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Wall St. Journal writer tries acupuncture: video

Check out this nice WSJ video about a reporter having acupuncture sessions for neck & shoulder pain and sleeping/digestive trouble.  It's a nice overview and example of an acupuncture session.  (Woo, LI4s and LI11s!)

http://online.wsj.com/video/testing-acupuncture/C66816BC-2110-402B-B254-61668040B9D0.html

Must admit I'm disappointed in the journalism... all she could say after a few sessions was that she's feeling "better"?  Either share your results so we can compare details to what the acupuncturist said, or send a reporter who's not so shy about her physical issues.  Ah, well, good try.

Write a poem to be read on Machu Picchu, before the April 13 deadline

Write a fibonacci-based poem as directed below, email it by April 13, 2010, and have it read at Machu Picchu by shaman Jade Wah'oo Grigori!

I'm reposting his note.  His emails are often poetic, and I recommend signing up for his email list at shamanic.net.  Also check out his powerful articles. 

---Daria 

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Poems Sung to the Heart of the World
April 19, 2010 ~ Machu Picchu

Offering
My breath to the wind
That caresses Machu Picchu,
A song to the Sun

The Soul expresses itself through art, music, dance, theater, ceremony, dream and poetry. When our heart sends its presence forth through these forms, like a bird freed from its cage it flies unfettered to the Heart of the World, there to take residence and manifest form in the embrace of our Earth Mother, blessed by our Sky Father.

I am inviting you to write your own poem, that I may add it to the cycle. On April 19th  I will recite the cycle of poems while standing beneath the Tree in the plaza of the holy city of Machu Picchu.

Join your breath to ours, that it may fly free to the Heart of the World.

To Participate: Write a poem that is a prayer, an offering or a blessing. As in my contribution, the structure of the poem must have the following syllabic structure per each line:
3-  Offering
5-  My breath to the wind
8-  That caresses Machu Picchu
5-  A song to the Sun

The number of syllables per line resonates the poem with the Fibonacci series that is based upon the Golden Ratio. This mathematical relationship was used by the ancient Andean people as a calculating device and was known as the Yupana. By utilizing this numerical structure the whole cycle of poems will continue the cadence as a wave: 3-5-8-5-3-5-8-5-3-5-8-5 etc. This sequence harmonizes with all of the natural world.

Please complete your poem and email it to me prior to April 13.

Only those poems which follow these strict guidelines will be accepted and read upon Machu Picchu. The accepted contributions will also be compiled and sent out via email prior to my leaving for Peru. This way everyone may take a moment on April 19th to read the collection of poems aloud, joining our breaths as one as we send forth the birds of our prayers to the Heart of the World.

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Good luck and enjoy the creative process! 
Here's what I (Daria) wrote so far.  Which do you like?

3-  We’re sorry

5-  Earth, please forgive us

8-  We knew not what we did, but now

5-  We choose to heal us.

 

3-  Precious Life,

5-  May we honor you

8-  by becoming that which is Whole,

5-  Knowing, and Healing.

 

3-  My brother  

5-  and sister mountains,

8-  thank you for inspiration and

5-  abundant blessings.

Hey Russia, it's not about the medal count!

CNN reports Russian government officials and its citizens are rawther unhappy with their unexpected 11th-place Olympic finish by medal count.   Worse, it sounds like they are being unrawther unpleasant to anyone who didn't medal, or didn't contribute to medaling.   
(http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/03/01/russia.olympics.president/index.html)

Wow, Russia.  Have you missed the point?  You didn't lose face.  It's not about whose medal count is biggest.  (And those of you in the U.S. who are snickering right now because we had the most can pay attention, too.)  The Olympics are a celebration.  They are an elegant celebration of sportsmanship that crosses country, religious, cultural, color, and other borders.  The Olympics is about what we all have in common, not about who comes out on top each time.

C'mon Russia, you are a rich, rich source of cultural and creative arts.  You are impressive wellspring of alternative/energy healing methods and sensible research about them.  You are the gracious hosts for the Olympics in 4 years and we look forward to learning more about you. 

But please get with the celebration.

Life, and sports, is a journey, not an end product.  Results are great, but it's really about how you got there.  If I only cared about who won, I could just check the scores when the Olympics was over.  Instead, I watched as much competition as I could. For the most part, it was a beautiful display of sportsmanship, cameraderie, teamwork, and the results of self-discipline, self-care, self-faith, and stretching beyond your comfort zone to give it your all.  That inspires me.

Yes, it's a lot of fun to win.  We take turns winning.  But there's a lot more to a winning attitude and a winning culture than counting who has the most marbles at the end of the day. 

Here's the thing:  Why not honor all your athletes?  They hauled their butts across several time zones and gave it their all.  Why not give them ALL a financial bonus, not just the ones whi medaled?  Why not celebrate the fact that you love them so much because they're Russian and you know they're wonderful even if the judges didn't think so this time around.  Give them all a special government medal because they went, they tried, and they had a tough time yet you know and honor their true potential. 

Here's to you Russia, to your highest Potential.  And here's to all of ours, too, because we are walking this journey together.  We can lift each other up, or we can drag each other down. 

I like the "up" option.  See you in Sochi.

The secret to why Olympic athletes REALLY inspire us

Every two years, our family drops everything to watch as much of the Olympics as we can.  It's been an inspiring two weeks.  (The kids want to take up snowboard cross and figure skating TODAY!)

But WHY are we viewers so inspired?  It's an important question with a deep answer.  At first we think of the athletes' fitness levels.  All the competitors they beat.  World and olympic records broken.  Chance overcome.  Number and rank of medals won.  Who's proven to be the best.

But I see something more powerful and profound.  We are really inspired by what got the athletes there in the first place.  While they have been training so intensely, they have each been on an Olympic spiritual journey. 

And they are waaaaaay ahead of most of us.  That's inspiring.

Our spiritual journey pushes us through limit after limit.  Eventually we are supposed to notice that limits are illusions.  When you begin to see possibility instead of limitation, you become empowered to choose rare and extraordinary possibilities like competing in the Olympics.  Very few in any field make it to this level.  They join the ranks of those called "world-class".

These Olympic athletes have tested their limits over and over.  Daily.  Sure, they look good after all those reps, but most of them get the bigger picture.  When they fall down, even in front of millions of viewers, they get back up again.  When they are DQ'ed they say, that's how it goes sometimes.  When snow conditions change between the first and last competitor, they say, hey that's snow for you.  When they don't qualify for the medals round, they are overjoyed to have made it to the Olympics at all.

The spiritual journey is not about winning medals.  It's about improving yourself over yesterday.  And it's about having fun.  Personal records become more meaningful than world records (though worlds are great fun!)  Competition with others becomes a formality.  Competition against your own fear and doubt is the real challenge. 

Me, I have days where I fall down and lie there for a while feeling sorry for myself.  Thinking of these athletes helps me pick myself up and try again, just like they do.  I am so grateful for this inspirational boost every two years.

The spiritual journey knows no borders.  As these international games close tonight, let's carry with us in our hearts the profound spiritual inspiration the athletes have demonstrated so well: 

• Getting up again with grace, celebrating failure as an indication of trying. 
• True teamwork, knowing the group is as strong as its weakest link. 
• Sportsmanship, knowing competition and defeat are illusions.
• Constant personal growth and improvement, knowing our Potential is much greater than we think.
• Self-support, nutrition, and training based on possibility, to get us where we want to be to love our lives.

Thank you to every single Olympic athlete, and to all those who support them!  We appreciate their inspiring journeys.  Now let's honor them with our own.

Puzzling new discovery questions human timeline

I love a puzzle!  And I love reminders that most of what we know about the world through science is theory.  Extremely well-documented and well-reasoned theory, but our current best theory nonetheless.  That fact alone reminds me to live my own life as an experiment.  It reminds me how important it is to strive to come to my own spiritual understanding of the world and my place in it.

Speaking of stone, discovery of a 9,000-year-old carved-pillar site in Turkey is challenging the accepted timeline of human history.  Have fun this weekend reading these Newsweek and Smithsonian articles, or search yourself for "Göbekli Tepe".  (About the photos:  Do the T-shaped pillars echo the 2010 Olympics stone human-figure icons for you too, or what?)

Newsweek:  http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844/page/1

Smithsonian:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=3

It would be so lovely to hear from someone who is an expert in power animals or earth-based spirituality or ancient astrological figures or mythologies.  Another fun angle would be to hear from a group of established intuitives who remote view what happened at this site.  What do you think?

Who truly loves you on Valentine's Day?

Another Valentine's Day, another day of chocolates, roses, and love, love, love.  Are you with the person on this planet who loves you the most, in a mutually loving, respectful, nurturing, supportive, joyful relationship? 

Whether you already have all the attention, respect, and unconditional love you want, or you think there's nobody on the planet that has what you're looking for, I assure you:  there is ONE person in the world who will always be there for you, always... well, if you can find them (I'll tell you how in a sec). 

• This person loves you from the moment of your birth to the moment you leave the planet. 

• They support whatever you do with loud applause (no matter how mediocre YOU thought the results were).  Whatever you do is just peachy with them, because YOU did it.

• They love, respect and honor your personal preferences, eccentricities, scars, whims and tastes.  They love how you think.  Whatever or however you think.

• They love and appreciate every cell of your body, your shape, your attributes and your so-called 'flaws'.  They know you are beautiful and handsome and every adjective you want to be, no matter what anyone else says.

Intrigued?  I'll warn you now: The trick is finding this person.  Most of the clients I work with have lost track of him/her (as I had, too, sigh), but I'll help you find them right now.  Then it's up to you to invite them to play with you and declare their love.  To do this, you need to take a very honest and honoring look at yourself.  Do NOT look at yourself through others' eyes, which you've been doing your whole life! 

Ready?  Do you know who your biggest fan is?  It is YOU.  Now, now, no grumbling!  When you become your biggest fan, you open ALL doors to success and happiness (and charisma!)  I've seen it happen.  Unfortunately, we haven't been encouraged or taught how to love ourselves, to be our biggest fan.  We've been warned against it: "don't let that accomplishment go to your head" etc.  Many folks go to great lengths to cut themselves down and get in their own way.  They hate the image in the mirror (or a certain portion of it).  They sabotage their brilliance, stuck in fears about what others will think.  They think being bad is cool.

Silly them.  (Silly you!)

HOW CAN YOU allow yourself to love, honor, nurture and support yourself exactly the way you are?  Ask yourself this question right now.  You are a divine being, with a unique message to share with the world, based on exactly who you are and all your experiences.  And when you let this message out, it heals both you and the world.  There is NOTHING you need to fulfill your highest calling.  You are ready right now... because you are perfect, lovable, and delightful (OK, maybe a little cranky sometimes, but even that is cute).

So Happy Valentine's Day from the one person who loves and supports you the most: YOU.  ♥ ♥ ♥  How can you start to love yourself better today?

Ancients were not helpless

As someone who is rawther intuitive and hangs out with people who talk to plants, animals, dead people, and the like, I am somewhat perplexed and amused by our modern view that ancient civilizations were helpless and incapable.  Poor things, we reason, they didn't have our instruments, so they must have been just like we would be without our stuff: helpless and lost.

I doubt it.

Of course culture varies by civilization and even by generation and location, but I'm sure ancients could generally do a heck of a lot more than we think they could.  Did they discover medicines by eating plants until they found one that didn't kill them and that made the pain go away?  Don't be silly. They saw the right plant, where to find it, and how to prepare it in dreams or meditations.  Or the animals told them, or spirit guides, or the plants themselves.  Information is available everywhere, and through multiple channels.  If you wait for your computer to deliver it, well... maybe you should play a few video games while you wait.

At any rate, I was amused and delighted this morning by this fascinating idea of how ancient monks could draw so precisely (you know, as good as if aided by modern equipment):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/KellsAngels.html

Enjoy!

A "swine flu" by any other name would smell just as... out-of-bounds

So they've renamed it from "swine flu" to "2009 H1N1".  Are you less scared?  Will people get less sick now because the bug seems more abstract and less deadly?  Pish posh, you may say.

But this issue brings up a KEY point for non-medical healers: diagnosis is downright useless to us.  In fact it can be harmful, both to our client's progress and to your practice as a healer.  It's a no-no.

What's in a name?  A lot.  Connotation, judgment, emotion, a sentence with no reprieve.  These words can instantly tap you into cultural and ancestral fears you didn't know you had. 

Don't imagine this: What if the lab called one day after a routine test and said "Cancer" to you?  Then after a moment of fumbling papers, the voice said, "Oh, sorry: clean. You're fine."  What did that word do to you in the meantime?  What thoughts might have raced through your head?  Have you heard the rumor that "cancer" is hard to clear and does some part of you believe that?  What else does that word mean to you? 

Alternative or energy healers must treat each client and their conditions of balance and imbalance individually.  For 100 cases of "migraine" out there, we will find 100 different causes and triggers, energetically and historically.  How do you approach that condition, then?  By not naming it.  By asking the client not what they think they "have" but what their goals are in coming to see you. (And looking even beyond those.)

As a healing pracitioner, by naming a condition or asking for the medical diagnosis, you will immediately limit the healing that can happen in your office.  You will see their condition only through your personal filters that come with the diagnosis.  You will not be able to see what it really is--you will blind yourself as a practitioner, and limit your results. 

Imbalance occurs on many levels, the lowest and last of which is the physical.  As you know, you should be working at a level that is beyond words and our rational mind.  You know that experiences on that level are very hard to put words on -- so don't.  Keep powerful, implication-charged diagnostic words out of it, so you can be in the realms you need to be in.  (When have you ever heard someone advise you to "keep your mind out of your work"?  But I am.)

I could ramble on about this for days, but here's another point.  "Disease" or pain is always a solution trying to emerge.  Sometimes we allow this to happen poorly; hey, who's perfect?  When you as healer judge and limit the process by naming the effects of it, you connect to what's NOT working and lose your focus or connection to the solution.  So you limit your ability to help your client birth their solution.

OK, just one more note: really, that uncomfortable condition is between your client and the Universe.  It's about their own personal spiritual journey and relationship with All That Is.  Frankly, it's not your business to have your ego butt in and call it names.  I promise you, as soon as you do that, you'll be wrong.  (Unless you know as much as God, and if so, I'd love to meet you.)

Instead of naming and categorizing, simply ask the Universe how you can help to support your client's journey and the emergence of their solution.  That's your real job. 

I love you.  Go heal.

P.S.  And I am not picking on the medical community -- I greatly admire modern medicine!  It's amazing.  It's just a different system for healing (and don't tell me we don't need it).  They use a very logical, if/then-oriented way of looking at imbalance and treating it.  They must work this way due to the infinite variety of conditions that are possible and the finite way they work so masterfully with the physical body.  So they categorize collectons of conditions by name and work with the statistically most effective solutions first.  It's not "wrong": it's just the nature of how that system works. 

P.P.S.  I like the new piggy flu name. I feel it takes the face off it, makes it more abstract and hard to be afraid of.  And that can only be good for the collective consiousness, since germs don't cause disease anyway.  But that's another topic.  ;)

Numerology clarifies the Dow's fall (and how!)

The Dow Jones Industrial average (INDU) fell 777.68 points today.  It was unpleasant for business, but how numerologically fascinating.  For thousands of years intuitives have studied the meaning and metaphor of numbers.  And in this world, metaphor is reality and reality metaphor.  Here is an interpretation based (for simplicity) on Doreen Virtue's book Healing with the Angels.  (Quotes from the book; my comments in italics.)

777  ~  "The angels applaud you... know that your wish is coming true.   This is an extremely positive sign and means that you should also expect more miracles to occur."  Know that you are loved and can love even though your investment portfolio hurts.

6  ~  "Your thoughts are out of balance right now, focused too much on the material world... balance your thoughts between heaven and earth... the angels ask you to focus on spirit and service, and know that your material and emotional needs will automatically be met as a result."  Let go of your worry, ask how you can help, and how you can be of service to the planet.  Then you will truly prosper.

8  ~  "A phase of your life is about to end, and this is a sign to give you forewarning so you can prepare... you are winding up an emotional, career or relationship phase.  It also means there is light at the end of the tunnel.  In addition, it means, "The crops are ripe. Don't wait to pick and enjoy them."  In other words, don't procrastinate making your move or enjoying the fruits of your labor."  Life goes in phases.  Are you truly enjoying yourself?  If not, consider a shift now.

68 together  ~  "You are about to part ways with something in your material world... If you do not intend to lose or sell anything, you can change your thoughts and alter this direction.  However, if you are intent on selling or detaching from something material in your life, consider this a sign that your wish is about to come true."  We are at a stillpoint.  If you feed your fears of disaster, you can create it.  If you feed yourself and the markets love and understanding that this is just one blip in aeons of existence, you can help turn it around.  Which do you want to happen?

You don't have to be a psychic healer to know that when one door closes another opens.  This market "crash" numerologically reflects our transition to a new way of thinking.  A "can do", "can help" way of being. 

It's a reminder that no matter how much money we have or don't have in our accounts, we can always make more because we are intrinsically of value, with innumerable gifts and hidden talents.  (I know: I analyze handprints and can see people's multiple talents and life purposes, even when they aren't paying attention themselves.)

Listen to the numbers.  The message was quite pertinent and clear.  What have you been putting off enjoying for some mythical "better"day?  The time is now.  Let go of that story about being miserable, and choose to have fun paying attention to what's really important in life.

I guarantee you, it's not the stock market.

I'm laughing and kissing my Lehman Brothers stock goodBYE

Though I'm on vacation enjoying the US's desert southwest, I did notice that Lehman Brothers (LEH) is pretty much tanked.  From 1993 to 1996 I worked there as a senior writer, then manager of marketing communications in the Private Client Services division.  I loved the company, the people I worked with, and the benefits, which included stock.  It's hard to believe that the investment firm I idealized may be gone, left to be torn apart like carrion by the big financial buzzards.

And bye-bye to the shares I was paid with or bought myself.  LEH used to post a very pretty number on my stock statement.  Now, At $0.19 a share, I could buy a new pair of jeans with the lot.

Am I panicked, sad, or fearing that the entire financial system will collapse?

Don't be ridiculous.  Right now, I'm terribly amused.  I can't tell you how many times I wrote this sentence in my marketing material: "Past performance is no guarantee of future performance."  More than that, I know stock markets crash on occasion.  That's what they do.  The problem comes when people take it too seriously.

It reminds my of my favorite saying:  "It doesn't matter what happens; it matters how you react."  Will you react with grace and love, with understanding and good humor, with confidence that although one door closing, another is opening?

I choose to.  Because I know something the stock traders and conspiracy theorists don't.  I've studied the way the Universe works spiritually for a decade now.  And I know that when a lot of people pull together to pour love into a system, it loses its ability to hurt and harm.  How about that: you can change the outcome now.  So stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something.

When I read stories about the markets today, I can feel the collective fear, the terror, as I read.  Can you?  It's not actually what you're feeling in the moment yourself; you're tapping in to this collective fear.  If you do that too much, you start to resonate with it--you take it on.  But fear comes from a lack of understanding of what is really going on: nothing.  Energy moving around.  Numbers changing.  Are you really inherently different in your core being because some numbers changed?  No.  So why are you afraid?

Because you've created a fiction about what will happen to you because of these numbers changing.  Can you truly say this will happen with 110% certainty?  No, of course not.

Meanwhile, your story cuts you off from the blissful, abundant, peaceful relationship you innately have with the Universe.  And when you feel cut off, you panic.  My favorite analogy (my clients will forgive me for repeating myself) is that it's like what you feel when your lungs are cut off from the air.  Struggle, panic, flailing about, harming others in a desperate attempt to help yourself.  This is what your mind then does with these stories.  And this mind struggle cuts you off from your relationship with the Divine or the Universe (choose your term).  Your loving, blissful, happy, confident, joyful, sharing relationship.

Is that what you want to give up because some numbers changed?  Not me.

So I challenge you:  send in the antidote to fear.  Be the Divine Love you are.  Get a grip and get over this blip.  Have a good laugh.  Send the stock market some Love.  Pray for the traders and all those making decisions right now, that they may create the greatest good of everyone.  Send them All-Encompassing Love. 

And love your en-lightened portfolio, too.  I know you can handle this.