How Mindfulness Meditation Can Help People With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Research has shown that the benefits of mindfulness meditation are far-reaching, from minimizing pain sensitivity to helping us regulate our emotions. The newest study suggests it could also have benefits specifically for people with rheumatoid arthritis.

The small study, conducted by researchers from Oslo’s Diakonhjemmet Hospital, shows that people who partake in mindfulness exercises had less fatigue and lower levels of stress than people who just receive standard treatment for the condition.

Study Details

The research was published in the journal Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, and included 73 people with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis between ages 20 and 70. Half of the people were chosen to do mindfulness exercises that were done in 10 group sessions for 15 weeks, as well as one more session six months after the 10 sessions were completed. The other half of the people were just given regular care for the condition, as well as a CD that taught them how to do mindfulness exercises.

In this particular study, mindfulness meditation aimed to help people concentrate on their own thoughts, experiences and pain in the moment, without actively trying to avoid them or judge them, researchers said.

The Results

At the end of the study, both groups of people had the same pain levels, ability to talk about how they were feeling and disease activity. However, the people who had the group mindfulness training scored significantly lower in measurements of stress and fatigue, compared with people who didn’t have the training.

Even though this study didn’t show that mindfulness had any effect on reducing pain levels, past research suggests it can help to ease pain. A study in the Journal of Neuroscience showed that mindfulness meditation can lower pain levels by 57 percent, USA Today reported.

A separate study, in the journal Cerebral Cortex, suggests that meditation has this pain-relieving effect by increasing brain activity in regions associated with sensory information processing, according to USA Today.

Just A Few Health Benefits of Meditation

• It makes your brain more ‘plastic’.
• It increases gray matter.
• It can be better than sleeping.
• It IS better than blood pressure medication.
• It can protect your tolemeres.
• It can slow the progression of HIV.
• It’s pain-relieving properties beat morphine. (wow!)

So the big question is, rheumatoid or not … are YOU meditating regularly? If so, how has it enhanced your life. If not, why not? Let me know in the comments below.

Many blessings,
Dawn

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Have you had an Oz Odyssey? In what ways has it awakened you to “more love than you had ever known before”? Share your spiritual enlightenment experience in the comments below.

Many blessings,
Dawn

Scent has a wonderful effect on us.

Ever notice whenever you smell something you like, you feel more at peace? Like taking a big whiff from your mug of coffee before your first sip. Or the way people have a slight smile whenever they pass a bakery. Or how sniffing a baby is so addictive! For me, I feel calm and refreshed whenever I smell freshly plucked basil.

Go on and try it! Smell something you like and notice how you feel right after that. Let me know what comes to your mind

Today, I am going to share with you the magical properties of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy plays a wondrous role in healing or stimulating our senses. Enjoy!

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Aromatherapy – More Than Just Good Smell

from themedguru.com

The history of aromatherapy dates back to more than 3500 years before Christ’s birth, to a time when the use of aromatics was recorded for the first ever instance in human history. The truth is that the history of aromatherapy is deeply linked with the progress of aromatic medicine, which in its initial stages was typically combined with religion, mysticism and magic.

In India, around 2000 BC, various writings mention the role of ‘perfumers’ and ‘incense sellers’. The word ‘aromatherapy’ was used for the first time in the 1920s by French chemist Rene-Maurice-Gattefosse, who dedicated his life to researching on the discipline of aromatherapy.

The theory to explain the healing effects of aromatherapy offers two mechanisms- the influence of aroma on the brain, on the limbic system through the olfactory system in particular, and the direct pharmacological effects these essential oils have on the body.

Though the efficacy of aromatherapy as a form of healing has not yet been proven, but some clinical studies have shown encouraging results.

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All Love and Eternal Gratitude,
Angelique

Today I was speaking with a young new good angel friend who was telling me the story of how she had an out of body experience. It was her first. She was at a nightclub and had what I call the modern day Shamanic Experience.

After all, my first out of body experience had happened when I was 16 in a dentist chair! Because money was tight and the dental school offered a more affordable solution, I had to undergo root canal treatment by students. They had administered way too much Nitrogen Oxide and I sat in the chairing having a very similar experience to what she recalled for me. Hovering outside yourself, full awareness, and complete bliss.

Everything that has happened in my life, led up to this moment! To being here with you right now. It’s not everyday people get to have these awakenings and so it’s still somewhat taboo. We still feel like someone is going to judge us or think we are crazy. Thank God the time has arrived that there are enough of us “crazy” people that know each other to know, that no, we are not crazy. We are the Free Tribe. Unconditional love, unattached, free, and all of this, is a different color of LOVE.

I prefer Love Tribe, filled with angels.

And that’s the world I try to inhabit each day. Because only what is in front of us is real obviously. Of course there’s a lot going on “out there”. And we have the ability to be in both places.  Because it’s all about energy and energy is GOD. That’s why we are so obsessed with it obviously. It’s in EVERYTHING, because it is all linked you see.

Neale Donald Walsh is not the only person to talk to God. Because God is everything and everywhere, everyone and everything, constantly talking to God. Not the fake Priest who is a pedophile. Not the Evangelist who screams at you to take out your wallet. Not the Guru who tells you to do the Bhagavadgita. Not the politician who swears he’s born again but will genetically modify your food.

Life is the prayer you must do and practice each day. To be more specific, a good practice… of living your life to the fullest to do what you love, with the intention of love and right action. To be loved, whether you’re rich or poor, well or sick, happy or sad. If you shift your perception to doing all you do from a place of love, it will just be easier. Not that that is exactly easy to achieve, I can’t promise you that. It’s a practice for sure. And it sometimes means, having some hard lessons.

We have all had them. One historic figure got crucified. So no, life isn’t easy always, but with love in your heart and the knowledge that this is just a school of learning might make your choices easier. And if you believe in karma, as I do, then you better make sure you really choose wisely. I am in Marrakech, and if I could look in the Karma Mirror, I am absolutely certain Bush and Cheney will end up as donkeys here. They do not have a nice life.

This whole Human Experience has been evolving for thousands of years. Now we have the ability to clearly see the most past people have ever been able to see! You’d think with a history of mistakes we could see, we could evolve no? Greed leads to more greed. And love, only leads to more love. We must decide together though. This has always been the one simple lesson. I think it’s the message every single prophet tried to encourage.

This is what should be taught in schools. And everything taught should have it’s foundation in love. And the application of it, as the ultimate good. Not how much it’s going to cost!? We’ve all now, collectively, had the clear realization that money isn’t real. (Talking about Governments just printing money and bailing, no sorry, I mean giving it to the banks) What is clearly real and more powerful, is love.

If we operate from love, who ever operates from love, is going to be the most powerful. It’s that simple. Because what is going on is an illusion. The only real thing is love. And anything you see that isn’t love, is simply this call to action. Everything happening now on the Earth that doesn’t look good, is simply the call for right action.

Why is there a big hole in our planet right now? So we can all collectively wake up and say no. We must stop the insanity and no matter what the monetary cost are, change now, TODAY, to ALL the new alternative eco friendly energy resources that WE KNOW EXIST!! Because there is no alternative water, food or air once we mess it all up. Our dependance on oil, is bringing us all to our knees right now, today.

This reminds me of a fantastic book I am going to share with you. It’s called Returning To The Void. When I read this book, almost in one sitting, it felt like I was just being reminded of everything I know. It speaks truth and a message of urgency for right now.

Here I will give you the prologue written by Papa Joe himself, the great Maori Healer.

So, the reason I was telling you the story of my friend’s out of body experience, was today was just another amazing day in paradise and I had a lot love to send.

All love and eternal gratitude-
Angelique

PS You might be wondering, well, Angelique what does this all have to do with energy healing? Serious? Love is energy. Love heals all. There’s a lot of modalities here, but the driving force is love. The more we raise this consciousness, the less we’ll have the need to heal. And we need a lot of love right now! Love heals all. If you didn’t see my last Facebook posting, it’s become one of my top favorites. Here I’ll share it with you in case you didn’t see it?

“The supply of love is endless, as the universe is infinite. We are love, hence there is no such thing as absence of love. Only the illusion of such.”

Returning To The Void

Foreword By Iris Loesel and Papa Joe

Even if time could stand still how would this look….. in the Void? The deed of this being an event, changing every available duration from our human stance or point of view. Calling upon a Utopia type sense of deliberation, answered by the prophet or the intellectual being, pricks our intelligence. Returning to the void is a conscious assumption of any reality enclosed within the being that is now human. Having not quite reached his all time potential the human has been reprieved and been given a chance to achieve the greatest impulse within this generation. Faith, hope and rejuvenation Returning to the Void came from a long arduous journey that could be classified as one making and staking a claim to improve the global shift of Unconsciousness to Consciousness.

Basically this writing is not for all people. Reading it is an aptitude test, deciphering the contents could be a task of added hope. In many ways ones interpretation exists as an imaginary focus that will or will not change any perspectives. Returning to the Void is not a provocation but is an analogy helping to make advocation of self more a happening thing that includes reality.

If all cultures were the same then, Returning to the Void would be misinterpreted or rejected out of hand as a falsity that may need chastising. The least that this writing offers is that it may prick the global consciousness for mutual change and a better life style or way of moving forward.

Given that we are not at a grim moment in our history Returning to the Void is not meant to be a lofty ideal of circumstance. (Although in my opinion since Papa Joe wrote this, circumstances have changed unfortunately – Angelique)

Coming ahead of our time we have advanced to a point of pin filled paradoxes juxtaposing a justified interpretation. Inclusive of this Returning to the Void touches on the peripheral edges of imagination and part dilemma, yet not quite reaching the ‘Stars’ or fulfillment.

Ideally let all who per chance read this as it is given or written that it may impact an awakening of the deeper void within ourselves.

“Let all who see read
Let all who read know
Let all who know understand
Let all who understand become wiser.”

Consciousness brings about awareness. Returning to the Void hopes to bring about different forms of enlightenment to enhance all chapters of our lives.

Blessed are all of Natures Progeny
Papa Joe

Imagine the silky sensation of smooth warm oil all over your body as soft hands knead and rub you down.

That’s what Ayurveda Panchakarma Oil Massage Therapy is all about.

If you still don’t have a clue about what I’m talking about, here’s a short clip on it! Just watching it being done was so relaxing for me!

In a nutshell, the Ayurveda Panchakarma Oil Massage Therapy has been used for centuries to balance the body and tone the body mind system. The aromatic oils used in the therapy helps absorb body wastes and does wonders for stress too!

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I hope this helps you understand a little bit more about Ayurveda. More to come next time!

All Love and Eternal Gratitude

Angelique

After living in Ibiza for almost 5 years I got to meet many interesting and fascinating characters. John Hitchen was one such character who I met when he was the gardener and caretaker for a fantastic villa estate. We were throwing a huge party where I was DJing. He also ran the VIP for Manumission which was one of the best and legendary party venues in the history of Ibiza.

I was also told John used to be the gardener for royalty in England! He contacted me recently via Facebook to say how much he liked TheHealersWay and that he had just written an article for the Ibiza Sun about a special plant on this magical isle.

I found it quite interesting as I always love to find out about all the wonders that our Mother Earth has to share with us. And that our best medicine is nature itself and what she offers.

Enjoy!

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The Pink Flower Shrub of Ibiza

by John Hitchin, writer of Gardeners Corner

In the countryside of Ibiza now is a shrub in full flower growing by the side of roads and in rocky stony soil. It is a plant that can be killed with kindness by too much watering or feeding. Its common name is a rock rose.

The Latin name is Cistus and it gets its name from the pink flower that resembles the Rosa Rugosa and the fact that it thrives in rocky and poor soil. This plant is almost impossible to move as even slightly disturbing its roots will kill it. However it is quite easy to take cuttings by pulling a stem off it, that will leave a heel at the bottom. Then it should be dipped in rooting powder and put in a pot. This should be done just after the flowering period.

This plant also has been used for centuries for both medicinal uses and the cosmetics industry. Rock Rose tea is three times more beneficial than green tea and it protects the heart four times better than red wine. It is a much better antioxidant than freshly pressed lemon juice as well.

Drinking a tea made from this plant a couple of times a day detoxifies the body. It helps to remove heavy metals from the body taken in by the effects of smoking and environmental pollution.

The Rock Rose plant also gives a tremendous boost to the immune system when ingested in a tea. It acts by increasing the beneficial flora in the digestive system which boosts the immune system. It only takes a cup of Rock Rose tea a day to give the same effect as a daily dose of vitamin C.

Another use for Rock Rose is for the complexion as this plant contains an abnormally high concentration of vitamin P. It can be used as a facial wash, and as a lotion to dab on oily, itchy, blemished or dry skin.

Oils made from the leaves of this plant can be used in aromatherapy as well, to treat people who have suffered emotional damage at some time in their past life.

The leaves should be collected in the spring and summer and left to dry in a shady place so that they can be stored for use throughout the year.

The Rock Rose plant is not only a beautiful flowering shrub but also a source of healing properties. Not bad for a shrub that many people think of as a mere weed!

I hope this finds you WONDERFUL! I am so excited because a couple of weeks ago I got to meet Byron Katie at a lecture/workshop she was hosting in Ojai. I asked her if I could interview her for you, and she said YES!

Me with Byron Katie & Diva!

I first heard about Byron Katie about a year ago when she was on Oprah. I watched her tell her story about how she got herself out of the darkest period of her life. She was extremely depressed, suicidal, overweight, and sometimes unable to leave her bed, let alone her house! She also told the amazing story of how she dealt with the death of her mother. I listened as she poured her heart out and revealed how she came upon her amazing discovery, and how she came to be the personal help guru and teacher to millions!

She is the founder of The Work and she claims to have one job – teaching people how to end their own suffering. This means suffering of any kind! From cancer to depression, heartache to abusive relationships, money to loss.

The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address your problems with clarity.

Katie believes that for every problem, ailment that you have, you only need to ask your four questions in order to change your mindset, and turn it around.

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought?

I personally find these questions extremely powerful and when you actually ask yourselves these questions, answer them, and look within, you can achieve extreme emotional and mental wellness! You can access the full process on Katie’s site here.

In the mean time, I’m interviewing Katie because I want to share with you access to as many tools and resources as I can get, to put on our own wellness menu. To top it off, I want your help to make this interview as relevant as possible. So, here’s your opportunity to ask Byron Katie anything at all!

Ask Byron Katie Your Most Burning Healing
Question by Commenting Below!

I hope you don’t mind, but I really want to share with you my views on something.

The state of world health seems to be heading into chaos. Diabetes, asthma, malnutrition are all on the rise. It seems like every year we’ve got a new major disease or epidemic plaguing us.

The governments are taking crazy preventive measures to try and control this situation, from screening travelers, to distributing vaccines that we don’t even know what’s in them. Genetically modifying our food, which we won’t know for years what kind of long term negative effects this could have not only on our health, but the health of our food supply!

Communicating these long, long, long lists of preventive measures that I honestly feel, just evoke more worry and fear.

Sometimes I wonder if people realize this important fact –  the pharmaceutical companies are in the business of sickness. If everyone was well, then these companies would not be in business at all!  It is not in their best interest for everyone to be well.

Now of course, there are many modern day miracles in medicine and we are living longer then ever. But there’s an overwhelming proportion of people taking all kinds of medicine that maybe they don’t need to be taking if they would deal with curing themselves, instead of using a pill as a band aid?

It’s a common fact that conventional medicine today views the “body” and the “mind” as separate entities. It’s apparent when you look at how differently many doctors today treat “physical” ailments and “mental” disorders.

This completely contradicts traditional teachings of health care and medicine. Ancient civilizations have wisely never considered the mind and body to be separate entities.

I’m grateful that today, there’s such a steep rise in holistic healing with energy and general interest in alternative medicine.
In fact today, more and more hospitals are actually employing energy healers!

Let me share with you the 4 pillars of health that my friend, Laura Silva, of the Silva Method, shared with me recently

4 Core Energy Pillars of Health

The Mind Center
This  one is  a very important contributor to your general health. Your mind grows and is strengthened by constant learning of new things and overcoming new challenges. In fact, mental health is maintained by actively increasing your positive thoughts and focusing less on negative thoughts. Regular meditation is a beautiful, calming way to do this. Focusing your mind on powerful, positive intentions also help grow and strengthen it.

The Emotional Center
Many don’t realize how important our emotions are. Letting go of limiting beliefs and learning forgiveness is really very important in maintaining your emotional health. I found this video on YouTube of Deepak Chopra speaking about releasing emotional toxicity. Watch it here

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I also did an interview with my friend, Kevin some time back and he includes a quick 7 minute meditation to help release painful negative emotions. You can listen to it here

The Spiritual Center
The strongest connection of all your four pillars to your life source is through your spirit. Developing and strengthening your spiritual self comes from lending a helping hand and meditating.

The Physical Body
Your physical health is a direct reflection of all the three pillars – the mind, emotions, and spirit. Any imbalance in the 3 pillars will manifest itself in this one, and cause collapse and ailments.

So what does energy healing have to do with this?

Core principles of energy healing generally stems from the ancient concept of a “life force” that moves in specific pathways (i.e. the meridian). This “life force” is called chi, or qi in traditional Chinese medicine, and prana in Indian medicine.

Energy healing modalities are based on the idea that free-flowing energy throughout all four of these pillars of health, directly results in optimal health.

Emotional stress such as negative emotions or negative / troubled words you say and think, usually result in energy getting stuck or depleted. This then inhibits your body’s natural healing process. Healing with energy involves detecting and removing these blockages.

It involves promoting your innate ability to heal yourself.

If you want to learn more about the mind-body connection and how you can use meditation and qigong to strengthen your innate healing powers, you can check out this interview I recently did with my friend Kevin about core energy centers right here >>

He also helped me do a short 7-minute meditation during the interview.. so look out for that when you listen to it here >>

Please share your thoughts with me I’d love to hear them!

All Love and Eternal Gratitude
Angelique

BTW, some of you sent emails, asking me about Kevin’s healing modality. I’m sorry I took so long to reply! You can check it out here >>

First, thank you for all your beautiful comments on Kevin’s blog post last week I know you’ve been waiting for our next interview to come along — and it has!

Kevin Schoeninger is a wonderful friend and holistic healer who’s been trained in multiple healing modalities such as Qigong Meditation, T’ai Chi, Kriya Yoga and Reiki.

In this interview, Kevin shares with us the first step to activating your heart, mind and body centers for powerful healing… in the form of an amazing 7 minute healing meditation.

I honestly feel that this was a powerfully informative interview and Kevin’s depth of knowledge of various energy healing modalities can help you answer just about any question you might have about holistic healing!

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And I’ve got a mini-surprise for you. I’m trying out something new for the interviews… and I hope you like it

Here’s a quick minute-by-minute topic breakdown of what you’ll learn from this interview. I think it will really help ease your navigation of the interview!

• 10:37 The foundations of Core Energy Meditation and it’s relation to Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Reiki
• 14:33 How the Core Energy Meditation system works via the Body, Heart, and Mind Centers
• 20:40 Why core energy meditation will fit into anyone’s busy life even if they’ve never worked with energy healing
• 22:55 The Mini-Core Energy Meditation for relaxation and stress relief
• 27:00 The 4 Steps of the Core Energy Meditation
• 34:40 The areas and skill sets in your life that will be positively influenced upon practicing core energy meditation
• 40:10 Manifestation through core energy meditation
• 49:20 How is core energy meditation different and similar to Chakras
• 54:50 What’s missing in most forms of meditatio
• 55:50 The meaning of vibration in terms of energy healing

After interviewing Kevin, I was really amazed by how simple and easy-to-practice Core Energy Meditation™ is! But most importantly, I feel that Kevin has helped open my eyes to how meditation can allow for powerful holistic healing for you or or loved ones! I’d love for you to take a look at this:

For Those of You Who Want To Activate Your Heart, Mind, And Body Centers For Powerful Holistic Healing, Click Here >>

Hello, everyone. I’m Kevin Schoeninger. Angelique has invited me to share with you some healing secrets I discovered over the course of my 27 years of teaching meditation.

But first, let me tell you a little bit about my healing journey.

It began in the summer of 1984. Then, I had just graduated from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and I was inspired by the idea of going on a backpacking trip out west. I was definitely a city-boy and hadn’t done backpacking of any sort and most definitely, had never been beyond the Mississippi.

So I embarked on my little ‘adventure’ in August that year and traveled through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I explored the Canyonlands, the Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone National Park and many other places, really… but what struck me most on that trip was the clear spacious sky that stretches out for miles in that part of the country! Not just that, I found myself surrounded by a kind of peace, quiet and stillness I had not found anywhere else before!

As I sat on the plane home at the end of my trip, I felt an overwhelming sense of contentment. I was completely peaceful, my mind was still, and I felt no attachment to anything. In fact, I was free. From that transcendent experience, one very important thing became very clear to me…

I wanted to stay in that state and find ways to reproduce it, deepen it, and expand it.

So I started searching for ways to make that transcendent experience a part of my life.

As fate, God, or the Universe would have it, a week after I returned, a catalog arrived in my mail. Browsing through it, I came upon a class called T’ai Chi, under a teacher named Andrew Heckert, and that’s when my journey of discovery began…

Secret #1: Body Center Breathing Helps You Manage And Gather Your Vital Energy

T’ai chi focuses on helping you to build both mental presence and physical vitality through three main energy centers:

• Lower “Dantian” or Body Center (located in your lower abdomen)
• Middle “Dantian” or Heart Center (located in the center of the chest)
• Upper “Dantian” or Mind Center (in the center of the brain).

While practicing T’ai Chi, I discovered that the lower “Dan Tian” was part of an intricate set of energy centers, accupoints, and paths or meridians that circulated life-energy throughout my body.

Focusing on your Lower “Dantian” can help you to reorient yourself and further develop your awareness, both internally and externally. When combined with Qigong meditation, it can help you release your mind and body of tension and teaches you to sense, gather and store vital energy.

Secret #2: Focus on Your Heart Center Enables You To Shift Your Energetic Vibration To A Positive State At Will

Did you know that the electro-magnetic energy field of your heart is by far the strongest field generated in your body? In fact, it is up to 5000 times stronger than the energy field generated by your brain. Also, by generating core heart feelings in the space of your heart, you can dramatically shift your experience to the positive.

Core heart feelings such as appreciation, gratitude, and trust bring your heart, your physiology, and your brain into incredible synergy, so that your whole system works together smoothly. Here’s what happens to your body when you heal your core heart feelings:

• Your brain waves slow down,
• Your heart-rate also becomes more coherent
• Your respiration deepens
• Your digestion and immune response improves
• You’re rewarded with a general sense of positivity and well-being.

But what struck me most was that just about anyone could learn to self-generate this state and use it to release negative emotions and solve challenges in their lives!

Secret #3: Focusing On Your Mind Center Helps You Develop A Clear and Healing Awareness

In 1994, I began training in the Reiki system of self-healing. During an initiation ceremony for this practice, I experienced a tingling sensation in the center of my brain. Over the course of the day, this tingling became stronger and stronger.

It was as if the center of my brain, and then my upper brain, lit up with energy.

To this day, whenever I focus on the center of my brain, that energetic sensation is there immediately

My Reiki instructors said that I was experiencing the opening of my higher brain centers, but they didn’t have much more to say about it, so I began to investigate the meaning of this event. That’s when I discovered Kriya Yoga.

The Kriya Yoga tradition is a holistic practice involving your mind, body, energy system, diet, and even meditation. However, the emphasis in Kriya Yoga practice is on developing the upper brain centers — your Mind Center.  Focus on your Mind Center helps you calm your nervous system and facilitates clear, open awareness. In that clear awareness, you will come to understand that you are an expression of the One Life that we all share.

Through Open-Focus training, you can develop an inner sense of space, silence, and timelessness which facilitates your experience of open, clear, spacious awareness. This diffused immersed style of attention has helped almost all my students relieve their stress and clear their Mind Centers quickly and efficiently.

Secret #4: Opening Your Central Channel Is Vital For You To Function As A Synergistic WHOLE

In Qigong, there is an energetic map of three energy centers I mentioned. But it also talks about the Central Channel that connects them, but Qigong seemed to offer no formal practice to simply and directly worked this pattern.

So I began to work these three practices by myself into a logical sequence. I did Qigong breathing to strengthen the vital energy of my Body Center, generated core heart feelings in my Heart Center, and focused into a sense of open, clear, spacious awareness in my Mind Center. To connect them together, I focused on a Central Channel running vertically through my body that connected all these three.

I realized that what I had discovered was an ideal way to work with the qualities of each energy center and a way to connect them through the Central Channel.  Each of these features of your energetic anatomy adds a quality, a dimension to your energetic vibration:

• Your Body Center adds strength and vitality
• Your Heart Center adds positive emotion
• Your Mind Center adds clarity
• Your Central Channel adds coherence by connecting the energy centers together, so that you function as a synergistic whole.

As I worked this inner energetic template, I found myself expanding and integrating. I felt whole and well. I now had one practice that addressed each aspect of my being and integrated them energetically.

Because this energetic template represents the core of who we are, I called the practice Core Energy Meditation™.

In Core Energy Meditation you become aware of these four dimensions of your being and learn to use the sensing qualities of these four energetic features to guide your life. Through this practice you discover “who you are” and are able to discern “what you are here to do now.”

Secret #5: The Key Lasting Personal Transformation

The key to personal transformation is simple, really — daily practice.  While you will likely feel relaxed and more at peace after a single practice session, significant and enduring transformation comes as a result of consistent practice over an extended period time.

I’ve also come to understand that you need a clear, simple, effective method if you are going to practice consistently. Without a good method you won’t be able to focus your attention and get results. Which was the core philosophy I adhered to when developing Core Energy Meditation. Because I knew that if it wasn’t simple enough for me, it wouldn’t be simple enough for ANYBODY. So I worked my program so that in as little as 20 minutes a day you can stimulate your growth as a whole person and improve the results you get in your life.

Secret #6: Manifesting & the Law of Attraction

If you are going to do something every day, your “why” has to be strong. This final piece came to me as I investigated my motivation for practicing.

In that past few years, “The Law of Attraction” has become a popular field of study. Basically, the Law of Attraction says that “energetic vibrations tend to attract like vibrations”.  We have learned from “The Secret” and many other sources that the key to success in all areas of life is to shift our vibration to match that which we desire. In other words, minding your inner state is the foundation for realizing your ideal possibilities.

If you want prosperity, shift into prosperity consciousness, and prosperous circumstances flow more easily to you.

So If you want health, shift into a healthy inner state to promote healthy cells.

So when I developed Core Energy Meditation, I made it so that it would enable anyone to shift into a strong, positive, clear, and coherent energetic vibration or what I call a Core Energy State. In this ideal state you connect deeply with “who you are” and “what you are here to do now” and you open yourself to receive that in your life. You release your personal limits and act with a greater sense of ease and purpose.

In the final stage of my program, you spend some time sensing, imagining, and feeling your ideal possibilities. You allow those possibilities to arise from the core of our being, you experience them as real here and now, and you listen for appropriate action.

Core Energy Meditation is rooted in the energetic anatomy of qigong, the philosophy of Taoism and Kriya Yoga, the latest research in physics, biofeedback, and HeartMath™, and my interactions with countless teachers and students. From this complex web, Core Energy Meditation emerged as a universal and comprehensive system for personal growth and spiritual development and can also help to enhance the effectiveness of any other therapy, personal growth technique, or spiritual practice.

It is, very honestly, the most powerful transformational tool that I have found.

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post. Angelique will be interviewing me for you guys very, very soon and during that interview, I’ll be guiding you through a short 7-minute meditation practice I do with my students. Aside from that, if you have any questions for me, do feel free to comment below. I’ll be more than happy to answer them either here or in the coming interview.

I’m looking forward to connecting with you again.

Kevin