The way you breathe is the way you live. Breathing is absolutely essential to life, but it’s often overlooked as a necessity for good health. Full, free breathing is one of the most powerful keys to enhancing physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Breathing fully and freely is our birthright. If you watch a baby breathe, you will see the beauty and simplicity of flow in the body. With each inhale, the baby’s belly fills with air like a balloon, the pelvis rocks, the legs open, the chest rises and then falls, like swells across the ocean. This is natural, oceanic full-body breathing. It is the way we were meant to breathe. Breathing effortlessly, a baby lives fully and freely in the now, in the expansiveness […] Read More
Tag: Consciousness
The world of medicine is changing and with it, the way we are going to be diagnosing people’s conditions. The first step toward helping ourselves and our children recover from disease and reaching our highest states of health is getting a clear diagnosis you can trust when we get sick. A few months ago, I developed a video course about the basic ways everyone can see themselves, not in terms of conceptual diagnosis but the actual physiological processes that underlie all diseases. It is one thing to give a disease a name, i.e. Cancer or Alzheimer’s and thousands of other official diagnostic labels and another thing to look at each person’s breathing rate, blood pressure, blood glucose levels, oxidative stress levels, body temperature, pH levels […] Read More
Have you ever wished you could regenerate those brain cells you sacrificed in college? Do you fear that your aging brain is in a perpetual state of decline? Medical science is being rewritten to show that we CAN improve the health of our brain, and that repairing damage is not only possible, it’s something anyone can do. It is a commonly held misconception that the brain is beyond repair. Even the medical establishment has asserted that once we kill brain cells, they are gone forever. The fact is, the brain can repair itself, and as science is now proving, there is real benefit to simple practices that can help keep our brains sharp and elastic throughout our lifetime. Rewriting the Story of Brain Health The […] Read More
You might know this about me already, but I’m a big advocate for meditation of all kinds. There are a multitude of different types of meditation options available. With so many options, it can be pretty confusing to know what to do and what will work best for you. I’m going to touch briefly on two popular types of meditation for this article, and then dive into a third type that is my personal favorite. The first type of meditation is one pretty much everyone has heard of: Transcendental Meditation, or which falls into the category of “mantra meditation,” where the practitioner repeats a mantra silently in order to calm the stream of thoughts that arise from the mind. TM has become a big business […] Read More
Shamans are not sorcerers, they are real men and women that can get in the states of higher consciousness, and are able to perceive and communicate in ways not possible under normal conditions. Through a challenging training, shamans are able to lead the high awareness during what were they separate the physical body and make journeys in their inner world not affected by the weather. The shaman makes a very clear distinction between the medicine of the body and that of the spirit and sees them as complementary. If a man comes home with an arrow in the foot, it is not the time to go into a trance. It is time to remove the arrow from the wound to stop the bleeding, prevent infection […] Read More
Are you a shaman and you don’t know it? As I feel indebted to the shamans who saw themselves in me and helped me understand why I have always felt like I don’t belong in mainstream medicine, the intention of this article is to respectfully honor the shamanic tradition, and not to violate it in any way. Because modern culture doesn’t have a role for the shamanic archetype, many people who grow up outside indigenous villages are shamans and don’t know it. Many naturally wind up in overtly healing professions, such as medicine, psychology, or life coaching. But some wind up in professions where they may feel like they don’t fit in at all. Even those who enter the healing professions may feel out of […] Read More
Learn all about auras, how to read auras, how to see your aura, aura colors and what each aura color means. All living things that need oxygen to survive have an aura. They generate a large magnetic energy field that can be sensed, felt and even seen around the physical body. We all can tell when someone doesn’t feel good to us, like they are full of anger or if they really live in their heart and feel deeply. You do not need to be psychic to feel/read an aura. If a person walks past, very close to you, they may unintentionally steal some of your energy. If someone suddenly reaches out and grabs your arm, they are interrupting the flow of energy around your […] Read More
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” ~Harold Coffin
What happens when your neighbor upgrades to a mansion leaving your house in its shadow?
What do you do when your friend’s business is expanding while you’re living paycheck to paycheck?
How do you view the blissful couple next-door, seemingly in a never-ending honeymoon phase, while the strife in your household could be cut with a knife?
Although we are each walking our own journey, as social creatures we tend to compare ourselves to others. This habit may start in the classroom at a
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make community structures work. I’ve been reflecting and meditating on the many possibilities we could create, trying pull together the common limitations and complaints people generally have about our world and how it currently functions, and then find a common thread.
Soren Dreier & Chautauqua,
We humans are a pretty resilient bunch. We can absorb a tremendous amount of setback or grief without giving in to the negativity. On a personal level and even within the collective consciousness, we can take a punch. We don’t give up easily, because it just leaves a bad aftertaste in our throat.
We humans also have a pronounced capacity to disregard things which violate our sense of dignity and justice. Whether it is pedophile priests, genocide in Darfur or environmental crisis;