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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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“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

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.

My Thoughts on the Shadow Effect

Today the shadow effect is in the news. What if I told you that you have a perfect health spiritual double? It’s true. It’s kind of an avatar connection like the relationship between Krishna and Arjuna in the Hindu text Bhagavad Gita. An inseparable best friend, healthy light force shadow constant companion with a ton of healing power supports your whole being. You can interact with it and you do not have to be physically fit to do so.  

Your perfect health spiritual double shadow of light is an invisible, potent energy field about the same size as your physical body. I actually saw mine one day in 1999.  

Cultivating a personal relationship with your light force shadow constant companion may be a tremendous comfort in these intensely changing times, may amplify your own healing process and an ever-deepening richness of your inner world. Consider this. Your inner and your outer world are interwoven. They are two parts of the same Whole like an inhale and exhale.

Here is what happened…

I was leading an ordinary life with an agonizing disability. I met an absolute perfect health energetic double of me that I could see clearly in my mind’s eye and feel as if the double were a physical person standing as close to me as you could get to someone without actually touching them. I met my spiritual double when I was in some of the worst pain and immobility of my life with rheumatoid arthritis. Imagine how surprised I was. I had no idea such a thing was even possible, let alone that I might ask to see something so remarkable as an absolute perfect health energetic double of me. And, it did happen.

It’s been years since I first I saw a perfectly healthy, young, svelte energetic double of me, and I knew instantly that I actually was this person. Now we have become inseparable. I am conscientious that we move together, like a pair of dancers with one partner standing on the other’s feet as we dance.

The ancient world says so…

In the early 1900’s, through some amazing circumstances of his own, a Japanese scientist named Master Jiro Murai, came to be studying some of the world’s rare sacred texts. He found common threads among all of the different texts that pointed to a natural phenomenon. From his research he discovered that there is a perfect invisible double of each human being constantly feeding life into the physical body by filtering higher frequency energy influences of the planets, Sun and Moon as well as the twelve constellations of the zodiac, which relate to the 12 thoracic vertebrae and 12 organ functions of the body, for example. This is important because this formless or invisible activity of the perfect invisible double made up of cosmic star stuff influencing a physical body, is known as the order of creation of life. Jiro Murai eventually compiled his body of knowledge into the principles of the healing art known as Jin Shin Jyutsu®.

My spiritual double and I meet…

It was November. It was evening. My husband and I had already eaten dinner.

I went along with my husband to watch him do his aikido martial arts routine. (Aikido loosely translated means “the way of harmony of spirit.”) I walked into the dojo with the assistance of my rolling walker, a strange looking, and clunky, metal thing with special arm rests for people who cannot hold onto the walker very well. My husband helped me sit down in the back of the room in a comfortable padded chair, the same chair from which my husband would have to lift me up when the aikido practice was finished, because I could not get out of the chair by myself. The other aikido students and my husband, barefooted, and dressed in their white tunics and pants with various colored belts prepared to work out on the large cushiony, matte floor area.

The sensei (a Japanese word meaning teacher or master) instructed everyone to warm up by doing a breathing exercise, then he led everyone in two different exercises to increase “ki” spelled k-i which is Japanese for “chi” or spirit energy).

Next the teacher introduced something new. He put on some music, it sounded like a Jai Uttal song that started out slowly, had a really strong drum rhythm with an accelerating tempo and increased in depth and texture as additional musical instruments entered the song. I had made a mental note that I had never heard this song before and I really liked it. Sensei then told the students to move to the music with their eyes closed if possible, and “find your own rhythm.” The teacher called this “Aikido-mai” which is Japanese for the dance of Aikido.

Now, I am sitting in my comfortable chair in the back next to the large white matted floor area filled with fluidly moving bodies, each in their own personal dance of aikido. I had followed along with the students on the mat and had done the breathing and ki building exercises along with everybody else, only I did the exercises seated in my chair.

All of a sudden an absolute perfect double of me stood up right in front of me about two inches away from my body! My etheric double was facing forward as my physical body was facing forward in the chair. My spiritual double stood up and raised its arms in the air like you’ve seen in pictures of the person standing on top of the mountain or looking out at the ocean with their arms raised in the air in a V for victory.  

My heart was overflowing. I began to silently cry as I kept my eyes closed and continued to move my arms and hips to the music, all the while I am in awe of what I am witnessing. I remember the perfect double’s perfect posture, and felt her perfectly toned organs and breasts and muscles and joints, and hands, strong and healthy, as if they were mine. She was a youthful, in the prime of her life perfect double of me. She turned her head to the left, looked over her shoulder at me and smiled. I knew the double was me. My life would be different from this moment on.

Now, it just so happened, as if this all wasn’t amazing enough, while the spiritual double was showing itself to me, the pregnant wife of the Sensei was looking at me sitting and moving to the music in my chair. The wife mentioned this to me after class. The woman said she felt a huge loving presence surrounding me. It felt so strong, said the wife, that it made her shift her attention from watching everyone moving on the matted floor area, to watching me in the chair.

Was it the “ka” body?

Was I going crazy? If so, I liked this kind of crazy. Did I, and vicariously, the pregnant wife of Sensei, witness a physical manifestation of my non-physical, soul self, or what the ancient Egyptians called the “ka” or spirit-twin? The “ka” or spiritual double carries the consciousness of a deceased person for example and is the active principle of Spirit in a living person as well.

If it happened to me, then surely it must be possible for you, and I know you do not have to be in perfect physical health.

Here are 3 keys to developing an environment conducive to meeting your spiritual double:

 1. A regular habit or practice (repetition) of raising your energies or frequencies to a high place of love and compassion; energy healing self-help such as Aikido or Healing Touch Quick Steps or Jin Shin Jyutsu, for example.

2. Include your physical body in the process, as with singing or hearing sacred music, or moving your body, exercising it, and being present with all of your senses to your awareness of your body even while sitting in a chair as you would in breathing and building “ki” or Spirit.

3. And, if you really want to have an experience meeting your spiritual double, ask for it. Request it, saying it out loud.

What appears to be an important part of the potential meeting is the inclusion of your physical body in your preparation. One of Aikido O Sensei’s editions of poems contained this preface: “Those who train in Aikido [the way of harmony of spirit] must never forget that the teaching has to be forged in one’s very body. Always keep in mind the Divine workings of creation, from beginning to end, and ceaselessly learn from the gods. Make the entire universe your dojo (school of training).”

Based on the advice of various masters who have gone before us, we are encouraged to plan for and prepare for such opportunities as meeting with our healthy shadow of light spiritual double. Make room for the possibility. Meeting your spiritual double is possible. Let it be so!

Take god care. Take good self-care.

Many blessings,

Barbara

Copyright (c) 2010. Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.