Unlimited Potential Healing Center

Two people I know just died last week. Three notable colleagues, two of whom were mentors, died in the past few months. Many I know are facing health challenges.

There comes a point in our lives where we have a wake-up call. It might be the death of a friend, classmate, or someone else our age. We could be facing a serious illness or fear of one, or have a close call with an accident–some visceral reminder of our own mortality. And if we have important things undone, we are reminded to get about doing it. If there is still music in us, we had better make it now.

Awareness of limited time is your ally!

While no one knows how long we will live or how it will end, at some point, we ask ourself what do we want to do in the time we have left.

What is going to be our legacy?

What have we done, or learnt or experienced that will have made it all worthwhile?

What can we yet do, learn or experience that will give us meaning and joy?

What do we need to heal that will allow us to pass in peace?

What’s on our bucket list?

I was listening to Stephen Cope, psychotherapist and senior yoga teacher at Kripalu, talk about finding your true purpose and leading a passionate life. Cope works with the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and dharma. Dharma is about finding your true calling and purpose in life found by discovering your unique gifts. 

Cope says that your dharma or calling gives you meaning, purpose and passion thereby ‘saving’ your life. But it damns you if you do not answer the call. I know this well as a former classical singer.

Gifts are a blessing if you use them, and a curse if you do not.

They are meant to be used, whether full time or avocationally, whether at one phase life or another. But they gnaw on your spirit until you do something about it. 

Following your calling has a sense of ‘rightness’ about it. It allows a feeling of flow, a connection with something deep inside of you, a feeling of fully being your authentic self. Not doing so, whether out of fear or self-doubt, or whether you are prevented from doing so by outside force, nags unceasingly at you.

Finding your authentic self

A calling is not necessarily just what you are good at, but what feeds your spirit. It is what makes you feel alive, in the flow. It gives you purpose.

Dharma can change in different stages of your life. And while it might be sensible or even necessary to stick with something because you have amassed some success, seniority, pension and continuing along those lines is easy, you do so at a price of growth, satisfying challenge, and engagement with your own life force.

There have been people throughout history that have in their spare time, followed their passion after-hours. For example, Charles Ives, the first American composer of international stature, worked in the insurance field during the day. 

Some were already successful in one field and switched temporarily or permanently to another. For example, Sir Isaac Newton worked in the British Royal Mint, reorganizing England’s coinage, and then Scotland’s. Charles Lindbergh stopped flying for a while to do successful biomedical research, and developed a perfusion device that kept organs alive and healthy without infection thereby allowing certain surgeries to be done. “Big Bill” Lear of aircraft building fame later invented eight-track tapes and co-designed the first car radio.

What do you feel is yours to do?

Cope says that once you discover your calling, you need to go all in. This will mean a clear commitment, and cutting off of other options. Burning the boats for your escape when things get tough takes great courage. But it will also force you to go forward, and cut out distractions in your day  to day life. This focus is a requirement for your path to flourish.

But rather than being focused on end results, Cope says to turn it over to something bigger than yourself. Let go of small egoic self, get out of the way and let God within shine through you.

Sometimes nature can provide a model. Whether dandelion or rose, gardenia or black eye Susan, flowers know enough to be their authentic self, and hold their head up high, and bloom. I think we can learn from them.

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And how it may apply to you.

In early January of 2017, I came down with a severe case of Shingles and have been suffering the debilitating effects of post herpetic neuralgia ever since. While the rash and blisters are now gone, the nerve damage includes a numbness and constant burning sensation on the entire left side of my torso (front and back) from scapula to groin, severe back ache, hard chest wall, bloated abdomen, and the inability to stand, sit upright, or walk for long including just to be able shop. This is despite being very proactive with proper diet, vitamins and other supplements, and 6 different homeopathic remedies, as well as massive work to reduce stress and clear mental and emotion issues. Still, there has been no improvement.

Now I have had an abiding interest in Mind-Body healing for decades and actually am knowledgable enough to speak on this topic at various conferences. But I would prefer not to learn more about it from first hand experience. This health challenge is appears to be some sort of a diabolical research project dumped in my lap with a exam to boot. But in being a detective with my own health history, it may possibly be helpful to you.

There is always something more to understand on this puzzle of 

• what causes illness, when, and to whom

• what provides immunity and good health

• what leads to healing and, hopefully, cure

While I had chicken pox at age 4 (decades ago), I knew nothing about Shingles, it’s evil twin. Consequently, I didn’t recognize the signs. In fact, I mistook the initial symptoms as  something else. The rash began on my spine as a dime size spot in the center of my back that I could neither see nor examine. That caused a delay in getting necessary medical attention in the first couple of days when antibiotics might have worked. When I did feel some small rough spot, I was swamped with work. Then the weekend came, and I put off seeing a doctor until Monday instead of going to the emergency room. In just a few days, the blisters had spread around half of my body.

Logically, there were other explanations for the early symptoms of the severe back ache and malaise I was experiencing including indications over the past year that something was brewing. And because of medically caused deaths of family and friends, I typically reserve allopathic medicine for avenue of last resort. I do, however, respect it’s ability to diagnose and to handle emergency care.

Immediate Lead Up to the Illness

It is important to look at what was going on before the onset of any illness. For example, with cancer, you inquire from six months up to two years before. This reveals the stressors that were there and which may still need to be addressed.

For me, there were a number of things going on with my farm and hypnosis/dowsing business over the past year. I had to put down a dog that I had had for over 12 years. One sow on my farm had 8 piglets stillborn. Another sow had two live births only, but which died within 2 days. Another sow had 6 but only 4 survived. I find dealing with the death of animals very hard. Then I had changes and disappointment with farm helpers, one of whom stole some expensive equipment. I had changes and disappointments with tenants. I traveled and spoke at several conferences, and traveled to visit family several times during the year. There was a great deal of work and repairs going on while I was constantly writing and expanding upon the books already written.

Warning signs of the Shingles started with unexplainable electrical buzzing sensations in one spot in the center of my spine on and off for a year. I thought it was caused by something else. Then last fall I felt another buzzing spot just a few inches to the left of it in addition. This later proved to be the virus moving along the nerve pathway.

Things got worse in December. My live-in farm worker got sick and I had double duty of hard, physical work to cover. Then she suddenly decided to move on only 2 weeks notice, which caused me to frantically search and find someone quick to move in and take over her job. This threatened my ability to leave and spend Christmas holidays with my family out-of-state. Once she was back on the job, I was having symptoms that could have been a heart attack. So I went through a battery of tests, which cleared my heart, but interestingly found a vertebral wedge in the very spot where I was feeling the buzzing sensations.

Just two weeks later, and a few days after the January snow storm and the new tenant moved in, a very severe case of Shingles erupted. The new live-in worker wanted all of the furniture supplied in the two rooms she was to occupy removed. So there was major reshuffling of furniture everywhere in the house. Then as a major snowstorm was about to hit, I worked excessively hard to get massive amounts of firewood in beforehand. My new tenant moved in the morning after the storm, so I had heavy shoveling to do on my own including a good deal of the driveway, even walking up the very long, steep driveway ( .2 mile) several times to lay snow melt down because the moving van started sliding off the road and down the hill and had to be towed out. 

However, despite all of the above, what I think really put me over the edge was the intense hatred, anger, violence going on in the States post 2016 Presidential election, with all the indications of deliberate fanning of the flames by certain factions. This disrupted my sleep. I have heard from several other people who also got physically ill from the political turmoil.

Thinking through your own health history may give you clues as to your own vulnerabilities and, therefore, what needs to be addressed for long-term care.

Before an illness can take hold, there has to be vulnerability from one or more source–even from things that occurred many years ago.

This vulnerability can stem from a

• previous injury/weakness (In my case, a spinal vertebrae that was out of place and degenerating. This is the spot where herpes zoster virus first erupted. But I also had a number of falls especially on the farm, a car accident years ago, and lifelong back issues.)

• previous illness (chicken pox, but also other illnesses with resultant antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals.)

• physical stress or overuse of a part of the body (chronic heavy lifting)

• disturbance of gut flora (two rounds of antibiotics from infection stemming from wisdom tooth removal work in September, but also with a history of candida.)

• weakening of immune system ( gut disturbance)

• toxicity from food, water, air, skin contact

• parasites (in the past)

• man made electrical pollutants –Electrical Magnetic Frequency (EMF), stray electrical voltage, smart meters, cell phones, cell phone towers, microwaves

• radiation – X rays, natural & man made

• emotional/mental stress

• malaise or lack of meaning or purpose  

Healing has to address the underlying vulnerability, not just the disease.

Health History

It has come to my attention that it important to look at the entire health history in order to identify vulnerabilities. In my own case, I had a life-long history of a incessant sweet tooth, resulting in cavities leading to excessive amalgam fillings, root canals, crowns, bridges, and later extractions. Mercury plus high carbohydrate diet, plus antibiotics for various illnesses probably messed up the gut flora, seting up chronic candida, leading to leaky gut, which led to food allergies including one life-theatening one. Before I changed my diet many years ago, I was prone to severe hypoglycemic symptoms. 

I was like everyone subjected to toxicity from multiple sources including air (urban environment, fumes, mold and dust), water pollution (chloride, fluoride, lead and copper pipes, and other), vaccines and pharmaceuticals, dentistry and medicine, pesticides, herbicides.  Then there has been the stress of constant and rapid change, moving many times, keeping up with technology, being a caregiver, family responsibilities, financial issues, death of loved ones, relationship issues and divorce, job and career changes, and the constant overload of information, noise and stimulation of modern life. These are all common issues that wear down our ability to cope with disease.

I got dynsentery three times while teaching in India. While only there for a month, I continued to have issues with parasites for at least a few years afterwards that American doctors were unable to rectify.

On 9/11 I was just 5 miles away from the World Trade Center and I was breathing the dust was all over the streets and my car. One of my clients got killed, and another just escaped. This event was a major stressor that still effects me today because I still see on-going serious problems that were a direct result of that event, and because I see the groundwork for more occurring. While I have done massive emotional release work on it, I still am looking for the answers.

Both breathing the dust from 9/11 and the stress, I am sure, contributed to later incidence of pneumonia. Then I had multiple injuries, some on the farm or before. Mental and emotional stress was a major issue most of my life. Hence, I learned and continue to practice multiple ways to reduce it.

Here’s the point:

In thinking about my own health issues and that of others, I have come to the following conclusion that has relevance for everyone: 

HEALTH PROTOCOL:

• Toxicity has to be addressed. 

This should include not just diet, eliminating food additives/pesticides and GMO’s, but also getting rid of heavy metals and other poisons such as pesticides that may still be in the system. 

• The gut flora has to be repaired.

• Parasites have to be removed if present.

• The immune system has to be enhanced any way possible

• The enthusiasm and joy for life has to be increased that overcompensates for any stress.

• And mental and emotional stress has to be decreased.

In other words, you can’t just address the herpes zoster virus without addressing what made the body vulnerable to it in the first place. 

Dr. Joe Dispenza thinks that healing is possible with changing our thoughts and emotions alone. Certainly, it worked for him and some he has trained. Nonetheless, however important thoughts and emotions are, the other things above make good sense.

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Just back from the printer, the new edition of Accessing MORE–Tapping into the Eternal, Unlimited Self with the Infinite Intelligence Process. Expanded 25% to 117 pages, yet held at the old price of $24.95 plus $5 for shipping.

Here is a powerful, yet simple 4-pronged healing modality designed to tap into your inner resources on the soul level to solve problems, heal issues, and relieve stress, all below the level of conscious awareness. This system can be done anytime, anyplace as well as with meditation, hypnosis or  dowsing. It includes instructions on grounding and centering, unconscious healing, clearing blocks in beliefs or emotions, tapping into the truth of your spiritual nature, clearing non-beneficial energies, healing physically, releasing guilt, shame and the need for self punishment. The Infinite Intelligence Process can be adapted to the Emotional Freedom Technique, the Law of Attraction, Emotion Code, Ho’oponopono, Hiring the Heavens, and Spirit Releasement. 

Whether it is suddenly being able to solve problems that had previously defied solution, having creative breakthroughs, superhuman strength to save the life of another, or responding protocol perfect to a never before encountered emergency, people have amazed themselves and others when they have spontaneously accessed this greater wisdom, intelligence, strength, ability or knowledge. Sometimes it has come as a result of a necessity or out of nowhere during an emergency, and sometimes it has come in quiet moments after working on it for a prolonged period of time through normal conscious means and then letting their mind relax.

Here is an earlier post Accessing MORE–Tapping into the Wisdom & Resources Within

Roxanne is known to be comprehensive in every topic covered. Here she emphasizes how important it is to extend your personal healing to all of your existences, as well as to your ancestors and progeny in each of those existences. Then she suggests that you offer that healing to the world in a can’t hurt, ethical way that is wanted and customized by the High Self of others.This creates a tsunami of healing around the world.

First written in 2013 with additions made in 2014, 2015 & 2017, it is a very powerful yet easy way of both releasing stress and solving problems below the level of conscious awareness. 

The first teacher is someone who provides good, sound information and an example worthy of following.

These are the great religious figures, the heroes, those of great moral fiber, courage, wisdom and personal integrity that call forth your admiration and respect. If you are very lucky, this group may include your parents or other family members and mentors. In striving to be like them you are following a noble path. The memory of who they were and what they stood for can be a trusty guide to follow on how to live your own life.

The life they choose may have suited them perfectly. The decisions they made may have been exemplary at their time and place. But such may not exactly fit or be right for who you are, your soul’s path, or the particular situation or circumstance you face today. Better than just copying their fine example, take the time for introspection to find that internal sense of rightness. 

That being said, it is still vitally important to have positive role models and to search them out if they are not apparent in your life.

The downside to those that teach by negative example is that their students may be so locked into hurt and rage that they never see the positive learning.

Until someone is willing to let go of the pain long enough to consider that just maybe something good can be learned from this person, they will not find the blessing and move on to put it into place.

The third kind of teacher is one that provides both good and bad, positive and negative examples of how to be, how to live, and how to treat others.

The downside with this type of teacher is that they may generate a ‘love/hate’ response or just such confusion that the ‘student’ gives up and quits before ever gaining what was there to learn.

• What did you or can you yet learn from them?
• What are the lessons, the examples that they provided?
• How can such knowledge bless you and others?
• What are the positive aspects that you would like to follow?
• And what are the positive opposites of their negative example that you would like to express?

Become the shoulders for others to stand upon.

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If you missed this post “How Self Hypnosis Saved My Life,” read it first as this refers back to it.

From childhood, I remember many bedtime stories that were teaching tales. They were to help you grow in wisdom by providing you with the moral of the story. Well, there are many lessons that can be extracted from my earlier post. If we scrutinize not just our own experiences but that of others, especially the ‘bad’ ones, there is much that we can learn. So the real point of my post is not about me, but how it can help you.

What I was trying to illustrate and to warn about is that when your life force drops due to on-going discouragement, overwhelming problems, upset, hopelessness, lack of joy, etc., poor health or illness follows. Or as local Leonard Orr, father of the Rebirthing Breathwork movement, when you life urge decreases, you death urge increases.

Throughout the stressors in our lives, there has to be a way for us each to sufficiently recoup our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual strength so that we can maintain our balance. But the problem is that when you are in crises, there is frequently NO TIME to do that even if you know what would or might help. You are just too busy struggling to stay afloat.

Once the worst of the crises is over, you are focused on doing catchup of everything that went by the wayside in the interim. Then, you just move on with life and do the best you can, probably glad to put it the past behind you, not wanting to think about it, and so probably not revisiting it in order to resolve and release any residual trauma. But what is not processed sits in the background adding to the rest of your pain pile and any new stress coming along. Eventually, it is too much and you break down.

One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself is to get enough sleep and to make sure that you eat. Sleep is for me is the lynchpin. Then next in importance is to get emotional support–someone to hold you and comfort you in your challenge–and if you are truly blessed, someone to make you laugh. We know that people who have emotional support do better in healing when they get ill. But the reverse is also true–people who have emotional support are less likely to get ill. And perhaps we know of people like Patch Adams, MD that use laughter for healing. 

What happened to me was that I had gotten divorced, my son who was the joy of my life had moved away, and many of my family members had died or also moved away. And a major part of my social life and feeling of purpose came through my business, which was now closed in preparation for the big move to the West Coast.

These are common problems for many people. Statistics show a correlation of men dying within two years of early retirement. And while changes in diet and lifestyle factor in, I would argue that losing your daily routine and the network of everyday interactions with coworkers, plus perhaps recognition and approval, also has to play into it. Also known, is that stress is involved in every illness. For example, many people develop cancer within 6 months to 2 years after the death of a loved one. Many vehicle accidents occur soon after a separation or divorce. 

A problem for many caregivers is that they may have traditionally gotten their emotional support from the very person for whom they are now a caregiver. Because they don’t want to further burden the sick person, they hold their problems inside. Finding adequate emotional and physical support from others to replace what is now gone takes time–something in scarce supply for anyone in that position.

Having multiple self-help practices such as self-hypnosis, prayer, meditation, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique, and other stress management tools make a critical difference. But even if you know how to deal with stress, it still takes time and commitment to do so. It has to be a priority. In my case, sleep not stress management was the priority. I was too exhausted to do anything else. And forget about being able to get away to get some help for myself even if I knew who to call and had the funds to spend.

Another point that I brought up was that thoughts carry a train and connect to thoughts of similar events. So that taking care of my mother reminded me of what my mother went through to care for my father during the many years of his 14 cancer operations, and three heart attacks. Luke’s death reminded me of Rodney’s and my father’s and that of both my grandmothers. If any of your similar events were not adequately processed either because you did not have the time or the skills to do so, what was undone will be brought to your attention now to deal with it as an extra load to any new issues that are occurring. 

Another weird thing was about the shrimp. I have always had an irrational fear of scorpions–so much so that I would never consider living in scorpion territory. They represent danger to me–something that you might never see coming that could hurt you. The similarity between the appearance of a scorpion and a shrimp was not lost on me. Already still traumatized from 9/11, my mind made a connection between scorpions and shrimp and my body overreacted.

In mentioning Nelson’s getting let go just days before 9/11, I hoped to illustrate that what looks like a terrible thing (eg. losing your job) can be a blessing in disguise. On Friday, all those 40 people were upset, wondering what they were going to do next. And on Tuesday, they realized that if not for losing that job, they would have been dead like all their other co-workers.

Not mentioned was that I realized that my mother’s many health issues that arose immediately after I announced that I was moving away. I felt that this was part of secondary gain. For an explanation on this psychological dynamic, see my previous article here. Then you could interpret her falling and shattering her arm as “giving her right arm” to keep me with her. If I am right, she must have felt desperate.

Finally, in mentioning Luke, it is good to remember that we never know what the day will bring. And in our last moments, take the opportunity to connect with someone you love.

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