| March 15, 2020 (sourceofsynergyfoundation.org) Dealing with the Coronavirus Deepak Chopra on Facebook Live Deepak Chopra discusses good principles for staying healthy and more. “Let us see this adversity as a time of reflection and a time to come together to help each other and to be there for each other.” We don’t respect the ecosystem of existence, which includes all living beings. Life depends on the balanced food chain, which humanity has ruined. So watch your diet, and watch your daily rituals of good sleep, stress management and movement. This is an opportunity for us to create a completely healthy lifestyle. “We must respect life. If we think of life as sacred, if we think of life as divine, then this challenge will only make us stronger.”Click Here to View See Deepak Chopra’s Facebook page for his series of videos on the coronavirus.Virus as OpportunityBy Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Virus as opportunity. Rush, worry and stress are the pandemic that will persist long after the virus recedes. So instead of getting panicky and stocking up on a month’s worth of toilet paper and margarita mix, remember to invest in rewiring your brain and nervous system for calm, healing, and yes- optimizing your immune system. How to do that? Take a deep breath and relax. Maybe meditate for 20 minutes. Do some yoga or chi gong. Listen to music- really listen. Lift your eyes to the sky and watch the clouds. Whatever you do, do it with mindful attention. Savor the hot shower. Enjoy raking the yard- feeling how your muscles move, listening to the sounds, enjoying the swelling buds. And above all, don’t waste that rare and precious cookie by thinking about something else when you eat it. Mindful activities elicit the relaxation response, the body’s counterbalance to the stress response. The fight or flight response won’t help you out run the virus. But when you relax, the parasympathetic nervous system comes online. It creates a “rest and digest” response, which invites the body’s self-healing systems to ramp up. This helps to create resilience to the virus. Remember that 80-90% of illness is caused or worsened by stress. You might recall that I’m a medical scientist, with a doctorate from Harvard Medical School. I was one of the pioneers in the field of psychoneuroimmunology – how the mind affects immunity. So, take the opportunity the virus is providing to be curious about how you could rush less and be more present in your life. You can help your body resist infection, and enjoy life more in the process! Nurture yourself with regular sleep (go to bed and wake up on a schedule), eat organic whole foods, surrender yourself to music, meditate, and take advantage of life’s goodness with more ease and grace. Did you know that the human brain is hard-wired for negativity? It’s a survival thing. My friend, psychologist Rick Hanson says that good stuff is like teflon and bad stuff is like velcro. Every time you savor something good, you actually begin to rewire your brain for happiness and resilience. So let’s foil that famous negativity bias!! Please join me and Gilah to learn about the tools that will put you in the best shape to shake off viruses, welcome spring, and enjoy the feast of life. https://gracefull360.com Or join me and Dr. Gilah for Self-Healing in Santa Fe, May 6-10. Go to http://joanborysenko.com for info about both programs. Meanwhile, enjoy the photo of the sunset reflected in clouds at our house in magical Santa Fe, NM. HOW TO TAKE THE FEAR OUT OF THE CORONAVIRUS – March 6, 2020 Let’s talk about the coronavirus and how best to approach it realistically while improving overall health, peace of mind, and enjoyment of life. In my 8-min video above, you’ll find some valuable tips about how to reduce stress, stay optimistic and maintain wellbeing.Coronavirus: Do Not Fear the BogeymanBy Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, March 10, 2020 Dear Family of Love and Seekers Everywhere, The world is currently gripped in fear of the scary coronavirus. Let’s first get one fact clear: If you have ever had a cold or flu in your life, odds are that it was the result of a coronavirus infection. Yes, coronaviruses cause colds. But, we are being programmed with the belief that this particular cold virus is “deadly.” This fear has shut down concerts, conferences, and major public events all over the world. The fear has led to quarantines and closing down of international travel. It has even led to a major scarcity of toilet paper in Australia, where concerned citizens emptied the shelves of this commodity in anticipation that they will be walled up in their homes with this infection. First, how deadly is this version of the virus? Yes, there have been corona-related deaths reported with the statistics suggesting that ~2% of the infected population dies. Wow! That number is almost 1% more deaths than are attributed to any conventional flu the world experiences. What is misleading is the fear that everyone who carries this virus may die from their cold. This is simply untrue! The health of almost all the victims of this coronavirus was already compromised before they were infected. For example, the following information was provided by the news in regard to the 6 patients that died of the virus in the state of Washington last week (I added the bold print): Washington State Six people have died in Washington and health officials have identified 18 cases. Four of the cases in King County were linked to the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland. More than 50 residents and staff at the facility are being tested. The deaths announced Monday, according to health officials, included: – A male in his 70s, who lived at LifeCare. He had underlying health conditions and died Sunday. – A female resident of LifeCare in her 70s. She also had underlying health conditions and died Sunday. – A woman in her 80s, who was already reported as in critical condition at EvergreenHealth, died Sunday. – A Snohomish County resident at EvergreenHealth also died but details of that patient have not been given. Two previously reported deaths included a man in his 70s who had underlying health conditions and had been a resident of LifeCare. He died at EvergreenHealth on Feb. 29. The other was a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions. He was admitted with serious respiratory issues and tested positive for the virus. He died at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland. As emphasized in this report, the health of all those that died with the coronavirus was already compromised. Healthy people get cold and flu symptoms, while those already sick and near death’s door may experience the “Grim Reaper” when infected by the virus. True, sick people are more vulnerable to the virus; healthy people really have nothing to fear. As presented in The Biology of Belief, stress is responsible for up to 90% of illness, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. When an individual is in stress, the release of stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) shuts down the immune system to conserve the body’s energy for running away from the perceived stressor, that proverbial “saber-toothed tiger.” Stress hormones are so effective at compromising the immune system, that physicians therapeutically provide recipients of organ transplants with stress hormones to prevent their immune system from rejecting the foreign implant. The conclusion is clear: The fear of the coronavirus is more deadly than the virus itself! The media (perhaps in conjunction with the pharmaceutical industry) is compromising people’s health using the fear card! This is the result of negative thinking (the nocebo effect) which is the complete opposite of the placebo effect manifest through positive thinking! If you make efforts to stay healthy, with good nutrition, exercise, taking vitamins and supplements, and more importantly, avoiding stress (e.g., the “fear” of the virus), even if you do get infected with the virus, you will likely only end up with a cold and/or slight fever. If you are someone with a compromised immune system, it is supportive to surround yourself with loving family and friends, nature, and positive thoughts as well as any other nutrition and vitamins that you may already be taking for your health and wellbeing. Following your intuition about what is best for you is key! The point here is that no matter who you are and what your state of health, you will only benefit from steering clear of the fear and supporting yourself in whatever way feels best to you. Please remember the truth of quantum physics, the most valid of all sciences on the planet: Consciousness is creating your life experiences! Are you being conscious of disease … or of health? Wishing you all Health, Happiness and Harmony.Coronovirus Information BoardCourtesy of Jon Ramer To View, Please Click Here or on the Image Below https://trello.com/b/dnEGT11t/coronavirus-information-board Jon says: “Spread Compassion, not the virus!”A Message from the CoronavirusJeff Vander Clute, 8 March 2020Photo by Фтещт Нфтлщмнш (License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) There has been a lot of talk about the Coronavirus. When I connected with this novel life form and asked it to tell me about itself, what came through was a list of its top gifts, followed by a message for humanity. I was somewhat surprised, and also comforted, by the information. My hope is that these words will help people to relax and trust that life is acting with benevolent wisdom. The gifts of the virus:Slowing down humanity’s frenetic activitiesActivating networks of cooperationSpreading helpful DNAUpgrading humanity’s immune systemCreating the conditions for peace and well-beingSaving lives, especially over the long term, by strengthening the web of lifeHere is the message that the Coronavirus had to share: My friends, it is true that I am here to bring closure to the inharmonious ways of being that are causing harm to humans and the whole web of life. All the same, I am not a vengeful being or anything that is intended to be destructive. I am simply the rebalancing agent in the overall equation of life’s evolutionary process. By fighting me with fear in your hearts, you oppose the larger natural systems and cause me to take other forms. What I am, and my fundamental purpose, will not be deterred, for I am life itself acting through the available forms of distribution. The virus that you see me as is one of an endless series of permutations. This kind of process is one of the ways I innovate life forms and deliver new DNA sequences that will eventually be shown to be helpful. The back and forth between humanity’s collective immune system and the virus is raising consciousness as humans examine their interactions, and it is literally increasing the intelligence of the superorganism that is the species as a whole. These tests are normal. I repeat: These tests are normal. For those who can hear this message and embrace me easily, you already know that fear is a much more lethal poison. For those who will not be comforted by these words, one day you will know that I come as an act of love. When you can open to the love that is at the very heart of this situation, the crisis that your media and governments decry will transform into a flower of life, spreading new consciousness and multiplying circles of cooperation. Pay attention to your thoughts and see if you can identify the benefits of redirecting humanity’s attention from incessant wars and violence to the common “enemy” that I am willing to be perceived as. Love will go this far, and farther, to bring healing to the mind of a young species that is still in the process of remembering itself as a divine incarnation. Yes, you are a divine incarnation capable of fabricating realities based on goodness and beauty and compassionate understandings, actions, and beliefs. Believe me when I say that I, too, am here as an act of compassion. Accepting me in this way will lighten your heavy burden for the divine sends only love your way. Sometimes this love takes curious forms in order to circumvent your intricate defenses against waking up to your own glory. I can assure you that the most functional strategy will be to embrace me as a friend of the human family.From jeffvanderclute.comFrom James O’Dea Could this virus actually help restructure the world economy, help us build community, reinforce the role of good science and force us to stop flying around so much/ show us we can save the environment by e-commuting more and be less frenetically busy. Will we take the opportunity to step back and heed the message?Beating the Coronavirus: as Simple as A, B, CBy Lynne McTaggart Last weekend, we held our Get Well Health Expo at Olympia. Thousands came to meet the many dozens of pioneering doctors and therapists of all varieties that we had carefully selected to offer alternative solutions proven to work. Of nearly 50 brilliant talks and demonstrations, two delivered by Dr. Damien Downing, a pioneer in ecological medicine and president of the British Society of Allergy and Environmental Medicine, and Dr. Thomas Levy, a cardiologist and one of the world’s experts on vitamin C, offered the same message: there is a simple solution to the coronavirus, which has gripped the world in fear. Dr Downing was one of a team of orthomolecular doctors (who offer therapeutic nutrition based on biochemical individuality) to put together an effective plan of attack for the coronavirus. Read more: http://bit.ly/2TnYPMxSpiritual Leadership to Help Humanity Address the Coronavirus and Beyond…By David Gershon Humanity needs our spiritual leadership as it encounters this latest manifestation of our collective consciousness called the coronavirus. We need to directly help those in our spheres of influence and all of humanity raise their frequency from fear to love and compassion. This will not only protect them from contracting the virus by strengthening their immune system, but also help them them start a positive contagion to transmute the virus. A blessed opportunity for all of us to do good! Ultimately this virus is a fear epidemic not an actual health emergency, as 98% of the people who contract it experience flu type symptoms, get over it, and build up healthy antibodies. Those who suffer more or leave their body were already preparing to leave and are primarily the elderly. There will be more experiences coming over the next few years, like this one, that will test our fear transformation capacity and provide opportunities to awaken humanity from its slumber into spiritual growth and service. A key element of our reinventing the planet work is transmuting fear at the deepest level of our psyche about our viability as a species into hope about our future based on game changing personal action. This can and will transmute whatever fear comes our way. Pandemic Preparation and Positive Steps To TakeBy Stephen Dinan Excerpted from Stephen’s blog at https://medium.com/@stephenOKdinan/pandemic-preparation-938361649386. I believe crises carry the seeds of opportunity if we approach them in the right way, which means clearly understanding the facts and strategizing a response that helps us emerge stronger and wiser on the other side. […] The best case scenario is ultimately for us to approach this global pandemic as something that calls us into a higher level of collaboration, creativity, and conscious living. We can emerge living more sustainably, peacefully, and enjoyably with our local communities. We can develop more skills for independent lifestyles. We can cultivate a higher-quality, less expensive lifestyle with less stuff. We can remember who we are and our true purpose, which is to ultimately to leave our planet better for the next generation. Sometimes is takes an apparent tragedy to wake us up. The coronavirus pandemic can be a wake up call if we face the facts soberly and move into immediate right action to mitigate the damage and optimize the upside. Let’s write the story of 2020 as a year not solely as a global tragedy but as a difficult birth of a new way of being. Just as the toughest life experiences can catalyze our greatest personal growth, so can this planetary emergency lead to a real evolution of our species. See Stephen’s blog for: PANDEMIC PREPARATION AND POSITIVE STEPS TO TAKE SPECIFIC STEPS ON WHAT TO DO!A Flow-Based Perspective on the Coronavirus: How to Thrive in the Midst of the Collective Chaos By Justin Faerman I’m re-sharing this Facebook video I made recently, given all the chaos going on in the world with the coronavirus and other similar situations these days. If you are looking for some sound advice on staying safe, sane, healthy and in a high level of flow in the midst of all the upheaval and fear, have a watch as I go over some incredible research that will help you thrive in the midst of these turbulent times. Watch video here. Phase Shift Has Arrived – Hold on to Your Hats!By Daniel Christian Wahl Let’s make this the catalyst for the re-design and regeneration of the human impact on Earth – we can heal the Earth and her people, regenerate ecosystems everywhere, regenerate our cooperative nature and build renewed social cohesion through community solidarity … This is the time to accept that change is no longer an option but now forced on us at a scale that the current economic system will AND SHOULD NOT recover from! … the time to (re)create vibrant bioregional economies that incentivise ecosystems regeneration and a reregionalisation of production and consumption is here. Time to switch to Gameb – a globally cooperative humanity worth its name … united in the commitment to create conditions conducive to life and redesign the human impact on the planet from exploitative and degenerative to healing and regenerative. Yes, this pandemic is upon us and the stock markets are collapsing, production, air travel, air pollution, … are dropping … recent predictions based on a model by researchers of the Universities of Based and Stockholm suggest that even with a summer dip in the rate of increase the COVID-19 virus could infect 100 million people (at a time) by Winter 2020/21. Let’s not plan for return to business as usual after this – the climate emergency and obscene levels of in equality within and between countries clearly indicate that BAU was not working and heading for imminent collapse and synchronous failure anyway. We are now pushed to a global mobilisation of resources and civic participation that the planet has not seen before. Let us not waste time by pretending that what we had before was working or is worth returning to.What are some of the measures that communities, cities and regions will have to have to begin to explore anyway? How do we feed our population at the bioregional scale from food grown mainly regionally? How to we provide energy from regional renewable resources as oil production and oil prices force us out of fossil fuels (for good)? How to we switch to regional transport systems that are not dependent on expensive imports of fuel? In short, we need to redesign for community and regional resilience to a turbulent economic future while increasing food, water energy sovereignty at those scales. This kind of resilience building was needed in any case as a global preparation for a worsening climate crisis and to avoid cataclysmic runaway climate change. The scale of collaboration needed for the response to climate change seemed impossible to catalyse in the time we had left. Now COVID 19 is forcing us to mobilise in unprecedented ways and we are doing so as one global species facing a calamity that we can only solve collaboratively and together – for all equally – or we will not solve it at all! … sounds familiar? COVID 19 might become the catalyst for the transformation of the human presence and impact on Earth that climate change should have been but was to diffuse of a thread for our species to come together around in an effective way. Now that we are and have to achieve this, let us make the most of the effort and resources spent! The world will never be the same. … and that can be a good thing too! Already the lives saved by dropping air pollution in China alone might soon begin to out-number the tragic and catastrophic loss of lives that the viral pandemic is and will continue to cause. With suffering and loss at that scale it is inappropriate to draw comparisons and comparing numbers does not reduce the suffering for those affected. Even if the viral death tall ends up being much larger than currently estimated it will remain a fraction of the death toll caused by the systemic dysfunctionalities of our current system and expected to be caused by the kind of climate change and ecosystems collapse scenarios we were heading for in the short to mid-term in any case. Phase shift is here! We will surprise ourselves with our capacity to collaborate across boards as one global species! Let’s make our efforts count and design for human and planetary health as we build a new future together based on diverse regenerative cultures everywhere. Diverse bioregional economies supporting cultures that heal their local rivers, regenerate forests, grasslands, soils, wetlands and oceans. Cultures that are elegantly adapted to the bicultural uniqueness of the bioregions we now have the opportunity to re-inhabit has healers and in a globally collaborative way! reGeneration Rising! Trim-Tabs Unite! … or as my friend Joe Brewer likes to say: “Onwards fellow humans!”The Chinese Medicine/Macrobiotic Approach to Protecting Yourself From the CoronavirusBy Dr. Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac. As a long time practitioner of Chinese medicine and long time proponent of eating a macrobiotic diet, I often think of the opening passage of the seminal book of Chinese Medicine, “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine,” also know as the Nei Jing. In the beginning of this 2,200 year old book, the Yellow Emperor asks his personal physician, Qibo, why people aren’t as healthy or live as long as people once did, to which Qibo replies that people have gotten out of balance with the natural order of things and have lost the Way (the Way meaning the Tao), and that because of this, their poor dietary and lifestyle choices were leading them to serious health issues. That’s an interesting observation from Qibo, especially since his observation came 2,200 years ago, in an epoch that was much simpler than our current times. If Qibo and the Yellow Emperor thought people had lost the Way back then, imagine what they would think now. In our era, people have surely lost the Way, what with the level of serious health issues that abound. And as we currently see with the threat of the coronavirus, nature is on a trajectory of self-regulation to help reestablish the natural order of things – as nature will do – since people have lost the Way. Yet, as the virus, or the threat of the virus, wreaks havoc on routines and lives, this can be seen as a learning opportunity – just as the Chinese word for crisis, 危机, is composed of the words danger and opportunity. The opportunity is there, if we so choose to see it. A virus, including the coronavirus, is a biological agent that reproduces inside the cells of a living host; once the host cell is infected by the virus, it’s forced to produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus at an extraordinary rate. Viruses are not malicious; instead they are intelligent, full of information, and always on the lookout for a susceptible host. And when humans lose the Way, that’s when they become a susceptible host. To date, 5,000 species of viruses have been discovered; each time a new virus is mapped out, it’s considered a novel strain – that’s why the coronavirus is considered novel, because it’s a new strain. And because it’s a novel strain and there’s no known way to stop its trajectory right now – outside of the public health measures that are being advocated in order to “flatten the curve” – it’s creating a certain level of heightened anxiety and panic. But if we come back to the Way, to the Tao, we can help arrest the growth of the virus and at the same time, not be susceptible hosts. According to the Tao Te Ching, we should never destroy that which may appear to be our enemy; instead, we must seek to achieve the harmony of opposites. This is the teaching of the Way. Within our body are trillions of microbes; when we are in proper balance, these microbes are beneficial and help maintain good health. Viruses are also microbes, but they only proliferate in the body when we are not in proper balance. As I said above, viruses are intelligent and full of information; there is much complexity within the makeup of a virus. The best way to overcome a virus and achieve the harmony of opposites is to introduce complexity into the body, which then overwhelms the virus. That is why the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus – HIV – turned the tide when drug cocktails were introduced: instead of just one drug used to stop HIV, a multitude of drugs were used, and in the process, created much complexity within the body, thus overwhelming and neutralizing the virus. Chinese medicine has intuitively understood this need for complexity in its long and storied history. Over hundreds and thousands of years, China has had to withstand epidemic diseases, and over time, the wisdom of the ancient Chinese doctors realized that the best approach to dealing with viral epidemics was complexity, in the form not of drug cocktails but of herbal formulas, which is a cocktail of usually four to 20 different herbs. Famous herbs used in these formulas, and still used today, include Qing Hao, or Wormwood; Huang Lian, or Coptis; Chuan Xin Lian, or Andrographis; Yin Chen Hao, or Artemisia capillaris; and Sheng di Huang, or Rehmannia root. All of these herbs are readily available today and can be used as part of a formula to help overcome any virus situation. Most importantly, you can restore balance, create complexity in your body, and bring yourself back into alignment with the Way/Tao through diet. This is where the wisdom of macrobiotics comes into play, as the macrobiotic approach to eating has always understood the healing power and Way of food. Before a whole foods, plant-based diet was a popular conception, there was macrobiotics, pointing to the wisdom of eating a grain based, primarily plant based diet. Macrobiotics is based on the traditional Japanese approach to eating, with an emphasis on whole grains, various vegetables, and legumes, including tofu and tempeh; included in this are certain high quality, medicinal foods that nowadays some would call superfoods: foods such as miso; tamari; seaweeds; umeboshi plums and paste; mochi; tekka; root vegetables such as daikon, burdock, lotus root, jinenjo, and taro potato; seitan; pickled foods; kuzu; kanten; natto; shitake mushrooms; and others. All these macrobiotic foods are capable of creating complexity in the body by mobilizing the trillions of microbes in your body to be activated, energized, and invigorated, which then catalyzes the microbes to immobilize microbial life that is seen as detrimental to the body, such as viruses; in addition, it makes sure the body is not capable of being a susceptible host to any sort of virus that is looking to invade the cells of your body and infect it. While using Chinese Medicine and eating a macrobiotic diet doesn’t supplant or negate the commonsense public health advice being advocated right now to stop the spread of the coronavirus, at the same time, the Chinese Medicine/ macrobiotic approach can help protect you from the coronavirus by guiding you back to the Way, allowing you to live a more balanced life, and eliminate the opportunity for you to be a susceptible host. As this is just a short overview of the Chinese Medicine and macrobiotic approach, I’d be happy to answer any questions. You can email me at drmichaelwayne@me.com. My website is www.drmichaelwayne.com.We Need to Seek a Higher Faith Rather Than a Worldwide FearBy Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak Much of the world media is pushing humanity into a psychology of fear rather than an understanding how we are to use our greater powers of higher consciousness to overcome negative realities. This is what a Living Faith is all about! The bottom line: Be practical and cautious, but most importantly, be daily renewed through the indwelling power of your Higher Self. In daily practice, we are to be both cautious and co-creative in the way we can share the daily bread, without caving in to a life style of fear that would diminish the opportunity to fully use our gifts of positive psychology and sociology, even in the face of danger! HOWEVER DARK THE HORIZONS, THIS IS THE GREATEST TIME FOR US TO USE THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Those of you who have traveled to India, Africa or even parts of South America, know that 1/4 of the population in those areas live with some type of illness and are on the front lines of near-starvation, intensified by environmental changes and lack of non-renewable resources, including fresh water. Also be aware that this is only the first of the new challenges we will be facing in the coming years. By understanding and using the limitless energies from a higher spectrum of Life, connected directly with the Shekinah Glory, the Language of Light and the Sacred Scriptures, we can be as Mother Teresa, who had no fear of going into the places of India that had leprosy, cholera and other deadly diseases. Of course, we need to be vigilant, but instead of focusing on just the virus, see the “Corona discharge” – the paraphysical term for the ‘bio-photonic discharge of light’ energy that naturally comes off your body (according to Dr. Marcel Vogel and Dr. Richard Gerber, who had both studied The Keys of Enoch®). We are really light beings and when you let the Divine Energy flow into your body and mind, you are fused with the Holy Spirit in bringing forth a renewing power of the Divine. You are also protected. If you feel the need, call upon Michael, the Christ or any power of the Divine your directly wish to connect to — stay centered in the Light. Let us make a commitment to be fused with ‘the Light’ that comes by the use of Prayer and the Divine Names of the Christ and the Holy Spirit (Heb.: Ruach Ha Kodesh). Indeed, let us bring comfort, hope, understanding and protection into our communities with the power of Prayer, to transform those who are living in fear and darkness. Let us say together: Ruach Ha Kodesh Christou. At this moment let us be one with the Holy Spirit, who is totally aware of all that is unfolding within and around us. Only Higher Divine Guidance can truly help each of us with the problems we have, and will be, facing with planetary changes. This is the opportunity to awaken our inner Faith and Strength. Planetary changes include viruses and other plagues, as mentioned in the Bible, which will continue to be felt, but remember, the people of Faith lived through them all. Now is the time to activate your Living Faith that provides you insights and, ultimately, provides you with Eternal Life and the joy of using the “Gifts” from on High, rather than a life of fear of the shadows of Death. Let us be the Light, the Love and share the Power of our Faith, understanding the Power of the Divine. Psalm 51 reminds us to ask for Divine help as it says: “… Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me….” Be as Mother Teresa and do not deny the OUTPOURING of the Power and Gifts of the Holy Spirit in your life! Be Blessed and be Strong in the power of God’s Word speaking within you, Pax Vobiscum: Peace be with you! |
| Natural Remedies for Covid 19 & Rational, Solution-Based Thinking & ResultsBy Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC. We’re all in ‘the grip” (no pun intended) of the media hysteria, it’s become embedded in the field. Unhealthy. Some good facts come through. More fear but some facts. Beyond both: What to do about the Coronavirus? THINK!!! And take a look at how the mind influences our immune system and same with Vitamin C. Let’s focus not on fear and emptying stadiums but on rational thinking, science and solutions…. Below is an excerpt from Mitchell’s page. See all of his suggestions here: http://abetterworld.tv/natural-remedies-for-coronavirus-rational-solution-based-thinking/ * * *At the end of the day, a lot of our health is in our own hands. That largely means that we keep our immune system well fortified. Through lifestyle choices we make regarding attitude, emotional wellness, stress management, centering, diet, exercise, sleep, steering clear of toxic foods, water, air and environments, enjoy plenty of laughing and loving, cultural/artistic self-expression and enjoyment of others, healthy relationships, healthy sexual expression, a daily diet of love, appreciation and gratitude, dwelling on healthy thoughts, listening to beautiful music, Chi-Kung, meditation, essential oils, living with purpose and serving what is higher and larger than ourselves like all sentient life, all aggregate to strengthen our immune system and resolve, to inform our commitment to health and well-being. Laugh all you want and like the famous Norman Cousens, you may just laugh yourself to health. Do you think that these assertions in the face of this serious pandemic are silly? You may, but the science supports these assertions. We know factually what the experience and perception of stress does to the immune system. It is measurable and has been measured for decades. We know about adrenaline and cortisol release into the blood. We know what happens then when we are in cerebral and heart incoherence or its opposite, coherence and the effects these have on our physiology. We also know the effect of the perception of, experience of love, gratitude and laughter are on the immune system, cell production, I do not think that we should be relying on these alone to neutralize the effects of any illness when we also know that additionally, there are potent immune-builders as Vit. C, D and a host of many vitamins and herbs (list below in detail in an article by Richard Gale and Gary Null). Combined, we have a scientifically-based, rational solution which will also lift our spirit as well as strengthen our body. It’s time that we truly honor the entirety of science, not just those areas we may prefer. Psychoneuroimmunology is the medical specialty that has re-integrated the mind and body systems into a coherent whole. The research done here, in neuroscience and endocrinology is extraordinary and at times considered to be particularly stressful, trotted out for all to see. It is good to remember at times like we’re currently facing that what kept many Jews and others alive in the Concentration Camps when daily life was as horrific and bleak as it gets, was there ability to self-express at night through music, comedy, song, story and theater and connect with others. No drug or vaccine can accomplish these. The closest would be shamanically – and recently-scientifically – sanctioned plant medicines. Regarding strengthening the immune system and mind, below are two articles which educate us about very useful choices. Good to remember that fear shuts down the immune system as well as puts it on alert through adrenaline and cortisol release. While necessary for survival in some instances while that saber-toothed tiger is tearing after you down Madison Avenue, they are also strong toxins to our system. Hope, faith, love, compassion and gratitude, the positive emotions, have been proven to build the immune system. So while not everything is up to us, it is wise and prudent to engage and use what is. Below is an article from GreenMedInfo describing hospital discharges in Shanghai of patients with coronavirus who healed through mega-doses of Vitamin C. Linus Pauling, who performed the ground-breaking research showing the extraordinary effects of Vit. C was the only person in history to be awarded two Nobel Prizes for his work on Vitamin C. The power of his and subsequent research has not gotten the recognition it deserves. One can speculate about why but for those of us who have been looking at this and related subjects for decades have a pretty good idea: There isn’t much money in it and widespread public knowledge of its efficacy (and Vitamin D, etc.) would greatly dent the medical industry’s control and market share. Whatever empowers people to take care of their own health means less or no dependence on the medical industry and is downplayed, sad as this may be. Read all the information on Mitchell’s blog at http://abetterworld.tv/natural-remedies-for-coronavirus-rational-solution-based-thinking/ .COLLAPSE AND REGENERATION: Walking the Line Between Denial and DespairBy Lynnaea Lumbard for NewStories, March 14, 2020 A couple of months ago, I received an email from Jenn Meilleur, our soon to be new Executive Director at NewStories. She was curious about an article she had received on Deep Adaptation or “adapting to likely collapse.” Her question galvanized an outpouring of my thoughts that have been percolating for months on Collapse and Regeneration, which has become the emergent theme of NewStories work. For years now, NewStories has utilized the Two Loops map of a world in transition. The first loop represents the rise and fall trajectory of our current civilization, based on a set of worldviews and values which emerged in the Scientific Revolution of the late 1700’s. We talk about this loop as having peaked and being in decline. The second loop shows the birth cycle of a new emerging civilization based on a different set of beliefs and values which offer a more integral model for our relationships to Earth and to other humans. Initially it too seems to decline before the new ideas and values systems begin to gain strength and become a new blueprint, a new possibility, a new kind of civilization for Humanity. This pattern parallels the metaphor of imaginal cells emerging in a cocoon initially being killed by the old cells before they get strong enough to coalesce into a butterfly. The Berkana Institute, NewStories and others started developing this map almost 20 years ago. Quickly, a new element was added to the map beyond the two loops – a bridge where it might be possible for people to cross over to the regenerative curve of the second loop without needing to fall all the way into collapse or to have been part of the early experimenter work. For most of its lifetime, NewStories has worked to strengthen the upward curve of the second loop and to build the bridge from one paradigm to another through story and on-the-ground community building. Our work has both emphasized support for those working in existing institutions on the first loop who are developing new approaches and those starting or continuing on the second loop. Both pieces are essential – keeping things working even as they fall apart and building the new. Now we are rapidly becoming aware that none of us are going to be left out of the collapse of of multiple systems in which we live. Wars may be happening elsewhere, but fires, floods, hurricanes, bomb cyclones, tsunamis, crop failures, earthquakes and now pandemics are all around us. There is no way out of the experience of the collapse. We are already in it. Even those who may have bought their million-dollar apartments in underground bunkers in the desert are not going to be able to avoid the impact. No matter what your privilege, we are still all interconnected and when the food supply runs out, the grid goes down, communications stop, water runs out, and millions have a virus, we will all feel it. It’s essential that we learn how to hospice the passing of the old so it spews as little destruction and death as possible while we also midwife newly emerging patterns of compassionate caring and interconnectedness. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current crisis of COVID-19. The collapse is screaming from the headlines. And simultaneously the regeneration is flooding my email box. Everywhere people are coming up with new ways to connect and communicate, creatively adapting to being together in new ways. Our work over the next few months and years is to walk the line between denial and despair in ourselves and in our communities. Neither are an option. We must face the truth of the collapse that is unfolding and do our best to meet the challenges of rapid change without falling into despair. We need to feel our grief and also find our joy in celebration. I believe that holding the tensions between these opposites will eventually engender the transcendent function that will take us to a new, never before experienced consciousness. We must be brave and steadfast and take care of our ourselves and others. We each have choices to make, and the choices we make today determine tomorrow. May we continue to co-create the future we want to live in together.Coronavirus Crisis: Touching, Not Touching, Not SeparateTerry Patten Interviews Thomas Hübl, March 14, 2020I’m honored to release our new podcast conversation with the remarkable Austrian mystic, Thomas Hübl, speaking, healthy, but in mandatory quarantine in his home in Tel Aviv. We are calling the episode “Touching, Not Touching, Not Separate.” We presenced what is in the field — a lot of confusion, and the very human fears so many people are feeling about physical disease (to themselves and to loved ones) as well as fears about financial setbacks and sustaining their lifestyles. Among many tender observations and striking insights that emerged in this wide-ranging conversation, I want to call your attention to our conversation about “the system.” In a previous conversation, Thomas and I discussed I observed the paradox, that even though our system is completely unsustainable, we depend on it for our well-being. So we need to help it become healthier and more coherent, even as we work to help it become more sustainable. Thomas pointed out something crucial then about the ways people commonly relate to “the system.” Many of us commonly speak negatively or at least critically, about “the system” of human society, economy and civilization. (For good reasons. There is much that is unhealthy and needs to change.) However, Thomas observes that we are not truly separate from the system. What do we even mean when we say “the system”? And he suggests that even though we rightly intend for it to improve and transform unsustainable habits — we first may need to learn to love the system. I think this insight can help us practice in a more integrated way. And I find myself contemplating the organic transformation of our stance, our worldview, and our very ways of being — and how that can evolve how we relate to the fear in ourselves and in others — as well as the larger systemic turbulence, and even sometimes scary breakdowns. Listen to the episode “Thomas Hübl on Coronavirus Crisis: Touching, Not Touching, Not Separate” now on State of Emergence on any podcast player (Apple, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn) or at stateofemergence.org.Prophecied Impact of Incurable Diseases on Global Economy and Beyond, March 1995, UN Headquarters, New YorkBy Chief Phil Lane, Jr. Beloved Friends and Relatives, It is my prayer that each of you and all of our Beloved Relatives of our Human Family are moving forward in the most graceful, healthy, compassionate and unified manner, possible. In March 1995, I was invited to make a presentation to UN Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuellar and the World Commission on Culture and Development at UN Headquarters, New York, NY. My presentation, PROPHECIES, REALITIES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE FUTURE, included a Seven Point Summary of the Prophecied Global Challenges facing our Human Family, that I had experienced and that had been shared with me, by Indigenous elders, spiritual mentors, and teachings, over the years. As well, I shared the Sixteen Guiding Principles for Building a Sustainable and Harmonious World, publically, for the first time. These Sixteen Guiding Principles emerged from a 12-year process of reflection, consultation and action within Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Since elder guided consultation began on these Guiding Principles in 1982, these Guiding Principles have been shared widely across the Americas and beyond. They are rooted in the concerns and wisdom of 1000’s of Indigenous elders, leaders, and community members, as well as, in the best thinking of many non-Indigenous scholars, researchers and human and community development practitioners.After sharing the Summary of the Prophesied Global Challenges, I shared that: “Not only is each one of these seven challenges monumental in themselves, but it is obvious to see that we are approaching a global catastrophe, as the crossroads at which they all meet is coming rapidly into view. It will take bold, courageous, unified and selfless action to avert such destruction; the choice to do so is ours, and that decision is ultimately a spiritual one.” Twenty-five years have now passed and we are now clearly seeing the beginning of the global impact of these seven monumental challenges intersecting, with growing global impact. The potential global catastrophe we are now facing, as prophecied, has the potential to be immense. At the same time, I understand that all that has, is and will happen, is far, far beyond my understanding and perspective. From my experience, only through consultation, compassion, unity, and, principle-centered, unprecedented, unified action, between all concerned, will we have the capacity to manifest Peace on Earth, as prophecied, sooner than later. After 75 winters, I am beginning to more deeply understand my father’s counsel since I was young, “Son, there is a sacred rhythm of life, an ebb, and flow, expansion, and contraction, and times to expand and times to consolidate.” More than ever before we, as a Human Family, need to forge together, a respectful, principle-centered Way Forward to a just and prosperous future for us. It appears we have been given a very important time of consolidation, integration, unification, and reflection, on the concrete, principle-centered actions needed to co-create the clear beginnings of Peace on Earth by 2030. Toward the Way Forward, sister Sommer Joy Ramer, brother Jon Ramer, myself and SINE (Synergized Impact Network), would like to warmly invite you to join us on a series of ZOOM Calls and SINE Waves on Facebook, during this time of consolidation and reflection, on the concrete, principle-centered actions needed to co-create the clear beginnings of Peace on Earth by 2030. These calls will begin with large and small groups, integrated into a consultation process on the Seven Challenges and the Way Forward. Thank you for taking the time to read and reflect. It is deeply appreciated!For Once I Have to Write About the NewsBy Sarah McCrum There’s been a change in the way the news media is working. I’ve noticed it especially in the last 12 months. It started to grow last year with the focus on climate change at every opportunity. It became much stronger with the bushfires in Australia and it’s become even more obvious with the coronavirus. During 2019 we reached a point where I sensed that the reporting of climate change was beginning to make the challenges worse than they actually were. I don’t mean that the reporting was making it sound worse than the reality. That’s normal and to be expected. I mean that the level of focus and fear-mongering was manifesting and speeding up the disruption to our climate.On the principles of manifestation that I’ve studied for years, this makes sense. What we pay attention to grows. What we’re afraid of expands. And with the focus of the world’s media on the same topic every day, that’s a lot of people’s attention and a lot of fear. When they first started reporting the bushfires it seemed to me like regular reporting at a quiet time over the holiday and new year period. But at a certain point the energy changed. We were told that “Australia is on fire”. However disturbing and distressing the situation for the affected communities, Australia, which is a vast country, was not on fire. But at that point, it seemed that the intensity of the reporting started to fan the flames of the fires and was literally making them worse. And now we have corona. I’m not an avid news follower and I try to avoid mainstream media because it’s clear to me that the choice of what constitutes news has little to do with what’s significant or meaningful. But I am absolutely shocked at what’s going on. As I flew to Singapore two weeks ago in a plane that was three-quarters empty, I felt that I could pick up a fever psychosomatically. The fear was tangible and I’m wondering at what point we’ll discover you can catch a virus by watching too much news. It might sound disrespectful. I understand that a new virus spreading across the world is a scary prospect, but the energy of this situation is bizarre. The fear that has been manufactured, and the extraordinary images of people in full protective gear, gas masks etc, are creating an energy that is more potent than the virus itself. It would make sense to me that in a wise, mature society, the media would play a role in helping people to keep calm, focus on being healthy and protecting the vulnerable. There’s an interesting side to this that I keep thinking about. It started with the bushfires. There was a global response and the consciousness community got busy organising a global online meditation to bring rain. I even know an 11-year-old girl who organised a rain dance with her friends. I’m sure there were many others. At first it seemed as if nothing happened. A few drops of rain and the fires continued to rage. But a couple of weeks later it started to rain. And it rained and rained and rained. Here in Queensland, we’ve had the wettest summer imaginable. In February only a handful of days were sunny and the all day downpours have continued into March. There’s been major flooding and we’re no longer hearing the story of the bushfires because they’ve stopped. Now, this might be a sign of the new normal – just another extreme weather event, but there are two points that stick in my mind. The first that I remember vividly is an Australian bushfire expert on television predicting that those fires were just the beginning. The long-range forecast back then was for a long, hot, dry summer. What happened? The other thing I remember was that when the fires were at their peak I received many emails asking if my husband and I were ok. One woman said she was praying for rain to fall all the way across Australia. At the time it seemed odd. Most of this country is desert. It was very unlikely that it would rain everywhere. But every day now when I get up to another day of pouring rain, grey clouds and intense humidity I think of all those people who prayed for rain and wonder if there’s a connection. As these scenarios play out, I get the feeling that we’re witnessing a wonderful phenomenon – the rising of global consciousness and the ability of an aligned crowd using subtle technologies (such as meditation and prayer) to influence world events. Lynne McTaggart has shown time and time again how this works, through her books, “The Field,” “ The Intention Experiment,” and “The Power of Eight” and her massive group intention experiments. For a group to come together through the power of social media, and have this effect, is very encouraging for the future. It’s important to point out that we can never be sure of these outcomes. I am not claiming that the global meditation caused the rain. Lynne McTaggart doesn’t claim that the global experiments cause the outcomes. However, I’ve seen these apparently coincidental occurrences so often and in so many ways that I have no doubt there is something significant enough going on to merit a lot of attention. When I see the irrationality and craziness of the world’s media, as it increasingly focuses on a single topic and whips us into a fervour of fear, I feel that I’m witnessing the dying screams of an old way of doing things as a new way emerges into the light of day. Can you imagine the power of well-designed group meditations and prayers for climate stability? Or powerful group meditations for cleaning pollution? Or global healing for the corona virus itself, so the drama simply quietens down and the disease is allowed to disappear as quickly as it emerged? Anyone who’s bored with the news would do well to spend their time learning how to meditate effectively, how to pray in a way that works and how to manifest more of what you want to experience in the world and less of what you don’t want. You may or may not be successful in your desired outcome, but you will learn so much along the way that you will be very grateful for having put time into it. It seems to me that our challenge now is to learn how to put out fires without causing floods, how to influence the climate without adding to instability; how to clean pollution without inciting more damage; how to heal viruses and other common diseases so we can all enjoy a better quality of life. Now that’s worthy of our attention and it will help to keep us healthier at the same time. If you want to participate in being part of the solution, please join me in a live online collective healing event on March 16/17. I will share with you a powerful way to face fear and we’ll relax together as a group to activate collective healing of the corona virus. Join the Activation for Collective Healing.2020, Vision, and “Head and Heart” Energies By Jarrad Hewett 2020 is an extraordinary year, in so many ways. We started off with a rocket-ship of energy, and the planet has been increasing in speed and frequency, ever since. This year is very much focused on vision: who are we, we have we been, and who do we wish to become. In so many ways, everything coming to a head, right now, in the world, is representative of this immense energy and the structural changes we are all collectively and individually experiencing. So, I wanted to simply share a bit about my perspective – an energetic perspective – on what the coronavirus represents. I was asked a question last Sunday, and I wanted to share the answer, and add a bit to it, as well as include a very strong energetic claim at the end, to help you center, whole, heal, and ground. The topic was specifically coronavirus, and how to create in a way that wasn’t re-active or driven by panic. Here is my answer: A lot of what’s been happening in the world, is all about the head and the heart coming together – and how that looks in this space of vision… who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming, in this moment of now, which is all there ever is. There’s a larger psychological lesson to this which reflects the energetic, and it’s about choice and balance, about bringing the head and heart together, and from that space, utilizing facts and science and information – which requires us to trust what we’ve created at larger levels – And if we don’t trust those, than we need to change them, or create spaces wherein we do. There’s a space where people would like to return to simplicity and trust (which is heart), and where we want facts to BE facts (head). We want and desire honesty, and at a wider level, there’s such a fear and a “me-me, mine-mine” energy, that these manifestations are inevitable until we, as a whole, can begin to fully love everyone – and what I mean by that is not just a lip service kind of love – which we sometimes give ourselves, as well – but an actually showing and being of love. Right now, we have an unprecedented opportunity to balance the head and heart. We’ve had Atlantis where it was all head, and we’ve had Lemuria, where it was all heart… and, right now, on earth, we are very much working our way through the screaming inner child who wants that toy NOW and DOES NOT want to share! This is a major balancing – or opportunity and calling forth – for that masculine, feminine, and child and for an emergence and merging or marriage of heart and head, working as one (mirrored in our pituitary and pineal glands, as well, which create how we see ourself and create our world), wherein we know, as the child, as well, we are safe and taken care of, and can therefore “see with our eyes,” “hear with our ears” and accept, love, and create what we desire, based on a new dynamic of balance, inside and out. In these moments, our job, is to unite as THE I AM THAT I AM, bringing all of us on board: head, heart, and our playful, joyful selves, and find the knowing, love, and leadership inside of us – which is how the return to centered, balanced, emotion, feeling, and facts all come into play… head and heart… head and heart… So, with that in mind, here is our Intention and Claim: I choose and know that I am One with the True Light of Creation, the Love of All, the Light of All, and I allow all wounds to be healed, all loops to be closed and transmuted, and I direct, choose, and allow that the Light of Truth be shone upon All, knowing the Truth to be Love and Joy, Ease, Empowerment, and Peace. I take full responsibility for the creation of all that I AM, and I release and direct into the light of Source for healing any and all fear and limitation, as well as Genetic Templates and patterns, cords, obligations, contracts or agreements known or unknown, in all time and space, known or unknown. I DIRECT THAT I AM COMPLETE AND WHOLE IN EVERY MOMENT. I CHOOSE THAT I AM COMPLETE AND WHOLE IN EVERY MOMENT. I ALLOW THAT I AM COMPLETE AND WHOLE IN EVERY MOMENT. And I am enough! I AM WORTHY! I LOVE AND RESPECT MYSELF. I recognize, claim, and affirm that I AM the creation of me. I acknowledge, affirm, claim, direct, and choose to know that I am the creation of me, and I choose to create myself with the Authority of the Divine, with Love, and Joy and Power in Divine Love, Peace, simplicity, and Pure Divine Inspiration and flow. I choose to stand firm in the knowing that I AM THAT I AM and that any energy I may have been carrying, creating, or giving my power away to – including but not limited to the energies of sabotage or anger or rage or destruction or any lower vibration or energy in any shape or form is released and transmuted, and I choose a new. I choose LOVE and GNOST. I CHOOSE KNOWING. I direct the dissolution of all bonds between any and all frequencies which may be holding me in duality, polarity, or from committing 100 percent to the creation of that which I truly desire. I know that I desire total freedom, and I direct the dissolution of all bonds between any frequencies holding limitations around freedom, love, and my ascension and creation, as well as truly knowing myself as creation and I AM THAT I AM through love and pure joy made manifest. AND SO IT IS. |
