Archive for July, 2009

It is personal, unique and because we all see things differently, communicating with each other truly is an Art.

Communications

Vals Fauquier took us through layers of communication

• Physical:  body language, eye contact, voice pitch
• Emotional: detachment, not reaction
• Mental: being present and listening fully, not deciding the response ahead of time
• Spiritual: a heart connection and sincere interest in the highest integrity

Curiosity is a fantastic approach in communicating and can help us stay unreactive in different situations. The first place to start is with yourself, in honesty.

Our communication is colored by our past. Taking a big breath can be a tool to see more clearly so that we can hear more clearly. Real communication occurs when we bring our whole self forth.

Generously, we were walked through several communication tools:

• A sandwich exercise: Bottom bun -> filler -> top bun
• A  5 step conversational template to address boundaries (from Dr Phil)
• A beautiful meditation for gaining clarity

Vals shared that a more formal approach, even in personal relationships, assists us in maintaining appreciation for those around us. It can be as simple as saying, “Thank you,” and not assuming our gratitude is understood (or anything else).

Vals teaches courses & takes personal appointments. www.valsfauquier.com

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If you want to attract more wealth, enhance your health and improve your relationships, you will be fascinated by this call. I found out that I’m sensitive “…like a Ferrari!” Varoom!

Facereading

Beyond all of Carole’s insights about facial features, the concept that I took away from this call is that understanding yourself is the key to your life. This doesn’t have to be a complicated, subjective, judgmental processs… you just have to look in the mirror.

Carole told us, ‘Your issues are in your tissues,‘ and she went on to describe your bone structure as your blueprint and the soft tissues are your experiences, all of which can be reshaped simply with awareness, breath work, posture & gait.

The approach is quite scientific. Each part of your face represents another aspect of yourself:

• Forehead has to do with your thought processes: are you a thinker or a doer?
• Eyes are the window to the soul and the different colors have special meaning
• Your nose is your personality, and it keeps growing throughout your life
• Your lips are sensual with the upper lip representing your feminine side and the lower lip, the masculine – and can you guess where your intuition is?
• Cheeks are about ambition (her assessment is that in pursuing my ambitions, I will do it softly indicated by my plump cheeks)

Before & After

Another key point is that you need to be at home in your body to be Healthy! I find this to be a truly great statement. Carole gracefully weaves her knowledge of how our levels of consciousness affect our outside appearance, and although the outside is what we more typically notice, it is the inside where the real transformation occurs.

When the subconscious patterns are changed, the way you use your muscles changes, and you actually look different! Younger and more You! I’m amazed.

The results are visible as indicated by this before and after example Carole allowed me to use. It is phenomenal the changes you can see!

It is a self exploration that assists you in understanding yourself & others and you learn how to really use energy in your body to be the best you.

Find Carole’s schedule here: www.corepotentials.com

Below is a banner for Carole’s Learn Facereading site. Click to find out more:

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I abandoned my plan completely!

Intuitive Awareness: Creating Context

When tapping into your intuition, look for a clear, full feeling; like a fresh morning on a summer’s day. This is the feeling I look for when looking at people  or in making my decisions.

Paraphrasing some listener questions:

• How do you know you are on the right path?
• How do you know what is your real Truth?
• What is our Higher Vision as far as our treatment modalities in helping clients?
• How can healers best use the internet for heart centered work?
• I experience different sensation when meditating. Is that meaningful?

Honoring where you are on your path is critical because that is where you have to start. From there, you factor in multiple dimensional perspectives.

The biggest challenge in our lives is to maintain our Truest sense of ourselves while expressing that through the very aspect of ourselves that can seem to take us off course. And each person’s Truth is unique to them and that Truth is the key to fulfillment, not your career or anything else.

There are exercises included:

• A breathing exercise to activate you at your core
• Drawing a vertical dimensional scale

People often blame themselves for their path not being as anticipated, but blame doesn’t apply from the realm of the Truth. If you are still working on recognizing your Truth, you can  look for clues like synchronistic events.

I recommend a positive type of selfishness for healthy perspective and the Context Class to help you make sense of it all.

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Her wisdom and offerings are born of deep and life changing experiences.

Coaching

Suzanne Holman specializes in working with people who have challenging family situations that impact the rest of their lives. She herself works in a location independent fashion to accommodate her family.

She walked us through key points in her own life journey starting with challenges to do with having young children, including being put on bedrest and twins. She worked at integrating health priorities such as nutrition and exercise ~ not easy with a young family and accepting help was key.

As a woman keen on learning, Suzanne chose to get her Masters degree in Counseling with Honors, as a single mother of three children. Through this time she never lost her health focus even with a packed schedule, and even scheduling fun was important.

Children & her education presented different challenges, but the next events in her life were large mountains to climb.

• Suzanne survived a car accident in which her partner died suddenly.
• She spent the last cherished times with her dad before he died of cancer.
• She supported her daughter in trying times within her family situation as well as through the critical health issues of her grandson.

Through these times she transitioned from her teaching career into coaching others. Even with these life experiences and professional training, she has an immense foundation for helping others, but she narrowed her focus even further when she found out that her mother had Alzheimer’s.

I am in awe of Suzanne. She has taken her every challenge and transformed the experiences into deep understanding that she approaches each person with whom she works. With dignity and courage she has approached her life situations, staying true to herself and maintaining a family focus.

On the call, she generously shared Stephen Covey’s exercise for assessing whether  your priorities are Urgent and Important. Do this exercise to evaluate how you are spending your time. Thank you Suzanne for sharing this with us!

Find out about Suzanne’s online community: www.alzheimersinthefamily.com

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Mary D Nelson is the first person to introduce stone massage to the world. Her story is inspired! She listened within and the result was a complete redirection of her career. What did she hear? “Use the stones!” This was the answer to her request for guidance.

LaStone Therapy

From listening in evolved this technique which is tailored to each client through their treatment plan for that day. The therapist uses both hot and cold stones in order to achieve a balance with the client and create a chemical response within their body systems. Balance is also in consideration of:

• Mother Earth and Father Sky
• The seasons
• Associated emotions
• The chakras

There is a sacred process for every contributing component. This includes sourcing out the stones to the introduction of the treatment. Mary gifted us with a wonderful meditative Journey each therapist is taught to enhance the experience of the client. Wow!

This is a not just for the spa, although it is incredibly popular in that arena, it is a serious hydrotherapy based technique, honoring the way temperature affects the body. This is critical for reasons of safety and each person’s unique health concerns. Major impacts include:

• Lymphatics and blood flow promotion
• Autonomic nervous system (relaxation)
• Digestion & detoxification

Another important component to the treatment that Mary shared was the breath and true therapists who honor the process are called Stone Walkers and they are on a beautiful path.

Mary’s site is www.lastonetherapy.com. There is a free Q & A .pdf with stone photos for subscribers to www.layersofhealth.com.

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Suzanne started with Dr John Upledger from the very beginning of the Upledger Institute.

CranioSacral Therapy

This modality evolved from Cranial Osteopathy and through research the mechanics & biology were discovered where previously it had been described in terms of energy waves & fluid waves.

In addition to biology, a CranioSacral therapist learns how to dialogue with the body using the cranio rhythm and with a listening sense. The touch is very, very gentle and the aim is to bring your nervous system back into balance.

Suzanne told us that they work with the nervous system through the cranial bones specifically and can address anything ‘slow stress’ from:

• falls to accidents
• back surgery to migraine headaches
• TMJ dysfunction to whiplash
• autism to chronic illness

Most people can benefit from babies to elderly. Suzanne walked us through an appointment and told us about a technique that works like a reset button.

She put together free audios for LOH, so check out her website and look for our link! Thank you Suzanne, for ‘loving us up!’

Suzanne: www.healingfromthecore.com Upledger Institute: www.upledger.com

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This wasn’t just an interview, but also mini class on hand reflexology – complete with free .pdf handout (still available in the LOH cart for subscribers).

Reflexology

Lauren Slade is a remarkable person and a leader in her field. She bristled when I suggested that someone might think of Reflexology as a “footrub” because she wouldn’t even consider the scientific and deliberate approach of Reflexology with its long history, from thousands of years BC, to be even in the same ball park.

She walked us through different concepts:

• Zone Theory
• Tender points
• Physical and Non-physical thoughts

Reflexology is stand alone as a therapy & can address almost any pathology including: blood sugar issues, phantom limb pain, sinus issues, heart issues, arthritis, depression, cancer… This is because it works systemically. Lauren’s philosophy on if it can help you is, “I don’t know, but I’m willing to give it a go if you are.”

We found out there are even strolling paths both inside and outside in different countries and cultures to support your health through the reflex points! I especially enjoyed her comparison of reflexology to computers and ‘rebooting your system.’

There are many ways to approach the reflex points:

• Hand Reflexology & Fingernail Reflexology
• Foot Reflexology & Ear Reflexology
• Tibetan Reflexology (with a shoulder blade treatement)

The biggest thing I took away from this was the balancing effect and that is certainly what I experienced in participating in the mini treatment!

She recommended a couple of books available in my Amazon store:

• Energy Healing Experiments by Gary Schwartz
• Stories the Feet Can Tell, Stories the Feet Have Told by Eunice Ingham

Lauren’s website with distance courses: www.universalreflex.com

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This Bowen Therapy is gentle and focuses on not just the skeletal structure, but the muscles as well and works to regulate the tensions.

Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST)

It is structurally oriented and can help:

• back pain, knee pain, neck / shoulder pain
• sporting injuries, auto injuries
• digestion & respiration problems

Michael’s focus is in training professional health care providers such as Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Osteopaths, Massage Therapist, Accupuncutrist… (it is very complementary)

It has a characteristic rolling movement, PRI or proprioceptive rolling impulse,  to the technique and often the result for the client is a deep sense of relaxation and a boost of energy.

In describing the evolution of NST, he mentioned observing Dr Trevor Creed who was using a technique called Chiron. Since the link he’d given us was for a machine shop, I believe the information he wanted us to have can be found here: www.iachi.com/about_i.htm

Levels to NST include:

• Basic: for learning to unlock the core system
• Advanced: variation and different applications
• Deep Cures: for getting to the cause

Thank you, Michael for giving us a good wake up morning routine on the call! Find out more at Michael’s website: www.nsthealth.com Enjoy the self care section of his book that he put on his front page at my request!

Click here for NST on Dr Mercola’s site

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Sharing the transformative power of Psychosomatic Therapy is Hermann’s life work. He tours the world and communicates through the spark in his eyes, even when he is facilitating in a country where there is language barrier. There is no barrier in communication when it is done heart to heart.

Psychosomatic Therapy

When asked the meaning of the term, Hermann offered an answer no less than an approach to help you get in touch with the essence of your being so that you can fulfill your soul purpose on earth! That’s way more than a body modality!

He has three basic principles within his teachings:

1. Focus
2. Talent
3. Structure

I was introduced to Hermann’s work when I volunteered to be a body for analysis in one of the classes in Calgary. The experience was an eye-opening experience of what, in this interview with him, is described as decoding what the body is revealing to you through shape, movement and form.

Beyond that, attention and appreciation are key concepts that result in happiness. The approach is scientific body analysis: from face to hands and head to toe. Objective tools are used:

• Gait analysis &
• plumbline evaluation
• Before & after pictures

This demonstrates where the focus needs to be placed and why. Transformation can be seen even over the short time of a class.

There is a degree of self honor that, taken at a profound level, can provide the attention needed for transformation. To share a quote from Hermann,

“The more easily and fluently and comfortable and consciously we breathe is the greatest spiritual experience a soul can have in a human body.”

Based in Australia with global promoters and teachers of his work, Hermann’s reach is wide. Find more info here: www.aibmapt.com.au and www.learnfacereading.com

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Carol discovered that there is more to health than drugs and surgery and it formed her professional direction.

Guided Imagery

Dr Robin was commented that in order to approach someone from their whole being, it starts with listening to them… listening to their body as well as their words. With no listening there can’t be any communication.

Imagery is:

• non-verbal language
• comes from imagination
• creation through our minds

Imagery is used clinically for health on many levels. Dr Robin cites examples in cancer, surgery & trauma and shared about the mind-body connection. What we tell ourselves – positive or negative has a real body impact.

Four Steps to Center is a technique Dr Robin developed to assist people in reaching a meditative state for a powerful starting place. She also made critical comments on the nature of change and evolution and honoring ourselves in each moment.

From the moment, shifts in perception can be made with as simple a technique as taking a deep breath. Dr Robin guided us through a special meditation in this call to help us understand. www.guidedcds.com

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