Potassium: Depletion is frequently associated with depression, tearfulness, weakness, and fatigue.
And be sure to take your Vitamin D3! Natural Health experts recommend 5,000 IUs of D3 per day as the best protection against colds and flu. In the summer months we have less illness because we get more sunshine - which converts to vitamin D3 in the skin. As days grow dark and short, we are likely to become deficient in D - thus we have "the flu season."
Personalized Guided Meditation/ Custom-Made Self-Hypnosis CD's Available by Special Order Now!
Special 3 for the price of 1 MP3 Offer until midnight saturday.
Extended offer -through November 7th, all orders for my custom-made Guided Meditations will include 2 bonus audios - my full Guided Mindfulness Meditation and my soon-to-be-released Sound Healing Meditation.
What is a Personalized Guided Meditation?:
This new service offers you a highly personalized, made-to-order, professional Guided Meditation/Self-Hypnosis CD, with soothing background music and voice recording. Based on your answers to an extensive (confidential) list of questions, I will customize your own unique guided meditation for your personal use. Like having your own coach or therapist with you where ever you go!
This is a powerful tool for changing your sub-conscious tapes - and replacing your negative, self-limiting, self-defeating thoughts and beliefs with positive, life-affirming, optimistic thoughts and beliefs.
By listening to your personalized guided meditation on a regular basis - preferably just before you go to sleep - every night, or at least several times a week - you will begin to see deep and lasting changes in your life.
(The music and voice are similar to the meditation audio above, except I will be talking directly to you and addressing your specific needs, issues, and goals).
Complete your confidential personal profile/qustionnaire, and order your Customized Meditation.
Energy Psychology and Meridian Tapping (EFT)
"This may be the biggest breakthrough in Medicine and Psychology in the last century."
Dr. Dawson Church - Author of Genie in your Genes
Variously called "Energy Tapping," "Meridian Tapping Technique," and Emotional Freedom Techniques® or “EFT” - tapping is an amazing Energy Psychology technique that can be easily learned and self-applied for an enormous array of problems. It is excellent for depression, as well as virtually any emotional disturbance, phobia, fear, traumatic memory, negative thought, and even for many physical problems (including some chronic problems that may have been unsuccessfully treated for years using all sort of conventional and alternative methods).
By tapping on these electrochemical activation points, the nervous system is balanced, and the emotional center of the brain (the amygdala) ceases it's reactivity to the disturbing negative thought, image, memory, or whatever the case may be. Studies now show that tapping quickly reduces levels of the stress hormone cortisol...
Learn more about Meridian Tapping and EFT
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EFT and Energy-Coaching by Phone
Energy Tapping (Meridian Tapping), also commonly called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) can be done both face to face with a coach or therapist, as well as by phone. Once you learn the 8 major points to tap on your body, you can follow the coach's verbal cues and get wonderful results. In fact, I find that working by phone can minimize distractions and facilitate a deeper connection. Working with a therapist or coach can help you to define your core issues that need work, and help you find just the right words to describe the issue as you tap - an essential element for getting the best results.
Now, with Skype audio or web cam - you can even have a "face-to-face" session, just as you would if you came to my office, (and without long-distance charges).
707/326-5566 or Email: BSchwarcz@sbcglobal.net
EFT-by-Phone: Energy Coaching Sessions
Learn to Meditate: You are the Key to your own hidden treasure
"lift the veil
that obscures
the heart
and there
you will find
what you are
looking for
-Kabir - 15th Century Mystic
You always have the ability to go within and to surrender to your own Higher Self - your eternal and ever present Consciousness. Here is the source of your true happiness, bliss and contentment. That which you seek in the world is already here, within you Now.
Try my free guided meditation here and now. Just make yourself comfortable, stop what you're doing and take a 15 minute break to feed your soul:
This guided meditation audio, along with an additional segment is now available for sale on my website. You can listen to part one (the first 15 minute meditation) for free directly on the site, or by clicking the player below. The second link below will allow you to download the 15 minute meditation for your personal use - only available for free through this newsletter.
Yoga: The Ultimate Mind-Body Path for Transformation
What is Authentic Yoga?
Of all the self-help and healing techniques that I talk about, I place Yoga at the top of my list. Yoga is often very misunderstood. It is an ancient tradition of health and spiritual growth that predates all known religions and is the oldest known spiritual practice in human history. All Eastern forms of meditation have their origins in the Yogic traditions of India. Likewise, all eastern martial arts have their roots in Yoga. The mysteries of the Yogic masters and their ability to perform amazing feats of mind over matter, influenced the development of Shaolin Kung Fu in China and spread through Asia, eventually giving rise to many different spiritual paths, martial arts, and systems of health. Ayurvedic Medicine, a highly sophisticated, holistic science of healing, also comes out of the ancient Yogic Traditions and led to the development of other healing arts in the East such as Reiki, Pranic Healing, Acupuncture and many other forms of healing.
Yoga’s origins are more than 5,000 years old. Some experts say more than 10,000. If it didn't work, humans wouldn't have held onto it just because it was trendy.
Yoga or "Yog" literally means “Union with the Divine”. It is about refining the energy - raising the vibration, coming into balance and harmony, to where your little ego-mind dissolves into a glorious, expansive consciousness, and merges beyond your I-ness to join with the Cosmic Consciousness, sometimes called God-consciousness, Self-Realization, or Samadhi. These levels of consciousness are quite advanced, and for most people require many years of committed practice to achieve, but there is a progressive movement towards these states. In the true Yogic philosophy, this is the real purpose and destination of the journey for all life on earth.
There are many different branches of Yoga. There is plenty of great information out there about all of this, and you could study for the rest of your life and not learn it all. Some forms of yoga are very physical. Others, like Bhakti Yoga are about spiritual devotion; Karma Yoga is about transcendence of the ego, through service and selfless action (Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi); Some are more philosophical and intellectual like Jnana Yoga, or Advaita Vedanta; Some are purely oriented towards raising consciousness through meditation and techniques involving the use of breath (pranayama) - such as you will find in Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga, Tantra and Kundalini Yoga.
These are just some of the types of Yoga out there. They are all compatible with one another. They are all powerful and all beneficial. But they are not all for you. You have to listen to your intuition and choose one or more type that appeals to you - that fits with your basic nature. The stretching exercises associated with popular yoga classes are related to certain traditional practices, but don’t always include the deeper aspects of true yoga (unless it’s taught by a well-trained, traditional teacher).
Kundalini Kriya Yoga - The Ancient Science of Self-Realization
"Healing The Apparent Self Of The Ignorance Of The True Self Is The Ultimate Essence Of All Healing"
- Yogiraj Siddhanath -
This is my personal meditation path, that has blessed my life for 10 years now, since receiving initiation by Master Yogiraj Satgurunath Siddhanath. I am honored and delighted to share this gift with sincere seekers wishing to receive initiation into authentic Kriya Yoga. Anyone interested in coming to the Santa Rosa (Sonoma County) area of California, may register for Kriya initiation and learn this life-changing technique - the mother of all meditation paths. I'm also available to travel on a limited basis if you have a group of people who want to receive Kriya initiation.
Yogic Breathing Techniques to Supercharge and Balance You
Pranayama – literally “life-force control” – are powerful techniques for shifting your consciousness, purifying mind and body, and raising your energy. Pranayama is a core part of several types of Yoga.
Try this:
Bhastrika – “Bellows Breath” –
This Pranayam will relieve stress, anxiety and depression, bring clarity and calmness to the mind, and reduce fatigue.
Relaxing, seated with closed eyes and straight spine, prepare first by taking a few forceful, deep breaths of equal length, both in and out, through both nostrils together. Pump the breath from the belly (diaphragm), expanding the belly out as you inhale, and snapping it back towards the spine as you exhale.
Now with the right hand, close the right nostril with the thumb. Breathe in and out forcefully but without strain, through the left nostril 10 times, using only the diaphragm. (Chest and shoulders are still). After 10 breaths, inhale slowly and deeply through the left again, this time expanding up into the chest, and hold the breath in, holding both nostrils closed. Retain the breath for a few seconds, and then exhale through the left nostril.
Repeat this for the right nostril – 10 breaths, and then inhale and hold for a few seconds, and exhale through the right.
Now with both nostrils open, breathe in and out forcefully with both sides for 10 breaths. Inhale slowly and deeply through both, hold a few seconds while closing both nostrils, and then exhale through both. This is one round. Do this for up to five rounds to start. Start with slow breaths. As you advance, breaths can become faster. Do not strain, or create excessive discomfort or pressure. Be gentle.
{If any Pranayama exercises cause you to feel faint, perspire excessively, or feel nauseated afterwards, discontinue and seek the guidance of a yoga teacher. If you are diagnosed (or suspect) Bipolar Disorder, avoid intensive and prologued practice of pranayama, and proceed with mindfulness and moderation, or with a teacher’s guidance. If you feel your energy rising too much, or your mind becomes too active, stop immediately and seek consultation. Forceful abdominal breathing should also not be done if you have high blood pressure, heart disease, hernia or gastric ulcers, without expert guidance.}
Learn Pranayama techniques - Kapalabhati, Nadi Shodhana, Surya Bheda and more
Learn more about yoga and meditation for health, happiness and vitality.
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Soon-to-be released eBook: Meridian Tapping for Depression:
Specific tips, techniques, scripts and short-cuts for using Meridian Tapping/EFT to successfully eliminate depression. Release expected in November.
Don't Give Up
Every life challenge is an opportunity to awaken. There is no situation that is hopeless. Something positive, healing and transformative is possible in all circumstances, even when we can't recognize it at the time. Sometimes we forge ourselves out of the fire of suffering and loss, and it isn't until the end that we realize what a beautiful work of art has emerged within. The glory of waking up can't be experienced if you don't first accept that you are asleep.
May we all find peace. May we all know joy. May we all be liberated from fear, and released from illusions. May we all return to the Truth of our inner Light.
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Wishing you health and great joy!
Ben Schwarcz
Benjamin Schwarcz, MFT is licensed psychotherapist (#mfc35606), meditation teacher, and energy coach with a private practice at 509 7th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401. He can be reached at 707-326-5566.
Disclaimer:
This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. As with any drug, not all supplements are safe for all individuals and there may be risks and contraindications for people with certain conditions. Always consult a professional health care provider before before trying to treat a serious condition on your own.
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