Aug 25, 2010

Trauma Heals


Trauma Heals
By: Cynthia Rose Young Schlosser
Published: August 2010


Feelings are compressed information, much like a zip file on a computer. Opening this zip file is equivalent to the act of flowing, of accepting any feeling and paying attention to it as it flows through you. Feelings will heal themselves, just as the body heals itself when it is wounded and not feeling good. Surprisingly, this does not take much time. Feelings are our life force, the divine intelligence expressing through the Alpha brainwave energy of expanded awareness, an important gateway to the higher self.
Your feelings express themselves as anger, control, depression, and acting out in many negative ways, and the body is begging to heal these negative emotions as much as you want them to. Feelings want to feel good. We often ask, “How do you feel ?” and the answer should be, "I feel great!” and mean it. Feeling good is our natural state: to be dancing with joy, radiating light, vibrant with life, and heart busting with love. Feeling good is a sure sign of appropriately following inner guidance of the higher self.
Why do our higher selves allow us to suffer?  What purpose does this suffering serve? Working with wounded feelings, amazing amounts of information from the higher self opens up... expanding wisdom, compassion, empowerment and the desire to love.
Facilitating healing for any unique individual trauma can focus negative beliefs and the reality that came from that negative experience, then once integrating positive beliefs from that same experience, the original visual images of the trauma can change from a negative to a positive. 
Remember, a memory is made up of three things, and all three of these must change for the healing to be permanent: 1-visual images, 2- feelings, 3- thoughts or beliefs that came from going through the original wounding experience as your reality now.
Trauma-Clearing techniques will teach about feelings, where they reside in the body when we are not aware of them, and what to do with them when they come into our awareness day to day.
Feelings cannot be willed away, or forced to change through intellectualization or medication. Feelings change themselves. They change themselves naturally when they are allowed to flow in an atmosphere of empathy and acceptance once you learn to effectively communicate with a deep awareness of your senses, thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions.
Instructions on creating intimacy for a romantic or married couple, a friendship or business partnership, or deep emotional flowing between members of a family can also be helped knowing and using these modalities.
Participants will learn ground rules for dealing with triggered feelings.  A trigger is any provocative stimulus which automatically sets off an alarm reaction in a person, and it is a sudden, disturbing conditioned reflex which occurs immediately upon perception of the trigger, with or without conscious awareness of it, sometimes provoking a flashback, combat memory or angry outburst.  
With this trauma healing process, we learn a systematic, self-empowering healing process with precise steps and stages that can be taught to completely transform a trauma at every level in one session. The resulting radical change in consciousness is permanent and often reawakens strong identification with one's "God Self”.
This workshop will be based on the original writings of the late Dr. Michael Schlosser, head of the PTSD clinic at the VA Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. Michael and his wife Cynthia led workshops together for many years teaching the civilian population what he had been proving to the combat vets with PTSD.  Dr. Schlosser was a loving, caring man that had found a way to self empower vets, showed them how to clear a trauma completely, to go from, in his words, "hell to heaven in one session".

Aug 24, 2010

Yoga: Beyond Exercise

by Sam Geppi October 06, 2009 08:36 PM EST

Yoga: Beyond Exercise
Vedic astrology comes from the same culture and the same enlightened minds that produced yoga. It could be said that Vedic astrology shows us the specifics of our karma. Astrology shows us the "what" and the "why" of our life. Yoga shows us "how" to surmount our difficulties and awaken the divine light within us.
The word yoga literally means "union". It is derived from the same root word as the English word "yoke" -- to join. Two horses pulling a carriage are yoked together. Yoga consists of many techniques that aim to unite the higher self of the soul and the worldly self of the body. The most recognizable of these techniques involves our physical body, the postures. These postures bring greater flexibility to our legs, hips and other muscles. In the process greater emotional and psychological flexibility is gained as well.
But yoga is not just exercise; it’s a comprehensive spiritual path. The postures themselves are only one small part of the yogic path. In fact, at some point, once the body is flexible enough to sit cross-legged for hours at a time without moving, a yogi no longer does the postures. At that point, the advanced yoga practitioner focuses more on breathing techniques, bhandas (energy seals), mudras (sacred gestures) and other kriyas (actions).
Vedic astrology gives deep insight into the nature of each individual soul, helping them to focus their yogic practices toward things that are most beneficial -- both in this life and at any given time. The energetic principles of yoga have direct correlations to astrology. For instance, the yogic actions designed to awaken spiritual consciousness is called “Hatha Yoga”, which literally means to unite the Sun and the Moon.
The Sun refers to the masculine/yang quality of life, and the Moon refers to the feminine/yin nature. Our life plays out through this duality. Learning to calm the push and pull of duality is the work of yoga. Buddhists call this "the middle path”. The Sun and the Moon rule our nostrils: the right nostril is the hot, solar breath, and the left nostril is the cool, lunar breath.
Did you know that you're only breathing through one nostril at a time? See for yourself! Move your index finger under your nose and see which nostril you're exhaling out of. Two hours from now, do the same thing and you’ll find that you’re exhaling out of a different nostril. One energy or the other is influencing your mind at any given time.
A great yogi has both nostrils open all the time. He has united the Sun and Moon. His mind does not swing on the pendulum of extremes.