Life Force Energy: What It Is and 5 Ways to Increase It
My wife and I planted a cinnamon tree in our garden. We purchased it at a nursery. It is approximately ten feet (3½ meters) tall! When we bought it, the roots were bundled tight in a burlap sack to restrict their growth while it was awaiting someone to come and claim it. We dug a hole, cut the burlap sack, and planted the tree into the earth, allowing the roots to expand without restrictions. All of this felt nourishing. Its rich potential can now be fully realized. I look forward to watching it grow. There is a similarity between [...]
Stalking Yourself: Inner Dialogue, Habits, and Energy
Stalking yourself is the process of hunting, following and observing your habits, beliefs, thoughts, routines, strengths and weaknesses for the purpose of seeing who you are. It is using the mind to see all aspects of yourself in action. In this guide, you'll learn techniques to stalk your inner dialogue, habits, and energy fluctuations. Let's dive in. Table of Content Stalking Yourself – Rules of the Game Stalking Inner Dialogue Stalking Habits Stalking Energy Fluctuations In stalking yourself, you want to see not only what and how you are thinking, but to identify your central beliefs, those core beliefs [...]
More News on Placebos
They were the “no option” patients, people with advanced heart disease who had used up all their bypass surgeries and who were running out of ways to stay alive. But when they joined a study testing laser surgery and a heart drug that grows new blood vessels, remarkable things happened. Their crippling chest pain improved. They had fewer angina attacks. They were able to exercise longer during a stress test on a treadmill. Sophisticated nuclear scans showed an improvement in blood flow to their hearts and heart function. And they didn’t improve for just a week or two weeks or [...]
How the Mind Helps to Heal the Body
In her office in Little Rock, Arkansas, a thirty-nine-year-old woman sits deep in meditation. A regular meditator, she has been practicing for almost nine years and invariably finds it helps her relax. Today, however, her practice will take on a new twist. Using a simple visualization technique she will attempt to control her immune system under the watchful eyes of several researchers from the University of Arkansas Medical faculty. It’s part of an experiment to further understand the remarkable mind/body connection. The team is headed by psychiatrist G. Richard Smith, who wants to see if the woman can turn her [...]
Imagery Can Help You Recover from Injuries and Illness
That professional athletes use guided visualization and other Mind Power techniques to increase their level of performance is nothing new. In a previous Topic of the Month (see index) I wrote about basketball legend Michael Jordan’s method. He claims he spent as much time off court practicing making shots in his mind as he did on court. “I practice in my mind being in a pressured situation and making the game winning shot,” he said after winning game one of the NBA finals several years with ago, with a brilliant shot with less than ten seconds left in the game. [...]
The Laughing Doctor
Out of nowhere they appear, hoisting a banner that proudly displays their name in neatly embroidered letters, "Juhu Laughter Club," and below that their slogan: HO-HO, HA-HA - LAUGHING IS THE BEST MEDICINE I'm in Bombay and the sun has not yet risen on Juhu Beach. I have come to see firsthand the work, or rather should I say play, of a most unusual doctor. Each morning forty or fifty men, women and children come to the beach for their daily dose of laughter. These people are members of one of India's almost 500 "laughter clubs"; groups which hold [...]