EDITION 4 2013

Honour ing the The Shazzie SEEDwith Jim Pathfinder

DetoxLet´s radiate love and live a life of laughter SARAH ROZENTHULER THE Share the LOVE, double the pleasure QUICKENING Horoscopes with Zoe Give THANKS MEDITATION Ian Tucker The Balancing Act Jack Kornfield

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Healium is a registered trademark published monthly by Mind Body Spirit Ltd. All rights are reserved and nothing in this magazine may be reproduced without prior permission from the publisher. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the editors or publishers The Pleasure of DETOX To get you in tip-top shape for the rest of 2013 (the year of lurve), I’ve put together a simple seven day beauty-full detox plan.

See Shazzie at The Mind Body Spirit Festival. Saturday 25 May. Book Online at www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk Shazzie is a TV Presenter, hosting the show Raw Kitchen on Sky. She is the author of five books (including Detox Your World and Naked Chocolate) and the writer of several apps. She has created several online courses ranging from self-empowerment to raw food and is also the hostess of her online heart-led self-mastery club. Shazzie’s deepest wish is to help empower people to take responsibility for their own health and lives. www.shazzie.com Let’s Get Started Before you go to bed, squeeze the juice of a lemon into half a litre of water. Add a touch of MSM if you have it. This is your fruity water and you should drink this whenever you would normally reach for plain water.

Wakey Wakey Time! Watch a comedy video (laughter is body can detox more readily. Drink the lemon-water that you so detoxing!!) Make soups from the following made the night before in bed if ingredients, or other similar possible. Go rollerskating, skateboarding or ingredients that are available to When you get up, look in the mirror some other activity that you love you: and say out loud at the person and makes you smile staring back “I love you”. Don’t “Potato soup”: Blend parsnips, cringe at this point! If you can’t say Make sweet lurve dates, a few cashews, carrot juice. you love yourself, there’s no way you’re loving anyone else. Do it… Beauty Detox Snacks Gloop soup: Blend dark green On this plan, you won’t be having leafys with a quarter of an avocado Beauty Breakfast nuts as part of your snacks, so we’ll and celery juice. Add algae or Before breakfast, mix a teaspoon of get a bit creative with foods to superfood to taste. psyllium husk in 8 oz of water, and keep you interested and satisfied. drink. Then drink another glass of When you’re hungry or have the Classic tomato soup: Blend water on its own. Psyllium expedites munchies, fill up on your faves from tomatoes with garlic, basil, a few the elimination of waste and toxins. this list, or similar foods. olives and some orange juice. Your breakfast can be any raw plant foods except for those containing Celery with raisins Cucumber and tahini: Juice a high amounts of fat such as olives Apple with cucumber cucumber and blend with a small or avocados. Examples of great Grapes with dandelion amount of tahini and lots of fresh beauty detox breakfasts are: Any sweet fruit with any green leafy mint. foods (strawberries with lettuce or Half a watermelon, with a green plums with savoy cabbage). Carrot top soup: Juice carrots, superfood spread on top of it. add some pulp, and blend with Detox Drinks a few pumpkin seeds, and lots of A smoothie made from maca, You know that when you’re coriander. young coconut water and its jelly, detoxing, you need to drink lots. some Pure Synergy and some Enjoy your fruity water, herbal teas, Sunflower power soup: Blend red vitamin C, with some small dashes and coconut water. peppers with a small amount of of flax/hemp/coconut oil. Detox Lunch sunflower seeds, carrot juice, onion and chives. Fresh Aloe Vera juice blended with Lunch is light and liquidy on the oranges, kiwis, strawberries and/or beauty detox plan. Juice any of the In a hurry curry soup: Blend raspberries. Aloe helps soothe the following, in whatever quantities garam masala and turmeric digestive system and assists the self- you want. with cauliflower, broccoli, carrot cleansing action of your body. juice and add some diced veg Carrots and beetroot (both great (courgette, aubergine, onion, The water and jelly of a fresh young blood and liver detoxers) garlic, corn, peppers, okra etc) coconut blended with two bananas which have been soaking in lemon and two heaped teaspoons of raw juice and a small amount of olive Kale, savoy cabbage or other dark chocolate powder. oil. hard leafy green Spinach, lamb’s quarters, nettle, Serve the soups with nori slices, a Detox Helpers dandelion or other soft dark leafy If you’ve read my book Detox Your flax cracker or two, some seed- World, you’ll already know how green sprouts, or with a small green salad. much I love detox helpers. This is Apple, tomato, red pepper or other Experiment with adding herbs and where “It’s hard work” goes out of sweeteners spices to make them taste familiar the window. Each day, make time Ginger, garlic, chili or other hot and good to you. for one of the following. purger Cucumber, celery or other With raw food on the telly now, let’s Massage (especially lymph volumiser make 2013 the biggest year so far of drainage) raw food being mainstream. Let’s all be the most beautiful examples Reflexology Evening Detox Meal You’ll be eating soups for your of human beings that have ever Sauna (especially infra-red) evening meals. This means you get walked this earth. Let’s radiate love Meditation the full benefit of whole fruits and and live a life of laughter — those vegetables and they’ll be easy to two things alone will make us more Yoga digest. Remember that when you beautiful and more attractive to Sit by a tree (bring a blanket!) others in the world. spend less time on digesting, your Get your free raw food ebook here: Shazzie.com Donna Eden THE PIONEER OF ENERGY MEDICINE

“Even the most hard-nosed doctor will admit that some people have a healing presence that makes us and our immune systems better than before. Donna Eden is one of those rare healers”. Gloria Steinem

onna Eden started quotes that “The best thing that was numb, it felt like an energy developing Energy ever happened to me was that would connect in that area that DMedicine after being told modern medicine gave up on would take away the numbness. that she had less than a year to me.” At that time Donna had two Donna did this to all the areas of live and that there was nothing small daughters and was intent on my legs that were numb or painful her doctors could do to save raising them, so her bleak prognosis – and she was then able to walk a her. Her multiple sclerosis was caused her to look to her own few steps. And there started the progressing rapidly, as well as resources and find out how she now worldwide phenomenon of other organs breaking down. This could heal herself. Donna started simple effective techniques known had also caused a heart attack to notice that if she moved her as Energy Medicine. when Donna was 27. Donna hands over a part of her leg that Energy Medicine is based on the understanding that any physical, stamina and on the procedure Donna Eden will be visiting the UK mental, or behavioral problem being administered. Some of the for a 4 city tour this March. has a counterpart in the body’s techniques that a practitioner energies and can be treated might use include: lightly holding “An Introduction to Energy at that level. This extends from acupuncture points with his/her Medicine” treating cancer or multiple sclerosis fingertips, holding key points on to losing weight to increasing a patient’s head, moving his or in London (16th March), your vitality to improving your her hands in the field of energy Manchester (19th March) and performance at something that around a patient’s body in certain Birmingham (21st March). A ‘Hands really matters to you. And in ways, or having the patient follow On’ Energy Medicine Workshop the process, you become more simple breathing and movement will take place in Bristol on the consciously, intimately, and joyfully exercises. These and other 23/24th March. For further details involved in the deepest workings techniques are designed to restore and to book www.visionforliving. of your physical body, a journey energy flows to healthier patterns. co.uk. [email protected]. that extends down to your soul. No two sessions are exactly alike. 01446 796065. Patients can be treated while More information they are seated, standing, or Donna Eden Energy Medicine UK lying down depending on their Tour March 2013 – www.innersource.net

Here are 2 easy and effective Energy medicine exercises for you to try…. Tapping in the Joy made you laugh, or thinking an tap it in at your third eye. Tap with affirmation of gratitude for your the middle finger of either hand, You can literally tap joy into your body, your mind, your life, or between the eyebrows, above nervous system so it begins to another person is powerful Energy the bridge of your nose for 5 to 10 create a pattern of happiness in Medicine. It creates a pulse of seconds. This sends the positive your life. positive energy. This is one of the feeling into your energy field and first acupressure points on the nervous system. • Increases your joy bladder meridian, which helps govern the central nervous system. Instant Stress Diffuser - The Triple • Helps to imprint the good It is also known in yoga tradition as Warmer Smoothie moments in your life into your the ‘third eye.’ It is associated with nervous system intuition and psychic awareness. It is estimated that 90% of all Tapping on the ‘third eye’ point health problems are caused by • Shifts your mind to move toward while you feel joy, pulses that stress – the Triple Warmer meridian a positive state joyfulness throughout your entire energy pathway in our body can nervous system. It also trains your go into overdrive when faced by How it works: nervous system to be more joyful. stress – causing (amongst other Tapping at your ‘third’ eye The next time you are feeling things), weight gain, mood swings, while recalling happy moments, happy, or experiencing a wave of allergies, anxiety, foggy thinking remembering something that gratitude, awe, or appreciation, and PMS.

This is also a great technique to smoothing the skin while main- over the top of your shoulders, do if you can’t sleep and takes taining some pressure. and smooth them to the middle just 1 – 2 minutes 3. On the out-breath, slide of your chest, over your heart 1. Place your fingers on your fingers down and behind chakra, with one hand resting your temples. Hold for one deep your ears, press them down the on top of the other. This brings breath, breathing in through sides of your neck, and hang you home to yourself. your nose and out through your them on your shoulders. 5. Hold here for several mouth. 4. Push your fingers into 2. On another deep in- deep breaths. breath, slowly slide your fin- your shoulders and then, when 6. Repeat the sequence a gers up and around your ears, you are ready, firmly drag them couple of times

Donna Eden is a pioneer in the rapidly expanding field of Energy Medicine and more than eighty thousand people worldwide, both laypeople and professionals have attended her classes on how to work with their own energies for greater health and vitality. Her book, Energy Medicine, is the classic in its field, and is available in 18 languages. Since childhood, Donna has been able to see the flow of the body’s energies, and from this clairvoyant-like ability, she has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this gift, to work with their body’s energy 14 - Donna Eden_BSCH 19/12/2012 12:54 Page 1 14 - Donna Eden_BSCH 19/12/2012 12:54 Page 1

click here for programme DOUBLE YOUR JOY You receive some good news, such as landing your dream job, what do you do? Do you phone a friend, send a text, announce it on Facebook or hug yourself with happiness? Your sense of wellbeing can be amplified or diminished depending on what you do next. here’s an old saying that found that when a friend starting to feel drained. says a problem shared is took time to share in the other Ta problem halved and a person’s delight, that person As I reflected on our joy shared is a joy doubled. experienced significantly more conversation, I realized that Is this really true? Well, recent joy than those who received my colleague and I had been research suggests that it is. A a dismissive response or just an doing most of the listening while team of psychologists in the USA acknowledgement (such as a she did most of the talking. I found that when people talked smiley face emoticon J). noticed that she hadn’t asked about something positive that my colleague, whom she was had recently happened with There may be times when we meeting for the first time, or me a friend, rather than just wrote have to dig deep to celebrate a single question. She was so about it, they experienced a a friend or relative’s success. absorbed by her own concerns deeper sense of content. Each of our lives has its own that she didn’t have the psychic rhythm and another person space to show some curiosity Moreover, the beneficial effects may be flying high while about another person. of talking were sustainable over you’re dealing with divorce, time. People who had shared depression or redundancy. In To create a happy and healthy their positive news with a friend those moments, it can be a relationship, one small thing through talking about it rather real act of love to reach inside, we can do is to ask the other than writing about it reported lay aside a sense of envy and person how life is going for feeling happier and more find something to say that’s them right now. What’s going satisfied with their lives several genuinely positive. well? What’s challenging you? weeks later. In our fast-paced How are you feeling? When we lives, it is all too easy to just send It makes a real difference to show someone some heartfelt an email or type out a text, but the quality of our relationships interest and then take time to taking time to talk is beneficial. when we get out of self- listen, it makes them feel seen. It creates a sense of vibrancy absorption and are available And when we feel seen, we that we don’t experience if we to the other person. I recently shine. When we shine, we are confine the experience to our met with a business client who in our joy. Joy is the birthright own memory banks or twitter kindly invited my colleague of each human being so let us account. and me to lunch. I hadn’t seen find ways to bring that to each her for several months and was other, whether it’s through a There is, however, an exception keen to catch up on all her conversation, the sharing of to this rule. If a close relation or news. We found out about her some good news or a simple friend responds to our happy recent house move, change of smile. news with a flat response or a job and the latest adventures put-down, it can really take of her children. I noticed, Sarah Rozenthuler, the wind out of our sails. The however, that about an hour same team of psychologists into our time together, I was January 2013

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Sarah is a Chartered Psychologist and the author of Life-Changing Conversations (Duncan-Baird, 2012). She has led many Mind- Body-Spirit events, including facilitating retreats with best-selling author Neale Donald Walsch, which she double tracks with her day job as a leadership development consultant with over 15 years experience working with organizations such as the World Bank, BP and the BBC. Esoterics of the current Sign &Horoscopes

Zoe was introduced to Astrology by her mother at the age of 8 and has continued to learn and love this profound system ever since. Embracing the cultural beliefs and practices of druid ancestors, and combining this knowledge with a healthy interest in other ancient cultures along with the latest scientific theories, she brings the past and the future together to make sense of the present. Perspective, empowerment and releasing potential is the result. Zoe provides advice to private clients and consultancy to companies worldwide. She teaches regular classes, organizes events, runs workshops and writes articles for TV and magazines. About Aquarius The Sun passes from the Zodiac sign of Capricorn into Aquarius on 20 January. This time of year is called ‘The Quickening’. Snowdrops push through the cold ground showing the first signs of life. When the Fox knew it was no longer safe to cross the ice, no other animal would attempt it. Our ancestors could see that the thaw - and therefore Spring - was on its way. This is an energetic and hopeful time of year. The zig-zag symbol of Aquarius represents electricity and frequency - power through air. Imbolc - meaning Ewe’s milk - was the sacred festival that falls at the middle of Aquarius - 2-6 February. Dedicated to Bride (pronounced Breed) the triple goddess of Irish lore who was often depicted wearing white and with flame red hair. She is the Goddess of Healing and Creativity amongst other things. In her maiden aspect she also represents love and marriage. This is the reason that brides are called brides and, to this day, still wear white. Later Christians replaced the Goddess with a single white candle and celebrated Candle mass. The Rowan tree with its bright red berries is called Luis (meaning Flame) in the Ogham tree language and is the tree for this month. The Rowan tree is used for protection magik. Aligned to the constellations of Vulpeclar the Fox and Cygnus the Swan, these two animals are totem guides to the month of February with kenning and grace as their qualities. ‘I know’ is the phrase of Aquarius. Swans chose partners for life and at the time of mid February their mating ritual begins with a touching of beaks. This forms a heart shape and is the origin of Valentines day. Unconditional Love is the message of Aquarius through service to humanity and a call to return to cosmic order. Horoscopes...

Aries Libra Mars and Mercury travel together in Pisces all month. This is a time to comprehend and assimilate At times this will be intriguing, bringing dynamic ideas all that you have been learning lately. Pushing and quick change. With Mercury retrograde however, ahead is a struggle when we are forcing the there will be a forwards, backwards, forwards dance issue. One tiny step back to reassess will reveal a which will keep you on your toes. Stay flexible and simpler and easier path ahead. make the necessary adjustments as they arise. Taurus Scorpio Career can mean what we aspire to achieve in the A favourable line up of your power planets may world or to charge around out of control. At times have you feeling boosted and brimming with things seem to be stable and building on strong self worth. If not, this is the area to investigate. foundations, at others sudden events can throw a A fresh start beckons, happier and lighter if you spanner in the works. Yet it can be precisely these choose. unseen forces that lead us to greater opportunities Gemini Sagittarius With many planets moving through your house of Jupiter turns direct and your visionary capabilities higher mind, this month shows you where you can be are heightened. This month feels like a shamanic bigger. Expansion surrounds you. Horizons broaden journey into the depths to find re-empowerment and a new landscape stretches out before you. and reconnection with all that is old and true. Cancer Tend your inner flame. Each sign has its blind spot. Aquarius energy is Capricorn challenging for Cancerians, requiring discernment, Venus recently reminded you of what you love. detachment and focus. Unconditional love involves As she moves through Aquarius this month you letting go and trusting others to be themselves will begin to understand why. A misty landscape regardless of our own emotional needs. Connect soul blurs reality and softens the edges of life. Be to soul to allow the greatness of true relating. gentle and patient until the way ahead becomes Leo clearer. The Leo heart beats strongly in the Aquarian man. Aquarius As opposites there is a deep connection between these signs. Aquarius energy shows Leo folk how to Life returns to the earth as the snows melt and the be sovereign and master their radiant power. Rise first flowers of spring send out their shoots. Purity and shine. of heart is a powerful force. Let simple gratitude Virgo rejuvenate you from within. Celebrate being. Mercury retrogrades close to Mars in your Pisces opposite sign, taking you on a journey into your subconscious. This is at the same time familiar Mercury retrograde in your sign later this month yet strange territory. Revelations occur when is a fantasy affair. Control will not work. Reason you look at life from the opposite vantage point. becomes multi layered but there is much to Feel deeply into the obscure corners of your soul. learn. Surrender and enjoy. For more information or to get a personal reading please contact Zoe: www.astrozo.com Recognising what we already have in life brings great rewards. Give Thanks Inspirational author Ian Tucker shows that simply refocusing on what we sometimes take for granted can have a wonderfully positive effect on our wellbeing and outlook on life.

Ian Tucker Is a write and inspirational speaker , he spends much of his time giving talks and running workshops that encourage us all to develop a simple, caring outlook on life, his new book titled “Your Simple Path” is now available - for more information visit www.yoursimplepath.co.uk. “If the only prayer you say in a smile as you welcome the it’s gone – this is another ideal your entire life is thank you – it day and quietly appreciate all opportunity to focus on finding will be enough.” Perhaps take that you have in life (and that’s positive elements within any a moment to read that again. before you’ve even got out of situation. Begin with things that Is renowned German bed!) Look to subtly change have happened that bring a philosopher Meister Eckhart your focus each morning and smile to your face, as you relax suggesting that just by watching if for whatever reason some recognise that warm, happy our “P’s and Q’s” everything days it just doesn’t flow then sensation as your ability to feel will be OK? Or is he reminding go back to basics, Will you step Gratitude that this person or us that by simply recognising out of your warm bed on to soft event has become part of your what we have in life can carpet? Will the tap produce life. Every day things will also create a perfect platform for clean flowing water at a single come along to test us in some all that we need and more? turn? Does the morning sun way, it normally suggests that Religious and Philosophical text gently bathe your room? Are something or someone hasn’t has always told us that “living in you free to offer someone a quite met our expectations the moment” is the true path caring, genuine smile expecting or the outcome isn’t how to sustained inner Peace and nothing in return at perhaps just we had envisaged it would Happiness, but is this practical the moment when they had be. However, quite often with today’s busy lives? Even lost all faith in kindness from we actually end up relieved if we make a conscious effort another person? Just a few that things didn’t progress as we have to make plans for minutes spent each morning we had hoped - in fact there the family, juggle our time and whilst allowing ourselves to have been occasions when I divide our attention across realise all that we have in life was desperate for a particular many areas – all of which doesn’t just brighten our day. It outcome only in hindsight to seemingly takes us further away changes our life. give thanks for a completely from the present moment. different conclusion. As you Being Grateful for what we “Follow your Heart” take a moment at the end already have refocuses us on At any point during your day of the day to reflect on such the moment, it counteracts our you can use this very simple but things, look to develop a gentle concerns about what might powerful exercise that sees you understanding that there is an have been or indeed what may draw a heart on a page, for opportunity to learn and grow or may not come along in the most of us the image of a heart from everything that comes in future – it helps us recognise all signifies Love and Compassion to our lives and that actually that we have NOW. “Gratitude and therefore contains such fortune enables us to is a true healing balm for the the contents in a safe and become a better, happier modern age; it gently eases supportive space. Write a single and more grounded person. the pain of needing more to word or phrase within “your It’s the simple things in life that be happy whilst softening the Heart” that represents someone really seem to work, strip out effect of regret for something or something that you wish the unnecessary layers and in the past.” So how can we to give or develop Gratitude it brings us closer to who we develop a sense of Gratitude for. Take a moment to clear really are, does your happiness in to our everyday lives or Find your mind and look to nurture depend on something that a way to gently refocus our a feeling of appreciation, now may or may not happen in mind towards a positive aspect gently begin to find things that the future or can you truly give within a particular situation? you are thankful for associated thanks for what you have right now, does something from the “Morning Gratitude” with what you have placed “within your heart” and write past that has gone forever still them down as they come to hang heavy with you or are A wonderful place to start is you, fill the page around your you able to liberate yourself by to develop a simple practice heart and prepare to amaze being Grateful for the cherished of “Morning Gratitude” – the yourself as Gratitude flows as memories or experience adage of getting out of bed a result of you simply focusing gained and move on. on the right side fits perfectly on what was actually there all here. As you wake up take just along. This inspiring and yet There is a wonderful irony to a few moments to clear your very simple exercise not only developing a Grateful outlook mind before your day starts, helps you to give thanks for on life - perfectly summarized and begin to think of things in things that come easily to you by bestselling Author Eckhart your life that you are grateful but will bring clarity and reduce Tolle “If you want abundance, for, don’t worry about how stress with people or issues that you need to find that sense of simple the process is, in fact occasionally come along and fullness first, which is inseparable the more basic we can be in test you in life. from the present moment” So recognising what we actually give thanks - and as you begin have in life the better. At first Evening reflection to realise all that you have the choose people or things where Universe responds and show’s However hectic or busy our day it is easy to be thankful, friends, its Gratitude in ways that will family, your health, safety and has been we usually have time security. Go on! Allow yourself at the end of it to reflect on how amaze you! Honor The Seed Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)

Honor the seed. The words seem so simple. This is knowledge that was passed down to me from my father. Yet, today, those simple words — and sentiments — are so forgotten. “In the traditional teachings of Native American societies, the seed is a living being.”

y father, a big, raw- by manufacturing trucks, The admonition to care for boned man with giant, tractors, and farm chemicals: society to the 7th generation Mcalloused hands big as herbicides, pesticides and includes the careful harvesting catchers’ mitts and shoulders synthetic fertilizers that, yes, of seeds from the crops and the broad enough to carry my sister killed the soil even as it made planting of the best of them in and me as kids around the it bounteously fertile. It’s no the following growing season. yard for an hour without tiring, coincidence that even today’s It is a way of life that ensures grew up on a farm in Mississippi. marketing for agriculture the health and continuity of Despite moving to the city and often relies upon analogies of society. It is a nourishing way of working behind a desk in his “winning the war” against the life for all the people, not just a adult years after World War II, “enemies” of crops: hungry few, and not only those living, he still had a lot of “country” in bugs, infertile soil, rampant but a mindful setting aside of him. Some of it was, well, rather weeds. health and well-being for future rude — others of it, wise. As generations, as well. deep and fertile as the soil, as This scorched earth policy lasting as the seasons. of agriculture has resulted in The seed is more than an bounteous yields for the planet. agricultural product. It is at once It was my father who taught It also has so scarred the land, a symbol of hope, of a new me how to “taste” soil to see polluted the soil, befouled generation, and a predictor of if it “was any good.” If the soil the air, and helped extract, the future. If we are not careful tasted flat, it needed fertilizer; burn and deplete fossil fuels with the seeds we plant, and metallic, it needed more that scientists now suggest this conscious of what we are organic matter; if it tasted tart, “New Age” we live in to not doing, we will reap a certain it needed lime. His method was be one of peace and love harvest based on what we intuitive and, I guess, a matter but of permanent scarring of have planted. Feast? Famine? of taste. Literally. I still rely on the planet. They even have a Future? Or end? Those are the the agricultural service’s testing name for it: the Antropocene, seeds we are planting today to make sure. a geologic age that started with our modern industrial with the invention of agriculture society. My father was one of those and may well end only after people dispossessed by the demise of humankind. We cannot go back to a society industrial agriculture, leaving where small farmers lived in the farm behind. Machines This is the fact of our existence isolated villages in rural settings would do farm work; humans today that demands that lasted essentially the same weren’t needed. When the mindfulness. And Spirit! for generations. But we can men came home from war Knowledge that our ancestors learn from our ancestors in this in his generation, the big possessed. New Age we live in and choose chemical companies and war the type of future we want for machine manufacturers had In the traditional teachings of ourselves, our children and our to have something to do, so Native American societies, the children’s children to seven they converted their weapons seed is a living being. It is a life generations. of death to weapons of form. It is gift from Creator and/ agriculture. or protective divine beings not That’s the responsibility we to “belong” to human kind, have to follow some simple, Instead of bombs and tanks time-honored advice: Honor and explosives, they turned but entrusted to humans as their swords into ploughshares caretakers of Mother Earth. the seed.

Jim PathFinder Ewing’s new book titled Conscious Food: Sustainable Growing, Spiritual Eating (Findhorn Press) is in bookstores now. Find Jim on Facebook, follow him @edibleprayers or visit blueskywaters.com. A Conversation with Jack Kornfield Balancing Act How Meditation Lets Us Look Inside Ourselves to See the Whole World: Jack Kornfield, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and one of the most well-known teachers of Buddhism in the West. He’s a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and Spirit Rock Center in California. Here, he talks about meditation, his signature loving-kindness practice, and why he loves to teach.

What’s at the core of the trainings you kindness to those around you. See a teach? person as he was as a child in his original The trainings are centered in beauty. In a minute, your relationship equanimity and balance—it’s the to him becomes transformed and he’s training of the heart and mind to stay connected with your heart. Another balanced. I teach a series of steps for training, mindfulness of intention, is equanimity, beginning with reflections learning to take a few breaths before on the vastness of time and changing speaking to someone you’re in conflict circumstances, ever-changing winds with. Ask yourself, “What is my highest, of gain and loss, praise and loss, or best, intention?” Your intention isn’t pleasure and pain. Training has to do to be right or one-up the person, or with reflecting on the value of keeping defend yourself. Look into your heart, a peaceful heart and envisioning and it will show you that you’re looking others with compassion. We realize for ways to connect and create that people can love enormously, bridges. and that you can’t love on behalf of someone else; we try to understand How do these practices connect us the limits of love. It’s also using a series with others? of deep intentions: May I live with Mindful awareness practices are peace in the joys and sorrows of the found in many ancient traditions: world. May you find peace. Hinduism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity. As humans, we’ve always What transformations can people have known about this capacity to live with when they practice meditation? a gracious, wise heart, and we’ve There’s a glow people have, a needed practices to help us do so, “meditation facelift” that leaves even in the ancient days. When we people profoundly refreshed, their eyes practice, we’re entering a stream open and skin clear. You don’t have of literally millions of humans before to become a card-carrying Buddhist. us who also awakened to the inner You can tend to the beauty that’s freedom, compassion, and dignity of awakened in yourself from meditation their own true nature using the same practice in moments, by skillful use of disciplines passed down from warm intention, and the practice of loving- hand to warm hand. kindness. You can do this anywhere— in the airport, supermarket, or What is your current view and workplace. In any circumstance, even understanding of meditation and its tending young children, having the effects? skills of wise intention is invaluable and My meditations used to be more makes that circumstance more alive. directed, but they’ve become much Body-based practices, such as being simpler. I rest my attention in loving- aware of the breath, can help you kindness, an image or thought, or a embody the power of mindfulness and part of the world or the body. I am very live fully in the present, whether you’re present in the world of unbearable jogging or cooking. The result is the beauty and an ocean of tears, and ability to live your life in the reality of respond to it with what I can. Thich the present, rather than in the worries Nhat Hanh once said that on crowded of the future and regrets of the past. refugee boats, if everyone panicked, And you have the flexibility and ability all would be lost. If just one person to respond to your circumstances with remained calm, it showed a way for a tremendous sense of inner power. everyone to survive. I hope that my own meditation path lets me be one How can someone use mindfulness of those people on the beautiful boat and loving-kindness every day? You can sit on a subway in New York of the world where we can share City and begin, without looking weird the love and centeredness so that at all, to direct the force of loving- everyone can survive. There’s a remarkable new field, the of how you’d be if you were to really science of inner transformation. Within live with joy. But living with joy is possible this field, there are already thousands and, I believe, a birthright. of studies on mindfulness showing the capacity for transforming the brain It can be a challenge to sit down to and nervous system. Even a little bit meditate. What arises is the unfinished of training can start to reorganize the business of life, tensions, grief or trauma, nervous system, and that transformation unspoken longing, unwept tears, and, is possible for everyone. Some choose without a deep understanding, you to emphasize hatha yoga or martial don’t know how to turn difficulties into arts while, for others, it’s walking in a path of practice. With training, the mountains. All of them become vehicles fears, confusion, and agitation, we for awakening a sense of the sacred. encounter become workable. We learn to liberate our energy and compassion. What mantras do you like to use, if any? I use a loving-kindness meditation If someone is having a challenging at times, for inner recitation. When I time, I have them close their eyes while encounter people, I use, “May you be we talk and have them feel what there well, may you be safe.” Sometimes, I is in that moment. I say, “Let’s ask what use one from the Beatles: “Let it be.” makes it so difficult to be present.” I really take it to heart in a deep way Often, it’s fear that they have to feel when I recite that. There’s a way I’m the grief of a relationship, or fear about letting the world be as it is, I know how what to do with anxiety about the future to respond, and I don’t have to be if they stop and listen to what they are worried or rushed. I feel what response actually feeling. When they do it with comes from silence. compassion, they realize they can live in the present. Become curious: what’s What inspires you to teach? here that’s hard to experience? When I love life. This earth. I feel more and you become curious, you discover all more connected with everyone I meet. kinds of things. If anything, the world Teaching is a privilege. When we come becomes more and more mysterious. together, we’re exchanging notes. It’s as if we’re all holding hands together as Are you finding more and more diversity we all share what we know. among your students these days? I’m so happy that people with diverse What question do students ask you the ages and ethnic backgrounds are most? exploring meditation. It’s what the Over 35 years, I’ve heard every kind world needs. We are a marvelously, of question, from “How do I work with wildly diverse species—but at the mindfulness and my dog?” to “How do I core, we’re all humans with the same deal with bringing a cancer I’m trying to fundamental nature. Every child has heal from to a spiritual practice?” I’ve a secret beauty and spirit that gets been asked, “How can I support my son, covered over as they age, but it can who’s been deployed to Afghanistan?” always shine underneath. All it takes are and “How do I deal with the overwhelm the right circumstances to reawaken I feel when I watch the news because of their true selves. That sense of inner all the concerns I have for the world?” dignity and nobility is a basis for all the spiritual practice we do. Each question is a person, and if I listen— and if we listen together with respect, What are your goals as a teacher? tenderness, and interest to each My goal is for people to awaken to person—kind of wisdom shows itself. their fundamental dignity, nobility, Loving-kindness and compassion are and freedom of the heart regardless central to the trainings I teach and can of their circumstances. My goal is for transform every part of your life. Other them to remember how to love and practices are important, too, like joy. It bring compassion to all parts of their becomes important to understand not lives. Also, to give people ancient to put off happiness amid other pursuits practices and tools in a modern form and live in the reality of the present with that they can use when they return to a joyful heart. their everyday lives so they can quiet the mind, open the heart, and develop What advice do you give people a spirit of compassion no matter struggling with meditation? where they are. So they can heal and Meditation presents challenges. Like transform themselves and learn to be other spiritual practices, it can be a grim their own enlightened master. My goal duty that you impose on yourself. Or, in is for them to trust their innate wisdom. the course of healing, it can make you aware that you’re actually loyal to your ©2012 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. suffering and are scared by the idea Reprinted with permission.

MANIFESTING for the Bliss of it! By Elena Angel

“From bliss proceeds the cosmos, it is sustained in bliss and dissolved in bliss.” Ajit Mookerjee, Tantra Asana et’s face it: we are As human beings, we witness all that remains is to allow the creatures of desire. We are polar opposites — day and manifestation to occur — the Lalso creative. Wanting to night, black and white, active manifestation process also manifest what we desire comes and receptive, positive and being dual in nature, consisting naturally. No wonder the topic negative, man and woman of active and receptive parts. of manifestation is so popular! — as well as a multitude of variants from one end of the If you’re thinking this is a bit A lot of what has been written spectrum to the other. We arcane, think again: it’s all and said about manifestation experience our inner qualities experienced through the body, is, indeed, valuable and and states in a similar, polarised very tangibly and, potentially, effective. Yet, most of us find way, having within us both exceptionally pleasurably! there are some things we just masculine/Consciousness and can’t shift, no matter how hard feminine/Energy aspects. The We can effect Consciousness we try. So, what then? perpetual interaction of these alignment through meditation, two principles gives rise to inner for example, working with the I remember realizing early states, which then reflect as our three Tan T’iens (below and on, as a teenager, that I was outer reality. behind the navel, at the level of somehow responsible for my the heart and at the level of the reality, but I couldn’t work We create not what we want, forehead or third eye), which out why I was experiencing but what we are. Where and can be understood as seats so many things that I didn’t how our Consciousness and of energy and intelligence. like! Well, I was determined Energy meet determines what Physical sensations, emotions to crack it, and a good two is manifest in our reality. and psychological states serve decades were spent exploring as gauges of our energetic a vast array of healing, self- By changing our inner state, state. Tantric and Taoist development, transformation we can change outer practices enable us to balance techniques, practical and manifestation and, conversely, our emotions, and raise or spiritual teachings, enjoying our experience of outer reality cultivate energy (through varying degrees of success reveals our exact inner state and breath, sound and movement, with them. I was, of course, balance of Consciousness and for example, or through sexual following my soul journey which Energy. Working intentionally activation), refining it through eventually led me to Tantra, with these cosmic principles the Heart, where it can be felt Taoism and energetics. At last, permits radical transformation; as Love, Joy or Gratitude, and now I had a framework that there is nothing that is not allowing it to radiate out and really made sense, felt good possible, and all manifestation follow our intent. and brought about the most ‘successes’ and ‘failures’ serve amazing gifts in every area of as valuable guidance in the The process itself is so joyful – my life. process of self-realisation. never mind achieving any goal! Both Tantric and Taoist Tantric and Taoist practices So, here’s a way to transform cosmologies recognise that are very much to do with all areas of life and, especially, our physical reality is an cultivating and harmonising relationships. By cultivating expression of a constant our masculine and feminine and harmonising our inner dynamic interaction between aspects, and raising our levels of masculine and feminine in two simultaneously opposing Consciousness and Energy. We embodied practice, we invite and complementary principles: develop our sense of Knowing, into our lives the romantic Shiva/Shakti, Yin/Yang, or pure Awareness, learning to partners and relationships that Consciousness and Energy (or listen to our Inner Being, so that serve us the best, even if we are Love Radiance). Both of these we can exercise our free will not specifically working on this principles arise from the One and power of choice wisely. area. Source, the apparent Duality We also raise energy and bring The ultimate outcome is bliss – serving the witnessing of Source it to a high vibration. Once our original state, according to by itself in an endless play of conscious intent is set and Tantric teachings. And so, get possibilities. energy is directed accordingly, manifesting – for the bliss of it!

Elena Angel’s transformational work uniquely combines Tantric and Taoist energetics and manifestation processes. “Tantric Alchemy: Manifesting your Soulmate” is launched in Spring 2013. www.elenaangel.com How To Sail Through The Year intentional goal setting as a personal compass The first of the year has come and gone. New Year’s Resolutions set with verve and enthusiasm may be gathering dust along with the running shoes in the closet. Beginning the year with idealistic goals unfortunately leads many of us down a path of lost momentum. If you’ve ever found yourself off-course, intentional goal setting will get you back on track with ease. With clients worldwide, we with ease. haze of daily living into the have noticed many people Intentional goal setting foreground of conscious averse to traditional goal focuses Reticular Activating awareness. setting processes. Mainly, System (RAS ) activity in the Ever decided you wanted they complain about brain. As the RAS regulates to buy something like a new incomplete or overwhelming sleep-wake transitions and car, a specific smartphone to-do lists stopping the consciousness, it also serves or a brand of sunglasses journey of success in its to filter the millions of stimuli and suddenly you’ve seen tracks. Our intentional goal and data bombarding us on that item all over town, setting technique serves as a daily basis. By intentionally wherever you go? Clearly a compass to consciously deciding what we want to stated intentions prime the direct the vision, thoughts pay attention to, certain RAS to filter for and find that and actions necessary for experiences can emerge item or experience, almost navigating the waters of life from the background instantaneously. 5 steps for a successful journey Set a 3-month Time Frame - 3-month time periods fall naturally into the rhythm of changing seasons and allows enough momentum to actualise intentions. Feel free to start today, simply calculating 3-months, or 90-days into the future. Write the 3-month/90-day period at the top of a blank page, including day, month, and year (I.e.: 2nd February – 2nd May, 2013). Categorise – On the page with your dates, name five areas or categories of life in which you want results. Research has shown that we can pay conscious attention to five to nine pieces of information at any one time. Five categories becomes a very manageable number to have in the foreground of our focus. Example categories include: Work, Relationships, Health, Spirit, Finances or an upcoming event being organized, like a Graduation or Wedding. In each category, identify two qualities you desire. For example, in the category of Work you may wish to experience the qualities of self-expression and recognition; in Relationships, perhaps connection and joy; and in Health, vitality and energy. By naming the categories and desired qualities, you have plotted the stars that will help you navigate your journey for the next 3-months.

Advance your skills – Through hypnosis and skilful mentoring, a filter can be installed to scan for specific qualities of experience at the unconscious level.

Map - Create a visual guide of your stated intentions with an image collage, a creative photo with text (see example), or a simple bullet-point list. Place the guide- map by your desk, bed or fridge; identify the best location for your unconscious mind and memory to be stimulated by this map on a daily basis. Log – When sailing the open seas, a ship’s captain tracks the journey’s progress How To Sail Through The Year by regularly recording compass bearing, course speed, and significant events. intentional goal setting as a personal compass Your goals log will track when you experience the qualities and milestones of your intentional goals. Daily or weekly tracking anchors positive experiences and reinforces progress. Logging progress builds greater motivation, momentum, and excitement to continue paying attention to your desired life qualities along this journey.

Celebrate - A happy by-product of identifying a vision, naming the qualities and recording your experiences is gratitude for even the smallest steps you have created toward your vision of success. List small, medium and large celebration steps to further anchor the new habit of creating what you want in your life. A small step may be yelling “yessss!” out loud, a medium step could be a coffee date with a friend, and a larger celebration may be a vacation or purchasing items for home and office.

We have witnessed clients land firmly on their stated goal by instructing their unconscious mind to pay attention to desired qualities in specific categories of life. Sail the seas of your dreams with the starlight of clear intentions navigating the way. Enjoy intentional goal setting to achieve desired results with ease and joy. “Ahoy, Matey!”

Kelly Buckley

Kelly is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Results coach running a London-based hypnotherapy and coaching business and is a member of the Well-Defined Solutions Global team. Find Kelly on LinkedIn and at www.kellyannebuckley.com

Geffen Rothe Geffen is the founder and director of Well-Defined Solutions, a personal and professional development firm utilizing teams of professionals to guide client’s achievement of work-life balance. Geffen is passionate about bringing joy and fun into the hard work of daily living, personal transformation, and organizing chaos in homes, offices, minds and hearts. Find Geffen on LinkedIn and at www.WellDefinedSolutions.com