Thank you Pearl for the link to Katie’s music.

It touches a place within me that desires touch

“Spider’s Web”

If a black man is racist, is it okay?
If it’s the white man’s racism that made him that way,
Because the bully’s the victim they say,
By some sense they’re all the same.

Because the line between,
Wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread,
From a spider’s web.
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.

I could tell you to go to war,
Or I could march for peace and fighting no more,
How do I know which is right,
And I hope he does when he sends you to fight.

Because the line between wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread from a spider’s web,
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.

Should we act on a blame?
Or should we chase the moments away?
Should we live?
Should we give?
Remember forever the guns and the feathers in time.

Because the line between wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread from a spider’s web,
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind

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It was a perfect Australian day, clear skies with soft white fluffy clouds. The air was balmy, and we felt good despite the fact that Customs had impounded our Native drums as possible terrorist weapons. Evidently someone determined that raw hides could be used to smuggle in anthrax. We tried to reason with the official that these were tanned hides, but to no avail. They impounded them, and charged us a storage fee. If we wanted to bring them into the country they would have to spray them with pesticides and other chemicals as well as radiation treatments. We chose impoundment.

We spent the night at a B&B cottage and the next morning we packed to head north. Judi noticed an interesting bird in the yard resembling a Magpie, but with different markings. Describing it to our hostess, she said‑”Oh that’s a Butcher Bird.”

I was driving and pulled out of the driveway into the left lane not the right. They drive on the other side of the road than we do in the states, a clear sign that the British Empire had been here.

Judi told me later that she was just about to mention seeing the Butcher Bird, hoping that it didn’t mean someone was about to be butchered. We were on a narrow country road passing by open pastures. To negotiate the curve, I wandered into the far right lane. And then I saw the oncoming car. She was on us before I even had a chance to break.

My instinctual brain took over. A veteran of thirty some years of driving, I had never had an accident, had successfully avoided several and never even had a speeding ticket (except on the day after I got my license at eighteen). My instincts had been honed from these many years of driving, and I pulled hard to the right. There was no shoulder, and I was against a hill. Part of our vehicle was still in the road.

Her instincts told her to pull left, and our cars collided. I remember the whole thing as extremely surrealistic. I watched our cars colliding in slow motion.

The front ends of both cars collapsed under impact and suddenly everything was deathly still. The only sounds were those of fluids leaking from the cars, and the hiss of dust flying in the air. I thought our car was on fire, because I saw smoke everywhere, but it turned out to be chemical dust from the useless airbag. I told Judi we needed to get out of the car. And I went over to open her door which had been crushed by the impact. I managed to open it and help her out. She was shaken, as was I, but she could walk, kind of.

I went to the other car to see how the driver and passengers were doing. The driver was alone and although stunned, had no serious injuries either.

A woman driving by pulled off the road to see if we needed help. Another woman in a house near the wreck also offered assistance. Together we helped Judi and the other driver to the woman’s yard where she offered deck chairs and some water. My head ached, but I noticed that the wrecked cars were sitting precariously in a blind spot. I went out to direct traffic, so that there wouldn’t be another accident on top of this one.

It was then I got a closer look at the cars. By her own estimation, the other driver told the police that she was going about 90 kilometers an hour, and I was going around thirty. That’s a combined speed of 120 kph, and the cars showed it. Both were totaled, and I wondered how on earth we had all been able to walk away from it. From the looks of the aftermath, I figured we should have all died, or wished we had.

I suspect that all our guardians and angels had worked overtime to protect us. Judi’s head had hit the windshield and cracked it, but miraculously she hadn’t cracked her skull. Despite some abrasions, mostly caused by the useless airbag, I was okay I thought. The other driver was also unharmed, except for abrasions from her airbag and some bruises to her arms.

After being released from the hospital, Judi and I checked into a hotel to re‑group and then walked around town to talk about what had happened. We were amazed that we didn’t feel all that bad. We could think clearly, we thought. And things seemed to be okay.

What we didn’t realize was that we were in shock. And one of the side effects of shock is that you don’t feel. The brain has an ancient mechanism that engages when shock sets in. You get very detached from yourself, and many of the pain receptors seem to go numb.

The next day brought the realization that we were not doing as well as we had thought. The numbness had passed, and we could feel what was going on with us. Besides, our luggage told the story about the degree of impact without uttering a single word. The struts had snapped, and the steel locks had jammed. Our Tibetan thangkas that we had obtained in Nepal had been extruded from their PVC cases, the impact having ripped off the caps.

For the next six weeks we were marooned in a surfing town called Byron Bay; too sore and too disoriented to do much more than lie around. We found some gifted practitioners, thank god, and slowly tried to put ourselves back together again. Humpty Dumpty had fallen off the wall, well, slight revision‑Humpty Dumpty had hit a wall… and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men were having a hard time putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.

For me the accident was extremely confrontational. Ever since taking Refuge as a Buddhist, I had done my best to practice harmlessness. I had never knowingly harmed anyone, and if I had ever stepped on someone’s emotional toes, I had tried my best to set things right. But here I had hurt two people due to my actions. Not only this, but my actions had totaled two cars.

The rental agent responded to my phone call after the accident in a typically Australian way — “Glad you’re okay, mate. Hell …I’ve been in this business for over thirteen years, and after the first year I stopped crying about a ruined kah. You know you can replace a kah, but you can’t replace a person. Don’t worry about it, mate. If we can help you again, let us know.”

But my conscience still wrestled with my having caused harm. Not only this, but I found myself becoming ever more insular. I was dipping into depression and showed all the signs‑disturbed sleep, no energy, not wanting to do anything, and not giving a shit about anything.

Finally, I began to slowly face my conflicted emotions. I would really like to have told you that I moved through my depression with grace and ease. I mean, after all, I am a psychotherapist and do have the skills to help myself. But alas, understanding the emotional process does not exempt one from going through it. And the weird thing about depression is that you don’t give a shit about having the skills to help yourself. Self‑blame is a fascinating and terrible thing.

The whole affair was made more complex by the fact that Judi and I had both suffered head concussions, not enough to be hospitalized, but enough to make things stranger than usual. Looking back, I think we were both in varying degrees of shock for about five weeks. And during that time I found myself entertaining actions that I knew were not in my best interest, especially during the depression.

I didn’t want to do anything. I certainly didn’t want to do anything positive. In fact, for the first week or so, I ate inordinate amounts of comfort food. I knew this nutritionally useless crap wasn’t good for me, but I didn’t care. You see, I have a “subpersonality” within me I call “the rodent.” He’s kind of like a 200 pound hamster with all the resources and intelligence that goes along with this species, As long as he is eating something, everything is okay. So when the world gets really strange, as it did after the accident, he takes over. I began to find empty cartons of ice cream, trails of peanut shells and other crunchy things, like cookies, strewn about the house.

It’s a damnable thing about being human, but when we are under extreme stress we often resort to un‑resourceful actions-things that are guaranteed not to improve our condition.

Anyway, to make a long story short, with Judi’s help I finally managed to pull myself out of my emotional garbage bin.

I have learned many things about myself through the “accident” and one of them is the power of relationship.

There’s a lot of talk about relationship these days, perhaps because no one seems to know how to do it. The templates for relationship were given to most of us by our parents. And many of us baby boomers grew up with TV companions like “Ozzie and Harriet,” and “Father Knows Best.” But these ways of doing relationship basically suck the big one. They just don’t work. But of course these TV shows simply mirrored the American psyche at the time. And wasn’t this when Naugahyde® was invented, and plastic? I think this was also the time when a lot of people started covering their sofas in vinyl. Emotional honesty was not encouraged, nor was it ever considered as an option in TV’s “Happy Town.”

Negative messages about emotional honesty still abound in our society despite the sexual revolution and putting a man on the moon. And such taboos against emotional truth run deep in many of us.

When Judi and I were finally able to speak our truths and express our painful feelings around the accident, we actually started feeling better.

I don’t claim to be an “ex‑spurt” on relationships, mind you. I can only report what has worked and what hasn’t worked for me. And I have found that being emotionally honest with ourselves and each other is the best medicine for the difficult situations in life.

I was reminded of a comment Magdalen made in regards to relationships just a few days before the accident “The bliss of relationship is the opening of the heart. The work of relationship is what emerges from the opened heart.” And what began to emerge from my heart was a bunch of conflicting feelings-gratitude for still being alive, amazement that no one had been killed, and wondering “why” it had happened.

Now, over the years, I have come to feel that the “why” of something is not as important as what we do with it. Besides, explaining a situation to ourselves does not solve much. Our actions in relationship to the situation are far more impactful.

As I began to talk my way through the morass of feelings, the gray fog that had been surrounding me began to lift. I could think more clearly. And one of the things that began to intrigue me was the instinct thing.

I had swerved to the right by instinct. But my instincts had been wrong, and they had led me to take a course of action that was ultimately destructive.

Now when our life is threatened we go into automatic, and our instinctual mind takes over. In fact, our instincts tend to take over whenever we are taken to the edge of our capacities. This is obvious in situations like car accidents, but less obvious in our emotional lives.

Yet something very similar occurs. Being taken to one’s emotional edge can be triggered by anything, the loss of a job, death of a loved one, a big argument or a national disaster. But I don’t think that anything brings us to our emotional edges faster or more consistently than being in relationship.

Now for some, your emotional edges may come from your current intimate relationship. For others it may come in the form of your friends, your neighbors, your co‑workers, or even your bosses. Those of you who are hermits have perhaps one of the most challenging relationships in your face‑yourself. I mean if you are a hermit, you can’t blame your problems on anyone else, now can you? There is only you.

Relationships are very much like mirrors. We think we are seeing the other person, but in many ways we are seeing ourselves.

This may be one reason why relationships are so catalytic and have the power to unsettle us.

America’s relationship with the rest of the world is at an all time low. And many of us feel quite unsettled by the current turn of national and world events. But America’s relationship with the rest of the world is only part of our problem.

Our relationship with the Earth is in dire straits, and the ecosystem is showing signs of exhaustion. Lemurs in Madagascar disappearing, unable to reproduce due to environmental stresses. And other plants and animals are joining them in a fast race to extinction.

Not only this, but our relationships with each other are strained. Road rage, teen suicides and homicides are on the increase. Senseless savagery is on the rise.

With so many interpersonal, national, international and ecological relationships out of balance, the world is teetering on the edge of disaster. And all of this is deeply troubling, to say the least.

I have a Buddhist friend who recently returned to his home in Asia after visiting the U.S. He was deeply troubled. “The world’s falling apart,” he said, “and my heart aches with sorrow.”

Many of us know this feeling more and more as our spirituality stands in stark contrast to the conditions of the world.

I am always reminded in situations like this by the words of Sogyul Rinpoche, a living Dozgchen master of Tibetan Buddhism

“If your heart is breaking, let it break!”

What I think he means by this is that we can use the moments of our emotional suffering to further our illumination. All beings suffer from time to time. That’s the way it is here. But when the suffering comes close to home, we feel sorrow.

Such sadness creates an opening, even though it is a painful one, and all openings of our heart serve our illumination. The stories we tell ourselves about why we feel such sadness are just stories. What is important in the spiritual journey is the transformation of our obscurations that separate us from life and from our spiritual essence. And sometimes the sadnesses of life can bring down the walls of separation between us and the world quicker than anything.

I do not believe in prophecy nor predestination. I do not believe in the soothsayers and fear mongers who say that the end of the world is upon us. Nor do I believe in the Pollyanna view of our future either. I don’t think that things are going to magically get better or that a mother ship will descend from the skies and protect us from ourselves.

I do believe that we are witnessing the collapse of the old world. And those who broker power based upon the old terrestrial view of politics and economics are pulling out all the stops to keep themselves at the top of the monopoly game. We are in the midst of a planetary revolution with so many fronts and so many diverse issues it is hard to grasp. But all revolutions bring suffering as well as liberation.

When the Computer Revolution moved computerized robots into the work place, thousands of people lost their jobs. Their financial lives were devastated, and some of them never recovered. Some went on to get training in new fields and are now prospering.

As with so many things in life, it is not what happens to us that matters so much as what we do with it.

The crucial thing to remember is that we always have the power of choice in a situation. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or whether we exercise that power or not, is immaterial. It is always present.

When I went numb from the aftereffects of the “accident,” it took me a few weeks to come to my senses enough to realize that I had any choice in my situation. I was in shock, and at my emotional edge. My instinctual mind drove me into isolation, which only increased my depression.

Now depression is really just an attempt to avoid feeling emotions that we deem to be unacceptable or too difficult for us to deal with. So we just put a lid on our feelings. And the effort to keep a lid on our emotions takes a lot of energy, so much in fact, that we feel depressed from the effort. (Note: This is true for those depressions that center around specific life experiences, like the death of a loved one, the loss of job, etc. But this is not true of those depressions caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.)

Like my instincts which told me to pull to the “wrong side” of the road, my instincts were telling me to pull further inside away from the world, and even away from my feelings.

But the world of relationships and the truth of my feelings were what freed me from my emotional suffering in the wake of the “accident.” And I think that being honest with ourselves and with each other about our feelings is a good ally to have in the midst of turmoil.

I mention this because I think that more and more of us are in a kind of cultural shock. The changes and dangers of the world are so vividly in our faces that many of us are going numb. Our instincts are telling us to stop feeling.

Judi and I get emails from all over the world from people reporting that they are at their emotional edge. Life is becoming too difficult. Relationships are being challenged as never before, and many people feel that their lives are unraveling.

Some feel unable to cope with the increasing levels of violence in the world, and others are just fed up with struggling.

But as my high school algebra teacher used to say‑”It’s going to get worse, before it gets better.” And unfortunately, I think this is an accurate assessment of our world situation. The global revolution may wind up freeing the human spirit or imprisoning it. But whatever the outcome, we will probably see a lot more global conflict and suffering.

Perhaps we will slip through the eye of the needle and pass through the next decade unharmed. Perhaps we won’t. One hundred years from now, our moments of angst and greatest torment will mean very little. What will matter is how we lived these moments, not for our progeny but for ourselves.

For in the world of the soul, there is no time. And in the end, it is what we have gleaned from life that matters. The personalities and the situations that we are now so caught up in will return to emptiness from which they came. Years from now all of this will seem like some kind of dream, which it is. It is a dream that we are creating and believe to be real. From the perspective of the soul, the important things of life are not what we take them to be. The qualities of heart and mind that we develop through the act of living is the treasure‑not the things we do or the things we accumulate.

And so at the end of our lives, when we are taken from the Great Wheel of Life, there will only be a few questions. Did we become more compassionate or more hateful? Did we learn to embrace life, or did we run from it?

These are the important questions, I think. It takes spiritual courage to keep one’s heart open, make no mistake about it. But I have found nothing else as rewarding.

Don’t hide your heart but reveal it,
So that mine might be revealed, and
I might accept what I am capable of.
Rumi

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Your DNA is created by your thoughts and by your spoken words. In this way you are much more the co-creator of your life than you may have ever believed. In psychology we know that what you say to yourself shapes your emotional states and your belief systems, and vice versa, what you believe shapes what you say to yourself. This is an important emotional and biological cycle that you want to shift in the most profound ways – by interrupting the cycle and creating a whole new world for yourself and even a whole new you.

Talk therapy, behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, coaching – all of these approaches can be tremendously helpful in helping change and replace the words you say to yourself and thereby changing the outcomes you create in your life.

You are truly in charge of your life and you may have read this great little saying that demonstrates that concept:

Due to circumstances beyond my control –

I am Master of my Fate

And Captain of my Soul

I love that saying – it captures our emotional dichotomy – we are the Masters of our own fate, and yet, we act as if other people are in charge of – or the ‘cause’ of – our circumstances.

There is also a saying in Japan:

Even the monkey falls from the tree.

This means that even when you know better – you can slip up, Whether it is keeping your old limitations, even when you have learned where they came from (and they came from your parents, your playmates, your school, your place of worship, and even your ancestors).

When you begin to look at your old beliefs, those that limit you, those that make you feel bad, and even sometimes those that pretend to be encouraging, you can start to change them in your beta mind and that can get you started, however, when you are ready to change them at the level they were created, in your theta mind and in your theta brainwaves, then you don’t just change them, you actually REPLACE them with beliefs that serve you and offer you the life you have truly wanted.

The difficulty with trying to change your beliefs about yourself and your potentialities just using your beta-mind, is that you are anticipating that you tell your ipod (your brain) to play a song you haven’t downloaded, and your ipod does not have the capacity to do that. Your ipod (or your brain) can only play the songs that have already been downloaded – it does not have the capacity to create new ones. Only you can create new songs or new beliefs and you must do that in your theta mind, using your theta brainwaves.

We know from the current research that our human DNA is a virtual biological internet. We know that a mere 10% of our DNA us used for building the proteins of our body. Remember when we were told that much of our DNA was ‘junk DNA’. That never seemed logical to me and fortunately to a number of scientists and researchers. That so-called ‘junk DNA’ is the master-link for communication and for data storage – it is the personal Akashic record for all living things.

Do you wonder why some people seem to be more intuitive, more psychic, able to heal, even at a distance, why they can see auras or energy fields, why they can see, or feel events from afar, including what we consider the ‘future’?

Matter is energy, we are energy and we emit and receive frequencies. All energy emits frequencies and thereby has an effect on everything else. We are all entangled, there is no space and there is no time – but we create it in our minds as Einstein said, to separate things to better experience them.

Information is taken into your DNA from everywhere all the time, from every energy field including those you interact with, those you pass on the street, your total environment and your internal self-recognition – your own thoughts.

What you say about yourself and what you think about your self is how you create and continue to recreate yourself over and over. If you wonder why change seems difficult, consider that you are playing the same old songs (or ideas about yourself), over and over and over again.

Did you know that not only can you change your opinion of yourself by changing your thoughts about yourself, but that you can change your biological structure – and you can do this most efficiently and effectively in your theta or theta-delta brainwaves?

New research demonstrates that you can heal without cutting the body and change your genetic structure without cutting and replacing your genes. In a few more years, medicine will begin to look a lot more like Dr. McCoy on Star Trek would practice it, just as telephones are no longer huge devices attached to wires and lines, but are Star Trek Communicators – or cell phones. Lt. Uhura’s communication device is now Bluetooth.

(My apologies to non-Trekkers).

So change your DNA codes either with the help of a One Command coach or by learning The One Command and doing it on your own – you Can do it. And if you don’t want to learn The One Command then simply train yourself to go to theta and clearly and with that sense of pure joy, state what you want and then accept it with grace and gratitude.

Dr. Katie Lynne Garnett is Body-Mind-Spirit Coach, Founder of Unfolding Your Spiritual DNA. co-founder of The Brave Woman Seminars, radio host-Living in the Quantum Field, author, and Certified One Command Coach and TOC Leader.

Dr. Garnett’s study of the phenomenon of quantum physics, paired with her research in the psychology of human behavior, healing, social change and the significance of the theta brainwave and energy shifts in relation to human potentiality, brings her clients the capacity to reprogram their lives as they choose and align with their spiritual mission.

Find Katie at:

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Legendary British film director Sir Ridley Scott launched a global film making contest for aspiring directors. It’s titled “Tell It Your Way”. There were over 600 entries. The film could be no longer than three minutes, contain only six lines of narrative and be a compelling story. The winner was “Porcelain Unicorn” from American director Keegan Wilcox. It’s a story of the lifetimes of two people who are totally opposite, yet, very much the same—all told in less than three minutes.

You’ll I see why it won—enjoy

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I found myself born in Russia, with a gift of healing live creatures that I discovered when I was 8 years old

Years passed and I kept myself interested in psychology (university degree), working with subconscious to treat human diseases that they created,visited lots of amazing seminars of Russian healers and got their knowledge to bring wisdom of the universe to help people live happy and abundant lives.

I discovered old sacred techniques on using woman’s power and energy to manifest things and create happy relationship with a very important base of the world as men, I create workshops and give seminars in Russia and Turkey for Women to unleash their power,improve health,to learn how to love themselves and men in this beautiful world of magic that is in our hands and hearts.

I am an artist (7 years in art college) that decided to move away from all the standards that I learned how to paint and dived into the movements of my soul that direct my eyes and brush…

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Abundance of the Universe

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Energy of the Night City

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Love of the Rain

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God’s Light

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Buddha said that attachment is the cause of all suffering. Whenever we are attached to anything, we suffer. Hence, to let go of attachment is to end suffering. But what does this mean? Why should being attached to something cause suffering? Isn’t it a good and proper thing to be attached to our family, our home, our vocation? ‘Attachment’ is an often misunderstood concept. Let’s delve a little deeper and see what Bhudda meant.

Take hold of a simple object like a ballpoint pen – the type with a retractable point that you control by pressing a button on the top with your thumb. Unscrew it and take out the refill. Take off the button and the spring that enables it to work. Take apart every component of the pen and lay them out. Is this still a pen?

Now imagine something much more complicated – a car. Carry out the same process in your mind. When the car is completely stripped down into its component parts, is it still a car?

The problem with being attached to things is that there is nothing to be attached to. Not really. The things we care about are a kind of mental construction – they are just ideas. When we meditate deeply on the things we care about, we find that they are phantoms, dreams. When we discover the true nature of things, any substance we thought they had just falls apart. This is obviously true of physical things but it is also true – although harder to accept – of other people and relationships.

We create static images of things which are constantly changing. Take someone you know well, for example. When you think about this person, what comes to mind? A list of characteristics, traits, patterns of behavior, tastes, opinions? What kind of feelings to you get? Your image of this person is probably a fairly well defined and static thing. But the person is not a static entity – he is a dynamic, growing, changing person. He is not what he was as a child.

When we seek control or security by creating static images of continually moving things, we suffer. It’s like trying to tie up a flowing river in a package, or put the wind into a box. It simply cannot be done. For a while, we can be comfortable with our static images, but their inherent instability and lack of substance are bound, sooner or later, to cause suffering.

When we see things for what they are, we see that there is nothing there. Control, approval and security are fantasies. Letting go of attachment to these fantasies is effortless when we see the truth – that there is nothing to be attached to.

‘Do not try to bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Then you’ll see it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself.’
From The Matrix

Letting go of the things we feel so afraid to lose seems to be such a risk – we fear that, when we do let go, we’ll have nothing left, no support and no safety net. We feel, perhaps, that we might drift aimlessly through life without direction or purpose. Yet, oddly, when we are less attached to the need for power, control, approval and security, we can live a life with greater purpose, able to achieve our goals more easily – they seem to happen effortlessly because we are not using our energy holding on so tightly to these needs.

Letting go is freedom from the energy draining bondage of our psychological dependency on control, approval and safety. We need to stop holding on so tightly.

We can still love our family and our home – we can enjoy the experience of being together and in familiar surroundings. To hold something – to enjoy it – without wanting to possess it, to allow things to be as they are, without clinging, is the secret of happiness.

Mark Harrison is a certified NLP coach and writer on change management. Visit him at http://changeyourlife.net/membership-service/.

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In a recent phone conversation my client asked “Why is it that every time I say I am finally ready to put begin my program or put greater effort into it, I get sick?”  That was a great question!  And one that makes perfect sense.  The human body is an incredible healing machine and when given the support it needs, will heal itself, since all healing comes from within.  Thus being smart, the body will hold on, and hold on, and hold on, until given the command to do something different.  When a person states, “I am ready for change”, the body says “Yippeee.. I CAN FINALLY HEAL!” (translation:  I can finally let go of all of the junk i’ve been holding onto.)

The body will heal itself when given the support it needs.  Part of this healing process is to assist the body in the elimination of accumulated or trapped toxins thus providing a way for the whole body system to regain balance, harmony and alignment.  This process can be called cleansing or detoxification. For ease on your brain, I am going to split this article into three parts.  Part 1 will focus on the Skin, Respiratory Tract and Lymphatic System.  Part 2 will focus on the GI Tract, Liver and Kidneys.  Part 3 will bring in detoxification via the Emotional Body.

Toxins accumulate from a variety of reasons including but not limited to: stress, the use of antibiotics; the misuse of alcohol; improper diet including a high intake of refined wheat, refined sugar, artificial sweeteners, too much of, or a lack of protein; and a lack of stomach acid.  One of the prime functions of stomach acid is to facilitate the breakdown of proteins.  Low stomach acid may prevent the complete breakdown of proteins, preventing them from being fully assimilated thus leaving food for bacteria to grow.

There are a variety of ways we can cleanse or detoxify the body and assist it in eliminating those toxins.  Methodologies can include the use of eliminative herbs that act as laxatives, diuretics, diaphoretics (promote sweating) and blood purifiers; the use of enema, colemea or colonics to assist the bowel in the elimination of the toxins; and the use of skin brushing, movement, and meditation.

On a physical level, the body will eliminate toxins via the SKIN, our largest cleansing organ; via the RESPIRATORY TRACT which includes the nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea and lungs; via the LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; via the GI or gastrointestinal TRACT which includes the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine (bowel line) and rectum; via the LIVER and via the KIDNEYS.

I could talk/write for hours on detoxifying the body (just ask Jim, hee hee hee hee).  My intuition says you would find greater value in knowing a few ways within each of the above listed avenues to explore this wonderful process of letting go of what is not you.  So here we go.

Our SKIN is also known as our third kidney and considered to be the largest cleansing organ.

Dry skin brushing: is one method which greatly enhances detoxification and cleansing.  Brush dry skin immediately before showering or bathing.  Start with the feet and gently brush up toward the heart.  Brush from the extremities toward the center.  Brush gently in a circular motion around your abdomen and breast/chest area.  A proper dry skin brush is made of vegetable bristles that are neither too stiff nor too soft.  It shouldn’t scratch, but you should feel some friction against the skin.  It takes approximately ten minutes to dry brush your entire body.  This process feels invigorating as dead cells are allowed to sloughed off the body.  Another ‘method’ of skin brushing or scraping can be enjoyed while sitting in a Dry Sauna.  The Dry Sauna will soften the skin and allow the body to sweat.  As toxins are leaving the body via the skin, you can use a brush or your finger nails to ‘brush’ or ‘scrape’ off the top layer of skin.  Again this will feel invigorating.

Bath Soaks are another wonderful method used to release what we are not!.

• Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar Bath can be used when the body is too acidic.  This soak is a quick way of restoring the body’s acid-alkaline balance.  1 cup to 2 quarts of Braggs ACV  is added to a bathtub of warm water.  Soak for a good 20 mins to remove excess uric acid in the body.  This soak is especially good for the joints, arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, and gout.  If your skin smells of ACV you can enjoy a quick shower to remove the residue from the bath.
• Epson Salts Baths are known to  pull toxins from the body.  Varieties can include:
• Epsom Salts + Ginger: to open pores, eliminate toxins, and to eliminate pain.  Stir one cup of epsom salts and 2 tablespoons of ginger in a cup of water first, then add to the bath.  Do not remain in the tub for more than 30 minutes.
• Epsom Salts + Sea Salts + Sesame Oil: helps with dry skin and stress.  Combine 1 cup of Epsom salt + 1 cup of sea salt (from a health food store), +1 cup of sesame oil and put into a warm to hot tub of water and soak for 20 minutes.  Pat yourself dry.
• Bentonite Clay Baths are considered a fast detoxification method.   The Bentonite Clay will absorb up to 40% of its size in toxins.  (NOTE: While bentonite is a great absorber, it is widely used to seal well-casings and ponds.  It would very likely seal many septic systems too, costing thousands to repair. Use sparingly or with caution!)  Soak 2 to 4 pounds of bentonite clay in a flat container overnight to dissolve it.  Add your desired amount of clay to your tub of warm water.  Soak time will depend on the amount of clay used.  With 2 pounds of bentonite you could soak for one hour; with 4 pounds you would soak only about 30 minutes. The more bentonite used, the faster the detoxification.  Again USE CAUTION here!!  You might even consider starting with 1 pound of clay.

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We can provide elimination pathways for the RESPIRATORY TRACK and LYMPH System with exercise. Each and every time you challenge or expand your Lungs, you are allowing the body to release toxins. Lymph, transports nutrients to the cells but also exports toxins. Lymph grabs particles too large to enter the bloodstream, then those particles get attacked by immune cells in the lymph nodes. The lymph system has to be stimulated unlike our blood, which has to be pumped. Ways to stimulate the lymph are through skin brushing, massage, and exercise. You have lymph nodes in the arm pits, and femoral arteries so it makes sense that you will stimulate those nodes when you move your arms and legs. Note: water consumption is critical for lymph flow.
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Suggestions for Movement:

• Move your arms during a BRISK walk.  You can swing them or pump them.  If you would like to add some resistance to the move, carry small weights in your hands.
• Any movement that uses ARMS and LEGS will move your lymph (ball toss, lunges, step ups on a bench etc)
• Running or Jogging (moves both body parts and tells your lungs to release)
• Change up your lung expansion during your cardio sessions by doing spikes every 30 seconds.  Meaning go from a lower level to a higher level of intensity every 30 seconds
• Change up your intervals to every 45 seconds
• How about 10 seconds down with 20 seconds up
• Can you see all the variety you can explore to EXPAND YOUR LUNGS?

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I told you I could talk or write about detoxification for a while.  Hopefully all of this information will have value for you.  I am going to end here with Part 1 of the Tools for Detoxification series.  In Part 2 will will explore detoxification via the GI Tract, Liver and Kidneys. As knowledge grows, you have a better understanding that by detoxifying the body, we can optimize the well being of our healthy cells.  We optimize the well-being of our immune system and provide an avenue for alignment, balance, and harmony with who we truly are.

As always, if I can be of service to you on your nutritional path, I am a phone call or an email away.

PEACE during your cleansing process + GOOD WILL and harmony within your cells and being + JOY to you as you step into all that you are.  Much Love awaits you.

~Dr Nadine

JOY, Empowerment and Inspiration await you within the SOUL Food deck one by NADINE, N.D., C.N.S.  The app is a beautiful deck of 66 cards providing Soulful Nourishment for the Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit. Available NOW for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. If the link does not work for you enter SOUL FOOD + NADINE in the search window within iTunes.

DR NADINE is a Naturopath and Holistic Nutrition Specialist with over 30 years experience in the Health and Fitness Industry and teaches her clients the Art of building and maintaining lean muscle tissue as they drop body fat in a unique program designed for them.  Nadine has coached all levels and genre of people and has taught a variety of programs including but not limited to Personal and Sports Nutrition, Sports Psychology, and Weight Lifting/Bodybuilding. Nadine is available for seminars and workshops based on availability.  For more information contact Dr NADINE at 970-443-2541, email: Nadine@CoachNadine.com or visit www.coachnadine.com

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