeeper’s Rite The Wisdomkeeper’s Rite The Earthkeeper’s Rite The Starkeeper’s Rite The Creator Rite The last of these, the Creator Rite, was transmitted from one human to another for the first time in 2006. Collectively these nine Rites will plant within you the seeds containing the blueprint required to transform you from Homo Sapiens into Homo Luminous, the new human for the new age. The Munay Ki seeds are fireseeds, in order to grow they need to be nourished with fire. There-

fore, once received, the seeds planted by the initiations must be grown with Fire Ceremonies to prevent them from being utterly depleted and used up by our healing processes. These simple and elegant Fire Ceremonies become part of our personal spiritual practice. There is a refreshing simplicity within these Initiations that stems from the fact that they do not seek to address the mind; and yet, even without explanation, the mind is satisfied as the Rites soon begin to “reveal” themselves and their inherent “logic” to the initiate. The form of this revelation may differ from person to person. Speaking for myself, I am satisfied every time I experience the ineffable lucidity that washes over me whenever I do the fire-ceremonies. Whatever the mood I’m in, it is a guaranteed shift that never fails to delight me. For Sa, my wife, the rites surpass the mind, revealing their worth in the growing synchronicities and deepening love and acceptance of every living being. She is utterly content in the recognition of the beauty in everything that keeps presenting itself more and more each day. Each of us, in different ways, revels in the knowing that our growth is guaranteed (at last). Something must be said about the benefits of taking such a process onboard. Within the first few months of embracing this path we have noticed what the Munay Ki has done and still continues to do for us: · Grows our ability to love · Deepens our connection with our beloved earth · Strengthens our relationship with others · Clears our energy fields · Expands the flow of healing energy available to us · Develops our relationship with the luminous enlightened Laika Beings · Helps us release past trauma · Brings us into the present moment · Keeps us protected from negative energies

· Assists us to become less judgmental and more accepting · Keeps us from engaging in drama · Encourages response to life’s offerings · Reaction becomes more and more a thing of the past · Enables us to trust life · Empowers us to create a new loving world · Accelerates our cellular changes as we evolve · Gives us a true knowing of Oneness Once you have received these Initiations they are yours to do with as you wish: you can grow them through regular Fire Ceremonies, you can gift them to others once you’ve mastered them and imbibed their energies, or you can throw them away… This may seem as an odd thing to say, but I want to underscore an important truth that may not be readily apparent. These magnificent processes are powerful, they can work miraculous transformation, but without YOUR co-operation and commitment they are utterly useless. YOU are the catalyst, YOURS is the power to heal, to create or to destroy. If you are looking for a teaching that will change your life without requiring any commitment or input from you, then this teaching is probably not for you. If, on the other hand, you feel a strong pull towards these Initiations, perhaps without even knowing quite why, then we invite you to come and soar with us.

Claudio & Sa Silvano are human beings in service. They teach, initiate and facilitate spiritual processes. They are based in Perth, WA. For more information please visit www.sacredradiance.net or email munayki.au@gmail.com or phone 0412 747 096.

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Understanding how energy works It is said, more and more people are experiencing the value of energy work somehow coming in to their lives - through quite a variety of practices these days - where the benefits are an increased sense of wellbeing, destressing, self healing, vitality, inner calm and peace, and the ability to better handle intense situations, to name a few. Yet, the awareness around how the energy process works is still somewhat of a mystery to many people. Is this mostly invisible process explicable? YES, I think so!! We know the principles behind what we’ve used to create the technologies of TV, radio, computers, mobile phones, etc. - these are devices that send out and receive “waves” of different sorts, which are then transformed or generated in to either colourful pictures for us, or music, or words, or sounds that carry our voices around the world. Simply speaking, it is the same kind of principles which work with us and through us with energy! Our bodies are unique living mechanisms for both generating and receiving the incredible pulse or “waves” of ever present Universal energy, or Spirit, and many would say of God. How extra-ordinarily powerful that is to truly know in our experience! We have the ability to generate, give, and receive waves, or vibration, or energy - the very same which is already present, sustains and creates in the cosmos - how awesome! In some ways it is ironic we’ve invented modern mechanisms and devices which convert invisible waves to pictures or sounds, and here we are beginning to remember even more clearly that we human beings are built to sense, generate, receive and use Universal energy to power our living, to bring it through our daily attitudes, emotions and expressions and activities that each of us uniquely brings - and do it arguably better than the devices! Unlike the mechanical devices which have little choice but to operate by their hard wired principles and our settings, our human free will, coloured by ignorance, love,

life experiences and ranges of self centredness for example, has tended to lead us toward not sensing (or listening) to the waves of Life (Universal energy) and we’ve then borne the consequences in our bodies, minds and hearts somewhat like a radio tuner that is off the station, or a TV where the channel is not properly set - and when this happens we need retuning to these waves, of Universal energy, moving in and out of us. When things like discomfort, disease or “life not going right” appear in our lives, here is our opportunity to more consciously realise this is really about energy, even though the manifestation looks more visible or tangible and there are things to do about that too, and it needs work. We need to retune our mechanisms, our bodies, minds and emotions; when we are fully oriented in the One Great energy the flow in our lives is truly creative. Depending on our choices, we might use prayer, meditation or yoga, or seek medical advice, work with our diet, exercise, take a relevant course, AND now, enter the modern day energy worker who has developed means to assist us to do this vibrational core energy process! Their sensitive offerings can allow deep revelations to unfold where there is reception to it. We know to get the best results on our radio or TV there is a need to know how to tune in to a channel, and to do it consistently no matter the interference or conditions. We operate very similarly really, which is where one could guess is where we came up with the technological idea in the first place. When we want to move with the “force” that animates our universe - and that is the most powerful, creative, abundant energy there is - we need to know how to keep in tune with that energy consistently and keep our “sets” in good working order, to reap the benefits of each channel. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Here is where consistent work personally or with lifestyle practices like attunement can be seen to be more than learning a

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technique - it is a whole of life choice that is very powerful and brings constant opportunity to have an amazing life. In the practice of Attunement (different to Reiki attunement), we are aware there are 7 key receiving centres in the body for these waves, once through the chakras, called the endocrine glands. We all know these glandular mechanisms serve our bodies in practical ways with their various excretions, yet more importantly they are the main gateways or channels for the reception of Universal energy in our bodies that, when functioning individually and collectively well, enliven us incredibly. In the Attunement process, we assist people’s overall spiritual being through the balanced function and wellbeing of this system - we let the tuning process happen more consciously via a non-touch sharing of Universal energy through each of these glands. In Attunement work, our “channels” (see figure opposite) are labelled as follows - Gonads (1 ovaries in women, testes in men), the Adrenals (2), the Islets of Langerhans (3 - located on the pancreas), the Thymus (4), the Thyroid (5), the Pituitary (6) and the Pineal (7). There is much that can be said about these incredible living mechanisms, however the Universal energy they channel through us is what is vitally important for us to know, focus on and practice - in fact it is a full time job! J o n a t h a n MacIntyre is an internationally q u a l i f i e d Attunement Practitioner & Teacher and has been practicing and teaching this process and lifestyle for 7 years www.attunement.org - he also manages the Riverdell Spiritual Centre www.riverdellspiritualcentre.org.au near Gawler, a 9 acre retreat & conference facility and community. For more information contact Jonathan on 08 8523 1329 or 0408034584 0r jonemsa@bigpond.net.au

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SYMPTOMS AS A GIFT FOR HEALING When you have a sore back or a pain in your knee what are you most likely to do? Do you just ignore it and hope that it goes away? Maybe you go seek help from your doctor or take medication to make the pain go away. What do you do if you feel totally stressed out and you’re not really sure why? What if that pain or stress is there to tell you something – that it’s your body’s way of calling your attention to something else that is going on below the surface? Ignoring the symptom or treating it with medication is a bit like ignoring a 5 year-old child or telling it to “Shut Up and Go Away” when he/ she has just brought you their latest painting! “Symptoms are gifts from the body” is a beautiful way of looking at what is going on for us, whether it is physical pain, fear, stress, mental or emotional challenges and that forms the foundation of the LifeLine Technique created by Dr. Darren Weissman D.C. He believes ALL symptoms are the result of a denial, internalization or disconnection from some emotional experience at a SUBCONSCIOUS level for safety or survival reasons.The job of our subconscious mind is to protect our Spirit. If the subconscious mind determines that we don’t have the tools, strategies or resources to deal with an emotional experience, it encapsulates that experience and “holds on” to it. Any time we experience something similar to that original experience, the subconscious mind triggers the memory and runs the “program” associated with the original experience. This is NOT a conscious process and is why our patterns are so difficult to break. If they are not released, these patterns can lead to imbalance and stagnation in the body ultimately leading to disease. Living with Infinite Love & Grati-

tude is about acts of self-love… Making sure we are hydrated, eating good food, resting, exercising and owning our power. It also means embracing all aspects of life with passion, purpose, and courage. Reconnecting to the emotions that lie dormant in our subconscious mind – is the key to reclaiming our authentic self. No matter what situation we experience, it’s vital to view it through the authenticity of our heart. This part of us speaks without judgment. Our body and life are a pure reflection of how emotions are moving through us, as well as how we are moving through emotions. By embracing life with an open heart, we’re able to transform chaos into harmony. It’s been said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” By choosing to own our power and live life with Infinite Love and Gratitude, having an open expression of emotion and embracing the moment, the burdens of our past will no longer hinder us from creating our future. The most powerful aspect of the LifeLine Technique is in the actual treatment – which is based solely on the work of Dr. Emoto whose study of water proved that thoughts and feelings affect physical reality. He noted that some of the most beautiful crystalline shapes were formed by the effect that the combination of the words “Love” and “Gratitude” had on the water. The combination of the words “Infinite Love and Gratitude” and the international sign language gesture for “I Love You” is the only treatment. Given that our bodies are composed of over 75% water, the effects are immediate and profound. Dr. Weissman’s website www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com contains video clips showing live blood cell analysis of “before” and “after” sessions. The differences are startling. The human body is a self-heal-

ing organism – it already has everything it requires to heal itself – all it needs is to be given the freedom to do that. This happens when we can consciously reconnect to the subconscious patterns of disconnection. Imagine that when you’re born, you’re given a mountaineeringsized backpack to carry. As you go through life, you unknowingly “acquire” rocks of various shapes and sizes that are put into that backpack. Each rock has a label: “Anger”; “Resentment”; “Frustration”; “Low Self-Esteem”; “Depression” and so on. And each also has its own distinct voice like: “I’ve told you before – you’ll NEVER be any good at that.” Most of the time, as you move through life, you don’t notice the weight of the backpack because you’re so used to carrying it. But then, when you want to move in a new direction, you stagger under the weight of all those rocks, and just as you end up on your backside there’s that little voice saying: “See! I told you you’d never be any good at that!” And you’re left wondering how you wound up in that position yet AGAIN having promised yourself you’d never repeat the same mistake. Reconnecting to subconscious patterns gives the opportunity to reach into that backpack and pull out some or all of those rocks. My personal experience of the LifeLine Technique has been profound. Because of a thyroid dysfunction my eyes popped out severely, so much so that I was exceedingly embarrassed about them. The only solution according to doctors was surgery. One session and they are now flat! After 9 years I can look in the mirror and see “me” again. Amazing. So the next time you have a symptom, whether it’s a headache, a painful knee or anxiety – get curious about what your body might be telling you and look at what you need to be doing about it. For more information call Diane on 08 82481281 or email beyondtheordinary@internode.on.net

The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude A book by Dr Darren Weissman

I am a lifelong learner! I love to learn and I read an enormous amount of books, all designed to educate me, from Quantum Physics to Bruce Lipton’s brilliant work on cells. When I read “The Power of Infinite Love and Gratitude” I couldn’t put it down! The author, Dr Darren Weissman, is a kinesiologist, chiropractor, and acupuncturist. He is also an inspirational, magnetic writer, who from the first couple of pages touched my heart with his authenticity and as the book unravelled itself, he touched my soul with the excitement of his discovery. The title “The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude”, fascinated me to begin with. The book describes Infinite as “the universe” or “the collective conscious” which has no beginning or end. Love as the universal power that propels life, fuelling our will and enabling us to face and overcome challenges. Gratitude empowers us to go through life without judgement, enabling us to see the value of any experience (even situations we may have once perceived as

mous for his work around water crystals and Dr Weissman used the same formula to do before and after pictures in the book using The LifeLine Technique. Here is just a sample.

Before: A 41 year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer

After: Using the power of Infinite Love & Gratitude, released subconscious feelings of depression associated with being emotionally and verbally abused by her husband For more information contact Diane McCann, Beyond The Ordinary beyondtheordinary@internode.on.net www.infiniteloveandgratitude

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“bad”) as an opportunity rather than being a victim of circumstances. This book reveals the journey of the spirit and sheds a new light on one of the greatest mysteries humankind has attempted to unravel - the subconscious mind. The book helps you to view life from a new heightened perspective. We all know, as therapists that our body is a self-healing organism...what if we could finally unlock its natural ability to heal...once and for all….what if we could all thrive instead of survive? Dr Weissman’s mission is world peace through inner peace. He is my kind of healer… one that always is searching for better ways to aid his patients. He has studied with the best of the best in the world including the creators of NET and TBM. He believes it is imperative to teach people how to take full responsibility for their lives and heal themselves. His goal is to enable everyone to understand the language the body uses to communicate and to empower people with healthy lifestyles, thus healing the world, one person at a time. Dr Emoto says: “Dr Weissman’s book will change the current world view on healing” As many of you know Dr Emoto is fa-

while they address any personal problem. You can easily learn basic EFT in a private consultation or at one of my EFT Workshops (Next: October 12). EFT is a multi-purpose tapping technique that’s a bit like acupressure, with specific emotional, psychological or physical results that can happen fast, no matter how long you’ve had the problem. I’m well qualified in EFT. I’ve been a complementary therapist around Australia for more than 20 years. I also do EFT by phone, hold classes, Retreats. 0432 518 695 Tel. (08) 8537 0447 Email annie@alt-therapies.com www.alt-therapies.com

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COMMENTS ON WORLD EVENTS by Benjamin Creme

Dying - Not as Bad as We Thought No one has done more to demonstrate the relevance of the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg to the understanding of the near-death experience (NDE) than the author of this book, Leon Rhodes. It was he who, in the immediate aftermath of the publication of Raymond Moody’s ground-breaking work, Life After Life, in 1975, saw the connection and seized the opportunity to expatiate upon it. What Dr. Moody had briefly alluded to in his book - and even then only as an afterthought - was that the later writings of the great Swedish scientist and seer, set down more than two hundred years before the advent of modern NDE research, had already provided a clear descrip-

tion of all the essential features and insights of the NDE itself. ~ from the Foreword by Kenneth Ring, Ph. D. Dying - Not as Bad as We Thought Bad things do happen to good people, whether it be a broken rung on a ladder that results in a fatal fall, or the freak accumulation of a deadly gas in an auditorium that ends the lives of many school children. Tragedies assault the fragile bodies in which we live, bringing us to that point where our heart, lungs, and brain cease to function. We face death and suddenly encounter the conditions that can bring about the near-death experience. Again, we turn to the point where our bleeding, crumpled body or fractured frame can probably no longer sustain life as we know it, and yet somehow we are conscious of these ghastly circumstances. However, near-death experiencers report that not only were they unaware of enduring great agony, but they were surprisingly dispassionate about the dreadful events that had brought them to this crisis. It seems fair, then, to contend that a merciful God is guiding us with wondrous tenderness and gentle comfort at this critical moment. Among the overwhelming statistics about near-death experiencers is the fact that virtually all assert, after their experience, that they are not afraid to die. Ponder that fact for a moment. These people have been through a remarkable journey, but are surprisingly relaxed about this circumstance which, for nonexperiencers, is largely terrifying. But this does not mean that the moment is unimportant. In Swedenborg’s spiritual works, this moment is often the occasion to put ourselves into the caring hands of those lovely beings, our “guardian angels.” The subject of angels is a delightful one, and the angels who are given the responsibility of managing our transition from this life to the next are well worth knowing. As Swedenborg describes them, angels are not beautiful winged women with halos, wearing diaphanous gowns and playing harps. They are simply good people who once lived on this earth and died. They are spiritual beings who, by their love and attitude, provide the divine loving care that properly guides us through the critical moment from death to a new life. Their affectionate concern not only brings about a sphere of peace and love, but it shields us from the evil forces eager to take advantage of us during a period of vulnerability. Extracted from Tunnel to Eternity by Leon Rhodes ~ from the chapter Discovering the NearDeath Experience. A 100 page paperback published by the Swedenborg Centre, 1 Avon Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113. ISBN 0 949463 17 5 For more information phone (02) 9888 1066

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British futurist Benjamin Creme, foremost spokesperson for this message, has for 30 years been preparing the way for Maitreya’s emergence. He is the author of 12 books, translated into numerous languages, and editor of Share International magazine. The following is a compilation of comments on world events Q. How can Iran convince the international community that it is being truthful when it says that it is not seeking to develop nuclear weapons? Further sanctions are being threatened and Iran is experiencing growing pressure on it, particularly from America. A. It could invite UN observers into Iran to check and confirm (or otherwise). Q. The Vatican seems to be saying publicly that life might exist on other planets. Is the Vatican easing its flock into the notion that life exists on other planets, that UFOs and all accompanying phenomena are real? What’s behind this policy? A. Quite simply, yes! The truth is beginning to come out and the Vatican cannot afford not be aware of the obvious. Q. Israel is building more settlements which will double the present number. Ambitious expansion plans have just been approved for settler homes in East Jerusalem, which was captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. What are the obligations of the international community vis-à-vis this ongoing crisis and conflict? A. There are already over 60 UN resolutions against Israeli contraventions which are simply ignored by Israel protected by the US veto in the Security Council. It is necessary that the Security Council be abolished. It has long past its usefulness. The International Community must also stand up to the US abuse of power. Q. Was the cyclone that hit Burma natural, and were the earthquakes in China natural or manmade? A. No, they were not natural and they were not directly man-made or manipulated. Nor were they the karmic result of the government of Burma or China’s misdeeds. They are the result of tension and the re-

sulting stress which unleashes forces which cannot be contained. For example, humanity does not understand the Law of Cause and Effect, the Law of Harmlessness. We have tremendous tension in the world today because of the Iraq invasion – a totally illegal, unnecessary and ghastly war, costly in human lives. That war, the invasion by the Americans and the British has created extraordinary tension in the world. That, as well as the war in Afghanistan and American pressure on Iran, causes inevitable fear across the world. So people are living in a state of tension partly because of the great cosmic energies but also because of the actions of powerful individuals. And people watch in silence. This country watches in silence because you are allies of America. But all nations of the world must raise their voices against this trampling on other countries by America. America is a great nation and will become a greater nation but it is sadly out of step with its destiny. It is playing with forces it does not understand. It is a young, powerful and extremely arrogant nation. It is the arrogance of youth, especially strong youth. It is time that the older, wiser nations of the world raised their voices against the actions of America. The best way to do that is to encourage the acceptance of sharing. Sharing and justice will bring tranquillity and balance to the world. When we are out of equilibrium as we are now – the sub-human elemental forces, which organize the cyclones, earthquakes and so on, the forces of the planet itself, go out of equilibrium. Where you have regular tornados – they become massive; where you have regular earthquakes – they become massive earthquakes. The elemental forces respond to our stress. Humanity has to understand the connection that exists between all forces and all aspects of the planet. Q. I have read about a man who lives in England and calls himself Maitreya. He is a Buddhist, provides healing and makes pyramids from gem stones to put over your bed at night. He has appeared on television late at night in a pro-

THE ‘HAND’ OF MAITREYA gramme about alternative healing. Is this the same Maitreya you speak of and is he still in the UK? A. I know the person you mean. He has absolutely nothing to do with the Lord Maitreya, World Teacher and Head of our planetary Hierarchy. Q. In a Share International article back in March 2006, you stated that the world was heading towards ‘peak oil’ which would trigger a global stock market crash of 1929 proportions. Everything I have read recently on this subject seems to point to peak oil happening now – is this truly the case? The peak oil scenarios paint a grim picture of worldwide starvation, oil wars, etc. Is this likely to happen or will Maitreya’s Day of Declaration happen before this (ie very soon) to forestall any major calamity? A. ‘Peak oil’ is not a term I have ever used and the scenario you describe seems remote from anything I have written. It therefore seems to me that you are confusing my articles with those of someone else you have read. Whether this is so or not, I do not see the future in that way. There is in fact no shortage of food or oil. The present crisis is the result of manipulation and profiteering from fear of such loss. According to my Master there are 78 years’ worth of oil in the world at the present rate of consumption and no real shortage of food if properly distributed. Q. Could you please help us to know how to approach Lord Maitreya to influence us to do the right thing in our own sphere? A. We have a photograph of the

The World Has Had Enough... of Hunger, Injustice, War. In Answer to our call for help, as world teacher for all humanity.

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‘hand’ of Maitreya. Get a copy of that ‘hand’ and invoke His help. Look at the hand and ask Him through the hand. Ask Maitreya whatever it is you need help for. That is all you need to do if you want help. Maitreya has given a simple, direct means of contacting Him. Use the ‘hand’ of Maitreya which is given for this purpose. Simply look at it and that immediately draws His attention to the person asking for His help.

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Magdalena is the founder of Universal Heart Healing and works closely with the highest realms of the Angels, Archangels, Ascended Masters, the Goddesses, Egyptian deities as well as many other Spiritual beings from the highest vibrations of love and light. Working directly from the heart, Magdalena fulfils her passion as a recognised clairvoyant and clear channel, soul and Spiritual healer and Spiritual teacher. She works extensively with Christ energy (otherwise known as Jesus) and goddess Isis to deliver magical transformations and assists individuals in awakening to the call of their heart and soul. Magdalena is also the creator of her powerful “Inner Awakening” weekend intensive course, offered at level 1 and 2. This course has been created for individuals who wish to awaken their spiritual gifts and accelerate their healing process to embrace their hearts desires and true potential. She is now taking bookings for her August courses, please book early as places are limited. For more details please call Magdalena on 0422302377.

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stalls to buy various products including jewellery, crystals and the latest healing products. Free workshops during the weekend covering various metaphsyical topics. Light refreshments are available. Live music during the weekend. Entry cost is $5, u/15 free. Tea, coffee or water are included in the entry price. Further details contact Margaret or Jenny on 08-8269 4861. psychicfair@hotmail.com

$ $- CLAIRVOYANT, JUNE COX SPIRITUAL HEALER AND MEDIUM Clairvoyant, spiritual healer and spiritual medium with a lifetime of experience, also specializing in life force energy healing, removing negative emotional blockages that inhibit spiritual growth. MEDIUMSHIP SKILLS RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD June presents beyond and back giving messages from the spirit world, proving life after death. Also available for public demos in SA, interstate and overseas. Expenses plus reasonable fees. A variety of workshops available for the sincere spiritual seekers of Light and Love. Contact June on (08) 8277 0986 (friendly answer phone if not available)

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Musolino is a professional therapist and trainer at the Adelaide Healing Energy Centre located on 112 Prospect Road, Prospect. For bookings and enquiries please contact the centre reception on (08)8342 4109 or visit Petta’s web site: www.petta.itsonline.com.au.

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COURSES for the Spirit Classes, courses and workshops for the Body, Mind and Spirit DANCING THE CHAKRAS Susan returns with her unique and transformative course after two years of devoted mothering. Experience an uplifting journey of selfawareness and integration as you gently open, clear and activate your seven key Chakras. Connect with your inner wisdom and intuitive guidance through dance, sound, movement and meditation. For bookings and information contact Susan Howlett on (08) 8165 1876 / 0403 318 683

PAME PRICE Dip.Coun.maipc,.pmaca.Ass Dip com Listening Ears Services As well as running Retreats/Workshops on the Tree of Life and a Guided Meditation CD. Pame offers many services which include Professional Counselling, Reiki & Seichim Master/Teacher, Numerology, Tarot, Meditation Classes, and Public Speaking. She has managed her own business since 1995 Phone 8242 1783 Mob 0419 038 434

VIPASSANA MEDITATION DECEMBER 12TH- 23RD 2008 Vipassana means to see things as they are. It is a simple, practical method of meditation which makes it possible to face the vicissitudes of daily life in a calm and balanced way. It is a systematic way of developing insight and mastery of mind through self-observation. This non-sectarian technique is taught in a 10-day residential retreat in Victor Harbor December 12th- 23rd 2008 For more info visit www.dhamma.org.au or phone 8278 8278

TANTRA- THE GIFT OF A LIFETIME Regular Tantra The gift of a Lifetime workshops are being run for couples only. These 5 1/2 day long seminars are held in Adelaide, Queensland and Bali. There is absolutely no nudity in theswe workshops. Tantra transforms your sexual and spiritual lives by uniting them. It is the missing piece of the spiritual puzzle. It is the fuel of relationships that allows women to access the

deep well of their spiritual essence, their Shakti power and it allows men to recognise and claim the healer that lies within all men, creating for every couple a union of sexual wholeness woven into a tapestry of intimacy and heart connection. It opens the way for a new level of communication and allows for deep healing on all levels. For more information phone 08 82481281 or email tantra@adelaide.on.net or visit www.tantraaustralia.com

ARCHANGEL AND ASCENDED MASTER OVERLIGHTING Overlighting is safe and offers participants the opportunity to experience the different energies of various Archangels and Ascended Masters. Participants will be given knowledge and practical tools to utilise when working with the Archangels and Ascended Masters in their daily lives. Previous participants have expressed that they feel a stronger sense of connection and confidence within themselves when working with Spirit. Join The Archangels and Ascended Masters with Petta Sat 11th and Sun 12th October 2008. Petta

Saturday 13 September 2008 1:30 – 4:30 pm Payneham Community Centre, 374 Payneham Rd, Payneham At this workshop you’ll learn how to gain greater recall of your dreams and how to take important steps in your own unfoldment through Lucid Dreaming or Soul Travel in the Dream State. $30 – Suggested donation ($50 for two people if prepaid by 12 Sept) Light refreshments and Free CD PHONE – 8396 1379 or 8388 8891

ACTIV8! LIFE SOLUTIONS Emma Lloyd, founder of Activ8! Life Solutions, is an internationally accredited Master Practitioner and Trainer or NLP, Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherapy as well as a certified life coach, personal trainer and counsellor. Emma provides Breakthrough coaching, hypnotherapy and NLP training for anyone who wants to let go of their limitations and manifest the success they truly desire. The ability to attract phenomenal amounts of happiness and prosperity is the inspiration that motivates Emma to help others transform their lives. Emma is passionate about facilitating change and encouraging people to realise their full and magnificent potential. She values sincerity, honesty and trust and maintains the unshakable con-

viction that there is nothing you cannot be, do, or have. Emma believes that we all have the power to break through the blocks that prevent us from being everything that we can be. Emma is new to the Gold Coast, having recently moved up from Adelaide and she is looking forward to enjoying her new life in Queensland! If you’re tired of sabotaging your success, call Emma now and she will tailor a complete personal growth and development program specifically for you. Be a winner and change your life forever... today! 1300 552 881 or (07) 5533 8881

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YEARS OF REIKI TEACHING IN AUSTRALIA The Usui Reiki Network has been operating in Australia for 25 years, remaining true to the traditions as brought to the Network by the Rev. Beth Gray, one of Hawayo Takata’s first teachers. One of those traditions is a teacher training apprenticeship of at least 5 years, which ensures all teachers within the Usui Rei-ki Network deliver authentic content, and provide a dynamic and effective learning experience for all participants. Sue Lake-Harris will be teaching a 20 hour Reiki I seminar in Adelaide from August 15th to 17th. Contact Pat, our SA Co-ordinator for further details - 8240 0571, or e-mail reiki-sa@reiki.com.au

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HOLIDAYS WITH A DIFFERENCE

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EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO Napier City Councillor and medical practice manager Faye White returned from walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain last year a revitalised woman. It wasn’t just that she had had an amazing travel experience, walking the route that millions of pilgrims have trod over the past thousand years, she believes the trip resulted in a profound spiritual awareness. “It gave me a fresh outlook on life, including a desire to live more simply and an absolute belief that there is more to life than just material things. I felt happy, and for the first time in many years, at peace.” “It gave me a greater appreciation of nature and provided me with the strength to cut the chains of the past. It made me fitter – physically, mentally and somewhat to my surprise as I hadn’t expected it, spiritually stronger to deal with the future.” The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St James, is a collection of old pilgrimage routes which cover all of Europe. They all have Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain as their final destination. According to 9th century folklore a lone shepherd discovered the bones of the Apostle Saint James by following a falling star to what would become Santiago de Compostela. This ancient road became one of the main pilgrimage

routes of medieval times, rivalled only by Jerusalem and Rome. “Once on the Camino trail you have this awareness that it is a path where simply millions of pilgrims have gone before, and that is amazing in itself,” says Faye. “But the trail never seemed crowded and although we saw and talked to fellow walkers, we had the opportunity and time to listen to our inner thoughts and immerse ourselves in the beauty of the amazing places to view along the route. “I found that on some days I would start walking with people and then gradually break away and continue on my own so it was a great time to just reflect on life and on where I was going, what I was doing and when I got to the end of it, where did I want to go?” Faye (60) had never heard of the Camino, until a close friend was planning to include the walk in a trip to Europe. Faye thought it sounded like fun so decided to go with her. “I read a couple of books on the area and got my walking fitness up but went into the trip expecting nothing more than some beautiful scenery and a great experience with my friend. “What I ended up experiencing – the letting go of some past issues and the change in my outlook on life – caught me off-guard. It wasn’t anything I ever thought could hap-

pen simply by doing a walking tour. “On the trail, it simply crept up on me. I found that I started to notice the little things like the monarch butterflies that were always following me. I had left behind a sick mother at home and I felt like she was walking along with me. “And as we reached the cathedral at the end of the trail, I found I just wanted to cry and I did. I had no idea what I was crying about but I couldn’t stop crying for two days on and off. I found things from my past were coming up which I felt sad or guilty about and all of a sudden I could put them to one side and move on. “The fascinating thing is I wasn’t alone. I think everyone in the tour group was changed by the trip in their own way. We all came back different in some way.” Faye’s Camino experience started in Sarria and was a distance of 110 kms to Santiago. Each day she walked about 20 kilometres which sounds a lot but was actually really comfortable and easy. “There was just so much to take in along the way – forests with trees over 500 years old, rural hamlets in which life seems to have changed very little in the last couple of centuries, old 9th and 12th century monastery churches and the wonderful local food. “Every night we bedded down

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thinking it couldn’t get any better but it did.” Faye says she has two absolute highlights from the trip – the first was washing her face and hands in the stream at Lavacolla where pilgrims would traditionally wash themselves before entering Santiago. “It seemed quite incredible that although we were totally alone when we washed that literally millions of others had done the same thing in the same place before us. “The second highlight for me was at Monte de Gozo or the Mount of Joy, so called because pilgrims could see the spires of the cathedral and would drop to their knees and cry for joy. There is no doubt that seeing the spires gives you a wonderful sense that you are about to complete a very special journey. “It is hard to explain what it’s like to be in the square outside the cathedral with hundreds of other pilgrims of all different nationalities and to feel the emotion, to see people singing or dropping to their knees in prayer or crying for joy. It was an incredibly powerful experience.” Faye has done other walking tours in beautiful places but says she’s never experienced anything like the Camino. “There’s certainly something about the place that goes beyond its incredible beauty. Northern Spain is largely unspoiled and you feel like you are stepping back in time. “We traversed forests, lush valley meadows, stretched our legs along craggy cliffs which led us from time to time down to beaches on the Atlantic coast where we dipped our toes. “We visited quaint fishing villages where the boats are painted in the same pastel colours as the houses. We walked through picturesque traditional hamlets past wheat fields, vegetable gardens, poppies, cows grazing in sheds, peasant ladies in pinafores, old men sitting together and passing the time of the day. “And with all of that came a feeling that there is something unique and special about this life and that

the past can be left behind.” Faye says many special moments have stayed with her since her return “like the gorgeous little girl who woke me one day while I was lying on a remote beach, kissed me, smiled, said hola and ran off. I was quite blown away and couldn’t understand why she had chosen me. I often wonder who she was? “And while people around me wouldn’t consider I’ve made huge changes to my life since I got back, they are significant to me. I now enjoy the simple things in life more and I’ve got a deeper spiritual belief. “Walking the Camino de Santiago shifted the direction I was go-

ing in. Not everyone who walks the trail will have the same experience, but whether you go for the scenery or the challenge or whatever, it can be truly life-changing depending how far you wish to go.” Faye walked the Camino with Lifestyle Journeys, a Wellingtonbased travel company that offers travellers the chance of personal development while they explore some of the world’s most fascinating places of ancient wisdom with indigenous guides. The next walks are on Sept 2nd to 19th, 2008. For more information on walking the Camino and other Lifestyle Journeys tours and retreats, go to www.lifestylejourneys.co.nz

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INTERVIEW though, there is still this human form and life is happening all around. How does the shift happen while one is still in this human incarnation? ET: It’s a strange paradox that the human form is still here, and that something beyond form is also present. While every form contains the limitless, every form also has its limitations. When you look at a liberated being, you see the formless, but you also see the limitations that are part of every form. Sometimes, when people discover that their spiritual teacher has limitations, they say, “Oh, he can’t be a real teacher.” But you can’t seek perfection in the form of the teacher.

The PRESENCE & STILLNESS in our lives An Interview with Eckhart Tolle Continued from page 4 DC: Could it be that there are different degrees of awakening? It sounds as though in your case the sense of me just didn’t come back strongly after awakening occurred. You’ve mentioned that at times you still feel the sense of me arise like a little tug on your sleeve, but then it dissolves back into presence, or now. That doesn’t seem to be the case for many people. Perhaps they get a big glimpse and it’s very clear there’s no one there, but then the little me reclaims that glimpse as its territory and says, “I woke up.” ET: It does seem that in my case the sense of me dissolved almost completely. Remnants of the little me remain, and the tiniest remnant is enough for it to grow into a fully blown little me again. It’s a bit like the film Terminator 2, in which the robot is made of liquid metal. [Laughter] When it’s destroyed, even if there’s only a drop of liquid metal left, that drop immediately forms into a full robot again. When I saw that in the film, I said, “Oh, there’s the ego.” Eventually, the little me has to go completely, but that dissolution depends on the degree of surrender that happens. Total surrender will completely annihilate the ego. A little surrender means only a little bit of ego becomes less dense. That can happen in a relatively meaningless situation, like at a traffic light, in accepting that moment instead of fighting it. At that moment there might be a diminishment of the solidity of the ego. The softening of the ego won’t last, but it’s there. There can be many little moments like that, and gradually the ego loses its heaviness and density. Then, perhaps, something happens to finally annihilate the ego, dissolve the ego. Well, annihilate sounds as if it were an enemy. Maybe it’s better to say dissolve or transmute. For example, an Indian man I know was staying at a hotel while traveling. After showering, when he got back to his room, all his belongings were gone: money, passport, backpack. He told me that that was his moment of liberation. It may appear to be a relatively minor thing–losing his money and passport–yet perhaps he had already come in contact with spiritual teaching, so there was a readiness in him. If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego. This is why a spiritual teaching is such wonderful grace and compassion. DC: Even after this dissolution occurs,

DC: Did you experience any physical transformation as part of your awakening? ET: Yes. There is a release. My body feels completely at ease. My body suffered greatly during my years of suffering, and some of that suffering is lodged in the bone structures. That may not change, but it’s not alive as suffering anymore. Only the footsteps of suffering remain. Meanwhile, there does seem to be a greater sensitivity and aliveness in the body—the cells are alive—and a certain lightness. Once, before I understood what had happened to me, I was sitting in a state of bliss and listening to somebody’s drama. Suddenly, she stopped talking and said, “Oh, you’re doing healing.” I could feel that my whole body was in state of bliss, and she had felt something. In her frame of reference it was called healing, and because I didn’t understand much at that point, for a while I actually thought that I was a healer. So for a couple of years people called me a healer. [Laughter] People started coming to me and saying, “Oh, can you remove that pain?” or “I want to get rid of this physical problem.” I thought, “That’s not right. They only want me to remove some pain.” I soon stopped using that word, healer. Healing still happens, physical healing can happen as a byproduct of waking up, but it’s never an end in itself. DC: Most people define happiness as depending on certain external circumstances or conditions. How do you understand happiness? ET: Actually, the test is whether the state you call happiness changes or not when circumstances change. True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. The ego’s form of happiness can’t exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends. The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You’re suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego’s happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness. Yesterday I saw a happy wedding couple taking photos outside the church, and I remembered a wedding I went to years ago where everybody was happy. A friend married a girl who was beautiful and wealthy and intelligent. It was a very happy occasion. That was the wedding. Five years later he was sitting with me, his wife had just left him for another man, and he was close to suicide. It’s the same event. DC: Do you have any suggestions for how to remember, how to stay awake to the now? ET: A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you’ve lost the

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now. That’s a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you’ve lost the now, come back to the now. Immediately the alertness is back. It’s always available. After a while, when you see that you’re identified with thinking, that you are basically asleep in the dreamland of thought, then step out of thought into now. Again, suddenly, you’re awake. Sense perceptions, simple beingness, presence, stillness: all here, now. After a while, presence becomes more self-sustaining because the qualitative difference is so vast between the state of presence and being identified with mental noise. As you become familiar with presence, you will “choose” presence more and more, rather than being identified with thought. Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that’s emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there’s nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment. But if I say, “There’s nothing you can do,” that is not helpful. I say you can choose presence, but I know presence is really choosing you. DC: The sense of presence becomes so satisfying in itself. Presence basks in the sense of presence, and paradoxically, it looks like nothing is going on. ET: Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you’re doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion. DC: Presence also has no form, yet there’s a recognition of presence amidst form. It’s easy to think that it’s a characteristic of some form, but there’s no location to presence at all. ET: When there’s a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence. But ultimately, that’s just a temporary perception; presence has no physical place. Again, paradox comes back in. Presence seems to come from a physical place. DC: Even looking at trees or plants, when there’s a sense of presence, everything seems to radiate presence. ET: That’s so. The whole world changes when there’s presence—sunlight everywhere–because you’re not separate from the world. DC: It feels like such a gift to celebrate this presence together, a blessing. ET: Questions have dissolved, haven’t they? When it was time to say goodbye, Eckhart spontaneously hugged me, after which I turned away, smiling. I headed off onto the dirt path leading down to my car and, after walking about 10 metres, I turned and saw Eckhart had been watching me and smiling himself. Spiritual Teacher and author, Eckhart Tolle, was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time. Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution.

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Continued from page 10 The first sensation to coax me back to the everyday portal of reality was a damp nose on my hand. It was Rufus, the big lovable, shaggy dog. “Time for lunch,” Tang commented wryly. He gave me a long, loving glance; I knew that our time together had come to an end. We silently rose, clasping hands in front of the chest, bowing the head in a gesture of reverence for allthat-is, then Tang collected his knap sack, and quietly turned and walked to his car. He opened the door, stowed the knap sack, then turned and delivered his final lesson “Mas! Remember who’s breathing!” He then stepped into the driver’s seat, turned the car around, and with a wave, a smile, and a toot of the horn, he started down the mountain, leaving only an ochre cloud of dust, and the grace of yet another precious awakener- a “smile” to keep my heart warm as the cold, perfect winter descended. After feeding the dogs, I retreated to my tiny room and sat at my little desk. This sparse space would never be the same again… nor would “I.”- After a while, I began to feel inspired. I pulled out my journal and entered notes of the things that occurred to me during that remarkable morning with Tang. Over the next two weeks, I began to “meditate” in an entirely different way- the way of receptivity. It is a way of self-inquiry through simply noticing the power of focussed perception, shorn of effort. The receptive is inherently effortless. This simple inquiry has been extremely useful for me and for those with whom I’ve shared it down through the years. In concluding this article, I share it with you, below. Remember, this is not one more thing to do, but lots to un-do! Whatever your results, may it leave you with a smile… and another… 1. Make yourself a bit of quiet time, then become aware of your breath, noticing which part of your body expands with each inhalation, and contracts on the exhale. It could be the chest or the belly, or a combination of the two. You may notice that the small expansion/ contraction causes a subtle sensation on parts of the skin rubbing against the clothes, or sheets if you’re in bed. Simultaneously, be aware of these two linked sensations for as long as you wish. It is suggested that you sustain this simultaneous awareness for at least 5 minutes, and then begin your enquiry. 2. Continue aware breathing as a background to your enquiry. Consider: How many times a day do you even notice the breath? You don’t need to notice it in order for it to continue to breathe, which is vital. Without breath, an average person will perish in a matter of minutes. And yet, this effortless function, the breath cycle, continues to function perfectly at around twentyfive thousand times a day. How many times a day do you even notice it? 3. Now relax the breath even more. Relax any thoughts of the breath that might occur. Suggest to yourself that you can relax the spaces between those thoughts. Just let go… Then continue with the enquiry: Allow your mind to accept and receive the fact that your breath is your friend. It is an intelligent, energetic friend who keeps the body and mind alive. To survive you need its friendship, but to for the breath to continue with its function, the breath doesn’t depend on your patronage, nor your attention. 4. Finally, let the following questions rise into awareness like a bubble, slowly surfacing, then bursting: “Who’s breathing?” “Is it correct to say I’m breathing?” Is it true to say instead: “There is breathing.” Sincerely repeat this short inquiry as many times as you need to. Suddenly, or perhaps more gradually, your beliefs around who you are- and are not- will begin to shift. I’ll leave the extent of that shifting up to you. Meanwhile…. Let there be smiling! Mas Rogers searched for over 20 years from Afganistan's Hindu Kush through to India and Tibet and 15 years in the Chinese world, culminating with a 5 year retreat in Taiwan where he met his spiritual teacher Jwen who taught him the precious truth of Self Recollection. For details phone (03)9489 0328.

Finding the Hidden Gifts in Your Dreams “Am I a man dreaming that I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?” Throughout recorded history, many people have known about the benefits of dreams. Dream interpretation was valued by the ancient Egyptians and American Indians among many others, and of course the Dreamtime is a very important part of our own Aboriginal culture. Mozart is said to have heard his compositions first in his dreams, then he just wrote them down. It is also said that Napoleon planned his battle strategies according to guidance received in his dreams. Dreams are actually a dynamic fountainhead of wisdom, guidance, and inspiration. Some dreams contain messages about protection, healing, or solving problems. Others contain information about past lives and bring insights about the future. What a wonderful gift! You already have this gift, but do you know how to unwrap it to find the benefits hidden inside? The average person spends almost a third of their life sleeping, and a large part of that time is spent dreaming. So let’s put all that time to good use and start to explore dreams for the riches they contain. By now you may be saying

to yourself, “But why do my dreams often seem so jumbled and bizarre? How can I possibly make sense of them?” A simplified and brief explanation is that once our mind switches into neutral while we are sleeping, a great deal of information flows into our consciousness without being analysed and translated. So something that we can call the ‘dream censor’ kicks in to protect us from overload, just like a transformer that scales down electrical current to a safe level. But the way that all this higher awareness flows through the dream censor is a bit like passing a camel through the eye of a needle. It doesn’t all get through without some big changes. Our challenge therefore, is to unscramble the information that we receive so that it becomes meaningful to us. This takes some time and effort and the first step of course is to remember the dreams and record the details. Writing down the details and the feelings we have about a dream is very helpful to decipher it, so get a notepad or diary and keep it with a pen by your bed. As soon as you wake up from a dream, whether in the middle of the night or the very

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first thing in the morning, write down the details. I have certainly found that even if I have a most profound dream, if I don’t write it down straight away it quickly fades from memory just as surely as the morning sun erases the stars from the sky. One night last year I dreamed that I was at work. In this dream I had arranged to meet a couple of good friends for morning tea. But when it was just about time to meet them, an urgent matter arose that needed to be attended to straight away. So I thought I could squeeze it in and explain the delay to my friends who would be understanding if I was just a little late. But while I was in the middle of this urgent task, I was calledaway once more to deal with another even more important matter. And sure enough, before long all my plans fell apart and I was so rushed and stressed that nothing at all was working out, and my friends were waiting, waiting, waiting... So here I was trying to do the impossible and be in 3 places at once, and getting more stressed and disappointed in myself by the minute. As you might expect, I

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woke up feeling stressed, uncomfortable and embarrassed. It was a strange kind of dream, but when contemplating on the meaning of it later, it became quite clear that the dream held a simple but very important message for me. You see, I had just been offered a big promotion and to be able to do this new job well, and in a way that I would be satisfied with, I would have to be more focused on the job at hand, and also sharpen-up my sloppy time management skills. So right when the need arose, I was provided with irrefutable guidance on the matter. In this instance the guidance that I received came in my dream and it was quite clear: “Don’t attempt to do more than you can successfully achieve in the time available.” It’s very simple isn’t it? This logic is probably second-nature to you, but it wasn’t for me. At that time I needed to have it pointed out to me and not by someone else who I could argue or reason with. The understanding came from within. It was MY dream. This leads me to mention that other people are not qualified to interpret your dreams. Only you are. Your dreams concern your innermost being. YOUR life, YOUR emotions, YOUR memories, YOUR destiny. Nobody else understands these like you do. So I’ll leave you with two thoughts: • Dreams are a precious gift that are far too valuable to ignore. • And finally, the words of the ancient Chinese sage Lai Tzi who once asked: “Am I a man dreaming that I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

Wake up!

The Art of Spiritual Dreaming Workshop Saturday 13 September 2008 1:30 – 4:30 pm We all dream, but are you making best use of all the time spent as Soul in the Inner Worlds? At this workshop you’ll learn how to gain greater recall of your dreams and how to take important steps in your own unfoldment through Lucid Dreaming or Soul Travel in the Dream State. Presented by interstate guest facilitator Phil Finkelstein. Phil has a great interest in Dreams, Soul Travel, Past Lives and Spiritual Unfoldment. This workshop will provide you with the Ancient Wisdom of the Dream Teachings of Eckankar, as handed down by the Vairagi Adepts through the ages. Attending the workshop you will: • Work with time-proven Dream Travel exercises to help you awaken in your dream sojourns each night and establish contact with your own personal Dream Guide • Learn how to take full responsibility for your own inner and outer manifestations by working consciously as Soul from the Dream State. (This will also facilitate and deepen your awakening in your daily life through the age-old principle ‘As above – So below’) • Open up to greater flows of love, health, prosperity and happiness into your world – as the natural consequence of aligning with your deeper spiritual destiny • Discover the “Secrets of Soul”, hidden within each night’s dreaming, to help you on your continued adventure in your unfoldment in life

Phil Finkelstein lives in Cairns where he runs the local community theatre. He has a great interest in dreams, Soul Travel, past lives and spiritual unfoldment. For the last 30 years he has been a student of the teachings of Eckankar and he applies these teachings to his everyday life.

Phil Finkelstein will be in Adelaide on the September 13 to present a special workshop on Dreams BOOK EARLY FOR YOUR SEAT – LIMITED SPACES PHONE – 8396 1379 or 8388 8891

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Book early to receive your FREE copy of the CD “HU - A Love Song to God”

THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING WORKSHOP

Payneham Community Centre, 374 Payneham Rd, Payneham $30 – Suggested donation $50 for two people if prepaid by 12 Sept (includes light refreshments and Hu CD)

BOOK EARLY FOR YOUR SEAT – LIMITED SPACES PHONE – 8396 1379 or 8388 8891 Presented by Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God

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number s wor orkk with LYN BUSUTTIL

Do you realise just how fortunate SA is or could be? The other day, a very dear friend Eleanor, asked my opinion about a situation she experienced after a night of heavy rainfall. She awoke to hear her husband calling out that the ceiling had caved in, in their study. A few weeks before this their hot water service had fallen through the ceiling in another part of their house. What a catastrophe! They live in a number ‘7’ house in the Adelaide hills. Whilst all numbers have their positive aspects they also have negative and sometimes destructive aspects as well. Number ‘7’ houses are known to have problems with water. Eleanor’s home also has seven doorways entering into their home from the outside in. My recommendation to them is to seek the expertise of a Feng Shui consultant. Speaking of water, this is a very topical issue at the moment, particularly in South Australia. Do you realise just how fortunate SA is or could be? Did you know that there are approximately 9,000 sink holes along the coast of Port Wakefield that take in sea water on an ongoing basis. These sink holes supply water to an aquafil, which are subterranean water courses. They filter the salt water through clay, fine stones and sand. Eventually this water, through a natural phenomenon, is forced upwards through a compression fault in the Adelaide hills and finally emerges in Euchunga and Meadows (called the Hack Range Fault) as pure spring water. The sad thing is that this water runs back to the sea again. The outlet at Euchunga is just one outlet. There are many more are out there! This process takes about four years. The volume of water that emerges is approximately 5 Gigalitres per day and. One Gigalitre (GL) = 1.000,000,000 litres. Let’s look at the numerological

Are you a reader of innerSelf looking for a distribution point near you? 25,000 copies of InnerSelf are available in over 800 outlets around Adelaide, including regional public libraries. Below is a partial distributors locality guide for your convenience, made up from some of the distributors who choose to promote their services through innerSelf ($55 for the year). For more information on a distribution point near you please phone 8396 6752 or email us at innerself@netspace.net.au

Adelaide

Goodwood

Cosmic Pages - Major mind, body and spirit bookstore; 338-340 King William St, Adelaide. Phone 8231 9105.

The Eternal Spirit - Retail Shop & Healing Centre; 100 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood. Phone 8271 9666.

Bliss Organic Café - Organic, fairtrade, music art, lifestyle; 7 Compton Street, Adelaide. Phone 8231 0205. New Dimensions Bookshop Alternative philosophies bookshop sice 1968, 310 South Tce Adelaide. Phone 8223 4877.

meaning of water. The numerological value of WATER is a 22/4 vibration, a master number. With the duality and balance of the two 2’s, the ‘4’ represents the constructive foundations of a hopefully, plentiful supply to refill our waterways The ‘Master Builder’ of our future water supply. The numerological value of WATERWAYS is a 36/9 vibration. With the creative flow from the ‘3’ for the benefit of our community to have an endless supply of water from the ‘6’, eventually for the good of humanity (in SA at least) from the vibration of the ‘9’. Lyn has studied the science numerology for the past 32 years and the journey so far has taken her to where she is right now. She offers numerology workshops on three level’s, and prepares personal profiles, relationship profiles and yearly forecasts and conducts private readings using Barbara Alison’s, ‘Numbers Work’ divinatory cards. After many enquiries from people who have purchased Barbara’s cards, Lyn recently facilitated the first workshop on; “How to use the Numbers Work” cards.

Send your question/s to: Numberworks, Att: Lynn innerself@netspace.net.au Lyn may also be contacted by email at lyn@numberswork.com or by phone 08 8370 3509. www.numberswork.com

Visit the Summit over the Sky Dining out is more than just about food. Especially when you visit “the summit over the sky”, the literal translation of Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mt Everest. Sagarmatha Restaurant, in Stepney offers exquisite Nepali cuisine. One way to experience the delightful range of diverse tastes is to enjoy a banquet in the company of friends, where a parade of main dishes, plus mixed entrée and extras such as rice and breads, passes across the table during the course of the evening. “In Nepal a banquet has 84 dishes. It is about the taste and the shared experience, not just filling your tummy” says owner Deepak Bista. If you haven’t yet treated yourself to this memorable taste of the mountain kingdom, take advantage of the opportunity to be treated as a special guest of InnerSelf, simply mention you read this review when you book and let Deepak and chef Nyinjep Lama do the rest. (And receive 15% off your food bill!) 62-64 Payneham Rd, Stepney 5069. Phone: (08)8363 6291. info@sagarmatha.com.au, www.sagarmatha.com.au

Some places that stock InnerSelf

Sagarmatha Souvenirs - Wonderful range of Nepali gifts & spiritual artifacts; 13 Hindley Street, Adelaide. Phone 8410 8733

Aldinga Beach Marie's Crystal Cave. New Age store. Corner of Shephard Rd and Gordon St Aldinga Beach. Phone Marie on 8556 5692.

Belair Isis Dimensions - Wholistic Healing, spiritual workshops / retreats for wome, men & children; www.numberswork.com. Phone 8370 3509

Beverley Natalie’s Total Beauty Care - 654 Port Rd, Beverley SA. Phone 8244 8270.

Campbelltown Medicine Wheel - Meditation, psychic development, massage & new-age; Cnr Newton Rd & Hambledon Rd Campbelltown. Phone 8336 2323.

Cheltenham Linda Brook - Reading, healing, reiki, pastlife & massage; 25 High Street, Cheltenham. Phone 8240 0864.

Christies Beach Yoga To Health - Yoga Classes & Workshops. Phone Louise Wiggins on 8386 0571.

Clare Remedies of Care Health Food Store - 280 Main North Rd., Clare. Phone 8842 2351.

Grange Phoenix Rising Healing Centre - Healings, Meditations, Readings, Workshops. 675 Grange Rd.Grange. Phone 0411 034 177.

Greenacres SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre - Reiki, metaphysical and crystal shop; 55 Fosters Road, Greenacres. Phone 8266 3276.

Hamley Bridge Wolfmoon - Native American products, incense, Reiki. 7 Light St., Hamley Bridge. Phone 8528 2266 or 0488 776 706.

Kensington Park Rainbowtree - organic baby products including clothing, toys, modern cloth nappies and slings. Fiona House - Kahuna Bodywork, Holistic Massage, Polarity Therapy, SCIO Bio-feedback and Food Mentoring 0416 473 163 Sue Upton - Sports/Remedial and Relaxation Massage, Aromatherapy and Pregnancy Massage 0420 241 851. 320 Magill Road, Kensington Park phone 8332 8733

Largs Bay Foodwise - Full supply of organic produce; 7 Jetty Road Largs Bay. Phone 8242 7882.

Lobethal Heart of the Hills Market - Food, treasures, arts & crafts. 1 Lobethal Rd, Lobethal. Phone 8389 5615.

A Life Abundant - For all your health needs; 587 Magill Road, Magill. Phone 8333 3144.

Maslin Beach Mara Craig Naturopath Counsellor. Naturopath specialising in Kahuna Bodywork. 12 Broadbeach Dve, Maslin Beach. Phone 8386 1133.

Clarence Park Body Revive Vibrosaun and Massage Therapy Centre. 53 East Ave, Clarence Pk. Phone 8351 5000.

B & D Farm Paris Creek P/L Producers of organic bio/dynamic milk, yogurt, quark, butter & cheeses; www.bdfarmpariscreek.com.au; Phone 8388 3339.

Simple Meditation Centre - Linda & David Clair, meditation, counselling. 66 Emmett Rd, Crafers West. Phone 8339 7848.

Glen Osmond Adelaide Hills Natural Health Centre - Quality, Experienced Naturpathic Services. Abergeldie House Holistic Centre, 548 Portrush Rd, Glen Osmond. Phone 8338 2620 Organic to Go. Cafe and Food store. 365a + 363b Glen Osmond Rd, Glen Osmond. Phone 8379 2131.

Glenelg The Organic Store - Certified organic fruit & veg & groceries. 37 Broadway, Glenelg. Phone 8295 7767.

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Norwood AMCAL Pharmacy Norwood Shop 12, 161-169 The Parade. Phone 8332 1085. Healthy Life Norwood - Natural Health food store; Coles Norwood Mall, (164 Rear), The Parade Norwood. Phone 8332 1085.

Noarlunga Earth Magic - Unique Meaningful new-age gifts; Shop 111, Colonades Shopping Centre, Noarlunga. Phone 8382 0811.

North Adelaide YouYa Collections - Beautiful ingredients to enrich life: high quality loose teas, natural body and skin care products, artwork and gifts... Shop 7/152 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide. Phone 8361 6866.

O'Halloran Hill Sue's Place for Nails & Astrology Charts. Sue Hooley. 5 Paul Court, O'Halloran Hill. Phone 8381 9442.

Orroroo

Mile End Move into Harmony - Louise Taylor - Vibration, Polarity, Craniosacral Therapy, Shiatsu Massage & Foot Reflexology; Suite 4, 224 to 226, South Road, Mile End. Phone 8354 4196.

Morphett Vale Back To Basics - Kathleen Smith. 188B Main South Rd, Morphett Vale. Phone 8186 4433.

Newton Go Vita - Go get health, go stay healthy; Shop 20, 299 Montacute Road, Newton. Phone 8337 9818. Adelaide Training College of

Semaphore Ocean Organic Therapies - Remedial Massage - Health & Wellbeing therapies. Rebecca Barter. 103a Semaphore Rd, Semaphore. Phone 0419 819 653.

Smithfield In Balance Health and Wellness Centre. 39 Anderson Walk, Smithfield. 7380 0045 or www.inbalancehealthventre.com.au over 30 different therapies available.

Stepney Sagarmatha Restaurant - Delicious, authentic Nepali cuisine; 62-64 Payenham Road, Stepney. Phone 8363 6291

Stirling Vital Harmony - Experience the Vital Harmony of the Adelaide Hills, 13 Druids Ave, Stirling. Phone 8370 8557.

Strathalbyn The Old Market Shed - Health food, fruit and vegetables; 9 Dawson St Strathalbyn. Phone 8536 3777.

Tanunda

The Orroroo Medicine Shop Vitamins, Herbal Products, Pharmaceuticals & Gifts. 10 Second St, Orroroo.

The Sanctuary Health and Healing Centre - 106 Murray Street, Tanunda. Telephone (08) 8563 0388 or visit www.thesanctuaryhealingcentre.com.au

Plympton

Torrensville

Julie’s Bodycare - Massage, Reiki, Numerology, Past Life Therapy. 57B Bray St, Plympton Pk. Phone 8371 4311 or 0412 348 249

Blend Body care Urban Retreat. Aromatherapy products & treatment services. 26 Huntriss St Torrensville. Phone 8354 2006.

Prospect

Magill

Meadows

Crafers West

Complementary Medicine Natural Therapy college, products & services; 3/297 Montacute Road, Newton. Phone 8365 0811.

Balance & Beyond - Readings, Gifts, Energy work, Workshops; at 80a Prospect Rd, Prospect. Ph. 0408 172 356 or visit www.balanceandbeyond.com.au

Tranmere Spiritual Visions - Clairvoyant Crystal Practitioner and Workshops. Shop 22, 172 Glynburn Rd, Tranmere. Phone 0428 523 900

Welland

Nirvana Massage & Piercing Studio - Reflexology, Therapeutic Massage & Body Piercing. Shop 9, 81 Prospect Rd, Prospect. Phone 8344 8850

Ceramica 2000 - 76 Grange Rd, Welland. Phone Barbara on 8346 6653.

Pt Adelaide

Divinely Guided Therapies. Whyalla's healing centre. Workshops, angel miracles, Isis Healing, Bpwen Therapy, Massage, Crystals, Books,cards, candles and more.Shop 5, 77/79 Essington Lewis Ave. Whyalla. Phone 0423 873 746.

The Answer Within. Alternative Health & Lifestyle Studio. 9 Timpson St, Pt Adelaide. Phone 0403 850 619 or 8447 3158.

Pt Augusta Alternative Choices - Incense, Crystals, Singing Bowls, Books, Jewellery. Phone 8641 0251. 140 Carlton Parade, Pt Augusta.

Pt Elliot Authenticity Health Retreat Rest, relax, rejuvenate at authenticity; 14-32 Waterport Rd, Pt Elliot. Phone 8554 2088

Pt Pirie Beauty for Me - Full range of beauty services, therapeutic massage, Bowen Therapy. 23 Alexander St., Pt Pirie. Phone Natalie on 8632 6505. Earth Magic - Unique meaningful new-age gifts; Shop 62, Parabanks Shopping Centre, Salisbury. Phone 8281 2200.

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Whyalla

Willunga Slender Image - Remedial massage, bodywraps & beauty; 17 Aldinga Rd, Willunga. Phone 8556 4922. Duck Inn Cafe - Organic Coffee, Good food. 8a Hill St, Willunga. Ph: 8556 2822

DISTRIBUTOR LISTING

$55 for the year PH: 8396 6752

A-Z Resource Guide AWARENESS Discovering your True Self Nature,empowers and heals relationships. Create fulfilling life experiences with Compassion and Awareness. Ph;Robbie 08 8556 2450

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Organic Business Opportunity - Help change the world and create wealth from home. Free training, support and website provided. See www.bodymindplanet.com

CELEBRANTS Authorized Marriage Celebrant for Weddings. Renewal of Vows, Commitment Ceremonies, Funerals/Celebration of Life Services Tarot Readings and Spirit Guide Meditation CDs $25.00. Tel: (08) 8376 9090 Elizabeth or Fred (Glenelg)

CLAIRVOYANT Too far to travel? Postal readings by June Cox. Your name, address, date of birth. $60. Ph 8277 0986 for further details.

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES Need Insurance? Join the IICT for Australia’s Lowest Price for Membership and Discounted Practitioner Insurance Package covering all your modalities under the one banner. Membership Benefits include: 400 plus Modalities. Welcome to Join; Advertising Opportunities, Discount Insurance plus Practitioner Directory. To find out how you can benefit visit: www.iict.com.au or call: 1300 653 981.

COURSES Peak States. Professional Trainings, Individual Consultations,Trauma healing, Basic and Advanced Techniques, Peak States sessions. (02) 6689 7455 www.peakstates.com

DRUMMING The Percussion House Team presents...African Drumming Workshops - 6 week course commencing soon, drums supplied, suit all levels incl beginners.Great for body, mind and spirit.Information - phone Rusty on 0400 761 392, or visit www.thepercussionhouse.com.au

EMPLOYMENT Telephone salesperson required, experienced or schoolleaver trainee position available selling advertising for InnerSelf Newspaper, from our office at Highbury. Phone 8396 6752.

HEALING A Life Abundant - We have a huge variety of supplements, herbs , nutrition foods and natural skin care for your body, and beautiful crystals, books and gifts for your soul. As well as practitionners offering Naturopathy, massage, Reiki, Psychic mediums, Body Talk and more. Visit www.alifeabundant.com.au or come see us at 587 Magill Road, Magill. Ph: 8333 3144. Get Reconnected with a range of healing, readings & massage options available now at Genesis Healing Centre, 37 Beckman St, Glandore. For more information phone 8297 7703 or visit www.genesishealing.com.au Towards the Light. Meditation, healing, mediumship, personal and spiritual growth. Groups, classes and individial consultations/readings. Phone Maralin 8431 0787.

Open Healing/Reading Day held Bi-monthly. Alternative healing includes Reiki, Massage, Shiatsu etc. SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre (non-profit) 55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone 8266 3276.

HEALTH & HEALING Asian Remedial Therapy. Acupressure (No needles!), Shiatsu,Reflexology. Remedial Therapies that get results! Great rates, Flexible hours, Health Fund rebates. Marion, Mobile and Corp o r a t e . tony@waytobetterhealth.com.au or call/text 0414 516 165 Wise and Healthy Intuitive Reading and Planning, for Chronoic Illness specialising in Chronic Fatigue and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome. Phone 8240 5648. Private Subconscious-mind Healing (P.S.H.) therapy enables people to use their own natural inner abilities to resolve underlying causes of subconscious problems with the guidance of a gentle effective and non-invasive approach. Phone Michael or Leaona on 8212 1868. Constipation, Bowel Health Problems, digestion, elimination info. www.qkbowelhealth.com De-stress now! Easily achieve the change you desire with guided meditation. Quit smoking, weight loss, self confidence, insomnia, procrastination and more. 1300 552 881.

HOME SERVICES Saver Painting. Home and commercial. Environment Friendly. Free prompt quotes. Pensioner discount. “We care.” Ph mobile 0415 514 122.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Pame Price – IB Coaching Counselling, Conflict Management, Career Development, Reiki, healing, general wellness programs. Ph 0 4 1 9 0 3 8 4 3 4 . ibc@ibcoaching.com.au Free Monthly ezine www.ibcoaching.com.au

MEDITATION 10-day in Silence - Vipassana meditation retreat in Victor Harbour December 12 th – 23 rd 2008 www.dhamma.org.au / 8278 8278

MUSIC Rose ‘n Thorns folk group. Traditional Celtic songs and instrumental music for all occasions. Phone 83815330 or 0411234116. Email enquiries@roseandthorns.com Lumiere early music recorder duo. Beautiful instrumental medieval, renaissance or baroque music for your event. Phone Amanda 83815330. Email bettesworth@picknowl.com.au

NEW CONSCIOUSNESS A call to awaken. Step beyond past limitations into your full divine expression. Workshops, classes and more. www.divinecreators.com.au New Consciousness Teacher, Keryn Lee. 0408 857 620

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Home Biz with potential to make your annual income a monthly income. Not MLM. Ongoing training and support. www.createyourfuturesite.com Courses available with Listening Ears Services. Weekend Retreats, Reiki Level 1to Master/teacher, Numerology, Tarot, Phone Pame 0882421783 email

listears1@chariot.net.au, www.listeningears.net

REIKI

PRANIC HEALING

ARC Inc. Australian Reiki Connection. Australia’s Leading REIKI Association Est. 1997 - Run by Members for Members with fellowship and support. Access to Insurance. FREE Membership of [AARP] Association Australian Reiki Professionals National Referral Directory. Discounts on Massage Tables, Music CD’s Salt lamps. Informative website & Forum ARC INK Quarterly Magazine. SA State Rep. Christine Sinclair Ph. 0411 604 753 National ph 1300 130 975 www.australianreikiconnection.com.au

Treat physical and emotional ailments through Pranic Healing. Treating the cause not just the symptoms. Private readingsalso available. contact TJ at Life Inspirations on 8254 1453 or 0413 590 106. Pranic Healing Workshops and Treatments - A non-touch energy therapy that works with your body’s own wisdom and vitality to restore health and happiness. Learn to do it yourself over a 2 day workshop or expeirence your own peaceful treatment to manifest good health. Phone 8333 3144 for an information pack. www.phsa.com.au

PRODUCTS SA Reiki Healing and Teaching Centre. (Est 1990) non-profit assoc. & Metaphysical & Crystal Shop. Great range of crystals, Feng Shui products, Cards, books, music, gifts. Healing every Wednesday & Friday – Donation only. Reiki classes and various workshops held regularly at 55 Fosters Road, Greenacres. For more info – Phone: (08) 8266 3276. Free Report Reveals... "The Shocking Truth About Colloidal Silver" Call Now 08 9368 0288 For Your Free Copy, Please Quote Ref# Ismm

PSYCHICS Tarot/Clairvoyant readings – Psychic Development Group vacancy – Spirit Guide Meditation CDs for sale $25.00 Authorized Marriage Celebrant. Tel: (08) 8376 9090 Liz / Fred Welling (Glenelg) Master Psychic Medium. 98% accurate. 38 years experrience. I can come to you. $30.00 per. Phone: 0433 145 110

(or old) like-minded friends. Held at Payneham Community Centre, 374 Payneham Rd Payneham. Phone 8388 8891 or 8396 1379. Free HU CD for every newcomer. Visit www.eckankar.org

A-Z RESOURCE GUIDE is a products and services directory listed in alphabetical order. 20 words for $44 Colour photo/logo: $33 PHONE: 8396 6752

SA Reiki Healing and Teaching Centre (est 1990) non-profit ossoc. Reiki I & II classes and various workshops held regularly. 55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone (08) 8266 3276.

ROOMS FOR RENT Practitioners needed to share new clinic in Woodville area. Phone 8346 0478.

ADELAIDE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Inc.

Practitioner room available. Suit counsellor, Bowen Therapist or such. Heritage Natural Therapy Centre, 492 Brighton Rd, Brighton. Contact Pauline on 8296 0822 or 0412 819 617. For Rent Magill Consulting Room plus Meeting/Classroom up to 20 people. Alternative Practitioners welcome including access to wireless internet, reception, kitchen & toilet areas, good parking. 83313057 www.esotech.com.au Rose Park. Practitioners needed to share great consulting rooms. Decor bright, modern and welcoming! Includes reception area and parking. 0412 330739.

READINGS

SPIRITUAL TRAVEL

Reading Day. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month. $20 per 30 minutes. Professional readers. For bookings phone SA Reiki Healing & Teaching Centre (non-profit)55 Fosters Rd, Greenacres. Phone (08) 8266 3276

www.spiritwanderer.com - Mystical Journeys Worldwide. Journeys to sacred sites worldwide to renew the mind, body and spirit. Visit our website www.spiritwanderer.com Free call 1800 818 070

Secret Numerology. Learn how to use the gifts you have to create the life you deserve. Ph 0433 930 011 email helen@stoneartists.com.au Hand written chart with 1/2 hr consult $80

Womens Sacred Tour of Europe 2009. Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Crop Circles, Lourdes, Mind Body Spirit Festival London, Rome, Florence Venice, Paris. www.orionwomentravel.com ph 08) 70014003

REBIRTHING

TAI CHI

Rebirthing is a safe, simple breathing technique that can change your life. Rebirthing/ Breathwork uses the breath to activate, release and heal stored cellular memory. Ideal to use when you want your life to change. The Australian Academy of Rebirthing/Breathwork verifies the integrity and professionalism of the following members. Susan Altschwager - Birkenhead (08) 8449 2534 Trevor Applebee - Mawson Lakes 0418 836 261 Bronwyn Barter - Mawson Lakes (08) 8260 2086 Elise Carr - Allenby Gardens 0417809198 Jillian Trowbridge - Geranium 0408 813 401 Veronica Reinders - Mt. Pleasant 0438 880 894 Kate Moody - Adelaide 0439 995 730 Angela Mcpherson - Salisbury Heights (08) 8258 4433 Gabby Enright - Seacombe Gardens (08) 8377 2415

Taoist Tai Chi taijiquan internal arts of health. Beginners classes: North Adelaide, Kurralta Park, Adelaide and the hills. 0423776955 www.taoist.org.au

Adelaide's InnerSelf

tendance is free. Join others seeking to bring more insight and divine love into their lives at this special celebration of the Light and Sound of God. There is an opportunity afterwards to enjoy a chat and some light refreshments, and to meet new

WORKSHOPS Channeling, Spiritual Healing, Tarot and Psychic Development. To be the inspiration of our own destiny from Our Higher Self, Angelic Wisdom and Spirit, we build the bridges to know, see, hear and feel their power in love and light. Serenity Training 8337 7081 www.serenitytraining.com.au

WORSHIP SERVICES You are invited to an ECK Worship Service on the first Sunday of each month. Each service focuses on an aspect of Eckankar, featuring a reading from the ECK works, singing HU, talks, and a group discussion of spiritual principles at work in everyday life. The service lasts about an hour. At-

310 South Tce. Adelaide.

Ph 8223 1129 COMING EVENTS/COURSES: 1. Introduction to Theosophy Course: Register now for next course mid-Oct to Dec, Wed 7-9pm. $10 Course Guide. 2. Meditation: Wednesdays. 6-7pm Main Hall. School Terms 3. Science: Theosophy Group/Speakers. 1st Thursday of each month, 7-9pm.

SEPTEMBER 2008 Sunday 7: 2-3pm Public Talk, The problem with Ethics in the 21Century: Is it right? How do I decide? We look at Abortion, Therapeutic Cloning, Hybrids, AI. How do we decide what’s acceptable? DR ALEK KWITKO Sunday 28: 2-3pm Krishnamurti DVD.

OCTOBER 2008 Sunday 5: 2-3pm Public Talk, Sheryl Malone. Yoga Mantra: Science of Sound. Sunday 26: 2-3pm Krishnamurti DVD.

NOVEMBER 2008 Saturday 1: 2-4pm Seminar, Mysticism. Bridge to Nowhere. An investigation into the nature of mysticism and an exploration of essential teachings of eastern and western mystics, including Jalaluddin Rumi, Meister Eckhart, Sri Shankaracharya, St. John of the Cross, Martin Buber, Ramana Maharshi and J. Krishnamurti. National Theosophical Speaker Pedro Oliveira. Sunday 2: 2-3pm Public Talk, The Opportunity of this Life. For many, life is synonymous with boredom and meaninglessness. But for others life is a field of learning and of opportunities to be helpful. Can we discover the causes of our self-absorption and begin to see life as it is? National Theosophical Speaker Pedro Oliveira. Sunday 23: 2-3pm Krishnamurti DVD.

Theosophical Order of Service: Live to benefit Humanity NEW DIMENSIONS BOOKSHOP: For all books/media on the spiritual way. Orders taken. Peaceful atmosphere, easy parking.

www.theosophy.org.au

‘THERE is NO RELIGION HIGHER than TRUTH’

Awakening Body, Mind, Spirit

LAST WORD

‘Til Breath Do Us Part Musician David Ault told me an extraordinary story: After David’s sister had passed last year, he took his mother to visit his sister’s grave. To David’s surprise he noticed that another gravesite had been reserved next to his sister’s. “Who is that gravesite for?” he asked his mum. “Me,” she answered. “Are you ill?” “No, I just want to be near my family.” Though startled, David was pleased at the loving foresight behind his mum’s decision. “Then may I have this dance?” David asked his mum. “What do you mean?” ‘’Let’s dance on your grave.” Mum took a moment of thought and answered, “Well, that sounds like a great idea!” And dance the two did. Probably one of the most memorable of their lives. We are all familiar with the marriage vow, “’til death do us part.” For some people this promise strikes a note of hope and vision for a lifetime connection. For others it breeds terror at the prospect of a commitment never to be escaped. Death is not a happy prospect for most of us, and rightfully so. Death should be distasteful, for it is only half of the story of life changes. If we are to look upon death honestly, we must acknowledge that on its other side is life. Death is not a ticket to oblivion, but a corridor to greater light. I would suggest that marriage, relationship, career or goal vows include the phrase, “’til breath do us part.” If something ends, it is for two reasons: (1) The

life force that initiated and sustained it is no longer breathing through it; (2) That same life force is moving in a new direction. In the big picture of life, our commitment to life force is far more important than a commitment to something that was once imbued by the spirit of joy but is not any longer. Before you get your knickers in a knot and interpret this suggestion as a blanket license to run away from relationships or carte blanche for commitment phobia, hear this: Many relationships, jobs and living situations still do bestow life force, and will bless to continue. In our latté-on-therun society our attention span has shrunk to sound bytes no longer than a fleeting MTV scene, and many of us are hard-pressed to sit still long enough to be fully present with whatever we are doing. This is a far greater spiritual malady than the ending of a particular relationship or job. If speed is an addiction, our culture is a hardcore junkie. Pascal noted, “All of man’s troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Gandhi echoed, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Or running to the next thing before you have completed the last.” When breath, not death, becomes your guide, crossroad choices become far clearer and easier. When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.” Now that sounds a lot more appealing than angsting over whether you should

stay or leave. If someone or something has left you by surprise, or seemingly unfairly, you are in a perfect position to affirm, “’til breath do us part.” Life itself is breath, and if Great Spirit has breathed someone out of your life, there is a reason. Rest assured that the same life force that breathed them out will breathe someone or something else in. Spirit is intelligent and responsible. Know this, and fear will have no power over you. Everyone comes into our life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. Some people show up for a momentary shared purpose and move on as quickly as they came. Others walk by our side for a significant phase of life. (Sometimes those who challenge us fall into this category as well.) Others are lifetime companions, and we are truly blessed by these. Real friends are with us even when we do not see them, as we are with them. Breath brings us together and breath moves us apart. Breath starts years and ends them. The breath of life is like the breath of our body – for every breath out, there is a new one in. Inspiration, release; inspiration, release. Live not with regret or lament, but with breath, which not only does us part, but most profoundly does us join. Alan Cohen, M.A., is the author of 20 bestselling inspirational books and CD’s, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do About It. For information on Alan’s programs, visit www.alancohen.com,

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TANYA OBREZA ASTROLOGER Tanya Obreza was born in Slovenia and as a young girl emigrated to Australia with her parents. After college in Australia Tanya visited her birth land of Slovenia and also toured Europe. It was during her first visit to England that she was introduced to astrology and where she lived in London for the next 18 years. Tanya has been a practising astrologer for many years. In 1980 she gained her London Faculty of Astrological Studies qualifications and in 1988 left behind her career as a Production Manager in the film and television industry to pursue what had become her main interest - the study and research of astrology. Over the years, Tanya has established an extensive and wideranging international following . . mostly due to her reassuring, down to earth presence. Tanya aims to break down down the mystique surrounding astrology and other metaphysical subjects. Each Birth Chart Report is PERSONALLY prepared and interpreted by Tanya. Phone: (07)5535 3353

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THE LITTLE INDIA ART CENTRE Experience India in Australia Take a magical, mythical and mystical journey into India's rich cultural heritage at the centre with Dr. Khurshid Shroff who has a Doctorate in Fine arts (Dance) and is reputed dancer, choreographer and teacher of Indian art, philosophy and culture. Khurshid offers regular sessions in theory and practical at her centre in the multi facets of Indian Art and culture such as: • Bharata Natyam dance classes. • Dance yoga classes. • Art of adornment with saris, jewellery, etc. • Painting, sculpture and iconography in Indian culture. • Indian history, mythology and philosophy. • Spices and herbs in Indian cooking. Dr. Khurshid Shroff runs the Little India Art centre in Adelaide which offers regular sessions in the multifacets of Indian art and culture. Being a reputed dancer, choreographer and teacher she has a Doctorate in Fine Arts (dance) and conducts Bharata Natyam dance classes for all ages at her centre. Khurshid conducts specialty Indian dance classes at the University of Adelaide and workshops for schools and community centres. She has also produced a DVD on Bharata Natyam dance training, bringing out its therapeutic and yogic benefits, sold at leading bookstores in Adelaide. Special Workshops and Tours for Schools and Community centres. For more information and bookings Tel. 8344 4482

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INTERNATIONAL ANGEL DAY – GLOBAL CELEBRATION Inspired by Doreen Virtue Doreen Virtue’s personal message will be delivered at this Special Adelaide International Angel Day event. A Celebration of Meditation, Working and Healing with Angels and Children of the New Energy. Facilitated by Angel Intuitive Leslie-Anne Menzies. At the Glandore Community Centre, 25 Naldera Street, Glandore. Sunday, September 7, from 10 am to 4 pm. More information: 0408 083 185 leslieanne@angelstoinspire.com.au

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