Be the Harmony

What Do the Adolescent Brain, the Number 25 and the Soul Have in Common?

Science continues to shed ever more light upon the magnificence of the human body and its constant interactions with Creative Intelligence. It seems humans have a built-in “fail safe” mode when our conscious spiritual nature switches on, somewhere around age 25. Even when the soul is remembered from birth, the physical body may not be ready to fully engage in soul’s agenda until the age of 25 or later because some of the connective tissue doesn't mature until then.

Today, conscious parenting is a growing trend. Conscious parenting being an awareness of both parents beginning pre-conception that says each parent’s thoughts and feelings are intently influential upon the cells and genetic potentials of their offspring, and thus requiring parents’ nurturance of the highest budding possibilities. With such an understanding, the human species may be moving into an era whereby the divine self having been supported and encouraged from prebirth, birth and through the first 25 to 30 years, will cause the physical body to evolve to advanced levels of capabilities and health. Either way, conscious or unconscious, the connective tissue of the body and the fascial web, appear to play an essential role in our physiology eventually “turning on” to Spirit.

First, let’s define connective tissue so we have a good visual. According to About.com Biology, connective tissue serves a "connecting" function. It supports and binds other tissues. Unlike epithelial tissue, which covers the outside of the body and lines organs and cavities and the cells of which are very closely packed together and joined with little space between them, connective tissue typically has cells loosely scattered throughout the body matrix. For example, in an epithelium, which also connects, the free surface is usually exposed to fluid or the air (like skin) while the bottom surface is attached to a basement membrane. This is different than loose connective tissue, which in vertebrates, is the most common type of connective tissue. Loose connective tissue holds organs in place and attaches epithelial tissue to other underlying tissues.

Loose connective tissue is named based on its characteristic "weave" and is made up of collagenous (cartilage is made up of collagens), elastic, reticular, or fibrous types of fibers. Fibrous connective tissue, which is found in tendons and ligaments, is composed of large amounts of closely packed collagenous fibers.  Cartilage, for example, is avascular, meaning that it is not supplied by blood vessels; instead, nutrients diffuse rather like osmosis through the matrix of tissue.

It is true that some cultural traditions speak of humans as being a complex egg-like form of fibrous interwoven energy pathways. Anyway, the main flow of thought here is connections, and science is informing us that our connective tissues, including those of our brain as well as the lower half of the body may not be fully developed until we reach the age of 25 or older.

From the study of embryology for example, we discover that when we are born the upper half of our body’s structure and musculature is more developed than our hips, legs and feet. In some philosophies, the upper half of the body is considered heaven and the lower half of the body relates to earth, with the waistline relating to the mind and being a bridge between heaven and earth. The pelvis at birth is largely made up of cartilage (connective tissue). That makes sense since we have to be fairly sturdy with heart and essential organs for life well protected, as well as really malleable to move through the tunnel into the world. The squeezing through the canal may actually make us stronger for living outside of the womb because of the relationship between pressure, weight-bearing and bone density. We are told our fontanel (the soft spot opening at the top center of the skull) takes about 18 months or longer to fully solidify. In contrast, our pelvic, hip and leg connective tissues and muscles are not fully developed until we reach about the age 25.

From the ages of 0 to 3, children respond to the world and their surroundings as though everything is energy. This means children do not differentiate life experiences with individual senses like sight, sound or hearing and so forth. They process their environment through their whole being and feel it as “This feels good, nurturing and makes me happy,” or “This feels threatening and scary, and makes me feel unhappy.” At this age of sensitivity, children require a great deal of protection, security and comfort.

Interestingly, at the end of life, a person also experiences everything as energy with whole body responses to its circumstances (what feels loving and what feels discomforting). One age group is entering from a holistic environment, and the elders’ age group exiting to a more holistic realm. At this age of sensitivity, elders require a great deal of protection, security and comfort.

What is even more fascinating is that in between those two age groups, humans spend their lives yearning for the knowing of wholeness again, ergo, what does meditation and yoga do for you?

Now getting back to the idea of connective tissue and its importance in supporting our spiritual nature, in the December 16, 2010 Newsweek Magazine article entitled, The Adolescent Brain -The Kids Can’t Help It - What new research reveals about the adolescent brain—from why kids bully to how the teen years shape the rest of your life by Russ Juskalian, science tells us that the adolescent brain is only 80% developed and the connective areas of the brain, the white matter areas, do not completely mature until age 25 or later.

Connective tissue mentioned again, and age 25 again. 25 is the magic number, a magic number for what? The brain is good to go and the whole physical body is strong and structurally sound. What’s next? Spirit is ready to take charge.  

I remember when I was writing my 1998 autobiographical book, Soul Aerobics – Conscious Movement of a Soul into Wholeness, I unconsciously said more than once that I reached a point after about 25 years of age, when I felt life was no longer “happening to me.” Rather it seemed to me that age 25 was about the time the soul became the pilot of my life, or at least I had become aware that something had shifted.   

Is 25 an age of activation or an age of participation, or both?

To recap so far, science and physiology mention that by the age 25 or so, some of our essential connective tissue webbings have finally matured. This improved phase of physical prowess seems to be some sort of turning point in our human development. The brain is good to go and the whole physical body is strong and structurally sound including the earth part or lower half of the body. Spirit is ready to take charge, to become fully engaged in life in a body.

I see a perfect relationship with the connective tissue of the body supporting a closer partnership with the soul via energy healing. Applying regular energy self-healing in the form of Healing Touch Quick Steps has been proven to help the body rid itself of accumulations in the tissue. In fact, the sooner you apply self-induced healing quick steps after a discomfort or trauma occurs, the less likely it will settle in your tissue. Remember, the varying depths of your biological tissue are all made up of cells. If the tissue is not bogged down with disturbances from conception, in utero and on through adulthood, especially connective tissue that is an intelligent mechanism for experiencing wholeness, how much easier can it be to always be in a conscious state of wholeness? Science validates that our biology speaks volumes.

In the book, The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality, Drs. R. Louis Schultz and Rosemary Feitis suggest the importance of looking at the body as a whole when looking at the muscle-bone concept of movement.  Key word: Movement. “When one part moves, the whole body responds, and the only tissue that can mediate such responsiveness is the connective tissue.” There are those words again:  connective tissue.

Drs. Feitus and Schultz also inform us that from birth onward “increased demand for movement furthers the maturation of the connective tissue. As we use a part, it becomes more capable, more skilled. In turn, as we become more skilled, we explore a wider range of movement.”

“In addition, the physical response to emotion is through the soft tissue. The fascia is the emotional body,” say Feitus and Schultz. The more we move, the more the connective tissue refines and the greater our ability to experience life holistically.

From the perspective of physical anatomy, we begin to see a relationship between our connective tissue, our emotions and living life in a state of wholeness. Our body in its natural state is a vehicle of wholeness. The fascial web is connective tissue. Our emotions and feelings are a link to the higher energies that are experienced through feelings.

Remember author Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor mentioning in her book, Stroke of Insight when the rational, logical part of her brain, went off line with a stroke, she felt a sense of wholeness, non-duality, and oneness. Ideally, feelings are felt in the whole body, flowing through that fascial web and our connective tissues (those loosely scattered cells full of potential), and from that web of sensation we are able to know and identify the feelings of fear, anger, joy, love, or whatever, and consciously and immediately respond. In addition, the goodness of our thoughts and feelings may be considered nutrients for the loosely scattered cellular wellness

Of course in my personal story of earlier childhood, all of those discomforting feelings were settling in and influencing my tissue, my underdeveloped connective tissues.  Similar to the way an infant lying in his crib can help or hinder his developing structure because of the more cartilaginous nature of his pelvis and fascial web connectivity, the still developing brain tissue until age 25 or later is being influenced by physical, mental and emotional circumstances as well.

So our physical connective tissue plays a crucial role in our knowing a holistic, benevolent world as well as our expressing as spirit in matter - Spirit being synonymous with non-duality; matter, earthbound physical body, for example. The body and spirit are intrinsically linked; one part moves and the whole being responds.

Now what about the pivotal age of 25? Dr. Thomas Armstrong, author of The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life, says a person who is 25 years old is in the stage of life he calls early adulthood. In fact he calls this age (20 to 35) “The Lost Generation” because there is the least amount of research devoted to this stage than any other phase of human development. This age also is the time of best health, prime physical abilities, and the least amount of colds and physical difficulties. The prime directive of Early Adulthood is to leave the familiar, parents, community and school, and go off and make something of oneself. You are finally ready to begin life on your own.

In Stefanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga movie Eclipse, valedictorian, Jessica, encourages her fellow graduating classmates "to go out into the world and make mistakes, try a lot of things, date one person and then another, and then when we are asked what we want to be when we grow up, we will know."

Next month we’ll explore more of the spiritual nature that is being “switched on” from about age 25, and what this may mean for so many baby boomers, who beginning January 1, 2011 will be retiring at a rate of 10,000 per day.  Is there another wave of something mobilizing here?

In the meantime, take care, take great self-care.

Many blessings,

Barbara J. Semple

Self-Healing Activist and Best Selling Author, Instant Healing - Accessing Creative Intelligence for Healing Body and Soul

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Autism and Energy Medicine - Some Healthy Possibilities

According to IMDB.com, on August 17 a new DVD will be released entitled, Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin is the author of Animals in Translation and says that she herself is an autistic person. This past week a discussion of autism and energy healing self-help came up in a recent class I attended, and so did the subject of Temple Grandin. Some realizations were made...

The question was how do we support an autistic person in need? How do we support a harmonizing of this medical label with Jin Shin Jyutsu® sessions? What immediately came to mind for me was a story in Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation. Ms. Grandin's work with animals includes being a highly paid consultant for farmers and ranchers by advising them how to best calm and keep healthy their herds. And there is an important message here about how energy healing may be beneficial in comforting an autistic person. 

Grandin discusses cattle. From her observations, for example, it can be deeply stressful when cattle are herded into a shoot to be loaded into a big truck for transport. She says simply by having a cowhand’s yellow shirt hung askew on the gate or something out of the ordinary in the view of the animals en route to the shoot is enough to cause fear, irritation and chaos among the animals, making them back away from the shoot, and of course instigating whole body stress. As I remember her story, she says that when cattle are brought into a shoot and then gently squeezed mechanically and held in place for a few moments they become instantly calmer and happier, and move through the shoot with ease.

Why am I mentioning this and how does it relate to energy healing? Well, Ms. Grandin says the way she made it through college as an autistic person was by making herself a “squeeze box” into which she could enter when she was feeling overwhelmed by her outside, unpredictable environment. This "squeezing" is an important clue for using energy healing self-help. There is a correlation between a squeeze box or "container" need for touching, calming and nurturing and the Spleen and Stomach functions of Oriental Medicine, and the first depth of Jin Shin Jyutsu. Both speak to the “containment” functions and the skin surface level of our human development, in other words, touching, healthy boundaries and nourishing and nurturing.  Any person with "container" discomforts may find help here.

Ergo, as a Jin Shin Jyutsu  practitioner having listened to the pulses, you may help soothe an autistic person’s personal journey with 1 Flow, 10 Flow, and Reversing and Increasing First Depth,  as part of your healing  touch session. And, as an individual seeking self-help from my Instant Healing book (based on my understandings of Jin Shin Jyutsu) you may apply the Healing Touch Quick Steps Healthy Boundaries, Nourish and Nurture, and Higher Wisdom, for example.

Something to consider...

Many blessings for your health and wholeness,

Barbara J. Semple

Self-Healing Activist, and Best Selling author of the award-winning book, Instant Healing - Accessing Creative Intelligence for Healing Body and Soul

Jin Shin Jyutsu is a registered trademark of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Inc.

Copyright (c) 2010 Barbara J. Semple.

“Disaster Proof” Your Emotions: 5 Ways to Survive Life’s Big Slaps with Energy Medicine

 “If people are part of the environment, as we profess, then our first opportunity to treat the environment in a sustainable way, or even to understand what sustainability is, is in our relationship with ourselves, and each other.” John Francis – the Planetwalker, from “Oil on the Water” National Geographic post May 4, 2010

Coping with one disaster after another - how much more can we take? Our world is experiencing perilous disasters these days that seem to be happening on the heels of the previous one, with more devastation than the last catastrophe. Bigger than usual magnitude earthquakes, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, Greece revolting, people dying, riots in the streets. Are we going to be okay? Yes.  

A few weeks ago, my father passed away. Experiencing the death of a loved one is right up there with losing a job, divorce, or losing everything in a fire, volcano, war zone, earthquake or other disaster. And, my energy medicine self-healing practice helped sustain me.

I was not prepared for the jilting chaos that occurred as I converged with my family in our individual and collective grief. Regaining vitality and a sense of wholeness from the sudden tsunami of my whole childhood, my life and past “doo doo” with these people all wrapped up in one energy field of pain and sadness in close proximity with everyone involved was a huge shock for me. Abrupt distresses that jolt the whole mental, emotional and physical system may turn on an unconscious survival mechanism.  

You are surprised that you are crying so much, your feelings are volatile, you bite your sibling’s head off with an angry look that could kill and you think to yourself, “Where did that come from?” You feel like you are a deer caught in headlights, walking around in a daze, stuck in a bad dream from which you cannot escape. Where is the love? Where is your support, your life preserver? How do you make it through? It is the strength of your spirit that carries you through every time.

For two months I followed my father’s intensive metamorphosis out of his body. One day while exercising, I was conscientious of enjoying my physical workout at the same time I was also crying with deep sadness at losing my father. Suddenly my heart felt like it was breaking from the center outward in all directions simultaneously. I had a fleeting thought that I might die. I didn’t. Today my heart feels less rigid, more flexible.

As funny as this may sound, what curiously seeps into mind from my heart breaking to becoming more flexible memory is the stories in the Stefanie Meyers’ Twilight Saga books about the phasing of werewolves and alterations from human to immortals. Some kind of transformation occurred for me on a holistic level as I observed my father’s shifting into eternity. It is the strength of your spirit that carries you through every time.  However it turns out, your spirit takes care of you.

The world is transforming whether you and I come along or not. Harmony and chaos are partners. When I first became aware that my father was dying, it was the biggest challenge of his life (and mine too as his witness). I remember saying to my friends that I would look for the Grace throughout the journey. And I found it.  Right there along side some of the largest “doo doos” standing like a bright beacon in the darkness, was Grace and compassionate understanding.  It is the strength of your spirit that carries you through every time.

You can connect with that strength of spirit, infinite life force, supreme unconditional love that carries you through every life disturbance, by holding each of your fingers. This is effortless energy medicine self-help. Your fingers link together all of the subtle energy pathways of your body. Hold each of your fingers for emotional support. Doing so does not mean you are negating feelings. It means that you bring a higher perspective, the perspective of spirit to your emotional experience. "Doo doo" still happens only now your response is unburdening and uplifting.

1. Harmonizing Worry – Hold your thumb every day, every time you think of it to help recover your emotional balance when worry causes your energies to feel sticky and stagnant (the opposite of healthy flow). Wrap your thumb and fingers around one thumb at a time, drop your shoulders, breathe comfortably and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for up to 5 minutes or longer.
2. Harmonizing Fear – Hold your index finger every day, every time you think of it to help recover your vitality when standing in fear and shock steals it away from you. Wrap your thumb and fingers around one index finger at a time, drop your shoulders, breathe comfortably, and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for up to 5 minutes.  
3. Harmonizing Anger – Hold your middle finger every day, every time you think of it to help your hot, explosive feelings recover calm and compassionate understanding for yourself and other. Wrap your thumb and fingers around one  middle finger, drop your shoulders, breathe comfortably and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for up to 5 minutes.
4. Harmonizing Sadness - Hold your ring finger every day, every time you think of it to help recover your balance when sadness has depleted your energies. Wrap your thumb and fingers around one ring finger, drop your shoulders, breathe comfortably and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for up to 5 minutes or longer if you like.
5. Harmonizing Trying to Do and Be Too Much – Hold your little finger every day, every time you think of it to help shift into balance when you feel, scattered, chaotic and overwhelmed by the world. Wrap your thumb and fingers around one little finger, drop your shoulder, breathe comfortably, and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for up to 5 minutes.

Come back to neutral often. Hold each of your fingers regularly to interact with Big Picture, Source-sized serenity, neutrality, and balance when the world around you becomes more than you can bear. It is that strength that is your spirit. Many blessings for your health and wholeness.

Barbara

Copyright 2010 Barbara J. Semple

There are Always Options with Healing Touch Quick Steps

Recently a man wrote me with questions about how to help his wife. He said he had purchased the Instant Healing book for her and that within a short period of time, her pain symptoms caused her to be unable to continue applying the self-help steps. I began thinking about how to help her and discovered there are many options for helping oneself with the Healing Touch Quick Steps if your fingers and hands are hurting.

First of all, whenever you are applying the Healing Touch Quick Steps, make sure you do so without using pressure or force or digging, massaging or manipulating - simply and gently place your fingertips and hands on an area and be, doing nothing, with your body's natural system of healing.

Secondly, if for a brief time is all you can comfortably hold a hand or finger position, that is fine. It will be your baseline for observing increased harmony the longer you can hold an application of hands.

If you are experiencing pain while holding, don't hold that way. You can use flat palms, backs of palms, resting arms on pillows, raising an area with pillows under that area. Be be creative in finding your comfort zone with applying a Quick Step.  A person should not feel pain while applying the energy self-help holds.

If your hands and fingers hurt to touch places on your body, you may simply "hover" over an area with your hands, with the intention to touch that area, only simply hovering over the area instead of touching. And, if that is still too painful, you may simply look at a picture of a Healing Touch Quick Step in the Instant Healing book, and "imagine" your hands are at those places on your body and then simply be with the awareness that your mind is there at the places where the model's hands are.

You may also ask for help from a loved one or friend. They can give you simple Quick Steps like "Breathe from Toes to Head" (holding her big toes gently).

Another option is for your friend to read out loud where to place the hands and let your mind simply go to those places on your body.

Another option is for your friend to apply the Quick Steps on his or her body and intend the "merit" of that energy healing to include you.

This is the beauty of energy healing - it is not bound by space and time and the healing energy field that is created when you apply the Quick Steps to your body can expand to include another. 

Since I don't know the specifics of the symptoms, though it sounds like there is pain, you may also receive help from a loved one by asking him or her to apply the one "Moving Pains" (#47) and also the one called "Personal Analgesic" (#48).

The more discomfort a person has, the less time you should apply energy help. The objective is to encourage comfort and feeling relief and improving one's ability to breathe deeply and happily. Simpler is better.

The fact that you are willing to apply or think about these Healing Touch Quick Steps means that you are choosing to go in the direction of "health creating" energy movement with Source as the "Big Doer." When you persist in this process of going in the direction of "health creating" energy even as little as a minute a day if that is all you can do, you may notice change, whatever that is for you in your healing process. When you put your hands on your body, or imagine doing it or a loved one does it for you, you are, s/he is connecting with Source energy. What better place to be in one's healing process - connected to Source energy? Source is in charge. 

There are always options when you approach your healing process with Source energy as your partner. All goodness is possible even when only "doo doo" seems certain. :-)

Of course all of this information is for educational purposes only. I do not diagnose, treat, cure or prescribe. The Healing Touch Quick Steps may be a complement to whatever you are doing for your health, and are never a replacement for professional medical or emergency care.

I am sending my best wishes for your health and wholeness.

Many blessings,
Barbara, Self Healing Activist and Best Selling Author, Instant Healing - Accessing Creative Intelligence for Healing Body and Soul

Copyright 2010 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

Living the Matrix and Instant Healing

I just posted this comment on Lynne McTaggart's blog.

I had no idea that Dan Brown was writing The Lost Symbol and Lynne McTaggart was planning to star in The Living Matrix when I was writing my new book Instant Healing – Accessing Creative Intelligence for Healing Body and Soul. My book was released on September 15, 2009. Talk about everything being part of a Unified Field of Consciousness…I am in total awe. Rather than trying to explain the synchronicity with words that you might think is some kind of a sell, I’ll share a couple of excerpts.

In The Living Matrix Lynne McTaggart talks about the future of medicine and says it will become “Information Medicine – Medicine that takes information and changes the disturbed information is going to be the future of medicine.” The entire premise of Instant Healing is just that – that you and I can change the “disturbed” information. Here three excerpts from Instant Healing:

Page 5: “Instant healing is an idea whose time has come. It is a growing wave of understanding that suggests you and Source of All Life are One, and, you co-create your life together. And, Page 24: “Why is it so important to pay attention to the words you speak, think and feel? It is literally less stressful on your whole body-mind-spirit system. With all that your being has to coordinate on a normal day, when mental, emotional, spiritual and, or physical stress or illness are added, and Earth’s geomagnetic energies are in flux too, the magnitude of your body’s energy workload to stay in harmony is compounded. Plus, the subconscious mind is a very precise “default” mechanism. Just do or feel or say something once and it is securely stored deep in the recesses of your subconscious and recalled forever again and again unless you change it.

Labeling with words emphasizes a thing and attracts our attention to it. Consider, for example, scary medical disease “labels” such as cancer, HIV, and so on. How do these words influence a person’s healing? Just hearing or saying these scary label words has the mind conjuring all kinds of pictures that may influence a nano-second response in the flow of infinite life force.”

The energy healing self-help in the full color picture guide called Instant Healing is exactly that “Information Medicine” that Lynne is talking about. You and I have the power to change the disturbed information. Like Dr. Eric Pearl said in The Living Matrix: Healing can happen instantly.

Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, President of Institute for Noetic Science also says in The Living Matrix, “It’s time for us to bring these qualities of healing into the mainstream conversation about what is necessary to create an optimal healing system.” Instant Healing is not only beginning that dialog, it gives a person 50 options to experience the Field as pulsing through the body as well as feel ITS response when you choose to shift your information. The body already has a natural, optimal healing system.

Here is one final excerpt from Instant Healing:

Page 146: “Instant healing is a state of being rather that IS the cure for what ails you. Instant healing is a new wave of understanding that you and Source are one, and a part of you exists beyond physical disease. With the current science expanding and proving that in a hundredth of a second based on what you think, feel and say you can shift your body-mind chemistry, and each person who is choosing deepens her own personal interactions with Source, who knows, maybe humans are actually evolving into a realm of wholeness in which we can choose to “flip a switch” to the perfect health part of us to replace a “dis-eased” part of the body or the entire body? You could call on the perfect health body part waiting in the wings in the invisible realm to return the visible, physical body to its natural state of wholeness.”

See what I mean by the synchronicity of the Unified Field. HUGE thanks to Lynne, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and all of the frontier scientists with the Institute of Noetic Science and beyond, for creating a wave of momentum to bring this information to mainstream life, especially at this time with all of the convoluted talk about health care and funky viruses.

Many blessings,Barbara

www.InstantHealingBook.com

Copyright 2009 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

Lynne McTaggart, Dan Brown and Instant Healing - Are you ready?

Today I’m announcing my new book, and letting you know some cool synchronicities about it too.

Instant Healing is on sale now. Your Body’s Been Waiting for This!

Instant Healing – Accessing Creative Intelligence for Healing Body and Soul is the complete title of the book. It’s on sale now through Xlibris.com. You’ll find buying details at the end of this entry if you are interested.

First, I want to let you know that in November, when all goes well, on Tuesday, November 10 we’ll have a campaign to launch the book on amazon.com. Right now I am gathering endorsements from authors, and bonus gifts from as many partners as possible to offer to anyone who buys the book on that day – November 10. Every one who does buy Instant Healing on that day in that 24-hour period will be helping raise awareness for this timely information, which in turn gives the book tremendous exposure. Plus, you get LOTS of bonus gifts from my partners. Yay!

If you are someone, or you know anyone, who wants to participate in my book launch campaign with amazon.com by giving a bonus gift, please contact me at Info@healingtouchquicksteps.com. I’d love to connect with you about partnering on this far reaching campaign. I am happy to support your work too.

The book launch campaign and your efforts all help to get the book in the hands of as many people as possible with information that I know can change how the world thinks, feels and acts about healing, especially with all of the chaos around health care and funky viruses.

Instant Healing is first class, high quality, top of the line premium, gorgeous. With 160 pages of full color pictures, graphics and life-sized close-ups, the book is 8.5 x 8.5 inches, and contains 50 Healing Touch Quick Steps you can do anywhere, anytime to bring your body and spirit into harmony, plus wisdom you might be reading for the first time. The pictures help you "get" it without using your brain. You can quickly look at a picture and know how to help yourself.

I showed a review copy of Instant Healing to the owner of our local Chinese food restaurant and she confided that she could not read English. I said, “No problem, just look at the pictures.” She was able to apply the self-help in less than 30 seconds.

Safe. Proven. Easy to apply.

What you learn here will help you become healthier and stay healthier. Your Body’s Been Waiting for This.

Science and Spirituality FINALLY agree. You can harness this knowledge for healing your body and soul. In addition to being a condensed version of a "medicine brew" as visionary activist Caroline W. Casey would call it, that includes snippets from Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Lynne McTaggart, Institute of Noetic Science, Eckhart Tolle, as well as sparkling gems from others like Mary Burmeister, Gregg Braden, Pythagoras and Paracelsus too. You might be surprised when you read how simple instant healing is.

Even if science hadn’t proven it, I’ve experienced it time and time again while giving my clients healing sessions. The moment someone starts talking about her failed marriage or his lost job, the life force flow takes a dive. The second the person switches to talking about her cat or dog or the last thing the new baby did, the life force soars. Hmm. Your pulses tell a story.

Now I am so excited about the “Science and Spirituality agreeing” part because of three synchronistic things:

1. I hear that Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, is on sale.
2. Lynne McTaggart’s work in The Intention Experiment was a key influence in Instant Healing (my book); she is featured on Pages 12, 22 and 148; and it appears,
3. Lynne McTaggart’s work is listed and iterated in Dan Brown’s book as a major factor in his plot development that includes one of the characters having written two books on bridging science and spirituality!

How timely is that?

Also, my book, Instant Healing, will be displayed for 3 days as well as being featured in a full color, full page ad in the catalog for the Miami Book Fair International, November 13-15, 2009! If you are in the area, stop by and take a look at my book at Xlibris’s booth. I guess there will be over 100,000 people there from all over the world – literary agents, book sellers, publishers, and so on. So create your best parking space in your mind ahead of time. (Can you tell I am excited about all of this?!)

So, back to how to buy the book. You can buy now directly from Xlibris.com, or you can wait until the November 10th launch day and buy it from amazon.com. It’s not available on amazon.com yet. They need some time to get it into the channels of distribution. Or, you could buy a copy now from Xlibris.com and buy another one or two on the launch day for friends and loved ones for Christmas. I wanted to give you options.

You’ll reach for this book a lot just like a favorite cookbook. It contains a lifetime of health benefits. If you want to help someone feel better in 10 seconds or less, this might be the book to give.

Here is what some people who have seen the book are saying:

“It’s really fun.”

“Keeps my interest, each page is fresh and alive.”

“I love how it feels in my hands.”

“The colors are amazing.”

“This book makes me smile.”

“I’ll keep this one on my coffee table.”

“Great healing consciousness and wisdom too.”

What a lovely way to influence your personal health and well being, and have fun at the same time! When was the last time you read a book that actually felt as good holding it as reading it?

So, if you can’t wait until November 10 to buy Instant Healing, you can buy online through Xlibris.

Go to www.InstantHealingBook.com and click on the Buy Now button for all of the details.

That’s it for now. Thanks for sharing in my enthusiasm. Instant Healing is the culmination of 4 years of research and development plus 9 months of putting together every picture and graphic, and a thousand (just kidding) re-reads to make sure everything fit perfectly. It has truly been a divinely guided project. Thank you for sharing this moment with me. And thanks for envisioning its success in the world too.

Take care. Take great self-care. Many blessings,

Barbara J. Semple, Self-Healing Activist

Copyright 2009 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

What is Harmony?

What is harmony and what are you doing when you harmonize something like an emotion, for example, fear?

Well, first let’s look at the word ‘harmony.” Even if you are not sure what harmony is, you have a sense of what it is NOT. Layoffs, can't afford health care, can't pay mortgage, lost house, homeless, lost savings - These are plenty of deep survival issues about which you can feel fearful, and they say that something is out of balance. Feeling out of balance is NOT harmony.

What if you look at world events, fear or anything - anything at all - as simply energy? What if your pain or discomfort is a stuck or wacky energy response experience? Certainly recovering from a bout of fear seems more attainable than fixing the world economy. Energies of fear, loss, sadness, hopelessness, frustration and anger may very well be encouraged into a sense of order and comfort with energy healing self-help. This is important because in spite of all the disturbances occurring in and around your world, harmony is occurring all over the place too! We exist in an ocean of harmony. Yes, "doo doo" happens, AND there is mostly harmony. Harmony you have some control over invoking.

Define harmony: ‘an agreement; accord; a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts.’ In other words, harmony can mean that various parts, relationships, and interactions are all getting along well together. Thus, harmonizing is an activity or movement of energy that causes harmony or accordance or a pleasing arrangement of parts to exist.

Consider this. You have billions of interactions and relationships taking place within your body as well as your outer world every second; yes every second. For instance relationships with family, friends, pets, co-workers, at church, as well as your thoughts, feelings and actions all need to comfortably “get along with one another” for you to experience a sense of balance or stability in any given moment. Your body, for example, has hundreds of millions of cells, thousands and thousands of special body tasks and unique organ function details that are all interconnected and basically do relate pretty well together. This is important because paying some attention to your personal harmony will most certainly influence subtle and not so subtle occurrences in your life. When you feel peace and tranquility, everything and everyone around you may know it too.

Harmony is unique to you. To you it may mean stress relieved, immune system boosted, muscles toned, elimination and digestion improved, circulation increased, or that often debilitating emotion called fear disarmed. Harmony is also less specific. For me it is a state of being in an effortless ease, grace and joy; an uplifting flow my body and soul rhythms synchronized with Nature’s rhythms.

“Why synchronize with Nature with all of the changing weather patterns, tsunamis, hurricanes, wildness and unpredictability?” you might ask. Well the fact is you cannot separate yourself from Nature. Your body is an exquisite articulation of Nature. You are part of a Unified Field of Consciousness or Web of Life with a Source, Creative Intelligence energy in action, continuously animating and creating life. You always get to choose participating with instead of against your natural state of being. Healing Touch Quick Steps energy healing self-help is one way to support your alignment with Nature. It doesn’t mean “doo doo” will never happen. “Doo doo” still happens only now you handle it gracefully because you’re connected with “Big Picture” harmony. Ah.

What is fear doing to your body? When you stand in fear, your energy descends and cannot rise. Have you ever been so scared that you felt you might poop your pants? That is what fear does in an extreme case in the body of energy descending. This is important because it is your universal life force energy freely rising up the back of the body that brings in vitality. Harmonizing fear then has something to do with urging your body’s natural system of healing to rise up the back. Energy not rising = no vitality. No vitality = Destruction of health. This is important because when fear is harmonized, you are able to relax and receive nourishing life force to live your life well. Ah.

Harmonize fear now. Hold your index finger. Wrap your thumb and fingers around your index finger and gently, I do mean gently, be with your body's natural system of healing. Relax your arms, fingers and hands. Holding your index finger is tapping into Source energy. How great is that?

What this all means for you is that you have options in addition to conventional medical care to help your self align with harmonious forces of Nature by applying Healing Touch Quick Steps. Paying attention is where it all begins to change.

When you do not feel strong enough or healthy enough and fear overwhelms you, take it easy for the moment. Even when you are perfectly healthy, fear still creeps in. Whatever is going on, whenever fear comes forth, disarm it as smoothly as water sliding off a duck’s back by gently holding your index finger for a while and then hold the other index finger too. Hold it all day long if you need to. Sit in your rocking chair and hold your index finger. You are actively choosing to regain harmony. Watch your energy shift. Think about that ocean of harmony that is occurring all around you right now. Your natural state of being is peace and harmony. Ah.

Take care. Take great self care.Many blessings,

Barbara

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Oprah and Eckhart have catapulted a momentum!

I am feeling a profound energy occurring as we are in the cusp of the Vernal Equinox and Aries Full Moon [Aries - Think strong, forceful enough to spring tulips up from their winter sleep.] I think I have never before felt the magnitude of such unconditional love energy surrounding me, and so I write. 

The thing I love most about my Healing Touch Quick Steps self-help practice (which is a direct off-shoot from my studies of Jin Shin Jyutsu® self-help) is that when I place my hands on my body, or when I give someone an energy healing session applying the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu®, I am touching Source energy, or Universal Consciousness. This is as Big Picture as it gets – Source, the Source of All Life. And the world is becoming aware of this very same Source in a new way.

On the Monday, March 17^th telecast with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle, someone asked “Who are we beyond the mind?” Eckhart responded that no conceptualization is correct. “Here is a hint,” he said. “We are the formless consciousness behind all that.”

I have been participating in the phenomenal 10 week telecast with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle and I am loving knowing that there are 2 million plus people who are focusing at the same time on allowing more and more of their “Big Picture” [my words] Consciousness to be the “Big Doer” [my words] in their lives. I think it was Oprah who said that night that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Eckhart said he feels it is, “I am the consciousness inhabiting this body.”

Recently, our much beloved Mary Burmeister, Founder of Jin Shin Jyutsu® of the West, returned to the Creator, the Eternal Formless. A student wrote a remembrance of her first class experience with Mary in about 1983. She said, “Mary walked into the room, sat down, put her hands in her armpits and said, “I’m giving my best friend a hug.”  Wow! Ponder that. Was she speaking of her "best friend" as the "consciousness inhabiting her body"? Those of you who have already discovered Healing Touch Quick Steps know that what Mary Burmeister was doing when she crossed her arms and placed her fingers in her opposite armpits is called “The Complete Breath Hug.” Thank you Mary.

Being a long-time and now life-long student and practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu, I learn that we are all alive because the Formless becomes Form AS us. Knowing the formless, that “consciousness that inhabits this body” as Eckhart calls it, could be a really cumbersome thing to do, requiring more of your sometimes limited time and energy, you might think. "It will take me too long to get there," you might think.

Reconsider. Where does one begin? You’ve already begun by reading this blog, by engaging your mind in thoughts of healing and Oneness; reading Eckhart’s book, participating in the telecast, and by including a daily self-help routine of Healing Touch Quick Steps. This is important because when I place my hands on my body and feel the pulsing of energies flowing, moving, changing in the moment, and my body responding in the movement, surface to deep and deep to surface, I am truly having an effortless (key word, effortless) personal experience of a Formless/Impersonal Source. And, I didn’t know that’s what was going on when I first began doing it 17 years ago. Especially tuning in to Oprah and Eckhart, I'm having my own Aha! moments about healing touch self-help. You have access to the very same Source when you apply your hands with Healing Touch Quick Steps self-help, as simply as placing your fingers in your armpits. Try it.

With the magnificent momentum of unconditional love and Cosmic forces that are surrounding all of us and everything on this planet during this particular Vernal Equinox, and your thoughts of the vastness of  the Formless part of yourself, consider this. The generations being born now will reap the benefits of awakened collective consciousness that were started in the 60's and 70's and 80's and so on. They won't need to go through the challenges many of us have already journeyed. That's effortless for the newcomers.

Author Greg Braden says we only need 8,244 people for a critical mass to cause collective shifts in awareness to occur. Translation: A momentum is with you and everyone in the world right now. Think of the Oprah programming, millions of people engaged [a lot more than 8,244], and, the ever-expanding peace movement, and, the increasing global stewarding movement. Like a rocket shot up into space, there is lift in its tail that carries what is behind it upward too. A lot of fabulous vertical energy moving is going on! Think of all of the people who are awakening every moment to the whole body realization of choosing life and harmony among all species. Ah.

Yes, there is chaos with this huge movement of energy, humanity in great flux, and, there certainly is a marvelous movement of goodness “afoot!” No matter what chaos and goodness are going on in the Universe, Cosmos, Gaia, and your own body and little every day world, remember adding Healing Touch Quick Steps is one of the easiest, most effortless ways for you to connect with Source, the Formless consciousness that is inhabiting your body, anytime, anywhere, in a very palpable, ever-expanding way. How great is that? Feel it pulsing. Listen for your harmony. It’s waiting to be heard!

Many blessings,

Barbara

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Adrenal and Thyroid Health May Be Supported by Healing Touch Quick Steps

Adrenal and thyroid functions are two of over one hundred thousand special body functions that can be gracefully harmonized with healing touch self-help. You may experience unburdening and uplifting support by simply adding a healing touch quick step routine to your daily life.  Here are three reasons to consider healing touch self-help.

#1: You are tapping into your body’s natural system of healing.

Mary Burmeister, the woman who brought the healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu® to the United States from Japan told me once: "Each of us is a small, exact replicated Universe of a larger universe. Only the larger Universe is smarter!”

Dr. Deepak Chopra says, “Our body is a part of the universe, and everything that happens in the universe ultimately affects the physiology of our body.”

Author Eckhart Tolle says: “No matter what your body’s appearances on the outer level, beyond the outer form is an intensely alive energy field.”

When you apply a basic healing quick step, you are instantly connected to the universal energy known as infinite life force, the creative power of the universe, that "intensely alive energy field." A unified field, a holistic system of invisible energy pathways feeds this universal life force into every one of the hundred trillion cells of your body. This is “Big Picture” life force - bigger than any physical, mental, emotional or spiritual disturbance. That translates into infinite possibilities for good health and wholeness.

 #2: You get to participate in creating your own reality of health.

Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Five Element Theory teach us that there is a health-creating motion for your infinite life force as well as a health-destroying motion. Stress, genetics, environment, and your thoughts and feelings can cause harmful stagnation or blockages in your energy. With your fingertips accessing “zones” where tensions gather, you are actually choosing creation of health. You jumpstart your “Big Picture” healing energy to flow to a particular need, and lots more. For example, the location of the thyroid in the front center of your throat is also a major “thoroughfare” for every energy meridian in your body except the bladder meridian. So having the know-how to encourage health-creating life force flow through that area could be highly beneficial to the thyroid and parathyroid functions. 

#3: Regular energy healing self-help may motivate stresses to be released out of the mind-body system before they have a chance to settle in the tissue.

When would you want to harmonize a disturbance as quickly as possible? Well, immediately after having had a surgical procedure to bring healing energy to the area, or after any sort of injury, or as a continual unburdening if you take western medicines are good times to apply energy healing self-help.  Self-help is not intended to replace professional medical care, and energy self-healing routines can be a valuable complement to conventional medicine. 

What matters most about energy self-help is that you begin. My Healing Touch Quick Steps HOME GUIDE www.healingtouchquicksteps.com/HTQS.html for example, contains 17 quick steps that can focus energy to your thyroid and parathyroid glands, and 12 that can help energize and harmonize your adrenal system effortlessly. Now you can add dynamic energy support to your adrenal and thyroid care, and your whole being.

Take care. Take great self-care!
Barbara

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2008 Looks to Be a Powerhouse Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

2008 has a Universal energy picture to be a powerhouse year filled with goodness encouraging us to breathe freely and fully while actively creating our inner and outer worlds. Let me explain.

2008 is a 10 year (2 + 8 = 10). From the study of sacred numerology, I know that the sacred number 10 came into the Universe as the Infinite Abundant Storehouse of Life Power. From my 18 years as a practitioner of the energy healing art known as Jin Shin Jyutsu®, I know that on the body, the divine intelligence of 10 is located on the upper back at the shoulder blade area where our "wings" are, and helps us receive the Infinite Abundant Outpouring of Life Power through our breath freely and expansively.

Also, 10 is 1 amplified 10 times. The sacred number 1 is the divine intelligence known as The Prime Mover. Located on the body at the inside of the knees, its essence is very physically active and moves anything that needs to move. Its nature is vertical connecting the heights and the depths of us.

So, what rings true for me is that 2008 with its Universal energy pattern of 10 and 1 is full of possibilities and full of uplifting, shifting, "Great Movement" potential. 1 is Unity. One Thing connects heaven and earth. Let it be so for you too. And so it is.

On that joyful note, may I remind you to check out my website www.healingtouchquicksteps.com for superb self-healing products, upcoming classes, as well as finding a practitioner so that you experience this year 2008 in a way of being in life effortlessly - with ease, grace and joy. Take care. Take great self-care!
Blessings,
Barbara

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