Healing From Within - Sheryl Glick

Welcome to “Healing From Within” with your host Sheryl Glick RMT author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories of healing, miracles, and messages from Universal Source that shows us our challenges are not economic political societal but a disconnect from our true being or inner wisdom. Sheryl as an intuitive Reiki energy practitioner is delighted today to have Dr. Michael J. Young author of The Illness of Medicine Experiences of Clinical Practice shares the significant obstacles patients endure as well as the exasperation many of the truly dedicated medical professionals feel.

Michael as listeners of Healing From within have discovered over the years my esteemed guests and I share many stories miracles and truths about the nature of both physical and spiritual life and how merging both as well as merging allopathic and alternative healing methods offer people to discover more about life happiness and living with hope beyond any of the physical challenges. Life is a journey of self -discovery and refining many of our misguided or misinterpreted beliefs and thinking as we find new perspectives and heal all trauma. Beyond pain, suffering and limitations is the path to freedom from fear and the journey and discoveries are never ending.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. Michael Young will discuss the controlling efforts of the insurance industry and the clout pharmaceutical companies have over us which has become overwhelming. Dr. Young remembers a time in his 30 year medical practice when these industries worked for us and the physicians. We will explore how to navigate through our healthcare system beyond the mechanism of profit that it has become.

When Dr. Young is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place event that may have shown him or others the lifestyle work or interests he might have an as adult he remembers going to his pediatricians office and loving the smells and feeling deeply fond of the doctor who always told him the truth such as the injection would hurt but it was necessary to keep him healthy and safe. Paul Young actually wanted to be that kind of doctor- one who would help their patients manage their health issues honestly and with support from the practitioners and the system. That was the way it was but technology, the insurance pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and government and the need for greater profits have limited the personal aspect to healthcare at this juncture in time.

Michael Young M.D. tells us about the hopes and intentions you had as a young doctor, about his training and interests and how the system was then and what is going on now. In other words he tells us what goes on behind the scenes in the medical health delivery system in the USA. Dr. Young tells us of deciding to be a urologist as he felt they are confronted with few emergencies, have a myriad of procedures and technological tools at their disposal and enjoy a broad mix of office and hospital exposure. It is also one of the fields popular with medical students interested in a surgical career.

Dr. Young also tells us the hardest experience a young physician has to deal with and one never forgotten is the first patient’s death for which he or she feels accountable. Mine was a man in his mid-sixties recovering from open heart surgery for a redo or the second time around. He was also a brittle diabetic, obese and had COPD or pulmonary disease. Dr. Young kept checking on him all day but while his pulse oximeter indicated he was maintaining a reasonable level of blood oxygenation but what was not obvious was his effort and amount of energy being expended by him to maintain that steady oxygenation. As the day progressed his saturation levels were slowly diminishing. He expressed he was fine, until he really wasn’t, and by 11 pm in the evening he was really working hard to get oxygen in and out. He was losing the battle to breathe. There was a code blue called. He was connected to the ventilator and while his body had sustained the arrest, his brain had not. Eventually months later, it was known the patient would not recover and that cognitive function was not evident. The family elected to disconnect him from life support. He died and Dr. Young was saddened by this event and angry that the system had put him in this position—alone on a weekend, just over a year after graduating medical school, without any support or supervision.

We can discuss how Medical Care is perceived on both sides by the patient and practitioner. In the past children were prepared to respect going to see their pediatrician. The doctor spent time helping the parent and child to relax before getting to the examination or any test necessary at that visit. Actually, it was seen as a visit or something more intimate and doctors were important to the health of the entire family. Fast -forward decades later now doctors enter the office an hour before patients are scheduled to boot up their computer and review the onslaught of new tasks—reviewing lab results, pathology reports and x-ray reports, and good results are often reported quickly and a bad result might wait till after the weekend . The art of medicine began with the basics: knowing how and when to inform a patient of his or her medical information. Also, now we have endless pages of information we must solicit from patients related to everything from their current medical complaint to their lifestyle and even psychological status. Much of this is mandated by insurance providers. What the doctor wants to know from the patient is where things hurt and when.

But in this modern technological era we have become prisoners to our own attempts to improve understanding. No longer does a patient come to the office with his or her insurance information sign in and wait. Then their blood pressure is taken and usually it’s a little high and we wonder why They might be told the referral is missing or outdated and the patient is worried about their condition and has to complete an encyclopedia in a tablet he could barely read. Thankfully nearly every referral initiated by a primary care physician is granted by the insurer or HMO but remember to bring that referral or there will be delays or problems in receiving the test or treatment needed.

Often patients have no control over their own healthcare choices and doctors have lost the ability to be self-directed in-patient care as well. During the Covid epidemic or plague as Sheryl likes to call it many doctors were told not to us Hydrochloroquine a drug which has been in use to treat malaria and rheumatoid arthritis for years. The CDC and other agencies while they had no treatments to offer limited offering what later on was known to be very helpful in lowering the deaths from Covid in many patients. Some doctors were able to prescribe it but others were not allowed. Many other inconsistencies in treating Covid victims were also contributive to the many deaths and people infected. In reviewing the whole process we will find out that political influences and financial concerns also were part of the decision making processes.

Going on with problems in the new systems employed we begin with a new patient comes into the exam room after dealing with the front desk and giving any information or medical insurance cards and is then seen by a medical assistant who will take vital signs, temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, and record weight and height, and update the computer record of the patient’s profile, pertaining to changes in medications and other personal information. By this time often the patient is exhausted from the intake process that he is like a lamb or so wired up and angry at the process that apologies and reassurances are necessary. Now the doctor says, Now what are you here for today? And now it begins.

Sheryl says that recently she saw a new pulmonologist for a continuing problem with phlegm or clearing of the throat which had gotten worse after having Covid April 2020. For the past 25 years Sheryl had trouble with allergies and at times bronchitis and had at that time seen a pulmonologist who told her that her cough was innocuous and not a real problem…but since having covid and some breathing problems that persisted, Sheryl was checking everything out. The assistant who took her blood pressure asked her if she could take her shirt off. A red flag went up and Sheryl responded that of course she could, but why would she take blood pressure and told the aid her request was unreasonable and she didn’t know how to communicate with a patient. She apologized. Then the woman roughly pulled up her sleeve and told Sheryl her blood pressure was 176 over 90. That was very unlikely, but Sheryl was agitated by the aide’s behavior. The aid left the room and Sheryl started to feel the air in the room very toxic and uncomfortable. Sheryl is an empath and picks up emotions, pain and negativity.

Sheryl had never had an experience like this before and was confident enough to stand up to the erratic behavior of the aid but was still made uncomfortable by the experience. When the doctor came in the energy shifted for the better and the experience with the doctor was quite remarkable. Sheryl asked the doctor if anyone had been in the room who was very ill or had an emotional problem as the energy in the room had been very heavy and physically uncomfortable for Sheryl. The doctor responded, “She alright.” I have myself been in offices where there are people who are very negative and upset with the functioning of the office, but often the doctors are unaware, as they are too busy or are not as sensitive as Sheryl to weed out people who don’t belong there.

There are significant obstacles patients endure and the exasperation of the healthcare system is systemic.

Dr. Young writes, “Teaching someone who wants to be a surgeon to sew is not difficult. Likewise teaching a young surgeon to cut here and repair something else there is tedious but achievable. Teaching that same young person, the judgment to know whether to operate is difficult.

Learning to understand one’s limitations as a surgeon, as a physician with the responsibility to consider all options in caring for one’s patient—including the option not to intervene—is, I believe, the hallmark of a surgical education. Certainly, a physician may physically treat his last patient similarly to his very first. Same procedure for the same problem. But the process of understanding the situation, the nuances that may differ consequently between treating the first and last patient, defines the experience of practicing medicine that cannot be taught. It cannot be read in a book or gleaned from articles in a journal. The experience of understanding medicine must be lived through while making a considerable effort to learn and retain each event and outcome that transpired.

Then there is knowing how much time depends upon the doctor’s individual assessment of the patient.

There are two extreme types of reactions, always a bit curious and troubling to deal with. On the one hand there were patients who assumed no responsibility for treatment and would delegate this entirely to the doctor. Whatever you say Doc. This was never good and rarely led to the desired outcome without significant bumps along the way. When problems resulted, the patient would immediately claim that nobody told him anything.

The other difficult patient type was the overly suspicious individual. He wanted records of everything. He brought in realms of printed material from the internet and he always had a family member somewhere on the planet who was an expert in the field. These patients were difficult because everything for them was a challenge as was dealing with problems. Making decisions was a challenge as was dealing with problems. Progress was slow and tedious as this type of patient had literally too much information to process and rarely delegated decision making to anyone. Deciding what to eat for dinner was probably an arduous task for this personality type.

Sheryl tells the listening audience that it is important they become proactive in their own treatment plans and can say no or get a second opinion if uncomfortable or unsure of what is being suggested to them.

Sheryl tells of going to a dermatologist for a small bump in her thigh that had been there for some time. Her sister was being treated for pancreatic cancer so she thought she should check it out. Her original dermatologist doctor asked if it hurt and if it did not he would leave it alone. Sheryl should have listened to him for when she said it hurt a little when she moved it around he sent her to the surgeon in the office to remove it. It was extremely painful and Sheryl was traveling far away in a week and would not have done this procedure then if she knew it could be a problem.

When she returned to have the stitches out weeks later, the doctor and another doctor who had entered the room for support, it seemed told her she would need two more surgical procedures in that leg. The scar was healing strangely and Sheryl asked, “Is it cancer?” “No,” the doctor responded and Sheryl said, “So Why would you want to do more surgery?” and the doctor responded, “Because we’re doctors and that’s what we do.” Well what might it be? Well it might be a fungus? How would you treat it if it were a fungus? The doctor responded with, “I would treat it with antibiotics.” So you would do two more minor surgeries looking for something, but you don’t know why? Sheryl said, “No.” left that office and never returned. She had the results sent to her primary care doctor and years later had no reaction from that spot. This story shows you how as a patient you must take charge of your own care if something doesn’t feel right. But as an intuitive energy practitioner and empath, Sheryl followed a spiritual sense for her own treatment needs.

What might be ways to perhaps reform the system and return to a more personalized individualized way to deal with patients? It might work if all the main players in the health field insurance companies’ pharmaceutical government agencies physicians and patients were able to be more humane and less focused on the bottom line, the money or profit mode. As it is now hospitals are closing and many doctors have been forced to join hospital systems or multi-practice organizations.

Dr. Young writes,” It is said that he who owns the gold makes the golden rules: In the case of medical care in the United States, it is the insurance companies that own the gold. Looking at the skyline they seem to have the highest and largest buildings. Obtaining insurance approval for a surgical procedure can be difficult for the insurers will not only assess the need for the procedure, but will also determine the appropriate number of days the patient will be allowed to stay in the hospital, have rehabilitation services, etc.

The fact is the assessor deciding the appropriateness of the procedures is highly unlikely to be someone capable of doing the procedure, meaning the insurance approval expert is generally not a practicing physician in the area in which we are trying to get approval. Often, I have found that the medical directors of insurance companies are semi-retired or part time physicians, perhaps of limited clinical experience. Certainly, most don’t have the equal training and expertise in each and every medical scenario on which they are rendering judgment. Yet they are the ones determining if a patient can undergo a particular treatment or procedure.

Often patient demand for procedures or medications which can derive significant revenue encourages overuse of certain treatments. It is no surprise that a number of non-urology trained physicians began prescribing medicine for erectile dysfunction, some with rather limited experience of their side effects. A general rule in surgery is that if you can’t manage the complication, then you shouldn’t be performing the procedure.

Similarly, from Dr. Young’s point of view if a physician doesn’t understand or know how to manage the complication of a drug, then he or she should not prescribe it. Dr. Young tells of going into the rehabilitation floor of a particular hospital which made him aware of problems at the hospital he was becoming frustrated with. Many of the patients were past the acute phases of their illnesses undergoing occupational speech or physical therapy to regain independence but were at different stages. As a result of these differences life on the floor was disjointed. This set up definitely needs some rethinking and changes.

There is also a growing disconnect between physicians and the majority of floor nurses and it is not because of a lack of dedication or interest in health care but the hospital system has gotten in the way of caring for patients. Floor nurses now spend more time on computer terminals documenting what has transpired in their patient encounters than actually developing an understanding of the patient’s diseases and processes. Simply put, less time is being spent with the actual patient.

However, nurse practitioners NP are an invaluable asset to doctors for managing their practice. These are nurses with advanced training and they can truly facilitate patient care. Dr. Young says he has rarely met NP’s that weren’t competent and dedicated. They can perform many of our fundamental floor procedures and often communicate effectively with patients regarding health conditions and treatment plans. Perhaps more important they are able to interact very efficiently with floor nurses. We need to see more well trained Nurse Practitioners and hospitals should provide incentives for advancing their skills with further education.

Technology is affecting the changing nature of medicine. Dr. Young tells us he knows it sounds cliché when the older generation reflects on the current state of affairs and feels that the olden days were better. I think in the case of medicine it is true. Yes there have been significant improvements through our technology. We have better instrumentation, improved diagnostic capabilities, a more refined understanding of physiology, and greater ability to intervene with disease processes. But I feel the situation is somewhat analogous to the current state of interpersonal communication. Today we have fax machines text messaging e-mails voicemail but we don’t communicate any better In fact because of these options we talk less to each other and important information and context can be lost or misinterpreted via text messages.

Our technology has also forged new roads of confusion and concern among patients. There once was a time when a patient could talk to the doctor after hours for concerns about a new or ongoing treatment. Now answering machines pick up the call and many elderly patients simply cannot adapt to the communication changes and also many calls are lost or improperly routed. Among other technological wonders in the world of medicine are the now mandated portal systems by which patients can access their medical records online 24/7. The patient may decide to read their recent lab reports not necessarily understanding them but they do have this option.

However I think the most significant change in patient access to health care information has involved the internet in general which is filled with innumerable sites related to health care, the lot of them offering bounteous medical verbiage for the interpretation or misinterpretation of all who click in…Often the patient might decide which approach to choose regardless if it is appropriate or possible in terms of their condition or needs. I support self-education and encourage patients to learn about their conditions. But a little bit of knowledge without a complete grasp of the context and processes involved can lead to misunderstandings that are potentially dangerous. Example: A man with prostate cancer who needed surgery chose herbal treatment instead and three years later returned and the cancer had metastasized and moved into his bones and lymph nodes.

Sheryl suggests that some people would choose alternative treatments before surgery if it possibly was early in the diagnosis and could help in addition to western medicine and might want the most gentle approach before surgery which we all know can have many complications. Using judgment is necessary by both doctor and patient to achieve the best results.

We thank Dr.Michael J. Young author of The Illness of Medicine for sharing a most expansive detailed look at the life of a surgeon and the changing issues facing the medical profession, insurance companies, pharmaceutical, government interests, and last of all, which should always be first, the patient.

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” we have seen how Dr. Michel Young whose father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all physicians has brought details and examples of changing doctors’ practices hospital and medical institutions so we can see the necessity for the balancing of technology, corporations, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, with the personal involvement of medical professionals and their patients and remember to merge the best of progress with the gentleness of past times so medicine doesn’t decline into an impersonal exchange between the parties where respect, honor, and faith, for the needs of all participants are no longer honored. True healing is not merely moving beyond symptoms through medicine surgery or therapy. It is the ability of the patient and physician to form a human bond for healing the mind body.

We are now aware that corporations control the financing of much of the healthcare delivery system and that is becoming a greater problem. You have only to watch episodes of The Resident on national television to see the implications of the many problems facing dedicated doctors, nurses and patients trying desperately to navigate the laws of the corporation hospital insurance companies trying to provide a level of care that is acceptable and profitable. The Physician is no longer in charge of his or her patient’s health care delivery. He or she is told how many patients must be seen and in what time frame and what interventions are allowed. Consequently, the doctor’s office is no longer a health care sanctuary, a place to go for comfort and healing. It has become a monitored managed pathway for billing. Like our Law Enforcement agents, the system is taking away their personal power to respond to difficult confrontational events with their hands tied behind them, Often the offenders or criminals are treated as victims and the police as the problem. These changes in society mainly political and economic are not for the benefit of the parties involved and I think we must all stand up for what is rightful action for best results looking not to judge or blame, but to learn as humans we can only do our best for each other and we must encourage through legislation and the courts to uphold the rights of all people in all situations, so we can do better than just surviving in a world that is losing it’s love of individual excellence. To have and give the best care, restoring the best in the practice of self-care and care for others, reminds us we are human and unique. In our differences we must find ways to restore our faith in humanity and find healing beyond systems but through love.

Dr. Michael Young and I would have you remember not to be overwhelmed by the changes happening now as there is indeed, spiritually speaking, a personal plan for each of us and a collective plan to advance the soul to greater levels of higher consciousness. Through facing the challenges, we learn gratitude, acceptance, intention, and non-judgment, and find peace beyond any challenge we are given. Change is necessary and often leads to improving our sense of knowing who we are and what values are really important in a human life cycle.

I am your host Sheryl Glick author of A New Life Awaits and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the metaphysical scientific spiritual medical legal education and music and arts fields who share their discoveries and interest in knowing humanity evolution and the search for higher consciousness in more exact ways. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisons7radio.com

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Welcome to Healing From Within. I am 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 merely economic political or societal, but a spiritual disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom. Sheryl welcomes Christy Whitman, author of The Desire Factor which shares how valuable it is to live our most wonderful physical life as we discover how acts of creation or spiritual processing manifest into the tangible form.

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As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware, Sheryl and her sensitive intuitive guests share a clearer view or broader awareness of how spiritual and physical life can unfold, merge together for greater efficacy, through working alongside numerous challenges provided by life circumstances and eventually lead us to understand the ability we all possess to manifest a life of happiness abundance success. We also may find life as the precious gift and miracle it is. As we study the concept of duality or physical and spiritual essences, we may be able to determine who we really are?

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Christy Whitman shows precise steps for bringing about the manifestation of any desire showing us the true gift is not in acquiring our desires: it is the people we become in the process of our desires moving through us. The skills, strengths and character traits we develop in the process of self -growth and the energy refinement of our spirit stays with us always as we learn to lean into a healthy loving and joyful life.

When Sheryl asks Christy to think back to childhood and remember a person place or event that may have shown her or others the life interests work or life style she might pursue as an adult she writes that earlier in her life, she experienced a connection with source energy as a silent presence that communicated with her mainly through intuition and downloads of insight that guided her in the direction of her highest good. Later on in life she found its messages come through in distinct blocks of thought, offered to her by a collection of nonphysical ascended masters that call themselves the Quantum Council. As you’ll soon discover, the Council has a unique way of saying things, and—because they are entirely focused—they offer a perspective that is often very different from Christy’s own. To give you a direct experience of the depth of their wisdom, I’ve included direct quotes offered by the Council at the beginning of each chapter. The Council’s intention is to help humanity embrace our innate creative power and to understand that we are divinely designed to experience well-being, abundance, success, and loving relationships. Each of us receives these impulses from our creator in our own unique way, and each of us in turn provides for our creator a unique avenue through which this energy can flow and express itself through our human attributes.

Sheryl and Christy agree that they were always following the sensible and helpful guidance that floated into their thoughts as children though at time not entirely aware of higher soul beings or guides that were with us all the time so we were never alone.

We are not separate from the nonphysical source that created us and all things—we are an inseparable, integrated part of it. But, by the power of our own free will, we can choose to hold ourselves temporarily apart from the energy of our creator by virtue of the thoughts we think and the perceptions we hold to be true.

When we perceive ourselves as separate from the nonphysical source that created all things; when we mistakenly believe that the three-dimensional material world is all that exists; when we allow ourselves to believe that there are evil forces with the power to insert themselves into our experience; when we become so addicted to drama, chaos, conflict, and struggle that we actually come to think of these conditions as ourselves, we cut ourselves off—albeit temporarily—from the innermost part of ourselves that is one with our creator.

Christy tell us how she became the CEO and founder of the Quantum Success Coaching Academy and something of the 12 -month certification program. She didn’t have a clue that she was going to start to teach and coach students but people kept coming up and telling her they needed her to certify them. It seems the Universe knew her destiny was to do that and just nudged her in the right direction.

As Christy wrote, “The universal principles that bring about every act of creation are neither arbitrary nor difficult to understand. They work the same for everyone, regardless of age, status, color, or culture. Each of us is the center of all that we attract into our lives. What we align with—on the physical level of our bodies and surroundings. as well as on the energetic level of our thoughts, perceptions, and attitudes—we draw to us. This is the Law of Attraction we have all become familiar with but still find hard to incorporate into everyday life experiences.

Christy tells us how she recently, was was chatting with her friend Patty, who lights up every time she tells me about her desire to travel through Wyoming. Something about exploring the rugged, undeveloped landscape fills her with a sense of adventure that her soul has been yearning for. Wyoming is Patty’s Desire Factor, and if she follows the path that this desire will lay out in front of her, it will lead her not only to Wyoming but also to the next evolution of the person she desires to be. It could even lead her to a life she can’t even conceive of from where she stands right now.

Desire is the fuel for every act of creation. Marie Diamond Feng Shui Master and Master Teacher in The Secret and in the foreword to The Desire Factor tells us that she met Christy several years ago through the Transformational Leadership Council, of which she is a founding member. As we got to know one another better, she learned that Christy is a messenger for the Quantum Council, a collective consciousness of ascended masters here to teach others how to create all that they desire in the physical world through utilizing the spiritual laws of abundance.

For over twenty-five years, Christy has been studying, practicing, and sharing with others the principles and techniques for mastering energy. This book is a distillation of that ever-evolving body of knowledge, and it takes readers from the basic understanding that thoughts create into a whole new level of fluency in the language of vibration.

Desire is a powerful force that triggers a surge of heightened pleasure and purpose, sending life-giving energy rushing through every fiber of our beings. And regardless of whether the object of our desire is a person, a possession, or an idea that we want to make manifest in our lives, the act of wanting something is about far more than its attainment. Desire is a catalyst that can awaken our highest qualities, our greatest human potential, and our full spiritual power. Like the proverbial carrot dangling from a stick that gives the mule a reason to keep striving toward a destination, the act of acknowledging a desire also leads us on a journey. And this is not only a journey toward simply having but also a journey of becoming.

Christy and Sheryl discuss some of the teachings that have lead thousands of people to find success and prosperity as well as the truth about what life really is. One of the first principles to learn is that the personality that you think of as you is inextricably connected to the intelligence of the universe itself. You were born with an innate ability to align with this broader aspect of you and to receive a continual flow of all the insights and inspiration that will lead you to the realization of a joyous, satisfying life experience.

Sheryl says so it seems that knowing who we are as eternal spiritual beings having a physical life is essential to working with energy to align to Spirit man nature and know life in it’s multi-dimensional ways.

In Sheryl’s new book A New Life Awaits she said it this way…..”Many years ago, after a series of mystical experiences that I could not explain with my logical mind, I found myself experiencing feelings within that related to a life that was more than my physical experience. As I began to quiet my mind, I began to know my inner thoughts in a way that went beyond the five senses and the way I was accustomed to experiencing the physical world. I became aware that I was able to use an intuitive sense that had nothing to do with my mind, years of education, or life experiences. It was a sense of knowingness and awareness to history, our humanity, and the past in a way that went beyond normal explanation. In dreams and in my interactions with numerous people that I later dis[1]covered were Spiritual guides brought into my conscious reality for the important purpose of realizing my life plan and my inner soul being, a new awareness emerged, enabling me to constantly review past beliefs seen purely from a physical indoctrination of this time, place, and present life experience into another way. I am incredibly more able to accept new ways of knowing myself and those who walk this journey with me and to discern the true meaning of life”

Christy goes on to tell readers that there are the 7 universal principles that make up the Desire Factor. They include:

1. The Principle of Alignment
2. The Principle of Focus
3. The Principle of Joyful Expectancy
4. The Principle of Having
5. The Principle of Loving
6. The Principle of Surrender
7. The Principle of Action

Christy shows us that while some desires might seem superficial on the surface often they actually stem from something much deeper that lead us to seek further awareness of Self and development of our personal soul power.

Christy shares how her desire at two times in her early life in regard to owning designer handbags was actually reflective of her desire to grow spiritually and aid her personal development. Christy writes, “As I write these words today, having devoted the past twenty or more years to studying, applying, and teaching others about the powerful universal laws that govern the process of all manifestation I now understand the full spiritual significance of the flashes of insight I received on each of those days. Those coveted purses had been symbols that helped me focus my attention and creative energy toward much bigger and more important goals: The Coach bag symbolized my becoming a woman who is healthy, active, self-loving, energetic, and—naturally—a non-smoker. And that, by the way, is the woman who returned to that very boutique two months later, cigarette-free, and walked out with a Coach purse on her arm. Similarly, the Fendi bag was a symbol of success; when I envisioned myself carrying it, I saw a woman who is confident and accomplished, who has the freedom to spend her money and time in ways that are pleasing to her and that contribute meaningfully to others.”

She goes on to write, “Purses, for me, ignite the Desire Factor. They light me up, summon energy through me, and give me a glimpse into a new, yetunrealized reality. This is the divine purpose of desire, whether the desire itself is for something material or something intangible; big or small. Designer bags and shoes may inspire zero interest for the next girl, but it’s not about the items, the destination, or the specifics of any particular manifestation. It’s about the process of being lit up by something and the energy that is summoned through you as a result. The particular objects that you desire—whether they are big or small, tangible or intangible—are of no consequence. The real value lies in discovering that you want something more, better, or different than what you currently have and then allowing this life-giving realization to stir something within you. When you make the decision to use your desires for this expansive and spiritual purpose, you are actively cooperating with the Desire Factor within you

We go on to discuss what it takes to move a thought or a desire to a material reality. Christy tells us “The word desire, by the way, is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “a conscious impulse toward something that promises enjoyment or satisfaction in its attainment.” And we experience this on every level of our being. From a purely physiological perspective, whenever we desire something, dopamine is released in our brain, triggering a surge of heightened pleasure, focus, and aliveness. From a spiritual perspective, the act of wanting something, and of aligning ourselves with the image of its fulfillment, is what enables us to see the next greatest version of ourselves that the larger part of us is calling us to become.”

Desire is the first step in all creation. Without desire, nothing happens, and there can be no motion forward. Without desire, the universe and the planet on which we are all living would not have been created. Without desire, you would not exist. Burning desires come forth as an activity of your Divine Self, stirring you up to realize that it wants to do more for you, with you, and through you. You can be certain that when you want something—provided it’s not hurtful to you or anyone else, and it will bring good into your life—it is your spiritual Divine Self tugging at your heart’s door, trying to get your attention. When you accept the existence of that desire, you must then accept the fulfillment of it.

Desire is one way to bring the human and unconscious part of you into alignment with the larger part of you, your Divine Self. Every desire you have really is a divine desire. Every frustration you have in the attainment of the desire happens so that you can integrate your boundless higher self with your timebound personality. Desiring the partner, the money, the house, the shoes, the car, the vacations . . .they are ideas arising from the Divine for the purpose of bringing you back home to yourself.

Some of the critical mistakes people make that cause them to fail to manifest their desires begin with any area of your life where you’re experiencing less than joy and fulfillment. This is a reflection that your creative potential is still asleep. And in an attempt to awaken you, your higher self gives you a burning desire. The burning desire at its core is a call for completeness, a call to return you home to yourself. Contrary to what most of us have been socialized to believe, the desires that arise within us are neither good nor bad. A heartfelt desire to become a parent or meet the man or woman of your dreams is not inherently nobler than a desire to travel the world, make an impact in your career in service to others, or purchase a high-end purse. There is so much judgment cast upon people who openly express desire for material things, and this is the very epitome of irony, because—to paraphrase what pop icon Madonna noted all those years ago—we are all material boys and girls, living in a material world.

Sheryl says “Therefore judgment and fear are two of the most restrictive emotions that draw people away from recognizing their desire and fulfilling their dreams. As long as these elements are not conquered one can allow oneself to suffer and agonize over their perceived failures while not integrating their soul and physical world needs. To be in balance means to be aware of your needs or desires to feel happy and whole in mind body and spirit.”

How many of us allow doubt and disbelief to suffocate our dreams before we ever give them a chance to bloom? How many try to kill off our desires by rationalizing, defending, and justifying them to others or to ourselves? The programming that desire is the root of all suffering, or that material things are inherently bad, stems from a belief that we lack the ability to attain those things. We judge desire as bad because we doubt that we deserve to live the good life or have it all. But all of us are “divinely designed” to have the good life. We are all born to have it all and to experience what we would love in all aspects of our individual lives, connected to the very life that breathes us.

Desire been often been thought to be associated with negative or evil pursuits. Some religious theory encourages a lack of attention to physical desires and needs. From spiritual traditions and pop culture alike, most of us have been deeply ingrained with the message that the pursuit of desire is evil and hedonistic, and that spirituality and materialism cannot, and should not, coexist. According to some practitioners The Bible cites desire as the reason that Adam and Eve—having been lured by Satan to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil—fell from God’s grace and were cast out of the Garden of Eden. Hinduism and Buddhism tell us that in order to realize our full spiritual nature, we must renounce all desire for worldly things. And so, whether intentionally or unconsciously, most of us attempt to diminish the strength of our own wanting.

Christy and Sheryl know that appreciating the beauty of the physical world is part of the magic of a physical life and there are no restrictions by spirit on what the soul wishes to create and enjoy. It is our divine birthright to health happiness and prosperity.

When we merge our spiritual wisdom with our physical practicality we can know what is good for us without abuse to ourselves or others. We can have and hold what serves our spiritual and personal growth but not take from others. Christy might like readers to remember that the awareness that our present reality is not everything we would like it to be is what gives birth to the very first seed of desire. This desire—whether for improvement, for greater comfort, or for something entirely different than what we have—is always inspired by the creator, and to ignore, deny, suppress, or judge this inspiration is to cut ourselves off from the very source of our spiritual sustenance. But when a desire is born within us and we nourish it with positive thoughts and beliefs, when we allow ourselves to fall in love with the very idea of its unfolding, and when we celebrate and appreciate the manifestation of what we want wherever and in whomever we see it, that desire provides a vehicle through which we can realize everything that we have the potential to become.

We thank Christy Whitman author of The Desire Factor for sharing each of the spiritual principles in her book: the Principle of Alignment, the Principle of Focus, the Principle of Joyful Expectancy, the Principle of Having, the Principle of Loving, the Principle of Surrender, and the Principle of Action—which by acknowledging will begin to overwrite the misleading messages that most of us received early on that conditioned us to repress and deny our desires.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Christy Whitman has shared with us a clearer understanding about many of the false thoughts relating to desire as merely a means for hedonistic enjoyment of the physical world and strongly suggests that belief or postulate is merely illusion! For in reality, desire is but a pathway to drive our progress as a species, and align us to spiritual awareness, higher consciousness, engaging our soul energy, leading us to personal growth, while exploring the world in a more courageous and bold fashion. As there is neither good nor bad, only experiences, desire leads us to what our soul wishes to experience in this time and place, and in that way, both serves our destiny or life path. Desire therefore, is at the root of our humanity, and when understood and followed, can lead us to prosperity, abundance, love and happiness. as it should be and as spirit decrees for all of her beloved souls.

Christy wrote, “It is my hope to help you become aware, understand, and know that the experiences you truly desire in life, whatever they may be, will not come to you through settling, compromising, or striving to keep yourself small. Desires are not birthed to make you worry, disappoint you, or frustrate you. If you desire something that you feel you can’t have, then you are holding yourself apart from your spiritual power. You have what I call “split energy” about a desire: wanting it but not believing you can have it. The full satisfaction and exaltation you seek will begin to unfold as you allow the full force of your desires to move you in the direction of your expansion. It is this expansion that you really want, and repressing it is simply not an option.”

Christy and I would have you come to know what is unknown by you can be known when you allow your desires and dreams to materialize and work alongside infinite possibilities which reside within you and which when unleased allow you to enjoy life, learn and feel in many new ways, and become aware of what you always have been: infinite soul travelers through time and space or eternal souls of divine potential.

I am Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within and author of the newest book in a trilogy New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and explore the world of physical and spiritual life through the insights of visionaries scientists spiritualists metaphysicians healers and through dream meditation and the arts and music as we discover more about who we are and what life is really all about. Shows may also be heard on www.dreamvisions7radio.com or www.webtalkradio.net

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Welcome to Healing From Within I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Energy Teacher and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which share stories and messages from Spirit that show us our challenges are often not economic political or societal but a disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom. In today’s show I welcome Elke Scholz, author of Anxiety Warrior who will help us understand the nature of anxiety, fear- based energy depression that leads to procrastination, feeling unwell and holding us back from creating the happy purposeful life we all desire.

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Listeners of Healing From Within well know my introspective guests and I share intimate stories of discovering we are indeed more than our physical bodies and the everyday problems that bring fear and worry into our thinking process. By discovering more about ourselves and the personal power we possess we can deal with past trauma fear that creates anxiety and lower the level of discomfort in mind, body or spirit to manageable levels so we can feel and respond differently to any troublesome event.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Elke Scholz will share strategies and exercises and the thoughts of five contributors who share her passion to empower people to realize their inner strengths and to help deal with the trauma and stress of life. Dr. Scholz will guide you to go from feeling like a victim of anxiety to an empowered warrior over it. Along with several other practitioners, she supplies readers with the tools to deal with trauma, stress, overcoming fear, and creating a healthy, more resilient way to look at life and all situations.

When Elke is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person, place or event that may have suggested to her or others around her the interests work lifestyle she might embrace as an adult, she describes her childhood and writes, “I have had anxiety all my life, but I did not always know it. As a child I had migraines, tummy aches, and flu-ish feelings so often that I had to miss school. My mom believed me, however my dad did not think I was truly sick. Often, I would be sick before a test or presentation. I also would cry easily in class if teachers raised their voice, even when it was not directed at me. I remember as a teen feeling angry hopeless misunderstood and very alone, until I met my two very special teachers, Mrs. Yeo and my creative English Teacher and Mr. Hodwitz, my Drama teacher. They saved my life. After their classes I felt I would be okay in the world.”

Elke goes on to describe what anxiety is and how we can start a checklist of the things that trigger a person’s anxiety. Anxiety is part of the human spectrum of feelings. Anxiety can be a gift or a clue notifying us that we need to pay attention to something that perhaps is amiss. However, we can have a life where anxiety does not control our lives, our decisions and our choices. What does a life managing anxiety feel like? It feels empowering. It feels like I have a choice. It feels like I can. It feels like I have a right to be happy. It feels like I am able. And it feels like I am worthy of thriving.

Elke writes that studies suggest that our anxiety level is generally higher than it was 30 years ago and it’s starting earlier in life. Elke uses a scale of 0 to 10 for a useful check in scale. By giving your anxiety a number sometimes it is easier to examine. Zero is no disturbance, so at 0 you are calm, settled and relaxed. As the anxiety grows your numbers get higher. For example, at 1 you might feel a little jittery or nervous, maybe even excited, and that might be a 2 or 3 and is very manageable. However, when you reach 4 you might want to use the strategies you will learn here because you don’t want to go higher as it could escalate and overwhelm you quickly at this point. At 10 you might have heart pain, labored breathing, nausea and so on. The scale will be different for every person but what is important is you are aware of the feelings in your body and use tools to maintain your equilibrium so the anxiety doesn’t get out of hand.

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, an unease, typically about an imminent event or a certain outcome. Feelings of concern, apprehension unease, fearfulness, disquiet agitation, tension, twitchiness, nervousness. Anxiety is mostly felt in anticipation of something happening. Fear is different from anxiety. Fear is something you feel when you are threatened, while anxiety is being afraid in anticipation of something happening. They both have the same physiological response in the body. Fear is when you are in the woods and a bear is coming after you. You are afraid and must make a decision to run or take cover. Fear is an important emotion that has kept the human species alive. Anxiety is when you anticipate that a bear may come after you.

Some of the manifestations of anxiety are butterflies in the stomach, slight curled toes, shaking, stiff neck, sore back, indigestion, fidgeting, picking, nail biting, hair pulling, restlessness, increased heart rate, sweating, flushed cheeks, hives, nausea, stomach ache, headaches, migraines, weight changes, tension, stress, fatigue, exhaustion, busy mind, (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, agitation, clenched teeth, teeth grinding, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) chest pains, shortness of breath, lack of concentration etc. Anxiety has many different layers and degrees of intensity. The more you become aware of these layers the greater your ability to change or manage them.

Elke tells us, depression as defined by the Mayo Clinic, is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. A mood disorder is a general emotional state or mood that is distorted or inconsistent with your circumstance. Here is an example: At different times in our lives, we may suffer from grief and sadness. People with mood disorders suffer for longer periods of time and it is helpful to seek professional help. Depression and anxiety can occur together.

We can learn to recognize body sensations that are clues to the actions we take or don’t take. Not all types of anxiety qualify as an anxiety disorder. It may feel very uncomfortable, unbearable and when unmanageable, very depressing. However, anxiety that disrupts the quality of life is problematic when it stops you from doing things you love, accepting a job you want, or fulfilling a dream you have. Even though different categories of anxiety have names, anxiety can be layered. If anxiety is stopping you from functioning well, seek professional help. No matter what type of anxiety you’re dealing with, anxiety can be managed and help deal with the body sensations you are experiencing.

Anxiety can be managed by the following strategies:

Explore and understand the possibility of a specific type of anxiety
Accept your anxiety as a gift a signal an opportunity or message
Identify and understand the causes triggers and feelings for your anxiety
Use the scale 0 to 10 to identify the intensity of your anxiety
Know your limits (sleep hunger amount and type of stressors)
Perhaps break down your anxiety into smaller layers
Manage the easy layers first, right away.
Change your lifestyle to lower the anxiety Practice strategies
Create you own daily routine and practice it daily, especially when you feel pleasant

The two words to remember are ”AWARENESS” and “PRACTICE.”

Listening to your body’s sensations can take many forms. It may involve sensations, images, visions as well as emotions. Body functioning is a way of listening to your body and appreciating your body, remembers everything, is programmed for survival and is constantly attempting to communicate to you what it requires. We can trust our body and brain to maintain our temperature and if something is wrong we start to feel unwell. As we grew older, judgment pressure, criticism, intimidation and negation may have taught us to discredit the feelings of the body or to judge them as wrong or unimportant and thus question them or disregard them.

We can gain mastery over our minds and begin to break down beliefs or habits developed in childhood that limit our success later in life, by listening to our Inner voice which shares the many layers of possibilities, memories, habits, love and fear that are influencing that inner subconscious system of guidance. To strengthen that inner voice and inner understanding begin to notice when you feel lighter or heavier, constricted or elated. Ever watch a bird soar dip and dive and catch the wind? Sometimes it’s just for the pleasure of the act for no other reason. Always ask yourself Where are these feelings coming from? What options are open to me? Is this the best answer for me? Is it best for my life, my family my community? These types of awareness and contemplation can help us change old patterns and dramas that replay in our lives and hold us back from releasing false beliefs and painful perhaps traumatic memories. Also consider if these feelings are coming from a place of love or a place of fear.

As Elke writes, Expressing your feelings feely by participating in the arts, music, drama, movement, visual arts and creative writing can help to discharge feelings safely and non-verbally, making for clearer thinking and calmer emotions.

It is important to learn boundaries and ways to protect ourselves. If familiar with the Eleven Layers of Anxiety it will help to learn boundaries and ways to protect ourselves.

Here are The Eleven Layers of Anxiety are:

Substances: Caffeine, sugar, alcohol and drugs Physiological: Physiological conditions can mimic trigger or intensify anxiety. Hormone imbalance, and or thyroid imbalance can generate symptoms similar to anxiety. Being low on iron will also generate symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Reality: Is there something that needs attending to such as a pending decision multiple decisions finding a job managing finances visiting someone moving court hearings doctor’s appointments surgery. Here fear and anxiety can be useful indicators of very real issues we need to deal with.

Overstimulation: Cell phones texting computers TV gaming all within reason are useful but exceeding our limits is overwhelming leading to anxiety.

Cultural and social beliefs: A social belief is a belief that is taught as being true by parents, siblings teachers neighbors media advertising books ministers and anyone who has instilled in you a belief that you believe to be true. In reality it many not be true It may not be useful it may not be authentic for you. Our brains lock onto beliefs because we have a deep need to belong. Cultural beliefs are passed down from generation to generation and may or not be relevant as society changes. Self -doubt: Self-doubt can be a symptom of low self-esteem. Insecurity questioning decisions as well as conflict with beliefs that cause worry and anxiety.

Perfectionism: Wanting to be right, to do everything correctly and to be perfect are other causes of much anxiety. This is a serious concept that leads to much unhappiness anxiety and creates feelings of failure. Negative Thinking: Take a moment to reflect on the quality of your thoughts. Do you focus on mistakes flaws? Are you critical of others Do you complain a lot? You must become aware of language and how your thoughts create your reality. Changing negative thoughts to reflect higher views to reflect your dreams and goals is the key to transformation.

High sensitivity: A highly sensitive person HSP also known as a person with sensory processing sensitivity SPS is someone with hypersensitivity to external stimuli and who has a greater depth of cognitive processing and high emotional reactivity. According to Elaine Aron and colleagues’ people with high SPS comprise about 1.5$% to 20% of the population It is not a disorder and is associated with both positive and negative attitudes.

Memories: We’ve all experienced smells actions colors touches tastes and sounds that trigger wonderful memories. That’s because our long– term memory is linked to parts of the brain that regulate our emotional and physical reactions to situations and events. But if these sensory triggers are connected to stressful situations or events, they can cause anxiety.

Traumas: If you have experienced a recent trauma processing it will take time. During this period following the event, it is natural to feel some anxiety. This anxiety should lessen over a few weeks but sometimes the brain gets backed up. Big and small traumas can get stuck When the brain cannot process the trauma, this is called post -traumatic stress. Boundaries are established when you work with a daily practice of strategies like grounding, breathing gratitude practice, bubble shield, step back/watch pause, notice safe place meditation container, affirmations, setting mindful intentions, creating positive beliefs that work for you, singing bowl vibrations, positive movies, journaling, nature walks snowshoeing kayaking sleeping well taking naps, good nutrition, social connections especially if you are an introvert and have to make an effort to reach out, yoga massage energy group tapping and whatever brings you into the silence where you may be closer to Universal Source.

Sheryl says that to do our best and strive towards establishing boundaries and utilizing the various strategies, is a goal we must pursue. However, we must learn to be perfect is an impossibility, and perhaps, in imperfection there is a way to move forward, achieving small and large accomplishments, such as to finish a book, build a home, write a play, create new conditions for whatever success and happiness you wish to manifest.

In her new book, A New Life Awaits, Sheryl expresses it this way and writes, “I have observed people who are not only happy and fulfilled, but often courageous and dynamic and bold leaders much needed in today’s world of conflict and confusion. Their general mindset reflects virtues including empathy, the acceptance of others with genuine regard for their differences, and respect for what each of us can contribute to the world. In other words, these successful people are the antithesis to the competitive, unrelenting, and controlling drives of many of our politicians, corporate leaders, educators, and media who display a dog-eat-dog mentality. ………The focus has too long been simple “happiness.” Some people will do anything to ensure their own happiness. Happiness is however, the result of a purposeful life and a realization of our human and spiritual qualities.

We can help help those living with crippling fear and anxiety hugely exacerbated during the Covid 19 pandemic or plague racial unrest and natural disasters wreaking havoc across the country by creating realistic awareness, free of other people’s thoughts and opinions, which mastering your mind and remembering you always have a choice. You can buy into the negative aspects of this debilitation disease and time in our nation’s difficulty or purse positive thought and action. We each have well over 50,000 thoughts floating into our head each day and many are negative and repetitive, so we need to welcome which serves our highest good and discard anything that is inappropriate for our well -being. Another helpful strategy is to expand the joy space in our brains.

Several ways include:

Blessing people
Praying
Forgiveness
Sharing grace
Loving –the process of life beauty, being alive, another person, knowledge pets Accepting the miracles of our bodies, other animals plants trees the universe the planet Earth stars.

Remembering fun things
Recalling good memories
Repeating good things
Enjoying comedy and joke Laughter

Elke tells us about the contributors to her book, Anxiety Warrior, and the main thoughts they share with readers. Ryan Brown has written about Financial Anxiety. Elke as a single mother struggled with poverty and discovering worrying about our finances can undermine our health threaten our relationships and lead us to question our self-worth wanted to share some of Ryan’s ideas about financial challenges

Ryan Brown offers 11 ways to reduce debt and free yourself from financial anxiety.

Be honest with yourself Is your problem the result of health issues a lost job or marriage Is the debt the symptom of an underlying problem. If you don’t recognize your problem, you can’t find solutions

Understand what you spend your money on. Don’t be afraid of dealing with debt. You may want to find an advisor or company that can help you manage your debt.

Understand Your options.

Create a cash flow by saving some money Know where your money is going.

Manage your finances like a business. Make plans where a certain amount of money is spent monthly for example a electric bill and then you won’t receive a gigantic bill at the end of the year.

Pay yourself first This is the 10% rule: every time you get pais put 10% in a savings account that isn’t easy to access. Your money will grow for personal needs.

Lower credit card debt to a reasonable amount. Avoid day to day temptation Stop carrying credit cards around and live in a cash culture. If you don’t have it in your jeans you can’t spend it.

Ask people you usually do business with if they have any suggestions on how to save money. Be wary of easy solutions.

Other guests include Yvonne Heath, author of “Spirituality Forgotten: Finding Your Post” who shares her thought that we stay connected and our energy lives on which gives her great comfort in life and thinking about death and after death Some of the beliefs that come out of this chapter are expressed by Yvonne this way: I believe that in living a purposeful life in being the change and in making a difference We are all connected and that everyone’s well-being is everyone’s concern. She believes in laughter goodness and simplicity and in random acts of kindness and bucket filling and that we should always leave things better than we found them. She also believes it is her responsibility to become the best version of herself that she can be and that we all have value and should not judge anyone.

Sheryl thanks Dr. Elke Scholz for sharing practical and creative ways to deal with anxiety which is as we all know a debilitating obstacle that saps energy causes undue worry and stress and can lead to all manner of physical ailments as the body attempts to process all the emotional triggers and reactions that are happening at lightspeed within.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within, Elke Scholz and participant authors in book Anxiety Warrior have offered practical methods techniques and solutions to anxiety which often shows up unexpected in our lives whether regularly or once in a while and by paying attention to the feelings in our bodies we can quickly recognize changes and adjust to situations people and events causing any feelings of discomfort or stress efficiently and quickly.

Elke has helped readers discover how connection and relationships can ease anxiety and writes, acceptance, belonging and relationships help to promote a sense of safety and reduce the experience of anxiety:

Here’s how:

When we feel connected, included nurtured and loved our brains register that we are safe Feeling safe is the opposite of feeling threatened.
Anxiety is our threat response to fear response turning on
Fostering a sense of safety is a powerful way to mitigate the fear response and reduce anxiety.
Creating opportunities to surround yourself with people who care about you, people who support you and or share common interests, tells the brain that you are safe and reduces the experience of anxiety.

Elke and Sheryl would like you to take steps towards awareness and practice by identifying your mental blocks, facing the dragons or imagined fears and realizing quite possibly you are your own worst enemy and limiting our achievements and greatest joys and moments of success by allowing these fears. Begin to make new perceptions and choices that can bring about the changes you truly desire.

I am Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within and author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and spiritual messages that help us realize our challenges, anxieties, fears are merely a disconnect from our true being or spiritual wisdom and our infinite potential to live a brilliant life. Sheryl invites you to visit her website www.sherylglick.com to learn about the world of energy, eternal life, science, spirituality, metaphysics, psychology, medicine, healing, the arts and music and to find ways to self investigate your inner being as well as the world around you. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamvisions7radio.com

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Welcome to Healing From Within. I am your host Sheryl Glick, author of A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided insights to Support Global Awakening, a new book in the trilogy which shares through messages and stories from Spirit that our challenges are not economic political or societal but a disconnect from our inner soul wisdom and true being. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Dr. Allen Buchanan author of Our Moral Fate Evolution & Our Escape From Tribalism a provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.

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Dr. Buchanan asks the question, “Is Tribalism the political and cultural divisions between “Us and Them” an inherent part of our basic moral psychology?

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware, Sheryl and her guests share intimate and life challenging ideas in the search for knowing who we are as both spiritual entities, or beings having a physical life, and how to merge this duality so we can evolve and find the best within and transcend fears and limitations as we learn more about the human condition helping to create a prosperous healthy and happy life experience.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within, Dr. Buchanan shows us how many scientists link tribalism and morality arguing that the evolved moral mind is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism according to this thinking would be partial and fragile, because it goes against the grain of our nature. Allen Buchanan offers a counterargument: the moral mind is highly flexible, capable of both tribalism and deeply inclusive moralities depending on the social environment in which the moral mind works.

In defining tribalism and why some say we can’t be morally tribalistic by nature but quite recently there has been a remarkable shift from tribalism to inclusiveness which changes the whole dynamics of the process.

Dr. Buchanan relates in the book that Tribalism is the term often used to characterize the extreme political polarization manifested every day in the United States and many other countries. In fact, to characterize tribalism as merely political would be an understatement. It is something much more comprehensive, reaching much deeper into our lives, as the phrase “culture wars” suggests. We see tribalism on the Left and tribalism on the Right—but not in the middle, because it’s the nature of tribalism to create an unbridgeable, uninhabitable chasm between Us and Them The tribalistic mentality sees things in black and white, good and evil—as a no-holds-barred, zero-sum conflict between Us and Them, for the highest stakes. Tribalism transforms disagreement into mutual hatred, mild condescension into utter contempt.

Tribalism clumps together very different individuals and issues. It’s the ultimate take-it-or-leave-it package deal. We are all well informed and sincerely motivated; They are all confused or malicious or both. For example…. If you’re for gun control, you’re also for “socialism” and the mass murder of prebirth human beings. If liberals know you’re a gun owner, that’s enough; the fact that you understand and applaud that the Second Amendment is compatible with substantial regulation of firearm ownership is never allowed to surface, because you have already been branded as a benighted conservative—one of those individuals who cling desperately to their guns and religion, as President Obama put it.

Another example…. If a conservative hears you say you think abortion should be legal, that’s all he’ll hear. He won’t hear what you say immediately after that: that you think abortion is not like trimming a fingernail or removing an appendix and that we should all hope that someday abortions become a thing of the past. That part will be drowned out because the first thing you said was enough to signal that you are one of “Them.”

When tribalism takes over, it’s not the content of speech that matters; it’s the signaling function: what is said signals membership in and loyalty to our group and makes it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that you aren’t one of “Them.” If you think that when people engage in tribalistic discourse, there is a genuine exchange of opposing ideas, you are missing the point: it’s all about signaling group identity. Assertions of supposed facts are merely an instrument for doing that. The secret of tribalism’s formidable power lies deep in evolved human psychology: the desperate need to belong, the drive for a group-based identity. If the trend toward tribalism continues, it’s not just that civility and respectful discourse won’t survive; democracy itself will collapse. Democracy requires respect for those you disagree with and a willingness to listen to them and to compromise, neither of which is compatible with the tribalistic mentality.

Some people think of tribalism as a defection from morality. They think that if people would practice the moral virtues, especially tolerance, just resist the temptation to abandon moral principles, tribalism would abate. Yet if you listen closely to tribalistic talk, it becomes clear that it is moralizing in the extreme. Terms like “hypocritical,” “insincere,” “treacherous,” “unscrupulous,” “liars,” and “unfair” are hurled back and forth. These are clearly terms of moral condemnation. One begins to suspect that tribalism is not a flight from morality, but a kind of morality.

Sheryl says that as a Reiki Energy Master Teacher and medium who knows empathically that we are more than our physical life and exist beyond this time and place which is only one dimension or reality or our soul experiences she senses that tribalism and Identity Politics as we have seen evolve so extensively over the last perhaps 15 or 20 years is perhaps a result of social media or political need to take power completely and not honor a two party system which of course will destroy democracy and lead to a totalitarian Nazi communist or fascist leadership which we in the United States seem not to be too far away from…In England and US many civil liberties and great strife: rioting looting lawlessness which is being based on racial inequities but in fact, are more class and monetary inequities. We have gone from talking about “equality” to talking about “equity.”

Equality is the ability of an individual to rise to the highest levels of society through individualism, hard work, talent and perseverance where equity is about preserving the rights of a privileged class of individuals to hold power indefinitely keeping out those who are qualified and deserving of advancing in society. It’s really like the old Monarchical systems of government or a return to the past. It is hard for people who have been given this wonderful democracy and ability to excel through education and talent any American would want to return to the time of pre Nazi conditions which led to World War 2 and to see the same conditions presenting themselves once again. So Tribalism is not new, but it did quiet after WW 2 and we need to morally save ourselves if possible from a repeat and possible worse reality than what happened then. Growing numbers of people acknowledge that all human beings have equal moral status.

Let us consider the case of Supreme Court appointments that has caused such a stir of emotions for years. If Democrats and Republicans were in the bargaining mode, they might strike a deal: we vote for your nominee if you refrain from blocking our next nomination or vote with us on some policy matter that is more important to us than blocking your nominee. But if tribalism prevails, one party will do anything to block a nomination or to push it through before the election: and the opposing party will play tit for tat, behaving in exactly the same way when they have the opportunity to do so. Mutually beneficial exchange gives way to aggression and retaliation.

Sheryl says “ Isn’t that what we have been seeing for years since the Trump election and most especially since the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Connan Barrett and the newest impeachment trial of President Trump?”

Dr. Buchanan tells a story about Mask Wearing vs. Anti -Mask wearing during Covid-19 and why we have these moral conflicts. He says that one day he was outside and standing close to his neighbor and his neighbor said, Well I guess you voted for Biden? It was an assumption because President Biden even before his election was emphatic about 100 days of wearing a mask.

Dr. Buchanan writes that “tribalism plays out in our government and political system especially during the lead up to this last 2020 election. In order to understand how tribalism works in regard to government and political systems it is important to understand the social learning mechanisms in our culture and conformity bias. There is also some agreement about the character of some of the social learning mechanisms that enable cumulative culture. These include various cognitive learning “biases”—predispositions to learn from individuals that fit certain categories, such as being prestigious, or being like oneself, or being successful. Another mechanism of social learning is “conformity bias,” the tendency to learn to do what most people around you are doing. The development of a culture as a continuing accumulation and recombination of resources exhibits “path dependency.” Cultural innovations are often (some would say “always”) a response to new challenges. A society that starts off in one environment, at one point in time, will face a distinctive set of challenges even though, as a human society, it will also share some challenges that all human societies face. Where a society starts off matters, because the options it takes early in its development can have disproportionate consequences for where it can go in the future. That’s what path dependency means. Here’s a simple example to illustrate path dependency. When you first start building a house, you have more options for what sort of house you can end up with than when you’ve already laid the foundations, built the walls, and erected the roof. Given the path dependency of cultures—and given that there is more than one effective way to solve the problems of cooperation that the moral mind was created to solve—one would expect diversity in human moralities. The extraordinary human capacity for cumulative culture and the path dependency of cultures, when combined with the flexibility of the moral mind, results in diverse human moralities.”

Sheryl says, “that is true and perhaps the reason it is hard for groups to “collaborate and find common ground” is based on these thoughts of diverse human moralities. We have seen over the last 10 years that there is little cooperation between political ideologies or parties and that the lines have been drawn with MSM Big Tech Corporations and certain countries like China and Iran, setting up narratives that serve certain belief systems that are now not in conjunction with The Constitution and the American way of individualism or freedom of speech. The only problem with this is that it is a trajectory towards destruction, loss and pain and the only way forward is for more reasonable thinking and positivity to prevail. It’s a tall order to look beyond the group mindset and remember we are all unique souls worthy of respect, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Must remember as Dr. Buchanan wrote, “The first is that psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive psychologists are converging on the conclusion that the human mind is highly flexible. Even though it features some degree of modularization (specialized functional subsystems physically expressed in certain regions of the brain), it also includes highly flexible, general capacities. From an evolutionary standpoint, one would expect that humans evolved to have highly flexible minds, because that would help account for our peculiar success as a species. We occupy almost every region of our planet and, unlike our nearest Homo relatives (Neanderthals, Denisovians, etc.), have not only survived drastic climate shifts and other potentially lethal environmental changes but also increased our numbers quite dramatically. Elements of culture, including tribalistic attitudes and social practices, that first arose because they performed one function, namely, enabling cooperation that contributed to reproductive fitness, can come to have other functions and be sustained for other reasons.”

He goes on to say, “one reason that we see a good deal of tribalism is that it is in the interest of some people to encourage it! We all know that it’s common for leaders or would-be leaders to stoke tribalistic moral responses when doing so increases their power. For example, they can gain power by persuading people that some other group poses a grave threat and by presenting themselves as the savior who will avert the threat. If, owing to cultural inertia, current moralities still contain significant tribalistic residues even in environments where more inclusive moralities have begun to take root, and if some people nourish these residues to advance their own interest or promote some cause they’re committed to, then we will see tribalistic attitudes and behaviors. When this happens, the correct explanation will not be that such attitudes and behaviors are the inevitable expression of a tribalistic nature or even of a predisposition that will usually be dominant no matter what the environment is like.”

The unique freedom we have at this time in human existence for individuals to reshape their morality revolves around moral progress, which has occurred, and in some of the most significant instances it involves a shift toward “Inclusion, away from tribalism.” The exemplary public intellectual Steven Pinker has written two fine books to remind us that there has been a great deal of moral progress. In many societies, the position of women is now better, chattel slavery has been abolished and serious efforts are being made to eliminate other forms of involuntary servitude. The governments of more countries than ever before are constrained by the rule of law and constitutional principles, homicide rates almost everywhere have dropped dramatically since the late Middle Ages, there have been significant strides toward achieving equal civil and political rights for people of color and national minorities. More countries recognize the right to freedom of religion than has been the case throughout most of human history, in many places laws now curb the worst treatment of nonhuman animals, and so on. Reflecting on these positive changes, one feels proud and optimistic. Yet if you’re like me, you feel a deep, disturbing tension between Pinker’s inspiring message and the belief that humans are tribalistic, morally speaking. You don’t know what to think about the prospects for moral progress—whether hope or despair is the proper response to the current situation. And if you look at what science tells us about morality, you’re likely to conclude that the great ape species called Homo sapiens is condemned to tribalism—and that moral progress is therefore likely to be limited and fragile—because evolutionary science apparently tells us that our moral nature is tribalistic.

If you think we can’t escape tribalism, then you will begin to question an assumption that seems to lie beneath the surface of Pinker’s work and the thoughts of a lot of us who believe that things have gotten better, morally speaking: that there is a march of progress, that we can count on further improvements—or at least that we don’t have to worry much about losing what we’ve already gained. Many people, probably most of the people who believe in moral progress, take it for granted that the triumph of Enlightenment ideas of human equality and tolerance, along with the spread of scientific thinking that dissipates superstition, is permanent and that the only question is what new progress can we expect.

Sheryl says “I would like to think that but that is not what is being reflected by MSM and Big Tech which are partisan and tribalistic and have little tolerance for our American traditions values, leading us to a rise in unrest, violence and bad behavior by leaders and politicians condoning lies, false narratives and conspiracies that reflect their narrowed belief systems and lack of a spiritual sense of higher energy or values. The Pandemic or coronavirus plague has thrown the world into an economic decline creating more fear and unrest and having the children out of school in the U.S for a year is creating emotional mental and physical issues which will haunt us for a long time to come.”

Removing and replacing tribalism can look like an improvement on the other side of this limited mindset. Those of us who believe that greater inclusion in the form of the Two Great Expansions is moral progress regard the prospect of a return to tribalism with alarm. An especially nasty and destructive variety of tribalism is on the rise in the United States and in many other countries. This is an exceedingly dangerous development, one that imperils the hard-won progress toward deeply inclusive morality that humans have only very recently achieved. Many people think, quite reasonably, that this tribalism also poses a dire threat to democracy, because it undermines the mutual respect and genuine, sincere communication among citizens that democracy requires. Maybe if we figure out how the shift toward inclusion came about, we can learn how to halt or even reverse the deeply disturbing shift back toward tribalism. Tribalism is not a finished product of evolution (nothing is, unless it’s a trait of an organism that has gone extinct). It’s still evolving.

Whereas tribalistic morality among our remote ancestors involved distrust, hostility, and even preemptive aggression against people who were members of other societies, tribalism has come to take on an additional form, namely, intersocietal tribalism: within our own society, we divide people into Us versus Them and in the most extreme cases exhibit the same negative attitudes toward Them that our ancestors exhibited toward actual foreigners.

The most extreme and dangerous effects of tribalism or what might be some good effects of a minimal amount of tribalism are that the tribalism dogmatist has recourse to one last desperate fallback position: he can admit that human moral nature sometimes permits non-tribalistic moralities, but insist that tribalism nevertheless is part of the moral mind itself, and that it is therefore still accurate to say that humans have a tribalistic moral nature. For the reasons given in the preceding paragraph, I don’t think that we should say that tribalism is an element of our basic moral psychology, part of the moral mind itself—unless we quickly add that the moral mind also includes the capacity for inclusion.

Sheryl says, “we know that the dangers of tribalism led to ideas of radical left liberal thinking known as “Identity Politics and Cancel Culture” which over the last two elections has shown us little tolerance for anyone thinking outside the box: the box meaning what the media and money interests want the rest of the world to follow. So, while they speak of inclusion and diversity, they really only prefer certain groups deemed as victims whose society has imposed limitations on their group, and you will hear them speak of black, brown, LGBTQ groups as worthy of all political gains. Others are seen as the enemy to be actually terminated or reprogrammed, as Sheryl has only recently heard by a newscaster suggest they need to be reprogrammed. This is what is happening in China and other communist countries with millions in slave work camps for refusing to give up their religious beliefs. So this is Tribalism at its worst! The world, humanity cannot survive this thinking for it is not morally correct. The Nazis thought the same way and tried to conquer or destroy other groups and ways of living. A world war was fought to stop that travesty and here we are, right back into the worst of tribalism, socially, politically, economically and spiritually. We must find a way to save the best of tribalism and inclusion but it is not black or white: the tenants of tribalism must find a cooperative accepting way to allow people to be safe and secure and not molded to fit a narrative that is restrictive in any form.

Sheryl says “if asked to describe myself twenty- five years ago, I might have said I am a female, wife, mother, teacher, a sensitive, loving and cooperative person wishing to help others. Since becoming aware that we are energy beings or souls having a physical life which allows us to grow more loving and compassionate through our life experiences, many of them challenging in this physical life, I would no longer use the ego-based personality description of myself. Now I might simply say I am both a physical and energy being hoping to refine my energy thinking and to grow more compassionate as an eternal soul.”

Dr. Buchanan might like readers to take away with them after reading his book, Our Moral Fate Evolution & Our Escape From Tribalism that tribalism is not a finished product of evolution (nothing is, unless it’s a trait of an organism that has gone extinct). It’s still evolving. Whereas tribalistic morality among our remote ancestors involved distrust, hostility, and even preemptive aggression against people who were members of other societies, tribalism has come to take on an additional form, namely, intrasocietal tribalism: within our own society, we divide people into “Us versus Them” and in the most extreme cases exhibit the same negative attitudes toward them that our ancestors exhibited toward actual foreigners.

What we need is a theory of moral progress that rests on a deeper, more general explanation of how moral change comes about, including changes that are progressive and those that are regressive. But first we need to explain how some human beings could have developed moralities that are much more inclusive than the moralities humans exhibited when they first became moral in a distinctively human way. Understanding that dramatic change will give us clues about moral change more generally.

Dr. Buchanan’s goal isn’t to provide a complete solution to the puzzle of how beings with initially tribalistic moralities could come to have moralities that include the Two Great Expansions, but rather to make a good enough start to do two things. First, to develop a more general theory of moral change that will provide information about how to foster progress and prevent regression—that’s my urgent practical aim. Second, he wants to convince the best scientists, including especially evolutionary psychologists and evolutionary anthropologists, to direct their skills and energy toward solving this intriguing puzzle and in the process of doing so develop and extend the account I’m offering of how moral change occurs. We need that knowledge if we are ever to learn how to take charge of our moral fate.

We thank Dr. Allen Buchanan for bringing to the public a discussion on a topic that is affecting all aspects of life in these changing and challenging world events for in knowledge is the key to better interactions and solutions to our moral fate and our survival.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within, we have tried to rethink moral progress to learn how to take charge of our moral fate. Dr. Buchanan, as all of us, should want to understand how moral progress comes about—especially progress toward greater inclusion and away from tribalism; and also want to understand the reverse process, how people whose moralities are inclusive can regress to tribalism. But that is not my ultimate purpose: we want to understand moral progress and regression because Dr. Buchanan is convinced that doing so will begin to provide the information we need to shape our social environment so that it fosters progress rather than limits or erodes it. In other words, we must want to understand how moral progress and regression occur, because doing that is essential for taking charge of our moral fate.

Dr. Buchanan writes, “Some moral philosophers believe that it is our practical rationality, our ability to reason about what we ought to do, that makes us so morally special among all the beings that have moral standing. Others think it is something more basic: the ability to distinguish between what is desired and what is good or between what one wants to do and what one ought to do later on. He goes on to further say “if we come to know enough about how those sorts of words and images interact with the moral mind to produce behavior that is physically violent or undermines the minimal mutual respect that democracy requires, shouldn’t we take steps to prevent this from happening? If certain exercises of freedom of expression are especially dangerous, as a result of the evolved moral mind’s potential for tribalism, shouldn’t that fact influence how we understand and institutionalize freedom of expression?”

Dr. Allen Buchanan and Sheryl would hope that listeners simply begin to become aware of the possibilities of understanding “Tribalism and Inclusion” as issues that have both positive and negative realities depending on our awareness of Self and ultimate potential for human development. By having a discussion, become aware of what might be best for the majority of leaders and visionaries as we move forward in our evolution and moral awareness of goodness, light kindness, humility and find peace as is the most basic human need.

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Welcome to Healing From Within. I am your host Sheryl Glick 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 to show us our challenges are not merely economic political or societal, but a disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom. Today we welcome Turiya, author of Unreasonable Joy Awakening through Trikaya Buddhism which shares the advanced Tantric teachings and puts them into an American form of Buddhism which can be incorporated in everyday life for maximum and effective ways to heal hope and love with greater intensity.

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Turiya As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware my guests and I share intimate stories of discovering more about themselves where we come from who we are and how to merge the duality of life our physical and spiritual realities so we may learn to master our emotions and self-investigate to unveil the many talents and gifts we can share with the world. Learning intention and thoughts are powerful tools to create and we can refine our perceptions and live a more productive, positive and healthy life.

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Turiya will share with us how her failing health at the age of twenty eight and many issues creating what some call the night of the soul allowed her to embark on the adventure of the mind. She will share techniques for gaining control of your daily life activities in more gratifying and functional ways. Turiya shares her fascinating and inspirational journey and finding techniques for gaining control of time, life and mind by releasing the mental habits that create suffering.

When Turiya is asked to think back to childhood and remember a person place or event that may have signaled to them or others the lifestyle or interests they would embrace as an adult she immediately remembers an incidence in third grade where she had a problem with a girl and answered her question and seeing the surprise in the girls eyes realized the girl was not psychic or intuitive like her. Before that incident Turiya thought everyone was like her but that surely was not the case. Sheryl is amused and tells Turiya that when she was about the same age she called out an answer to a question and the teacher responded, “Sheryl how can you know the question when I didn’t ask it yet. Sheryl was clearly upset by her teacher being unhappy with her but did not put together the fact that she was always all her life, following the thoughts or good suggestions that came into her head but didn’t figure out it was coming from a higher Universal Source of intelligence and Spirit that was guiding her. She always followed most of the ideas and things usually worked out well for her. Sheryl didn’t begin her serious healing and mediumship work until 25 years ago. for it was later in her life that she put all the clues together and feelings that embedded in her heart and soul knowing definitively that each individual has a life plan or destiny that will guide them to live the life they chose long before embarking on life in this time and place.

Turiya tells us something about the time when her body failed her and rather than succumb to inaction and suffering chose to find ways to conquer the illness and fears of that time. It was at the age of twenty-eight Turiya’s body began to fail her and she became sick and disabled. She lost her lucrative career, many of her friends, and became wracked with constant pain. Instead of wallowing in her misfortune Turiya allowed her pain to take her on an adventure of the mind. Already a practicing Buddhist, Turiya deepened her work, found relief from her pain and over time founded a new school of Buddhism designed for the modern world.

Turiya shares some simple meditation techniques that can be used anywhere at any time to calm, strengthen and refocus the mind. The truth is most people think they don’t have time to meditate. However, the successful people, those who are at the top of their field, have made time to do some type of meditation. They may not call it meditation, but at some point, each and every day, they let their mind rest in silence.

Meditation allows us to access the eternal part of Being, completely changing our perspective. Sitting in silence lets us experience unreasonable joy and a peace deeper than anything we can imagine. This time spent with our true self recharges and refreshes us and lets us find the play of existence. Besides these ephemeral and difficult to describe states, even the practice of learning how to meditate brings wonderful benefits to our lives. Our ability to focus and concentrate improves, along with our memory and ability to learn new things. There is an increase in our sense of well-being, self-esteem, and our overall awareness. And it does what every extremely busy person needs most: meditation decreases anxiety and stress

How we enter into the stillness of meditation is a personal choice. I’ve found with formal, seated meditation, I can completely let go. When I do a movement-type meditation, my awareness stays centered in the body. There is a release and a sense of calm which develops, but I don’t fully surrender into the present moment until I allow my body to become as still as my mind. Others may discover allowing their mind to slow and stop while walking, running, doing martial arts, or even gardening is enough. This is how many high powered people meditate without realizing they are meditating; they’ve found an activity which allows them to release all they think they are and merge into infinity. They enter the flow of meditation which is always present.

Meditation is like swimming. There are many types and levels, and you don’t really know what it’s like until you do it yourself. Some people may become highly skilled swimmers and are able to go out into the roughest ocean waves. Others are all about speed and they can race from one end of the lap pool to the other. Many people swim for exercise, while others do it simply because they enjoy it. A few learn for the sole purpose of safety, so they can get to shore if their boat capsizes.

With meditation, we find the same spectrum. There are people who meditate because they enjoy how it feels or because it gives them a sense of stability. Many people meditate to improve the functioning of their mind. Others use meditation to give them a competitive edge. Some meditate so they can handle the most extreme situations. And a few rare people meditate to go beyond their concepts and dissolve their very self in Enlightenment.

Benefits of meditation
Meditation strengthens the brain
Mindfulness practice leads to increases in
regional brain gray matter density
Change in Brainstem Gray Matter Concentration
Following a Mindfulness-Based Intervention is Correlated with Improvement in Psychological Well-Being
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory
Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering
Change in Brainstem Gray Matter Concentration
Following a Mindfulness-Based Intervention is Correlated with Improvement in Psychological Well-Being

We gain control of time, life and mind by releasing the mental and physical habits that create suffering. We can begin to recognize the childhood traumas or fears that are still playing out in our conscious mind limiting us from being truly free of past experiences. We can release blockages that we may not be aware of but past trauma that may still be limiting our path forward to greater freedom and peace.

As Turiya writes discovering that, “Life is beautiful. It is a dance of Perfection: An endless play of intelligent Light, appearing and disappearing in every possible formation – yet Light is never affected by any of these endless changes. Most people cannot see this; it is beyond the scope of their experience. Watching individuals in this world is like watching a person holding their breath because they truly believe they cannot breathe. As they hold their breath, they experience all the suffering that comes with suffocation: The lungs burn, the muscles ache, the head hurts, and the mind races with anger and sorrow and self-pity. Finally, they pass out, and the body breathes. They wake up, for a split-second, but then their sense of individuality returns. Their belief in not being able to breathe takes over, and karma carries them through the experience all over again. We who are awake cannot make someone breathe. We can show them they are not in control of their breath, but they don’t believe it. And even if they do believe it, belief is not enough; it must be experienced. So we play games; we teach them how to control their breath. We say: “For just one moment, take a breath in and release it.” Trusting students will do this, and thus begins the spiritual journey. Over time, the student becomes adept at telling the mind and body when to inhale and when to exhale. We laugh at their “achievement” because we know no one controls their breath. All of the perceived imperfections reveal the restrictions upon awareness. Life, in its own perfect way, teaches us we are more than this. We let go of controlling the breath, we let go of the wave formation, and we become the breathing, we become the ocean. As awareness expands, we explore endless experiences, each an example of perfection. We dissolve in a timeless time as the play of Light, forever dancing.”

Turiya gives some practical pointer practice to help release limiting beliefs that blind us to our true nature and the freedom of our creative soul life.

By working with certain practice points regularly it becomes easy to enter a state of meditation or the zone as some people call it and to relax into the Universal Energy that supports all life.

Practice Pointer Practice chanting as a way to calm the mind and enter the meditative state. Either out loud or silently in your mind, chant AUM seven times or more. AUM is pronounced: Ohhh-uuummm. When you’re finished, notice how your mind feels. Continue for as long as you like. This technique can also be used anytime you feel stressed or anxious, or as a daily practice.

Practice Pointer Practice We can use a visual symbol to hold the mind still. This is especially powerful when combined with chanting silently or out loud. Gaze at the AUM symbol below. Then close your eyes and concentrate on it. Keep focusing until you can see it clearly in your mind’s eye. If you lose focus, gaze at the symbol again and start over. Practice this technique for at least 5 minutes. You can also use the images throughout this book as a focal point for your meditation practice, utilizing the same technique.

There are other ways to strengthen your energy field and improve health and well being. Turiya mentions:

The first energetic tool we learn is Shielding. Through the use of our imagination, we can picture an egg-shaped light encircling our entire body, extending out by an arm’s length. Using our breath, we inhale our energy and keep it inside this protective egg. Our subtle-physical body, made of fibers of energy, is the part of us which feels. It’s what makes an Empath an Empath. (We all have a subtle body, but everyone is fully conscious of it like an Empath.) By keeping the subtle body tucked in close, we reduce our exposure to the myriad of sensations. The shield, this thick egg shell around us, stops the energy we touch at the outer limits of our subtle body. At that moment of contact, we can decide to let the sensation in all the way, or to let it go around us. Obviously, it takes energy to create and maintain the shield. We have to feed our body well, we need to exercise, and we need to take time to rest and meditate to allow ourselves to rejuvenate. We also need to spend time in water each day, washing away and neutralizing all we’ve come into contact with.

The next technique we learn is Grounding. There are hundreds of chakras, or energy centers, within the subtle body. These are points where the fibers come together, and energy can be directed through them. For the Empath, four are of special interest: the base of the spine, the arch of each foot, and the crown. From the chakras on the feet and at the base of the spine, a line can be connected to the center of the Earth by simply imagining it dropping down from the body. The molten center of our home is the ultimate recycling plant. We can dump anything there, and it will be transformed into pure energy, ready to take its next form. By imagining a line at each of these three points, we can then direct any unwanted energy to those chakras and let gravity do the work of disposing of it. As we release the unwanted energy, there’s a danger of creating a vacuum within us that will suck in whatever energy is nearby. To prevent this vacuum effect, we also open the crown chakra and imagine pure gold light pouring into us at the same time as we release through the base and feet. In this way, our entire system is flushed out and we remain full of pure Light.

Also understanding there is no perfection even for the teachers we respect the most shows us that there will always be more to learn, more to become and the process of evolution, transformation and transcendence is on- going. Teachers who are unique are those who know this and allow their students not to revere them but to be aware that we all have moments of humanness that encroach on our divine nature.

Turiya wrote, “The dark side of “the pedestal effect” is that teachers do not live on pedestals. However hard they try to always be in “show mode” for their students, there will always be a point where they need to put their feet on the ground and be ordinary. Advanced teachers know this, and if they have embraced the use of a pedestal, they will have a small contingent of trusted students or friends with whom they can totally relax. Teachers with spiritualized egos, who may think they are more advanced than they are, can get caught in the pedestal trap. They force themselves to live up to artificial standards, but invariably fail. This can cause great confusion for the students who witness or even hear about their teacher’s fall from grace. The teacher can even try to cover it up by saying it was for the student’s benefit … which in a way is true, since it shows the student no one lives permanently on a pedestal.”

Turiya tells us that In her own journey she was fortunate to see the human side of my teacher up close. When her teacher Rama was on stage, either literally in a banquet hall or on an imagined stage in the desert or walking around during the breaks at a seminar, he was a magical divine emanation who performed countless miracles. He was the embodiment of perfection, down to every mannerism. He would open dimensions and through them we experienced the endless planes as we dissolved in samadhi over and over. At home, he was a guy who always had to pay late fees on his Blockbuster video rentals and worried about the safety of his dogs. He also lived with chronic physical pain, which he chose to hide from most of his students. On stage, he appeared to always be overflowing with bouncy joy and ecstasy. At home, he dealt with the same emotional mood swings I had, although he could witness them impartially and laugh while I would be caught up in suffering. Before I had those interactions with him, I assumed he lived in a cloud-like paradise all the time. While he always exuded a gentle, quiet peace, even when annoyed at the dog for pooping on the silk carpet, seeing him at home made him and Enlightenment even more real for me. Why he decided to let me see his ordinary human side I do not know, but I am grateful he did. I know if he had not, I would have used the example he set on stage as an impossible standard to meet. Because I spent time with him when he was sick in bed with the common flu, I knew even Enlightened Masters have to deal with the mundane and sometimes painful issues of the body and the turbulent winds of emotions. It made me realize teachers of Perfection are not perfect. It helped me understand even at the high level of realization he achieved, he was still learning, still playing.”

Sheryl shares with Turiya that she often shares with her students or clients the fact that there is no perfection and the need to allow change and improve our thinking while generating more positive energy through loving acts of kindness is in a way the closest to perfection we may come . Sheryl also reveals that several of her teachers showed human weakness and poor judgment at times and it helped her realize we are all still human and while searching for the divine within we must still merge our human with our soul influences to simply evolve and continue to grow more aware.

We begin to focus on the inner work of changing the self, our perceptions and thoughts, while not valuing the external world as much.

Turiya wrote, “ I grew up with an interest in spirituality, but without a mentor to help me wade through the piles of literature I could never make much sense of it. I groped my way through all of books I could find, looking for a way to make spirituality a part of my life. The “church on Sunday, and forget about God for the rest of week” form of religion I was exposed to as a child wasn’t enough for me. As part of my quest, I went to college to study philosophy and religion. I began to explore the Eastern religions and discovered I had been practicing a form of meditation throughout my life. Whenever things got really tough, I would sit alone and let every part of my body and mind relax. While these sessions were relaxing, they didn’t take me anywhere new, so I relied on this practice only when I was feeling stressed. Once I felt in control and calm again, I would forget about sitting in silence and hit the books again, looking for an answer. While researching for a term paper, I found several references to the “transmission of light” from Buddhist master to disciple. I assumed the expression was a poetic way of saying the teachings were passed down verbally from teacher to student. My professors implied the expression was a metaphor, so I never thought much about it. Unsatisfied with the purely historical approach to religion and philosophy at college, I began to check out different teachers in the San Francisco Bay area. Most of them talked about spirituality, love, and compassion, but at the breaks during the meetings very few people actually displayed these qualities. Frustrated, I gave up on my search for a spiritual community. I decided to pull all I could from the ancient texts and put into practice the things that made sense to me. The most profound lesson I learned from books was rising above the emotions that left me drained, like anger and guilt. The books talked about purifying the mind, and I figured out if I thought about things that made me happy, I didn’t get sucked into feeling angry or guilty about anything. I had no idea if that was what the books meant by purity of mind, but it didn’t matter because I was happy.

After two years of college, Turiya tells us a friend brought me to a meditation class. I was very suspicious about the woman she brought me to meet, but by the time the class was over, I knew I had to meet this woman’s teacher. (More details about this meeting can be found in my book, Worlds of Power, Worlds of Light.) She brought me to meet Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz, and I knew I had found someone who could teach me about meditation. He talked about Buddhism in plain English, using examples relevant to my life. And then we meditated. Without knowing what I was seeing, I watched gold light fill the room as the deepest peace I had ever felt washed through me. By the time I got home, I had convinced myself the light was a neat trick using some kind of hidden spotlights. The other students were all very happy and excited about their lives, and much of what Rama said made sense to me, so I decided to return for the next event. When I meditated with Rama again, the light was even brighter. During the break, I carefully checked for hidden spotlights. There were none. Then it slowly dawned on me as I recalled the Buddhist texts I had read. The transmission of light was meant to be taken literally; these Buddhist masters were actually pouring light through their bodies and empowering their students. This light that made me feel so at peace was the secret teachings referred to in the ancient texts. I could hardly believe my luck at finding someone who could actually do the transmission of light.

Sheryl says that as A Reiki Master Teacher she has been attuned through Reiki Master Teachers to Universal Energy through a conveyance of this healing energy that can only be passed from a Master Teacher to a student and becomes a conduit for this light to be used to heal transform and enrich people’s lives by allowing them to reconnect to their own inner soul energy empowering them to remember they are spirit having a physical life simply for the purpose to at some point feel and remember this truth. We are pure energy interconnected to each other and to the Universal Source of divine energy that sustains all phyiscal and spiritual life here and beyond. The energy is within us, around us, and we are part of it as it is part of us.

In Sheryl’s new book A New Life Awaits I speak of this energy in the following words ,” 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 energy 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 on our continuous circle of life. There really is no death, only the unfolding of the infinite layers of realities that exist within us, 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. We must know that energy cannot be destroyed, so the energy of our thoughts and heart impulses must return to the place most people think of as Heaven, but is really simply the evolving expansion of creative life energy that is eternal. Whether in life or whether in Heaven, we are continually growing in our ability to gather love and compassion and to conquer any fear or darkness that might reside in our energy.

One of the greatest gifts or awarenesses Turiya has discovered through the practice of Trikaya Buddhism is described in a moment in the desert where she had an uplifting epiphany. She writes, “This time, in the stillness of the desert, I saw beneath the pattern as I longed for my husband to be with me to see the flowers. I witnessed the loneliness of not having someone to share the beauty with, and the loneliness of not having another actor in the story. Sitting with full awareness of the sadness and loneliness, I realized in each moment it is enough to enjoy the beauty and connection with Eternity. And I realized alone, I am enough, always and in all ways. As Eternity washed away the remnants blocking my heart, vulnerable and small, I opened deeper. I saw how my will pales against Her might, and once again I saw I am not the doer; I am being done.

Turiya and Sheryl tell us how they feel when in meditation and after meditation and how to hold that energy during the challenging times we are living through now.

She suggests and writes, “In the beginning, it is good to keep your spiritual practice private. It takes time to build confidence and a strong foundation for your spiritual study. By not talking too much about your practice, you’re able to have your own experiences and assess their impact without being dissuaded by people who do not practice. We maintain a sense of privacy to keep ourselves from losing energy. Once you know meditation works for you, then it’s time to leave this self-protective phase. We leave behind secrecy in favor of Inaccessibility. Instead of limiting our close interactions to only others who practice meditation, we expand and learn to have meaningful exchanges with all types of people. We learn to blend into our surroundings and be whatever is needed in any situation. We focus less on ourselves and instead take a sincere interest in helping others. In other words, we make our ego inaccessible by accessing Light. involves opening the heart. The heart chakra is the receptive part of our being. Instead of pushing out our ideas by accessing our ego and its ideas about the world, we open to what is. We listen and observe those around us without criticism. We no longer lose energy during our meetings with others because we no longer try to control those around us. We make ourselves inaccessible by not forcing our will on others. Rather we blend in and do what needs to be done from a place of unconditional love. When we are inaccessible, our individual self is not important, and there is no need to pour out our energy to maintain the view of ourselves and the situation. We can walk into a room full of people with our heart completely open and not be sapped because we walk in with the intention to be there as it is, and not how we want it to be. We keep the ego out of the way, and thus infinite light can shine through us unobstructed. When we live this way, it is the light which inspires action, and not our ego. Meditation leads to opening your heart and eventually being able to be comfortable safe and at peace anywhere with anyone and to really know the light within that is truly your essence.”

Turyiya might like each of you to become more fully aware of your body and the feelings it generates which actually help you navigate the physical world in ways that are helpful and productive. As an empath Sheryl feels Turiya might want you to understand that anxiety and fear are actually ways to help you listen to messages from spirit so you may embrace change and be in the moment no matter what.

Turiya wrote, “An increasing number of people of people are becoming highly sensitive. They feel things others simply don’t – perhaps you are one of them. If you notice the emotional state of others without even looking at them, or your senses can detect the slightest light, sound, taste, smell, or touch, or you feel the energy left behind in a room, you are an Empath. Some may call you a Highly Sensitive Person and look at you with reverence. Others may think you’re exaggerating when you complain about being overwhelmed by everything around you. Some days you may celebrate your intuitive power, while other days you hide in your bedroom. Power and sensitivity go hand in hand. If you are an Empath, one who feels deeply, then you have great power. When we understand power is the ability to perceive, it can make it easier to accept what we are. Once we accept our power fully, we can learn how to navigate the world without being pummeled by it.”

We thank Turiya author of Unreasonable Joy Awakening through Trikaya Buddhism for sharing her passion for the joy of the Buddhist way which is a path many spiritualists follow even if not completely aware of the eight tenants that guide every soul to finding peace happiness and joy of self, nature and life. It is in the soul thoughts of sharing love and compassion that each individual finds their way forward while conquering the fears of the outside world and relying on the strength of inner wisdom.

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” we have discussed the discovery of her inner life that Turiya embarked on in order to use her spiritual talents as a empath and sensitive to find a teacher to read and travel to understand the feelings she often perceived of anxiety or fear before events happened. And the mediation techniques she learned in order to strengthen calm and refocus her energy when necessary to deal with life’s challenges suffering or pain. She learned that the power lie within and not in the external world and simply by recognizing this duality of life the physical and spiritual we all build self trust and learn to release limiting beliefs that can create emotional or physical blockages leading to disease or dysfunction. The world when seen from this perspective becomes a natural place to thrive and reach spiritual growth.

Turiya and Sheryl would have you deepen your awareness of feelings as you reach higher levels of consciousness through whatever spiritual practice finds its way to you. Spirit is constantly reaching out to us to help us remember the magnificence of our soul being and how to reconnect to Universal Source for guidance love and a better quality of physical life. Paying attention to your experiences and feelings will lead you to that place of cooperation with all sources of life which always have our best interests at heart.

I am Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to listen to and read about energy healing, mediumship, metaphysical spiritual scientific and education approaches to self-development and to improving the human condition. 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 author of the newest book in a trilogy, A New Life Awaits Spiritual Guided insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and messages from Spirit that show us our challenges are not merely economic political or societal but a disconnection form our true being or soul wisdom. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Deborah Gaal, author of Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints, a fictional tale of a woman told by a shaman to write a story to please the ancestors…a story of the indigenous world and modernity coming together to heal people, the earth or a story of bad medicine and good medicine.

Sheryl shares with Deborah that like with many of her very gifted authors, she usually has coincidences or synchronicity with them. Over 25 years ago Sheryl was told like the protagonist in your story that she would write 3 books and while she said at that time, “I don’t think so,” before too long she was journaling all the metaphysical mystical happenings and has just completed the third book in the trilogy.

As listeners well know Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories trying to illuminate a clearer understanding of our dual nature as spiritual beings having a physical life and also our growing awareness that we are more than our physical bodies connected by energy to every living being. In that knowledge lies the key to allowing, accepting, surrendering all fear, trauma, suffering so we may find peace, happiness and ways to use our connection to Spirit, bringing Heaven to Earth and life to life.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Deborah Gaal shares with us through a fictional work certain personal events in her own life that have led to remarkable, miraculous healings. We will discover the theme of her novel or the coming together of modern and indigenous beliefs as a way to cure what ails us. Right now we all know we can use more than a little help. Of course, in all great stories there is a plot populated with heroes and villains. Deborah shares her imaginative but very wise rendering of how Spirit is guiding many intuitives to explore the wisdom of Spirit to improve the quality of life in these very challenging days of transformation.

Sheryl always loves to ask her guests to think back to their childhood and remember a person place or event which may have signaled to them or others around them the life and livelihood they would embrace as an adult, for she feels we are born with our soul’s intentions and goals within us and the life journey reflects those needs and desires as we evolve and discover more about who we are and what life is really all about. Deborah shares with us that she was involved in performing and acting, and her mother encouraged her to develop a love for creativity and movement. Sheryl tells Deborah they share another humorous synchronicity, for Sheryl’s daughter Stacy was a successful, professional child actress for 10 years in theatre, film, a soap opera, commercials and all aspects of that industry.

Deborah goes on to tell us the theme of her novel and about the main characters in the book.

Sally Friedman runs a pharmaceutical company and used her company’s resources, along with the help of a psychiatrist, to develop a drug to manage her son Noah’s bipolar disorder. Noah, a physicist working to prove the theory that the fifth dimension is awareness, has been on the drug for fourteen years when the story begins and through his childhood journalist friend, meets a shaman who foresees the drug has deadly consequences. Meanwhile, Noah’s dying great grandmother tells him about a witch from the shtetl in Russia in 1918, who has cursed the family because they stole from her rather than following through on a promise after she helped them escape from the pogroms where they were killing Jewish people. Guided by the shaman, Noah must right his family’s wrong, stop a pharmaceutical kingpin from raiding the family business, halt the global launch of this deadly medicine, and prove that love creates a synchronicity with what and who is loved.

Deborah goes on to tell us about what inspired her to write this novel. She goes on to tell us, that nearly twenty years ago, when one of her family members was struggling with mental illness, she recognized that Western medicine’s approach for a cure—a combination of medication, hospitalization and talk therapy–wasn’t working. She feared she might lose her loved one whether it be to drugs, alcohol, suicide, homelessness or a perpetual state of crazy from which he’d never return. Adhering to the motto, “when things are at their darkest, I’m at my best,” Deborah frantically searched out possible treatments. She found an article in an alternative medicine book that described a shaman, Malidoma Patrice Some, who took an 18 year-old bipolar patient to live with his tribe in Burkina Faso. The Shaman’s villagers believed that anyone with mental illness was in truth a “healer in the making”: who was not attuned to their true purpose, rather their energy was blocked from discovering their destiny. Because of this misalliance, the person’s messages from the spirit world came through as dark, chaotic and jumbled.

In indigenous cultures, the village understands an individual is a soul in process and society offers that disconnected person support rather than isolation. In the case of the teenage bipolar patient, he was able to discover his true gifts as a result of the tribe’s caring. He healed and returned to the United States to attend Harvard and become a doctor.

This story gave Deborah hope. She read the books Of Water and Spirit and Ritual written by Dr. Some, who holds a PhD from both the Sorbonne and Brandeis University. In addition, he is an elder of the Dagara Tribe who has been given the mission to spread the teachings of his culture to the wider world. When modernity accepts the indigenous teachings, this mutual importance will heal the earth. When Deborah discovered Dr. Some would be speaking merely a hundred miles from me, she made an appointment and journeyed north to see him. This led to her spending a week with him and his students in the woods of Oregon where she studied African Indigenous Ritual. While there, she received a divination from Malidoma a session where he read spread runes and delivered messages from the Ancestors. The ancestors told her she would write a novel. “Your story is on fire.” Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints is that story. Her sessions and learnings of indigenous culture taught her to let go of the process of trying to heal her family member. We are surrounded by ancestors who want to assist in our healing. Her job was to release and trust that her family member would come in alliance with Spirit and his purpose when the timing was right. The process of letting go and trusting was as much hard work for her as was his. “Mental Illness is a family disease, a tight web where we are truly all in this together.”

Deborah tells us that the title of the book comes from part of the novel that takes place in St. Louis, the city of her birth. Even though she lived there most of her life, she did not know there was a cobbled together highway of connected backroads called The Avenue of the Saints, which traversed from St. Louis to St Paul, Minnesota. She was in a writing group with a fellow writer from Iowa who knew about the highway and when she brought in pages that had her protagonist traveling from St. Louis to Minneapolis, he told her about this little known backroads map of infrastructure. The coincidence of this writer being in group with Deborah listening to her pages and knowing about the “avenue” was a synchronicity she just couldn’t ignore. The title stuck to the story.

What is synchronicity, anyway? Deborah says, “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have now discernable causal connection.: This was an area of study for Carl Jung the spiritual father of psychology and also a subject of interest in physics. Freud was the ego based or physical father of psychology that concentrated mainly on physical life. Until I started research fo the book I had no idea that physicists as early as 1915 were studying and mapping the connections of synchronicities. Experiencing a series of coincidences has taken on the meaning “You are on the right path.” Deborah believe that and Noah, in her story, certainly does too.

Sheryl goes on to say that the title of her first book in a trilogy was Life Is No Coincidence: The Life and Afterlife Connections, which focused on awakening to the many energetic possibilities of higher awareness and consciousness and exploring our interconnectedness at all levels of physical and energetic life. Shery is always delighted when one of her authors mentions Carl Jung, who had a near death experience and described what happened after death as being so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and feelings can not even manage to capture the magnificence of that reality. Spiritual teachers who have in meditation attained this higher level of awareness also know the infinite possibilities of our soul to create this beauty in our physical life, so she is always delighted when Carl Jung’s name comes up.

Deborah tells us how synchronicity comes up in her life. Deborah says that she believes in everyday magic. If you slow down and take the time to notice, there are synchronicities happening all the time. The beauty and images we focus on to the exclusion of multitudes and other data are synchronous. The people we meet, even casually, can represent a synchronicity. Why in this sea of billions of people did we come in contact with this specific soul? There is always a reason, and always a message that is available to us from our interactions if we simply take the time to notice. Slow down, map out your day with all the details you can remember and you will start to notice the signs that keep you on your path.

Sheryl likes to tell her students and clients that no one is ever alone, nothing happening to us is random and that our soul planned all the events we would experience in this particular life that were needed to reach higher ground or bring greater love and compassion within, as we raise our vibration and understand ourselves more realistically, achieving greater self -love and compassion.

Deborah tells us why she is the right person to write this story. The novel is a story of past and present: a bit of her family history that collides with world history: a bit of her business background that she’s able to draw upon: a thread of physics, indigenous belief, African mysticism and philosophy which are all subjects that she’s drawn to and the story of her real-life son. As complicated as this story might be for some, for Deborah it is very simple and a description of the world as she knows it. She was a female running a company in a time before #metoo and #timesup, and that was challenging. The tools to deal with sexual harassment were not available in 2002, when the story takes place and women, sadly, didn’t feel as though they could speak up, no matter how powerful their position might seem. Sally the mother of Noah in the book did the best she could given the circumstances of her time.

Sheryl says it is now 2021 and sadly the harassment in business, politics and the old patriarchal and religious limitations for girls or women in the family are still too strongly prevalent. Look at the scandals all over with women reporting sexual harassment or abuses at work and at home. Why do all these women wait until scandals arise until they feel empowered and can finally tell about the abuses suffered. Sheryl personally has never been beholden to any large corporation for her income and even as a child stood up to social injustice, abuse, hurtful actions by any male or female against others. It’s almost like she didn’t see or feel the discrimination between the sexes, religions and economic conditions, functioning from a highly spiritual nature. Sheryl thinks when men and women further evolve and act with a soul-based integrity as she always did because as an empath and medium she has a strong connection to Spirit and the Oneness of Being, relationships between men and women will finally be equal and the power structure in the family and workforce will be just. Sheryl believes we must continue to help all people speak up and protect our “First Right Amendments” which are also severely challenged at this tipping point in human history. Power does not make right as only truth and selflessness, love and compassion, can lead to better times.

Deborah’s family backstory played into the themes of this book. Deborah goes on to say that her father was the only male Jew to survive a pogrom in his village in 1918. He was five at the time, and her grandmother hid him in the house of a “crazy woman” Because she had a reputation, Deborah’s grandmother knew the Cossacks would be too terrified to enter her house. It worked and her father survived the rampage. He and his sisters and her grandmother escaped Russia by hiding underneath the hay in a wagon that transported soldiers across the border to Poland. That story of emigration made its way into the novel. Deborah has always wanted to thank the woman who saved her father. She never knew her name or any details about her. But she became the character Hadassah and this homage to her is Deborah’s way of remembering, honoring and thanking her for her contribution to her family’s survival.

Deborah tells us this is the right book for the right time. Deborah says, “The earth is sick and all the animals on it. We live in a world of bipolarity. One day we’re hopeful. The next day we’re in despair. The stock market is up: No, it’s down. We’re on the brink of losing our democracy: wait, perhaps, we’ve saved it. Racial discrimination feels hopeless. The pandemic is raging. Conspiracy theories abound. And the next crisis is brewing and about to explode: mental illness. And with mental illness comes increased homelessness, which then further exacerbates mental illness and round and round. Mental illness will be unbridled as a result of societies increasing complexities and dysfunction. Our health care system and our social network is unprepared as it has always been to deal with the exponential growth of mental instability.”

Sheryl as an empath knows this reality to be true at this timeline in human development and in her book A New Life Awaits addresses the fact that every soul who has chosen a physical life is dealing with some form or physical or emotional trauma and this life offers everyone the opportunity to heal in so many ways. Sheryl writes, “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 on our continuous circle of life.”

In reading A New Life Awaits, Sheryl knows you will discover much synchronicity with your own daily observations and find comfort in validating many of your dearest wishes to live life in an expansive and bolder approach, creating new perspectives, new thoughts, taking you in the direction that your soul and heart were born to experience. Unencumbered by the rules and limitations of societal or family systems that may have temporarily made you forget the amazing, loving, magnificent entity that you are that was born to walk in delight on our beautiful earth landscape and in spiritual light. You will find that a new life awaits you, and know that you do not walk alone.

Deborah tells us this story need to be in the world. She hopes this story brings darkness into light. There is hope and a cure that is as old as time for mental illness. Yes, medicine might be the only answer depending on a some people’s illness. But if society can embrace someone with mental illness and provide support by making people feel seen, we can go a long way in healing society. And if society at large is mentally ill, which she believes it is, then it is critical that we begin to remember who we are. Spiritual beings who are experiencing a three- dimensional reality that offers us the opportunity to draw on our eternal nature as souls who have the personal power to transform, heal and create through their thoughts and actions a better reality for themselves and others. Any challenge is merely a way to find greater hope, love and compassion if seen correctly not as good or bad just experience.

Deborah would like readers of Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints to take away with them after reading the novel which delves into the subjects of love, acceptance and the importance of connection as well as minimizing the weight of the past, which can then lead to greater self -awareness, expanding the potential in the here and now tremendously. When everyday magic, coincidences and synchronicity become your way of life, you are aligned to your ancestors and souls of the past always by your side to guide and help you face any challenge here in the physical world. So the truth of our real being is what Deborah might want you to gather and bring into your life for in knowing your true essence, you are free of many illusionary fears and limitations.

We thank Deborah Gaal author of Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints for an interesting look at many of the challenges faced by all of us these days in the 21st century. For like many of us who have hoped that science and technology would bring an illumination of our divine spiritual gifts, it seems, instead it has created a whole new world of limiting or untruthful ideologies that we must now overcome, if we are to raise to a higher vibration of just, kind and workable solutions, which is the way of the soul.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have seen have in a fictional story based partially on the realities of Deborah Gaal’s life, a brilliant young physicist Noah Friedman, who is bipolar and is racing against time before the experimental drug either steals his mind or his life will stop, to halt the manufacturer aiming to turn a huge profit on a questionable medicine. As Noah frees himself from the medicine to find other means to self-heal, he aligns himself to a group who eventually help him and themselves in the process. All the events eventually lead to the realization that love creates a synchronicity with what and who is loved.

Deborah writes, “ After Noah’s mother Sally’s wedding a neurologist poked, prodded and scanned Noah one last time, determining he had suffered no permanent damage from his years on the drug Selexikote. No signs of early onset Alzheimers. Jean Paul, a shaman, had already rendered this diagnosis insisting Noah had been healed by his initiation into his spiritual practice and said, “ You came into this world with all knowledge. It is in your bones. When the information is needed you will remember.” Jean-Paul shared his teachings during countless hours of hospital vigil refusing to leave Noah’s side acting as a talisman to keep him in this world. The sound of chanting had lulled him to sleep and brought him back. When at last Noah’s strength returned the shaman announced a trip to oversee the construction of a medical facility in Africa. Shaman and disciple said their goodbyes.”

Deborah and Sheryl would have you remember as spirits having a physical life you have the wisdom within to navigate the challenges of this physical world and the ability to create health, prosperity and happiness with your thoughts which can translate into reality. We also have the ability to self-heal and in learning meditation and gathering knowledge through alternative healers, energy workers, shamans and spiritual teachers, it becomes possible to transform negativity and foster well being and greater love for life. So please seek out ways to enlarge the spiritual knowledge you were born with and find peace through the truth of knowing you are a being of infinite potential.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within” with host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Teacher medium and author of the newest book in my trilogy A New Life Awaits Spiritual Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and messages from Spirit showing us our challenges are not economic political or societal just a spiritual disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom and am delighted to welcome Stephane Allix author of When I Was Someone Else who shares the incredible true story of past life connection.

As listeners of “Healing from Within” have discovered over the years, the power of an open mind and heart lead to the creation of many blessings and hopes for improving the human and divine condition, allowing ourselves to once again remember through coincidences, synchronicity, dreams, meditation, travel to new place, that we are more than our physical body as consciousness survives physical death. We are therefore immortal eternal souls traveling in many dimensions of life, beyond time and space, always creating and experiencing new potential for awakening to higher consciousness.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within,” Stephane Allix a journalist, former war correspondent, and a founder of the Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences, as well as the author of The Test: Incredible Proof of Afterlife, and the writer and director of the French television series Extraordinary Investigates tells of his travel to the Amazon while on a spiritual retreat in Peru, he had a vivid waking vision of a soldier dying on a snowy battlefield followed by scenes from the soldier’s earlier life. Listeners will learn about Stephane’s disturbing sense of closeness with the soldier who turned out to be a German soldier in WWII, and find out why perhaps this all transpired.

When Stephane is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person, place or event that might have signaled to him or others around him the interests and lifestyle he might pursue in his adult life, he says he has forgotten most of his childhood and didn’t consider himself to be spiritual at first but focused on war and facts. When his brother died at the age of 32 years-old, he wanted to solve the many mysteries of life, war, death, and why we are having this physical life.

Stephane Allix tells us he decided to travel to the Amazon because he says the world is nothing but uncertainty. He writes, “I knew how important it was to follow intuition even when it seems to turn everything upside down. Wanting to be free means taking certain risks and putting oneself in question. Certainly we always find valid excuses for staying put, but how long can we put off discovering who we really are, when everything is on fire inside us. Is it caution or reason that dissuades us? Or habit laziness fear? And isn’t it this intentional blindness that ends up making us ill? I had been putting off the confrontation for too long, so I decided to jump ahead, whatever the price. I left in order to look at myself head on, in solitude and in meditation without the blinders that daily life holds permanently in place. I am embarking on this retreat far from my usual world with my loving wife and family with the desire to encounter myself. And I have no idea just how true that is going to be.”

Stephane tells us how he felt about himself before he went to this retreat in the Amazon to further explore the sense of darkness that resided alongside the lighter aspects of his thinking, and which he realized was part of every person’s soul life. Between the light and dark must lie the answers to many of his questions. Stephan remembered watching his father aged 85 before taking his last breath as he was beginning to fail saying something that touched him deeply His father said, “When I think of the future I see that it’s over, and when I look back, I realize that life has gone by in the blink of an eye.” And he accompanied that statement with a crisp snap of his fingers. What might have changed if he had been able to go back? What had not been carried through when it was still possible? What would he have been able to heal? What regrets did he have in the closing days of his life. All these thoughts affected the state of mind that encouraged Stephane to make that trip to Peru. Setting off to discover himself can lead a man to travel strange paths. When Stephane Allix set off for a retreat in the forest to unwind and take a look at his life, he never imagined that he was about to face the unthinkable.

During the mediation at this spiritual retreat he had a vision: a Second World War soldier was hit in the throat and was dying. The man’s name and other information were also revealed to him. The experience was extremely puzzling. Why did he feel so intimately connected with this person? Obsessed with this compelling vision Stephane launched into a meticulous investigation and was amazed to discover the soldier had really existed.

Thus, began an amazing adventure and answers to the existential questions that had always caused inner conflict.

This experience and retracing Alexander’s life affected Stephane emotionally, physically and spiritually and he discovered much about himself. Stephane went on to learn that Alexander Herrmann was in a division that had been integrated into Army Group North which was headed toward Saint Petersburg where he died in a zone where the battle was fierce during this initial phase of Operation Barbarossa…He had participated in front line combat. Operation Barbarossa is the name the Germans gave to this campaign in the USSR. Several million German soldiers participated in it. It began June 22, 1941.

For Stephane before perceiving Alexander Herrmann in Peru in that waking vision, he saw his brother Thomas who had died in Afghanistan years before and the day he received the folder with the information on the German soldier Alexander Herrmann was Thomas birthday March 23rd. Just validation perhaps that Thomas’ soul was working in Spirit with Alexander to heal their wounds from this past life and the journey in discovering as much as he could about the German soldier helped to heal them all.

Discovering this “past life” has taught Stephane much about himself and he hopes the experience teaches others to find a connection to their soul and to the souls of others who work together always as one to guide us to higher consciousness and truth of life, death and beyond.

While Allix’s initial impression is that this German soldier was a past life, as he progressed in his rigorous investigation and his decoding of the events surrounding it, he realized that it was actually his own work with the paranormal and his unresolved feelings over the death of his brother and his father that made him particularly sensitive to the veil between life and death, allowing for and culminating in the soul of this dead soldier coming to him in search of forgiveness and healing. Allix realizes that his mission is not to bring about the rebirth of this person but to heal him—and the victims of his ignominious actions during the war.

Offering a fascinating exploration of clairvoyance, synchronicities, reincarnation and the connections between the spiritual and physical planes, When I Was Someone Else shares a powerful message of healing after death along with the profound epiphany that” light needs darkness to be perceived.”

In Stephane’s encounter with Alexander and seeing his death validated by a medium that he visited when he returned home from the trip to Peru and the files kept by the Germans we can declare it proof that reincarnation does truly exit. It is the explanation Stephan sought in all these years to understand his own inner suffering, the melancholy, the dreams that are not totally his own and that nevertheless impact his life feeding his emotions, enlivening his darkest fears and participating in unconscious parts of his personality.

Sheryl believes since the soul is eternal and the Akashic records spoken of by many mediums contain all the memories and lives of each soul so, yes past lives are real, and each life is created by the soul to learn more about itself for personal development and to correct relationship problems from past lives a create greater love and compassion within their own energy.

Sheryl tells Stephane that like him many years ago when questioning if soul life was real, she was given a book by her yoga teacher written by Sonia Choquette a psychic medium who had survived the Holocaust. In the book was a meditation which asked that I visualize myself on a stone bench calling out to my soul and quite suddenly saw a tall woman in a brown hooded robe approaching me and heard in a far away voice Helen….Troy. I later reviewed the story of Helen Troy, Queen of King Menelaus of ancient Greece and found out he was much older than her and not sensitive to her needs. Helen met Paris the prince of Troy and escaped with him to that very civilized advanced society Troy. The Trojan Wars began when all the Greek Lords united to help Menelaus recapture his wife, ultimately destroying their love and the beautiful city and people of Troy. Whether Sheryl was that soul or in between lives in Spirit communicated with her and in some sense was living out that reality Sheryl cannot be sure. But our souls connect to those who help us grow in spirit and in heart wisdom.

Stephane learned a great deal and felt sad for the brutal battles of war Alexander faced. Obsessed by the power of this extraordinary real vision Allix’s investigation revealed that Alexander Herrmann a German soldier died in World War 11 during the 1941 Russian campaign. As he began retracing Herrmann’s past, he found that the other images accompanying the battle scene were also of people who had truly existed and were close to the man who died. Diving into the German military archives, meeting the man’s surviving family members and following his own intuitive hunches, the author also discovered that the soldier was part of the Waffen S.S., the infamous Totenkopf Brigade and his investigation broadened to explore what drove Herrmann to become part of such an devastatingly brutal and destructive organization.

Stephane thinks the two men were destined to meet in this extraordinary way in order to help one another. Yes.. Stephan says he became a journalist for the sole reason to understand how someone could kill and to know who are these men who by the millions committed the Holocaust. Stephane is a tolerant man, educated by parents who inculcated in their children the most noble moral values. But still Stephane did have an obsession to want to understand the executioners. Stephan always had a desire to see war close up. It was as if a darkness from those times resided in his heart and remembrances and in dreams.

Stephane as does Sheryl believes intuition should play a strong role in our lives. Stephane believes that when we ask for help from the universe destiny comes to our aid. Even though it’s difficult at times to realize that it is always the case and -, ”Walking beside death for so many years has allowed him to understand to what extent, not listening to that inner quiet voice, and, beyond that, not being willing to see what part is suffering, is to risk in the end seeing your life pass you by. When you put something off till later, it’s often the case that later means too late. My brother died before my eyes in a car accident. He had just turned thirty and in a fraction of a second, at the peak of his vitality he disappeared. He was one who knew how to follow his instincts and to never compromise. He did well.”

After his visit to Peru and the vision and feelings awakened in him by Alexander Hermann Stephane goes for a session to Agnes a healer and medium who helps him understand the darkness residing in his soul memory that has been resurrected by his allegiance to the German SS soldier and Stephane reveals that the interaction with the German soul involves a manifestation of the darkness he carries within him. His shadow integrated into existence and he accepts it as an archetype, an unconscious personality trait. Violence war and anger are elements in Stephane and in his dreams.

Sheryl says that Intuition is that small still voice within that helps you remember your energetic soul life destiny and is the guidance system that navigates the physical world and helps you to make choices that serve your personal energetic growth or enrich your vibration and energy level to achieve a higher level of love and compassion which the soul already possesses. Intuition is the most important connection to spiritual awareness and allows you to accept and surrender to the challenges of life making it easier to not only survive. but thrive. no matter how difficult a moment we may be engaged in. When intuition and the ego based mind are in sync, miracles, synchronicity, coincidences are quite common and allow for a peaceful successful run of life. Dreams and remembrances of the soul and energy work, and meditation help us to face the imprints of past lives and to release and finally heal them. Often souls that engage with us whether in our daily lives, or in soul visits in dreams hope to find forgiveness and healing from that other reality of past lives.

Stephane tells us that he felt like someone or something was helping him in his search, Stephan writes, “One day stretched out and floating on my back , my eyes followed one of these masters of the sky as he passed in front of the sun. I blink my eyes and allow myself to be carried by the current suspended like a ghost below the surface, moving slowly. After a few moments, I go back and, dripping, pull myself onto a burning hot rock that dries me off. Sitting cross-legged facing the sun, I slow my breathing and close my eyes……. And something unexpected happens: motionless on my rock suddenly I am no longer alone. An Amazon Indian is there. Not beside me, but…how can I say this? In me. The sensation is sharp. It is not my imagination. And it is very strange. As if I were perceiving an inhabitant from before. I open my eyes and I see nothing, But I know that my eyes can perceive only a small fragment of reality so I’m not surprised and I concentrate on the sensation. No doubt I needed this reminder that the invisible world is constantly accessible and present around us wherever we are. It is not in some distant place to be discovered. The door that gives access to it is in us—it has never been anywhere else.

Sheryl would say “Spirit, Souls, Higher Vibrational beings, guides, teachers, angels, and the entire force of continuous creative life some would call the Divine Oneness God are the messenger that as a medium I have journaled the many metaphysical happenings they have been part of. This one relates to what Stephane just wrote about. A colleague of Sheryl’s asked her to go with her to the hospital as her father was in a coma and she wanted me to access his soul energy. Her father let me know he wished to ascend to the beauty of his remembrance of his homeland Ireland, very green and winds of freedom and was ready to take the rocket ride to get him there. The next day when Sheryl visited him again, he told Sheryl to let his daughter know he would be at the swings behind the broken fence in the schoolyard behind her house and see her and his granddaughter and he didn’t need a rocket, only a helicopter as he would be close by. In other words, as I often tell my clients, All you have to do to have a loved one near is to think of them and say their name…they are not far away and our souls are swirling in the energy of past present future and can be accessed any time and that is what intuition helps us to do.

Stephane might like readers to take away with them after reading When I Was Someone Else that while In Peru the only thing he wanted to follow was a regular and disciplined way in the program of body work and energy work that he had begun in Paris under the direction of Serge Augier. There are martial arts exercises made up of slow movements, designed to have the body work deeply in preparation for a more rigorous engagement. These physical exercises are going to accompany my future spiritual work for how you can pacify and explore spirit without cleaning and fortifying the body that is a reflection of it. And to realize as Stephan did that while immobile and in silence, following an instant of distraction, that the mind can just stop thinking for the space of a second. During that moment, we can perceive a kind of pure perception of the nature of things. For that fraction of time. you can feel something new, beyond thought, and a door swings open. The solution as Stephane finds is there somewhere within you, and discipline is the key to finding more about yourself and the mysterious world of energy and eternal life.

We thank Stephane Allix author of When I Was Someone Else for sharing an amazing connection to the Spirit of Alexander Hermann a soldier who was reaching out from the dimension of life beyond this life and because of Stephane’s open sensitive empathic nature and past soul life needs was able to connect with him to find healing for them both..

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within we have heard Stephane Allix in his beautifully detailed and articulate book When I Was Someone Else describe the incredible true story of past life connection. As a medium I have been present with leading masters in healing psychic and past life sessions and while in deep meditation have become aware of several of my own past life memories. Prior to Sheryl’s work these past 25 years in spiritual studies she would not have considered past life a possibility or even life after death. Sheryl brought up in a scientific lifestyle was a skeptic and it wasn’t until she had her own enlightening events happen that she developed a natural spiritual ability and sensitivity as an empath within her since childhood, and allowed herself, to fully use intuition and that six sense of inner knowing, that she was able to transcend earlier misguided belief systems, and make the connection to higher dimensions of life beyond this physical one. Stephane also had many questions from within and has answered them for his own edification and for readers who will ultimately see that the facts of his vision are proven by a search into the life of Alexander Herrmann a German soldier who died in World War 11 and who presented himself to Stephane in order to resolve issues from that disturbing lifetime.

Stephane writes “During my life I have been aware of the existence of other times and other spaces. I felt in myself memories other than my own. But never before has that been so clear, so powerful, so obvious so disturbing…..For several weeks now I have the sensation of living between two times: the present time and the period between 1930 and 1940. I am reading so many things that plunge me eighty years back in time. I think constantly of Alexander, every day, every evening so that a part of my mind is carried into the past while my body in contrast, moves around in the present. My dreams seem more vivid and my day to day is colored by an increasing number of synchronicities, some weight light like this dream fragment, some more dense and disturbing.”

Stephane travelled to Germany and to Russia to find out more about the life and death of Alexander Hermann that began in a vision, an opening or tunnel between life and death, the past and the present, and he followed the path that his many questions from his vision of the death of a soldier led him to explore more fully.

Stephane and Sheryl would have you pay attention to the thoughts that suggest you are more than your physical body and to the passions that you wish to explore in your life even if not popular by other people’s standards. The real purpose of life is to raise the vibration of your soul energy by accepting challenges and remembering you are spirit having a physical life with infinite potential to question and to seek the best within yourself, as you explore the physical world knowing you are never alone and life always survives.

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Welcome to Healing From Within with 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 messages from spirit that shows us our challenges are not merely economic political societal but a disconnect from our true being or soul wisdom and insight into healing on all levels mind body and soul. Sheryl is delighted today to welcome Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar author of Excellence Has No Borders: How a Doctorpreneur Created a World Class Cancer Hospital Chain.

When Dr. Ajaikumar is asked think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that may have shown him or others the interests and lifestyle he might pursue as an adult for Sheryl feels the destiny and life plan of the soul begins at birth or even before conception in the Universal source of creative life.

Dr. Ajaikumar wrote, “Life, as we know it, is replete with conflicts. My journey as an entrepreneur is motivated by challenges—and indeed as a person of conscience, began with a conflict. It was a conflict that was to define my approach to life itself, which is to fight for the underdog. The incident occurred when I was in seventh grade. My classmate, who was not very bright, was walloped hard by a teacher till his hand became red and swollen. He had committed a small indiscretion. I still don’t know what came over me, but I was livid. My reaction was not so much to the corporal indignity of the act as it was to my sense of injustice and lack of fairness in the intensity of the punishment meted out. I took it upon myself to form a delegation of students and report the incident to the head of the institution. I was oblivious to the fact that this could lead to undesirable consequences for me. Yet, there I was, marching off a group of excitable youngsters into the lion’s den to complain about what I felt was a barbaric act. Providentially, and unbelievably, the said lion saw merit in my indignation. The teacher was dismissed from service. When I think about this now, for a twelve-year-old to audaciously take on a teacher at his school is not only inconceivable but also possibly tantamount to academic suicide. But it is this very same sense of justice that spawned in me the seed of what would later become a core element of my personality: the need to welcome challenges.

Another childhood remembrance written by B.S. was about his feelings at about five years and he writes, “ And my older brother Amar Kumar was exactly that. A student of Sacred Heart School in Bengaluru, Amar was every parent’s dream come true. He was supremely talented, a phenomenal debater, fluent in English and, of course, an academic achiever. They say that the birth order of siblings dictates everything from their personalities to parental affection to the world’s perception of the siblings in question. More specifically, first-borns hog the lion’s share of parental love, not to mention the shadow they cast on their younger siblings. It was no different in my case. So, while my brother continued to enjoy quality schooling at Sacred Heart, I was shifted to a ‘regular’ school called Bala Mandira. My father could not afford to put both his sons through elite schooling. My brother’s debating achievements were storied affairs at home, while the prizes I won at school were relegated to oblivion. The older brother’s shadow was also evident in my parents’ plan for my future. I remember one day I overheard my parents discussing our future. My father was commenting that while Amar’s was secure, ‘I don’t know what will become of Ajai’.

But, in spite of everything, I still loved my family. Why did I care so much for my father? While I knew he loved me, his way of showing that love and care was not conventional. He expressed his love and affection in unique ways. He showed his deep affection for me with his obsession for my academic performance. This was especially so during my pre-medical-college years. He went about with an anxious look day and night, worried about my performance. He could not let go until he was sure I would do well. Anything that his mind became obsessed with was a problem to be solved.”

Fast forward to the beginning of the book where you tell us of a disastrous time in Boston that almost stopped your fulfilling your obligations to the work and support for so many people you cared about.

Dr. Ajaikumar wrote, “Horror-struck, I realized that my dreams were shattered and I had let my people down. I felt miserable. I had just remodeled my house in Boston. We had been recently graced with the birth of twins, Aagnika and Asmitha. I had also opened a not-for-profit hospital in Mysuru, a private hospital in Bengaluru, and an NGO for women’s empowerment. The employees’ families were dependent on me and I had a definite moral obligation. With my investments wiped out, these started to look like millstones round my neck. It was then that the sleepless nights and burning sensations in my stomach started. Paranoia gripped me.

The reality finally hit me. There was no way back. I looked ahead at the North Atlantic as it mocked me. I stared right back. I’m coming! I started wading forward, unmindful of who or what I was leaving behind.

Now, I’m normally not someone who believes in mumbo jumbo about signs, but that push by a harmless wave somehow halted my train of self-destructive thoughts. A singularly assertive thought hit me like a freight train. I am a fighter. I love challenges. I looked down at myself. I was half drenched. Defeated. All at sea. But here I was, alive! I had lost money, tons of it. But I still had myself. I had my family. I looked up and stared at the ocean again. Today’s not your day.”

Dr. Ajaikumar tells us about his professional life in India and how he decided to practice across India and in the United States. Dr. Ajaikumar shows us how it was a complicated and evolving story, which took time and much gathering of resources and finding the right people to assist him .

Dr. Ajaikumar says: “I received a phone call from Raghavendra, my domestic help in Mysuru, telling me my son Adarsh had a seizure and three hours later, I was at the O’Hare International Airport, on board a Lufthansa non-stop flight to Bengaluru. My dear son Adarsh was bound to a wheelchair for twenty-seven years and born with a rare genetic muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which left him weak, brittle and injury-prone and now he had fallen—a catastrophe with his condition.

A few days later, Adarsh had another near-death experience. That fateful night, around 1 a.m., I jerked up in bed. I had a queasy feeling in my gut. It was going like a trip hammer. At that point, I felt this was not going to end well. Adarsh was going into septic shock. His whole life flashed before me, like some cruel time-lapse video created by a demented force from the dark side. I rarely cry. That night, I cried. I just couldn’t imagine life without him. Hell, I couldn’t imagine even having dinner without him. But I also realized one thing. If I had to help him, I could not think like a father. There would be too much emotion attached. No, I had to be detached. I had to treat him like a patient. The doctor in me had to treat him, not the father.

These two incidents in my life sparked and nurtured in me two very essential philosophies that I still practice to this day. They give me a sense of direction whenever I am at a crossroads. They give me a sense of orientation when confronted with crises or situations that demand trade-offs between principles and practicality. The first incident was cathartic. Never had I felt so deeply introspective. I found great inner reservoirs of strength, which I’d never suspected in myself. I learnt to take the painful path and test the limits of my mental endurance. I learnt to rebuild. Importantly, once I had rebuilt my life from scratch, I realized something that I continue to believe to this day—anything is possible. This is a recurring theme in my life story.

The second incident was emotionally draining, but equally rich in revelation. It taught me the fine art of detachment during times of crises. The problems in life that emotionally affect us the most are the ones that are best solved by isolating emotion completely from the decision-making process. This incident touches upon the principle of ‘oncophilosophy’ in my life. At its simple best, it helped me ask a very fundamental question: What did I learn from this

Dr. Ajaikumar was able to treat Cancer at an affordable cost in India and received help from the US government. Both his brother and B.S. went to the US as did many young Indian doctors to get a footing in a country that provided greater funding for medical projects. Dr. Ajaikumar wrote, “I decided to go and join Amar, my brother. At the time, I also felt enormous pressure from my father. I had to discard my idealism and dreams of working in rural India. I was twenty-two years old at the time. I did not want to disobey my father, and he was clear that I had to leave for the US. My father was a calculative, intelligent man. He wanted me to be financially secure and not see the kind of financial turmoil he had had to face in his life. He also wanted to live a comfortable life, and two sons earning in dollars would mean more security for him and the rest of the family.” I was two months into my residency at the University of Virginia when I got my first pay cheque—in US dollars. All eight hundred and forty dollars of it. At the prevailing forex rates, that converted to easily around seven thousand in rupees. Wow, I told myself, that was ten times what Father was earning back in India despite his experience and position.

Dr. Ajaikumar tells us about his beginning experiences in the United States: Dr. Ajakumar was two months into his residency at the University of Virginia when he got my first pay cheque—in US dollars. All eight hundred and forty dollars of it. At the prevailing forex rates, that converted to easily around seven thousand in rupees. Wow, I told myself, that was ten times what Father was earning back in India despite his experience and position.

It was July 1976 when I joined the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas—a full year after I had taken up my residency at the University of Virginia. MD Anderson was considered the Mecca of radiation oncology. Its founder was, surprisingly, not a physician but a banker from Jackson, Tennessee. Born in 1873, Monroe Dunaway Anderson established the MD Anderson Foundation in 1936, which helped establish a cancer research and treatment hospital under the aegis of the University of Texas. This hospital went on to become the MD Anderson Cancer Center and began its operations during the Second World War in the 1940s. At the center, Dr Fletcher was an iconic figure, and was considered the father of radiation. On entering the center, one of the things I immediately noticed was how no one talked of palliative care. No one labelled cancer patients as ‘victims’

Dr. Ajaikumar tells us how the political upheavals in both India and America affected his progress or decisions.

Dr. Ajaikumar tells us that it was the summer of 1975. The world was in upheaval. In India, political unrest had seized the country for the past two years. After the splitting up of the Congress, Indira Gandhi had emerged as the undisputed leader of her faction, Congress (O). With radically left-leaning moves like the nationalization of banks and the abolition of the privy purse, she had established herself firmly as a socialist leader, much to the annoyance of her opponents. Under her reign, there was a constant tug of war between the judiciary and the executive, with brazen attempts by Mrs. Gandhi to control the judiciary. During this period, the country was rife with student agitations, labor union unrest and farmers’ agitations. Law and order across the country was spiraling out of control. Mrs. Gandhi’s staunch rival and Gandhian socialist J.P. Narayan called for a countrywide non-violent revolution to protest against the state of affairs. Despite this, Mrs Gandhi ruled with an iron hand, ruthlessly quashing the nationwide railway strike and arresting hordes of its employees. There were also allegations of election fraud and misuse of government machinery against her. The Emergency was well and truly on. The country I wanted to emigrate to was also in turmoil. The twenty-year Vietnam War was coming to an end, with the US pulling out its forces from Vietnam. Over 58,000 US soldiers had been killed there, with many missing in action. In the US, the anti-war movement had been gaining steam, fueled by excesses committed by the US Army. Desertion rates were shooting though the roof. US morale, overall, was down; resentment was growing. Martin Luther King Jr, an icon of the American civil rights movement in the Fifties and Sixties, had been assassinated a few years earlier. America was just beginning to emerge from the throes of violence that had erupted after King’s assassination. There were still signs that equality was an afterthought in many pockets of the country. Many signboards still proclaimed ‘Whites Only’ and ‘For Negroes’ To comply with court rulings on equality, black children were being bussed to higher-quality schools in more affluent white neighborhoods. This led to discontent amongst the white population. From the boiling cauldron into the frying pan India and the US. Two societies in chaos. I was jumping from a boiling cauldron into a frying pan. There was also the psychology of the US society that needed to be considered. Despite being a global superpower, they had been given a bloody nose by Vietnam, an Asian minnow. Perhaps undercurrents of racism emerged in pockets of the US society at that time as a result. Years later, I would experience this very same racism and resentment to a degree that would prove to be decisive in my life. In the summer of 1975 after my ECFMG exam, I applied to New York State for immigration, and got it. At that time, one didn’t need to get a job at a hospital in the US for immigration status. So, while I was waiting for my immigration papers, I began to have second thoughts about uprooting myself from my home and moving to a distant land. Life was good in India. I had become popular at St Martha’s, and I was very attached to my parents and sisters. I also kept thinking about my vision to be of service here. I had also heard many stories of people who had gone abroad but hadn’t come back for good. So, moving to the US didn’t really make sense. The day I finally got my immigration papers, I was in tears. With so many things preying on my mind, I had another of those conversations with my father.

Dr. Ajaikumar tells how he came to love the “team treatment plan” and writes, “On my second day at the Centre, a curious ritual played itself out. We were all required to report to the auditorium. Dr Fletcher was there at the front of the auditorium, seated in his mobile examination chair. Next to him was a case documenter. A new patient was brought in on a wheelchair, accompanied by the examining physician. The physician came to the podium and presented his preliminary findings and symptoms. Dr Fletcher examined the case briefly. He then turned to the other professors and asked how the case should be treated. They gave their opinions from the perspective of their specialties. Dr Fletcher asked the patient to go and then he announced the decision, calling it a team decision. I was amazed. I later learnt that what I had just seen was called the ‘planning clinic’, which happened without fail every day at 7 a.m. Everyone from all departments had to be there. And all of them had to give their opinion if the case or the symptoms were relevant to their specialty. The best part about the planning clinic was that the final decision was a team one.

Instead, Dr Fletcher made sure all doctors at the center weighed in on different cases. Thereby they also got wider exposure to the eccentricities of the disease called cancer and how best to treat it. The patient also benefited from the expertise of an entire auditorium of doctors! It was a brilliant approach. This later influenced me to a large extent to think of cancer as a whole-body disease, not just a localized one. I wanted to make sure I learnt about every aspect of cancer, not just one or two. When I later built HCG, a multidisciplinary clinic in India, I replicated this approach.

Dr. Ajaikumar found that there were alternative healing methods that helped his son, who was diagnosed with DMD, a disease that had no treatment and was not expected to live past 15 years of age and that’s why he looked into alternative healing methods and wrote, “Desperate times can turn your belief system on its head. As there was no allopathic treatment for Adarsh’s disease, some people around us suggested Ayurvedic therapy. We were clutching at straws at this point. I wanted to conquer this disease somehow and so was willing to give anything a shot. It’s funny how you sometimes end up investing hope in something you never believed in. In the summer of 1995, we found this town called Kottakkal in Kerala, which was famous for its Ayurvedic institute called Arya Vaidya Sala. So Adarsh and Bhagya went to Kottakkal and spent a few months there. Every day, Adarsh underwent massage therapy, with us hoping against hope for a miracle. Apart from the therapy experience, Adarsh met some interesting people: one child who had a stroke, another with a severe back-pain problem, another child with DMD. It was a unique experience for him. As much as the Kottakkal experience gave us hope, paradoxically it also brought us face to face with the bleak prospects of those who suffered from DMD a genetic muscular disorder.

Dr. Ajaikumar describes the hardships faced on the road to realizing the vision for his treatment centers: “Making money in Indi

a as a physician was impossible, and that’s why my brother and I eventually went to America and was able to send back money to help our family pay back their debt. It seems to be that way in many countries and it is sad that people have to leave their country which could surely use their expertise and talents.”

Dr. Ajaikumar wrote, “After completing my bachelor’s degree in medicine at St John’s, I joined St Martha’s Hospital in Bengaluru as a senior house officer (SHO). Meanwhile, Amar was getting tired of our mounting debts and a life of obligations. He saw going abroad and sending money back home as the only way of helping the family out of this mess. Back then, the rupee-todollar exchange rate was around seven rupees per US dollar. So, Amar emigrated to Chicago to do his residency at Cook County Hospital. There, he worked very hard so he could send money back to India to help our father pay off his debt. He used to moonlight while working as a resident surgeon in Illinois. He would go to different hospitals on weekends to earn extra money. Gradually, with the money sent by Amar, we cleared all the loans and even went on to build one floor above our house. That helped us considerably.” But Dr. Ajaikumar was interested in having clinics in both India and the U.S.

Now he wanted to see the real India, the teeming masses, the everyday lives of common people, the daily struggles and challenges, and how the medical community was dealing with cancer. So, this would be no ordinary visit to India. He wanted to stay in India! It was around November 1985, after returning from our Himalayan trip, that I decided to travel across India to check out the cancer situation in the country. I asked around, and some doctors I knew suggested places and hospitals to visit. One of the places I visited was the government hospital in Bhopal. At that time, there was no direct flight to Bhopal. I’d have to embark on a circuitous journey of first flying to Mumbai and then taking a train to Bhopal. But I was not deterred. I’m a crazy guy that way: Once I’ve decided on something, I’ll do it at any cost. In a way, my journeys to trek to far-off places in the world were led by this trait as well as reinforced by it. The exploration of cancer in India was one such journey. Just like the treks, this journey of exploration would be fraught with hardships and unforeseen challenges—all of which I loved—but also came with new insights. More importantly, just like trekking, this exploration would teach me more about myself.for six months, starting with a trek in the Himalayas. This would mean travelling to both India and Nepal. Dr. Ajaikumar had to learn all about the many different regions of India in order to do what he wanted -bring modern care for oncology patients.

On one of his trips he took a round of the oncology department. There, he saw an old, broken-down Cobalt unit being used to treat patients. Outside the treatment room, he saw a woman sitting on the ground, fanning her three-year-old baby. When we enquired, he was shocked to know she had been waiting the whole day for her baby to be treated. He was touched by the whole incident. Dr. Ajaikumar had seen the highest levels of treatment and technology at MD Anderson. And here people were waiting in line for over twelve hours just to get some basic treatment, that, too, with dilapidated equipment. The birth of the Bangalore Institute of Oncology In a year, Bharath Hospital was up and running.

My attention had indeed turned to Bengaluru as he wanted to see what could achieve as an entrepreneur. This was not a philanthropic project but a venture, an attempt to start a company of his own. He had been thinking along those lines even before the establishment of the Mysuru hospital. In 1988, in a conference in Los Angeles, he had happened to meet Dr Kilara, who is also an oncologist and was then a junior in college. We sat up till very late and deliberated on plans for starting something in India. We discussed the model to be adopted for a cancer center. Dr. Ajaikumar was keen on two models: one would be a non-for-profit hospital in Mysuru; the other would be a for-profit hospital in Bengaluru, partnering with a group of doctors. The company started in 1989 with the name Bangalore Institute of Oncology (BIO).

Dr. Ajaikumar describes his passion for his life work and writes, “For long, I had set my heart on cardiology, because it had been my favorite subject in medical school. I had been very good at it. I was dead certain I would be specializing in cardiology in the US. At the university hospital, I saw something that changed my mind. Here, I observed cancer patients in wards. They looked like they had no hope. Patients were called ‘victims’, or spoken of as ‘terminal’ cases. Treatments discussed were palliative—which treated only the symptoms and the pain— and never definitive—which treated the root cause of the disease. No one talked of conquering the disease. This reminded me of a similar mindset that used to prevail at St Martha’s Hospital in India, where I had done my senior houseman ship in 1973–74. There, too, cancer had become a terror of mythical proportions. I was struck by how people were treating cancer patients I asked myself: Why not? Why can’t we do anything about cancer? The more I thought about it, the more these questions started haunting me. Cancer is an internal problem, so why can’t it be solved? Why does it cause so much pain? What is this enigma? So, I decided to go deep into it. It was a challenge. A tough challenge. And I was not about to back down. For me, it was settled: I would study oncology and not cardiology.

He was on his way to do his life’s work find treatment and open centers to help people in India and America fight cancer and hopefully one day conquer it.

A story Dr. Ajaikumar tells gives young doctors and indeed all young people the need to develop ones’ sense of integrity and righteousness which is ultimately the sign of a developed soul and healer.

Dr. Ajaikumar tells us what he would like readers of Excellence Has No Borders to take away with them after reading his personal journey to success as a doctor and more importantly a person with heart, soul and integrity.

We want to thank Dr. B.S. Ajaijumar author of Excellence Has Now Borders for sharing a very colorful story of life in India and America sharing the dramatic changing political scene and of course all the changes in your treatment of cancer, as new and hopeful treatments continue to emerge and improve care for the many who contract this illness.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar has given us a view and perspective of the many life experiences on his journey to becoming a dedicated caring oncologist and pursuing an interest through the many challenges presented by the medical institution in both India and the United States of the social and political obstacles to be overcome to provide cancer care in clinics and how the difficulties that affect the health system and his patients,

Throughout the detailed story of life medicine family curing and living with illness in the family it is clear that we meet many people have many experiences some perceived as good or bad which are actually not either simply experiences that remind us of our inner personal strength to live life fully and courageously and Dr. Ajaikumar shares an eternal truth and writes, “The idea to get PE funding was a game changer for us. We pivoted into a new orbit after this episode. When I think of the contributions of Vasudevan and several other people to HCG and to my life, I recall an important lesson: ‘Never forget what others have done for you, but forget what you have done for others.’ I believe this helps tremendously to simplify things and make human relationships easier to navigate. When you do something for others and they don’t do something in return, you feel miserable. Whereas when you don’t expect anything in return, you’re fine. If people come and ask you to give them one lakh rupees, and you give them the money, you’ll be worried about when they will pay you back. Instead, give them 20 per cent of that with no expectation of return, and automatically the worry goes away. In simple words, do what you can for others, then forget about it. This is the way forward for me, and today this is part of HCG culture and all my personal and financial adventures.

Sheryl Glick, host of “Healing From Within,” Reiki Master Energy Teacher and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the metaphysical field, scientific, spiritual, religious, educational and arts and music share heart opening perspectives to understand our multi-dimensional physical and spiritual realties. Shows may also be heard on www.webtalkradio.net and www.dreamviisons7radio.com

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Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shows us that our challenges are not economic political societal but often a disconnect from our inner wisdom or soul being and that understanding our dual nature as both spiritual and physical beings leads to healing, peace, and acceptance of all hardships. Today I welcome Hope O. Baker is the author of Finding Hope as she shares the story of an Open Adoption along with the pain and depression that followed that choice even though she knew it was the very best choice for everyone concerned, until she found a way back to the light. Hope offers solace to the many young women who are unable to care for a newborn but love them and wish them the best life possible.

As listeners of “Healing From Within” have come to expect over the years Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and insights into the human condition and the situations that lead us past sorrow trauma doubt to a greater awareness of our true human/divine nature and the reasons we experience situations that seem daunting but eventually help us to grow in mind body and spirit. We are complicated human and energetic beings and have a life plan and destiny specifically designed by our souls before we enter a physical life and we can triumph no matter what difficulties we have deemed necessary to take on in this life.. That is the truth!

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Hope Baker shares the details of her earlier life having an abortion while in High School and the adoption process she chose when she got pregnant in college and how it affected her and her family and friends. Hope learned that no matter what stage or type of parenting experience one has there are shared moments that are relevant to all of us. She shares how messy and chaotically beautiful adoption can be and her struggle and how the community can help you rebuild your life.

When Hope is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person place event that might have signaled to them or others the values life path and interests they would pursue as an adult she immediately tells us of a teacher she had when she was ten years old who told her she would never make it to college and was not up to par. Sheryl as a former elementary school teacher for a short time in her earlier life is horrified and tells Hope of when she moved to a new school in 6th grade and as a sensitive child intuitive and empathic had difficulty adjusting and one day while singing with the class the teacher walked around and stopped by her desk and told Sheryl to stop singing and only mouth the words as she was off tune. Sheryl was horrified and embarrassed and still loves singing and music even after that horrible encounter. Sheryl goes on to tell Hope that nothing is random and what happened to them helped them to strengthen their resolve and self reliance so they could go on to become the powerful leaders they are no matter what challenges they face.

Hope tells us about the pregnancy and conditions that lead her to decide on choosing adoption for your child. At twenty-one years old, she placed her son up for adoption. She opted for the open route or Open Adoption which would allow her son to know his birth mother and to be included in some way as he grew up. Hope met (and even lived with) her son’s adoptive mother before he was born. She knew it was the right decision for my son’s life at the time, even if it didn’t feel best for her life. Hope did it for him. “As mothers, that’s what we do, right? We make the best decisions we can for our children, even if those decisions break us. And let me tell you, I was fucking broken. Over and over again, a little more every day. We’ll get to that later”

Hope has been on the other side of the story, too having had an abortion when she got pregnant in high school. She found out at nine weeks and remembers getting sick at school and having her mom come pick her up. (Turns out it was morning sickness.) Her mom drove Hope to a Walgreens and bought a pregnancy test. While we waited for the results, Hope sobbed. How did this happen? She was on birth control. After we saw a positive result, we drove to Fargo, North Dakota, to get an abortion. Hope writes, “ I remember protestors at the clinic. I remember having to stand before a judge and say why I wanted an abortion—a required act when both parents weren’t present to consent to the procedure for a minor, and my dad wasn’t there. I remember sitting in the little waiting room, reading letters other women who’d also gotten abortions had written. I remember having a couple emotional breakdowns in the car on the way home. I remember being in pain. But it was the right choice. All that’s to say that I am not writing this book about being a birthmother because I’m anti-abortion. I’m not. I want to make the point that pain is pain. I’ve seen it everywhere, including watching my mom and sister suffer miscarriage after miscarriage. But there’s light through all that pain. My mom looked at me then, and I could see her heart break for me. There’s this face my mom makes when she’s going to cry but is holding it back, and she made that face then. She held my hand, acting as my advocate. She said we would look at all our options and make an educated decision based on the information we had. All we wanted was more information. We both asked a version of “What are my options” at least eight times, but the nurse and the OB doctor on call only answered with statements like, “You’re halfway done,” or “There are people out there who would want this child.” Having had an abortion in High School this time was different.”

In the morning, I debated going back to the clinic in Alexandria. I didn’t want to, but I wasn’t sure what else to do. I was so ill that my skin was turning gray, and I needed my medical records to take to Kansas City. When I checked in, the nurse who wanted to adopt my baby stood behind the counter—a skinny woman with long, dark straight hair. She was waiting for me. We looked at one another, but never spoke. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, I thought. I walked to the OB-GYN side of the clinic and checked in. When my mom and I met with the doctor, we explained we’d done our research and that I’d be going to Kansas City to get an abortion. The doctor urged me not to and said it wasn’t right. My mom and I knew we were within a couple days of the cut off to be eligible for an abortion— and the doctor must have known that too, because the dates she included on my forms made it appear I was further along and thus ineligible for the procedure.

My son was conceived when I was twenty. It was a Christmas party. A drunken night. A college, one-time thing. Both sides made mistakes. There’s nothing more to say about it, other than I was sure of the date more than I was sure of anything else in that moment. The day after it happened, I drove home and learned my mom had cancer, and I wasn’t sexually active after that. There was no doubt in my mind.

When the doctor said it would be touchy, I felt relieved. Maybe in my head, I was looking for a reason for it not to work out—but not because I thought I wanted to keep the baby. I didn’t. I was so confused: I knew I couldn’t have the baby, but I didn’t want to abort the baby, either.

Hope tells us about the decision to have a child and how she navigated all the material about adoptions.

As she began to navigate the adoption waters, she pursued a couple of different options. Her sister knew a couple in Iowa who wanted to adopt. She had several conversations with them, but it never felt right. They were too close to home, and it wasn’t clicking. I spoke to a gay couple from New York City who seemed like lovely people, but it didn’t click, either. I also registered online with adoption agencies—and let me tell you, they were on their game. I registered one day, and the next day, a packet showed up at my door. In my research, I saw the adoption “books” for many couples—the packages hopeful adoptive parents put together that they already read thousands of adoption books from prospective parents. Then, I saw it, there on the side of the page like an ad: an adoption book that would change my life, and my son’s life, forever. Holy shit, I thought. This is it. I just knew. As I read more, I learned this adoptive mother lived in California. She wanted to be a mother more than anything—something she’d decided later in life—and wanted to do that as a single parent by choice. She had her life together and wasn’t on anyone else’s timeline. She wanted to do this and knew she was capable! I could tell she was very in tune with herself. This is who I want to be someday, I thought. This is the kind of life I want my child to have. I didn’t even know the woman, but I had a warm, comfortable feeling as I reviewed her adoption book. We even looked alike, in a way. I emailed her to reach out (and also her lawyer, to make sure she was a legit person) and I felt my son kicking in my belly—just more proof that it was all for a reason.

After emailing and texting back and forth for a short time to tell their stories. It tells you who they are, what kind of parents they’ll be, and why they’re seeking adoption.

We decided to video chat via Skype. My mom met her, too, that way. My mom had thought the adoption book was fake and had hoped I didn’t see it, but I did. In fact, the more this woman and I talked, the more I wanted to pursue her as my baby’s adoptive parent. I looked up to her instantly, and I never even searched again for another placement option after her ad came up on Google. We’d only communicated using technology at that point, but I already couldn’t imagine breaking her heart. About two weeks after that fateful Google search, I was on a plane out to California to meet the woman who would become my son’s adoptive mother.

The next day, we went to the beach, and she brought her friend along. Both their dogs came with us—Sadie and Koda. We picked up sandwiches and packed the car together. From those early moments, she included me in her life, and meeting her friends gave me a better sense of who she was as a person. That day at the beach, I wasn’t just meeting my son’s mother, but I was also meeting the life my son would have. I envisioned it—these would be his sandwiches, his ocean days. My son’s mother also told me her dad owned a couple McDonald’s, and we joked that the baby would have chicken nuggets for life—funny, because I loved chicken nuggets. This made me feel warm.

I fell in love with the idea of my baby growing up with her and me being a part of his life in some way. I still wasn’t sure how much contact I wanted, but we both agreed we wanted the baby to know where he came from. It was an open adoption from day one—we just needed to sort out the details.

Hope in her truthfulness gives birthmothers the voice they so well deserve and encourages them. Hope writes, “This is a story of my brokenness, and this is a story of my healing. This is a story that shows birth mother isn’t a dirty word. This is a story that shows adoption can be messy, but also that it can be beautiful. This is a story that says whatever choice you make, that’s okay; you are still worthy of love. I will stand by you. You walked this path for your child, as I did for mine. Mostly, this book is a love letter to my son. It is also a story of connection and what is meant to be and that life is not random and by sharing the following story that happened with Hope and the mother she chose to raise her son you can see that there are no coincidences just a plan that must unfold.

Hope writes, “What do you think you’re going to name him?” I asked. “I have a couple names picked out. There’s one I really like, though. I think it sounds powerful.” Then, she told me, and it did sound powerful—and amazing for another reason. I couldn’t believe it. The name she’d chosen as the baby’s middle name was a family name for me. In fact, my dad had always told us that the first-born grandson should have that middle name. It was incredible. “You’ve got to be kidding me!” I said. “It’s my brother’s middle name, my dad’s middle name, and my grandma’s last name.” She had no idea! It was just one more example of our connection and how I believe it was all meant to be.

Hope tells us how she went on to graduate college and excel in your career but still battled with depression and addiction. After the birth and leaving California Hope had trouble living with her mom who had health issues of her own and the truth is that after her baby was born, she had to mourn losing his adoptive mother, too. That was so hard. She had become like a mother to me, and Hope felt doubly traumatized. Sometimes, Hope felt a sense of panic around the loss. She remembers one day, on a walk she just needed her son. She’d been having a semi-panic attack all day. She called her son’s mother and asked if she could fly out to see him because she just needed to hold him. She said to give it time, as everyone was still adjusting. Hope doesn’t remember if she dreamed this or not, but felt like remembers her saying, “You don’t want him back, right?” She was as scared as I was, sometimes, I think. I was also sad to leave California, which took me years of therapy to be able to admit. I’m from the Midwest. Hope went to live with her sister Amber who was very supportive and that was also part of her healing process.

Hope had ups and downs while living with Amber, but none of the downs were her fault. It was difficult living with her because she was pregnant and Hope had just given birth, but she couldn’t have imagined being anywhere else—besides, of course, LA Amber has been and always will be my person. Being with her gave me room to breathe. She’s always supported me, holding me while I’ve cried on more occasions than I can recall. I remember laying on her couch, watching Law and Order SVU, during some dark moments of my depression when even moving felt hard. Looking back, I know I should have worked a lot harder at the internship. She was kind enough to get me, but I just wasn’t capable then—and she knew it. She let me be who I needed to be in those moments, and I’m forever grateful to her for that. The drinking was no longer a social event—it was just what I needed. I drowned myself in alcohol—absolutely drowned myself. I was waitressing, this time at a restaurant called Old Chicago, and she also lobbied at the state capitol as part of my courses.

Sheryl says, “Personally I do not like the way liberals teach young women and teenagers that it’s their body and their choice. That encourages using abortion as a birth control method which is not prudent. Having an abortion leaves an indelible effect on a young person and it is not easy to get past what is often a trauma. Better to teach them that actions have consequences and it is prudent to use your mind, heart and good sense to try to avoid unwanted pregnancies wisely. Better to prevent the unwanted pregnancy then to go through an abortion or perhaps adoption process which are life altering. Too many unwanted pregnancies but a society which just nonchalantly disposes of mistakes and life. Not the best way.”

There were some challenges in the adoption process also. There was some friction between my son’s mom and my mom. At the time, part of me thought it was because my mom thought this other woman was taking over the maternal role for me—which, in a way, she was. I don’t know exactly what happened, but one morning when I was sleeping in (I’ve never been an early riser), both the moms in my life had a conversation that would alter their relationship forever. My mom said that as they sipped their coffee one morning, my son’s mother told her a story about a client who overstepped the boundaries of the birth mother/adoptive mother contract. She may have just been telling a story, but what my mom heard was, “Back of. You’re telling me to know my place.” There was another moment, too, when we were out for a drive: my son’s mother called herself my “sugar mama” because she was paying my stipend, and it rubbed my mom the wrong way. She couldn’t handle it. She still can’t, to this day. Even now, when they communicate, my mom will bring up how hard the adoption has been on me and the family, and I hear about that communication from my son’s mother. It was challenging then, and it’s challenging now.

Hope did find their light after adoption has taken place and knowing they are not alone She writes, “Even today, after a long journey of finding my way back to the light, I’m still not all the way healed. Yes, I have a wonderful fiancé and beautiful step kids who fll my days with love. Yes, I love my family and friends. Yes, I am successful professionally. Yes, I have found a way to love myself again. Yes, I get to see my son on our scheduled visits, and that time together is more precious than gold. And yes, he is thriving with his adoptive mother—someone so perfect for my son, someone who is a wonderful mother to my son. I’m better than I was during all those on-the-floor Christmases and better than I was during my downward spiral into depression and addiction. I’m blooming now, again.

Hope tells a very interesting and unusual love story as actually she has had an amazingly interesting life journey so far, meeting so many people and conquering so many fears as she spiritually moved forward. Hope tells us something about the man she met in London. The night I met Boujemaa, something in me sparked. But as I walked in and saw Boujemaa on the stage, it didn’t matter. He was singing in a different language—which I’d later learn was Arabic— and I swear the world stopped around us. I turned to my friend—who had in no way been trying to set us up—and gasped, “Oh my God. Who is this man? I’ve got to know him.”

Sheryl says I usually have coincidences with my wonderful guests and you tell of the first time you meet Boujemaa’s son Sully and Hope writes, “Boujemaa has five children, and one of them lives in our house on the weekends. When he first told me about his kids, I was unfazed. I had a stepdad come into my life when I was young, and he was one of the most important people in my life. I’d seen it work. I knew it was all about love. It didn’t scare me. It still doesn’t.

The first time I met Boujemaa’s son Sully in person, though, I was incredibly nervous. Will I be able to look him in the eye and not see my son? I wondered. I came from a background where I wasn’t sure if I ever wanted kids, and I was worried how I’d explain to my son that ultimately I ended up with five stepkids. I had so many questions: How can I make sure my son knows he was always enough for me? Will he hate me someday? All these thoughts and more ran through my mind before I met Sully. I didn’t know if I was capable of being a good bonus mom. I didn’t know if I could be who he needed me to be. I’d finally gotten myself to a place of healing; Would this open old wounds? It was a pivotal moment for me: I was either going to sink or swim. When I met Sully, though, my worries melted away. I instantly knew I could love this kid. I instantly knew that my mom’s statement that I wouldn’t be a good mother was false. I instantly thought, I can do this.

Sheryl says My first grandson Is Sullivan….Everyone calls him Sully but I always love the power and energy of the whole name so I am the only one to call him Sullivan.

Another coincidence with Sheryl Hope tells the story of shopping for her engagement ring. Boujemaa and I fit so well together because he is an addition to my life. I didn’t need anyone to complete me. He has always made me feel complete just how I am. So, when he asked me to marry him, I couldn’t say yes fast enough. I would have married him the day I met him. So, when we went to the mall to look at rings after I’d moved there, we found some we loved. The next day, we went back and tried to find the jewelry store. We walked around and around, and we couldn’t find it anywhere— but we did find another store. There, we found an even better (and cheaper) ring, and he bought it. When we left the store, we both turned and laughed—the original store was right next door!

Sheryl says that nothing is random and they were supposed to end up and find the ring in the second store. She goes on to tell a similar story about her daughter. “When Sheryl’s daughter was getting married she realized a week before that they had everything but the right earrings for the special day. Sheryl fell into a jewelry store and found the perfect earrings, but the shopkeeper told her they were on hold for someone. There was no time to order them. Sheryl asked the jeweler to call the person and ask if they could wait to order them. He called and she said to let me have them. After the wedding, Sheryl went back to the store to thank the man again and the store was gone. Sometimes Spirit, it seems, makes things happen miraculously, to increase our joy and reward us for our trust, faith and love. Your story reminded me of that event.

Sheryl is sure this life altering experience has helped Hope grow spiritually and personally for she believes good can come out of the most challenging times in our life Sheryl also believes we have a life plan that our souls created before we incarnated and as nothing is random or left to chance, the people and experiences, we deal with are necessary in that life plan to help us grow our soul energy in greater love and compassion.

We had a birthing plan: both support people—the two moms in my life—would be in the room. My son’s mother would cut the umbilical cord. Every detail and special touch—from the music that would be played in the room to my first meal after giving birth—had been discussed well in advance so we’d be ready by the time we actually headed to the hospital. At least, that was the plan.

It is possible and advisable to bring all the people involved in the birth and parenting process together. By discovering and forgiving herself Hope found the way to be involved in the parenting process and bring all the people together. Hope wrote, “I had light? I looked out from the balcony then, cigarette smoke snaking around my head, and stared at the mountains in the distance. I saw the beauty of the landscape around me. I saw the beauty of my friend next to me, her words still electric in the air. I didn’t yet see the beauty in myself, but for the first time—the first time—I thought it may be possible. The mini funerals didn’t stop altogether after that, and I didn’t suddenly become an angel. But Giana’s words helped show me that even if I didn’t love myself yet, I could. That it was possible. That I had pain, but I also had light. That there was a path forward, and all I had to do was step onto it. That small moment on the balcony changed me. It started me on the path to forgiving myself. To seeing and loving all of me, even the broken parts. It pushed me toward a light I hadn’t known existed. It helped me find hope. The key was gratitude for all in her life and acceptance for having a child when she was so young and unable to care for him but still being part of his life and knowing she had made a good choice in picking the adoptive mother to raise him.

Sheryl feels that perhaps Hope would like you to know to trust in the plan of your life or destiny and see opportunities even in the most challenging of times and learn gratitude and appreciation for life and continue to seek inspiration through reading and meeting interesting people. Hope also believes it is necessary to take some risks and find out what makes you most happy so you may become your best self: full of light and love. Hope wrote, “Today, in my light, I know my boundaries. I know what I need, and I’m vocal about it. There’s nothing wrong with that. I know when to say what I’m feeling. Those affirmation cards that used to be in my car are on my desk, reminding me. I have a vision board, reminding me. I have an alarm that goes off every day at 11:11, saying “Would you follow yourself for success with what you achieved today?” It, too, reminds me—I have ownership of my life, today and every day. In the past, I used to think, I’m a drug addict. I don’t deserve happiness. Now, I think, It’s okay to feel sad, and I am a good person. I say those things all the time—in the mirror in the bathroom, driving—anywhere and everywhere.”

We thank Hope Baker, author of Finding Hope for sharing her story and the implications of having a child and using the Open Adoption process which she thought best for both her son and her mother and family for herself . In time Hope came to deal with that challenge with love and courage and now offers hope to others who may find themselves in that position so they may know whatever choice you have to make is the right choice and no matter how it turns out it offers personal growth and can lead to positive results.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within Hope Baker has shared her incredibly successful family friend and work life after having a child while in college and going into an Open Adoption where she was still able to maintain contact with the adoptive mother and her birth son. Along the way she found her soul, self love, and purpose. Nothing could be better than that. So from the challenges of our younger days often we evolve into the finest version of ourselves and move past fear, doubt, self -recrimination to find courage, peace and happiness.

Hope shares with us “Looking back, I can pinpoint moments in my life where my self-sabotage spiked. Lots of sexual interactions with men before having my son and after, and not many of them sober (before Boujemaa). I used sex like I used drugs—to get high, to take my mind of the pain. If I couldn’t feel love, I wanted to feel something. Don’t get me wrong—I am a firm believer that people are entitled to sleep with whoever they want, however often they want. Sex with a stranger? Go for it! Live your life. It’s not bad that I was having sex with all these people— it’s bad that I was making that decision not out of joy and love for my own body, but out of sadness. Out of self destruction. It took finding true love to see that. It took finding myself. Ultimately, I now know I spent almost five years trying to fill a void that didn’t need to be filled. The person I am now—writing this book, being a stepmom, a good partner, traveling to see my family, spending time with my son, trying to build a social following to help other people—the person I was before could never have done this. Not in a million years. Now, not only am I doing them, but I’m doing them well. I needed to find myself, live for myself, and build a positive life. Here I am: new city, new love, new career, new Hope!”

In Sheryl’s new book A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening Sheryl shares that each day is a new day to choose love over fear, connect with people in our lives and find the beauty of nature people places and life itself, and indeed, through all trauma know you are not alone, for there are those souls in Spirit and here on Earth to support and help you always.

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Welcome to “Healing From Within” I am your host Sheryl Glick RMT energy practitioner/medium and author of the newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and spiritual messages to show us our challenges are not economic political or societal simply a disconnect from our true inner being or soul wisdom I am delighted to welcome Susana Stoica author of Healing With a Loving Heart who shows us healing is possible when all hope sometimes seems to be lost. As a gifted energy healer she has helped many to understand the nature of their illnesses and assist them in self healing and finding treatments that work alongside alternative healing methods.

Susana shares your remarkable healing journey and tells how someone with a PhD in computer engineering accessed the energy of the soul at the early age of 7 for her first healing using her hands discovering a blockage in the woman’s body and allowing the energy of Universal Source to release and correct the problem. There are many forms of energy healer Sheryl practices Reiki a Japanese healing art

As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware my sensitive and intuitive guests seek to answer age old questions such as, “Who are we?,” “Where do we come from?’ and how can we improve the quality of life both spiritually and physically for indeed our duality needs to be recognized and integrated so we can have the best run of this physical life journey. Healing mind, body and spirit is possible when we embrace our personal power as spiritual beings having a physical life and are able to manifest infinite possibilities for a creative joyful healthy life.

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Susana Stoica will share with us that after a double concussion she was able to use her prior experience of working with computers trying to replicate brain cell structure to heal trauma and was able to develop her own unique recovery program. Having a special ability to work with the human energy field Susana can correct energy field irregularities allowing the body’s innate healing program to work again. We will also hear insights about the autism spectrum delayed brain trauma, as well as helping the body deal with asthma allergies arthritis and how different Susana and Sheryl found the Coronavirus to be from the ordinary flu.

When Susana is asked to think back to her childhood and remember a person place event that may have signaled to them or others the interest lifestyle or work they would embrace as an adult for Sheryl feels the clues to our life journey are present very early on she tells us of a neighbor who was suffering from pain and Susana felt her hands get hot and asked if she could try to help. Once she placed her hands on the affected area she could not move them until it happened naturally. Sheryl tells Susana that she was trained in the Reiki Spiritual Healing process and very early on in her work she had a client who had severe pain in the shoulders and when Sheryl put her hand above the shoulders they froze and she sensed a message that Sprit wanted her to express to the woman. When she said what she had to say the woman told Sheryl of her problem and felt cleared of the distress she was carrying for a long time. Sheryl was then able to move her hands to another healing position.

Susana tells us about brain injuries which can happen to anyone not just athletes and what effects that they can have on a person and how even mild brain injuries can get activated years later. This book has an interesting history. It was written in response to requests from people Susana was working with, to give them an idea how healing works. At the time I was a busy engineer developing advanced design for test strategies for one of the largest companies in the USA. At the same time, to balance my intense left-brain work, after long engineering hours, she was also working as part of a medical practice helping diagnose complicated illnesses and aiding the healing process with energy healing. Soon after the manuscript was reviewed by several doctors, receiving enthusiastic reviews, Susana had two traumatic brain injuries an hour apart. She went from being on top of my game, both as an engineer and as a healer, to not being able to remember anything, Susana had serious vision problems, could not read anything, and she was falling asleep without warning, while being in horrendous pain all over my body. This made me incapable of understanding this book for many years.

Susana suggests 5 things to do to regain mental acuity after a concussion and keep mentally sharp into Old Age. Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. The major causes are a stroke or head trauma, but aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, brain infections, or neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. However, the latter are far less common and so not as often mentioned when discussing aphasia. With aphasia, one or more modes of communication in the brain have been damaged and are therefore functioning incorrectly.

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• Auditory comprehension
• Verbal expression
• Reading and writing, or
• Functional communication

Aphasia is a frustrating condition for both the afflicted person and caregiver. Generally, it is considered that children under eight years of age recover fairly rapidly while in adults most of the recovery is within the first three months, with possible slow improvements after that.

In injury induced aphasia, and other brain damages, especially if it is used immediately following the trauma. Trauma centers could use healers to give first aid to people with brain injuries, brain swellings due to surgeries, babies delivered with the aid of forceps, or just as a preventative measure for children experiencing bad falls or sports-related hits, even if a CAT scan shows no damage. Such preventative measures could result in fewer people with disabilities and more people capable of delivering their peak performance.

How can you help?

• See immediately a doctor to determine the cause of aphasia and rule out brain bleeding or swelling.
• Contact an energy healer who works with brain injuries to help reestablish healthy energy patterns in the person’s brain field. I found repeatedly in my practice that by removing the energetic pattern corresponding to the stroke, the person regains his speech virtually immediately, sometimes to levels better than before. They tell me they feel their mind being clearer than before the brain trauma, which means that the energy pattern related to the stroke might have been forming in their brain for some time before manifesting at a physical level.

How can you help?

• Depending on the severity of symptoms, see your family physician as soon as possible.
• Immediately post trauma: reduce as much as possible: loud sounds, strong smells, bright lights – especially strobing lights, as all of this cause increased brain swelling

Drink plenty of water
Eat only light nutritious food
Sleep as much as you feel the need for. Sleep is the best healing tool for brain injuries.
DO NOT drink alcohol or take drugs. Their imprint tends to get stuck in the brain field of the injured person.

As seen above, energy healing is useful in both diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries. Basically, the process consists of field structure evaluation, repair, and energy field balancing. It is important to note that, from my experience, the brain function can recover only if a certain percentage of the brain is still trauma-free. Susana was not able to ascertain the exact percentage, but she knows that the traumatized brain tissue seems to learn from the healthy part how to function again. As brain injury is an area of allopathic medicine without direct treatment, possibilities of testing the effectiveness of energetic approaches in medical schools could add to recognized treatment techniques in the future.

Susana has had many amazing accomplishments healing others during your 30- year practice. The following is a typical story of aphasia and how energy healing can help in such cases. One day Susana was visiting her relatives in Minnesota when she noticed that her uncle, usually a very active person, was sitting quietly in a corner. She tried to engage him in a conversation, but his responses were rare and mostly the same word – “Yes” in Hungarian, his mother tongue. At that time, Susana was not yet knowledgeable about the effects of stroke. She asked his wife what was going on and she replied, “Your uncle had a stroke six months ago, but we did not tell too many people so as not to embarrass him.”. Susana wrote, “ As I looked at my uncle I was wondering if I should tell them about healing. How would they receive it? Would I appear like a mad person in the eyes of my family about whom I cared so much? Finally, I said gently, “I would like to ‘see’ what is going on with my uncle’s head. I am not going to hurt him and there is nothing bad that can happen to him as a result of me checking. Would you let me?” My aunt agreed readily, noting that none of the things they had tried had worked. “If you could help him even a little bit it might help him feel less depressed. After sitting my uncle on a chair that gave me access to him from all sides, I scanned his head slowly. I found a small area where the Healing with a Loving Heart 95 energy felt too thick to move. The area was round in shape, about 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) in diameter. I worked with him a total of half an hour that night, cleaning up the energy blockage I had found. By the next morning he had started to say a few words. I continued to work with him twice a week and after the fifth session his speech was back to normal – in all five languages he knew, including words he had not used in twenty years (according to his son). He retained that level of language proficiency until he passed away eight years later.”

Another amazing story refers to a brain aneurysm. Brain aneurysm or intracranial aneurysm is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel. If the aneurysm is small and unchanging, it does not pose a problem, but large ones can cause severe headaches and vision problems. The major problem with aneurysms is that they can burst causing brain bleeds.

One of my most difficult cases, both physically and emotionally, was that of a man who had suffered an intracranial hemorrhage from a burst brain aneurysm. I had known him previously, having met several times when I visited his relatives who were good friends of mine. John was in his late fifties, good looking and full of life until the day the aneurysm burst. Fortunately, he remained conscious long enough to call 911. He was immediately taken to the hospital and rushed into emergency surgery. He was then put on a saline solution to counteract his dropping blood pressure, but the salt caused his brain to swell. As soon as I was told of the incident I started sending him my “best wishes”. His family indicated that they did not want me to do any healing and I did not have the slightest intention of going against their wishes. As I was praying, suddenly I felt a terrible headache and heard a voice saying to me “Tell them to stop that saline solution. It is making my brain swell. It is giving me terrible headaches. He cannot stand it.” As if to prove it, my headache became even worse. Susana called the family and gently told them that she could feel William being given some solution that was making his brain swell and causing him terrible headaches. The family confirmed that William was being given the saline solution, but that it was standard procedure for cases such as his to prevent his blood pressure from falling to a dangerously low level. Susana felt William’s pain on and off for the next several days as he fought it. It was not continuous, but occasionally woke me up during the night or hit me during office hours. It was like a cry for help for which she could do nothing. All she could do was relay to his family that William’s brain was swelling and that she was under the impression that he did not like it at all. Then, several days later, she told her husband “I am sure William has passed away.” My husband sounded surprised and asked how I could know. “I no longer have the terrible headaches and instead a pleasant feeling of peace just came over me,” We received a phone call inviting us to the funeral. After the incident Susana tried to analyze what really happened. William knew that she was a healer and may have felt my concern at an energetic level. Perhaps he hooked into the only communication channel he felt he had left. To this day Susana wishes she could have worked with him. Should she have disregarded his family’s wishes and worked long distance?

Sheryl says Years ago I got a call from my son in California. His wife’s cousin, only 9 years old, had a brain bleed and was in bad shape. He said to me, Mom I’m not sure what you do but whatever it is could you help her? It was New Year’s Eve and I sat quietly for quite a while tapping into her energy and doing Distant Healing Reiki. The young woman survived and with months of therapy recovered. Sheryl cried when she tapped into her energy and knew how much sadness there was by everyone surrounding her as it was a life and death scenario. Sheryl asked her guides and God if she could have a good quality of life and her soul could recover let it be! For Reiki healing only helps the soul achieve the desired end. We as healers cannot change the destiny of a soul no matter how much we may want to.

There are diseases or conditions that often don’t respond to traditional methods of drug therapy or surgery. Can your energetic work often work wonders where other methods have failed. Asthma and allergies are conditions that respond to energy healing.

Asthma is a common inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, feeling chest tightness, and shortness of breath. These may occur a few times a day or a few times per week. Depending on the person, asthma symptoms may become worse at night or with exercise. I have found in my work with people who had asthma that the majority had a strong emotional component. Regardless the source, asthma can be successfully helped with desensitization to food or environmental triggers. Energy healing can be of value also in this respect, as calming the energy field helps ease the symptoms because the reaction to environmental and food triggers is less intense. Emotional work is another valuable tool in healing asthma and severe multiple allergies when there is an emotional component to the problem.

Especially in young children, Susana found a strong connection between asthma and emotional trauma, many times relate to parents quarrelling. In my work, She is able to find the emotional trauma patterns in the person’s field and remove them at an energetic level. It works fast and the person does not have to go through the traumatic event in order to release the trauma.

Susana relates Rose’s case as she was the most complex asthma case I had in my nearly forty years of working with people outside my family. Rose, a fifty-six-year-old woman, was referred to me by her physician. With a cheery disposition, she was battling a severe case of asthma. She wheezed terribly and was unable to go more than twenty minutes without an attack. By the time she came to work with me, she had experienced several major health problems and was being treated with medications, nutritional supplements, and detoxification. On her first visit she told me, “I came to you because I am planning on going soon on a once-in-a-lifetime trip and I want to be able to go without having to carry with me all the gadgets and medications that I am using when I get an attack.”

As Susana checked Rose’s field she found a lot of energy stuck in her lung, liver, and pancreas areas. Despite her obviously severe asthma, the general feel of her energy field was healthy and vibrant, leading me to believe that the problem was not completely physical in origin. The excess energy in her lung area felt jagged and when I started working on her I could feel a tickle in my own lungs. She had a strong asthma attack during the session, but by the end was breathing much easier, with the wheezing greatly diminished. Susana suggested to Rose to use a gentle detoxification and to drink fennel tea to clear her lungs. At her second session, after stabilizing her energy, we did a hypnotic regression. During the session she recalled some of the events from her current life that were related to her asthma. After “cleaning up” the components of the negative experiences from her allergies, which I have found to be an important component of asthma, also can be associated with toxicity of the liver. If not corrected over a long period of time, the pancreas is then subject to becoming inflamed. The plural “we” includes the person who is hypnotized, as that person is in full awareness of and participant in the process. Hypnosis is not possible without full patient consent. The purpose of hypnotic regression is to take the person back in time to an event or events that trigger emotional or physical traumas or ailments, in order to be able to heal the problem at its initial root cause. I find the combination of hypnotic regression and healing as being effective in resolving emotionally induced chronic ailments.

During her third session Rose told me that she was able to go through her yoga class without any asthma attacks. After strengthening her energy field, we again went into hypnotic regression. To my surprise, when I suggested that Rose go back to the time when her asthma started, she recalled a past life as a young woman in Denmark in which she was buried under her own log house. Her family was away from home, her children in school and her husband in the field when a tornado-like wind came. She went below, into the cellar of her “very primitive log house”, only She was hit on her head by a log and as the logs piled up on top of her, she suffocated. Not only do experiences in this life lead to certain illnesses but those buried within soul memory which can be released through hypnotherapy or energy sessions and release the memory causing the dysfunction. Without the process of properly cleaning up the negative events from the patient’s memory, it is possible to create more problems than were present before the illness trigger was identified and accessed.

Susana worked with quite a few people diagnosed with asthma. She found that their lungs can feel either scratchy, like in their field would be small sharp bumps, or it feels thicker than normal. In either case, removing the lung field is necessary. When the person has repeated attacks of asthma that are becoming worse in time, I always check for possible emotional trauma stuck in their field. In general, I find that most commonly the emotional trauma is related to being in an environment that the person “cannot even breathe “

These days, Susana can work with the trauma patterns much easier, as she can remove them directly from the field through energy work, the client no longer needing to go through the traumatic event. This is a big improvement, as it works much faster.

How can you help?

• First see your doctor to have your attack under control.
• Request some tests to check if the asthma is due to something in your environment: what you eat, your cleaning products, or your cosmetics. Sometimes people have seasonal asthma attacks which can be controlled with homeopathics.
• Look into finding somebody to check if there is also an emotional component to our asthma.
• Somebody who works with light hypnosis will get the trauma patterns than talk therapy.
• Oxygenate your body by exercising outside (walking is perfect) or doing yoga breathing.
• Make sure you sleep enough as your liver, your detox center, cannot work properly when tired. I have seen many asthma cases being greatly helped by optimizing the person’s liver function.
• As asthma is much worse when the person is under stress, meditate, do yoga, or regular energy field adjustments to release the stresses induced by everyday life in your field

This book is written articulately, with great perception and insight into the body’s energy system and how disruption of body energy flow can cause both cellular disease and dysfunction. The body has an inherent healing mechanism we need to fully understand. The recognition of cellular energy flow imbalance and its correction is essential in healing. The theory of body life energy flow is not new. Einstein, Plank, and others, with the advent of new field physics, introduced a new appreciation for the link between energy and matter. Albert Szent Gyorgyi’s studies also recognized a biological energy system in man. Healing with a Loving Heart Hospital-based studies, conducted in the United States, have verified Healing Touch therapy , utilized to normalize body energy flow in the surgical area immediately following surgery, results in improved recovery and reduced hospital stay for up to two to four days, Reiki Energy Healing is much like Healing Touch Polarity Healing Craniosacral and other spiritually motivated healing work.

Sheryl says that as a Reiki Master Teacher energy practitioner I have seen miracles as have you in helping people recover from serious illness faster when Reiki is applied and women unable to have a child do get pregnant and I call these children Reiki babies. Reiki sets up an environment for the individual to become more aligned to their thoughts, attitudes and perceptions and shift into more fulfilling ways to deal with their challenges and this aids the healing process. Thoughts are indeed powerful and can draw like minded conditions if left in a negative or fearful state. Energy healing changes thought processes which also can change the body affecting healing illness and emotional dysfunction.

Susana tells us how the energy field affects physical, mental and emotional well- being! Our body represents the most complex of computer systems. Our brain, the master center, communicates amazingly via sensory, chemical, electrical, and energy pathways. The results are changes in physiologic, psychophysiological, and neuroglandular systems, which in turn disrupt or correct the body’s type of energy healing. It is no wonder why we often fail in our medical treatment. Susana Stoica cites multiple case studies, demonstrating the importance of recognizing body energy flow disruption in disease. A total holistic treatment utilizing energy normalization concurrent with medication and nutrient therapy, would greatly enhance cell healing and recovery. Many of our most difficult and frustrating cases, i.e. auto-immune diseases, could be neutralized, improved, and possibly cured with such a total holistic approach. Her results are impressive, and often appear miraculous. Within modern western medicine, healing is considered complete when the patient no longer exhibits the original symptoms. True healing is based on a broader picture as it defines healing not just as a resolution of medical symptoms, but of the underlying physical and/or emotional issue that caused the illness too. Additionally, the healing experience changes not only the physical/emotional state of the patient, but also impacts the lives of the people closest to them. Repeatedly I have seen positive changes in family interactions, families who have become more loving when one of its members undergoes energy healing.

Susana and Sheryl both had Coronavirus last spring when little was known about it and we are still in the midst of Coronavirus pandemic. Sheryl asks Susana if the Coronavirus in her estimation is different from the regular flu in energy healing spaces?

Susana wrote, “The name of this virus is associated with images of ventilators, being stuck in the house, face masks, and fear. I worked with people with symptoms of this illness before it was known that it even existed. Even then it was puzzling as it did not react to known medical treatments, in fact the person I worked with became even sicker when she tried several accepted medical treatments for her symptoms. The most curious part about this experience was that I was also working with the person at distance with energy healing. I was picking up her symptoms, from the scratchy feeling in my lungs, to eventually difficult breathing and feeling feverish, so I had to stop the healing sessions. About two months later, in March, I got the full blast of the virus after somebody, while I was shopping, sneezed on me. At that time people were not wearing masks yet. I had all the symptoms: chills, elevated temperature, lung constriction, for about three or four days I was having problems remembering things, I had phantom smells, and I was not able to get out of my bed for several days. This experience was when I was doing distance healing, which means that the person I was working with was not at the same location as I was. Healing with a Loving Heart was quite useful in the end, when I started working with others with COVID symptoms. I found the energy pattern of this virus quite different from anything else I experienced before. A usual illness pattern is fixed in a person’s field and when I am working with an identical one for everybody. The COVID-19 virus was different in every possible way. It appeared in the beginning as a cloud that would float in the person’s field until it found the weakest point of the system. Once there, it would grow fast to a huge size, and become very “solid”. What was also unusual, was the speed with which it would respond to both healing sessions and natural supplements. The latter were specific for each case because the virus would attack different parts of the body.

It was as if the virus would be programmed not to respond to accepted medical treatments. In my experience, every person with COVID19 I worked with was back on his/her feet in one week, even if they were having fever and lung issues at the time I started working with them. I even worked (at distance) with a sixty-five year old nurse with diabetes and heart issues, who was on the ventilator and she responded very fast, being taken off the ventilator in less than twenty-four hours from the time I started working. Another characteristic of the virus was that it changed during the time I was working with it, its frequency lowering and behavior changing. The last change, around mid-May in Michigan, was as if it became old. The frequency was lower, I felt it was much more difficult to catch it, and it had more “hooks” to attach to human cells, but those hooks were less capable than the ones from previous generations of viruses.

How can you help yourself?

Follow the recommended precautions and keep your immune system strong:

• Keep your body hydrated, which means drinking about two quarts/liters of water every day. Drink the water quarter to half cup at a time so your body can assimilate it.
• Walk outside in the sun.
• Practice deep breathing to clean your lungs.
• Keep a positive outlook. Negative emotions contract your energy field.
• Keep in touch with family and friends. We are lucky to live in a time when phone as well as video access to others is readily available.
• Eat a light, nutritious diet, with lots of fresh vegetables.

Tell us how to help parents with children that have autism or cognitive delay and how these methods improve brain function. Susana did not have the opportunity to work with severe autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), only the milder version, formerly named Asperger’s. Asperger’s is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As a milder autism spectrum disorder people with this diagnosis have a relatively normal intelligence. Signs usually begin before two years of age and typically last for a person’s entire life. The exact cause of Asperger’s is unknown. Brain imaging has not identified a common underlying condition.

As a healer interested in brain function and trauma, Susana found Asperger’s to be intriguing. In every case she worked with, she found the individuals to have a certain energy center related to our connection to the environment being closed, and when I opened it, the person was able to better relate to his/her environment, stopped repetitive actions, and inappropriate behaviors. In most cases the common energetic problem was also associated with other types of light brain trauma in other areas of the field, but every one of them had the same energy center closed. I can literally “see” who had Asperger’s and every time the person would confirm that they had the medical diagnosis.

A typical example of Asperger’s was Jeff, who at sixteen had to be placed in a special institution because he was disruptive in class and had a habit of grabbing women’s breasts. Susana was asked by his mother to see if she could help him behave in a more socially acceptable manner. During a handful of healing sessions, Susana repeatedly opened the energy center specific to Asperger’s, healed some family trauma and other light brain trauma. Slowly Jeff was able to stop the socially unacceptable behavior, he calmed down, and was eventually able to finish high school and go on to college.

Susana might like readers to take away with them after reading Healing With A Loving Heart that Energy medicine hypnosis and meditation works well with allopathic or western medicine helping to heal or manage Many healers have the ability to pinpoint the primary source of health disturbances. In her work

Susana has found three main sources of chronic headaches:

1. An overall energy field toxicity stemming from liver or kidney problems
2. A long-term hormonal imbalance, or
3. Closed head injuries. Once the source has been determined, immediate rebalancing of the energy in the designated area can begin.

Liver and kidney toxicities are induced by eating the wrong foods, excessive alcohol consumption, or overmedication/medication toxicity.

The healer’s first approach in these conditions is to clean the toxic energy from the patient’s energy field and replace it with “clean” energy. This is followed by an overall strengthening of the entire field understanding of our energetic soul essence is essential to living a healthy life and to know who we are as energetic soul beings having a physical life and leads to ridding oneself of fear, limitation, pain and trauma so we can defeat or manage physical illness.

We thank Susana Stoica author of “Healing With a Loving Heart” certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Hypnotherapist who has shared her life as a healing soul from the earliest days of childhood to develop a holistic practice working with the human energy field studying most of the most debilitating illness that affect millions of people and finding healing for them as well as sharing much about the human and divine life experience. www.HealingBraininjury.com

In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” we have shared amazing insights into the true nature of healing which encompasses mind, body and spirit and is a way to know the value and joy of life through understanding energy as indeed every challenge illness or loss can teach us. Susana Stoica, a gifted intuitive and healer has shared insights into most of the most debilitating and limiting diseases millions of people experience such as asthma headaches brain injuries arthritis ASL autism coronavirus and others suggesting ways to improve or heal the situation with both traditional allopathic treatment and energy healing.

Susana and Sheryl would have you know as they have been blessed to discover in this lifetime, that we are indeed much more than our physical body and life is a dream that exists beyond this physical life in dimensions where love and compassion reign supreme, and each soul is filled with the joy of eternal life and manifesting new experiences. A physical life empowers you to rediscover that soul part of yourself and reconnect to the Universal Source of creation and infinite possibilities.

Everyone has a purpose in life…. a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit….. Deepak Chopra, M.D. The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in Life from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

I am Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within and author of my newest book in a trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to inspiring stories by metaphysicians scientists spiritualists medical practitioners psychologists educators lawyers and those in the arts and music fields as we come to remember who we are as more than this physical life and find ways to prosper serve and live authentically and fully with love and compassion. Shows may also be heard on www.dreamvisions7radio.com and www.webtalkradio.net.

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