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OUR 34th
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Welcome! We
present informative articles written by our members and links to some of the
best holistic articles on the web. Your Healing Arts and Planetary Healing
articles are welcome. Please direct your articles and comments to: susan@byregion.net
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SPIRIT CARD
OF THE WEEK |
Snake Swirl
by Paul
Heussenstamm
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RECIPE of the
WEEK |
Recipe of the Week: Baked Cauliflower from the French Broad Food Co-op
Simple and delicious - just bake cauliflower, onion, parsley, garlic,
stewed tomatoes and Parmesan cheese together for 40 minutes.
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Top Ten
Ways To Maximize Vitality Through Food |
 by William Klenk / Macrobiotic Cook, Cooking Instructor
and graduate of the Kushi Institute
The foundation for health is the food we eat.
Once one is satisfied and nourished on that fundamental level, disciplines like
yoga, tai chi and meditation develop the individual further. However, if the
food we eat is weak, if it lacks vitality, lacks a charge, then the person
ingesting that food will be operating from that lower, less energized place.
This charge the Chinese call "chi"; the Japanese call "Ki" and the Indians call
"Prana." It is an invisible life-giving nourishment that flows from the
environment (internal and external) into the body. It is sometimes difficult to
control our external environment but we have complete control over our internal
environment: the food we eat.
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The
Healing Power of Yoga |
 by Ruth White / Yoga Instructor and Director of the Surrey
Iyengar Yoga CentreThe increasing popularity of yoga in the last
five years also bears witness to a massive shift in consciousness as people
discover the healing power of one of the world’s oldest spiritual practices as a
way of rediscovering their own body and ‘self’. Yoga helps slow down an
over-active mind, while at the same time toning up the body, removing toxins,
and relieving pains, back ache and injuries. Medical science is only just
discovering what Indian physicians have known for more than half a century -
that yoga can relieve a whole host of ailments from diabetes to asthma. My own
life was irrevocably changed by yoga 25 years ago when Iyengar, the revered
Indian master, helped me cure a serious back problem through back strengthening
yoga positions. The results were astounding, and much preferable to the months
of immobility in a plaster cast, which a specialist of conventional medicine had
prescribed.
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The
Suburban Woman's Vision Quest |
 by by Robin Dilley / Clinical PsychologistIn Native American cultures, individuals go on
what is called a Vision Quest. It is one of the oldest traditions and tools used
by Native people to seek direction in their life. This article helps us
non-Native people who don't have strong communities, who don't have Medicine
People in our lives, and who live in a culture that does not respect the
internal or spiritual component to life. This article presents various ways to
make your own vision quest, helping you find your way in the darkness and seek
direction in your lives. Not that we necessarily live in times where this type
of Vision Quest is impractical, but the reality is that the majority of us are
not going to walk out into the wilderness and spend the next three nights
sitting in a circle under a tree.
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Kabbalistic Healing And Its Relevance To Modern
Life |
 by Dr. Jodi Prinzivalli / Clinical
Psychologist and Founder and Director of the Center for Energetic
PsychologyKabbalists believe, contrary to many healing arts
and sciences, that healing cannot be given to or done to or made to happen by
the healer. Energy is never willfully or intentionally moved, changed, pushed in
or pulled out. The will of the healer is considered not only irrelevant but
often a hindrance to the healing force. The skill of the healer lies therefore
in a completely different arena than with most energetic and traditional
medicine techniques. The skill lies in the complete absence of the self, absence
of ideas about healing, about what should happen, even through clairvoyant
vision or high sense perception. The skill involves becoming a completely empty
vessel so that the Divine Intelligence can find its place. And ironically, the
more skilled the healer, the more difficult this becomes, since we need to
unlearn old patterns.
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Living
Outside the Box - and Transforming It |
 by Dipali Desai / Ordained Minister of
Light, Certified Transformative Astrologer & Reiki
Master
We have all heard this innovative
idea before - "living outside of the box." With conscious awareness, willingness
and intention, I can then choose to dismantle or shape-shift the box - which
opens the way for Transformation, allowing authentic Truth to emerge, and shows
the multi facets that I have yet to discover, experience as well as explore.
Then the reality becomes an infinite field of possibilities! Can you imagine,
the freedom, richness of creativity and alive energy that is there? Change your
beliefs to what is possible and you open up a box right there!
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What is Spiritual
Healing? |
 by Mary Bell, R.N.C. / Spiritual Healer and Creator of the
Foundation for Unity Consciousness
Spiritual healing is not faith
healing or a power that one possesses. It is really a process of personal
development through which one is able to act as a conduit for spiritual energy,
to ground it, to allow oneself to be utilized as a vehicle or a servant for
spirit or for God. Spiritual healers don't themselves have the power to heal
anyone or anything. But they learn to hold spaces of energy where healing can
occur through the intention of the recipient. They learn to do this through
intensive courses of study where they study energy fields and how they work,
learn to ground energy through themselves in specific ways, and do personal work
for purification of their own psychological and spiritual issues. It is only
through the healing of oneself that a healer can learn this work and be of help
to someone else.
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Internal Yoga for Sexual
Vitality |
 by Marci Javril / Master Bodyworker, Ordained Minister,
Movement Therapist and Tantra Yoga Teacher
Yogis and the ancient Chinese
have known that in order to be self-sufficient and isolated in the mountains,
the body needed to be flexible, efficient, sensitive, and sturdy. They designed
physical techniques for internal cleansing that needed to be done either
manually or by one's own body's mechanisms. Using the anal sphincter lock and
upward draw, the indigenous Polynesians and Egyptians drew sea water into the
colon, for a natural enema effect. In order to gain instead of losing energy
during love-making, tantric practitioners use these recycling techniques for
preserving sexual energy. Pumping the base chakra with specific breathing and
visualizations are meditative techniques that can lead to full-blown spiritual
visions and inner blissful states.
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