Simply Living Wellness Podcast

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guests Megan and Stefanie Anderson about the incredible healing properties of crystals. Learn about these amazing Earth created gems and their ability to transform everything from physical pain to emotional wellbeing, enhanced energy and increased spiritual connection to Source. Stefani and Megan believe that change is inspired one crystal at a time. And by enhancing our awareness and being present in the moment, we can better understand the energy of earth, and how to connect to its power, as well as connecting to one’s own power. Megan and Steafanie have a business together called Life With Crystals, and are connected as a family with their daughter, Zoie. Discover More About Megan… My journey started in the 90’s. I became certified in massage therapy. I enjoyed that. I felt the connection and the energy with that. And I knew that I had a gift, and I knew that I had healing hands. I always lit up when I talked about it or felt it, or when I would see someone in pain, I knew I could help them. So I wondered what else I could do with my life to keep that going. Six years ago, I met some friends of Stefani’s: Kim and Charles O’leary in New York. They own a crystal shop, Crystals on the Rocks. I flew out there and they explained and showed me more about how crystals can heal; and the vibrations of the crystals. Walking into their shop was just the most amazing feeling ever. I didn’t want to leave.  I wanted to come home, but I wanted to take the shop with me. I know there are shops everywhere, but it’s what people put into that, and the love and energy. Knowing that that was the way I wanted to go, I talked with Stefani about starting a business. We tried to figure out how we could incorporate that entire family. Since Zoie is our 7 year old daughter, she is a Star Child. We wanted that to be a focus too. So Zoie’s name means “life” in Greek. Life with Crystals, Zoie is our life, so Zoie is part of the name of our business. We do a lot with our crystals at the house. We’re starting our on-line business at LifeWithCrystals.com. And we’re exploring and give back to the communities. Discover More About Stefanie… I grew up in Fairfield, and migrated to Sacramento early in my career after I got out of college. My journey is quite a bit different than Megan’s. I went into the corporate world of security. I have been there for over 20 years. Megan’s enthusiasm about crystals, about the metaphysical world was something that interested me. Actually I was interested in rocks when I was a child, and I always had a fascination with how rocks, crystals and stones were created by the earth. My job was that I was interested in this path with Megan, so I wondered what this was all about. What is the spiritual world all about for me? Through a lot of research, digging on the internet and my friends in New York, I got very much interested in the healing powers of crystals. So we began this journey together, in agreement that this is something that we both want. Coming  from different places and different backgrounds, and I think it blends very well for our business. Full Transcription of The Healing Properties of Crystals Megan: I’ve always been spiritual in my background. I was raised Catholic, but going through different stages, I felt that connection, but I just didn’t understand it. So after high school, I did some college, but then I ended up just going through certification as a massage therapist and going down that path. I felt connected and felt that that was my path – to give back to people and to help heal them. My hands get hot. I love the feeling I get when I start talking about it. I get excited. When I do work with people, it brings joy to me. I feel the energy coming through my hands. I used to work for the Post Office, and that’s when I knew I needed to get out of there. That was not a good fit for me. But one of my customers was an 87 year old lady that I would visit every day. She had cancer. I would bring my massage table over to her and massage her. I would feel where the cancer was, and I gave her comfort. That’s what I enjoy. To be able to do that and give that to people, that’s what I want. I don’t want the other stuff. I want to be able to give back. That gives me a purpose. THE BUSINESS Life With Crystals is a crystal gem and jewelry shop. Right now, we’re on line. We’re working toward a store front so people can actually come in and feel and see what I’m talking about. When you go to the website, you can SEE it there, and sometimes get connected through the interest. People can feel that vibration. We are looking at offering classes down the road to be able to teach people about the crystals and how to heal. And to have different types of energy work at our shop with we do open up. With COVID-19, we’re tabling the shop for the moment. In the meantime, we’re fine-tuning the web site. For the location, we know we’re going to be guided to where we need to be. Our goal is to have it in Sacramento. FEELING CRYSTALS AND THE ENERGY Donna: I’ve been told when you buy a crystal, when you narrow it down to what type of crystal you want but there are several to choose from, pick each one up and feel it, and feel which one calls out to you. I’m not so good at that. I wish I could feel more about the crystals. Megan: I feel a different vibration when I hold them. But it’s YOUR energy that YOU’RE giving off when you look at crystals. On a website, if you’re directed to look at a particular one if you have an idea…..say rose quartz, but you come across a lapis lazuli, and you wonder why you are so attracted to the lapis. There’s a reason why. The energy that that stone is giving off is something that your energy is wanting. So you really need to pay attention to what your energy is saying,. Even though your mind is saying something else, you r energy is guiding you. So you need to go within and feel that. Stefani: We’ve had some people over to our home where we have crystals on display. And they come with certain intentions: maybe they’re feeling a lot of anxiety or stress, and we talk to them about what kinds of crystals can address their situations. And yet thy might veer toward something different that has different healing powers according to the crystal world. But it may be what THEIR energy really needs to address other underlying situations or emotions in their life. So we help them move through the crystal world, trying to address what’s underneath as well when you’re being drawn to a particular crystal Donna: So it’s not just about picking up a crystal and saying: do I feel anything here in my hands. It also could just be that you notice one that maybe you think is beautiful, or you just have an admiration for it. Megan: At the end of last year, I did have part of our crystals up in Loomis at the Caring Arts Awareness Center and selling them there. One lady came in who was told to get some Black Tourmaline. So she was looking at those stones, but she kept looking at the Pyrite Sphere sitting to her right. She kept turning “why am I being drawn to this one?” She ended up getting both, but come to find out, there’s a reason why she needed the Pyrite that was calling to her. She was there for a reading, so the reader did tell me that was Pyrite was very important and she needed that too at the time because of what was going on with her life at the moment. Without us knowing what we have, we may not be aware but our intuition is telling us without us even knowing what we need. D: So part is having something you’re trying to address, and then look for a crystal may help with that. And another part is just going into a shop, which is why it’s so important to have a physical shop where people can walk in. S: You can still browse on the website. We do have a lot of the stones there. We’re still collecting more. But we have the descriptions there that tell you what each crystal is for, and what the unique purpose is.  If you’re going in for a certain purpose, look that up and it’s going to guide you to what crystals might benefit you. D: Once you find a crystal, what do you do with it? S: There are different things: there are palm stones you can hold in your palm and work with that, meditate with them. What I do is I have a couple of bracelets that I wear throughout the weeks – I switch them up. Or I take a tumble stone and put it in my pocket. You have two pockets on your right hand side….there’s a tiny pocket there. That’s really a crystal pocket. And I put my stone in there. So you’re always carrying the carrying the crystal with you for protection or for whatever is its purpose. At our house, we have Selenite in the four corners of our house. That keeps the house balanced and protected, and gives an extra protection that we need. Placing the crystals throughout your home helps balance the energies that you may or may not need. D: We have a difficult entry onto a road in our neighborhood to that has a blind corner. I was told to put a crystal there on the corner. First clear it and then put the intent that this is to keep everyone safe who is pulling out on this blind corner. This friend has them all over her property. She told me story: there were some teenage kids that were causing a lot of ruckus in their neighborhood. She’s on 10 acres. The kids were doing some vandalizing and driving a truck around, etc. These kids hit every property, but just skipped hers completely! Everyone else had damage done, but since she had crystals around, and I think they protected her property. M: We have the Selenite in our house and I feel more protected. I actually do drive in my car with Selenite and Black Tourmaline for an extra protection also. I do feel a difference.  I feel that it helps with the negative energy that’s coming and keeps it out. And it keeps us safe. I have extra cargo in my car when I drive Zoie. I feel like I need extra protection, which I

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest Jules Kandah Carpenter on Valentine’s Day! She has a powerful story to share – about how she went from extreme postpartum depression, anxiety and insomnia to finding her way back to life and joy. She attributes her transformation to breathwork, meditation and tuning into Spirit. Having gained so much from breathwork herself, she then went on to become a certified breathwork facilitator, learning the alchemy of breath technique, among others. Jules is also a pranayama yoga teacher, a second degree Reiki energy healer, and more. Postpartum disorders are not discussed often enough, and yet so many women suffer terribly from postpartum depression and anxiety. And they often don’t even realize what is happening, or what is causing the depression. In this episode, you’ll learn about breathwork and it’s powerful healing qualities. You’ll discover the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing and how it’s much more powerful than other forms of breathwork. Full Transcription D: I did a Facebook live this morning for Valentine’s Day, and it was about self-love, and the three ways that I think are the most critical or my top ways of loving myself. It was fun to do that. J: I just had a personal sauna session for my self-love. D: Jules and I live in the same town in Nevada County, in Northern California. Here there are a lot of healing modalities and practitioners here. Where you grew up and about your early background J: I grew up in the Midwest. I’m from Michigan. I lived in a small town. My dad sacrificed his driving time – drove a long way in order for us to live in this small town and go to a smaller school. I was the baby of 5 sisters. So I grew up in a powerful, energetic home with all kinds of female energy and power, and I got to witness that.  I have an interesting role in that – exploring my sisters and what they were exploring in their world, and then me seeing what wasn’t working for them, and delving into a spiritual practice – actually pretty early in my childhood. D: Do you attribute that to your sisters or were your parents also spiritual? J: We were raised Catholic and I didn’t agree with a lot of those practices, and I knew at a young age that there was something more. My sisters left the practice of Catholicism and I wondered why. It wasn’t until I started reading a book on all kinds of religions at a young age when I realized there was more out there than just Catholicism. That really started a spiritual path for me when I was about 12. D: I didn’t have that personally growing up. I wrote a blog article about how I found spirituality, but I didn’t find it until much later. I knew about religion and God, but then I started seeing the hypocrisy in religion. J: It was a huge part of my surviving childhood as the baby. D: Where did you go next? When did you come out to the West? J: I met my now husband in my mid-twenties at a music festival. I was offering sound healing. He was offering art installations, and I was part of the crew of art in the music festival – so we were in the background. We met there, fell in love, and I was finishing my Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy. So I had an opportunity to finish my last course in California – San Francisco. It was a big jump. My husband just jumped on that. He always wanted to live in California as well. So we basically got to know each other as we moved to the Bay Area for a couple of  years. I also learned Yoga certification. I was teaching Yoga to that for free – just community classes. I knew I had a strong practice, and I wanted to offer it to people. Then in San Francisco,  I became officially certified. And I had been practicing Reiki for a couple of years, but became officially certified in yoga and really added so much to my practice with Yoga and meditation. I dove a little bit deeper and then started a path of offering it more to people, while I was working with kids in occupational therapy. D: Your husband does these practices also? J: Yes he s also a Reiki Energy Healer, and he and I have spent a lot of time in yoga and meditation together. Now we have a practice of meditating together, meditating separately but have couples meditations. He loves breath-work, so that’s always fun to offer that to my husband. D: I’m a second degree Reiki. But I just use it for myself and my family. J: It’s so humbling every time. D: So then you got pregnant….. J: So we knew we wanted to have a kid, and we weren’t really trying, but we knew we wanted to, but the time when we knew we wanted to is close to when we were eloping in Hawaii. We eloped in Hawaii, had a beautiful ceremony. It turns out I was pregnant during our marriage ceremony. So we hit the ground running as soon as we got back, found a beautiful set of midwives in Nevada County, and my pregnancy was okay. The emotions were really hard for me, but I just figured it was part of the process. It was also pretty hard on my husband. He just love me through it, and knew that things were changing. After having my daughter, the postpartum feelings came on pretty quickly. D: You had already moved to Nevada County? Or you came here for the birth? J: We had already moved. We knew we wanted to get out of the City, so we moved from the Bay Area into the middle of nowhere in Nevada County area. Then we were married and I was pregnant here in Nevada County. D: So the birth was with no drugs at all? J: No meds. It was really awesome to be at home. I feel blessed that I got to do that. D: So depression started right away. Describe J: It was so wild. It’s not talked about enough, so in my mind, the idea of postpartum depression was that it randomly happens to people, and it’s so rare, and when it comes on, it’s so extreme…..like you feel like you’re going to hurt your child or hurt someone in your house. In my mind, that was the only way that you could have postpartum depression if those were the things you were feeling. Thankfully, I didn’t have that experience. The thing that brought me the most joy was my daughter. She really kept me grounded throughout, but it was pretty much within …. Actually I remember the day that I realized it was coming on n a weird way – it was Thanksgiving – two and a half months – and we had a FriendsGiving with all our friends. The whole time I felt awkward talking to my friends. I felt I had nothing to contribute to the conversation. I was quiet. I felt sad at this beautiful celebration. And that’s how I started to know that something was up. And then two weeks later, we went to Mexico with my mother-in-law and  father-in-law. While we were there, my daughter had a terrible sleep regression – like 45 minutes of sleep. I just spiraled into these really dark feelings about life, and I didn’t enjoy one minute of my trip. There WERE moments I enjoyed with my daughter and my family, but inside of me, I was just feeling so uncomfortable with who I was and I didn’t know why until midway through that trip. D: Your daughter wasn’t sleeping so she was keeping you up and you weren’t sleeping???? Yeah. D: Lack of sleep is tough. I think that’s the hardest part about being a new mom. I had postpartum depression, which I didn’t even realize at the time. I think a lot of that was from lack of sleep. So you discovered it half way through? What led you to suddenly realize what was going on? J: Every moment of our trip, I felt like I was picking fights with my husband. And one moment, we were sitting in the hot tub, and grandma was watching the baby so we could get a little break. I said to him: I don’t feel good. And he looked right at me and said: I KNOW that you don’t feel good. I said that I thought there was something deeper going on but I don’t know what. To be very honest and raw, we came home from our trip and I’d like to black this out, but we had an argument and I lost total control of my body – like I didn’t even know who I was. I was in a fit of rage over something silly. And my husband was really scared. He didn’t know what was happening. He was frightened. Once I left with my daughter. I went into nature and visited a friend and came back, and we were both crying and my husband said: I’ve been researching all day, and I’m pretty sure you have postpartum depression. It was sweet especially after all the rage I put forth. He really supported me to start getting some help. I’m so grateful. So that was only at four months postpartum. D: What kind of help did you seek out? For me, they wanted to put me on Zolaft. I had no interest in that. Talk about your journey. J: Any mom that chooses to go the route of medications, I have no judgment for you. That is hard, it’s crazy. You feel crazy. I felt crazy. I found an amazing therapist in this area that I was drawn to because he uses a lot of spiritual practices. Our first conversation on the phone, I knew this was different. It felt really good. In our first session, we barely talked. He guided me into an amazing meditation that was like a lineage of meditations that have been passed on to hm. After my first session, I felt like this is what I need. I continued seeing him, and the insomnia started for me. My daughter started sleeping and I stopped sleeping. I was also seeing an Acupuncturist for my insomnia, and taking any herb for my mood that I could take. Whatever anyone was suggesting, I was trying to take and nothing seemed to be helping. The meditations with him, I felt the best with him. It would last for a little bit afterward, but I would often find myself back into my head. At one point, it felt like my whole life dissolved in front of me. D: Had you gone to a traditional doctor also? You were open and aware enough to start down your path. Not every new mom is there. Which is why we’re doing this call. So people know there are alternatives. It doesn’t mean you can’t go traditionally. J: Insomnia was also wild. I became crazier and crazier in my head. Sleeping herbs did

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guests Raking Williams and Jennifer Gerstung about the medicinal and healing powers of CBD isolates and how his son, Prince Zion, who suffers from hydrocephalus went from having regular seizures that lasted an hour long with memory loss to only having an occasional tremor. He got his life back again! CBD Isolates are so magical, they help with just about any issue going on in the human body. CBD reduces inflammation which is the fundamental cause of most physical issues and chronic disease. CBD Isolates assist with emotional issues as well, bringing balance into the body thus allow one to self healing which is how the body was designed to work. CBD Isolates – A Foundational Medicine Pure CBD isolates contains no HTC which is the . Learn about the many benefits of CBD Isolates including assistance with the following conditions: Inflammation Chronic Pain Insomnia Weight Gain Cuts, burns, sores Anxiety Depression Learn How to Shop for Quality CBD Isolates Not all CBD is made equal! Understand what to look for when and be aware of how you spend your dollars. You’ll discover: The meaning of COA tested An understanding of CBD Isolates versus hemp isolates How to know what amount of CBD isolates is actually present it each container What other ingredients to look for such as artificial coloring and processed fats You can acquire a high quality, organic CBD isolate products here at Spirits of CBD. Gratitude, Like Love, Raises Ones Vibration When you send the frequency of gratitude out to the Universe you receive that vibration back. CBD medicine makes us feel better. And when we feel good, we are nicer people and thus we are changing the world in a positive way. Raking and Jennifer encourage everyone to have great gratitude for this sacred plant that offers so many benefits. Gratitude for the sacrifice of the life of the plant as it provides our world with so many uses including making: Medicine Houses Clothing Rope And so much more… CBD and a gratitude for it invokes and helps us to recognize the divine principal that is already within each one of us. The divinity which allows the individual to become the healer themselves. More About Raking Williams… Raking Williams grew up in Trinidad and Tobago with an Ancient Zimbabwe bloodline. He came to the US at the young age of 10. Prior to his move, having represented his country in track and field winning gold, silver and bronze medals.  Raking graduated from the Boston Latin Academy in 1984. Receiving a scholastic and athletic award for the city of Boston. He then went on to the University of Massachusetts, studying Electrical and Computer engineering. Raking started the first multicultural program at the University called Nuance Multicultural Program. And was the president of his fraternity, Iota Phi Theta Inc. With his roots in ancient shamanic healing, Raking has recommitted himself to serving humanity through spiritual counseling, self-realization, and the magic of CBD. As a global ambassador and author Raking has verified the charitable healing of over 10,000 clients. Raking’s son, Zion, was born with hydrocephalus, water on the brain. Raking now dedicates his career to the holistic healing powers of CBD which has saved his son, and to bringing the spirits of CBD to the world.  Learn more about CBD at Spirits of CBD. More About Jennifer Gerstung… Jennifer Gerstung, who is a fifth generation resident of Grass Valley, a small mining town in the Sierra Foothills of California, has dedicated her life to being an advocate for forest land management utilizing natural ecosystems, and educating the community on  clean water consumption and holistic and organic living. She is also a cosmetologist, has been for 25 years, using all organic, eco-friendly products. The post #24 The Healing Powers of Medicinal CBD Isolates appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Ynge Ljung, who comes back to the show to talk more about allergies and intolerances, and about her creation: The Allergy Kit, which you can use to treat allergies yourself, in the comfort of your own home. It saves you lots of money and time visiting a Nate Practitioner, for example, on a weekly basis. Almost everyone suffers from some kind of allergy or food intolerance. Most people don’t even know they have allergies. Diseases, such as celiac disease, Alzheimer’s, Hashimoto’s, for example are all thought to be caused from wheat allergies. And symptoms such as fatigue and depression and eczema and bloating and hives and many, many more can all be caused by allergies. Donna dives deeper into the nuts and bolts of The Allergy Kit. She has been using the kit herself for a couple of years now. She even cleared her cat allergies with The Allergy Kit, which felt like a small miracle. She also uses it on her kids. Since Donna had questions about The Allergy Kit, she wanted to get those answered for others who most likely have similar questions. Why do we have allergies in the first place? We’re not supposed to have allergies. Allergies occur when our immune system is not strong enough. So, we have to build up the immune system. We also have to train the brain to understand it’s not supposed to react to the offending food or item. That is exactly what The Allergy Kit does… it resets the body to be “in harmony” with the offending food or item, so that the body does not react to it anymore. In this episode we talk about the different allergy kits and how to use them. Interview Transcription D: So I am thrilled to welcome Ynge Ljung to the show once again. Hello, Ynge! Y: Hello there Donna. D: We’re so delighted to have you here. So Ynge, we’ve heard your story before on the previous podcast. And I encourage our listeners if you did not get a chance, to listen to the former interviews with Ynge about allergies. She also talked a lot about autism. She has a book published about autism in kids, and all the spectrum disorders (the A Spectrum), and how many of those disorders are caused by allergies. So it all ties in together. So why don’t you start, Ynge, by talking about The Allergy Kit … how does it actually work? How is it that I cleared cat allergies, specifically, from my body? I went from having major blisters on my eyeballs within an hour of being around cats and severe asthma that I had to use an inhaler, to being completely now unaffected by cats one day to the next. It really does work. So what is actually happening that something that severe is able to be cleared from my body? Y: First of all whenever you have an allergy, it’s because your immune system is not strong enough. And we have to build up the immune system. That is why The Basic Allergy Kit contains the 7 vials that you have to use first. And they consist of different foods, toxins and vaccines. So you can start to build up your immune system by absorbing nutrients in the foods cleared from your once allergic fields.. D: So everybody starts with the Basic Kit, because most people are allergic or have intolerances to the many items in the 7 vials. Y: Yes. I have only met one person in my over 20 year old practice with allergies that didn’t have any allergies. Only one person. And I don’t know why….I don’t know if it’s because of the food we eat, because of the toxins that are on the food, the vaccines that lower our immune system….. I think there are a lot of different aspects that influence us. When I grew up, everything was organic without being organic. We’re not supposed to have allergies. You’re not supposed to be allergic to a cat. I don’t really know how to explain it. It’s that your brain think it’s supposed to react to cats…if its hair or whatever it is in the cat that you react to. But that’s a wrong response. Eliminating the allergy is that the body detoxes and the brain understands that it is not an allergy, and it’s not supposed to react to it. D: So using the vials and the laser on the vials and the different acupuncture points in the body, that’s what’s changing the brain, balancing it? Y: This process balances the brain and returns the body to status quo – so the body understands it is not supposed to be reacting to different things. I think also the more we do the treatments – remembering the basic kit is just the basic kit – it’s the starter kit. But by keeping on treating for what you react to, you’re able to more and more absorb nutrients in foods and stay healthy. D: We start with the base kit. I know you’re adding molds, and another one you thought should belong in the base kit because it’s so common – Y: No, the basic kit still has 7 vials. And I have an Environmental Allergy Kit that has the mold bacteria and virus in vial. That’s one you can also use if you’re getting sick. D: Wow, that’s handy to know. We’re in the flu season now, so listeners, when you’re feeling like you’re coming down with a cold, you can just do the mold vial as prevention. That’s good to know. Y: And then we have pollen/weed/grass in another vial. So many people are allergic to pollen and other growing things. The next is dust and dust mites. I had a reaction myself and I didn’t know that dust mites are such a common allergen, and many, especially kids who are treated for asthma, bronchitis and all the respiratory problems….and it’s really just basically an allergy to dust mites. I was surprised. I treated myself and I got over it. D: So how do you know these kids have that allergy, or is it just a matter of when you treat them with this common dust mites, then their symptoms go away? Y: Well, if they have environmental allergies, these are the allergies they have. Also the last of the environmental kit is trees and wood. That is also pollen…more tree pollen. And what I realized is that people are allergic to environmental allergies. These are the basic four that they are allergic to. And I realized that also when they’re allergic to environmental stuff, you’re also allergic to cats and dogs. Many people don’t think about it because they don’t have an animal. So it’s also possible they don’t even know when they are around a cat or a dog, which are everywhere….so maybe they have an allergic reaction and they don’t put it together that maybe it’s a cat or a dog. D: So you suggest starting with the Base Kit, then doing the Environmental Kit. Y: Or if you know you have environmental allergies, just get the Environmental Kit. Now I’m also putting together a Food Allergy Kit. So if you know you’re more allergic to foods, you buy the Food Allergy Kit that has fish, protein (pork and beef and lamb), soy, and more so people can get a more complete kit. The problem I had was that people would buy just The Allergy Kit, which is the foundational kit, and then they think that will treat them for all the allergies, but the  base kit is just the start. That’s why I have started to separate food allergies, environmental allergies. And if you have both, you can order extra vials. But people should start with one of these three kits.  And it’s more economical to buy a kit than to buy the vials separately. And this way, they don’t have to put out a lot of money in the beginning. They start with the kit and work on that. D: I know it’s important to wait 48 hours in between treatments when you’re doing these kits. Y: Some people have reactions: headache or feeling tired or something. Then I just suggest they wait another day. It’s not a race. And some people don’t feel anything, but the body is still reacting and the body needs to recuperate between the treatments. That’s why I want to have 2 days between. D: That’s important. I did one of the treatments (I’m repeating the Base Kit and was on vial 2 or 3), but the next morning I work with swollen lymph nodes and fatigue, and I think I was a little bit under the weather when I did the treatments, so that’s another important thing. Make sure you’re feeling healthy, not menstruating for women. Y: Yes, the first 3-4 days of menstruation is a time that it’s better not to treat because you could have a reaction with the body is working hard menstruating. D: And the same if you feel like you’re getting sick, which was the case for me. So I just held off and, now of course I’ve got to get back into it! It’s easy to forget!! And then you use the stress vial with those vials as you do the treatment. So talk about that a minute, why the stress vial. Y: When we have anything, a cold, disease or allergies, every single cell in the body is under stress. This is after experimenting and working with it in my clinic for many years with allergies. I had one patient who always was so nervous and upset, and fidgety. So I created a stress vial and started to treat her with that together with the treatments and I had better results. So I started to use the stress vial with other patients too. So I realized the result is better when you do the treatments with the Stress Vial. D: And you send a stress vial with every kit? Y: Every kit has a stress vial. And you can also treat stress with the stress vial anytime, even between treatments. It doesn’t have to be 48 hours between. D: In fact, that’s the case with all the emotional vials, right? Y: Yes, emotions can also be treated anytime…..even together with the kits. D: It’s fascinating: There’s a vial for each kind of emotion: love, anxiety, stress, etc. So I’ve been using those quite a bit on myself and my daughter. Y: Some ask why “love” is in the kit. Well, we don’t love ourselves enough. Some people have difficulty loving themselves. And this is one way to help with that. D: Or thinking we’re not good enough. Y: Exactly. All of that. And for autistic children or any child on the Spectrum, I suggest to their mothers that when they send them off to school in the morning to treat them with anxiety or fear, and then when they

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest Dr. Daniel Allen about the original practice of Osteopathy – hands on Osteopathy.  It’s difficult to find doctors who practice this original form of hands on healing and body manipulation. Dr Alex explains how this practice has changed over time and has become more of a traditional medical practice moving away from the hands on approach. This change is particularly true in the United States. In Canada and Europe, one can still readily access the hands on healing approach by practitioners of cranial osteopathic medicine. What is osteopathy? Well, according to Medical News today, osteopathy is defied as… “An osteopathic physician will focus on the joints, muscles, and spine. Treatment aims to positively affect the body’s nervous, circulatory, and lymphatic systems. Manual medicine means that both diagnosis and treatment are carried out with the hands. Osteopathy is a complementary therapy.” Let’s hear about it from Dr. Allen who has practiced and studied this practice for over 30 years. Discover: How the bones in our skulls are not fused like traditional belief, rather have inherent motion, a physiological joint motion. Dr Allen refers to this as the inherit fluid breathing life mechanism. How a slight and subtle movement of the doctor’s hands (it really does feel like he’s hardly doing anything!) can have a profound affect on the body’s ability to heal, especially from pain. A little bit About Dr Allen’s background… Dr Danial Allen was birthed by the same general doctor he saw growing up for commons colds or broken limbs. When he broke his leg, he was taken to this general doctor, who in the back room, made a wooden splint with his chainsaw while Dr Allen as a young child waited in the treatment room. Fast forward to Dr Allen’s years in traditional medical school, he felt fortunate enough to travel to national conventions and weekend craniosacral workshops where he learned that the bones in the skull have inherent movement. No one had mentioned this movement in biology, life sciences or medical school, and so this discovery fascinated Dr Allen. Medical doctors teach and talk about a fused skull that does not move. At first, Dr Allen was angry at this vast difference in teachings and beliefs. He later discovered that the word “inherent” is what scientists dispute. “What makes the motion?”, they would question. “There are no muscles inside the central nervous system to cause this motion.” Yet, Dr Allen learned that motion does not just exist as fluid motion or breathing motion, or heart circulatory motion, but that motion is also inherent. It’s the cells themselves in the bones that expand and contract. The bones in the skulls actually have joints in between them called sutures. These sutures have a synovial fluid in the articulations of the bones. If you look closely at each suture, it describes a motion. The sutures have bevels on one side and bevels on the other, as well as pivot points. If you look at just one bone it doesn’t seem possible, but if you look at the whole skull as a unit you see how the sutures/joints of the bones describe a motion. For example, the temporal bone where it meets the parietal bone has a sliding nature. And where the temporal bone meets the sphenoid bone, you’ll find a pivoting nature. And where the temporal bone meets the occipital bone, you’ll find a jack lift – a jugular process that actually lifts up in an axis of motion that is consistent all throughout the skull. Dr Allen realized that the bones are not fused at all, rather they have subtle motion, physiological joint motion. Later studies in Biodynamic Cranial Work taught him to learn to listen to the fluids of the body and to the the quality of the movement, the quality of the breathing and of the field of the nervous system. He also realized there is a lot more to medicine that he originally learned. Dr Allen practices the original, hands on form of osteopathy. Modern American osteopathy is full blown MD-style medicine. Yet, one can still find doctors and practitioners that practice the original form of this practice which is a hands-on approach, especially if you are willing to travel to Canada or Europe. In the 1990’s, the insurance companies started to take over medicine, dictating what doctors could do or not do. Payments were made based on diagnostic codes, so the focus for doctors became identifying diagnostic codes and identifying and addressing those in their patient visits. Medicine moved away from patient care and into managed care. Medicine has moved so far away from natural healthcare. Our only hope is that the modern medical students who are lucky enough to have exposure on the side to modalities such as natural medicine, homeopathy, yoga practices, craniosacral practices, healthcare practices and nutrition practices can bring those interests into their medical training and can carve their way into more of a holistic medical practice. We are moving in that direction but still a couple of decades away. Human beings are livings things and should be treated as living things, not as pieces and parts. What students need it “full spectrum” training as Dr Allen calls it. If you are taking care of a human being one should have hands on training and experience. Hospitals work at handling medical diseases. Serious problems require traditional medicine and cannot benefit from just hands on work. Yet, Physicians can make more useful and clearer decisions, and rule out unknowns if they have additional hands on experiences and trainings. How Does Craniosacral Fit In? Craniosacral is becoming quite popular and well known. Many massage therapists incorporate craniosacral into their work. It’s important to find a well trained practitioner. Even though the movement is so subtle and it feels like they’re hardly doing anything as you’re lying on the table, if it’s not done correctly, it could actually be damaging. The other problem is that the craniosacral work may not be very effective by an inexperienced practitioner. So then you end up with a portion of the population who say they’ve tried a craniosacral treatment, and yet say, “it didn’t do anything for me. In fact, it gave me a headache, so I’m not going back.”  Those experiences are a detriment to the movement of the hand on healing work. So you do have to be careful who you let squish your head! How does one find a qualified practitioner? It’s good to get very specific and ask your practitioner about their experience and how they became a i worker. If they say they’ve taken a weekend course and have been doing it for 6 months, maybe that’s not the best person to see. There are good non-physician body workers who are very, very good. Dr. Allen knows several. Some people just have a natural ability. He helped trained a nurse midwife once who was exceptional. She just took to the work, had a feel for living systems, and her hands were a gift to her. And she was able to use them to treat newborns. Craniosacral Work Can Release Emotions Stuck in the Body Emotions that are felt or taken on from years ago (even from past lives or from our DNA that has been passed down by generations) often stay stuck in the body especially when they were traumatic. For example, it’s been known that if you had a great, great, great Grandmother who was burned at the stake for being a “witch”, that pain and trauma can be passed down throughout the generations in the DNA. Until those emotions are released from the cells DNA, it will continue to be passed down often causing emotional problems. It’s important for the practitioner to hold space for the patient during these emotional releases, otherwise, it could actually cause more damage. “Emotions have a huge impact. I love homeopathy for that reason. Maybe we don’t really understand the physiological basis of life”, says Dr. Allen. Dr. Allen now working more in the vibrational world using tuning forks and vibrational bowls and singing bowls. Using those devices along with his hands on palpating the tissues response has been very effective for Dr. Allen. Homeopathy is just a refined vibrational tool in the higher frequencies, as well as acupuncture and acupressure. All of it is shifting the vibrational whole. And then one may start to think that it’s maybe an ancestral vibration – even deeper than childhood, deeper than DNA. It’s a vibrational field that’s transmitted through the lineage of life… and that thought doesn’t even jump over into the spiritual realm. Now we’re getting really deep! But we are still so far away from really understanding the vibrational energies. Can one study what Dr Allen studied? Is it still possible for one to train and study on hands osteopathic medicine and build a practice such as Dr. Allen’s? Can one do it even without going through a full traditional MD training. To study osteopathic medicine in the United States, one has to go the traditional medicine route for studies.  Dr Allen prefers this route which he refers to as “full spectrum training”. His background in  traditional medical allows him to make clearer decisions and rule out unknowns when doing the hands on work. In Canada and Europe, however, osteopathy training is separate from the traditional medical training. They don’t do hospital medicine or prescription medicine rather just study the hands on medicine. Osteopathic medicine teachings, however, has been expanding quickly in the last 10-15 years. There were 18 schools in the US when Dr. Allen went to school, and now there are 38, thirty years later.  This growth is partly due to political changes in medicine and partly due to modern educational systems trying to full needs in rural locations that were short of physicians. Doctor specialties have become widely popular in the medical field and specialty practices require larger populations, leaving the rural areas with a shortage of practicing physicians. More About Dr. Daniel Allen

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Ynge Ljung, about what causes allergies, sensitivities, and food intolerances. Allergies have become so prevalent today. Almost everyone suffers from some kind of allergy or food intolerance. Most people don’t even know they have allergies. An allergy is not just about sneezing or having itchy eyes. Diseases such as celiac disease, Alzheimer’s, and Hashimoto and celiac are thought to be caused from wheat.  In this episode, we talk about what causes an allergy or sensitivity. We also look at solutions. If you are suffering from any kind of condition such as joint or muscle pain, a chronic illness, or sensitivities to certain foods, and would like to feel better, then this episode if for you. What Is an Allergy An allergy is a false reaction to something that should be good for you, especially in the case of food allergies. Childhood allergies exist for children to build up their immune systems, yet from an overload of vaccinations, many of which contain aluminum and mercury still (a deadly combination), the natural defenses of the body cannot develop. With repeated generations of vaccinations, babies today are born much weaker than generations before. If you had an immune system working at 100% you wouldn’t get any allergies or illnesses. Some of What Causes Allergies The introduction of fast food in the 1950’s played a large component to the development of allergies. In China, Type II diabetes didn’t exist until the fast food chains were established. Now, approximately 12% of the Chinese population has Type II diabetes. Fast foods contain chemical additives and very little “real” food. Solutions to Allergies Eating Organic is the number one solution to preventing allergies. Food is they medicine. Ynge talks about the significant importance of eating organic. The heavy spraying of roundup on crops (wheat in particular) in the United States infuses glyphosate into the foods. Glyphosate destroys the pathway where the enzymes, probiotics and good bacteria need to travel. How can we digest the food without digestive enzymes? Ynge tells the story of becoming a NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques) practitioner and using this protocol to treat her patients’ allergies – her focus being on autistic children. NAET treatments were too costly and time consuming for parents, and so Ynge developed The Allergy Kit which allows parents to treat in the comfort and convenience of their own homes. One kit can be used for all members of the family over and over again, indefinitely. Each Allergy Kit has seven vials plus a stress vial. Ynge tells the story of one patient, a child, that had severe eczema. After treating the child for chicken, a key component of the base Allergy Kit, her eczema went away completely. Discover why even vegans who don’t eat eggs or chicken need to be treated for these foods. Another essential component of the base Allergy Kit is sugar. The average American eats an approximately 70 pounds of sugar in one year. Learn how to get rid of sugar cravings for good. Over half of the American population is on an anti-depressant. Yet Ynge explains how serotonin, the “feel good” hormone, is created in the gut not in the brain. A specific bacteria has to travel this same pathway to pick up the serotonin hormone and then travel to the brain through the vagus nerve. As we’ve already pointed out, glyphosate blocks this pathway preventing serotonin from ever reaching the brain. Antidepressants are the not the solution to depression, only a band aid. Treat the gut and watch the depression disappear. Testing for Allergies Allergies and intolerances can be to literally anything including emotions! Feeling like you never have quite enough in your bank to pay all your bills each month? Well, you could actually be allergic to money! You can go to a chiropractor that specializes in applied kinesiology and get muscled tested for different foods, your supplements, and other environmental factors such as the many toxins that exist in our food, in the air and water. I have also been to a local chiropractor that has a biofeedback machine that tests for these items. It can get quite costly and time consuming, however, to test for every item possibbly, including emotions. There is a blood test you can do from your own home as well as a test that uses a hair sample. You can learn more at Modern Allergy Management.   More about Ynge Ljung Ynge Ljung has been an Acupuncture Physician since 1995. She is a BodyTalk Practitioner, Naturopathic Medicine Doctor, an Acutonic practitioner, alternative holistic healer and former NAET practitioner. Her extensive education in both Eastern and Western ideologies allowed her to create an easy, powerful and affordable way to “say bye bye to your allergies” once and for all…  Ynge calls the The Allergy Kit. Ynge is the author of Finding Your Lost Child which you can find on Amazon, the Kindle Version. The published book will be coming out in May of next year in book stores. The Allergy Kit and It’s Uses Trying to lose weight? Want to quite smoking? The Allergy Kit has way more uses than to just address sensitivities. Here are some of the kits available for a variety of conditions: The Base Allergy Kit – (Some of the kits below already contain this base kit.) The Weight Loss Kit – Struggling to lose weight? This is why… The Autism Kit – For children or adults on the Spectrum The Pet Allergies Kit  – Have allergies to your pets? This one is for you! The Quit Drinking Kit – Want to quit drinking? The Quit Smoking Kit – Have a tobacco addicition and want to quit? The Emotions Kit – Experiencing anxiety, fear, grief, depression, worry or procrastination? The Nut Allergies Kit – Do you or your family member have a nut allergy?   The post #21 Learn What Causes Allergies with Guest Ynge Ljung appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of the Simply Living Wellness Podcast, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Anna-thea, about how to develop a deeper, more spiritual, more nurturing relationship with our bodies through the practice of self-nurturing our sexuality by use of a yoni egg practice. She teaches us about heart-based expressions of sexuality, about how to love ourselves, how to set boundaries for ourselves, and how to communicate our authentic self. Anna-thea talks about how, as women, we can connect to our divine feminine essence, how to access those softer, subtler energies inside of us, and how we can notice subtle responses in our bodies that we aren’t normally aware of. The world today contains so much unhealthy projection around our sexuality that is not supportive to human growth and expansion. This episode is for you if you want to heal yourself from shame around sexuality from previous trauma, or conditioning from how sexuality is portrayed in the media? Maybe your Father was a sex addict or derogatory towards women. Maybe your partner is a porn addict. Maybe you want to experience more love and pleasure around your sexuality. This episode is also for you if you want to learn how to balance and strengthen your pelvic floor, and if you wish to gain the many physical and spiritual benefits of a healthy pelvic floor. This topic is so much more than sexual education. It’s about including our sexuality into our entire being. In a previous episode with Anna-thea, we learned about heart-based communication in order to improve your relationships. Do you find yourself in frequent arguments with your spouse or partner? Do you argue with co-workers or your children? If you want to learn about heart-based communication, we encourage you to go back and listen to that episode. Learn how not to be the nagging wife, NOR the wife who puts on a pretty face and pretends everything is alright. I also interviewed Anna-thea about Managing Your Emotions. If you are interested in learning the secrets of how to transform your life by learning how to reclaim your body as a woman, and how to empower yourself to awaken your divine feminine power, then I highly recommend that you go back and listen this episode. What is a Yoni? Yoni is an ancient tantric term, the Sanskrit word for vagina that means sacred space. Yoni has no negative or sexual connotation making it a perfect word to describe this part of the female anatomy. The Sanskrit term for the male anatomy is lingam which means wand of light. Using these ancient expressions for the human sexual anatomy shifts our relationship with this part of our bodies. Anna-thea studied and received her certification at the Tantric Institute Integrated Sexuality. She is the author of the book, Empowering Yourself by Loving Your Body: The woman’s guide to reclaiming yourself as sacred . Anna-thea also does astrology readings which are more than just readings. She provides coaching during the readings. Do you want to know who you are? Al sides of who you are? Your cards will guide you. An astrology/destiny card reading by Anna-Thea is a validating and empowering experience. She’ll offer you clarity and confirmation about what’s happening in your life. Contact Anna-Thea here and use the coup code, simply, when checking out for $25 off discount on your first reading. What is the yoni egg practice? The yoni egg practice, used mostly by the concubines in ancient China, is an ancient Chinese practice used to strengthen and tone the female anatomy. A yoni egg is crystal egg that is placed in the vagina. Traditionally, crystal eggs made of jade were used but Anna-thea likes to use and suggest rose quartz crystal eggs also. Each has different properties which we learn about in this episode. Both spiritual and physical benefits. A yoni egg practice can provide these beautiful spiritual benefits: Deeper, more spiritual and nurturing relationship one’s your body More connected to one’s divine feminine essence Ability to access those softer, subtler energies within us Increased confidence as a woman Crystals also hold intentions, so it’s a good idea to treat it as a friend, perhaps naming it and blessing it upon insertion. “Let this yoni egg keep me safe.” Everyone has both masculine and feminine energies. It doesn’t matter if you are female or male. Different crystals hold different properties and energies. The jade egg carries masculine energies that when inserted into the female anatomy can create a nice balance in women. Some of the masculine qualities include: Grounding oneself Setting boundaries Increased focus and achievement of one’s goals Rose quartz crystal holds more subtle, feminine energies and helps with qualities such as increasing emotional warmth, nurturing and balancing. To learn more about the differences between these energies, you can read Anna-thea’s blog post: How To Tell If You Show More Masculine Or Feminine Energy Amazing Physical Health Benefits from a Yoni Egg Practice Our female anatomy is not just about sexual pleasure or birthing babies. Our female anatomy is also about our own feminine health and being healthy in our bodies. When we remove the arousal part of sexual attention, we can then work with deeper energies by nurturing the muscles, increasing pelvic floor balance and also give “her” some relaxation and downtime. The physical benefits of a yoni egg practice includes: Increased skin complexion for a youthful-looking face Overall increased health in the pelvic floor Vaginal and pelvic floor dexterity Increased intensity of orgasmic response Increases sexual reflexology Learn about the benefits of pelvic floor massage and why Anna-thea calls it pelvic floor care and maintenance: Wondering how often to wear the yoni egg? And for how long? Learn many tips on how to use the yoni egg from Annathea’s free Jade Egg class found here at her website: ww.annathea.org MORE ABOUT ANNA-THEA… Anna-thea is a women’s sensuality and sexuality coach who helps women become more sensually ALIVE.  She has been educating, inspiring and empowering women for over 17 years. She is an author, teacher and intimacy coach, dedicated to helping you to live more confidently and to speak authentically from your heart. She wants to help you discover how BEAUTIFUL your body is no matter what age, shape or size. And how SACRED your sexuality is. She teaches you how to take care of yourself emotionally, how to develop better communication in your relationships, how to experience more pleasure in your life and HOW to have a deeper understanding of your sexuality. Anna-thea is the author of the book, Empowering Yourself by Loving Your Body: The woman’s guide to reclaiming yourself as sacred. Her exclusive programs will inspire you and give you new perspectives on what it means to be a woman in our society today. You can learn more about Anna-thea at her website: www.Annathea.org and register for her courses here: Anna-thea’s courses.         The post #20 The Spiritual and Physical Benefits of a Yoni Egg Practice with Guest Anna-thea appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness Podcast, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Ingrid Turner, about what it means to be a psychic medium and in alignment with your true life’s path. She talks about how to be spiritually connected and receive guidance from spirit guides, the Divine, or one’s higher self. If you are struggling with your current life path, whether it be your career, or with relationships, or wanting more clarity on your life’s purpose, or you just feel that something is missing in general from your life, then this is the episode for you. Ingrid Turner, author, educator, spiritual psychic medium with a background in marketing, became an ordained minister and now has her own ministry where she teaches students how to become spiritual, intuitive coaches and educators. In this episode, Ingrid teaches us about the differences between a psychic medium, channeling and intuition, each being a vehicle to bring through spirit. She explains how there are different levels of energy and beings of different vibrational stance. Your vibration determines what kind of energies you connect to. Divine spirit, for example, has a higher frequency, one of love and faith. Learn why Ingrid’s job is to get out of the way as unglamorous as it sounds. While Ingrid grew up in a very spiritual household championed by her father, there was no talk about channeling or psychic abilities. She tells the story of her first channeling experience when a spirit came to her with a poem which Ingrid transcribed. Her parents were so surprised at her choice of words – quite sophisticated for a 7-year-old. Ingrid tells us about her years of struggle when she had shut down her intuitive and psychic abilities and lived out of alignment from her own life’s purpose. She was a people pleaser and lived a life of being a good girl to everyone else but herself. She lived in a toxic relationship and with addictive drinking. She hit rock bottom when shame took over. “It’s so easy for people to use numbing agents like alcohol and drugs, TV and social media in today’s world, because of all the negativity being broadcasted. Life is hard, life is a struggle. People think it’s the norm.” Ingrid enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous where she regained her spiritual foundation which opened her up to accepting an invitation to a shamanic healing event. This event was transformational. In fact, Ingrid experienced a “cracking open” as she likes to call it, a dramatic and abrupt spiritual awakening. This “cracking open” was so abrupt that Ingrid felt ungrounded for an entire year after, yet support showed up in the most unexpected ways. Ingrid knew however, it was time to change her career and dedicate her life to be an intuitive healer and educator. Ingrid would literally feel physical pain and depression when went back to working marketing projects. After working as an intuitive healer and medium, Ingrid received the clear message from her guide Monz to open a ministry and educate others in doing this spiritual healing work. Announcing the Bhava Spiritual Mission In September 2017, Ingrid opened a church called the Bhava Spiritual Mission with the purpose of starting a ministry so that she could teach her work to others. In April 2018, she launched her first ministry with its year-long training program. The first half of this international, online program focuses on teaching people to connect with their divine spirit and to develop a spiritual practice for themselves. Part of her job as the educator is to guide her students on when they are connecting to spirit versus when they are in their minds. This helps students to feel the difference, so they can practice on their own. We can all connect to spirit. We can all become a psychic medium. This work is not reserved for “special people”. The second half focuses on teaching students marketing skills and assisting them in launching their healing business. Students who join this program or take any of Ingrid’s classes become part of this international, online community and support group for life as part of her Forever Training Program guarantee. It’s ok to charge money for spiritual work. Ingrid had to break through her own blocks and preconditioning with the tie between spiritual work and earning money. In her one-on-one healing sessions and in her courses, she works with her clients and students to break through their own financial blocks. You can learn more about Ingrid Turner and the Bhava Spiritual Mission at her website, http://BhavaMission.org or email her directly at Ingrid@bhavamission.org Be sure to listen to this entire episode for a special discount offered by Ingrid to our guests.                   The post #19 We Can All Be a Psychic Medium with Guest Ingrid Turner appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness Podcast, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Lisa A. Clayton, about how to tap into your heart intuition and heart intelligence. She talks about why following your heart’s guidance is beneficial to everyday life. If you are struggling with your current life path whether it be your career, or with relationships, or wanting more clarity on your life’s purpose, or you just feel that something is missing in general from your life, then this is the episode for you. Lisa A. Clayton, MS, Author, Master Trainer, is an Ordained Angel Minister and the creator of the Inner Leader Movement – A Deeper Understanding of Heart Intuition. Lisa has been teaching leadership programs of many kinds including personality assessments such as Meyers Briggs to corporate staff all over the world for many years now. The training was always external focused – do these actions steps, be this way or that way. It wasn’t until she trained on internal connection and connection to source that she began to follow her own true heart’s path. She then developed her own learning model that taught students how to increase potential by connecting to source through their hearts. Lisa has always been intuitive and brought this skill to her teachings. She is able to intuitively connect to herself and to her students in class – to feel and activate the vibration and energy of the individuals. What is Heart Intelligence and Heart Intuition? Following one’s heart intelligence means to navigate through life from the heart by activating heart intuition, by grounding, and by connecting to source through the heart. Lisa takes us through a simple exercise for heart activation that we can do on a daily basis in just a couple of minutes. New energies are coming to Earth, causing a new direction and rapid growth in our evolution. Some systems are falling apart, new ones are coming forth. Heart and soul consciousness is rising up and vibrating more intensely as people here on Earth practicing heart intuition and coherence. The bullies will eventually recede, change and evolve, too! There is no escaping what is happening with the new energies as heart awakenings keep happening, and evolved souls are becoming leaders, guides, teachers, etc. here on earth. This rapid growth, however, can be fearful and confusing, so we need tools to navigate life with heart consciousness. We need inner leadership, even more that ever, which can be achieved with heart intelligence. How they discovered that heart activation increases overall intelligence… Normally, intelligence is defined by one’s IQ (intelligence quotient) – the total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. In the 1980’s however, Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, opened the doorway for defining intelligence to include other realms such as interpersonal, kinesthetic, linguistic, and musical intelligence. In 1995, Daniel Goleman brought light and research to emotional intelligence, responsible for taking emotions out of the closet and into the forefront. He suggested that emotions have intelligence because emotions are all in the heart. Emotional Intelligence awareness led to research awareness on positive psychology led by Barbara Fredrickson a Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. She researched and teaches about emotional states, such as love and gratitude, and was one of the first to take suggest a collective intelligence that all humans can be connected to. Following Barbara Fredrickson, came the interest and research by Heartmath of heart intelligence. What they learned is that feelings of care, compassion, appreciation, as well as breathing into heart increases heart intelligence which then increases overall intelligence. Magnetometers can measure electromagnetic fields and shows that the electromagnetic field coming from the heart broadcasts about 8 – 9 feet from the heart, whereas the brain’s electromagnetic field only spans a few inches. It has been proved that the heart sends more messages to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Why is it so important to lead from our hearts? We have been so programmed to focus on our minds. We are rewarded for mind learning which include schooling, training, certifications, degrees, and diplomas. Yet the brain loves to spin us into the ego way of living. We are in a new age of consciousness and the heart is earning to take the lead. When we activate our hearts regularly, and live our life from heart intuition wonderful, things begin to happen. Witness fear and confusion dissipate. Experience increased clarity, creativity, love and compassion. When the heart and brain work together, even more creativity and cognitive ability to seek solutions surfaces. Listen to Lisa share client success stories. Simple heart connection exercises like the following will increase clarity, intelligence and Lisa teaches us an exercise for activating the heart called Vertical Alignment that came to her from the angels. Vertical Alignment is a simple exercise that can be done in minutes. Lisa recommends doing this simple practice daily in order to access all the new energy coming to Earth in the best way possible, as well as to ground ourselves and to radiate high vibrational energy of love, compassion, appreciation and joy. When you wake up in the morning what are you going to broadcast to the world through your heart? Do you find yourself leaning over your meal? Are you hunched over your desk at work or while driving your car? Take notice and spend even just two minutes doing a Vertical Alignment and watch clarity and creativity increase in your daily life. Listen now to Lisa teach the Vertical Alignment exercise… The Inner Leader Program – A Deeper Understanding of Heart Intuition Lisa has created her own heart intuition development program that she calls Inner Leader. Some of the many benefits gained from this program include: 1. Clarity Increase clarity for seeing the next steps in building your life, relationships, business, career, and opportunities in general. What is your true heart’s desire to align with you with your purpose? 2. Heart Exploration Learn about heart qualities, that help to open up the heart. Experience the Power of emotions. 3. Rewire emotions that are draining you Lisa helps to identify emotions that may be blocking heart activation and inner leadership. The blocks could be caused by fear, loss, everyday news, grief, trauma or any other cause. The power of love is often hidden in these emotions. In the program, Lisa helps clear those blockages so that one can experience a deep level of healing. Learn more about The Inner Leader Program on Lisa’s website by clicking here. Lisa Clayton is also interviewed about using angel orbs to discover your life’s purpose In a previous episode of Simply Living Wellness Podcast, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Lisa A. Clayton, about how to tap into your intuition as well as receive guidance from angels, from Source, or from your guides, however they may show up for you. Click here to listen to Simply Living Wellness Podcast interview with Lisa Clayton on Angel Guidance More About Lisa A. Clayton Lisa Clayton in an author and Master Trainer and the Founder of Source Potential, a human development company, Lisa offers more than 30 years of experience in professional training, coaching and consulting. She created a unique learning method for developing individual potential and application of learning concepts which was used worldwide by clients such as American Express and HSBC in facilitator certifications. Lisa also conducts intuitive counseling and Angel transmissions as an ordained Angel minister and specializes in connecting individuals with their spiritual domain and resources. From her passion for heart and intuitive learning, Lisa became a HeartMath® Certified Trainer and Licensed Coach. With Lisa’s life-long teaching and coaching philosophy of “learning from the inside out”, she has creatively combined her Angel intuitive abilities with heart-focused techniques to create Inner Leader: Lead from Heart. This three-month program helps you to connect, learn and expand your own unique, inner leadership abilities and inner-self gifts through deep discovery and healing to live the life you are meant to live. You can learn more about Lisa or contact her at her website : www.LisaAClayton.com.    The post #18 Understanding Heart Intelligence with Guest Lisa Clayton appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

Learn how to grow new teeth naturally. UPDATE 9/4/2018:  Since recording this podcast, I have noticed a significant change in the two chips in my front lower teeth. I have two chips in my lower front two teeth that felt like small holes along the edges. When rubbing my tongue along the tops of these teeth, the edges felt sharp. Just yesterday, I noticed that when I feel this area with my tongue it feels much smoother and the holes are filling in! Check back at this post for more updates. This is going to sound crazy, but I’ve learned from a holistic dentist that one can grow new teeth. It takes a few years, but if you follow this protocol, you can grow your teeth back! Not a lot of people have the patience or discipline to follow the protocol, but I know of one person locally in my town who has had success. One of her fillings was pushed out from the new growth! I am one year into the protocol. I have a while to go, but one of my fillings is showing signs of separating from my tooth. I am soooo excited to have new teeth and follow the protocol diligently. Our teeth do grow back, just like our hair and our nails. It just takes a very long time to grow new teeth and we do things that inhibit the growth which we will get into shortly. There’s a lot of research popping up about this lately. Maybe you’ve seen advertisements, like I have, about tooth regeneration.  Scientists are trying to develop materials that speed up the process. They call it stem cell therapy for teeth. The protocol I am following promotes teeth regeneration naturally. Here’s how my story began… I’ve had a lot of dentistry work done over the years. I remember one time in my teens, I had 13 cavities in one visit to the dentist. I have also had five root canals, and two implants. Then, two of my root canals started to give me trouble, so I went to see a holistic dentist named Dr. Teresa Isabel in Auburn, California, which is which is close to me. I was having pain and discomfort in both of these teeth. Dr. Isabel identified two secondary infections in my roots. She really didn’t have a whole lot of recommendation for me, as my situation is kind of a bleak. There is not a whole lot that could be done. She said I could go see an endodontist to see if maybe I could have those root canals redone. I did go see one, but he said that the tooth would just get re-infected due to too much bone loss. He suggested having it pulled.  I decided to hold off, but eventually the pain got so bad, I had to have the tooth pulled. I couldn’t wait for the tooth to grow back. My other infected root canal is doing much better. It’s not giving me the pain that I was having last year. Occasionally, I feel some discomfort. The holistic dentist said that the discomfort is often due to inflammation caused by the toxins coming in through the ears and nose. He also said that it’s common for some recommended dental work to be unnecessary. Third time is a charm… I had heard about this holistic dentist twice before, but didn’t give it much thought. With the increasing pain in two of my teeth, and having visited Dr. Isabel with not much of an action plan, I paid attention when his name came up yet a third time. I called him to make an appointment, but had to wait six months before I could get in. I was lucky that he was taking new patients at the time. I had a long talk with him over the phone and a friend had given me his protocol, so I began following the protocol shortly after that phone call. Our teeth never get a chance to grow back… What I learned from this holistic doctor is that the conventional methods for teeth hygiene are literally scraping away all of our new growth. And toxins in the air promote decay and infection in the teeth and roots. And our teeth don’t get the proper nutrients to promote new growth. So, the protocol addresses the following concerns: Vigorous brushing and routine teeth cleanings strip away the new growth Toxins from the air promote decay and infections A lack of nutrients inhibits tooth growth How to grow new teeth… This protocol I am about to share with you is a radical 180 from what we all have grown up with and learned our entire lives from our parents and from our dentists. Are you ready? I’ll address each challenge here: Step A: Preserve the New Growth First of all, you need to stop going to the dentist for routine cleanings every six months. This might scare you, it did scare me at first. Secondly, stop brushing your teeth. Yes, you heard me. Stop brushing your teeth. We’ll get into the alternative cleaning methods below. Stop flossing. Yes, you heard me again, stop flossing. Again, we’ll get into the alternative cleaning methods below. Are you still with me?  And now on to the next part…   Step B: Clear out toxins entering your nose and ears. If you know anything about the benefits of using a nedi pot, you probably know that a lot of junk enters our bodies through our nasal passage. Well, the nose and the ears are a direct route to the jaw – the roots, gums and teeth. We need to remove that junk daily, in fact twice per day is ideal, to prevent inflammation and infection and decay in the jaw. Instructions: Using a nasal irrigator to clean each nasal passage once per day but preferably twice. A nedi pot works also, but the nasal irrigator is preferred because it gets deeper in the sinuses. He also recommends to cleaning out the ears. Both nasal and ear irrigation takes some getting used to. It will feel like second nature after a while! It’s important to use the following ingredients for your water mixture that is used with the nasal irrigator. The vitamin C power is organic and food derived, not manufactured. The salt is the normal ingredient for nasal irrigation, but the vitamin C and oreganol oil helps to kill bad bacteria and clean out the toxins. Mix 8 oz. of clean water with one packet or 1 t. Nasaline Salt, 1/4 t. Alive! Vitamin C, and 1-3 drops of Oreganol Oil. Use this mixture in the irrigator and use a full syringe full for each side of the nostril. Then give a small squirt into one ear while tilting the head to the side. Immediately follow by straightening your head to allow the water to drip back out of the ear. Repeat on other side. Resources: Nasaline Nasal Irrigator Nasaline Salt – 1 packet, or 1 t. 1/4 t. Alive! Vitamin C 1-3 drops of Oreganol Oil   Step C: Clean and Nourish Your Teeth Cleaning your teeth is now a three-step process. This process will surely keep your teeth as well as nourished to promote new growth. First, you are going to rinse your mouth well with vitamin C water using using the same Alive! Vitamin C powder. Then you are going to create a homemade toothpaste using a high quality, plain yogurt such as the Nancy’s or Stoneyfield or Strauss brand. I use a plain sheep yogurt from the health food store, as I tend to avoid cow dairy. Instructions: To make the yogurt paste, first steep one organic green tea bag in 8 oz. of cold or room temperature water for 20 minutes.  The Equal Exchange brand is good, but any organic green tea is fine. Add 1/4 teaspoon of the organic green tea to 1 cup of whole milk organic plain yoghurt. Store that in the refrigerator in closed lid jar. You’ll use 1 tablespoon of the yoghurt/tea mixture and mix in 1/2 teaspoon of food grade diatomaceous earth to make your paste. Store the paste in small jar also in the refrigerator. This paste will last you about 4 brushings. Create a vitamin C water rinse using 1/4 t. of the same Alive! Vitamin C powder with 8 oz. of water. Store that in the refrigerator also. When traveling, I have left both the paste and the vitamin C water out in room temperature for several hours. Twice per day: Rinse your mouth with vitamin C water. For optimal cleaning, use this vitamin C water in a water pick unit to rinse out the mouth: Water Pik Complete Care and Flosser Following the vitamin C rinse, “paint” on the yogurt paste with a soft toothbrush. Avoid vigorous or firm brushing. Spit out any excess paste, but don’t rinse your mouth or eat or drink for about 30 minutes after painting to allow the paste to absorb. Use The Doctro’s Brush Picks for cleaning in between your teeth as needed. These picks are flexible and won’t strip away new growth. Resources: Water Pik Complete Care and Flosser The Doctor’s Brush Picks Equal Exchange Green Tea Food grade diatomaceous Alive! Vitamin C High quality plain, full fat yogurt   STEP D: Promote New Stem Cell Regeneration The last thing I want to cover is what I am doing to speed up new growth. The holistic dentist suggested taking these digestive enzymes, because they increase stem cell growth. These enzymes are marketed as digestive enzymes and there are many different kinds on the market. I use this particular brand he recommended, because he knows the manufacturer. They are very clean, meaning they contain no extra garbage or toxic fillers in them: Klaire Labs Vital-Zymes Complete. There are many types of enzymes on the market and most are used for increasing food digestion. Some types are best for fat digestion and some are better for protein digestion. Some are just all around good for digesting food.  What my holistic dentist learned is that if these enzymes are taken away from food, they promote stem cell regeneration. How does he know? My holistic dentist goes to international conventions for stem cell research and gets to meet researchers and scientist from all over the world. He studies the latest stem cell research and applies what he learns to teeth regeneration. He figured that stem cell regeneration in other parts of the body can also be applied to our teeth. As a result, he developed and modifies this protocol based on what he learns as new research is completed. I originally took digestive enzymes for my injured shoulder… I was experiencing chronic shoulder pain at the time that I went to see the holistic dentist. I had injured my left shoulder at consecutive exercise classes during which I ov

TODAY we’re here to talk with Barbara Mariano, otherwise known as The Animal Whisperer, about animal intuition and telepathic human animal communication. So, if you are having any behavioral issues with your pets, or would like to communicate with your pets, then this is the episode for you. Barbara has worked with animals for over 30 years.  From a young age she had the gift of developed intuitive abilities, which is really just saying she was born “knowing things” and that knowing includes a deep connection to animals and nature. This intuition and knowing also applies to humans. For example, she would sometimes know when someone was going to pass on. She tells the story of a close family friend, her mother’s best friend, that suddenly Barbara knew had to go visit. She kept insisting on a visit even though her husband at the time resisted it. Soon after that visit, this friend passed over. Barbara was in her early 20’s at the time. She is Clairsentience meaning she would get  a strong feeling that something was up. She would feel uncomfortable and a tightness in her solar plexus. Barbara is also clairvoyant and will see messages appear as images. For years, Barbara tried to avoid this knowing. She kept busy raising kids and working as a food broker sales representative. It wasn’t until she was 39, when she got her cat Athena, that she embraced this intuition and began her training and a career in animal communication. Listen to Barbara tell the story of how her cat Athena welcomed her to the world of human animal communication. Ten years after her experience with Athena, Barbara took formal training from Penelope Smith, the Godmother of Animal Communications in Point Reyes, CA. Penelope was one of the few brave souls that opened the door for the rest of Animal communicators. Penelope told Barbara, “Go forth and prosper. Go do your work as an animal communicator, you are ready.” Penelope and her training gave Barbara the encouragement to move forward with animal communication as a career. Barbara also studied with  the famous, Anna Brightenback, from Australia. She also studied Reiki and became a master herself, then went on to teach others Reiki certification. She then used Reiki on animals which greatly improved her results. How Can Human Animal Communication and Reiki on Animals Help? Barbara tells story of her client, an owner of two little Chihuahua dogs, Sophie and Savanna. The owner brought a new dog in the family for her son, a boxer named Routy. The two “mean girls,” as the owner described them, were bullying Routy who was a gentle giant. They would also bark a lot which was annoying the family. Barbara was able to help calm these two little dogs which led to a much happier Routy and family. Donna tells the success story of her own dog, Izzy, a 70-pound Shepard, who was fearful of everyone but the family members. Izzy would bark ferociously towards others. Now Donna can have visitors over without the fear of Izzy biting them. Another client, Buddy the dog, had been used as bait in a dog fighting ring. It was just a matter of time before Buddy would be killed by another dog. Lucky for Buddy, he got sick and was “discarded” and then picked up by a rescue organization. Buddy had experienced terrible trauma and was therefore vicious towards his new owners. Barbara performed long distance reiki and intuitive work on Buddy and in just a few sessions, Buddy turned around from being vicious to loving towards his owners. Communication with Deceased Pets Barbara describes her training in Family Constellation work with Bert Hellinger and how it helps to resolve problems with your pets, or with other people in your life. These relationship issues, frustration or grief could even be with a distant relative or with someone or a pet that has already passed over. Barbara or one of her clients will literally “step into” the shoes or paws of the distant or passed over person or pet. When you step onto into the person’s shoes or animal’s paws, you feel what that person or animal is feeling. This is a form of communicating with deceased pets or humans. More about Barbara Mariano… Barbara is a healer, mentor, counselor, life coach, animal intuitive, medium, storyteller, Reiki teacher, Reiki practitioner, and a psychic. Her certifications are endless! You can read more about her background on her website: BarbaraMariano.com     The post #16 Telepathic Human Animal Communication with Guest Barbara Mariano, The Animal Whisperer appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Jean Slatter, about why it’s so important to tune into your higher guidance before setting life goals or making big decisions… or even making small decisions! The power of intuition is no small topic. Anyone can communicate with their higher guidance (otherwise known as your soul, divine self, God self, angels, guides). Our higher guidance knows everything about us.   Our Higher Guidance knows about: every life we incarnated into, our soul’s life path, every experience we’ve had, all the knowledge we gained from that experience, why we came here, and it knows what more we want to experience in this lifetime. If you’ve ever wondered WHO we are, WHY we came here, WHY we struggle in this human form, then this episode if for you. In this episode, we talk about bringing your higher guidance into your life and how there are NO rules around connecting to your higher guidance. Jean became a naturopathic doctor and helped her clients with health issues for many years. She wanted to stick with everything “explainable”, such as nutrition, herbs, and physical ailments and modalities.  She didn’t want to dive into emotions and beliefs with her clients, yet she realized she couldn’t stick to just the physical level. She realized that emotional imbalances would hold physical issues in place regardless of treatments. So, Jean embarked on a new path for helping her clients, one that would turn out to be quite different than anything she had ever experienced. Jean’s career took a pivotal change when she began connecting to her clients’ higher guidance. Everything changed when Jean began connecting with her client’s higher guidance to receive messages about the cause and the source of their physical symptoms. Extraordinary messages and realizations would come through which greatly assisted Jean in helping her clients resolve their physical ailments. The power of intuition became crystal clear for Jean. Jean discovered the huge gap in the world of traditional health and life coaching that exists when you don’t tune into the client’s higher guidance. Years later and after direction from her own higher guidance, Jean went on to develop two Higher Guidance Life Coaching certification programs. The Creative Mystic Intuitive Certification program is for anyone wanting to learn how to connect to their own higher guidance. The Higher Guidance Life Coach Certification program continues the training and one learns how to become a Higher Guidance Life Coach and service others. What is a Higher Guidance Life Coach exactly? When a Higher Guidance Life Coach does their work, they let the client’s higher guidance be the coach!   They don’t determine the client’s goals and actions steps and neither does the client. The client’s higher guidance communicates the next steps the client should take. These next steps and goals are therefore aligned with client’s soul path and life purpose. The Higher Guidance Life Coach is simply the connector or facilitator conveying the messages using a variety of modalities and techniques. They may also be directed to clear a block or remove a resistance for the client, so that the client is able to take the next steps and reach their goals. If the client or the coach determines your life goals from their “minds” without tapping into intuition (higher guidance), then who knows if those goals are part of your soul’s life path. If not, these goals will likely never be reached, since your soul is simply not interested in those experiences. The goals we “think of” from our minds are often created from conditioning, from the cookie-cutter picture of the perfect life: go to college, get married, have a happy family, have a successful career, get the big house, and have retirement money in bank. The truth of who you are, your divine self, is so much more interesting than that. When we incarnated we had something more definitive in mind that wanted to experience and know the truth of. Life is like Disneyland where every possible ride available to you.   Who are we? We are curious creators, insatiably curious creators. Creators of what? Creators of experience. Experience is the only thing that is “real”. Listen to Jean define what is means to be curious creators of experience, and how she came to that realization. And how her higher guidance told her, “There’s no such thing as light and color. In fact, there’s no such thing as energy. Everything is an illusion including light, color and energy.” More About Jean Slatter Jean Slatter is the founder of the Creative Mystic Intuitive and the Higher Guidance Life Coach certification programs.  She is an inspirational speaker and the author of the hugely successful book, Hiring the Heavens. Jean’s programs and materials teach down-to-earth, easy techniques for receiving rock-solid intuition that can be trusted for the quickest, most accurate and relevant insights concerning life’s Treasure Hunt journey. She began her journey with over 20 years of experience as a natural health practitioner and a Higher Guidance Life Coach. She is a certified traditional Naturopath, a Reiki Master and an active dowser since 1990. Jean’s materials have been featured in noted publications such as First for Women magazine, Science of Mind, New Age Journal and Conscious Living Magazine. Jean was a featured presenter for the Conscious Media Network and GaiamTV. You can learn more about Jean Slatter over on her website CreativeMystic.com  You can access her five free gifts to get yourself started on your own accessing Higher Guidance journey here.     The post #15 The Power of Intuition and Higher Guidance with Guest Jean Slatter appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Janice Gagnon, about the benefits of Thai Massage and how it’s very different from other types of massage. Janice Gagnon is the founder of a Traditional Thai Massage certification school called Spirits Winds School of Thai Massage which is located in Northern California in a town called Nevada City located in the beautiful Sierra Foothills close to Lake Tahoe. This episode is for you, if you have any kind of physical pain, or emotional imbalances, or if you are in a wheelchair from paralysis and wish to walk again! Janice tells her story of how in the 1990’s after growing up in Quebec, Canada, she experienced Thai Massage for the first time and became so inspired to learn the techniques herself. Thais massage is very different from traditional massage in that it focuses on healing from a mind, body and spiritual side. Thai massage practitioners use their body weight, compression and passive yoga stretching techniques to administer Thai massage.  In addition, they bring in the ancient Buddhist traditional medicine called Metta, which means compassion, loving kindness, and channel this healing energy through their bodies into their clients. Similar to the Japanese heling art Reiki, this channeled healing energy releases blockages, increases energy flow, and comes with an abundance of compassion and love. Metta, however, has its own unique traditional style in the way it is administered. This practice of calling in the ancient medicine is called Wai Khru which has been used for over 1,200 years. Before the session, the practitioner practices Wai Khru to bring in Metta to drop out of their personality and become a neutral vessel allowing the healing force to come through them. Janice had the privilege of learning from the best… Janice was already a world traveler doing extensive solo travel in her teens and 20’s. After her surprise experience of this unique form of massage in the late 1990’s, Janice packed herself up and left for Thailand for seven months to study Thai Massage. As luck would have it (or not?) she was introduced to Master Lek Chaiya, who lived just around the corner from Janice, and got to learn Lek’s own unique technique called JAP-SEN Herbal Thai Massage. Janice was one of the pioneers in bringing Thai Massage to the West once the Thai people decided to allow the teachiong of their ancient techniques and traditions to foreigners. Janice continued to learn Lek’s unique technique of JAP-SEN and co-teach with Lek over the following fifteen years both in Thailand and at Spirit Winds. Lek passed on in 2013, and Janice carries on this matriarchal lineage in her loving memory. Practitioners of Thai Massage receive healing benefits themselves… Unlike Western massage where practitioners use oil and a rubbing action (effleurage) that is not usually sustainable for the long term, Thai Massage practitioners use their own body weight to create compression and passive yoga stretching. The client lays on a matt on the floor in comfortable clothing. Practitioners often use a rhythmic and rocking motion when applying their own body weight. Thai Massage practitioners receive healing benefits from the Metta running through them as they work on clients. They can also receive healing benefits from the physical application when done correctly allowing for long term work ability. Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage Janice’s background of practicing and teaching yoga, delivering skill-based group coaching, and developing women’s development programs gave her the perfect experience for opening a Thai Massage certification school which she named Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage. Spirit Winds offers classes for beginners as well as advanced practitioners in: Northern style of Thai Massage Lek Chaiya’s JAP-SEN Herbal Thai Massage Thai Foot Massage Thai Massage for the Table The school is set on eight beautiful acres about 15 minutes outside the town of Nevada City, a small old mining town in the Sierra Foothills about one hour from Lake Tahoe. The retreat is close enough to town for convenience, yet far enough away so that you feel like you’re getting away in a quite healing environment. The retreat center includes: Studio for private Thai Massage sessions Teaching room with open floor plan 3 bedrooms to house students 6-person steam sauna 2-person infrared sauna 3 ponds, 1 for swimming Fun artsy decorative style 9-Day Cost Rica Retreat – January 2019 Janice leads periodic retreats internationally. Her upcoming retreat in Cost Rica in January, 2018 will be led by Janice, meditation leader and Thai Massage therapist, Jennifer Tyler, and yoga instructor and Thai Massage therapist, Sarah Robinson. The Costa Rica retreat will be help January 15-23, 2019 at a private Villa in Nosara, the Health and Yoga Center of Costa Rica. This intimate setting will accommodate 16 attendees for 8 nights and 9 days, and will include: Thai massage training Daily guided yoga Daily guided silent meditations Extra excursions and activities including Thai massage sessions, surfing, horseback riding, zip-lining, ATVs, Mud baths, volcanoes, hot springs, turtle nesting beach (all optional) Free time for reflection, journaling and relaxing on the beach or at the pool Catered organic gourmet meals For more details, please visit: The Healing Medicine of an Open Heart More About Janice Gagnon Janice Gagnon is the founder of Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage located in Nevada City, CA.  She has been studying throughout all regions of Thailand since 1997. Janice is recognized as an Advanced Instructor and Therapist.  She studied at the Institute of Thai Massage and The Old Medicine Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  Janice has also studied extensively one-to-one with Master Lek Chaiya in JAP-SEN Herbal Thai Massage. Janice has hosted and co-taught with Lek at Spirit Winds from 2001-2012.  Lek passed on in 2013, Janice carries on this matriarchal lineage in her loving memory.Prior to teaching Thai Massage Janice worked as a counselor and group facilitator teaching skill-based programs.  She also worked with children and families in crisis, developing strategies for conflict resolution and communication skills.  This adds depth to her teaching and her ability to hold space for groups in their healing and transformative process.   The post #14 Thai Massage: Not Your Average Massage with Guest Janice Gangon from Spirit Winds appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Ynge Ljung, about getting autism help for parents by helping parents understand Autism Spectrum Disorders in children including Autism, ADD, ADHD, and Asperger, and the commonly unknown causes for these disorders, as well as commonly unknown treatments. These holistic treatments may not eliminate the disorder, but they certainly will improve the symptoms and side effects dramatically.  Ynge has seen this first hand, over and over again in her practice. We cover gut health and common allergies, especially to foods, and other offenders that are overloading these poor children’s bodies, often causing the Autism and all the symptoms.  And let me tell you… you won’t hear this stuff from your child’s doctors. This topic is such an important one, because approximately 1 in 25 in the United States is on the spectrum. And… we are seeing the number of people with Autism double every five years. This episode is for you, if you or anyone you know is suffering from Autism, ADD, ADHD, or Asperger and you have not had much success following the traditional treatment methods. This episode is for you, if you want to improve your condition and especially the common side effects that come with the spectrum disorders like seizures and an emotional rollercoaster causing anger and sudden outbursts. Early on in her career, Ynge Ljung became a naturopathic medical doctor and treated people including autistic children for illnesses and disorders she often found to be caused by allergies.  She had good success, yet not with every patient, and therefore went on a quest to find better solutions. Ynge discovered Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET) which improved her results significantly. But NAET is costly and very time consuming for the parents of these autistic children, especially the mothers, because of the frequent practitioner visits. Many people live so far from these NAET practitioners, and the visit costs add up quickly. She could see the struggle the parents would experience when raising an autistic child, which often led to divorce and the mothers being left on their own caring for their autistic child. Ynge’s experience with NAET, however, led her to develop her own system, one that empowers parents to administer the protocol themselves in their own homes and one that is affordable. She calls this system The Allergy Kit. What causes these commonly unknown allergies that exasperates the spectrum disorders? Common allergies are caused from a weak immune system and poor gut health which is compromised by our diet and the everyday toxins and poisons in the food. The “Standard American diet” (SAD), truly is sad. In the average American diet, the SAD consists primarily of: Processed foods ladened with chemicals and stripped of nutrients Poisoned foods from GMO, pesticides and herbicides An upsidedown Food Pyramid that increases wheat consumption It starts with poor gut health from over-processed foods that lack nutrients and good bacteria. The pesticides sprayed on our food in the United States are antibacterial, and therefore, destroy all the bacteria in the food, the good and bad. Genetically modified foods (GMO) changes the organic structure of the foods. We are left with food stripped of the beneficial properties and nutrients that are essential for a healthy gut. Our bodies are composed of 98% bacteria and pathogens, so we need that bacteria. It’s common for people to be overweight and starving at the same time… For many people, our bodies are literally screaming for nutrients. We are overtaken by cravings, we are hungry all the time, we eat all the time, and yet we can even suffer from obesity at the same time. An unhealthy gut also leads to a slew of medical problems including many chronic conditions as well as food intolerances (allergies). The food we eat is therefore not properly digested and so large particles get through the fine lining in the intestines into the blood stream causing a condition known as Leaky Gut. The body attacks these particles since they are foreign and not meant to reside in the bloodstream. When these foreign particles appear in the bloodstream over and over, the body will form an allergy to these foods by creating an immune response to thm. One needs to take a break from the intolerant foods to allow the gut to heal, as well as replenish with the good bacteria by eating fermented foods and nutrient-rich foods. And… do everything possible to reduce environmental toxins. 98% of Autoimmune Disorders, Hashimoto’s Disease, Diabetes, and Thyroid Issues are Caused by Glyphosate… One of the worst offenders among the pesticides is glyphosate used primarily in the United States. Glyphosate-containing pesticides are sprayed on wheat a couple of days before harvesting. This spraying makes the leaves fall off the plant (hmm… I wonder why?) allowing for easier harvesting. It also fattens the wheat kernels supposedly increasing the harvest yield. Is there really more wheat in the kernels? Or are we just filling them with glyphosate. Spectrum disorder children are especially sensitive to glyphosate. They should rarely eat wheat for that reason. These reactions to wheat can include: Desire for no eye contact Seizures Constipation which leads to more toxicity as toxins leak from the bowels Emotional outbursts Anger and frustration Wheat also contains a protein called gliadin which turns into an opiate in some people and will literally get the child “high”. Casein in milk also has this property! It’s no wonder we all crave pasta, breads, cookies and dairy products! Ynge tells us of one client, a young boy who was a very violent child, frequently chasing his parents around with a knife kicking and screaming. After treating this child with The Allergy Kit, this behavior has gone away, and he is now able to do work in school using his fine motor skills. He still has setbacks when he eats pizza, because he is ultra-sensitive to the glyphosate. “Mommy, I feel like I’ve been living in an underground cave, and that I’m now coming out.” Ynge believes that most gluten allergies are actually caused by the glyphosate in the wheat as opposed to the gluten. Her own hip pain went away when she stopped eating wheat, yet she could eat wheat products in Israel without any adverse effects. They don’t spray with glyphosate pesticides in most foreign countries. Organic is the Way to Go.  While there are still offenders in organic food, it’s much reduced. It is important to feed autistic children organic food as much as possible. In this episode you’ll learn about dietary and environmental changes that will greatly improve your autistic child. Autistic kids have severe breakdowns and emotional outburst, yet they don’t know why, nor do the people around them. People think the child is behaving poorly, when in reality it’s the poor diet and environmental factors are causing the problems. The intolerances affect spectrum disorder people more because they are already sensitive. Parents put these children into speech therapy and behavioral therapy, put them on medications, yet nothing works, because their food intolerances and allergies are causing the side effects of the spectrum disorder, not their psyche. Ynge also discusses other factors parents should be aware of including: Amalgam dental fillings Vaccinations Allergies and food intolerances and how to treat them Muscle testing for identifying allergies EMF sensitivity Losing the cravings New cars, new carpet, paint, clothing and their contributions to your child’s health issues Autism Help for Parents Using the The Allergy Kit After seeing draatic improvements in her patients from the addition of the NAET, Ynge began researching this protocol further for allergy elimination. She went on to develop her own protocol, one that parents can use in their home and administer themselves as frequently as needed with no additional costs or practitioner visits. She calls the system The Allergy Kit. The base Allergy Kit covers all the main offenders for any individual including wheat, dairy, vaccinations, and sugar. Parents may need to repeat this kit several times. Once round of treatments takes about 2-3 weeks of seven 15 minute sessions. Parents can then purchase additional kits or vials to cover other allergies as well as to address emotions their child may be experiencing.  Ynge’s suggests to parents of autistic children with emotional and behavioral issues an emotional treatment right before school each morning and then one after school to assist the recovery. You can learn more about The Allergy Kit by clicking here. Resources: Allergy Test Bronco The Allergy Kit Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET) More About Ynge Ljung Ynge Ljung has been an Acupuncture Physician since 1995. She is a BodyTalk Practitioner, Naturopathic Medicine Doctor, an Acutonic practitioner, alternative holistic healer and former NAET practitioner. Her extensive education in both Eastern and Western ideologies allowed her to create an easy, powerful and affordable way to “say bye bye to your allergies” once and for all…  Ynge calls the The Allergy Kit. Ynge is the author of Finding Your Lost Child which you can find on Amazon, the Kindle Version. The published book will be coming out in May of next year in book stores.   The post #13 Autism Help for Parents: Understanding the Autism Spectrum Disorders appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Anna-thea, about managing your emotions and the secrets of how to transform your life by learning how to reclaim your body as a woman, and how to empower yourself to awaken your divine feminine power. This episode is for you, if you would like to finally free yourself from any of the following: obsessive, compulsive behaviors body image issues relationship challenges intimacy issues Anna-thea tells her story of how she became a Divine Feminine Educator helping women get their needs met in relationship by managin their emotions. Her own experiences of emotional pain from love relationships got her into the work to not only help herself, but other women all around the world. Anna-thea has Libra in her chart, so her soul desires conscious equal partnership, fairness, balance, and connection in relationships. This could be love relationships as well as friendships and family or work relationships. It’s a deep soul-level desire for Anna-thea to have that harmony. Her own journey in love relationships experiencing love loss, betrayal, and pornography by her partner, led her to seek a better way for reclaiming her divine feminine power, reclaiming her sexuality, and reclaiming her body. She had her own body issues and obsessive food related issues, including a struggle with bulimia at one point in her life. Anna-thea took a two-year spiritual sexual educational training program which not only transformed her own life, but allowed her to help other women as an educator and coach.  And for the first time, she began to feel pleasure in her body and in her life. Her mission is to give women a new vision, a new way of self-love and acceptance. It’s all about learning how to reclaim our bodies as women, and how to set healthy boundaries. It’s about respect, honor, nurturing, patience, and understanding. Listen to Anna-thea talk about: The feminine and masculine forms of sexuality and their differences, and how both men and women each need both types Setting healthy boundaries to reclaim ourselves as women and not putting up with the expectations set by society over the decades Freeing ourselves from sexual “duty”, and just being a “good wife” What exactly women’s empowerment means, in Anna-thea’s mind What it means as women to hold a beautiful space for men   Managing Your Emotion by Learning How to FEEL Your Feelings Anna-thea talks about how essential it is to feel your feelings… the good AND the bad. She claims it is the most powerful thing we can do as a woman for self-love and self-growth. In our society, we find it easy to feel the good feelings, yet we tend to run from the not so good feelings – until they get so deep rooted that other chronic problems arise. She talks about the “4 D’s”: Disease, Drama, Depression, Disaster that result from not feeling your feelings. Especially in our culture, we tend to numb our feelings with over working, TV watching, eating, drinking and other drugs, shopping, social media, gaming, you name it. Keep busy so you don’t have to feel. Don’t run from the feelings. When you run from the feelings, they seed deeper.   When you feel your feelings you tap into a sense of wisdom and Sensual Aliveness. Anna-thea introduces a structure, or process, for learning how to feel and be with our feelings. One process is to categorize the feelings into one of six categories: Sad, Mad, Glad, Fear, Numb and Shame. Notice, that only one of the categories is considered a “good” feeling. This categorization is part of the “4 N Process” for managing your emotions taught by Anna-thea by which you can then understand what is underneath the feelings, what is causing them. The “4 N Process” allows you to feel these uncomfortable emotions in a productive way, so you can access that wisdom behind them. And when you get used to feeling even the uncomfortable feelings, they become familiar and more comfortable. They are so uncomfortable because we are not used to feeling them. There is a better way… There is a better way for the women who are struggling with relationship issues, body image issues, intimacy issues, or compulsive disorders. This better way is to step into loving yourself on a deeper level. It is the art of intimacy and self-love.   More about Anna-thea… Anna-thea is a women’s sensuality and sexuality coach who helps women become more sensually ALIVE.  She has been educating, inspiring and empowering women for over 17 years. She is an author, teacher and intimacy coach, dedicated to helping you to live more confidently and to speak authentically from your heart. She wants to help you discover how BEAUTIFUL your body is no matter what age, shape or size. And how SACRED your sexuality is. She teaches you how to take care of yourself emotionally, how to develop better communication in your relationships, how to experience more pleasure in your life and HOW to have a deeper understanding of your sexuality. Anna-thea is the author of the book, Empowering Yourself by Loving Your Body: The woman’s guide to reclaiming yourself as sacred. Her exclusive programs will inspire you and give you new perspectives on what it means to be a woman in our society today. You can learn more about Anna-thea at her website: www.Annathea.org and register for her courses here: Anna-thea’s courses.                           The post #12 Managing Your Emotions with Guest Speaker, Anna-thea appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

Welcome to Simply Living Wellness, where you’ll learn how to LOVE yourself, HEAL yourself and how to nurture your mind, body AND spirit. In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Tami McVay, about her insightful and inspiring story on how she healed herself from breast cancer with the Gerson Therapy protocol, with intention, and with seeing the positive and joy in everything, even the most mundane, routine eating program. Tami McVay is a mother of one daughter and lives in Northern California. She received her health coaching certificate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She is also a certified Gerson Home Setup Trainer, meaning she will go into the homes of new Gerson clients and help them to get setup for the rigorous protocol they are about to embark. Tami is a living and breathing advocate for mindfulness and whole-body wellness and alternative healthcare. She practices what she teaches! Despite Tami’s wholistic and natural lifestyle, however, she was diagnosed in August of 2012 with breast cancer after receiving a mammogram where they found three tumors in her right breast. She elected to get a mastectomy and a series of radiation, a decision that Tami did not take lightly, yet refused the chemotherapy. How Tami happened to discover Gerson Therapy… Earlier in the year of Tami’s diagnosis, in 2012, she was attending a two-day, “I can do it” Hay House conference in the Bay Area in California when she heard Kris Carr, the author of Crazy Sexy Cancer, speak. The energy of Kris’ talk hit Tami hard, yet she dismissed it. After the second day, Kris spoke again as the closing presenter, and once again, the words seemed to physically effect Tami, giving her sweaty hands, so she took that as a sign and started to follow Kris online. In February 2013, seven days prior to Tami’s first scheduled chemotherapy appointment, she read one of Khris Carr’s blog posts which was an interview with Jessica Ainscough about Gerson Therapy .  This interview resonated so much to Tami that she started researching Gerson Therapy , and her intuition told her loud and clear that this would be her next step on her journey. She found a trained Gerson practitioner on the West coast. Two weeks later on her birthday, February 14th, she hopped in her car and drove to Medford, Oregon, to meet this Gerson practitioner. After Tami discovered Gerson Therapy and knew this would be her next step, she had to make the big phone call to the oncologist to tell her she wouldn’t be coming to the chemo appointment scheduled for the following week.   Learn about the rarely-known breast cancer test that Tami received by chance that showed alarming results… Discover the unknown text that Tami was offered by chance that showed an increased chance of recurrence for breast cancer if proceeding with the chemotherapy. These results came to the oncologist’s surprise as well, who immediately revoked the order for chemotherapy that Tami was already scheduled to receive a few days later. When Tami refused the chemotherapy, her doctor told her, “Because you are over 50 they normally don’t offer it, but because you are refusing chemotherapy, there is another test you can do to see if chemotherapy will decrease your odds of a recurrence, called MammaPrint.” Well… the test shows an increase of recurrance! The MammaPrint test shows the statistics of recurrence for the specific chemotherapy Tami was going to have the following Monday and for Tami’s specific the type of cancer. The doctor also told her the test was very expensive ($5,000) and that insurance doesn’t usually pay for it. The results were alarming. Tami had a 10% chance of recurrence without the chemotherapy, and with the chemotherapy, the chance of recurrence increased to 27%, not to mention the harmful effects of putting a very toxic substance into her body. And… Tami only ended up paying $400 for the test.   Why Tami refused chemotherapy, yet proceeded with surgery and radiation… Listen to Tami as she talks about why she went ahead with surgery and radiation, after repeated phone calls from her oncologist. “Are you ready to do the radiation? You don’t want that shit getting up into your neck.”   The radiation decision was a difficult one. After the mastectomy, there was talk of three tumors and “something else”, meaning “other cancer cells that had escaped during surgery”, according to the doctor. There was also the tumor found in her arm pit… by chance.   Why we must be our own advocate for our own health… Regardless if we are going traditional or alternative, we have to be an advocate of our own health. Don’t be afraid to question procedures, treatments, or comments. Do your own research and expand your search for practitioners. In Tami’s case, she interviewed five breast surgeons before settling on her chosen one. One surgeon she interviewed and asked, “How many breast cancer surgeries have you performed?”, gave her the answer, “I’ve done a ton”. That answer didn’t feel very good to Tami. “What is a ton?”, she replied? “A ton doesn’t mean anything to me.” The fifth surgeon she visited gave Tami a specific number. Breast cancer surgeries is what she does, it’s her specialty. This doctor was also the only surgeon that suggested a check of her lymph nodes in her arm pits. As it turned out, there was a tumor in Tami’s arm pit which contributed to her decision to do the radiation. Tami chose to combine traditional with alternative methods. Tami decided to do radiation and Gerson Therapy . Had she known more about Gerson Therapy at the time, she might have elected to pursue only Gerson Therapy . She could justify radiation over chemotherapy, because radiation is naturally occurring in nature. So, she resonated more with the radiation. Her plan was to use the radiation to clean up the mess, then use Gerson Therapy to heal from the effects of radiation as well as from any remaining cancer that might be left in her body. Tami pursued 30 days of radiation, then after waiting six weeks, she began Gerson Therapy , exactly one day after her daughter finished school for the summer.   Discover the Gerson Therapy protocol. Gerson Therapy is not for everyone, but in Tami’s case it fit her lifestyle and desire perfectly. To recap, Tami discovered Gerson Therapy seven days before her first scheduled chemotherapy appointment, which she then canceled (and as we learned above, the doctor also revoked the order after seeing the results of the MammaPrint test). One week later, Tami visited the Gerson practitioner in Oregon, and as we learned, her decision was to continue with the radiation for 30 days with a six-week recovery period which led her to begin Gerson Therapy on June 11, the day after her daughter finished school for the summer. As you will learn, the Gerson Therapy program is quite rigorous. Tami wanted to be able to focus 100% on the protocol. Gerson Therapy is primarily metabolic. Tami was juicing 10 to 15 times per day, drinking the juice immediately for optimal freshness and nutrition. She was restricted to certain detoxifying foods, took a slew of daily supplements, and performed five coffee enemas per day to remove the gathered toxins. Tami ate the same bowl of oatmeal every day for breakfast and consumed a baked potato and large salad for both lunch and dinner. Tami followed this eating protocol for two entire years. Yet Tami was committed, and she created many other creative habits for bringing joy and pleasure into her life despite the tedious and mundane program (which you will read further on, or better yet, listen to Tami talk about it herself on the podcast archive above). All the foods Tami ate were cooked very slow and at low temperatures to maintain the most amount of enzymes and also to minimize the amount of energy needed by the body to digest the food so that the energy could be reserved for the healing. Chinese medicine also favors this style of cooking for the same reasons. The juices were raw, however. But since homemade juices contain no fiber, they are easy to digest, and our bodies can activate the nutrients in seconds. The juices are also tremendously detoxifying, so much that Tami had to do five coffee enemas throughout the day to pull the toxins from the colon brought up by the juices. Without the enemas, many of the toxins would just recycle back into the body. Tami recommends working with a trained Gerson practitioner, because of the experience and training they bring to the picture, and because they can customize the protocol throughout the period based on the monthly lab results. Tami had 14 different protocols over the two-year period. She met with her Gerson practitioner on video conference, monthly, to review the latest lab results and tweak the protocol. There is a book on Gerson Therapy that many people choose to follow on their own, however, a Gerson practitioner will bring much added value as in Tami’s experience. Tami was taking daily supplements as well as vitamin B and crude liver extract injections every other day. Tami’s local naturopath was willing to work with her. She gave her the injections, and would order the monthly lab work, and send the results to Oregon for the Gerson practitioner. Tami used 70 lbs of carrots per week for her carrot juices! And the Gerson green juices contained: Green apple Red leaf Romain Green leaf Red cabbage Green pepper Escarole So much more to healing than the doctor ordered After having followed Kris Carr for several months already, Tami understood the benefits of juicing and immediately increased her juicing after her diagnosis. She also went to see her local naturopath who got her on a program of special supplements and diet changes which ended up dramatically helping her heal from the surgery and radiation. The practitioners were pleasantly surprised at her rapid recoveries. From the radiation, she got red and sore, but she didn’t experience the typical tiredness nor get the typical blisteri

More about angels and angel orbs! In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Lisa A. Clayton, about how to tap into your intuition as well as receive guidance from angels, from Source, or from your guides, however they may show up for you. If you are struggling with your current life path whether it be your career, or with relationships, or wanting to know your life’s purpose, or you just feel that something is missing in general from your life, then this is the episode for you. Lisa A. Clayton, MS, Author, Master Trainer, is an Ordained Angel Minister who does angel transmissions and a whole lot more. From a young age of six years old, Lisa could sense, see and even hear angels in her presence. She grew up on a farm in Ohio, and one day while gathering the cows in the pasture for milking, she laid down in the green grass and began asking God questions like, Why am I here? Why are my parents telling all these things I’m not feeling aligned with, or don’t believe or don’t understand? It was a beautifully sunny and crystal-clear day without a cloud in the sky. Lisa looked up into the sky and there she saw an angel-winged cloud in the sky. From that day on she made a commitment to herself that she would always believe in angels. The message she received that day from the angel was her very first of a lifetime of messages to follow. We’re always with you. We’ll help guide you through this Earthly experience. So just trust in us. As a little girl of six, Lisa knew she could always rely on the angels for support. Every Sunday in Church, Lisa would feel the presence of the angels. She would hear their voices. Messages still come to her to this day. She often looks up into a clear sky and sees gorgeous angel-winged cloud formations. Lisa is clairvoyant and clairaudient. But Lisa went through the typical teenage years where she wanted to be like everyone else, to “fit in”. She shut down her ability to connect with and receive from angels during those years. Lisa tells us the story of how she got reintroduced to the angelic realm as an adult who was deep into a successful career of teaching training courses to employees at large corporations. From one day to the next, in the crash of 2008, she lost all her corporate clients and found herself in near financial despair. The economy had taken her business and income source away overnight. But was it really the economy? Lisa will tell you it was her angels guides shaking her up, trying to give her a message loud and clear that her career was not aligned with her heart’s desire and soul path. One day, Lisa happen to tune into an internet radio talk show regarding angel orbs. Every word spoken by Kimberly Marooney, the guest speaker, resonated in Lisa’s heart. Listen to Lisa share the lucky coincidence that led her to become an Angel Minister with Kimberly’s certification program, a synchronicity that changed Lisa’s life forever on many levels. A change that put her back into heart alignment. Lisa realized she had a gift. She was an intuitive and decided to make a business of doing angel transmissions to help people connect with their hearts and to connect with their angel guides. What exactly IS an Angel? Most of us think of angels as beautiful human-like figures with long, flowing hair, beautiful gowns, and of course, the signature, large wings like a bird. Lisa doesn’t see this kind of figure, however, when she sees angels. Lisa usually sees beautiful orbs of light – an angel orb. She also hears messages clearly, and she sees cloud formations of angel wings in the sky. When she takes photos of sacred places or while meditating, Lisa will see the orbs of light in the actual photos. So, what are angels, really? Lisa describes angels, or angel orbs, as beings of light with amazing souls that are traveling in the light dimension. A quote from one of her angels books states, “Angels are beings of light that transcend every religion, philosophy and every creed. Angels have no religion as we know it. Their existence proceeds every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.” We all have the ability to connect with angels. We all have the ability to connect with angels. Some, like Lisa, are just more progressed or have more practice. We may not even realize that small synchronicities are actually signs from angels or guides. A sign may include spotting a feather or penny on the ground – hence the term “Pennies from Heaven”. The angels are constantly trying to communicate with us. The angels always ask us, Can you open up? Can you open up your heart to receive us? Because we have to much love and light to share with you.” They all want to guide us here on Earth, and they guide us through the heart. To receive a sign or message, simply open up your heart and ask for assistance. To have an open heart means to really trust and believe there IS higher assistance available to us from the higher realms. Some people call it God, some the Universe, Source, or Creator. Angels are the messengers that help us get connected with our higher source. Sometimes the messages are drastic like taking away all your corporate clients (in Lisa’s case). Sometimes it’s as simple as finding a penny or experiencing an unexpected synchronicity like when something just beautifully falls into place. It’s the angel’s way of waking us up and saying, There is a resource for your here. There is help and guidance, and lots of love and light that you haven’t yet tapped into. When you do find a penny, or especially a dime, take a moment to breathe into your heart and say, Thank You. You don’t have to figure out what it means. It could simply be a gift from the divine. But try to notice it and give gratitude, and you’ll soon enjoy an increased frequency of signs and synchronicities. When you seek assistance, ask questions. Ask for help. Please help me. What’s next for me in this particular situation I’m in? (Perhaps it’s a struggle.) What ideas could I generate to produce a sustainable income? Ask questions of that nature. The difficult part is to stay out of the victim or blame mode when a drastic sign shows itself, such as in Lisa’s case of losing all her corporate clients – seeing the occurrence as purposeful and a blessing rather than being angry about it. What Is an Angel Transmission? The purpose of Lisa’s Angel Transmissions it to connect her clients with the messages that the angels bring through. Sometimes she pulls an oracle card, but it’s not about the cards. The transmission is about the energy in the messages coming through the cards for that person’s heart. She is able to sense, feel almost see the messages by connecting through the heart. Listen to Lisa talk about Whole Heart Happiness, a concept that was downloaded to her that she calls a movement. What to expect when receiving an Angel Transmission Every Angel Transmission starts with a Spiral Heart Meditation which activates that golden essence of light that is within our hearts. Lisa tries to get clients out of the linear process of asking a specific question and getting an answer. Rather she brings them back into the essence of who they are and allows the angels to bring forth the information the client needs to hear at that time. She helps to activate and expand their higher consciousness in the now by opening them up and allowing them to be present in the moment and absorb these messages to apply to their current situations. Lisa doesn’t predict the future. She is not a physic, yet things could come up that lend to future action steps. Lisa is just the transmitter. A transmitter for the angels who want to connect with the client. She uses Stewart Pearce’s orb oracle cards to facilitate this transmission along with other Angel oracle cards she is guided to use. There is an exchange of heart energy between Lisa and her client’s hearts and the hearts of the angels. This energy often expresses itself through the cards. This energy is so strong that a card might literally move or fly out of the deck. More About Lisa A. Clayton Lisa Clayton in an author and Master Trainer and the Founder of Source Potential, a human development company, Lisa offers more than 30 years of experience in professional training, coaching and consulting.  She created a unique learning method for developing individual potential and application of learning concepts which was used worldwide by clients such as American Express and HSBC in facilitator certifications. Lisa also conducts intuitive counseling and Angel transmissions as an ordained Angel minister and specializes in connecting individuals with their spiritual domain and resources.  From her passion for heart and intuitive learning, Lisa became a HeartMath® Certified Trainer and Licensed Coach. With Lisa’s life-long teaching and coaching philosophy of “learning from the inside out”, she has creatively combined her Angel intuitive abilities with heart-focused techniques to create Inner Leader: Lead from Heart. This three-month program helps you to connect, learn and expand your own unique, inner leadership abilities and inner-self gifts through deep discovery and healing to live the life you are meant to live.    You can learn more about Lisa at her website: www.LisaAClayton.com. You may gain access to her 12 angel prayers by purchasing the book, 365 Days of Angel Prayers. If you enjoyed this post about Angel Orbs, you might like this other podcast about how to Ask Angels with guest Jean Slater. The post 10# Angel Orbs: Discover Your Life’s Purpose with Guest Lisa A. Clayton appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Carrie Ann Smith. L.Ac. Dipl. OM MS. TCM, who explores the well-known concept that we are made of information and light and are essentially a living hologram. She also guides us through two exercises, one for quickly entering an alpha brain wave state for deep relaxation and increased creativity and intuition. The second exercise is a simple grounding technique for quickly grounding and balancing yourself and anchoring into the present moment. If you wish to balance and align yourself for building a more desired state of reality, then then this is the episode for you. Carrie Ann shares her story, of being sensitive to energy from a young age, and as an adult, having a career life separate from a mystical life for years until the two eventually merged. She now delivers esoterica acupuncture locally in Nevada County, California. She does virtual work with clients where she utilizes a holographic landscape, helping her clients to align and enhance their coherence for wellbeing. Carrie Ann was first introduced to the holographic theory and supporting science in 2009. The idea that we are inhabiting these holograms, and that we (our bodies, meridians, chakras, auras) are a living stream of information and light, kept reappearing in Carrie Ann’s life which led her to research this science in depth. She studied quantum physics and holographic science. This theory is not new science. It stems back to the 1950’s. The new science around this holographic idea is how the pieces all get put together, and the suggestion that this theory is a more accurate explanation of our existence. What is a Hologram? You might recall producing a hologram in physics class. In the famous movie, Star Wars, Luke Skywalker turns on a device that makes an image of Princess Leah appear. If you live in California, your driver’s license contains a hologram. The idea of the hologram is that any piece of the system is going to represent the whole. So, if you were to cut any segment from the whole, you would have all the information you need to recreate the whole. To better understand a hologram, Carrie Ann talks about the science and research behind this theory… The Science Being this Holographic Theory The study that suggests we are light and that our large molecules and DNA produce light and different wave forms began in 1976 in Vienna by a physicist. As time progresses, scientists develop more and more measuring tools to support this theory. Even Einstein knew there was something that unified everything. He could not prove it, but he had theories as to why. Today’s science has pieces of this theory.  Newtonian physics allows us to build a bridge that safely holds together. It allows us to launch a rocket ship into space. Quantum physics begins to explain how everything is connected and more energized by forces that we don’t yet understand. For example, we have theories about electricity. We know it works, but we don’t have the full explanation. We don’t have proof that it works.  So, there are pieces of the science, but we don’t yet know how all the pieces all fit together. We use them separately, but we don’t have the unified theory. Einstein knew it existed and had his theories as to why. Since Einstein, more scientists have moved this theory further. Gerard Hoodt, in 1993, proposed that all the information contained in a region, a three-dimensional space, is represented as a hologram. Gerard was the first person that proposed the idea that the space around us and within us is the information that brings it all together. He came up with this by putting together the pieces of other physicists, Jude Currivan, being one of them. Jude Currivan is physicist and cosmetologist. In her book, The Cosmic Hologram, she wrote, “For everyone who wonders, not only how our universe is as it is, but why. And for those who are willing to follow the evidence, wherever it leads.” Scientists like Jude Currivan and others including astrologists are asking these bigger questions that perhaps answer the match for our bodies and our systems.  Are our meridians holographic representations of information? Do they transport light? When we are not observing a forest, does it still exist? The Observer Principal states that the observer affects reality, or manifests reality, on the light level. Is suggests that reality exists in that moment only. It’s our perception in the moment that creates reality. Studies supporting this theory began in the 1950’s. The movie, What the Bleep Do We Know? addresses this Observer Principal. This Observer Principal theory started in the 1950’s, yet scientists have gone beyond this theory, and have even gone on to study why a light particle would chose to be one way or another. Or what influences the choice of a particle being a particle or a wave. Or, how can an electron can be in one place and then suddenly in another. The Holographic Landscape Carrie Ann Sees Around her Clients As Carrie Ann progressed in her career and studied this science and the idea that we are a holographic landscape, it started to make sense why her sessions with clients were different from traditional energy work. All types of practitioners are working with information and energy, but it’s normal for energy workers and healers to all perceive differently.  Typically, a practitioner sees one’s aura or senses their energy. For example, a practitioner might sense stuck energy in the shoulder in a client. They might sense that this stuck energy is from something the client is holding on to from the past. This type of sensing is effective, but it doesn’t show up for Carrie Ann in that way. She does have the ability to sense energy, but her representation of the client’s energy is perceived differently. The way Carrie Ann perceives during client sessions is by seeing the person as clear light that also surrounds them – their living hologram. Her teacher suggested early on that if we can see that “a shoulder isn’t a shoulder”, rather see the shoulder as a living stream of light, then we are a lot less limited in understanding what the shoulder problem might really be about. The issue might not be what’s the physical body is representing, the shoulder. The issue might be about something else, like an emotional issue. The holographic concept displays the living landscape of the client which could result in the representation of an image or a symbol, for example. When working the greater field of the client, Carrie Ann would use whatever tool presented itself which would be the tool needed in that moment. These tools could be symbols, intuitive insights, information, or messages from their guides. This shift in thinking and work allows Carrie Ann to tap into the intuition and wisdom of the individual which often increases the effectiveness of the session, because people are so wise! What can one expect from a Holographic Landscape Session? As a result, the energetic shifts in the client can happen more easily and readily. They can happen during the session, in the moment, and/or long after. Also, the shift could be unrelated to the focus of the session. Sessions are not limited to physical symptoms. One’s property they live on can also be worked on to produce an energetic shift. Or perhaps one feels stuck in some aspect of their life and seeks assistance to move this energy. How to ground yourself, create more balance and relaxation, and increase creativity and intuition… Carrie Ann likes to assist her clients in working with their own intuition. We become empowered when we can tap into our own intuition for everyday guidance. Everyone has intuitive abilities.  Some are just more aware of these skills. With practice anyone can become better and better at tapping into their intuition. In this episode, she teaches us two simple, yet highly effective grounding techniques. They can be done together or separately. The first exercise takes just a couple of minutes. It helps us to relax and puts us in a more receptive state increasing clarity and intuition. This technique can be used: Anytime you get stumped or forgetful of something When wanting to increase creativity When having trouble sleeping Before meditate When feeling triggered by a person or situation When feeling tension or anxiety Before giving a speech It puts our brain waves into a more harmonious rhythm by triggering the alpha brain wave state. It’s a sure cure for the monkey mind. The second exercise utilizing visualization, a well researched technique and powerful tool. It help us to: Get grounded in our bodies Become more balanced Anchor into the present moment More about Carrie Ann Smith Carrie Ann Smith is a Licensed Acupuncturist and certified Chinese Medical practitioner both in the state of California and nationally. She received a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2004 from the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, California. Today she has moved into offering a non-traditional method of Acupuncture named Esoteric Acupuncture. Carrie Ann also offers what she came to call Holographic Landscape Sessions both in her office and long distance via the internet or telephone. Download your free training on how to access your higher guidance: http://sarrissa.com/a-gift-for-you.html – no optin necerssary! You can learn more about Carrie Ann Smith here: http://carrieannsmithlac.com https://www.facebook.com/SierraHealthAcupunctureandTransformationalArts/ https://www.facebook.com/LivingwithExpandedAwareness/   The post #9 Grounding Techniques: Quickly Balance, Ground and Relax Yourself w/ Guest Carrie Ann Smith appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Lauren Ciesco, about how to re-wire your brain so that weight loss finally becomes natural and effortless and life-lasting. If you struggle with weight loss and cannot seem to stick to any diet without “white knuckling it”, as Lauren calls it, and even then cannot keep the weight off, this episode is for you. Lauren shares her story of going through 20 years of yo-yo dieting, losing and gaining the same 50 pounds, and at times weighing up to 199 pounds. Lauren is a naturally empathic person, and as a young girl used food for comfort and sooth herself from the powerful emotions she felt all her childhood and twenties. She thought there was something wrong with her. Food became her coping mechanism. She used food to check out, and through conditioning with food, she did not know how to feel her emotions. Using will power and diets, Lauren could lose weight, but she would eventually gain I back. The cycle was a vicious one and not sustainable. In her 30’s, Lauren was tired of the up and down cycle, and sad about who she had become, a person who did not love her own body and who constantly battled with emotional eating. One day she woke up and said, “This is going to change”. She became a personal growth junkie. She studied leaders like Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer, then enrolled in Brook Castillo’s The Life Coach School certification program. Brooke’s tools completely change Lauren’s life in a short period of time. From her teachings, Lauren realized that her past thoughts and emotions created a residual effect that kept her in that vicious cycle. If she wanted to change, she would have to start thinking differently. Lauren describes her change as an inward turn. She realized, it’s about taking responsibility for one’s self. In her 20’s, Lauren used to chase outward validation which resulted in the use of food. She had an awakening, a spiritual awakening, and was able to learn that food was just a symptom. Food was a symptom of her lack of ability to process her emotions and think differently. She learned that everything in world is neutral. Thinking about a neutral circumstance creates a feeling, and it’s our feelings that create our actions, and our actions that creates our results. So in essence, her thinking was creating her reality. Subconscious Programming Keeps Us Stuck Our thinking usually comes from subconscious programming. It’s not always easy to identify our current thinking. We wake up in the morning, and our thinking throughout the day is automatic. We are typically not conscious or aware of our thinking, and therefore, not conscious of what we are creating in our lives. When you are able to realize that you are in control of what happens in your life, you begin to create the shift. You start to become aware of your current thinking a lot of which is based on past experiences. “I can’t lose weight, because I have never been able to do it in the past.” The shift also comes from imagining and feeling your future self. Feeling and thinking that you are already there. This future thinking and feeling helps you to remain in a high vibrational state which then makes your positive actions automatic and effortless. Lauren first applied these concepts to her career, and in about one year doubled her income. That fantastic result led her to believe she could apply these principals to her weight. Making the Mind Shift Creating this mind shift is easier said than done. How do you make that shift? It’s a process that Lauren teachers to her clients. In this episode, she describes the 3-step process she uses with her clients to assist them in making that shift. This process is about awareness and taking ownership of your current story, an inventory of the story you currently tell yourself. You can’t move forward and create change until you know what you are currently creating. She helps her clients by being that mirror to show them how their current thinking is creating those current results. From there, they are able to get intentional and identify what thoughts they need to be thinking in order to get the results they desire. She empowers them to think differently. This process is also about allowing the feelings. The thought is the vehicle for the feeling, but the feeling is what drives the actions. What we feel, we attract into our lives. Lauren teaches us how to identify your feelings and how to allow them, so that you don’t resist them. Emotional eaters have spent all their lives eating in place of feeling. It’s the resistance of feelings that keep us stuck. Society has conditioned us to avoid the feeling of pain. We are wired to resist discomfort. We turn to other outside substances, like alcohol, food, television, social media and drugs to numb that pain. It’s the conditioning from continual use of substances to numb the pain that creates substance addictions. The path to freedom and effortless weight loss it about brain science and re-wiring. We have a thought about food which leads to an urge that we then reward with food. Our brains are literally wired and conditioned to expect the food. So, when you decide you are not going to answer the urge, it’s going to be uncomfortable. But it’s possible to reprogram your brain to erase that conditioning and create a new conditioning. The re-wiring of your brain is essential, but the process is also about identifying your compelling reasons to want to lose weight and become healthy. Your compelling reason will aid you in moving through those uncomfortable feelings. Why is it that some people can have cookies in their house that never get eaten? Lauren talks about the idea of over hunger. People are overweight because their bodies, despite eating, are still hungry all the time. Their bodies are literally starving and deprived of nutrition due to the typical western diet of processed foods laddened with chemicals and toxins and an abundance of flour and sugar. This over hunger and lack of nutrition then causes an imbalance of hormones. We can be overweight and literally be starving (craving nutrition) at the same time! How about over desire? Over desire is all about brain science. Through this viscous thought-feeling-reward cycle that many of us live in, we condition ourselves to over desire the food from the consistent rewarding. If you move through these feelings of discomfort enough times (Lauren refers to this the as The River of Misery), you will reverse that conditioning and be re-wire your brain. You will eventually lose those urges and cravings and your new actions will become automatic and a part of your identity. It’s literally freedom when you don’t have that desire or craving anymore. What tools does Lauren use to help her clients achieve their desired results? Lauren has many tools in her toolbox, many of which she learned from Brook Castillo’s program. Brook’s model can be summarized in five steps: C – Circumstance T – Thought F – Feelings A – Actions R – Results Lauren promotes a program that results in a long term sustainable way of eating. It’s not a “diet”. To support this mind set change and brain re-wiring, she also recommends eliminating sugar and flour from one’s diet. For more rapid results, for some people, she recommends intermittent fasting, and slightly increasing healthy fat intake to allow for extended satiation, to balance hormones, and to teach your body to use its own fat for fuel. Lauren is not a nutritionist and does not create food plans for her clients. She typically works with women who already know about healthy food plans to follow. Lauren is a mindset coach. She consults with people and helps them actually succeed with the food plan for lasting, lifelong lifestyle changes. High Vibe Living Lauren teaches high vibrational living, hence her business name, High Vibe Living. Emotions and feelings such as resentment, anger and fear have a very low vibration. Joy and love on the other hand are high vibrational words. Success comes from remaining in high vibration and creating intentional thoughts and feelings so that you are able to take the aligned actions to create the life you want. An example of high vibrational living, is that fact that Lauren chooses to BLESS her past of yo-yo dieting and weight loss challenges, as opposed to holding anger or victim energy about it. She chooses to live through the quote, “You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.” She decided to look at her challenges with her weight as an assignment and a blessing, rather than playing the victim and asking, “Why am I still dealing with this.” And with that blessing she can now embrace her past and be the example and teacher for others in similar situations. She has the direct experience of challenge and recovery to now be able to relate to and help others. Could it be that Lauren actually chose this life of struggle with weight and emotional eating? More About Lauren Ciesco and High Vibe Living Lauren Ciesco is a former emotional and binge eater who then turned herself around and became a personal growth junkie and certified Life & Weight Coach. At her heaviest, she weighed up to 199 pounds and was stuck in a vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting losing and gaining the same 50 pounds for over 20 years.  In her thirties, Lauren swore off dieting for good. She was over the “struggle”.  Lauren works with women who are emotional eaters that are looking for a different solution to permanent weight loss that doesn’t require dieting, exercise or willpower. She teaches women how master their minds and emotions by breaking through limiting beliefs, self-sabotaging behaviors, and creating new habits that result in permanent weight loss. She helps women shift their identity from being an emotional eater who struggles with their weight to someone who doesn’t even desire food, feels confident and leaves her program thinking, “Now that I have lost this weight, what else can I acc

In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Jean Slatter, about how you can ask angels, or hire the angelic realm, hence her landmark book, Hiring the Heavens, by simply asking angels for assistance and guidance to help you in literally ANY aspect of your life. Whether it be finding a parking spot exactly where you need it, or getting help in your business or job, or finding a lost item, or finding the perfect outfit at the mall for the perfect price in just a few minutes, then this is the episode for you. The Heavens are here to assist us all, we just need to ask. Jean talks about how to ask for help, and why it works. It’s fascinating! And you’re in for a real treat! Jean’s entire life story set the stage for going on to write her book, Hiring the Heavens. She tells her story of how she was under the belief, that God, or the Universe, was at arms length, and not available to us unless we had an absolute worthy cause to pray for. We could pray for someone else, or for world Peace, or for ourselves IF our situation was severe and desperate enough, but to pray for a great parking spot? Never! Well actually, that thinking was all wrong, so it turns out. We can ask for selfish assistance… ALL day long in fact! Jean shares her tory of that pivotal moment in her life when she came to the realization that you could ask angels for assistance with absolutely anything, no matter how big or small! Just what IF, this higher power wants to be involved in our everyday life, and that they want to put a smile on our faces, because it lights them up? Listen to Jean describe: The pivotal moment when she realized that God is within us An absolute, crazy coincidence that could only be described as guidance from a higher realm How she came to know that we could ask angels for absolutely any assistance, big or small, worthy, or completely selfish How she hired an entire committee to run her naturopathic business The team of writers, publishers, editors, and assistants who helped to write Hiring the Heavens Jean went on to hire a: Spiritual Mechanic Spiritual Knock-Your-Socks-Off Party Organizer Spiritual Hair Dresser Attitude Adjuster for her kids during long road trips Jean answers the begging question, What happens if you ask for something and you don’t get it? She also talks about HOW we are to ask angels, and about the “rules” around Hiring The Heavens. You’ll be surprised to hear her answers! More About Jean Slatter, Educator, Coach, Author, Mother & Husband Jean Slatter is the founder of the Creative Mystic Intuitive and the Higher Guidance Life Coach certification programs.  She is an inspirational speaker and the author of the hugely successful book, Hiring the Heavens. Jean’s programs and materials teach down-to-earth, easy techniques for receiving rock-solid intuition that can be trusted for the quickest, most accurate and relevant insights concerning life’s Treasure Hunt journey. She began her journey with over 20 years of experience as a natural health practitioner and a Higher Guidance Life Coach. Jean is a certified traditional Naturopath, a Reiki Master and an active dowser since 1990. Jean’s materials have been featured in noted publications such as First for Women magazine, Science of Mind, New Age Journal and Conscious Living Magazine. Jean was a featured presenter for the Conscious Media Network and GaiamTV. To learn more about Jean Slatter, please visit www.CreativeMystic.com, and while you they be sure to download her many free gifts including lessons on how to access your own higher guidance, a mini-course on pendulum dowsing, and even the first three chapters of Hiring the Heavens for free!     The post #7 Learn How to Ask Angels for Guidance with Guest Jean Slatter appeared first on Simply Living Wellness.