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Ann on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsOne of my first blogs I wrote had to do with the missing link in our foods. (To read the full article, go to http://www.naturallyresilient.com/blog/?p=6) This missing link is an energetic link, one that is associated with a higher vibration – Love.
Now I want you to think of other things that can bring out a feeling of love. Some things may come to mind like weddings, babies and music. I want to concentrate on music; not the head-banger, rap stuff. That type of music can cause your vibration to lower not raise. (A simple muscle test can determine if the music you enjoy is helping or hurting you.) Classical is the most common music that can raise your vibration, and what type of instrument do you think of most often when you think of Classical? A violin.
My husband was talking to an artist friend Omar Barba recently who is learning violin, who said something interesting. This artist’s violin instructor had recently purchased a violin. The instructor did not want a new instrument, no they wanted a well used and cherished older one because the tone of the violin gets richer as it ages and is used.
Have you ever watched some one who loved playing the violin as they were playing? There is a look of intense concentration and rapture on their face. All that exist is them and their music; it is a form of making love to the music and the instrument. My husband and I believe that this energetic vibration of love carries through to the violin which resonates with the years of love and being cherished that it has experienced, making the tones richer and more beautiful through the years. Just like when love going into the food making it more nutritious, love goes into the violin making the sound it makes more beautiful.
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Ann on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 |
No CommentsBarney was a LARGE black and white cat. He was not fat just big boned. For being as big as he was you would think that he would not be afraid of anything. That was almost true but he did have one big fear: snakes.
Barney would freak out with any long thin item. There could be a shoe lace still attached to the shoe and he would take a wide birth around it. Paul could have a tie lying on the bed and Barney would jump up on the bed then turn inside out getting back off the bed when he saw that tie lying there. Barney did not care for playing with strings or yarn like most cats. He hated electrical cords. Anything that was long and narrow would send him into a panic.
During this time we had some rental property. One of our tenants moved out and left half of their stuff behind. Paul and I went in to clean it up and put their belongings in our cattle trailer until they could come get them. One of the items they left behind was their pet Boa Constrictor. So we had to bring the snake and its large aquarium home with us. We were living in a small mobile home at the time and had little room for this large item so we set it on the floor in the living room in front of the book shelves.
Have you heard of the term ‘your worst fears realized’? This was Barney’s worst fears realized. He could not believe we had brought a snake into the house! He would walk as far around it as possible. The other cats pretty much ignored the snake, even lying next to the aquarium.
We had that snake for two months. The tenants never did come and get their stuff and we had to sell everything. The snake was the hardest to get rid of.
This whole episode is very typical of life, where we do tend to attract our worst fears just as Job did in the Bible and Barney did with the snake. We attract our fear because we put a lot of energy toward that fear and so it materializes, this is the ‘law of attraction’ at work. What is your main fear? Do you want to avoid it? The use of EFT can be beneficial in removing the emotional hooks that keep that fear in your mind. Set up an appointment with me at www.naturallyresilient.com and start living a fear free life.
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Ann on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 |
No CommentsI am anticipating this current crop of teens taking command of the world. They seem to be more in tune with the energetic world around them. I have introduced my son, who is now 16, to many of the energy healing methods, such as NAET, EFT, Reiki, and Body Talk. He has experienced some first hand and has even performed some himself.
When he was younger I showed him how you can strengthen a person by putting your palm on their forehead and how you can weaken that same person by putting the back of your hand on their forehead. I even managed to win at arm wrestling match with him by using that technique. He won’t arm wrestle with me any more.
My son understands the principle of muscle testing for what weakens your energy field. But I was still surprised when he came back from the youth mission trip this year with a new ‘trick’ to show me. This involved muscle testing and a method to weaken or strength the energy field that I did not know about.
One person would stand with their arm straight out to the side and another person would zip their energy, running a finger from mid chest, down the sternum to about the belly button. Then the arm would be pushed on to test the strength and it would be strong. Next the person would run their finger the other direction, from the belly button, up the sternum to about mid chest region. At the retest, the arm would be weak meaning the person could not resist the same pressure. They may have considered this a silly party trick, but many of our useful inventions started out as toys and interesting curiosities.
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Ann on Friday, August 20th, 2010 |
No CommentsI am going to continue with Matthew 9:20-22 today. Actually the portion I want to examine is mentioned in Mark 5:30. This is where Jesus felt healing power go out of him when the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years touched his robe.
Energy is all around us, it is in all things, and it flows through all things. Some people are very in tuned to this energy.
I had been going through a rough time a couple of years ago and was attending a series of lectures about PTSD. During a break time, I was walking back to my seat when an older woman with long white hair came up to me and said “I felt energy leave me and attach to you when you walked by and I wanted you to have this”. She then pressed a crystal into my hand. I thanked her and told her I would send her energy back to her later.
On the way home, I remembered my promise and I released her energy. WOW! I felt a major release of energy flow out of me. I was amazed, why did I not feel that energy attach itself to me? There was so much of it and I was amazed that I had not felt when it had come to me. If we are not tuned into the energetic exchange around us, we do not feel it. I was turned into the energy on the way home when I released it and therefore I felt it.
Since we often do not know when an energetic exchange is going on, a good bedtime practice to get into is releasing all energy that is not your own, sending it back to whomever it belongs to and calling your energy back to you from where ever it may be. I like to send and receive the energy with the phrase “transmuted through Christ’s white light”, this cleans and raises its vibration.
Give this a try yourself and you may be in tune enough to the energy that you will feel it leave and you will be revitalized by your returning energy.
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Ann on Thursday, August 19th, 2010 |
No CommentsMatthew 9:20-22 tells of the woman who reaches out to touch Jesus to clear up the hemorrhage she had for the previous 12 years. This story is told in the middle of the story of the synagogue leader who had come to Jesus after his daughter had just died. Tuesday’s blog discusses the story with the synagogue leader and his act of desperation. Today’s story is also one of desperation and hope. According to Mark’s version, this woman had suffered a great deal from many doctors and had spent everything she had to pay them. This woman had gotten it into her mind that if she could just touch Jesus’ robe then everything would be OK.
Sometimes we tie big ‘miracles’ with daring acts. What was her daring act? She was considered ‘unclean’ because of the bleeding. This was a big deal especially for a rabbi or teacher in the Jewish community. There was a whole ritual that had to be performed after touching something unclean. She thought she could just slip in, touch his robe and no one would be the wiser and the act of touching Jesus was so tied up in her mind with being healed that it worked!
Let’s put this in modern terms. We have all heard of (if not actually experienced) an undiagnosed ailment. This may be a pain with no known organic reason. This could be a crippling disorder that just does not respond to medication. Whatever it is the person can see many doctors and go through all kinds of painful procedures and spend all their money and still be in pain. What our medicine fails to consider is the emotional basis of our illness.
When medicine fails there is often another reason for the illness and that is often emotional. There is a modern method that can often handle the emotional distress that is causing an illness. That is Meridian Tapping or EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Through the expert handling of an experienced EFT practitioner, the emotional basis of the illness can be determined and then treated with a meridian tapping technique.
For more information on Meridian Tapping or EFT, go to www.naturallyresilient.com.
Tomorrow I will cover another aspect of this story: Jesus feeling the energy going out of him.
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Ann on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 |
No CommentsWhen we lived on 68 acres, we were always losing cats. It may have been the coyotes or it may have been the mountain lion or it could have been the Owls or Falcons that surveyed the area.
We had recently lost a friendly Siamese named Mouser. I was suspicious that she might have taken a ride with some one; jumping in the back of one of the construction trucks that were constantly going in and out of our property. I was looking through the ads in the local paper to see if anyone had found a lost cat fitting her description. I saw an ad stating “Found, Female Siamese”. I called the number and a woman answered. The description she gave did not really sound much like Mouser but I thought I better check it out. She explained that she did not have the cat because her apartment would not allow animals but she always saw the cat when she and her friend went walking. She explained that the cat was always seen back behind a bank building and she usually brought it food as it was so skinny. I agreed to meet her behind the bank building the next afternoon.
The next afternoon Paul, Jesse and I showed up at the bank after banking hours. Wow! There must have been at least a 100 cats running around back there! Almost all of the cats were feral. Before too long the woman showed up. She pointed out a particular cat to me and with a little coaxing and some tempting food the cat came up. It was not Mouser.
The woman was so concerned about this cat and was so insistent that I take it so I could at least take it to the pound the next day. She would have done that but she never saw the cat except at night and she could not keep the cat overnight at her apartment and risk getting thrown out. I was just amazed that she had zeroed in on this one cat when there were a hundred running around us out there!
We took the cat but I had no intention of taking it to the pound, I just don’t work that way. The next morning we took it to our vet to get shots and to be spayed. I asked them to board her over the weekend as we had a camping trip planned and I would pick her up Monday morning.
Monday morning I brought Misty home. I opened the cat carrier and she came out. Harry had to come up and investigate and Misty promptly hissed at Harry. For the rest of the day Harry went around the house hissing. He hissed at anyone walking across the floor, he hissed at the vacuum cleaner, he hissed at anything that was out of place. He had learned a new word and had to try it out. Unfortunately this also set the tone for their relationship, they have never been good friends and are barely on speaking terms.
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Ann on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 |
No CommentsMatthew 9:18 starts the story of the synagogue leader who had a little girl that was not just dying but was dead! She had just died and in his panic and desperation he sought out Jesus. This was a daring act on his part as he was a leader and people looked up to him. Like famous people nowadays this man had a high up position and was in the limelight, at least in his area. Jesus had an uneasy relationship with the synagogue leaders, they were not too sure of him at this time and you might say he was under scrutiny. Maybe this was why this father did not come sooner but waited with hope that his daughter would improve. Maybe he was in denial, but then the unthinkable happened, she died. But in his panic this father knew that if any man could help, Jesus could.
Desperation is a very powerful emotion. This is the emotion that provides strength to a woman so she can lift a car off her child. Desperation is a strong emotion to put into prayer. The stronger the emotion the faster the prayer is answered. The answer may come as an idea that pops into your head like this father all of a sudden thinking of getting Jesus or it may actually cause something to materialize (the item may have always been there but you may not have ever noticed it before).
Desperation can cause us to act in ways we would not normally act. When desperate, we may appear to act irrationally which is what the mourners at the girls house thought of the father’s actions. They ridiculed him when he came back with Jesus. The girl was dead, they knew what death looked like. During this timeframe and society people were quite familiar with death. But desperation causes irrational acts, it causes people to take chances and sometimes those risks pay off.
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Ann on Monday, August 16th, 2010 |
No CommentsMatthew 9:2-8 is another healing story but I think it has an interesting twist. A paralyzed man was brought to Jesus and “Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, ‘Take heart, son! Your sins are forgiven.’”
Two things I want to point out, first who had the faith? It says seeing ‘their’ faith. Was this the faith of the men who brought the paralyzed man to Jesus or did this include the paralyzed man’s faith. I doubt that the paralyzed man had much if any say in where his friends took him so it may have just been the faith of the friends that Jesus could heal their friend. To me this says that the faith of another can help someone else. This is where prayers for someone else can be beneficial.
The second twist was the change in wording from what Jesus usually said. The usual phrase Jesus used in healing was ‘your faith has healed you’, but here he says ‘your sins are forgiven’.
Many illnesses are caused by our emotional state. I have seen many emotional problems manifest in physical form. It is often our emotional state knocking us in the head to get our attention but we still ignore them because our society and culture has so disjointed ourselves into compartments that don’t mix. We have doctors for the physical, psychologist for the mental and priest for the spiritual crisis. But a crisis in any one of these can cause changes and problems in one or two of the others. We are all tied together, we are not three different elements (body, mind and spirit) separated but one being that integrates all three.
This man may have been going through a spiritual crisis over some action that he could not move past and his body was accommodating this crisis by freezing or paralyzing his body so he could not physically move forward. By releasing and forgiving the event that sent him into the spiritual crisis the body followed suit and released the paralysis!
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Ann on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 |
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I like to meditate. It gives me peace and gets my day off to a great start. I have had many people ask “How do you meditate” in fact that was a question I asked myself when I first started out.
Many people especially those new to meditating do not realize that you can meditate anywhere and any time. I came across a nifty little book called The Meditation Bible: The Definitive Guide to Meditations for Every Purpose (… Bible)
by Madonna Gauding that really emphasizes that point. This book starts out talking about what mediation is and how to prepare for it but the meat of the book contains suggested meditations for different places and for different reasons. For example there is a meditation you can do while eating, there is another you can perform while weeding the garden. There are also the more traditional meditations such as walking a labyrinth and those that concentrate on breathing or a flame.
Meditation is a relaxing way to experience your inner self, it is a step toward conscious living. It is a must for anyone seeking enlightenment in this heavy, dark physical world.
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Ann on Saturday, August 14th, 2010 |
No CommentsI have been thinking a lot about free will lately. That term has always confused me in the way it is used in theology but I think I am finally making sense of the term with my investigation of the ‘law of attraction’ and manifesting.
Let’s review; we are spiritual beings who are basically made of energy. If you look at the smallest physical particle of matter then look deeper past the atom past the electron you will finally get to pure energy and that is what everything is including you and me.
Since the only thing that truly exist is energy what are our thoughts? Energy of course.
Our thoughts go out and solidify into substance. The more energy (passion, effort or even continual thought) you put into something the faster it will solidify and materialize.
How does this relate to free will? You are free to think what you want, free to experience the emotions you want. You are free to send out your thoughts and create whatever you wish. This free will perpetuates itself because what you think the most about will draw those experiences and things to you to reinforce those thoughts. So you create your life through your thoughts and your free will. God wants you to use your free will otherwise God would not have given it to you.
This is a case of be careful what you wish for (or think about). When you dwell on the negative in your life you create more of it.
This is where free will gets sticky and the theological idea of “Your will not mine” comes into play. I firmly believe that God wants us to live a passionate life, one that is true to who we really are. If we are in alignment with who we truly are, then we are in alignment with God’s will. We often get sidetracked about who we are. We often insist that we are helpless, or a victim, or miserable because we have bought into what someone in the past told us or you have let a past experience tell you that is who you are now. No that was who you were then. Each moment is a different choice and you get to choose.
