The answer to this question, according to "conventional medical wisdom," is a resounding NO! But the real answer, according to Dr. David Brownstein, M.D., author of Salt Your Way To Health, and many other leading experts, is that the right kind of salt can make your life better! This means that the term "conventional medical wisdom" may be somewhat of an oxymoron. You will have to decide for yourself. As with many other issues relating to health, the "wisdom" in today’s "conventional" medicine has gotten lost along the way. The controversy regarding salt is a prime example.

Manifesting your true heart’s desires in 2009

You can create a life without limits. If you could have the life of your dreams, what would it be like? If you were to envision perfection for you in the areas of career, finances, relationships, happiness, and health, what would that perfection be? Think about how you would like to feel each day and what you would like to be doing. You can absolutely, confidently create an ideal picture that includes work, relaxation and recreational activities, travel, new and current relationships, material things you want or need and---well, you get the idea.

Are You Ready To Jump?

As you may recall from last month’s article, there is a wagon that is careening out of control down a large mountain. We are on this wagon. The wagon is gaining speed as it continues on its path. Its only path is one of destruction. It causes pain and suffering whereever it goes. In the end, it has no choice but to crash. It is being powered by our limiting thoughts and negative beliefs. These thoughts suggest that there is not enough to go around, that the Universe is limited, that we must compete for every possession we have, that I am not good enough or I am not worthy of abundance and that hard work can get us through anything and everything. This is a tireless and winless game and puts your life in a vicious samsaric cycle of despair and desperation. It can only lead to pain and suffering. You have a choice. You can remain on the wagon or you can jump off. Are you ready to jump?

A Simple & Universal Healing Tool

There is an amazingly easy to use healing tool that I call ‘sewing’. It can be used on anything from physical pain and disease to emotional, mental or spiritual issues, and even external issues which affect your life such as financial security and relationships. This technique may be used for your own self or for others. Alternative Health Practitioners may find it helps their clients to receive healing and speeds results. With this exercise you will be able to bring comfort, healing, peace and relaxation in just a few minutes time. This is a spiritual healing technique, but it doesn’t require a particular set of religious or spiritual beliefs. A basic belief in a Higher Power, or Source of Life and unconditional love which we are all part of is helpful.

Business Intuition- THRIVING IN

THIS ECONOMY

How is your company doing? Are you using all the resources available to help it thrive? Intuition is an essential component for business success. In this depressed economy it’s as important as ever that you play the intuition card. Every possible resource needs to be considered and genuine intuitive information is dead on accurate. Companies that use employees’ gut feelings and minds’ eye, along with accumulated knowledge and experience, are the ones that thrive in a depressed economy.

Surfing The Electric Sky

Recently, I got a new cell phone. Highly functional with a full keyboard inside to make texting easier and faster, it is sleek and sexy. It enticed me with new features and the ability to do everything I needed my phone to do, and more. Anxious to start using it, I didn’t read the instructions, much less the precautions in fine print. Reading how electromagnetic radiation from my new cell phone could hurt me was the last thing on my mind. Modern technology, with all of its glitz and glamour, is here to stay; and besides, I would miss my computer, my Wi-Fi, my cell phone, my television and all of the other wonderful electronic devices I use on a daily basis. So, why should anyone learn more about the effects these things have on health?

A Consciousness for Miracles

The world we live in is one of duality. Everything has its polar opposite; hot/cold, love/hate, optimism/pessimism, anger/joy and so on. This is the world of form; our schoolyard of learning. When we keep our consciousness in this world, we are limited to the ways of this world to heal and create. A more powerful way to heal and create is to shift our focus from human to spiritual perception.

Feeling Blue?

Bach Flowers to

the Rescue

When healing from an illness or disease, it’s been observed that the speed and degree of a patient’s healing is directly related to his or her attitude. My experience as a Certified Wellness Doctor shows this to be true. For example, if two patients start treatment at approximately the same time with similar problems, the patient with the best attitude heals the quickest. No matter what the prognosis, the patient with a positive attitude responds the best to any type of treatment. The patient with a poor attitude tends to fail, while denying any responsibility for his or her failure. Trying to get patients to really, truly comprehend the importance of their attitude when it comes to healing is not easy. A question always asked in my profession is, "How can we help people change their attitudes in order to have the most positive outcome?"

Is the Mind Everything or is it Nothing

The mind is everything. The mind is nothing. This paradox holds the key to everything. It is the mind that controls and creates our thoughts. It is our thoughts that create our reality. Everything we think, everything we experience is a projection of our thoughts.

This is so basic to the human condition that its truth is taught by many great masters. In the bible it says "Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." Many spiritual seekers try to get rid of the mind and think it is bad. It is not the mind that is bad but the attachment to the thoughts that the mind creates. In Buddhism, the Second Noble Truth warns that attachment is the cause of all suffering. Attachment refers to all things intransient and this includes ideas and thoughts.

The egoic mind keeps us stuck in our story (She never listens to me, He doesn’t like me, I’ll never be good enough for him). Because the more we think the thought, the more we look for evidence to support the thought, it eventually becomes a belief which can be so powerful as to trap us into a feeling that there is no way out. In its severest form this leads to suicidal tendencies; however many are simply depressed and anxious, but even more of us go through life as automatons, like zombies just trudging through the day. We can hardly wait for the work day to end so we can to go home and for the work week to end to get to the weekend. Moving from day to day and task to task never living up to our capacity, our joy, or our passion.

There is a teacher who has developed a way out of this cycle of lifeless existence. This person was severely depressed for over ten years when she was in her thirties. During the last two years of this period she could rarely get out of bed and obsessed over suicide. And then one day out of deep despair she received a great insight. She realized when she believed something should be different than it was, she would suffer and when she did not have these thoughts she felt peaceful. Everything wrong in our life is really a belief about what is wrong in us.

This person is Byron Katie and out of her insights came a process she calls "The Work." Katie saw that most people sought happiness by trying to change their external circumstances to match their thoughts. But, if we questioned the truth of our thoughts and became o.k. with what is, then we could experience a life of joy and passion. What would I be without the thoughts that I have? This one question is the question she asks us to ask of all the judgments we have about other people and situations. When we go through the process we realize that what we are thinking is what is going on inside ourselves. This process is empowering because it takes responsibility away from others and let’s us find our own answers.

The Work is perfect for this economic time. Many of us are in fear about possible job loss. How would you feel without the thought, "I might lose my job?" Peaceful? Relaxed? Happy? Why do you want to create a life based on fear? It only brings suffering into the now. There is no joy in that. If you want to create, create a vision of abundance, but get your mind out of the future. Katie’s work is unique because it lets you have the experience of knowing how your thoughts create your reality and can lead to suffering.

Fearful (or any limiting) thoughts are not in alignment with Universal Flow and will, therefore, restrict our energy flow. Since it takes energy to hold these thought patterns in our body, the holding on makes us tired and also affects the way we breathe. It prevents us from breathing deeply and completely and limits the life force available for the creation of the good, the holy and the beautiful.

When we change the way we think about things, we change the way we breathe. And when we change the way we breathe, we change the way we think. The breath puts us into the present moment, not in the past or future where thoughts reside. This is why Eckert Tolle supports breathing as a practice for creating present moment awareness and why he supports Katie’s work as "a great blessing for our planet." And this is why we marry Katie’s work with Transformational Breathing.

The two are inseparable and are powerful tools for transformation and evolution into joy. The Work is about taking personal responsibly for our thoughts and our life. Let’s just stay with the belief that we create our reality and everything around us is a projection of our thoughts. If this is so, then what powerful creators we are, for we created everything we have. There is no judgment as to whether it is good or bad; it is our creation, created out of love for us to learn and grow. If we accept this, then we must also accept that we can change it too. We can create anything we want. And if we can create anything we want, then what are we waiting for. The world needs us to show up in our greatness. We can do this. But we have to first change the way we think and breathe.

You can learn more about The Work by going to www.thework.com. Katie explains the process and provides free worksheets to help you through the process. It is also taught as part of the week long Personal Transformational Breathing Seminar.

Dave Krajovic

Dave Krajovic, CPA, MBA is a Master Breather. With advanced training in many alternative healing modalities, he is cofounder with his wife and partner, Pat, of BodyWorks Healing Center in Plymouth, Michigan and the Global Breath Institute. He is dedicated to spreading the word about conscious breathing and empowering people through the healing experience of Transformational Breathing.

You can experience the power of Transformational Breathing and learn of these teachings in the Personal Transformational Breathing Seminar held over two three day weekends this May 1-3 and May 15-17.

Is the Mind Everything or is it Nothing

The mind is everything. The mind is nothing. This paradox holds the key to everything. It is the mind that controls and creates our thoughts. It is our thoughts that create our reality. Everything we think, everything we experience is a projection of our thoughts.

BECOMING YOUR OWN

VALENTINE

Have you been looking for a special someone to love you just the way your are? Are you hoping you will meet someone who will cherish and adore you and be happy to give you whatever you require? Wouldn’t it be great if this person was rather like a perfect prince or princess?

Leprechauns and The End of the

Rainbow

These days, there are lots of people looking for their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For some, that pot of gold may be money. For others, it may be a job or a relationship. Each of us defines just what that pot of gold is for ourselves. Finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow has always been challenging. Besides, there are usually leprechauns involved, so it’s tricky! According to legend, finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is as elusive as the leprechauns who may be guarding it to prevent you from obtaining it. Folklore says that leprechauns are nearly impossible to catch, as they are known to be cunning and quick, perhaps even invisible. But if you hold them in your gaze, they cannot move and trick you. This means that you must confront the leprechauns you encounter in the quest for your pot of gold so that you control them, rather than letting them control you.

How Are You

Breathing Today?

Are you breathing? Now that’s a silly question since you are reading this, you must be breathing. But the real issue is whether you are breathing well. So perhaps a better question is "How are you breathing today? Is your breath open and full or is it closed and shallow? Does your chest move more than your belly when you breathe? Why not take a moment to find out. Put one hand on your chest and the other on your belly and take a full and deep breath in. What happened? What did you notice? Take another breath to be sure. I know from breathing thousands of people that 90% of the population is getting only about 50% of the available air due to restrictions in their breathing. So I know that it is likely that there is some kind of a restriction in your breathing. These physical restrictions are real and they limit your health, well being, the amount of life force, and ultimately the amount of good that you can receive from your breath.

INTUITION and Business Success

Using your intuition for business is a sure way to increase your work productivity and effectiveness. Your intuition coupled with your business knowledge and experience will give you a real advantage. Ignoring intuition is like attempting to perform your work activities with one hand tied behind your back.

Whales and

Human Evolution

If you’ve ever seen a whale in the wild, you’ve sensed the presence of great power, wisdom and infinite love. I’d like to introduce you to these beings from a spiritual perspective and help you understand more about who they really are.

Using the Right Brain at Work

Intuition on the job is often undervalued. Business owners and managers may scoff at intuition because it cannot be measured and quantified, and therefore cannot be real. Left brain data such as knowledge, experience, and education are important factors for running an effective business. Yet if intuitive, right brain information is omitted from the decision making process, one is working with only half of the needed input. All new ideas come from the right brain, which provides hunches, gut feelings, pictures, and thoughts that are out of the ordinary. These new ideas complete the picture so both new and familiar possibilities are considered.

Forgiveness is Claiming Your Power

Your life is the perfect school for you to realize your potential as a divine and eternal being living a human life.

The great psychologist Carl Jung worked a lot with dreams and the unconscious. As I understand it, he believed that everyone in your dreams reveals an aspect of yourself, so that everyone in your dream story is essentially yourself.