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2012年9月6日 星期四

Awaken Through Fasting


One of the greatest gifts that I have received from my years of deep depression has been the ability to examine my thoughts, feelings and habits during those times. Over the years, I have worked with countless individuals, helping them to lose weight through proper diet and exercise. Typically, I would find that, no matter how motivated, most people were not able to use will power alone to overcome their destructive behaviors. For years, I saw one hopeful person after another fall back into their unhealthy ways unless the reason for changing was life threatening. This would ultimately leave them feeling more frustrated, weak and powerless than before.

Then in June of 2000, I had what many Eastern traditions call a Satori experience (instant awakening), as a result of a meditation CD by Wayne Dyer. For the first time in my life, I realized that the hole myself and everyone else was trying to fill with excessive unhealthy foods, drinking, drugs, exercise, sex, TV, etc, was only to be filled by one thing... God! Now, I am not a religious man by any means, so when I say God, I am referring to that universal energy that runs through all living things. The life force of all creation. Some call it God, others Love, others simply Life. Call it what you will, but it is nourishment that is available to each and every one of us... if we are only clear enough to receive it.

So after my life changing evening, my quest became to find a way to give people the same experience that I had been blessed with on that dark hotel room bed. This became my singular focus. To find the "red pill" that would pull society out of the Matrix.

Since meditation was the catalyst for my transformation, that was where I started. I began telling others about the power of meditation and its ability to enable us to create whatever we desired. I shared of my experience with anyone who would listen. I told them that meditation was the key to happiness and how I had never felt so alive. But I found that most individuals where not likely to embrace of I had because the results were not immediately apparent.

Then, I explored sensory deprivation tanks. While many were intrigued, it was not very practical or accessible to the public. I went to countless workshops and seminars, bought numerous home programs and meditation CDs, practiced yoga, trance dance, chanting and anything else that I thought would give me the tool to help others transform. Then I found fasting. The perfect catalyst to give people a powerful spiritual experience. Fasting will crack you open by dissolving all the layers of the ego and removing everything that so many use as a way to distract us from the TRUTH of who we are. During a true fast, there is nothing left but God to provide nourishment. Once you experience this, your perception of Life, God and Yourself is forever changed!

Gandhi once said, "For fasting to be successful and produce the desired outcomes, fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses." This is the key... to remove ourselves from everything (all the noise) that we typically use to avoid feeling the emptiness. It enables us to fill the hole by becoming WHOLE once again. A "deliberate" spiritual awakening.

Let's face it... we do not need another "how to" book telling us what is good for us and what is not. If it were all about the how to's, we'd all be skinny, rich and happy. There is not another diet out there that is going to work, not another pill, not another book or TV show... Ironically, fasting may serve the only food for the emptiness our world feels inside. Sending you love and light.

Namaste.




PS... A true fast can certainly be a challenge to attempt at home with all the distractions of Life. This is why fasting is most powerful either during the solitude of a Vision Quest or at a quiet retreat center, far away from the noise of the world. Licensed Yoga and Hypnotherapist, Erica Boucher and myself will be holding a fasting retreat in Bali in August or September of 2009, but if you are ready now, you may want to check out http://www.dharmahealingintl.com in Thailand. With all the change going on in the World, it may just be what your soul is thirsting for.

As a Spiritual Teacher and Guide, Patrick O'Connor (MBA, CPT, CYT) has devoted his life to understanding, integrating and deepening his own spiritual transformation in order to guide others with theirs. Patrick spent much of his adult life battling suicidal depression; a painful gift that lead him to a profound and sudden spiritual awakening in June of 2000. During the next six months, Patrick visited the light of the 7th dimension through daily meditation to learn from the Ascended Masters. It was this life changing event that advanced Patrick's work of the physical body into a deeper understanding of conscious evolution. Throughout the years, Patrick has assisted countless individuals in their own personal awakenings through his coaching, lectures and website. He is a co-author with the likes of Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins and Bill Harris in the soon to be release book, Wake Up Moments: the story of his transformation from darkness to light. And in March '08, Patrick returned home from a 7-month solo backpacking journey throughout Southeast Asia. His e-book, Journey to Nourish the Soul chronicles his adventures and lessons learned while traveling as a "US Ambassador of Love."





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2012年8月1日 星期三

Awaken Through Fasting


One of the greatest gifts that I have received from my years of deep depression has been the ability to examine my thoughts, feelings and habits during those times. Over the years, I have worked with countless individuals, helping them to lose weight through proper diet and exercise. Typically, I would find that, no matter how motivated, most people were not able to use will power alone to overcome their destructive behaviors. For years, I saw one hopeful person after another fall back into their unhealthy ways unless the reason for changing was life threatening. This would ultimately leave them feeling more frustrated, weak and powerless than before.

Then in June of 2000, I had what many Eastern traditions call a Satori experience (instant awakening), as a result of a meditation CD by Wayne Dyer. For the first time in my life, I realized that the hole myself and everyone else was trying to fill with excessive unhealthy foods, drinking, drugs, exercise, sex, TV, etc, was only to be filled by one thing... God! Now, I am not a religious man by any means, so when I say God, I am referring to that universal energy that runs through all living things. The life force of all creation. Some call it God, others Love, others simply Life. Call it what you will, but it is nourishment that is available to each and every one of us... if we are only clear enough to receive it.

So after my life changing evening, my quest became to find a way to give people the same experience that I had been blessed with on that dark hotel room bed. This became my singular focus. To find the "red pill" that would pull society out of the Matrix.

Since meditation was the catalyst for my transformation, that was where I started. I began telling others about the power of meditation and its ability to enable us to create whatever we desired. I shared of my experience with anyone who would listen. I told them that meditation was the key to happiness and how I had never felt so alive. But I found that most individuals where not likely to embrace of I had because the results were not immediately apparent.

Then, I explored sensory deprivation tanks. While many were intrigued, it was not very practical or accessible to the public. I went to countless workshops and seminars, bought numerous home programs and meditation CDs, practiced yoga, trance dance, chanting and anything else that I thought would give me the tool to help others transform. Then I found fasting. The perfect catalyst to give people a powerful spiritual experience. Fasting will crack you open by dissolving all the layers of the ego and removing everything that so many use as a way to distract us from the TRUTH of who we are. During a true fast, there is nothing left but God to provide nourishment. Once you experience this, your perception of Life, God and Yourself is forever changed!

Gandhi once said, "For fasting to be successful and produce the desired outcomes, fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses." This is the key... to remove ourselves from everything (all the noise) that we typically use to avoid feeling the emptiness. It enables us to fill the hole by becoming WHOLE once again. A "deliberate" spiritual awakening.

Let's face it... we do not need another "how to" book telling us what is good for us and what is not. If it were all about the how to's, we'd all be skinny, rich and happy. There is not another diet out there that is going to work, not another pill, not another book or TV show... Ironically, fasting may serve the only food for the emptiness our world feels inside. Sending you love and light.

Namaste.




PS... A true fast can certainly be a challenge to attempt at home with all the distractions of Life. This is why fasting is most powerful either during the solitude of a Vision Quest or at a quiet retreat center, far away from the noise of the world. Licensed Yoga and Hypnotherapist, Erica Boucher and myself will be holding a fasting retreat in Bali in August or September of 2009, but if you are ready now, you may want to check out http://www.dharmahealingintl.com in Thailand. With all the change going on in the World, it may just be what your soul is thirsting for.

As a Spiritual Teacher and Guide, Patrick O'Connor (MBA, CPT, CYT) has devoted his life to understanding, integrating and deepening his own spiritual transformation in order to guide others with theirs. Patrick spent much of his adult life battling suicidal depression; a painful gift that lead him to a profound and sudden spiritual awakening in June of 2000. During the next six months, Patrick visited the light of the 7th dimension through daily meditation to learn from the Ascended Masters. It was this life changing event that advanced Patrick's work of the physical body into a deeper understanding of conscious evolution. Throughout the years, Patrick has assisted countless individuals in their own personal awakenings through his coaching, lectures and website. He is a co-author with the likes of Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins and Bill Harris in the soon to be release book, Wake Up Moments: the story of his transformation from darkness to light. And in March '08, Patrick returned home from a 7-month solo backpacking journey throughout Southeast Asia. His e-book, Journey to Nourish the Soul chronicles his adventures and lessons learned while traveling as a "US Ambassador of Love."





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2012年5月4日 星期五

Juice Fasting - Self Care You Can't Live Without


The need for regular detoxification of our bodies has never been greater. Scientific research continues to uncover direct links between environmental toxins and a wide range of diseases including cancer. Pollutants new and old continue to contaminate our environment.

Juice fasting is one of the most effective self-care approaches to detoxification and disease reversal. Many benefits of fasting are observable and predictable. They serve as a remarkable example of the healing power of the human body.

The most notable benefits of juice fasting include improved energy, enhanced sensory awareness, improved mood, increased mental clarity, and heightened states of consciousness.

When you think of fasting, do you think of starvation and deprivation? You're not alone. This is a very popular misconception. On the contrary, fasting is an undertaking that quickly improves your body's ability to heal, repair, and rejuvenate itself. The key to experience the maximum benefit from juice fasting lies in knowing how to prepare for juice fasting, how to fast properly, and how to reintroduce foods after your juice fast is over.

Juice fasting is a very powerful cleansing process and could be harmful if done improperly. If you have specific health conditions or if you have any questions or concerns, you should consult your physician before you begin a juice fasting. Pregnant or lactating women should not fast.

When juice fasting is done properly, it spares the body from expending energy to digest food which converts food into glycogens. During the first couple of days of a juice fast, the liver provides an alternative fuel source.

By the third day the body has consumed its stored sugars and begins to burn stored fat as its energy source. It's through this process the real health benefits of the juice fast begin to show. Toxins are stored in fatty tissues. During the height of a juice fasting, as the body burns and expels stored fat, it carries toxins out of the body.

Another effect of juice fasting is blood thinning. Thin blood moves more easily through the body and allows more oxygen and white blood cells to be delivered throughout the body. When you fast, your body can direct more energy to self-regulation and as a result it will function better. Self-regulation includes proper cell growth and eliminatory and immune functions.

Your body will also become more able to recognize old cells and nonessential tissues. As you fast, your body will be better able to separate and recycle nutrients from old cells and use them to generate new cells.

Do you suffer from food allergies or asthma? What about fibromyalgia, migraines, or high blood pressure (hypertension)? These and many more health conditions have been resolved or improved through juice fasting. Obesity, as well as respiratory, skin and vision problems were also improved or resolved. This is by no means a complete list of all the physiological benefits reaped by juice fasting. It's the result of cleansing the body and helping the body eliminate environmental toxins stored in cells and tissues.

Fasting can make an incredible positive impact on your health and total well-being. Juice fasting once or twice a year will ensure your body is able to function properly and protect itself against the toxins we're regularly exposed to every day on this planet.

Periodic fasts, daily juicing, and a healthy diet are three self-care practices you can use to ensure you live a vibrant and healthy life. What are you waiting for? Start now!




Ava Renee is the owner/manager of Olathe Marketing, LLC your source for juicers and juicing resources. Check out juicer recipes and juicers to make the nutrition transition for your family.

Disclaimer: Throughout this article statements are made pertaining to the properties and/or functions of food and/or nutritional products. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and these materials and products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.





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2012年2月12日 星期日

Hypnosis For Fasting


Most of us experience hunger as anything but joyful. When pangs of hunger strike, most of us experience them as the enemy. Often hunger makes us confused, tired, and irritable. Worst of all; hunger pains can lead us to overeat, or to eat sweets and other junk food. Under the dire influence of hunger, we fear we will lose control of our dietary discipline, and stuff ourselves with food. So we learn to fear hunger itself.

But there is another side of hunger. People who are experienced fasters and many athletes know that there is a powerful and beneficial side to hunger. Hunger can be made into our friend, and an excellent friend indeed, who can not only help us to lose weight but can also help us strengthen and heal our bodies. I will show in this article how we can use the powers of hypnosis to help create this new relationship to hunger.

Hundreds of medical studies have proven that when the body is fasting, (Skipping one or more meals) it naturally performs many healing functions. Here are some of the physical benefits of fasting:

-Resting the digestive system, and allowing it to rebalance its digestive enzymes, probiotics (healthy bacteria, which are essential for digestion), rest and rebuild its muscular walls and membranes, and dispose of waste.

-Cleansing the organs of the body and the entire circulatory system of both the normal toxins that are the byproducts of healthy metabolism, and the dangerous environmental toxins that surround us.

-Rebuilding muscle, connective tissue, and organs--most experts agree this can only be done when we are fasting or sleeping.

-Activating the immune system to fight bacterial and viral infections, tumors, and other parasites.

-Reestablishing a healthy blood sugar balance. This is why fasting has for centuries been recommended for diabetes sufferers.

-For those who need to lose weight, skipping meals when done as a part of a carefully managed program can be very effective.

Yes, these are benefits of fasting, which can start adding up even by skipping just one meal per week. These benefits are proven to lead to greater health and longevity. As just one example, medical researchers have determined that when lab rats are given only 50% of the food they usually eat, they live much healthier lives, and live 40% longer than similar lab rats on a regular diet. For more information about the benefits of fasting, I recommend the writings of Paavo Airola, one of the great luminaries in the field of holistic nutrition and cleansing diets, and the works of Ed Bauman, teacher of nutrition in Sonoma County California. Or find a naturopathic physician or nutritionist in your area to assist you in creating a program that is right for you.

But there are also the joys of fasting. Once we can overcome the panic reactions many of us associate with hunger, fasting can actually be a joyful experience. Like many other experienced fasters, I find that in the state of mild hunger I feel good. Here is some of what it feels like.

Once the body's blood sugar reaches a balanced state, one has considerably more energy when the digestive system is resting. I find it easier to hike, rock climb, and run for many miles when I am fasting, or at least eating very little.

In a state of mild food deprivation ones senses and emotions become extremely acute. While this sensitivity may be uncomfortable in some environments, I find my increased senses of sight, hearing, and smell to be usually quite delightful. While in this heightened state, the whine of a motorcycle engine grates severely on my nerves. But this is more than compensated for by the extraordinary beauty of a symphony on my CD player or the sun shimmering on the water of the lake across the street. My sense of smell becomes especially acute, so that every walk outdoors brings a symphony of delicious fragrances. (Thank God my multiple pollen and chemical and mold allergies have been healed with hypnosis!) I suspect that this sensory acuity, especially to aromas, is an ancient adaptation. After all when our body is hungry all our senses turn on to help our bodies locate food.

Once my body reaches a balance I find it easy to call upon and communicate with my inner guides. There is something about fasting which opens the higher spiritual channels. This special quality of fasting has been in the literature of the mystics and saints for at least 2000 years, and is as true now as it was then.

Ironically, a primary benefit from occasional fasting is the reduction of hunger symptoms. I used to be always obsessed with food, and suffered frequent and disturbing cravings. I could hardly go two hours without a snack, which I justified by my self diagnosis of hypoglycemia. Once I became comfortable with being a little bit hungry, and taking a 20 minute nap instead of a sugary treat when I was tired, I felt the shackles of a food addiction were removed from me. Now most of my day I don't even think about food. And boy, are there lots of more fun things than food to think about!

So how can hypnosis help us to move from hunger as the enemy to hunger as a faithful friend? Let me count the ways.

First, we can use hypnosis to speak directly to the stomach, letting it know that a little hunger is a good thing, and instructing it to relax on command.

We can also use regression to access memories in which hunger was associated with pain, fear, abuse or neglect. We can then rescue the inner child from these traumatic experiences. Then we teach the inner child that their adult self is with them during their brief experiences of fasting to give them extra love and reassurance. This can help eliminate the intense emotional reaction to hunger.

When you feel hunger as painful, you may find it helpful to drink liquids, especially warm tea or fruit juice diluted to half strength with water. Certain vitamin and mineral supplements, or even liquid meals, can also help put your hungry feelings to bed while speeding up your body's recovery abilities. This gives the stomach a relaxed feeling of fullness and lifts blood sugar very gently, all without disturbing the healing process and sensory/spiritual powers of fasting. Hypnosis can be used to reinforce this healthy habit.

So if you are ready to enjoy the benefits of hunger, ask your nutritionist for ideas on how to make meal skipping work for you. If you have a serious illness, fasting could even be a big part of the solution, provided you work closely with a naturopathic physician and your regular doctor. And a hypnotherapist can help the whole process of healing your illness, as well as make fasting an easier and more comfortable process for you. Enjoy fasting..give your body the gift of health...and give your consciousness the gift of joy.




David Quigley is the creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy, a popular form of therapy based upon empowering clients to access inner guides (archetypes) within the subconscious mind as the primary sources of healing. This technology, which incorporates elements of clinical hypnosis, NLP, Gestalt, Jungian, and Reichian therapies, and Psychosynthesis, has wide-ranging application in the areas of addiction treatment, abuse recovery, alternative medicine, and peak performance training. David Quigley is the director of the Alchemy Institute of Healing Arts in Santa Rosa, CA (http://www.alchemyinstitute.com) where he also maintains a busy private practice in addition to teaching workshops, intensives, retreats and seminars.





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2012年1月18日 星期三

Awaken Through Fasting


One of the greatest gifts that I have received from my years of deep depression has been the ability to examine my thoughts, feelings and habits during those times. Over the years, I have worked with countless individuals, helping them to lose weight through proper diet and exercise. Typically, I would find that, no matter how motivated, most people were not able to use will power alone to overcome their destructive behaviors. For years, I saw one hopeful person after another fall back into their unhealthy ways unless the reason for changing was life threatening. This would ultimately leave them feeling more frustrated, weak and powerless than before.

Then in June of 2000, I had what many Eastern traditions call a Satori experience (instant awakening), as a result of a meditation CD by Wayne Dyer. For the first time in my life, I realized that the hole myself and everyone else was trying to fill with excessive unhealthy foods, drinking, drugs, exercise, sex, TV, etc, was only to be filled by one thing... God! Now, I am not a religious man by any means, so when I say God, I am referring to that universal energy that runs through all living things. The life force of all creation. Some call it God, others Love, others simply Life. Call it what you will, but it is nourishment that is available to each and every one of us... if we are only clear enough to receive it.

So after my life changing evening, my quest became to find a way to give people the same experience that I had been blessed with on that dark hotel room bed. This became my singular focus. To find the "red pill" that would pull society out of the Matrix.

Since meditation was the catalyst for my transformation, that was where I started. I began telling others about the power of meditation and its ability to enable us to create whatever we desired. I shared of my experience with anyone who would listen. I told them that meditation was the key to happiness and how I had never felt so alive. But I found that most individuals where not likely to embrace of I had because the results were not immediately apparent.

Then, I explored sensory deprivation tanks. While many were intrigued, it was not very practical or accessible to the public. I went to countless workshops and seminars, bought numerous home programs and meditation CDs, practiced yoga, trance dance, chanting and anything else that I thought would give me the tool to help others transform. Then I found fasting. The perfect catalyst to give people a powerful spiritual experience. Fasting will crack you open by dissolving all the layers of the ego and removing everything that so many use as a way to distract us from the TRUTH of who we are. During a true fast, there is nothing left but God to provide nourishment. Once you experience this, your perception of Life, God and Yourself is forever changed!

Gandhi once said, "For fasting to be successful and produce the desired outcomes, fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses." This is the key... to remove ourselves from everything (all the noise) that we typically use to avoid feeling the emptiness. It enables us to fill the hole by becoming WHOLE once again. A "deliberate" spiritual awakening.

Let's face it... we do not need another "how to" book telling us what is good for us and what is not. If it were all about the how to's, we'd all be skinny, rich and happy. There is not another diet out there that is going to work, not another pill, not another book or TV show... Ironically, fasting may serve the only food for the emptiness our world feels inside. Sending you love and light.

Namaste.




PS... A true fast can certainly be a challenge to attempt at home with all the distractions of Life. This is why fasting is most powerful either during the solitude of a Vision Quest or at a quiet retreat center, far away from the noise of the world. Licensed Yoga and Hypnotherapist, Erica Boucher and myself will be holding a fasting retreat in Bali in August or September of 2009, but if you are ready now, you may want to check out http://www.dharmahealingintl.com in Thailand. With all the change going on in the World, it may just be what your soul is thirsting for.

As a Spiritual Teacher and Guide, Patrick O'Connor (MBA, CPT, CYT) has devoted his life to understanding, integrating and deepening his own spiritual transformation in order to guide others with theirs. Patrick spent much of his adult life battling suicidal depression; a painful gift that lead him to a profound and sudden spiritual awakening in June of 2000. During the next six months, Patrick visited the light of the 7th dimension through daily meditation to learn from the Ascended Masters. It was this life changing event that advanced Patrick's work of the physical body into a deeper understanding of conscious evolution. Throughout the years, Patrick has assisted countless individuals in their own personal awakenings through his coaching, lectures and website. He is a co-author with the likes of Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins and Bill Harris in the soon to be release book, Wake Up Moments: the story of his transformation from darkness to light. And in March '08, Patrick returned home from a 7-month solo backpacking journey throughout Southeast Asia. His e-book, Journey to Nourish the Soul chronicles his adventures and lessons learned while traveling as a "US Ambassador of Love."





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