The Floggings Will Continue until Morale Improves!

This is a joke that us engineers used to make among ourselves back when I used to work at DuPont. It’s funny as a joke because, obviously, the more you flog somebody, the less likely that their morale will improve! Though, I must admit, that if you are flogging somebody and then decide to stop, that could make them a bit happier. Even though the flogging example seems obvious, I have noticed that many of us take the same sort of approach to trying to get other people to act in ways that we prefer (either because it is what we want or because we think it would be better for them). A common behavior modification technique is to “incentivize” someone by giving them a “negative” consequence if you don’t like their behavior. I see this all the time at the school where I work, with the consequences being detentions, low grades or even expulsion for really serious stuff. But it is also a common practice in parenting (I admit that I do my share of, “if you don’t start listening to me then you’ll never have dessert again in your life!”) Of course, I’ve been blessed with kids that call me on it every time I try it, but that’s the subject for its own post. You see it in relationships too, people yelling at each other or trying to lay guilt trips, etc.

Now don’t get me wrong – negative reinforcement does work with some of the people some of the time. For example, I used to fly around northern California in my Chevy Camaro, but when I finally got enough speeding tickets that I lost my auto insurance and was on the verge of losing my driver’s license, I did slow down. Similarly, there are lots of kids who change their behaviors when you threaten detentions and the threat of no dessert is especially effective in getting my 4 year old Bodhi to get a bath. But, in my experience, it only works when a person isn’t too far off of the desired behavior to begin with, and, especially in really difficult cases, this approach does much more harm than good and generally makes the problem worse.

As you know from my previous posts, I view a human being as energy. Now, if a kid is acting out in class, or a friend or family member is spazzing out on me, I always see it as a direct result of them not feeling good inside about something. That is, they are experiencing the energy of anger, resentment or some other lower vibration. Now if I lay some negative reinforcement on them, I am sending more negative energy to them. Unfortunately, in this situation, two negatives don’t make a positive and I am just deepening their bad feelings and just as in the flogging example, more negative feelings will not bring about positive reactions. Therefore, my approach is if I experience someone expressing negative, antisocial or downright nasty behavior, I do my best to give them feedback, but also to give them love. I don’t get mad, I don’t attack them, I don’t punish them. I try to work with them, to help them to feel heard, respected and valued. This doesn’t mean that I condone negative actions accept them. However, my approach does allow me to begin to build a bridge to the other person and moves towards healing rather than further wounding.

I feel that I have gotten great results with this approach. At the school where I teach, there have been certain situations where this approach helped me to build relationships with kids who have had trouble with almost everyone else that ultimately allow me to give them feedback that they can hear and have them be willing to consider suggestions that I make for change. However, be warned, if you try this at home you may be labeled  “too soft”, ” a bleeding heart”, or someone who lets others “get away with murder”. However, if you truly want to be a healing force in this world and actually get positive results from people who can sometimes be a real pain in your arse at the same time – then I highly recommend it!

Try it and let me know how it goes. Remember, relationships are like growing a plant in a garden. You need to add a good deal of water, sunshine and love and it still takes time before you start to see the first signs of growth. Our negative feelings and inner hurts didn’t all happen overnight, so they probably won’t all be immediately and completely healed with one act of love – but at the very least, I promise that you will feel better taking this approach.

Never forget – it’s all about the love!

Tim

Access Your Intuition – Getting Clear Information On Demand

As you may know if you have read my previous posts I’ve made some suggestions for ways to live in happiness, joy and peace. Two of the key principles that I advocate are (1) clearing negative emotions that can cause you to react to situations in negative ways and (2) finding and pursuing your passion – your true purpose in life. To actually do these things you need to be able to make good decisions. The challenge is that there are so many factors out of our control in our lives that we usually can’t analyze the information in front of us well enough know which is the best decision using only our conscious minds. So really, the only way to recognize all of the opportunities in front of us, to truly understand why things are happening as they are and to make the best decisions, we need to access our subconscious minds.

The subconscious mind, which, for these purposes, can be used synonymously with higher self, over soul, intuition or even spirit guides, has a broader wiser perspective outside of time and space and knows which path is best for us to take to achieve our highest expression. Traditionally, our higher self would speak to us in subtle ways that we would refer to as intuition. That is, a  feeling of inspiration or knowing about what was true or the best path to take. Very often, it would take a great deal of personal work to be able to increase and hone our ability to hear our intuition, usually through a meditation practice, partaking in a raw vegan diet or other habits that purify the body and/or mind. While I highly recommend developing your intuition in this way because the ultimate goal is to be able to to live in concert with your higher self in a constant state of knowing inspiration, there is another method that we can use while we are developing these higher abilities – muscle testing.

Muscle Testing (also known as kinesiology) is a method of communication with your higher self that is often used by chiropractors or other energy healers to gain information directly from the subconscious on the state of health and balance within the body as well as the potential efficacy of different treatments. The method is very simple. The subconscious is addressed with a simple yes or no question (e.g. “Am I dehydrated?” or “Is my headache caused by dehydration?”) and then, when tested, if a muscle responds strong the answer is yes (or true) and if a muscle responds weak the answer is no (or false). There are a variety of ways to do the muscle test (sway test, extended arm, finger ring, etc) but the one that I prefer for fast efficient self-testing is the interlocking finger ring test. I’ll write a description of how to do it below and here is a link to a short you-tube video that demonstrates a very similar method.

Interlocking Finger Muscle Testing Method

1. Create a circle with your right thumb and forefinger by pressing the tips of your thumb and forefinger together. Use light pressure.
2. Create a similar circle with the thumb and forefinger of your left hand so that the two circles interlock.
3. Now, ask a question or make a statement that you know to be true. For example, for me it is usually, “My name is Tim.”
4. Pull your hands apart with medium pressure and, since the answer to question is yes, your fingers should stay interlocked and the rings not break open.
5. Now, ask a question or make a statement that you know to be false. For example, for me it could be, “I am a Republican.”
6. Again, pull your hands apart with medium pressure and this time, the rings should break and your hands should come apart.

So that’s it for the physical test. It’s pretty simple at this level, but there is a good bit more to learn to be able to use it effectively.

First, on a physical level, make sure that you are well-hydrated (drink a lot of water) before using muscle testing. Electromagnetic energy is the core of why muscle testing works, and electricity flows more freely through your body when you are well hydrated. Also, practice makes perfect in relation to getting a good feel for the best level of pressure to apply to your finger tips and for how hard to pull your hands apart. I have evolved to where I use a very light pressure between my finger tips and I pull apart with light effort. As you try it, you will see a clear difference between the strong and weak response. When I first learned this method from Bradley Nelson author of The Emotion Code he suggested that I practice 100 times a day using the simple words yes (strong) and no (weak) to hone the technique before trying to use it to access my subconscious for answers to questions. I feel like, for me, that practice was well worth it.

So next, it is important to address your question to the entity who you want to answer it. In the context of spirituality, there can be multiple entities or guides to whom you can address questions. As my work with this has advanced I have found that I can direct questions to other peoples’ subconscious, and if they feel that it is in their best interest, I can get good answers. I usually do this if I am helping another person with emotional release or some other healing modality. However, if you do not specifically address who you want to answer the question, I have found that unintended entities can answer and sometimes give me false answers. So bottom line, get into the habit of beginning each question by addressing it to whom you want to answer it. Here is an example that I will do now testing each statement/question.

My name is Tim   (test strong – yes)
My name is Rupert (test weak – no)
Higher Self is this discomfort in my lower back due to a physical cause? (test weak – no)
Higher Self is this discomfort in my lower back due to an energetic cause? (test strong – yes)
Higher Self is this discomfort in my lower back due to a trapped negative emotion? (test strong – yes)
Higher Self, do I need to know what this emotion is before I can release it? (test weak – no)

Then I  performed a method that I’ve evolved from The Emotion Code for releasing negative emotions from my body.

Higher Self, is that emotion fully released? (test strong – yes) note: the feeling of discomfort was reduced
Higher Self, are there more trapped emotions in that same spot? (test strong – yes)

So this is one way that you can use this.

A few more key points to understand how to best use this method. Remember, that you are actually speaking to an entity that is not in physical form, so its perspective is outside of time and space and it has your and everyone else’s overall best interest in mind (to be distinguished from what you may want at a particular time). So when asking questions, it is a good idea to ask for the answer of what is best for you and for everyone else involved. Also, since this method is based on yes and no questions, it is limited. It is important to be very precise in how you word your questions. For example, rather than word a question this way:

Is it best for me to be a teacher at Kimberton Waldorf School?

I would get more information and a better answer if I asked it this way:

Is it in the best interest of me and the students and the faculty and my family for me to be a teacher at the Kimberton Waldorf School for the 2011-12 school year?

I suppose that’s enough writing about it and it is time for you to start practicing.

I highly recommend that you explore this, because it can be a very powerful method for gaining information and advice about decisions that may not be clear to you (what college should I go to, what job should I take, is this path one that is for my greatest good, etc).

So good luck and please leave a comment to let me know how it’s going for you!

Love and light,

Tim

Harmony

One of the interesting aspects of the Waldorf High School where I started teaching this Fall is that every morning all of the students in grades 9-12 get together for 20 minutes to sing. Many of these kids have been singing together since 1st grade and they’ve been singing in different parts since elementary school. So in many of these songs I get to hear incredibly beautiful harmonies, where different sections are singing different notes that fit together so well that the combination of them is even more beautiful and inspiring than any of them alone. However, sometimes when we are learning a new song or somebody like me with highly undeveloped musical talent starts to sing too loudly then things get out of balance and discord is created. I can feel the difference. Harmony creates a feeling of happiness and well-being, while the discords tend to create a feeling of anxiety and discomfort. As a science guy, I know that harmonies in music are created when the notes have similar characteristics so that their wavelengths match up well and discords are created when the notes are less similar and have little or no matching between their wavelengths. This phenomenon of similar entities creating harmony and dissimilar ones having discord started me thinking about my experiences in groups of people.

The old saying, “birds of a feather flock together” is certainly true to what I have observed in my life. In college there were the guys who sat together in the Student Union and played Dungeons and Dragons all day, as opposed to all of the football players who lived at the Beta Fraternity, and these two groups never mixed or even ran into each other. Similarly, my roommates Peter and Warren and I got together because of all of the guys on our floor in the freshman dorm, we were most similar to each other in temperament and interests, therefore we got along with each other well. So when we have a choice of who to hang out with, we tend to group with people who are like us and this produces generally harmonious relationships. Even in a big company like DuPont, where I worked for 6 years, we all took the Myers Briggs personality test and out of the 50,000 employees about 95% of us came up the exact same personality profile ISTJ (at least I think that’s what it was). Interestingly enough, I was in the minority 5% as an INFJ and that is probably one of the reasons why I don’t work there any more. The differences created a discord within me so my reaction was to leave and to find somewhere else where it felt better to be.

However, as we all know, we don’t always get to pick the group of people who we are with (i.e. our family ) This is also true at school, in the workplace, on jury duty, when you are shipwrecked on a desert island and many other common situations in which we find ourselves. In these situations we often feel uncomfortable because the people who we are with have different values, points of view, habits and attitudes than ourselves. This can cause us to express our discomfort by concluding that the others are weird, strange or “don’t get it”. Our reaction is to assume that how we are is “right” and how they are is “wrong” and we go to great lengths to justify our position and often try to convert the others to be more like us. I’m not sure what your experience with this is, but mine is that the other person pretty much thinks that they are right and I am wrong and are having the same feelings, so my efforts to “educate” others to the rightness of my point of view don’t work any more than their efforts to “fix” me do. Note: Of course the irony of me saying that we shouldn’t try to “educate” others in a blog where I make suggestions about ways to live our lives isn’t lost on me. However, I see a difference between offering my experiences for your discernment and me going in with the intention that my way is the right way, therefore any other approach must be wrong – which is what I try very hard to stay away from. Any feedback on this point is more than welcome.

So what to do when you are thrown into a group of people who you don’t immediately harmonize with? In short, what has worked best for me has been to find the points of harmony/similarity with a person and then focus on that area. With this as a starting point we can begin to establish a relationship, which will act as the foundation for us to work together. As we get to know each other and build a relationship in a positive light then this will provide a basis for us to want and be able to understand each other in a deeper way, paving the way to a harmonious relationship even in areas where we differ. This was really brought home to me in a recent series of events at the school where I teach. Another teacher and I were thrown into a situation where we needed to communicate to resolve an issue. Our points of view on how to handle the situation were about as far apart as they could get. At first this resulted in an emotionally charged exchange between us that did not get us any closer to resolution. It was a situation where I was very confident in how I thought the situation should be handled and she was equally adamant that what she was doing was working well. What I had to do at this point was to release my attachment to having her do things “my way”. I stayed far away from language that would imply that she was wrong and decided that what I would do would be to listen to her as well as express the reasons for my point of view but not trying to coerce or force a change. What this allowed me to do, was to release any negative emotion that I had in the situation and to look for ways that even in our disagreement of approach we could find common ground. So far I think we are still both seeing things differently, but I have found ways to resolve the initial situation and to continue to support her in the work of the school that is consistent with my values and beliefs. As we go forward this will provide the opportunity for us both to learn and possibly both grow and develop better ways to serve our students.

So in general, I suggest that you will get better results if instead of acting like a missionary (going into a situation to educate others to your truth) you act like an anthropologist (study and experience others and why they believe what they do). In starting softer and intending to grow strong relationships you may find that your ideas are listened to more and you might learn something new to boot!

With love,

Tim

The Game of Life

I’ve noticed that one of the main problems that I have had throughout my life is that I lived under an incorrect understanding of the purpose of life. It’s like if I was a professional baseball player and I thought the object of the game was to drink as much beer as possible (and everyone knows that is the object of men’s softball, not baseball!). Anyway, my point is that as long as I was playing the game of life without understanding how to play or what I was actually trying to do, nothing made sense and it was a confusing, depressing and frustrating affair. The good news, though, is that once I started paying attention and came to an understanding of what life is all about (and not about) things now make much more sense, decisions are easier to understand and make, and I just feel a lot better in general.

Life is something to practice, to grow in, to get better at. It isn’t something where you keep score or try to conquer people or things. More than just not being about winning, life is such that if you think of anything in terms of winning or losing, then you are already messed up. So if you’re not keeping score by how much money you have or how many people you feel superior to at work or school then how do you know if you’re getting better at it or not? It’s easy, your emotions are your scorecard. Do you feel good or not? Are you happy or not? Are you loving and feeling loved or not? Are you passionate about what you are doing or not? If you answer a bunch of “or nots” to these questions, then you are on the wrong path. The problem, though, is that whatever you currently think you need to be happy is probably wrong.

The answer to life cannot be found in the physical world only. We must also invite in the spiritual, that is, the view that there is more to our lives and our purpose here than just what we see. If you look only to the material world you won’t find the answer. There is a long history of philosophers who tried this and they all became depressed and suicidal because the meaning cannot be found here. Only in the broader context of human beings as spiritual beings as well as physical beings have I been able to make sense of it all. I try to express through Practicing Happy what I have found to work well for me, but there many different paths that can take you into a “right relationship” with your life and the world that you live in. The key, though, is while you can look to a variety of different sources to learn, always pay close attention to how you feel and trust your own inner guidance. Never take in anything that doesn’t feel right to you, so make sure that you incorporate practices and exercises that make your intuition more clear and present instead of those that distract and deaden you to your own feelings.

Changing habitual thinking is always hard, especially when you are diverging from the way most people see things. But if you aren’t as happy, fulfilled and full of love as you want to be, then it only makes sense to try something different.

Love,

Tim

PS Thanks to Martín Prechtel for inspiration for today’s post.

Wholeness – what does it mean that we are all one?

Well, I am back from the abyss of losing my job, getting two new opportunities  a quarter of the world apart and then moving my family cross-country back to Philly – where it all started. There have been plenty of opportunities to meet stressful situations in love and joy and all I can say about that is that I’m getting better at it So this morning I was looking through one of my old journals and found a bit about wholeness and what it actually means to me. Appropriate for my recent experiences, so I offer it for your consideration and discernment.

To the concept of wholeness. What if you were asleep and you dreamed this life. In your dream every person, every tree, every flower, every car, the entire world is all coming from you. You could even dream invisible spirit guides, weather patterns, electromagnetic forces – anything and everything. Since you are dreaming it all, it is all you – everything is connected and everything is one because it all emanates from the same source – in this case the dreamer – you. This is my concept of wholeness.

Now, say you consciously constructed this dream scenario such that the character that you most closely identify with in the dream (you) was going to have a certain set of experiences so that he has the opportunity to learn and open his mind to new ways of thinking that are beneficial. Then it would not be helpful for the characters in the dream to view the dreamed up world, people or circumstances as the enemy. In fact, this resistance to the experiences presented would just make the learning opportunity ineffective so that you, as the dreamer, would then have to come up with more effective (read intense) scenarios that would result in the dream person to have to let go and open up to the learning. So in this view, wouldn’t it just be quicker and easier on everyone involved if we all stopped fighting and resisting the lessons and just started looking for the opportunity for learning in everything that happened to us?

One mistake that we often make is that when things start going wrong, we try to ride it out figuring that things will just return to how they were. However, nothing in life stays the same and if you are experiencing hardship, it is a wakeup call that is trying to teach you something and unless you learn the lesson, you will be given it over and over until you do. So don’t circle the wagons and be passive, find the lesson and learn it. It can also be stated this way, “find the beauty in everything and express it”.

The main lesson that I have learned on this one is that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Every situation that you find yourself in, every person that you meet has a specific role to play in the evolution of your life. If you view each situation in your life through the lens that it is there to help you, rather than something to be resisted, avoided or destroyed, then you are living from a place of wholeness and you will have taken a big step towards practicing happy in your life. Resistance really is futile, but it is a deeply ingrained habit. So to begin to create a new habit you must first decide to do it, believe that you can do it and then practice. It’s not easy, but as long as we keep reminding ourselves every time we slip back into resistance and rededicate ourselves to viewing the world differently then over time it will become easier and easier and come more naturally. At this point, this isn’t about becoming the Buddha or Christ, it’s about opening the door to finding our happiness and improving our everyday experience of life. I have found that I take big steps forward and then fall back in up and down cycles that nonetheless continue to spiral upwards. Changing my view of the world from one of separation to one of wholeness has changed my standard way of thinking from anxiety to trust and trust leads to peace and peace to happiness. It is a beautiful path – I invite you to walk it with me.

Remember my dream scenario from the beginning of this post? When you read these words it is really just you talking to yourself – reminding yourself of how you came here to live and learn.

Love and light,

Tim

When Opportunity Knocks – Don’t Cry!

Did you ever notice that the times when life seems to give you a real kick in the rear are the ones that you end up looking back on as key turning points? Divorce, disease or dismissal can shake up the status quo and put you on a different path. Maybe a challenging situation forced you to face a difficult fear. Sometimes you are even put into a situation where you have to develop or improve certain skills that are necessary to move down the path of your life.

Relationship “disaster”, financial “disaster”, career “disaster” – we have all tasted these flavors. I put “disaster” in quotes because when it happens, that is how we see it – as a bad thing. We have our grand plans and thoughts about how our lives should go, what should happen and what will make us happy, and then life goes and blows it all up. However, if you’ve read much of my work, you will know that the way that I have found to keep an even keel through the tumult of life change is to realize that it is all part of the plan. That whatever you are experiencing is a gift given to you by a gentle, loving and caring soul (your higher self!).

We are spirit. Yes we are. Nothing more and nothing less. The reason that we are here – the elusive “meaning of life” – is that as spirit we chose to have a human experience. The purpose of the human experience is to give our soul opportunities to grow and evolve as well as for us to help others to grow and evolve themselves. Sometimes, in order to experience the growth that we want, we have to really challenge ourselves. So, for example, when my car was repossessed the morning of a huge presentation at my new job, it wasn’t random bad luck. It was my higher self giving me the opportunity to remain focused on the big picture and what is really important even in the most difficult of circumstances. So while I admit I did do a bit of crying during that one, I also was able to pull myself together and move through the situation knowing what the true purpose of the situation was and that, as spirit, I am safe and sound and am able to be impervious to the ups and downs if I choose to be. However, this does take a lot of practice to overcome my habit of giving away my personal power to the people and circumstances of my life. That’s why I call this work “Practicing Happy”

So the next time you lose your job, catch yourself before you spend too much time in despair, anger, anxiety and all of the typical reactions and realize that this is a gift. Maybe it is freeing you up to take advantage of an opportunity that you would otherwise have missed. Maybe you need some financial or self-esteem struggles to grow. However, most likely you know that you should have left that job long ago but haven’t had the courage to do it on your own.

I leave you with a short mantra from Lesson 97 in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles:

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

Back to me…Don’t worry – be happy and look for the opportunity! Find the beauty that is there for you in every situation.

Love and light,

Tim

It’s all about the energy!

It’s all about the energy. OK, fine, but what is energy and what does that mean? In our universe energy is a potential or capability for bringing about change in our physical experience. We talk about feeling energized or having a lot of energy because in that state, we feel like we have the ability to do a lot. When we lack energy, we don’t feel like we are able to take action or bring about change. In this way, energy is actually the currency of our universe – we transform energy into everything that we experience in life. For example, Einstein showed that all matter is just transformed energy (E=mc²), movement is also transformed energy, temperature is energy, light is energy, thoughts are energy – that’s it, everything that we are, that we perceive and that we do is all energy in one form or another.

All matter has an energy template

So now you may be thinking, “that’s great Mr. Wizard, so what?” The so what is that when we change our view of the fundamental nature of our universe from one made up of material (i.e. the physical world) to one made up of energy this changes our view of how everything works from the Law of Attraction to health care to self-improvement. All material things in our universe started with an energy template. This is kind of like a sculptor looking at a piece of stone and then she sees the elephant within it. This thought/idea creates an energetic template of the elephant and then the physical world rearranges itself (in this case through the efforts of the artist with a hammer and chisel) to match the energetic template. Another example from my personal experience is that I wanted to lost weight, so each day I weighed myself and focused on my desired weight, 175 lbs. I kept this thought in my head day after day and this created an energetic template for my body at the new weight. Over a period of months of holding this thought in my mind my eating and exercise habits changed and I lost the weight so that my body came into alignment with the energetic template that I created with my thoughts and desires. This is essentially how we create everything from a blog post, to an invention to a sandwich for lunch – we have an idea, this creates an energy template and then the physical world arranges itself to match the energetics. This is one way of looking at the Law of Attraction that has come more and more into mainstream consciousness during the last few years.

The Aura or Etheric Body is the energetic template for the body

About two years ago I attended a weekend seminar on shamanic healing with Alberto Villoldo high up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. One of the key concepts of shamanism is that we all have an energetic template for our bodies. This energy is sometimes perceived as an aura or called the etheric body. But whatever you call it, the energetic body creates and determines the physical body. So if your energetic template is 6 feet tall then you will grow to be six feet tall. However, your energetic template can become imprinted with different physical or emotional difficulties. For example, if you have a traumatic or strong negative emotional experience and you do not process it in the moment, this emotional energy can become “lodged” or imprinted onto your energy field. These lower vibrational negative energies tend to block the free flow of energy in your etheric body and negatively affect your physical body, emotional well being or both. These negative imprints can build up over lifetimes to the point where they are causing us serious physical (cancer, heart attacks, muscle tightness, etc) and psycho-emotional (negativity, depression, unable to create the life that we want) challenges. Most of the standard medical and psycho-therapeutic approaches that we take in the west treat the symptoms of these energetic imprints, but are not able to heal the underlying causes of the problems. To truly heal these conditions so that they will not reoccur or manifest in other forms we need to use healing approaches that directly affect the energetic imprints (for example, acupuncture, Reiki, homeopathy or other energy healing systems).

This view of life also has profound implications for our personal evolution and self-improvement. Have you ever wondered why even when you know things that you could do differently that would make you feel better physically (eat healthy and exercise), psychologically (be more disciplined about money or time management) and emotionally (go with the flow more, release anger about things you can’t control) but you just don’t (or can’t) do? This is because these behaviors live as deeply ingrained habits in our subconscious minds and have become imprinted on our energy fields. This is why so many self-help books and programs give us great insights, but we have trouble integrating them into the practice of our lives. While traditional methods to release the energetic templates such as meditation and/or mantra practices can work, they take a great deal of dedication and years of practice. This is why I recommend supplementing these approaches with direct energetic healing work to support and speed you on your path to a constant state of peace and joy. If you live in LA, I recommend you check out Costa Acupuncture in Culver City, or if you are lucky enough to travel near Ojai, check out Eric Baumgartner and his practice at Ojai Medicine Wheel. I’ve had amazing experiences with both.

I realize that while acupuncture is becoming more widely available in the US, it is still difficult to find a practitioner who understands and is able to clear the energetic blocks, and even more challenging to find your local neighborhood shaman (though I did find a good one in North Hollywood). This is why I am so excited about a new technique for releasing trapped emotions that I recently learned about through the Coast to Coast AM radio show. It is called The Emotion Code and was developed by Dr. Bradley Nelson. It is a very easy and accessible way to release trapped emotions from your body that are contributing to your physical and emotional challenges. Essentially, what this method does is it allows a practitioner (or you if you learn how to do it on yourself) to speak directly to your subconscious mind through muscle testing and identify trapped emotions that you carry in the energy field of your body. Once identified, you can bring it to the surface and release it using a magnet. I have had really amazing results using it on myself and others for clearing pain, releasing negativity and contributing to a general feeling of well-being, love and joy. The method is simple enough that you can become proficient in it from watching a several hour training webinar that is available through The Emotion Code website. Alternatively, there are certified practitioners around the country and I’ve been offering the release work on a donation basis.  This is just one of many direct energetic healing approaches that can address the negative imprints in our energy fields that tend to keep us stuck where we are, so whatever presents itself to you or interests you, I recommend you find some help to clear your energetic blocks and experience the freedom from past traumas that can give you a new lease on life.

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With love,

Tim