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Creativity comes from within. Yearnings can never be satisfied from outside. Within us is a bottomless well of inspiration, our source of originality - who we are. Once we open to our creative process, other blocks in our lives will also move. Within each of us lies an artist waiting to be discovered/uncovered. Our inner child needs to communicate through the creative process.

Since working with mothers and children in homeopathy, I’ve come across a large group of people that have experienced birth trauma, either as the mother or child. Often what affects one will affect the other. In her book, Origins, Annie Paul describes monitoring of the pregnant mothers’ physical bodies at rest (via headphones and eye covers) and their childs’ affect on their mothers when they startle the babies externally with noise. The mothers’ body shows the spike in biological markers to the fetus’ response.

GRAHAM Snyder is, by his own admission, not a dynamic speaker. And yet when he walked to the podium as keynote speaker for Conflict Resolution Network Canada's conference this June in Winnipeg, a respectful and anticipatory silence descended upon the packed room. And for the 45 minutes or so that he took to tell his story, no one stirred, no one left, no papers were shuffled, no chairs scraped, no coughs, no whispers.

For those of you who haven’t heard of EFT, it stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, and is what we call an energy-based meridian therapy. There are several different meridian therapies in use, but EFT is by far the most widely used, embraced by psychiatrists, psychologists, medical doctors, life coaches, and lay people around the world who use it for everything from physical aches and pains to the worst childhood traumas.

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” -Woody Allen

Like Woody Allen, we can all feel sometimes as though the available options in life are bad, and worse. The world seems complicated, and every day we hear about something else that isn't good for us. But it is possible to cut through all the distorted information out there, and come up with some basic truths.

In the first part of this series, I gave you a short history and outline of the burgeoning field of conflict resolution. One of the main points I made was the belief by conflict resolution theorists, that conflict is not necessarily a bad thing. It can drive people to accomplish goals they might never attempt. It can get the attention of power elites that might ignore just and reasonable demands.

To understand what we mean by the growing field of Conflict Resolution, it helps to understand a little about conflict itself. Generally, within the field, it is assumed that conflict is always the result of frustrated needs, that is, one or more parties not getting their needs met. They may not be universal needs, and various parties to the conflict may disagree about the worthiness of those needs, but nevertheless, I challenge you to find a single conflict where unmet needs are not involved.

As I was putting together this article on B12, I thought I’d share my motivation. I see so much B12 lacking in everyone that I has an LBA session with me (live blood analysis) - almost an epidemic... And not all of this deficiency is for the same reason.

A little documentary inspired this article: "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" http://video.google.co/videoplay?docid=-6551291488524526735#. The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide.

In Peru, making sacred offerings to mountain spirits and Mother Earth is one of the oldest traditions of this ancient culture. These despachos are meant to bring balance and are ultimately acts of profound love. The unity and interconnectedness among all beings, elements, spirits and sacred places is represented in a properly made despacho. When we have had despacho ceremonies performed for the guests we have taken to Peru, they have reported an improvement in the flow of their lives and even better health. So what exactly are despachos?

Shamanism Is Alive and Well in Today's Peru ~ While it is difficult to make generalizations about exactly what any modern shaman believes because there are so many religious and cultural influences at play in today’s Peru, these ancient medicine men and women are as powerful a force in modern life as they were millennia ago. Even more significantly, they are accessible to you when you visit the country.

Lately we've all been hearing about Swine Flu. Many numbers and facts have been bandied about, but in truth, most are only guesses. Since working in a clinic in San Francisco, most of the people I see come in the door are relatively poor, working class. I've seen people march in there with all the same symptoms of the Swine Flu for the last 6 months. Almost always, they march right back out again, feeling much better, if not 100%. If they're not feeling much better, they have an additional remedy to take if they feel they're not significantly down the road to recovery.

Welcome to my most recent Youtube articles: Energy 201 a continuation of Energy 101 posted below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBx3ogXWL6A&feature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eKaP4AzeuAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCcFdlNifU&feature=related

Enjoy!

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Welcome to my most recent articles: Energy 101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw7ikYeiX8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctV9hgfRuF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDA7jf9y5ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YcpjzpsqWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5BzglREphQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J2l4t5MTTg

Enjoy!

 It’s about time I address the issue of menopause. Many women call or come in to my office with problems associated with the end of menses. Menses in homeopathy is very close to the vital force; although we can live without reproducing (as in the decision or event we do not have children, or the loss of female reproductive organs through hysterectomy), it is part and parcel of whom we are, and changes our bodies monthly with the onset of puberty until menopause.

If you’ve had bad sleep, now’s the time to figure out why. Sleep is so important to your health. Once it is good, you’ve unlocked the door to better health. Work on that now, saw those logs!
There’s nothing like crawling in between two cool sheets and falling into blissful slumber. Maybe it’s been easy for me because I keep so busy during the day that it’s never been a problem. I feel for those that have trouble. There are many things you can do to improve sleep. No, not smoking pot!

Have you ever wondered how people can claim to send distant healing energy? And really wondered how this can be done when all the healer has is a first name and initial and maybe a city somewhere close by or far away? Can these claims be real? Why not just send healing with just initials or no name at all?

Oxygen and ozone therapy is a term for a number of closely related therapies that promote healing by introducing oxygen into the body in a variety of ways. Ozone is an activated form of oxygen. Oxygen is O2 whereas ozone is O3. Over a period of 20 to 30 minutes, depending on temperature and situation, ozone breaks down into two atoms of regular oxygen - O2 and one atom of singlet oxygen O. This single O is a reactive oxygen atom.