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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.

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf

This is from friends in South Africa. Please feel free to pass it along. Blessings, Barbara

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf

Focusing our energies in response to the Gulf tragedy and for healing the waters and its inhabitants -

Yesterday at our spiritual center we read a letter from Dr. Masaru Emoto who many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water. Among other things, his research reveals that water physically responds to emotions.

Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms, if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr. Emoto, himself, has proposed.

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.
To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . . I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you. "

We are passing this request to people who we believe might be willing to participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are not powerless. We are powerful. Our united energy, speaking this prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of destruction that is happening.

We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.

Please join us in oft repeating this healing prayer of of Dr. Emoto's.
And feel free to copy and paste this to send it around the planet.
Let's take charge, and do our own clean up!

And so it is! Pass it on.

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Thank you Dr. Emoto and my friend, Joline, who sent this to me.

We wish to do all that is possible to allow the universe to know we are earnest and intent.

Love and Light, Lea

Emotional Boo Boos and the Shadow Effect: Self-Induced Healing to the Rescue!

Unresolved emotions you have pushed away over time or judged as bad are injurious to your health. Stuffed feelings move deeper into your cells and tissues and become the causes of such things as digestive, elimination, organ function disturbances, and very scary medical diagnoses. Consider loving those emotional boo boos into wholeness the next time they show up for you. Offer your cells and tissues large doses of loving kindness. It’s easier than you think.

You can tell when you’ve been holding on to or brewing an emotion. When it finally does come up it’s explosive like a volcanic rage, or you cry for half an hour or all day about some little thing, or you’ve been worrying about the same seemingly trivial thing for years.

Old school for healing emotions was years of sitting with a counselor or therapist remembering and facing every crappy experience. Catharsis was big. Newer, less traumatic options besides screaming and yelling can encourage your release from emotional boo boo bondage. No matter what you choose, energy healing self-help is a valuable complement.

Start right where you are in this moment. Imagine loving every part of your self, the good stuff and the bad.

When you judge your feelings as harmful, bad, and shameful, you disassociate or separate parts of your self (shadow side). Today we know that your cells respond in a nano-second to your thoughts and feelings. That can be harmful or harmonizing. Every one of those feelings you push away or deny, suppress or judge to be not good, or someone else judges for you to be not good are pieces of you that you can bring into wholeness with love.  

Years ago a spiritual teacher talked about the importance of healing your emotions.  He said you could know God best through your feelings. My teacher gave this analogy.

If you fall down and severely cut your elbow so blood and bone are exposed, your immediate, innate response is to pull your elbow close to you and do whatever it takes to bring the elbow back to full health and usefulness. You go to the hospital. You might even kiss it like your grandmother used to do for you as a child. You will surely hold it to your body to stop the bleeding while you get more help. You baby your healing elbow, protect it from bumps, and keep it clean. Eventually nurturing it back to full health because you need to be able to use your elbow, right?

Do the same for your emotions and feelings: nurture them back to full usefulness. You need emotional balance more than you require your elbow. This is important because healthy emotions are a doorway to a sensitive awareness of things that are not physical and cannot be seen with physical eyes.

Parts of you, sticky thoughts and feeling pieces, sometimes called the shadow side, may be returned to wholeness, neutral; that place of being without any emotional “charge” good or bad. Consider lovingly drawing closer to you like an injured elbow, your emotional “elbows” or boo boos. Raising your feelings and emotions to a compassionate level of understanding connects you to a Force that is felt like Grace is felt.

How do you actually do this loving into wholeness thing? Begin by observing, being present with a feeling. When you find yourself judging or self-loathing or hating yourself or another person, shift the disturbance this way. Catch yourself when something is bad, shameful, obnoxious, rude, resentful, ridiculous, and say to yourself, preferably out loud: “I love the part of myself that is rude,” or “I love the part of myself that is mean,” or “I love the part of myself that I see reflected in that person who is being disrespectful to Mother Earth.”  

This might be a stretch, I know, I’ve been there. It really tests your mettle. Do you really mean it? And it gets easier. Love when you recognize judging. Love when you recognize hating. Love when you recognize shaming or belittling.

Can you imagine, for example, how loving the parts of yourself that you judge as ugly might have something to do with whatever parts of you want to continue to attack yourself as in an auto-immune disease? It is the same for any disease: cancer, AIDS, diabetes, heart disease. You may have to repeat self-love and healing your emotional elbows or boo boos a number of times to have a physical impact, especially deep-seated issues. Or, will you?

This is where the Instant Healing Zone comes in. One of the most exciting benefits of applying regular Healing Touch Quick Steps self-induced healing is that calling on additional Source energy to unburden and uplift your energies, frees up stuck energy. It doesn’t matter how long energy has been stuck. It is simply stuck energy that needs to be flowing cleanly. The fact is Source – Creative Intelligence, Big Picture energy, The Force that Edgar Cayce used to call it, is bigger than any earthly disturbance, faster than the speed of light. It is unconditional love.  You access this for healing.

Right now you can apply a Healing Touch Quick Step called Love Your Self; the perfect one to give yourself when an emotional boo boo or shadow begins ruling your present moment.

Cross your hands in front of you and gently grab your opposite mid-upper arms (thumb on inside of arm, the rest of your fingers on the outside of the arm). Relax your shoulders, arms, hands and fingers and simply be with your body’s natural system of healing for a minute or so. Then wrap your thumb and fingers around your left INDEX finger. Again, relax your shoulders, hands, arms and fingers. Comfortably breathe for a minute or so. Then switch hands and wrap your thumb and fingers around your right INDEX finger for another minute or so, breathing normally all the while. Then wrap your thumb and fingers around your left LITTLE finger and simply be in the hold for a minute or so. Then finally switch sides and wrap your thumb and fingers around your right LITTLE finger for the same amount of time.

Supporting your shadow effect healing, bringing your emotional elbows or boo boos into wholeness may be that simple. Actively love your separated parts as they show up, and nourish your body-mind-spirit energies with Healing Touch Quick Steps. Drawing your emotional elbows into yourself with compassion expands your connection with Source-Creative Intelligence. Starting with yourself, healing your own emotional boo boos makes it easier for you to feel kindness for others.

Many blessings for your health and wholeness,

Barbara J. Semple

Copyright (c) 2010 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents.

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.

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.

A Spiritual Pandemic - Message from the Elders

Dear Friends,

I thought you might be interested in this point of view from the Mayan Elders. I resonate with this information in that I, too, feel we are rapidly evolving beyond the old ways. Take care. Take great self-care.

Many blessings,
Barbara J. Semple

A letter to humanity from The Star Elders
through Aluna Joy April 23rd. 2009

Pandemic! What a great and powerful word to awaken humanity to the fact that the collective is now thinking globally and acting locally. It is remarkable that something as simple as the fear of a little germ can link together the people of Earth. Humanity has taken another step toward being a global community. There is no doubt now that you have anchored within your consciousness the reality that you are all connected, interdependent and recognize the importance of being self-responsible. This is not a time to fear. It is a time to celebrate.

Your collective experience and explorations living in the third dimension have come full circle. This is a time where you will begin to rethink and renegotiate everything. Much of what you knew to be true you will discover is out of date. Realities that you dreamed about you will soon discover is the new reality you are now entering. These current times are causing a spiritual pandemic. This means that the boundaries between physical realities, cultures, religions, dimensions, social statuses and educational levels have been compromised and are breaking down. This spiritual pandemic means the entire world is waking up. Humanity is moving toward unity and oneness with all living beings of Earth. This spiritual pandemic will naturally evolve all life into a global community. Our actions will be a grand orchestrated collaboration focused on the well being of all living things. You can see symptoms of this transformation in every direction of your reality. This is the completion of ancient prophecy that you wrote about a long time ago.

The pandemics in your Earth's environment, your economic systems, your political systems, your consciousness, your physical realities and even your immune systems are morphing right before your eyes. You are now having a full on experience of what we like to call the Earth's stimulus package. You share the same planet . . . you breathe the same air . . . you even share the same viruses and bacteria! This is not new. You were never separate from each other. You just forgot you were always connected to all that lives.

The Earth's shifting environment is stimulating you to change the way you interact with Earth, the solar system, and the universe. This is showing up as the acceleration of using green technologies . . . including using solar power to recycling. Many of you are getting closer and in touch with Earth once again. Your gardens are sprouting in your environment, but also your internal gardens are flourishing.

Your shifting global economic system is impelling you to move toward one that is based on service and sharing. You will see a huge shift in values. You are evolving from a self-centered "What is in it for Me?" mentality, into a reality that you act from the knowing that you are a part of a global community. You recognize that everything you do affects every other living thing.

These times are compelling you to trust spirit over your physical and monetary assets. You were never meant to trust that which is outside of yourself. Your true nature is knowing that you are a 100%, self-contained, creative being with all the tools needed to live abundantly. It was never your destiny to toil to make a living. There is freedom right out in front of you.

Your physical body is morphing so quickly to the arrival of the new energy that you have to let go and let it be. This is causing you a lot of strange physical symptoms. The shifts are coming without delay and it takes your breath away. Even your immune system is evolving quickly so as to be able to adapt to the evolving energy of all life on the planet. Every single living thing in your environment is changing on a molecular level. From your body, to the earth, trees and plants, minerals, even viruses and bacteria are all evolving together to stay in harmony. This is not something to be feared. It is something to be excited about. Remember your body is an amazing self-healing vehicle. You constantly underestimate its regenerative power and forget it is evolving with everything else on this Earth. Disease is not why you drop your body to move on; it is just your human excuse. You leave this world when you have completed your mission and that is it. Let us remind you that you are not done yet!

Your consciousness is expanding to accept the utter vastness of magical and powerful new realities. You are beginning to live within these realities. You are enjoying the challenges and wholeheartedly except the huge void of unqualified energy out in front of you. It is an exciting, fascinating and highly creative time for you. It can also be a confusing time as you let go of the old and bring in the new all at the same time. Remember you are not going crazy . . . you are just waking up! This is something to celebrate. You are beginning to realize that the only way your life flows in these days is to be truly authentic to yourself and true to your heart. Many of you will be asked to make bold moves in your life. Others will stay more behind-the-scenes fine-tuning everything around them. You all are working toward the same goal . . . if you know it or not.

Do not let fear rob you of this incredible moment. This is why you came to Earth at this time. You are experiencing a huge evolutionary leap of the soul. Only the brave and courageous could be here at this time. You may not feel brave today, but we assure you, you are incredibly brave to take on and assist with the Earth's final step into oneness with the solar system and our multi-dimensional universe.

Do not let fear of global health issues, political unrest, economic challenges, war and terrorism stop you from being the truth of who you are. Your old, outdated, human nature naturally wants to cast blame on others for what is going on in your world today. This is not a conspiracy or diabolical plan by members of an elite group who we think are in power. This is propaganda that puts you in fear. Know that everything that is happening on this planet is happening because you allowed it to be so. It is a time to take full responsibility for the reality we have manifested in this dimension. Each living being will experience this evolution based on their own belief system. Ask yourself "What do you believe today?" All the issues your world is facing right now are just part of the Earth's stimulus package to help you stimulate your evolution . . . and it is working.

Evolution is a messy process. It always has been and always will be. Change and evolution is about tearing down the old and creating the new. Nature does this every moment. We do not know why humanity forgot that you are a part of this. But you did, and this is why you struggle and suffer sometimes during evolutionary pulses like the one you are in today. The cycles have come full circle and you are ready for the quantum leap to a new reality.

Remember that the best defense to the challenges of these times is to have a good offense. Your offense is acting from the authenticity of who you are. You may know this as your inner light, awareness, consciousness, etc…, but the fact is that there are only two choices you can make: You can choose fear, which is a lie and not who you are. Or you can choose LOVE, which is the truth of who you are, and you can keep on keeping on with the evolution. Fear will stop your evolution in its tracks. Love will not only accelerate your path, but it will make it an exciting adventure for you. Be positive, fearless and bold. Love is the unifier of all life and a protector of anything that you conceive could cause you harm. You are safe . . . you always have been.

Quit pretending your cool and calm on the outside, when on the inside you feel like you are going crazy. Let your support groups around you know what you are going through. We assure you that they are feeling the same things. It is insane to execute this evolving by yourself. There is a great sanity gained when our extended families come together in support of each other. It is another step toward global community and living in non-judgment. Remember there is an insidious, un-spoken rule that to be spiritual we must honey-coat the things we do not like. Honey-coating any part of the experience of this world is just a way to avoid the blessings and gifts of evolution of the current issue. When we avoid different aspects of our experience, we are also judging the greater divine plan that was set into motion by the Creator and our collective consciousness.

When you experience a peaceful moment, drink it in and enjoy every second of it. Do not worry that you are feeling stuck or not evolving. This is merely a rest stop so you can recharge and prepare for another leap into the next reality. Rest is good. Enjoy its rare and welcomed appearance of quiet and calmness.

There are many that will not like this message. They will criticize it and fight against it. These are the ones who teach us compassion. These are the ones that we must love and support . . . because you have been in their shoes more than once or twice yourself.

We realize that what we are asking you to do is a huge step of faith. We are asking you to take a leap into a void where you cannot see its destination. We are invite encourage you to put your fear addictions behind you, and to begin to act from the love and truth that you already know in your heart. If you do this, the path will unfold in front of you with each step you take, and you will be traveling in good company!

We are always here with you.

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CEO of the Brain is Knocked Out by Stress

Stress causes a body serious harm. Researchers have already told us that stress can damage the heart by increasing the risks for high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

According to Dr. Gary Kaplan, a Long Island neurologist in the September 30, 2005 article from CanWest News Service called: Job stress takes its toll on the brain,“High stress, long hours, bad diet (fast food) in the workplace also takes a terrible toll on the brain.”

Dr. Kaplan says that the area of the brain most affected by stress is the prefrontal cortex. That’s in the front of the head behind the forehead. Here is the disturbing message. “Brain imaging and behavioral studies show that the so-called CEO of the brain, which regulates judgment, planning, problem-solving, decision making, moral reasoning and sense of self, is actually knocked out by stress.” The main controller of the brain is actually knocked out by stress.

In that same article, another expert, Fred Travis says, “If you are under constant stress, your brain is rewiring to just deal with surface facts.” It can’t handle anything else. He says, “Over time, the body’s natural feedback mechanisms break down, so even when you’re not in a stressful situation your body’s activation remains permanently on and at a higher level.” The fight or flight response in the body to stress causes a form of tunnel vision that actually takes the prefrontal cortex of the brain offline causing people to be unable to plan ahead or make far reaching decisions, which are a function of the prefrontal cortex.

Have you ever gone to the emergency room at the hospital because of an anxiety attack, feeling you were going to fall apart or that you were too afraid to take a shower because you felt you might fall apart or have a heart attack? Yes, this is stress to an extreme. If you are someone who has difficulty making decisions or you’ve lost your sense of self because of stress, if you are having trouble seeing the Big Picture, consider that it may be because of compounded stress and that you have actually rewired that part of your brain.

Energy healing self-help such as Healing Touch Quick Steps may be an easy way to support the return your brain functions to a harmonic state of wholeness. One simple Quick Step that has been known to influence healthy brain functions is called Calms Nervous System, and another Quick Step is called Waist Up-Waist Down Harmony. From the application of one or two of the Healing Touch Quick Steps mentioned here you may begin to notice a clearing of your mind, maybe even a sense of feeling energized, relaxed and alert at the same time, all from the reducing and melting away stress. This is important because no matter what kind of a day you had at work or at home, you may instantly tap into perfect harmony and rewire your brain to get yourself back on track.

Remember the Healing Touch Quick Steps do not replace, treat, diagnose, prescribe or cure. They may simply help you become clear about how best to help yourself in any moment with any conventional medicine including getting yourself to a hospital if that is what you need. Be well.

Take care. Take great self-care.

Many blessings,

Barbara J. Semple

(c) Copyright 2009. Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. Permission received from CanWest News Service.

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

(c) Copyright 2009. Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

Heat Exhaustion Can Be Deadly. Cool Down with Healing Touch Quick Steps

Elderly people and saunas. Sounds like a crazy thing to be talking about in the deepest, coldest part of winter with Arctic blizzards occurring and way below freezing temperatures outside in Northern Hemispheric places, unless you frequent a sauna. This is a short article about using a specific Healing Touch Quick Step to help clear heat out of the body fairly quickly.

Last week while exercising in the pool at the local fitness center, I saw an elderly man stagger out of the sauna and almost fall into the jacuzzi. Every part of his body that was visible - legs, arms, chest, face, head -  was an evenly bright red. He looked like someone had painted him fire engine red. I happened to know the man and began engaging him in conversation to see if he was all right. His life force was so shallow that he spoke very faintly. He was not all right.

He was sitting in a chair near the pool and was acting agitated. He could not get comfortable. He put his head in his hands and bent over. Then he tried to cover his head with his towel and he put his head back down in his lap.

I felt intuitively that he needed to get his body cooled down as quickly as possible. I exited the pool and calmly walked over to him. I looked around for the fitness center attendant. I didn't see her. There was one other person in the pool area with me, a student of mine actually. I felt it important to stay with the man, my friend. All of this was happening very fast. I did not know until I did a Google search later at home that heat exhaustion and heat stroke can actually cause organ failure and death.

I had been in the pool for 24 minutes when the man walked out of the sauna. He was in a 179 degree extreme heat environment, engaged in an interesting conversation with someone. He lost track of time. He'd been in for 30 minutes or more, and he was a man in his 70's.

I carried a wastebasket and a box of tissues to him in case he might vomit. He needed to blow his nose. I asked if I could get him some cool water. He had a water bottle close by that in his weakened state he could not pick up by himself. I helped him sip water.

I asked if I could help cool down his body. He said yes. I asked if I could place my hands on him. He said yes. First I gently touched his elbow, and placed my other hand on his opposite front rib so he could feel where to place his hands. I took a step back from him and applied the same Healing Quick Step to myself so that he could see what I was doing. So he didn't have to figure anything out. The man mimicked what I was doing and placed his fingertips on his elbow and other hand on his opposite bottom rib. Within about 15 seconds (all the while he was talking softly about the delightful conversation he'd just had with an interesting fellow in the sauna) he said: "Oh my dear I am suddenly feeling better," exhaled and smiled. He continued to hold his elbow and opposite bottom rib for maybe 5 minutes (I continued to hold mine too) and then I suggested "we" switch sides and do the other elbow and opposite rib for good measure. We did that.

I stayed with the man for about 10 minutes. The first clue to his body responding positively to the therapeutic healing touch was when I heard him say he was suddenly feeling better. That was a fairly instant clue. Both the other woman in the pool and I continued to witness in amazement as the redness literally began to leave his body from the top of his face descending all the way down his face! One part of his face was now white, natural skin tone and there was a perfect horizontal dividing line across his face where the natural skin tone filled in and the red color was vanishing. It seemed so surreal, as though his body was a bottle of red water and the red liquid  was somehow effortlessly emptying itself out of this man's face and down the front of his body in a perfectly measured way, like the redness was being pulled out of his "container" from the bottoms of his feet. His skin tone went from complete red to normal skin tone before our very eyes! The sound of his voice becoming stronger, and the man becoming more present also told me that his life force was coming out of its critical need.

I am always in awe at the seeming miracles I observe in others as well as myself with these energy healing quick steps.

Now of course, Healing Touch Quick Steps do not replace emergency medical care. The fitness center attendant, who was also an emergency medical tech, came in minutes later. And, by the time she had arrived, this man was markedly on the track of cooler health again. And I heard later that the man was back at the sauna every day after that, only this time for much less time. I thought to myself, he is acting as though nothing ever happened. Did he receive help that was that good? I do not know. I think I would have stayed out of the sauna for at least a few days. And, every person's harmony is different.

So for future reference, you will find in your own Healing Touch Quick Steps HOME GUIDE, which you can purchase at my website if you do not already have one, the Healing Touch Quick Step for cooling the body that we did to help this man is called Uplifts, Brings Vitality, Recharges Heart.

Happy Solstice. Stay warm but not extreme heat for long periods of time.
Take care. Take great self-care.

Many blessings,
Barbara J. Semple
Self-Healing Advocate

www.healingtouchquicksteps.com

Copyright (c) 2008 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.