12 Common Misconceptions about the Law of Attraction (and what to do about them)

March 16, 2013 by kwanyinhealing

From business men Andrew Carnegie and Napoleon Hill to Esther Hicks and the sensationalized film “The Secret,” the Law of Attraction is touted as the path to success. So why isn’t it working better? Here are 12 common misconceptions.

Napoleon Hill, author of the classic “Think and Grow Rich,” stressed the importance of “vibration,” learned from his mentor, Andrew Carnegie.

1) “The Law of Attraction doesn’t work for me.”

It does work—and is working. We have much of what we want already—where we live, what we do with our time, who we see—our choices already dictate our lives. Enjoy!

2) Why will power and setting intention isn’t attracting results.

We are physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Will power and setting intention uses only one aspect. They are important, but this must travel down to the emotional and physical levels, as well as harmonize with the spiritual levels.

3) Raising Vibration — think coherence and completeness, not escaping the mundane.

Manifesting in physical reality while ignoring physical reality just sets self against self. Instead of thinking of escaping a denser vibration, think in terms of coherence of energy, of sympathetic vibration throughout, from physical through spiritual, working together.

4) Feeling – Do you want to be Happy? Are you sure?

The emotional level stands between the physical and the mental planes; ignoring it blocks the energy transfer. Feelings reflect thought—are you feeling good? If not, you’re blocking your manifestation. Most people prefer not to be happy, because change is too great a price to pay. So they manifest the status quo.

5) Achieving a change in consciousness means that things change.

Think and feel in terms of a changed state—step into different ways of being. People think they want money; they really want Abundance. Who goes to the forest and wishes for a specific number of leaves? No—we want endless leaves. That’s Abundance. They want the struggle and the pressure gone. That means a change in consciousness—first.

6) Uncertainty and Shiva – stop clinging.

Living in Attraction means becoming comfortable with uncertainty—in fact, loving it. We love to Create (Brahma) and we love to Preserve (Vishnu), but we hate to cut away (Shiva). All three are needed; creation happens through the destruction of what it uses to make something. Allowing manifestation means also dissolution, especially the limited mental framework of what “should” be.

7) Love / Gratitude are the foundations.

Doing what we love is crucial—as in, “Even if I don’t get the money, I still want to do this; it will help so many people!” That’s the kind of focus and passion intention needs. Be so grateful for what’s present that what the future brings doesn’t matter. That’s the key to the necessary element of detachment as well.

8) If you want something you’ve never had, do things you’ve never done.

Without new approaches, we get more of the same. To change, we must reach outside of ourselves. Get help from others. In addition to the extra resources, this gets us out of the limitations of our own minds. Expand.

9) What do you want? And why? Get Clear.

Most people never get what they want because they don’t know what it is—mainly, they focus on what they don’t want, so that’s what they perpetuate. Few explore why they want this. What will it do for them? How will it feel? Can they feel it just thinking about it? These are crucial keys.

10) Whatever we spend time doing, we get better at.

If we spend time recreating the status quo, we’ll get better and better at it. If we spend time transcending limitations, we’ll get better at that. Attraction takes growth. It’s not like ordering from the menu.

11) Marginal, Target, Outrageous – the nature of goals

Goals are beyond us, by definition—we’ve never done them. Most goals, then, reach zero completion (we never start), or 90%–we do as much as we can. So instead of goals, set the “marginal, target, outrageous” milestones. Marginal is what past performance indicates will happen. Target is the hoped for outcome. Outrageous is beyond what seems possible. This reframing starts making Targets the new Marginal, allowing new Targets into Outrageous Manifestation.

12) The Nature of Desire

Desire is not the problem, as some misunderstand Buddhism. Attachment is the problem. Karma is the promise that all desires will manifest—in time, with all that comes with them. Thus, we continually reincarnate until we get to finally achieve all our desires. And that’s not going to happen until we change from the state where we aren’t manifesting them. Love desire, choose wisely, and manifest in joy.

We’re going to talk about this a lot more starting Oct. 20, including practical, actionable steps toward demonstrable results. I hope you’ll join us — and tell your friends and associates. They can register here free for this teleseminar and the rest at http://kwanyinhealing.com/six-days.php. You can easily share this on Facebook and more by clicking the share buttons. Here’s the lineup:

Oct. 20 — Living Abundance (and why this isn’t simply money)
Oct. 22 — Emotional Challenges and Fear
Oct. 24 — Stress, Overwhelm and Uncertainty
Oct. 27 — Finding Peace, Spiritual Growth, and Living this daily in the “Real World”
Oct. 29 — Getting Unstuck and Manifesting your Dreams and Desires
Oct. 31 — If Healing isn’t Magic, Where do I get the Miracle? The Kwan Yin Path

Enjoy!

Tim
Kwan Yin Healing
http://kwanyinhealing.com

Guest Blog ~ Lauren Worsh: What is Healing, Really?

February 25, 2013 by kwanyinhealing

“It’s not about self-improvement… it’s about self-love.”

What is healing, really?

This question has fascinated me for a long time. Until recently, I didn’t recognize myself as a healer. I felt I was a teacher, a yogi, a writer, and a thinker. What I most like to think about, write about, and teach are those practices and perspectives that help people make sense of what never fit together before, help us connect more deeply to ourselves, and help us to find resolution of the physical, emotional, psychological, and relational patterns that keep us stuck in suffering and struggle. In other words, I’ve always been fascinated with what heals us.

This passion has been fueled by my desire for my own healing, both physical and psychological. I’ve always had the sense that we were meant to thrive, but I knew I wasn’t thriving, and, looking around, it didn’t seem like many others were either. I’ve always wanted to understand why we get so stuck, and why our best efforts to move beyond self-sabotaging habits and patterns of insecurity rarely succeed.

In the course of my personal quest for healing, I turned into a self-improvement junkie. I became more and more eager to “fix” myself… which didn’t work very well. I succeeded at changing some of my unsupportive habits through willpower, but the changes either didn’t last or didn’t “fix” the way I felt, emotionally and physically. Eventually I realized I was creating internal opposition, pitting one part of myself against another in my attempt to create harmony, and that I was approaching my self-improvement project from the deep wound of feeling like there was something inherently wrong with me.

I had already spent some years improving my self-talk – learning that the idea that I was somehow deficient was misguided and mistaken, and replacing that story of myself with a healthier one. It took practice, but I really did learn to trust the new story – that I was actually okay, as is. It helped, but the feelings of inadequacy and insecurity were still there; they just came to the surface less frequently. When they did, they felt just like they always did — devastating. I could think wiser, more respectful thoughts but they didn’t seem to penetrate to the deepest layers of my felt sense of self. I still felt deficient, when it came down to it. Like I couldn’t relax fully in my own skin. I had to try, to do something, to be someone. It didn’t feel safe to just be.

This recognition has been healing in itself. In realizing that there is this very tender, core experience of not feeling safe to just be, I found compassion for myself, and have been able to make space for those feelings to arise and to flow freely when they do. I have invited them to arise, learning to trust the intelligence of the healing process’s impeccable timing. When they do, it is often a very physical experience as well as an emotional one. I sense that in presencing these aspects of my experience I am learning how to relax, in a way I never knew was possible. Sometimes there is simply an innocent sobbing and shaking. Sometimes I receive insights that help me to make peace with my historical struggles, help me to grow in wisdom and glimpse the big picture. Sometimes I have felt streams of energy pouring into my body; I sense these energies as vibrations or frequencies of Self that I had become cut off from – in this lifetime and perhaps in many lifetimes – and to which I am now choosing to reclaim access. I’ve realized that I have called in my own healing, and in doing so, I have become a healer.

I’ve come to see how healing is a process of unwinding back through the layers of our conditioning, and that in order to bring resolution to our earliest experiences of wounding and all the subsequent layers of trauma, suffering, mistaken identity, and misunderstanding, we need to be willing and able to receive healing into all layers of being – spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and energetic. It’s about recognizing that there is nothing wrong with us, and there never was anything wrong with us, and opening ourselves to the process of coming into alignment with that truth, on all levels.

For me, this is what healing is at the core – Self-love. It is about bringing love in wherever it is needed, wherever the sensations, emotions, thoughts, and patterns of unworthiness and inadequacy hold court.

Healing ourselves isn’t about self-improvement. The Self doesn’t need improvement. Healing is about recognizing that right down to our cells, and relaxing into the perfection of our unique expression of Being. It’s about becoming the source and the recipient of a ceaseless flow of unconditional self-love. It’s about becoming so sourced in the nourishment of that love that all habits of blaming yourself, judging yourself, and comparing yourself to others lose their power and eventually drop away. Healing, really, is about coming home to ourselves, for not only are we entirely deserving of love, this love is who we are.

Lauren Worsh
http://laurenworsh.com
“Discover your capacity for sustained energy, ease, and joy.”

Guest Blog ~ Carla Forsyth, ”Transference Healing”

February 4, 2013 by kwanyinhealing

Healing Our Core Wounding

A core wounding is the cause of distortion and dis-ease creating physical, emotional and mental symptoms in us. It is a deep energetic wounding within our etheric body that disconnects us from our Higher Self and our Lightbody. By working with Chiron through Transference Healing®, you can begin to heal this core wounding in the etheric and receive the frequencies that are necessary for you body to heal, anchor and activate your Lightbody so you can ground yourself in the 5th dimensional world that we are co-creating now.

The core wounding is reflected in the Greek mythological story of Chiron who was the offspring of Saturn. Being born a centaur, he was rejected by his parents and raised by Apollo. Chiron, being half man and half horse, represented the human being who’s divinity exists in a state of immortality and who, at the same time, resides in a physical mortal body throughout each of its incarnations.

The Mythical History of Chiron

Chiron the centaur created a wounding after being pierced in the leg. While living in a state of immortality he searched many dimensions to find a cure and along the way he became very wise and knowledgeable, mastering the art of healing. Meanwhile, the deep compassion that he developed, compelled him to help others on their own self healing journey. He does this by bringing up issues concerning the body’s health, diseases and their relationship or effect on our spiritual journey, growth and empowerment process throughout life. Chiron enables us to identify with the wound, giving us the resources to not only work with it on the etheric level and thereby heal it, but also to acknowledge or understand it so that we can work through its associated emotions that create limitations within our personal and spiritual growth. Through this self-healing process Chiron also enables us to shift our consciousness and see the gifts contained within the wound by allowing it to surface. When the wound is physically and psychologically healed, the gift is embraced, enabling one to awaken and evolve in body and consciousness and to open the mind to mysticism and magic. As we awaken these latent gifts, we learn to heal ourselves and others. Finally embodying our purpose.

The Astrological Aspects of Chiron

There is an ancient North American prophecy that says:
“When the healing planet is discovered in the sky then the sacred warrior teachings will return to Earth.” It is believed that this healing planet is Chiron.

In 1977 the consciousness of Chiron was energetically returned to the Earth when a new minor planet, classified as a centaur, was discovered in our solar system traveling a course between Saturn and Uranus. This discovery triggered our consciousness to embrace the idea of personal and planetary healing through energy and light. As Chiron transits between Saturn and Uranus it creates profound shifts in our physical and spiritual identity, as well as our perception on health and healing.

Chiron consciousness is a universal consciousness that comes through the planet chiron to help us enhance our intuitive ability and repair the etheric web that sustains our life force on Earth. By working with this etheric web that is energetically connected to the physical body, planet earth and the universe, we connect to Christ Consciousness and understand the vibrational healing aspects of all nature within our universe. Therefore, Chiron and it astrological influence enables us to access and master some of the sacred teachings and cosmic healing powers of the Christ.

We are all born with one of twelve core or Chiron wounds. The wounding you work on during your lifetime is based on what astrological sign that Chiron, the planet, was in at the time of your birth. The sign we identify in Transference Healing® is not necessarily, but could be the same as your zodiac sign. Chiron in a natal astrological chart indicates the area from which an opportunity comes to heal the core wound that we are born with. Chiron is not only triggering global astrological and energetic changes as it trasits in the solar system, thereby supporting global change within the Earth and human consciousness, but it is also simultaneously triggering four important astrological transits in each individual’s natal chart throughout their lifetime.

As Chiron makes its 50 year cycle of every human’s natal chart, the four unique transits it creates for each individual on the planet affects their personal and spiritual growth process. As such, the four Chiron transits occurring in their lifetime indicate times of significant initiations, as well as the core issues that may occur at these times in order for each individual to trigger a profound healing and an opportunity to create huge realizations and awaken latent gifts and talents.

The first Chiron transit occurs anytime between ages 4 and 23 years of age and gives us the chance to identify with our sense of self on Earth. The second transit opens one up to their life’s path. The third transit often creates painful times of self-discovery. The fourth transit occurs for everyone at the age of 50. During this transit Chiron returns to the exact sign and position it was located at the time of one’s birth. This transit creates the change of life, thereby delegating the direction and resources to find more of our life’s purpose.

If you are interested in identifying your individual Chiron wounding and knowing, from a Transference Healing® point of view, how your wounding can influence your life and what gifts can be obtained by embracing and overcoming your wounding then please contact Carla Forsyth carla@heartselfhealing.com or (973) 320-3815. Simply becoming aware of your wounding can be healing, empowering and can significantly shift your consciousness. However, if you would like to go deeper into the healing of your core wounding please be aware that this issue is worked on in every full, advanced Transference Healing® session I offer and I would be honored to work with you on this if this information resonates with you.

The source of all information in this article is the founder, anchor and channel of Transference Healing®, Alexis Cartwright. Some information in this article is from her book, Beyond Doorways.

Carla Forsyth, http://heartselfhealing.com, is a Transference Healer, among other healing modalities, including Reiki and Pranic Healing. Carla assists people in remembering who they really are and how to move from the 3rd dimensional bubble, filled with fear and struggle that we are free to leave behind now, into the 5th dimensional world that exists around them.

Guest Blog ~ Marina Ormes, of “Astrology Heals”

January 27, 2013 by kwanyinhealing

Times of Change: Astrology and Evolution 2012-2015

Marina Ormes RN, HN-BC

Many of us find ourselves bouncing back and forth, sometimes pretty dramatically, between optimism and hopelessness. The symbolic wisdom of astrology helps us understand and navigate these powerful times of transition and transformation. What is happening? What does it all mean? What are we becoming?

Astrology and the cosmos can provide some insight into how we are changing and why. From my perspective as an evolutionary astrologer, I see the difficult and sometimes painful circumstances that we must confront as an important step in our learning and growth, both on personal and collective levels. The challenges we face are necessary to push us into taking greater responsibility for our circumstances.

We need to expand both our hearts and our minds to be able to handle the awareness of truths that are beginning to dawn on us. These truths include, but are not limited to, new discoveries being made by science about the nature of the universe, how our bodies work, and what is taking place at unseen dimensions. They include the necessity that we transcend war. And they include confronting the limitations of existence on a planet whose resources are being depleted as we speak.

The importance of us “getting” these lessons is no less than the fate of humanity and the planet. But there are powerful signs of real change. So many of us are awakening to the areas where we can no longer compromise personal empowerment, because personal empowerment is the source of hope. When you understand who you are, why you are here, and how you are here to make a difference, you can stand in your unique perspective and speak, act, and choose from the truth which comes from your essence – that which brings meaning and fulfillment to your life.

Here, in a nutshell, are the astrological “indicators” of change.

Transition to the Age of Aquarius

This is a long-term transitional period, not one that takes place in a single moment, or in a single year. It refers to the approximately 2000-year time period that constitutes an “age.” The age of Pisces began around the time of the beginning of Christianity. Ages refer to a gradual “slipping” of the zodiac which takes place when observed over long periods of time, or the position of the Sun in the zodiac through our seasons as compared with its position against the backdrop of remote stars.

Symbolically, the age of Pisces referred to giving up our power as individuals while depending upon a representation of the divine – generally an authority figure – to tell us what to do. In many cases this power was claimed in bloody and terrifying ways. We submitted to it because the alternative was to be outcast from the safety and protection of the collective culture and society. Conformity, and giving up individual needs and styles, was what ensured the survival and continuation of the community.

The age of Aquarius refers to us reclaiming our power as individuals as the center of divinity and power shifts from an external figurehead to an internal authority. As we make this shift, the evolutionary pressures placed upon us are to now give up the necessity of conformity and become our own centers of authority and decision-making. Each of us becomes a center of divine power with access to our own inherent truth and individual way of being.

This transition feels like a crisis because as we step into our inner authority and divinity, we must give up deep-seated beliefs that we will be tortured and killed for doing so. Each of us has our own version of this story, and each of us has our own suppressed inner voice to claim.

The Pluto-Uranus Square

In 2011, this long-term transit came within a degree of exact, causing us to feel the collective crisis and impetus for change. In astrology, a “square” means that two planets are 90 degrees apart in the zodiac (as they are viewed from Earth). Squares are felt as conflict, crisis, or pressure.

The square between these two planets is part of a cycle that began during the 1960s when the two planets were conjunct, or together in the zodiac (in Virgo). During the 1960s when Pluto, the planet of transformation, power, sex, and death met the planet of sudden change, individual expression, rebellion, and revolution humanity experienced a collective wave of awakening. Into existing power structures the archetypal truths of individual and sexual empowerment, social and environmental movements, substances that could instantly alter consciousness and perception, and cries for equal rights exploded like hot lava suddenly escaping from a long-dormant volcano.

The problem is, conjunctions are completely subjective. The energies emerge without knowing where to go, or what their ultimate purpose is. It is now our task, 50 years later, to decide what we are going to do with the energies that were unleashed during the 60s. We are under the extreme pressure of this square – stuck between a rock and a hard place – or between the reality we have created and the freedom we can imagine – and we are forced to choose what we are going to do about it. The Pluto-Uranus square will be in an exact 90-degree relationship a total of seven times between 2012 and 2015 (due to the fact that both planets are far away and move slowly, and also due to retrograde periods).

Outer Planet Placements in 2012-2015

Pluto: Pluto is in Capricorn. Pluto brings transformation and massive change to the sign of structure, tradition, and authority. It will continue to express itself through this venue, removing the security blanket of knowing what we can count on (financial systems? political structures? family structures?) and opening the doorway to rebirth. Pluto does not determine the nature of the rebirth. We do that.

Neptune: Neptune shifts into its home sign of Pisces early in 2012. Renewal comes through new ways of knowing the divine, and spirituality opens us to new levels of awareness and understanding. Escapism into altered states (virtual realities? vision quests on crack? giving our power away to illusions or false promises?) and other substitutes for knowing the infinite nature of divine source are the pitfalls we must avoid. On the positive side, infinite potential and divine love become real and accessible.

Uranus: Uranus is in Aries. Uranus is the planet of individuality, rebellion, and authentic expression. It is taking us through the journey of Aries: the sign of pure essential being. We must be the Aries warrior and fight for what we believe in, for what our inner authority knows to be right. We must also be the divine fool and not be afraid to make mistakes. Aries is the sign of action without thought, of new life as it strives to understand what it means to exist. Without movement, without trying, without risk – we will die inside.

So, in a nutshell, we are creating a new world. What will this new world look like? We are deciding. We are deciding right now and in every moment. Our choices determine our future.

The universe is asking: will you speak, act, and choose out of fear and the limitations of the past? Or will you honor your past choices while giving yourself permission to choose differently?

Will you choose from the heart? From the truth? From courage? Are you willing to stand up and create a new future that is based not in what you know, but what you can imagine?

By knowing yourself, you can make choices that emerge from who you are, and not what you are trying to protect yourself from. I suspect that as we grapple with who we really are, doorways will open to an incredible future.

Marina Ormes RN, HN-BC is a board certified holistic nurse and an evolutionary astrologer. She uses the insights of astrology to support healing at the levels of body, mind, emotion, and spirit.

http://astrologyheals.com/

“Healer’s Voices” starts Jan. 15!

January 16, 2013 by kwanyinhealing

Where can you have a discussion with other healers, read a variety of guest blog posts, listen to interviews on a range of topics, get a free healing recording ~ all for free? Right here, on the “Healing for Healers” forum: http://www.kwanyinhealing.com/healing-forum.php! And it all starts now:

Jan. 15 — Myriam Haar, from Saint-Martin, practices Reiki and NLP, but she’s really an Awareness Coach, or an Emotional Coach, specializing in helping people post-trauma regain their power and transform experientially. She’ll be answering forum questions all week. See her site and post right now! And in coming weeks:

Jan. 21 — Erik Carlson, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, will offer an interview and guest blog about integrating breath work into hands-on therapy, prana yama, qi gong, stuck energy, and much more. Quite the store house of knowledge!

Jan. 28 — Marina Ormes, of Eugene, Oregon, will also share an interview about her work with healers through astrology. See her discussion thread on using North and South nodes for evolutionary work. She’ll also share a guest blog.

Feb. 4 — Carla Forsyth, of Transference Healing in Denville, New Jersey, helps people rediscover their ability to self-heal and find mastery and ascension, through a variety of modalities and techniques. Should be an interesting week! She’ll be around to answer forum questions.

Feb. 11 — Carol Ann Barrows, of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is a vocalist and chi gong practitioner. She is generously sharing a self-healing mp3 recording — check this out!

Feb. 18 — James Burkhart, of Marina del Rey, California, is a body worker incorporating Taoist and chakra meditation techniques in his practice–and he markets Amazonian herbs.

Feb. 25 — Lauren Worsh, of Seattle, Washington, will share her thoughts in an interview and a guest blog post on “Sacred Nourishment: Loving Yourself, Trusting Your Body, and Healing Your Relationship with Food.” Be sure to ask her about the Law of Attraction as well on the forum!

March 4 — Shweta Parmar, of Flushing, New York, is an Ayurvedic Practitioner focusing on harmonizing and balancing ourselves not only for health, but also in relation to the Divine Mother and Mother Earth. She’s got quite a fascinating story!

March 11 — And speaking of Divine Compassion . . . this springs us back to Kwan Yin Healing. In March, I’ll present a series of free webinars on practically raising vibration for tangible, manifest results in health and transformation of life path–and some announcements about new programs. Enjoy the series!

HEALERS! Would you like a discussion forum on YOUR site — INSTANTLY? All you need do is open an html widget where you want the forum, paste the html code — and presto! The Healing for Healers forum will be active on YOUR OWN SITE!

Please just drop me a note for the code, or copy it from the “embed” option on the forum menu.

Thanks!
tim@kwanyinhealing.com

Healing Perspectives

December 19, 2012 by kwanyinhealing

I did a guest blog and an interview today for Talk Story TV, which features interviews and readings by writers, artists, and healers on its online TV/radio channel.

You can listen to the interview by clicking here. The blog, “Healing Perspectives,” is below:

Two perspectives hold us back from the healing, health and happiness we deserve.

First, we don’t hold a clear vision of what health means. We hold a idea of freedom from disease instead—if we aren’t sick, we’re healthy. But there’s a world of difference among broken, not-broken, and thriving. How many people get up in the morning feeling rested, grateful, and passionate about what they’re off to do that day, Monday through Sunday? How many of us are spending that time with the people we really like, the kinds that jazz us up, as well as loved ones? How many of us are doing the things that renew and sustain us, not just in the corner of a day, week, or year, but daily, even in the work we do? And how many of us are living for someday, rather then appreciating in joy each moment of beauty?

Truly, even if they manage to remain relatively disease-free, many people aren’t truly living, and we can’t really call this condition “health,” not mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or even physically—just look at the physical posture, facial expression, walk and breathing of such a frazzled creature. It’s not healthy, and in fact, not infrequently precedes eventual disease. Contrast this, for example, with health from the view of a shaman, who might ask not about medical symptoms but rather questions like “When did you stop singing? When did you stop dancing? When did you stop enjoying stories?” Notice these too are physical symptoms—singing, dancing, smiling—but they are not only harbingers of illness, but also indicators of perhaps a better term than health: well-being.

I worked with a client recently who reported her chiropractor was amazed to see that her neck, injured in an auto accident the previous year, had straightened back into place (C1) and that her chronically high blood pressure had dropped to normal. “Something else,” she told me. “I found myself singing along with the radio in the car. I can’t remember the last time I did that.” Bingo. Well-being.

When we’re not sneezing, but still living for one day when things will be different, we aren’t healthy, and we need to learn to stop accepting this condition, and especially not as normal. Our lives are supposed to feel good to us. Instead, we waste them in embracing mediocrity, instead of insisting on living as we were meant to live, fully, passionately, vibrantly alive.

Second, we don’t understand we are energy, frequency and vibration. Yes, physics has told us this for over a century. The technical aspects of this are not only well-known, but well-established as well. What we perceive as matter is the interaction of vibrating energy frequencies. It’s all we are—energy, frequency, vibration. Here, we can look to not only our physical symptoms, but our emotions and thoughts as well. If we aren’t feeling healthy, happy, peaceful emotions, we aren’t thinking quality thoughts. Change the thoughts, and the feedback mechanism of the emotions changes with them. And clarity and coherence of light at the spiritual level is reflected in clear, calm thoughts and emotions.

This is healing. On one level, it’s as easy as letting go of what’s not working—conditions, emotions, thoughts, spiritual practice…it’s all tuning to different vibrations and frequencies. Energy flows where attention goes, and when we’re hurt, we focus on the hurt—physically, emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. Stop. It’s re-creating the pain. Instead, let go. All healing is releasing. Whether physical pain, emotional, etc., just let it radiate out in all directions. Try it—the pain will stop. Feeling mentally overwhelmed? Stop thinking. Focus on your heart energy instead. Feeling spiritually empty? Construct a daily spiritual practice meaningful to you; focusing here instead of the emptiness will work wonders day to day.

Focus on wellness, on how a healthy body works and feels, on what emotions you want to feel, on what thoughts you want, on what spiritual condition. What do you want? Focus on that—not on continually feeling the lack. Feel the joy of living your desires in the Now. You will be happy, whole, peaceful, joyful, balanced—and truly healthy.

FREE Informational healing teleseminar replay

November 1, 2012 by kwanyinhealing

***Note: This blog post originally announced the then forthcoming teleseminar. You can hear the replay via the same link in the post below.***

FREE Healing Teleseminar – Nov. 11, 2012

What happens now after the October “A Wilderness Hike” daily blog post series is done? On to the next project—and I’m really excited about it!

Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, at 1:00 EST, I’m presenting my first ever FREE Informational Teleseminar on Reconnective Healing, The Reconnection, distance healing, and whatever else people want to know. Registered participants can even post questions ahead of time on a private group Facebook page, so I can be sure I cover what people are wondering. They can post questions during as well, and afterward, I’ll be checking back for questions that come up after the call too.

Here’s video with addressing a few basic questions for now:

AND….I ALSO have a few surprises in store for folks on the 11^th!

To join in—simply Reserve your spot below:

Join the teleseminar

And congrats! Confirm the email link and you’ll have all the information about access to the call and to the Facebook group. You’ll also have instructions for joining via Skype, if you’d like to do that.

So you’re all welcome! Please help spread the word—I’d appreciate that. I’d love to see all sorts of people with questions or curiosity join in and ask away. And Free is one of the very best prices available! 😉

And check this out—Minnesota Public Radio is among the media outlets that picked up my press release! http://markets.financialcontent.com/mpr/news/read?GUID=22625871

From Wilderness to Wondrousness

October 31, 2012 by kwanyinhealing

So…this October 2012 “A Wilderness Hike” daily series started with the mission to both share some of my forthcoming “Getting Unstuck” book content and to explore what taking clients on a wilderness hike might look like. Some people had asked me about this, suggesting it might/should be a niche, and I thought I’d open it to public comment. Now, at the end of this month’s exploration, here are some of my thoughts.

I like Frank MacEowen’s blend of “pre-literate” and “post-literate” approaches. After all, upon first arriving in the wilderness, a few hours go by as the conscious mind slowly lets go of its propensity to relentlessly spin. “Literary” approaches might be the way to start—contemplation that recognizes we’re still at the conscious, thinking level—and then, as the experience progresses, easing naturally into the more connected, feeling, intuitive stages.

Wallace Stevens offers this poem in place of wilderness; we could then ease into wilderness in place of poetry, traveling through an interim phase of creating our own art—poetry, music, journals, whatever is appropriate for each:

“The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”

There it was, word for word.
The poem that took the place of a mountain.

He breathed its oxygen.
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.

It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,

How he had recomposed the pines,
Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds,

For the outlook that would be right,
Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion:

The exact rock where his inexactnesses
Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,

Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea,
Recognize his unique and solitary home.

View from Snowy Mountain in the southern Adirondacks

We could then, after walking for a few hours, sit and contemplate landscape as mirror, talking about some of the points raised in my “Getting Unstuck” book, especially about how making the Law of Attraction work for us includes melding the physical and spiritual, not thrusting either aside in favor of the other, recognizing that what’s around us *is* in fact reflecting our own creating back to us, whether what we’re seeing makes sense to us or not. More walking could then just “allow” thoughts and reflections and insights to arise naturally—that magical Sixth Hour of clarity I mentioned early this month.

We could take a few moments to write our thoughts, then share our insights with each other, inspiring each other to further clarity with our celebrations of peace. Later, we could share our artistic creations, poetic or otherwise. And, of course, we could certainly talk about healing, about raising vibration, about any number of things along those lines. Or I could bring my guitar and play an outdoor concert. Or invite other musicians along to do the same.

But I’m a practical man. As nice as all this sounds, I’d want the day to be more than just a nice experience. I’d want it to make a difference. From wilderness to wondrousness. So how would that work? A couple of thoughts.

I have in mind a full day’s hike. That could be on flat land, or a climb. Probably flat land is best for the contemplative nature of what we’re doing. For that, probably John Brown’s Tract or similar hikes would be best—I could probably find more of these (I just tend to go for the mountains). Some people might want to travel in for the day. Others might like to camp nearby or in the woods. Others might prefer a night in an Old Forge hotel. All could be accommodated with a day hike. Or in the Lake Placid region. Or perhaps a cross-country ski adventure (without the musical instruments, or with cold fingers for writing—I’m leaning toward warmer weather hikes).

The hike itself could have the elements discussed above, but the experience could be expanded. For example, we could have a PDF workbook for use a week prior to the event. Or a telesummit, conferencing by phone or Skype, with or without the workbook, and a private Facebook group for mutual discussion or posting exercises and feedback. And a telesummit and/or workbook/discussion for the week after. Something like that?

And people traveling in might like to combine the trip with healing sessions or Reconnections; we could work out schedules to complete those as well, making the entire experience a profound change, an initiation into a new way of being to carry forward from that point onward. Something like that.

I’d love to read comments with people’s thoughts and suggestions about all this. Please do leave them below! And thanks!

Namaste.

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October 2012 is a series of daily posts about “A Wilderness Hike,” taking readers through the healing of wilderness experience and glimpses of my work at Kwan Yin Healing and of my book, “Getting Unstuck.”

You can read the series from the start via the links here:

Oct. 1:    A Wilderness Hike
Oct. 2:   The Sixth Hour
Oct. 3:   Snowy Mountain
Oct. 4:   Letting Go of Baggage–the Wilderness Way
Oct. 5:   “Bear” the Thought
Oct. 6:   Mountain. Buddha. Impermanence.
Oct. 7:   The Rewards of Rain
Oct. 8:   Finding the Keys
Oct. 9:   “I’d love to, but times are bad.”
Oct. 10: Attracting the Law of Attraction
Oct. 11: We are not our thoughts
Oct. 12: Honesty, Forgiveness, Healing
Oct. 13: Getting Unstuck: Feeling Overwhelmed
Oct. 14: Money is remarkably easy to come by, if that’s all you want.
Oct. 15: To be Time Rich, Learn to Be
Oct. 16: Changing Thoughts for Changing Work
Oct. 17: Finding and Sharing your Gifts
Oct. 18: Do you want to be the boss? Be sure you want to run the show.
Oct. 19: Finding jobs within jobs
Oct. 20: Bright Mountain Dream
Oct. 21: Escape the Wilderness of Addictions
Oct. 22: The Importance of Spiritual Direction
Oct. 23: In Search of Enlightenment
Oct. 24: Relationship Thoughts from the Wilderness
Oct. 25: We learn in realtionships
Oct. 26: Chrysalis
Oct. 27: Self-Healing, part 1
Oct. 28: Self-Healing, part 2: Time for a new perspective
Oct. 29: Dix Mountain
Oct. 30: The Mist-Filled Path
Oct. 31: From Wilderness to Wondrousness

Enjoy!

The Mist-Filled Path

October 30, 2012 by kwanyinhealing

If you’ve never read Frank MacEowen’s “The Mist-Filled Path,” let me recommend you do so. It is very closely aligned with the ideas I’m raising in “A Wilderness Hike,” as well as some in “Getting Unstuck” and a lot of what I have to say about music and healing.

MacEowen speaks of the Celtic practice of hillwalking, a pursuit that “reminds us of who we are” in this world of the “Sleepwalkers,” unaware of their true nature, as if in exile. This process of discovery blends the worlds of physical and spirit, teaching us to walk in the “Mist,” to “walk between the worlds.”

For MacEowen, the landscape as mirror:

It is a splendid revealer of things not often seen with the eyes of everyday life. When walking out on the land, it is good to invite the “eyes of the seer” and the “eyes of the poet” to be present. These are eyes that see the true shape of things. Poets and seers see things differently. When we relax the literal thinking mind and enter a landscape with more fluid perceptions (a soft gaze), we soon find that we become changed. We are then able to connect with our primal, preliterate selves. This preliterate, or perhaps postliterate, state of consciousness opens us to the Great Mirror of Nature.

Similar to the procedure of Chi Gong and toning, MacEowen discusses “setting our root,” noting parallels to shamanism, to lnitiation, and to Vision Quests:

The Celtic tradition of divination and seership is rooted in an understanding that clarity of thought and vision can be found in nature. It is no accident, for instance, that so many Celtic seers, ancient and modern, have been shepherds, drovers, and crofters. These individuals are often out in the land hillwalking. Their souls are customarily deep in the consciousness required to receive vision, spiritual insight, and prophecy. This thread of the Celtic tradition understands well William Butler Yeats’ notion of ‘the condition of quiet that is the condition of visions.

Thus we have a “dying of an old way of seeing,” and a “rebirth of an even older way of seeing.” Similar to Buddhism (MacEowen makes a case for ancient Buddhism among the Celts), the desires of ego lead to suffering and separation. But the “longing of soul” is a path to peace, beauty, and the soul’s evolution. “Grow the soul green again,” suggests MacEowen, noting that to “attune” to our soul longing brings “at-one-ment.” And again, this is a melding of physical and spiritual:

The body is the sacred temple through which the shaman, mystic, or healer receives certain prompts and guidance. We all have access to this soulful bodily wisdom, but we must open ourselves to its richness and not cut ourselves off form our own earthiness. Our earthiness is holy. In the word of the Rhineland mystic Hildegard of Bingen, “Holy persons draw to themselves all the is earthy.”

And so we move to the rhythms of nature and life. We sing! We dance! After all, in Hindu traditions, there is an ancient phrase, Nada Brahma, meaning “the world is sound.” Energy. Vibration. Frequency. This is healing—and celebration. “It is healing for us to remember our sense of place with the holy shapes of life. When we make it a point to remember the holy shapes, we in turn remember our own divinity.”

MacEowen speaks of the Oran Mór, descripting it as the deep spring that fills the sacred well of the human soul, an ancient rhythm, an ancient melody that one hears in the wind, in the waterfall, in the beautiful strains of sound in Celtic music, song, and chanting. It is a healing song, an enlivening song heard in the giggles of a grandmother, the whispers of a lover, the questions of a child:

The Oran Mór remembered becomes a level of human consciousness that can help us accomplish great things. The macrocosmic dimension of this teaching is realized within the individual life as a microcosmic expression. As a Sufi mystic once said, “Music does not produce within the human heart that which was not already there.”

Thus MacEowen explains well what this “A Wilderness Hike” series found at the start—there is a healing energy in the wilderness, a sound, a vibration, a mirror that shows us truth amid the usual clamor of the mind. Through hillwalking, the Sleepwalkers can learn to walk between the worlds, becoming again who we always have been.

October 2012 is a series of daily posts about “A Wilderness Hike,” taking readers through the healing of wilderness experience and glimpses of my work at Kwan Yin Healing and of my book, “Getting Unstuck.”

You can read the series from the start via the links here:

Oct. 1:    A Wilderness Hike
Oct. 2:   The Sixth Hour
Oct. 3:   Snowy Mountain
Oct. 4:   Letting Go of Baggage–the Wilderness Way
Oct. 5:   “Bear” the Thought
Oct. 6:   Mountain. Buddha. Impermanence.
Oct. 7:   The Rewards of Rain
Oct. 8:   Finding the Keys
Oct. 9:   “I’d love to, but times are bad.”
Oct. 10: Attracting the Law of Attraction
Oct. 11: We are not our thoughts
Oct. 12: Honesty, Forgiveness, Healing
Oct. 13: Getting Unstuck: Feeling Overwhelmed
Oct. 14: Money is remarkably easy to come by, if that’s all you want.
Oct. 15: To be Time Rich, Learn to Be
Oct. 16: Changing Thoughts for Changing Work
Oct. 17: Finding and Sharing your Gifts
Oct. 18: Do you want to be the boss? Be sure you want to run the show.
Oct. 19: Finding jobs within jobs
Oct. 20: Bright Mountain Dream
Oct. 21: Escape the Wilderness of Addictions
Oct. 22: The Importance of Spiritual Direction
Oct. 23: In Search of Enlightenment
Oct. 24: Relationship Thoughts from the Wilderness
Oct. 25: We learn in realtionships
Oct. 26: Chrysalis
Oct. 27: Self-Healing, part 1
Oct. 28: Self-Healing, part 2: Time for a new perspective
Oct. 29: Dix Mountain
Oct. 30: The Mist-Filled Path
Oct. 31: From Wilderness to Wondrousness

Enjoy!

Dix Mountain

October 29, 2012 by kwanyinhealing

A long time had passed since my last true outdoor challenge. But unexpectedly, I got a reminder of the power of wilderness, the magic in facing frightening challenges, and the glow and growth of walking through to the other side of the experience. That’s what Dix Mountain became for me this summer—surpassing even the knee injury on Algonquin Peak.

I had long avoided climbing Dix Mountain. I’ve seen it several times, sitting across the highway from Giant Mountain. But I’d heard it was a two day hike, involving camping on the mountain, while I was focusing on day trips. I also wasn’t anxious to cross the rock slide visible from the ground. It didn’t seem like an enjoyable time necessarily. I had climbed all three mountains in the Presidentials of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, and while I’m glad of it, they were long walks for hours up rocks.

But that changed the day I climbed Mt. Marcy this summer. Instead of camping out and hiking from camp, I rose early (middle of the night, actually) to drive to the Adirondack High Peaks and begin the 14-15 hour round trip hike near dawn, then driving home, arriving in the middle of the next night. It was a long day, but doable, and I wanted to climb Marcy again. I picked a glorious day, consumed a great deal of coffee, and took the photos from Marcy that appear in this October “A Wilderness Hike” series.

At the top, I enjoyed a long talk with the Summit Steward. I mentioned Dix and my reservations, but she said, “No, you want to climb Dix from the other side, starting at Elk Lake, up through Hunter’s Pass.” She showed me the trail on the map. I asked about the time and the distance—about the same as the one for Marcy that day. Hmmm. Perhaps Dix was a possibility after all. And a few weeks later, I was up in the middle of the night, heading for the High Peaks.

I was looking forward to it. Dix is different from Marcy. Especially in the summer, hiking Marcy’s trail is like walking New York’s 42^nd street—it’s popular climb. Additionally, multiple trails branch off to other peaks. It’s a network of activity. Dix, however, is in the center of the Dix Mountain wilderness. There is nothing else. No trails branch off. No lodges nearby house hikers. Even the other high peaks around Dix have no trails—literally, no trails; “46ers” looking to climb each of the 46 high peaks typically go “peak bagging” to climb the five in the Dix Wilderness—basically, scramble through to each one. Wilderness. Definitely not heavily travelled. I passed one camp in a lean-to, and saw one other guy on the summit.

Right from the start, this was a different hike. First, there was no place to sign in. Oops. This was private land, not policed by the DEC rangers. People knew I went hiking, but they wouldn’t know where. And I was alone—with just my dog.

Next, although this had been a dry summer, with yellow leaved trees at higher elevations, this trail was wet. Very wet. And rocky. Slippery and rocky. The entire way. And although the day would hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit, I wore my jacket most of the way; the trail was in the shadow of the mountain ridges, which again prevented the moisture from drying up. Essentially, the trail paralleled a stream, climbing steadily.

I was struck by the extreme feeling of wilderness. I was in the middle of nothing, from a civilization perspective. And nature—just didn’t care. I was insignificant, another insect or raccoon or bear or whatever moving through probably the wildest spot I’d ever hiked. This would be a place to go to disappear and die. It was . . . sobering. The trail continued, steadily up, now along the side of a mountain. Wilder and wilder. And then—across a ravine . . . and up.

I mean—up. Straight up. Suddenly I’m climbing over boulders, stepping over gaps twenty feet down. If I slipped here, injured, I’d lay there and die rather than be found. But these were crossed, quite a workout, safely. Even my dog managed fine. And then—the trail continued . . . straight up. Literally. Pulling up the rock faces up the side of the mountain. Even used to hiking all summer, it was hard, tiring work. I’ve never seen a “trail” like it. A couple of times, my dog lay down and almost refused to continue—despite also being energetic and used to climbing and hiking.

We were in a hard spot now. The day was getting late, and I worried about getting to the summit in time to get back down before dark—I did not want to be stuck in this wilderness in the dark. Continuing was difficult going. Descending was going to be equally difficult. The next few hours, I would wonder whether I should continue or abort. Unlike my other hikes this summer, I knew nothing about where I was, and there was no one to ask. I was getting a little scared. No mistakes. No mistakes today. I could not afford them.

I was expecting a fork in the trail where two ways up split. But, somewhere I must have passed that already, because when I finally did find a fork, despairing over what seemed another hour or more to the summit, it turned out to be a junction with a trail from the other side of the mountain; the fork I thought it was must have been passed noticed. Twenty minutes later, I was on a ridge that turned out to be the summit. I was there—and very relieved. And very, very, tired. So was my dog; she stretched out, lay down on the rock, then over on her side, and slept most of the 90 minutes I spent at the top.

But now there—after leaving a cell phone message (coverage was possible at the summit, though not on the trail) with a friend explaining where I was, just in case, I settled down for lunch and the glorious, incredible views from every side. It’s the most remarkable climb I’ve ever had. Just beautiful. Amazingly beautiful. The mountains there are “in your face,” and continue peak after peak after peak. If you can, climb this mountain. It’s stunning. Absolutely stunning.

After the scary climb up, hiking out the lower part after dark seemed not such a challenge (and I did have a flashlight). This time, I knew the trail a little. So I stayed at the summit as long as I could/dared, packed up, and started down.

Descending the rock faces was no fun. Nor did my dog see the wisdom of pushing on, when clearly a better plan was lounging in the plush moss. But we got down safely. Oh there were problems. My belt broke. A pack strap ripped (I used my belt pieces to fashion a makeshift repair). My shoes were soaked, and taking their toll on my feet, even with merino wool socks. But, three hours after sunset, finally we were back at the car. Safe. Drove a little, slept a little, drove a little more, got home a little before sunrise, and slept like stone.

With glorious photos, and a memory for a lifetime.

Shanti, just arrived at the summit, a few seconds before lying on her side for a well-earned hour’s nap.

And a very tired husky.

October 2012 is a series of daily posts about “A Wilderness Hike,” taking readers through the healing of wilderness experience and glimpses of my work at Kwan Yin Healing and of my book, “Getting Unstuck.”

You can read the series from the start via the links here:

Oct. 1:    A Wilderness Hike
Oct. 2:   The Sixth Hour
Oct. 3:   Snowy Mountain
Oct. 4:   Letting Go of Baggage–the Wilderness Way
Oct. 5:   “Bear” the Thought
Oct. 6:   Mountain. Buddha. Impermanence.
Oct. 7:   The Rewards of Rain
Oct. 8:   Finding the Keys
Oct. 9:   “I’d love to, but times are bad.”
Oct. 10: Attracting the Law of Attraction
Oct. 11: We are not our thoughts
Oct. 12: Honesty, Forgiveness, Healing
Oct. 13: Getting Unstuck: Feeling Overwhelmed
Oct. 14: Money is remarkably easy to come by, if that’s all you want.
Oct. 15: To be Time Rich, Learn to Be
Oct. 16: Changing Thoughts for Changing Work
Oct. 17: Finding and Sharing your Gifts
Oct. 18: Do you want to be the boss? Be sure you want to run the show.
Oct. 19: Finding jobs within jobs
Oct. 20: Bright Mountain Dream
Oct. 21: Escape the Wilderness of Addictions
Oct. 22: The Importance of Spiritual Direction
Oct. 23: In Search of Enlightenment
Oct. 24: Relationship Thoughts from the Wilderness
Oct. 25: We learn in realtionships
Oct. 26: Chrysalis
Oct. 27: Self-Healing, part 1
Oct. 28: Self-Healing, part 2: Time for a new perspective
Oct. 29: Dix Mountain
Oct. 30: The Mist-Filled Path
Oct. 31: From Wilderness to Wondrousness

Enjoy!