There’s a new book in the family and I love it dearly. My big brother Dave has written a heartfelt and healing memoir that begins with our early childhood together and carries him into the present day. From Darkness to Light is filled with discoveries and insights, sorrows and triumphs. Dave decided not to “die with his music still in him” by waking up the writing gift he had long suppressed. Here’s a summer memory from our childhood that I hope you will enjoy as much as I have:

“While living in foster care in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, Wayne and I didn’t get to see Mother or our older brother Jim very often—certainly not often enough. One reason was that Mother didn’t drive and had no way of getting to us. The separation of our family tore at her heart. Mother worked at Chrysler, earning the typical female wage for whatever job she was doing. In those days, men made almost double the wages paid to females for the same job. My mother’s greatest wish was to somehow reunite her family again. With this in mind, she finally decided to marry Bill Drury, a fellow she’d been dating for a couple of years.

Bill’s mother Cora owned a cottage in Sombra, Ontario. I remember all of us going there in the summer of 1948. For Wayne and me, it was as if we were visiting some kind of Fantasy Island. We’d swim, fish, play baseball, listen to ballgames on the radio, and even learn to play pinochle.

Jim and Wayne seemed able to swim right away, but it didn’t come easy for me. Although I enjoyed just being in the water, swimming wasn’t one of my favorite sports or pastimes. It did bother me that my little brother Wayne, who was a year and a half younger than me, could swim circles around me. He, of course, would never brag or say anything to make me feel bad.

A half a mile down the road from the cottage was the river access where we swam. If we dove off the dock, the water was deep and over our heads. If we swam straight out about fifty feet, we’d reach the sand bar where the water was only waist high. Jim and Wayne would dive in, and within seconds, they’d be standing on the sand bar. There was no
way I could swim fifty feet, so I’d dive in and get out right away. So much for swimming!

Other summer memories include watching the magnificent fireworks display on the Fourth of July, cutting the grass with a push mower, and playing baseball. Wayne and I played catch whenever we could. We’d even watch the local Sombra baseball team practice and run the bases for them. Jim met a girl named Ethyl that summer, so he was always preoccupied with her. Wayne and I were inseparable.

One afternoon, Wayne and I discovered a nearby gas station run by a guy named Bill. Whenever the Tigers games aired on the radio, we’d head over to the gas station and listen to the game. We pretty much had free rein that summer. Mother, Bill, Cora, and Bill’s cousin Margaret seemed to play pinochle at the cottage day and night.”

Excerpted from From Darkness to Light by David L. Dyer. Copyright ©2012 (Balboa Press).

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Your imagination is your own fertile field for growing any seedlings that you choose to plant for a future harvest.

You may have been told that you have always been a dreamer, as if this were a fault. I can speak here from experience. Family, friends, teachers, and even advisors frequently disparaged ideas that burned brightly in my imagination. I often heard comments such as, “Wayne, you’re such a dreamer. Get real. You are never going to make it as a writer, or a television performer, or a movie personality. Be realistic—we know what’s best for you.”

When I was being discharged from the Navy at the age of 22, my superiors warned me that starting college at my “advanced age” was loaded with uncertainty, particularly since I had no higher education experience, and I would be competing with younger recent high school graduates. Since I already had a skill as a cryptographer in the Navy, they advised me to pursue what they felt was best for me. But I had a dream—an imagination filled with the idea of teaching, writing, and speaking to large audiences. I saw myself onstage. I saw myself as a prominent author. And this vision could not and would not be sabotaged by someone else’s vision of what I should or could become.

As a young boy in a foster home, I almost always ignored other people’s ideas about what I should be thinking or doing—I simply was indifferent to their opinions regarding what I could imagine for myself. I have carried this kind of inner discipline regarding my own imagination with clarity, refusing to allow external opinions to cancel or diminish what for me was hallowed ground.

Not long ago, others advised me that acting in a movie was not sensible for me as a 68-year-old man with no acting experience. I once again remembered to hang the DO NOT DISTURB sign at the entrance to my imagination, and proceeded to take acting lessons and adopt the self-enforced regimen that allowed me to create a movie. It is a product that fills me with pride today—all because I have diligently practiced the following rule:

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a KEEP OUT sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Stay in a state of grace and gratitude for this resplendent gift that is always yours to do with as you choose.

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I have been deeply and profoundly touched by the contents of a new book coming out from Hay House this month. For more than four years, an advancing cancer brought Anita Moorjani to death’s doorstep and beyond—inside the house of death itself. Anita has described it all in great detail in this soul-searching book, Dying to Be Me. I encourage you to read it very carefully and thoughtfully with a mind that’s open to having many of your cherished beliefs challenged, especially about what lies beyond this world, in what’s often called the hereafter.

Surrounded by loved ones and a medical team anticipating her last breath at any moment, Anita lay in a deep coma. Yet she was given the opportunity to return to her cancer-ravaged body, defying all odds, and experience incredible healing—through the vehicle of unconditional love. More than this, she was allowed to return from the chamber of death and report to all of us what life on the other side of this corporeal world looks like—and of even more significance, feels like.

This is a love story—a big, unconditional love story that will give you a renewed sense of who you truly are, why you’re here, and how you can transcend any fear and self-rejection that defines your life. Anita speaks with uncommon candor about her cancer, explaining why she believes she had to go down this treacherous road in her life, why she feels she was healed, and why she returned. Her life’s mission is in a very big way reflected in the fact that you’re about to read her report of this experience. Her story has had a profound effect not only on me, but also on my children and my 95-year-old mother, who found in it a healing message of love, hope, and peace regarding what lies ahead for us all.

Anita spoke of the sense that we’re all pure love. We’re not only connected to everyone else and to God, but at a deeper level, we all are God. We’ve allowed our fears and ego to edge God out of our lives, which has much to do with all of the disease not only in our bodies, but in our world as well. She spoke of learning to treasure our magnificence and live as beings of light and love, and of the healing properties inherent in such a mind-set.

While I was writing my new book Wishes Fulfilled, Anita Moorjani came into my life as if to place an exclamation point on all that I was receiving and recording. She lived it and said it so beautifully—and now you’re blessed to be able to read and apply all that Anita came to know in her furious bout with advanced cancer, and her tranquil journey back through the direct experience of Divine healing.

May you take Anita’s words and become an instrument of removing any and all disease from your body, your relationships, your country, and our world. As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once observed poetically: “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.” Indeed, healing and heaven on Earth are yours for the loving.
Enjoy Anita’s wonderful, wonderful book. I love it, and I love her.

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Metaphysical teacher Neville Goddard offers us this description of what takes place while we sleep: Sleep is the door through which the conscious, waking mind passes to be creatively joined to the subconscious. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

Each night as I drift off to sleep, I adamantly refuse to use this precious time to review anything that I do not want to be reinforced in the hours of being immersed in my subconscious mind. I choose to impress upon my subconscious mind, and therefore the mind of God to which I am eternally joined, my conception of myself as a Divine creator in alignment with the one mind. I groggily reiterate my I ams, which I have placed in my imagination, and I remember that my slumber will be dominated by my last waking concept of myself. I am peaceful, I am content, I am love, I am writing, I am the governing power of the universe, and I attract only to myself those who are in alignment with my highest ideals of myself.

This is my nightly ritual, always resisting any temptation to go over any fear or unpleasantness that my ego might be asking me to review. I assume the feeling in my body of those I am statements already fulfilled, and I enter my sleep inviting the instruction that my subconscious mind welcomes. I know that I’m allowing myself to be programmed while asleep, for the next day I rise knowing that I am a free agent. I understand that every action and event of the day is essentially predetermined by my feelings as I prepared for sleep, and while I was in that place of warmth and trust in the arms of the one universal subconscious mind.

Here are some suggestions for your own bedtime routine:

— As you lie in bed preparing for your nightly slumber, remember that the last thought you have in your mind can last up to four hours in your subconscious mind. That’s four hours of programming from just one moment of contemplation prior to going into your unconscious state. Create a reminder like a prayer or mantra to place by your bed. Write these words and read them as you get comfortable: I am going to use these moments to review what I intend to manifest into my life. Keep that sign there to remind you how to spend your pre-sleep moments nightly.

—If before dropping off to sleep you are assailed by worry, distress, or fear, do not stay in bed. Get up, turn on the light, take a few deep breaths, read from a spiritual text, meditate for a few moments in front of a white candle, say a prayer—do anything other than staying there lying down. You cannot defend yourself against these onslaughts while remaining snug in your bed. If distressing feelings come back when you return to bed, get up, turn on the lights, and try something else. When you finally do feel peaceful back in bed, repeat your loving I ams and drift off to sleep ready to have your ears opened and your instructions sealed.

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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt. When you affirm that things might not work out, that your troubles continue to mount, that your problems are insoluble, that God has not been listening, or that you are powerless in the face of so many struggles, you are affirming doubt rather than faith. The ability to know faith and affirm it allows it to manifest in your life.

In John 14:27, Jesus said, “My peace I give to you.” This is an affirmation of faith. He certainly wasn’t suggesting that peace is very difficult to have and you must struggle for it. Jesus brought peace to everyone by affirming it. Likewise, in his healing work, he didn’t imply that we haven’t been having a great deal of success lately with leprosy, but if you listen to me you have a thirty percent chance of surviving over the next five years. Instead, he declared, “You are well,” affirming faith at the highest spiritual level, and healing took place.

You too must learn to affirm your faith in the face of doubt with thoughts that things will work out, things will improve. Think, write, and say affirmations like these:

I intend to create prosperity.

I’ll do what is necessary to eradicate this problem.

I know I am not alone.

I have faith that all is for good.

I give no energy to the negative because I know all is in divine order.

I will consult with God and know that I will be guided to do what is needed.

These are all affirmations of faith, which, when practiced, will permit you to say “no” to doubt and “yes” to life.

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You are only given little sparks of madness. You must not lose it.
~Robin Williams

As mentioned in the accompanying video, I had a dream Robin Williams was a lion tamer on trial for using unconventional methods for keeping his lions in check. He was dressed in Lion Tamer regalia—riding pants, a safari hat, tall black boots, a kaki long sleeved shirt, and a whip. The action of the dream took place in court. The lion tamer was quickly losing the case; the judge and jurors were against him. As a last minute Hail Mary, the lion tamer bolted out of his chair, raised the left hand in the air, his whip pointed toward the heavens, and began chanting at the top of his lungs, “LULLABALLAHABLALALA!!!”

The court was dumfounded, enraptured, hypnotized, and mesmerized. Apparently the same tactic that works with lions works with humans. The spellbound court was now under the lion tamer’s command, and they proclaimed him innocent. The Dream ended with Robin Williams, the unconventional lion tamer, walking out of court with his head held high, smiling, and breathing in his victory and freedom.

***

When I pay attention, my dreams are either a commentary on what took place the night before, or is a preview of coming attractions to prepare me for the day ahead. In this case I believe it was the latter.

The next day I went to see a matinee of Life in a Day with my husband, Dana, and our friend, Ron. The movie brilliantly tells the true story of 6 billion people, in 190 countries, in one 24-hour period. At the movies conclusion, as the credits are running, and tears are running down my face, Ron turns to me and says, “You’re a trip to watch a movie with!”

Perplexed, I tilted my head, crinkled my brow and innocently asked, “What do you mean?”

He guffawed and replied, “You are more vocal than the movie. Next time I’ll just watch you instead! Its like you are part of the action.”

Dana chimed in with an, “I told you so” look on his face. “Kelly, I’ve been telling you, but you don’t listen…and it’s getting worse.”

I apologize to Dana and Ron, feeling hit by a 2×4 across the forehead, “I had no idea.”

“But,” I sheepishly try to defend myself, “Aren’t my sounds natural—what everyone is feeling/thinking/doing—given the circumstances in the movie. I mean, come on, the guy cracks an egg and there’s a live chick inside, and he eats it! Didn’t everyone scream?”

“No,” they shake their heads in unison.

“You mean to tell me I was the only one in the movie theatre making any noise?”

They nod in unison.

The penny drops, the 2×4 strikes again…this time to my gut. I feel dizzy, like I might lose my cookies. For days I’m self-conscious everywhere I go. In every conversation, I’m monitoring my reactivity, my vocal “Ums and Ahs”. What other blind spots do I have that I didn’t know about? Am I a freak that has been roaming the earth for years with two heads, and I’m just finding out about it? I feel like I’m on trial, and I am guilty as charged.

Ooooooo…just the dream from the night before. What might the lion tamer on trial have to do with this blind spot revelation? Hmmmmm.

I breathe—something I hadn’t been doing much of during this credit rolling conversation—feel the slight awe of the beginnings of an aha moment.

Astrologically speaking, I am a Leo (the lion). According to astrologers, I am very Leo-esque (loud, roaring, flamboyant, filling up the space with warmth, holding court.)

I believe every character in our dreams is an aspect of ourselves, which makes Robin Williams, my inner comedian, the tamer of my out of control Leonine wildness by using shock to get my attention.

That same shocking abruptness can silence my inner critic(s) that judged me and might, if left to their own devices, label me as guilty, put me in jail and throw away the key.

Perhaps dream work, itself, is an unconventional method for self-realization (a.k.a. lion taming.)

The feeling of freedom Robin Williams had as he left the courthouse is what I choose fixate on. He overcame condemnation and emerged victorious. Instead of beating myself up, maybe I can choose to feel grateful that the universe and everything within it is, in deed, conspiring on behalf of my (our) greatest good, to get me (us) to wake up.

Carolyn Myss says the purpose of our lives is to become responsible for our power. Most of us have no idea that we are, in fact, powerful, much less have a clue how much power we actually have. We roam the earth feeling disenfranchised, powerless, and small. When in fact we are great beings that are a great deal of directorial input into how our lives can go.

Perhaps, most of our power is hovering in the shadows of our blind spots, and thus is being used unconsciously. Like the dog walking the person, instead of the other way around.

When you take one step toward the your dream, it takes ten steps toward you. Envision a host of supernatural support that is hovering around you, chomping at the bit to lend assistance…yet giving you the respect of choosing their vast support.

We humans are power hungry…always chasing power in one way or another. Ok, you may not think of it as power, but it is. Perhaps the power you chase is in the guise of money, fame, security, health, vitality, youth, or love. What if it was the other way around? What if our power is actually chasing us? What if our power was stalking us through our dreamtime, lurking in our blind spots to be found out and thus integrated into the light of our being?

Ah, there in lies the rub. When a blind spot dares to reveal itself to us, our first reaction is the Cleopatra’s domain: DENIAL:

“Who, me? I couldn’t possibly have been the only one screaming, laughing, and talking to the screen during the movie?”

Or

“Who me? I couldn’t possibly be powerful. I’m just little ‘ol me.”

Next comes our dear friend ANGER:

“How dare you catch me with my hand in the cookie jar! There must be something really wrong with YOU! I’m fine; it’s YOU that has the problem!”

Or

“How dare you accuse me of actually being powerful! Can’t you see I’m the victim of my circumstances????”

The next in line is SHAME:

“Wow, I really must be bad, wrong, and broken to the core. Perhaps I should do everyone a favor and stop taking up precious breath.”

Or

“I can’t believe I’ve lived a power-less life for so long…at my own hands!”

This feels so bad that we think we may be at the end of our rope…so out of self- preservation, we cycle back to DENIAL and try to distract ourselves or numb out and forget the whole thing ever happened. And, thus, our precious power stays neatly tucked in the closet.

This might have happened to me, were it not for my lion tamer dream. As I sit here today, admittedly I still feel a little raw around the space where the blind spot used to reside, but for the most part, I feel grateful for the awareness. I am actually even excited about the opportunity to excavate other blind spots, with the help of my dreams to soften the blow, and help me discover elements of my “power” that have been heretofore hidden.

So, if you see me in the theatre sitting with you the next time you go to the movies, enjoy the film, because I’m going to keep my vocal acrobatics on the inside, where they belong. However…as yet, I can’t promise what will happen outside the movie theatre…so bring your earplugs just in case.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~Carl Gustav Jung

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Last fall I had the great privilege of filming my ninth fundraising special for PBS. The show will arrive this month on your local public television station and I hope you’ll join me for an in-depth look at “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting.” Not only will you see me wearing those new shoes I mentioned here in December, but you’ll meet Anita Moorjani, the incredible young woman whose story of her near-death experience will turn your world around.

Anita’s story, beautifully told in her new book Dying to Be Me, has taught me what death really means, and just how much lies beyond our sensory reality. I’ve been sharing Anita’s story with just about everyone who’ll listen since I first discovered it. One person I was most eager to share it with is my 95-year-old mother.  And it’s been a wonderful source of comfort to a lady who has breakfast every morning with friends who might not still be around by dinner time. As Jesus said, “Be at peace.” We can trust that we come from God. Our reality is divine.

This ability to feel and to trust in our divine connection is exactly the key to manifesting, your “wishes fulfilled.” We can develop this ability to trust despite the absence of physical evidence as perceived by our senses. No matter the circumstances or obstacles, draft your dream and the way can be cleared. Trust your divine connection, know that your soul has no limits and the universe responds and works with you to manifest that idea into a physical reality. It has always worked that way for me.

Even as a child, and certainly against all odds given my background, I imagined myself speaking to large crowds. As a college student sitting in classrooms, I visualized myself working to transform lives, being uplifting and empowering to audiences around the world. All that time, I had nothing but a dream to work with—in foster homes, in the U.S. Navy, and in college. Feel the connection, focus on what you have to give, have faith in your dreams, and you will overcome all doubt and make your wishes reality.

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Thank you, thank you, for all the kindness and prayers you’ve sent our way at the passing of my mother, Hazel Irene Dyer, on Sunday, July 22. Although Mom had been in a coma for two days, on the 22nd she seemed to be waiting for my brother Jim and his wife, Marilyn, to arrive. Soon after they entered her room, she somehow knew it was okay to let go and her heart stopped beating.

Jim and Marilyn have shown what it means to be God-realized people in the last 5 or 6 years. They have dedicated their lives to reaching out and serving—first in caring for Marilyn’s mom and then for our mom, Hazel. Jim and Marilyn are amazing souls; they are angels. I have enormous respect for that kind of service. As Lao-tzu said, our original nature is gentleness and kindness and reaching out to others. Ram Dass has told me many times that the grandest achievement of his life was taking care of his dad and stepmother during their last years.

Three of my kids were here with me in Hawaii when we got the news about Mom’s passing. The kids organized a Hawaiian-style ceremony for us. Sands, Sommer, Saje, Mira, and I put some candles and flowers on boogie boards and paddled out into the ocean at sunset. We went out about 100 yards from shore and formed a circle. Although it’s usually quite rough out there, this evening the water was totally calm.

“Grama’s at work here,” said Sands. Each of us shared a remembrance of Mom. After about half an hour, we let the flowers float on out to sea and paddled back in.

John Quincy Adams, 7th U.S. President, wrote this the day before he died: “John Quincy Adams is well, but the house in which he lives at the present time is becoming dilapidated. It’s tottering on its foundations. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and tremble with every wind. I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he, himself, he himself is quite well, quite well.”

I can’t tell you how many conversations my mother and I had about death. We always talked very openly about it—never pretending that our bodies are not going to wear out and die. All that comes into the material world dematerializes—that’s just the nature of creation. Now Mother is free of all pain. She is in the mystery of all that we wonder about. Now she knows what’s on the other side. That is something we all will discover someday.

And so again, thank you for all the love you’ve sent to me and my family these past weeks. Thank you, Mom, for all your love. I love you always.

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Everyone knows the experience of “performance anxiety” whether you are a prima ballerina or a job candidate or a student taking a qualifying exam. Life is filled with what we think of as performance challenges.  The key word here is think because it’s really our thinking about these experiences that scares us—not the opportunity to show what we can do. 

A way out of the “I’m scared” thought pattern is offered in A Course in Miracles. I have a special love for this weighty tome that tells us there are only two emotions we can experience: love and fear. Anything that is love cannot be fear, and anything that is fear cannot be love. If we can find our way to stay in a space of love, then fear is an impossibility.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous refrain from his first inaugural address, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” was crafted from Thoreau’s observation that “nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” These Tao men had it right—there really is nothing to be afraid of. We have no need to fear and we can accomplish anything for the simple reason that we are never alone. The presence of our all-loving Source banishes fear.

When you face a “performance” that might provoke the “I’m scared” response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than Dancing with the Stars! Bring your highest Self to the occasion, your loving, serving, giving, joyful self, and be prepared to show the world what your God-aligned Self has to offer.

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Abraham Maslow spent a good part of his adult life researching and writing about the idea of self-actualization. He described the small percentage of people he called “self-actualizing” as living at the extraordinary level of consciousness. I vividly recall Dr. Maslow’s assertion that one of the highest qualities these self-actualizers possess is the inclination to be independent of the good opinion of others.

I’m deeply attracted to this idea of living extraordinarily—independent of the good opinion of others—stressing it in many of the books and recordings I’ve produced, starting in 1971. Dr. Maslow passed away on June 8, 1970, the same day I received my doctorate degree—I’ve often felt that in some mystical way, he was passing the baton to me.

One of Dr. Maslow’s most significant attributes of living a self-actualized life is self-trust. When you trust yourself to decide your destiny, you don’t allow externals to discourage or influence you. You have faith, and faith is attained through complete trust and confidence in the power of the one universal mind, which you are inextricably a part of. It is the God-realized you that placed the thoughts and feelings that represent your destiny into your mind and body.

One of the reasons I’m able to write about the hidden power of manifestation buried deep within each of us is that during childhood I unconsciously practiced these ideas while in foster homes—and they simply became a part of who I am. Throughout my life I’ve been labeled “stubborn,” “obsessive,” “headstrong,” and “unyielding” when it comes to what I have in my imagination and seeing it become my physical reality.

In order to manifest you must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. You must be able to feel it in your body long before your senses are aware of it. Your inner pictures and the corresponding feelings that are connected to your vision belong only to you, and you begin to treat this inner world of thoughts and feelings as sacred territory. You make the shift from believing to knowing, and what you absolutely know is not tinged with doubt.

With my recent diagnosis of leukemia, I’ve done precisely what I’m writing about, in the same way that I have for my entire life, concerning my own fate and my own well-being. What I know for certain is that there’s an emotional component to every illness. I view my elevated white-blood-cell count as part of my body employing its God-realized intelligence to heal whatever damage I’ve caused by participating in psychologically traumatic activities, particularly in my relationships with loved ones.

So rather than cursing my body’s innate wisdom, I am in a profound state of gratitude for all that has come my way, including these elevated blood-cell counts. The more I assume the feeling of my I am well; I am strong assertions in my imagination, the more the universe seems to send me the right information and the right people to assist me in living a wishes fulfilled life.

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Though we appear to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream…that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
~Rumi

Don’t toss out your dreams (aka winning lottery tickets) as if they were just a random recapitulation of the day’s events. Remind yourself that your dreams—those wild, fantastic, uncensored jumble of images that bombard your sleep—come bearing gifts. These mysterious and valuable gifts will help you gain guidance, solve problems, and activate your treasure map to quicken the life you most deeply desire.

It never ceases to amaze me when I do a dream session with someone, the insight and empowerment that comes when someone has taken the time to open their eyes to their nighttime dreams. I’ve personally witnessed dream work that recover couples from the edge of divorce, people from the edge of cliffs, and CEOs from the edge of bankruptcy. When a person decides they are going to take the few minutes in the morning to retrieve their dreams, their lives change.

Speaking of lives that change, here is an actual e-mail exchange between a dream client and myself:

Dear Kelly,

I recently had this recurring dream and I have no idea what it is telling me. Thank you, in
advance, for shedding some light:

I am suspended in white light and though I am alone, I have a sense that someone (or something) is with me. I suddenly feel an amazing power that begins to takes me higher. I look around to make sense of who or what is lifting me and all I see is white light with comforting billows of space. I hear in the distance encouraging words and as I listen to what sounds like words being spoken that explode into a resonance that gets louder and louder…it completely takes me over. I feel peace all around me as the words become clearer and defined. I hear over and over “Smile…Smile BIG…SMILE as BIG as you can!” These words continue for what seems like hours and I am just suspended in this billowing white light. It’s like I’m being encircled in these two words, “Smile…Smile BIG”.

Dear Diane,

My hunch about your dream is that it is a prescription being written to you by your higher power. Usually our angels or guides wait for us to come to them…but in this case, I believe they are reaching out to you. They are showing you that you have many reasons to smile—perhaps because you are connected directly to your higher power, or could it be because the universe is conspiring on behalf of your greatest good? All I know is a higher source is telling you to smile, which must mean you have good reason to smile. I suggest you take the prescription your dream is giving you. Your medication is meditation on that “billowing sensation”, and smiling as BIG as you can—as often as you can until that feeling becomes “ordinary”. Think of this feeling as a touchstone to anchor you in a place of awakening to the truth of your magnificence.

Eight months later I received this message from Diane:

Kelly!

Thank you for your interpretation of my dream. I recently received news that gives me reason to smile BIG. At the time I sent you my dream I had a brain tumor that was about to destroy me. However, it seems my dream came to my rescue. After I shared it with you I took your advice and have continued not only to keep my dream zone uncluttered, but most importantly I’ve been meditating on the billowing sensation and the incredible peaceful way my dream made me feel. I just got back from the doctor and he said it is a “miracle”…my tumor seems to have disappeared! No one can believe it. All I know is that I have a second chance at life. I know the dream by itself was powerful, but it was the work I did with the dream that I know was the healing medicine. That billowing sensation (and smiling more often) has in deed become ordinary for me. I feel like a new woman.

Kelly, thank you for encouraging me to work with my dream. It truly is the best medicine there is.

Smiling Big,
Diane

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Signs, like in life, are trying to capture our attention. The vividness of a dream, an extreme emotional feeling, or a dream that recurs are some one of the biggest telltale signs that the dream has life-changing potential.

The emotion can be extreme sadness, relief, anger, lust, love, ect…

We may see an aspect of our nighttime played out in the daytime. This synchronicity catches our attention, and we can ask:
• How does this make me feel?
• What does this remind me of?

If I knew what this “sign” was telling me, what would it be? (go with your first thought, hunch, or impulse)

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned
skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
–Leonard da Vinci

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I’m 72 today. Around the time of my birthday last year, I was privileged to be working on a new film project from Hay House called My Greatest Teacher. The story is based on my experience at my father’s grave in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1974. It was a moment of forgiveness that turned my whole life around and changed everything—from my writing to my career to my relationships. I stopped drinking and doing so many things that were debilitating to my body. In that moment, I got rid of the anger and rage against my father that I had carried around inside of me since I was a child.

The film has a contemporary setting with an actor playing the young me—angry, impatient, careless of the feelings of others—until he faces his greatest teacher. Essentially, he can’t go on with his life until he settles up with the huge burden of blame he is carrying. A Course in Miracles says, “If you didn’t blame, there would be nothing to forgive.” That’s important to remember. We get to stages in our life where we’re blaming other people for our unhappiness and our pain and our hurts. If we stopped blaming, where might we be? Ram Dass once said to me, “Who is anybody to forgive anyone else?” If we must forgive, we must first have blamed. To forgive is to stop blaming and to accept with compassion that everyone is simply doing the best they can given the conditions of their life and what they have to work with at the time.

Forgiveness sets you free to move past the pain and on into a life of loving and serving. The satisfying and fulfilling life you know is there for you. My Greatest Teacher does a fine job of portraying the turnaround that comes when a man stops nursing his own wounds and looks around to see who else needs the gifts of love and healing he was born to give.

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A man is but a product of his dreams. What he dreams he becomes.
~Astoria Eden

Dreams and dreamers go way back…I mean waaaaaaaaay back. Even a few steps further…all the way to the first prophets, even back as far as the caveman days. Anthropologists have encoded cave drawings to be communication about what was literally happening in cave dweller’s lives, as well as future events and visions from their dreams. In fact, research shows that even our Neanderthal brothers and sisters dreamed about what they were grappling with in their waking lives. While our Fred and Wilma Flintstone might have dreamed of being chased by a slobbering tyrannosaurus rex, today we might dream about getting chased from our homes by a sinister lending institution.

All of us have a family bloodline that trace back to specific mythologies, folklore, and traditions…including dreaming traditions. It is a wonderful thing to understand your family’s dream mythology…so that you can keep what you want, and let of what you don’t.

Our Egyptian great-grandmothers and grandfathers dating back to 1279 BC to the early reign of Ramesses II were great believers in the power and influence of dreams. Ancient Egyptians believed each dream was an oracle revealed to them by their gods.

The ancient Greeks were known for their special Aesculapian dream temples in which people would visit and have transformational experiences.

I’ve always felt a strong pull toward the shamanic traditions that teach the dream world may be more real than the world of our consensus reality. They believe, as do I, that when you are asleep, you are in the most vulnerable, suggestible state of being that you are in all day. This is magic time, when your mind’s power is truly accessible. The guards at the gate (i.e. your ego and inner critic) are asleep, leaving access to your most valuable asset…your subconscious (dreaming) mind. When we fall asleep, we slip through the cracks of the waking world, where our worldly desires and limitations run the show, and we connect to the world of the soul, where our consciousness is expanded and we fly free and explore our unlimited possibilities. Because of this many aboriginal dreaming tribes held as their only ambition to become a strong dreamer—to make sure that all their actions taken by day are done with the single purpose to ensure the best dreaming state possible.

The Senoi are a long ago dreaming culture that I have a particular resonance with. The Senoi were a dreaming culture from the highlands of Malaysia. Their dreamwork is all about gaining the positive benefits even from dreams that appear to be negative, to maximize pleasure and empowerment for the self and the tribe. The Jungian-Senoi Institute in Berkeley were quoted it in the early 1980s as saying, “Senoi dreamwork emphasizes the deliberate alteration of dream states, the resolution in dreams of problems encountered in waking consciousness, dream ‘rehearsal’ for activity while awake, and the application of dreams to creative individual and community projects.” The new theory sees dreams and even nightmares as an open and positive phenomenon, which can be shared and shaped for maximum human development.

We are multi-dimensional beings that, according to the American Hypnosis Association, inhabit only 12 percent of our mental and spiritual genius and potential. This is because we’ve made the third dimension king. I believe 100% of who you are—all your power, all your talent, all your experience, all of your capacities, and all your potentialities—is king—or queen, as the case may be. And this limitless wealth is worth exploring. Don’t you agree?

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Back in 2011, a patient of mine asked me if I could conduct a hypnotic regression on her for her treatment. I respectfully declined. This patient had sought my expertise as a pharmacologist. As I was a former researcher at the prestigious National Institutes of Health, we had been trying different medication treatments to help her ease her anxiety. She had already been in psychotherapy before and this had somewhat helped her deal with her symptoms. I had a small private practice at the time and worked for the pharmaceutical industry full time.

I suggested she seek hypnosis with a trained therapist. She declined. She had already tried that and her preference was that I facilitate the session because she trusted me. I questioned why she would trust my ability to hypnotize her if I was candidly sharing with her that I was no expert in past-life regression therapy. She insisted she would feel safe with me and this trust was her driving force.

Reluctantly, I decided to learn this technique. While I had been trained in hypnosis during my residency training, I had no idea how to go about past life regression therapy. I didn’t even know—or cared to know—much about this except from my naturally curious nature to learn about everything. Seeking information, I found Brian Weiss and his work. I naïvely wrote to him requesting to learn directly from him as an apprentice. No response. Frustrated, I realized I needed to take a leap of faith and attend his one-week workshop for practitioners in upstate New York. My attendance there was an eye-opening experience. The technique was easy, very easy. I came back with much more than a simple technique, though. I made amazing friends who I am still close with to this day and have been able to add skills and a deeper understanding to my repertoire.

We as doctors tend to block out what we don’t know or what we don’t understand and yet, we will go the extra mile in the spirit of service.

How did this evolve and how did Mystic Accord come into existence?

My attending the training workshop gave me much more than a simple hypnosis technique. I was able to understand the world on a much deeper level and became profoundly aware of the conscious and unconscious agreements we “sign up” for ourselves, our loved ones, and our “not-so loved ones.” It’s easy to understand why we create meaningful and positive relationships with loved family members and friends but what if we had also chosen to have specific challenges with specific people and situations? Can you make conscious the unconscious pacts you may have made? What would you see if you looked past the veil?

These workshops help us:

• Feel free to be ourselves
• Have a deeper understanding of ourselves as well as about our life choices about family, friends, and business
• Seek and experience peace of mind
• Understand our experiences and lessons learned from a higher perspective
• Make better choices out of freedom and peace rather than out of fear and anxiety
• Use visualization techniques to focus on positive outcomes in relationships and experiences while undoing longstanding negative ones
• Learn deep meditative techniques that enhance healing, well-being, and the experience of being One

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James Cameron created the movie Avatar from his dream. The sewing needle was invented from a dream. Paul McCartney’s song, “Yesterday” was inspired from a dream.
My dear friend, Joan Gelfand, writes poems inspired from her dreams.

And today we celebrate the 107th birthday of a cartoon that was first published in the New York Herold in 1905. Winsor McCay created the cartoon strip, “Little Nemo in Slumberland” (the predecesor of the orange clownfish that graced the silver screen over a decade ago). It emerged directly from his dream…and today Google is celebrating it’s 107th birthday.

Let’s celebrate all dreams and dreamers today…this includes you!

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One of the things I love most about dreams is the fact that the moment you start talking about them you get so intimate with people; heart to heart; soul to soul…nothing superficial…no talk about what’s on a resume or how’s the weather. When dreams start talking the ego garb comes off, and the soul takes center stage! I think life is too short for it to be any other way…how ’bout you?

Talk about getting between the sheets!

Enjoy my recent video filmed…in bed with “What the Bleep” creator, Betsy Chasse (and Freeman Michaels) talking about the REAL reason I’m a dream freak…and my new crowdfunding project: www.IHadTheStrangestDreamTV.com

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In this MP3, I answered a lot of your questions in the area of relationships, specifically soul mate and twin flame connections. LIVE CHAT

~Lots of love!

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Q. My question is about relationships with others after you know your Twin Flame, even if you are not yet able to be together physically, as is the case with me and my Twin Flame. Early on, he told me he had a desire to be faithful to me, as I have to him. I’m single, so I can be faithful to him, but he is married, so has to divide his faithfulness. But I believe he is as faithful to me as he can be. So, my question is this: What about us who are not able to allow love from others, who have no desire to be with anyone but our Twin? Are we wrong in feeling complete faithfulness to our Twin? Are we failing to develop universal oneness somehow in not going into other relationships as so many seem to be doing?

A. Ah, a lot in those questions…nothing is ever wrong…and from the perception/vision of the one heart of union consciousness (which encountering the twin flame brings us deeper into) this is the way and the truth – that all love is love shared with all…and that love is not limited or based upon conditions, expectations, etc…there is nothing wrong with feeling completely faithful to your twin flame, meaning that you don’t have a desire to be in physical relationship with another in body…allowing love from others does NOT have to be intimate, in a romantic relationship sense. As we move deeper into choosing, seeing, being, feeling love in every moment (union consciousness), then we see more profoundly how any action or expression of love to and with anyone, increases universal oneness. There is no rule that if you are not in this moment beside your twin flames side, that you need to be in another relationship, or even that you don’t have to be…this path is truly about following your own heart, your own guidance, knowing that what you are feeling resonates with your soul is NOT wrong, as nothing ever is. The other aspect of this is that because your twin flame is in another relationship, that this gives you an opportunity to deepen your understanding that you are not separate from that love, for feelings such as jealousy can only come through in a heart that can’t see the oneness that is always present…again, even feeling jealousy is not wrong…it’s just an opportunity to become aware of what is causing it, and to shift perception into union, which can then heal the feelings of jealousy. These situations are such beautiful ways seen from the eyes of Spirit to strengthen the truth of eternal, unconditional, divine and sacred love. Follow your heart…and let it continue to guide you…as you open to seeing and receiving the love from the relationship your twin is in, and the more you extend and feel the love within every encounter and experience in your life, the more you enhance, develop and add to the universal oneness for all…as one awakens, that awakening is sent to us ALL.

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By Dr. Gaby Cora

I just returned from Argentina, where I gave a presentation on Mystic Accord – Acuerdo Místico – in Spanish for the first time.

What’s Mystic Accord about? We may go about our lives thinking our interactions with others are just by chance. On the other hand, what if you had made an agreement with mutual benefit prior to meeting in person? While it is easy to understand why we would choose to meet family and friends who we adore, what if we also chose other family members and acquaintances with who we have challenging relationships? What would be your underlying agreement if that was the case? What is your Mystic Accord?

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Dr. Gaby Cora offers weekly intensive group workshops to help find your mystic accord, peace and succeed using hypnosis, guided imagery, regression, relaxation and energy work. Taking the first step toward getting help is often the most difficult. Please don’t hesitate to send an email to Dr. Gabriela Cora, or schedule a Skype appointment.

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~by Gabriella Hartwell

Here is an MP3 to listen to most of what is written below ~ I encourage you to listen to it before and/or after but definitely listen to it, for the vibrations that come through in my voice are so powerful in themselves. Spiritual Marriage of Twin Flames in Extension to the World and With Our Soul Mates

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Spiritual marriage is one of the Spirit ~ our spirits are the life force that flows through us. It is our essence which is not limited by form. This essence is eternal and always experiencing, creating, loving with our bodies. Our spiritual presence is not tainted with any beliefs or constructs we may follow. Our spiritual being is pure, divine, unconditional, sweet love. A spiritual marriage is one where the life forces (spirits) of both twin flames are merged. Since Spirit always has been, IS, and always will BE (always present in union/oneness), the spirits of both twins are already married.

Twin flames do not have to be together physically for them to be in spiritual marriage for they are already in it. If a twin flame is in human marriage with a soul mate, they are still spiritually in union (as it always IS) with the twin flame. This is why I always express that love shared is love shared with all. Love of Spirit is all inclusive. Think of a plant that needs water to breathe yet this plant is made up of water. Now think of it never getting “enough” or too much of that water ~ envision it having a limitless, truly infinite capacity to receive more of what it is. This is how we are, our true, divine spiritual energy flows with this infinity of love for it is LOVE. There are no exceptions, there is just total acceptance and openness to receive this love.

Human marriages ~ even how we have perceived our humanness ~ has been clouded with restrictions, limitations and fear that we have created responses and behaviors which can bring us into the experience of separation with each other. If we focus and see the love/union, separation on all levels cannot exist. Our perceptions and creations of and within human marriage have been “boxed in,” as we attempt to create in this box without realizing that we are the ones who have placed ourselves within it and therefore, we are the ones to bring us ALL out of it. Human marriage is meant to be the joining of 2 as 1 with God in the middle. Hence there are 3, all creation comes from this Trinity. Now, the difference here with God is that YOU are a piece of God as we are ALL God as ONE together. As you connect with your God energy ~ your Beloved energy ~ you see that all is love ~ you are love so you are inspired to be that love and allow yourself to be loved. The Beloved flow is always emotion (energy in motion) ~ love flowing in ~ love flowing out (around and everywhere). God is this Beloved energy. Human energy is meant to be two beings (or more, depending on choice but that’s another chapter) joining their spirits (love) with their Beloved Energy, to be this love and receive this love from each other and all that is. This way there is no possession, rather both are being, and no narrowed view of only the human/physical aspect of union/marriage. Spirits are free as our creations, the foundation of all creations, are meant for us to be free as one, and as ONE.

Twin flames are already married spiritually for their spirits and souls are one. As above, so below. When you know you are already married to your twin flame spiritually, you feel this oneness and all of your energetic pieces move into alignment. Your hearts are one full of the pure, divine love that you are. You become a living vessel of this love. To do this, you experience your spiritual essence through the human journey with the intention to merge them both with your awakened consciousness. You move further into the flow of this sacred Universe as a result…the souls intentions for creation/service are activated. This is where synchronicities come in to guide you…

Spiritual marriage is the alignment of the heart/Spirits/love within and then both twins bring all of this into full expression in form. You are remembering this oneness that already is and therefore you become one with your own Spirit. You merge with your own heart. You align with your divine, true essence as you be a living expression of LOVE. All the limitations from the outside have no control over you nor do they influence you for you have moved inside. This sets in motion the call to your twin flame to awaken in remembering your love and oneness. In remembering, you align as one, you are activated as one in love and you ascend (continuous rising in vibration and love). This is limitless and expansive. This is the experience of your spiritual marriage. You do not have to be together physically for this to happen because this is an alignment and activation of the Spirit, of love. Remembering, feeling, being this love and oneness is what becomes married/joined. Once this happens, the physical bodies become the extension and expression of this marriage of the spirits. The difference with usual, human marriages is that they join the bodies and start playing out the roles and rules placed upon the marriage/love relationship rather than joining their love and oneness. Love is viewed, experienced and expressed differently. As we move forward in our ascension, these spiritual marriages will be happening on more of a massive scale and marriages that were not joined of the spirit will fall away for love and oneness will be the focus. Marriage is not about fulfilling roles or living “The American Dream,” it is about service and Divine Love. You focus on being that living vessel of love which brings about the remembering and the experience of becoming spiritually married to your twin flame. The signs reflect where you are but they also inspire you to action. In this spiritual marriage and the joining of the human marriage with it, instead of 2 as 1, you ARE 1 as 2. Your whole energetic vibration moves into alignment with your spiritual essence. You become this love beyond form and in form! !! !!!

When you dive in and you discover your divinity, you connect to the divine eternal unconditional true and pure love that you are, this you discover is limitless. I repeat it is limitless! Therefore, it does not have any limitations, no conditions, no expectations, no separation. As a result of discovering/remembering this love that you are, this love flows throughout your entire being. You no longer see the separation of anything. You no longer feel the separation and you choose to express yourself through the vibration of union, through the vibration of the connection of it all. You become this divine love, on your own. This love that you are flows throughout everything that you do. You connect so deeply with it that you know yourself profoundly. There is a passion within you that is yours to connect with and as you connect to that passion and you create in its vibration, you are loving, you are being love in your own unique way. This is what draws you to the way that you will express this LOVE. As you tap in and you connect to this love, you become this love. You be and express and create in this LOVE, you are loving ALL. Hence, you are loving your twin flame.

If you are in a soul mate relationship, you are meant to join your spiritual love/marriage with your twin flame with your soul mate. You are already spiritually married to your twin flame. What that means is that the love that is YOU is also your twin flame, your Spirits hold the vibration of this love, this divine love. This divine love is open. It knows that there is no separation. Therefore, there is no separation in the expressions of this love. It is only the perceptions of separation that create the limitations and the behaviors and the pain and all of that, which IS separation. However, we experience those emotions to let them go. It is in experiencing the emotions (energy in motion) that we release any attachment to beliefs, behaviors/patterns, feelings that are of separation. It is in the feeling comes the revealing and therefore the healing. We are meant to join both the spiritual and human marriage because there is no separation.

If you are in a soul mate relationship, and you are aware of your twin flame and you are so deeply connected that you do make love (in all its various ways) beyond form, you feel each other beyond what can be fully expressed in our human language, this intensity and this love is not separate from the love that you are sharing, that you are IN with your soul mate. It is ONE and the same. It is love, it is love so deep that it opens you, it opens your heart to love more and to love more, to love ALL in the deepest way possible, in this limitless way. How you express your love with your twin flame openly to all that is when you are in a soul mate relationship? You are love. When you remember and connect with this truth, you find your passion, what moves you. You bring that more fully, more completely into creation in the world ~ whatever service, whatever it is that you are passionate about. As you become that and you express that passion within your life, you are expressing that love that is you and your twin flame as ONE.

The emotions, feelings and beliefs of separation that create the unpleasant experience can shake us up. However they are meant to, they are meant to because if everything was smooth, we wouldn’t be able to discover what is illusion and what is truth. It is through the experience that we discover what illusions we may have attached to that really are the illusions so that we can be and we can vibrate within truth. So many of you are asking me, can you express to your soul mate of the love that you hold for your twin flame? Can you? YES. Will you? This is up to you. This is completely up to you and this is where again, I must say how important it is along this journey to always go within, to always connect to your inner guidance, to feel what is your truth because it IS there. What is your truth and what is your soul’s intention for this lifetime? Express it to your soul mate piece by piece if you need to instead of coming out and expressing everything all at one time. Just as there are layers to an onion to get to the center ~ there are layers for us to unveil, to reveal and to allow for each piece to become part of the whole. Is this easy? Again, everything really and truly is perception and then our perception creates our experience and how we feel as a result. So I say to you, I say to you! Follow your heart with this, but I can say that if you are in a soul mate relationship, and you have become aware of your twin flame, whether this be through the awareness of actually knowing in physical embodiment who your twin flame is, or if have just become spiritually aware of your twin flame, there IS a reason for this! What this is meant to do is to bring you ALL, everyone who is involved, including you, your children, your soul mate, your twin flame, anyone who your twin flame is in connection with, ALL of you together, closer, in a deeper web and vibration of LOVE, true LOVE. This is what the twin flame relationship is about. It is about this DEEP, divine love that is ONE.

The emotions that you may be hearing in my voice (listen to MP3 above) is the energy in motion of the intensity and the depth of this divine love. It is very deep and the wounds of separation that have caused us to live and love in limitation is the illusion. This is the illusion we are releasing by feeling these deep wounds of this separation. We were never, ever meant to love in separation. We were meant to love in union, to know that it is all ONE, to know that we are all one.

I want to express some of my own experience. Expressing love within a soul mate relationship while being aware of my twin flame, and feeling so profoundly this depth and intensity of love with my twin flame while also loving a soul mate has been my experience. It has been my experience because I am meant to teach about this. Many times, we experience what we are meant to teach. We are all, always, students and teachers. Those of you who are in soul mate relationships, I can say that I understand your pain, your confusion, your perceptions and actions that you may have attached to of separation while also so deeply longing to be in union. I became of my twin flame in 2007 and it was in 2008 that I met a soul mate. Now when I became of my twin flame, I knew right away that we were meant to join together, to create together, because we are both creative artists (he as a musician and I as a writer/relationship coach) and I knew that we were meant to join our creative talents with one another to spread the messages of true love to the world, to travel around the world together and do this. This is my soul contract and my knowing. So when I met him, I thought at that time, that I was on my way to being with him in all ways, including the physical. I wasn’t aware that a soul mate needed to come along. In 2008, when I met this soul mate, I resisted him at first. I resisted being with him because I have this intensity and strong love for my twin flame and know what our mission is. Yet I was so strongly and intuitively guided to be with this soul mate and I relented and loved in the moment. Now, there were layers of loving in the moment because of course, this love with my twin flame continued to increase. As many of you know, as I recently wrote about making love with your twin flame beyond form ~ this also increased and dreams I had with him, and my LOVE. However, my love also grew for this soul mate. I have to say in my experience, I expressed to my soul mate right from the start, about my twin flame, told him of the love that I have for my twin flame. I told him of what I saw to be our mission and that eventually, we would be together in all ways ~ and I also shared with him that I saw his connection with us to be a huge part of it ~ that we were all connected in this love. There were many, many layers of him accepting this, of us both walking through the uncomfortable, at times, feelings, beliefs, actions that we had attached to of separation. We thought how could this love be part of our love? We saw it as separate, at first. My soul mate had to go through the emotions and perceptions of jealousy and feeling that he wasn’t loved and that he couldn’t fully just be with me, to move into the space of seeing it all as a deeper love bringing us all together into the soul family that we are, into experiencing the oneness and the deep connection of the soul family that we are. Again, this is a journey of remembering this love and this oneness that IS always connecting us, it’s never not with us. It is us. It is the truth. Therefore, we are on this journey of remembering it and then bringing it into our experience so that we BE it, feel it, and become it, in every relationship, in every experience, in every moment.

What did I have to go through? I understand on the deepest and most profound levels how much of my entire being wanted to merge in all ways with my twin flame, and wants to merge in all ways with my twin flame. There were layers of me understanding and experiencing this oneness, this love that is with my soul mate as well as with my twin flame in the SAME moment. I found many times, that more and more that I released another layer and another layer, and that I allowed myself to love and be loved fully with my soul mate, I felt that I was also loving with my twin flame. Literally, in moments, when we made love physically, I felt my twin flame with us and felt as though I was making love with both my soul mate and my twin flame. Through this journey, my soul mate and I became best friends because we were committed to love. Many times we physically separated and came back together. Every time that we did and every layer that we released, that we let go of, the deeper our love became. The more awakened we became within the vibration and truth of union consciousness ~ that we are ALL ONE and that this consciousness of oneness wants to experience the merging and the joining of ALL of us. This is Monday, September 17^th ~ and where I am at in this moment on my journey ~ is physically in my own presence. My soul mate is not physically with me nor is my twin flame however they are BOTH with me. My love for both of them (our mission and experiencing this divine love) has increased I could say manifold, I could say athousandfold, I could times 100 million and that still would not do it justice. That much love I feel for each of them and both of them together. I can also say that my soul mate is more than excited to embrace physically my twin flame because he is at the point of seeing my twin flame as an extension of me (and himself) which just increases the love for us ALL and between us ALL. I know in the deepest recesses of my heart that my twin flame feels the exact same way about my soul mate. My soul contract, OUR soul contract between us three is to share this with the world, to share the divine love that does not hold any limitations in any way, that does not even see, feel, or create separation. This divine love that is ALL of us, but the unique piece that my soul mate and my twin flame and I have chosen to share is the 3 part, the Trinity within Infinity (sharing on this more soon) but there are 3 parts of sharing about this love. I look forward to having you here as we share our experience.

Again, I bring you within. What do you feel is your contract, your mission in this lifetime? Are you staying within your soul mate relationship, within your soul mate marriage if there is also marriage, because of obligation, because of the roles placed upon you as a parent, and you as a spouse? Is all the other pieces of you saying that your mission involves your twin flame and uniting in all ways with your twin flame? OR Is everything within you saying that you have this deep connection with your twin flame and it’s meant to be spiritually right now and you are meant to open with your soul mate in love in your relationship while bringing in that deep profound, intense, beautiful love with your twin flame IN your soul mate relationship? Even if that is the case in this moment, if that is your truth, that also may not mean that that is forever, and that your twin flame will not be together in all ways in this lifetime ~ there are so many ways that this can play out. There are so many various ways that people can be joined with their twin flames. It does not include the physical, in all ways, in everyone’s experience and even if it doesn’t, it is not less than another experience. There is no separation. Feel within this. Feel within about this. You don’t have to know it all in this moment. From my experience, I can say there’s pieces and pieces that come through, more experiences and experiences to have, and you’ll know what you are meant to do and when you are meant to do it. This is a very intense journey on so many levels but yet that’s the experience. It is this intensity of energy in motion (our emotions) that is our Spirits on this journey in the form of man. It’s really beautiful because the more we experience what we have created in separation, the more we can transform it and transcend it when we discover and we realize that union has always been here. When we discover that union is the truth, we become so excited that we want to experience that union within form. It’s so natural ~ hence the magnetism to the twin flame.

I ask you to go within and feel within your experience right now, feel if you are limiting yourself. Are you limiting and separating your love? What I mean by that is do you feel that you are not expressing yourself with your soul mate? Are you not expressing yourself with your twin flame? Are you not expressing how you feel with yourself? Are you limiting the love that you can experience physically and emotionally and all other ways with your soul mate for the perception that that separates you from your twin flame? OR that merging and loving with your twin flame separates you from your soul mate? THAT is the illusion. Those are the perceptions and behaviors of separation. That is not the truth. I would never, ever tell you to suppress your desire. If you’re having a desire, it’s there for a reason. It’s something for you to open to, to go within and discover why you are having this desire and what is this desire that is coming up showing you? What is it offering you? If you are in a soul mate relationship and you are having this intensity of this desire to be with your twin flame, it’s there to open you, it’s there to open you deeper into what love really is, what true love really is. It is unconditional, eternal, divine, limitless, it’s ALL inclusive. That desire to merge with your twin flame ~ if we go back to the spiritual marriage and that you are already spiritually married with your twin flame ~ therefore your Spirits are already one ~ it is that love ~ it is the remembering of that divine love that is part of the oneness ~ it IS the oneness ~ it brings everything all into ONE ~ so if you are already spiritually married with your twin flame, that desire to merge in all ways with your twin flame is the strengthening of that love ~ it’s the joining of your love and the love of your twin flame, which is one ~ that love is meant to be brought into all other experiences, creations and relationships. You choose how you are going to bring that into each relationship. You choose, by following your divine, inner guidance, when there is a transition needed in any relationship if a transition is needed. You will know. This beautiful, profound love with the twin flame is not meant to separate. By all means, it is not meant to separate you from others. It’s meant to unite you, unite you more profoundly with others and with yourself. That’s the perception and the patterns of separation that have us acting out separation instead of uniting. When we feel love, when we feel such love, we are meant to share that love and be that love more profoundly, not to hide our love. As we are connected with the Beloved energy that is God ~ God is love and gives love ~ so we are meant to be love and be loved, to allow ourselves also to be loved ~ that’s the journey and it’s the ongoing creation of love ~ going in and going out ~ literally.

There’s so much more to share ~ if after reading/listening to this, you have questions or anything you’d like to share, please do so. This is what I’m here for. I want to leave you with ~ the love that I AM, I AM sending to you. The love that I feel for both my soul mate and my twin flame, for the love of the service that we are, I give it to you. May you take it within you, receive it and allow it to become part of you so that you then be this love also more profoundly than you are. I love you and I’m here.

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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver.
~Lucius Seneca

People claim they can’t afford the time to pay attention to their dreams…I say you can’t afford NOT to. What if the goldmine you have been praying for is not in your backyard, but under your pillow?

My intent with this program, at the very least, is that you will come to see your dreams and your dreaming mind as a powerful conductor for good in your life, and thus be inspired to dedicate a few minutes in the morning to your dreams (before guzzling that first cup of tea or coffee.) My greatest dream for this program is that you will take the tools contained within and become so engaged, so enthralled, and so in sync with your dreams that you will go down in history as one of those dreamers that carried remnants of the dream world into the waking world, and thus left a legacy of true benefit to the entire human race…for eons to come.

Lofty? I think not. Perhaps you will be inspired to up the ante of your dream work/play when you realize you are in good company. The greatest thinkers, scientists, artists, visionaries, and leaders throughout history were ordinary people like you and me, who happened to have a deep respect for dreams. Because of this respect, these mere mortals became legendary as they shaped the world through their contributions to art, science, technology, and spirituality. Many of these people attributed their greatest successes to their ability to carry their dream wisdom and visions across the divide into the three- dimensionality of the waking world. For example:

Our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, attributed the philosophy contained within the Declaration of Independence to their dreams Albert Einstein attributed the theory of relativity to his dreaming mind Thomas Edison credited his dreams for his discovery of electricity

Colonel Harold Dickson made history’s biggest oil discovery (which later became the Kuwait Oil Company) based on guidance illumined in his dream Elias Howe credited his invention of the sewing machine to his dreams A dream led Otto Loewi to a Nobel Prize for his contribution to medicine Paul McCartney praised his dreams for his multi-platinum song, Yesterday Jeff Taylor dreamed of his patent for Monster.com Summer blockbuster movie about dreams, Inception, grossed over $800 million at the box office, was inspired by dreams

Allow me to elaborate a bit more…

Stephenie Meyer was a stay-at-home mom who dabbled with writing from time to time and was certainly not into vampire stories at all. However, one night, she had a dream about a benevolent and hot (as in handsome) vampire who was captivated by the scent of an average girl. This dream was so vivid that Stephenie began to write what became the mega-hit Twilight book. This led to the next in the Twilight series…then the next…then the next…and the rest is her-story. Can you imagine what would have happened if she had shrugged it off as “just a dream?”

Is this phenomenon relegated to just a select few people in this world with especially good karma? Absolutely not! I believe it is special when a person has a dream like this but not unusual. It happens from time to time to everyone…even for those whose karma is questionable.

Here are a few more examples of dreams from ordinary folks (and a few superstars) that made them wealthy, healthy, or famous…

Unsightly Cell Phone Towers: John, a guy from one of my dream workshops, reported dreaming of a beautiful palm tree sprouting out of a cell phone tower. Upon awakening, he jotted down his vision. He has since patented his design and is now making millions of dollars with his “fake tree” designs that cover up the unsightly cell phone towers sprouting up across the nation.

Worm Interrupted: My husband dreamt about a worm being pulled out of his forehead. A few days later he went to the dermatologist who immediately was able to extract a rare “worm like” form of skin cancer-just in the nick of time.

Get a Grip: Golf legend, Jack Nicklaus, attributes his success in part to a dream he had in which he was gripping a golf club differently than he normally did. In real life he’d been having trouble collapsing his right arm and taking the club head away from the ball. However, in his dream, with this new grip, he was swinging perfectly. When he practiced his “dream grip” in real life it worked. “I feel kind of foolish admitting it,” said Nicklaus, “but it really happened in a dream.”

Oil Well In His Own Backyard: In September 1937 the Kuwait Oil Company was unsuccessfully drilling in Bahra…until one night, Colonel Harold Dickson dreamed of a beautiful woman buried in an underground tomb. In his dream the Colonel rescued the damsel in distress, fed her and gave her warm clothes. To repay his kindness she led her hero to an ancient sidr tree, growing alone in the desert. Upon awakening, Colonel Dickson discovered the exact location of this particular tree and shared it with the Sheikh of Kuwait who redirected drilling operations to the area near the lonely sidr tree. Within a few months the Kuwait Oil Company hit on what became the one of the richest oil discoveries in history.

http://www.mossdreams.com/Design%202009/Archives/essays/dreaming%20oil.htm

On My Nerves: Dr. Otto Loewi’s dream took place in a laboratory. There were two frog hearts placed apart from one another, the first with its nerves, the second without. In his dream he had the hunch that it was not the nerves that influenced the heart directly…but the chemical substance that was transmitted between the nerves. Upon awakening Dr. Loewi conducted an experiment that proved the theory of chemical transmission (later identified as acetylcholine) of the nerve impulse. In 1936, Dr Loewi was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/summer06/otto.html

Embrace Your Inner Frankenstein: During the rainy summer of 1816, at the ripe old age of 18, Mary Shelley dreamed of “…a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for SUPREMELY frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.” With the urgings of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley wrote her dream down and expanded it into what is now considered a landmark work of Romantic and Gothic literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

Opening Pandora’s Box: One morning, in 1995, award winning film director James Cameron awoke breathless from an epic dream whereby he had visited a land called, “Pandora”. In this rainforest-like dreamscape the people were an enlightened hybrid of aliens and humans, speaking a language that was foreign, yet understandable to him.

Luckily for James Cameron (and Avatar fans worldwide) he respected his dream world and took copious notes. Ten years and several technological quantum leaps later, Cameron’s dusty dream notes served as a travelogue for the entire production…a world that Cameron had already visited. “Avatar”, released during the ’09 Holiday season, with a $250 million dollar budget (the biggest movie budget in movie making history), has grossed over 1.686 billion dollars, and counting.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/03/02/how-cameron-brought-the-avatar-dream-to-life/

If you are still not sold on the fact that your dreams can catapult your life to riches, stardom, and/or your greatest contribution to humanity (or at least a bit of guidance as to what outfit to wear on your date tomorrow night) …then consider this to be your wake up call. Perhaps the dream you have tonight will be your breakthrough dream to heal your body, solve your problems, lead you to your very own gold mine, or contribute your unique gift to the world.

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Bobi Leonard is a successful entrepreneur, businesswoman and TV personality with interests in skin care, business consulting and real estate.

An innovative force in American interior design for nearly three decades, Bobi owned one of the largest interior design companies in America.

In 2001 Bobi was the recipient of the prestigious “Women in Business,” award.

Today, Bobi’s true passion is her revolutionary skin care line that is receiving rave reviews because of its amazing results. Bobi also loves consulting and mentoring business entrepreneurs to help them achieve success.

Bobi Leonard has been a visionary in the revitalization of Santa Monica, renovating and preserving over 20 buildings in the Main Street district.

In all she does, Bobi is about giving back – her philanthropic work is too extensive to mention. She has a special place in her heart for rescued animals. She is on the board of several organizations and charities, including Doctors and Without Borders, The Humane Society, PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.) Most recently she founded Women Helping Women in the World, the World Foundation of Women.

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Dream Therapist, Kelly Sullivan Walden, is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and the author of the #1 Amazon.com bestselling dream book, “I Had the Strangest Dream…the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century” as well as “Discover Your Inner Goddess Queen…an Inspirational Journey from Drama Queen to Goddess Queen” and “Zone Golf”. Kelly is the host of “The D-Spot” weekly web-radio show on the Awakening Zone (where she explores the nexus of nighttime dreams, daytime desires, and destiny). Kelly is featured regularly on FOX, NBC, CBS and ABC news and magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Bride, Seventeen, Woman’s World and US Weekly. You can read her weekly dream blog at www.Patheos.com. Kelly is the creator/founder of The Dream Project, a non-profit organization that bridges inspired young people to solve the issues facing the United Nations and the Millennium Development Goals. For more information about Kelly you can go to:www.KellySullivanWalden.com, Facebook.com/KellySullivanWalden, Twitter: kswalden ordreamexperiment.

Kelly began her dream research at the age of five! Growing up, Kelly and her younger sister shared a room. Every morning, the two girls would wake up excited to share their dreams and compare notes about what they thought their nighttime adventures might have meant. They bought up every dream dictionary they could find and poured through them to widen the spectrum of their understanding. When Kelly grew a little older she became interested in Carl Jung, Carlos Castaneda, in addition to many other spiritual and esoteric teachers, who took her understanding of dreams to a deeper level.

Some years ago, when Ms. Sullivan Walden became a certified clinical hypnotherapist, she began working with clients via their subconscious minds to access their core beliefs, drives, and desires, in order to more effectively assist them to heal from past traumas and to align with their future goals.

Over her years of working with hundreds of clients, Kelly began to see the impact their dreams were having on them. When Kelly realized that no dream books on the market dealt with contemporary symbols or synthesized the realm of dream interpretation in the life-affirming way she did, she felt compelled to write her latest book, I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM, THE DREAMER’S DICTIONARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

Kelly has appeared on numerous television, news, and radio… and is a regular guest on FOX News New York and San Diego. Kelly has been featured in US Weekly, L.A. Times, Women’s Day,Cosmopolitan Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune. 

Recent Past President of the L.A. chapter of Women’s National Book Association, Kelly is also the creator/founder of The Dream Project (www.DreamProjectUN.org), an educational program that inspires students (grades K–12) to discover and invent solutions to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (goals to combat, by 2015: poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The Dream Project has been nominated for a CTAUN award (Committee on Teaching About the United Nations).

The highlight of Kelly’s career, thus far, was speaking, by invitation, about the Dream Project at the United Nations.

Kelly, her husband, Dana Walden, and their dog, Woofie, live amid the squirrels, trees, and coyotes in enchanted Topanga, CA.

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When you nestle yourself into bed, turn off the bedside lamp, and close your eyes to your daytime reality, your “conscious self” goes to sleep. Meanwhile, your “dreaming self” slips out of the covers and tiptoes upstairs to the attic of your mind to explore the enchanted realm of dreams.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~Jack Kerouac Within this nocturnal territory you are transported beyond the ego’s five senses to a vast, multidimensional playground of unlimited possibilities. In the realm of dreams you can peruse the tale of your past or future; learn a topic of fascination; converse with a departed loved one; study at the feet of a master; find an answer to a perplexing question; discover the solutions to a health challenge; or explore the larger story of your life.

All of this takes place while you are “asleep.” Yet for most people, by the time the alarm blares and the morning coffee is guzzled, the exploration of the vast landscape of their multidimensional soul is shrugged off as “just a dream.” This “just a dream” scenario can be compared to spellbound lovers on a shipboard romance who profess undying love to one another by moonlight, and then find, in the harsh light of morning, back on dry land, the glow is gone. In the swirl of “real world” demands, the lovers revert to being ordinary, sensible, earthbound mortals, vaguely recalling that something magical transpired aboard the ocean of their dreams. The experience—so real while it was happening—is now elusive as wisps of cloud. But, what if it wasn’t “Just a dream?”

Many of us 21st Century, fast-paced jet-setters fall prey to placing too much emphasis on the tangible, the text-able, and the three-dimensional, while discounting the magical, the mystical, and the multidimensional. We would do well to learn from our ancestors who lived close to the earth and were in sync with the tides, seasons, and realms beyond the ordinary. Our indigenous grandmothers and grandfathers considered the dreamtime to be when they were most “awake.” They also believed that a society’s mental and psychological health was related to dreaming. The more disconnected from dreams,
the more sick and out of balance the society. The more in touch with dreams, the more healthy and thriving the society.

If you want to understand the jungle, you can’t be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You’ve got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
~Carl Jung

Kelly Sullivan Walden is a certified clinical hypnotherapist whose been working with people and their dreams for seventeen years. She is the author of seven books including the Amazon.com #1 bestselling dream interpretation book, I Had the Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century, and Discover Your Inner Goddess Queen. As a sought after keynote speaker and popular media guest, Kelly has appeared on over 1,000 media interviews and is featured regularly on FOX news as well as being quoted in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Bride, Seventeen, Woman’s World, and US Weekly. Kelly’s weekly web radio show, The D-Spot (www.SpotYourDspot.com) explores the nexus of Dreams, Desires, and Destiny. You can see Kelly in the documentary, Dreaming Heaven. Kelly’s dream work led her to the United Nations where she was inspired to create The Dream Project (www.DreamProjectUN.org), a non- profit organization inspiring young people to tap into the power of their dreaming minds to solve world issues. The highlight of her career was speaking, by invitation, at the UN about her groundbreaking work. Passionate about the magical realm of dreams, Kelly is a lover of life and languages and considers dreams to be the most important language in which to be fluent. Kelly lives in Topanga Canyon, California with her husband, film producer/director, Dana Walden, and dog, Shadow. To receive your free dream gift go to: www.Doctor-Dream.com

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When you nestle yourself into bed, turn off the bedside lamp, and close your eyes to your daytime reality, your “conscious self” goes to sleep. Meanwhile, your “dreaming self” slips out of the covers and tiptoes upstairs to the attic of your mind to explore the enchanted realm of dreams.

Within this nocturnal territory you are transported beyond the ego’s five senses to a vast, multidimensional playground of unlimited possibilities. In the realm of dreams you can peruse the tale of your past or future; learn a topic of fascination; converse with a departed loved one; study at the feet of a master; find an answer to a perplexing question; discover the solutions to a health challenge; or explore the larger story of your life.

All of this takes place while you are “asleep.” Yet for most people, by the time the alarm blares and the morning coffee is guzzled, the exploration of the vast landscape of their multidimensional soul is shrugged off as “just a dream.”

This “just a dream” scenario can be compared to spellbound lovers on a shipboard romance who profess undying love to one another by moonlight, and then find, in the harsh light of morning, back on dry land, the glow is gone. In the swirl of “real world” demands, the lovers revert to being ordinary, sensible, earthbound mortals, vaguely recalling that something magical transpired aboard the ocean of their dreams. The experience—so real while it was happening—is now elusive as wisps of cloud.

But, what if it wasn’t “Just a dream?”

Many of us 21st Century, fast-paced jet-setters fall prey to placing too much emphasis on the tangible, the text-able, and the three-dimensional, while discounting the magical, the mystical, and the multidimensional. We would do well to learn from our ancestors who lived close to the earth and were in sync with the tides, seasons, and realms beyond the ordinary.

Our indigenous grandmothers and grandfathers considered the dreamtime to be when they were most “awake.” They also believed that a society’s mental and psychological health was related to dreaming: The more disconnected from dreams, the more sick and out of balance the society. The more in touch with dreams, the healthier the society.

Even in modern times, according to the American Hypnosis Association, it is believed that our subconscious is our “dreaming” mind that comprises approximately 88 percent of our mind’s power, as opposed to our conscious “waking” mind, which comprises only 12 percent of our mind’s power.

Unfortunately, most people think…

*Dreams are unimportant
*They don’t have time to record, share, and/or work with their dreams
*They’ve lost touch with their ability to remember their dreams

However, consider the fact that…

*Science tells us we all dream 3-9 dreams every night and can re-learn to re-member our dreams
*Dreams (even the unpleasant ones) can become our greatest ally
*We cannot afford not to pay attention to our dreams, if we want to thrive while being alive
*** It’s All In Your Dreams

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Jepsen makes appearances around the globe thanks to the success of 2012’s song of the summer, “Call Me, Maybe.” Billboard says the 26-year-old Canadian’s infectious pop song about infatuation love topped its “Songs of Summer” chart. The list annually ranks the overall performance of hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Landing at No. 2 was Maroon 5’s “Payphone,” featuring Wiz Khalifa. Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” and Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” round out the top five.

“Call Me Maybe” has already netted Jepsen a Teen Choice Award, and the video is up for the best new artist moonman trophy at Thursday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Move over ‘Song of Summer’—the ‘Song of Fall’ is here! Contenders for “Song of the Fall” include tunes by Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Bieber. The songs in a parallel early-September spot are: Maroon 5′s “One More Night”, Ellie Goulding’s “Lights”, fun.’s “Some Nights”, Neon Trees’ “Everybody Talks”, Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake”, Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Good Time” and Justin Bieber’s “As Long As You Love Me,” featuring Big Sean.

“Call Me Maybe” had already been on the charts for about a dozen weeks by summer’s official start, but many of the above have already clocked many months more on the chart and likely won’t make it to playlists for Halloween parties.

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Wild horses are more than just gorgeous, powerful creatures. To movie maker James Kleinert, the majestic animals are symbols of our freedom that he believes is as endangered as the mares and stallions in the American West.

James Kleinert is a spy of sorts.
The documentary maker has spent the past decade on horseback, galloping across plains and prairies, camping out under the stars, and trailing the subject of his deep fascination: the American wild horse. He’s fascinated by them. “I even dream about wild horses,” he says. And in the same way that he’s learned about their intricate family structure—the lead stallion that protects and the lead mare that leads them to food and water—he’s also discovered firsthand the tremendous dangers they face.

He says that at the turn of the 20th century, there were 2 million wild horses, but now only 15,000 remain, despite Congressional actions taken 40 years ago designed to protect them as emblems of our national heritage. Kleinert says the biggest threat to the wild horse has nothing to do with shortage of food or water, the message the U.S. federal government conveys.

“The wild horse is resilient,” he says, “there are adequate resources” for their survival in the wild. What is threatening to make them extinct, he says, are the actions of the Bureau of Land Management—the federal agency charged with managing public lands and overseeing the welfare of the wild horse. Instead BLM is driving the horses off the land—corraling them and then putting them up for adoption, as well as shipping them to food processing plants in Mexico, where they end up in food.

His latest documentary, Wild Horses & Renegades, is his attempt to open the eyes of the American public to what is happening on public lands, and why. The problem in a nut shell: “BLM makes millions of dollars from leasing out public lands” — to ranchers as well as mining and extraction companies exploring for gas and oil; on the other hand, BLM doesn’t make a penny from the horses that for generations have roamed the plains and since 1971 have been protected by the Free Wild Horses Roaming Act.

The presence of the horses can throw a wrench into operations—because the animals expose toxic practices, which he says wouldn’t be taking place if the corporations were following the country’s environmental standards. “It’s totally irresponsible,” he says. And when wild horses drink from the toxic ponds left behind by mining with sulfuric acid or fracking, they die. “They’re an indicator species,” Kleinert explains.

As a result of ranching and farming the numbers of horses began dwindling in the beginning of the 20th century, but the poisoning of their environment by corporate actions—and more pointed roundups of horses by “the best government money can buy” have been driving the creatures off the land—with helicopters and trucks driving them into corrals, where they are put up for adoption or sent to slaughterhouses. In Wild Horses & Renegades, the film maker has enlisted the help of celebrities from Willie Nelson to Darryl Hannah to publicize what is happening.

He says the concerted attempt to diminish the wild horse mirrors what is happening on every level of American life – from illegal degradation of the environment to the shredding of our civil rights. The film, released this July on the Documentary Channel, will be followed by two sequels, and Kleinert believes that when Americans understand what is happening they will step in to stop the ravaging of the wild horse. “It’s going to snowball,” he says. “When people understand the slaughter of the American wild horse, things will begin to change.”

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Nutritionist Robert Ferguson, famous for “The Diet-Free Life” weight-loss system knows how to shake up “established facts” in the food arena

No, he’s not joking, says nutritionist and “diet-free” guru Robert Ferguson, one of the country’s best known weight loss consultants. You can lose weight eating chocolate, eating pasta and drinking wine.

You can lose weight eating fried chicken and fast food. “I want to show people how they can lose weight eating how middle America really eats,” he says.

When Ferguson, a former Marine, spreads the word that nothing’s off limits when it comes to eating, the reaction isn’t always applause. Some get hot and bothered.

“The topics of food and diet are like religion and politics,” he says. People are passionate.

Medical doctors are often his biggest skeptics – initially–not surprising perhaps, since physicians have been chanting for decades about avoiding fats, sweets and alcohol. But Ferguson melts away resistance pointing out that people won’t gain the weight back if they get results eating the food they would anyway.
The determining factor: how much you eat. And how often: he says we should eat something, a little, every two or three hours.

“It’s all about the right intervals and the right combinations,” he says, adding that calories do matter—especially getting a variety of calories from the ladder of nutrients which places proteins on top.

He doesn’t discount carbohydrates either. Every person is different. The trick is to figure out your carbohydrate
threshold. “Some people can eat a lot of carbohydrates,” he says. “I’m one of those people who gain weight just looking at them.”

To help assess people’s tolerance, he’s created a new carb-step program that operates on the same idea as allergy testing: first you take foods out of a diet, then you slowly build them back in and monitor the reaction. He’s also keen on keeping an eye on hormone levels, particularly insulin, glucagon and cortisol, which can work together to turn the body into a revved-up, calorie-burning machine.

His campaign to change health professionals’ attitudes about eating—and embrace his idea that nothing is off-limits–has been “A 100 percent upward battle,” but he’s making strides. One sign of his success: he’s scheduled to appear on The Doctors this fall.

Ferguson wasn’t always so flexible about what his clients should eat. In earlier days of his food coach career, he had hard and fast rules–among them, “If it’s white, it’s not right.”

He gave up his rigid ideas around the day a Filipino woman came to see him in his office. “So no flour, no sugar, no noodles, no rice?” she asked, after he ran down his diet plan. He nodded. She walked out the door and never came back.
A colleague pointed out that white rice was an integral component of the local diet in the Philippines. And that’s when he realized “You have to meet people where they’re at.”

Ferguson is quick to point out that like many of the people he advises, he, too, adores eating. “To me, food is the kitchen of the heart–it’s comforting, it’s great.” So nobody is more open-minded about special cravings.
One client hired him with the warning that she couldn’t go a day without eating chocolate and drinking some wine. She too dropped pounds when he guided her on how best to nibble a little chocolate every few hours through the day.

And while he doesn’t recommend a diet heavy on fast food, he’s is getting people how to rethink dining out. I’m not “The Big Mac Guy,” he says. “You will gain weight if you eat a Big Mac, fries, coke and a sundae.” Nevertheless he’s shown followers how they can lose weight even if they do dine at McDonalds, where he has been known to duck into while traveling. Ferguson typically opts for an Egg McMuffin, preferably one made with egg whites.

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We love warm weather, particularly when the sun goes down and the temperatures turn wonderfully balmy. But lovely nights often go hand-in-hand with mosquitoes. To chase them off naturally, try lemon eucalyptus oil – dilute it with 3 parts water to one part oil – and spray it around the room and directly on skin – even The New England Journal of Medicine found it to be effective for two hours or more. Mosquitoes already got you? Dab on full-strength lemon eucalyptus oil for relief.

When fresh out of eucalyptus, you can swab on vinegar—white or cider vinegar—to repel the blood suckers. Rubbing skin with the peel of an orange or lemon will deter the winged bite squads, and soybean oil can also drive them skeeters away.

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Single twenty-somethings are the new norm in the U.S. as the number of unmarried adults soars.

Americans love the idea of marriage, and the U.S. leads Western post-industrial countries in the numbers of couples walking down the aisle every year. However, in the history of the United States census, there has never ever been such a high percentage of unmarried adults. Nearly half (46 percent) of Americans between 25 and 34 have never wed.

“In a dramatic reversal,” notes an analysis by the the Population Reference Bureau, “the proportion of young adults in the United States who have never been married now exceeds those who are married.”

Due to concerns about getting careers underway as well as the economy, many young adults are cohabitating, but waiting much longer before saying “I do.”

Even though only half of American adults are married according to a recent survey by the American Community Survey, that doesn’t mean we don’t hold a torch for the institution of marriage or that we’ve stopped doing the wedding march: we´re just doing it, on average, six years later than our parents–on average at age 27 for women and 29 for men.

Fifty years ago, in comparison, 42 percent of American brides married in their teens, with 88 percent of young women wed by age 24. Now, only 7 percent of women make that commitment in their teens; by age 24, only 38 percent are married. Reflecting trends across the world, in U.S. the percentage of people now wed has dropped: only 52 percent of American adults are hitched–with 11 percent of American divorced, 2 percent legally separated, and 32 percent never having married at all. But a recent survey of young adults by Clark University indicates that a whopping 86 percent plan to someday wed, and to make that marriage last their whole life.

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A family of Americans traveling in Thailand is saved by the kindness and bright ideas of Thai villagers
On the final day of their trip to Thailand, the Streggazi family of eight wanted to buy textiles in neighboring Myanmar, the lovely land formerly known as Burma. They drove through the lush, winding mountains to Northern Thailand, planning to cross over by land.

Alas, upon reaching the bridge to Myanmar, they discovered the border was closed.

Their companion, well-versed in the unpredictable behavior of the Myanmar government, suggested they simply take an hour-long boat ride and enter the country via the back door. The Stregazzi easily hired a local Thai fisherman for the water journey, his canoe uneventfully passing by tiny Thai villages en route.

An hour later, the Stregazzi disembarked in Myanmar, and the fisherman promised to wait and take them back to Thailand. He urged them to hurry, however, as he wanted to travel by daylight. The sun was setting when the Stregazzi returned, textiles in hand, to the Thai fisherman’s boat.

The fisherman was frantic. It was too dark to return to Thailand. He said they had to spend the night.

At this news, the Stregazzi became frantic – they had to fly out of Bangkok, in south Thailand, the next morning. They couldn’t stay overnight, all the more since they’d come in a back way. They offered to pay more.

The boatman explained that it wasn’t a matter of money. The river was thick with jagged rocks and teeming with hungry crocodiles. There was too big of a chance that they would hit a boulder and fall out into the churning waters.

The Stregazzi insisted he set off nevertheless. He hesitantly pushed off in the descending darkness.

Ten tense minutes later, as they approached a small village in Thailand, a villager yelled out to the boatman. What was he doing traveling at dark, the villager yelled, the waters were dangerous.

The boatman yelled back that yes, he knew of the boulders and beasts that lurked within, he had no choice.

The villager yelled to wait, then ran to his house, and yelled at his neighbors. Then the villager ran to the shore with a lit lantern. Standing at water’s edge, he held the glowing light high to show the way, and he was soon joined by his family, and neighbors, and more neighbors, all bearing lanterns, all forming a line of light, while another villager ran off to tell villagers down the way to prepare.

And in that fashion, the dangerous waters illuminated by the locals’ lanterns, which shone like a necklace of light the whole way, the Stregazzi returned to land unharmed and enlightened by the beauty of the Thai culture.

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If you want to uncover the secrets in exotic locales like Portofino, it helps to learn the language, and to meet a waiter or three.

As wild a party town as it may have been in Renaissance, 21st century Florence doesn’t exactly give Manhattan a run for its money in the dining out and nightlife departments. Gorgeous yes, zinging with nocturnal hot spots, no. After a couple weeks in the stunning, if stony, city, it can feel as snoozy as Iowa, although certainly with more interesting architecture, enchanting views, and not so many cows hanging around.

So a while back it was with great joy that I pressed my face against the window a new eatery, noticing that the sprawling restaurant-bar was handsome (as were the waiters) and elegant (as were the waiters).

Brass chandeliers dropped down from high ceilings, long dark wood tables where you could dozens tasty wines by the inexpensive glass, the frequent appearance of famous opera singers – these were among the deciding factors in making this my temporary main hangout in Florence, as of course were the flirtatious waiters, who showed great panache in their service, and also had all their teeth.

By my fourth visit – after I’d sampled the strong cheeses and sipped wines made Sangiovese-Cabernet blends that smelled like violets and tasted like berries – I’d become friendly with the staff, which is helpful, because waiters are often tuned in to entertainment possibilities.

Months of teaching myself the basics of Italian had paid off, because few of them spoke English beyond “Here eeza your check.” Had I not spoken their language, or at least my version of it, I´d never have understood when the sandy-haired waiter with the strange name of Ig invited me to Portofino, a dazzling coastal town on the Italian Riviera.
That Monday, bells chimed noon across Piazza Santa Croce (where the church is home to the bones of Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Rossini), I met up with cheese cutter Vincenzo, sommelier Claudio, and my handsome host for the day Ig.

The air was sticky and gray when we left Florence, and wine guy Claudio – whose skin was already cinnamon-colored from compulsive sun-worshipping – was moaning that it was going to rain and he needed to sun because he was fading, but two hours north everything changed, and Claudio’s whining ceased.

The air was light and clean, the landscape sweeping, flowers were blooming everywhere, and much to Claudio’s delight, it was sunny. Once we entered Liguria, the coast-hugging stretch where Northern Italy starts to takes a left, we were surrounded by stunning evergreen-tufted bluffs which dropped sharply to glistening blue water. Instead of the typical Tuscan stone houses, the buildings were splashed in pastels – apricots, pinks and blues – and boasted arching, metal-laced balconies in the romantic variety of nearby Genoa.

Once we departed the three-block downtown of Portofino and slinked along the knee of coastline, it somehow got increasingly more beautiful by the centimeter.

Near a U-shaped stretch of beach, we stopped at a house that at first glance looked pretty much like a normal old beach house, or rather a normal old wooden Italian double door built into the side of a stone cliff that loomed overhead. Across the narrow, winding street and down from a precipice where umbrella pines perched keeping watch, the sparkling turquoise water lapped at the shore, and everywhere we looked there was a striking, wind-sculpted view flecked with aquamarine and deep green that was worthy of an award-winning postcard.

Inside the building, there was a tunnel-like corridor ahead of us as we passed through a foyer and climbed a spiral staircase. At the top was a small, curving door and we entered the modest apartment of Ig’s friends, a beautiful plump woman named Anna.

Ig said that creamy-skinned mother Anna was an apartment caretaker, but I couldn’t figure out what complex she was caretaking, because only this tiny, hobbit-like dwelling was atop the spiral stairs. He said they’d show me the apartments later, and in the meantime, we headed down the curvy road towards Portofino’s private beach – where the boys, being delightfully Italian, paid my $10 cover fee and we sat on white plastic lawn chairs looking onto the sea, while drinking a crisp, slightly floral white wine called Pigato.

Claudio, who while sweet has a vaguely militaristic air, promptly made a show of dramatically doing one-armed push-ups on the sandy beach. With each push-up, he loudly announced, “Notta bad, eh? And I justa turned 30!”

“And howa old are you, Meleeza?” Claudio asked, a question that had obsessed the entire wait staff since our meeting the previous week.

“Younger than Madonna – both of them,” I said, neglecting to answer their queries about the latest Madonna’s age.

“You knowa Meleeza,” Claudio started, changing his push-up arm, “I hava lived eena Florida, eena Miami bitch, so whena I talka English I talka like a real American.”

“Hadn’t noticed Claudio,” I said, kicking back a bit of the cool white sand with my foot.

Claudio, it’s true, has an amazing command of English, which in itself is quite rare over there, but he never utters North America’s most important phrases – “Whatever” and “Anyway.”

“No, eet eeza true, I don’t talka with the foreigner’s accent lika when you talka Italian,” he added, changing push-up arms again.

“Oh really,” I said with a yawn, looking out over the sun-sparkling teal waters and the cliffs towering above.

“Justa listen,” said Claudio, his push-upping suddenly halting, “nowa I willa talk like a real American.”

“I’m waiting Claudio.” I took a drink of Pigato, the ideal wine for seaside sipping.

“Ok,” Claudio began, “You f……g HASSLE!”

“What?” I said, laughing so hard I sprayed my wine all over Ig.

“You saya this whena you driva the cars een America,” Claudio explained.

It was that “h” problem Italians halways ave…the one evident when they say, “I am very hungry with my father” (with whom they are invariably irate) or when they ask, as they whisk you into a trattoria, “Are you very angry? How many courses would you like to eat?” Or when they hold their stomachs and moan, “I hate too much!”

Thus began our English language lesson on the balmy “bitch” of Portofino – which light-haired Ig and dark-haired Vincenzo joined in on, and that no doubt sounded like a strange chant to passersby of “Hassle, hassle, hassle,” when Portofino, one of the dreamiest places on earth, is one of the most hassle-free.

And it was sometime around the time they were finally putting the “h” of “hassle” on the second syllable, that I found something I’d been seeking for the past twenty years.

It began when I looked at Ig’s semi-muscular arms, which in the course of sunning had gone from ghostly white to very pale beige.

“Hey Ig, you have some interesting mole formations,” I noted.

“Yes,” he agreed, quietly surveying his moles, his gray eyes matching the serrated outcropping of stone above us, and his profile looking arched and angled. “There are many groups of three,” Ig continued. “And what’s really strange is… they all make triangles.” He looked rather guilty in this admission.

I considered making use of all my advanced math classes to note that chances are whenever there are three random points they will make a triangle, but instead I demurely said what I always say to every man whose arm is exposed. “Hey, let’s see if our moles match. I’m not looking for my soulmate, but I am looking for my molemate.”

And a most cursory examination revealed something that I’d given up on ever happening, but there it was before my eyes: not one but two triangles on our respective arms matched – identically – as though I was staring at my arm moles in a mirror. In other words, after decades of searching, I’d finally found my molemate!

Although no in-depth studies have ever been conducted on matching moles and their potential meaning, this molemate discovery, in its statistical improbability alone, seemed to me to be grounds for celebration, and I happily would have ordered another glass of Pigato, except it was 7:30 and the private beach was closing. So instead we walked back in the soft breeze to the itsy-bitsy apartment of Ig’s friends. Little did I suspect what festivities awaited.

The sun was just starting to slip behind the jagged crags when we returned to the same old wooden door on the side of the cliff and rang. The painfully thin daughter greeted us and suggested a tour of the grounds, which I erroneously thought meant a tour of another two or three modest apartments that must have been hidden away behind a garage.
Instead Anna was leading us straight up into paradise.

From the front door we didn’t turn up the spiral stairs but instead wandered straight down a long, damp, chilly corridor – as though we were entering a cave, except this cave had decoration gone deeply surreal, with water trickling down stone walls and the passage eerily lined with low-lit lights and small diagonal mirrors hanging every few feet.

At the end of the very long hall was a small elevator, and much to my relief, we pressed 2, since any floor higher than three is enough to induce in me anxiety attacks.

“Two can’t be that high,” I thought to myself, as the elevator began its ascent and (like the Real Madonna) kept ascending and ascending and ascending.

After five minutes of ascension I was ready to flip, as it seemed we were shooting up a mountain, but finally we arrived at floor 2, which was apparently short for floor two trillion and two, and we hopped out and walked down another trickly stone corridor. It was all so hypnotically strange, as though we had stumbled onto a planet from ‘Deep Space Nine.’

After some time, the corridor spilled us out onto the most enchanting terrace I’d ever seen, with a heart-piercing view of the turquoise water crashing below, and the rocky precipices beyond, and everywhere there were staggered walls cascading canopies of extraordinary flowers, oriental and tropical, in pink and orange and red, and the air was thickly perfumed with an olfactory marvel that was worthy of heaven.

Well, I would have been happy to die there, but I didn’t have a chance, since within minutes we were moving on down yet another flinty, damp corridor in this strange cliff complex, to yet another small elevator and this time we pushed 1, which did not take us down but yet higher.

And there, after yet another trickling tunnel trek, we found ourselves strolling along yet another hilltop courtyard, this one more incredible, with even more devastatingly beautiful flowers lazily nodding in the evening breeze, and a more awesome view and trees planted about artfully in an Asian-Italian like way that made it look and smell like a small tropical rain forest. This was the private terrace of an international lawyer, who is so well-to-do that he has an entire suite just for his cat; for the first time in my life I found myself envious of a four-footed being.

Then, as it’s sinking in that it’s all one, multi-level building somehow carved into a hollowed-out bluff, we hiked up some stone stairs to yet another balcony, and this one was my all time favorite, being larger than most houses, with bright mosaic tables set up every few steps and quotes from scholars chiseled into granite walls, and unleashing a sweeping view of the wind-sculpted cliffs and the tranquil U-shaped beach to the right, and the fishing village with its bobbing boats enveloped by a rosy sunset to the left.

Everywhere I looked was yet another marvel of nature, the terrace being showered with blossoms and low-hanging trees, and we plucked Asian citrus fruits and apricots and other strange nectarous wonders as we scampered back down the many stairs, this time along a trail on the outside of the cliff dwelling, past a Venus fly trap the size of a small meteor, and more exotic plants all stunningly sculpted, and finally made our way down, down, down, to the apartment of Ig’s friends.

There we found the small table loaded with a feast – fried pasta, grilled vegetables, salami, cheeses, olives, and salted cod. This was followed by a mozzarella-gushing pesto lasagna drizzled with bright green Ligurian olive oil that tasted faintly herbal and almost grassy.

Over bottles of a tasty Cabernet Franc from Friuli, my new pals exchanged strange story after strange story.

Ig told about a recent year in Brazil, where he bought a garage and turned it into a bar, making table tops out of cross-sectioned tree trunks. Since the Brazilian currency was at that moment strong, he made oodles of money in the first six months. Alas, the value of the currency fell, and nobody went out, and after another six months of no business, he sold the garage-bar for a mere $30 and hightailed it back to Italy, the former highroller broker than ever.

Anna, the satiny-skinned mother, told of the two wild boars she had recently shot, skinned and turned into sausage. She illustrated the tale with photos of the huge, fanged cingale looking quite terrifying in their pre-skinned, pre-sausage state.

They both told the story about Ig’s crazy uncle in Friuli, who upon throwing a large dinner party at a posh restaurant, ordered a bottle of very fine wine and served it out of his shoe, which I was thinking may have been exactly what the lifeless Dolcetta D’Alba needed.

Typically soft-spoken Vincenzo, who often complains that he’s stuck behind the bar slicing cheese and never meets anyone, was suddenly yukking it up, talking about Buddhism and the many macrobiotic restaurants he’d found while living in Germany, and seemingly quite taken with the hunter to his left, Anna.

Claudio kept gazing at his arms saying, “Hey, notta bad – my tan eeza definitely coming back!” and going on to imitate how stupid Americans sound when they nasally pronounce “Portofino,” which prompted me to call him a “real hassle.”
And I was as happy as I’d been in recent history, gazing at the moles on Ig’s arms, and then back at mine, and then out the window at the hazy outline of the cypress-dotted bluff perched atop sandy shore, and then breathing in the salty marine air that was mixed with sweet, honeyed flowers.

This sort of luxurious travel adventure in exotic places, I decided with a deep sigh, probably always happens when one finds their true molemate.

We kept drinking and laughing until two in the morning, when we had to turn back because the boys, being professional waiters who work double shifts six days a week, had to show up in good form the next morning. And whether it was due to the beauty of Portofino or a side effect of the grassy green Ligurian oil, I was in a veritable state of bliss by the time we piled into the car.

Hours later, when the boys dropped me off in Florence, the morning sun was rising in a bright azure wash, and I stumbled into bed, arising the next morning with not even a postcard as proof that the day had in fact occurred. I’m not fully convinced that it did, or that I found a place that was worthy of spending eternity, and my friends don’t believe me when they I tell them a mere hundredaire such as myself set her foot in Portofino and clamored about a multi-level cliff complex that makes Tuscan villas seem puny. But Claudio has assured me that “eeta all really tooka place,” and eeffa Claudio says so, eeta musta be true.

So the next time you meet some cute waiters, ask if you can tag along on their day off, and the next time you look at a cliff, look again, because paradise may be rising up from its hollowed interior. And the next time you see someone’s bare arm, check to see if your moles match, because you never know what could happen when you meet up with your molemate.

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One of the world’s foremost psychics, Hans Christian King talks to the dead. He can see inside purses. He’s prevented suicides and murders. He says we need to realize that we come here to this realm for school. And that we’re not alone — we bring friends and guides with us.

As a boy, Hans Christian King always knew what his Christmas presents would be. He could predict to the penny what the groceries would cost before they were rung up at the cash register, and he told his mom what letters would be coming in the mail. He was known to predict automobile crashes. He figured everybody had those abilities.

“I thought everybody had special friends who talked to them and read books to them and took them on adventures out into the universe.” He says at night his imaginary friends often took him to a castle many planets away and showed him large books – of the Akashic Records. “Even though I couldn’t read, I knew what they meant…”

When King told a playmate about one such night-time adventure, the friend was amazed, but terrified. He told him that such occurrences weren’t normal and warned him to not tell anybody else. He might get in trouble. Or worse.
King stopped socializing much, and for a while was confused — all the more when his classmates began reading, and he couldn’t understand what the symbols meant, soon discovering that he was dyslexic.

The day in grade school when he flunked every single class proved to be a turning point. On his way home after learning that he was going to be put into “remedial courses for those considered slow-witted,” he sat on a bench and started to cry. “Why did you do this to me?” he asked his imaginary friends.

There was a loud noise, then he heard a voice, and a native American appeared before him. “Child,” he said, “it isn’t important what they want you to know. It’s important what we want you to know.”

Among the things he learned from his guides, whom he can see, hear and feel: how to stop the distracting chatter in his mind about unimportant matters, and to trust the information he was being given. And he also learned that he could talk to the dead and convey information from beyond.

He’s been receiving messages from unusual sources for over five decades now. “I walk in two worlds at the same time,” says King.

Although he usually turns off his abilities when out in public, his gifts can come in handy when he’s out and about.
He described a short flight he took not long ago in South Carolina. When he sat down on the plane, he knew the door had a leak in it, and wouldn’t properly seal. He told the stewardess, who told the captain, who came back to have a few sharp words with him, while assuring King that the plane system would notify the pilots if there was a problem with the door.

“At 5000 feet,” King recalls, “there was a real loud whoosh…” Indeed the door wasn’t sealing correctly.
He advised the pilot to stay under 8000 feet. And on the ground, he was greeted by authorities. They wondered if perhaps he had done something to the door. They let him go before too long, however. The detective said he wanted to start flying with King.

The psychic has changed the attitudes — and lives — of many he has encountered. Like the night he was walking by a bar and an entity appeared to him and told him that a man inside – the son of the entity – was going to kill himself. Would Hans mind going in and preventing it? He did.

A few years ago, a woman came to him for a psychic reading in his office. He says when she walked in he was immediately informed by his spirit guide that she had a gun. “She planned on killing her husband,” he recalls.

In the course of contacting her dead mother, the story came out – her second husband was molesting her daughter.
The woman admitted that she’d come to Hans because she wanted to know if she would go to hell for the upcoming murder.

“I told her there is no hell. But I asked her to reconsider. I said he’d just wake up on the other side.” King convinced her instead to call the police and file charges.

Not all spirits convey messages about emotional tests that lie ahead. Many come in to let us know we’re not alone.
“Most people think they’re alone in their thinking,” he says. “They hope somebody can hear them.” He says others are tuning in to our lives. King says that not only do we come here for school – where we’ve chosen our courses and lessons ourselves – but we also “bring friends, spirits and angels with us” to help along the way.

The medium doesn’t change lives simply by messages from the beyond. He tries to point out the lessons in life.
“Beware of human illusions,” he warns. “There’s nothing you get to keep. Life is a series of experiences while you’re waiting to die. The experiences were sent by you.” That is a key point, he says, one that throws people off their course if they don’t understand it. “Most people don’t live their lives, they live the reaction to their lives. When you actually get that the purpose of the experience is to be not to do, it changes your life. You tap into universal energy. That’s all there is.”

The key, he says, is to realize that while we don’t have control of much of anything, we have the choice of reaction to what we created. And one way to control reactions is to have clear thinking.
“Mind chatter,” he says, “is the single most destructive thing on the planet. How you gain control is simple. It’s called focus.” He likens focusing your thoughts to directing diffuse light into a laser-like beam.
“Learning just to be, harnessing thoughts by focusing, understanding you’re not alone”—those are major lessons in this realm, he says. “And recognizing that there’s nobody better than you. God never sent any half-baked cookies to this world.”

He says that when we die we’re greeted by loved ones and have a celebratory picnic. At some point, we review our lives, and see where we did well and where we fell short. And we’re the ones who are judging ourselves, based on intentions. And we decide if we want to come back and give a whirl again—with a dharmic map that takes us through an assortment of experiences to help us work on our weaknesses.

“Death is the other side of the door from birth,” King says. “When you go out the door and go to school, is that your real world? Or is it when you come back home from school and cross the door into your house?”

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Lincoln is an upcoming 2012 biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life. Filming began Monday, October 17, 2011 and is scheduled for release on November 16, 2012.

Screenwriter Tony Kushner has said that he worked on the script for six years and that he was very interested in “the relationship of Lincoln to the abolitionist GOP” and that Lincoln’s “incredible ability to finesse very, very treacherous political circumstances and continue to move the country forward, I mean, to lead the country forward in the midst of the most horrendously difficult period in its history, I think, is breathtaking and awe-inspiring.”

Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg says he wants to present the nation’s most iconic president — as a flesh-and-blood human being.

Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Watch the trailer which was released during a Google+ hangout with Steven Spielberg on September 10, 2012.

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Formerly a film and TV executive producer, Aurora Winter is America’s leading expert at empowering people to go From Heartbreak to Happiness®.  Aurora is the Founder of the Grief Coach Academy, which is the first coach training school devoted exclusively to training coaches how to coach their clients through grief, and From Heartbreak to Happiness®. 

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Mika has taken an unusual new direction in promoting his upcoming album, Origin of Love. The British singer-songwriter has teamed up with rising Chilean director Cristián Jiménez to provide a visual accompaniment to the title track. The short film (also titled “Origin of Love”) is a surreal, haunting ride through the streets of Santiago, which contrasts dramatically with the jaunty, upbeat sound of Mika’s song. (It’s also NSFW, both because of nudity and a sequence of disturbing A Clockwork Orange-referencing imagery.)

“I wanted to take the kaleidoscopic dreaminess of the song and pair it up with Cristián’s more realistic, surreal and moving imagery,” Mika explained in a press release. For his part, Jiménez revealed that he was inspired by the song: “The song is fantastic, it almost feels like you can touch it. I tried to do something that adds more layers to that texture. It’s an urban, very contemporary piece, with a bit of humour and touches of a fairy tale feel.”

About the film, Mika said:
“This latest short film is a collaboration with the Chilean director Cristian Jimenez. After seeing his film Bonsai, this seemed like an exciting match. I wanted to take the kaleidoscopic dreaminess of the song and pair it up with Cristian’s more realistic, surreal and moving imagery. When making these films, I give complete freedom to the director we are collaborating with, in a way that is never possible with a music video. This short film was made in Santiago with Cristian’s close team and friends, and with a lot of love. I hope that watching someone else’s visual reaction to the song is as surprising and moving for you as it was for me.”

Here is what Cristian had to say on the project;

“I was very excited when Mika got in touch about this. The song is fantastic, it almost feels like you can touch it. I tried to do something that adds more layers to that texture. It’s an urban, very contemporary piece, with a bit of humour and touches of a fairy tale feel. I hope Mika’s fans will connect and imagine a broader world beyond.”

After publicly coming out as gay and teaming up with hitmakers Benny Benassi and Empire of the Sun’s Nick Littlemore on his new album, we may have a whole new Mika on our hands — and that’s a good thing.

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Pop-rock band Matchbox Twentyscored their first No. 1 album with their long-awaited “North” release, selling 95,000 record to top the Billboard 200 chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures on Wednesday.

“North” is the first full-length studio album since 2002 for the four piece band from Florida, which formed in 1995 and had big hits with singles “Unwell,” and “3 A.M”.

Sales for “North” were powered by the new album’s first single “She’s So Mean,” released in June.

Matchbox Twenty have not played a major tour since 2008 and started work on “North” about two years ago. Band members have said the disc was delayed because they wanted to get the album right after such a long absence.

“North” was one of four new arrivals on the Billboard 200. Rock band Imagine Dragons came in at No. 2 with their first full-length effort “Night Visions,” and Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae debuted at No. 3 with “Gravity.”

It was the highest Billboard entry ever for Lecrae, and came just a week after fellow Christian singer TobyMac debuted at No. 1 with “Eye On It” in what was the first Christian act to reach the top Billboard 200 spot since 1997. TobyMac slipped to No. 8 in this week’s chart.

As expected, pop/rock band Matchbox Twenty scores its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as its new “North” album debuts with 95,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s the group’s first full-length studio album since 2002′s “More Than You Think You Are,” which debuted and peaked at No. 6 off a 178,000 launch.

Since then, the act released an EP in 2003 (aptly titled “EP”) which went to No. 43 and a greatest hits package in 2007 titled “Exile On Mainstream.” The latter bowed and peaked at No. 3, starting with 131,000.

The group’s breakthrough debut album, 1996′s “Yourself Or Someone Like You,” topped out at No. 5 on the chart the following year, but spent a whopping 119 weeks on the tally. In 2000, the act issued its second set, “Mad Season,” which reached No. 3 and earned its best single sales week — when it started with 365,000.

The new album was led by the single “She’s So Mean,” which became the group’s 13th top 10 hit on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Adult Top 40 on Billboard.biz). This week “Mean” holds for a third straight week at No. 8 — its so-far peak.

On the digital songs chart, country pop artist Taylor Swift topped the list for the fourth consecutive week with her infectious hit single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” while her new cancer charity single “Ronan,” entered at No. 2.

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A sweet, juicy orange is delightful to eat out of hand or turn into sweets and desserts, but don’t stop there. They also lend lots of flavor when used in savory dishes. Just a little bit of acidity can make all the difference in a sauce, salad, marinade or any dish, for that matter. They’ve got an edge over other citrus fruits (lemons especially) because they’re both mellow and sweet — and that little bit of sweetness goes a long way in adding flavor to recipes.

Whether they utilize just the juice, zest or the entire fruit or all of the above, oranges go a long way in the recipes featured below. Our salads get a citrusy punch from oranges, stews and braises benefit from their acidic tang, and simple sides like rice pilaf are elevated in flavor. Orange season is now, so learn some ways to incorporate them into your recipes.

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Within the past few years, coconut water has gone from being a nearly non-existent beverage in the U.S. to a growing multi-million dollar industry that is found everywhere from vending machines, supermarket shelves and bodegas across the country.

Since coconut water, is packed with minerals (such as zinc, copper and potassium) and vitamins (especially the B family) and is believed to have natural health benefits galore, many athletes are turning to coconut water to re-fuel after a workout. While there is some debate about if it can replenish electrolytes as thoroughly as traditional sports drinks, it’s generally accepted that coconut water is a great way to rehydrate; some swear by it as a hangover cure. It’s even been touted for having anti-carcinogenic qualities, although the verdict is still out on that.

Long enjoyed in Latin America and Asia, coconut water is the slightly-sweet, clear liquid in the center of a young, green coconut. (Don’t confuse coconut water, which is fat-free and low in calories, with coconut milk: the latter is an opaque, rich and high-calorie mix of coconut meat and water, and serves as a base for drinks like Piña Coladas.)

Some people love the flavor of coconut water, especially when sipped straight from the tropical fruit. Simply buy a green coconut, whack off the top and stick in a straw. Even if you aren’t a fan of coconut water, you can easily incorporate it into your diet, using it in dishes from soups to desserts, including coconut ices. The water adds an exotic sweetness flavor to dishes and adds nutrients galore, with few calories and no fat.

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Bacteria can be good for you. At least when it’s in probiotic form.

Not long ago probiotics were sexy only to gastroenterologists. In the past few years, however, these beneficial, itsy-bitsy microorganisms found in yogurt have become huge: their popularity is exploding and products containing probiotics ring in over $11 billion in sales worldwide.

Despite squeamishness about bacteria, recently Americans have become pro-probiotics, with over $5 billion worth of them now sold in the US. The reason: a slew of new studies showing that probiotics yield big benefits in “gut health.”

What they are: Tiny living bacteria or yeasts that have health benefits, particularly in aiding the digestive system. The most commonly used probiotic is the lactobacillus strain, which is the helpful “live culture” in some dairy products.

Where they’re found: Naturally occurring in yogurt—some brands now add more—probiotics are also sold as capsules, pills and powders in health food stores; the most potent forms, which can contain a billion or more of these “good bacteria” per pill, usually need to be kept in the fridge.

How they work: Probiotics are microscopic diplomats: these microorganisms have beneficial effects – they help bring harmony to the 100 trillion bacteria found in the human body.

Why that’s important: Not all bacteria are helpful. Antibiotics strip the good “flora” from intestines, frequency causing reactions like diarrhea, yeast infections and thrush; some believe that the absence of these helpful bacteria may even be related to cystic fibrosis and obesity.

What scientific studies are showing: Even U.S. government agencies and institutions such as Harvard Medical School are chiming in about the important role probiotics can play in keeping up healthy. Studies are documenting the benefits of probiotics in:
• Preventing reactions to antibiotics, especially “the trots.”
• Fighting yeast infections, urinary tract infections and bacterial vaginosis.
• Protecting against food poisoning from salmonella.
• Other studies suggest that probiotics may help keep irritable bowel in check, fight off gas for chronic sufferers, prevent eczema outbreaks, and even lower the risk of colon cancer.

When to take them: Whether eating them in yogurt or supplements, probiotics are a good idea to add to your diet when you’re taking antibiotics. They also appear to fight off some types of food poisoning: travelers to locales such as Mexico and India may do well to begin a probiotic regimen several weeks prior to leaving to help stave off the “revenge” of Montezuma and Ganesh. Since probiotics are believed to optimize immunity, particularly of the gastrointestinal sort, they are also popular with hospital staff or anybody else who comes in contact with antibiotic-resistance diseases such as C-Diff and MRSA.

What is often overlooked: When first ingested, probiotics can cause bloating and indigestion. Even people who are used to eating yogurt in the U.S. may notice a reaction to yogurt in other parts of the world. In Europe, which has long included yogurt in its collective diet, regulatory authorities aren’t so impressed with the health claims of probiotics. The European Union has shot down virtually every advertising promise about probiotics; apparently you can eat them there, but manufacturers aren’t allowed to tout their benefits on the containers.

What else: Being newly identified, and both a food and a supplement, probiotics are in a legal and regulatory gray area in the U.S. as well; experts are asking that there is more oversight in their production. Ads for them in the U.S. are toned down with words like “helps to” and “assists in,” although the flurry of studies now coming out and currently underway should help establish their effects as facts.

What they have to do with prebiotics: While probiotics are live cultures that have beneficial effects, prebiotics are indigestible bits of fiber. Prebiotics are believed to help probiotics work even better.

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Devil’s claw, also known as grapple plant, wood spider, is a plant of the sesame family and is native to South Africa. It is a prostrate, sprawling perennial vine with trumpet shaped flowers and spiky seedpods. The plant’s large tuberous roots are used medicinally to reduce pain and fever, and to stimulate digestion.

History:

G. H. Menhert, a German colonial soldier first learned about the devil’s claw in Namibia from healers of the San and Nama tribes people. He then became a farmer and let the public know about the benefits of the plant in 1904. In 1953, devil’s claw was first exported to Germany, and then was introduced into the European continent. During the 1970s, scientists demonstrated the plant’s efficacy as a treatment for arthritis.

Health Benefits of Devil’s Claw

The key components of devil’s claw are iridoid glycosisdes which are responsible for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. It is also considered as an analgesic, anti-arrhythmic, antibacterial, antirheumatic, bitter tonic, cholagogue, diuretic, febrifuge, hypotensive, laxative, sedative and utero-contractant.

Aborigines used devil’s claw for fevers, blood diseases, blood purification, bleeding gums, coughs, diabetes, diarrhea, gonorrhea, gout, lower back pain, lumbago and syphilis. It is also used to stimulate appetite, helps with conditions of the digestive system including heartburn, peptic ulcers and constipation, and helps with hypertension and high cholesterol. Devil’s claw is also used to treat diseases of the gall bladder, kidneys, liver, pancreas, small joints and tuberculosis. Used externally, devil’s claw can heal ulcers, boils, sores and wounds.

In the West, devil’s claw is used primarily to alleviate joint pain including arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout. It is also used to reduce menopausal symptoms. A clinical study shows that devil’s claw may reduce pain associated with osteoarthritis as effectively as other over-the counter or prescription drugs. The said study, a randomized, double-blind, parallel group study conducted in France, half of the patients received capsules containing the devil’s claw and the other half, a pharmaceutical drug. Pain measurements of all patients indicated that those taking the herb and the drug experienced similar benefits. However, the study also showed that patients taking the herb experienced significantly fewer adverse side effects than those taking the drug.

Cautions:

The safety of devil’s claw in the treatment of young children, pregnant and lactating women and those who are suffering from severe liver or kidney conditions are not yet known and it is best to avoid it completely. People with stomach ulcers or gastritis should also refrain from using the herb. People with gallstones should consult a medical practitioner before taking it. Devil’s claw can also react with existing drugs such as anticoagulants. Devil’s claw may also cause allergic reactions, diarrhea, nausea, headaches and ringing in the ears.

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Rosemary | Herb of the Week, with so many culinary, medicinal and aromatherapy attributes that it is hard to qualify which ones are the most important. Rosemary stimulates the central nervous system and circulation making it beneficial for low blood pressure and sluggishness. Rosemary oil and essential oil are used to alleviate the pain of sprains, arthritis, sciatica and neuralgia. Rosmarinic acid is a natural way to stabilize and extend the shelf life of hand made cosmetics, creams, lotions, and other herbal compounds. Use rosemary in skin care to tone and soften skin.

For memory, concentration and focus. Rosemary has a long herbal tradition as a herb that improves concentration and memory, Greek students would braid Rosemary into their hair to help them with their exams. Modern science attributes much of it’s action on the central nervous system to it’s potent antioxidant, rosmarinic acid. However,you don’t have to take their word for it, the uplifting aroma of a fresh sprig of rosemary in the summer will go far to convince you.

For Hair Care. Rosemary is one of best hair tonics available, whether you are worried about hair loss, or just want healthy, happy hair, extracts used in shampoos and herbal hair rinses will work wonders. A few drops of the essential oil can be applied directly to the scalp or hairbrush to restore dry, flyaway hair and make it shine. Rosemary essential oil stimulates hair follicles and circulation in the scalp, which may help prevent premature baldness. Use rosemary on a continuing basis for a healthy scalp that encourages healthy hair growth and slows hair loss.

For pain relief and circulation. Infused oil and rosemary essential oil are both used in massage oil formulations to relieve the pain of arthritis and of sore aching muscles. Rosemary used as a massage oil also helps to tone the circulatory system. Antioxidant compounds in rosemary prevent uterine spasms and menstrual cramps. Rosemary essential oil helps alleviate water retention and increases circulation when used in massage blends.

Culinary Uses of rosemary. Unlike milder herbs, rosemary can withstand longer cooking times, and lends itself well to roasted meats, chicken and hearty stews. A few teaspoons of chopped rosemary lends a tangy taste to biscuits as well. Rosemary vinegars are an excellent and healthy way to dress cold vegetables and salads. Even the twigs, stripped of their leaves find use as kindling, and as a aromatic addition to barbecue fires.

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Because of it’s extraordinarily gentle effectiveness, chamomile is the first herb of choice for many home remedies. The seemingly endless list of uses for chamomile can all be traced to its effects on the nervous system and digestive system, as well as its anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties.

There is a wide range of benefits from regular use of chamomile. Three of the top benefits include this herb’s anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, and anti-bacterial properties. Chamomile comes from the plant commonly known as passionflower. There are different varieties however. Most of the world uses the German variety for medicinal purposes. Britain commonly uses the Roman variety. Both provide the same benefits. They contain the active ingredient, chrysin. This activates the chamomile benefits described in medical texts from Ancient Egypt through modern times. Long known in traditional medicine, modern medicine is finally waking up to the fact that chamomile is a valuable medical option.

Chamomile’s anti-inflammatory properties help with alleviating inflammatory bowel disease, heartburn, and diverticular disorders. It also helps alleviate external inflammation when applied as a poultice or part of a cream. Inflammation is part of the body’s defense mechanisms to protect against pathogens and other foreign invaders. Most inflammation goes away quickly. However, chronic inflammation can cause many medical conditions, inside and out. One of the significant chamomile benefits is its ability to help bring down inflammation for both acute and chronic problems. Many find that taking chamomile pills helps keep chronic inflammation under control.

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Holding on to anger stunts us. So why do we do it? What benefit does it bring? And how can we let it go?

In my work in personal growth classes and as an intuitive consultant, people often ask me how to get rid of anger. I tell them that they will change when they recognize 1) What anger is costing them and 2) What the “prize” is for hanging onto it.

What is it costing you? Nelson Mandela once said “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.” But even though we may know our collection of stored resentment may be killing us, we often hang onto our outrage.

As my good friend Ross Quinn says, we don’t do these things to ourselves because we are stupid. We do them because they make sense to us, at some level. As painful as stored anger can be, there is a reason you are hanging onto it. It may be a big part of your identity. It may bring you attention, it may allow you to control certain conversations (and if that makes anyone here mad and are tempted to say “but you can’t understand my pain …” … then you are busted, my dear). In your heart somewhere you may have magical thinking happening (“If I stay mad, that will hurt the perpetrator”). You could be stuck on why it happened.

Caroline Myss says people don’t really want to forgive, what they want is the perpetrator to grovel at their feet (preferably in public) begging for forgiveness while they sit back and say “I’ll think about it.”
Whatever the reason, whatever the pay off, somewhere inside the prize is hiding, and we need to recognize and relinquish its hold on us if we don’t want to be a victim of it for the rest of our lives.

My personal experience … as a bullied kid, I found it very hard to forgive the teachers and the bullies until I recognized that while they were long gone out of my life, clinging to my resentment was kind of like dragging them along with me everywhere I went! Energetically, that is exactly what we’re doing – our solar plexus is plugged back into the past, and into our abusers. It’s as though we make a decision to carry on their dirty work for them. We become our own abusers! If you want to stop it … then let it go. Take your solar plexus back. It’s as easy as making the decision. I don’t think about or talk about the abuse I went through, except to show how I’ve overcome it. When it comes up as an issue or reaction for me, I remind myself that’s over now. I won’t give my abusers one more second of my time or one droplet of energy that they don’t deserve! Getting well was the best reveng Karma always takes care of itself in the long run.

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Buzzword-packed claims may be just as lacking in substance as the junk food products they advertise

To judge by the promises made on package labels, you’d think that Americans are eating very well.

“Excellent source of fiber” is emblazoned on boxes of heavily-processed breakfast cereals. “Made from 100 percent whole grains” claim the labels on corporate bakeries’ breads; “low-fat” has been replaced by promises of “low in trans-fat” to signal sophistication to consumers. Most everything is “vitamin-fortified” and terms have double meanings: “autolyzed yeast extract” is only one of the semantic disguises now worn by MSG.

As more and more junk food items are being rebranded as health food items, consumers need to be wary, and informed, when they take to the aisles in search of foods that are truly healthy.

Most added vitamins and minerals are synthetic and do not absorb well in the body. Cereals, crackers, chips, cookies, juices, fruit snacks, and many other junk foods marketed to children often bear labeling that claims they are rich in certain vitamins, and contribute to a healthy diet. However, the added nutrients in such products are typically synthetic– and not easily absorbed by the body.

Refined flour-based products are almost always vitamin-bolstered, for one, because most nutrients have been stripped out during processing. The vitamins and minerals that are added back into them have been concocted in a lab, and tend to provide little or no benefits when consumed.

Many so-called healthy brands are also guilty of this deception, as they, too, fortify flour-based snack products with vitamins that would have been naturally present in the first place had not heavy processing not been a part of producing them. Crackers and breakfast cereals often undergo the most intense processing.

To tell if a food product has been synthetically fortified, look for vitamins and minerals spelled out individually in the ingredients list. If you see these additives listed, there is a good chance that the product has been highly processed and is nutritionally inadequate.

Sneaky wording and labeling omissions: Autolyzed yeast extract, GMOs, and soy
Another additive to watch out for is autolyzed yeast extract, which is basically just another name for excitoxin MSG. Monosodium glutamate often lurks in flavored snack chips, crackers, processed meats, and food bars.

And chances are very high that anything that contains corn syrup, soy or canola oil is made from products of  genetically-modified (GM) origin. Even health food grocers like Whole Foods Market, may sell products containing canola oil as well as soy ingredients. Besides being of GM origin unless otherwise specified, soy ingredients can seriously alter hormone levels in the body, and many soy derivatives are created using a highly toxic solvent chemical known as hexane. But few labels are pointing out that.

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These four superfoods can help you to gently remove toxins that have accumulated from eating and breathing.

In the 21st century, heavy metals, noxious chemicals, pesticides, drugs, and radioactive fallout can all build up in our bodies. The question is how to get them out. There are several ways to remove these noxious substances gently, with kindness to your system.

Pectin
Fruit pectin is probably the most gentle method of detoxing contaminants. Pectin comes from the fibrous portion of the fruit and is most commonly found in the pith of limes, lemons and other citrus fruit as well as in apples, bananas, grapes, carrots, and cabbage. Pectin helps to release heavy metals, chemicals and other substances into the blood stream, where it binds to them and flushes them from the body. Simply eating fruit high in pectin will help to cleanse your system, or you can add a pectin product to a glass of water, organic grape juice or fresh veggie juice to speed the detox process. Beware of pectin sold in grocery stores, as some brands may contain MSG. Check health food stores for the best products.

Cilantro
The delicious culinary herb cilantro happens to be one of the most effective detoxifiers of mercury and heavy metals. You can buy cilantro juice at health food stores or simply include the fresh herb in your diet as pesto or as an ingredient in salsa.  Cilantro also possesses antibacterial and antifungal properties, quickly reducing infection beat online casino and inflammation as it works to clear your system.

Chlorella
This single cell algae, actually a sea vegetable, grows in fresh water and some of the best cholrella reserves historically has come from Japan; however, use caution when buying Japanese chlorella due to possible exposure to radiation from Fukushima. Chlorella is an easy-to-digest superfood best known for being able to remove mercury and other heavy metals from the cells. Too much chlorella can produce side effects — mostly in the digestive tract — where it works best to bind to mercury, eliminating it. Start with the lowest quantity and work up slowly for a gentle detox.

Wheatgrass
Juicing fresh produce and grasses such as wheat or barley grass provides an excellent way to remove toxins from the system. Wheatgrass is high in nutritional content, and provides vitamins, minerals and all nine essential amino acids. Wheatgrass can be a powerful detox, so start slowly with only a small amount of juice to keep it gentle — 1/2 ounce a day — and work up to avoid symptoms.

Using gentle detoxing products requires that you repeat treatments until all symptoms have cleared. Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, muscle aches and pains, dizziness and fatigue. Additionally, detoxing can cause a flare-up in your condition temporarily as the toxins leave your system. If side effects are severe, reduce the quantity of whatever you’re using to detox. If the symptoms continue, stop and consult your natural health practitioner for further instructions.

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In some countries–Thailand comes to mind–massage is nearly as much a part of daily life as eating. You can’t make your way through a Thai night market without seeing dozens of smiling people kicked back in chairs having their feet rubbed. In Nordic countries, including, of course, Sweden, a deep tissue massage is as common as stepping into a sauna.

The Consequences of Stress

Experts estimate that 80 percent to 90 percent of disease is stress-related. Massage and bodywork is there to combat that frightening number by helping us remember what it means to relax. The physical changes massage brings to your body can have a positive effect in many areas of your life. Besides increasing relaxation and decreasing anxiety, massage lowers your blood pressure, increases circulation, improves recovery from injury, helps you to sleep better and can increase your concentration. It reduces fatigue and gives you more energy to handle stressful situations.
Massage is a perfect elixir for good health, but it can also provide an integration of body and mind. By producing a meditative state or heightened awareness of living in the present moment, massage can provide emotional and spiritual balance, bringing with it true relaxation and peace.

The incredible benefits of massage are doubly powerful if taken in regular “doses.” Dr. Maria Hernandez-Reif, from the Touch Research Institute (TRI) at the University of Miami, is known for her massage research, along with colleague Tiffany Field. Together, they and other researchers have done outstanding work proving the value of massage. While their studies have shown we can benefit from massage even in small doses (15 minutes of chair massage or a half-hour table session), Hernandez-Reif says they know from their research that receiving bodywork 2-3 times a week is highly beneficial. And if we lived in a fantasy world, Hernandez-Reif has the answer. “I feel a daily massage is optimal.”

It’s undoubtedly a wonderful thing when your therapist begins unwinding those stress-tightened muscles, and your day’s troubles begin to fade away. But it’s the cherry on top to know this “medicine” only gets better with frequency.

What You Already Know: The Benefits of Massage

In an age of technical and, at times, impersonal medicine, massage offers a drug-free, non-invasive and humanistic approach based on the body’s natural ability to heal itself. So what exactly are the benefits to receiving regular massage and/or bodywork treatments?

- Increases circulation, allowing the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs.

- Stimulates the flow of lymph, the body’s natural defense system, against toxic invaders. For example, in breast cancer patients, massage has been shown to increase the cells that fight cancer.

- Increased circulation of blood and lymph systems improves the condition of the body’s largest organ – the skin.

- Relaxes and softens injured and overused muscles

- Reduces spasms and cramping

- Increases joint flexibility.

- Reduces recovery time, helps prepare for strenuous workouts and eliminates subsequent pains of the athlete at any level.

- Releases endorphins – the body’s natural painkiller – and is being used in chronic illness, injury and recovery from surgery to control and relieve pain.

- Reduces post-surgery adhesions and edema and can be used to reduce and realign scar tissue after healing has occurred.

- Improves range-of-motion and decreases discomfort for patients with low back pain.

- Relieves pain for migraine sufferers and decreases the need for medication.

- Provides exercise and stretching for atrophied muscles and reduces shortening of the muscles for those with restricted range of motion.

- Assists with shorter labor for expectant mothers, as well as less need for medication, less depression and anxiety, and shorter hospital stays.

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Swimming in zucchini bread and fresh-from-the-vine tomatoes this year? There’s a good reason. There are more vegetable gardens than ever in the U.S.

Growing numbers of Americans are planting their own gardens. According to a report by the National Gardening Association, over 30 million homes in the U.S., or over one in three of occupied homes, now boast vegetable patches. Urbanites who don’t have a back yard to dig up are joining the trend with herb boxes and vertical tower gardens, and community plots are popping up everywhere.

Even First Lady Michelle Obama gave an official green thumbs up to the trend, publishing “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” earlier this year; eating more home-grown greens is a key element in her anti-obesity campaign.

The benefits are many: gardens slash food costs while allowing growers to plant heirloom varieties rarely found in grocery stores, not to mention that gardeners can control use of pesticides, and avoid iffy practices such as adding color, preservatives and wax to produce. According to the National Gardening Association, 58 percent of gardeners say they’re motivated because home-gardened food tastes so much better.

Fresh-from-the-ground vegetables pack more nutrients than produce that has been stored for days, and with plenty to pluck, fresh vegetables show up more often on the dinner plate.

Community gardens are flourishing, too, with help from city governments devoting space and new programs to them; even companies, including Robert Mondavi, have been handing out grants to community garden projects. What’s more, police departments are reporting that crime goes down in areas where vacant lots are “greened” with gardens. What’s not to love about this growing trend?

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This is a true story, though you may not believe it. But believing that the improbable is possible is what finding money is all about.

It was cold in Holland and I wanted my blanket. It wasn’t just any blanket—it was a soft, gray blanket made of wool, one that promised to keep me warm through the winter—and actually it wasn’t mine.

That blustery November day, when I saw the beautiful blanket, and then the price tag for 65 euros, my heart sank. A business deal had been delayed, and it appeared that I couldn’t afford the blanket until summer.

I slunk back to mychilly  apartment and delved into research for a book I was writing, trying not to think of my blanket. But I couldn’t stop. Every time my teeth chattered, I thought of my blanket that wasn’t mine.

Hours later, my obsession drove me to walk to the blanket store, by then closed, so I could peer at the object of my desire through the window. With every step I tried to convince myself that somehow, some way, I’d figure out how to make my dream of owning it come true.

“Something good will happen,” I chanted to myself. whipping around a corner onto a cobblestone street. The night was inky black and it started to rain; not a soul besides me was out that night in the Dutch village that I had just moved to. “Something really good will happen,” I kept chanting to myself. “And I will be so warm this winter with that gorgeous blanket.”

Five steps later, it happened – one of those little miracles that make you want to dance a jig, even if you’re not even Irish. As I approached the store, mere inches from the door, my spirits soared. On the sidewalk, flapping at me like a long lost friend was a small bundle of cash. Counting it, I was flabbergast: I was holding precisely 65 euros!

“Thank you money gods yet again!” I yelled to the heavens. The next morning I bought my blanket.

Money isn’t everything, but finding money when you need it is a blessing, and a potent illustration that we can manifest our dreams.

It was at least the thirtieth time that the powers-that-be in charge of the lost money department have bailed me out in times of need. In the past two decades, I’ve stumbled upon wads, stacks, and envelopes of hard, cold, ID-less cash — in hallways, on escalators, in back alleys and on well-traveled sidewalks. My total find to date is around two thousand dollars.It’s not that I’m any luckier than anyone else, or that I telekinetically will bills out of pockets and into my hands.The reason I’ve enriched my life and wallet thusly, is that I know the secret of how to find money. And in order to make more, I’m passing on my tips to you.

TIP ONE: Curiosity Pays 

Foremost on the list of practicalities is the money finder’s motto: Look down! Oh sure, people may think you suffer from low self-esteem, but I’ve found bundles of money that was being literally stepped over by people who held their heads high, as they walked by tsk-tsking my low self-regard and bad posture. And curiousity is the key. If you see an envelope or bag, look into it.

When my friend Shad peered into a garbage bag on the street, he found the the $3000 that funded a move to Oregon. When Robert looked into a sack left in the back of a cab, he found $5000. When I saw a manila envelope in the middle of a street — despite my friend Sara’s loud warnings not to — I picked it up. Inside was a sheet of stamps, which, predictably, Sara insisted I split with her.

TIP TWO: Believe 
Perhaps the most important requirement for finding cash is sincerely believing that finding money can happen. I’ve noticed that most of the people who come upon lost bills are often the fanciful sort who say “Anything is possible!”
Conversely, those people with a confined and restricted view of the world — the sort who are quick to point out “You’ll never this…” or “It’s impossible that…” usually never find so much as an unchewed stick of gum.

I’d always thought the most money you could find on the street was probably a Canadian dime until my friend, Andrea, found a $100 bill fluttering in a parking lot. Shortly thereafter, I began finding rolls of dough — one time $85, another, $170, another time nearly $200, with plenty of fives and tens and twenties scattered about in between.

TIP THREE: Ask for It
Most of the money finders I know admit that before finding their finds, they had requested financial assistance from the universe.
In the era before the euro, Joy, a traveler in Amsterdam, saw a dress that cost 200 guilder on her way to the station to catch a train to France. “If I only had 200 guilder, I’d buy it,” she mused. And while waiting for a bus to the station, two 100 guilder notes literally floated through the air. She missed her train, and bought the dress.
My sister, a tour guide, had once spent two weeks giving particular attention to one of her more demanding travelers, only to find at the end of the tour the woman departed without so much as a thanks or a tip. “I should have gotten 50 deutschmark from her,” my sister lamented to a friend. Within the hour, 50 deutschmark blew down the street and landed at my sister’s feet.

I’ve found that the occasional hissy fit can work wonders.
When I’d spent my rent money on putting together a proposal for a public service project — that fell through — I lost it. For two hours I wailed about how I was trying to help the world, getting up to bat, and not only was my proposal rejected, I was a financial reject as well. ”Can’t I at least pay my rent? Is that too much to ask?” I bellowed to the heavens. Upon leaving my house to withdraw my last five dollars from the bank, I found almost exactly the amount needed for my share of the house — $187. It was a pile merely sitting there on a bench outside the bank, without a potential owner in sight.

My roomates Shawn and Faustine were amazed when I showed them the roll of money that had magically entered my life.
“Well if you can find money it, I can find it too!” Faustine said.
Five days later, Shawn and Faustine ran into the house.
“Look what Faustine just found in a phone booth!” Shawn yelled.
Faustine waved a black coin purse, that contained no ID, and pulled out a roll of twenties totalling $224.

TIP FOUR: Go with Your Gut
My friend Clayton knew that there was no way he could afford the house he’d just seen with a “for sale” sign out front — a sea captain’s house that sat over a cliff in misty Astoria, Oregon. To distract himself from the thought of the rambling house, he went out shopping at second-hand stores, and saw a frame that caught his eye. He picked it up and put it back.

Two blocks away, the thought of the frame began haunting him as much as the thought of the house. He walked back to the store and bought the frame, despite an uncompelling dog photo within it.

It was when he got home, and took out the dog picture that he found enough money – though he would never disclose the amount — to buy the sea captain’s home.

I’ve found that finding money is often foreshadowed by a nagging feeling. While lodging in a Parisian hotel, I became ridiculously obsessed with the need for an envelope. Although the hotel was not the sort to provide stationary, I just knew there was an envelope somewhere in that room, and began pulling out drawers searching for one. Simply because it proved my intuition was correct, I was elated that when I indeed found an envelope; I was even more thrilled, when I opened it to find 100 British pounds inside.  The improbable and the magical are, in fact, possible…

TIP FIVE: Pay Your Dues
Despite these examples, there is no such thing as a free find. A would-be finder must lose some money first; I tend to lose my last dollar. When you discovered that money has accidentallyt fluttered out of your hands in into that of another, regard it as a donation to the money finders’ union. Happily money finders usually find many multiples of the amount they lost. For example, I’m currently working at about a 30-to-1 find-to-lose ratio.

TIP SIX: Be Honest
Money finders are usually honest sorts. Not only are they the tell-the-truth breed, they have usually found purses, wallets, even passports — and have returned them, complete with all their contents. Money attached to ID is a karmic test. Turn it in, with the hope that you’ll soon be rewarded — not necessarily by the loser, but by the universe.
The one person I know who kept a wallet never found another dollar again, and has been plagued by bad financial luck ever since.
Do-gooders of other varieties may win as well. When Joe, a guy I met on a French train, picked up his cigarette butt from a pristine Munich sidewalk, he noticed a slightly open paper sack atop the trash can. Inside: the deutsch equivalent of about $500.

TIP SEVEN: Give Your Thanks
Upon coming upon ID-less cash, wish good things upon whoever it was who lost your find, and express your gratitude to whoever it was that brought it your way.

Finding money reminds us that life on this planet is an unpredictable, alchemical process that our wishes can shape.

TIP EIGHT: Finding Money Can Be A Repeat Performance
The strange thing about finding money is that once you find it, you usually find it again, whatever the reason. After finding money at the same corner – Broadway near 85th in Manhattan — I came to believe some kind soul was tossing it from their window. And I found money three times with the same person, David P., my good luck charm.

TIP NINE: Pass It On
Since you have a better chance of finding money when it’s already been earmarked for something, I find it’s best spent on whatever it was wished for — whether that’s rent or a vacation. However, most money finders are generous people, who when they are solvent, are quick to help out someone who isn’t. And, while some people regard it is bragging, I think it’s helpful to tell people about finding money. The point isn’t to show how lucky you are, but to let them know that if you can find money, they surely can too. Which is exactly what I’m saying to you.

TIP TEN: Expand Beyond the Material
A random bill blowing into your world is a lovely way to see the magic of life. I believe that is the true purpose of finding money: to remind us that life on this planet is an unpredictable, alchemical process that our wishes can shape. The improbable and the magical are, in fact, possible — to those who believe that it is, and especially to those who look down.

Melissa Rossi is often mistaken for someone with low self-esteem.

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“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom.” -Anais Nin

Early this morning while strolling along the Pacific Ocean, I felt entirely alone. And it was wonderful. As I walked along the sand, it struck me that for the first time in 27 years, I wasn’t married, engaged, or otherwise romantically involved with a guy, and that no “other half” defined me. And for the first time in my life, I was enjoying being by myself — a state that now struck me as empowering, and not a condition to avoid at all costs. I wished that I’d tried it before — particularly before I married a second time.

If anyone had asked me when I was in my mid-twenties if I’d ever marry twice, I’d have said, “Not a chance!” I’m old-fashioned, and was then happily married and so deeply in love that it seemed impossible to ever experience that connection with anyone else. Besides, we believed we were soul mates who would stay together ’til death do us part. Unfortunately, after more than a decade together, the marriage crumbled. When we separated, my world felt shattered, and I walked away deeply wounded; the last thing I wanted to do was to be alone.

Luckily, or so it seemed at the time, I met someone who fulfilled what had been missing in the last years of my marriage when it fell apart. He had plenty of time for “us”; when I telephoned, the call never went to voice mail, and he didn’t have an assistant to inform me he was in a meeting or a conference call. Unlike my first husband, he didn’t put his work before me and family; he was laid back and content to do nothing more than come over for dinner and watch a movie. And he got along with my two sons.

I felt no reason to play the field; I soon fell in love. Never wed before, he apparently loved me too. Starting early in our relationship, he asked if I would marry him; I answered his proposals with “Yes, I think so.” But I kept putting off setting the date, wondering if he was really the one to spend the rest of my life with. There was something that was missing, and I was confused about what was best for me and the boys.

Our relationship continued for the next few years, although there were red flags along the way. I provided him with a beautiful place to live, we went on wonderful vacations, and I helped finance new businesses for him, wanting to help kick-start his career. We stayed together long enough that we were faced with the unspoken question of what the next step should be. My gut kept telling me to wait before making a commitment.

When my first husband announced he was remarrying, my boyfriend again proposed. This time I said “Yes,” and we promptly set the date. Why not, I reasoned. We seemed compatible and enjoyed our time together; I figured that a love like the one I’d had with my first husband would flourish with time. Together we appeared to be a happy family. It was a win-win for both of us.

I wanted nothing more than for our marriage to work. I ignored statistics, like those saying that nearly two-thirds of second marriages end in divorce. I didn’t see at the time that the qualities he brought to the table, while helping me heal from my first divorce, weren’t necessarily enough to sustain a long-term relationship, and that we weren’t a good fit. Not long after the honeymoon ended, resentment on both sides began building up; ultimately, we turned to therapy. We’d walk out of the counselor’s office hand-in-hand, but within an hour the same disagreements would arise. The constant tension around the house, and the turmoil in our relationship began affecting my health and my happiness; it became apparent to friends around me that this was a strained relationship. Nevertheless, we continued on. I was determined to make my second marriage work.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, however, I was stunned that my second husband wouldn’t fly back with me to the East Coast on any of my frequent visits to see her. I expected the man I’d spent the previous eight years with to be there for me in my time of despair, but he showed little compassion, and his digs grew harsher and more frequent — and hurt more.

“Honey,” my mother said as she lay dying, “don’t stay with someone who doesn’t make you happy. Life is too short.” I hadn’t mentioned the state of my marriage to her, but apparently she could see it in my eyes, and could sense it by his absence. When my second husband would not come to my mother’s funeral, that was the clincher. I wished I’d listened to my gut feelings to bide my time before marrying.

The emotional pain of the death of my mother, who was best friend and confidante, helped me grow. I began going in new directions, including starting a foundation to raise awareness and help fund cancer research for alternative therapies. Our paths seemed to take different courses. By then, one of my sons was off to college, the other was in high school, and it appeared that they could deal with it when we went our separate ways. And from the moment he moved out, the world seemed to brighten. My health improved; friends commented that my home felt cheerier. My kids noticed that I was happier.

This time, however, instead of running back into a relationship, I realized I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to delve into projects that I desired to become involved in — not those that others wanted. I realized that I’d previously made decisions based on what society thought was acceptable, but that weren’t necessarily the right decisions for me. Divorce was the bold move I’d desperately wanted for a long time. And when our split became final, for the first time in my life I began loving living alone and not having a man define me.

It struck me this morning as I walked along the beach that by learning who I am, including owning my strengths and shortcomings, and by forging my own direction in the world, that I’ve felt free and at peace. Whether I’ll go that route again, I’m not sure, but I won’t take the plunge again without listening to my gut. And knowing myself better will only help me attract people into my life who will accept me and love me for the person who I am.

“Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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