It always amazes me how attached we are to complicating things. Addicted to a cult of effort. To the point that when someone offers you a simple answer, its not taken seriously because its not complicated enough?! How mad are we really?
I'm reading The Alchemist, P.Coelho. The shepherd and the englishman are discussing alchemy while on a long trek across the desert. The englishman has lent his books on alchemy to the shepherd boy to 'learn' from. He asks the shepherd boy if he learned anything from the books, and the boy's response is,
" I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosophers Stone, and the Elixir of Life.
But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple that they could be written on the surface of an emerald".
We are all guilty of making mountains out of molehills. As a doctor, I see this everyday. Mostly from within the 'industry' of medicine. The long stories from the pharmaceutical firm reps, the growing 'need' for stronger drugs, weirder combinations of pills...and now the latest move to produce a polypill for heartdisease...wait for it... prevention. Somehow the magical, perfect healing mechanisms of the body get shrouded in clouds of 'scientific research'.
I only choose to write about what works, not what doesnt. However, for those who want to see whats cooking behind the scenes, check out www.mercola.com, www.thepeopleschemist.com and www.jonbarron.org, these guys all do the research on the complicated stuff in healthcare and why so much of it doesnt work, all very interesting reading/newsletters.
The most profound healings I've seen have not employed any of these 'well-researched and scientfically validated research'. Reconnective Healing, without even touching a person, even at a distance across the globe, has been miraculous. Intentional healing which Lynne Mactaggart has given so much of her love and time to making popular through her websites, has had some profound effects in those on the recieving...and giving end. EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, wow. I had a chap come in and see me the other day with chest pains, tightness in his chest. Did we get complicated? No, we did some EFT for 15minutes on anger issues, and....yup, his chest opened up and we were blown away at how much better he looked and felt. Sitting and really listening to my patients, and I mean really listening, not just hearing with an automated reply already picked according to key words in the conversation, has had some real healing benefits. I believe the chinese symbol representing the word 'to listen' is comprised of four pictoral elements: an ear, a heart, and eye, and a symbol meaning 'undivided attention'. That struck me as pretty amazing.
There is most definitely a 'stuff' that connects everything, and as we learn how to drop our 'learned knowledge' and realise we are this 'stuff', we become powerful healers: of others, of ourselves, of the world.
Buteyko breathing technique for asthmatics is so beautifully simple, and incredibly effective. The Annals of Internal Medicine (June 2006) said that Salmeterol, a popular asthma medication, may be responsible for 4000 OF THE 5000 ASTHMA RELATED DEATHS in USA annually. ?!?!. In fact two recent asthma drugs, Salmeterol and Formoterol, have FDA warnings that they may increase the risk of serious asthma attacks.
The buteyko technique will, on average, reduce the need for reliever medication by 86% and for steroid based preventers by 40-50%!!! WOW, thats significant man! Simple, true.
The institute of Heartmath in the states, has done incredible research into the enormous benefits to one's wellbeing, yes including physical health, by the use of a very simple heart-based breathing technique. Essentially, you will express the stressful emotion that is bothering you, decide on a feeling that is the opposite to that (eg anger becomes joy) and then focus your attention on your heart, in the middle of your chest, and imagine breathing the better feeling into this area. So, you are breathing Joy through your heart area, intentionally, rather than simply breathing and thinking joy. This profoundly simple technique has an amazingly far-reaching cascade of physiological benefits throughout the body. Check out the freely available research on www.heartmath.com.
When you consider how hypnotised we all are about cholesterol, fatty foods, animal fats, and cholesterol drugs being the biggest role-player in heart disease, the true research will shock you. The truth is that taking a cholesterol drug will have a POSSIBLE benefit in only 0.8 people out of every hundred that take it. (Not the 40-50 % that we are told). Heart disease is one of the longterm complications of these drugs!!! The leading causes of heart disease are : Anger, resntment, loneliness and depression. No kidding. Current research. So if we all employed the very simple heart-based stress reduction exercise that the heartmath institue has described, we could have a MAJOR reduction in heart disease, not just 0.8%, more like 60%
Many years ago, Dr Deepak Chopra quoted some data from the CDC (Centre for Disease Control in the USA) that should have changed the direction of healthcare. They basically summarised the most important role players in a person's healthy outcome in life. Medication had a 10% impact, genetics about 17% impact, the environment about 15% impact, and one's everyday/personal choices had a wopping 58% impact. mmmm. (I dont have that research paper at hand, so the exact %'s may be up or down a point or two, but not more than that).mmmm again.
So what could be a simpler truth than we all hold the key to our health, individually and colletively? Not much.
KISS: Keep it so simple!( The simpler the better)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
hello and thank you
Hello world.
ever been awed by the big-ness of everything? this is my first step-up to the universal lecturn and it amazes me how big it seems, yet its only me and my keyboard!
what affects us the most is not the impact of an event, but our reaction to that impact.
to be honest, i'm a little nerved as i write here. i have so much to say and yet the screen and the experience seem to be daunting. a little like the first time i was called in to see the headmaster, age 10. i knew i was going to get the cane, as the two other lads ahead of me did. could that experience still be with me now?
we have photographic minds.
my whole body is still responding in exactly the same way: contracted and cold, slight tremor, unclear thinking, jumpy guts, dry mouth, and palpitations. there are a multitude of different physical changes happening simultaneously. a flooding of the panic/fright hormone adrenalin. you all know that. you all know that feeling. isn't it amazing that the body can react on a stimulus that isn't actually real? but from a stored memory? if sitting in front of this computer writing for all the world to see can trigger this reaction....what about every other thing i do? going into the bank, going to speak to my employer, waking up on a monday, everything! is anything a real and unique response?
imagine getting one of those virusses on your computer, upsetting a smooth running system, altering a program. everything that is fed through the system is affected by that dodgey program. seems our minds do the same thing. ordinary info in...through negative program....hectic info out, everything seems wrong, but you cant understand why.
so i watched the 'secret' and read a whole lotta books on the subject, listened to loads of speakers and went on some amazing seminars. i experienced the flipside of the response i've been speaking about. i became very creative. i started manifesting my desires. some big, some small.
i am a free-flow life magician and a master-manifester!
i took the understanding that my thoughts create my reality, and pushed the boat out. in a little over one month, i managed to come up with almost a quarter of a million rand (south african currency, approx $25000 or €20000) to go on an amazing seminar in monte carlo with one of the planet's most amazing teachers, dr tony quinn.
in one day i managed to come up with double the amount of money i needed to do a training seminar in a healing modality, called reconnective healing. in fact the course was full, and within a few days i managed to get a place on the training through right thinking. in a few weeks of creative thinking i landed the job i wanted in south east ireland.
i'm going top write a book sometime about this incredible journey, because there are so many stories i could tell you. stories of the guides, the voice of god/life and the new direction my life is taking.
my goal is to help transform healthcare on the planet. to influence the very role players that are impacting our healthcare in the current paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine.
my body became pretty ill a few years ago. 'picked up' a virus that current understanding reckons i'll have for life and may cause cancer. i put the inverted commas, because i dont think i really 'picked it up'. that thinking is embedded in the germ theory that has entrenched the current healthcare paradigm. that is, you're ok until something enters your body from outside it and wreaks havoc, so you should take some pill or potion, also from the outside of your body, to 'fix' the problem. be that pharmaceutical, herbal or otherwise.
i think differently, so do a growing number of researchers, quantum and otherwise. we are living within a sea of energy. i'm not talking about 'woo-woo' energy, but real, measureable stuff that physicists spend their waking, and sleeping hours messing with. everything in the universe is a vibration looking for a like vibration to resonate with. if everything is energy, nothing is a fixed solid in a fixed state. not even a virus. yes, if you look hard enough under a big fat electron microscope you'll see 'this virus or that', just like you see yourself in the mirror everyday. so we believe we are finite substance, unchangeable and 'fact'. NOT TRUE.
i watched a tumour inside a woman's bladder dissolve in less than three minutes, realtime, while three healers chanted over her! i have seen miracles, i have read about them, i am one. AND SO ARE YOU. it is becoming a more mainstream topic of investigation: healing. the coolest thing about it is that if one person can heal, so can everyone. so whats the hitch? your thoughts and memories, your negative programs, your ingrained beliefs.
the greatest myth is that we have no control over our lives!
we are vibrational energy having a human experience, BECAUSE WE CHOSE TO! wow, thats quite a statement. only because you believe in the greatest myth. only because you have been 'educated'. here's the thing, the root for educate is the word educo. this means to DRAW OUT FROM WITHIN....not to cram in. the root word is open, expansive, flowing, creative. the modern interpretation and use is contractive, static, closed: we are measured on what we can regurgitate in the classroom! try and take a deep relaxing breath while clenching both your fists as hard as possible. now open your hands and take that deep relaxing breath. feel the difference?
the most powerful forces of nature are wind and water: flow, open, pliable, expansive, illusive at times, life-giving as well as destructive. these forces have not been educated, but remain educo'd.
so where to from here? as i heal, i learn, i grow, i remain open to change and new possibilities and i am becoming weller than well everyday. in this blog i want to share some of the amazing discoveries i've learned and how to apply them.
its creative, its fun, its stimulating, it'll help you follow your passion and remember your true nature.
YOU ARE THE ANSWER
briefly, i wear the hat of a medical doctor, gp actually. i have precribed every pharmaceutical in the book. i have swung to the other extreme and used almost every well -known and some lesser known natural/alternative/complementary therapies. now i am using everything i know with the added benefits of what i am learning on my journey, the simplest and the most profound healing methods. i am a father of two beautiful little girls, 8 years and 18 months. i am married to my greatest guide, teacher, friend and ally. i am currently working in ireland.
i want to give back and share.
thanks for reading this, i dont feel nervous anymore! i'm going away for easter, to hang with my brothers in brighton, uk. i'll write after that probably.
only love is real
ever been awed by the big-ness of everything? this is my first step-up to the universal lecturn and it amazes me how big it seems, yet its only me and my keyboard!
what affects us the most is not the impact of an event, but our reaction to that impact.
to be honest, i'm a little nerved as i write here. i have so much to say and yet the screen and the experience seem to be daunting. a little like the first time i was called in to see the headmaster, age 10. i knew i was going to get the cane, as the two other lads ahead of me did. could that experience still be with me now?
we have photographic minds.
my whole body is still responding in exactly the same way: contracted and cold, slight tremor, unclear thinking, jumpy guts, dry mouth, and palpitations. there are a multitude of different physical changes happening simultaneously. a flooding of the panic/fright hormone adrenalin. you all know that. you all know that feeling. isn't it amazing that the body can react on a stimulus that isn't actually real? but from a stored memory? if sitting in front of this computer writing for all the world to see can trigger this reaction....what about every other thing i do? going into the bank, going to speak to my employer, waking up on a monday, everything! is anything a real and unique response?
imagine getting one of those virusses on your computer, upsetting a smooth running system, altering a program. everything that is fed through the system is affected by that dodgey program. seems our minds do the same thing. ordinary info in...through negative program....hectic info out, everything seems wrong, but you cant understand why.
so i watched the 'secret' and read a whole lotta books on the subject, listened to loads of speakers and went on some amazing seminars. i experienced the flipside of the response i've been speaking about. i became very creative. i started manifesting my desires. some big, some small.
i am a free-flow life magician and a master-manifester!
i took the understanding that my thoughts create my reality, and pushed the boat out. in a little over one month, i managed to come up with almost a quarter of a million rand (south african currency, approx $25000 or €20000) to go on an amazing seminar in monte carlo with one of the planet's most amazing teachers, dr tony quinn.
in one day i managed to come up with double the amount of money i needed to do a training seminar in a healing modality, called reconnective healing. in fact the course was full, and within a few days i managed to get a place on the training through right thinking. in a few weeks of creative thinking i landed the job i wanted in south east ireland.
i'm going top write a book sometime about this incredible journey, because there are so many stories i could tell you. stories of the guides, the voice of god/life and the new direction my life is taking.
my goal is to help transform healthcare on the planet. to influence the very role players that are impacting our healthcare in the current paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine.
my body became pretty ill a few years ago. 'picked up' a virus that current understanding reckons i'll have for life and may cause cancer. i put the inverted commas, because i dont think i really 'picked it up'. that thinking is embedded in the germ theory that has entrenched the current healthcare paradigm. that is, you're ok until something enters your body from outside it and wreaks havoc, so you should take some pill or potion, also from the outside of your body, to 'fix' the problem. be that pharmaceutical, herbal or otherwise.
i think differently, so do a growing number of researchers, quantum and otherwise. we are living within a sea of energy. i'm not talking about 'woo-woo' energy, but real, measureable stuff that physicists spend their waking, and sleeping hours messing with. everything in the universe is a vibration looking for a like vibration to resonate with. if everything is energy, nothing is a fixed solid in a fixed state. not even a virus. yes, if you look hard enough under a big fat electron microscope you'll see 'this virus or that', just like you see yourself in the mirror everyday. so we believe we are finite substance, unchangeable and 'fact'. NOT TRUE.
i watched a tumour inside a woman's bladder dissolve in less than three minutes, realtime, while three healers chanted over her! i have seen miracles, i have read about them, i am one. AND SO ARE YOU. it is becoming a more mainstream topic of investigation: healing. the coolest thing about it is that if one person can heal, so can everyone. so whats the hitch? your thoughts and memories, your negative programs, your ingrained beliefs.
the greatest myth is that we have no control over our lives!
we are vibrational energy having a human experience, BECAUSE WE CHOSE TO! wow, thats quite a statement. only because you believe in the greatest myth. only because you have been 'educated'. here's the thing, the root for educate is the word educo. this means to DRAW OUT FROM WITHIN....not to cram in. the root word is open, expansive, flowing, creative. the modern interpretation and use is contractive, static, closed: we are measured on what we can regurgitate in the classroom! try and take a deep relaxing breath while clenching both your fists as hard as possible. now open your hands and take that deep relaxing breath. feel the difference?
the most powerful forces of nature are wind and water: flow, open, pliable, expansive, illusive at times, life-giving as well as destructive. these forces have not been educated, but remain educo'd.
so where to from here? as i heal, i learn, i grow, i remain open to change and new possibilities and i am becoming weller than well everyday. in this blog i want to share some of the amazing discoveries i've learned and how to apply them.
its creative, its fun, its stimulating, it'll help you follow your passion and remember your true nature.
YOU ARE THE ANSWER
briefly, i wear the hat of a medical doctor, gp actually. i have precribed every pharmaceutical in the book. i have swung to the other extreme and used almost every well -known and some lesser known natural/alternative/complementary therapies. now i am using everything i know with the added benefits of what i am learning on my journey, the simplest and the most profound healing methods. i am a father of two beautiful little girls, 8 years and 18 months. i am married to my greatest guide, teacher, friend and ally. i am currently working in ireland.
i want to give back and share.
thanks for reading this, i dont feel nervous anymore! i'm going away for easter, to hang with my brothers in brighton, uk. i'll write after that probably.
only love is real
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