5 Steps To Unblock Your Chakras

Chakra meditation involves focusing on the different energies that lie within our bodies. There are 7 known chakras and they are known  to be our energy vortexes; opening for life energy to flow into and out of our aura. These vortexes vitalises the physical body and to bring about the development of our self-consciousness.

The reason why one needs to unblock their chakras is that a blocked or improperly aligned chakra will prevent your energies from flowing all throughout your body, causing disharmony and resulting in a very pessimistic or negative mood. In the process, you will regain a life balance which is critical to healing of both physical and mental. The steps involved to performing chakra meditation are fairly simple and focus should be given to one chakra at one time.

In general, 5 techniques to unblock chakras are:

Visualization Through Meditation


A very effective technique, simple in execution where you will need to meditate and clear your mind, allowing you to focus on the chakra and visualize its associated color. You can then focus on the goal that you intend to achieve.

The Crystal Method


As the name suggests, this method requires the use of crystals, held directly on the chakra or right over the chakra for at least three minutes (but not longer than five).

Sound Therapy
Music bowls are used in this technique, which can be purchase at metaphysical stores along with a set of detailed instructions.

The Soothing Massage
A full body massage is an effective way to unblock all 21 chakras in the human body. Besides that, it helps stimulate your vital systems and promote healing.

The Right Mix Of Exercise And Nutrition
Proper nutrition and sufficient exercise is needed to keep healthy and have a energised body, especially in your chakras and aura.

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Inspirational Speaking… and All That Jazz!

So yesterday I joined 6 other entrepreneurs who were all speaking at City College Norwich to a group of 100+ students, as part of the ‘Positive Image‘ campaign, created by Sarah Harding to help empower young people.

We each had a 30 minute slot to speak and in total over 550 students attended talks during the day and gave fantastic feedback afterwards.

So what did I speak about?

Well I shared with my journey from teendom through to where I am today, including lots of the good and bad times that got me here. I then went on to speak about values and how important it is to live your life in line with your values, those instinctive ideas that tell you what is good, bad, right or wrong in your life and the essence of who we are. These are pretty much hard-wired into us and if you’re not working in line with them you’re going to end up pretty miserable!

Then I went on to speak about beliefs and how we create so many beliefs all the time that we think are true. That we believe are part of who we are. That in reality are nothing but generalisations about experiences that we’ve had, that we’ve chosen to make into a belief (consciously or unconsciously).

I gave an example of being bitten by a dog as a small child and how that child might then create a belief that all dogs are bad and carry this belief through their whole life. This belief then may morph into a strong phobia of dogs that has a huge impact on their life, until death.

Now, most of us know, rationally, that the majority of dogs are lovely and it’s just a few you need to be careful of. Yet fear and phobias don’t work on a rational level and if we create a negative belief and we then build on that it can have far reaching consequences.

Then we flipped it and looked at positive beliefs and how we are in control of what we believe, whether we believe it or not! That we have the power to pick up or let go of beliefs as and when we choose. We just need to make that choice and take action towards achieving it (i.e. see an NLP/life coach/hypnotherapist etc or make small stepping stone changes daily yourself).

So how great would it be to choose positive beliefs instead of negative ones?

How great would it feel if you truly loved yourself and whenever you were faced with a decision, you chose the positive belief over the negative?

Just imagine how such positive choices could affect your life and not only your own life, but the lives of the people around you too.

So what can you choose to believe today that is positive?

After beliefs I spoke about Law of Attraction (LOA) and that by giving off positivity we attract it back to us.

Now I was pretty amazed when I asked the room who had heard of LOA and not one hand went up. So this was potentially the first time the these 100+ students had heard about this powerful mindset.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a great believer in LOA and have seen it in action time and time again. So I was in my element explaining how it can be used to benefit life.

I gave a few hints and tips about choosing to be nice to people. To compliment instead of insult. To remember that you do not have any idea what is going on in someone else’s’ life or mind and that your words might have a massive impact on their day, week, month, year, or even life! It is that important. Your snide remark may stay with that person for their whole life (see beliefs above!). You just don’t know. The world has enough problems and we need to be empowering others, not dragging them down. So choose your words carefully and empower rather than degrade whenever you can.

Remember:

Is it true?
Is it helpful?
Is it inspiring?
Is it necessary?
Is it kind?

If it is none of the above then why say it? Think what your agenda is by saying something that could hurt. What is happening inside you that makes you want to make others feel pain?

They say that perception is projection, in other words, what we see in others is what we dislike/want to change about ourselves. Perhaps next time you feel the urge to say something less than positive, take the time to ask yourself what it is in you that makes you feel that way about the person you are speaking to. It can be very enlightening, if a little uncomfortable at times!

And it didn’t end there (yes they were still engaged with me, for which I am hugely thankful).

I then moved on to goals and goal setting. One of the teachers said they had ‘tasks’ they were used to setting but not SMART goals.

I wanted them to think outside of the school box and look at long term goals that were in line with their values – and of course a little Law of Attraction doesn’t go amiss in this potent mix either!

So we looked at powerful goal setting:

S = Specific
M = Measurable
A = As if now
R = Realistic / Relevant / Responsible
T = Timed

and how they could use this for when they’re job hunting, planning grades etc.

Of course I had to mention that it’s all very well using these techniques and thinking, for example, I’ve set a goal to get a great job, and then doing nothing and thinking it will manifest. With the best will in the world that just ain’t gonna work! Or at least the likelihood of it is greatly reduced.

If you set a goal you then have to take MASSIVE action towards achieving it. You want that great job? Set your goal and then get out there. Network, send off applications, get on LinkedIn, JobHop and other online agencies. Take action and you will active your goal. I’ve seen it happen many times and it is always an amazing feeling when you get it!

So we had to wrap it up at this point and I kept thinking on the way home how many things I could’ve, should’ve said but there just wasn’t time – I spoke for 35 minutes in the end and it’s amazing how short a time that really is.

It was so lovely to have some of the students come up to me afterwards and say that they found it inspiring (what is a better compliment than that from a 16-18 year old!). We even had a lull between me and the next speaker and a few said I could continue as they were enjoying it – it’s so nice to be wanted! 😉

There is something quite magical about working to empower other people, especially the next generation. If we can empower them when they’re still young, just think what they could achieve!

Life is too short to be riddled with negative beliefs and surrounding yourself with negative people.

Get out there and LIVE!

Be around people who support and empower you and you you can in return support and empower them too.

Enjoy life – it’s there to be lived and enjoyed.

Climb out of the box and inject some serious positivity into your life – you just never know where it may lead you!

I could get used to this inspirational speaker malarkey!

You can find out more about the Positive Image campaign here: http://www.timetolookbeyondthemirror.co.uk/

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Author: Sophie Jewry
http://www.theholisticdirectory.co.uk

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is the original mind/body medicine. For centuries it has gone in and out of vogue. Now, in the twenty-first century, there’s finally sufficient scientific evidence, real hard data, that proves its effectiveness.

Hypnosis is a bridge to the subconscious mind, which houses the emotions, imagination, memories, habits and intuition. It also regulates our autonomic body functions and is the part of the mind that dreams.

Within a therapeutic setting, hypnosis is often induced through various methods of relaxation. As a result of this process the critical factor of the conscious mind is bypassed, giving the hypnotherapist and subject direct access to the deeper mind, the subconscious, which has been called the other 90% of the mind. Hypnosis is essentially a way of relaxing and setting aside the conscious mind while at the same time activating the subconscious, enabling the subject to act on positive, life-affirming suggestions with ease and efficiency. Generally the most well-known characteristic of hypnosis is increased suggestibility.

Within the field of hypnotherapy, there are a great variety of ways to harness the power of the subconscious mind to affect change. It is used in areas such as chronic and acute pain control or affect the psychological associations of pain. It can be effective to improve confidence, concentration, motivation, achievement, recall, focus, health and stress management. Hypnosis can help overcome addictions, habits, eating disorders, insomnia, fears, phobias and negative thought, emotional and behaviour patterns. It can also tap people into the utilization of their full potential in endeavours like work, sports and art.

In 1958, the Council on Mental Health of the American Medical Association formerly accepted hypnosis and recommended its inclusion in the curriculum of medical schools and post-graduate residencies. The British Medical Association had previously recognized hypnosis for psychiatric and surgical use.

Today, thousands of dentists, physicians, psychologists and other health professionals receive training in hypnosis. Hypnosis has emerged as a valuable tool in medicine and psychotherapy and is fully recognized and utilized by many scientists.

Article by: Frederick Stander CHT
Holistic Hypnotherapist & Wellness Counsellor at NewAge Center
http://www.newageshop.com.hk/

The Light is Within

It is amazing how quick we are to judge and condemn the world around us and yet we shy away from accepting what truly needs to change within us. What we see around us is nothing but a reflection of what is within us. If we do not have insecurity within us then we would not be bothered by insecurity because our vibrations would not match and therefore won’t allow that match.

Once we begin the best and the most intriguing exploration ever of ourself, we automatically become more patient, empathetic and reflective. Then even if we view let’s say an episode of insecurity, we would be able to understand that whoever is experiencing or creating insecurity has a lesson to learn which can only happen when they are ready therefore we can empathize with them as opposed to judge them for their behavior. The best that we can do in this situation is to just to make them aware of the situation and be there because they will choose to understand only when they are ready and Trust me when the Student is ready, the Teacher appears 🙂

The best way to prevent war is to visualize peace within and around……truly the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step and the transformation of any world begins with the transformation of self.

If you want to awaken all of humanity,
Then Awaken all of yourself.
If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world,
Then eliminate all that is dark & negative in yourself.
Truly the greatest gift you have to give is that of Your own Self-Transformation.
~ Lao Tzu

Article supplied by: Rumpa Das – Celestine Rhythm
The Rhythm of my Divine Consciousness
http://celestinerhythm.com

Past Life Regression Therapy – A Case Study

When doing past life regressions, one can never be sure exactly quite what to expect. One thing I do know is that no matter what occurs in a session there is always a positive benefit for the client. It may not be immediately obvious or it might be right in-your-face, but there is always a benefit.

I was working with A., a female in her early 40’s who has been working on a weight problem for most of her life & has tried all the usual methods to it. After several conversations with her, she wanted to try PLRT to see if it would be helpful to her in reducing weight. The method I use most frequently when regressing clients is taking them back to a childhood memory prior to a past life. As I was working with 2 clients at the same time I was unable to do more than direct them in a general way but the results for A. where dynamic.

In our discussion after the regression, she excitedly recounted her childhood memory. She was again a young child of about 7 or 8. She saw her step-father approach her & grab her arms from behind to pin them to her sides. She talked about the feelings of helplessness and pain that overcame her (this apparently was a frequent occurrence in her childhood) and she suddenly became very angry. And in her anger she found the strength to elbow him in the chest, forcing him away from her. She then turned and with a huge shove pushed him through the plasterboard of the wall behind him and shouted “You will NEVER hurt me again”.

As we discussed her memory and what it signified for her, she told me that she had tried hard, in may different ways, to release the hold the abuse from her step-father had over her, but until now had never been able to do so. She said that she felt wonderfully free & that she didn’t think the old memories would ever have a hold on her again, as she realized that she had taken her freedom and power back, that she had done it – it had not been done for her. She was exuberant to say the least, and has been reveling in her freedom since then.

We also talked about the past life she remembered which was not quite as dramatic but still significant in the fact that she had, had an experience of one. I say this, as there are a certain percentage of the population that don’t have a past life experience on the 1st regression. I will continue to work with A. to see if this breakthrough will be the nadir to starting her journey to permanent weight loss.

(Please note I make no allegations the PLRT is a weight loss program!)

Article by: Ruth Coxall, RN, RM, DC, Past Life Regression Therapist
Location: Collie, Western Australia
Email: ruthlcox@msn.com

Beautiful Words

The Four Reliances:

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;
Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And Fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.

It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Article supplied by: Rumpa Das – Celestine Rhythm
The Rhythm of my Divine Consciousness
http://celestinerhythm.com/

The Perpetual Dieter

Weight loss is all about burning more calories than we consume. Right?
So why is it so difficult?
And why has weight been on my mind all my life?
Why is it a constant struggle for me and for others?

I used to say that I was born overweight, but the reality was that I was a normal healthy weight but I grew into an overweight child. A tubby child. A child who had the mickey taken out of her at school and a child that hated sport and any form of exercise or physical activity. And it’s true to say that my hatred of sport and physical exercise has continued. To this day I don’t get that ‘buzz’ that people talk of after a gym session or a run, or the increase in energy that others talk about.

But I do get that ‘buzz’ when I lose weight!! But the thought of eating vegetables and salad (I was never a big lover of these foods) and depriving myself of the foods that I love fills me with dread and makes me grumpy. I used to go to endless lengths to hide the foods from those that I didn’t want to eat (I used to hide vegetables in the cheese plant at my mum and dad’s as we didn’t have a dog!) to those that I ate in secret (a chocolate bar hidden amongst my underwear – after all if no-one saw me eat it then it wouldn’t matter!)

When I went on a diet food was always on my mind and occupied my every waking moment! And if I ate something that I shouldn’t have done then I used to chastise myself and tell myself I deserved to be this way. If I couldn’t have what I wanted or was faced with a plate of unappetising food, again the self-hatred would drown out my reasons for wanting to be slimmer. And the scales each week became my enemy. The dial seemed to be stuck or only ever went up!

Since then I have learnt to accept myself for who I am. I am no stick insect and never will be. But I have learnt to understand my relationship with food. I eat when I am bored, I eat when I am lonely, I eat when I am upset and I celebrate with food when I am happy. I eat when I am stressed, I reach for calorie laden (nice tasting) foods when I am tired and I HAVE to clear my plate (even when I am stuffed) just so that I can have a pudding. The list goes on…

The Solution

Yes the key to losing weight is burn more calories than you consume. But unless you understand your relationship with food and change these habits as well it will be an uphill struggle.

So to be more successful at achieving your ideal weight look at the issues that have prevented you from getting there (and staying there) in the past. For example, if you eat for other reasons besides being hungry then visualise your stomach as a balloon, and ask yourself how inflated this balloon really is. Is it completely empty or so full that one more breath of air will cause it to pop. Visualising your stomach in this way during a meal can also be used to signal that it’s time to stop eating.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool to help you change your relationship with your food forever. By working at an unconscious level you can literally change how you think. When you have your first session with a hypnotherapist you are taking the first step on the road to having a healthy relationship with food and increasing your own self confidence. Leading you to a life where ‘diet’ is not part of your vocabulary.

Article by: Lisa Williams
Stockport Counselling & Hypnotherapy
Online and face-to-face counselling and tailor-made hypnotherapy packages
www.stockportcounselling.com

Belief is a Potent Medicine

Your Beliefs become your Thoughts
Your Thoughts become your Words
Your Words become your Action
Your Actions become your Values
Your Values become your Character
The combination of all these factors including your habits create your Destiny and Health

Thanks to Elke Keil – http://www.elkekeil.com

Changing History

We went to Oxborough Hall today, a beautiful place, steeped in history, in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. As I walked through the beautifully decorated rooms it got me thinking about the people that have lived and visited this place, and before it was built, the people that walked along the ancient pathways and roamed the land around it. Years and years of births, deaths, happiness, sadness, battles, romances and so many other things. Much of which has been catalogued in the history books and gone down through the generations in stories of the past, remembered and passed on.

A well documented history is great for many reasons; to compare past to present, to be aware of our roots and where we came from, even to be reminded of the bad things and so hope to prevent them in the future.

What’s interesting is that our minds work in a similar way to our keepers-of-history, carefully logging past events in the enormous filing cabinet that we call our brain, and recalling them at appropriate times to benefit us… or sometimes not.

Sometimes recalling past events is incredibly important, for example if we burn our hand on a hot pan on the stove we learn very quickly not to do it again. This is one of a great number of very valuable lessons that are important to remember.

Where this skillful storing and recalling of information becomes unhelpful is when it’s something that has no benefit to our emotional or physical wellbeing, and we have a tendency to be pretty good at remembering bad events or emotions and recalling them over and over to no benefit to ourselves at all. That mixed with our fantastic ability to distort, delete and generalise all information that comes at us can be a recipe for disaster.

At every moment of the day we are being bombarded with billions of bits of information and our brains cannot possibly process it all so it has developed a handy trick to deal with this: distort, delete and generalise*. Our unconscious mind filters out what it perceives to be the most important information and stores that as our reality. So really what we think we see is not actually what is happening, just our version of it. Which is why if you walk 10 people down a street and then ask them to describe what they saw, they will most likely all give totally different answers because they are all deleting, distorting and generalising via their five senses to suit their own beliefs and values.

When an event happens you have the actual event, then you have what you saw/felt/heard/smelt etc, then you have what you remember you saw/felt/heard/smelt etc which is likely to be even more distorted over time so what you remember to be true when you think of the event is quite often poles apart from what really happened. This is the same for all events that happen in our lives.

Peter Berger put it nicely when he said “The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.”

So have you got any past personal events that have affected, or even still do affect your life in a negative way? Perhaps you had an big argument with a close friend, or maybe you had a bad relationship and have stored away all the negative feelings that you gathered up during that time? Instead of feeling the emotions and letting them go, you’ve stored up the anger, resentment, sadness, frustration..(insert emotion here) and I’m sure you already know that this has no benefit to you yet there’s something stopping you from letting it go.

How does it make you feel when you consider that what you remember is not actually what happened?

If you could change how you feel about that event now, would you do it?

Would it be great if, when you thought of the event now, you had no emotional reaction?

This of course is completely in your power to do so and there are a number of techniques that can help you including counseling, life coaching and (my own personal favourite) an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) session.

So why would you even bother working at letting go of this past event? Why not just bury it and leave it in the deep, dark recesses of the unconscious mind? A number of reasons really…

1) Letting go of emotional baggage can feel like a huge weight being lifted from your shoulders. Quite often we don’t realise quite how much of an effect an old, negative emotion can have on your life. Sometimes from this one problem stems other issues, emotional blocks and even phobias and when you work through it you may find that it has more of a far-reaching effect that you would have anticipated.

1) Canker spreads. Simple as that. If you knew you had mould in your fridge you wouldn’t leave it to spread through and cover all the food. You’d clean it out immediately to ensure it didn’t ruin anything else nearby. It works the same for your emotions – negativity breeds negativity so if you hold on to your negative emotion it will, without you even realising it, slowly work through into other parts of your life.

3) Why would you want to hold on to something when you can let it go? Imagine the freedom of feeling an emotion and letting it flow through. This is the path to truly living ‘in the now’. Let go of the negative. Remember the positive. Enjoy the present.

Of course this is always a work in progress and having worked through lots of my own emotional baggage I know how far I have come and what a difference it has made to my life. We invest time and money in keeping our cars, computers etc running smoothly and we should also ensure we do the same for ourselves.

So why not take action now. Book some ‘me time’ and invest some time in yourself. You don’t have to spend a fortune, you don’t have to see a professional every week, but if you do make the effort you may just change your life for the better.

Enjoy the journey 🙂

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and blessings

Sophie

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