A JOURNAL FOR THE MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT

An excerpt from Excuses be Gone! by Dr. Wayne W Dyer Aunty Margaret’s Lomilomi Maoli on the Big Island Invest in Your Health: Travel to the Source for Healing with Francesco Garripoli Dr. John Demartini ~ Stress to Success…in Just 31 Days! The Spiritual Side of Intensity f r e e July/August 2009

1 2 3 4 5 2009 HAWAII HEALING GARDEN FESTIVALS BEGiN ON KAUAI IN AUGUST

The 2009 Hawaii Healing Garden Statewide Festivals sprout up on the island of Kauai - August 22- 27, grow to Hawai’i Big Island September 13-17, travel to Maui October 17-22, and wrap up on Oahu November 21-25.

The annual Festivals are now in their 5th year, and 3rd year Statewide. The Healing Garden celebrates Healthy & Green sustainable living by spotlighting the many multi-cultural traditional uses of medicinal and nutritional plants in personal health and healing, as well as environmental topics such as the benefits of organic foods & farming, home garden pharmacies, sustainability, permaculture and more.

Each island hosts a Festival celebration day of educational and cultural presentations, a health fair, healthy organic food, and entertainment. The festivals are family friendly events, with programs for adults and kids alike. The days following each festival feature hands on workshops, organic farm tours, cooking classes and botanical adventures at unique locations around each island.

The Kauai Healing Garden Festival Celebration & Health Fair will be held Saturday August 22 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, at Kilohana Plantation in Lihue. Additional tours and workshops are scheduled from Sunday, August 23, though Thursday, August 27 across Kauai.

Enjoy a Festival day of entertainment, presentations, a health fair of Healthy & Green services, natural products, and organic goods, massage, health practitioners, and delicious organic foods! There will be fun educational activities for the kids, including Healthy Tennis by Hawaiian Isles Tennis, Wild & Wormy composting, plus Edible, Medicinal and Recycled lei making contest, recycling and special focus on a zero waste event.

The festival continues throughout the week with workshops and tours at special locations on Kauai.

Businesses, organizations and non-profits are invited to promote their products and services via the Healthy Hawaii Expo exhibitor booths. Special discounts for Hawaii Health Guide advertisers and Health & Wellness association members.

The community is invited to participate and support the event through program presentations, workshop collaborations, volunteer support, in-kind contributions and tax deductible donations and sponsorship funding of the statewide festivals and each islands unique event programs.

The Hawaii Healing Garden Festivals are presented by Hawaii Health Guide and supported by: the Forward Foundation, the Hawai`i Tourism Authority, The Counties of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawai’i, and other businesses and individuals.

2009 Hawaii Healing Garden - Statewide Festivals

Kauai Festival Day - AUG 22, 10-7 Kilohana Plantation, Lihue Workshops & Tours - AUG 23-27

Big Island Festival Day - SEP 13, 10-6 East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo Workshops & Tours - SEP 14-17

Maui Festival Day - OCT 18, 10-7 Maui Community College, Kahului Workshops & Tours - OCT 17-22

Oahu Festival Day - NOV 21, 10-6 Ala Moana Beach Park, McCoy Pavillion, Honolulu Workshops & Tours - NOV 22-25

For workshop reservations and more info contact: Hawaii Healh Guide • 808-638-0888 • [email protected]

Hawaii Healing Garden Festivals More Info: www.HawaiiHealingGarden.com Sponsor inquiries: [email protected] Program & Volunteers: [email protected] Exhibitor Booth: [email protected]

6 J u l y / A u g u s t 2 0 0 9 V o l u m e 7 , I s s u e 2 Publisher’s page...... 8 Le Guru is you!...... 16 Paul Reynolds Excerpt from Excuses be Gone!...... 9 Dr. Wayne W Dyer Awakening...... 17 Ruey Ryburn, DrPH, RH, AHN-BC Healing the Abandonment Abyss Part 2...... 10 Stress to Success…in Just 31 Days!...... 18 CC Treadway Tina Quizon

Core Transformation with Ger Lyons.... 11 Meet Teddi McEwen...... 19 Jody Mountain QUESTION MARK - ASK THE NATURALC o CHEF n t e..... n 20 t s Investing in Your Health...... 12 Francesco Garri Garripoli The Sovereignty of Love...... 21

Lomilomi Maoli...... 14 Resource directory & marketplace...... 22 Mimi George, L.M.T., Ph.D. calendar...... 24 THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF INTENSITY ...... 16 Leighson Tanaka wellness products & services...... 25

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www.inspirationjournal.com 7 When working through problems, people often responsibility for their health. Many would argue accuse me of over-simplifying the solutions. For with me that the villain is lack of discipline, yet it example, as the trainer in fitness consultations I is known that without a deep appreciation and love hear a variety of reasons why exercise isn’t working for oneself there is a void which is often filled by for people. Although the statements are all valid, destructive behaviors. my solutions are simple; I say, “Okay, let’s start walking or start by taking deep breaths or start If an apparently healthy individual is truly in with morning stretches.” The response I get often love with his or her own self, he or she automatically includes a lot of “But, .. but, .. but!” As I listen does loving things to nurture the body and keep it carefully, one thought keeps flashing in my mind healthy, much like a mother would do all the right Health First, Starting- “Just Now do it!” things for her baby. There would be no second- guessing, doubts or excuses. You may say that I have Beginning to take control of their own physical over-simplified the reason for why people don’t take bodies is an important process for people, as better care of their health, and you maybe right, as they inside themselves need to have an emotional there is always a reason for even having a reason. breakthrough and make the personal commitment in order to be successful in reaching their health There is a compilation of inspiring articles in this and wellness goals. Even with all the logical, July issue to spur you on to move your body. We scientific and medical information available today, are delighted to have an excerpt from Dr. Wayne To inspire, engage and the majority of people around us still consciously or Dyer’s new book, Excuses be Gone. He illustrates challenge humanity to unconsciously choose to live without a daily exercise how our thoughts become actions that can be either expand its consciousness routine and without a healthy nutritious diet. Sadly, self-sabotaging or enlightening. This segment many take action only after they’ve recovered from focuses particularly decisions we make regarding so that each individual a life threatening illness or someone very close to the lack of money. He encourages the reader to be may share his or her them has passed away. Behavior modification is one consciously present and take responsibility for who highest contribution of of the trickiest areas for a personal trainer trying you are to help get rid of the excuses that are the to skillfully motivate a client to stick to an exercise result of unconscious habitual behavior, possible service to self and others routine. going on for many years. Excuses Be Gone tells us for a joyful and very clearly how important self love is to our health Ourbalanced Mission: life. Why is it so tough for us to get our bodies and helps us see how to transform ourselves. moving? After much personal observation and study, I have concluded that people in general don’t For me, the bottom line is very clear - if you don’t take better care of themselves simply because they have your health, what do you have? We are all lack the self-love that is needed to take personal very busy and life has become uniquely challenging for many, and yet there is no time better than today to open your heart and START Coming Soon the LOVING YOU. Treat your body like a temple - it is the only one you have. Begin KHWA taking care of yourself, for your own health and well being, and for those who love you. Membership Directory Vol. 2 Here’s to your health! This is a valuable resource directory of KHWA Enjoy, members, their businesses and services. User friendly for education and government agencies, medical offices, visitor industry and island communities. Become a member and list your business in the KHWA Directory today! Applications due on 7-15-09 to be in the directory. Call Fran Becker at 808-246-8986 to register today!

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8 inspiration journal There are four words in Thoreau’s quote that I reminding yourself to believe that you have the The following excerpt is taken want to highlight—encouraging, unquestionable, ability to use abundance to elevate your life. from the book elevate, and conscious. T Encourage yourself by realizing that you have 1. Excuses Begone! is encouraging you to the capacity to create a space within you that’s Excuses be Gone! challenge patterns and feel inspired by a filled with peace and joy, an inner island of by Dr. Wayne W Dyer. newfound awareness of the life hidden contentment that has nothing to do with money. It is published by Hay House (May 1, 2009) beneath your excuses. Invite yourself to Practice gratitude for the essentials of life, which move out of established thought patterns, are yours to enjoy virtually free of charge. These and available at all bookstores or and realize that there is nothing standing in include air, water, fire, the sun, andSpirit the moon; online at: www.hayhouse.com. your way of living at your highest levels. the very ground you walk on; the continuous beating of your heart; the inhaling and exhaling 2. You have an unquestionable ability to of your lungs; your food digesting; your eyes eliminate excuses—they’ll get up and go and ears; and so on. Be utterly grateful for all when they’re revealed as the false beliefs that you have naturally, which is beyond the that they are. There’s simply no question scope of what’s “affordable.” As that endeavor about this! strengthens, assess what you’d truly like to 3. You elevate your life by taking responsibility do, where you’d like to live, and what creature for who you are and what you’re choosing comforts you desire. to become. You can transcend the ordinary, mundane, and average with thoughts of When I made the decision to attend college after greater joy and meaning; you can decide spending four years in the military, for instance, to elevate your life, rather than have it I knew in my heart that money wasn’t going to stagnate or deteriorate with excuses. Go be the thing that prevented me from reaching beyond where you presently are. my goals. I understood the costs involved, and I didn’t act on my fear of shortage or what I 4. You can bring your desires to couldn’t afford—I acted on my internal knowing consciousness by disconnecting the that I indeed was going to attend the university. power from your subconscious so that This knowing prompted me to investigate it can’t continue to run your life. Your financial assistance from the government as a subconscious (habitual) mind is accessible, veteran, open a savings account designated for so unearth the excuses buried deep within tuition and books, talk with the financial-aid you. Become conscious! people at the university, and make alternative plans to attend community college, if plan A In my role as a counselor, teacher, and parent, were not to materialize. I had a certainty inside I’ve heard many reasons that people use to of me that the “I can’t afford it” reasoning is an explain an unhappy existence . . . and almost all excuse that many people who aren’t considered of them inevitably fall into one huge category, wealthy employ as a means for exonerating which I call “excuses.” themselves when they need a rationalization for why they’re stuck where they are in life. For example: Excuse, “I Can’t Afford It” “I know of no more Oscar Wilde made this wry observation in 1891: It’s a rare day when I don’t hear some variation “There is only one class in the community that encouraging fact than of this excuse, including: “I didn’t go to college thinks more about money than the rich, and that the unquestionable because it was too expensive,” “I haven’t been is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” able to travel because I never had the funds,” I’d add that such thinking includes lamenting ability of man to elevate and “I couldn’t go into the business I wanted the fact that they’ll never have money. I advise because I had to stay where I was and earn his life by a conscious tossing out this meme, and instead rewiring money to pay the bills.” I call this belief lame thoughts to connect with what’s intended to endeavor.” and a cop-out, yet there seems to be almost manifest, regardless of your current financial universal agreement for its existence. — from Walden, status. by Henry David Thoreau You originated in a world of abundance, Whatever you feel is your dharma, and no matter which you unquestionably have the ability how hard that calling seems to be pulling you, to access. Whenever you discourage yourself if you maintain the belief that you can’t manage with thoughts that your financial situation is to pull it off, I can assure you that you’re right. preventing anything from appearing, that’s an To paraphrase Henry Ford, whether you believe excuse. If you instead decide to bring abundance you can afford to do a thing or not, you’re awareness into your consciousness, you’ll shift right. your thoughts from I can’t afford it to Whatever I need in the form of assistance to guide me in the Attend Dr. Dyer’s weekend seminar on Maui, October 23-25. direction of my life is not only available, but is on Visit www.dr.waynedyer.com or call 808-654-5126. its way. You’ll then consciously watch for the necessary funding to show up, but you’ll also be www.inspirationjournal.com 9 Healing the Abandonment Abyss Part 2 By CC Treadway In the last Hence, codependence. If this energy healer can do to speed up Almost always this is a huge article I went pattern continues through life then the process of healing, provided awakening. It was for me the into the the codependent will look at itself the client is ready and willing. first time it was done for me. importance of or its partner as a parent, and not The difference is, instead of the dealing with be able to feel its own self unless Using Chakra System in Healing excitement and rush of merging the pain of it is merged in the relationship. Process with another or the child trying Loss of the relationship can be through its habitual way to get abandonment.Mind In this article I will devastating, and recovering the While it is necessary to work with love it always wanted from the go into more detail with the chakra sense of self may take a lot of all the chakras in any healing parent, the feeling is just getting system of the healing process. time and patience. Whereas a process, I will go specifically into to be yourself. Now for some healthy person will recover from chakras two and three. people this is a huge adjustment The most important thing about of thought, “What fun is that? the breakup in the normal phases, Redevelopment of Second healing abandonment is that you How will I know if I like them if a person who has suffered this Chakra: “I Recognize Myself” have to admit you have a problem. wounding may never recover, I do not feel a huge intense bolt of Many people are defending against but carry that pain with them While all the chakras will be lightening?” Dean once asked me, this pain so much that they cannot through their life, never daring to addressed in any healing process, “Are you confusing intensity with even get to it. But if you continually enter into another relationship, or the second chakra is usually the love?” Perhaps... feel empty, like you need to fill a continually entering relationships main player at first. This chakra For a healthy, long lasting void with something, you have that do not satisfy or nurture, but never learned how to experience relationship, getting to be yourself an abandonment wound. An rewound. They may also hang its own self and have it be reflected is the most important element. abandonment wound can lead you on to the memory of the last in the world. That sucks!!! to substance abuse, to emotional relationship in an effort to avoid The love that grows from this detachment, inability to commit in the total loss of self. This is what I do with my clients, healthy foundation is solid, lasting relationship or over-dependence although I want to give Dean and exciting in a whole new way. on another to give meaning to Many people just do not want to Ramsden and another great healer, Redevelopment of Third Chakra: your own life. Its actually easier admit they do this, and would Joy Adler (joyadler.com), the “I Respect Myself” to heal a wound that manifests rather stay in blame. You know credit they deserve for teaching as dependence, than avoidance, the type, the one that constantly me most of it. And back to their because at least an emotionally talks about the horrible things The third chakra has a lot to do teachers, Barbara Brennan, Rosalyn with willpower. If you do not have codependent person is in touch their ex did to them, and how Bruyere and on and on. I call it with their feelings, admitting they they were the victim. They also a healthy sense of self, and self energy modeling. I sit with my respect, then your third chakra have needs. The avoider will deny may never leave the relationship client and ask them to feel their they have any needs, and will and just complain about it for the will probably need a lot of work. own self. I assist them by helping The front aspect of the third chakra simply bypass the emotional body rest of their lives. While its normal them find a time in their life, or by filling the space immediately. to learn from relationships and can be about your self-respect a place where they felt totally and how you give to others. The They reject people, but at the blame can come into the picture, safe to be themselves. 100% of same time have a very difficult it should be a phase that ends, back is about your self-care, how the time these clients choose a you give to yourself. Some people time letting anyone out of their giving way to self-responsibility time where they are alone. That’s life completely. It’s torturous on and healing. have very large third chakras in because truthfully, they have never the front, and teeny weeny ones in the person semi-rejected. It is also experienced their true self in the What I find in the spiritual the back. This is usually because possible to swing back and forth company of another. I ask them communities, is that in order they are caretaking others…to between these two types. to recognize how this feels in their to avoid dealing with this, we avoid facing abandonment. They body. When they are feeling all “spiritualize” the relationship. easily allow others to hook into Dean Ramsden (www. warm and fuzzy, I remind them of “He’s a soulmate!” “A psychic told their energy and become drained deanramsden.com), founder my presence. Almost immediately me we would be together forever, when they give. This can be a of Relational Energy Healing, their field shifts into their habitual so I have to stay with him.” “I need conundrum because giving in has taught me a lot about this pattern: their energy leaves their to finish my karma with her.” All itself feels good, but when it is wounding and how it is reflected own body and comes towards me. of these things may be true, but done from a place of caretaking, it in the energy field. To paraphrase But I do something different than healing it will require addressing is draining to the field. Then the him: what they are used to. I put up some basic psychological and caretaker will inevitably need to an energy boundary and do not During the formation of the second emotional stuff, as well as some recharge either with solitude or by take in their energy and merge. chakra, the child is supposed to mastery in the energy realm. draining someone else’s field. be modeled its own self. When For some clients this can be very a parent abandons, or does not A codependent, or anyone who scary. It feels like rejection. But It is very difficult for people with nurture and reflect the child’s feels the pain of abandonment, is what they see over time is that I distorted third chakras to say individuality, the child makes the ready to heal when they get tired am not rejecting, I am actually no. Learning good boundaries decision to release its energy from of blame, sink into the misery of staying in loving witness mode is essential for recovery. its body and merge with the parent, the pain, and ask for help. I do for their essence. I coach them to Reconstructing the third chakra beginning a life long pattern of believe the 12 step programs are bring their energy back into their and teaching someone how to give meeting the parent’s needs to very good and often recommend system and take in the reflection I and receive from Source is a huge feel itself. It therefore merges its clients go there. But I also believe am offering without trying to take part of the healing process. For identity with the parent. there are things that a trained my energy. someone with addiction problems,

10 inspiration journal healing third chakra issues is through major transition and a essential for developing healthy worldwide economic collapse. I self-esteem and willpower. thank Creator every day for the Core Transformation I have witnessed addicts lessons that people, including with Ger Lyons By Jody Mountain literally lose all sense of self myself, are learning, difficult and willpower when they are as they are. We are a people Celtic seer, Ger Lyons, returns to Hawai`i with his powerful work: around others who are involved dependent upon relationship Core Transformation. Originally from Cork, Southern Ireland, Ger in addictive behaviors. Their systems that are no longer was born with significant spiritual and energetic gifts of enhanced third chakras get large, lose functioning. On a grand scale, Cperception. After discovering these gifts in his childhood, Ger their form and they get totally our dependence on the “system” went on to study a variety of healing arts, focusing on the energy caught up in the group field is just a big codependent systems of the human body, eventually becoming a DoctorSpirit of of “the addict,” no longer able relationship. And we have all Chinese Medicine. A graduate of the Acupuncture Foundation to experience their own self or said, on some level, “Enough! of Ireland, he continued his studies in the Nanjing College of thoughts. Like a robot they end I want my power! I want real Traditional Chinese Medicine, and afterwards in the Beijing College up using again. The 12 step love, I want my life to be based of Acupuncture and Orthopaedics in China. After returning to Cork, programs insist that recovering on truth!” It does say on the Ger opened an acupuncture clinic which became an accredited addicts surround themselves dollar bill, “In God We Trust.” supervisory clinic for the Acupuncture Foundation. He has since with healthy environments and That is where we are headed. studied with many indigenous healers including Hopi, Navaho, and there is deep wisdom in that. It And it’s a wonderful process. Choctaw Native American shamans, as well as pre-Celtic Druidic takes doing that over and over traditions, which provided more significant energetic and spiritual to retrain the emotional and Breaking our dependency openings through his own paternal Druidic blood line. energetic bodies to respond to on the “system” is like people and environments that breaking our dependency on In early 1997 Ger experienced a high transmission of sacred are truly beneficial. anything that doesn’t serve us: healing pouring through him as a stream of high consciousness Exciting, terrifying, uncertain, and illumination, deepening and expanding his birth gift. This Briefly, here is some of the work destabilizing, hopeful. It’s a transmission continued and has never stopped. He has since been that gets done with the other major breakup, and for some on a path of assisting others to access these energies, which as chakras: a major heartbreak. It is not he puts it, “....come from a place of pure Love, from the source of easy. It certainly hasn’t been our Creator, from the Heart of God.” In his core transformation First chakra: “I have enough.” easy for me. You don’t have workshops, Ger is able to facilitate a process in which stagnation, Deeply connecting with Mother to lose all your money to feel disease, fatigue, sickness, and old traumas and programming Earth, healing root cords to birth what is happening, because rapidly and permanently become a thing of the past. parents. Feeling safe, supported it’s not about money, it’s about and taken care of on Earth. healing a massive, unhealthy Although a variety of modalities are incorporated, the foundation of codependency and coming the core transformation work is simply prayer. The way Ger invites Fourth chakra: “I am filled.” into deep love and trust. It Feeling safe to really love, this process, however, is markedly different from most ‘traditional’ will require a leap of faith into forms of prayer. Combined with his energetic transmission, this feeling safe enough to feel the abandonment abyss to heartbreak and childhood prayer becomes dynamic, immediate, personal, filled with power, inevitably be caught in the arms passion and unshakable faith. The result is a transmutation of wounds. Experiencing Divine of the Divine. Love in relationships. traumas, limitations, illness, fear and dis-ease. People all over the world have experienced profound personal and spiritual alchemy, Despite all the conspiracy allowing them to begin a life free of the past, a life in which they Fifth chakra: “I trust.” theories out there, and the can begin to open up to their higher will and live more fully. Learning to receive, trust massive Earth changes that Divine, and dropping control in could occur, I believe what Ger will offer 3-day workshops on Maui July 17th - 19th, at The relationships and life. comes next is a better system. Rinzai Zen Mission, Baldwin Beach Park, We are coming together as a Sixth chakra: “I see the truth.” (Introduction: Thursday, July 16th, 7-10p. planet to create a system that Replacing projected thoughts m. $20 suggested donation) and O`ahu July works for Earth and for us… with truth. Seeing through 24th - 26th, at Holistic Healing Hawai`i in and I am on board. the veil of truth as opposed to Waikiki. (Introduction: Thursday, July 23rd, childhood wounds. Creating Copyright 2009 CC Treadway. 7-10p.m., $20 suggested donation), and a 6- st th from that truth. All rights reserved. day training on Maui, July 31 . - August 5 . Details at www.gerlyons.net or contact Jody: Seventh chakra: “I am the About CC Treadway: CC has a private energy 808.269.0591 / [email protected] Divine.” Grounding Divine healing and channeling practice in Sedona, energies into body. Being AZ and New York City (www.cctreadway.com). strong enough to face real pain Her specialties include artistic development of Divine separation and not and performance, spiritual connection and “spiritual bypass.” Learning true relational therapy. She also teaches workshops Divine Connection as a human. on healing, channeling and the arts and has a successful documentary film-editing career. She Applying These Concepts to is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Bigger Picture Healing and The Rhode Island School of Design, has traveled the world with Drunvalo, and is Right now humanity is continually dedicated to her own path of healing being deeply tested as it goes and learning.

www.inspirationjournal.com 11 Investing in Your Health by Francesco Garri Garripoli Traveling To The Source To Learn How To Heal Japan and Thailand. I smiled when I counted well over 300 people as travelers on these journeys that I have led by myself or with my teaching partner Daisy Lee. The most common benefits travel participants agree on include:

Spirit 1) Disengaging from routine at home and engaging in a daily healing program in a foreign country is critical to shifting stagnant patterns.

2) Studying and being treated by a master who is immersed in a healing lifestyle and culture accelerates learning and transformation.

3) Spending two weeks or more with other like-minded individuals who are all committed to personal growth enhances the healing experience.

4) Eating really delicious food every day and not having to cook is a very good thing.

Don’t laugh at the fourth point – that’s sometimes the FIRST thing people thank me or Daisy for even when they are still on the trip! Feeding people abundant healthy food that was prepared and served with love is such a part of the healing process. A lot of the year-long For the past 12 years I’ve been leading study and healing groups to prep for any group trip is to make arrangements for healthy meals magical places in Asia in the hopes of connecting people with the that reflect the essence of the local culture and display the principals birthplaces of ancient healing modalities. What I have discovered is of the healing modality that we are going to study. Sometimes from Fthat not only do people connect with the past, but they also connect this one feature people’s lives – and diets – change for the better with their own future. when they return home.

I’m sure that the upcoming annual trips we will lead to China, This year Daisy and I will lead a group trip to China in September Thailand and India will continue that tradition. and then another group trip to India in October. People have already signed up to go on both! Healing modalities of ancient times are considered holistic because of the fact that they merge body, mind and spirit into a singularity The China Study and Healing Trip is the twelfth annual one I have we call the “whole person.” Medicine men and women, shaman, and led. It follows a particular formula that has been refined over the healing masters saw how emotion, physical symptoms, diet, lifestyle, years, but has remained virtually in tact from the beginning – create mental activity and personality all contributed to the health of every a safe and secure healing adventure with renowned masters in person. To look at only one or two of these was to miss critical clues authentic power spots. For the past 12 years we have been working that could hopefully lead to curing a person of their dis-ease. When with the same famous Qigong master in Beijing, so our comfort level you have the opportunity to spend time with a practitioner of these traditional modalities, you feel as if you are really being “seen,” that someone cares for you and can guide you back to balance. They are looking to relieve more than symptoms, for the symptoms may be pointing to something else that is not so obvious… and when these are treated, you return to good health and you are empowered. Qigong is the main, ancient healing system that we focus on during our group trips. Pronounced “chee gong,” this practice is the root of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and the martial arts. It involves conscious breathing, slow, focused movements and mental visualizations. Beginners and experts join these trips and everyone learns what is appropriate for their level.

This is what I have experienced time and time again in leading dozens and dozens of group trips to places like China, India, Bhutan, 12 inspiration journal is ideal. We refer to each other as “brothers” and work together to many other beautiful sites in the area throughout this trip that lasts create a magical experience for everyone. Master Wan Sujian has nearly three weeks. an amazing life story, from his training to be a healer from the age of 7… to rising up in the medical field and then almost dying in an These trips can be experienced on their own, or you can enjoy an earthquake aftershock trying to help the victims. He survived being offer we have for people who want to go on both, back to back. In a buried underground for days by using Qigong and has been helping world that is changing so fast, the opportunity to visit and study the people heal and stay healthy using these same ancient techniques. traditional healing practices in an authentic way is becoming more Our group stays at his institute in the western foothills of Beijing, and more difficult to experience. and Master Wan with his 40 resident students offer daily personal Spirit treatments (some that include six practitioners working on you at I just returned from leading a group healing trip to Thailand, another the same time) and various training classes. The food is amazing and one of my favorite places in the world. The Thai people understand cooked by their resident, Qigong-practicing chef. We make daily “aloha” and really live it every day. Over 85% of the people there excursions to ancient sites around the area – from the Great Wall are Buddhists and this, in part, lends to their joyful and respectful to hidden temples that most tourists never get the opportunity to energy. Our healing trip starts in the magical city of Bangkok, getting visit. Every day of this two-week journey is devoted to our personal to know this waterway culture by traveling on traditional longboats healing and people get very used to the daily herbal foot baths, foot visiting glorious gold-leafed temples and floating markets. The massages, and energy healing full-body massage! Added to the following two weeks takes us up north to the beautiful city of Chiang in-depth training in Qigong by Master Wan, Daisy and Francesco, Mai. With over 200 temples, Chiang Mai can absorb you with a participants learn about ancient Taoist practices such as the “cha dao” smile. We stay in a healing resort where western trained physicians tea ceremony and Tibetan long-horn healing and meditation. Our combine complementary and traditional medicine to offer healing second week of this awesome healing journey takes us to one of the and rejuvenation treatments that I have never seen all in one place most sacred mountains of China – Huang Shan or Yellow Mountain. anywhere else in the world. There is something so empowering Again, not a place where many foreign tourists visit, we experience when you can have your blood analyzed using high tech dark field ancient China relatively untouched by the rapidly changing modern microscopy and then have an M.D. sit with your for an hour to design world. We will study with more renowned masters and Buddhist a diet and treatment array that will best serve you. From a variety teachers in locations that have been pilgrimage sites for millennia. of massage techniques to chelation, blood ozone, vitamin drips and colon cleansing, you are treated and pampered by a caring Thai staff The India Study and Healing Trip, like all our trips, is based on all under the physician’s direction. This trip was such a success that the same premises. We keep the same Qigong focus, with morning I will be leading another in the spring. classes to set the flow and continuity, but because we are in India, we honor the traditional Ayurvedic medicine practice as our treatment We limit each of these trips in size so that everyone can receive a modality. Many people would be surprised to realize that Chinese high level of personal attention. Healing is a personal experience Qigong was heavily influenced in ancient times by yogis from India. and it requires a caring and loving environment to facilitate the right Last year was the first group trip I led to India after visiting there energy. After a dozen years of learning and observing, I am grateful alone to do my research. Meeting with gifted Ayurvedic doctors, to have the opportunity to facilitate these group study and healing Shivani and Mahesh, I knew that that I had to make their northern trips that take the courageous on a life-changing and life-enhancing city of Dharamsala, India one of our healing destinations. journey. We can in fact learn to connect with our future, and to dream the changes it takes to create one that is joyful, abundant, and For anyone who had the chance to meet wife and husband Dr. Shivani vibrantly healthy. and Dr. Mahesh when we sponsored them to visit Kaua`i you know that they carry the ancient healing knowledge of Ayurveda deep in For more information on these healing adventures that help support an orphanage in China and our youth and their hearts. Many people in Hawai`i got to experience their healing family non-profit programs in Hawai`i, email Daisy at [email protected]… or visit www.kahunavalley.org. Qigong information is available at www.wujiproductions.com sessions at our Kahuna Valley Retreat or attended the Women’s Health and Empowerment workshop with Dr. Shivani at the Inspiration Kaua`i Wellness Expo that Char Ravelo organized so well.

Ayurveda divides personality, lifestyle, body and spirit types into three main categories called “doshas.” Everyone has some percentage of one or all doshas. Based on your unique doshic tendencies, you receive a treatment that corresponds to bringing you into “tridoshic” balance. On our group trip to India, every participant receives a personal diagnosis from Dr. Shivani and then she outlines a two- week treatment protocol that includes the amazing array of offerings known as Panchakarma. Each daily treatment lasts nearly three hours and ranges from a warm, herbal oil massage, to a powerful pressure point release that opens and frees emotions in the most amazing ways. Dharamsala is the home of the Dalai Lama and many Tibetan monks, so we include trips to the Dalai Lama’s temple and

www.inspirationjournal.com 13 Lomilomi Maoli (True Lomilomi)

Body oki – pulling and releasing tension through the piko (umbilicus)

by Mimi George, L.M.T., PhD with the Hawaii Lomilomi Association Board of Directors There are many traditions within envy, pride, anger and other toxic But, lomilomi was not just for strokes of the forearm, elbows, lomilomi, and as many styles as feelings that hinder the flow of royals. Normally a child was and/or hot stones. But these there are practitioners. Lomilomi healing power from the Creator. chosen and trained at home from physical techniques alone do Tpractices include care given to When there is lokahi the healing a young age to become the kanaka not make one a practitioner of a mother before and after birth, power of the Creator will flow. It lomilomi for their own family. what Hawaiian culture regards as use of healing herbs, “stepping” is the right attitude in the heart lomilomi. or walking on the body, use of ha of the practitioner and the use Modern Revival (breath), hot stones and shells, of pule that are the sources of Auntie Margaret Machado was A Praying Work with Loving seawater and herbal formulas to lomilomi. the first Hawaiian person to get Hands cleanse the colon, set bones, and a state massage license, and, so The sources of true lomilomi are much more. pule (prayer), aloha (compassion), Oli “I Ke Kahi I Ke Kahi = an ancient chant for Unity - to gather and striving to be pono (right), Native Hawaiian kupuna energy for the mind, heart, body and spirit to become one which are basic tenets of Hawaiian (knowledgeable elders) and kumu (anonymous composer) culture. To pule, to be pono, lomilomi (teachers /sources of E ho’o kahi kahi mana’o (let us be of one mind) to show aloha to others, is to lomilomi) agree that all types of practice lomilomi and to embody lomilomi must include certain E ho’o kahi pu’u wai (let us be of one heart) that which is Hawaiian as well as spiritual commitments and E ho’o kahi malama pono (let us care for what is right) the basic principals common to values, such as unity and balance, E ho’o kahi aloha mau (being one with the Creator ever more) all healing. love and compassion, and righteousness. These are essential Ancient Source far as we know, the first to teach Auntie Margaret, for what the Kupuna Advisory Lomilomi probably came to lomilomi to anyone who wanted for example, Board of the Hawaiian Lomilomi Hawai`i with the first Polynesians to learn regardless of cultural taught her Association regard as Lomilomi 1,500 years ago, and the origins background and family origin. students to pule, Maoli – true lomilomi. of lomilomi could well be with From the late 1960s until1996, to aloha kou migrants to the western and Auntie Margaret led thousands of kino (love the Lokahi central Pacific 3,500 years clients in ten-day cleanses, often body), and to do Lomilomi is a Polynesian health ago. In 1778 Captain Cook referred to as the “seawater” or ho`oponopono every day before discipline that unites spirit, heart felt restorative effects from the “Hawaiian” colon-cleanse. From sunset. Ho`oponopono is ‘making and body. This unity invites vigorous “romiromi” treatments the1970s through 1990s she things right’ by releasing toxic healing from Ke Akua (the Creator, given to him by Hawaiians. taught thousands of students in feelings that prevent happiness God, a higher power). Lomilomi classes about Hawaiian medicinal and health. When one is pono practitioners (kanaka lomilomi) The more specific descriptions plants, and beginning and one may sleep well and achieve and students strive for a state of lomilomi in Hawai`i, written advanced lomilomi massage. balance between oneself, nature of lokahi (unity and balance) in in the 1800s to mid-1900s, and one’s Creator. Thus lomilomi themselves, and apply what they tell of people who took care of In recent years lomilomi, or is a way of life, not techniques. know about nature. Ke Akua intestinal health. These kanaka “Hawaiian massage,” has been does the healing. lomilomi examined the waste of featured on the menus of hotel True kumu lomilomi lead their Hawaiian royalty, and massaged spas and expensive resorts world- students by example, being To achieve lokahi, kanaka and otherwise treated their opu wide, and in the advertisements respectful and compassionate lomilomi use the methods of ( intestinal tract from mouth to of massage schools and to their students and clients, pule (prayer) and a commitment anus). Hawaiians know that the workshops. Untold thousands and saying pule for their benefit to pono (righteousness). Lokahi health of the opu reflects the of practitioners offer their clients before every event, meal or occurs in the absence of fear, spiritual condition of a person. “lomilomi.” Specifically the treatment, and by striving to be techniques promised are long pono themselves at all times. 14 inspiration journal Kumu lomilomi also teach their laughter and sometimes tears, balance, bent back. In this way students practices and routines flowed in the steam house, on the both the client and the therapist that involve the use of breath porch, in the kitchen and along are protected from injury and work, body weight and balance, a the beach at Auntie’s. In this way the therapist has tremendous rhythmic sequences of three, five, students learned to better feel and sensitivity as well as strength in and other odd numbers. Forearms, trust and care for their instrument their touch. elbows, medicinal herbs, stones of spiritual health – their na`au. or shells, and a rich repertoire of Pono and Aloha moves and practices, including No matter where or how lomilomi True kanaka lomilomi, including cleansing methods, hydrotherapy, is practiced or taught, the spiritual kumu lomilomi, are lifetime and meditation while watching the and ’heart’ learning of lomilomi learners and do not brag about Body sea and the clouds, are employed. is not optional. It is essential. what they know or can do. They These teachings are based on a Students who come to lomilomi do not call themselves healers deep knowledge of the human classes are often in a state of because they know that the body and spirit, and faith that, personal transition. A teacher healing comes from a greater as Auntie Margaret says, “If you of true lomilomi welcomes them power. Neither do they charge open your heart to your client, to a safe and healthy place, and more than is pono for their work, their spirit will reach out to yours, teaches them spiritual, mental and or judge the people who come for and Gods love and healing will physical tools to help themselves lomilomi. Aloha, humility and flow through you both.” as they learn how to help others. respect for the human body and spirit are essential to lomilomi. Learning Lomilomi Students who really want to learn Uncle Donald Kaiahua only So how does one learn lomilomi? lomilomi will do apprenticeship. accepts a hot drink because it is Some are born into it. Others To apprentice is to give hundreds affordable for his lomilomi clients. take formal classes and do of treatments under direct He also goes to the client’s home apprenticeships. But to learn supervision of the kumu until to give lomilomi, so that the client lokahi one must learn about that same kumu approves of the may rest after the treatment rather Light, continuous strokes by both hands and care for for the na`au - the student becoming an independent than have to immediately become clockwise to gently move contents of large intestine along its path, especially center of one’s feelings located practitioner. Beware of “workshop alert enough to rush off into traffic. through the flexures, and to help in the lower gut. Hawaiians do kumu.” A week or two workshop This exemplifies Aloha. correct any tendency to prolapsus in the not trust or value learning with or class does not qualify one transverse colon. the mind to the exclusion of the to practice, much less teach, Lomi-Opu Procedures na`au. Talk, ideas and intellectual lomilomi. Lomilomi of the opu (intestinal information can be deceiving, but tract and organs) epitomizes what one feels in the na`au never Sensitivity, Balance and Strength what lomilomi is and how it is lies. The na`au is tempered true Softness and sensitivity of one’s done. Rarely is “lomi-opu” done by commitment to a life of service hands, arms or feet are always in spas because it can take too and ho`oponopono…thus it is present when one performs much time. Stressed clients often tuned to more than just passing lomilomi massage. Sharp pain have difficulties in their opu, and whims. is strictly avoided. Lomilomi intimate feelings naturally come practitioners respect a fine line up when the opu is being lomied. This is why Auntie Margaret between therapeutic touch that It takes good training and lokahi taught her introductory lomilomi releases tension and pain, and on the part of the practitioner class with students living for a one touch that unnecessarily triggers to do lomi-opu. Lomi-opu can month at her beach house. It was guarding and causes re-injury. help with intestinal and organ an immersion class for the na`au. Having this sensitivity is especially difficulties, retroverted uterus or The students lived as extended important when using stones, stomach, and pain in the back, family (`ohana). They used the shells or other hard objects in hips, shoulders, neck and legs. sturdy wooden tables that sat treatments. Auntie Margaret, for outdoors on the rustic porch to example, worked very deeply or Hawaiian Lomilomi Association hapai opu - Pulling from sides to sleep on, massage on, and eat on. very lightly according to need. The Hawaiian Lomilomi Association (H.L.A.) does not centerline ventrally They chopped firewood, hauled She was also very clear that, “No claim to be the one and only authority on lomilomi. Its purpose is to maintain educational opportunities water, and washed their clothes matter how deeply you work your for kupuna and kumu to ‘aha (gather together), and themselves in brackish water hands must always be soft and which they have done every year since 1999, and in buckets and outdoor showers. relaxed.” to share their wisdom (mana’o) with members of When irritations and problems the association. The annual Aha Lomilomi features arose between them they did Kumu lomilomi teach their kupuna participation, presenters from various types of ho`ponopono. After doing class students to move their own lomilomi, hands-on sharing between members, youth, work from 8 AM to 5 PM the bodies in balance, so that the and culturally important activities. Information students did hydro-therapy by power and sensitivity of their about how to join the H.L.A and a directory of H.L.A. members, kupuna, and their contact information is alternating between the steam touch originates in their na`au. posted on the H.L.A. website www.lomilomi.org bath and the tide pools out front, When one is stroking a client with gentle but deep compression along psoas – both sides and by drinking a small amount hands or arms the stroke comes Mimi George can be reached at of the same seawater formula used directly from the na`au, and not [email protected]. in the ten-day cleanses. Aloha, from the arm, shoulders, or an off www.inspirationjournal.com 15 THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF INTENSITY by Leighson Tanaka Growing up in Hawai`i I was quite active. I participated in soccer for most of my younger days until the ninth grade when I began wrestling. Wrestling was such a PranaYama – The Study of Breath change from soccer. I began to train off season. I had done some weight training previously but never for a Part one specific sport. Breath, that invisible yet tangible quality that Body So what did I do? I did what any ninth grader would do, from the physical standpoint ushers in oxygen is pick up a bodybuilding magazine and follow the generic also the vehicle that relieves the body of carbon workout plan. I was diligent and disciplined. Day in and dioxide. It is perhaps one of the most powerful day out, I would follow the basic bodybuilding routine: forces behind a human body’s existence. One can go without food Monday - chest and tri’s, Tuesday - back and bi’s, Wednesday - shoulders … you get the picture. Did it for a specific period of time, and one can go without water even for work? Did it help my wrestling abilities? Was it the right even less but going without breath brings immediate implications. program for me? At the time, I would have said yes. In fact, all through college and most of my adult life, I would have thought Indigenous groups in just about every quadrant of our world have that I was doing the right program. Nothing against bodybuilding, but for understood the vital connection between this physical expression me, it didn’t help my performance in sport or profession. called breath and it’s metaphysical counterpart, the life force that animates and connects each of the living beings on the planet. Entering the weight room every day with the same routine became robotic. I was doing the same movements with no real challenge – maybe adding The ‘ha’ in the Hawaiian culture (Alo-ha) is a prime example. a few pounds to the bar. Then in 2005, I heard about a workout program There is nothing more sacred than to share the breath of life in called CrossFit. At first I thought “I don’t need that. I lift heavy and I acknowledging ones connection with another. The ‘ancients knew wrestle.” My co-worker convinced me to try one workout. So we looked up of the power of breath to heal and as an aid in transporting one CrossFit.com, found the Work Out of the Day (WOD) and tried it out. Let’s through other states of awareness. A modern day example centers just say all it called for was 20 minutes of a series of movements. I did not around, Dr. Stanislav Grof. Grof was one of the earlier pioneers finish. I was beat. I was out of gas. I was sold. I began going through the in LSD research. After his early studies with LSD and their website studying the prescribed WODs. A lot of the workouts called for a high output of power. So I would either have to do the prescribed work in subsequent ‘legal suppression’ he and his wife developed holotropic the least amount of time possible or do as many rounds of the prescribed breath work, which was able to achieve much the same altered movements in the time given. This was a true challenge, and every day the states of consciousness. workout posted was different. No more routines, taking my time and going through the motions. I had to bring a new element to the weight room. The amazing “combination of circumstances” that have established life to this planet and that have brought the gaseous element Previously, I concentrated on exercising my body. oxygen to our world have developed Gaia’s own set of manifest I focused on how my body looked, how strong my body was, and how it was developing. Now the lungs, which we know to be trees. focus is on my spirit. The inner strength that is tested in each and every workout. My character, In the practice and study of Yoga, hatha yoga in particular it is no enthusiasm, fears, anxiety, bravery, adrenaline, different. The yogis of old understood the importance of breath control, etc. As soon as I find out the prescribed and it’s relationship to the metaphysical. They practiced their work out of the day the anxiety begins, like a state asana to use the body as a vessel for the control or the extension championship match is about to go down. As I of breath. set up the equipment and warm up, my stomach feels like it’s upside down and uneasy. Once the workout starts, however, the anxiety goes away Prana can be defined as “that which is infinitely everywhere” while and the adrenaline kicks in. I want to go faster but I need to control my Yama is related to constraints or controls (Also coincidentally enthusiasm. The halfway mark hits and I begin to ask myself those familiar enough the Hindu god of Death) questions: Why am I doing this? Do I keep going? Should I slow down? I ignore the guards of my comfort zone and keep charging to the end. Then I And although we can feel the breath arise and flow in and out of our know accomplishment: I did it. I tested my spirit and made improvements. lungs, Prana in the yogic parlance has a closer connection to the CrossFit allows me to start from within and to see what kind of person energy state and enters the body with a shift of consciousness. We I truly am. I begin to understand my weaknesses and attack them. My can relate our states of consciousness often to how we are physically capabilities are clearer, which in turn develops my confidence. By focusing breathing. Our emotional state can change the quality, texture, on my spirit, my mind and discipline also begin to strengthen. And and duration of the breath. Breath constantly floats between the lastly, the side effect of strengthening and exercising my spirit is the conscious and the unconscious. So, as mentioned earlier, as the development of my body. Physically, I have never felt better. I feel healthy, physical power of breath invigorates as well as eliminates, Prana fit and powerful without much concern to how I look. How ushers in change and and can also relieve us of blocks and stories do I look? I think the real question is “How do I feel?” Sprit, mind, then body. that no longer served our highest sense of self.

Leighson Tanaka is a Honolulu Firefighter, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, CrossFit In Part II of Pranayama the Study of Breath we will bring Level 1 Certified, USAW Olympic Weightlifting Club Coach Certified. Born and to you some simple techniques to help launch you on your own raised in Hawaii and enjoys helping the community through firefighting and fitness. conscious exploration of breath and it’s benefits on your yogic Leighson can be reached at [email protected]. practice and life. 16 inspiration journal Visit Paul at www.unlimited-ideas.com. There is life in the mundane tasks and accomplishments on earth, Or there is life lived aligned with the Divine. The former brings successes, challenges, loss or victories, Awakening But none fills the inner emptiness relentlessly calling forth. It is only with deep surrender of the ego, Stepping forth into places and spaces of unknowing That Spirit is able to connect and guide us on. Often, loss, grief, illness or tragedy is necessary To shake us from life lived in earthly striving. Spirit But when one stops and listens deeply within, The voice of God, Holy Spirit, Shekinah, and the Self is heard. Some awakened feeling, some seeing, and some knowing This inner Presence of the Divine. Life is never the same once the connection is secured. The blessing, the inner light, the ‘blanket’ of love That surrounds and infills Realigns one’s heart and soul. It is in the mystical knowing that God in me and me in God are One.

It is time for us earthlings to realign our within, learning to find peace on inner planes before going out into the consciousness from primary focus upon the market or workplace. We must take time for our emotional needs and physical and mental planes of life. We are in a unconscious wounds to surface so that they can be healed. This means space and place where this outward focus has accepting tears as ‘normal’ when someone feels uncomfortable or needs taken us to a raped earth and monetary collapse to release inner hurt whether accumulated in childhood or adult life. resulting in illnesses, job losses and financial We need to stop seeing those who seek counseling, spiritual solutions or disasters that shake the foundations of personal, stress reduction as weak, but rather as the strong following their inner familial, environmental and governmental structure and life. Individuals call for restoring balance and harmony in their lives. and families wonder how they will manage with finances unstable or depleted and the old dependable structures such as health insurance, We need to find ways to restore the spiritual in daily life whether in pensions and other expected safety nets no longer guaranteed. The old home altars and meditation, being in nature, or active participation in ways of managing such as working harder, longer, smarter may no longer churches, synagogues, shrines, ashrams or temples. Individuals who achieve the desired goals. awaken a sense of wonder and calm go forth into their lives with an inner connection that helps them deal with problems and stressors in So how does one cope when the old ways of doing are no longer working? innovative and creative ways. Parents returning at the end of the day We are in the midst of a realignment individually and in our families and who find a way to reset the harmony of the household, whether holding governmental systems that must rapidly change to meet the challenges hands with their children in prayer or taking a few minutes of alone time facing our planet. On a physical level, we can each stop unnecessary to release their stress, bring harmony and peace to their households. No consumption. We can purify our homes and diets by planting gardens matter our individual or familial circumstances, it’s time for each of us to and using ‘green’ cleaning supplies. We can stop purchasing unneeded find the inward pathway home to peace. goods, processed and unhealthy foods, and use our own cloth bags for necessary purchases. We can readjust financial expectations and goals Peace based upon ‘real’ needs rather than the ‘bigger is better’ framework that There is a place and space of light and peace has permeated Western culture for quite some time. That unfolds when one walks the sacred path. At first it is subtle and soft, These physical and mental changes are essential as we face a national debt previously unfathomed. But, it is the emotional and spiritual levels And may be unnoticed when unstill. that require the most change for inner peace, safety and security. We Peace surrounds and enters every cell and space have lived for much of the previous century in a culture that honored Within those seekers of light masculine, active, doing, achieving and attacking values—a la the Who chant the mantra or name of God. war on drugs, on cancer, and upon other people and countries. But A community of light then permeates the earth. post the previous world wars, the continued battles have had untold This loving and light helps hold the earth intact. consequences upon individuals and families to the point that now the This loving and light helps transform souls. minds of many of our children and young adults are trained in war on But proselytizing is not the methodology. a daily basis via computer games, while we continue to send our troops Being still, chanting, praying, back repeatedly to far away battles where the stressors encountered have Basking in radiance is. obvious and yet to be dealt-with consequences. On the domestic front, Be still. job and home loss strain programs and facilities ill-equipped to cope And know with the staggering numbers of families and individuals needing food That I am. and shelter. Ruey Ryburn, DrPH, RH, AHN-BC is the founder of Sacred Path Healing School. She is professor emeritus from Many solutions to these and numerous other problems are merely ‘fingers the School of Nursing, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the author of Poems from the Path (with photography in the dike’ rather than the paradigm change required. The emotional by Kauakea Winston). Her web site is www.sacredpathhealing.com. and spiritual planes must be allowed equal value and function if earth’s people are to survive the crisis ahead. This means we must stop and go www.inspirationjournal.com 17 Stress to Success…in Just 31 Days! Interview with Dr. John F. Demartini by Tina Quizon Of course you know that stress impacts your life – everyone knows that. But what if you could turn that stress into success? What Okind of life could you then lead? MindDr. Demartini says the first step to achieving a more successful and fulfilling life is to alleviate stress. The following list comprises the 31 secrets that are you steps to success.

You may be wondering, why they are called “secrets”? Even though some people have heard many of these statements before, few seem to take them to heart of live by them. Their wisdom is simple yet profound, and they’re the secrets of the individuals who live more self-actualized lives. Those who implement these secrets daily enjoy empowering inspiration.

Tina with Dr. Demartini Stress-to-Success Secrets On a daily basis: Let’s examine the first secret, Write and Read Your Goals, and 1. Write and read your goals. expand upon it. 2. Clear away your goals’ obstacles. 3. Prioritize your activities. Each of us, way deep inside, has goals. Some of these may be long- 4. Act on top priorities. term or even lifetime ones, and other dreams or desires are simply 5. Visualize your success. for more immediate gratification. 6. Write and read your affirmations. The following are a list of practical action steps to help you develop 7. Practice deep breathing and stretching. your goals. 8. Do selective and collective reading. 9. Groom for success. - Each morning before you rise from your bed, meditate on 10. Dress for success. your innermost dreams or goals. 11. Love what you do and do what you love. 12. Surround yourself with “succeeders.” - Ask for guidance from the highest and most inspired part of yourself. 13. Drink lots of water. 14. Eat light, moderate meals. - Keep a notepad next to your bed and write down whatever 15. Reduce the four “addictors.” goals become revealed. If no specific lifetime goal is 16. Contract and then relax all muscles. revealed but short-term ones are, that’s great! At least 17. Help others fulfill their goals. you’ve made a step on your ladder – and like the game of 18. Save 5 to 10 percent of your earnings. Concentration, the short-term goals will eventually reveal a solution to the puzzle. 19. Write three thank-you letters. 20. Reward yourself for your accomplishments. After completing this process, read and say out loud, the following 21. Express feelings of love. affirmation: 22. Hug someone special. 23. Clean and organize your environment. “My goals are clear. They are written from my heart. I can see my 24. Eliminate low-priority “unnecessities.” light upon the horizon.” 25. Study the subject you’d love to master. Then write your own affirmation in your journal or on a separate 26. Spend time in total meditative silence. piece of paper. 27. Massage your body or scalp. 28. Take a hot bath before retiring. Dr. John Demartini is a human behavioral specialist, educator, 29. Count your blessings with gratitude. internationally published author and a sought after authority on 30. Get a good night’s rest. maximizing human awareness & potential.

31. Follow a stress-to-success checklist. For more information regarding Dr John Demartini, his live events and products contact the Demartini Institute: [email protected] or visit www.drdemartini.com

18 inspiration journal Meet Teddi McEwen - Mother of three, nutrition consultant, yoga instructor

…and cancer survivor.Spirit

Teddi’s story is an inspiration to us all and to those who are seeking alternative treatments to the invasive traditional methods of dealing with cancer. Below is an excerpt from an interview with AlohaParent.com. Pregnant and diagnosed with cancer, Teddi shares with us her amazing story of faith, positive attitude and belief.

How long ago were diagnosed with cancer? In early 2002, my annual exam with my OB/Gyn in California revealed What I did realize is that you always have choices, so don’t let your doctors dysplasic cells. I thought at first that it was probably a mistake, so I had a pressure you into do anything you don’t want. Get those second and third Hsecond test performed at a different clinic; however, that result was the same. opinions and find others who have similar conditions and see what alternate A few months later, my OB/Gyn pressured me to take action by having a methods they used to resolve them. biopsy done and/or having the dysplasic cells cut out. I declined due to the risk of infection and the possibility of spreading Besides yoga, what other method(s) cells, if they were cancerous. Towards the did you use to overcome your ordeal? end of 2002, I became pregnant, so the A good friend of ours, Dr. Howard pressure of the biopsy ordeal ended, due Cohn, D.C. in Newport Beach, CA to risk of losing the fetus. It was at the end recommended that I take a specific of 2002, I finally got a third opinion at the multivitamin and some other supplements Long Beach Oncology Center, where the and Chinese herbs combined results revealed a diagnosis of Carcinoma together. These products are part of the in Situ Stage 3 or HSIL – High grade Symmetry Direct product line, which Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion. has been around since 1995. The vitamins and herbs were very high quality and definitely kept my condition from What were your first thoughts? worsening. I didn’t take “ownership” of the disease, such as “I have cancer….,” I just kind of After giving birth to Kiana in July 2003, in my mind said, “My body is healing” my first routine pap smear came out and I felt good most days. I really just tried to have a positive attitude. When clean, along with a negative test for HPV. Still slowing my lifestyle down, I I saw “The Secret” it answered many questions I’ve had about events that also integrated yoga into my life a year after Kiana was born. My OB/Gyn in occurred in my life. In my teens and 20s, I was such an extremist (yoga was California knows me as the “Miracle Patient.” Today, I feel that incorporating too slow for me at that time). I grew up in Los Angeles and lived a life of a good nutrition and yoga has helped my body stay clear of that vulnerable state. computer technician working for corporate America, burning the candle at I am always recommending to people that they eat higher quality foods and take both ends as a weekend warrior, and I loved extreme sports like snowboarding, supplements and manage stress. mountain biking, skydiving, etc… So being in my early 30s, maybe, possibly, I had attracted this “disease” into my life to force me to slow down. As I’ve moved deeper into my yoga practice and look back on all of this, I have really learned to let go of excessive emotional baggage that my body was holding on to. For example: If I have an argument with my husband, I’ve Tell us what you can about the experience. learned to let it go within a moment because to me it’s not about being right or The diagnosis is defined as pre-cancerous cells with 3 being the worst degree, wrong, it’s about being in the moment. We don’t know how long we are going which if left untreated can lead to cancer. Western medicine style is to cut it out, to be here, so let’s create something positive in each moment. and then hope it doesn’t grow back, which may work well for some. Eastern medicine style is to get to the source, bolster your immunity to eliminate the To read the rest of Teddi’s amazing story, go to AlohaParent.com. virus. Eastern style is also to focus on daily rituals to prevent disease from occurring in the first place. They cleanse their bodies and minds with the Contact Info: seasons. This is the aspect of yoga that my body and soul gravitated towards, Teddi McEwen 351-4584: http://www.myspace.com/teddig the constant ritual about finding inner peace, looking inward, being present in Symmetry Direct Product Info at http://www.symmetrydirect.com/directhealth the moment and not thinking about the past or the future, finding the balance, the yin and yang. www.inspirationjournal.com 19 award-winning chef and ice carver in New When I moved York City. I love the creative expression that QUESTION MARK to Kaua`i and comes when working with food, especially started working at during the alchemy of recipe creation.

- ASK THE NATURAL CHEF my sister’s vegan It’s a meditative ‘food as art’ process that Chef Mark Reinfeld Author, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine, restaurant, I realized connects me to the garden and the rhythms The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw for the first time that of the earth. Working with vegan cuisine is and the upcoming The 30-Minute Vegan vegan food could particularly fulfilling because I know I am The 30-Minute Vegan be just as satisfying introducing people to food that is good for - Our interview with Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray Body as anything else out their health and our planet. Can you tell us there. It has been what a vegan five years and it is only getting easier to live J: I moved to Kaua`i, originally for two is? What is this lifestyle. months, to help my sister with her new baby. the difference Her husband asked if I could “help out” at between a M: I became vegetarian while working on a the restaurant. I thought he needed office vegetarian diet kibbutz in Israel in 1990. I was spending time help. I was quite astonished to find out they and a vegan diet? alone in nature, going for long walks through expected me to make food. Up to that point, J: A vegetarian diet does not include meat, the beautiful Jezreel Valley, encountering I rarely made anything for myself. Living in chicken or fish. A vegan takes a vegetarian many a cow and goat. I began to feel that San Francisco, I was constantly surrounded diet a step further and eliminates all animal I wanted to relate to animals in a different by amazingly yummy food, so why cook? products and byproducts such as dairy and way - instead of eating them. Later, I started When I did cook, it was always a huge creative eggs. Because of this, it’s often referred to as phasing out dairy and eggs, mainly because project, which left me with the feeling that a ‘plant-based’ diet. Vegans also eliminate I felt healthier and had more energy when cooking was hard, time-consuming and not animal products like fur and leather from I avoided them. Gradually I started learning always rewarding. their lifestyle. about the practices of the meat and dairy industries and this strengthened my resolve But I showed up anyway to help out my It seems like veganism is increasing in over time. Now it just makes sense to me on family. I was hoping they would hand me a popularity. Do you find this to be true? so many levels. vegetable peeler and stick me in front of a M: Definitely. We have witnessed a pile of carrots. Mark spent a couple of weeks remarkable increase in awareness over the We hear a lot these days about global teaching me how to make soups and sauces. last several years. In addition to students, warming, food shortages, water shortages I felt so empowered once I got the hang of younger children and baby boomers, many and rainforest destruction. Many people, those two things, I branched out and within celebrities, sports figures, models and those including environmentalists, don’t realize weeks was making chef specials. It turns in the medical profession now extol the that including more vegan foods in our diet out that making food is one of my favorite benefits of a vegan diet. It’s being prescribed is one of the most effective steps we can take outlets for creative expression. And it makes with greater frequency as a cure for diabetes to protect our environment and conserve the people so happy. and heart disease. A recent CNN report earth’s resources. A recent UN report called highlighted the rise of veganism. Even Oprah Livestock’s Long Shadow revealed that 18 Can you tell us about the inspiration went on a 21 day vegan cleanse, sharing her percent of all greenhouse emissions come behind 30-Minute Vegan? experiences with millions of viewers through from the livestock industry. That’s more M: Our wish is to show people how easy it a daily blog, where she declared she never than the entire world automobile industry is to create incredible vegan cuisine. To help knew vegan food could be so satisfying. It’s combined! people overcome their intimidation in the becoming more widely accepted that a plant kitchen. One thing we like to say is “if you based diet is a delicious way to improve our As far as the health aspect, we know that can eat, you can cook.” Everyone knows the health and protect the environment. many cases of childhood obesity, diabetes, flavors of foods they like. With time it’s easy heart disease and a host of other diet related to learn how to create these flavors yourself. How long have you been vegan and why? diseases can be prevented and often times We like the challenge of developing recipes Are there any significant events that reversed with plant based foods. Think of that are diverse and flavorful, and yet could helped you make the decision? how much suffering would be alleviated all be completed in 30 minutes or less. J: As a child I was quite surprised to learn that and how much we would save as a society It’s actually how we prefer to eat at home, meat came from animals. It hurt my young in medical costs if we were able to reduce or whipping up simple and delicious meals. feelings in a big way and I felt guilty for being eliminate these conditions. a part of it. Instinctinvely, I knew there had ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Reinfeld is the founding chef of the Blossoming When did you become interested in Lotus Restaurant, voted Best Restaurant on Kaua’i, and a recipient of a to be some sort of alternative. I remember 2006 Platinum Carrot Award given by the Aspen Center of Integral Health the first time I heard the word vegetarian. preparing food? to ‘America’s Top Healthy Gourmet Chefs.’ He is a recognized authority in Though I was young, I instantly knew I was M: I have enjoyed cooking since I was a the field of healthy cuisine. Mark is the coauthor of Vegan Fusion World a vegetarian. I asked my parents about the child, when I would prepare meals for Cuisine, winner of 9 national awards. His latest book, The Complete Idiot’s word but they weren’t feeling supportive of my family. It has always been a soothing Guide to Eating Raw coauthored with Jennifer Murray and Bo Rinaldi is experience for me. I learned a lot from my available through booksellers everywhere. having a radical child at the time. Now they Please visit www.veganfusion.com for more information. are quite used to it. grandfather, Benjamin Bimstein, who was an 20 inspiration journal Here is one of our favorites! Chocolate Sesame Bon Bons As much a conversation piece as they are a unique dessert creation, Variations these bon bons are a lovely alternative to baked goods. The uncommon • Use any combination of sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, poppy combination of flavors is the stuff memories are made of. Try bringing seeds, and hemp seeds for the 2 cups of sesame seeds called for these to parties or giving them away as a gift. here. • Substitute pumpkin seeds for the sunflower seeds or use a 24 bon bons combination. 2 cups sesame seeds • Toasting the shredded coconut adds another layer of flavor, ½ cup sunflower seeds although if you do this, they will no longer be live bon bons.Body You 1 ¾ cups shredded coconut could also toast the sesame seeds or bake the bon bons for 10 ½ cup agave nectar minutes at 350°F. ¼ cup raw almond butter • Flavorful coconut butter substitutes are tahini, almond butter, ¼ cup coconut butter peanut butter or 2 tablespoons of coconut oil. ¼ cup raw cacao powder • For a plain vanilla version, omit the cacao powder. 1 tablespoon vanilla extract • For a chocolate and vanilla combo, cut the finished vanilla batter ½ teaspoon cinnamon in half and add 2 tablespoons raw cacao powder to one half. ¼ teaspoon sea salt • If using cocoa powder in place of the raw cacao powder, use only 3 tablespoons. 1. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and shredded coconut. Tips and Tricks You don’t need to use a small ice cream scooper or mini cupcake 2. In a smaller mixing bowl, add agave nectar, almond butter, wrappers as suggested in the recipe. You can use your hands to roll a coconut butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon and salt, and mix well. spoonful of batter into a ball and then flatten the bottom slightly as Add this mixture to the sesame seed mixture, and stir until well you lay it on a parchment lined plate or tray to chill. The wrappers do combined. make a fancy presentation though and the scooper makes quick work of the project. 3. Using a small scooper or spoon, distribute the batter into approximately 24 mini cupcake wrappers. Refrigerate for 30 This recipe is from the new book The 30-Minute Vegan. Excerpted minutes before appreciating the glory of it all. by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong (www.dacapopress.com), a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2009.

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