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Magical Healing - Just a Breath Away

2011-07-10T05:20:00.000-07:00

This is an amazing article by Andreas Moritz. You can utilize it to heal your health problems and any other problems you may have. Enjoy!

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Magical-Healing---Just-a-breath-away.html?soid=1104839445271&aid=6kLLijD4hIg

Andreas Moritz Inteview on Lifting the Veil of Duality

2011-07-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

Lifting the Veil of Duality (Greg Voisen interviews Andreas Moritz from Andreas Moritz on Vimeo.

Awesome Tele-Conference with Andreas Moritz

2011-05-15T08:11:00.001-07:00

Here's an hour and a half of Andreas Moritz talking about:

Why mistaking the symptoms of a disease for the disease can actually prevent you from healing, cancer included.

How understanding the hidden, underlying purpose of disease can help you heal on many levels.

Learn about the most important timeless secrets of health and rejuvenation.

Find out what you need to avoid to be and remain healthy.

Receive the unique healing sounds of Sacred Santémony that were created and shared live for this group occasion.

Enjoy!!!!!!

Soul Felt Series interview with Michelle Skaletski-Boyd (including Sacred Santémony) from Andreas Moritz on Vimeo.

Fear

2010-08-29T07:49:00.000-07:00

I have not posted on my blog in a very long time and the universe is giving me so many hints to get on here and to let it all out. I am going to talk about my specific fear which I believe will help me to overcome it, and possibly someone else who reads this too. My fear is something I’ve lived with for way too long. I have a fear of my car breaking down. It’s irrational, and not founded in any reality, I do know that. I can take the car to the dealership, have them look it over, fix any issues and still, I drive it and feel like there is something wrong and that I’ll be breaking down eventually. This is what I live with on a daily basis and it is very difficult, especially considering I drive 20 miles each way to get to a job that I love.

I’ve been told by my friend and guide, Andreas Moritz, that this fear of breaking down is related to a past life where I was driving a horse drawn cart and the axle split and I was unable to get the goods I was delivering to people who needed them very badly and those people had many complications because of my failure to deliver. That past life scenario makes sense to me intellectually, yet still, I’m telling the cells in my body that in this lifetime we are safe, we are OK, we are not delivering anything to people who need us desperately, and that we should not feel guilty for letting anyone down. For whatever reason, the cells of my body still seem to cling to this notion.

What prompted me to post about my own specific fear was a post I read on the Ask Andreas forum of curezone.com where a woman had written in talking about how difficult her life was with many hardships and how she felt despondent, hopeless and filled with anxiety. She was basically living an existence of depression and suffering. Andreas wrote her the following message:

“The difficulties that are experiencing are not there make you feel miserable, but to help you express what you have locked inside yourself. Whatever you keep inside you, your pain and your gifts, your love, and anything else, will turn to torment you until you do let it out. There is so much in you that wants to be shared with the world. Not doing so, out of fear of not being good enough, being understood or respected for it, etc., prevents you from receiving what you desire. It blocks the incessant flow of energy towards you and instead goes around, blessing something else with the abundance you so deserve. It is fruitless focusing on the things that are not working in your life, for these are just an extension of how you see yourself. You are the most important person in your world, for if you make yourself any less than that, you will begin to whither and suffer, and thus serve nobody. To make others happy and feel safe with you, you need to feel happy and confident within yourself first.”

I loved Andreas’s response because many of us keep inside not only our pain and fears, but our gifts and love too. It is time to speak our truth and let it all out to the world. If someone judges me for having a weird fear or for expressing my gifts or my love, then it is their “stuff” and not mine.

With this fear, I have good days and I have bad days, but the bad days can be so debilitating. I am a very independent person and a fear of driving a car can squash that independence very quickly. This fear does torment me and I am ready to release it 100%. I’m telling the universe and I’m telling every cell in my body that it is time to release this fear and replace it with healing, happy, loving energy.

If you also read more deeply into Andreas’s message, what he’s saying is that it is important to love ourselves. I’m most definitely guilty of not loving myself at all times. Who doesn’t judge themselves or criticize themselves for the things we do and say. Hey Melinda!! Listen up!! You are awesome. You are amazing. You are a valuable member of the human race with many gifts and blessings to bring to this world. You’re an amazing mother, wife, friend, sister, sister-in-law, daughter and daughter-in-law. You are an awesome Administrative Assistant, especially with how easily organization comes to you. You are a healer and you should shout it from the roof tops and fully share all your healing gifts with the world. You’ve got quirks too and they’re OK. Our faults and weaknesses are what make us beautiful and individual and we’ve all got them and we should all show them and love them. Melinda, this is my message to you today and every day!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What Can We Do To Be Healthy?

2010-05-23T11:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a portion of an interview with Andreas Moritz (April 12, 2010).

Q: What can we do to be healthy?

A: Good health is natural, whereas ill health is unnatural. Instead of fighting ill heath, we are better off doing those things that keep us healthy and youthful, while avoiding those things that make us sick. Nearly every day you hear of new research that tells us how certain lifestyle and food choices cause diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other health conditions. They give us clues as to what we need to do to get us healthy again. For example, vitamin D derived from regular sun exposure can reduce the risk of developing cancer by up to 77%, but how many people hear about that or bother to find out what would keep them naturally balanced and healthy? They certainly won’t hear it from their doctor. It’s just not profitable enough to pursue sunbathing as an effective method of cancer prevention and cancer treatment. To the contrary, we have been warned that sun exposure can be harmful and actually cause skin cancer although this theory has turned to be false.

It is a scientific fact that vitamin D deficiency greatly increases one’s risk of developing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, most auto-immune diseases, infections, and even the seasonal flu. And although scientific research has clearly shown that up to 95% of all children in the United States, for instance, are vitamin D deficient, and 92% of every sick person going to visit a doctor is severely deficient in this vitamin, the vast majority of doctors make no effort toward enlightening their patients about this essential and natural nutrient.

People with normal levels of vitamin D have a strong immune system and remain naturally protected, even against infectious germs. Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone produced in the skin in response to sun exposure. It controls over 3,000 genes, including those responsible for protecting the body against pathogens. It is best not to use supplemental vitamin D because in the long term, this can actually suppress the immune system. Regular sun bathing without sunscreen and sunglasses has been shown to provide the best possible protection against illness. Vitamin D is not the only requirement to achieve good health. It is equally important to go to sleep before 10 p.m. Otherwise, we disrupt our hormonal balance. Balanced secretions of the master hormones – melatonin and serotonin – clearly depend on sleeping early in the evening and rising early in the morning. Accordingly, a person who goes to bed after midnight on a regular basis will suffer a decline of the immune system, thyroid functions, metabolism, digestive functions, and increase his or her risk of developing cancer, among many other conditions.

In addition, what we eat also affects us greatly. Eating foods that have no nutritional values, commonly called junk foods, may please your palate but hurt your stomach. The body simply refuses to digest foods it cannot utilize, and tries to dump them. However, dumping them in the large intestine includes their putrefaction, known as rotting. Bacteria and yeast germs try to decompose as much of the junk as possible, which is actually a good thing because it prevents total intestinal obstruction. However, these microorganisms also produce poisons that can lead to numerous gastrointestinal disturbances, such as gas, bloating, colitis, constipation, diarrhea, diverticulitis, appendicitis, polyps, Crohn’s disease, and other conditions termed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

And of course, drinking enough pure, fresh water is essential to remain and become healthy. So is taking enough time to relax and play. Many adults have forgotten what play really is, or how to let go and laugh, even though play or fun is an intrinsic, natural, human behavior. Stress is still by far the greatest contributor to ill health than any other cause. It triggers the fight or flight response which constricts blood vessels, raises blood, pressure, undermines digestive functions, suppresses the immune system, causes a proliferation of lungs cells, and enlarges the liver, and of course, emotional turmoil.

To read the entire interview, click here: Andreas Moritz Interview

A Summary of General Principles Regarding Diet

2010-03-12T07:28:00.000-08:00

• A half teaspoon of grated ginger taken with a pinch of salt is an excellent appetizer and kindles AGNI, the digestive fire. Splashing cool water over your face, neck, and hands before meals also stimulates AGNI.
• Eat in a settled environment and quiet atmosphere, with a settled mind. Your company andenvironment should be pleasant. Do not work, listen to music, read or watch TV during meals.
• Always sit down to eat. Eat at roughly the same times each day.
• Eat neither too quickly nor too slowly (about 20 minutes) and without interruption.
• Eat to about ¾ of your stomach capacity at your biggest meal; this equals the amount of your two cupped hands full. Ideally, one third of the meal should consists of liquid food of a soupy consistency.
• Avoid eating a meal or snack before the previous meal has been digested, unless it is a piece of fruit. Allow approximately 3 to 6 hours between meals, depending upon the types of food consumed.
• If you desire to drink anything with your meals, it is best to sip a little hot or warm water. Also avoid drinking large quantities of liquids right before and within the first 2 hours after meals.
• Drinking excessive amounts of water (3-4 liters a day) may produce obesity, kidney disorders and mineral/vitamin deficiencies, whereas drinking too little water causes dehydration. To meet the minimum requirements for water, drink 6-8 glasses of water (at room temperature or warm) each day. You may need to increase the amount during hot, dry weather, when exercising or during stressful times in your life. If the color of your urine is dark yellow, drink more water; if colorless, drink less.
• Consuming cold foods, such as ice cream, and drinking iced beverages may reduce your resistance to disease, impair AGNI and cause mucus congestion.
• The diet should be balanced by including all six tastes—sweet, sour, salty, pungent (spices), bitter and astringent—in at least one meal per day. However, check the previous section concerning specific taste requirements and physiological needs or imbalances for your particular body type .
• It is best not to heat or cook with honey; heat destroys it and makes it toxic.
• Never eat just before going to bed. To avoid developing sleeping disorders, there should be at least three hours between eating and sleeping. If your bedtime is 10:00 p.m., eat no later than 6:00 p.m.
• Chew your food thoroughly—the digestive process starts in the mouth.
• Ayurveda does not favor the intake of too much raw food like raw vegetables, uncooked oatflakes, uncooked grains, etc. Fruits are an exception as they are already “cooked” or ripened by the sun. (See also the section in Chapter 14, Raw Versus Cooked Foods.) The Pitta type is the only one among the body types who is able to digest more raw foods.
• It is best not to eat when the mind is dominated by strong emotions such as anger, worry orsorrow. Wait until it has become more settled, since the digestive system does not work understress.
• Sleeping after meals causes sluggishness and increases Kapha and body weight. However, it is good to rest for about 10 minutes after meals and, if possible, to go for a 10 to 15 minute walk.
• Food should always be delicious and pleasing to the senses and should be prepared by a happy cook.This is an extract from the book Timeless Secrets to Health and Rejuvenation by Andreas Moritz.

You Can Heal Anything: You are the New Medicine

2009-09-24T06:58:00.000-07:00

Here's a great article by Andreas Moritz on birthing the new medicine. Read it slowly and digest every sentence.

You Can Heal Anything: You are the New Medicine

You Must Be That Which Ye Seek

2009-09-19T05:16:00.000-07:00

I have friends who say to me "my husband isn't meeting my needs". I always tell them that you can't change the people around you - the only thing you can change is yourself. Better said is: you must be that which ye seek. If your husband isn't a good conversationalist, make sure you're a good conversationalist. If your husband isn't taking out the garbage, make sure you're doing your chores to perfection. Be that which ye seek and then watch the energy in the relation shift for the better.

Healing Does Not Have to be Difficult

2009-09-07T10:23:00.000-07:00

This is Labor Day weekend and I set my intention to have a healing weekend. What I did was really simple. I stocked up on my favorite healthy foods and I did activities that were easy and that I enjoy. It was my own little mini "staycation". I went to the beach on Saturday which was really beautiful, healing and cleansing for me. The rest of the weekend was spent sitting on my deck with a good book and lounging around with my family.

Many people think that healing requires difficult measures like long fasts, drinking weird concoctions, buying expensive materials or booking expensive appointments with healers. Yes, those things can all help you along your path of healing yourself, but they aren't the only way to help heal. I used to believe I had to buy expensive herbs and vitamins, and pay for sessions with healers and do all these difficult things, but after this weekend I'm not so sure anymore. Sometimes small things like laughter, sunshine and feeling stress free can be worth more that you'd imagine. Just having a beautiful weekend with my family seems to have done wonders for me.

Two Movie Trailers on Food

2009-08-22T17:29:00.001-07:00

Food Matters

Food,inc.

Two great movie trailers to watch. Enjoy!

Past Life Review

2009-08-22T05:37:00.000-07:00

I recently read two books by Dannion Brinkley. His first book is "Saved By The Light" and his second book is "At Peace in the Light". In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was struck and killed by lightning. When he awoke twenty-eight minutes later in a hospital morgue, everything was different. He had visited the afterlife, met thirteen angels, and been taken on a tour of all of his past actions, both good and bad. In both books Dannion Brinkley shares his story and teaches the reader about the afterlife and gives guidance about how we should live life today.

During his out of body experience in the afterlife he went through what he calls a life review in which a person rapidly sees much of their life history in chronological sequence and in extreme detail. The life review included not only Dannion Brinkley's perspective of events that took place in his life, but he got to see and feel those events from the perspective of the other person or people he was interacting with. Dannion Brinkley had been a bully for much of his childhood and he had to to re-experience those events as both the bullier and the bullied. Here is an excerpt from "At Peace in the Light" where Dannion talks about how difficult it was to reflect on his past actions:

When I was in elementary school I sneaked up behind one of my classmates and pulled the rug he was standing on out from underneath him. The move took him completely by surprise, and he slammed face first against the concrete. When he rolled over and sat up, he was bleeding from the mouth. On the ground where he had landed were his two front teeth. There was no pain in his face as he gazed at me, just a look of dazed astonishment as he wondered what had happened.

I saw that boy's face again in my life review, along with the entire incident. This time, however, I experienced it from his side as well. I felt the painful surprise of being slammed to the ground with no warning and even looked back as the boy did to see my grinning face. I could also tell in this life review why he didn't yell or cry after that happened. The wind had been knocked out of him by the impact. There was no air left in him to have any kind of response come out of his mouth.

The life review portion of Dannion's near death experience was the greatest agent for change in his life. He learned to live life in a manner of treating others with consideration and care so that when he really dies and has his final life review, he will not have to see painful, disheartening experiences.

After his near death experience his whole life changed. He started working in hospices with terminally ill people, helping them go through the death experience with dignity and with love. His near death experience taught him to show compassion and love towards others. His main message of both books is basically the Golden Rule: To do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Not a bad message for people of this day and age where everyone is so concerned with themselves and their rights and "me, me, me". If everyone on the planet believed that they will have a past life review where they will have to replay their past actions and that it can feel painful and uncomfortable, they might change the way they interact with others. Wouldn't that be nice!!

You don't need to have a near death experience to have a healing life review. You can sit quietly and review the actions of your life. Go back and think about how some of the things you did affected the people around you. You can go back in your mind and ask the people you mistreated for forgiveness or you can envision yourself re-doing those situations differently.

Danges of Dehydration and the Importance of Kidney Cleansing

2009-08-17T16:29:00.000-07:00

Dangers of Dehydration - And The Importance of Kidney Cleansing

Pharmer's Market

2009-08-16T12:12:00.000-07:00

My husband and I went to the boardwalk last night and sat on a bench and did a little people watching. I commented that probably 75% of the people that walked by us were overweight, which led us into a big discussion on what the food industry wants people to eat, what people do eat on a daily basis and how people take care of their bodies. Somehow we ended up talking about Bill Maher because he's a proponent of cleaning up the diet to get healthy. Then I came across Bill Maher's very funny and very intelligent rant on food, nutrition and common sense. Enjoy!!!

Stuck

2009-08-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

Here is a question and answer posted on the "Ask Andreas" forum of www.curezone.com that really resonated with me:

Hi Andreas....A little over a year ago I became quite ill with numerous physical and mental health challenges. I was having 3 anxiety attacks a day, constant anxiety and severe depression, along with black outs, constipation, muscle spasms and ticks, and a whole slew of menstrual problems, and emotional stuff.....Well.... I have been liver flushing, getting colonics, eating well, cleansing, getting my amalgams replaced, doing sweat lodge ceremonies..... but I am stuck still in between being sick and healthy. I am also feeling like I am loosing a lot of myself..... like my belief in spirit, and goodness.. and all these things that were once so important to me. I am also having a super hard time connecting with my boyfriend, and really anyone at a heart level. You seem to have a really special gift to knowing what is going on beneath the illness, and I am hoping that you might be able to give me some clues so I can return to a balanced state of health. Thanks you in advance... you are a blessing to CureZone.... Yemaya

Dear Yemaya,

The maya of yemaya means illusion. What you have been through in your life may seem to be unfortunate and may feel like you got stuck. Yet this is far from the truth. You have done a tremendous amount of inner work and come to a point in your journey where things you considered important no longer are. Even your ideas of what is right or wrong, good and bad, spiritual and non-spiritual are confused and are overlapping. You are heading towards a zone in consciousness where these limitations are no longer acceptable or even interesting to you. It is the no-mans-land of the soul, where belonging to someone else or things belonging to you offer not the same satisfaction than they used to. Your old life is dying off, hence the "chaos" you have experienced so far, yet your new life has not yet been birthed. Others around you cannot understand you or resonate with you at this time, so you cannot really open up to them. You are forced, in a way, to deal with everything inside of you.This stuck feeling, though, is essential for becoming who you really are. The confused state is very precious because that is where the inner transformation takes place. Your are coming towards the end of a long and difficult journey, and you cannot even imagine what is out there waiting for you. The last part is always the hardest, because you have to let go of everything you thought was worth working or fighting for. It is the conscious death of the old you. The new you will live in the moment, for the moment, by the moment. Your passion will awaken you and guide you along the way. Trust that you exactly where you need to be right this moment, but don't be surprised or resist when this changes in a moment. Each moment is perfect, and life is about discovering that this is so. I suggest that you read Freedom From Judgment. It contains codes of life that your heart recognizes and understands. Then your next steps will be much easier for you. With blessings, Andreas

This post totally hit home for me. I often feel those same panic/anxious feelings and just those crazy emotional feelings. Like Yemaya, I too have also cleaned up my life with liver flushing and eating better, etc. When I think about what Andreas says about "the last part is always the hardest" and that "the confused state is very precious because that is where the inner transformation takes place" I wonder what is out there waiting for me at the end of my difficult journey. I've now done 19 liver flushes, I'm currently doing a heavy duty kidney cleanse with the kidney herbs AND chanca piedra drops each day. I've also been colon cleansing for the past 6 months with Oxy Powder capsules. I feel as though my body is throwing off lots of stored toxins. It is cleansing so fast that the toxins are not even sure how to properly exit my body. I am always cleansing my "temple" and it is showing. Yes, I do feel anxious, but I also feel clean, pure, healthy and happy too. I'm sure the old me is dying off and birthing the new me. I imagine that a large component of my newly birthed existence will have me following what I love which is helping people to cleanse and heal and rejuvenate and teaching that our perception creates our reality. That is my ultimate passion (hence this blog all about natural healing). Universe, bring it on. I am ready!!!

Here is a link to the original post on curezone. Enjoy! "Stuck" from Ask Andreas

Raw Food Diet

2009-08-08T04:36:00.000-07:00

If you haven't heard about the raw food diet, its proponents suggest eating only raw, uncooked, fresh, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains. There are many websites and books about the raw food diet. Many people are following it. In my quest for health, I found raw foods and stayed on this diet for many years.

Raw foods had benefits for me. It got me to stop eating the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) and it did help my health. The thing was though, that it was a very difficult diet to do. It's socially isolating and I truly struggled with the diet and couldn't do it 100% like everyone was claiming you had to do.

What happened next in my life was to find Andreas Moritz and to read what he said about the raw food diet. He is not an advocate of the raw food diet. You can read what he says here:

Andreas Moritz on Raw Food

After learning that it was OK to steam my vegetables, my life turned around. Instead of struggling with all that cold food, I now feel warm and nourished by what I eat. I didn't want to give up vegetables like potatoes or asparagus which, to me, had to be cooked (I was not about to eat them raw). Now I make lots of steamed vegetables and hearty vegetable soups. I eat fruit only when I feel warm enough to handle it (summertime) and I don't struggle through the winters anymore trying to ingest everything cold. I've also added some healthy cooked grains like basmati rice and oatmeal too which were not "allowed" on the raw food diet.

Are you wondering what to eat? Here's a sample daily menu of what Andreas eats every day:

Andreas Moritz's Daily Diet

I do eat raw foods. I love a good salad or raw vegetables with hummus, but I do not strive to eat only raw fruits and vegetables all the time. I love how I eat (which is very similar to Andreas's meal plan) and it has helped my physical health and emotional health because I feel great eating this way.

There are also other very important things I learned about how to eat from Andreas that I didn't learn from raw foods. One of the most important things was not to eat raw food in the evenings because we don't have the digestive enzymes at that time to deal with breaking down the foods. On raw foods, I used to think "as long as it is raw" it is fine and I'd eat up until bedtime. Salads at dinnertime are not a good idea because they will go undigested and will ferment in your body causing blockages in the colon and overtaxing the lymph system. When I have a salad, I have it at lunch time when my digestive "fires" are the strongest. If I eat fruit, I eat it on an empty stomach (always eat fruit first because it digests faster than any other food) and I always eat it in the morning or afternoon.

I hope this post helps anyone struggling with the raw food diet.

Awesome Andreas Moritz Health Videos!!

2009-08-08T04:29:00.000-07:00

Check out all of these awesome Andreas Moritz Videos

Enjoy!!

Book Review - Hear the Whispers, Live Your Dream

2009-08-03T15:59:00.001-07:00

It's finally here - Andreas Moritz's newest book. I purchased the e-book and I read the entire thing in about 40 minutes. It is 153 pages of little "blurbs" of Andreas' wisdom. Reading each page is motivational and inspirational. He calls these little blurbs aphorisms, a word whose definition I am not familiar with and had to look up in the dictionary: a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation. Yes, each page contains a very beautiful, helpful, enlightening statement. The book is divided into three sections: body awareness affirmations, perception and choice affirmations and manifestation affirmations.

Here are a few samples for you to enjoy:

If I so will, I can use 100% of my heart
and brain capacity at all times.
Seeing myself as weak, unworthy, poor,
ill, victimized, mistreated or otherwise
not in control, merely shuts down my
heart, greatly limits my brain capacity
and materializes my fears.
The secret key to living my full potential
and fulfilling all my dreams is to fully
accept myself the way I am. I am in divine
perfection.

I let life reflect me so I can see my inner
light reflected by everything and
everyone I see.
If someone is unkind to me, I see this to
be an opportunity to retaliate with extra
kindness. I do not let others’ rudeness
enter my heart, but instead open my
heart to them to see their pain, fear and
sadness.
The compassion that fills my heart
changes their attitude toward me and
helps them feel better about themselves.

There can be great purpose in our
"mistakes" if we understand their
meaning. The problems they create
persist until we find the meaning or true
purpose that is hidden within them.
I make it a point to bless whatever
happens to me and consciously attach
meaning to it. That meaning becomes
the reality I accept and remember.
My attitude toward problems is a
friendly one because they could turn out
to be the best teachers I have ever had.

This book is one of my favorites. His pearls of wisdom help me immensely. I hope everyone gets to read the entire book. Enjoy!

The book is available at www.ener-chi.com or www.amazon.com.

Mirrors

2009-08-02T11:06:00.001-07:00

I'm sure every person reading this has someone in their life that they find annoying and irritating or someone who just makes them plain angry. Why do we have these people in our lives? Are we just unlucky to be in situations with these types of people?

The people in our lives are mirrors of how we feel about ourselves. They "reflect" back to us how we feel. If you feel unhappy because of how a friend, relative or co-worker acts, it is because you carry a judgment in your heart about a part of yourself that you are not really aware of until you become emotional about it. This person is mirroring to you how you feel about yourself. Anger can only be triggered in you if you already have anger in you. Our mirrors help to shake up the comfort zones we are in and to bring to the surface our hidden unworthiness issues. You can not get angry over anything in life unless there is something within you that bothers you, something you don't like about yourself or something you feel ashamed or guilty about. Our world and relationships are mirror images of ourselves, especially parts of us that we have not been aware of.

So, what's the answer to all this? How do I stop having "frenemies" in my life? What most people try to do is to try to change the mirrors around them. We're always saying, "Oh, if only my mother-in-law would stop being so annoying" or "If only my friend would just figure out her problems and shut up and stop bothering me" or "If only my husband would help out with the kids more". Changing the mirrors doesn't work. You can only change yourself. You cannot have meaningful relationships until you accept, appreciate, love and understand yourself. You must put yourself first, otherwise your relationships will never be fulfilling. Focus on yourself and your own well being and relationships will form that support and enrich you. By neglecting yourself, you will draw people towards you that neglect you. By resisting your desires or putting yourself down you will attract people who will do that to you as well. You can never be a victim. You create or attract those who play that role for you. You don't need to change anyone to be happy yourself. The more you take care of yourself, honor yourself, accept whatever is as perfect for the time being, the sooner you will be complete and ready for relationships that don't just exist to return karmic baggage to one another.

If you're asking where I've gotten all this mind-blowing information, it is taken (much of it verbatim) from the "Ask Andreas" forum of http://www.curezone.com/. You can also read his wonderful book, "Lifting the Veil of Duality - Your Guide to Living Without Judgment" which is available at http://www.ener-chi.com/.

Andreas says, "When you accept your shadow side without trying to change it, you will attract people into your life that don't have the need to diminish you in any way. Stay the way you are right now, and accept it all, and be proud of it, and you will make it possible for others to do the same. People around you will suddenly change their behavior towards you (perhaps not to others) because you have changed your mirror. They have no choice but to reflect you in a different way. You are never a victim of anything, even if it appears that way. There are always choices to be made. You can chose to cleanse your body, and heal your emotions by doing so. You can eat healthier foods and your emotions will reflect that. And, if you don't want to do that, don't punish yourself; instead be happy that you just exercised your free will. Look for the positive element in every negative thing; you will always find one. Then dwell on it. You will discover that all your life's experiences suddenly will make sense to you. All the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle will come together and create the larger picture, your life's purpose. Long before, your self value will have increased by a thousandfold".

How has knowing all this helped me? Well, it's helped me immensely!! Sure, I've got some pretty ugly mirrors: family members who bother me, co-workers who get under my skin, friends who I'd like to tell them to "put a cork in it". Everyone has these people around them. By following the advice given by Andreas, I have stopped focusing on trying to change my mirrors and I've been working on myself. I find the positive in every situation, no matter how bad it is. I accept every situation I'm in as being exactly as it should be and as a gift to me to help me learn and grow. I treat my body like a temple and eat healthy, drink plenty of water, get fresh air and sunlight every day and get enough rest each night. I'm focusing on my well being and it's definitely paying off in seeing much "friendlier" mirrors!

Anxiety and Depression

2009-07-31T18:04:00.000-07:00

I was watching "The Real World: Cancun" and as the roommates first met and introduced themselves, one person said, "I've got panic/anxiety disorder" and then two others gleefully replied, "Me too!!". I found this to be extremely odd and also sad that in this day and age it has become the norm to have anxiety and panic, so normal that young people are using it in their introductions to one another. Why is it that so many people are afflicted with this "disorder"? Why didn't we see this type of thing in people in the 1960s, 1950s ,1940s 1930s, etc.? What is different in this day and age than in the past that so many people are suffering with panic, anxiety and depression?

I have come to learn from my guide and teacher, Andreas Moritz, medical intuitive and natural healer, that the reason we're all experiencing anxiety, panic and depression is because the many trillion cells in our bodies are congested. Physical congestion results from ingesting soda, alcohol, meat, cheese, white flour products, overly processed convenience foods, microwaved foods, sugar, artificial colors and flavors, preservatives, pesticides, saccharine and prescription drugs. If you are physically congested you will feel the same on an emotional and spiritual level. Each cell in your body, like your body as a whole, is a conscious being. When the cells become clogged up with toxins, the communication between cells and their mastermind (which is you) becomes disrupted. This feels like anxiety and nervousness and when the stagnation has reached a climax, depression is the result.

The answer to this situation is to cleanse the body so that the cells become clean and free of toxins, waste, chemicals and drugs. Colon, liver, kidney and lymph cleansing is the answer. Free the body of the impacted waste products and the body will also feel clean and free on the emotional and spiritual level also.

The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush

2009-07-28T15:44:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to a website that has a condensed version of one of my favorite books, "The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush" by Andreas Moritz.

http://www.healthbooksummaries.com/The_Amazing_Liver_and_Gallbladder_Flush_1.html

I'm a veteran liver flusher (I've done 19 to date and I'm still flushing). Ask me any questions and I'll see if I can help.

If you like the condensed version of this book, you can buy the original at http://www.ener-chi.com/. You can also view it at Amazon. If you can't afford the book, have your local library get it for you through inter library loan. This information is accessible to everyone. Treat yourself right and clean your liver!

Happy Flushing!

Problems and Acceptance

2009-07-26T07:19:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting statement for you to digest: "Whatever you don't like and you want to get rid of in your life or in yourself will stick to you unless you accept it first and see the positive reason behind its occurance" (made by Andreas Moritz of curezone.com). The situations that we don't like (for example, our financial situation, romantic partner, job, etc.) are usually situations where we are "battling" to try to get out of it. The way we normally deal with problems is to fight them. We swim against the tide trying to make our problems change and make them turn around into the way we'd like them to be, when we really need to do the exact opposite and to accept everything in our lives as being exactly as it should be at that moment for us. Acceptance is a strange feeling when you first try it. Once you give it a shot, then you can even delve deeper and look for the positive reason behind each problem. Problems don't just come into our lives to make us unhappy. It's not that we drew some type of short straw to get them. Everyone has problems, although it may not seem that way. Our problems or dead locked areas of our lives are actually opportunities to change our ways of creating things in our lives. Again, the first step is acceptance of the problem. It's there for a reason so accept it and show it gratitude because it will be one of the best teachers you'll ever have. Then try to see what it is you are to learn from this particular problem.

I'd love to hear of a problem you once had and the reason behind it. What did the problem teach you about yourself?