Healing From Within - Sheryl Glick

Thank you for joining us on “Healing From Within” with your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit and her newly released book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which share stories of an intuitive spiritual path to know life in its soul and physical potential so we may evolve and in so doing create our best lives and improve the planet. Today I welcome Dr. Dayna Lee Bagley, author of Healthy Habits Suck who will offer a plan to regenerate your energy and health.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware Sheryl and her guests seek ways to know our dual nature as spiritual beings having a physical life who can discover new ways to appreciate life, perceive things in a clearer more purposeful way, while conquering fear and creating health and prosperity as well as happiness.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Dr. Dayna Lee Bagley will show us ways to be healthy and to overcome our instincts which encourage us to take the easy way to pleasure. We will learn some good reasons for wanting to be healthy and eat better and get an overview of Global Health.

When we ask the question “How healthy are North Americans in your view?” we learn

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• Despite spending twice the amount per capita on health care, the United States ranks last in health and mortality analysis of 17 developed nations
• Americans are near the bottom in nine key areas of health, including low birth weight; injuries and homicides; teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; HIV and AIDS; drug-related deaths; obesity and diabetes; heart disease; chronic lung disease; and general disability
• At 75.6 years, American men have the lowest life expectancy among the countries reviewed, and American women ranked second-to-last at 80.7 years. The infant mortality rate in the US is equally abysmal, with 32.7 deaths per 100,000, while most others range between 15 and 25 deaths per 100,000
• The authors of the report “GMO Myths and Truths” took a science-based approach to evaluating the available research, arriving at the conclusion that most of the scientific evidence regarding safety and increased yield potential do not at all support the claims. The evidence demonstrates the claims for genetically engineered foods are not just wildly overblown – they simply aren’t true. GE foods have been shown to be less nutritious than non-GE foods, and pose distinct health risks and are inadequately regulated
• While failing to pin-point the source(s) of Americans’ failure to thrive, the answers are not hard to deduce: adhering to government-sponsored health and dietary guidance has led Americans astray

Dr. Bagley tells us why she wrote this book and selected the title she did. A staggering two-thirds of American adults are overweight, and more than one-quarter of adults fall into the obese category. One in four Americans is pre-diabetic or diabetic. It should be obvious that diet and exercise are critical factors here. The National Institutes of Health even states that four of the six leading causes of death in the United States are linked to unhealthy diets.

The question is why are so many people unable to regulate their weight and insulin sensitivity? The following points are well worthy of careful consideration when pondering this issue:

• The top two crops grown in the U.S. are corn and soy. High fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil are two of the most popular ingredients made from these crops.2 High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has repeatedly been shown to be a driving factor behind being overweight and having poor health outcomes. HFCS is pervasive and in many processed food items some individuals would never expect, including so called diet foods and ‘enhanced’ water products. Even most infant formulas contain the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola.
  
  Furthermore, soybean oil is another common unhealthy ingredient in many processed foods and soybeans can be severely and systemically contaminated with high amounts of the potent herbicide
  
  Additionally, over 85 percent of all corn grown in the US is genetically engineered (GE)3, which further increases the risk of high glyphosate contamination. The safety of either of these items has never been proven. According to a recent report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG)4, Americans are eating their weight and more in GE foods each and every year.
• Thirty-three percent of American adults are also completely sedentary, and more than half of adults over the age of 18 never engage in any vigorous leisure-time physical activity lasting 10 minutes or more per week.
• According to a study by the EWG5, blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides, and chemicals from non-stick products. Of the 287 chemicals EWG detected in umbilical cord blood, it’s known that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals; 217 are toxic to your brain and nervous system; and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. Clearly, when babies are born loaded with toxic chemicals, it’s a sign that toxic exposure is too high.
• While there are many types and routes of toxic exposure, one would be remiss to overlook Americans’ use of pharmaceutical drugs, as drugs have, on average, 70 different potential side effects, and are responsible for the premature death of at least 106,000 Americans per year, when taken as prescribed. Americans pop the most pills of any other nation, and that includes children. Americans also receive the most amount of vaccinations.

So…. let’s think… What could possibly be the root of Americans’ failure to thrive? The Atlantic6, reporting on the findings writes:

“In presenting their findings, the authors seemed to be urging the U.S. to do some soul searching. Our culture ‘cherishes independence’ and ‘wants to limit the intrusion of government in our personal lives,’ said Steven Woolf, director of the Center for Human Needs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the panel chairman.

While those values serve us in some ways, he said, our resistance to regulation ‘may work against our ability to achieve optimal health outcomes.'”

Aha! So it’s Americans’ striving for independence and freedom of choice that is to blame for such poor dietary choices and health outcomes?! They mean to tell us that we’re all so inept at making healthy choices, we need to abandon our independent spirits and embrace more nanny state regulations that might finally whip us into shape. Honestly, I feel like I’m reading something out of The Onion… It’s all so backwards.

We do need to rethink some good reasons and bad reasons for wanting to be healthy,

Top 10: Reasons to Want to be Healthy

Everyone has spurts of wanting to be healthy. But often, our reasons for it can be focused on the short-term and centered around looking good. The truth is there are a lot of great long-term reasons to want to be healthy…all of which have nothing to do with how we look. Here are some of my personal favorite reasons for being healthy and why I believe staying that way will pay off:

1. To Feel Young and Energetic. When we are young, it is easier to ‘get over’ little sleep, too much bad food and a few skipped days of exercise. As we get older, it gets harder for our bodies to bounce back. Having a lifestyle that is full of activity and a healthy diet keeps you moving, feeling energetic and feeling young, at every age.
2. To Ward Off Disease and Health Problems. When we abuse or don’t take care of our bodies, it can manifest in disease and health problems as we get older. Taking good care of yourself can help you to ward off diseases such as diabetes and heart problems, giving you an overall better quality of life.
3. To Be Pain and Injury Free. Being active and maintaining an exercise regimen keeps your body strong, lowering your risk of injuries to your joints and chronic pain as you age. Further, incorporating strength training keeps our bones strong, warding off osteoporosis and arthritis, while stretching keeps your body flexible and limber, preventing sprains and muscle damage.
4. To Travel and See the World. Personally, I love to travel and hope to continue seeing the world, even when I’m 80! Being mobile and healthy makes it a lot easier to fly, walk, get on and off trains and deal with some of the small inconveniences that go along with travel. That said, the rewards of seeing the world make it all worth it!
5. To Have Low Medical Bills. Chances are, the healthier you are the less likely you will have to go to the Doctor’s office, even for the minor things. This tends to be exponentially true as we get older. Our habits today truly impact how we will feel and look 20 years from now.
6. To Dance the Night Away. I love to dance and the idea of dancing the night away when I’m 75 or 80 makes me smile.
7. To Feel Good about Yourself. Taking care of ourselves allows us to have a healthy mental state just as much as a healthy physical state. Being healthy often means feeling good, both inside and out, which helps our self-confidence and self-esteem.
8. To Do Things You Love. Age should never be an excuse or stop us from doing the things we love. Taking care of ourselves allows us to continue the activities that we enjoy and that keep us young!
9. To Play with Children and Grandchildren. At almost 35, I still have yet to have children. But, when I do I want to be able to play with them just as if I was 25. Further, if and when grandchildren come into the picture, I’d like to enjoy playing with them as well.
10. It is Natural Prevention. If we take care of our bodies, we’ll never need to resort to quick fixes that are unhealthy, costly or dangerous, to make us better. Staying healthy is the best form of prevention in the process of aging.

If you are overweight, losing just 5 to 10 percent of your body weight can positively affect your health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, you need to do so in a healthy way, since starvation diets and diet pills can have unwanted side effects and even damage your health. Aim to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week through a combination of diet and exercise for the most health benefits.

If we goggled how to be healthy what would it say? It might give us 15 Ways to be Healthier

1. Think positive focus on gratitude as research shows a healthy positive attitude builds a healthier immune system and boosts overall health
2. Eat your vegetables
3. Set a five meal idea
4. Exercise daily
5. Get a good night’s sleep
6. Check your food “tude”
7. Eat like a kid
8. Be a picky eater and so on.

The US government subsidizes the very crops identified as being the most harmful to human health and the environment; the top three being corn, wheat, and soybeans. And nearly all of the corn and soybeans grown are genetically engineered varieties.

By subsidizing these, the US government is actively supporting a diet that consists of these grains in their processed form, namely high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), hydrogenated soybean oil, and meats loaded with antibiotics – all of which are now well-known contributors to obesity and chronic disease. These junk-food subsidies make it much cheaper to buy a burger, fries and soda from a fast-food restaurant than it is to buy grass-fed beef and veggies. It’s not that these foods necessarily cost more to grow or produce; rather the prices for the junk foods are being artificially reduced by the government.

The US further promotes use of HFCS in food manufacturing by imposing import tariffs on foreign sugar, raising the price of sucrose above those in other countries.

In general, based on science, why are long term healthy habits hard to maintain? Why are resolutions so easy to create, but difficult to even start, much less maintain?

Especially when it comes to eating well and taking care of yourself, change can feel hard in the beginning. Yet you know that investing in your wellness and well-being repays dividends down the road.

Sometimes you get a little push to make that change. Maybe your blood work came back and your doctor gave you a stern warning to clean-up your diet and lifestyle. Perhaps you got on the bathroom scale and winced as the number went up.

You might be tempted to make drastic changes when you learn such things. You resolve to only eat salads for the next three weeks or go to the gym for one hour every day, five days a week. Stay on the Health Track with Concrete Goals

While lofty ambitions are applaudable, they often collapse because they lack the small, steady, sustainable goals that help you stay on the course towards better health.

Instead of making herculean changes that crash and burn over time, researchers find goal setting helps initiate and maintain health behavior over time. Small, cumulative lifestyle changes — including weight loss and exercise — could be easier to achieve and sustain than larger changes.

Studies show goal setting helps specific behaviors including significantly increasing fiber intake, being more consistent with exercise, and keeping on track rather than dropping out.

Committing to healthy behaviors is one of the most meaningful gifts you can give to yourself, as well as to those around you. By taking care of your health, you are able to serve as a role model to your family, friends and co-workers. Following is a handy list of 10 habits that will help you maintain your health and wellness:

Build your plate around healthy choices. Start by filling half your plate with fruits and vegetables. Fill in the rest of your meal with a selection of proteins, whole grains and dairy. ChooseMyPlate.gov makes it simple by offering suggestions of food serving sizes, health benefits, and tips for each food group.

Stay Hydrated. Water, clear non-caffeinated beverages, and food all count toward your daily fluid intake. Avoid sports drinks or sodas with high sugar content and select water-rich fruits and vegetables for snacks. Begin each morning by drinking a full glass of water and continue the trend throughout the day, including at mealtimes. Men should aim to drink at least twelve, 8-ounce glasses of water per day; women should aim to drink at least nine, 8-ounce glasses of water per day. Drinking fluids throughout the day versus all at once will help your body cells absorb the water gradually without adding stress to your kidneys.

Limit alcohol intake. If you drink alcoholic beverages, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest you do so in moderation―no more than one drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men. That equates to 12-ounces of beer; 8-ounces of malt liquor; 5-ounces of wine; or 1.5-ounces of a shot of 80-proof distilled spirits or liquor (e.g., gin, rum, vodka or whiskey). Excessive or binge drinking leads to numerous immediate and long-term health risks.

Avoid/quit tobacco usage. No list would be complete without acknowledging the innumerable reasons why the use of tobacco is unhealthy. If you are a smoker, it’s likely you will find this habit one of the hardest to change. Talk with your company about tobacco cessation programs. Additionally, seek out resources and support from the American Lung Association. Learn about our BeneQUIT Tobacco Cessation Program. Walk more. Opportunities to walk are everywhere we turn―whether that means taking a 10-minute walking break at the office or choosing stairs over elevators. These short increments of activity can increase blood flow; releasing hormones that help us manage stress, increase alertness and burn calories.

Choose physical activities you enjoy. Experts suggest adults should set a goal of at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity each day of the week—whether that means 30 minutes at a time or broken into 10-minute intervals three times per day. Find an activity that you enjoy doing, and you will look forward to exercising.

Wash your hands. The number one way to minimize the spread of germs is by thoroughly washing your hands. It’s the simplest step toward limiting infection to you and to others. Using soap and water remains the most effective method of hand washing. When soap and water aren’t readily available, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer (with at least 60% alcohol) is the recommended back-up plan.

Develop healthy sleep habits. Adhering to a sleep schedule or bedtime rituals can reinforce your body’s “sleep-wake” cycle, such as consistently going to bed and getting up at the same time every day. The addition of relaxing rituals, such as reading a book or listening to music, also allow your body to wind down at the end of the day.

See your primary care physician regularly. A primary care physician will help you stay healthy, manage illness and prevent disease. Ask your doctor for a list of general health screening recommendations to prioritize the need for scheduling an appointment. Set goals and work toward achieving them. Use S.M.A.R.T. criteria when setting your goals in order to provide specific direction and achieve measurable results. These are the kind of goals that you are more likely to adopt as part of a long-term commitment to better health and wellness.

An overview of Global health by the numbers is below. You say in a broad scale humans are not living a healthy lifestyle.

• Despite spending twice the amount per capita on health care, the United States ranks last in health and mortality analysis of 17 developed nations
• Americans are near the bottom in nine key areas of health, including low birth weight; injuries and homicides; teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; HIV and AIDS; drug-related deaths; obesity and diabetes; heart disease; chronic lung disease; and general disability
• At 75.6 years, American men have the lowest life expectancy among the countries reviewed, and American women ranked second-to-last at 80.7 years. The infant mortality rate in the US is equally abysmal, with 32.7 deaths per 100,000, while most others range between 15 and 25 deaths per 100,000
• The authors of the report “GMO Myths and Truths” took a science-based approach to evaluating the available research, arriving at the conclusion that most of the scientific evidence regarding safety and increased yield potential do not at all support the claims. The evidence demonstrates the claims for genetically engineered foods are not just wildly overblown – they simply aren’t true. GE foods have been shown to be less nutritious than non-GE foods, and pose distinct health risks and are inadequately regulated
• While failing to pin-point the source(s) of Americans’ failure to thrive, the answers are not hard to deduce: adhering to government-sponsored health and dietary guidance has led Americans astray

We discuss how our brain reacts to fatty, sugary, salty foods and other stimulants.Almost everything you choose to consume will directly or indirectly affect your brain. Obviously, some things we consume affect us more than others. I’m going to assume that spices, plants, animal parts, drugs of any kind, coffee, tea, nicotine and chocolate are all just food and define food as anything we take into our bodies whether it’s nutritious or not. In order to better understand how foods affect the brain it will be helpful to divide them into three categories.

First, those foods we consume in high doses with acute dosing: for example, coffee, sugar, heroin, alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, some spices and a few psychoactive plants and mushrooms. Their effects are almost immediate and depend upon how much reaches the brain. In this class, the most important consideration is getting enough of the chemical from within the food to its site of action in our brain to actually produce some kind of effect that we can notice and associate with consuming that particular food. Most of the time, this simply does not happen. For example, consider nutmeg: low doses will be on pies next month and most of us will not notice that it contains two chemicals that our bodies convert into the popular street drug Ecstasy. Yet, if we consumed the entire canister of the spice our guts will notice (with a terrible diarrhea) and there is a good chance that we will hallucinate for about 48 hours! According to my students, the experience is quite unpleasant.

Secondly are those foods that affect our brain slowly over a period of a few days to weeks. This is usually called “precursor-loading” and would include many different amino acids (tryptophan and lysine are good examples), carbohydrates that have a high glycemic index such as potatoes, bagels and rice, fava beans, some minerals (iron and magnesium in particular), lecithin-containing products such as donuts, eggs and cakes, chocolate and the water-soluble vitamins. Their purpose is to bias the function of a specific transmitter system; usually to enhance its function in the brain. For example, scientists once thought that drinking a glass of warm milk before bed or eating a large meal of protein made us drowsy because of tryptophan loading – the current evidence does not support this but the claim makes my major point: we must get enough of any particular nutrient/chemical to the right place and at the right dose in our brain in order for us to notice any effects. Unfortunately, tryptophan has difficulty getting across the blood-brain barrier into our brain.

So, what’s the scientific evidence for considering the cognitive effects of these foods? Mostly, it’s related to what happens when we do not get enough of them. For example, studies have shown that consuming too little tryptophan makes us depressed and angry and has been blamed for multiple wars and acts of cannibalism. Too little sugar or water-soluble vitamins (the B’s and C) will induce changes in brain function that we will notice after a few days of deprivation. Many authors jump to the conclusion that giving high doses of such nutrients will rapidly improve our mood or thinking: sadly, this is rarely the case. Ordinarily the foods in this category require far more time to affect our brains than do those foods in the first category.

You can see that depending upon how you frame the question about foods and the brain you get a different list of foods and a different reason for consuming them. If you wish to alter your current brain function or slow your brain’s aging you need to consume foods that target specific chemical processes. In truth, no one ever considers these distinctions when eating – we just eat what tastes good. Sadly, our brains powerfully reward us when we eat sugar, fat and salt; thus there is an oncoming epidemic of obesity-related illnesses. Food has both negative and positive effects and it all depends upon what you consume, how much you consume and for how long.

You wrote that millions of years of evolution have shaped humans to avoid pain, seek pleasure, take the path of least resistance and live for today.

People always describe doing something instinctively as something automatic that clicks and you can’t really control it. But I’ve found myself in several situations where I felt it almost kick in, then quickly thought of how illogical it would be. Such as a time where I spilled burning soup on my hand, and felt the immediate urge to drop the soup, and instead thought “But I want the soup” so instead of instinctively dropping it, I carefully put it on the counter and then rushed to clean up. Another situation was when I was playing with my cat and she latched onto my hand. While I felt the sudden urge to pull back, I thought “I don’t want to hurt myself more” and directed her attention to a toy and pulled back at the first opportunity. Many situations like this, or similar to them, make me wonder if instinct is possible to control with logic, but I’m unsure if that’s true. If people are hurt or put in a dangerous situation where everything in their body is telling them to get away, but they know that doing so could make things worse, which thought process would be followed?

Our survival instinct, which has served us so well since we climbed out of the primordial muck eons ago may now be failing us. Why? Because the fight-or-flight reaction that arises in response to a threat to our lives is often no longer effective in a world that is far more complex, unpredictable, and uncontrollable than that of our primitive ancestors’ from which the survival instinct arose. In this article, I want to explore this disconnect between our survival instinct and what kind of new survival instinct might work better today.

At the heart of fight-or-flight are what I call the “Big Three” crisis reactions : fear, gloom, and panic.

We thank Dr. Dayna Lee-Bagley who exercises regularly and rarely enjoys it but recognizes that it is a choice she has made to be as active as possible in doing what ultimately is recognized as best for conquering many of the illnesses of modern day life.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have discussed a topic which is important to all citizens young or old: ways to learn more about our bodies, the nutrients supplements foods activities and energy work that provide a way to maximize the proper functioning of our mind body and spirit so we may better enjoy our physical life avoiding some of the pains and health issues that a poor quality of life decisions ultimately create for us.

It is in finding a plan that is unique and in some way satisfying to your growing concept of self both as a spiritual and physical being that you may incorporate healthy habits slowly over time so they become part of your daily routine much like waking and sleeping eating and exercising loving and learning all part of the human life experience.

Dayna and I would have you remember the way you were as a child…you ate when you were hungry and you ate what appealed to your senses as your body allowed you to select what you needed to exist…you played read and engaged with others exploring your relationship to all things…start to do that now as an adult…slow down pay attention and act in moderation to all emotions and instincts and you will find balance and a healthy way of life.

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Welcome to Healing From Within. I am your host Sheryl Glick author of Life Is No Coincidence and The Living Spirit and my soon to be released third book in the trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which share stories of awakening spiritual communication healing energies miracles and ways to go within to your intuition for a clearer view of life in its multidimensional aspects and am delighted to welcome Dr. Winfried Sedhoff author of The Friendship Key as he offers insights into ways to honor lasting peace united communities stronger relationships equality and improving life for all.

As listeners of the show are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate insights and views on the dual nature of life ..our spiritual energetic components as well as our human condition evolution and awakening to how our thoughts and actions influence the world and universe. It is in becoming aware of higher consciousness and our responsibilities as citizens of a great energetic force of life that we can improve ourselves, our communities and create a world of harmony and peace.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. Winfried Sedhoff will share with us how the disconnection from our intuitive source or guidance system has harmed personal relationships fueled competition and a need to keep up with others rather than go within to discover our personal needs goals and strengths and has created many negative emotions as a result …greed hate envy in the political arena as well as in everyday life. Friendship is therefore crucial to bringing balance and love into every interaction professionally or personally.

When Dr. Sedhoff is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that may have shown him or others what they might find valuable in pursuing in their adult lives, that as a German moving to Australia he was perceived as being somewhat distant or even cold and had difficulties making friends as he was alienated by others due to unrealistic perceptions. As a result, the groundwork for understanding human connection and ways for people to appreciate each other and the ultimate need for friendship was engendered in him.

I can tell from the following question you framed how you feel about our present American president and the question you suggested is….Do you feel after many of these countries including the USA with electing a president who chooses to be a dictator that the USA has learned its harsh lesson and will elect a president who is smart, decent, and honest? Looking at how many people universally are judging leaders and indeed everybody else, this is a loaded assumption and judgment and is part of the problem with political challenges right now, as there seems to be no kindness or moderation or allowing people to think in ways that deviate from the main political ideology, and this is a problem that undermines individuality and freedom. How we view a leader or indeed anyone or anything else must be dependent on tolerance, open-mindedness, and knowing there is individual choice. We have forgotten no one is perfect, there is always a need for compromise and judgment needs to be set aside for acceptance of all things that need to prevail so we may overcome many of our negative thoughts, actions, beliefs or opinions.

In Sheryl Glick’s new book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening due out March 11, 2020 she discusses many topics and the decline of our spiritual connection to nature, man and God and the political situation the world finds itself in. It is not the economic, political, religious or social stresses of these times that are creating such chaos but a separation from our spiritual connection to the Higher Laws of Energy and Universal Source. Once that is reignited the world will heal and move forward.

If you go to Sheryl’s website www.sherylglick.com and read the Epilogue that is posted for A New Life Awaits, you may understand why the 45th President of the US is Donald J. Trump. It was quite possibly a spiritual decision by a higher force to straighten out the last 40 years of corruption by elected and bureaucratic members in Washington D.C. and even Presidents who were unable or unwilling to work for the good of the people and caved to the lobbyists and social media forces. Until we address corruption and follow the Constitution as it was designed to be, a template for the world to find justice, freedom and work towards equality in fair treatment to all which is an ongoing and difficult process to achieve, it seems we will not reach our full divine potential.

Winfried you wrote the following and when I read it I thought about why some people see President Trump as a threat … You wrote, “And it is the enemy who is different to us that is painting a sign in big letters on our back, that reads: ‘I’M NOT ONE OF YOU!’ Can we really be expected to ensure the safety and nourishment of someone who is so different they also weaken the strength of our group’s integrity? It’s unlikely. Mind you, a little bit different is ok, it adds variety, new skills, and adaptability, but too different just sends a signal: we are a loner and can’t be trusted to be there for everyone else when they most need us.”

Dr. Sedhoff goes on to say: “Of course we are going to want to keep alive those who most care for, support, and protect us. When we are injured we need to know someone will care for us and help make us well, tend our wounds and feed us when we can’t feed ourselves. When we need to accomplish difficult tasks we need to know others will support us so we succeed and endure. And when we are attacked we need to know others will protect and defend us.”

Sheryl goes on to say “Anyone fulfilling such roles will probably have preference over someone who doesn’t, especially in times of threat or deprivation. By helping them we help ourselves. So that is what the Democrats are doing now that they lost the election in 2016..the public had enough of Obama’s socialist globalist elitist policies which were creating poverty for many citizens and dependence on government, which is antithetical to our capitalist way of life. Really how can you not be concerned when we are moving towards a totalitarian form of National Socialism which is what Nazi Germany was all about? It would be the end of freedom. So Trump is addressing decades of failed policy and democratic radicalism that has led to homelessness international problems in the Middle East, allowance of China to dominate the South Asian Sea and ultimately moving towards dominating the world economically and with their Communist policies. Only by both parties realizing and utilizing law enforcement and the military are there to protect the public and that our Constitution requires both parties to work together.”

Sheryl might suggest the main ingredient of greed that has taken over in the USA is due to poor leadership over many decades…excessive permissiveness, lack of respect for the virtues of our ancestors and founding fathers who set this nation up as an example for the world to live in prosperity and harmony even while there were injustices and inequality then and now…it was a spiritual blueprint for improving the world. Our corporations, politicians and educational systems, have failed to follow the laws and are intent on tearing down the Constitution, our history and past virtues…the attitude that anything goes reigns freely and there are abuses all over the place. Lawlessness and freedom of speech has been attacked…Inclusiveness doesn’t mean for everyone but for those who believe what the group believes and personal identity and incentive is not encouraged. How do you feel we can begin to address these problems which are not really political, economic or religious….but a lack of connection to our Spiritual Universal Source or Soul Life.

Dr. Sedhoff says he is not a doctor and not a politician, so how does he feel we can find some answers to some of the questions that will help us change our political situation that has careened out of control? Sheryl says: “I think Winfried has found a basic way to approach difficult people and situations damaging the fiber of personal and collective wellbeing which will be helpful in improving a person’s outlook and then his life.”

Dr. Sedhoff writes in the following story about a client: ”Like many of us, Toby didn’t know how to communicate in a way that worked. Having had a tough childhood, he suffered more than his fair share of verbal and physical abuse; there wasn’t anyone there to teach him how to get on with others in a way that let them feel calm and want to be around him. Instead, he was always on guard, and on the defense. It was like he was just waiting for the next person to attack him, and some did. After a while we started talking about friendship, needs and desires—what people want from us to feel comfortable and satisfied in our company. The next I’d see him was several months later. I almost didn’t recognize him. Gone was the shy guy hunched forward trying not to look you in the face, now he stood tall, seemed calm, and almost had a smile on his face. I couldn’t wait to ask what happened. He said it was simple. All he did was treat people like friends, and they just treated him differently. This is an important key to friendship and improving the human condition. The Law of Attraction suggests that what we do either lovingly or not, brings back that same response to us. So goodness begets goodness and anger begets anger and so on.

He continues on to describe: “This disconnect is happening all over the world and yes, in the US too. Look past all our complex language, our detailed explanations for how the world and our brain are supposed to work. Look past our dreams, beliefs, expectations, culture, and all the technology we interact with every day, and we find a basic creature, a human being, driven, as is a brush turkey, by the drive nature wrote inside it. Only in our case we find the drives to be human, not to be a brush-turkey. Search into our feelings and we find basic desires—the fundamental drives and motivations—of every human being. Where is the evidence that it in the basic understanding that we are biological beings with our own part to play— our place, different to other living things—in the natural world; we find it in the “commonality” of our humanity. Yes, we are all human and can recognize this in the common desires to eat, drink, and avoid temperature extremes, to share the love of our children, and desires to feel safe and secure. What are these basic desires instilled in all of us independent of race, beliefs, or culture? The brush turkey is born, goes on his own and has little need for contact with his own kind…being solitary and detached leads to lack of empathy and the ability to communicate and cooperate for human attachment, love and interconnectedness. It is for most the basic human drive to be loved and needed : also to share, to feel, and to be of service to others.”

White men are perceived to be not vocal in support of women. Sheryl says it is not only white men but the Patriarchal religions that have over centuries separated men from women and assumed leadership over women, and control of all resources for the last 4,000 years. It is only when there is an equal balance and respect for the differences as well as the similarities of both genders that we will begin to heal on many levels. The feminine aspect of energy within both men and women that nurture and care for life and the planet is now being uplifted in all societies and is the key to the salvation of humanity. Our political systems reflect these religious inadequacies and need to be modernized and refined. Mind control over our children and the teaching of radical ideologies needs to end. We need balance, moderation and fairness to reside in our hearts and minds…This is a “Spiritual Revolution” as much as it is political or economic… rising anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity is causing great divide in the world. Dr. Sedhoff seeks to understand and find solutions to bring religions, nations and divided political groups together. In unity there is oneness and a way to live in peace and harmony. “It can be done. it will be done.” Sheryl Glick also has a chapter she recently contributed to a new book, just out, an anthology of spiritual leaders entitled “Gateway to an Enlightened World” by Dr. Ruth Anderson which shares a series of spiritually downloaded messages Sheryl received that offer how we must go forward in these changing challenging times to heal our world. If we listen to our inner heart wisdom and don’t let the distractions of the outside world overtake us we will be stronger in our human desire to thrive and live a healthier, more fulfilling life story.

In Sheryl’s new book A New Life Awaits, Sheryl wrote, “Ms. Caroline Myss proceeded to inform the audience that we were headed for a global holistic theology and there would be a merging coalition of God’s world and all religions at a deeper level. None of the existing religions would dominate, and they would all merge into one cooperative religion. Humanity will heal their religious misconceptions and no longer be at odds. We will find the true purpose of all religions, which is Universal love and acceptance.

We discover in the USA what we can learn from Indigenous Cultures. We can learn from Indigenous Cultures the desires of Community Self Nature didn’t make us to be like brush-turkeys, to be solitary creatures; we lack the feathers for a start. Instead, it made us find safety and security among others of our kind. Like a wolf, a social animal that also hunts and survives better in groups, we thrive if we work together as a unified and coordinated group, or community. If the bear or tiger attacks then together we can quickly send it on its way, or kill it. We can even bring down more, and larger, game; we can hunt better in a group. A classic example would be the Cro-Magnon of early Europe, working together they could bring down large mammoth, something they could never hope to do alone. Nature determined we are to be social and so it gave us what we can recognize as Community Self desires, which drive us to come together and work as an integrated collective, a team that can act as one. We are made to find safety and security in numbers. We can recognize our Community Self desires as our desires, or needs, of friendship; we will be focusing on these throughout the book. We will list them in a moment.

Dr. Winfried Sedhoff would like readers of The Friendship Key to take away with them after reading his book the Ten Desires of Friendship.

TEN DESIRES OF FRIENDSHIP:

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• Valued
• Validated/Approved
• Noticed
• Respected
• Appreciated
• Cared for
• Heard
• Supported
• Sameness (similarity)
• Protected

To be compassionate is a combination of all of the Ten Desires of Friendship, especially that of wanting to care; it is next to impossible to be compassionate if we don’t care for others. And love—to feel loved by those around us—also encompasses caring, supporting, protecting, validating, respecting, appreciating, noticing, valuing—essentially being a close friend. We often feel most loved around close friends. This is important to remember. In a book about friendship it is easy to forget that friendship and being social is just part of who we are. It is easy to fail to recognize we aren’t just part of a community, we are also part of a family, we are individuals in our own right, and part of a bigger world. Changing the nature of our friendships changes our communities, ourselves, and the world. As the diagram reminds us, they are all interconnected.

We thank Dr. Winfried Sedhoff, author of The Friendship Key, for sharing the way history shows us how to prevent old and new mistakes from happening again, and how through allowing ourselves to open to new perceptions we can find value in what may have been seen at one time as unfavorable. Life is changing and change is ultimately necessary.

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” we have discussed the role of history, human nature and human development as we try to understand and engage with an honest and hopeful energy to make sense out of these changing political, social, economic, religious and often fast moving social media and technological advances. Dr. Winfried Sedhoff has offered ways to view human needs and suggest ways to improve self, community and the world and the effort boils down first to self-investigation and knowing how to honor our own needs while enhancing life for others. It also involves self-mastery of emotions which range from negative to positive and which we all must experience as we also learn to engage that which makes us feel healthy, happy and valued as opposed to embracing emotions which make us feel disempowered and unworthy. We must know these emotions well so we can find what makes life sing with joy and positivity rather than fear and darkness. Friendship is indeed a key to a successful mindful life journey.

Dr. Sedhoff wrote, “Having our friendship needs met doesn’t happen by trying to make others meet them for us. It doesn’t happen by punishing them if they ignore us or don’t listen, by abusing them if they don’t seem to care, by threatening them if they don’t protect or support us. Yet, that is what we often do isn’t it, punish others for not noticing, caring for, or appreciating us, especially in relationships? Just you wait, I’ll give you the silent treatment, ignore you, shout at or slam you with abuse. I’ll teach you! Of course, this actually makes matters worse as it destroys what friendship we have left; one more nail in the coffin of our relationship. Put simply, our friendship needs get met best by us focusing on just meeting them in others.

Winfried and Sheryl would have you remember when we find the similarities that bind us together in our human hopes to experience love, prosperity health and happiness, we make the Friendship Key more effective and find greater ways to share, cooperate and find the common good.

Your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers Healing and Infinite Love and her soon to be released book A New Life Awaits…on February 7. 2020 invites you to visit my website to read about and listen to authors metaphysicians scientists spiritualists, physicians and psychologists and those in the arts and music discuss insights into our energetic and physical life qualities so we may once again know who we are and where life comes from, and improve our personal and collective life stories. 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 Master Teacher and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and messages from Spirit that show us our challenges are not economic political or societal just a spiritual disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Sandra Shaw author of Evelio’s Garden a self described naturalist who has spent the last twenty nine years in Costa Rica sharing a remembrance that captures one woman’s connection to nature and becoming aware of how important it is to take care of your own dreams and needs as well as our environment.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware, my guests and I share intimate stories and insights helping us to awaken more fully to the true nature of our duality and begin to explore energy and our soul essence so we may live more fully in the physical world of nature man and Spirit.

In today’s episode of Healing From With author Sandra Shaw will share her friendship with Evelio in Costa Rica who helped her create an organic garden. In the difficult year battling unpredictable weather, wild animals and toxic chemicals their friendship grew and Evelio taught Sandra about the sustainability of rural Costa Rica in decades past. Their relationship and many other relationships led Sandra to open up to her difficult past and combine hers with Evelio’s stories creating profound personal change for both of them.

When Sandra is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person place or event that might have signaled to her or to others around her what interests lifestyle or work she would pursue as an adult for often the story of one’s life is seen early on Sandra writes, “I remember the sound and smell of a northern October a sneaky gust of air bearing the chill scent of winter to-come, skittering dry leaves across the road, swirling around my legs and rattling my paper bag, as I plodded along on Halloween nights to the clutch of houses a mile down the road. I had an inkling of that same wind last night. Was my little sister Alison in tow on those Halloween nights? Surely, although I wouldn’t have taken her hand. It says a lot about the time and place – 1958, rural Pennsylvania – that our parents allowed two little girls to walk a mile and back on a dark, deserted country road for Halloween treats. We had no fear. But our parents weren’t paying much attention to us anyway, because they were in a crisis – the biggest one yet – which was to bring major changes for all of us for decades to come.

Meals were taken in heavy quiet at the kitchen table, the family silenced by our father’s tight-lipped rage. Being the elder sister, I assumed that he was angry at me. It didn’t help that in the late afternoons I would find Mom leaning against the back of the sofa, reading, feet propped on the coffee table, with a beer-mug full of gin and tonic at her side. We didn’t learn until we were in our twenties what the nature of that distant marital crisis was – our mother’s infidelity unmasked – although throughout our teens, my sister and I each harbored our unspoken suspicions. It is a judgmental age; so easy to blame, so difficult to see into the hurting heart of another, especially a parent. Alison and I carried this sense of betrayal – and in my case, the fear that I was doomed to be like our mother – into later life, when, in our separate ways, we could finally see that her love for us was greater than our grief.

Alcoholics are emotional abusers – they can’t help it, it’s all they know. They pull you into their vortex and make you feel responsible for everything that’s wrong, especially their illness. So you try rescue after rescue, which inevitably fail, and the failures mount up so high that it’s impossible to feel good about yourself, about anything. To rescue my own sinking soul, I had to break away. Writing was my way out. Entering another world is easy for me: I let myself go and open my eyes and heart and fall into it. And since I know I’m probably going to write about it later, I pay attention to the details. Perhaps writers suck up life from the things around them. Is this a form of theft? Do we plagiarize the living in order to feel alive ourselves?

Sheryl says it sounds like you enter into meditation and connect to Higher Self or the Afterlife as I do as a medium and suck up life as an empath?

Sandra came to Costa Rica with her husband in 1990, in the hope of finding a kinder lifestyle, warmer climate, and the opportunity to do those things they really enjoyed. He wanted to garden and fish and be outdoors; I wanted to start seriously writing for myself, instead of for others. Some people adapt easily to other cultures. Sandra’s mother imbued in her a love of travel and the sense that learning another language opened a door to a whole new, exciting, and possibly beautiful world. Although it took a while for Sandra to learn how to create my days outside the confines of a full-time job, she found everything around me so interesting – the people, the daily life in the little village where we lived, the challenges of farm life and cooking what grew all around us, and, of course, the language – that Sandra soon felt her new life had launched and her horizons were expanding.

Her husband, on the other hand, terribly missed the stature he had enjoyed in his profession in Philadelphia, and he began to feel somehow lessened by this move we had made. Always a heavy drinker, within a year he had fallen into a bottle of vodka, and he never came up for air. I can’t apologize to myself any more for my failures in that marriage – I’m sure I handled a lot of it badly. But, finally, I knew I couldn’t try anymore, and I had to release myself from his life and start again to create my own. Six years after we arrived in Costa Rica, I left him.

Sheryl says how interesting it is to note that our patterns formed in childhood often lead us to similar relationships in adulthood. They say you marry a person that closely resembles the parent you felt a strong connection to. Sandra had an alcoholic needy mother and married a man with similar issues.

Sandra describes the place she lived in and writes, “We live on a stretch of country road between two quebradas, among dozens of gullies and gorges carrying water from springs rising in the hills down to the basin of the lake. These remain as small patches of jungle threading through open fields and pasture. One of these quebradas runs alongside the original house on the property, deeply green and jungly, and filled in their seasons with toucans, oropéndolas, bejeweled hummingbirds, chattering parrots. Howler monkeys roam up and down the quebrada in search of tender new leaves, roaring everybody awake Evelio’s garden 8 within miles precisely at dawn. There are other creatures not so visible, nor so welcome. Opossums, coatis, kinkajous, skunks, tayras, weasels, squirrels, and porcupines – some of these have squeezed into the bodega at night to steal the bananas ripening there. There were iguanas on the roof, scorpions in the closet. Once, two baby armadillos scooted out of the woods to frolic on the grass near Roger, who was working on his car, brushing right past his legs. We built the new house high on a promontory overlooking the lake and volcanoes Arenal, Tenorio and Miravalles in the north central highlands. We had lived in the little house on the property for six years, dreaming of this home and talking it over in endless detail, before an inheritance finally allowed us to build it. It’s a traditional tropical house with a twist – two stories high – with deep overhanging roofs, a wraparound verandah, high ceilings, and beautiful teak woodwork (Roger’s specialty).

Sheryl says, “Yours was a journey of the soul to break free of a restrictive childhood and be part of the eternal beauty and graciousness of living a bold and open hearted way to connect to all of life the energy of Costa and the people land and freedom of living a simpler more involved life with the people you interacted with and this freedom was translated into the writing you did and the personal growth you had.

Sandra found that her life was different from life in the United States. She fell into the world Evelio grew up in when her Spanish teacher, Rosa Emilia, invited her on an excursion. She provided no details except that her uncle Francisco was leading. It was a typical family outing – complete with coolers, kids, and camp chairs – up into the dusty hills north of Cañas, to a remote farm with an unpainted wooden house shaded by an enormous guanacaste tree. There were no vehicles, no electric wires, no telephone poles. The family, a mother and three grown sons, greeted each of us with the traditional kiss on the cheek. The sons wore no socks in their misshapen leather shoes. The mother’s hair, in the style of country women of a certain generation, was wound elaborately around her head with a pompadour perched on top. They were delighted to see us, even with no advance notice of our coming. Rosa Emilia whispered that Francisco had met the family when he taught school in the district many years before. A short hike beyond the river was a lichened wall of petroglyphs: six yards high and 15 long, covered with pre-Columbian carvings of monkeys, fish, iguanas, humans, suns, moons, snakes, unfathomable geometric shapes – a fantasy in stone. There are ancient places – I have only encountered a few of these in my life – that give one an extraordinary sense of suddenly being stretched back in time. At these moments, I feel the innocent heart of some much earlier person peeking through my eyes at the marvel in front of me.

To Sandra, the life on that farm was familiar only from movies, but to Evelio, who grew up that way, it is as familiar as the face of his grandfather. Sandra needed to remember this before making any assumptions about a shared culture. It’s not only language that separates Evelio and me, but time.

Sheryl feels like Sandra was discovering her soul of many lifetimes and places and seeking to merge present day life with the love of past places and people. In Sheryl’s book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening Sheryl shares that wisdom of knowing who we are as spiritual beings having a physical life bridging past present and future in the oneness of eternal life and Sheryl writes, “The Universe, it appears, is asking us to pay attention, wake up, and go beyond all differences and limited thinking to observe, make corrections, and reevaluate priorities and values. Let’s help the coming generations to have multiple and plentiful opportunities to live and discover the beauty and awe-inspiring hopes of past ancestors who were able to forgo uncontrolled impulses for material gains alone, finding genuine or authentic human qualities. I grew up in a time when there were peace movements along with world concerns for idealistic approaches to living well and where personal fulfillment was a valued commodity. But always, we brought the precious values of our ancestors in spirit with us, which positively affected our decision-making process and added to our spiritual awakening. Now, we must continue to work with all aspects of our physical and spiritual lives, to heal and create a world that offers hope in the face of personal or collective hardships, that may make us forget our divinity and ability to live with dignity.”

Sandra scribes her ex-husband’s gruesome suicide and their divorce. During that long and ugly divorce, both my ex-husband and my father had behaved so badly that I stopped speaking to my father for a year. He had sided with my ex, refused to help me financially and told me to go back to the States and get a job. Sandra was almost fifty, and was forced to ask herself why she had remained in a marriage with such an abuser for so many years. The revelation: I had been trained for it. That’s when murder entered my heart – and I saw the moment as a spiritual crisis. I sought help.

A year after the divorce was final, it took as much emotional exhaustion as courage finally to tell Dad why she had been so angry. But even though she didn’t fully understand how she had felt abused, he apologized, and we both tried harder after that, although the tension was ever palpable. One of the ways he made me feel bad when I was growing up was by calling me irresponsible. Hence, turning over his bonsai to me was a statement that – at least for the moment – I was trustworthy. Of course, I jumped at it

In that last year we were together, Sandra’s husband brought Roger home for dinner. He did this occasionally, inviting total strangers home, almost always unattached gringos who hung out at Mary’s Bar and Hotel in the mornings for coffee or a stiff pick-me-up. Sandra didn’t warm to Roger particularly. Frankly, she was inclined to be a little suspicious of people her husband liked. But we had a pleasant enough evening. Months later, riding my mare up past the all-night gas station, she rounded a curve and saw a small house in a messy state of renovation. Something compelled me to pull into the gate and dismount. Inside, Roger was working up a sweat with a handsaw over lengths of tongue-and-groove cedro for the facing of a breakfast bar.

I asked if I could look around, and as I explored the small rooms with their oversized windows and stepped back out onto the front porch, a giddy joy filled me up. The view over the Guanacaste Plain was long. I could live here, I thought … and a plan for leaving my marriage came into focus. I moved in when the house was still unfinished, and Roger showed up once in a while to smooth out the details. Although we chatted amicably enough, I kept to myself.

Sandra tells the story of her husband’s suicide and writes, “Sadly, I am always reminded of that June night years ago when a friend called me – I don’t remember now who – to tell me about my ex-husband’s suicide, but I have to say I wasn’t surprised, just horrified at the manner of it. There were witnesses from the shore: he had driven his small fishing boat out into the middle of the lake, tied the car battery that he used to power the electric motor around his neck and jumped overboard. According to those who saw him just before he took off from the ramp on the north shore, he was smashed. The news was all over the lake within minutes. The Red Cross immediately began a search along the banks, while those with boats waited until daylight and then began to comb the small coves and river mouths in search of some sign. The boat was quickly found, but the body – headless – showed up in the reeds along the south shore days later.

It wouldn’t be fair to paint him as some kind of villain. Before the booze started to destroy him, he was a bright, creative, witty, charming man. I was captivated almost from the moment he hired me (ignoring Rule Number 362: “Never marry your boss”). And we had moments of love, of connection with my family I might not otherwise have had, of adventure and travel. We shared music, books, and exciting work. But he always wanted to be center stage – he desperately needed that attention – and he was manipulative, jealous, controlling, vindictive, blaming. My big mistake was falling into the Responsibility Trap – I thought love was a feeling of responsibility for the other; I didn’t know enough then to realize that this is just the flipside of the alcoholic coin. It takes a long time to write a fair obituary of a marriage. My last word on that one has to be, “No regrets.”

Sheryl says it sounds like a description of Narcissistic Personality Disorder which seems to be a growing problem these days and those people cannot be helped or changed and often harm the others around them before they harm themselves. They live in a world of drama, chaos and unhappiness and cause much damage to others.

Sandra tells us about the environmental work she has been involved in while in Costa Rica. Understanding the uniqueness of the climate and environment is pertinent to the work she does in Costa Rica. It is interesting to me that not a single Costa Rican I know has any doubts about global warming, while there are still so many in the North who deny it altogether. It must be that living close to the land predisposes one to the idea that human beings are an integral part of the ecosystem and that we can, in fact do, damage it in countless ways.

There aren’t a lot of clues as to what season we’re in here in Costa Rica. We joke when we say there are only two seasons, rainy and windy, but in fact our neighbors refer to a sunny day as “summer” and a rainy day as “winter” even if these days are contiguous . One year, we had three days of average 70 mile-per-hour winds – with gusts over 100 – and one of the old erector-set wind towers just crumpled up and twisted down onto its side. There were so many trees and power lines down that week that we were without electricity for three days. Is our weather getting more severe? Year-to-year it’s hard to tell, without my having kept any records. But anyone over 50 in Tilarán will tell you that it has, that the local climate has, in fact, changed. “It didn’t use to be as dry or as windy,” the older locals say. Why? “There were a lot more trees.”

Sandra learned a great truth about the soul and the continuity of life by taking care of the failing bonsai trees her father gave her and wrote, “Taking care of my father’s bonsai has deepened my understanding of another living thing. To say that it is a miracle – this life form with its green fuse and white blood, its unfurling leaves, its innate thrusting out from the center – has been said before. But the bigger miracle here is me: the observer, the tender, the servant of these trees, the new lover of growing things, the one who is also growing. My parents are both gone now. But my father’s three ficus benjamina have survived many years of my intermittent care.

People ask me if it was tough to get Costa Rican citizenship. I don’t remember any particular difficulty with the paperwork – trámites – all ably managed by the lawyer who had handled my residency renewals. But I do remember – vividly! – the exams, one in Spanish and the other in history/civics/geography – for both of which I studied intensely for six weeks with the help of a couple of local high school teachers, and both of which were damned difficult. A happy byproduct of all that studying, however, was my discovery that I could actually learn to read in Spanish simply by doing it. I had been lazy about reading up to that point, but if I was going to meet the exam deadline there was no time to go to the dictionary every time I encountered a word I didn’t know. When my lawyer asked me if I intended to renounce my U.S. citizenship, I barely hesitated before saying yes. It just seemed to make every bit of sense to me at the time. My values had changed; my perspective on the U.S. had changed; the totality of my life – my heart – was here. So, I simply chose not to pursue dual citizenship and swore an act of renunciation in a tiny, bare interrogation room – yes, really – in the U.S. Embassy.

Sandra tells us how she came to know Evelio. Evelio is one of those people who are hard to shake. My second husband, Roger, who has the kindness to adopt the less fortunate, found Evelio working as a night guard at a local windsurf center and decided he could teach Evelio how to finish drywall. He was very busy with construction projects at the time and wanted an assistant. After his own projects were finished, Roger continued to find Evelio work, and in time his construction skills were honed to the point where he turned out to be a valuable member of the crew that built our new house. After that, he just hung around. A house, like a manuscript, is never really finished, and we had moved in long before all the details were done, so Evelio continued to make himself useful to the point where he became part of the furniture – just as Koki, our gardener and general factotum, and Rosa, our part-time house-keeper, have long been part of our daily lives. One day I came home from doing errands in town to receive the news from an excited Evelio that he was going to create an organic garden along the vacant stretch of our property facing the lake.

The garden has been Evelio’s opportunity to return to working the land he loves. fore he started, but the garden has been driven by his fantasies right from the beginning: that he would revolutionize agriculture around the lake; that he would attract the interest and helping hands of others who would want to participate in the project; that he would find a ready market for everything he grew. When reality bites, he slides into a funk and needs a heavy dose of emotional support to keep him going. At the beginning of every encounter with him, I try to remember to take a deep breath. I try to remember to focus on the moment, to listen to what’s really going on inside him. I try to remember that, in giving him my present attention, I am not losing anything, but rather gaining by the exercise of my compassion. These things do not come naturally to me.

We thank Sandra Shaw, author of her newest book Evelio’s Garden, a bold and introspective look at life in a foreign land and an awakening to true healing as a result of changing friendship and an open heart and mind. Learn more about the beauty of life in Costa Rica and a growing awareness of how to help preserve our beautiful world of nature by reading this descriptive book.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Sandra Shaw has described in vivid language and stories of her life both in the United States and Costa Rica the urge of the wandering soul to self -fulfill their wildest dreams by moving out of their comfort zone and learning to love life nature and the beauty of all living things on this planet allowing for a growing awareness of our true soul capacity to expand and improve self and the community.

Sandra wrote, We’ve been here long enough to see people come and go. Some can brave the remoteness, the vagaries of the climate and the strangeness of the culture, and some can’t. Sandra Shaw Homer 143 Some people get attached to the land, and some don’t. When I was growing up, my family never lived long enough in one place for me to become bound to the land. We lived in some beautiful and some not-so-beautiful places, both rural and suburban. From my college years until I came to Costa Rica, I moved even more frequently, living exclusively in cities. It was a little shocking to realize, when we started building this house in 2004, that I’ve lived on Lake Arenal, and on this particular plot of ground, longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life. You can’t get attached to the earth in Philadelphia or New York. How many millions of people never do? It’s this attachment that fires my desire to protect it – not just my attachment to this particular plot of ground, but to the whole planet. It’s not such a giant leap of the imagination from the sight of a young growing forest to the image of a tiny blue speck in the vastness of the universe. So, finally, it is the sense of place here that has captured me and pinned me to the planet. It is gratifying to be part of the history of the land, to be growing a farm instead of shrinking it, to be building a forest instead of cutting it down, to be adding something by our tenancy of the Earth.

Sandra and I would hope you can find people and places that pique your excitement in living and lead you to discover how to serve, grow yourself and contribute to the planet in ways that may not have material concerns, just the outpouring of love.

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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 her newly released new book in the trilogy A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which share stories of knowing how your alignment to the world of Universal Energy and intuition offer opportunities to create your best life both here in the physical life and beyond. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Joseph Bikart, author of The Art of Decision Making for it is in the choices we make with the information available to us at the time that encourages us to live our life plan with purpose, prosperity, health, and joy.

As listeners have come to expect through the years Sheryl and her guests have been sharing intimate and insightful looks at the connect between the physical and metaphysical elements of life as we know it, and as it actually continues to unfold, we find Universal Laws of Energy that when understood and practiced, can help us reach our full potential as human soul beings and help us excel at living with compassion and love for all life.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within: Joseph Bikart is a founding partner and director of the international consulting firm Templar Advisors. For the past twenty years following a career in investment banking he has advised leaders in corporate and public life on their communication and negotiations. Through his work with thousands of decision-makers, he has created Decisiology, an innovative approach to executive coaching drawing from his studies at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock in London. In today’s show drawing from philosophy psychology, literature and theology, Joseph Bikart uses decades of experience as an advisor to leading companies around the world to explore how and why we make decisions and how to restore volition. In the words of Miles Davis, “Its not the note you play that’s the wrong note, it is the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”

The Art of Decision Making is set up in a way that shows readers why it is important for people to confront the way they approach decision making or procrastinate. The book is broken into four parts and punctuated with short practical essays to insure a lively and compelling exploration of the process of decision making covering indecision, how we get stuck, and the importance of relaxing one’s grip, how to approach the momentum of decisiveness and keep focused while progressing from will to action and using the deciding mind to make smart choices and know the importance of perspective.

Indecision, indecision: What makes us indecisive? What holds us back and why. Joseph suggests it is the conflict between our head’s ego based reality and our heart’s energetic or soul based truths. “To be or not to be” is the genesis of each and every choice we make. Something simply is or isn’t. And the same applies to us. We decide to be or not to be, to live or not to live, to do or not to do. The point is not the outcome to be or not to be but the very fact that we face a decision. The quintessence of being human—defines what it means to stand in front of the abyss. We only truly exist when we stand there, in front of the choice we need to make ready to decide on being or not being, doing or not doing.

Sheryl says that she often says to her clients who come to her for intuitive readings and energy healing sessions that it is not in the doing, but in the being and what she means is it is in the refining of our intuitive soul energy not from our physical reality or challenges that we begin to understand the eternal life force and the wisdom of the universe so we may achieve in this lifetime what we were born to know: greater love and compassion and to remember who we are as spiritual beings having a physical life.

Joseph tells us of a time when one of his clients had a challenging decision to make and how they were finally able to make the best choice using the resources of their mind, heart, and soul.

Sheryl says: over the past 25 years, she has had many mystical experiences and has come to understand the duality of our spiritual and physical life. She has come to know we are guided by a destiny or life plan and whatever choice we make is the right choice no matter how it materializes for it will give us the experience that we need…so she no longer thinks in terms of good or bad or right or wrong…There is only experiences and the growth of soul wisdom as we maneuver this challenging physical world. Perhaps a hard choice for her was over twenty years ago when she began her Reiki energy healing practice and began to download information or messages for her clients she struggled with “should I or should I not” tell them what she is receiving from higher universal energy as with Reiki although it was a spiritual and alternative form of healing she had training and could feel and see the results of her work. But with these messages which sounded almost like a different language how could she explain it to other…so for about a year she struggled with making a choice…then at a spiritual retreat Robert Close a British medium told her that Sheryl’s father said that she should be giving the messages to her clients as it would help them along with the energy healing to resolve and release old traumas…Sheryl didn’t doubt it ever again and also didn’t care if others could not understand the gift of mediumship and healing she had decided to share with others…Sheryl also made a choice to share her new awareness that Consciousness survives physical death and promised to Spirit that she would carry the ball or message as far as she could to the goal line. Sheryl’s third book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening will be available at the end of January 2020……

Joseph postulates, “Where Art Thou?” and how and where we get stuck and why is it important to relax one’s grip to allow a universal source to aid you in your life’s journey.

Sheryl says to Joseph that like all decision- making processes we must realize every human endeavor involves our internal remembrances of what was satisfying or traumatic along the way. We are the product of our societal training and the imprints of every interaction with each other and our environment. All beings seek to go from fear or a negative emotion to happiness, joy, bliss, success on the other end of the spectrum. So therefore, decision making may become easier if we remember who we are, relax into any fear that precludes our ability to make a decision, and trust that there is a bigger universal plan in operation and if we are patient and prudent but not resistant, almost any decision can give us the opportunity for great personal growth. It doesn’t matter whether we think we fail as a result of a decision chosen, for if we chose that decision, we will have the experience needed for personal growth and there really is no failure, only experience.

Joseph writes, “as your self-appointed guide on this journey, I will take you on a voyage of exploration. Think of it like an archaeological mission which led to the discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun’s tomb with its fabulous treasure….The undertaking was achieved at the cost of much digging, much dusting, and probably much desperation before the final triumph. As archaeologists of volition, we need to be prepared for a similarly ambitious project. It will involve commitment and strength as we dig for psychological archetypes, long forgotten events and thought processes, as well as deep-rooted emotions. If decisions are a type of crisis our struggles to deal with them may not be surprising at all. It may be that the best way to deal with decisions is the way we respond to other crisis or the way we should. That is not by panicking self-doubt or renouncing what is difficult or painful but rather by listening intently to the heartbeat of the crisis, embracing it and turning it into opportunities.”

Joseph uses the term The Momentum of Decisiveness and explains that term, showing us ways to keep focus and to progress from will to action. He mentions Decisiology and says it is the methodology he has developed to help clients who struggle with important decisions.

Decisiology has three objectives: To improve the outcomes of specific decisions people face To help them make better decisions themselves.

To identify the common thread between those decisions people find particularly challenging and follow the thread down to its deepest roots.

Joseph uses the term The Deciding Mind and shares with us how we can make our smartest choices and the importance of perspective and perhaps defense mechanisms that hinder this development. A very clear minded and worthwhile thought to remember given as an orientation point by Joseph is, “Decision making often takes place amidst uncertainties: we take action having evaluated possible consequences but without knowing whether the desired outcomes will follow. The simple way to describe this approach is “risk.” When risks work out as hoped the problem with blaming fate is that we start to feel victimized by outside forces working against us. A healthier attitude is to make positive contingency plans to prepare for worst case scenarios. Some risks will work in our favor; others will not.”

Sheryl says: “most people avoid risks and procrastinate out of fear that they don’t have all the information or enough knowledge but then again there will never be enough as things are in constant state of change and there is no perfection so we must act in good faith after we examine the choices and proceed with caution so we can adapt and make any necessary change as we implement our choice or decision hoping for the best but being realistic and knowing we may need to ask for guidance or help as we move along towards our desired goals.”

In regard to the quest for perfection, Joseph writes, “The quest for perfection does not merely show lack of realism: it can also be regarded as narcissistic. Imperfection is intrinsic to human nature, yet many of the goals we set up for ourselves ignore this fact. When idealism infects our decision- making process, we can start entertaining dangerously unrealistic ideas about our capabilities.”

Beyond the misbeliefs of earlier training our thoughts of perfection being an achievable reality which of course is impossible there is the defense mechanism of Osmosis. We justify indecisiveness by not deciding. This behavior protects us as we are unlikely to be solicited for decisions by others let alone make them ourselves. As we lose faith in our opinions, this psychological device becomes a vicious circle of self-doubt. Defense mechanisms can be very complex but they do not necessarily imply they are effective. What is the hostile force that our defense mechanisms are trying to protect us from? The force is fear and fear is not always a negative emotion. It can at times alert us to unforeseen risks and help us to make better decisions or choices. Joseph suggests that decision-fear falls into seven categories which can be grouped under two headings: fears about the choices we make and fears about the consequences of our choices.

Fears about the choices we make:
Fear of rejecting a better option
Fear of choosing the wrong option
Fear of failure

Story of Leonardo Da Vinci who often failed to complete his projects perhaps out of the fear they would not become masterpieces and fulfill his vision that was already complete in his mind…He destroyed many sketches or drawings that disappointed him but in actuality beyond his sense of perfectionism were probably extraordinary.

Fear of heights
Fear of Identification
The fear of identification or the belief that any criticism of what we have created is a criticism of the intrinsic self. Our inner voice might tell us we are what we do. And it isn’t only our inner voice but that of our parents, teachers, managers clients and so on that may reinforce our own thoughts.

Fear of lack of recognition

This is also the fear of being taken for granted, of being disrespected. Fear of selfishness

If we elect to live in a world of connection we may yet have to face one further fear: that of unsettling others or of being perceived as acting in a selfish manner…There is a great difference between people feeling hurt by something we say or do and people being hurt.

Decision making is therefore often a narrowly personal operation. We have an agenda and seek to make decisions to advance it. However, a fully rounded person will always allow empathy to enter the field of play. We can become acutely aware of another person’s perspective projecting ourselves onto their predicament. When this modifies our decision making it shows the triumph of connection over self interest.

Sheryl says we are living in a time of great spiritual evolution and as many awaken to the fact that they are special beings having at the moment a physical reality

When it comes to decision making of any kind if we are stuck in a similar pattern of what Freud called repetition compulsion we may suddenly find that every decision seems labelled with the words….Mission Impossible.

Psychologists have identified through research 11 life traps which impede decision making.

The 11 life traps are:

Abandonment: Fear of being abandoned by your partner or someone important to you. Mistrust/abuse You mistrust others or tend to find yourself in abusive situations. Emotional deprivation You feel you will never obtain the love you need.

Dependence You feel unable to keep going without having someone to look after you. Defectiveness You feel there is something seriously wrong with you, though you might not quite know what it is.

Social exclusion You feel like an outsider, unable to fit in well with everyone else.

Failure You feel you yourself are a failure, based on your poor track record for success.

Entitlement: You feel that the world owes you something.

Subjugation: You feel controlled by other people.

Vulnerability You feel something terrible is likely to happen to you personally. Unrelenting standards You feel you must push yourself constantly, allowing no time for rest or enjoyment.

Identifying where we are stuck is an essential first step towards growing out of our narrow vision of the world and expanding into the largeness of our souls. Sheryl is so glad to hear mention of the soul need to expand and resolve any personal issues. The fears related to decision making can hide other deeper fears inherited from childhood. There are two childhood fear—engulfment and insufficiency—which taint our vision of the world and pervade our other fears. Unless we address any issues of engulfment and insufficiency we run the risk of remaining stuck in one or more of the 11 life traps.

Joseph Bikart would like to have readers of The Art of Decision Making take away with them after reading the book that although the idea that a decision emanates from an individual may seem self evident, it is valuable in implying that the starting point cannot be merely laying out available options on a cold clean slate or doing the standard analytical listing of pros and cons. Instead decision making has to involve tapping into intuition. We may never attain perfect decision making in itself if the decision is unknowable but our exploration must begin with our own feelings, sensations and intuition about what is needed. In that respect all decisions and especially tough decisions are a voyage of self-discovery.

Carl Jung wrote, “Intuition is concerned with time. The intuitive person is able to see around the corners to have hunches about things and is more interested in the possibilities of things than in their present existence. Intuition is what enables creativity.”

We thank Joseph Bikart author of The Art of Decision Making for sharing the many areas of study integrating philosophy, psychology, neurology, literature, art history and theology for addressing a crucial skill needed by all of us…..the ability to observe process and filter through much information so we can make viable choices to improve our personal and collective lives

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within,” Sheryl believes we have seen the process of decision making has been a thought of many philosophers psychologists and authors who have often come to the recognition that the human condition fear and trauma often harm a person’s sense of well being and it is in recognizing the event that created any dysfunction that we become confident and trust that inner small voice of intuition or spiritual guidance and become more adept at moving forward to make choice or decisions that advance our human development. We have learned that decision making is about discernment, knowing what your personal needs are and then allowing accepting whatever is feasible to move us forward towards health prosperity and self-awareness. We have discovered that the act of moving from one’s comfort zone by making decisions is also the journey that helps us know ourselves, our true essence and our ultimate purpose in life.

Joseph Bikart wrote, “Closer to home when I was planning to spend time in Rome to work on this book I mentioned to the author Martin Lloyd Elliot that on this occasion I was not intending to bring my camera and indulge in one of my favorite hobbies, street photography as I wanted to focus on my writing. He subtly suggested that this might be a mistake, because the creative energy I get from photography would transfer to my writing. I am glad and humbled—to confirm he was right. Ultimately the combination of contraries is both the sign and cause of our multi-sidedness, something to be encouraged in everyone. The other direction, one-sidedness, which for many leads to comfortable habits, can also lead to neurosis or the inability to tolerate ambiguity or being stuck.”

Joseph and Sheryl would ask you to empower yourself to once again trust the intuitive nature that is within each of us and accesses the energy of inspiration that flows from Universal source and informs us of our dual nature as both spiritual and physical beings with the potential to create the life we need through making choices that always, whether good or bad, give us the experience we need to grow and learn that life is an opportunity for knowing our greatest spiritual gifts.

Sheryl Glick, host of Healing From Within invites you to visit her website to read about and listen to leaders in the metaphysical scientific spiritual educational and transformational fields, visionaries , psychologists and energy healers who share insights into the human and divine aspects of our circle of life. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net or www.dreamvisions7radio.com

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Welcome to “Healing From Within” with host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Teacher and medium and author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories of spiritual connection and ways to understand and improve these changing challenging times as we remember our deepest soul intuition and inner wisdom assisting us to create a world that connects all worlds where life lives eternally. Today I welcome Amy N. Dix, author of Seven More Days which offers new perspectives to those who wish to design a life filled with value and meaning as they come to understand life and death.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate illuminating insights into our deepest subconscious thoughts in the hopes of discovering more about who we are, where life originates, and perhaps discover a greater understanding of our eternal life force and how it merges with our physical reality in ways that offer help for us ultimately to live without fear. In that mindset we can value and live each day with greater happiness and peace and continue to pursue self-investigation and the mastering of our emotions so we may conquer limitations of the outside world.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Amy N. Dix who is a motivational speaker, author and Positive Psychology Practitioner will help us understand how the human brain processes information events and emotions. We learn how to find people who resonate in our energy and life goals, and how to decode human emotions so we can master three critical areas of life: your character, your connections, and your community as well as improve connections with people in a disconnected world.

Amy tells us that the inspiration for this book about positivity and living life with courage came from the death of a loved one. Amy’s mother transitioned from this physical life in 2016. For Amy that heart -breaking experience showed her that all life coaching is simply death coaching by a more positive name.

When we talk about living the best we can, we’re really talking about making the most of our limited time we have on earth. Amy tells us her book is different from some others as she wants you to stop being paralyzed by the idea and fear of death, look it squarely in the eye and live well, so one day you will say as her mother did, “I am not afraid to die.”

Sheryl tells Amy that she often has great coincidences or synchronicity with her guests and like Amy Sheryl’s mother’s passing helped her learn much about the dying process which led he to do eight years of hospice volunteer work which assisted in Sheryl’s soul mission to become an energy healer and medium and help clients connect to their own soul journey. Life Amy’s mother, Sheryl’s mother was able to say three things to her before she transitioned which also are exemplary ways to view life, enjoy how wonderful life is and to discover the real purpose of life. Sheryl’s mom said, “I had a good breakfast, life is good and I love you. In other words, if you enjoy it all without judgment, and come to know that nothing is either good or bad, just an experience to help us have greater appreciation and gratitude for living a physical life and remembering you are Spirit and spirit is everlasting.

Amy goes on to say we are all aware that there is a serious breach in levels of happiness at the moment in the United States as a whole right now. It is the reason there is a political, social, economic and educational divide. Amy and Sheryl’s mothers were basically satisfied and thankful for what they had achieved: the places they had been, the families they had raised and in their hearts they had achieved the American Dream. However, in these troubled times that seems to be an exception. Everyone feels entitled to whatever they want: often, without putting the time, effort and consistency into achieving their goals. A materialistic hedonistic and self-serving means of needing, wanting and having it all, has led to unhappiness, poor health addictions, complete dissatisfaction with the systems supporting society and lack of personal responsibility. Social media is distorting the way people respond to each other or they don’t respond at all and making life fractured, while sickness, mental illness and unhappiness are the result of this disconnect from our human and soul needs.

Sheryl tells Amy that she writes of these same issues in her book A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening for as we move past these challenging times which suggests that as humanity raises its vibration or state of awareness to higher consciousness, we will be more aligned to our energetic soul need than to physical desire alone. Or new life is available to each of us in everyday choices we make to be positive healthy and accepting of all things so when we live beyond the physical world in Spirit, for we are spirit whether in or out of body we will know that 0ur soul refinement is the reason we are having a physical life in the first place.

Amy goes on to share the World Happiness Report which states 6 ways to judge happiness in various nations. We are always trying to assess what conditions work to define happiness.

GDP per capita (a measure of income inequality) Healthy life expectancy

Social Support

Freedom to make life choices

Generosity of donations

Perceived corruption of government and business

We learn that these standards and that money cannot buy happiness However, some Americans in their quest to find and create happiness are focusing on issues of inequality corruption distrust and social isolation and while the American Dream still draws many immigrants to this nation and is still realistic and hopeful, it doesn’t matter to that negative angry unhappy group of people who delve into a darker perspective of life. Of course Big Bucks politics dominated by special interests wealth inequality rate of immigration and community segregation repercussion of terrorist attacks like 9/11 and declining educational systems are all issues to be worked on and solutions to be found but Amy’s book suggests ways for individual growth which ultimately if followed by larger segments of the population will improve the other problems as well.

Sheryl enjoyed Amy’s end of life meditation where she suggested that readers visualize an empty Christmas tree and a box of ornaments that represent the years you have lived so far and note that the ornaments represent your most notable achievements and your most treasured people or memories. After your place the ornaments on the tree step back and admire your life represented by the ornaments you selected.

Sheryl tells Amy that she has collected over the years pieces of a holiday village that represents her travels family friends experiences she has shared and enjoyed tremendously and the houses people and scenery fill five large boxed and the Holiday Village when put together practically covers the entire living room with lights and color and magic as they share her journey and that of all the wonderful people she has met along the way. This interest began about twenty years algo when she realized through mystical experiences that we are more than our body and life is precious and we must remember our soul energy so we can fulfill our life plan, learn love and live in a bold and expansive way. It is a wonderful life like the movie when we know who we are and can be true to our own self-development which actually serves everyone we interact with. As we move past our fears and limitations and conquer the illusion of death we are truly able to experience life with more positivity and joy.

Amy shares the M O M E N T S daily practice that are the characteristics of positivity.

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1. Acceptance
2. Active
3. Conscientiousness
4. Curiosity
5. Gratitude
6. Humility
7. Humor
8. Optimism
9. Presence
10. Perspective
11. Resilience
12. Self-esteem

The benefits of incorporating positivity in your life include: Achieving goals, more happiness in general, more energy, greater inner power and strength, the ability to inspire and motivate others, experiencing fewer difficulties along the way, the ability to surmount any difficulty, seeing life smile back at you and respect from others.

So what is the MOMENT SYSTEM

M Mute: Be silent for five minutes without distraction

O Outcome: Write down outcome you must conquer to achieve

M Memorize: Have a daily mantra say it over again.

E Express feelings to loved ones.

N Noble Acts

T Terminate one thing that’s not bringing positivity

Remember that everything, everyone has an energy or vibration and certain vibrations more positively match your own…Allow yourself to find and enjoy people and experiences that light up your life. Pray and hope those who are suffering and unaware find their way forward as well. We all have a unique life plan and while it is often hard to observe others on paths so different from ours, they are indeed having a spiritual journey as well, and only they can make the changes necessary to improve their lives.

To determine your own level of positivity and happiness Amy suggests and writes, “Positivity is not an end in itself: Positivity is a means to an end and that end is happiness. But happiness is not a clearcut concept because we all define it differently. My idea of happiness which may resonate with you: I believe that happiness is peace. Inner peace no matter the miserable circumstance is peace at the inner core. Inner peace is long lasting and enables us to accept the dreadful with fortitude: a sense of happiness is but fleeting and fragile. The way you create happiness is to recognize positive moments and stay in these moments even if brief.”

Sheryl tells Amy that years ago she took several students so Lily Dale New York where there is a community of spiritual healers and mediums. During her healing session the healer simply said, I hope you find peace. I didn’t realize at that time the love and beauty of that very special message till I read Amy’s description of happiness as inner peace. She actually wished for me to find my personal soul power and be beyond the limitations and fears of this physical world and I believe I am well on my way to that place of conscious peaceful knowing of Self.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Amy has shared the remarkable story of her mother Rhonda Lucy Dix who had many challenging health issues but was she felt chosen like many are chosen, with unbearable challenges, for as we watch them deal with tremendous suffering, they often become living examples of courage positivity and shine spiritual beauty into the world. We may all realize that through the challenge they come to recognize happiness and peace were their desired goals all along. Sheryl’s mother, father and sister in dealing with their challenges and the process of dying or transitioning to Spirit reinforced for her and others a way to be grateful for life and soar above the physical world with a soul spirit of eternal magnitude.

As energy or soul beings we learn through extraordinary experiences that there is no death, only a transition to higher awareness and love for Self, Life and others. The system that Amy has created and shared in her book Seven More Days and the method of MOMENT can lead to positivity and peace and is extraordinary while also practical and ideal to implement into daily life if you wish to improve the quality of your heart, soul and mind and learn the truth of your divinity.

Amy and I would have you know that we all are unique beings and possess certain soul innate qualities that are naturally known within and not learned. Get to know these subconscious callings so you may better understand the life and soul journey you have chosen, and ultimately find happiness and peace that was always yours for the asking.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love and as a Reiki Master Teacher and energy practitioner am delighted to discuss another alternative healing modality that allows a connection to Universal Energy and can redirect or unblock the flow of energy to restore a sense of well being and calm. I am delighted to welcome Alexis Brink author of The Art of Jin Shin

As listeners of “Healing From Within” have come to expect over the years Sheryl and her guests and share intimate stories of infinite potential as soul beings having a physical life for the purpose of remembering the power within we possess to create with our thoughts, attitudes, and actions, a world that brims with possibilities for expansion and the evolution of our human condition. In other words we are energy alive within a universe of energy and as such must come to understand the metaphysical aspects of both our physical and divine life force.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Alexis Brink will share the story of a Japanese healing art of energy medicine which although related to acupressure, acupuncture and massage therapy is not a physical manipulation of tissue and uses only minimal pressure. It involves a gentle touch of fingers and hands to redirect or unblock the flow of energy along the body’s 52 points called Safety Energy Locations. We will learn the benefits and ways to help ourselves as well as perhaps gather a greater understanding of who we are and how we can improve our lives both physically and spiritually.

When Alexis is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person place or event that may have shown her or others the lifestyle work or values she might embrace as an adults Alexis wrote, “Coming from a family of Holocaust survivors with a legacy of historical pain loss and generational suffering I found that my practice and study of Jin Shin opened my heart in ways I had not necessarily expected. Gifting me with an awareness of my relationship to a higher energy and consciousness, the philosophy and practice remind me of the presence of something bigger than myself, connecting me to an expansive universal energy and reminding me of the wholeness of my soul. Putting us in touch with our innate wisdom and bringing us to a place where our intuition can reveal itself, the Art of Jin Shin is both vast and complete.”

Sheryl says to Alexis “A Reiki practice leads you to the same discovery of our innate timeless and eternal soul gifts and shows us that life is a continuous cycle whether in a body or beyond the body as there is no death, only a transition to our original state of energy and continuous life. Reiki opened up Sheryl’s ability to meditate and connect to souls, loved ones, higher vibrational beings, angels, spiritual teachers, and God and to download loving messages to guide her clients to perceive all challenges and experiences in the way that helps them move through emotions, even fear, to a state of acceptance allowance and surrendering, without suffering, to all happenings and seeing it all as necessary for soul growth, greater compassion, love, and moving to a higher awareness of our immense possibilities to create what the soul needs.”

Alexis shares the definition of the Art of Jin Shin. The art of Jin Shin is a Japanese energy healing modality similar to acupuncture, though we use our hands instead of needles. It also falls into the realm of acupressure massage and Japanese Reiki energy healing which works on the seven main chakras or energy points of the body that relate to spiritual as well as physical life challenges.

Alexis was introduced to Jin Shin as a result of being injured. She was an injured dancer and the healing session immediately relieved her knee so she could get back to rehearsals the next day. Alexis learned how to help herself and the knee injury didn’t recur. Her teacher Lee Theodore insisted on RICE (rest ice compression elevation) as part of a dancer’s discipline to heal oneself and nurture an injury back to health. Shortly after that a friend who suffered from multiple sclerosis went to see a woman named Philomena Dooley for a session of a mysterious Japanese healing art. When he returned he simply said to Alexis,” I think this is what you are meant to be doing.” Based on ancient Eastern principles of energy medicine and holistic healing, Jin Shin does nothing more than use the gentle touch from a practitioner’s hands to remove energetic blockages that cause physical and emotional pain and disease. Philomena had been a nurse and in the late 1970’s as a result of her own health problems -phlebitis, a blood disorder that caused clots that could lead to strokes, learned Jin Shin. Struggling with her own care she was directed to Mary Burmeister in Arizona who had carried the message of Jin Shin from Japan to the United States. The healing work transformed her health, appearance, and there were radical changes in her blood workup, She came off blood thinners and pain medication. Her problems never recurred.

In Jin Shin we call problems, projects, as projects are fun and we work with them. Philomena helped Alexis with her knee by tweaking her toes and showing her how to hold her hands on both the inside and outside of her knee, releasing the blockage. She also suggested she could learn to give sessions to my friend with multiple sclerosis.

As Westerners we tend to think that ailments have a single cause and a person with 15 ailments may need as many different kinds of treatment..in contrast many Eastern philosophies suggest that everything from energy in the body to events in the world, moves in continuous cycles with each individual part being connected.

Within a Jin Shin framework a diagnosis or label of disease is the result of a buildup of months or even years, worth of pent-up energy. Those blockages or disharmonies may be brought about by internal attitudes and emotions as well as diet, work habits, or hereditary susceptibilities and they may also be caused by environmental stressors.

Sheryl says…that is funny but I got introduced to Reiki Energy Healing when I had a knee injury and couldn’t walk while I was at a conference with International Mediums and Healers studying psychic development and afterlife connections. My teacher suggested I go to a healing session and when the man put his hands on my shoulder and said I was a healer, I didn’t understand, but then he put his hand on my knee, and I could feel the heat and the movement or vibration of the ligaments and tendons within, and thought to myself, if my parents were alive they would think I was with aliens. But my knee felt better and I was so grateful for the help, even though it took years of study and training to become a Reiki Master Teacher and Medium and to know how the world works both in the metaphysical sense and physical life.

The philosophy grabbed Alexis when she took her first workshop. She found what she had been searching for: a connection to Source. It made Alexis experience and know there was something bigger than herself and she was part of it. She knew instantly that this would be her life’s path.

Sheryl says that whenever or wherever a person is awakened to remember their intuitive inner sense of soul connection to Spirit God the Divine Source or the creative energy of our eternal life, it moves us past the fear and limitations of societal mores, training, and opens up a world of possibilities to create whatever our thoughts, attitudes, and interests direct us toward. Healing is always done on a physical, emotional, and spiritual plane, and our natural birthright as spiritual beings is to find health and joy or happiness by experiencing emotions, determining how it makes us feel, and then allowing us to make choices to find the best within ourselves and others, and develop greater love and compassion for all living things.

In my book The Living Spirit I wrote, “For years the metaphysical community has predicted a tremendous shift in human consciousness and it is happening now. More than ever, people are feeling the need to rediscover their life’s purpose, and the economic downturn in recent years has given many the freedom, opportunity and necessity to change their lives and work. Energy healing including Reiki, Healing Touch, Jin Shin Reflexology, Chiropractic Adjustments, Acupuncture, Massage and BodyWork, Rolfing, Polarity, Trager, Chromotherapy, Radionics. Alexander, Bioenergetics, Feldenkrais, Deep Tissue Work, Osteopathic Manipulation and other modalities—has become one of the fastest growing fields of complementary health care, and it is part of my mission to help healers develop their God-given gifts. The Living Spirit is not just for healers, but for anyone who wants to awaken to their soul’s mission and to the incredible plan God has for them.”

Jin Shin works as we use our hands as jumper cables to harmonize energy flow in the body so that it can function optimally. Sometimes our energy gets blocked because of lifestyle stress, trauma, environmental habits such as diet or genetic predispositions. By placing our hands on specific locations or SELs you allow for the free flow of energy and the body can heal itself.

Jin Shin can help many kinds of different conditions or diseases. Jin Shin helps many different projects including anxiety, back pain, high blood pressure headaches, weak immune system and more. When you balance your energy by applying Jin Shin, life energy will be restored and the body will heal itself.

Sheryl says that much like any energy healing modality we are in all energy healing work channeling Universal Energy or a Spiritual Energy and the body can heal on many levels mind body spirit. With Reiki however, the practitioner is trained over a period of time, attuned to channel higher levels of energy that can help with physical or emotional situations helping the person connect to their inner soul source and perhaps, let go of long held trauma or disappointment. This allows a reconnection to new forms of creation unblocking artistic blockages, as well as physical, so they can make changes in their thoughts, attitudes and actions and pursue new projects or interests in a more authentic and enthusiastic way. Reiki is a way to help the body, mind and spirit heal itself from many misconstrued beliefs and attitudes offering a new sense of joy and freedom as well as physical well being.

Alexis recommends Jin Shin as Jin Shin balances body mind and spirit and is easy to apply to yourself and others. You can practice a specific hold for a symptom and may also create a daily routine to maintain health and well being. Alexis recommends Jin Shin and shares many healing stories of expectant mothers who had previously been unable to carry the pregnancy to term and then delivered healthy babies, to Katie a bright 16 year old on antidepressants whose anxiety was so serious she missed school and fell into bouts of uncontrollable crying. It was discovered she had taken a fall at two years of age and had a lump of congested energy in her head and with Jin Shin hand positions it was finally released and she was returned to a state of well being. So many stories of healings and of preventive use of this system to prevent illness and dysfunction to begin.

Sheryl says.. She has found that people who become aware of our connection to all living things and as many of us being empaths who actually react to individual and environmental shifts, when they study and learn about energy are able to find a connection between all of them. Sheryl recommends to her clients to include a few different practices into their plan and feel inclined to find their way to the practitioners and methods that they are most comfortable with. Like all events in our lives nothing is random and we are being guided always by souls above who wish to help us with our life journey and challenges even when they cannot take something which seems troublesome out of the equation. For there is really no good or bad, just experiences to allow the soul to feel greater love and compassion through moving past any and all negative and restrictive emotions. It is all in our awareness and perception of how to approach all happenings knowing pain or suffering but choosing to move past blame judgment and all the lower emotions that make people unhappy. Acceptance of all is definitely an outgrowth of spiritual practice and awareness of our dual nature as spiritual beings having a physical life.

Jin Shin as Reiki and other energy healing modalities is for everyone. All you need is your two hands and to remember to breathe. You can also practice on a loved one: your parent, child friend or pet. If you have a body Jin shin is for you.

The book The Art of Jin Shin gives you the complete self-help program from simple one step holds to more elaborate flow patterns. Alexis explains the way to practice as well as the philosophy. You can participate in events at her institute in New York where a complete training program is available.

Alexis shares with listeners something about simple awareness of our hands and fingers? The easiest way to apply Jin shin is by holding your finger and palm. Each finger helps to harmonize an emotional attitude, two organ functions and it has a relationship to an element day of the week flavor, astro sign color and more. Thumb helps to harmonize worry Index finger –fear Middle finger—anger Ring finger sadness grief Little finger—trying too hard/effort. Palm hand helps everything.

Sheryl uses Reiki and reflexology and the different reflex points as well as different chakras to connect and work in tandem with physical organs in the body much the same way. So stimulating one point affects other connected points and allows for a release of blocked energies.

Jin Shin like many healing modalities is restorative and energizing. Our bodies need to be discovered, not conquered. Change is happening and no matter the challenge we may help ourselves creating a peaceful state of mind acceptance and allow ourselves to self-heal. The discovery of Jin Shin has illuminated my life: I am a devoted practitioner and every morning I do a series of flows and throughout the day I rely on Jin Shin holds to energize and reawaken my mind and body.

We thank you Alexis Brink, author of The Art of Jin Shin for sharing your personal journey of discovering the ability we all have to reconnect to the energy or divine source of creation and finding simple ways to improve our health, our mind, body and spirit for greater joy and positivity in our everyday lives.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have explored two amazing healing modalities from Japan Jin Shin and Reiki and it is Alexis and my great pleasure to bring to as many people as possible the great value and joy of these healing arts. Sheryl has been grateful to participate in working with Reiki for the last 25 years. Before one knows how to self heal they struggle with many physical and emotional issues and often succumb to depression and doubt, but eventually are guided to people and ways to improve life. It is when we decide to be consistent patient, accept whatever health issue we have and find the most positivity in all that we experience that we actually do conquer the fear that often created it in the first place.

Alexis and I are happy to see how much awareness there is in the medical field, hospital, hospice situations, and with so many people incorporating energy healing into their everyday lives and by doing so helping them to more fully know themselves, where they come from, and the innate inner wisdom they have to create their best version of themselves. Reiki and Jin Shin are much more than a healing system for the body. They are the key to live a balanced harmonious loving lifestyle which ultimately advances the practitioner, the client, the world and Universe. We suggest you try a session and begin to feel the power of your own energy flow freely and lovingly, through your body, and into the world.

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Welcome to ‘Healing From Within.’ I am your host Sheryl Glick 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 messages that show us the challenges we are now facing are not economical political or societal just a spiritual disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom. I am delighted to welcome Codi Shewan, author of Everyday Legacy who needs to know that we need to live now as each moment is an opportunity to create love and enjoy life.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and a growing awareness that life is a duality both physical and spiritual for we are indeed spiritual beings having a physical life. In learning that when all energy is engaged and utilized we put aside the false reality of duality and come into a realization of the Oneness of all life. We realize our greatest potential to thrive and enjoy life in all dimensions of true awareness. Merging our spiritual gifts with the physical life experience gives us the ability to thrive, manifest and create and live a happy healthy prosperous joyful life experience as well as advance our soul energetic refinement towards greater compassion and love.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Codi Shewan, now a motivational speaker, formerly had a 20 year career as a funeral director and his experiences facing death every day taught him a lot of lessons about living. Through powerful stories Shewan’s message is simple: In each moment we have the ability to change ourselves and those around us in profound ways!

When Sheryl asks Codi to think back to his childhood and remember a person, place, event or interest that may have shown him or others around him the lifestyle or adult life he would choose to live he tells us “Besides my mother, my grandmother has been the most important person in my life. She was my best friend. I often thought of myself as a weird kid and didn’t seem to fit in anywhere, but I always fit in with her. Many children like spending time with their grandparents but I loved it. We would routinely go to play minigolf or go swimming at a local beach. We were inseparable. She was so easygoing and lovely. I know now that she was trying to fill the gap that her son left in my life, which only expanded my love for her.

Pat my was short for Patricia and she had been born into an affluent family. Her family owned a private school in England. It didn’t hurt that she was British and the accent helped too. During our visits we bonded over tea toast and bacon. But her affluent life ended when she was eight years old and the school was overtaken by the Second World War. Her father died after mysteriously falling through one of the school’s second story windows. The family immigrated to Canada, but it was jarring to go from wealth to poverty so quickly. My grandmother had such a warm open heart and loved deeply and lived simply. Going from wealth to poverty gave her a perspective on what was important. It was immensely important to her to have character and integrity, a quiet conviction and a servant’s heart. And, above all else, to love deeply. At the time of Grandma Pat’s death I felt so angry that I only had twenty seven years with her. She died so young. There was so much life in her, but dementia had other plans.

As a developing intuitive healer and medium years ago, Sheryl became a hospice volunteer for 8 years trying to help people soon to transition to life beyond here and their families to know there is no death—just a transition to higher dimensions of energetic soul life. As a funeral director were you aware that Consciousness survives physical death? Codi tells us about volunteering in palliative care or end of life care and his fascination with the funeral profession. Palliative care is where people go to die. When people enter palliative care, their illness has progressed beyond treatment. It is often also called hospice or end of life care. In most instances Codi introduced himself to the patients offered to read to them and they might or might not take me up on that suggestion and if a visitor arrived Codi excused himself. But Codi felt comfortable in that setting and helped the patients to relax also.

Sheryl tells Codi that as a hospice volunteer for 8 years after her mom died in hospice care and as a developing energy practitioner and medium she felt it was the place where I could help souls transition and their families to know “Consciousness survives physical death” and life was eternal. In my book A New Life Awaits, I share many stories and messages from Spirit and from lessons and people I spent time with at hospice that validate the truth of these statements.

“Sheryl wrote,” I realize now the reason Spirit told me I had to do a third book, A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Global Awakening, about the new life we create each and every day of life by the choices we make and hopefully with a growing soul awareness of what waits for us beyond a short-lived physical life. We may learn about the journey of transcendence after physical death, hoping to ultimately prove our eternal soul meets all those loved ones in Spirit, where we continue on our journey of life for our continued personal soul development. Whether in a body or in pure energy, the soul is the essence and complete oneness of Spirit’s Intelligence and Universal Love and travels with us through time and space, lifetime after lifetime, as we gather experiences to refine our already magnificent soul. Death, in my opinion, is merely the next destination or adventure in our continuous circle of life. There really is no death, only the unfolding of the infinite layers of realities that exist withinus, in this world, and beyond. These layers are filled with the excitement and wonderment of the beauty of nature, friendship, memories, and experiences gathered during many lifetimes.”

Sheryl tells Codi she always has wonderful coincidences or synchronicity with her amazing guests and today we have one. Codi writes about Malala who when she was eleven years old and was blogging for the BBC about the Taliban attacking schools stopping girls from being educated, Malala continued to speak out about her right to be educated and the rights of all women to be educated. At the age of fifteen when riding a bus home from school, Malala was shot in the head. But the bullet did not kill her or kill her spirit. On her sixteenth birthday Malala gave a speech at the United Nations about education and women’s rights only nine months after being shot. She strongly urged leaders to change these antiquated policies. At seventeen years old Malala became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala is living her Everyday Legacy. This year one of my twin granddaughters dressed up in a costume portraying Malala and Sheryl was so delighted. Sheryl carries a picture of her in that sensitive choice of representing courageous women.

Codi tells us why he decided to write and speak about how we can live more purposefully every day.

Codi writes, “For as long as I can remember something inside me has stirred. Before I decided to write this book, I couldn’t have told you what that stirring was. I just felt an overwhelming sense that I had a greater purpose: that I was being prepared for something. I had tried more than once to write books about business and the successful strategies I’d gathered and implemented over the years. My attempts flopped.

Sheryl says that she also tried several times to write a book but stopped: perhaps the time or subject matter were not what she was supposed to be working on. However, twenty five years ago, after a series of metaphysical mystic experiences Sheryl was told she would write three books and she just finished the trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening in March 2020 just when the Coronavirus plague hit. Life plans and destiny happen in the right time and setting and are not always what we thought would happen. Miracles and surprises are the fun of life and the universe. We are truly born with a capacity to have our soul enriched and our energy refined and in time if we are paying attention, we find the best parts of ourselves, which were always there.

Codi goes on to describe the estranged relationship with Bob, Codi’s father which may have led him to realize that the perceptions of failure in that relationship were within his ego mind story and that by learning to control the ego he could discover “There’s more here than I know or am being told.” Codi’s ego went to Bob’s funeral thinking his distant and uncaring father didn’t even deserve one. But at the funeral he kept his mind open wide enough to think Okay here’s more information. Here’s a perspective about my father and his life I didn’t have before. Wow. His friends really loved him.

Controlling the ego can be a constant struggle as we all know. You might begin to think Ugh I have to be around those people again but then another voice pipes up and says Well I don’t know what’s going on in their world. I should be kinder. If you are having this type of struggle you are in the process of trying to get control over your ego. Codi tells us if he had allowed his ego to continue controlling the conversation, he would never have found a way to make peace with Bob and what a shame that would have been for him.

Codi often says when he arranged funerals he would hear what he has come to call Echoes of Regret, people wishing they had spent more time with those around them who mattered, given one more hug, or told loved ones how they truly felt. He tells us more about that. A regret is something we wish we had done differently. Regrets will feed your ego and burden your conscience. But we have the power to avoid regrets. To live without regret means to communicate with love and empathy.

Although Codi verbally tells people he loves them, there are many ways to express love. Some people show their love through actions rather than words. Whether you are saying it, or showing it through behavior, as long as it’s consistent and congruent with what you want to be remembered for, you aren’t going to live with Echoes of Regret. Before someone is gone you can prevent the” I should have” and the “I wish I had” and reach a resolution with someone you might otherwise attach a regret to. You can have a conversation and shift behaviors and perceptions to a more realistic or positive reality. Frequently, when doing things to limit Echoes of Regret, we realize that our acts of kindness, generosity of spirit, and philanthropic efforts have far more consequence for us than for the benefactors. When the end moves closer, if you are living consciously and purposefully, you can rest assured knowing your loved ones do not doubt that they mattered to you. Void of regrets.

Sheryl remembers when she was 17 years old she went to a Broadway show “Man of La Mancha,” and heard the song the Impossible Dream which became the destiny she eventually found she was born to realize, and like Codi, Sheryl in finding the connection to her spiritual gifts, learned to know the true meaning of following your soul’s destiny and fulfilling your eternal life mission Sheryl found her mission in the words of the song, The Impossible Dream. Here are a few words that truly resonated within her:

“To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go.


To right, the un-rightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star.


This is my quest,
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless,
No matter how far.


To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into
Hell for a heavenly cause.


And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to rest
And the world will be better for this.”


Sheryl has found when we have walked the path of the Divine, sharing our passion for higher truths in all the experiences and with all the people we have met no matter how hard the journey has been we have trust in the universal plan of life. We then have recognized the divinity within and have shared it with the world to the best of our ability.
Codi tells us what he has learned as a result of his estranged father’s funeral. Codi tells us that his father Bob and he had a fractured relationship. Bob and his mother didn’t stay together very long after Codi was born. They separated when Codi was just three years old. People liked Bob but he wasn’t much of a father or husband. When Codi was about seven his mother remarried. Codi writes, “when stepparents come into your life, a common line is “ I’m not here to replace your father or mother.” But for Codi there was no one to replace. He didn’t know what having a father was like. The older Codi became the more distant his father Bob became and he only lived a mere fifteen miles away. Every Christmas Codi was obliged to visit him in his basement. He would give me a piece of art he had made. He didn’t have any money. There really was no connection. Codi went through school for mortuary science and became a funeral director and embalmer. He often thought “Does my father expect me to help with his funeral when he dies?” “Why would he want a funeral? Funerals are to celebrate life and we have nothing to celebrate about this man.” The time came when Codi got a call from his mother that his father had died. Emotions hit Codi that he didn’t expect. The hope from Codi’s childhood that the relationship between them would improve had vanished. It was a surreal experience to make funeral arrangements. As Codi and his uncle emptied the apartment, friends of Bob came by and offered the names of others who would be pallbearers. Codi was surprised there were so many. His friends told my uncle and Codi how great Bob was, but this was not the man or father Codi had known. Even through all the reconciling of his death, Codi managed to recognize and appreciate the fact that while he wasn’t much of a father, apparently, he was one heck of a friend.

Codi also learned that there is a magical time in many young people’s lives when their relationship with their parents starts to shift and if they’re lucky, their parents become their friends, too. It’s a beautiful harmony. Today Codi hangs out with his mother and stepfather. If Bob had lived longer they might have hit that stride. They might have moved past the fractured nature of our relationship.

Sheryl says as a medium she has come to know that souls become aware of relationships in the afterlife that they wish could have resolved when alive. In the afterlife many are able to heal and communicate with living loved ones with a new perspective of why they had difficulties, and do something to heal those feelings. Relationships may be healed via dreams, astral travel, medium readings, or when we meet again beyond this life.

Codi tells us about when he volunteered at palliative care, also called hospice, and one particular interaction with one of the patients Roy. Codi tells us about volunteering in palliative care or end of life care and his fascination with the funeral profession. Palliative care is where people go to die. When people enter palliative care, their illness has progressed beyond treatment. It is often also called hospice or end of life care. In most instances Codi introduced himself to the patients, offered to read to them, and they might or might not take him up on that suggestion and if a visitor arrived Codi excused himself. There, Codi met Roy, a pastor who had performed hundreds of funerals for his parishioners over the years. Roy had spent his life on the pulpit conveying what he thought to be the truth through his words. Roy knew what he believed and was generous with his love and wisdom. Roy didn’t look or behave like the other patients. An Evangelical pastor in his eighties battling cancer, he was alert, lucid, chipper, spry and curious. Roy hung on to life for a while longer. Codi was in his first year of college when Roy passed. In retrospect Codi says he believes he was meant to be with Roy and specifically the most important lessons that Codi learned in palliative care came fromlistening. Nothing survives palliative care except the lessons that family volunteers and medical staff learn. What we learn from listening just might live on forever.

Codi tells us of that day July 17, 2009 when he saw his grandmother on the subway. Codi writes, “On July 17, 2009 Codi saw his grandmother Pat on the subway. Some might say, “That’s nice” or “Big Deal.” Either way it is. She died in 2005. Lulled by the rocking of the subway, I glanced right and there she was, a woman in her seventies, standing swaying waiting to arrive at her destination. She looked remarkably like my grandmother only she appeared to be of African descent and my grandmother was European. But the shape of her face, her eyes, her hair, even the way she stood—it was as if my grandmother were there again, not ten feet away. I hoped this woman was loved and appreciated and her family cherished every moment they had with her. I knew what I did for Codi’s grandmother was to make him an incredible human being.”

Sheryl says “as a medium I have often seen the features and energy of a soul imprinted on another living person. It is called “Soul Overlay.” In my new book A New Life Awaits, I tell the story of my Uncle Hy who was a bigger than life personality appearing before me in a car that passed by and minutes later on the boardwalk as a man who looked exactly like him walked by me and then a third time before leaving the beach. It alerted me to call my uncle when I got home and my aunt told me her father who was in Spirit had looked very much like my uncle and obviously he wanted to say hello to his daughter, my aunt Lilly, and for her to tell me the story that a week before he died, my aunt had a dream of his passing but didn’t say anything. Sometimes sensitive people or mediums pick up the fact that someone will be passing but we cannot change events. I think Codi’s grandmother imprinted her energy on this other woman so Codi could know his grandmother was still close by.”

Codi would like readers to take away with them after reading Everyday Legacy the following. Codi writes, “You are going to die. Creating an Everyday Legacy is about taking that inevitable fact and shifting your intention from leaving a legacy to living it. A great power exists in consciously living your legacy every single day. Someone once said that while we will all die, not all of us live. Living a legacy is about embracing who we are and the gifts we can give to the world and offering those qualities in our daily interactions, to shape how we live. The beautiful part of this shift is that it makes the end irrelevant. Death could be anywhere on the horizon, but if you’re living more purposefully and powerfully today, it doesn’t matter where that end is.

This changes our relationship with death. Learning to live in a meaningful way quiets the fear of death because the resonance of our purpose is so loud. Another important aspect of living your Everyday Legacy is helping people become aware of what they will be remembered for. Once you’re dialed into this energy you’ll naturally want to point out to others their unique greatness.”

So how do you want to be remembered? If you are like most people you might say. I want to be remembered as a good mother, friend, teacher, nurse. BUT THAT’S NOT A LEGACY. Legacy isn’t a title. Legacy isn’t an occupation. It’s who you are and what you give to people. It is all the qualities of being patient, kind, loving , attentive and thoughtful and how you touch your children and every other person in your life. It is the ability to be inspiring, empathic and compassionate, selfless with your time and support others.

Sheryl would like to thank Codi Shewan, author of Everyday Legacy, for sharing a very different and unique look at the qualities of life which truly enhance our soul and our personality, making life a more joyful and fulfilling experience, while understanding some of the difficulties in relationships actually serve to help us find what truly rings out loud and clear, with authentic love and respect for people and life.

In summarizing today’s episode of :Healing From Within,” we have shared the insightful and delightful discoveries that Codi Shewan has made as he found a way to resolve within himself the hurtful relationship with his father sharing how to move past traumas and wounds of childhood finding gratitude for life and learned to appreciate the deep love for self and the truth always within of his capacity to share kindness love patience thoughtfulness attentiveness and support for all the people in your life.

Codi shares a quote from the sage Lao Tzu: “When I let go of what I am I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. You may realize that an overactive ego might prohibit more loving interactions.”

In other words when you let go of who you think you are, you meet your awakened self. You also learn to accept all people, even those who may have been difficult for you to understand or appreciate. When you understand that a person may be acting under the compulsion of their ego rather than the finer essence of their soul which may still lie dormant at the moment, you can walk away from negative experiences realizing that was a miserable ego rather than merely a miserable person.

Codi and Sheryl would have you remember that whatever you choose to do or be part of if it comes from a place of love it will refine your spirit and how you show up each day in sharing the magnificent soul beauty from within and will bring joy to you and everyone you met.

Sheryl Glick, host of “Healing From Within” and author of the newest book in a trilogy, A New Life Awaits, which shares stories of spiritual communication and the fact that it is not merely economic political societal challenges we are facing but a disconnect from our divine being or soul wisdom. Please go to Sheryl’s website www.sherylglick.com and read about and listen to leaders in the fields of spirituality, science, metaphysics, energy, medicine, psychology, the arts and music, as they seek answers to age old questions of life, death and eternal truths. 

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Welcome to “Healing From Within ” I am your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual communication awakening to your full potential and intuitive wisdom as well as miracles and ways to increase health, prosperity and happiness. I am delighted to welcome Dr. Amy Serin, author of The Stress Switch who shows us that when we discover stress is not a chronic permanent condition to be coped with but instead is a specific type of neurological programing that can be cured we understand ourselves and heal in a more complete way.

When Sheryl asks Dr. Serin to think back to her childhood and remember a person place or event that may have lead her to embrace the life attitudes and work she shares now as an adult with the world and Amy responds that she was a sensitive child who was hard on herself and created from within a sense of stress as she wanted to do what was right and always wanted to do more. Sheryl suggests to Amy that she as an intuitive empathic child was much the same way. It’s like being born with an inner soul wisdom that wants to do so much to help others and the human condition but there are so many problems that it takes time to develop a clear view of what is possible and how to achieve your goals. Healers it seems may not be made but born with the inner knowledge to achieve much and as such are guided by a force of excellence and wanting to share much good with the world.

Stress as we know doesn’t only cause symptoms like insomnia headaches or the occasional worry. Living with excess stress can ruin every area of our lives. New neuroscience shows the mechanisms behind the stress switch and how it can be deactivated in ways not known before and there are many benefits to recognizing what causes personal stress and developing techniques to help lower the levels of stress affecting us on a daily basis. We can not completely eliminate the source of stress but we can learn to lessen the attacks to our physical, emotional and spiritual senses.

Benefits of Reducing stress can improve your Overall health

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• Sleep
• Relationships
• Mental Clarity
• Work Performance
• Happiness

We must begin to understand how to help ourselves beyond following some of the standards or general practices of the medical community. Dr. Serin wrote, “We believe the inaccuracies of the medical community that tells us our problems are lifelong and can only be handled with marginal success. And of course we hurt others and ourselves if we don’t take care of ourselves.” In an effort to prevent or heal the global PTSD epidemic I discovered a trusted technology—one which has been used in therapeutic modalities for over thirty years using wearable devices to deliver a technology called TouchPoints and has been shown to reduce stress by sixty-two percent in thirty seconds, stabilize cortisol levels faster after stress than a control group, produce profound changes on electroencephalograms of children and adults help people fall asleep faster and even reduce physical pain.

The number one thing I can do to stress less is to get enough sleep and try to wake up at the same time each day.

In today’s world Dr Serin says our nervous system’s natural adrenaline-fueled, evolutionary fight-or flight responses are overused and overactive. Fight or flight normally happens when your nervous system senses a threat to your life, overrides your thinking brain, and decides whether your greatest chances of survival will come from putting up your dukes or running away. Stress touches everyone we encounter and pollutes their chance of being calm and happy because they pick up on our stress and our behaviors activate their own stress systems. The first thing we can do is become more aware of who we are, any traumas of our past and begin to pay attention to triggers that set off this fight or flight reaction.

Sheryl says we are indeed all connected to each other and to a Universal Source of Energy that is our life force beyond our physical body and affects our mind, body and spirit in all dimensions of life.

In her book The Living Spirit Sheryl wrote…According to Dr. Charlotte Tomaino a neuropsychologist and author of Awakening the Brain, each person’s brain is unique with different capacities for navigating the physical and spiritual dimensions of energy. “ Therefore we know there are many multiple types of intelligence. Each person has a different life plan and we all learn acceptance, patience and empathy in our own way and in our own time. Just as there is visual intelligence and mathematical, linguistic, and athletic skills there is spiritual awareness. We must respect the fact that each individual is free to develop whatever areas of interest and talents they are born with. By respecting this we definitely limit stress for our children, spouses and all people we interact with. We learn acceptance and that limits some of what triggers us to lose patience.”

Stress affects our family and indeed everyone we interact with. As energy beings every thought and action sends out our state of mind, fear, anger, anxiety can be seen in our physical movements heard in our words and felt by many people who are sensitive and aware of their own emotions as well as that of others.

Amy tells us, “But what if I told you that excess stress was not a chronic permanent condition to be managed but it has a switch that can be turned off. Understanding that I can help my patients rewrite their stress stories and the stress stories the children have inherited from them and it doesn’t have to be a hopeless battle makes my work very satisfying.

Helping families know there are socially approved stress relief techniques: get more sleep, get up early to meditate, go to yoga, to the gym, outdoors into the sunshine, schedule an energy healing session, schedule a spa day, massage, acupuncture, reiki, and if you are a parent, you can help your children begin to appreciate exercise, playing with their peers, sports, music or art lessons, have a healthy diet and see a counselor if they are not getting along with others. If you have a child experiencing difficulty, helping her to take steps to calm her nervous system through breathing properly, positive thoughts and relaxation and allowing them to tell you what activities they find helpful and what people and places they find unsettling or stressful.

Early childhood trauma and neglect leave imprints upon the cellular structure of the body and since all cells are connected whether we are consciously aware of it or not the body responds to those problems created in childhood. It is only by recognizing the reason one feels so traumatized and finding adult solutions as you have more possibilities to create new ways to deal with old problems and perceptions Let’s say as a child you went for a walk and stumbled over a beehive and a swarm of bees descended on you leaving you with dozens of painful bits all over your body. Now because of that attachment to that memory, your fear system is locked into that experience. Your fear and memory systems will work together sending you unconscious signals to keep you out of that situation in the future. This system may go really far even signaling the need to avoid all outdoor situations or create a phobia of the outdoors.

Let’s remember you are not flawed for not being able to control stress as you’ve been trying to do. You are human. Example… According to child psychiatrist Bruce Perry, “Children aren’t resilient, they are malleable.” Your brain and body absolutely log early trauma and make them a part of your permanent record. If your system was hard-wired to be over-reactive and stressed it will affect your adult life and even being successful in making good choices and surrounding yourself with good people are often not strong enough to undo that early-age wiring. Stress was literally embedded in the nervous system brain structure and brain function. Fear anxiety and stress systems are automatic and when a child doesn’t have their needs met due to like not being soothed when she needed soothing lacking shelter and safety being exposed to violence or even violence on television and the news not having regular sleep and possibly being physically abused or neglected the child’s brain will develop abnormally and in way that will make it over active as an adult. It will take many skills energy healing TouchPoint recognition of the exposure to the issues and desensitizing the body to the stresses or triggers.

As a neuropsychologist Dr. Serin sees a lot of people in therapy. The most common stress issue she comes up with over and over again may be self-doubt that is a result of a fast moving technological and competitive society that has separated themselves from their natural alignment to universal energy or source and nature and allowed the body to be filled with potential fear based experiences leaving imprints at the cellular structure that make us subject to reliving the stories of traumatic events over and over again.

No matter how you try to apply conscious logic to a nervous system, certain situations will cause that stress switch to be set off. Most of your behavior reactions and body sensations are controlled by pre-conscious brain networks operating without awareness. There are some therapies that incorporate graduated exposure to lower the anxiety response but these are time intensive and require a commitment to face the fear which many people won’t do because the stress switch is in control. Once the fear system is locked onto a trigger for example the sight of an escalator bridge or elevator unless we desensitize the stress switch the fear will prevail.

Dr. Amy Serin might like readers of The Stress Switch to take away with them after reading this very practical and concise book on dealing with probably the greatest challenge facing all of us: stress in these changing and challenging times!

“Just like a live electric wire, a constantly and overly nervous system can short-circuit the object it’s attached to as well as cause damage to everything else in its path. When water hits wires in a house the whole house is affected. Just like that when one person has unchecked excess stress everyone around that person is affected and when these people move into groups whole communities and entire societies can develop overactive stress switches. This can trigger a state of PTSD people moving erratically in and out of flight-or-fight mode exhibiting all effects such as avoidance, selfishness, insomnia, cognitive issues and more and can be life threatening. PTSD doesn’t just damage the person’s life, relationships and career it can ruin them totally.

Sheryl says That is what we are seeing happen across the world right now. It is not really an economic political religious or social problem it is a spiritual disconnect from our true nature as spiritual beings who need to be aligned to Universal energy and the laws like The Law of Attraction which is always at work…old expressions like what you sow you reap and what goes around comes around express how karma and universal factors either work in our favor or against us. We must find ways to turn this stress switch off for health and prosperity as well as for saving our planet.

We thank you Dr. Amy Serin author of The Stress Switch for providing a clear workable pathway to understanding the mind and how stress affects the body mind and spirit and can compromise the quality of life undermining our health relationships and joy and for giving us ways to reprogram and refine our brain so we may approach the triggers that create anxiety from the many factors in our environment.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing from Within Dr. Amy Serin has shown us a clear path to surviving the stress within us and also from environmental sources as well as relationship issues which tend to diminish our health and encourage perhaps us to make poor choices. We have discovered that simply asking someone to think for themselves beyond the fear and anxiety of the may not be the best way to develop skills to deal with sensitivities and hormonal or chemical responses to the stresses that confront us.

As Dr. Serin wrote, “Within the interconnected mind/body network, the stress experienced in our bodies is triggered by a change in stimulus from inside of us (thoughts or pain) or outside (sounds, smells, touch etc). These stimuli are sensed and integrated by the salience network, which decides to turn the stress switch off. …In the mind/body stress and its triggers are subjective to the individual. There are things that will set off anyone’s stress switch like seeing a snake about to strike, and there are also triggers that are unique to each person’s stress system. Yet many people make an assumption that if certain things happen in their lives they should be stressed out; and conversely, they have a mental list of things that they believe shouldn’t be stressful.

Amy and I would have you remember that while stress can create many issues for us to overcome, it is part of a physical reality and in conquering the fears traumas and anxieties of our lives to the best of our ability, we also strengthen our inner soul life and find balance health peace and well- being. So in the awareness and conquering of stress we allow for greater conscious awareness of our true nature and our divine right to real happiness.

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In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit and her soon be released book A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening tales of remembering our soul divinity so we may value our life and relationship to the earth for our human and soul needs and to improve the human condition is delighted to welcome Dena Merriam author of her newest book The Untold Story of Sita for a return visit to the show and to share her extraordinary views of past present and future to enable a finer view of modern day shifts in living with more balance in regard to an understanding of feminine wisdom and the religious traditions that will shape the new life and new world we are creating at this time in human history.

To hear the last interview Dena and I shared about her book My Journey Through Time go to my website www.sherylglick.com to the radio page and open to March 2019 Special Edition.

As listens of “Healing From Within” have come to expect Sheryl and her guests share intimate experiences and insights into the world of our energetic and physical duality as we travel time and space history and create the present reality in our enhanced way with remembering that we are spiritual beings having a physical life in hoping to refine our feelings and higher awareness of love and the creative force of eternal life.”

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Dena Merriam founder of the Global Peace Initiative of Women bringing spiritual resources to address critical global challenges such as conflict, social justice, and ecological scarring of the earth has worked to bring greater gender balance and balance between the Abrahamic and Dharma based religious traditions for a more inclusive interfaith movement. Ms. Merriam received her Master’s Degree from Columbia University in sacred literature and in 2014 received the Niwano Peace Prize for her interfaith efforts. Today we will discuss the story of Sita, a beloved figure throughout Southeast Asia who represents the feminine divine and offers a new understanding of feminine wisdom and leadership as needed now to face an unprecedented ecological crisis and to restore the planet and humanity to its highest state of living in cooperation with nature. Dena tells us that for all of her adult life she has been a devotee of Shri Ram and Mata Site (Sita) but it was not until she started writing this book that she came to feel a personal relationship with them. They became very real living guides for me. Dena found herself basking in their presence and reflecting deeply on the words she was hearing within and trying to understand with her intellect, but being heard within her heart. Sita’s story carries the memory of a world lush with divine forces that appeared in various forms through rivers and forests winds and solar rays. Was Dena’s mind creating memories and narratives through its imaginative powers she asked herself, but her heart would respond, ”Hush and listen for Mata Sita is speaking to you.”

Dena Merriam feels a new reading of the story is immensely needed now. Many ages ago in ancient India, Shri Ram came to establish the foundation for a society based on universal principles of righteous action, in harmony with the universal laws, known as dharma. What is at the heart of dharma? Love. Love is what keeps the universal laws in motion. Love is what holds the magnetic and gravitational fields together. It is the force of love that is the cause and mover of all manifestation which will actually transform back into the unmanifest ultimate reality. It is this love that Shri Ram and Mata Sita displayed for each other, for all the people of their kingdom, for the creatures of the forest, for Mother Earth herself, and for the stars that dwell at a distance. Only by awakening the true essence of dharma, the love that is imprinted in our nature will we be able to realize the higher possibilities that await human life.

Sheryl shares her intuitive feeling that the masses of people worldwide are crying out to the Universe to help them reconnect to the ancient ways to respect and love nature and work cooperatively to improve life on this planet. We have distanced ourselves from our true soul nature and alignment to Spirit in a search for materialist gains in a physical world that is eating away at the truth of our eternal soul being.

Dena expresses that In the materialist world we live in now we have been separated from our original connection to Universal Source, the divine nature of each other and the Oneness of Being. Remembering our virtues is a part of reconnecting us to nature and our soul source of being.

“Dignity was a quality much valued in our kingdom. Although life in the kingdom of Videha was simple, our needs and wants were few, we saw this simplicity as a form of dignity because of the respect we accorded all of the natural world and all of the people in our kingdom. Nobody took too much, lest others go without, and this we would not tolerate. Every child who lost a parent was cared for. Every aged person was honored. There was little breaking of the trust between people. Everyone was accorded the same respect and honor and care. Janak Baba understood that for a society to be in harmony, everyone had to be looked after without exception.

Sheryl says Oh how we need to return to this beautiful and necessary righteous thoughts words and actions.

Dena goes on in the story of that ancient time and place how the leaders served their people. Everyone in our society understood the rhythms of nature and lived in accordance with the natural cycles. To us, its laws were sacred and the key to our prosperity, and our prosperity lay not only in the abundant resources of nature but also in the wisdom that flowed from our Maharaja, which guided every aspect of our lives. From him we had learned that as long as we upheld the natural laws, our needs would be provided for one way or another. Difficult times were there to teach us certain lessons, he said, but we had to remain true to our principles and beliefs.

During this time of Sita, the spiritual feminine source of nurturing humanity was more integrated into the natural world. There was no thought to take more from nature than was needed, for we were also conscious of the needs of the animal and plant kingdoms. In earlier days most of our food had come from the abundant forests and valleys, which had been overflowing with so many varieties of fruits, nuts, roots, and wild grains. But as we grew in numbers and encroached upon the forests, these foods diminished, and so the leaders of the nation led us in the cultivation of crops. But we had not forgotten how the forests once served all of the needs of our ancestors, and so a deep gratitude remained embedded in our minds and spirits. Gratitude, respect, and love for all life—this was the essence of dignity our leader Janak Baba taught us. Our gratitude was also for the earth, for her soil, which provided more and more of our food. We honored her, respected her and were grateful, and this feeling became even stronger when we learned that the earth goddess had given us a daughter. She had given the people of Videha one who could not only protect our kingdom but also help restore balance to the whole of the natural world.

All the people were more convinced than ever that the powers of our leader and knew Sita and his daughter extended far beyond the material realm. So when he brought home his daughter, we viewed her as he did: a gift from the gods. While the village people said she was born of the earth, there was whispering throughout the household that she was a self-manifesting one, the great Devi of whom the sages spoke. She took physical form through her own will. Janak Baba did not dissuade this talk, but he allowed the villagers to proclaim that she was the daughter of Vasundhara Devi, the earth goddess. And so she was named Sita, which means “furrow” of the earth.

We can learn much from the character of Sita and how she is a role model for us today. From the character of Sita we learn that she was called into life by the intention to have an equal partner for the next king…a woman connected to the living earth as it is in best interest of all societies where men and women are equal and remembered as such respected for their innate spiritual gifts and serve each other to the best of their talents and abilities without judgment from the outside world, but with love from “within” for all living thing. When her father the Maharaja was asked why he had a daughter and could she take over his kingdom he smiled and said “Kingdoms come and go. I am concerned with the welfare of the earth,” he responded. “I have observed increasing disturbances in the rhythms of nature and believe that only the supreme Shakti (the Divine Feminine) herself can again bring balance and harmony to the natural world. Without regaining this balance, I fear there will be much more suffering. Her presence is needed now, and I will invoke her again and again in the hope that she will respond and pour her love over all the living creatures on this earth by appearing in physical form.” And so the meditations continued. And so the story of how a child came to be that would take over the kingdom when the leader Janak Baba passed goes like this….. When Janak Baba beheld the small desert creatures that had gathered around, he looked at them with gratitude in his heart. “She is coming for you as well,” he said, “not only for us humans.” He took a vow that his daughter would belong to the earth and all of her creatures. She would not belong to him, Sunaina, or any man. She belonged to all. He had not called her forth to extend his kingdom, to perpetrate his reign, or to gain greater power or wealth, but to help and heal the natural world that was growing increasingly imbalanced.

As a child Sita or Mata as she was also called showed us that she was a natural healer and this is explained in the following story where she is guided by her intuition to find from the earth’s natural remedies.

“Please, have patience, Meenakshi, Sita said as they walked in the forest. I know I will find it. I hear it calling.” “Is it an animal?” I asked. She shook her head. I couldn’t understand what she was talking about, but this was often the case with Sita. Sita stopped by the water birds in front of them. After a few minutes I saw her fold her hands and thank them; then very consciously she went to a nearby stream and started to dig out some roots. “There, I have found it. Now we can return,” she said simply, holding a large bunch of roots in her hand. She took the roots back to Janak Baba. “What is this?” asked Janak Baba with a broad smile. “It is for the sage’s stomach,” she said. “This will help him.” The confusion on the sage’s face turned to shock. “Stomach?” inquired Janak Baba. Then turning to the sage he asked, “Do you have stomach troubles?” “Indeed, I do. But how could you know this, Sita? Nobody but my wife is aware of this.” She didn’t answer, but instead advised him to boil the roots and drink the liquid, and his stomach troubles would improve.

Sheryl says Seems Sita was an empath who could feel the pain of the wise man and also with messages from Spirit find ways and herbs to help those around her to heal.

As the child grew other spiritual talents emerged guided by dreams, nature and her strong connection to Universal energy and nature. Here is another healing story. Sita and her helper were by the river and the conversation went this way: “That was the river goddess. Did you see her beautiful form?” “No, Mata. I saw only a mist of light.” “She explained to me that death is part of life, and that she took the ox because it was his time to leave his body and take another. She said I should not mourn death because without death there is no birth. I am very sorry for the way I spoke to her.”

“Mata, I am sure she understood that your heart was moved by the plight of the farmer.” “Yes, that is why she called me here,” she said as she rose to leave. “I will not question her again.” “It is true what she said about death. But this is a hard lesson, Mata.” She turned to look at me.

Another lesson is learned and goes as follows…Sage Gargi entered the room and took her seat beside Sita. “Sita, we live on the physical plane. In the higher realms, thought alone can manifest what one desires. Here in the material world, a denser vibration is needed. The physical world came into manifestation through the vibration of sound, through the Om vibration. And these wise men are correct: pronunciation is key. It is very difficult to align oneself with the correct vibration; if one’s thought is not attuned, the sound will not be perfectly aligned. Thought guides the sound. A pure mind is needed, or at least a very disciplined mind, which is why so few hold the power of mantra. In earlier times.

Sheryl says there is indeed a divine plan and since nothing is good or bad just experience for the soul to expand to higher consciousness and closeness to this powerful force of creation we must accept and surrender to destiny without too much sadness and never judgment. We must balance and find peace and hold our energy and connection to love which is the real spark of the divine.

Dena explains the Yuga Theory of History which seems to explain many of the problems the world is experiencing at this present time. Yugas are the Hindu map of time, Age cycle or world eras.. There are four cycles. The western time system is linear while the Yuga system of eternity can be in this moment. Time and eternal in the East don’t map time in the linear system. In Hinduism Yuga matches the consciousness as it develops. It is believed we are in the “Kali Yuga” and at the beginning of this cycle where virtue is reduced to twenty five percent and we have declined from the grand scheme of virtuousness or the turning away from our inner world and our dependence on the outside world.

That is why we are struggling now in the world. Materialism is at the core of this cycle and the lowest point is when we would rather be a robot or technological being and the inner world of consciousness is lost to the technical over the human aspects. This is a movement away from our naturalism and a movement away from our state of spirit and eternal life. This is indeed a dark age in the Kala Yuga. Access to these ancient texts and waking up to our inner awareness is the only way to survive this age of destruction. We must move towards the age of Truth and awaken. Dena has discovered while writing her first book My Journey Through Time that past life memories are real when we discover the triggers that awaken our past life memories. It could be a person or place or dream or visit from Spirit. Most of the time, it is a combination of events that open the heart and soul to our true nature as spiritual beings having a physical life. Dena in that book tells us that after being separated from her husband and moving into a new house she began to have dreams of a grand house. She discovered at that time there are different types of dreams and that most dreams are of a subconscious or soul inspired remembrance, a melding of thoughts and fears about our daily lives. Some dreams convey a message and help lift us beyond reality to see the past present and future merging in a oneness of our soul life experiences. Dena had a recurring dream of that grand large elegant house for over ten years and one day met Jay who was African American who addressed me in Russian and something shifted and I became aware of a woman in spirit who I knew to be my Russian mother who I had loved so much in that time and grand house and had been separated from during the Russian Revolution.. Dena’s dreams brought her to places she had known in that lifetime validating for her truth that her memories were real.

The main messages of this story that are relevant to us today as the past and dreams remind us of our true eternal nature as in the story of Shri Ram and Mata Sita as told in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana the classic version of the tale is the Valmiki rendition is important because it is in that version which takes place after Ram is crowned king of Ayodhya, that Sita is brought low by the patriarchal assumption that she is nothing more than the wife of Ram, who was kidnapped against her will by the demon king Ravana and rescued by Ram, the hero. It is here that her purity is questioned, her reputation sullied, and she is forced to retreat to a forest hermitage where she bears her twin sons and raises them before she asks Mother Earth to open and receive her once again.

The Untold Story of Sita approaches Sita not as an appendage of Ram, but as his divine equal in every way. While Ram is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, known as Narayan, Sita is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu’s female counterpart, Mahalakshmi, called Narayani. In the celestial realms they are known as Narayana and Narayani, while on earth they are known as Ram and Sita. Nothing—the exile, the kidnapping, the separation from Ram, her supposed trial by fire and her time away from the kingdom at a hermitage—happens without her consent and her knowledge of the underlying reasons behind each action.

Another important continuing theme in this book discusses Gratitude a quality much valued in that long ago household, and this was set by Janak Baba and his wife, Sunaina Ma. They never failed to express gratitude to their servants and attendants and did their best to make life easier for us. It was our understanding that each person fulfilled an essential function in the household that was as important as any other role. No work was demeaning, and no one was treated as being worth more or less than the others.

It seems what matters is the spirit in which you perform your responsibilities, not what those responsibilities are. I have tried to teach you time and again that there is no distinction between the types of work one does. When you truly know this, everything will change. Then I will feel that I have fulfilled my responsibility in raising you to be a proper servant, a servant whose only thoughts are for the welfare of the one you serve.”

Sheryl says that nothing has changed and that the truth is It is not in the doing but who we are becoming that is the purpose of a physical life refining our spiritual essence with greater love and compassion for all. The materialist way of life has not supported this universal truth. Dena and Sheryl discuss that all the laws of trade and economic dependency upon the earth and the people to share what they have is the key to dealing with climate economic political and social changes in the world We are having a Spiritual disconnect from the truth of our being and have forgotten that it is through giving that we receive and in living with our soul wisdom that we make sense of the physical realities which can be harsh at times. From “within” are all the answers to what is happening in the world and often the fear and negative thoughts and actions we are generating out into the world are producing that reality. If you have fear of not having enough you will not have enough. If you trust and ask for divine guidance and project thoughts of being cared for, nurtured and loved you will live in that energy reality.

We thank Dena Merriam author of The Untold Story of Sita which is elegantly written and a departure from the previous view of Sita the ancient mythological Goddess as a helpless and submissive consort of Lord Rama moving past the limits of patriarchal and capitalist narratives to express the dynamic feminine power of action wisdom and balance through ancient and present day realities.

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Dena Merriam has shown us the progression from mythological times to now for how women in the past have been often seen as less than their full human and spiritual potential and at times been harmed emotionally physically and spiritually for their unique set of emotional and nurturing abilities. In this intense time of evolution and revolution, it is time for men and women to look to their spiritual energy capacities and find a complete awakening to the talents of both groups to reach a level of fairness and good judgment and walk side by side equally for then we will be able to restore ecological and social balance to our world.

Dena and I would have you remember your inner world and live from that truth as you journey through the physical world and begin to look past the social mores and limitations of your childhood any fear or trauma and false belief systems to engage the endless power of your soul potential to thrive and create a world of fairness prosperity and service to all living entities. It is from that place of Oneness that women will take their true place beside loving men without being subdued or controlled as in the past. We must all triumph in our Universal energy of soul life and bring heaven to earth.

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In today’s episode of Healing From Within your host Sheryl Glick author of Life Is No Coincidence The Life and Afterlife Connection and also The Living Spirit Answers to Healing and Infinite Love which share stories of spiritual awakening communication healing energies and miracles to attune your energy your intuition and to a higher consciousness and awareness of human and spiritual forces welcomes Kimberly Kelley M. D. author of The Road to Mana Finding HealingHappiness on the Road to Life which describes how to approach challenges

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware my guests and I share intimate experiences and insights into the world of both our physical and energetic aspects of a complicated dynamic of life helping us to realize the value of self-investigation and discovering the means to master our emotions and thoughts so we can create our healthiest and happiest life experience.

In today’s episode of the show Dr. Kimberly Kelley describes five people from different walks of life all struggling with difficult life events who find themselves together for one week at a Hawaiian retreat where they learn to cherish the simple treasures of life as the caretaker Sister intertwines hope and enlightenment into their reality.

When Kimberly is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a personal event that may have signaled to her or others the values lifestyle perhaps work she might pursue as an adult she tells us the story of how she went for eyeglasses and was able for the first time to see and not struggle. She had thought everyone viewed the world in a blurry way and was so grateful to finally see clearly. Always wanting to help people she went to Medical school and became a doctor. But realizing there was something missing from the equation of her purpose or destiny she ended up in Hawaii encouraging her spiritual growth and integrating holistic practices into her healing work. She evolved and found greater purpose, joy and prosperity.

Dr. Kimberly R. Kelley is originally from Ohio but calls Hawaii home for the past decade. She received her medical degree from Wright State University Dayton Ohio and her MBA from University of Knoxville Tennessee She specializes in anesthesia acupuncture and chronic pain management. Dr. Kelley believes in an integrative holistic approach to healing. She is the founder of Core Wellness Hawaii whose motto is healing the inner self.

Kimberly goes on to discuss the characters in her fictional novel which actually draw on her own and other people in her life and their experiences. This is the story of five people who come together for one week, looking for peace and a way to deal with the chaos of life. Anxiety, depression, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury laced with regret have dimmed their prospects of living full and happy lives. They have heard that Sister, a well-known woman of healing, offers weeklong retreats at her home in a Hawaiian paradise and might have what they need to help them find their way back.

The five main characters in the story include Lew- veteran husband and father with PTSD having trouble keeping it all together, Sara-a physician who seems happy on the outside but is experiencing burnout and compassion fatigue Uncle Ira-struggling with guilt, anger and grief who has almost given up on life: Nora a housewife with 3 children in 4 years with dreams deferred and is struggling with her identity and value as a mother: Reiko-a biracial and bilingual drifting between both cultures, not really belonging to either. The caretaker, Sister, a wise elder, provides tools for a mental check up so each can learn to take a deep breath in the business of life. “Less is more and Healing is by digging in the soil of your soul.” All the characters learn during their time together to cherish the simple treasures of life as Sister intertwines hope and enlightenment into their reality.

We discover how to approach life challenges through self-care with individual reflection, inward exploration, and self-discovery on the journey to health. The practices of nutrition, movement, mindfulness, meditation massage and yoga are used at this fun and engaging retreat.

We find that like Reiko, the main theme of all the visitors reflect a core need of the soul and it is when Reiko thinks of her own desires—she longs to feel loved, cherished by someone who really knows her, understands her. A sense of hopefulness fills her center. A smile lights her face as she falls asleep. It is the need of the soul to remember its infinite wisdom, love and expansiveness and that is the path for each of us to find peace.

Sheryl shares with Kimberly that her spiritual awakening began much the same way with a slight pain in the heart and feeling that there was so much more to life than her personal success as a mother, wife, business person, daughter friend. What was missing and it was the need of her soul to awaken to Spirit Universal Love and to heal and help others to heal using her spiritual gifts of intuition and a knowingness of the Universal Laws of Energy and Spirit. It was her journey to understand love in its unconditional fullness and begin to shine that from within into the world.

It would be wise to remember the following quote as we try to release our own fears and restrictions from past traumas or the wounds from childhood that took away a bit of our light and replaced it with a stone or a hardness to the love and grace and light we were born with.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gone lost. —Dalai Lama XIV

It might be wise to find time to just relax in nature.

And Kimberly writes, “She looks up and opens her arms upward, palms up, fingers pointing toward the winding, knotted branches of the bizarre tree rising above them. “But first, let’s rest a bit under this banyan tree. Look at the branches, how they intertwine and form stronger, larger branches. Our lives are like that, intertwined. The banyan is not native to Hawaii but thrives here. It begins its life in the crevices of a host tree, and, as it grows, its roots drip downward, looking like a fall of hair, hanging from the branches to reach the ground. Are the roots coming out of the earth or falling into the ground? Eventually, these twisting threads, these roots, crowd and engulf the host. This sacred tree represents eternal expansion. Legend has it that God Krishna often rested in its branches. And that it was under the bodhi tree, which is in the same family as the banyan tree, where Buddha sat and received enlightenment.”

Sara, a character in the book chimes in, a little excited, her words tumbling out, “You know, I’ve seen these trees before. I traveled to India, when I was a medical student. So, this is not the first time I’ve sat under a banyan.” She smiles and looks around the group. “They’re actually fig trees, and some of them grow to enormous size. I recall they have many ecological benefits, and there have been studies done that support the many long-standing medicinal uses of the banyan.”

Remember our divine and human heritage and to express this Kimberly writes, “Sister’s voice is soft and unexpected as she says, “Look at the stars. Shooting stars! Twinkling stars! You know, our ancestors are these stars. And these stars are here to guide us. Breathe in deeply and slowly. Take in the beauty of this moment. Take in what you experienced today.”

What was experienced was I was at peace. I still am. Sitting up on that horse was wonderful, like drifting off , taking a hot bath. I was just living in the moment. At times, I even closed my eyes and let the horse be my guide, while I breathed and, well, just breathed. I felt so alive. So aware. It has been a long day, and I am tired, but also so energized. I love feeling my body working, the muscles moving and strengthening, and all that hard work and sweat being constantly balanced with the beauty of this place. I felt a sense of joy and balance. Whether I was off on my own or walking and talking with all of you. I felt solid. Balanced.”

After a few minutes of quiet, Sister, the leader of the group the shaman says, “I think you all had a good day. Some growth. Awareness of living in the moment in this wondrous life. Being grateful for the simple, natural things in life can heal you. We walked, and then rode. Walking, running—those things will heal you. And you can run to something.” She looks at Lew. “Or you can run away from something.” She looks over at Reiko. “Running to self, to find self. I hope each of you will find yourself here.”

“This is the beginning of your healing—getting to know your authentic and true self. Becoming aware of that which surrounds you. Each day is a gift for each of you to open. A present from the universe. I am giving you this box made of koa wood to symbolically place your gifts into daily. This box will be a constant reminder of the gifts you receive. Every day is a present, a surprise to you from the universe. Unpacking daily with gratitude is the best way to learn to appreciate the gifts that the universe has for you. If you find something you enjoy, then put it in the box. This will be your treasure chest of magical gems to draw from in times of need— be it emotional, physical, or spiritual. As you reflect, write, or meditate on your activities from the day, my hope is that you transform these life lessons into tools you can use to excavate your true self.

Dr. Kelley tells us the concept of Core Wellness Hawaii. Somehow I feel the following words Kimberly wrote reflect the concept of the Core Wellness Hawaii which is quite simply to self-investigate know your true being or soul and to master your emotions so you may be at peace and oneness and unity with all of life.

Kimberly wrote, “Consider beginning your day by opening your box, your present, your gift from the universe. Start your day with what you put in the day before. Let this be your foundation.

“This koa wood you are holding is legendary in Hawaii. It is native and highly revered—sacred. It has deep rich colors and a varied grain pattern. It was kapu (forbidden) for anyone to possess other than the monarchs and ali’I (royalty class). The inner beauty and inner strength in each of you is just as beautiful as this wood. Your spirit, your soul, your grain, your stripes, your heritage, and your culture is reflected in your thoughts and how you appear today. Some of you are more aware of and knowledgeable about your past. Others of you are just starting to open these channels.

“Koa means warrior. It is used for weapons and canoes. The bowls (umeke) you eat from and the gardening tools (niho’ oki) are all made of koa wood. You will touch it and receive its warrior mana. It is plentiful in this area. These stumps you sit upon are koa wood from fallen trees. It will energize you in the mornings; it will give you power during the days; it will provide you solace in the evenings during our circle time.”

Learning to know your inner self is necessary in order to connect to it. In the book, my sister explains the concept of inner self saying,” When I first arrived in this beautiful place, I was told this story.” Although her eyes are full of energy, Sister speaks slowly in a low voice, inviting listeners.

“The kūpuna, our wise elders of Hawaiian ways, told me this tale of a bowl of light from the Hawaiian tradition. Each child is born with a bowl of perfect light. A child will grow in strength and health and can do anything, as long as he tends his light. The child can swim with the sharks, soar with the eagles, know and understand all things. If, however, the child becomes envious or jealous, he drops a stone into the bowl, and some of the light goes out. Light and stone cannot hold the same space. If there is hatred, envy, or unkindness—these are stones that are placed in the bowl. The light will go out, and, eventually, the person will become stone. “A stone does not grow. Nor does it move. At any time, if the person wearies of being a stone, all he needs to do is turn the bowl upside down. The stones will fall out, and the light will grow once more.

“Huli huli, turn upside down.” Sister gestures, as if she is turning a bowl upside down. “The bowl of light represents each of us and our true heart— light and love. When we are conscious and respectful of this light, we are living in our highest state of being. We are mindful and aware, on our true path of freedom. The stones in the bowl represent pain and suffering that occur when we resist life, instead of trusting life. If our bowl of light becomes stones, we feel disconnected from our source of love. To turn over our bowl of light and dump our stones is like starting life again.

“Now, it is not possible to eliminate our past or deny it. What we can do is return light to our bowl, so that the memories of our wounds no longer affect us negatively. We are able to see life differently, with a fresh perspective, through a new lens. We will come back to this.” Remember always…..There are no right or wrong answers, so no need to judge. These are gifts we share with the universe. The universe graciously accepts your gifts and will respond in kind.

We learn what military and veteran programs are available

In dealing with Lew who has PSAT a description of his issues and his treatment plan follow Without mental health there can be no te physical health. —Dr. Brock Chisholm, World Health Organization

Lew—Physically fit, but emotionally unhealthy.

Sister’s Solution—Nonpharmacologic treatments: exercise, focused physical activities (horseback riding, canoeing, hiking), herbal support, and plant-based medicine.

Exercise—Positive effect on depression, anxiety, stress, and PTSD. It can predict morbidity and mortality by affecting weight loss and glucose control. Exercise promotes bone health and mental health and increases immunologic factors. Insufficient exercise results in increased rates of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Not only can a physically active lifestyle reduce mortality and prevent many chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and cancer, it can promote healthy cognitive and psychosocial function

We learn what Mana is.We all have stories that have shaped our lives. Difficult life events sometimes disrupt our understanding of the world around us. Our personal responses to these events influence our ability to glean wisdom, knowledge, and awareness. This can hinder our ability to move forward, choosing a healthy direction and quality relationships.

Mana is also a road that can lead to self-discovery. This forgotten path might be a lonely path, but one that can be all the more rewarding and ripe for exploration and self-revelation. We find ourselves on this road, looking for answers to life’s most intimate questions. The path we traveled to get to this road is unique, but the quest for truth is universal.

Welcome to the road to mana. May you find peace and joy as you walk. Ha’ina mai ka puana—Let the story be told. Hotep—peace

Some of the tools Sister suggests to the people at the resort to help them take a mental checkup and learn to take a deep breath in the business of life?

Sister gives this a long moment, and then says, “Become aware of your hands, of the tight bond we are forming in this circle. We form this circle because the circle represents us. This represents our wishing well through this week. I wish you well. I wish you wellness through this week. I call this the DANA well—deserving, desiring, and needing answers. I want you to come to understand that this is our sacred space, our sacred place, and we want to, in essence, honor it, if you will.”

Everyone remains still. Waiting.

Then, Sister continues, “In the mornings, I want us each to put something into the well. After we have gone through each day, I want us to be able to take something out of the well.” Sister inhales deeply and nods toward the opening formed in the center by the joining of their hands. “I’ll go first. I want to pour into our well, hope, and love. I want you to—I want us to—grow. I want us to become part of one another. I want us to be respectful of one another. I want us to be authentic and transparent.” Sister grows more solemn. “This is a sacred area of trust we are creating. We will not all agree on all that is said. But I ask you to be respectful as a listener and respectful as a speaker. I trust you will be truthful and transparent in your interactions. This is a sanctuary for you. Can each of you verbalize your agreement with an affirmative yes?”

Maybe Kimberly would like readers to remember what Ira the older farmer revealed to Lew the soldier who had returned from war disheartened and angry and Kimberly wrote, “But then Ira replies, “Eh, well, you know, Lew. I’m like everybody else. I’m kind of searching too. Just because I’m old, doesn’t mean I know everything. I just don’t want to be an old fool,” he adds, with a forced guff aw that reveals a slight wrench in his voice. Then he goes on, “So I know a lot about the land.” He shrugs, “I know a lot about life.”

Ira turns to face Lew and says, “What I know about is the land. I know how to respect the land. I know how to honor the land.” He falls quiet, and Lew does not rush to fi ll the silence, as he absorbs Ira’s meaning.

“Lew, the land is like a woman. Because that is what the land is. We call it aina. She feeds us. She nourishes us. In India, you know, the people honor and respect the cow, because the cow nourishes and feeds the people. She gives them sustenance. She gives them milk. Indigenous Americans respected and honored the land too, knowing that she sustains and nourishes in all seasons. In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was identified with the image of a cow, providing nourishment for the people.”

We want to thank Dr. Kimberly Kelley author of The Road to Mana for writing such a descriptive and beautiful story of the search past the challenges of our lives to find the beauty of our soul connection and alignment to Spirit so we may remember who we are and where we come from and to begin to become aware and then accept ourselves and our lives for the gift that they are.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have walked along the main characters of Kimberly Kelley M.D. characters from her book The Road to Mana and have recognized bits and pieces of our own personalities and difficult situations that at times have made living our everyday life excruciatingly painful and disjointed for in our humanness and personal growth there is conflict misunderstandings losses and every emotion ranging from the most blissful to the most painful. We have found it is in the challenges and learning to let go to see the positive in relationships and simply the gift of a physical life that we return to our true soul awareness to know who we are and how to walk along the path of humanness to once again discover the divinity within each of us. In rediscovering our Oneness and unifying to the blessings of eternal soul being we begin to walk peacefully in this ever changing physical world and can live in harmony, balance and love again.

Dr. Kelley and I would have you remember Aesop’s tale…it goes like this. “Let’s talk about an Aesop’s tale. An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a bundle of sticks. He said to his eldest son, ‘Break it.’ The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts, he was unable to break the bundle. The other sons tried, but none of them was successful. ‘Untie the bundle,’ said the father, ‘and each one of you take a stick.’ When they had done so, he called out to them, ‘Now break it.’ And each stick was easily broken. ‘You see my meaning,’ said the father. ‘Union gives strength.’ Let us as humans unite and find friends, family and love for then truly our Spirit and soul will know peace.

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