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FLOWGROW EXPERIENCE
MAY 2020
Welcome to our second edition of the Flowgrow Experience. We have compiled some beautiful living resources for you, both international and national. We are honoured to feature a very special exclusive with world renowned spiritual teacher Jerry Sargeant. We hope to inspire you during these challenging times to take back your power and empower your life. So much love and blessings to you all. Namaste. - Editor, The Flowgrow Experience
Be inspired with International Spiritual Healer and Teacher Jerry Sargeant Hey there Beautiful Souls, We are amid great change and huge uncertainty and it’s often difficult to maintain clarity and focus. The fear that is conjured through the mainstream media, will drive the hardiest of characters into a stressed state if they engage in the mainstream narrative, which we all know in our heart, are lies, even if our conscious mind tries to convince us that that our governments, those we have trusted for so long, would never lie and they must have our best interests at heart. Somewhere, deep in our hearts and souls, we know something is very wrong. With that being said, there are measures we can take as powerful humans to increase our vitality, raise our energy levels, strengthen our immune system and be healthy, vibrant women, men and children. It’s also very important, whilst the world is on hold, that we connect with those we love, especially those we live with and take the necessary measures to increase our vitality, raise our energy levels and strengthen our immune system together! So what can you do, right now, that doesn’t cost any money, that will radically shift you and upgrade your health? I have a very simple routine, that the entire family can engage in. It consists of three things, breath work, meditation and a cold shower. »»»
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Let’s start with the cold shower. Every morning, I want you to take a cold shower for 90 seconds. The reason being, when you take a cold shower, your adrenaline levels rise in your body. Once they drop it lowers your cortisol levels and you reduce stress in the body. It’s a fast way of bringing your into a calm space, reducing stress and also waking you up I the morning. You become alert and ready fir the day. You can even turn into a bit of fun. Watch each other jump in the shower and go through tehri process. Firstly, it holds each member of the team accountable (they cannot just pretend they did it) and secondly its can be hilarious until you get used to it. We all know that laughter is the best medicine.
Once you have completed the breath work, I want you to sit, for 20 minutes, in total silence. Close your eyes, go within, and meditate. Observe your thoughts, your body and your feelings. After doing the breath work, you will find this much easier. You can meditate sitting, lying or standing. If you want to you could try a guided meditation. We have hundreds to choose from for the entire family. You can visit our website here: (http://starmagichealing.com)
...breathe Breath Work Then is breathing. I want you to work in pairs. One will be lying (with closed eyes) and the other will have a stopwatch. The person lying will take 30 deep breathes into their belly, filling their lungs with oxygen. 30 deep, powerful breathes. On the thirtieth breathe, you will breathe in and the let it out. When you let it out, you are going to hold your breath out and the partner will start their stop clock. Once the person breathing needs to breathe, you take a deep breathe in and hold it. The person on the stopwatch will stop the clock. Once the breather needs to breathe, they do a second set of 30 deep breathes, holding and recording the time on the out breathe on set number two. You then repeat the set one more time, so thirty sets in total.
Each time the person breathing, holds the breath at the end of the set, the time will get longer because the cells have more oxygen in. You may also find the person breathing falls into a trance state, or journeys. Just let them drift. DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is amplified in the body, which naturally occurs in our lungs and spinal fluid and nature itself and can trigger a hallucinogenic experience. It’s a beautiful experience when you totally surrender on the final breath. During this exercise you will access your lymphatic system, switch on your immune system, dive into your DNA and switch your body on in so many ways. You will become, happier, healthier and over a short period of time, will notice incredible results, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Once the one of the team has done their three sets, you switch positions. I want you to do this once a day, more if you feel like it, and you will because it’s so nourishing for the mind, body and spirit.
These three very simple, free, potent exercises will change you and your family’s life. You will connect at a deeper level, heighten your awareness, raise your vibration and feel extraordinary. Continue with these exercises forever and its high likely that you will never visit the doctor’s surgery again. Remember, you are a powerful, sovereign being and have so much energy coursing through you. You have 75-100 trillion cells and each cell can produce 1.4 volts of electricity. Once you switch your system on, applying these principles, your life will grow new wings and you will soar like an eagle. Be happy, stay connected. Hug tightly and never be the first to let go. Love fiercely and ferociously and remember, you can’t catch the coronavirus from another human, simply by being in their space. So, don’t be scared of your sisters and brothers. Embrace them. We are a human family. Live in your heart and you will know the truth. I Love You! Jerry Sargeant www.starmagichealing.com
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An Attitude of Gratitude with Life Coach Lloyd Chambers
Life just like our book is a journey. Simple beginnings, nurturing, conditioning, awareness, loss, recovery, wonder, adventure and above all a relationship with love and fear where ultimately there can only be one winner. I made a decision to do 2 things. Live in love and learn to make better decisions in life. This is not taught in school for whatever reason but I would like to go on the record to say I think it should. Here is my first excerpt from the book. This one is on ‘The Importance of Decision Making.’ There are 2 Universal Truths I feel young people should know: 1. The Law of Diminishing Intent: The longer we take to act on information the less likely we are to act at all. 2. The Paradox of Choice: The more choices we have the less likely we are to make a decision at all, let alone the right choice (whatever that is). Decision making is the most important skill we can learn. And it is a skill! Most of us make Conditional choices. For example: • If it’s not raining I’ll go for that run. • If I can afford it I will go to that event. • If I pass the exam I will decide what to do next. Success in life depends on our ability to make Unconditional choices. For example: • Regardless of any circumstances, obstacles, or unforeseen eventuality I will succeed in my endeavour. • My goal will never move and I will move forward until it is achieved. • I will not allow my dreams to be compromised. My choices in life took me to the ends of the earth and back again. I witnessed culture after culture on an endless quest to understand what unites all of us. I wanted to know how did I fit into this grand story we are all a part of? I am realizing more recently that when we get to the depth of our intention in life in all circumstances it comes down to whether we are choosing out of FEAR or choosing out of LOVE. I have chosen LOVE. But in order to make choices and send my intention out in LOVE I must be the embodiment of LOVE. And of course deep down we know this but it doesn’t get talked about a lot: we must love ourselves and commune with that feeling, that vibration, if we expect to send love to others, those around us, our communities and the wider world. You cannot send what you do not possess. To quote Neville Goddard, ‘Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the path your attention follows’ MAY 2020 NEWSLETTER | 3
How to Use Future Gratitude There is a 3-step process: 1. Paint a picture in your mind in exact detail as you want it to happen 2. Focus on this picture first thing in the morning and last thing at night, getting those details as clear as day 3. Connect emotionally with that reality using gratitude as if it has already happened.
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.” —Neville Goddard Gratitude is the fuel that governs your ability to manifest. It is the juice to your passion and is what ties you emotionally to your VISION and your LIFE PURPOSE. Giving gratitude and developing strong self-beliefs are the starting points of discovering your unique life purpose, the BIG why for all you desire to BE, DO and HAVE in this lifetime. Gratitude, like the universal laws of this universe, is not confined to a timeline. What this means is that it is not confined to feeling gratitude for what you have right now. You can also feel grateful for things that have happened in the future just as you can feel grateful for things that have happened in the past. Let’s examine this idea. Life is full of ups and downs and none of us have had a singular upwards trajectory. Most have had high and low points in personal lives and our careers. So when you look back at past events and feel gratitude for how amazing it was and how proud and full of contentment and gratitude you felt, even if you’re not in that situation any longer you can still connect emotionally to it every time you remember. You can do exactly the same thing with facts and situations in the future. Naturally if you would like to grab a copy of our full book for yourself we have it on amazon and kindle. See links below. http://bit.ly/VisualisationToRealisationKindle http://bit.ly/VisualisationToRealisationPaperback Put your hand over your heart and say out loud ‘Love lives here’. Soon enough you will start to believe it.
Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty with Fiona O'Neill During this time of uncertainty tumultuous waves of difficult feelings and emotions arise for many of us; fear, grief, loss, sadness, anger, frustration, confusion, isolation, loneliness. Now more than ever self-love, self-compassion and self-patience are needed. The following is a process for accepting difficult feelings and emotions, adapted from a technique offered by Rasa yoga teacher, Sianna Sherman:
When the waves of emotion surface: 1. Feel deeply- breathe and be willing to deeply feel to truly heal. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek”-Joseph Campbell 2. Name what you feel- name without blaming and shaming 3. Listen with true openness- empathy, connection for yourself (and others) 4. Describe what you are feeling, the felt sense of where it is in your body, what it feels like, its qualities- is it sharp, burning, heavy, cold, prickly, tingling, tight? 5. Embrace yourself as whole- embrace what you now feel, soften, allow. Imagine your child or someone you love deeply is upset, offer the same level of kindness you would give to another to yourself. 6. Transform with love, courage, truth, compassion. Invite awareness of what you need to help transform this emotion, what action will soothe you and be of benefit; maybe it’s a warm, soft hug from a loved one, a cry, a nurturing walk
in nature, a healing chat with someone, a dance around the kitchen to your favourite song! All of our power is in the present moment. When we are caught in a loop of anxiety and fear, we are living in the future. When we are feeling depressed and sadness, our attention is entangled in the past. Emotions are energy in motion... Neither good or bad, nor positive or negative. The seeds of transformation and evolution rest in the earth of the generous present moment. Before I finish I’d like you to get really present with me, stop and take a few deep breaths. Inhale deeply... and exhale fully. Close your eyes for a minute or so, turn your attention inward and breathe in your own rhythm. Once you feel grounded and present in being, choose one quality about yourself that you are grateful for in this moment and offer heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to yourself. Energy flows where attention goes! Of course we won’t forget the little ones here! At the school in which I teach, the children enjoy when we play a game called ‘what’s the weather?’. It’s a nice introduction to somatics. Firstly, we describe the weather outside... is it cloudy, sunny, rainy, stormy, windy. Just like the weather changes outside we talk about ‘the weather’ inside our bodies, sometimes it feels really sunny, sometimes it’s stormy and sometimes it feels cloudy. We take a mindful moment together to breathe and tune in to our bodies. Each child shares his/her current ‘weather report’. We finish the exercise with looking up at the sky, noticing the expanse and that even when there are clouds or rain showers they pass by.
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Learn commencement Tai Chi with Martial Arts Expert Younis Fakhfakh
Younis Fakhfakh holds a Degree in Psychology from the University of Birmingham and a Masters Degree in Psychoanalytic Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University. During his time as a student, he began training in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu Martial Arts and as a result of this became increasingly interested in physical therapies as well as those relating to the mind. In 1998 his instructor in Doncaster introduced him to Amatsu, and indeed helped a back complaint he had at the time. From this time he began studying the system and on returning to Ireland, completed his training with William Doolan in Dun Laoghaire in 2001. Since then he has done postgraduate training in the Shinden jutsu and Kenku Jutsu levels of the therapy with Dennis Bartram. He also attended a seminar taught by Thomas Myers (author of the book Anatomy Trains) on Structural Integration (also known as Rolfing), as well as another with James Waslaski on Orthopaedic Massage. He has been training in a system of Martial Arts, Body Awareness and Mind Training known as Cheng Hsin since 2006. This was first developed by Peter Ralston (based on the latter’ s extensive 50 years experience of Martial Arts in the Far East and the West).In 2012, he was awarded Degree 1 in the system and given permission to teach it after spending a month in Texas training with Master Ralston.
Here's how... Commencement in Tai Chi • Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, toes pointing forward. • Stack your body into your feet, allowing it to fall into itself, into the ground, like a stack of dishes • Breath gently in and out through your nose, down to your abdomen. • Calm your mind, be present, don't get hung up on thoughts, allow them to drift by. • As the body grounds into the feet, allow it to relax as completely as you can, with the arms hanging by the sides, palms facing backwards. • Imagine someone on a platform above you has a rope tied to each one of your wrists, and they gently raise your arms up from your wrists so they end up straight in front of you at shoulder height. • Imagine your arms become two hollow tubes, full of helium. • Extend your fingers gently, as though you had laser beams shooting out of your finger tips with which you could feel the wall in front of you. Congratulations, you’ve learned the opening move found, with slight variations, in all Tai Chi forms!
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Up the Vibe with Homeopathy The Flowgrow Experience Talks to Limerick's Own Homeopath Mary Foley
Homeopathy is a holistic therapy. It treats individuals rather than diagnosed diseases, working on all levels – spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. Homeopathy has been around for over 200 years and is well established throughout the world. It is a system of medicine which involves treating the individual with the aim of triggering the body’s natural system of healing. When we consider the body’s life force, or vital force, it is not something we can see, feel, touch, hear or smell but yet it is the force that we are animated by. Without our vital force we would cease to exist. It is our energy flow, our vibration, our pattern. When we get sick it is an impingement on our vital force, our pattern flow is disturbed and we are no longer functioning at our best. As it is our pattern that is disrupted, surely the way to respond to this dis-harmony is also with something that contains the pattern, the vibration, the frequency, that is needed by our vital force at that particular time to restore our pattern, meet our susceptibility, and regain harmony and balance once again. As homeopathy is an energetic medicine, it is able to treat the body on a deep energetic, holistic, vibrational level. The correct homeopathic treatment not only alleviates the symptoms of illness but enables the patient to feel that life is once again flowing harmoniously. Patients often remark that they haven’t felt as well in a long time.
It is based on two leading principles: 1. Like cures like The standard medical assumption has always been that if the body produced symptoms the appropriate treatment would be an antidote – an opposite medicine to that symptom e.g. constipation would be treated with laxatives, which produce diarrhoea. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, proposed that a different system of healing might apply. He called this ‘similia similibus curentur’ or ‘let like be cured with like’. A disease can be cured by a medicine which in healthy people is able to produce a condition that resembles the disease. 2.The minimum dose As little medicine as possible is employed. After a dose is given the individual’s response is carefully observed and the remedy is repeated or changed accordingly. Homeopathic remedies are produced
from natural substances such as plants, minerals and animal products. Since homeopathy is used to treat people rather than illnesses, anyone, whatever their diagnosis, can benefit from homeopathic treatment. Homeopathy works effectively in a wide variety of acute and chronic problems including infectious diseases, allergies, gynaecological difficulties, digestive problems and so on. It also helps prevent future trouble by increasing the individual’s strength and resistance. There are over 5,000 homeopathic remedies and more being proven all the time. Here are a few examples of remedies and their actions: Arnica Probably one of the best known homeopathic remedies. It is an herb
that grows to a height of 10 to 12 inches and has yellow flowers like those of a daisy or marigold. As a homeopathic remedy it is used for complaints from accident or injury. Arnica promotes healing, reduces swelling and prevents pus forming. People needing Arnica will usually feel sore and bruised and will not want to be touched. Allium Cepa This plant, the red onion, is cultivated as a garden vegetable. As a homeopathic remedy it is used for those symptoms that it is capable of producing in a healthy individual, i.e. streaming of the eyes and nose. Any illness that produces these symptoms, be it a cold or hay fever, can be helped by Allium Cepa. Bryonia Alba A climbing perennial that grows wild in vineyards and woods in southern England and central and southern MAY 2020 NEWSLETTER | 6
Europe. Many complaints needing Bryonia, such as flu, fever and coughs, are accompanied by headaches. They are usually very thirsty, and will drink large quantities of cold drinks. They can also complain of dryness e.g. mouth, lips, tongue, chest, eyes etc. Gelsemium Sempervirens A climbing plant found in moist woodlands and along sea coasts in the southern states of the USA. People needing Gelsemium as a homeopathic remedy complain of heaviness and weakness in legs and body. Exhausted. Trembling heaviness such as is present in the anxiety or fear that precedes an exam or public talk. Pains in muscles, chills and shivers up and down the back as often seen in flu. Headache with the sensation of a band around the head. Feeling chilly. Chamomilla An annual plant that grows in uncultivated fields among wheat and corn, especially in the sandy regions of Europe. Chamomilla pains are often brought on or are associated with teething, anger, or too much tea or coffee. Especially suited to teething children. One cheek red, the other cheek pale. Capricious, they don’t know what they want, hard to satisfy. As you can see this is a very brief introduction to homeopathy. We all experience health and illness differently. The emphasis is on the person as a whole and their individual presenting symptoms. For example, one person might have a throbbing pain in the back of the head whereas another might complain of a blinding headache at the front of the head. Another’s
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headache might be accompanied by a tummy upset; another might feel better walking in open air but worse indoors. Clearly these are all different symptoms and so would require different remedies. As we make distinctions between physical symptoms we also look for individualising symptoms on a mental and emotional level. If we take the example of a flu, lots of physical symptoms might be similar e.g. pain in forehead, sore dry throat, cough, tightness in chest, weakness in limbs, thirsty or thirstless, chills and shivers. We discuss each symptom in detail – how the patient experiences each symptom, what makes each symptom worse and what gives relief. Then we look at the mental and emotional state of the patient – do they want company or would the rather be left alone? Are they happy to know someone is in another room or would they rather have them nearer? Are they happy to converse or would they rather peace and quiet? Do they feel needy and clingy? Are they irritable and grumpy? Are they anxious and fearful, are they despairing of recovery? From a homeopathic viewpoint, more attention is given to the symptoms experienced by the patient rather than diagnosing and putting a name on the illness. It is the person, the individual, that we look to treat, boosting the body’s healing system and returning to a state of health.
The Radiant Self. Go Beyond Beliefs. Share Spiritual Insight. with Andree O'Toole
The reason to look at and heal the “I am ….” Beliefs. Freedom and authenticity are yours and who you truly are. In a world full of opinions and no filter of care taken with some of those opinions, we can step back and look at the opinions and actions of others and ourselves. When you truly are kind, feel good and are authentic within yourself you automatically want that for others, you want others to be who they authentically are and it brings you joy and happiness to see others shine, succeed in life and be happy. You share that joy with them and it’s a gift for you both; it’s not real effort, you just naturally see the best in others as you know you are being your best self, your authentic self! You are naturally kind, gentle, peaceful, creative and graceful when you are truly centred and expressing your authentic self. Let us speak about the non-authentic self or the masked persona, the wounded self or the victim self. This self was birthed from the things we decided to believe about ourselves through life’s happenings when we were younger and that persist to the present.
Things may go wrong or someone may say or do a hurtful act and you will subconsciously believe “oh that happened because I AM BAD”. As you grow older, you will do what you can to protect that belief; you may feel that you have to prove your goodness to the world by doing things for others constantly. You may even experience the feeling of being used by others in the process. On the other hand, you may wish to make others look bad in your eyes and with other people in order to reinforce belief that you are good—“they did this to me, can you believe it? They are awful people, let’s tell everyone how horrible they are”. This is a superiority/inferiority complex that acts as your protective mechanism and becomes your identity—something you stand by strongly. This is the non-authentic self or the wounded self, going through life constantly feeling the need to defend itself or berate others, and all the while you are only trying to protect the “I am bad” belief.
Non-judgemental self-awareness can open your eyes to the places where you defend yourself, where you can offend others, and feel emotionally
Then let go: see what words fill in the blanks to show you what you’ve falsely identified yourself as being. Ask yourself what beliefs are blocking you from knowing your true beauty, your true essence,
The reason to look at and heal the “I am ….” Beliefs. Freedom and authenticity are yours and who you truly are.
For example, if you were treated harshly and told you were a bold girl or boy and made feel shameful or embarrassed, you might have believed in those moments. “I am a terrible girl/boy/human being, I AM BAD”! Then with that formed belief, other instances can occur in your life to reinforce that belief.
How do we begin to heal and let go of these false beliefs about ourselves? The first step is awareness.
overwhelmed. Know that your feelings are extreme towards a situation at hand. When you become aware of your pattern of behaviour in this case, the “I am bad”, you may find yourself saying statements like “I’m a good person”, “I’m a good mother”, “I’m a good father”, “I am a good man”, and these statement are blurted out in such helplessness that you feel you are desperately trying to convince another of your goodness when all the while it’s a belief you choose to have about yourself. When you become aware of this, you can accept it—that there is a belief you have about yourself that needs your awareness and a deeper examination. You do not have to go trawling through all your memories of childhood, just write on a page, starting with the simple words “I am ...”.
your true wholeness. You will be surprised at what arises. Be patient, be loving towards yourself and know this is the opening of meeting your inner child, the one who began believing anything other than your magnificence, your essence that is an extension of the source’s unconditional love. Ask your source, your higher power or God, whatever you call higher knowing and power, to show you and guide you towards the healing of these wounds and know you are not broken. You are only ever healing and letting go of false beliefs that you mistakenly had about yourself. If it gets too tough, too overwhelming, reach out for the help and support you deserve on your journey. Remember that all children may go through their childhood interpreting beliefs about themselves that are false, but it is our responsibility as adults to challenge these beliefs and heal within ourselves. We may not have been responsible for how our wounds were created, but what we choose to believe about ourselves is our responsibility to heal and let go of. Remember that negative thought patterns that have been entertained for years by you are not you: they are those from the false beliefs and when you believe these and feel low or unworthy, more negative thoughts are likely to join them, becoming a big “monster” inside the mind. These thoughts are not you and were never you: they were only birthed from the false belief that you were anything other than divine. Bring your loving awareness to those parts of you that require it; there is no better time to choose to find out who you truly are. Your future self will be thankful you made that choice today.
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The Breath Of Life With Saralee Healing
Bring your awareness to your breath and allow this awareness to expand using the words: SO HUM. 'SO' on the in breath and 'HUM' on the outbreath, say the words silently in your mind with the natural rhythm of your breath's movement. Humans are not conscious breathers such as dolphins. Humans are for the most part unconsciously breathing through out their lives. It is only when we become aware of our breath can we start to use this movement and awareness to become connected to the truth of our beingness. When we become conscious of our breathing we start to slowdown. This is because focus or concentration creates space and resonance. In so many different spiritual systems you will find information on the value of conscious breathing and the benefits for the body. Focusing on the breath simply invites presence and stillness into the body.
Simple exercise to help connect with your breathing body: Holding your left hand on your heart, imagine breathing in green light up both nostrils and see or visualise that green light moving down through the body, right down to the base of the spine. On the outbreath visualise all stress leaving the body, allow the feeling of relaxation to envelope you and see yourself fading into the dark of you inner body and world. Feel your whole body relax as the body becomes more concave. Again breath in green light and repeat the process for as long as feels good. Doing conscious breathing at least once everyday creates clarity and stillness and invokes a deeper stillness from within. This is a powerful place of non-reaction. We all need this super power to help us manage our emotional charge and baggage when dealing with everyday life. Love Saralee x
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