Healing From Within - Sheryl Glick

Hello and welcome to Healing From Within I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Teacher medium and author of my newest book the last in a trilogy entitled A New Life Awaits Spiritual Guide Insights to Support Global Awakening which shows us that our challenges are not economic political or social but a spiritual disconnect from our inner true being or soul reality. I am delighted today to welcome Dr. Jeffrey Schmitt, a forty -year veteran scientist and university professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine who brings to us his knowledge of the sacred healing plant tobacco. He helped to start a company to fight diseases like Parkinson and Alzheimer’s based on this research on nicotine. He will also describe AoMR, a website and app dedicated to understanding tobacco dependence and its implications.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware my guests and I share intimate stories and insights leading us to recognize we are more than our physical body and energetically within have much knowledge and wisdom that can help us handle any challenge and create with our inspired thoughts and help from Universal Source a productive healthy and fulfilling life journey.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” : they are the result of deeper causes, so we can when we help people develop new skills and insights into themselves get beyond the need to smoke. The program has developed dares people to grow and evolve.

When Jeff is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that may have made a lasting impression on him and perhaps directed the course of his life he tells us of a time when he was about five years old and his parents took him to a Japanese restaurant where he sat in a low pit and watched them prepare the food and a woman dressed in a kimono talked to him. He was sensitive to the beauty and uniqueness of the woman’s place and food and it set up within him a desire to learn more about other places and cultures and healing through feeling connected to a higher place within himself and with perhaps Universal energy.

Jeff tells us how he became a highly respected expert in the neuropharmacology and ethnobotany of tobacco and developed a new model for treating tobacco dependence based on native principles of healing self-awareness and accountability. We all know that tobacco if smoked over a period of time and as an addiction causes irreparable damage. Understanding addiction withdrawal and the underlying conditions that lead one to a tobacco dependence or any other addiction lie within the emotional and physical structure of a person.

Withdrawal and addiction are two related but separate parts of substance use disorders. Dependence is a chemical adaptation to a psychoactive substance in your brain. When you smoke, your brain gets used to nicotine and adapts around it. It even makes more nicotine receptors to bind with more of the drug. When you stop using, you’ll feel a chemical imbalance that causes withdrawal symptoms and cravings.

Nicotine withdrawal can cause irritability, anxiety, depression, headaches, constipation, and sweating. These unpleasant symptoms can make it difficult to quit. However, addiction makes it even harder as it involves compulsions to smoke despite harmful consequences. For instance, many people start to develop lung problems or other health problems and are told to stop smoking, but they can’t. Nicotine dependence and addiction can be treated and overcome, although it may take professional help in some cases. Since tobacco addiction is harder to hide than other addictions. This is largely because tobacco is legal, easily obtained, and can be consumed in public. It has in the past been more acceptable or tolerated more so than alcoholism or drugs.

Some people can smoke socially or occasionally, but others become addicted. An addiction may be present if the person:

cannot stop smoking or chewing, despite attempts to quit has withdrawal symptoms when they try to quit (shaky hands, sweating, irritability, or rapid heart rate) must smoke or chew after every meal or after long periods of time without using, such as after a movie or work meeting needs tobacco products to feel “normal” or turns to them during times of stress gives up activities or won’t attend events where smoking or tobacco use is not allowed continues to smoke despite health problems

Dr. Schmitt tells us of the spiritual and holistic healing of the AoMR platform and app and what it provides. AoMR stands for All of My Relations and in healing it is always about uncovering the underlying causes of a disease or emotional dependence which leads to an addiction or any illness or dysfunction.

The app provides: Audio recordings that lead users through a variety of exercises that address the underlying cause of dependence on tobacco and other substances/behaviors. Also provides Audio recordings based on advanced brain state technology (binaural beats, diachronic beats and hearing frequencies that support healthy behaviors, healthy outlook and the release of addictive behavior.

Simple exercises that enhance users capacity to understand themselves and where they are on the journey to having the healthy happy life to which they aspire.

The recordings are not only powerful and effective but are beautiful as well Dr. Schmitt a musician himself has collaborated with world renown musician River Guerguerian to create custom sonic landscapes for each recording

Dr. Schmitt tells us more about the healing effects as well as the destructive effects of smoking Tobacco. Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the Nicotiana genus and the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used around the world.

Tobacco is one of the deadliest drugs on the planet, and smoking it leads to more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Many people who smoke are aware of the dangers and repeatedly try and fail to quit using nicotine. That’s because nicotine is notoriously addictive, and quitting it can cause uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms and powerful compulsions to use.

Smoking and vaping nicotine can lead to deadly health risks. It can also cause a shortness of breath, or create a morning cough, among other uncomfortable symptoms. Plus, areas where smoking is permitted are increasingly difficult to find in public places. Why is it so difficult to stop using nicotine despite the health risks and other inconveniences? Tobacco is one of the most widely abused substances in the world. It is highly addictive. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that tobacco causes 6 million deaths. Trusted sources tell us. Nicotine is the main addictive chemical in tobacco. It causes a rush of adrenaline when absorbed in the bloodstream or inhaled via cigarette smoke. Nicotine also triggers an increase in dopamine. This is sometimes referred to as the brain’s “happy” chemical.

Dopamine stimulates the area of the brain associated with pleasure and reward. Like any other drug, use of tobacco over time can cause a physical and psychological addiction. This is also true for smokeless forms of tobacco, such as snuff and chewing tobacco.

Tobacco use is associated with 5 million deaths per year worldwide and is considered as one of the leading causes of premature death. Comprehensive tobacco control programs can significantly reduce the prevalence of tobacco use. An important component of a comprehensive program is the provision of treatment for tobacco addiction. Treatment involves targeting multiple aspects of addiction including the underlying neurobiology and behavioral processes. Furthermore, building an infrastructure in health systems that encourage and facilitate cessation and expanding the accessibility of treatments are necessary. While current pharmacological and behavioral treatments are effective in improving cessation success, the rate of relapse to smoking remains high, demonstrating the strong addictive nature of nicotine. The future of treatment resides in better patient matching to treatment, combination or novel medications, and conceptualizing nicotine addiction as a chronic disorder which may require long-term treatment tobacco use is associated with 5 million deaths per year worldwide and is considered as one of the leading causes of premature death. Comprehensive tobacco control programs can significantly reduce the prevalence of tobacco use.

Learning more about how nicotine works in the brain and why it’s so addictive is important to understanding how Dr. Schmitt’s use holistically of the tobacco plant as a living essence which can communicate it’s healing message without necessarily smoking it. So tobacco is an ancient herbal healing substance when used in another way.

Nicotine is a psychoactive chemical in tobacco that causes stimulating effects when it is smoked. Among these chemicals is dopamine, a neurotransmitter that’s involved in reward and motivation. Dopamine release can cause positive feelings that can reinforce the behavior that leads to its release in the first place. This is an important function that helps motivate us to survive.

When you’re hungry but don’t feel like going out for food, the reward center of your brain remembers the dopamine and other feel-good chemicals that were released when you ate before. That is how addictions are formed.

Dr. Jeffrey Schmitt is a dedicated practitioner and student of the folk healing traditions of Peru and North America and over the years your relationship has shifted to working with tobacco as a teacher and catalyst for sacred healing. He tells us of his research and new awareness of sacred healing and the use of tobacco as a sacred plant used by many indigenous peoples around the world. The tobacco we will work with is from the jungles of Peru. It is pure nicotine rustica, and is used by Peruvian shamans for clearing low frequency energies, such as trauma, unpleasant fear patterns and emotions. It is also used for protection and greatly assists sensitive, empathic people when used consciously as an ally, through prayer and with intention.

This is a one-day prayerful diet with tobacco, with an opportunity to get to know it better as a spirit ally and powerful healing tool. You learn to smoke it prayerfully and do not inhale the smoke. You can also opt in to pray with it as an ally and not smoke it, as the relationship is not dependent on smoking it, but on how you honor it and call it in as a spirit ally.

The Spirit of Tobacco is a masculine energy and a fire medicine.

“To get to know this plant, the shamans create a fresh pressed drink out the leaves of the tobacco plant. Each day the shamans pray into the plant drink with prayers for the medicine to assist us, and for us to become allies with it and its powers. They would also put prayers into three mapacchos for us to work with each day. A mapaccho looks like a cigarette, but is not, as it is pure tobacco and only meant for prayerful use. Then we would pray into our tobacco drink (or whatever plant we were working with), and drink it down. We would then rest, fast, pray and dream during the day. We began at dawn and were in the ceremony until 3pm. Then we could break our fast. We did this for 7 days, as that is the minimum time for the sacred relationship to be created, and for the plant to lay its energy matrix into our field.”

Tobacco is sacred and not meant to be used mindlessly. It knows your prayers and will go to work for you if you hold it in its sacredness. And if you disrespect it, it will kill you!

We thank you Dr. Jeff Schmitt for sharing your research and insights into understanding the need of some people for tobacco dependence and the AoRM system for a look at the unhealthy factors that may lead to any of a number of addictive needs. To learn more of this holistic approach to healing go to www.AllofMyRelations.com

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. Jeffrey Schmitt has discussed the story of tobacco and other addictive behaviors offering ways to understand how the brain can be trained to require continued use of a substance once the chemical stimulates receptors and this creates a feel good reaction which is the basis for the addiction. Dr. Schmitt offers a six month program using recordings music exercise and ways to know yourself in order to discover why you are addicted in the first place as we know some people can use tobacco or any product socially and occasionally, but do not become addicted and use of tobacco as a sacred healing essence to communicate with and derive benefits from this action. Even when people are aware of the many health problems and deaths generated from excessive use of tobacco often they are unable to break the habit so we must seek out new creative holistic ways to solve this issue.

Jeff and I would have you seek therapists hypnotherapists and medical advice energy healing practices such as Reiki Acupuncture Craniosacral therapy as well as programs like AoRM to find your way past the traumas fears and suffering that made you accept another unhealthy practice to handle the disconcerting anxiety and pain at the root of the addiction. There is always help available…often we simply have to ask.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Energy practitioner, medium author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares a metaphysical view of the duality of energetic and physical life and ways to understand the challenging fast moving changes of present times as we seek to know who we are, balance ourselves and planet to reach an awareness of higher consciousness and eternal soul life. We are not having a political, social, religious or economic problem simply a separation from our spiritual connectedness to Universal life forces. I am most happy to welcome Margaret Thompson author of Finding Color in Darkness a story of the devastating results of her son John Fish’s mental health disorder and the loss of her son by suicide.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware, my guests and I share intimate stories and insights into the deeper part of our remembering that we are spiritual beings having a physical life and are much more than our physical bodies. That awareness allows us to know that we possess wisdom that encourages us to dream, learn and seek joy and happiness, beyond all the challenges a physical world presents to us. Self-investigation and suffering sometimes leads to understanding our emotions and if we have enough time in this life to truly appreciate life no matter what difficulties and sadness we endured.

In today’s episode of ‘Healing From Within” Margaret shares a truthful account of how hard it is to live with a child that has a mental challenge. In John’s case Bi-polar disorder and up and down battle with sorrow and pain was a sadness for her and her beloved son. She also shares quite a bit of information on how to help your child and where to go to find professional help because we must ask Spirit and those in our life to assist in dealing with this daunting illness chosen by a soul to help them evolve perhaps at a higher and faster level of ascension.

When asking Margaret to think back to a moment of John’s childhood that was most reflective of his sensitivities for I feel the soul comes into this life with a plan and destiny and some have greater challenges than other souls but their challenges lead to the refinement of their soul energy and greater love Margaret tells us of their deep loving connection. Margaret writes, “As a child, John was very attached to me and loved to snuggle and hold my hand. As he grew older, he would often introduce me to new music. I worked in the MTV News department shortly after graduating from college, and at a local radio station as an intern during college, so we shared a passion for music, particularly alternative music. We did art projects together, cooked together, and watched shows and movies together. When John was in middle school, he got me hooked on Grey’s Anatomy and would insist I sit next to him on the couch and watch it with him every Sunday night. We were so close. I would, however, soon lose that deep connection to him.”

Margaret tells us something of your family life and how you noticed that John was suffering from Depression. Margaret wrote, “Depression is an invisible illness. I had always believed that happiness was a choice, and that a positive attitude, coupled with a healthy diet, proper exercise, a regular schedule and enough sleep, could cure any emotional pain. Now, however, I replay my son’s words in my head, “You wouldn’t understand.” I didn’t then, but I do now, as I lower my head in shame, for my ignorance of the enormous and unbearable pain John was suffering. I tried to understand, as many parents do, but it seemed such an abstract concept to comprehend. Abstract, until I discovered my son’s lifeless body in a closet, less than an hour after we had returned home from dinner. Now, I know all too well the real pain of emotional agony. The tightness in my chest makes it hard to breathe as I relive these moments while recalling the various events leading up to and following John’s death.”

“Clinical depression is a medical illness. Neurotransmitters in the brain do not function properly. Severe and chronic mental illness can be terminal. I did finally understand, a few months before John died, during his darkest and final battle with depression, just how much he was suffering. I tried to offer help, but he had already shut down. He had been in his third, and final, partial hospitalization program. It was extended from three to six weeks. He was supposed to see a therapist when he completed the program. I researched therapists and other programs, but John would utter nonsensical things and was unresponsive. I felt completely helpless as I observed him lying in a fetal position on the couch. Earlier in the summer he had seemed so happy. Well, at times happy, at other times he was somewhere else. I think he knew it was a matter of time. But he did try. He tried to go into a private facility in September. They had no beds, and the alternative was admitting himself to a public hospital. He had done that in April of 2013. It was a nightmare. They lock you up and try to medicate you into a stupor. John refused to take prescription medication. I applaud him for that, but it is an individual choice to make. He chose to live his life while being present, even though it meant experiencing great pain, but he also experienced incredible joy and profound insights. The highs and lows of being bipolar.”

Many young men have challenges and problems during their teenage years when so much is expected of them and their brains are not fully developed till around the age of 25 and sometimes this leads to making poor choice. Can you tell us what happened when John was expelled in his freshman year of high school and what you later discovered was a better approach to young offenders?

Margaret tells the story of what happened to John, a good student and loving soul who because of his illness and lack of mental maturity made a bad choice. She writes, “Somebody had informed the Vice Principal that John was found to have several packets of marijuana and a small knife, and John was very compliant when they brought him in for questioning in December of his freshman year of high school, John was expelled.

Sheryl feels as if she was a Special Education in the NYC schools with students ranging from 12 to 15 who had many emotional and health problems that could and should have been handled differently. John could have been suspended for a short time and put under the care of a competent therapist and other people to overlook his progress.

Since that time Margaret reports that there has been much progress to deal more compassionately with young offenders. In 2007, it was commonly understood that young offenders need restorative responses to the bad choices they make, as the brain is rapidly developing between the ages of 14 and 19, and the part of the brain that processes risks is compromised through this process. Therefore, adolescent offenders should not be treated with harsh disciplinary measures, unless of course there is violence involved, but the circumstances always need to be considered. Numerous studies have proven that those who were suspended, or expelled from schools, are at greater risk of falling behind. Studies have also shown that students at risk who are either expelled or suspended become further isolated, often leading to devastating emotional consequences, such as becoming dependent upon substances, alcohol, or turning to crime or self-harm. Young people need to know that others believe in them, especially those at risk.

We can and must determine when a young person is at risk.

“At risk” can be defined by many factors. Family dynamics, traumatic situations, assaults, mental health, poverty, emotional neglect, abuse (physical and emotional), etc., all put children at risk. By suspending, or worse, expelling, these adolescents, we are sending a message that they are unfit to live among us. They are too young to be given this message, and they often act out to get much needed attention. While completing a Master of Education program, I was told that behind every bad behavior there is a reason, and it is up to us, as teachers, to find out what that reason is, so that we can respond accordingly, and with compassion.

Many parents of a child who has a mental health problem may blame themselves. Sheryl tells us that no one is to blame. We are born with a certain life plan, challenges we will encounter and relationships we may work on.

Margaret reflects on John’s time in school after being expelled and where he had certain good and bad experiences.

Margaret writes, “Those feelings of terror slowly changed as I saw John flourish into a brilliant, and thoroughly engaged young man. His young teachers adored him, and he them. He became the ideal student and role model. What I didn’t realize, back then, was that John was gay. He had a huge crush on one of the students who cherished his friendship but was not interested in a romantic relationship. This connection, however, sustained John and allowed him to thrive. John did not wish to return to the public school the following year as he was on track to complete high school in three years, advancing at an accelerated pace, made possible by the one-to-one teaching and summer school. He also did not wish to be the subject of gossip upon returning to his former school. And of course, there was his interest in a fellow student. The following year was this student’s last year. At his graduation, one student was collecting all the awards. The Headmaster commented to me that John would, no doubt, be the one getting the awards at his graduation the following year. If only that had been true, but, after the departure of John’s friend, John’s bipolar disorder (which is heightened during the turbulent teen years) caused him to crash and burn.

Margaret tells us about a suicide film Margaret has watched and what she learned from it and writes, “Last night I watched a film on Netflix, “My Suicide.” Researching the topic of suicide has helped me to better comprehend John’s torment. It is not light reading, but it is therapeutic. The film, I decided, would be another perspective for me to compile in my quest to understand what was going on inside of John’s mind; how was it that he was in so much pain that the only way out for him was to end his life?

The film is a quirky tale of a lonely 17-year-old boy who decides to make a film about his impending suicide for a film class. After the main character states the content of his film he is sent away to an institution, followed by therapy. There is speculation made about suicide and what leads a person to have suicidal thoughts. The characters contemplating suicide in the film blame their parents for either ignoring them, or for emotionally suffocating them. There are certainly many teens who dislike, and may even hate, their parents, but from my research, although these situations may well contribute to a person’s suicidal thoughts, that alone is not a clear indication that someone might become suicidal. There are humorous parts in the film about the mental health care system. It shouldn’t be comical, but it is, because the practice is broken down to a formula that is ineffective for many people. A one-size-fits all approach to mental illness, using medication and talk therapy, is dated, and not always helpful in the long term. Of course, some people have episodes of depression, or mild depression, and this type of therapy may be well suited to their needs. There are, however, many horror stories of people, particularly teenagers, whose minds are still in development, becoming more depressed after being put on medication, and who then take their lives as a result. When my ex-husband was put on medication for bipolar disorder, he became suicidal and was hospitalized. His doctor explained that it takes time to get the serotonin levels properly adjusted, and to find the right match for each patient. Many will say it’s like playing Russian Roulette. William Styron, author of Sophie’s Choice, wrote about his near suicide in Darkness Visible. He too was put on a medication, too high of a dose he later discovered, which increased his suicidal thoughts, but he had to wait two weeks to begin another drug. These are powerful drugs that can be harmful, even deadly.

Thomas Joiner, author of Why People Die by Suicide, writes that a feeling of disconnection, of ineffectiveness, and perceiving oneself to be a burden on others, are factors that, when combined with severe and chronic depression, can lead a person to contemplate, or perhaps complete, suicide. Therefore, making someone feel connected and effective, are key elements to helping someone overcome suicidal ideology.

John was bright, gifted and an old soul and Margaret writes something of his unique sensitivity. “While attending various colleges over the years, however, John became distracted by the turbulence of his emotions. His grades reflected his mindset; they were very much up and down, earning him A’s and C’s in the same subjects. Despite his emotional ups and downs, he was incredibly knowledgeable about life in general. He truly was an old soul, but this added to his pain as he was keenly aware of suffering around the world. He always wanted to help people. John was adored by the children at Star House, the home for abused children where John volunteered. He brought them Legos, played games with them, and engaged them in conversation. The director of Star house wrote a letter commending John for his compassion for these young children. After leaving Full Sail, John volunteered at the Crombie Street Shelter in Salem to help underprivileged children with math homework and technology. He also volunteered at the Open Door Pantry in Gloucester. He loved helping others, and he cared deeply for those who struggled, both here and abroad.

Many people think they have an idea what type of person might commit suicide but could be totally wrong. Margaret says she also made assumptions about what type person might attempt suicide but then realized there was much more to know.

Margaret writes, “Before John’s death I had somewhat assumed that a person who died by suicide was someone who was an outcast, a loner, and was someone who did not connect well with others. While that may well be how a person feels on the inside, on the outside, they are often very popular. I have come to recognize a common thread in the suicides of the offspring of people I have met on an online support group. Our sons and daughters were typically people who were wise beyond their years, empathetic, kind, witty, intellectually curious, and seemed to embrace and enjoy new adventures, and life in general. They were often deeply loved, comical, and creative. That was their public persona but, behind closed doors, out of sight from others, they wept. They did not want others to know their pain. Many went to great lengths to hide their torment, so as not to burden others. Perhaps their ability to experience emotions so deeply caused them to feel tremendous pain, but they also knew immense joy. That is the definition of bipolar disorder, great highs and deep lows.

Sheryl says It is also the gift of sensitive healers who are empathic and intuitive at a high level and can sense people’s discomfort their emotions and often their pain and dysfunction but healers and mediums like myself learn to know that much of what they are feeling are not their own feelings illness or sorrow. They are picking up the energy thoughts and physical sensations of others and can help these people to validate and heal many of these problems.

Margaret gives some quotes from some famous people who have committed suicide over the last few years.

Robin Williams’ friends: “He was always happy. Everyone adored him.” Kate Spade’s Dad: “I just talked to her an hour before and she was planning a trip. She was just like her brand – happy, cheerful and full of color.”

Anthony Bourdain’s best friend: “He loved his life and had this extraordinary ability to just connect with people.”

So, let me say this really loud so the people in the back of the room can hear me…SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO CHECK ON THOSE WHO SEEM THE STRONGEST. 1-800-273-TALK

Margaret might like readers of Finding Color in the Darkness to take away with them after reading your book what she wrote, “Although I have realized that I must forgive myself, the consequences of my inaction will forever haunt me. At the risk of sounding repetitive, I most likely could not have changed the outcome, but I would be more at peace with myself, knowing that I had tried to do everything within my power to save my son.

There was a publicity spot that appeared on a Facebook site, Living with Hope After Suicide Loss, in which a teenage girl is fixing her scarf around her bald-head in the mirror. Her mother, standing behind her, says, in a raised voice, “You’re not the only one with problems, you know?” The next scene shows the girl lying on her bed, while her father screams at her, “I’m tired of you and your pity parties!” The tagline reads something like, “We wouldn’t treat someone with cancer this way. It’s time we treat those suffering from mental illness with the same care and compassion.” The point I like to make is that not all battles are fought on the field; many are fought within.

Depression is an invisible illness. We may never know the struggles others might have, but we can always be kind, choose our words carefully, and respond with love and compassion, to any circumstance.”

We thank Margaret Thompson, author of Finding Color in the Darkness for bringing light and awareness to a painful sadness for many parents living with a mentally challenged child and finding the courage to learn to speak out and help others dealing with the same situation. If truth be told I doubt that any family is not touched by members who experience some level of mental health issues.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Margaret has shared life with a sensitive son who marched to his own rhythm, intelligent and gifted he was unable to sustain the pressures and issues of an outside world mindset that is often insensitive to the most severely challenged of our population. Having dealt with this situation in my own family I know how hard it is to be unable to help this child’s sister mother or father deal with something that causes them so much pain and makes their choices so limited.. We can in the end only love them and try to support their journey knowing that they are growing in soul awareness even though it may seem at times a hopeless or wasted life. Indeed it is the soul journey they have to experience and in the end will be free to live in eternal life

To understand how best to look at what seems like a tragedy read what Margaret wrote,

“I wrote the following response to an angry mother who posted on the Facebook support group, that her daughter had been selfish and cowardly:

I cannot be angry with my son John, because he suffered so much, off and on, throughout the years. I caught the end of a report on National Public Radio about suicide. The speaker said that a person with suicidal ideology slips into a state of madness and develops a distorted sense of self and others before taking their life. It is neither a selfish act, nor a cowardly one. It is a desperate act, to end the unbearable pain. People with severe depression who contemplate suicide can barely form words, let alone thoughts, in their final days. They do truly believe that others will be better off without them. The world around them is a blur. My greatest torment is knowing how much pain my son was in. As his mother, I wanted nothing more than for him to be happy, but bipolar disease is a horrible beast, and IT took him away from me. He would never have done this to hurt me, in his right mind. His beloved dog, who he called “my baby girl,” was near him when he hanged himself upstairs last November. I’ve struggled with posttraumatic stress, and enormous grief, but have a great therapist, and have learned to accept my new life, both the moments of profound joy (knowing that life can be tragically cut short), as well as accepting the profound sorrow. I take nothing for granted, and I do take comfort in knowing that my son no longer suffers.

Please try to forgive your daughter. You will be forever stuck in your pain if you do not. People sometimes implicate others in their suicide, but it is only in the state of paranoia and madness that is brought on by severe depression. I can’t speak for those who complete suicide under the age of 20. Young minds are not yet developed, and decisions can be made without the ability to understand the consequences. Teens who have been bullied are at greater risk of suicide. For those who make it into the adult world, if they are mentally healthy, they can usually overcome most of life’s problems. When the problem is within, however, the obstacles many of us face may become intolerable. In most cases of suicide, the person who completes suicide struggled with mental illness, off and on, from an early age.”

Margaret and I would have you remember yourself as a spiritual being of love who at the present time is having a physical experience which offers us the chance to self-investigate this short physical life to find beyond the suffering and challenges a way to when it is our time to find the way back home to eternal life.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within” with your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite love and Sheryl’s newly released book, completing the trilogy, A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Share Global Awakening which shares stories of spiritual awakening spiritual communication healing energies miracles and ways to understand life in both its physical and emotional context. We learn our challenges are not merely economic, political or societal but a deep disconnect from our true being and soul wisdom. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Randy Taran founder and CEO of Project Happiness and author of her newest book Emotional Advantage which provides insights into the lessons negative emotions have to offer so you may take control of your emotional life for transformation and progress.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware, Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and insights into our dual nature of physical and energetic life and explore areas of self-awareness, self-realization and self -investigation as we learn to master our emotions and move from fear trauma or misconceptions opinions or beliefs that hold us back from realigning to higher vibrations or emotions of happiness and joy. It is in understanding the true nature of who we are and where we come from that we begin to make better decisions and choices for creating lives of personal growth, prosperity and happiness.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Randy Taran will share ideas and techniques that may guide you to the emotional advantage of being aware, skillful and resilient no matter what situation you face. As a producer of an award -winning documentary on the nature of happiness working with George Lucas Richard Gere and neuroscientist Richard Davidson and also working as a board member of the Dalai Lama Foundation Randy shares thoughts on happiness habits, preventive wellness and emotional resilience.

Randy’s book is called Emotional Advantage: Embracing All Your Feelings to Create a Life You Love. Randy tells us what made her start to think differently about her emotions, and goes on to say that she had been focusing on happiness in the institute she had established and received many questions on how to deal with the flip side or reverse of happiness which are the negative emotions like sadness, sorrow fear and anger. Randy and Sheryl discuss the question: what if instead of hijacking our mind and traumatizing us or putting us in a state of self-doubt or resistance, we could use the messages of these events and emotions to create new perceptions and opportunities to live a more fulfilled life journey? It turns out we can learn how fear moves us to courage, how guilt can clarify our values, and how anger can help us create healthy boundaries.

Randy shares the kind of research she has focused on as her findings are based on neuroscience and how we can use this knowledge to support and happiness.

First Randy says that she is not a researcher—her specialty is curating the best of what’s out there from psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness and translating it into actionable tips and challenges that we all can actually use in everyday life. Science tells us that” we can change our brains” and rewire the pathways to higher awareness and functioning and that’s good and well and this book tells you how.

Everyone at birth is given a spectrum of emotions. Randy find the emotion that was hardest to write about she would have to say was shame that was challenging—it’s something we don’t talk about much –its deep in the dungeon of our minds. Fear, sadness, anger were runner ups and the thing is they all can help guide us to our best lives if we know how to work with them.

Sheryl says that she has been fortunate to have been wired as part of her intuitive healing and mediumship skills to help people and to be consistent and wholesome in her responses to people…Sometimes when she gets angry when people act inappropriately she forgets she is only human and deep feelings make her uncomfortable in her spiritual body, but have not often acted that way towards others. Still Sheryl feels sadness at the pain others inflict on others. As a medium and empath she has felt the shame, fear, sorrow , anger as well as the joy and love of her clients. One day in a reading Sheryl saw a doll like Raggedy Ann fall down and was so weak she couldn’t get up and the client told Sheryl that doll represented her for she was sexually abused by her father as a child and she couldn’t understand why he would hurt her that way. She felt shame for something her troubled father did and Sheryl immediately told her she was not a victim but a hero as she survived, and she should not think of it any longer, as he was the problem and needed help. The past is gone and only a memory but if we think about it in the present moment, we are reliving the horror or sadness. Sheryl is not sure why people who are hurt by others feel shame but sometimes they do and it affects them in many negative ways till they can realize the truth. Sheryl says she has probably never felt shame for she knows every experience we have is programmed into our soul life journey and how we handle it to the best of our ability is the only reason some of these most difficult experiences happen. If we learn to accept and surrender to the challenge nothing can really hurt us and we can resolve most issues with greater love and compassion for ourselves and others. It takes awareness and practice.

In Randy’s opinion the most common way people deal with difficult feelings is in two ways—wither they let it ALL out, (explode, wail) or keep it all in (stuff the emotions, take things out on yourself instead of others)—denial is pretty popular too. But the thing is, when we suppress what we’re feeling, those feelings become monsters. When we see them, and accept them ( hey ,nobody’s perfect—we’re not supposed to be) we get to work with their information and architect a life we love.

Sheryl says that the word “Perfection” is such a source of conflict for most people. Some children have assumed it is their job to make everyone happy and if they don’t succeed at that, which of course is impossible, they have failed themselves and have not been able to live up to the expectations of parents, teachers, colleagues and so on. In Sheryl’s book The Living Spirit in regard to this mistruth Sheryl wrote, “Recognizing another avenue for finding happiness is possible when we finally admit, “Not only are we not perfect, no one is perfect.” We must continue to learn what makes us tick, and what makes others react as they do, but should acknowledge that we can only change ourselves and our outdated thinking by realizing we are responsible for our own actions. The choice to accept others and ourselves with our frailties and sometimes negative behaviors can be hard, yet it is necessary in order to have times when we feel we are on cloud 9.”

Randy shares some of the authors or healers who have inspired her during the creation of Emotional Advantage. Oh so many: brene brown Kristin Neff, Dan Siegel, Rick Hanson Richie Davidson, Tal Ben Shahar even Rumi, Marcus Aurelius too, who writes, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Randy has incorporated experiences that have happened to her and your loved ones into her book. That inspired parts of the book certainly—It’s why she started this whole journey in the first place, but Randy could not have written it if she herself wasn’t looking for answers. What she learned is that making friends with your so- called negative emotions, the shadow side gives you more awareness hence more choices and leads to a sense of well- being peace and gratitude for being free of engaging any negative feeling for too long. Know it and then release it allowing for more positive events and feelings to surface.

Living in Silicon Valley, Randy has seen all the stress people go through at work and in study influenced her interest in mental and emotional wellbeing. It’s here for sure and everywhere. It’s in the air we breathe our addictions to our devices the pressure to be seen as perfect. Four out of ten people in the US self-report as lonely; it’s an epidemic. The WHO has declared depression the greatest cause of disability, even ahead of heart disease, and that’s globally. One in five people say they deal with anxiety, even kids. This is a wake -up call for all of us.

Sheryl says In her new book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening she recognizes that it is not the political, economic, social or religious issues that are the real problem we are facing worldwide. It is a spiritual disconnect from our natural loving state of being to Universal Source and to the goodness and compassion that is being stifled by the outside world. Looking “within” to the true source of the eternal circle of life is the way past harmful negative emotions and events and the path to peace which is simply knowing who you are as eternal spiritual beings having a physical life for the purpose of refining your magnificent soul potential and energy no matter what life challenges you face.

In Randy’s opinion the genre of emotions is so special. We have an inner compass inside of ourselves and we’ve forgotten how to use it. And in a culture that values appearance over authenticity, we often ignore the clues our emotions are giving us to help us navigate. It’s easier when life is good but complex in times like these. We need to be able to work with how we are feeling, and that does not mean stuffing it away and pretending that it’s all good. We need emotional literacy to have emotional intelligence and most people have no clue what their emotions are trying to communicate.

Sheryl responds, “Reiki energy healing sessions help a person to connect to this internal guidance system and wisdom and perceive new thoughts that can enable them to start to make changes in their health plan and relationships. Feeling your essence experientially is the best way to know what is best for you.”

The one thing Randy thinks readers generally don’t know about emotional intelligence and will be surprised to learn is that we all like good emotions like happiness and desire, but what we don’t realize is that even the toughest emotions are sending messages to alert, protect and fuel us forward. The good news is that this can be accessed if you know how. Randy loves the quote by Jon-Kabat – Zinn, “ You can’t stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.”

One of the most astounding things Randy learned about feelings when writing is that we don’t have to live on alert that our emotions will “take over our lives. When we welcome or embrace all feelings and listen to them, they have the power to bring us back to our strongest selves, capable of not only self-love but to having wonderful relationships with others and above all aligned to our true nature of goodness, kindness and compassion.

Randy has incorporated many of the tenets of Project Happiness into this Emotional Advantage. Yes, she has incorporated many of the tenets from Project Happiness. Mindful Monday, Gratituesday, Wellness Wednesday Thoughtful Thursday, Freedom Friday, Social Saturday, Soul Sunday these actually reshape –the neural pathways of our brain, but it goes further delving into the science of tougher emotions, and challenging the reader to USE the wisdom of ALL emotions—yes, even sadness anxiety anger and fear to inform our awareness and choices. The result: we are not a victim of circumstances to regain the power to create a life we love.

Sheryl often says to people…. “No one takes your personal power away unless you allow it and if people act badly it is their problem not yours.”

Without giving too much away, what vital resources are you giving your readers. Every chapter has tips and strategies both to reflect and challenge questions to meet where you are and inspire you towards creating your better life. Let me say one thing—this book is not about being happy all the time: A—that is not possible and B—it’s the fastest way to become Unhappy! Happiness is not the absence of obstacles: it’s an inner reservoir that helps us handle whatever comes our way.

Sheryl asks Randy: in a culture that tells us to push down our emotions and worries in order to work harder, how important to you is it that people are able to deal with difficult feelings without becoming overwhelmed? Randy tells us it is important when people get overwhelmed, they either fight, go into flight or get paralyzed and freeze. Our emotions are telling us to recalibrate, when to course correct, and when to take a break. The idea of crushing it, killing it and dominating leaves no room for self-awareness and self- care—it’s antiquated—people may rally in the short run, but we’re seeing more anxiety burnout depression and suicide and a declining life expectancy rate than any society before us. With self-compassion, people are more resilient, more productive and simply have better lives.

Randy tells us that literary success to her means giving people proven tools to take charge of their emotions and their lives. Her dream is that this book reaches people everywhere, especially people who need a little boost and it will not only shift their lives but the lives of those around them. The message is clear; pure grit is not enough. With self-compassion, people are more resilient, more productive and simply have better lives.

Sheryl thanks Randy Taran, author of Emotional Advantage for providing a powerful way to discover how useful emotions can be in guiding us towards a healthy and productive life.

In summarizing today’s episode we have come to see all our emotions as necessary and useful for helping us be aware of who we are and what we truly need to live our best lives resonating with love and connecting to our inner intuitive wisdom for being at peace. We have discovered that we often have hidden our feelings and may have experienced guilt or regret and may find that those times were the pathway to becoming more aware and aligned to life. We have also discovered how we have the personal power to grow beyond the negative emotions and conquer fear and limitations to make choices that ultimately bring us to a higher state of knowing and loving this challenging physical life experience.

As Randy wrote, in this journey of demystifying our emotions we have learned that there is a reason for every emotion to exist. Each plays a role in guiding us back to our true nature. The world preaches separation, lack, competition and conflict. We are born in wholeness, innate peace, and full awareness. We can choose to believe we are not enough, or we can cut through the illusion to connect to the fullness of who we truly are. Each person has the capacity –no exceptions.”

Randy and Sheryl would encourage you to simply feel more deeply as in this time in a spiritual evolution there is much trauma and drama being created and we can grow more aware of the gift of life and Spirit if we embrace our feelings and find the opportunity for personal growth in all that we must experience to finally realize we are spiritual beings having a physical life and all is well.

Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within and author of a trilogy with the newest book A New Life Awaits invites you to visit her website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the visionaries and leaders in the metaphysical scientific spiritual religious medical and psychology arts and music fields of creative energy to assist in the personal and collective evolution of humanity. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisions7radio.com.

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Welcome to Healing From Within with your host Sheryl Glick RMT Reiki Master Energy Teacher medium and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and spiritual messages that show us our challenges are not and economic political or societal but a disconnection from our inner soul wisdom. I am delighted to welcome Forrest Rivers, author of Covid 19 Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening which shows us that there is good to come out of the pandemic’s tragic and chaotic nature and that Unity and Compassion are on the rise as a result of what the world has lived through.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate insightful stories of finding out more about our dual nature as both physical and energetic beings who when they merge the wisdom of their intuition and connection to Spiritual or Universal Energy with ego based mind decisions are better equipped to create the best version of themselves and offer through this awareness of higher consciousness more to their families and communities. We explore life both in the physical realm and beyond, becoming aware of the eternal nature of life and the interconnection to “All that is.”

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Forrest Rivers an author and inspirational speaker shows us that though Covid 19 has been a harbinger of mass chaos and unspeakable tragedy for many people if we are able to still our minds and quiet our fears we can start to see a different narrative emerging: one of hope personal empowerment and spiritual awakening.

When asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place event that may have signaled to him what lifestyle interests and work he might pursue as an adult Forrest immediately tells us that when his Grandfather who was Greek was in the hospital and sleeping Forrest felt the need to place his hands on him and ask for his grandfather to be healed. Perhaps his spiritual quest or need to serve and help others was a strong part of his life plan and destiny.

Forrest goes on to tell us of a more powerful spiritual awakening that he was now able to understand beginning at the age of 30 while on an awe-inspiring trip to Maui Hawaii where the enchanted island and the profound healing power of the Earth spoke through to his heart and helped him overcome a difficult period of alcohol abuse. After the transformative experience Forrest became interested in the spiritual traditions of the Far East and began to immerse himself in the teachings of Buddhist Hindu and Taoist mystics and took the pen name Forrest Rivers in honor of the Earth and her profound healing power. In the future Forrest hopes to start a wilderness retreat center that focuses on the spirit of service and inner work.

This story reminds Sheryl of an author Dr. Vernon Sylvest, founder of the Institute of Higher Healing and Healing Waters and author of The End of Fear; The Path to Freedom who had such a place in the mountains of Charlottesville North Carolina before his passing. Sheryl took two planes including one smaller plane that bounced in the air over the mountains before reaching the hidden mountain lodge and once there Sheryl enjoyed the simple mountain air while learning about nutrition, quiet walks on mountain trails, yoga with a master teacher and experiencing Healing Touch which is slightly different than the Reiki energy healing Sheryl .practices.

Forrest began to write this book Covid 19 and Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening when the outbreak began Forrest like Sheryl thought how bad can this virus really be? It was apparently worse than we imagined and then again it was handled politically before a presidential election to score points against President Trump who had to work with the many ramifications of a plague never before experienced by the world. Hospitalization and fatality rates reached alarming levels, businesses were forced to shut down and record numbers of people filed for unemployment benefits. Meanwhile shoppers fearing a breakdown in the national food supply resorted to panic shopping. The economy went into a complete free fall as American state governments tightened shutdown orders to suppress the outbreak. THEN the murder of George Floyd an unarmed black man was the catalyst to tip the scales of justice as this horrific event coincided with the peak of the first surge of Covid-19 setting off a wave of destruction and violent protests in most major US cities. Together it seemed like the apocalypse had arrived.

Forrest remembered the words of the wise and late spiritual teacher Ram Dass who wrote, “Suffering is the sandpaper that awakens people.” Some myself included might go as far as to say that this pandemic appeared in part to awaken us from our collective delirium of mindless conformity and separation so we might remember the values of love innocence and beauty of our childhood and return to values that nurture the soul as well as the physical body

Forrest might like to convey the thought that we have a choice how we respond to the challenges of Covid 19 and other problems facing our world now. Either that these unsettling times can make us feel more divided alone and afraid or they can empower us to look within, and realize our common ties with all of humanity. Never, have we been so united in our mutual experience of suffering. And at no other time have we all been deeply called upon to transcend all that separates us. Amid all the fearful media coverage and chaos surrounding the pandemic lies a truth now revealing itself. That something is the greater need for unity and compassion. For the first time possibly since World War 11 the whole of humanity has been forced to confront the painful truth that a collective mindset of ignorance, intolerance, hatred and greed only winds up producing negative consequences for us all. Covid-19 has had the effect of exposing long standing societal injustices that have left many questioning the values guiding humanity. In America the crisis has made it clear that the needs of living and breathing people should come before the pursuit of profit for a wealthy and connected few.

Many Hindus have long believed that the Cosmos moves in a perpetual cycle between the dark ages those defined by (ego discord and contention) and ages of enlightenment in which awareness of our divine nature prevails. We may be in the opening stages of a planetary shift in consciousness from such a dark age to one of enlightenment. The Hindus believe we are still in the dark age they call Kali Yuga.

Sheryl tells of becoming ill with the Covid Plague as she likes to call it at the end of March 2020 with what she thought was her yearly bout of bronchitis. As she watched on television and saw more symptoms being revealed she realized that this was different from past infections. Her neck swelled, her throat was so sore and her ears hurt and she simply had no energy to get out of the chair. Something was very different. Then her chest hurt and breathing was difficult and she practiced expanding it to get some relief. AS she sat there meditating, she did self- healing Reiki as Sheryl is a Reiki Master Energy Healer and asked Spirit why as a healer she was experiencing this toxic illness. After recovering and returning to hosting this radio show Healing From Within, Sheryl had a guest who told her she had been unable to help Covid patients with Distant Healing as the energy was so strong in the chest in most people infected, that it was too hard to stay with the connection. After she herself had Covid, it seemed that resistance to the worst of the symptoms was achieved, and she was able to help many others after she had conquered the disease as well. There was as there always is, a reason for everything that occurs. Life is not random and the experiences we are having are part of our life plan or destiny. and leaning into challenges, instead of resisting, helps to handle any issue more effectively with better results.

Forrest observes that the hallmark of any spiritual awakening is to confront fears of death. This is important for it allows us to live our lives with a greater sense of freedom and equanimity. Many seekers of eastern faiths believe that making peace with the inevitability of our death is among the highest spiritual practices we can pursue. When we transcend our fear we unlock a gate to live more fully in the present moment so we can follow our Dharma, our cosmic destiny and all of humanity benefits. Covid 19 has provided us with a unique change to engage in such spirited reflection on our mortality. And to serve as a dramatic reminder that one day, sooner or later we are all going to die

For many like the story Forrest tells of his soul brother Alex, this pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse has only confirmed that we all need to return to a simpler more loving life, perhaps live a job or a toxic relationship and follow a dream that we may have not thought about in a while.

It is fully within our power to shift the negative aspects of Covid from one of fear and hopelessness to that of seeing this moment as a rare opportunity to follow our true life path and dreams through the grace of suffering. Flip the dial of pessimism to hope and everyone in your circle of life will be miraculously illuminated to a higher plane of consciousness.

People embrace suffering in a positive way. In the earliest days of the pandemic many recall experiencing a string of negative emotions that have been shared by people around the world. Shutdowns began in the United States and we all had initial feelings of anxiety, fear and paranoia. Seeing people with masks and social distancing separated people from their normal need to be close to those they love and interact with joy, smiles and laughter.

Sheryl says that driving through her town to get supplies and seeing the streets empty and many stores closed made her cry. It was like Death Valley and watching the news, seeing people intubated and dying, and seeing how little was known about this deadly virus while so called specialists make flip flop decisions did not inspire confidence in our institutions. Would rather have heard the truth. We simply don’t know what we are dealing with yet. Forest writes a telling poem aimed at uplifting himself and shoring up his feelings of doubt and being unable to perhaps measure up during these unprecedented times. It is called A Ballard Of Hope Amid a Time of Crisis and he writes,

The year was 2020
The world was plagued by a pandemic that inflicted
mass casualties across the land
Countless millions watched in horror
As loved ones fell victim to the virus
Many more struggled to find work and food
As the world’s economy
Suffered a catastrophic collapse….
Meanwhile corrupt and greedy politicians
Stood callously by
As the number of homeless multiplied and starved around them.
With little assistance coming from their maniacal rulers
Some people resorted to looting and organized crime to meet their basic needs…
But set against this backdrop of death fear and deprivation
A movement of higher consciousness was well underway
Driven into isolation to control the deadly virus
Citizens of the world came to have gratitude
For all the little things they had taken for granted
Smiles from passing strangers
Sentimental hugs
Uplifting time spent with dear friends and family
And the sweet joys of live song and dance
Were all things sorely missed and remembered
The poem goes on in all its lovely soulful beauty and truth on page 50 of his book. .
Forrest mentions Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr who once said,
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

In the early days of the Covid outbreak it appeared that Ram Dass’s words may have been coming to fruition. The wars between nations seemed to no longer matter as the deadly virus became the common enemy throughout the world. For a hopeful moment it appeared like division along the lines of class, race, religion and politics would dissolve overnight. For the first time in many people’s lives the attainment and realization of many spiritual truths and of a higher consciousness was a real possibility. Call it this mystical energy that connects all things to God or the One or the Great Mystery. By whatever name you call it all that matters is the knowledge that such a state of connectedness for humanity to achieve is possible. As we met this crisis with universal compassion and the ranks of volunteers grew to serve food at food banks and younger people came to the aid of their elderly neighbor’s shelter was given to the homeless and many began to honor overlooked essential workers like grocery clerks and food delivery drivers as well as medical and hospital workers. While other circumstances like the unarmed man in Minneapolis Minnesota was killed and protests against the shutdowns and destruction of small businesses, still much has shifted in the thinking and actions of many, and hopefully, much good will in time come out of this plague that perhaps the Universe needed man to experience.

If the Earth could speak to us as all our beloved guardians or messengers like Jesus and Buddha, they have shared these three things in common beyond space and time:

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1. A deep and lived inborn belief that the earth is sacred and is the supreme source of all revelatory wisdom.
2. Established lifestyles in which humans take only the bare minimum of resources they need from me to survive
3. A long and hallowed commitment to defend Earth from the onslaughts of society’s plunderers.

At this moment and as a result of the Covid plague you desperately need the wisdom of the indigenous peoples but you have destroyed the very foundation of their cultures. Time to look back in history and ourselves to remember the truth of our soul being and begin again to restore life, health and well being to its original state.

Forrest goes on to share how the practice of meditation positively impacted his life. Forrest suggests anxiety especially now during a pandemic can be channeled to promote lasting and meaningful spiritual growth. These times are perfect for us to establish a daily meditation practice through stilling our minds, opening our hearts and surrendering to the present moment. Two of the primary purposes of meditation is to learn to let go and to recognize one’s relationship with all things. Metta practice roughly translates to benevolence and Loving Kindness and comes to us from the Buddhist tradition. The purpose of this practice is to focus on cultivating and sending feelings of goodwill to all sentient beings. Through the ages, it has been said by more than a few sages that meditation is the highest form of prayer because it breaks down the separation between the external world and our vast inner world. Remarkably, too, it could also heal the whole world in a time when we are in desperate need of healing.

Scientific researchers found convincing evidence of a direct link between the practice of mass metta (loving kindness) circles, and lower incidences of war. If metta practice can bring peace to war-torn people imagine what it could accomplish in alleviating all suffering related to Covid-19.

Forrest suggests overcoming our fear of death which is so important for spiritual growth. Eastern and Native American influences are important in overcoming this fear and recognizing our true essence as spiritual beings having a physical life

This pandemic has shown us that as we draw closer to death there are two paths to follow. The first is the heavily conditioned road of denying the inevitable passing of our physical bodies and blindly grasping the fleeting nature of the physical world. But this choice will only wind up creating more needless suffering. Just as the Buddha taught, we cannot hold on to any physical forms including our bodies.

Fortunately, the presence of Covid-19 has helped people realize there is a second path. We have the choice to embrace our death by surrendering to the wondrous passage of form back to the “Formless” the “Void”, or the “One”. Instead of running from death’s shadow, we have the power to meet it at its doorstep, with our hearts fully open to what IS and will soon become. Death does not have to be a painful frightening experience. We can use this transition for our healing and personal growth.

Covid has shown us there is no better way to overcome our fear of Death than through formal spiritual practices like work with the dying and meditation. Stephen Levine, a spiritual teacher spent countless hours working with people who as the Hindus say were close to dropping their bodies“. His experience led him to write a book titled, “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It were Your Last.”

Sheryl agrees with Baba Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now who was a friend of Levine and also spent considerable time working with the Living/Dying Project. Ram Dass credited his many decades of work with the dying as the deepest spiritual work that he had ever done on himself. He was fond of teaching that if you can learn to keep your heart open in hell, through embracing the painful emotions that watching another die engenders, then the opportunity to transcend your fears becomes possible. Once the heart breaks, you can fall back into the wisdom of your deathless self. (Your Eternal Soul Being)

Many years from now when we look back on Covid-19 do you think society will see it as a turning point for humanity’s evolution? Forrest and Sheryl believe it will be seen as a turning point in humanity’s evolution where many people had the chance to reflect on the meaning of freedom both in the United States and other nations and an opportunity to return to the values of loving Self and others protecting our environment reasonably and not fanatically and moving beyond the materialist world we have manifested which is affecting our health and human dignity to learn to cooperate share and values our natural resources and protect those in need. Many came to see freedom as the right to work and operate one’s own business without the undue interference by the government.

For others freedom meant the right to make one’s own personal decisions as it related to public health. Still others thought freedom to be seen as the right to be protected from the threats by others which they saw as irresponsible decisions. (Some shoppers insist on not wearing masks in crowded public places but that began after people had vaccines and should have been able to discard masks giving unvaccinated people a chance to wear masks for their own protection.)

Thankfully like the mystics, in these times more people are beginning to comprehend that true freedom springs from an awareness that we are all connected. Indeed, we have the power to shift our perspectives of freedom from what is good for me, to what is also good for all of us. In the end nothing is good or bad, just experience which allows us to refine our thinking and actions and rise above human nature to find divine connections and greater love.

What might be said to those who don’t believe that Covid -19 is real? Forrest writes “When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2020 marking the start of a new decade no one knew then as everyone well knows now, the Coronavirus (Covid-19) began its silent march across the world infecting and claiming the lives of many people. From the very beginning, it was resoundingly clear that this pandemic would drastically alter the course of humanity for the foreseeable future. Phrases and practices like social distancing, essential and non-essential workers, flattening the curve, stay at home orders, the mass wearing of face coverings in public places and curbside food and retail pick up came to form a new Covid-19 consciousness.

The far reach of the virus into every facet of our lives also forced us to confront our deepest existential anxieties and fears. For example, the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions had to quickly come to terms with the fact that they could succumb to the virus at any moment. And millions of workers laid off from their jobs because of the shut downs of businesses had to navigate the waters of extreme financial hardship. For medical professionals on the frontlines, death and dying in the age of Covid has become a highly tragic yet valuable reminder of the impermanent nature of life. And seekers on the path of higher consciousness have discovered an important opportunity to work with suffering. In essence, Covid -19 has the great potential to spiritually awaken all of humanity.

Sheryl says, “So Covid is real and will probably be around forever like colds flu Autoimmune disease cancer etc. We do our best to keep our immune system healthy by getting plenty of rest, reducing stress as much as we can, eating a healthy diet, drinking lots of water and not continuously focusing on this disease or any other. Our thoughts create our reality so thinking you are in a fit and healthy body each day helps to make that a reality. Discard negative thoughts as much as possible. Be hopeful as much as possible. Follow your own inner guidance system and intuition as much as possible and accept life as it unfolds without judgment or fear simply as experiences all humans have at one time or another in the physical world of change.”

Forrest tells us his message to all those looking for some kind of meaning within this period of mass suffering is In the end becoming self-sufficient in action requires that we first become it in thought. To this point G.I. Gurdjieff, the Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher said the following:

“If you wish to get out of prison the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.”

If we continue to think we need the mass corporate machine to feed and supply us with our life necessities, then we will remain locked in our own prison of dependency believing we are free. The same idea applies to our relationship with our governments. The more we think we need their financial assistance the more reliant we will be on manipulative rulers who want us to remain dependent.

Sheryl says that at no time has this statement been more evident in what is happening in America. I speak with young people who are so afraid they can find a job to support themselves buy homes have families that they must survive with socialism free college healthcare and other holds that the present administration is offering, that they are willing to give up the Constitution and be a conquered nation: a nation led by those who have little regard for empowering humanity, but, more need to control and undermine freedom.

Sheryl believes this ideology needs to release its grip on our nation and writes in her new book A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening the following, “The American people are ardently demanding changes to present corrupt, political, elitist, ruling-class practices that do not allow simple, kind, good values to be honored. As we question what we want in life and what is truly a just criteria for success, we are discovering that people embroiled in only a materialistic approach to life—either forgetting or never having considered their equally important spiritual needs for love, for compassion, to be of service to others, and to be free from greed— have become disconnected and dissatisfied. The quote by Shakespeare’s Polonius, “[t]o thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/Thou cannot then be false to any man,” is still a rightful way to approach and remember our deepest personal needs as well as the reason we incarnated into this life. I have observed people who are not only happy and fulfilled, but often courageous and dynamic and bold leaders much needed in today’s world of conflict and confusion. Their general mindset reflects virtues including empathy, the acceptance of others with genuine regard for their differences, and respect for what we all can contribute to the world. In other words, these successful people are the antithesis to the competitive, unrelenting, and controlling drives of many of our politicians, corporate leaders, educators, and media who display a dog-eat-dog mentality.”

We thank Forrest Rivers author of Covid 19 and Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening for providing a way for those to see Covid-19 realistically, as the complicated disease and international disruption of society and financial well being, but. also as a means to spiritually grow and evolve in order to know ourselves as the duality of a physical and energetic essence, or body and spirit which has unlimited potential to create out of the dust of time and universes healing grace and love.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have taken a two sided view of the recent Covid -19 worldwide plague to see how while it has been like something out of the Twilight Zone in strangeness and negative effects, it also offers a way for humanity to unify and remember who they are as spiritual beings having a physical life with the capacity to make choices, and renew the best values of love prosperity hope healing and kindness which must never be lost, no matter how difficult times are.

We have seen how combining a terrifying health crisis with a catastrophic economic collapse is the recipe for social conflict. The world which has been sadly divided by identity politics, religion, social class, geographic location culture and race, as well as liberal vs. conservatives, religious fundamentalists vs atheists, rich vs. poor, urban dwellers vs. rural farmers, and the white race vs all other groups must allow accept and surrender to peoples’ individual rights to follow their own destinies.

Two groups quickly emerged in response to the pandemic. On one “side” were those who thought the virus represented a grave existential threat and ascribed to the belief that governments should take control and do everything to protect citizens from the disease even if it meant resigning countless millions to grinding poverty through mandated lockdowns

On the other “side” were those who believed that Covid-19 was deliberately overblown by media outlets and governments who had a financial incentive to engineer a climate of fear and serve a political agenda. Individuals with this belief felt lockdowns and mask now vaccine mandates were a breach of Federal and local government power and should have been avoided. Though many died as we had little understanding of the virus at the beginning, we now have many therapeutic vaccines and most people are surviving the disease which is not nearly as deadly as originally projected.

Both views came from the different problems people in urban or rural areas faced. Regardless of our political opinions on Covid-19 collectively, we are all having to cope with its fall out. And must find common ground past our ego conditioning that sees things in terms of black and white. Now we have an opportunity to move to “radical love.

What is clear is that both anger and frustration have boiled over among large sections of the population. We find there are many acts of radical love that we can engage in at this very moment to relieve suffering and hardship. Some examples include: feeding the hungry, providing clothing for the poor, caring for the sick, attending to those who have lost a love one due to Covid-19, uplifting elderly neighbors who may continue to live in extreme conditions of social isolation. In the end Covid represents a rare opportunity to undergo a paradigm shift in consciousness from being focused on self-serving ends to one grounded in the spirit of service and loving -kindness.

Forrest and Sheryl will have you know that faith, not belief, is the key to bring us to peace and oneness. Belief is found in thoughts, while faith is within the soul and simply knows what is right. Belief is fragile, and faith helps conquer fear through intuition and inner surrender. We must give up our attachment to extreme belief, let go, and allow God or a view of Universal Divine Source to lead us to find purpose and healing beyond this pandemic. Trust the plan for yourself and the world. There is a way forward!

Your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Energy Teacher and author of a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and spiritual messages that show us our challenges are not economic political or societal but a disconnect from our alignment to our true nature of inner soul wisdom and eternal source welcomes you to visit her website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the metaphysical scientific spiritual educational medical and arts and music fields explore the duality of life and ways to go beyond human limitations. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisions7radio.com

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Welcome to Healing From Within with Sheryl Glick your host Reiki Energy Master Teacher and author of her newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Share Global Awakening which share stories and messages from Spirit to let us know our challenges are not merely economic political societal just a spiritual disconnect from our inner soul wisdom and life force. Today we welcome Dr. Allen Lycka author of The Secrets of Living A Fantastic Life: The 13 Golden Pearl Within who with co-author Harriet Tinka share harrowing and traumatic escapes from death…his from a misdiagnosis of what he was told was a terminal illness and she from a nearly fatal kidnapping and beating by a stalker.

As listeners of “Healing From Within ” are well aware, Sheryl and her accomplished guests share intimate and insightful looks at personal events so we may remember once again our true essence as spiritual beings or souls having a physical life often to refine our emotions, expand love and compassion and improve relationships. Our dual nature must be understood and appreciated so we can merge the best of both worlds to create lives of health happiness prosperity both personally and collectively. In exploring mystical and synchronistic events many sensitive people discover life is much more than our physical body and our attachment to the physical world and in opening up to intuition and inner soul guidance, often find help to make better choices and decisions leading to a more productive life.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Dr. Allen Lycka who is best known as one of the leading cosmetic dermatologists in the world is now acknowledged as a leading expert in Living A Fantastic Life as a transformational speaker and thought leader coach. Both he and co-author Harriet Tinka suffered near death experiences and sought renewal through the wisdom of human virtues that focused them on a life of richness, appreciation, joy and service.

Allen tells us a little about himself and how he felt when the doctor said, “You have six months to live so you’d better get your affairs in order.”

In February 2003 Dr. Allen Lycka was walking with his wife and youngest daughter at the Happiest Place on Earth when his wife noticed his foot was flapping. In the prime of life, considered one of Canada’s leading cosmetic dermatologists, he was perplexed by this sudden development in his right foot. After a range of tests by dozens of doctors one leading neurologist delivered the devastating news that he had ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Looking for another diagnosis he found a doctor who discovered he had Lyme disease and was treated successfully for that condition. Since that trying experience Allen has delved into the miraculous joys and mysteries of life hoping to share his story and discoveries with others, so they might live with greater hope, self-awareness and joy.

Sheryl says that many people have what they call “The Darkness of the Soul,” an episode of profound trauma and disbelief where they must make a complete turnabout of their beliefs, and often find what it was they were really born to experience. Out of the ashes often as a result when there is a feeling within that something is missing or not right, the soul creates a scenario such as a loss or health challenge so a person can rediscover themselves.

Dr. Lycka tells us how he met Harriet Tinka an award ceremony honoring Women of Distinction and bonded by their shared traumas and their renewed appreciation for the value of life and service decided they wanted to give others the secret to the Secrets or 13 essential human elements from the grains of near catastrophe and transformed into Golden Pearls of Wisdom.

Both authors used their extreme life threatening events as a turning point in their life. As a “turning point expert” Harriet Tinker is a perfect example of someone finding a need in the community and filling it. Despite dealing with obstacles in her life ,she has found success as the founder and CEO of Social Enterprise, a company whose mission is to inspire and empower girls and women. Though stabbed, kidnapped and left for dead she turned that horrifying experience into motivation. She has inspired and given hope to women who are faced with domestic violence She is known by her students as a “Powerhouse Role Model” who makes being genuine the most powerful thing of all. And she was a former runway and magazine model.

“It’s not what happens… It’s what you do with what happens.” – Epictetus, about 2,000 years ago. Two lives changed, irreversibly, in an instant, by devastating events…but rather than be destroyed, these two individuals Dr. Lycka and Harriet Tinka faced the ensuing challenges, embracing them as turning points. Seizing the second chances before them with both hands, they chose the path to “Living a Fantastic Life.” In doing so, they discovered “13 Golden Pearls” to guide them…which they are eager to now share with you – to inspire you for your own journey

Sheryl says that indeed “Attitude” is everything and in every Reiki 1 class she has taught, reads to the group a poem By Charles Swindell “Attitude” that says exactly that…. 10 percent of every challenge is what happens to us and 90 percent is our attitude or way of handling it that allows for success and personal growth. It is not the events of the outside world, but the wisdom within us, that finds ways to work with all challenges. Since there is no failure only experience, by accepting rather than resisting, you can utilize the experience without judging it as good or bad, and create something good from it.

Are you a victim? Have you been overtaken by a victim mentality? Bruce Lipton said, “Victim consciousness robs us of our creative ability.” : “It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens.” Taking on this mindset may be challenging at first, but once you do, life will be enormously different. Everything will change – for the better. Epictetus, an ancient Greek, realized this about 2,000 years ago. Both Harriet Tinka, my co-author, and Dr. Lycka have lived through immense adversity. And by doing so, we came out better and stronger than we were before. We learned and lived the philosophy taught by Epictetus.

Let’s talk about those Golden Pearls and which ones became apparent to you earliest based on your personal experience.

The 13 Golden Pearls are:

#1: Love
#2: Inspiration
#3: Victory
#4: Vulnerability
#5: Intention (purpose)
#6: Non-negotiables
#7: Forgiveness
#8: Attitude
#9: Thankfulness
#10: Tenacity
#11: Laughter
#12: Enthusiasm
#13: Empowerment …

Here are just three of the ’13 golden pearls’ they share: empowerment, thankfulness, and forgiveness – three pearls that can enhance any life:

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1. Empowerment, which means feeling good, feeling good about yourself, just living life and letting it go.
2. Thankfulness is about being grateful for everything you have. By being grateful for everything, you change from being self-centered into being a person who is more giving, and you can experience that much more. This changes the world, which changes the focus from you to something better.
3. Forgiveness – the act of forgiving helps the forgiver as much as the one that is forgiven. Holding hate and pain inside yourself is like drinking poison and trying to hurt the other person. Forgiveness is not for the person you’re giving it to but is a gift to yourself. It frees your soul and makes you that much healthier and better.

Dr. Lycka and Harriet Tinka teach that a person can forget everything and run or face everything and rise-up. And write, “I like that. That’s beautiful, very good. That’s a lot of wisdom but encapsulated in humor. Dr. Lycka and Harriet are on a mission because of cataclysmic life changes. I’ve done a lot of studying of people that have had what are called “near-death experiences,” where they’ve been pronounced clinically dead. And then they come back and say, “I went through a tunnel. I saw a being of light, and I had to review my life and look at all the places where I wasn’t loving and kind, and maybe I got some wisdom from these advanced beings in another dimension.”

These guys didn’t have that experience exactly, but they were nearly dead, and Dr. Lycka was diagnosed as going to be dead. They went through their own “tunnels.” It sounds like they’ve come back with a similar shared mindset as a result. They all come back, wanting to be of service. They all come back with a greater sense of love. Those who come back from a near-death experience come back wanting to contribute and have less fear of death. It sounds like these guys have achieved the same thing. It is now their life mission to share and help. I love what these guys are doing, the book is great, and the work they’re doing is important. — Jack Canfield, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Chicken Soup for The Soul.”

Dr. Lyca and Harriet Tinka tell us something about golden pearls and why they created the concept of 13 valuable virtues needed to find that fantastic life we are all born to discover and called them Golden Pearls.

Golden pearls do exist in nature. They are rare, and the deeper the gold color, the rarer they are. The rarest has a deep gold color and is referred to as a 24k golden pearl. They are grown in the gold-lip variety of the Pinctada maxima, South Sea pearl oyster in Indonesia, and the Philippines. Their warm, golden tones are completely natural, and no treatments are needed to enjoy the beauty of these gems. Pearls are a perfect metaphor for transcendence. Do you know how pearls are formed? When a foreign substance slips into the oyster, it irritates the shell and its organ. From that irritation, a tantalizing, mesmerizing, exquisite pearl is formed. We invite you to be the judge of how pearls are the perfect metaphor for the transformations that Harriet and Dr.Lycka have both accomplished.

Sheryl says that she always has coincidences or synchronicity with her intuitive and creative guests and she loved learning about Golden pearls how pearls are created, as her mother, now in Spirit so loved pearls and perhaps knew they were a metaphor for the transformation that can bring a challenging event into a marvelous outcome.

Allen goes on to talk a little about laughter, gratitude and enthusiasm which are all Golden Pearls and writes, “It is true that when your life is near the end, you begin to see things more clearly. You begin to see patterns, things you could never see otherwise. You reach out. So, I began a new journey – a journey to find my true diagnosis. I wasn’t going down without a fight. I did not accept the death sentence of ALS. Doctor Google did not exist in 2003. Going to the internet then was laborious. I searched thousands of sites. Somehow, after months with the Grim Reaper breathing down my neck, I stumbled upon the story of Dr. David Martz, a hematologist in Colorado Springs, Colorado. David had a story similar to mine, but he had deteriorated much more rapidly to being bedridden within months. He was on his deathbed when Dr. William Harvey, a chronic disease specialist, heard of David’s plight and came to see him. Dr. Harvey finally made the correct diagnosis. He started him on antibiotics, and, like Lazarus, David arose from the dead. I was convinced that both David and I had chronic Lyme disease, not ALS. Dr. Martz started a clinic in Colorado called the Rocky Mountain Chronic Disease clinic to help others. When I read about this, I knew I had to see him. Ordering a blood test, he confirmed my diagnosis of Chronic Lyme disease and started me on treatment, which stabilized my disease and is the reason I’m alive 16 years after my supposed demise. I would occasionally run into that neurologist who gave me a terminal illness diagnosis in the elevator of our shared office building after the original diagnosis. I’d quip, “Here I am, it’s a year (or two or three) and I’m not dead yet. Brilliant deduction.”

“Since, my medical history has been up and down. Another physician, Dr. Haines Ely, has often been helpful with thoughts and suggestions. In fact, many were radical, but they preserved my old body and helped me through many, many storms. Haines, sadly, recently passed away. As for me – I’ve been living on borrowed time. Just think – I had been diagnosed with ALS – Lou Gehrig’s disease – a guaranteed death sentence – and now I had a chance to live my life, a more fantastic life. To this day, I vividly remember my journey to find the dedication and compassion of David and the moment of being treated properly – because it was the moment that I emerged from the mental fog that had almost destroyed my life. It was accompanied by a feeling of euphoria, of internal bliss, of internal awakening.

That’s when I realized that I had received a “golden ticket,” a second chance to live more abundantly. And although I had been afflicted, I actually had been blessed. I finally knew God’s plan for me. And that I could help others find solutions for their problems without the hardship or difficulty I had encountered. Or at the very least minimize the time spent in suffering.”

Sheryl says that their book The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life is a charming dialogue between you and Harriet, your chronicle of triumph over adversities, parables and stories along with inspirational quotes. What led you to this interesting mix of content?

Dr. Lycka answers, “Because adversity poisons some and strengthens others, we would like you to accompany us on our journey. Heat tempers steel, making it stronger. Harriet and I have both been tempered, learned how to take hold of our second chances and would like to share our experiences. We share this all in the dialogue we had as we wrote this book – the conversation of two close friends. And we’ve become so close that we finish each other’s sentences. Scary, right?”

Harriet tells us after her kidnapping and brutal assault by a stalker that she met Amber, a child who lost her parents in a car accident and was crippled and in a wheelchair, and finding this young girl suggested what purpose Harriet’s life could now take. The trauma taught Harriet that one cannot expect a perfect life, but must appreciate moments of beauty interspersed among tragedy. She has deliberately released any bitterness, anger, and sadness that her attacker physically and emotionally had caused her. The hardships made her stronger. Harriet got a second chance, a new beginning and now uses her experiences to help others. They can learn from my experiences without having to go through what Harriet went through. By accepting herself, she can now own her story. Harriet describes her life journey as moving from tragic to magic. I found my purpose. Now I live a fantastic life.

Moral of the story “You always gain by giving love.” – Reese Witherspoon

Harriet: That’s profound. But what makes you a love expert?

Dr. Lycka: Oh you – nothing in particular – just living. This is one of my favorite love stories. It reminds me that love is very complex. Did you know that according to the ancient Greeks, there are seven types of love?

Harriet: No way!!!

Dr. Lycka: Love, according to the ancient Greeks, was divided into seven types:

1. Eros – named after the Greek god of love and fertility romantic love
2. Philia – Affectionate Brotherly love
3. Storge – Familiar love
4. Mania – Obsessive love
5. Pragma – Enduring love
6. Philautia – Self-love
7. Agape – Selfless Love

Harriet: Wow – that’s a lot to digest. It’s all Greek to me.

Dr. Lycka: Haha. Yes, it is very hard to comprehend at first glance. But let’s talk a little about each one, and I promise it will get easier.

Harriet: Great; I would love to know more. Dr. Lycka: The ancient Greeks would have been upset by our use of one word to state, “I love you” and the same word to nonchalantly sign a letter with “lots of love.” That wouldn’t make sense to them. The types of love were and are distinct entities. So, let’s talk about Eros, the first type of love they acknowledge. Eros was named after the Greek god of fertility, and it signified sexual love. Maybe in today’s language, it means “love-making.” But the Greeks didn’t always think of it as something positive because Eros involved losing control, and that frightened them. To them, it was wild and crazy love. Harriet: That is odd because losing control is precisely what many people now seek in a relationship. Don’t we all hope to fall ‘madly’ in love? Love is irrational, out of control and that’s viewed as bad in love. I was the victim of that mania when obsession took over. He was ‘out of control’. His love was a form of madness like Cupid’s arrows. I was oblivious to his intentions until his obsession forced me to open my eyes to a love that threatened my life.

Dr. Lycka: I know. True love means a lot of sharing and caring. But Eros is really about irrational or ‘passionate love’. In your situation, your tormentor lost it.

That’s why the Greeks valued brothers in arms who fought side by side on the battlefield. It was about showing loyalty to friends, sacrificing for them, and sharing their emotions with them. It involves love for fellow humans as well as care, respect, and compassion for people in need. They go on to discuss the other types of love and this is the form of dialogue that shares insights into their own thoughts, actions reactions and experiences …Sheryl says it is quite charming and easy to read these conversations between Allen and Harriet for most people.

Both Allen and Harriet have left one career and are now firmly engaged in another and that is how destiny and each life plan unfold. Sheryl says we are all born with a life plan and destiny, and most of the people’s relationships and work experiences are written into that plan. In Sheryl’s case she has been fortunate enough to have many interactions with people, places and events that have allowed her to grow and refine her own soul energy and to serve and share love and joy into all the experiences. Sheryl has had multiple careers and life experiences as a teacher, business woman, wife, mother, grandmother author, radio show host, intuitive Reiki Master Energy Teacher and medium who downloads messages to help people connect to their own soul journeys. But most importantly, Sheryl has adhered to the goals of Self and Spirit, to serve, and to love life at the same time. In her last book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Sheryl wrote, “In reading A New Life Awaits, I know you will discover much synchronicity with your own daily observations and find comfort in validating many of your dearest wishes to live life in an expansive and bolder approach, creating new perspectives, new thoughts, taking you in the direction that your soul and heart were born to experience. Unencumbered by the rules and limitations of societal or family systems that may have temporarily made you forget the amazing, loving, magnificent entity that you are that was born to walk in delight on our beautiful earth landscape and in spiritual light, you will find that a new life awaits you, and know you do not walk alone.

When asked what Dr. Allen Lycka would most like readers to take away with them after reading The Secrets To Living A Fantastic Life Dr. Lycka goes on to say, “ As a doctor, I have also found some people literally cannot love, and it’s often because some experience of needing love was missing or some other childhood experience such as bullying.

Harriet: Great minds think alike. I work with a group of young women in an organization I established, called “Empowered Me.” Some of the students who participate in the program have a strong emotional need caused by childhood deprivation and are incapable of loving. Most have issues with their parents/caregivers. If the parents raise children in a loving environment, the impact has an ongoing positive effect on the child. If not, the child often suffers from emotional hunger and confuses other things for love. They try to find ways to fill in that void or emptiness and often repeat the unloving experiences that started it all.

Dr. Lycka: How do you teach them to love? Harriet: No, this is an art, not a science. The first step is forgiveness. Holding onto hate is like trying to harm someone by drinking the poison yourself. Later in this book, we will talk about this some more.

Dr. Lycka: That’s profound. It does, however, bring up another question. I’m sure many of our readers would like to learn how they can love more deeply.

Love is one of the few things that increase in value when you give it away. You increase and intensify love by giving more. And the love must be unconditional. But it must be reciprocated from the person you are giving it to. Otherwise, unrequited love only leads to an empty relationship.

I want to thank you Dr Allen Lycka and co-author Harriet Tinka authors of The Secrets to Living A Fantastic Life for sharing your life altering challenges that led to greater awareness of the Golden Pearl that sustain and support our best lives ultimately connecting to our soul or spiritual core and make us both whole and holistic. To Read more about lives of empowerment and total oneness go to www.fantasticlifebook.com

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have discovered how life altering challenges can lead us to the virtues or golden pearls that enhance and empower life and aid us in recognizing what is really valuable and sustainable in our emotional inner landscape, and that is indeed, compassion and love, and the desire to share, reach out, and serve others with the blessings of kindness, goodness and joy, within us, so life can be lived with distinction and respect for all conditions, both of the physical and spiritual realms.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”– Tony Robbins

Dr. Lycka goes on to write, “ Inspire. This word can be traced back to the Latin inspirare (“to breathe or blow into”), which itself is from the word spirare, meaning ‘to breathe’. The earliest English uses of inspire give it the meaning “to influence, move, or guide (as to speech or action) through a divine or supernatural agency or power.” Harriet asks him What inspires you, Dr. Lycka?

“I look for people who have achieved great things and overcome adversity. Some of these are immortalized in movies. One of my all-time favorites is Chariots of Fire. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics, Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. It’s the story of a group of athletes who overcome tremendous odds to win the Olympics. Another movie I love is The Darkest Hour. Set in May 1940, it is about the early days of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Nazi Germany’s army began a blitzkrieg across Western Europe and threatened the UK. The German advance led to infighting throughout the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Hitler, and Churchill, who refused. It’s the story of perseverance and the ability to persist undefeated in the face of adversity.”

Allen Harriet and Sheryl would have you remember perhaps what one of their favorite Maya Angelou quotes is: “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within invites you to visit her website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to authors changemakers and visionaries as they explore the world of metaphysics science spirituality medicine education and the arts and music to discover more about our human and divine components of energy and higher consciousness so we may merge the dimensions and realities of life on earth and beyond. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisions7radio.com

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Welcome to Healing from Within. I am your host Sheryl Glick a Reiki Master Energy Teacher medium and author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shows through many shared stories and interactions with others, that it is not political social religious or economic challenges undermining our potential for happiness health and prosperity, but our failure to know ourselves as spiritual beings having a physical life and to recognize our inner capacity or soul nature and intuition to guide us to make right and purposeful choices. I am delighted to welcome Tanya Zabinski, the author of Peace Love and Action who is using her many talents to share messages of hope and love to expand hearts, minds and spirit for greater compassion and good will.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate experiences and views of the metaphysical aspects of life and date as we explore the duality of our physical life and interactions with spiritual awareness and higher consciousness learning we are more than our body and Consciousness survives physical death. For those who truly know this fact they are free to explore and create their life journey in its infinite potential for finding happiness, peace and love.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Tanya Zabinsi shares in her book Peace Love Action a very thoughtful artistic vision of visionaries and leaders in the biographies and messages of truly inspiring people from A to Z. So we have stories of 26 peacemakers and change makers and their messages that have been chosen to be highlighted. Tanya Zabinski will share her most basic definition of a peaceful activist who is someone who works to choose love over fear, just as Dr. King did. We can direct love toward ourselves, toward our family and friends, and toward many people and situations. Being a peaceful activist doesn’t mean we need to love the actions of an oppressor, but if we strive to see points of light within even the most harmful person or circumstance, act out of love and not fear we will create a loving healthy lifestyle changing ourselves for the better and shining love and compassion into the world. Today we will hear stories of many people who have found peace through expressing their most divine thoughts into action.

When Tanya is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person place event that may have shown her or others in her life the work or lifestyle she would create as an adult she tells us that as a child, she thought that to be a helpful force in the world, she’d need to wait until she was older. She imagined joining the Peace Corps and helping people in far-off lands. But what if we see peace not as something we need to wait to practice until we’re older? What if we can practice it right now? Even as an adult, I often feel like my capacity for personal action is in short supply when just keeping up with the daily grind can be more than enough to manage. Can we see peace ”not” as something we attend to after our daily grind, but something we do right in the middle of it? What if we can give attention to what’s going on inwardly and work to develop peace of mind, so that, like a smile, it naturally spills outward?

IN THIS BOOK, you will encounter many stories of extraordinary people. Some may be familiar and others may be new to you. To this inspiring collection I would like to add one more story: of the author herself, my friend Tanya. Tanya and I have been traveling on parallel paths for thirty years now. When we first met in a painting class at Buffalo State College, I was all of eighteen, and she was twenty-five. We decided to become housemates and moved in with another budding artist, Laylah Ali. Our mailbox, with its trifecta of ethnic names, read like a microcosm of Buffalo itself. I don’t know if there was something special in the water in that little apartment, but each of us went on to create independent and self-directed careers making socially conscious art. Tanya’s positive, simple art works have manifested in the world in a myriad of ways, from the prints and paintings that hang all over my house, to the murals that brighten various public spaces in our hometown, to the hand-printed shirts that walk the globe transmitting her inspired imagery. She, like any artist, has had to be very creative not just in the making of her art, but also in devising ways to turn that art into a livelihood. What is most extraordinary is the degree of attention and intention she applies to that process. She triangulates her creativity with a high degree of social responsibility, and all of her choices flow from there. From her example, I have learned a lot about how to live within a model of sustainability and care. Tanya studies herbalism and homeopathy and attended to me around the birth of both my children. She was recycling and actively participating in food cooperatives long before I or the culture at large seemed to understand the implications of such things. The artwork herein and the stories that accompany them teach and inspire. They warm the body with feelings of hope and invigoration. They challenge the mind to view the world in a positive and life-affirming way. These are the gifts Tanya gives me as a friend and comrade. I’m excited that this book will bring her wisdom and worldview, her joy and generosity to ever more people. Ani DiFranco January 2019 Peace is a universal cause, but the way each person advances that cause is highly personal. In this book Tanya shares a variety of ways individual people have found to open to love and advance peace. In compiling these stories of peaceful activists, she discovered many commonalities. The main trait that all the activists share is that they each have love as a motivating force.

Even as a child, Jane Goodall expressed a love of animals and nature. Autumn Peltier is still a child, and she advocates for clean water from a heartfelt connection to it. Hand in hand with love is perseverance; all the activists faced obstacles that required them to stay strong and carry on. As Rachel Carson wrote her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, she was beset by serious illnesses. Although this slowed her writing down, her deep love of nature and her desire to protect it gave her the will to persevere. All of the peaceful activists also share an unconventional spirit. They used creative thinking. They thought and acted outside the box. She also blazed a trail by being the first African American woman in the United States Congress. At a time when most music schools believed talent was inherited and required students to show musical aptitude before accepting them, Shinichi Suzuki opened his music school to anyone, including three-year-old children. Instead of running away from discrimination, Valarie Kaur moves toward it to document it, hold it to the light of day, find what needs healing, and let in love. Several of the peaceful activists tied together two interests or issues in a unique way. Pete Seeger fused music with social and environmental activism. Thich Nhat Hanh integrates spirituality with practicality. Wangari Maathai combined environmental issues with social issues. Jon Kabat-Zinn applies modern science to ancient practices of yoga and meditation. Ruth Johnson Colvin integrated building self-esteem into her adult literacy program. Leah Penniman connects farming with racial justice, community building, song, dance, health and healing, and even prayers and celebration. Andrew Bienkowski and Azim Khamisa both illustrate the ability to spin hardship into gold. Banished to a concentration camp in Siberia, Bienkowski was still able to find something for which he could be grateful. When his only son was murdered by a gang member, Khamisa was able to transform his pain into compassionate action. Both men chose love over anger, and in healing their own wounds, they became a light for others. No one of these heroes stood alone. The activists all had support—guides, mentors, or helpers. Whether from a parent, a partner, a friend, a teacher, an organization, a spiritual practice—or, in Norman Cousins’s case, some Marx Brothers films—each person received a form of assistance. All of these activists used the skills they had and developed new skills as needed. They stretched themselves. They grew—and, in the process, they illuminated the way for many.

The Japanese poet Ikkyū wrote: Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon. Learning about the paths of these peaceful activists has shone a light on my own path. It’s helped me find places where I can open to love. It is my wish that these stories, and the art that goes with them, add light and beauty to your path, as we all make our way up the mountain.

Tanya’s most basic definition of a peaceful activist is someone who works to choose love over fear, just as Dr. King did. We can direct love toward ourselves, toward our family and friends, and toward many people and situations. Being a peaceful activist doesn’t mean we need to love the actions of an oppressor, but if we strive to see points of light within even the most harmful person or circumstance, act out of love and not fear. Gandhi told us, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change toward him.” Being a peaceful activist is not about blaming someone else—or ourselves. It’s about doing what we have the power to do. It involves inner work and outer work. It’s personal and communal. In the image to the left, the flower represents beauty, inspiration, and inward action. The hammer signifies strength and outward action. A peaceful activist needs both inspiration and action.

Tanya also drew portraits of each person whose story she told. That seems like a totally different artistic skill to capture the likeness of a person from a soul perspective.

Tanya represents the unique people in the book by using the alphabet with messages of our responsibility as in A is for Appreciate a need of the soul and each being to recognize something valuable for themselves and society.

A IS FOR APPRECIATE The story of a young girl whose mission it was to share with the world the sacred nature of water nature and our caring for the planet and she came to know sadness just by reading the sign below. PUBLIC NOTICE: DO NOT DRINK THE WATER This sign is one of many posted near Autumn Peltier’s home. It refers to the tap water. Its message has made her worry, cry, get mad, and speak out as a water advocate. Autumn Peltier is Anishinaabe from the Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve on Manitoulin Island in the Great Lakes. She lives surrounded by water. In the indigenous worldview, water is sacred; it is alive and has a spirit. Water needs to be treated with dignity and respect. It might seem natural then, that the issue of water is important to Autumn. Embedded in her First Nations culture is a code of respect for all living things. Autumn’s mother has taught her the Seven Grandfathers Teaching and the importance of water since Autumn was a toddler. Autumn’s great-aunt, Josephine Mandamin, was a respected

B IS FOR BREATHE describes the next person’s biography THICH NHAT HANH (pronounced tik n’yat hawn) was born in Vietnam. When he was sixteen, he became a Buddhist monk, making a promise to become peaceful, happy, and calm, and to be kind and loving toward all living beings. He learned how to meditate and concentrate. As he grew older, he discovered a way to breathe so he could stay calm and loving even in very difficult situations. When we are aware of our breathing, we get in touch with ourselves and how we are feeling. Try it! Feel the sensation of the air coming in and out of your nose. Put your hand on your belly. Feel how it rises and expands as you breathe in, and falls as you breathe out. Breathing calmly and mindfully, we become fully present, fully alive. When Thich Nhat Hanh was twenty years old, there was a war in Vietnam. He and his friends had a choice: remain in their monasteries practicing meditation, or help people suffering from the devastation of the war. Thich Nhat Hanh chose to do both. He and his friends trained thousands of young students in practical skills like farming, building, and medicine, so they could go out and help rebuild villages destroyed by the bombs. He taught the students how mindful breathing could help them stay brave and compassionate in dangerous situations.

Thich Nhat Hanh also took part in international peace talks to end the war. He established peaceful communities where people of all ages can go to learn the art of mindful living. He realized there are wars, not only because humans have a lot of bombs and weapons, but because we have a lot of fear, anger, and hatred. But if we know how to breathe gently, and release stress and tension in our body, we can practice compassion toward our feelings of fear, anger, and hatred, and we can meet them with kindness. We can also practice compassion toward others. In this way, we learn to live in peace. Thich Nhat Hanh has written more than a hundred books on meditation, mindfulness, and peace! He’s also trained many young monks and nuns to continue teaching mindfulness, so that more people can learn how to practice peace and how to create a world without war.

Each biography is followed by a “What You Can Do” section which is an integrative way. An example of a What You Can Do Section for B Is For Breathe which follows goes like this

WHAT YOU CAN DO

When you breathe in and breathe out, can you feel your breath moving through your body, from your nose down your throat into your chest and then into your lungs? Can you feel how your breath affects your whole body—your shoulders, your stomach and even your hands and feet?

Let yourself feel peaceful and relaxed as you breathe naturally. Just by breathing mindfully you are building peace. In difficult moments pay attention to how your breathing changes. Do you ever hold your breath? Enjoy letting it go. Next time you feel nervous or anxious, whether it’s taking a test, giving an oral report, being up at bat, performing or anything else pay attention to your breath. Is it shallow? As you allow yourself to deepen, observe if you feel calmer.

DID YOU KNOW?

All living beings breathe. No matter what our beliefs or our politics are, we all have an in breath and an out breath that we can be aware of. And we can let this awareness nourish us throughout the day.

Sheryl says that after becoming A Reiki Master Teacher and discovering through meditation an ability to sense intuitive messages from a higher realm of life or Spirit she also became aware of the breathe as the force of eternal life and connection to life in a physical realm as well as helping to transcend multi-dimensional realms of life.

Recently when ill with the Coronavirus and when the cough in my throat constricted my lungs I was able to expand my lungs with a deep breath that exercised the lungs and oxygenated my body so I could stay at home and flow through the illness which was very challenging indeed. I think knowing how vital the breath was and how healing for my body and soul, it was Spirit’s way to help me. Tanya believes that acts of kindness and goodness will create many miracles: So many miracles that people will start to see that their soul power can manifest their thoughts and actions out into the world and as they change so the world changes.

Sheryl says that in our rapidly changing world we are experiencing a spiritual evolution-a time when people must realize the duality of life and start to merge their many talents and higher consciousness to solve personal, collective and universal problems. It’s like blinders must be removed from our eyes and thinking and we must begin to see the world in its multi- dimensional aspects. As we are more than we appear so the world is also layers upon layers of life forces and many realities.

Tanya thinks this book is for young readers but Sheryl feels everyone young and old could learn about people who used their unique interests, talents, and love of life to move themselves past any and all challenges to truly inspire and help change the world.

Tanya’s advice for people who wish to contribute to life in some way:

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1. Be true to your inner intuition and wisdom or soul interest. Peace and happiness do not come from the outside world but from within
2. Discover who you are and with persistence consistency hard work follow your dreams and goals and never quit.
3. Be creative……Several of the peaceful. Pete Seeger fused music with social and environmental activism.

Thich Nhat Hanh integrates spirituality with practicality. Wangari Maathai combined environmental issues with social issues. Jon Kabat-Zinn applies modern science to ancient practices of yoga and meditation. Ruth Johnson Colvin integrated building self-esteem into her adult literacy program. Leah Penniman connects farming with racial justice, community building, song, dance, health and healing, and even prayers and celebration.

Peace is a universal cause, but the way each person advances that cause is highly personal. In this book I share a variety of ways individual people have found to open to love and advance peace. In compiling these stories of peaceful activists, I discovered many commonalities. The main trait that all the activists share is that they each have love as a motivating force

We thank Tanya Zabinski author of Peace Love Action…Everyday Acts of Goodness for sharing her perspective of the creative force of Spirit which shines from within our heart and soul and guides us to find love in many places people events as that is the journey of the soul. Read about extraordinary people from A to Z who shared their messages of peace love action.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Tanya Zabinski has shared her life time journey of sharing goodness hope and beauty from her soul talents into the world and has written a book that shares 26 interesting and productive life journeys by visionaries changemakers and people who were born to improve the Human condition.

In my book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening and the need of all beings here and beyond to embrace their higher consciousness and live a life of joy purposefulness and enduring self-discovery

Sheryl wrote, “The American people are ardently demanding changes to present corrupt, political, elitist, ruling-class practices that do not allow simple, kind, good values to be honored. As we question what we want in life and what is truly a just criteria for success, we are discovering that people embroiled in only a materialistic approach to life—either forgetting or never having considered their equally important spiritual needs for love, for compassion, to be of service to others, and to be free from greed— have become disconnected and dissatisfied. The quote by Shakespeare’s Polonius, “[t]o thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/Thou cannot then be false to any man,” is still a rightful way to approach and remember our deepest personal needs as well as the reason we incarnated into this life.

Sheryl has observed people who are not only happy and fulfilled, but often courageous and dynamic and bold leaders much needed in today’s world of conflict and confusion. Their general mindset reflects virtues including empathy, the acceptance of others with genuine regard for their differences, and respect for what we all can contribute to the world. In other words, these successful people are the antithesis to the competitive, unrelenting, and controlling drives of many of our politicians, corporate leaders, educators, and media who display a dog-eat-dog mentality.’

Tanya and I would have you know the time is now and we are all being given a great gift to awaken and know we are guided by a Higher Hand and Life Force of Love and can breathe in that magnificent gift to expand in sharing Peace Love through Action. Begin to know that everything you wish to contribute you can if you simply allow yourself to trust in all that is.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Energy Teacher medium and author of my newest book A New Life Awaits sharing an understanding of our Universal connection to all of life, both here and beyond, and ways to align our energetic and physical world for greater efficacy. Today I welcome Professor Stephen G. Post author of God and Love on Rt. 80 who shares an astonishing true story of faith, love and destiny for everyone who suspects that our universe and encounters are more meaningful than ordinary materialism or physical life allows us to embrace.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories of discovering who we are and how a physical life enables the soul being to refine and hold greater love and compassion for living a purposeful life. Beyond the duality of soul and physical life there is only unity, goodness and a gratitude for nature man and Spirit.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Professor Stephen Post will share how sometimes things happen that reveal an apparent pattern plan or meaning to the workings of the world. An awareness of the eternal Infinite Mind beyond space and time that sustains the universe is with us all the days of this life and beyond, as we find God redemption forgiveness and the understanding that we are all connected.

Stephen when asked to think back to his earlier life to remember an enduring event or interests and life style they would embrace as an adult and the life path they would follow Stephen tells us of a recurring dream that began when he was fifteen.

Stephen writes a memory from childhood,” The boy had no astonishing spiritual experiences like seeing a blazing bush on a rocky mountaintop, nor had he ever heard the voice of God telling him to do this or that like some prophet of old. He was modernly skeptical of such things, although not dismissive. It was only a simple recurring dream that started him off on a different kind of road trip that no one could ever have anticipated, much less condoned. The dream felt like a premonition, and from it many episodes of synchronicity followed. We all have had surprising encounters that are much too perfectly “set up” by the universe to come from chance and that point the way to a destiny of which we know nothing yet, but looking back we can connect the perfect dots.

“The dream came to him about a half dozen times over a couple of years, identical in its details: It was early morning, misty and silver-gray, at the end of a long road to the unknown west. High above the sea, a long-haired blond youth leaned outward over a ledge about to let go, when out of the mist appeared the light blue image of an angel’s face. Speaking softly and with great love, the angel said, “If you save him, you too shall live.” Then she faded back into the silver-gray mist. The boy understood that some special dreams can express divine intent, but he was no big believer in literal angels. He rarely remembered dreams at all. Yet each time this dream flowed into his sleeping mind, the boy remembered it vividly, and he quietly meditated on its details while seated on his favorite wooden pew in the back of the old chapel at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, where he was a young student both whimsical and spiritual. Was the dream a vision calling him out on a journey to the unknown west? Was he invited by the cosmos to head off on a mysterious pilgrimage to a sacred place he knew not where?”

“But the boy never strained to find an answer because he assumed one would flow toward him at the right time if there was one and there was no rushing it. He did wonder if the dream was just a creative delusion his brain tissue had concocted in order to make life more meaningful because beneath any happy human veneer emptiness is always a threat, and we are all desperate meaning-making creatures. But on the other hand, maybe the dream flowed from the infinite Mind of which all our minds are some small part, and, if so, it was a gift and calling.”

“The boy had a fabulous sacred studies teacher, Rev. Rod Welles, an Episcopal priest who loved the Buddhism of Alan Watts, and the boy told him about the dream over a formal Sunday dinner in the school’s large North Upper dining hall. North Upper was as elegantly constructed as the great dining hall in a Harry Potter novel, with sweeping varnished wooden beams pointing skywards, and oak tables and chairs in which sat five hundred young boys—a dozen boys per table—all suited up and just returned from mandatory Sunday chapel. Rev. Welles listened carefully, nodding his head, and said, “Well, in scripture an angel is a symbol of protection and brings messages, and light blue stands for purity and truth.” The other boys rolled their eyes and smiled, but no one actually laughed because they agreed that the boy was an okay kid, even if a bit ethereal and independent.

“Who knows, maybe there is synchronicity at work, and a youth on a ledge awaits you somewhere in the future,” Rev. Welles added. “Anyway, it’s just a dream. But it could be from God; it could have a true message and reflect something more than your own classroom worries about that ‘swirling downward vortex slowly sucking you into an immoral universe,’ as you tend to put things.”

Then Stephen we fast forwards to an unexpected but destined cross-country road trio to have a spiritual journey that led him to the discovery that a powerful force carries us towards our destinies.

“Surprisingly, the answers would come three thousand miles away, at the Pacific end of Route 80, and then a few months afterward up in Oregon. He had to travel far before he could know what the words “If you save him, you too shall live” meant, although he had not been sure they meant anything at all until some powerful westward events unfolded. The dream recurred in the boy’s sixteenth and seventeenth years. He had felt all along that normal pursuits were pointless. He did not want to be another J. P. Morgan, the most illustrious graduate of what everyone called “the” school, and he disliked every form of class elitism. God calls who God calls, regardless of money or family. There was nothing competitive in the boy, and he figured that it is better to always be kind than to always be right because most people are struggling with things hidden from view. More than anything, he feared being slowly digested by an immoral world at the cost of his soul; evil meant giving up on his sense of inner connection with the infinite Mind in a world where a lot of people wrongly assume that Matter came first in the universe and explains all. The boy could see that Mind came first and from it all things derive.”

This is a book and a story for those who hold onto the deep mystery of the divine original Mind “in the beginning,” sustaining all that exists, and within us all. It is about God, love, and synchronicity experienced in a new way, framed around an uncanny series of episodes that began with the dream and its alluring message: “If you save him, you too shall live.” This is a story about synchronicity, not luck; it is about perfectly timed occurrences that flow along too miraculously not to be planned by a cherishing universal Mind, with which the boy felt a secure oneness.

We take the journey so that we can encounter others who are placed in our path and through whom God works. Encounters can be routine, but some are absolutely pre-arranged.

Sheryl says “Of course this divine intelligence allows us free will and we discover this inner soul connection to the divine at what ever time in our life journey that is appropriate for us. In my case as an empath and sensitive child seeing faces at my window at night and feeling a touch on my arm which I couldn’t understand I came to know in time much later in my life that Spirit was always close by and I was always following the intuitive thoughts that seemed reasonable and helpful though I wasn’t in a religious or spiritually minded family and didn’t know about an afterlife or soul journey at that time. In actually I have come to see we are each of us on a spiritual journey even those who may not know it for we are spiritual beings having a physical life at the moment and the experiences and people we met are part of our life plan to remember ultimately our divine eternal soul life.”

Thinking how many religious beliefs fit into this understanding of Universal Mind or Source Professor Post wrote, “There is a chorus of agreement affirming Post’s view of infinite Mind, a universal One Mind that subsumes and unites all individual minds. This view is threaded from antiquity through the present. As Plato wrote, “Human nature was originally One and we were a whole.”

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1. Hippocrates stated, “There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
2. Pico della Mirandola, the Renaissance philosopher, believed that the world is governed by a “unity whereby one creature is united with the others and all parts of the world constitute one world.”
3. In the nineteenth century, the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel called distant mental exchanges between humans “the magic tie.” He believed that “the intuitive spirit oversteps the confines of time and space; it beholds things remote; things long past, and things to come.”
4. Arthur Schopenhauer, also in nineteenth century Germany, suggested that a single event could figure in two or more different chains of circumstance, linking the fates of different individuals in profound ways. He believed in a form of communication that took place between humans during dreams.
5. Walt Whitman, America’s nineteenth-century bard, proclaimed, “All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hooked and linked together…Nature and Man shall be disjoint and diffused no more.”
6. His contemporary, philosopher-essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote, “There is one mind common to all individual men…[a] universal mind….” Emerson called this universal mind the Over-Soul which, he said, is “that unity…within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one with all other….[W]ithin man is the soul of the whole…the eternal ONE.”

Sheryl says “In other words God is within us and we are within God never separate only the outside world and societal or parental or religious training or indoctrination makes that separation of the physical and spiritual world so.”

Professor Post write, “Read on if you have had a premonition about a loved one imperiled far away, or suddenly encountered someone who was the perfect person to give you, at a desperate moment, exactly what you were praying for at the time. Read on if something that turned out to be absolutely true dropped into your mind as if from heaven, because you had no reason to think of it and it was way beyond anything you ever studied. It felt more like an invasion than an intuition. These things occur because our minds are part of the one cherishing Mind, but we have not yet fully awakened to this so we doubt our spiritual essence.

Read on if you have suddenly felt surrounded by an overwhelming energy of love that warmly and surprisingly revealed the innate dignity of a person near you for whom you had no personal affection or friendship, so that afterwards you determined to be kinder to that person than ever before, and you in fact became so enduringly. Any legitimate experience of infinite Mind has to become active in creative love, and never in destruction or hate. Sometimes what happens is so completely unlikely that it can only have been caused, although not in the usual sense of a material causation. It is pre-arranged so perfectly with such unbelievable timing and love that it could not be mere coincidence.

Professor Post wrote a clear understanding of God and the oneness of being, “Sir, God is an infinite universal original loving Mind that is all around us and within us, and all of our individual minds are a part of God’s mind like small flames in an eternal fire, which means we are all connected with God and one another and even with nature, and that explains spirituality,” answered the boy.

Stephen writes of the blue angel of his dream even though he might not have believed in angels at that time. He wrote, “The boy considered the blue angel to be a symbolic expression of infinite Mind trying to break through his worldly consciousness and awaken him into awareness of the vast nonlocal Mind that underlies the universe and of which our minds are some very small part. This Mind is also a field of love in which we are all interconnected with God and one another, and it is the sole source of all that is perfectly wise, enduring, energetic, and pure. Such spiritual love is not comprised of the same uneven emotional “stuff” of human love, which is always making exceptions, and lacking in wisdom, reliability, and purity. Mere human love turns easily to indifference and even hatred or violence, which is why the world keeps burning. We need something higher.”

Cathy Chaplin of Highview Residences which care for Alzheimer patients in London and Canada writes “Mind” as Stephen G. Post so beautifully points out is more than tissue neurons and matter. Sharing Professor Post’s three decades of experiences with those he refers to as deeply forgetful people Stephen shares that we can see that our souls remain whole despite the advance of deep memory loss.

Sheryl tells Stephen the story of a client a nurse who was sending her daughter who was having anxiety off to college for a spiritual reading and healing session. During the healing session Sheryl heard a song and told the young girl what she was hearing humming the tune and the girl started to cry. She said her grandmother had Alzheimer and no longer knew who she was. Sheryl instantly responded that her grandmother’s soul spirit memory within was exactly the same intelligent person who loved and knew her and while her physical brain had been affected, her eternal source of life and Mind were young healthy and aware. Sheryl asked the girl to sure to tell her mother the message of love from her grandmother that would never change.

When asked why he choose to refer to the boy who had the dream instead of using a nameStephen tell us something about his time in school and why he was called the Boy….“Well, I run cross-country well and do cross-country skiing, because that’s more me than the team stuff, and it keeps me independent. People call me ‘the boy’ because that’s what the cross-country coach, Señor Ordonez, calls me when we’re out running. ‘Okay, Boy, up the hill,’ he yells out. He never calls the students by their first names, only ‘the boy so-and-so,’ like ‘the boy Smith.’ But he just calls me ‘the boy’ and says that’s all I need, because my older brother was in school there a couple of years ago and he already claimed ‘the boy so-and-so.’ Plus, he and I are not much alike, and Señor Ordonez liked my brother a lot.” “So people just refer to you as ‘the boy’?” asked the professor. “Yes, they do, or at least many do, and I like that because Rev. Welles says that we should all go through the whole course of our lives staying a little childlike, keeping connected with the child within us all, like Jung wrote. That’s our true self, the self that isn’t beaten down by disappointments and loses the mirth and joy of the child.

Professor Stephen G. Post might like readers to take away with them after reading God and Love on Route 80 what he writes below, that our inner child or soul being should be loved and honored…He wrote,” The students all smiled and discussed this inner child, and they said that if he could stay spiritually young all his life it would be great. Rev. Welles chimed in, “You just have to put aside all the pressures of life and look deep into your soul and remember yourself as an innocent happy child and connect with that image. We all are only here a while anyway, and we are spiritual children so long as we don’t get completely bogged down.” “And that drop of the Mind within us that we talk about in philosophy class that is beyond time and place, that is really the child within,” offered the boy.

We thank you Professor Stephen G. Post author of God and Love on Route 80 for a wonderful merging of spiritual religious artistic and philosophical insights into how to listen to and create an extraordinary life experience by being aware of the Universal mind and connection to all living things.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have discussed an interesting dream that captivated a young boy’s heart mind and soul encouraging him to explore his inner needs and pay attention to the messages of the Universe God the Divine as he sought to find the life that best suited his proclivity for infinite healing love and a purposeful not necessarily materialistic life style.

He traveled across the country on Routes 80 all the way to San Francisco where he finally met up with the dream he had been having for years.

He wrote, “From the park he started to walk toward the Golden Gate Bridge, heading north. Usually the bridge shone orange-gold in the sun, but it was too early in the morning, maybe about eight or so, and there was no sun, just thick silvery-gray fog. He walked along the wide pedestrian path on the west side of the bridge, its edge rimmed by nothing but a breast-high metal fence, and just below it a thin ledge buffeted by a swirling moist wind over the Bay. He could only see about eight feet ahead through the thick silvery mist as the walkway flattened out when he neared the center of the great span. He felt very high up and much removed from the world. The boy was startled when he glanced to his left and saw somebody just a few feet away, on the other side of the railing, standing on the little ledge and leaning outwards. He looked just a few years older than the boy, with stringy blond hair and a thin face, and he was staring intently downward. All was quiet. For one intense moment, the boy’s eyes and those of the youth met, and then the boy spoke softly, “I really and truly hope you don’t plan to jump.” “Why not?” lamented the youth. “Life is just nothingness.” And then, desperately shouting at the top of his lungs out across the miles of empty space, he impressively recited Shakespeare’s monologue about despair: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. We have the same problem,” said the boy. “We could trade places more or less. Nothingness, chatter is all there is out there. Nothing is real. It’s all idiotic, whatever side of the railing you happen to be on. Your feeling this way is a good thing! It means that the infinite Mind is at work, cutting you off from silly goals so you can be free. We are both free. Look at me. All I’m doing is following a blue angel dream all the way from New Hampshire via Long Island and a stolen car on Route 80 for the express purpose of running into you at this very moment and in this very place. What a setup. This place right here is a holy place, a sacred place, and this is where I was going on my dreamy pilgrimage.

What’s your name?” the boy asked. “Harry,” the youth responded, looking confused but curious, “What the hell is a blue angel dream and what do you mean about following it across the country? You are weird, man. And what the hell is this Route 80 business? Maybe you really should be out here, and not me!” Harry exclaimed, smiling just a little. “Hey, Harry, we are all out there at times, just like you,” replied the boy. “Let me tell you about the dream and how I got to be standing here talking with you. Just promise that, if I tell you this story, you won’t jump while I’m telling it. I need about a half hour.”

Well the Boy followed his destiny and saved Harry as had been foretold in dreams he had for years.

Stephen and I would have you pay attention to your own intuitive nature and try to follow those instincts that lead you to happiness and being of service to others. The noise of the outside world does not have to dictate what you deem valuable purposeful and useful to your own soul development Trust the plan be courageous and live life boldly.

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Welcome to Healing From Within with your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Teacher medium and author of her newest book in the trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares the spirit of divinity that lives within each of us that yearns to know itself as love and infinite possibilities, seeking to champion the challenges of modern day life. Whether in body or pure energy, the soul is the complete oneness of Spirit’s Intelligence in many lifetimes seeking higher consciousness. Knowing this is the blueprint for healing. I am delighted to welcome Dr. Rita Louise, author of her new book The Dysfunctional Dance Of The Empath and Narcissist. It is an in-depth look at the dynamics between the loving, compassionate and often selfless empaths and those willing to take from them, the self-serving narcissists, and endeavors to uncover the unconscious patterns that keep them trapped in cycles of abusive toxic relationships that often are the result of trauma and abuse from childhood.

Sheryl is delighted to welcome a kindred soul to Healing From Within for as an intuitive energy practitioner Rita and Sheryl share many stories of miracles, higher consciousness and ways to work with energy thoughts, emotions and words to create a better life.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and insights into the metaphysical world beyond physical life to fully understand who we are, where we come from, and the many realities of life as a spiritual being exploring a physical life to refine and restore soul’s energetic content to reach higher levels of consciousness.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. Rita Louise a survivor of childhood abuse has emerged as a gifted empath and talented clairvoyant medical intuitive. She is a naturopathic physician and the founder of the Institute of Applied Energetics that trains students in the art of medical intuition, intuitive counseling and energy medicine. She has lectured on health and healing ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal. Today we will discuss matters relating to all those topics.

When Dr. Louise is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person, place, event or value that may have been important and shown her or others the lifestyle she would embrace or seek as an adult she immediately discusses her dysfunctional family. In her book she discusses four parenting styles which ultimately in one way or another created problems for their children.

Dr. Louise writes, “I am not even sure where to start my story. I have experienced so much pain and struggled with boatloads of shame throughout my life. I grew up in a large family. There were eight kids in total – five girls and three boys. I was number three, the rebel, and the “thorn in my mother’s side.” I grew up believing that there was something inherently wrong with me. At birth, I was born breach and had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. My mother would, over the years, remind me that this incident could have left me “retarded.” Dysfunction was rampant in our household. One sister would always make a joke of it, stating how our family “put the fun in dysfunctional.” We lived in a shame-based home. Its secrets held tighter than all of the gold at Fort Knox. In it, my mom ruled with an iron hand. Infractions of her rules always lead to enormous consequences, ranging from physical, mental to emotional abuse. Her wrath was quick and severe if you did something wrong. My parents did provide us with food, clothing, and shelter, but that was about all we got. They were uninvolved in our lives. My mom and I had a challenging relationship right from the start. I spent the bulk of my life believing she hated me, that she detested me and that I was the bane of her existence.”

I am not sure how, when, or why this happened, but as a child, I was excruciatingly shy. If I were around strangers or felt the slightest bit ill at ease, I would not talk. I can say this now, but did not understand it at the time; I felt powerless. It took a lot of energy and inner courage to let a fire build in my gut and have words come out of my mouth. At least that is how it felt to me. I also felt worthless. I was highly sensitive to what was going on around me and would often take on or act out the emotions of everyone in the room. My sensitivity would spike if there were anger, stress, or anxiety present, which did not help my situation

Dr. Louise’s previous books have been about health and healing, ghosts and ancient mysteries and myths and legends which say something about human origin that also sheds light on healing dysfunctional relationships?

She writes, “It is not my intention to write an in-depth thesis about metaphysical and New Age topics, but as we delve into further discussions about ourselves and our interactions with others, a base understanding of how we function on energetic levels is required. These insights will afford you another level of knowledge, another perspective of who you are and what is going on inside of you. It will also provide you a fresh look at your interactions with others. Surrounding our physical bodies is a field of subtle energy referred to in esoteric literature as the aura or auric field. It is our personal space. We recognize our personal space most acutely when someone infringes on it. When someone uninvitingly stands too close to us, we often experience a strange sense of physical discomfort. We may feel violated and wish they would take a step back. We can sense them and their energy even though physical contact has not occurred. The aura is composed of a series of subtle bodies, the etheric body, the emotional or astral body, the mental body, and the causal body. Each subtle body has unique properties and plays a distinct role in our interactions with the world.

Everything that we think or do affects our auric field. It is also affected by the energies of our environment. It is our first line of defense. Our aura stands firm when the vibration of joy and love fill our inner world. It can effectively protect us from the invading energies of others. If we are scared, worried, or filled with dread, the vibration of our aura weakens. It becomes more porous. External forces can more readily influence us. Low vibrations of the auric field can leave us vulnerable, which can ultimately affect our wellbeing.

We are each filled with life-giving energy called chi, which fills and animates us. Everything in the universe is dependent on the invigorating power this neutral energy provides, including ourselves. We experience it through its actions, even though it is unseen. It is generally agreed upon that, if deprived of this animating force, we would cease to exist. The structures of the subtle body support the movement of subtle energy, just like our arteries, veins, and capillaries support the flow of blood through the physical body. Without an understanding of these energetic laws of nature it is truly almost impossible to live a fulfilled and healthy life journey.

We are firmly planted in our bodies when we feel whole, confident, powerful, and secure. Our life force energy (chi) is flowing. In this state, we feel calm and relaxed, our anxiety is low or absent, and life’s little difficulties have a hard time sticking to us. When we are triggered, a number of things happen. First and foremost, we, as spirit, are knocked out of our subtle energy bodies. The quantity or quality of subtle energy that moves through our energy channels becomes impaired. Our ability to ground the body becomes diminished. This dynamic causes us to hold on to activated negative thoughts and emotions. These discordant vibrations can become trapped within us and create several adverse reactions, including having difficulties being in the present moment. When we are not in the present moment, we miss out on life as it unfolds before us. We are not experiencing what is happening right here and right now. Granted, we all daydream and space out. Evidence suggests that daydreaming, creativity, and the imaginative mind often go together. It allows us to free-flow thoughts and ideas, which can lead to a eureka moment. When we are triggered, we are not daydreaming. Triggering often brings on a cascade of thoughts that can keep us in a negative thought pattern and out of the present moment. Our thoughts are either in the past or in the future. We may not realize we have mentally digressed while in this state and may believe that we are utilizing our mental energy in a helpful, productive way. We may find ourselves trying to deal with situations by going over them again and again in our minds. When this occurs, we are experiencing something called “intrusive thoughts.”

It seems some people seem to find true love right off the bat, while there is a whole group of people who seem to attract the one rotten apple at the bottom of the barrel. Why do some people repeatedly find themselves getting into unhealthy relationships?

Dr. Louise basically thinks they still feel they are the problem or perhaps feel empowered to care for and help or change the other person. It is necessary to examine your relationships and yourself to figure out why you are attracting the same type of energy or person over and over again. Rita tells us to fast forward, many years, several marriages, and many long-term relationships later. It is December of 2018, the week before Christmas. Rita had just caught her then live-in boyfriend sneaking alcohol into the house and drinking again. Despite multiple threats, begging and pleading with him to get help, nothing had changed. Rita was at her wit’s end, and he just placed the straw that broke this camel’s back. It was not only his secretive drinking that concerned her. There seemed to be something fundamentally wrong with him. His behavior was erratic. A simple question or innocent comment would set him off into some weird delusional place, a place that he would often live in for days. Then the fun would begin. Rita would spent her days and nights walking around on eggshells. Whenever she would put her foot down and threaten to kick him out, he would seem to open up, acknowledge his shortcomings, and promise to do something about it. Promise, yes, do something about it, no. It became evident that he did not care about Rita’s wants and needs. Then on that fateful day, she busted him with yet another bottle of booze. She was done. It did not matter to me that he had wrecked his car months before and according to him, was not drivable. It was not my problem that he did not do anything to repair it. It was also not my problem that he had no major credit cards, so he could not get a rental. He had to go. Somehow, through some kind of divine intervention, his car worked well enough for him to make it out of my driveway and out of my life. I do not mean to drag out this part of the story, but it is critical in understanding what happened next.

This is where things got beyond odd from a synchronicity perspective. My cell phone chimed. It was a message from one of my ex-husband’s current wife, a woman whom Rita had only spoken to once in the past. Why would she be reaching out to Rita? Her message stated something to the effect that she had been noticing some patterns in my ex’s behavior and wanted to see if I had experienced the same kinds of issues with him. Ok, Rita was intrigued. He was a piece of work. Interestingly, his behavior on many levels was reflective of the relationship that was ending. Suffice it to say they shared an excessive number of characteristics that were challenging. We connected on the phone later that day. The first thing that came out of her mouth, after a few general pleasantries, was “he’s a narcissist.” My whole world changed in that instant. I had just been reading material about that very topic, noticing how very narcissistic my current, now ex-beau had been. Her disclosure turned what I thought had been about me and my imagination into something up close and personal. My mind started reeling. It caused me to stop and look long and hard at my life.

What I came to realize was the scary fact that the majority of my intimate relationships were abusive. Rita kept going back in time, evaluating each of her romantic interactions until she reached her family of origin. Wow! she came to discover that the abuse had not ended with the sid not matter. They taught her that people did not like her, let alone myself. They taught me that she was inherently flawed and internally broken. They taught Rita she did not have a choice. They taught her how to take on all of the responsibilities while having no power to change it. They taught her that love meant giving up on myself, an act inextricably tied to how much she was willing to tolerate. Yes, she had a Ph.D. In standing there and silently taking it. Rita made an excellent punching bag, figuratively speaking, and a willing victim for people who were interested in sucking her dry. Most sensitives or empaths are great at helping others but not so good at taking care of themselves.

We are definitely programmed as we grow up to accept certain behaviors from others even when they are damaging to our well being. Definitely Rita’s parents and siblings had her believing she was an angry and unhappy person causing all her problems when in actuality Rita like so many children was being raised by emotionally distant parents who had never resolved their own issue so were unable to provide a happy healthy home for their eight children. Living on her own in California Rita had spent a lot of time reading metaphysical and self-help books as part of my healing plan. One day, during this period, she had a revelation that was even more remarkable. Rita ascertained that she was not a violent, angry person. She had not had one of yelling, screaming, and pounding on doors bouts since she had moved out of my parents’ house. She had not hit anyone. She had not experienced the level of rage I had come to know earlier in my life even once. She was, in reality, a laid-back person for the most part. Imagine that!

Seems before we work on our relationships, we must work on ourselves and discover what triggers make us resort to our earlier childhood where we may have been traumatized. Rita finally left her dysfunctional family and moved to California. Several amazing things happened with my move. She quickly found somewhere to live. By week’s end, she had obtained a job. Rita’s life started changing rapidly. She had hope for the first time in my life. She was confident that things would be all right.

Rita also became acutely aware of how dysfunctional she was and realized that she needed healing on multiple levels. I could see that my dreaded fear of communicating with others was also a handicap. I instinctively knew I had to tackle this deficit, so I devised a plan. Her first goal was to say hi to the person behind the counter at the convenience mart. She needed to do this before they had the opportunity to greet her. While this might sound like an effortless task to anyone reading these words, it was excruciating for Rita. She would have to stop before I walked in the store, take a deep breath, suck it up, and proceed inside. It took everything she had to do. Day by day, this practice got easier. Her first year in California concluded with her receiving her drafting certification and obtaining a good-paying job, taking the good with the bad.

Dr. Louise tells us how we might know we are unhappy and in a toxic relationship by the following quote from Don Ruiz, in his book The Four Agreements and tells us: In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. If you abuse yourself very badly, you can even tolerate someone who beats you up, humiliates you, and treats you like dirt. Why? Because in your belief system you say, “I deserve it. This person is doing me a favor by being with me. I’m not worthy of love and respect. I’m not good enough

We go on to discuss childhood abuse and how it has set you up to view the world as a troublesome place.

The definition of abuse is a pattern of behavior used by one person that causes harm to another. The harsh tactics utilized are often employed to gain and maintain power over another, and in this instance, a child. A one time situation, such as paddling a child’s bottom for a flagrant transgression, does not qualify as abuse. Abuse is an act that is repeated and has appeared multiple times in an individual’s life, if not daily. The line is clear for some people as to what is and what is not considered abuse. It is never appropriate, for example, to have sexual contact with a child. There are many instances where the line is less obvious. Separating what proper discipline or child-rearing strategies are from what is abusive can be tricky, especially when viewed through a child’s eyes. Physical trauma is what most people think of when they hear the word abuse. This is not the case.

Abuse comes in a variety of forms, including sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse. Witnessing cruelty in cases of domestic violence is also identified as a form of child abuse. Neglect, the lack of love, care, and attention for a child, can damage a child just as much as any other form of maltreatment. Sadly, children who grow up in toxic households become accustomed to varying levels of abuse. The treatment they experience is seen as commonplace and do not recognize the injury they have just encountered.

The Many Shades Of Abuse If you are unsure if you are the victim of abuse, here is a simple checklist you can use to assess your life. As you evaluate the items on the list, do not consider a once-off situation but instead look for repeated patterns of negative parental behavior. If you find yourself answering yes to several items on this list, then perhaps you are a survivor of abuse.

Tell-tale Signs Of Abuse Has one or both parents regularly or routinely:

Hit or harmed you in any way?

Threatened to hurt or kill you?

Forced you to have sex with him or her or another individual? (Sexual contact with a minor is abuse even if this only happens once.)

Threatened to destroy your personal property and possessions?

Disregard your opinions, ideas, suggestions, or needs?

Made you feel bad about yourself or put you down?

Belittled and trivialized you, your accomplishments, or your hopes and dreams?

Made fun of you, and caused you

to feel shame or embarrassment? Pointed out your flaws, mistakes, or shortcomings?

Made you endure physical closeness that you did not want?

Crossed your boundaries?

Called you names, criticized you harshly, or made cutting remarks under their breath?

Acted emotionally distant or emotionally unavailable most of the time?

Disregard your feelings? Yelled or screamed at you or flew into a rage? Made you feel guilty for being your authentic self or not appreciating you for who you were?

Stifled your decisions, even when you were old enough to decide on your own?

Made you feel guilty for doing what you wanted and not what they wanted? Any of these things alone, or in combination, can leave a negative impression on a child’s psyche. We can wear our trauma on our shirtsleeves, where everyone can see our dysfunction, or we can bury it into the deep dark recesses of our minds. That is, until something happens and triggers us, and our bodies automatically respond.

If the relationship is unhealthy why do people stay? They stay because it is all they know and they blame themselves rather than the other person. It is only when they begin to see the pattern and discover how they physical feel and why that change is possible. It is from this place that I started digging into the dynamics of empaths and narcissists. Dr. Louise began to see the patterns of abuse she had learned to tolerate over the years. She was finally able to put words to her experiences. It validated so much. It took what had happened to her from some vague “thing” looming in the background and made it real, painful, but real. She had been oblivious to what was going on right in front of her face. As intuitive and as self-reflecting as she is she did not see it. For her, sheI did not understand two basic concepts. One; that it is her job to make herself happy. Nobody else does it for her. When you are anxious, stressed, and walking around on eggshells, you are getting a clear indicator that you are not content. The second concept was the notion of choice. She could choose! You do not know how happy she was to hear those words. She had a choice, and through this choice, she could control my emotional destiny. Thus began the journey to healing.

Dr. Louise clearly tells us why we resist necessary change and writes, “We often resist change because of fear of further failure or loss. Our childhood experiences are fundamental to our emotional development. These experiences set the tone of our lives and form the foundation of how we act and react in every situation we encounter. Our emotions start to develop in the womb and continue until we reach the age of 7. During our formative years, our parents play a pivotal role in how we experience the world. Through them, we learn to determine what is safe from what is not. Parenting, in general, is a complex juggling act. It is a parent’s job to teach and guide their children into the ways of the world and the rules prescribed by society. Humans, said plainly, are a domesticated species. Our parents teach us the skills required to survive in polite society. It is our parent’s job to teach us good from bad, and right from wrong. They show us these things through a variety of rewards and punishments. When we learn to say “Ma Ma” or “Da Da”, we are praised and encouraged. Discipline, on the other hand, is employed if we do something that breaks one of our parent’s rules. We are a bad boy or a bad girl. This training leads to socialization and successful functioning in today’s society. This kind of enculturation happens in every civilization on the planet and IS what makes us intrinsically human. Children, by nature, can be loud and unruly. These behaviors can cause parents to feel irritated, annoyed, or frustrated. If a parent engages in the challenges of parenthood from an unhealthy place, from a place of power and control over their children, anger or fear, abuse can follow.”

We might resist change because of the style of parenting we experienced while growing up. The strategy our parents used to raise us and help us assimilate into society varies greatly. A parenting style is a series of categories used by psychologists to identify the way adults traditionally rear their children. Each type describes a set of practices a parent may employ. The four primary parenting styles include: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, and authoritative.

Authoritarian Parents Characteristics of the authoritarian parenting style encompass a life filled with rules with little parental responsiveness. Parental responsiveness refers to the degree in which a parent reacts to the child’s needs in an accepting and supportive manner. Authoritarian parents seldom show warmth toward their children and are often cold and harsh. They lack patience and value discipline over fun.

Permissive Parents Permissive parents, sometimes called indulgent parents, are the least demanding but are very responsive to the child’s needs. They are warm and loving to their children and want them to be happy. Permissive parents have a hard time saying “No.” They avoid exerting their power and authority. They tend to utilize gift-giving and enticement, versus boundaries and expectations, as their primary parenting tools. They make little or no attempt to control or discipline their offspring. These parents are lenient, avoid confrontation, and rarely make or enforce rules and guidelines. This parenting style provides little structure for their children. Children of permissive parents often have issues taking responsibility or lack a strong internal compass. They may also find themselves lacking self-confidence or are more vulnerable to peer influences.

Uninvolved parents Uninvolved parents are not demanding and lack responsiveness to their child’s needs. Uninvolved parents might meet that child’s basic needs for food and shelter, but often believe this is where their duties end. They practice a hands-off parenting style where they, on some levels, expect their children to raise themselves. They are often self-centered, indifferent, dismissive, or downright neglectful. They do not devote much time or energy into their child’s emotional needs, especially in the way of guidance or affection. Many times, the neglect experienced by these children is not intentional. Uninvolved parents are often busy with work commitments, activities, or other life issues. They can be so wrapped up in their personal affairs that they fail to recognize or notice the needs and concerns of their offspring. Sometimes they are overwhelmed by the tasks required to survive day to day. Mental health or substance abuse issues may also factor in these parent’s inability to care for their children. Children raised by indifferent parents have some of the worst psychological adjustment second only to hostile or abusive parenting. Authoritative Parents Authoritative parents have high standards and expectations of their children, which is tempered by their being responsive to their child’s needs. These parents, while setting limits, provide their children a warm, loving, and nurturing environment. They listen to their children and offer them the support they need. Authoritative parents, like authoritarian parents, expect their children to obey their rules and behave appropriately. How the authoritative parent addresses discipline, however, is vastly different. Authoritative parents typically set clear and achievable limits. They use reason, negotiation, and discussion to teach their children what they require of them and back up their rules by enforcing consistent boundaries. They are firm when disciplining but are not mean or emotionally reactive when a child disobeys. Authoritative parents do not try to control their children and expect them to obey blindly like an authoritarian parent. This parenting style allows their children to act independently, supporting self-esteem and confidence while providing them with a safety net for the times they may fall and falter. This parenting style is the most effective method of child-rearing and tends to produce well-adjusted, confident, and successful kids.

Many parents are unprepared for their role as a caregiver. They might not have the skills needed to do the job correctly. They may suffer some form of substance abuse or have a mental health issue that interferes with their ability to interact with their children appropriately. They might lack family or community support or feel overwhelmed with the tasks required of them.

Understanding how you developed in childhood and your partner may offer signs to how your relationship will develop either lovingly or filled with fear and doubt.

There are four primary attachment styles: secure, dismissive-avoidant, anxious-preoccupied, and fearful avoidant. Each has different developmental causes and express themselves in a unique set of internal beliefs and triggering behaviors. Dr. Phillip Shaver and Dr. Cindy Hazan, in their research suggest that we exhibit the same attachment patterns with our romantic partner as we developed as an infant. By understanding your style of attachment, you may gain insights into how you developed emotionally and how you may still be acting and reacting in adulthood.

Perhaps in these strange changing times we may look at the insensitivity of many around us and see that a liberal approach has led to many people who feel entitled and this leads to dysfunction in relationships and society. Understanding these people and their behavior may help us to choose to limit our time with them which often causes us discomfort and dysfunction.

“Entitlement Individuals” who have entitlement as a negative core belief see themselves as unique or superior and entitled to exclusive rights and privileges. Because they are exceptional, it only makes sense that they would also deserve a great deal of attention or praise from those around them. From this grandiose position, they may make demands or engage in behaviors without regard to how it may affect others. People who operate based on this core belief are the narcissists of the world. They believe that they can do what they want, which can include rule-breaking. They are also not required, especially in their own minds, to reciprocate in social interactions, which can lead to resentment in others.

People who develop this core belief use it to compensate for feelings of defectiveness or undesirability. Unresolved core beliefs can significantly impact our relationships. When our needs as children are not met, we can develop a subconscious fear that our needs will never be satisfied. This early life trauma can cause us to base our relationship on need instead of love. A relationship built on need is a relationship based on fear. This often, overlooked concept is why so many people end up settling for people they do not love or at times, even like. Their need to be in a relationship outweighs their need for happiness. Whether they fear abandonment, rejection, or have other significant inner wounds, the bottom line is that they do not want to experience life on their own and will utilize whatever means possible to avoid it. Confusion may arise for the partner or spouse of these individuals because they may have a hard time discerning if they are actually loved or if they are only needed to satisfy the other’s desperate attempts at feeling safe.

We thank Dr. Rita Louise author of The Dysfunctional Dance of the Empath and Narcissist and for sharing an interesting journey of connections to life here and beyond helping us know that we carry within us the remembrances of many times place and relationships and this life is a new effort to refine our soul energy and improve our relationships with any and all we become involved in. Nothing is ever lost but simply perceived with new wisdom.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have explored the origins of our emotions and outlooks on life from our earliest childhood days and the parenting style we grew up under and how it affected future relationships. We have perhaps learned that now as mature citizens of an ever evolving and changing world we can allow accept and surrender to events without so much judgment fear negativity or even hostility and find the silver lining in our lives moving past the limitations and restrictions to become aware of your own personal needs and desires and find your way beyond the societal process of your earlier challenges.

Dr. Louise has done a great job in describing all the influences that make up our emotional and physical realities and ways to master a more healthy adult life. She writes, ”Your emotional scars are more than likely affecting you today. Having a better understanding of what happened to you in your formative years offers you the opportunity to take a step back and make changes. You might not have had a choice when you were a child, but now you do. When we choose to look at ourselves, our history, our life patterns and decide to make changes to the core of our being, we can begin the process of breaking free of chronic cycles of dysfunction.”

Rita and I would have you remember that nothing in our life is random. There is a reason you are born into a certain family and experience the patterns we have talked about today and no matter how daunting experiences may seem, with the unfolding of your inner soul wisdom you can find ways to improve anything and everything. Resilience, trust and love are the keys to your success and to living with resolve.

I am Sheryl Glick, author of A New Life Awaits which shares the spirit of divinity that lives within and yearns to know itself as love and infinite possibilities beyond the challenges of a normal physical life. Visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the fields of science, spirituality psychology, medicine and metaphysical views who explore our dual nature as both energetic and physical life forms. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisions7radio.com

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Welcome to Healing From Within with your host Sheryl Glick Reiki energy practitioner medium and author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares the wisdom of creating life anew in each experience each day and each challenge as we begin to know ourselves in both our total energetic and physical aspects as spiritual beings enjoying a physical life experience so we may refine and rethink our relationships and find love and joy in the process. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Kim Brown Seely, author of Uncharted, a journey across the water in a maritime adventure and a time in search of a new chapter in their relationship and life journey, as a couple facing the dreaded empty nest syndrome realize they need to rediscover who they are.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate insights allowing us to recognize that we are all indeed more than we appear to be and life is a journey to find an inner awareness of the great potential we have to evolve spiritually and expand our human and divine talents and gifts. It is in understanding the duality of life and in moving beyond fear and doubt that begins to explain the great opportunity we have in a physical reality to love and explore ourselves and the universe in its infinite potential.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Kim Brown Seely in a most beautifully articulate and detailed written story expressing the beauty of what she and her husband saw and experienced on a somewhat challenging two month boat trip exploring the remote islands off the coast of Seattle Washington and the adventure of her voyage from one life chapter to another involving this too-big sailboat, a narrow and unknown sea and an appetite to witness a mythical blonde bear that inhabits a remote rainforest opens her mind and heart to much more than the physical journey and goes within to discover some of the most meaningful recognitions of gratitude and love.

When asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person, place or event that might have shown her or others the lifestyle she would choose as an adult Kim immediately tells us of a happy family life and parents especially her mother encouraging her and her sister to explore their own interests and the world with courage and curiosity. She also mentions two aunts who were great travelers and who may have captured her attention and wanted to follow in their footsteps.

Kim tells us something of her family life with her husband Jeff and their two sons off to college and her fears as their youngest son was about to move across the country.

Kim says that the economy was in freefall and their jobs stagnant so they impulsively decided to buy a big broken sailboat learn how to sail it and head up through the Salish Sea and the Inside Passage to an expanse of untamed wilderness in search of the the elusive blond Kermode bear that lives in a secluded Northwest forest.

Kim writes, “Theirs was a journey of discovery into who they were as individuals and as a couple at an axial moment in their lives. It was a time of transience: one son in college, another on his way; our small family, after years of intense and close living, was dispersing. Also, my husband had survived a recent cancer scare. We were suddenly acutely aware of the impermanence of things and imagined a sailing adventure would create space in which to share something true and lasting together. After a decade of the roller coaster of working hard and raising a family, my husband and I hoped we’d come to rest for a few weeks at sea. (How little did we know.)

Sheryl says that it is clear to her that Kim and her husband were both seekers of the truth of who we are as a life force and soul being and had the courage to venture out of our comfort zone. I think it is extraordinary to become a soul seeker in such an adventuresome way. I myself did much the same these past twenty five years but in the mind and heart journey rather than the physical, although in seeking for the truth of our being I did travel to many fabulous places such as Greece Italy Spain England Alaska Canada many islands and many awe inspiring beautiful or historical places In the United States.

Kim tells us of a story she wrote of a sailor she had met at a dinner; he was ferrying a well-known National Geographic photographer to a rarely visited part of British Columbia’s coast to shoot wildlife photos came out a year later, you were slayed: on the cover of National Geographic there was an image of a white bear. There was something strange about the bear: it had fur the color of a yellow Lab. Even though it was a white bear or so-called spirit bear, it wasn’t Arctic white like a polar bear, nor was it cinnamon brown like a grizzly. It was some weird vanilla-white in between.

“What’s that?” “A spirit bear,” Kim told her husband, she would love to see this mystical animal in the wilds where it lived.

The spirit bear, she later learned, was, in fact, a black bear born with a double-recessive gene causing white fur. It was a walking contradiction: a white black bear. Also known as the Kermode bear, it was rare—more rare than the giant panda. She pictured fur and forest, rain and sea; bold explorers sailing off to distant wilderness islands and hiking through giant trees; Paul Nicklen, the National Geographic photographer, waiting in the woods for days and then weeks until the singular moment when he came upon this strange creature climbing a cedar.

Kim actually got an endorsement for her book from Paul Nicklen who she admired and actually got to meet him

“Uncharted is a voyage of adventure but at it’s heart a meditation on the changing nature of love.’ Tell us something of that thought that Leslie T. Sharpe wrote in the review she wrote for your book

Sheryl thinks the passage below that Kim wrote shows much about the changing nature and continuing nature of love and family from her own childhood and family to the family she created as an adult.

Kim wrote, “My family wasn’t religious, but I had a hunch about God. The mountains seemed created for our worship. There were high granite peaks, an expansive sky, and cottony white clouds. Each day was long and hard and grand. Stitched together, the hiking days made a sort of pilgrimage. Even during the drive to a distant trailhead, I felt like I was exactly where I wanted to be: perched between my young parents and gazing out the window to take everything in, my strong-willed little sister played on the bench in the back. The road stretched endlessly ahead of us and behind us, so we were suspended in time and place as well. I liked moving through that expansive landscape. I liked the feeling of being between one place and another. As the towns spread farther apart, the sense of time diminished, and we each became lost in a mythical landscape that was as much internal as it was external. We were a family. When you are a child learning the world, your parents help shape your perceptions. When you are a parent introducing your own children to the world, you discover those perceptions—things you had almost forgotten—resurfacing, as if hardwired to your DNA. These memories in me of our family’s wandering through the West were so deep that as soon as my own boys were old enough, all I wanted to do was take them exploring. Luckily, my husband was willing to come along.”

Kim having worked on both coasts and as a senior editor at Travel and Leisure magazine and contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure you have traveled to more than thirty countries tells us what she may have learned of human nature and the spirit of the soul that gives it a life force capacity to survive all challenges.

Perhaps part of the harrowing experiences surrounding the empty nest syndrome began as she observed what was happening to other people you knew. Kim wrote,” Ever since our friends’ kids had begun heading off, I’d been noticing the ways many of those friends’ lives shape-shifted. It seemed to be a time when fierce, almost biological empty-nesting patterns emerged. Downsizing—putting the family home on the market and moving into a simpler, smaller place—was a familiar refrain. Another common trend was getting a new dog to fill the void. But that wasn’t always a shared project; the wives seemed to do most of the dog walking. As I watched my friends downsize, simplifying their nests; or stay in their homes but spend the next years refinishing the floors; or troll rescue-dog sites, looking for abandoned canines to love and be loved by and fill those empty rooms, I began to wonder if unknown to ourselves, we each had an image buried somewhere deep inside that was a new chapter, an image that outwardly was of a place or a thing but was actually of ourselves. Maybe it was ourselves, our new selves, that we were attempting to define as we cleaned out our drawers, and repainted our children’s rooms, and adopted yellow Labs and bigeared collies and mixed retrievers.

After the journey Kim and Jeff’s appreciation of each other and life in general was definitely altered. Perhaps the following passage shows some of the challenges you and Jeff were dealing with, “Jeff shot up, released a line, and we slammed the boat hard to windward, coming about. I let out my breath, stunned. We were alone together and had courted this chaos. We were grown-ups and people’s parents. We’d raised two sons together, battled cancer together, and lived on both coasts of North America together. When our sons left home, we’d found ourselves on one of those coasts with a window of time, and so we’d launched ourselves into it. But now, with a boat whose moods changed as mercurially as our own, we were wrestling with forces larger than ourselves, and sometimes, paying a price.”

Sheryl says… I would gather you had discovered that while we have no control over the events or challenges in our life as they present themselves, one after another, but we do have the power to choose what will help us deal to the best of our ability and in the best way so we may grow and have greater compassion for each other and the cycles of life

Kim shares hand drawn maps of the area they explored. Our plan was to head north, threading through Washington State’s San Juan Islands and British Columbia’s Gulf Islands up the Inside Passage through the many archipelagos, then sail past the northern tip of Vancouver Island, and on up around Cape Caution to the wild, exposed Spider Islands. We would sail farther still to the seldom-visited native settlements of Bella Bella and Klemtu, then continue to the native village of Hartley Bay and neighboring Gribbell Island. The latter was one of the homes of the elusive spirit bear. We’d circumnavigate Gribbell Island, about a hundred miles south of the Alaska border, then point Heron south and head home again, another five hundred nautical miles, in mid-September. We’d be one of the last cruising boats that far north come fall. The days would be turning colder and growing shorter, the Pacific Northwest Coast’s fog settling into the long sinuous fjords, making navigation in an area notorious for challenging navigation even trickier.

It seems that the family you and your children and parents benefited from this adventurous trip you embarked on.

Sheryl thinks it may have helped Kim refocus on what her mother went through when life changed for her and your family when you left the nest all those years before and Kim wrote, “ We were having lunch near my office in midtown Manhattan, where I’d worked for a decade. My mother was visiting from California. I was suddenly flooded with guilt: I’d never even thought about how it had been for my parents once I’d left for college. “You were away at school, and we missed you but didn’t want to bother you—you were a freshman!” my mom said, as if that explained everything. She took a sip of water, refolded her napkin. “But by the time your sister left for college, I realized I’d fallen into a kind of depression.” “You did? Why didn’t you ever say anything?!” Kim learned more about her mother’s experience and it helped her understand her own more fully.

“Well, that’s why I’m telling you now . . . in case you ever feel like you might be dealing with depression,” she said, smiling brightly. “Well, how are you? Are you okay now?” I was stunned. I had a hundred questions . . . Like many young girls growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, my sister and I had been encouraged to follow our dreams—to be whatever we wanted to be. Our parents had always pushed us to excel, to be independent, to venture as far from home as possible. Also, our parents were young. They were hip. I was proud of them, and it had never occurred to me, even remotely, that in pleasing them we were hurting them—and that my mom, especially, would so fiercely, deeply miss us.

Another thing Kim had noticed, watching her parents’ generation, was divorce. It was as if kids had been magnets holding these couples together—almost like they’d mostly stayed together because of their kids. But once children no longer factored into the equation, legions of seventies parents woke up and discovered they didn’t have that much in common. You could count the couples splitting up along the Southern California cul-de-sacs where we’d grown up. Spring! Spring! Spring! They bounced apart like atoms released from ionic bonds; without those kid-fusing electrons, there wasn’t much to fuse them in place. But my parents stayed together, supportive of each other. I suppose it was with this in mind then—wary of depression, watching divorces still springing up, as rampant as gray hairs, hearing girlfriends say, “I feel like everyone’s leaving! Our kids are leaving, our parents are leaving!”—that I’d hit on the vague idea of some kind of shared project, something my husband and I could take up together as novice empty nesters.

Kim tells how after a harrowing day on the sea she felt very emotional and like she could do nothing right and her son took a picture after Jeff and she had been screaming at each other and she wrote,” It stuns me now to see this portrait: the image, in fact, that graces the leather-bound cover of the book we made in the months after that first trip. You see a smiling couple in a postcard setting. What you don’t see are the invisible currents and blustery seas we’d just waded into. It’s strange, how we capture so many family moments this way: squeeze people into a frame and click the photo. It’s our way of making memories. But what you rarely see in so many family portraits is what’s actually happening. And what a shame! The stuff we lash down—the painful parts, messy as sea slime and scary as eels—is, in retrospect, more real.

I think Kim might like us to remember after reading Uncharted I not merely the boat journey but how her understanding and spirit matured during the many moves and changes in her life and she wrote something very wise, “Decades later my understanding would shift, part of growing into adulthood, and I’d remember the farm as a key chapter, but an odd chapter for someone who craved a less settled existence. I’d think of all the choices that go into making a life—the decisions people make, individual and combined. Drops of water, incalculable, collecting in a pool. It takes years sometimes to recognize when it’s time to make a few ripples. My husband loved the house. But we were also trapped by it and could never afford to do the things needed to maintain it. When a job opportunity in Seattle offered to move us all west in the dot-com 1990s, we packed up our apartment, sold the farm, and threw a massive goodbye party for our friends. We knew almost no one in Seattle but started a new chapter there. One of the art directors at the magazine where I worked in Midtown Manhattan said to me on my way out the door: “It’s a healthy thing to repot yourself every few years.” I prayed he was right.

I want to thank Kim Brown Seely, author of Uncharted an adventure story of physical spiritual and emotional substance that shares the beauty of love nature and spirit as we grow in amazing recognition of our capacity to explore life in an open hearted and loving way and if it is in your nature an adventuresome way. Please read this well written and delightfully descriptive journey of a trip into forever. go to www.kimbrownseely.com

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within with Kim Brown Seely we have enjoyed delightful views of life from the beginning within our parents homes then college friendships marriage children careers building homes and friendships exploring the terrain and our dreams in mind and body but ultimately realizing that the greatest adventure lies within the courageous soul journey that leads us through coincidence synchronicity and perhaps the whispers of those above who lead us to our greatest moments of self-awareness and higher consciousness. We remember as Kim and Jeff did that we have free will and as has been afforded to many of us in this country we have the means to discover what brings us joy and happiness in our journeys within our thoughts and dreams and also in the physical world of beauty and change—eternal change. If we move past fears and restrictions and allow opportunities to appear we can have amazing lives and experiences and live beginning to be grateful for the time we have and the oddities or protection from unseen places that can even save lives. Kim wrote of an amazing event she observed in regard to how sometimes things seem wrong but in the end are just as they should be.

Kim wrote, “But we did have luck. Jeff worked on the sixty-second floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. And on the day of the first bombing, the 1993 truck bombing, he was not in the tower because he was in Vermont. We’d snuck away for a long winter weekend. He was on a pay phone, checking in with his boss, when a twelve-hundred-pound truck-bomb detonated in the parking garage beneath the towers. His boss, who’d been headed down to the garage when Jeff called, heard a muffled thud and said, “Hang on a minute.” No one knew yet what had happened. The call ran late, which spared Jeff’s boss from being in his SUV at that exact moment, as planned. Months later, when they identified pieces of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, they determined it had been less than a hundred feet from the blast.

Often I tell my clients as a medium I am aware we have a time to be born and a time to reach beyond this physical life to rejoin life beyond this physical plane in an energetic and eternal life. Often, if it is for the journey of a soul to avoid a certain event, they are in one way or another divinely helped to be safe. My own son was offered a job in a business with offices in Twin Towers but declined and was in his jeep traveling across the country to California when 9/11 happened. So many stories of people who should have been there that day but were not for that was not their time nor destiny.

Kim and I would love our guests to know the precious nature of each life and each adventure we are called to experience. Say “Yes” to life and say “Yes” to Love and no matter what challenge any of us must go through if we remember we are spiritual beings having a physical life and never alone, but guided by the majestic voice of the universe that encourages each of us to find a path to exploring our inner soul wisdom through following our dreams as we walk through the experiences of daily life with a smile and a hope for finding our true nature joy and love.

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Welcome to Healing From Within I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Energy Teacher Medium and author of my newest book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening sharing a plan for creating through your thoughts and actions new approaches for living out the duality of soul and physical life in its most advantageous possibilities supporting life here and beyond. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Dr. Eben Alexander author of his newest book Living In A Mindful Universe and a former guest of the Healing From Within as we continue to focus on his journey to tap into our greater mind and the power of our heart to enhance healing relationships creativity and all understand Universal aspects of life.

For those listeners who would like to listen to the show Dr. Alexander and I shared previously go to my website www.sherylglick.com and listen as we discuss his near death experience shared in his first book Proof of Heaven. Go to the radio page July 2013. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were discussing your visit to the afterlife during a near death experience.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate experiences and the realization that we are very much more than we appear to be and are only using a small part of our brain mind power to create the world of opportunities that exist within our soul or energetic presence. It is in understanding the duality of life and the opposite choices always available to us, that we learn balance harmony and ways to achieve a purposeful healthy life experience. But we often have to let go of beliefs and stories of past events in order to see life with new perspective.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. Eben Alexander an academic neurosurgeon dealing with patients rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections or strokes thought he had a good idea of how the brain generates consciousness but now after a near death experience himself is able to offer a more comprehensive worldview where consciousness is the glue that defines reality itself and shatters conventional boundaries that traditionally separated science from spirituality. In other words, we need to learn how to be mindful and live in a mindful universe and the time is definitely NOW as challenging world events pandemic war environmental issues disease are giving us the experiences to awaken to our full soul potential to evol.

When Dr. Alexander is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that may have left an impression of some importance on his heart or mind and led him to the lifestyle work or interests he is exploring now as an adult the first person who comes to his mind is his father. His father was a doctor and used to take him with him to see patients and Eben was able to see how much he was helping people and wanted to do the same. Sheryl tells Eben that she believes healers are born not made and select the family they need to fulfill their soul mission or life plan. Dr. Alexander was adopted and into the family and experience that would be most advantageous for his soul development.

We fast to Dr. Alexander’s NDE and talk about the realms he visited during that life altering experience. Dr. Alexander tells us he saw a beautiful young woman who he never knew in his life and later after he recovered he received a picture from his birth family of his sister who had passed and it was the beautiful person he had seen in spirit. He said if he had seen his father it could have been because he knew him in life and it wouldn’t be as defining and compelling as having met his birth sister who he never knew until meeting her in the Afterlife.

How common are Near Death Experiences and how was yours the same or different than other people’s NDE’s? Dr. Alexander tells us he recorded his remembrances after coming out of the coma and the memories of the deep coma experience have remained stable and clear even to this day which he understands many people who have near death experiences describe. He came to realize my ordeal could be termed a near-death experience NDE and began to learn more about such experiences. One of the first resources encountered was Life After Life Dr. Raymond Moody’s world changing 1975 book that first popularized the term “near-death experience.” The loving comfort encountered by most of the hundred or so patients Dr. Moody documented resonated deeply with Dr. Alexanders experience. They were all confounded by the limitations of earthly language to describe such nonearthly journeys. Another characteristic of NDE experiences is that they remained consistent and stable over long periods of time unlike memories of most events dreams and hallucinations The other main quality of NDE descriptions concerns the sense of ultrareality. Way to real to be real such a heightened sense of reality.

Perhaps Dr. Alexander was able to prove to himself that the experience was real and not a result of the dying brain because of the kindness and knowingness of his friend Dr. Charles Joseph who expressed to you, “There is plenty of room in our understanding of the brain, and mind and consciousness to allow for this remarkable recovery to indicate something of extreme importance. As you well know, we encounter copious evidence in clinical neurology that we have a far way to go before we can start claiming any kind of complete understanding. I am inclined to accept your personal mystery as another lovely piece of the puzzle, one that greatly raises the ante in approaching any understanding of the nature of our existence.” My friend was open to the grand possibilities of eternal life implied by my memories from deep in a coma where I should not have been able to experience anything due to the damage to my brain besieged and swollen with infection.

Sheryl says I think Eben found after his near-death experience he had a need to be connected to people of faith who supported his spiritual experience such as his friend Alan who he had worked with and climbed mountains with. He had written a book The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural and the Healing Power of Hope. Given his prestigious academic appointments, it seemed he had gained the courage that so many lacked to open the doors wide to the reality of our spiritual nature.

Sheryl remembers being at a lecture with Dr. Raymond Moody author of Life After Life and hearing him say that scientifically he could not definitively conclude that life or consciousness survived physical life though his book was all about that reality. At the end of the lecture Sheryl went up and was a bit harsh when she said to him, “ I am a medium and am trying to prove like you the soul nature of our life and am disappointed you didn’t definitively state your belief that Consciousness survives death.. Dr. Moody was very kind to me and told me his wife’s name was Sheryl also and a few years later I read a new book by him where he quite powerfully stated the truth of our knowingness. I invited him as one of the first guests on my show Healing From Within when I started ten years ago and he was kind enough to join me as have so many of the gifted and distinguished seekers of truth have.

You know Eben as a medium who meditates and gets accurate information that helps clients validate what’s happening in their lives and offers ways to remember their soul life, I often think how happy I am that I didn’t have to have a near death experience to awaken to the reality of dimensions and layers of life beyond this world. But maybe 26 years ago when I was sick with the flu and had what I thought was a dream feeling my grandfather standing near me and telling me I had to write something for my dad and then the very next day found out my dad had passed led me to question how my deceased grandfather gone for 35 years or so was there to give me a message. That began my journey to understand if consciousness survived physical death and my development as an energy healer, medium, hospice volunteer. Who knows, maybe that was like a NDE even though I wasn’t as close to death as you or others.

Sheryl says… True healing is a combination of mind body spirit not merely the physical symptoms of the mind. Our soul has journeyed through time and space and multi- dimensional realities of life gathering experiences both good and bad and needs to refine our soul energy healing karma from past lives and relationships to a higher level of love and cooperation. We have many guides both in Spirit and in the physical world who offer assistance and insight if we become open to the many possibilities of soul life and wisdom beyond an ego- based mind set of physical reality.

What is consciousness, nonlocal consciousness and what is the brain’s role in consciousness?

Dr. Alexander wrote,” In essence we tried to explain my memories during coma based on the common assumption that the brain is required for any type of conscious awareness. Over almost three decades of my life spent working daily with neurosurgical patients, I had come to believe I had some understanding of the relationship of the relationship between brain and mind –the nature of consciousness. Modern neuroscience has come to believe that all of our human qualities of language reason thought auditory and visual perceptions emotional forces etc. —essentially all the qualities of mental experience that become part of human awareness —are directly derived from the most powerful calculator in the human brain: the neocortex.

But having accepted this how could it be that when my brain was not functional my consciousness and awareness of Self was interacting with other forces and remembering it all….

Dr. Alexander writes We know lots about the mechanics of the brain right down to the molecular level, but when it comes to consciousness,\ we simply haven’t got a clue. How might the physical matter of the brain give rise to the conscious mind.

Sheryl says years ago she interviewed Dr. Maurie Pressman author of Living In the SuperMind who was aware of the power of our spiritual soul energy to influence our physical body and reality. The brain he suggested in simple terms was the physical organ to connect to physical life and reality and the mind was an energy connected to dimensions of eternal levels of live and creation. So while your physical brain was not functioning during that severe attack of meningitis your super mind was what allowed you to have that vivid afterlife experience and bring it back with you after you recovered. While that is a simple definition perhaps of the mind and brain it does express our connection to energetic soul life and God or the Divine. A conventionally-trained psychiatrist, Dr. Pressman has combined that work with studies in the high reaches of the mind. His practice focuses on spiritual psychotherapy and the exploration of the human soul.

Dr. Alexander tells us about Carl Sagan an American Astronomer who said Science is not only compatible with spirituality: it is a profound source of spirituality Dr. Alexander goes on to tell us that Dr. Raymond Moody had studied ancient Greek philosophy and the writings of Plato and learned about the case of Er an Armenian soldier killed in battle who was placed on a funeral pyre. Just before its ignition he returned to life and told the soldiers that when one dies they proceed through a review of the most crucial aspects of their life as a lesson of sorts-the “Life Review” and that the most important quality by which they are judged concerns the love they have managed to manifest while here on earth. We learn the brain does not create consciousness and the mind (spirit or universal energy or source) and mental experience are the fundamental essence of all existence: the mind has the complete power over matter and our free will has tremendous capacity to change the world.

About Mindfulness and Living in a Mindful Universe shares the importance of “spiritual health?”

Sheryl says that in her new book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening we come to realize that as we merge our duality or awareness of spiritual and physical life we become healthier and happier beings. Sheryl wrote, I was not aware that in the deep, hidden recesses of my subconscious mind, the truth lay dormant waiting to be proven to me: “There was no death, only a return to life beyond here.” However, if dying is a concern of yours, I hope that what you read in the following pages of this book will allow you to remember that part of yourself, that soul essence, which may have gone unexamined for some time or may have been damaged or tarnished by the well-meaning people around you who may also have forgotten their true divine essence. It is my hope that you may retrieve a ‘knowingness’ of your soul essence that experiences peace, love, compassion, and a fluid movement through time and space eternally, allowing you to enjoy both a physical life today and “existence” beyond this physical life tomorrow. What you may well discover if you keep an open mind is how to live vibrantly in the two realms of life: the physical and the spiritual.”

Sheryl says there is duality or choices so that we can find balance and harmony through our choices Suffering comes when we are unable to accept the nature of a physical world and life. Everything in a physical world is transitory and must have a beginning and ending. People are afraid of change death and what they cannot control which is everything except the choices they make when they confront difficulty. We must experience all the emotions and feel them not numb ourselves to life. Once we know these emotions, we can begin to move from that feeling of discontent unhappiness or pain to a higher emotion of feeling at peace with oneself or feel gratitude or love as often as we allow ourselves to. All experiences are this dance from pain or suffering to a higher feeling or emotion and in every event every human wish to be in those higher feelings. It takes effort consistency and patience to achieve this level of dealing with all challenges good or bad.

We thank Dr. Eben Alexander author of his newest book Living in a Mindful Universe for dedicating himself to sharing information about near-death experiences and other spiritually transformative experiences and what they teach us about consciousness and the nature of reality. Like myself, and the hundreds of authors who have shared their spiritual awakening, we hope for research on the unifying elements of science and spirituality and for everyone to be inspired by the power within their soul life to refine love and compassion and spread of filter it out into the world.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have shared multiple stories of scientists philosophers healers and visionaries as we move beyond the limitations of our physical world belief systems to discover the truth of BEING and existing as eternal sources of divine energy and creation to understand the brain, Near death experiences, and the mind or universal source of creative energy that is within and around us and which connects to all life eternally.

Dr. Alexander writes that Materialist science as a foundation for comprehending our reality is at a dead end. We are long overdue to rise above this façade, and this demands the robust incorporation of consciousness into our working model of the universe. A convergence of understanding about our approach to science our universe and ourselves is the only way forward. For those with the most open minds, this is where science finds itself now, in the 21st century, as it finally comes closer to understanding the depths of the mind body debate.

Eben and I would simply have you awaken to the full awareness of your spiritual or soul life force and your physical reality so you many know we are all so very much more than this physical life. By working to conquer the fear of death you may come to realize that the Afterlife and all we love in this life is contained within the mind and soul of our life force and journey’s past death to realms of infinite beauty and love.

Eben and I were methodical proponents of the scientific community which demands proof of the unseen aspects of life and perhaps, even skeptics before having experiences that opened our awareness to new perspectives of life and energy. We have been fortunate enough to have had these experiences and wish to share an awe inspiring reality with those who will allow themselves to know the world and universe beyond beliefs or opinions and truly experience and feel the truth.

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