Stress reduction decreases aging & increases life span...

I just watched an interesting episode on the Smithsonian channel (free) via my Roku box for streaming. (You can also watch it on the web.) 
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This episode is titled: Decoding Immortality and it talks about the telomeres in our cells that control aging. Shorter telomeres equal shorter life while longer ones equal longer life. Biologists have known about telomeres since they first started studying genetics in the 50s and how they are related to the aging of cells. What is new information, however, is that some studies have now been done (see the episode) that firmly show how stress reduction (meditation, yoga, life style changes) lengthens the telomeres, meaning a longer life. The study was done with men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

I would add to that list for stress reduction: self-hypnosis, energy healing / Reiki, gardening (digging in dirt has also been shown to scientifically reduce stress levels, as any gardner could have told you, and be very grounding for those of us needing to re-connect in a very real and concrete way w/ Mother Earth), petting animals, creating art (drawing, painting, music) and just soaking up nature in every way shape and form possible.  But don't take my word for it --- please, try some of these activities yourself, watch the vid, and let us know if you feel better. :)

energy healing on CNN... and Dr. Oz :)

Report on energy healing w/ a study Dr. Oz did and one done at UCLA.... (YES, it works! :)) run time is about 7 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HJ5eajLCzu0#!

energy healing/medicine going mainstream?

I ran across an article over at Noetic Sciences that talks in detail about how "energy psychology" is now being accepted by the "mainstream" psychology circles. 

Anytime something starts being accepted by the mainstream psych circles, you can bet your butt there's something to it. For example, hypnosis & hypnotherapy and now energy healing & energy medicine, which they're also taking to include bits of EFT (emotional freedom technique-tapping acupressure points), as well as clearing blockages in chakras.

But don't take my word for it, take a look a the article. :)

info on the mind / body connection

Sometimes I am just amazed that things I have written and published several years ago are still getting hits (and sometimes a lot of hits) today!  I have a hypnosis blog (that I really haven't been adding much information too lately) and the post on the mind / body connection and how it relates to energy healing and hypnosis keeps coming in at the top of the charts.


If you're interested, take a look over here at the post on Hypnotic Melodie.

Bruce Lipton on Energy Healing & Quantum Entanglement

I just ran across this great article at Huffington Post where Bruce Lipton explains Energy Healing, how & why it works, quantum entanglement, and why distance healing works. Bruce is a cell biologist & was a prof at NIH, Stanford, and U Wisconsin (among other places). 


If your analytical side is as strong as mine (I'm also trained as a biologist), you look for these gems that help explain what your "woo woo" side already accepts and has witnessed. :)


Excerpt:


Q: Is it possible to scientifically explain energy healing?

Bruce Lipton: Absolutely. There's a concept in quantum physics called "entanglement," which is when one energy source entangles with another so that they interfere with each other. This interference can be positive and harmonious, as with energy healing, or it can be negative. Physicist Amit Goswami published an article in a physics journal showing that entanglement affects people. He had two people meditate together and then separated them into two chambers where they couldn't see or hear one another. When one person had a light strobed by his eye, it caused the firing of a certain frequency in the brain. Remarkably, at the same moment, the other person's brain also fired, even though he never saw the light. This proves what we intuitively knew, that the energies of people can affect one another.

Q: What exactly happens in an energy healing session, then?

Bruce Lipton: What Goswami's study demonstrated is that when two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.

Q: So you have to change the environment -- including your thoughts -- if you want healing to be sustained?

Bruce Lipton: Yes. If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

Q: What about healing over a long distance? That's a hard concept for people -- including me -- to wrap our heads around.

Bruce Lipton: It's freaky, but it works, because energy isn't limited to a set spatial distance.

Energy & Cooking: make sure the food you're putting in your mouth is made w/ love

I was talking to a friend a FB the other day (she's a school counselor) because she had posted something about offering a therapeutic cooking class. To which I chimed in and pointed out that many believe that you should not be cooking for your family when in a foul, angry, or negative mood because your energy is also infused into the food while you're preparing it and in a very real sense you'll be feeding that dark energy to your family. Better to wait until the foulness has passed and you can ensure that the only energy getting infused into the food you and everyone else is about to eat is filled with love, joy, and happy emotions.


Many cultures apply this rule not only to cooking but also to making crafts, especially when whatever is produced will be used daily and in close contact with you or whoever you're giving the item to. For example, quilts for bedding; afghans & throws whether sewed, crocheted, or knitted; ceremonial clothing; medicine bags; mojo bags; and so forth. 


If you look closely you'll see this in many different spiritual beliefs and many different cultural beliefs. And I believe there's a decent basis for it. Think about it. If most of us would SLOW DOWN enough to prepare a decent meal infused with love, joy, and peaceful energy our digestion would be better and as a nation there would be less acid reflex & indigestion. 


Slowing down enough would also help us all keep our waists a bit smaller. :) It takes the brain 15 to 20 minutes to realize there's food in your stomach after you begin eating. So if you're eating in a rush (like most do for lunch grabbed and eaten at your desk), chances are you're wolfing down more calories and simple carbs than you think before your brain even knows there's something on the way! 


Infusing your food with energy intentionally is something many learn in their first level Reiki energy healing class. Using the Reiki Power Symbol over your food before eating it can help to boost its nutritional value as well as help clear it of some things that might not be very good for us. 


If you grow your own herbs or tomato plants or have a small garden, you can take this a step further by infusing your plants with Reiki or healing energy while they're growing. 


And yes indeed, talking is good for plants. It might be because you're breathing CO2 on them (which they use and then give us O2 for in exchange), it might be because they are Alive and in some studies have shown responses you might not think possible, like recognizing a person who has destroyed one of them. (See The Secret Life of Plants, originally published in the early 70s and still in print! http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Peter-Tompkins/dp/0060915870/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322205263&sr=8-2) In any case, plants love Reiki and healing energy and they will flourish if you provide this to them on a regular basis. If you don't know Reiki, just talk to them and focus on them and send them positive, healing thoughts and thank them for the job they do. Intention means everything in energy healing work.


A similar work has been done on water in the books by Masaru Emoto (http://www.amazon.com/Masaru-Emoto/e/B001IODMIY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1). The books contain images showing the crystalline structure of water just normally, after it's been blessed, after words of love and appreciation have been spoken to it, and after words of hate and darkness are spoken. The crystalline structure is most beautiful and strong after we speak to it in love and thank it for sustaining us.


Anyway, there's some food for thought at the end of this Thanksgiving day. :) 

Working with the Angels: Clearing and Blessing your Home e-book cover

I've been working on finishing the e-book titled Working with the Angels: Clearing and Blessing your Home and thought I'd share an image of the cover. :)


If you have the free booklet, this e-book version is expanded (over 50 pages) and includes more detail as well as tips for making your own essential oil spritzer sprays to increase energetic vibrations and clear areas, as well as more details on entities, angels and their relationship to specific crystals and colors and issues. 


I'll let you know as soon as you can purchase it on Amazon.

energy healing & self treatments

This time we're talking about self treatment using healing energy. For those of you who have been trained in some form of Reiki, or Therapeutic Touch, or even just exposed to Tai Chi, Chi Gong, or any form of energy work, you already know what I'm talking about. 


For those who have not been trained or exposed to this type of healing, I'll explain how you can use your own body's life force (chi), or even channel the life force of the universe (God, the Creator, the Divine, the infinite source, whatever name you want to use) to help yourself and others heal. And yes, you can also ask the angels to help you with this, because they are very good at moving healing energy through you and around you and helping you move healing energies through you and around you.


Chi, Prana, & Ka
Let's talk about the Chi model first, since it's a bit easier to understand. Chi, from Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Prana in Sanskrit from India, or Ka from Ancient Egypt, all refer to the same thing: the spirit or life force of your body. Sometimes it's also translated as the "life breath" of the body. 


You'll remember from our basic discussion of energy healing and chakras how when you're  energetically out of balance, that disharmony eventually shows itself as a physical ill. Or conversely, when you have a traumatic injury you are suffering not only from the physical injury but also an injury to your energetic body. 


The simplest example of using your own Chi to help others is when mom used to rub her hands together and place them on your knees after you fell down. Or when she would "kiss it and make it better." Or when you'd stick a wounded finger into your own mouth. (There are other reasons dogs lick their wounds beside this---their saliva contains healing enzymes, many of them antibacterial, to help the wound heal faster.)


There's an easy way you can "feel" the chi of your own body, if you have not paid attention to it before.  Simply rub the palms of your hands together quickly....then move them (still facing each other) a short distance apart. You'll still feel the energy moving between them. This is the chi of your own body.


Using the laying-on-of-hands to help yourself or others feel better is as old as mankind. There are academic studies that postulate Jesus was using some type of "Reiki" when he laid his hands on the sick to heal them. I don't know about that, but it is an interesting thought.


Channeling Energy Healing
The difference between Reiki or Therapeutic Touch or some other form of energy healing where an attunement of some type was involved is this:  instead of using your own body's chi or healing energy, you are channeling the chi or healing energy of the creator, the divine, the infinite source, whatever name you would like to give your understanding of God. That's it, in a nutshell. The attunement enables the ability to channel healing energy from the divine source. 


Now, I know some of you may be uncomfortable with the word "channel." It made me uncomfortable at first, too.  Think of it like this:  A straw is a "channel" for whatever your're drinking. A prophet is a "channel" for the information they are sharing. A teacher is a "channel" for delivering knowledge to their classroom. In this sense, the channel is simply the delivery system. Think of yourself as a tool for the work of the divine. 


The chief advantage of channeling the energy versus using your own energy (chi) is multifaceted. 

1. You can drain yourself when using your chi alone, but when tapping into the divine source and channeling the energy, it never runs out. It is also infinite.
   
   
2. Using your own energy can literally exhaust you, while using the divine source is never exhausting. In fact, it will fill you with energy.
   
   
3. You are directing your chi when you use it. When channeling the divine source and the best healer, the energy goes where it is needed first. That may not always be the physical ill first, often there are mental and emotional wounds that are just as deep if not deeper than the physical ill.
   
   
4.  "Dark energy" does not affect you. What I'm referring to here is that when a client is terminal or fighting a terminal illness, as a healer working on them you can often feel the "dark energy" leave their body and come into yours while you are treating them. As long as you are channeling healing energy from the divine, infinite source, there is no reason to  fear. Simply keep working and the "dark energy" will start flowing away at a certain point.
   
   I experienced this first hand when treating my own mother who was battling cancer. As I treated her, I felt this dark energy enter both of my hands and move up my arms to my shoulders. It paused there for a bit, and as I continued treating her, it eventually withdrew down my arms and left. Now, if I had been simply been using my own chi for the healing, chances are this dark energy movement would have freaked me out a bit more.
   
   
5. Channeling the healing energy of the divine, infinite source also helps heal and strengthen you and your own relationship with that source. You cannot be a straw without getting wet. And working with the healing energy from the divine, infinite source will strengthen your own faith and healing. Most healers have had deep wounds of some type, and often we continue to learn from those wounds as layers of healing peel it back like an onion.
   
   
6. When treating yourself, you still channel the divine, infinite healing energies and as such they treat you where you need it most first, whether that is the emotional body, mental body, or the physical body. Healing occurs on all levels.

Involving the Angels

Now, using the basics we discussed above, you can also ask the angels to help you during your healing session. Raphael and Haniel are the most frequent helpers and visitors during healing sessions, but call the other archangels as you are moved to. Depending on what you are working on, you may also feel the need to ask Raziel and Metatron to assist as well. 

If wanted, you can even envision Raphael and the others beaming healing energy into your own body and helping as you treat yourself. There are some body parts it's just not easy for us to treat ourselves! Talk to them as you would friends, and listen for their replies. 

Be Well, Be Happy, and Be Blessed 

melodie

about who’s blog this is….

This is Melodie’s blog, the Director of Luna Wellness Center.  She’ll post interesting things, odd things, and spiritual things. We’ll talk about angels and entities; crystals and energy healing; guided meditation and hypnosis; and everything in between.

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