It’s a New Year and a New You

Support Your 2011 Wellness Goals with 7 experts in the Albuquerque alternative and complementary health community.

Saturday, January 15th, 1:00 – 3:30 pm

at The Source, 1111 Carlisle SE, ABQ  (1 mile south of Central)

You are invited to attend an afternoon of inspiration, encouragement and support with real life tools that you can implement in your life today!

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS:

Dr. Laura H. Shoemaker, DC, FICPA, APC

Healthy Spines for a Healthy Family

Advanced Practice Chiropractic Physician, Dr. Laura H. Shoemaker, cares for the whole family with sub-speciality in Women’s Health and Pediatrics. Childhood injuries may still be affecting you today.  Learn indicator signs to watch for in your growing family that can be addressed with chiropractic care. For more information call 505-271-8888.

Dr. Robert S. Morrison, DCH

Making and Keeping Your Goals for the New Year

Clinical Hypnotherapist Bob Morrison specializes in managing transitions and bringing momentum to business, health and personal goals and received his Doctorate in Hynotherapy from American Pacific University. He will share simple self-hypnosis techniques and advice for keeping those New Year resolutions. For more information, visit: www.SoulResources.net

Dr. Lynn Wright DOM

Ear Acupuncture for Addictions, Stress, Anxiety, Procrastination, Weight Gain and Pain
Dr. Wright is a Graduate of Southwest College of Acupuncture and Owner of Chaco Acupuncture in ABQ. She will share a clinically proven and easy acupuncture treatment that gets amazing results.For more information: www.lynnwrightdom.com

Dr. Michael Pridham, DC

Tai Chi’ For Balance, Exercise and Fall Prevention
Dr. Pridham is a Graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic and The New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics after attending UNM and TVI. Dr. Pridham incorporates his knowledge of massage therapy, meridian therapy, Tai Chi, and yoga with chiropractic techniques to create a unique style of practice. For more information, visit:  www.drpridham.com

Rheanni Lightwater CK, CHT

Health Can Be Improved Through Feng Shui
Rheanni is a Feng Shui and Energy Medicine Practitioner, Certified Kinesiologist, Reiki & Karuna® Reiki Master/Teacher and has been in the healing profession since 1991. Her self-healing workbook, Gifts from the Rainforest, recently was named a Winner in the 2010 New Mexico Book Awards. She will share some tips and feng shui principles that will help you get your environment in shape. For more information, visit www.SoulResources.net

Dr. Freda McKeown, PhD, LPCC

Feel Younger, Live Longer: Choices for Healthy Aging

Dr. Freda McKeown is a product consultant for Shaklee, a natural health and nutrition company, and a licensed mental health counselor. Her commitment is to helping individuals develop and maintain wellness through proper nutritional supplementation and other self care. Dr. Freda will be discussing anti-aging strategies in her talk, Feel Younger, Live Longer: Choices for Healthy Aging.” For more information, visit: www.FredaM.myShaklee.com

Sonia Masocco, LDT, C.Ay.

Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy – Understanding the hidden dangers of drug-herb interactions

Sonia Masocco is a professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy as well as a member of the American Herbalist Guild. She maintains a private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teaches Ayurvedic herbology and is a faculty member of the The Ayurvedic Institute.
Ms. Masocco has been involved in complementary and alternative health since 1997 where she also worked in an integrative clinic in Hong Kong. Sonia Masocco’s teaching style is dynamic and stimulating, knowing how to make information come alive and be applicable. For more information, visit: www.soniamasocco.com

You will find us in the Blue Yoga Room and Gallery across from Michael Thomas Coffee Co.

Get informed and inspired to be your BEST in 2011!

Reserve YOUR SPACE in the Special FREE Event

Invite Your Friends! Call (505) 872-1900

Releasing the Victim Mentality and Reorganizing Around Love

Kuan Yin’s Intuitive Learning Game for Change

The key to remaining positive in very negative times is to remember the bottom line – that you are a being of love. Sometimes we forget and allow the prevailing patterns of fear or hatred to influence us. One of the main ways that this happens is through confusion.

Did you know that a person who is stuck in confusion is probably under the influence of karmic patterns of abuse? Some of them are about individual karma, however, most of these patterns are collective. In other words, we are all affected by them in one way or another. The game below is made up of Intuitive Learning Circles and is intended to help you disentangle yourself from some of those collective ties. Simply go through the game by answering pertinent questions that will activate your heart wisdom and give you a new perspective.

Shifting Negative Collective Patterns Into Positive Relationships

The question that Kuan Yin would like you to consider as you play the game is:

“In what aspect of my life am I experiencing confusion or fear?”

Use the answer that comes to you as the basis for the game so that you can disengage from the confusion and release your fears very quickly. If there is more than one situation causing you to be angry or fearful, go ahead and play the game again specifically for each situation.

The best way to stop abuse and the victim mentality is to stop feeding it, and that is exactly what this game will help you to do.

How to Play:

Simply look at the images and circles below while you ponder the statements or questions that go with them. Looking at the symbols will help you to go within and access new energy and clarity. What you do with the information you come up with is up to you!

1. To begin, look at this symbol and repeat to yourself several times:

“I am ready, willing and able to shift my perception from negative to positive.”

2. While looking at this circle, think of an aspect of your life that is troubling you. Ask your heart:

“What doesn’t seem right about my current relationship with other people?” or “When is it that I feel abused?”

3. Notice how this situation agitates you. Breathe a few times and allow this circle to calm you down and help you to see more clearly.

4. Use this circle to really tune into your heart. You can do this by focusing your attention on your actual, physical heart. Once you feel a connection, ask for help from your Soul resources.

5. Use this symbol to help you dissolve any feelings of agitation, anger, or fear that you might be feeling right now. You can imagine those negative feelings as black smoke that dissipates into a clear blue sky.

6. What are you afraid might happen? Make a list so that you can get it out of your mind and see it on a piece of paper. Be sure to take your time with this.

7. Imagine that you are in a room where everyone is fighting and throwing curses at each other. Use this symbol to dissolve the scene in your mind completely.

8. Do you have any feelings that you are at fault at all? Is there a part of you that thinks that other people want to hurt you?

9. If so, imagine that you are in a courtroom, complete with judge, jury and executioner. Use this symbol to completely dissolve the scene.

10. Do you feel as though someone or something is manipulating you or trying to make you do something that you don’t want to do?

11. If so, isn’t it time that you stopped buying into the fear? Use this symbol to dissolve any conscious or unconscious contract you may have to buy into fear, anger and abuse. Imagine there is a whole stack of them and that they are simply being reduced to ashes by fire.

12. Finally, make a firm decision that you are done with this abuse. With this symbol, clearly see the door that leads to this confusing and painful place closing forever.

Congratulations! Now that the door has been closed, take some time to rest and nurture yourself. Take a walk or spend time in nature. Be prepared to allow yourself to receive the blessings that come from leaving the past behind.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2010 All Rights Reserved.

Soul Resources offers Kuan Yin’s Games and other series, such as Sacred Cow Tipping as a service to the community. If you would like to support  and encourage this work, your donations are greatly appreciated.

The circles and charts that make up this game come from

• Gifts from the Rainforest
• Soul Prayer Charts

Both books are filled with healing and dynamic methods for bringing positive change into your life. 

Creating a Tipping Point for Economic Prosperity

There are many good reasons why people have difficulty changing direction and some of them have to do with our Sacred Cows.

The majority of these unconscious agreements are held in place by trauma.

By far, the biggest cause of trauma is war and the members of the old guard that perpetuate it. That’s why today’s Sacred Cows are:

“Treat people like commodities; use them up and then throw them away.”

And

“Only weak people experience post-traumatic stress.”

What is Post Traumatic Stress?

Personally, I have suffered from many of the symptoms of post traumatic stress for most of my life:

• Feeling fear about the future
• Difficulty concentrating
• Frequent boughts of insomnia or nightmares
• Feelings of guilt or helplessness
• Uncontrollable crying
• Flashbacks
• Shock and overwhelm.

As a child, I had a horrible time getting along with others and school was a major struggle. I grew up with constant panic attacks and seemed to get myself in trouble no matter what I did.

It wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I realized my behavior was not due to just being a bad person as I was often told. I had reasons for my apparent lack of control, and they were good ones. My father was a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II and the Korean War and had participated in countless bombing missions. When he came home, the U. S. Military gave him a couple of weeks R&R in the Carribean – no counseling and no opportunity to decompress from the horrors of war.

Needless to say, he was not ready to return and take up the role of “Father Knows Best”, the popular TV show of the time. He was moody, given to rages, migraines and had no patience for small children. I lived my preschool years in absolute fear of him and as a young adult, I rebelled and went out of my way to hurt him. It wasn’t until I was 44 and he was dying of cancer that I understood where the violence had come from; what had happened to our family and what was really responsible for it.

Before he passed away, my father shared his deep regret and guilt about killing so many people. The pain and remorse that he had been holding in was eating up his body and palpable on his face as he recounted wartime experiences that both humbled and horrified me at the same time.

I literally watched him go yellow and break out into a cold sweat while he detoxed a drug the military had given him in place of quinine as a “treatment” for malaria. Evidently the drug did nothing whatsoever to protect him or the thousands of other soldiers who took it from malaria, it was only intended to keep them on their feet no matter what. No wonder he turned into a workaholic and could never relax. The mass use of that drug may explain a lot about the health problems of many men of his generation – heart attacks, stoicism, emotional inaccessability, workaholism, alcolholism, not to mention cancer.

In his death, my father taught me something very important about post traumatic stress. He had spent his whole life running away from it, yet when he realized his time was running out, he began to accept what had happened and how frightened he had been. By providing him with a safe and loving place to talk, he was able to let it go emotionally, spiritually and physically. I know that by the time he passed away, he had made his peace with me and more importantly, with himself.

With him as an inspiration, I sought after a form of treatment that might be instrumental in breaking the cycle of war, abuse, learning disabilities and chronic health problems, and that is how the circles we use in our Tipping game came to be.

This set of Sacred Cows will not tip on their own. Please join me in playing this game.

Tip all sixteen Sacred Cows for Economic Prosperity
Rheanni Lighwater © 2008

Soul Oriented Solutions – A Handbook of Quick Formulas to Use in Times of Emotional Crisis has been named as a Winner in the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards.

The Awards were founded in 2006 by local Albuquerque publishing leaders, Paul Rhetts and Barbe Awalt of the New Mexico Book Coop and are open to New Mexico authors and publishers or books with a New Mexico/Southwestern theme. 2008 Winners were announced at the Book Awards banquet on November 21st at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque. A complete list of winners and their catagories is available at NMBook Awards.

Soul Oriented Solutions offers support for survivors of trauma, loss and abuse and those who work with them through powerful tools and techniques that calm the mind, heal the body and uplift the shattered spirit.

The formulas can be used in certain situations to manage long-term feelings of hopelessness. The three situations that are covered are:

1. Coping with serious illness or loss.
2. Stabilizing after experiencing a traumatic event.
3. Clearing an overwhelmed mind.

As a bonus, two extra Circles are included that give short term relief for shock and panic attacks. When used in combination, the graphs can help to alleviate post-traumatic stress and its accompanying symptoms including:

• Feeling fear about the future
• Over-dependence on drugs or alcohol
• Insomnia or nightmares
• Feelings of guilt or helplessness
• Uncontrollable crying
• Flashbacks
• Shock and feeling overwhelmed.

Soul Oriented Solutions is available to buy at the Soul Resources Online Bookstore.

Contact Rheanni Lightwater to speak to your organization or group at (505) 271-4612 or contact@intuitivelearningcircle.com.

The best way to deal with long-term symptoms of post-traumatic stress is to prevent it from happening in the first place. Obviously, one never knows when something traumatic might occur or where, however, there are ways of handling the situation once it has happened that can significantly reduce a person’s susceptibility to long-term feelings of hopelessness and alienation.

If you or someone you know has just been through a traumatic event, the best time to take steps to prevent PTSD is as soon as possible.

1. Combine encouragement with time to process the event.

The importance of combining positive input while realistically processing what has happened is an interesting balance. The key here is to “talk about it, but don’t dwell on it.” That way the patterns of shock, fear and hopelessness are dispelled before they get a chance to become habitual.

Formula # 2 in Soul Oriented Solutions offers one way to help those who have been overwhelmed by recent events by going through a process that will help to calm them down and focus in on what would genuinely help them.

This e-book is free of charge and can be downloaded right now by going to:

http://www.intuitivelearningcircle.com/soul-oriented-solutions/

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The purpose of Soul Oriented Solutions is to give you additional resources to turn to when you are going through difficult times. Please feel free to share this information with others whom you feel might benefit from it.

Consider it a gift from someone that has been there and wants to share the little wisdom she has gained from her own experiences. Each formula has the potential to give some hope, inner guidance and clarity of mind if you are willing to try something new and different.

The Intuitive Learning Circles and Graphs used in this e-book have been extensively tested in clinical and educational settings.

If you would like to know more about them, go to http://www.intuitivelearningcircle.com/

Share your experiences. We want to hear from you about your stories of hope and inspiration.

For those affected by the bridge collapse in Minneapolis who may be suffering from shock…we are sending our love and prayers.

Soul Oriented Solutions – A Handbook of Quick Formulas to Use in Times of Emotional Crisis

This self-help book is free and can be downloaded anytime.

Go to http://intuitivelearningcircle.com/soul-oriented-solutions/