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6 - Jackson, Diane Love not Fear

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8 - Tucker, Gina Cultivating Credibility

34 - Kinnersley, Rosilyn A Theory on the Cause of Allergies in Babies and Young Children

10 - Almond, Charlotte Self Compassion

36 - Gill, Margaret Quick Tips for Fearless Flying

14 - Frys, Helen Perfect Love Drives Out Fear 18 - Gill, Margaret The 007 Principles

22 - Tucker, Gina Tarot: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

24 - Gold, Rainbow Love not Fear

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37 - Anderson, Angela Deserving or Fear?

38 - Kinnersley, Rosilyn Water = Hydration

42 - Mackenzie, Patricia Fearless Flying 45 - EQUAL II Magazune Whither Next?

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’d lost my mojo over the past weeks of packing, garage sales, selling the house, lawyers, paperwork, hassles, actually moving, getting used to living in a new place, living out of a couple of suitcases, having

really couldn’t have cared what I was putting on the cover, simply because I’m so bloody tired and wrung out.

a friend land in emergency and the consequent life-saving surgery when she was meant to be enjoying the gift I had given her to attend some special training in Melbourne. Then the threehour journey most days to visit her in hospital as she recovered alone, all her family and friends in another state.

Equal II, so over to iStockphoto I went to search an image. First I typed into the search box LOVE + FEAR. What iStock returned was a shocking array of terror-filled images... hmmmm...

Life gets in the way sometimes, and I have to admit I was close to ditching the dream.

A whole different set of images appeared, and the second I saw those crystal-clear eyes staring back at me, I remembered:

My recent trip to New York made me realise just how much specialised and highly sought-after knowledge I have in my head now, and until this morning there was a simple plan brewing to go out and make some easy internet money with the skills I’ve acquired over the years of building Abundant Private Practices.

Then I opened my inbox before breakfast and there was the email from Gergana in Bulgaria, our new margazine layout angel, reminding me ‘I am waiting for you an image and text for the cover’. Yes, even with her beautiful, exoticsounding European English, at that moment I

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But I promised we’d have three initial issues of

So I tried again, this time with

LOVE + FEARLESS.

I remembered why I was put on this earth: I remembered I was put here to bring peace.

I remembered healing brings peace; I remembered my clients heal and bring peace to the world.

Confronted with this little child recovering from cancer, I was reminded that:

Love + Fearless = Courage I was also reminded of our innocent child within, the one that hasn’t experienced the put-

downs, the shame, the guilt, the mistakes, the self-doubt, the self-loathing, all those things that lead us into fear and stop us moving our businesses forward.

This unknown child now gracing the cover of Equal II also reminded me why our businesses need to be successful. I was reminded that it’s my job to help these little children, through my natural therapy practitioners. This little child is the metaphor for the ripple effect of a successful business.

One more practitioner in a successful practice means one more opportunity for Mums or Dads to find the very key that may stop their child ever getting cancer. Or it could lead them to the one practitioner who can take months of agony from the child, for instance by using natural medicine alongside the chemo, or helping them

one of the many readers of this magazine who volunteer or work on the wards, going about their daily routines and silently being of service, helping those who are in pain.

There are many encouraging words in this issue of Equal II, but the real reason you need to overcome your fear and see more clients and

to eat well throughout the process.

help more people is in the eyes of this child.

Perhaps the parents will be so desperate to get help for their child that they will go and see someone who is doing something so reputedly ‘woowoo and windchimes’ they check that no one is watching before they walk into the healer’s clinic.

If you are struggling to find the momentum to get started, or the energy to move your business to the next level, or simply want to get over the fear in your heart and the crap in your head that is stopping you...

Or maybe they will encounter the love of

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Diane Jackson

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o you believe in Love? I mean, truly believe? If not, is fear holding you back? Do you believe someone needs to be perfect before they are worthy of love?

When clients feel unworthy or disempowered to change themselves or their situation, it takes a commitment from both the Therapist and the client, or clients if working in a group, to identify what’s achievable. From this we try to weave a path to a realistic outcome. Creating a foundation to build upon, the client’s beliefs and hopes can rise to a level where they can see and feel the goal is within their reach.

To be acknowledged for who you are can be a defining moment for some clients.

From people pleasers to high

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When we learn – and some of us do need to re-learn a way of loving ourselves – we then are free to reach out and embrace others with our love. From this our lives may take on a new meaning as we learn to be more gentle with ourselves and more accepting of others. We become

aware that fear can drive a wedge between us and our actually being able to live life more fearlessly.

I have worked with a group of women who have gone from strength to strength by believing in themselves and letting go of the fear, to voice their needs and to embrace themselves with love. By using therapeutic tools they have been able to move through challenges, and by trusting their own voice they have become empowered. As a therapist I have seen clients who have a real fear that they will not be able to change or move through the challenges that they are experiencing. Therapists can give time and tools to help re-create a different perception of the future. This is a gift in our community today.

If love is the light and fear is the dark, when we allow more love in we can help to lessen fear’s hold on us. A dear friend shared with me a ‘light bulb moment’: Maybe fear

OPU 'FBS CFMJFWF JO -PWF is just the messenger. What shifts do we need to take to quell this feeling of fear? Do we need to trust more? To show more love, send more love, feel more love?

Whatever it is, know that love, not fear, will always carry us further forward to a life of truth.

Believe there is always light after the dark. May you move

each letter of the word ‘LOVE’ around you and feel its embrace.

In Love and Worthiness Diane Š 2012 Diane Jackson All Rights Reserved

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n the business world I would often be called on to explain financial concepts to non-financial people. To be successful at this I had to put myself in the shoes of my audience and ask myself three key questions: • What does my audience care about?

• What do I want them to understand? and • How can I connect the dots between these two ideas for them in language they can relate to?

Sometimes there can be an element of fear and uncertainty about what we do as natural therapy practitioners. And this fear has been brought to the forefront with the Gillard government’s instigation of a Natural Therapies Review.

The need to adopt a similar approach in the natural therapies arena has never been more important. All too often we default to using ‘practitioner’ language instead of plain English when talking about the modalities we work with. And some people just don’t get it.

So we need to make it easier for people to NOT be afraid of us and what we do by cultivating credibility, respect and trust when representing our various professions. How

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we communicate our messages is a key component of this.

I recently read an article by Judith Pennington that allowed me to connect those dots as they relate to Reiki. She’s conducted work that measures the brainwave frequencies of both practitioner and recipient during Reiki treatments. In doing so she discovered that both parties consistently recorded meditative brain wave patterns that are generally only seen in experienced meditators.

In reflecting on this information, as well as my own experience of the practice of Reiki, here is how I would frame my explanation of Reiki to someone whose mind might otherwise be closed to it: • A Reiki treatment helps to facilitate a relaxed, meditative state.

• The treatment process allows you to achieve this state more easily and quickly than meditation alone.

• It’s in this relaxed, meditative state that you connect with your body’s innate capacity to heal, allowing your system to recalibrate and rebalance.

These days research on the benefits of meditation has been widely reported in the media. It has

credibility. Using the context of meditation to explain Reiki gives people a frame of reference that they can easily understand and relate to.

Is this an overly simplified explanation of Reiki? Absolutely! But at the same time it’s not inaccurate. As long as it gets the fundamental message across, isn’t that what really matters?

A recent interaction bore me out on this.

A corporate colleague, who had practically bristled at the mention of my work with Reiki six months ago, started to show an interest.

Over the course of those six months my personal credibility with that individual had been slowly building. When I used the information outlined above to give some context to what Reiki is and how it works, it added to that credibility and opened the door to treatment.

natural therapy practitioners to date had been with individuals who lacked credibility. Little wonder that I was treated with the same disdain in the beginning!

There are a lot of people out there who could benefit from the work we all do. Often those that need our help the most are the ones that are most sceptical. So I encourage you to give some thought to the following: • How could you simplify the explanation of modalities you work with? and • What credible context could you provide that would help people understand what you do?

Because you can’t take someone on the journey if they won’t even get on the train!

GINA TUCKER

After further discussion it became apparent that all of this person’s experience with

© 2012 Gina Tucker All Rights Reserved

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Unlock Your Power and Talent with SelfCompassion

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Charlotte Almond

(OW OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD ³BE KIND TO YOURSELF´ OR ³BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF´ !ND INDEED HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU ADVISED OTHERS TO DO THE SAME

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have been lucky enough that many people have offered me this counsel over the years and I, in turn, have done the same when I can see that someone is being too tough on themselves or that they need to escape from the rat race for a little while to restore and re-energise.

But I never knew what to actually do when I heard that phrase. Maybe do some yoga, meditation or selfreiki? Maybe spend some time in nature, or under my own doona with a lovely hot drink and some soothing music? Maybe a nice bath with a jasmine or lavender oil and an early night? All wonderful. And beautiful, not just to enjoy the experience but also to show myself that by some small measure I cared about

myself and felt I deserved these kindnesses (when I actually got round to doing these things instead of just intending to do them).

But they were short-lived pleasures, and about me manipulating my external environment to have a nice relaxing and restoring time.

Granted, these are vital skills that made me less frazzled; but they didn’t really shift my view of myself and my capabilities, didn’t make me more kind to myself.

Now, and only just now, I feel like I’m starting to get it.

Be kind to yourself.

I stumbled back across these ideas recently while I was feeling a bit vulnerable.

Some beautiful yoga had made me feel empowered and had stopped that raw vulnerability from eating away at me for the duration of the session, but then it was back and living in me. I didn’t really feel like nurturing myself – I just wanted this uncomfortable and unwelcome feeling to go away so I could go back to being my usual optimistic and outgoing self, thank you very much.

It didn’t quite work like that. Grrr.

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come to anything good’. So I thought ‘I’ll just read a bit – anything that calls to me’.

I started my journey mired in the pages of ‘The Dark Night of the Soul’, lumbered on to ‘The Gifts of Imperfection’

by Brene Brown and started to feel slightly better about my failings… then I followed a reference to the work of Dr Kristin Neff on Self-Compassion. And there was the balm I needed. Neff shares insight from her research on selfcompassion in a very gentle and calm but authoritative way through her wonderful website, videos, meditations and book (see www.selfcompassion.org to give these a try for yourself).

She breaks the act of self-compassion into three elements: self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness. In a nutshell what she means by these are:

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Self-Kindness: ‘Being warm and understanding towards ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self criticism.’

Oh, dear – it turned out I had some not-so-positive

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habits around this one. On the upside, just by building my awareness a little bit and sometimes catching myself when I did this, I was able to ask myself ‘how would I speak to someone I loved about this?’ and try that instead, letting myself know that it’s okay to make mistakes, learn, try new things.

The cumulative effect of this was a feeling of absolute relief and joy – a sense that I was in the presence of a loving, non-judgemental friend even when I was alone. And it made me feel that this need of mine for love and reassurance could be met more by me, and therefore I had to lean less on others to provide it for me.

Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience – something we all go through.

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Common Humanity.

‘Common humanity recognizes that suffer-

ing and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience – something we all go through rather than something that happens to “me” alone.’ This, too was such a relief. As human beings we are here to learn. In my work I encourage others to be courageous, make mistakes, learn, and I support them whole-heartedly in doing so. By letting myself know that I am an imperfect human following a human path and just doing my best, the same as everyone else, it took some of the pressure off me and made me feel like I wasn’t lesser than others when I compared myself to them – we’re all in the same boat.

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Mindfulness: ‘Taking a balanced approach to negative emotions so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. Mindfulness requires that we not “over-identify” with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negativity.’ This is a tough one but I think it basically comes down to not over-

thinking it – feel whatever you are feeling at the time, without analysing or judging (or whipping out that super-sized glass of red) and be prepared to let it go as it passes. As with any meditation practice it is a lot easier said than done.

Luckily (!) I had a few more days of feeling this vulnerability and chose to respond as Neff suggested as often as I could. And it felt bloomin’ good. Because I encouraged myself more, I felt happier to try new things, take risks, be creative and express myself more, share more of my truth with others (without judging it for acceptability first). Neff, too,

has discovered this in her research – that although the prevalent view in the modern western world is that one should be disciplined, not ‘soft’, on oneself, self-compassion can be fiercely enabling and liberating – quite the reverse effect from what might be expected. In practising this I made a new connection with someone in the art world whose work with nature I admire, came up with a wonderful and transformative new business idea, and set myself up for personal challenges like singing and speaking in public. It matters less if others judge you if you don’t judge yourself.

while I focused on a selfcompassion practice I just felt kinder to others. Without trying. Maybe that’s why the Dalai Lama talks of working for peace in the world by starting with ourselves.

Why not give it a try, the next time you feel a bit blue, the next time you are beating yourself up, or the next time someone reminds you to ‘be kind on yourself’? You could be amazed at the joy and capability it releases in you.

And you never know, maybe there’s a client or friend of yours out there who could use a little self-compassion too. © 2012 Charlotte Almond

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fter describing the harsh treatment from one of my primary school teachers to a weekly class I was running at the time, one of my students asked me, ‘Is that why you teach with such love, Helen?’ That made me realise that yes, that is why I teach with love. I teach others the way I would have liked to have been taught. With encouragement, with truth, with inspiration. With LOVE not FEAR. I also teach what ‘I’ most needed to learn.

That I am worthy, I do matter, I am loveable, I am meant to be here, I do have purpose.

That it’s okay to be happy, it’s okay to put myself first without feeling guilt, I do have rights and I am the creator of my life.

We often operate and make decisions based on the input we have downloaded into our subconscious minds from past experiences, from our parents and caregivers, our teachers and leaders and from the big one… the media. I sometimes find myself singing a tune and am surprised to discover I know all the words to some silly TV advert that I don’t even like! And I think to myself, how in the hell do I know all the words??

Well, I have picked them up subliminally.

And that makes me wonder, ‘What else is in my subconscious that I don’t know about?’

So my mission for myself and my students is to uncover what thoughts have been placed

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in the subconscious mind that might have been there since we were but wee children.

We look at the belief systems that we have, discard what’s destructive, and fill our minds with positive, nurturing and inspiring information. Another big lesson in my classes is to learn how to like yourself and treat yourself with love – and that fear is just a thought, it’s not real.

At the beginning of my classes or workshops we may have a few tears as the group begins to realise that they still are living from such a negative belief system that was placed in them many moons ago. I personally love the tears, because I know they signal the release of old paradigms and fears. They help make way for new thought systems, allowing love to fill those spaces. (The universe loves a vacuum and as we let go of the old, it quickly fills our empty spaces with the new.)

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facilitating their creation of an assertive belief system emphasising the importance of a supportive environment teaching them how to affirm what they want steering them on the right path to achieve their goals showing them that liking yourself is the first step to ‘Loving Yourself’

When they start feeling good about themselves, their whole life begins to change.

One of my students stands out as a great example. When she came to my class she had suffered recent tragedy and was in the midst of a difficult family situation. She was able to totally change her life around once she became aware of the limiting beliefs she had been operating from. When she realised that she had love and support, that it was okay to love herself and put herself first, that she didn’t have to feel guilty about nurturing and being kind to herself, and that she had the power to create her destiny, she gained strength. She changed her career and is now

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a wonderful Reiki practitioner. She plans for what she wants, and is creating the lifestyle she has always dreamed of. In her own words, ‘Helen gave me the love and inspiration to not only learn more, but also to open my heart to love myself for who I am, and to love others for exactly who they are!’

This is all because of the wonderful, beautiful power of LOVE. We’ve lived in fear for long enough. It’s now time to turn the tides. For your mind and body, love is as critical as oxygen. Allow love to be totally present within you, for ‘PERFECT LOVE drives out FEAR.’

HELEN FRYS designsuccessnow @gmail.com Certified Spiritual and Holistic Heale r http://designsucce ssnow.com Taking you from D istress to Success.

Helping women design and plan a magnificent life using the deliberat e law of creation. © 2012 Helen Frys All Rights Reserved

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Margaret Gill

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id you see James Bond and the latest Bond Girl jump out of that helicopter at the start of the London Olympic Games? The Bond Girl being none other than Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Well, we all know that she didn’t really parachute into the stadium, but it was a fun little twist and a nod to that British cultural icon, Doubleoh-seven.

Watching Daniel Craig meet and greet the Queen at Buckingham Palace, I couldn’t help but wonder if he was shaking in his shoes a

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little. After all, she is not only the Queen and Defender of the Faith, she’s Commanderin-Chief of the British Armed Forces. By anybody’s measure, after sixty years on the throne, H.M. is a force to be reckoned with.

Here’s what I think. If Daniel Craig had walked into that room just as himself, the actor, he might have had a bit of the nerves going on, clammy hands maybe, or a dry mouth, possibly a wee bit of churn in his middle regions. But, if he walked in as himself playing the role of James Bond, then I would guess that he might have been less fearful.

You see, as Daniel Craig AND James Bond, he had a solid sense of WHO and WHAT he was.

I know I bang on about the WHO and WHAT of you and your business a fair bit.

The fact is, once you get that clear, you’re well on your way to success. I’m challenging you to make your practice ‘shaken, not stirred’, so bear with me whilst I apply more ‘James Bond principles’ to the world of natural therapy.

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.James Bond is successful because he is committed. He works hard at consistently getting

your business, your belief in yourself will grow. And as you believe more strongly in yourself, your practice will grow. It’s a win-win!

5 the baddies and protecting the innocent. He believes wholeheartedly in himself and what he does. In order to succeed, you have to bring that kind of single-heartedness to your practice, a belief not only in what you do but also in your ability to do it.

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.James Bond knows the power of marketing.

When he walked into Buck House, he knew that his name and reputation preceded him. He makes sure that wherever he goes and whatever he does, people know who he is. You won’t reach the people you want to reach in your practice if you play

the shrinking wallflower.

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James Bond listens to his instincts. He seems to somehow know where the villains are lurking, and how to defeat them.

The more you trust your intuition, the better it will work for you. When you believe in yourself and your practice, your self will strongly support you.

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.James Bond takes action. He doesn’t hide behind excuses and a lack of self-esteem. If there’s a job for him, he’s ready to get out there and do it. Whenever you take action to grow

. James Bond feels the fear but does it anyway.

This one comes as no surprise, I mean, look at how easily he leaps out of a helicopter! Is he fearless? I doubt that, but I believe he’s learned to tell the difference between real and false fear. He knows he’s prepared. Whatever the situation, he believes that he has already been given the tools for success.

And so have you. As a natural therapy practitioner, you’ve spent time learning and practicing your modality.

Deep down, you know why you’re doing what you do, and when that motive is pure, what have you got to fear?

I already know the answer to that one. What could you fear? Well, you could fear failing. You could fear succeeding. You could fear being broke and living on the streets. You could fear making too much money. You could fear being seen as ‘too pushy’.

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ticed at all. You could fear being rejected. You could fear becoming too popular.

Oh, the list goes on and on and on... So many fears, so little time!

Do you know what that list of fears has in common?

They’re all unreal. Real fear triggers the ‘fight or flight’ reaction. It’s when you ‘know’ some situation is just not right for you, and the feeling comes from the ‘gut’ or solar plexus area. Real fear can save your life and stop you entering a dangerous situation. It warns you when to be cautious. It’s the kind James Bond uses to his advantage.

Unreal fear, on the other hand, comes from that place right between your ears.

That’s right: your thoughts.

Unreal fear stands for: False Emotions Appearing Real What I’m talking about here is that monkey voice that gets revved up in the wee hours of the morning. The one that tells you what a loser you are. The one that laughs

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at your creative ideas. The one that tries to convince you that of all the people in your industry, you’re right there at the bottom of the heap – not good enough.

Responding to that voice isn’t going to help or protect you in any way, shape or form.

Those unreal fears tend to creep in gradually. The whispers repeat themselves over and over in our heads until we start to believe them.

Lucky for us, they’re just that – whispers – and once we start to ignore them, they dry up and disappear. (Elsewhere in this margazine I offer some tips to help you deal with those unreal fears.)

Okay, now back to Mr Bond.

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.James Bond never gives up. When a situation looks hopeless, he just tries a different strategy. He perseveres until he succeeds. And then he looks for the next challenge, and the next, and the one after that. I hope that nobody ever promised you that building a business would be easy. If they did, they were mistaken.

Building a successful business

takes hard work, lots of it.

It takes being willing to face each challenge. Being prepared to take on whatever comes up. Believing in yourself. Promoting your practice.

Overcoming those unreal fears. Never giving up....

There’s one more principle.

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.James Bond takes care of himself first.

He lets himself knock back and take a little break now and then. He recognises the importance of making time for himself, time just to relax. In the relentless world of the small business, sometimes it feels as though there literally isn’t time to rest.

Wrong. You are your business. If you don’t take care of your own needs first, how can your business ever grow and thrive?

There you have it. Follow these, and who knows?

Maybe someday you’ll walk down the corridor with the Queen, too.

It’s time to put on that tuxedo and get going! © 2012, Margaret Gill All Rights Reserved

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By Gina Tucker

5BSPU /PUIJOH UP 'FBS CVU 'FBS *UTFMG To be honest, I don’t always disclose that I read Tarot cards.

It can scare some people.

Common areas of fear that I’ve observed relate to: • Fear around speciďŹ c cards like Death and The Devil; • Finding out something ‘bad’ might happen; and • The idea that we might not be in control of our own destiny.

But the theme of Love, Not Fear suggested it was time to present the case for Tarot and why it’s NOT as scary as some might think.

In many ways work with the Tarot could be more accurately described as ‘Intuitive Personal Development’. It represents a framework that can be used to explore situations from a different perspective.

My experience of the Tarot is as a tool that can help to illuminate and validate what your own inner voice is probably already telling you.

Because intuition isn’t just for tarot readers and psychics. It’s something that everyone has access to. However, not everyone is conďŹ dent about how to

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access it and trust it. This was certainly the case for me over the years. Tarot was the mechanism that helped me learn to connect with and trust my own intuition or higher wisdom.

The ďŹ rst 22 cards of a Tarot deck, known as the major arcana, represent aspects of ourselves and our journey through life. Their meanings are symbolic rather than literal and their images are designed to connect us to our subconscious. Cards that might inspire fear – like Death or The Devil – really just represent cycles of our life or our own darker shadow elements.

Free will, choice and personal responsibility also play an important role when working with the Tarot. The choices you make in life are yours alone. Outcomes indicated by a reading are not carved in stone – they can only be realised or avoided through your own actions and choices.

Sometimes you might see an outcome you like and sometimes you might see one that you don’t. In either case I advocate the following approach:

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Look at what elements in your life are supporting you and WORK WITH THEM. Identify where blocks and barriers might be coming from and WORK ON THEM. If things aren’t working for you DO SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY.

Based on my experience, the ďŹ rst two items will be clearly indicated during the course of a reading. The key is being prepared to engage with whatever issues come up, look at where they might come from, and take action to resolve and release them.

There are certainly personal challenges to be experienced in this process. Sometimes there may even be fears to be faced – but only those we’ve created for ourselves. When we face those inner fears from a place of love, the fear starts to dissolve.

Because in the great cosmic game, love will beat fear every time. Š 2012 Gina Tucker All Rights Reserved

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oaming around Machakos’ grass plains one lovely day I almost tripped over a pride of lions, complete with several golden cubs frolicking over their parents’ rumps. We all stared at each other in utter surprise and I thought to myself, ‘Well, I am a Leo too. Lions are my talisman, we are “cousins�.’ So I stood still watching them for a long while, just enjoying the sun-kissed leonine day. Eventually, I quietly and steadily walked away while the male lion swished his tail and tossed his black mane as he supervised my departure.

-PWF OPU GFBS LFQU NF TBGF At dusk, on my way home in Tanga, Tanzania, I came face to face with a rie barrel and my eyes travelled along the gleaming gun metal until they met the impenetrable gaze of the gun bearer – a tall, ebony-skinned man dressed in pure white clothes and a burgundy beret on his head. We stood silently looking at each other. The whole scene was utterly surreal. I had loved the Africans all my life and it was totally impossible, completely incomprehensible, that one should attack me. There was no room in the economy of my beliefs to accommodate such a possibility. So I did what I always do in company – I talked. In his language, I told him I was the daughter of ‘Baba Mzee’, renowned throughout East Africa for

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his fairness in championing the Africans’ concerns with the British government. Baba Mzee, a title of reverence conferred on him by the Africans, mediated with patience and diplomacy between the Africans and the ruling authorities in post-war Tanzania. He was later to receive an honour from Julius Nyrere, prime minister of Tanzania.

I was known as ‘Memsahib Kidogo’, and when the gun bearer heard my father’s African name, he lowered the rie and we chatted a little about his family, then cordially went our separate ways. I was in my early teens at the time. He was a Mau Mau ‘terrorist’, ďŹ ghting for his land.

-PWF OPU GFBS LFQU NF TBGF My father established a home in Tanga, Tanzania, and a second one in Nairobi, Kenya, where secondary education was available.

This meant spending the school term in Nairobi, then travelling the 500 miles to Tanga for the school holidays. To break the journey, my father would stop at random somewhere in the African plains with at-topped thorn trees and amber-coloured grasses stretching to the horizon all around us.

My father and I walked a lot in the bush, and on one such occasion we strolled, content

O PU 'FBS in each other’s company. We circumnavigated a thorn tree and saw close by a couple of giraffes licking off the tiny delicate leaves nestling between long treacherous thorns with their thick bluish tongues, expertly avoiding being pricked. They were within arms’ reach, and I did what any child would do, reached out and stroked their legs and soft chests. For me all this was quite normal and it was over 40 years later before I came to realise that I had visited heaven for a short while.

-PWF OPU GFBS LFQU NF TBGF Rhino were being seriously poached for the supposed aphrodisiac properties of their horns, so a big rescue campaign got underway of which I was a part. My particular protege was a rhino in his teens, as I myself was. We got on well and to show his affection to me, he would endeavour to lay his head, complete with huge horns, on my chest. I would have to quickly dance out of the way and give his rump a strong rub to show him I loved him, too!!

-PWF OPU GFBS LFQU NF TBGF Later, In Lagos, Nigeria, my husband and I took a Sunday afternoon drive in our Karmann Ghia sports coupe, with our two small children in the backseat, around the Apapa area which is located along the wharf and winds

around the coast. Shockingly, we drove into a full-scale riot with glistening machetes being wielded to hysterical shouts and sweaty faces with glazed eyes swarming around our car bringing us to a stop. At a particularly deďŹ ant shout, the rioters parted and let us drive through unharmed. They continued their skirmish behind us.

-PWF OPU GFBS LFQU NF TBGF Fear ďŹ lled me when I looked around in London after ying from Nairobi. What upset me was that I did not know the names of the thousands of white people surrounding me. In Africa, I had known the name of every single white person. Now I didn’t, and I was ďŹ lled with fear. My marriage crumbled through fear, abuse and fear of more abuse. I knew bonechilling fear then. Other than that I cannot think of a time when I have been fearful.

There are many shades of fear, and recently I found myself in the emergency department of the hospital with near heart failure. I felt frightened and bewildered at my sense of powerlessness and the suddenness with which all this happened – but it was not like the fear mentioned above. It was different. The love and care of attending staff gradually dispelled my sense of disorientation, confusion and apprehension, particularly of the future.

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Both love and fear are powerful emotions and both provide motivation – often for the better. Both have negative and positive characteristics. For example, in my ‘KolorBond 33’ book ‘love’ and its opposite, in this instance, ‘hate/fear’ is charted as number 6 of the 33 colours identified in this book. ‘Hate’ can be interchanged for ‘fear’ as hate and anger emanate from fear. Both the positive ‘I AM…’ and the negative ‘I feel….’ have the following descriptions:

Step 1: visualise the colour pink and state ‘I feel empty’ out loud while doing step 2: Step 2: rotate your eyes clockwise, then anticlockwise, then in an infinity sign, then all points of the compass, then near and far, (see diagram below) Step 3: still visualising pink, now state ‘I AM FILLED FULL’ while doing the eye modes.

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The idea is to tune into the situation for which you want colour healing. Then go to the above

This process gives the energy field of the mind, body and emotions the tool necessary to restore

chart and identify the negative word under the heading ‘hate’ (on the right). There are two columns and column 1 correlates with column 1 in the ‘love’ column. Likewise with column 2. Say you feel ‘empty’ – its partner is ‘filled full’. First, the negative has to be let go so that there is room in your energy field for what you desire, and that is to be ‘filled full’.

balance, and then desirable change can happen.

This is how we let go of the negative and infuse the positive aspects affecting us:

The Greek language has five separate words to explain the dimensions of love: ‘Eros’ – the physical act of sex. So, the word

‘erotic’.

‘Storge’ – affection, mainly among family members and supportive relationships.

‘Philio’ for a male friend and ‘philia’ for a female friend – a close bond of sharing, concern and interest. True friendship.

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‘Agape’ – this is intimate love for its own sake,

including sincere romantic love. Agape love is shown by actions such as dependability and helpfulness (effective love) and by expression of your feelings such as compassion and appreciation (affective love).

‘Divinitos’ – spiritual love that exists between Self and God. God is by nature Love and God cares passionately for our wellbeing. God constantly demonstrates love to us and our gift of Free Will enables us to choose the path of love.

The Dalai Lama is said to have defined love as wanting to make someone happy and compassion as wanting to reduce someone’s suffering (Kaplan).

Paul, a learned scholar of ancient wisdom, taught the Corinthians about love:

‘Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not boast.

Love is not proud. Love is not rude or petty. Love is not self-seeking.

Love is not easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails... These three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love’ (1 Corinthians 13:4-8,13 paraphrased).

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So we see there are many aspects to the word ‘love’. There are also many aspects to fear. Fear can come in various degrees of anxiety, worry, apprehension, confusion, agitation, paranoia, unease, distress, edginess, terror, feeling flustered and nervousness.

Ironically, fear and love (happiness, joy) are both responses provided by the amygdala, a small almond-shaped organ embedded in the centre of the brain. Scientists believe that the amount of pressure selects which emotion is expressed. A typical example is a group of friends chattering happily, and then suddenly out of the blue, an argument starts – slight increase in pressure on the amygdala and conflict arises.

The colour of fear is generally regarded as being yellow. Colour is a powerful tool to manage our emotions better. Any colour can be used to heal a situation. The important aspect is to tune into Self, select a colour or identify the colour that floats to consciousness and then bathe the situation in that colour with complete focus. Colour changes chaos into clarity.

The whole of life is about gaining and maintaining balance. The process to achieving balance is called transformation. That is, we transform the negative emotional molecule into a positive emotional molecule. Easy to read that sentence; not so easy to apply to daily living, especially when we’re under pressure. This may help: the Hebrew word ‘yirah’ means both ‘to fear’ and ‘to see’.

Looking and really seeing what is there and seeing the consequence of options chosen before committing is a method of training ourselves to transform fear into love (Weinberg).

It is my feeling that most of us will be surfing a wave between love and fear as we evolve beyond this world of duality. We will be called in each moment to LET GO of fear, and choose LOVE over all outer appearances that may look scary and unsafe. When we feed LOVE, the universe is bound by natural law to give us more LOVE’ (Star Elders, AlunaJoy).

My modality is ‘Kolour Kinesiology’ and my qualifications include Degree in Theology, teaching, author and artist. My passion with colour, imbued from my childhood in Africa, has led me down many paths and my most recent book is for children, ‘Dolphin Dreams’ complete with its own audio CD. SOURCES: Gold, Rainbow, KolorBond 33 Gold, Rainbow, Kolor In My Life Krebs, Charles, A Revolutionary Way of Thinking Weinberg, Rabbi Noah, Mastering Fear Kaplan, Karen Orloff, Staying in Charge

Love and fear are the one coin, but opposite sides. Befriending fear as a powerful motivator and using the power of colour to transform that fearfulness into the even more powerful quality of love is the secret to safety, happiness and meaningfulness in our lives.

© 2012 Rainbow Gold All Rights Reserved

RAINBOW GOLD Rainbow Kinesiology Centre Bunbury, W. Australia rainbow@healingwithcolour.com.au http://colourhealing1.wordpress.com/ facebook: Rainbow Gold m: 0407955070

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which I would return to the staff room and join my colleagues, refreshed, recharged and ready to continue with my shift in a clear and focused way.

My background is in nursing, and on my lunch breaks back in the 80’s, I would go out to my Morris minor in the parking lot and put my tape in my tape deck (yes, that seems like it was only yesterday). I’d close my eyes and let the soothing voice coming from those speakers guide me through relaxing my breath and body and letting go. This only took 10 to 15 minutes, after

I know back then the other nurses thought that I was a bit strange, popping out to the car to relax in those days long before people dashed out for a quick smoke. But their opinions didn’t worry me, because I knew the Power Nap gave me the energy to keep going all day, and made me feel so good and happy.

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didn’t sleep well until he was two, and I was so sleep deprived that I took the opportunity for a Power Nap whenever I could. I would put my tape recorder on and close my eyes to get some rest and relief, often whilst holding my son in my arms.

Today there is a lot of research being done about the benefits of a Power Nap, which is fantastic.

I am now an accredited Yoga and Meditation teacher, Reiki Master and Healer, and I use the tool of a Power Nap in my classes and workshops to guide

SOME BENEFITS OF A POWER NAP ARE: )MPROVES YOUR MOOD )NCREASES THE VITALITY OF THE BODY MIND AND SPIRIT )MPROVES PRODUCTIVITY 2EDUCES STRESS AND ANXIETY )MPROVES THE FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN BRINGING ABOUT FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION "ALANCES THE HORMONES IN THE BODY #LEARS A FOGGY HEAD "ALANCES EMOTIONS !SSISTS WITH STUDY AND EXAMS )MPROVES HEALTH AND WELLBEING ¯ HARMONIZES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM people to let go of their stresses, and to align and connect to their highest potential.

PROVEN TIPS FOR A POWER NAP: The ideal time to do a Power Nap is between 2pm and 4pm, or just after lunch.

Make yourself comfortable and warm, and support the body where needed.

Switch off all phones and put a ‘do not disturb’ sign on the door (your time for you is important).

Take a few slow deep breaths in and out and start to relax your body.

Then listen to the sounds around you, moving your attention and awareness to all the different sounds.

Now take your attention to the different parts of the body, mentally relaxing each part in your mind without moving them.

By this time your body and mind are relaxed.

Then for a few moments focus on your natural spontaneous breath, observing each inhalation and each exhalation.

At this point you can make a personal resolve or set a positive intention for your day, if you wish.

Then become aware again of your surroundings and your body. Start to wriggle your toes and fingers, move your head from side to side, and make any stretches that you need to before you sit and stand up.

You’re ready to return to your day feeling relaxed, refreshed and recharged.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE POWER NAP: Large companies in the USA are so convinced of the benefits of the Power Nap that many now have staff rest rooms equipped with chairs especially suited for

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a Power Nap The employees return to work more rested, alert and focused, and are more productive for their day.

The Ministry of Health in France is considering establishing a right of workers for a 15-minute Power Nap. Teachers and students in Australia use the tool of a Power Nap to relax, refresh and recharge in the classroom for additional focus and concentration with learning and exams.

‘Less stress for more success’ is a favourite saying of mine.

When we are relaxed, we can think and feel and react in a more balanced way and achieve all the things we need to in our day.

Give it a go, be the best that you can be.

JAN WINSLADE E jan@yogabythebay.com.au www.yogabythebay.com.au © 2012, Jan Winslade All Rights Reserved

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recently attended a talk by a well-known international author and ‘spiritual activist’. He talked of ‘love in action’ and of a robust, passionate, risky and dynamic love – a ďŹ erce and powerful love. He mentioned that this was the love that was needed to motivate positive change in the world at a time when it is so needed.

There are many examples of individuals who have been propelled by, and who have exercised, that powerful love; who risked anything for its expression. Obvious examples are Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King Jnr., Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela. No doubt there were many others who ew under the radar. They would, and did, risk all for a cause held by them to be much greater than

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their individual lives.

He also talked of harnessing that love to power our own individual missions, whatever they might be. He posed the question – ‘What is your heartbreak?’ Whatever breaks our own heart directs us to what our individual mission is, where we can generate enough passion to put that love into action. So what is your ‘heart-break’?

We were also told of some ‘new age’ delusions designed to keep us docile, passive and unaware of what is really happening in the world. A veneer of wishy-washy love to keep us dumbed down and unaware.

The word ‘love’ can be so misinterpreted and misused. It can be used as a smoke-screen to cover what really needs to be addressed. It can be used as a

self-righteous mask to cover a cauldron of unexamined content. He talked of having to do the ‘shadow work’ on ourselves as a necessary prerequisite for dealing with the shadow of the world.

We are all aiming for ‘love and light’ but we sometimes have to wade through a dark, murky mess to get there. We cannot skip that bit, nor can we leave those parts that we want to avoid unexamined.

This is what the ‘dark night of the soul’ is about, and it is deďŹ nitely not for the fainthearted. We have this habit of projecting what we cannot own in ourselves onto others and the world in general. If ‘all is one’, then we have to acknowledge and accept all aspects of humanity. We cannot change what we do not acknowledge.

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Love and fear are the flip sides of the same coin. We need the strength of our love to face and manage our fear. The strength of the fear and vulnerability that we face is also a testimony to the power of our love. The fear will sit on our shoulder as the ‘saboteur’ ready to block our plans and creativity; but, it will also remind us of the power of our love to overcome these opposing forces.

Love and fear are the light and the shade and sit in juxtaposition, both with a purpose.

is desperate to preserve itself.

The psyche will go to extraordinary lengths to survive, and in its misguided attempts it can, and will, sacrifice the body to do so. It will do anything to preserve its image of itself and not face any truth that will counter this.

All healing is the journey to self-love and self-acceptance, and acceptance of the role that others have played in our development. This involves facing our demons and integrating those rejected and lost parts of

ourselves. It includes uncovering what we have harboured in our subconscious and acknowledging the hurts and pains that we have received and given.

Forgiveness of self and others is very much a part of this process. It is about changing what needs to be changed. It is about being who we really are and being the best of who we really are – our own unique part of the tapestry. This is love in action.

© 2012 Catherine Fyans All Rights Reserved

Our basic primal fears are: fear of annihilation, fear of change and fear of the unknown. These fears are different shades of the same thing and every other fear that we experience is based on these.

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rom my 18 years experience as a professional alternative health care practitioner a question has formed for which I cannot find an answer.

The evidence which has attracted my attention has been overwhelming though it is only now that I am actually putting my thoughts into words.

My question is: if diseases can be inherited through the gene pool, then why would not immunity through vaccination, especially after several generations, also be inherited?

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parents have most likely been vaccinated; and as further vaccinations have been developed, immunity to more ‘diseases’ has been achieved.

Medical and scientific researchers have been propounding for quite a long time that diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, etc., are inherited and, indeed, have managed to find individual genes to suggest this.

So how can the information in the two paragraphs above be connected?

I am wondering ... if diseases can be ‘inherited’, then why would not vaccinated immunity also be passed on through the gene pool?

So often in my Practice I see babies and young children with horrific skin conditions, asthma and various other reactions, supposedly, to a variety of causes labelled as ‘allergies’.

Parents have taken their child/ children here, there and everywhere seeking help and relief and hopefully a cause and, more importantly, a cure for their child’s condition.

It has come to my attention, loud and clear, that most babies and children who end up with allergies are born with a high immunity to those conditions for which they are subsequently vaccinated.

This creates an overdose situation within the body and the immune system responds by slowly but surely turning on the body, in the long term setting the scene to later create autoimmune conditions. In

the short term the immune system tries to rid the body of the overdose effects any way it can, and especially by developing sensitivities to certain things.

shows low or nil, then the vaccination option could be administered; if immunity shows good to excellent, then no vaccination need be given.

the shots done and over with, and who knows how important those vaccinations may be if the child later wishes to travel overseas as an adult.

The lungs (asthma), skin which is also known as the third kidney (eczema and psoriasis), and bowel (digestive and food sensitivity) are all organs of elimination. It seems perfectly obvious to me that the body is working very hard to

Many parents (including me some 33 years ago) seriously debate the question of vaccination out of the immense love they feel for their child, not wanting to put their child through the experience. However, eventually the fear factor sets in:

However well intentioned parents are in their decision to have their children vaccinated or not, it still begs the question of inherited immunity. Despite all my searching and research, I have not come across anything that hints at a plausible root

get rid of something it is overdosing on. Could it be, hmmm, I wonder, just maybe an educated guess – overdose to one or more of the vaccines?

fear that their child will not be permitted an education though the public system because they cannot attend a school without that piece of paper to say they have been vaccinated. Another scenario is presented as more people with babies and young children travel overseas. The issue of vaccination requirements for certain countries may force many parents to just get

cause to these pesky allergies; yet my Clinic work backs up the theory I have developed, time and time again. I would be extremely grateful if there is someone out there who can either support my theory, even tentatively, or totally knock it down, please.

Allergies are merely a symptom of a deeper cause, a direct scream from the body, via the immune system, for help.

The obvious solution to this would be to bring in the option of a blood test before automatic immunisation (or take a grander, firmer stand with policy to instigate a blood test). All babies could be blood-tested before the first vaccination was due, to gauge their immunity levels to all of the vaccinations on offer, instead of automatically being given any vaccinations. A one-stop blood test would be ideal. If immunity

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ALKING WITH FRIENDS A FEW WEEKS AGO ABOUT MY LACK OF PROGRESS ON A CERTAIN TASK IT WAS MY FRIEND´S COMMENT THAT GOT ME THINKING ³)T IS NOT THAT YOU FEAR IT IT IS THAT YOU DO NOT THINK YOU DESERVE IT ´

3O WHAT REALLY STOPS US FROM ACHIEVING OUR GOALS AND DREAMS ) ALWAYS THOUGHT ¯ AND WAS TOLD ¯ IT WAS THE ³&´ WORD ¯ &%!2 ) HAD LOOKED AT THEM ALL FEAR OF FAILURE FEAR OF SUCCESS FEAR OF POVERTY FEAR OF WEALTH RIGHT ON THROUGH TO FEAR OF FEAR ) WONDER WHY IT HAD NEVER OCCURRED TO ME THAT IT WAS NOT FEAR BUT FEEL ING UNDESERVING THAT MIGHT HOLD THE KEY

"UT WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES US FEEL UNDESERVING 7HY DO WE NOT FEEL THAT WE DESERVE TO HAVE GOOD THINGS IN OUR LIVES $ESERVE TO BE HAPPY $ESERVE TO BE LOVED $ESERVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL $ESERVE TO HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE $ESERVE TO HAVE IT EASY $ESERVE TO BE TREATED WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT $ESERVE TO FEEL WORTHY OF GREAT THINGS $ESERVE TO BE HEALTHY $ESERVE TO BE DESERVING %VERY BABY IS BORN DESERVING IT IS THEIR ENTITLEMENT AND BIRTH RIGHT ! BABY CRIES BECAUSE THEY ARE HUNGRY OR THIRSTY 4HEY DO NOT STOP TO WONDER WHETHER THEY ARE DESERVING ¯ THEY JUST CRY UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY NEED 3O HOW OR WHERE DO WE LOSE OUR SENSE OF DESERVING #LEARLY THE LOGICAL PLACE TO LOOK IS AT THE MESSAGES WE RECEIVED AS CHILDREN WHAT WE WERE TOLD THAT WE CAN OR CANNOT HAVE OR DO )T IS NOT THE ACTUAL MESSAGE THAT IS THE PROBLEM IT IS THAT WE BELIEVE IT AND WEAVE IT INTO OUR STORY ,UCKILY IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR ³STORY´ WHICH CHANGES YOUR REALITY

9OU DO NOT HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU DID AS A CHILD AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT WHAT YOU WERE TOLD (IND SIGHT IN THIS CASE IS A TRULY WONDERFUL THING 5SE IT TO CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS 'O BACK AND CHANGE THE STORY YOU TELL YOURSELF WITH THE WISDOM YOU HAVE GAINED )S WHAT THEY SAID TRUE FOR YOU $O YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ABSOLUTELY THE TRUTH )S THERE ANY POSSIBILITY THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED (OW WOULD YOU LIKE TO FEEL !LLOW YOURSELF TO FEEL A NEW WAY ABOUT YOURSELF OR YOUR SITUATION &EELING UNDESERVING DOES NOT JUST AFFECT US EMOTIONALLY 4HERE ARE MANY WAYS IN WHICH OUR SENSE OF UNDESERVING CAN MANIFEST PHYSICALLY ,ET US LOOK AT TWO THEMES OF UNDESERVING FEELING STUCK AND FEELING UNWORTHY &EELING STUCK CREATES STIFF NESS IN OUR BODIES ,ONG TERM ³STUCKNESS´ CAN LEAD TO VARICOSE VEINS SCIATICA 23) RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PARALYSIS OBESITY

MOUTH ULCERS KIDNEY PROBLEMS AND A HOST OF OTHER DIS EASES &EELING UNDESERVING ALSO RELATES DIRECTLY TO UNWORTHINESS AND LOWERED SELF ESTEEM WHICH CAN MAKE US FEEL VICTIMISED

DEPRESSED AND FATIGUED CREATING SELF CRITICISM AND JUDGE MENT 7HEN WE CARRY LOW SELF ESTEEM AND UNWORTHINESS IT CAN ALSO MANIFEST IN THE BODY AS ACNE WEIGHT PROBLEMS

DIABETES GENITAL HERPES OVARIAN CANCER SCLERODERMA ULCERS

WARTS AND MEMORY LOSS )F YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW OR WHERE FEELING UN DESERVING MIGHT BE AFFECTING YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO CONNECT TO YOUR EMOTIONS OF WHERE YOU FEEL MOST UNDESERVING LET THEM RISE TO THE SURFACE )F YOU FEEL IT ANYWHERE IN YOUR BODY FOCUS ON THAT AREA AS IT MAY ASSIST IN WORKING OUT WHERE YOU ARE MOST STUCK IN YOUR SENSE OF UNDER SERVING UNDESERVING 4HINK ABOUT WHAT THAT PART OF YOUR BODY DOES AND IT WILL ASSIST YOU IN FINDING OUT WHERE IN YOUR LIFE YOU DO NOT FEEL THAT YOU ARE DESERVING NOT SERVING YOURSELF &OR EXAMPLE IF YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR HEART IT MAY HAVE TO DO WITH LOVE OR CONNECTION IN YOUR LEGS ¯ YOUR DIRECTION IN YOUR HIPS ¯ WHAT YOU STAND FOR IN YOUR SHOULDERS ¯ CARRYING RESPONSIBILITY )F YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR WALLET ¯ LOOK AT YOUR PAY 0LAY WITH IT HAVE FUN MAKE UP STORIES LAUGH AT THE THINGS YOU CAN COME UP WITH )T MAY NOT BE AS BIG AND SCARY AS YOU THOUGHT )T COULD JUST BE PLAINLY LAUGHABLE AND THAT MIGHT BE ALL THAT IS REQUIRED FOR YOU TO HEAL ¯ HAVE A GOOD LAUGH 9OU DESERVE IT ˆ !NGELA !NDERSON !LL 2IGHTS 2ESERVED

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ackground: Norm is the uncle of my brother-in-law Bruce and his wife Barbara. Norm had a passion for swimming, and for many years he was the control freak who forced everyone, at any swimming meet, to hold their breath in anticipation... because he held the starter’s gun!

A few years ago, we were gathered at a family luncheon to celebrate Barbara’s 60th birthday. As Norm came into the room I observed that he was looking pretty well, even though walking very slowly and with the aid of two sticks.

He spotted me and beckoned me over with an imperious flick of his patriarchal head.

And the conversation went something like this...

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‘G’Day, Rozi. You gotta chair for this shindig yet?’

‘Hey Uncle Norm’, I replied, planting a bright tomato-red lipstick kiss on his bald head.

‘Great to see you. Yes, I’m sitting over there.’ I gestured towards where I’d parked my handbag.

‘Well, I wanna sit next to you, ‘coz there’s things I wanna talk to yer about. Help me over there, would ya?’

We got comfortable at the table.

tried everybloodything and everyotherbloodyone, and nothin’ helps. Yer see, I gotta take four o’ them bloody PanaMax painsquasher tablets a’fore I get up in the mornin’s, and another four at dinnertime to get through the arvo, then another four after tea before I hit the sack so I can get some bloody sleep.’ He stopped for a moment, as if gathering himself together, then looked pleadingly at me as he continued, ‘I’m countin’ on ya, girl.

Wha’da ya say? Will ya have a go at fixin’ me? Bruce says yer

‘Righto, mate, what’s on your mind?’ I asked.

pretty bloody good, ‘coz you fixed that bit o’ business he had down below for him. So if you can do that, can yer help me?’

‘They tell me you’re one of them fancy healers, and I want ya to fix me.’ He stared keenly at me from under his snow white, bushy eyebrows. ‘I’ve

‘Norm,’ I said slowly, looking him right in the eye, putting my serious face on, ‘there’s something I have to tell you. I don’t actually “fix” anyone. I don’t

cure anyone or anything.’

Quick as a flash, he butted in.

‘But Bruce an’ them said you was real flamin’ good. They reckoned yer’d have a go at anythin’. Now don’t yer go tellin’ me they’re wrong girl, ‘coz I seen it with me own eyes. I know.’

‘Hang on a mo’, ol’ mate, calm down,’ I said, taking his hand and holding it reassuringly. I waited a bit, slowed the pace.

‘Your body can fix itself. It was born being able to do this – part of the job description. Your body

fixes itself 24/7/365 from the moment of conception ‘til you die.

But sometimes the job just gets a bit too hard and things have to take priority for survival.’ I took a deep breath as I waited for that to sink in, then continued, ‘Mate, you know when you cut your finger, do you have to tell your body how to fix it?’

‘Well, no... I guess not,’ Norm replied thoughtfully.

‘Okay, then, hear me out. Your body is a healing machine. Absolutely millions of cells are replaced in your body every day!

Did you know that? Have you ever even thought about it?’

‘O’course I bloody haven’t!

Why would I?’ ‘Fair enough.’ I paused, then went on. ‘If your body is not healing itself and regenerating cells every moment of every day, you die. Does that make sense?’

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body is experiencing. What I will do is find out what is causing the stress, thereby the pain, and we can go from there. Fair enough?’

‘Yeah,’ he answered, drawing the word out slowly, almost grudgingly. ‘I s’pose.’

‘All right then. So what’s your main problem, Norm?’ I enquired.

‘Well, yer see luv, it’s like this.

It’s me knees. They’ve just about given out on me. Damn bloody things. As yer can see, I can’t walk without them sticks anymore and the pain, s**t, it’s something just terrible; plagues me day and night it does. And,

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there’s somethin’ else too.’

have a look-see then, okay?’ I assured him.

‘What’s that, Norm?’

‘Well,’ leaning towards me as if to tell me a deep, dark secret, ‘there’s this big meet in WA in about six months or so and I’m desperate to be there to start ‘em off, see. The kids reckon I’m a bloody old fool wantin’ to go, but it’d be my last meet and I just wanna be there.’ I could see the tears welling in his eyes as he opened his heart and bared his soul.

I waited for him to compose himself. ‘Well look, mate, I’ve been delegated to drop you off home after the party so I’ll

Later at Norm’s house I did a BodyTalk System session following the BodyTalk Protocol.

And the conversation went like this...

‘Norm, how long is it since you’ve had a glass of water?’

He just sat there for a while, pondering, pinching his square chin with his fingers. ‘How old am I now?’ he asked with a cheeky gleam in his eyes as they flicked up at me.

‘Well, I remember your 80th.

That would have to be about

three or four years ago I reckon.’

‘Hmmm, I suppose you’re right.

Well, let’s see now... I reckon it must be nigh-on 65 years or so.’

And then he exploded. ‘I bloody hate water! Can’t stand the stuff!’ banging his fist on the table.

‘Wouldn’t drink it if I was dyin’ o’ thirst. I bloody hate it, I tell yer!’

This, from an icon as a starter... for major swimming meets!

‘OOOOOO,’ I thought, ‘bit of anger and rage there too!’

I gave him a summary of the BodyTalk session. Hydration, hydration, hydration! All roads led to Rome – severe dehydration throughout the entire body meant the kidneys were shutting up shop. The knees are governed by the kidney energy!

I told him there was only one cure, and he was the one in total control of it. He had to hop to it pretty quick-smart if he wanted to get back on his own two feet in time for the big meet in Western Australia.

I mentioned that the cure might cost him a coupla bob to set up properly, but it wouldn’t break him. (Cost of a decent water filter.) He was all ears... couldn’t wait to hear the magic ‘cure’.

‘Norm, right now and for the rest of your life, mate, the only real thing your body needs is for you to drink good old H2O... water! Good, clean, fresh water... er... mate!’

You might say those words triggered a mini war. He was not a happy chappy!

To cut the drama short, Norm’s idea of drinking water was half a glass of water mixed with half a glass of cordial concentrate! It took a yoooooge amount of encouragement, support, coercion and reminding of ‘The Goal’, but in the end, he saw the light and got stuck into the water. His daughter, Susan, a registered nurse, was brilliant and worked with me to get him drinking water.

Four months down the track he was comfortably drinking up to two litres a day, every day, and was down to just one PanaMax morning and night. Two months after that, he proudly boarded a Boeing 747 entirely under his own steam. He celebrated his final start, swimmers and spectators alike completely under his control for the last time, with a glass of water!

some three years later, comfortably (though I doubt quietly) sitting in his favourite armchair with a beer on one side and a glass and jug of water on the other, watching his beloved Cats win a desperately-longed-for AFL premiership Grand Final.

Author’s note. Hydration is not just about the amount of water swallowed. Some people, even though they drink plenty of water, may still be dehydrated.

The hydration of cells is a matter of water moving across the cell membranes and into the interior of the cells. Water must be able to move freely across the cell membranes in both directions, transporting nutrients into cells, as well as wastes out of cells.

The body needs to be able use the water effectively in all its processes. However, ensuring that the body has access to a sufficient quantity of quality water is a good place to start!

ROSILYN KINNERSLEY Certified BodyTalk Instructor Certified PaRama BodyTalk Practitioner Certified Advanced BodyTalk Practitioner BodyTalk Access Trainer © 2012, Rosilyn Kinnersley

Norm departed the planet

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By Patricia Mackenzie

5IF 'FBS 'BDUPS W hen challenged to reflect on fear, our first inclination is often to go within: to discover, uncover and liberate our own fears and, in so doing, expand our ability to step more fully into the love-flow that surrounds us all.

The theme of ‘love, not fear’ has been simmering in my subconscious ever since Mz Margz and I agreed that it should be the theme for the third issue of Equal II Margazine. Faced, as the natural

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therapy industry is, with new posturing from the establishment, I believe you are called to step up to the next level and be greater than you ever imagined you could be.

So I decided that this time, I was going to go without, and try to figure out what lies behind that threat that seems to hover on the natural therapy horizon. Today I spent some time around the traps, reading just what the ‘opposition’ has to say about natural therapies. In truth, it was all quite unpleasant and I had to go away and

meditate a bit just to feel whole and healthy again. But I think my exploration was for a purpose, because what gradually dawned on me as I was reading the ugliness and animosity is that essentially, those who call themselves enemies of natural therapies are filled with fear.

Fear of what? Well, that’s a bit hard to put my finger on, even if the fear is evident in every venomous word. But I think I can tease it out and make some sense of it, and hopefully discover just what it is that makes these opponents to

natural therapies, who I believe for the most part honestly mean well, so incredibly frightened.

Right, let’s start with what seems to be one of their fundamental tenets, that natural therapy practitioners are duping their clients, be it wittingly or unknowingly. Now, why on earth would they conclude that so many people (patients) could be so easily misled? And why would they assume that those who choose to be healers, if they practice outside of the boundaries around ‘Western medicine’, automatically are out for one thing – the almighty dollar?

The best answer I can come up with is that your opponents are afraid of what they don’t understand, and thus seek to dismiss it in the most banal way possible: ‘You are all charlatans!

You aren’t like us!’

Oh-kay.

Sure, I’ll grant that there are people who choose their profession based mostly on the probability of making a fast fortune.

But I’d be willing to bet that

there are as many representatives of that school of thought in mainstream medicine, as there are in alternative medicine. After all, procedural specialists are not poorly paid!

But I believe that the large majority on both sides of the coin – honest, good-hearted people whose primary purpose is to bring benefit to those they treat – are in the business because they are truly healers.

Next, those who are leading the attack on natural therapies claim that there is no genuine evidence that the modalities work. They insist that results must show within very narrow parameters, quantifiable measures that show provable outcomes.

I agree that in the ideal world all healing treatments would have been proven soundly in a research laboratory. Yet what the naysayers don’t seem to get is that from the outset, natural therapies have been marginalised effectively enough that they simply don’t have the resources to undertake that kind of research.

In other words, natural therapy research usually doesn’t

attract big funding. Where does big research funding come from? In the past, particularly for medical research, much of it came from the Government. However, these days, most research is funded at least in part by a company or sector that has a preconceived agenda already established.

For instance, much medical research funding in the United States these days is done under grants from, wait for it, big pharma.

Yes, it’s the drug companies themselves who are leading the research into new, better, more effective ways to heal people.

Really? No. What they seek is new, better, more expensive pills that will make people think they’re better – or will be, after they take the next, even more expensive, medicine.

That’s about as far removed from the natural therapies agenda as you can get.

There is another side to this research conundrum, however.

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they transcend or elude most forms of laboratory research.

But in no way does this make them inauthentic or worthless.

Quite the reverse, in fact.

spin more and more out of control around them.

Simply put, they are afraid of you because they don’t understand you.

Natural therapy is at the cutting edge of the transformation that is coming to us all.

Where, then, does that leave you? Well, if you have any compassion – and I have to believe that all natural therapy practitioners wear that label precisely because they are compassionate – then you can pity those individuals who choose to remain blinkered to reality.

And you can dip into your powers, those powers that you are unfolding and discovering day by day, and reach out a hand of support and comfort, if, and when, necessary.

Therein lies the crux of the matter, I believe. Mz Margz often talks about skating on the razor’s edge of change, and that is where we all are at right now, if we are truly honest with ourselves. This Planet is in the throes of change, and none of us knows precisely what’s coming, even though we sometimes get inklings, little glimmers of what might lie just over the horizon.

But the uncertainty is great.

And homo sapiens is not an animal that copes very well with uncertainty. We’re far too inclined to retreat to where it’s safe, where the world is black and white and the answers all add up, literally as well as figuratively. That’s where opponents to the natural therapies are at, quivering and shaking as they watch a World seem to

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I’m sure every reader is familiar with this quote, from Marianne Williamson’s Return to Love: Reflections on a Course in Miracles, but I want to include it here, to remind each of us of who we truly are.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It

is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to

make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Our presence automatically liberates others. What are we waiting for?! © 2012 Patricia Mackenzie All Rights Reserved

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