Monday, July 31, 2006

Possibilities for the Future

The other day, I was contemplating what I could do to earn money to go to the University of Santa Monica to complete my Spiritual Psychology degree (or even start it over, if necessary). I felt moved to draw a card from my Kryon Cards deck, a deck I have seldom used. In case you can't read it in the image, the card says:

"Blessed are the Humans who look for unseen things that are intuitive but not yet accepted into the reality of life. They will be rewarded with knowledge and wisdom, and will become the forerunners of the newest sciences on the planet."

I don't think I could have drawn a more appropriate card. Wouldn't it be great if I could help develop instruments that would make the energies of the aura more visible? I know the energies are there; I can feel them. It's easy to feel them, actually.

Hold your hands wide apart and then slowly bring them together out in front of you with arms outstretched. As you bring them together, you will notice that your hands begin to tingle. I begin to feel this sensation at about 2½ or 3 feet apart. You may have to bring your hands closer than this to feel it.

There are cameras that supposedly take pictures of the aura already, but I am not sure exactly what these are capturing in their images. Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan includes a chapter the "History of Scientific Investigation into the Human Energy Field." One study was conducted by Dr. Valorie Hunt* at UCLA. In her experiments, she was able to record frequencies of low millivoltage signals from the body. She also had a clairvoyant view the auras of the test subjects. It was found that specific ranges of frequency correlated to particular colors that were seen by the clairvoyants. This finding would seem to authenticate the clairvoyant images of the aura.

* Hunt, Dr. Valorie, Massey, W., Weinberg, R., Bruyere, R., and Hahn, P., "Project Report, A Study of Structural Integration from Neuromuscular, Energy Field, and Emotional Approaches." U.C.L.A., 1977.

You can learn more about Kryon at http://www.kryon.org/.

Grounding

An important part of energy meditation is grounding. In my psychic development classes, when we meditate, before we work with the chakras, we imagine a root going down from the base of our spines going down through the earth, branching out, and grasping onto the earth. We imagine the same for the soles of our feet. This is the process of grounding.

I've often been told in these classes that I need to be more grounded. I had thought I'd done well with my meditations until I learned about an exercise with chi often done in Aikido classes.

This exercise requires three people. One of the people is chosen as the subject. The other two people lift the subject by the arms, being careful to lift evenly, and then set the subject down. Then the subject imagines his energy lifting up toward the ceiling. When the subject lifted again, the lifters should notice that the subject seems lighter. The subject is set down again. Now the subject imagines roots from the base of his spine and the soles of his feet going down into the earth, branching out, and grabbing ahold of the earth. When the subject is lifted now, the lifters should notice that the subject seems heavier.

After reading about this exercise, I went to class. As we were going through the meditation and sinking our roots down deep into the earth, I noticed that I seemed heavier and more pressed into my seat. As I noticed this sensation and recalled the exercise, I realized that I was properly grounded.

On the way home after class, I have often imagined dragging these roots along the freeway as I drive.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Channeling

We had a very good class last night in Psychic Development. It was channeling night. Channeling, the way we do it, is something akin to controlled spirit possession. We are very careful to set the intent for only the highest entities, and we use "light" to create an environment where only those entities will enter.

The evening begins with our usual meditation of grounding and opening the chakras. For grounding, we imagine roots growing down from the base of the spine and the soles of the feet going deep into the ground, branching out and grasping Mother Earth. I'm going to say more about this in another entry because I want to share something I learned about the aura and its apparent weight.

During the meditation, we imagine pulling in green, gold, and white light, filling ourselves with it, and sending it out into the room. We set the intention that only entities of the highest vibration be allowed to enter. We say the light invocation: "We invoke the light of the Christ within. We are clear and perfect channels. Light is our guide." Then we are ready to begin.

The person who wishes to channel then sits in the "hot seat." A light is set shining into the face so those in the room can better see any physical transformations that take place during the channeling. (Yes, I have witnessed this.) The class instructor stands by helping the channeler by removing energy blocks and adjust her energy.

The first time I was in the hot seat, I felt a heaviness but didn't get any further than that. This time I got further. I imagined myself reaching out to the instructor and leaving the body so that the entity could enter. I felt some sense of movement out and then the message, "Greetings!" I spoke this out. The instructor asked if the entity had a message. That was enough to pull me back in, and the experience was pretty much over.

Other members of the class were quite successful. One woman channeled Mother Earth and gave a message about how Mother Earth always gives us her energy and supports us and how we can send energy to her. Other unidentified entities gave messages about the essential Oneness of all entities. We received messages about the importance of enjoying life as we pursue our purpose. Another spoke on the gift of free will. All messages were rooted in love. There were no fear-based messages. We had plenty of time at the end of the meeting after all students who wanted to channel had their turns, so we encouraged the instructor to channel for us. It took a few moments because it had been some time since she'd done it herself, but she finally brought in the apostle Peter. It was a moving message.

The class was taught at the Learning Light Foundation by Anne Reith.

If you would like to see some channeled messages, here are two of my favorite sites for them: http://www.kryon.org/ featuring channeling of Kryon by Lee Carroll and http://lightworker.com/beacons/ featuring channeling of The Group by Steve Rother.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Diet Tools

WeightControl.xls: This is the spreadsheet I use to track my weight. There's a chart included that graphs out the progress. The dates don't show properly on the chart, but I haven't been able to figure out how to fix that. It does a nice job as it is. Somewhere along the way, I picked up a little fact saying that 1% of body weight was the ideal weight reduction for a week. That may not work out well for someone who has a LOT of weight to shed, but it seems right for someone who is moderately overweight. The spreadsheet uses that fact.

WeightWatchersPoints.xls: This spreadsheet can be used to keep track of points for a day. There's also a page to calculate the points for a food based on information from the Nutrition Facts. There's a multiplier for adjusting the portion size of that food in case one wants to eat a portion smaller or larger than that used in the Nutrition Facts.

Measurements.doc: I set up a little chart of measurements to be printed on a 6"x4" index card. I thought this would be a good idea because I could have my workout partner at the gym help me take the measurements. The card is far more portable than a computer!

Living Cookbook: This is software for planning menus and printing grocery lists. Nutrition Facts for recipes can be calculated from an extensive database of ingredient information. Weight Watcher points can also be calculated. (Because Weight Watchers has a patent on the equation, Living Cookbook doesn't set this up for you. You have to enter some parameters into the setup, but they tell you what parameters to use.) The program comes with a fairly good set of recipes built in, and it's easy to add recipes found on the Internet by capturing them. I've got quite a collection built up now. I hardly ever open a cookbook anymore.

WWCalc Info: If you're following the Weight Watchers program and you have a PDA running Palm OS, you're going to want this! The link is to a Yahoo group where you can download WWCalc and find links to where databases of restaurant foods and the like to use with it. Real cool.

NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter and DietFacts.com: These sites have Nutrition Facts for a wide variety of foods.

Saturday, July 8, 2006

Theta Healing: The Experience

I decided that since I was interested in learning how to do Theta Healings, it would be a good idea to experience one. I called Brent Phillips and made an appointment. He can do distance healing, but I chose to see him in person because I wasn't sure about how to do the muscle testing step at home.

On June 30 about 12:30 p.m., I showed up for my appointment. Since I had already read both of Vianna's books (Go Up And Seek God and Go Up and Work With God), I didn't need much of an introduction to what we would be doing. Brent led me to a table where we would be doing the healings. He went and got a cup of water for me. Apparently, the muscle testing works best when one is well hydrated.

Before we could continue, we had to figure out which muscle testing method we would use to test yes/no questions. Brent did not want to use the method in which the arm is held out to the side and pushed down because he said it would be too tiring over the course of an hour. We checked out the standing method. In this method, the subject stands up straight. When a yes/no question is asked the subject will automatically lean forward for yes or lean backward for no. It didn't seem this would work out for me because I tend to lean back a little in my standing pose anyway. It wasn't comfortable for me to stand in the position that Brent said was straight. I asked Brent about using a pendulum. He said that this could work and that he had pendulums for just this purpose. He got out a wooden pendulum on a string for me to use. We tested yes and no, and it appeared that it was going to work out well for me.

At this point, I should briefly mention how Theta Healing works. When doing a healing in person, the healer and the patient will sit facing each other. Often the healer will ask the patient to put his hands into the healer's hands. This is how Vianna teaches it, anyway. Brent prefers to sit off center and hold only one hand. The healer moves his consciousness above himself 3, 6, or 67 feet. He then invokes God and commands a healing. This moves the healer into theta brain waves. This is the brain state in which healing works best. The patient need only sit there. In the next step, the healer moves his consciousness into the patient and works with the part of the body that needs healing. When the healing is done, the healer removes his consciousness from the patient and imagines washing himself off. Then he returns to his own body.

So Brent and I were sitting at the table. He next did a quick scan of me using the method I just outlined. He then asked me what I wanted to work on. Since my husband had recently complained that I snored, I chose to work on insomnia and snoring.

The first steps of the healing seemed almost psychological. Brent asked me what it was that insomnia did for me. We eventually discovered that I had been robbed and murdered in my sleep in past lives. The pendulum confirmed this. Apparently I didn't want to sleep because I didn't want this to happen again! Brent asked for my permission to clear this thought. He then did the Theta Healing process to clear the thought. When the thought was tested again with the pendulum, it was cleared. The snoring was likewise part of this same dynamic.

Brent asked me if I had something else I wanted to work on. I decided on weight issues since that is something I am working on in one of my groups. We cleared a couple issues with respect to that. Apparently I had the thought embedded in me that greater weight meant greater power. There was also an issue of not wanting the extra attention from men that being slim tends to bring on. Both of these issues were cleared, and no other issues were detected.

We had just a little time left in the session. I mentioned allergies. Brent seemed to want to work on food allergies. Actually, I was more concerned about airborne allergies since I'd had a pretty rough time of it in Copenhagen while on vacation and still had a touch of a cough from it the day of the appointment. But I did have known food allergy problems, so we went ahead and worked on this.

At the end of the session, Brent had me put a hand in his and did a final scan, working on the physical issues related to what we had worked on. I actually felt something happening during this process. I felt sensations move down from my head and into my bowels. The sensations continued in the bowels for a few moments and then moved up to my throat and head. And then it was done. Brent asked me if I had felt anything. I told him I had and described as best I could what I felt. He said that was the order he had worked on me, so that pretty well confirmed to me that what I had felt was real.

Since the session, I have not snored. If I have had difficulty sleeping, there was a cause such as a pain or some other thing that had to be dealt with. I was not just laying awake all night as I'd often done before. Since the healing, my eating has been more controlled. It's difficult to say whether I've had any help with the food allergies since I don't really notice those types of difficulties much these days anyway. All in all, I would say that the session has been a success. When I have gone a month without snoring, I plan to send a testimonial to Brent to use on his website.

I'm planning to take Brent's DNA 1-2 Seminar in October.