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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

(c) Copyright 2010. Barbara J. Semple. Please request permission from the author if you wish to reprint this article, reprinting of which should be in its entirety without changes and with full authorship given to Barbara J. Semple, including her website: www.healingtouchquicksteps.com. Thanks.

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.

Copyright © 2009 - Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this article on the condition that the content remains complete, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely. Center of the SUN - Aluna Joy Yaxk'in, PO Box 1988 Sedona, AZ 86339 USA Website:www.AlunaJoy.com

Self-Healing Gifts for the Holiday Season

Just in time for holiday giving!

Healing Touch Quick Steps – Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® self-healing products are now on sale.

Dear Friends,

I can barely contain my excitement. I know you all were expecting these products to be available sooner. Well, so was I. In July of this year after 2 years of research and development, I finally completed our really great Healing Touch Quick Steps HOME GUIDE. I went on vacation, swam with humpback whales in the South Pacific, returned home and spent the next 2 months refining and creating what I feel are the most outstanding self-healing products on the planet. As you can tell, "containing " my enthusiasm is not a part of this entry :-) You can visit my website at www.healingtouchquicksteps.com and click on the Store, for more details on how to order.

Here are some highlights of these Gifts of Healing that offer a lifetime of benefits for you and your loved ones.

A. Healing Touch Quick Steps HOME GUIDE – 42 Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® is our deluxe, multi-media program, which includes a 55-minute DVD called “Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps with Barbara J. Semple” with soothing healing music and visuals, and happy models that will have you energizing and harmonizing your whole body, mind, spirit in less than 5 minutes; 2 audio CD’s with yours truly guiding you how and where to place your hands plus amazing healing stories from people using these simple quick steps; a bonus 1-hour audio CD interview with me; 108 pages of full color pictures and over 1,000 body messages/symptoms that can be helped by the quick steps; plus 4 of the most beautiful, purse- or laptop case-sized quick reference cards I’ve ever seen! Can you tell I feel totally jazzed about this product?

Oh, I almost forgot. FOR A LIMITED TIME, as a special BONUS Gift that Gives, I’ll include an additional copy of the DVD “Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps with Barbara J. Semple” in your package to give a loved one, at no extra charge. That’s a $29 value, free. Buy the deluxe HOME GUIDE and receive a 2nd BONUS DVD for a loved one, free.

B. “Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps” DVD + Pocket-Sized Quick Reference Picture Card is the same beautiful, easy-to-understand, 55-minute DVD called “Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps with Barbara J. Semple” with soothing healing music and visuals, and happy models that will have you energizing and harmonizing your whole body, mind, spirit in less than 5 minutes, which is part of the deluxe HOME GUIDE above. PLUS, included with this specially priced DVD package is a BONUS item - a 4-page pocket-sized quick reference picture card. This DVD + 4-page Quick Reference Card package is the perfect Gift of Healing for anyone on your holiday giving list, nicely priced at $29.00 each.

C. NEW “Self-Healing LIFE” Audio Series with Self-Healing Advocate, Barbara J. Semple, CMT, ACMT

I really LOVE these Healing Touch Quick Steps specialty items! These are perfect stocking-stuffers. In each of these single audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card packages, integrative healing arts practitioner and instructor, yours truly, draws from 30 years of study and practice of mind-body therapies, to bring you specific Healing Touch Quick Steps that help you target a particular need. Based on Eastern Wisdom Jin Shin Jyutsu® and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, each audio CD package gives you simple hand placements you apply to your body that may benefit your health in similar ways as if you had visited an acupuncturist - benefits without needles! I am told my healing voice and practical, light wisdom with easy-to-follow picture reference cards encourage you to unburden and uplift your energies within a few minutes. All 3 of these unique healing gift packages will be available for sale in health stores as well. Be sure to send me an email at Info@healingtouchquicksteps.com when you want your favorite retail store to carry these nurturing and timely gifts of healing.   

1. Most timely is COLD FLU Support – 7 Healing Touch Quick Steps – Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony®. In this single audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, you will find 7 Healing Touch Quick Steps—Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® that can help your body clear out a cold or flu, while unburdening and uplifting.  COLD FLU Support gives you simple hand placements you apply to your body that may benefit your health in similar ways as if you had visited an acupuncturist: * Boosting immune system * Supporting white blood cell production * Encouraging unburdening and elimination * Increasing vitality * Clearing phlegm * Improving respiratory function. Healing Touch Quick Steps are a valuable complement to conventional medicine. COLD FLU Support Audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, $12.00 each.

2. Equally as timely, SOLDIERS’S Relief – 9 Healing Touch Quick Steps – Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony®. In this single audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, you will find 9 Healing Touch Quick Steps—Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® that can help the soldier, or anyone involved in his or her life, feel nurtured and supported, while unburdening and uplifting your energies. SOLDIER’S Relief is simple hand placements you apply to your body that may benefit your health as if you had visited an acupuncturist: *Calming chaos * Harmonizing emotions * Clearing shock out of the body * Encouraging peace of mind, body and spirit * Increasing vitality and sleep, and * Supporting relationships. Healing Touch Quick Steps are a valuable complement to conventional medicine. How can a few simple hand placements help so much, you might ask? Because you are tapping into the energy pathways that help these particular needs. Available November 12th. You can still order today. SOLDIER’S Relief Audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, $12.00 each.

3. Also very timely, TRAVELLER’S Aid – 8 Healing Touch Quick Steps – Powerful Things You  Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony®. In this single audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, you will find 8 Healing Touch Quick Steps—Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® for your special needs as a traveler driving, flying or whatever form of transportation. TRAVELER’S Aid is simple hand placements you apply to your body that may benefit your health as if you had visited an acupuncturist: * Increasing circulation * Calming nerves * Relaxing for sleep * Melting away back tension * Quietly regenerating * Harmonizing muscle tone * Improving digestion and elimination, and * Hindering jet lag. Healing Touch Quick Steps are a valuable complement to conventional medicine. Available November 12th. You can still order today. TRAVELLER’S Aid Audio CD + Quick Reference Picture Card, $12.00 each.

Recently Victoria Marihart, author of The Self-Illuminating Human, viewed my DVD - Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps. Here's what she had to say: “When I do a Healing Touch Quick Step I notice an immediate "hook-up" to universal love energy, something that I had been missing for a while. When I viewed the “Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps” DVD for the first time applying quick steps to myself, I felt a flow of energy that I know to be universal energy. I instantly felt reconnected. I have easily made the quick steps a healthy new daily habit and I can feel the difference in my energy and stamina. Barbara offers a gift that I, and I know others, greatly need.”

I feel all of these gifts of healing are outstanding ways to help yourself and anyone you care about. Healing Touch Quick Steps – Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony® are the self-healing routines I have been doing daily for the last 17 years. I will always want this dynamic self-help in my life. I send you my very best wishes for your joyful health and wholeness, Barbara J. Semple.

Copyright (c) 2007 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

Take Time Out from the Burdens of Your Life

This refreshing story came to me in an email. I do not know who the lecturer is. Here is bright, clean wisdom about the burdens in life. Part of the grace of Healing Touch Quick Steps therapeutic self-healing touch is that when you place your hands on your body and tap into your body's natural system of healing, you can easily unburden and support your whole being without even knowing what all of the burdens are. I encourage you to take time - a minute or 5 for your personal wholeness. Enjoy!

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water? "

Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz. 

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.  If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all  the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.  So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.  Relax; pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short.  Enjoy it!"

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

· Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

· Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. 

· Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker. 

· If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

· If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

· It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

·  Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

· Nobody cares if you can't dance well.  Just get up and dance.

· The second mouse gets the cheese.

· Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

· You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

· Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

· A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Take care, take good self-care. Many blessings,

Barbara

Copyright (c) 2007 Barbara J. Semple. All rights reserved.

Exercising Your Unconditional Love Muscle

I believe a loving relationship with a pet can actually improve a person's health and wholeness. When you tap into your body's natural system of healing, you are tapping into the same kind of unconditional, neutral, never ceasing energy that you can experience from a beloved pet or an infant child. What I'm about to share with you is a gift I received from our cat. I didn't learn this from any published scientific journal, though I've read somewhere how a beloved cat or dog in one's life can help balance the human's high blood pressure. My discovery comes from my own sensations after having lost our precious cat a year and a half ago.

Two days before Christmas our dear cat of 11 years passed away. I had never had a pet before, and I had never had the experience of a loved one who lived with me, die. Her passing caused me to realize my "Unconditional Love" muscle. You might recognize this muscle as your compassionate Heart. Yes, the Heart is a fabulous, expanding and contracting "Unconditional Love" muscle. I feel tremendous gratitude to our cat though I didn't recognize viscerally what she really did for me until after her passing. Her presence in my life was unconditional, never ceasing, neutral, without a hidden agenda. My wise friend says that cats come into this world pure and that under normal, healthy conditions (meaning no abuse or meanness), they can remain content in their natural state of purity for a good long life. Cats do need to be supported with food, nurturing and shelter their entire lives, unlike a human infant that eventually grows up to take good care of herself.

Here is how I found my "Unconditional Love" muscle. Each time I remembered my cat, talked about her, smiled about something she used to do, and any memory of her, I felt pleasurable waves of energy radiate out in all directions from the center of my heart in the center of my chest cavity. I felt a palpable radiating movement in and out (that I later would realize was actually love flowing in and out of my heart center), which is very different from placing your hand on your chest and feeling your heartbeat. I never really noticed such a visceral expansion when our cat was alive. It was only when she wasn't there anymore that I recognized that my physical heart space and chest area felt less alive, less active.  It actually felt tight and stagnant, and hurt a little bit.

Logically, my husband and I had no intention of replacing our beloved cat. We didn't want to just get another cat for the sake of having a cat, and we didn't know if we'd be lucky enough to find another that we could love and be as compatible with as we were with our first cat.  Then exactly 49 days after the death of our little sweetheart, we adopted a small abandoned cat from the humane society and dove into a brand new relationship with a totally different and unpredictable little being. We knew that for our health and wellbeing we wanted the multiple times a day, every day of the week, joyful, enlivening expansive waves of radiating movement of our "Unconditional Love" muscles.  We consciously chose wholeness. I am delighted to share, from our own scientific study of reproducing the same effect over and over, that my husband and I are enjoying harmonious rhythm and movement of our "Unconditional Love" muscles - more than we ever thought possible - with our new, very loved cat. We have our first cat to thank for this special gift of awareness her passing brought to us.

When you tap into your body's natural system of healing, you are tapping into the same kind of unconditional, neutral, never ceasing energy that you can experience from a beloved pet or an infant child. I encourage you to experience as many times a day as possible, the graceful, very nurturing active radiating of your "Unconditional Love" muscle especially in a combination of a beloved pet or infant relationship, as well as daily practicing of your Healing Touch Quick Steps hand placements, for a deeply enriching whole being cumulative effect. To love is to heal. To heal is to love. Take care. Take great self-care. Many blessings,
Barbara

Copyright (c) 2007 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.
 

Love Your Self with Therapeutic Self-Healing Touch

Knowing how to help your Self is the ultimate knowing of your Self, loving of your Self. It's about the feeling. Knowing isn't a mental thing, it is a whole body-mind-spirit sense. To get to that place of knowing within your Self can take some time, reinforcing the feelings, the understanding, the fulfillment. Someone recently asked me how she could tell if she was coming into harmony. How did she know healing energy was actually happening from the Healing Touch Quick Steps hand placements she was doing for herself? My answer to her explains a little about the 'Knowing of Your Self' through Healing Touch Quick Steps - Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony®.  

Look, listen, see, hear and feel for your body’s harmony. Sighing and exhaling are simple ways the body releases. Consider looking in the mirror before you begin your daily self-healing touch routine. Then after you’ve completed your “healing energy maintenance” for the day, look in the mirror again. Do your eyes have more sparkle? Is your skin more toned, less puffy or wrinkled? Look for that - sparkle, tone, wrinkle- and puffy-free - harmony.

Some people may not feel anything or notice anything at the moment they are doing self-healing touch. They’ll simply discover later that the symptom or “body message” just isn’t there anymore. When you focus on looking for your body-mind-spirit harmony and you do hear, see and feel a harmonious sensation (the body responding), you are building a relationship and a communication with your body the same way you might continue to refine and improve your communication and language skills with your pet, or life partner - a loved one. The understanding and knowing of the body’s response may take some time, just like love. Continue to apply therapeutic self-healing touch (love?) anyway. Each person’s energy harmony is unique to the individual. Knowing how to help your Self is the ultimate knowing of your Self. What a truly precious gift!

I feel quite surely that regular therapeutic self-healing touch satisfies a basic human need. The founder of the Non-Violent Communication Movement (NVC), Marshall B. Rosenberg, says: "We are all created from the same energy. We all have the same needs." He says that who we are in any moment can be observed at the common denominator level in each of us. What is alive in us in any moment is what 'I'm feeling and needing' in that moment. We all want and need to feel loved and we need to receive feedback from another that we are special, precious and lovable. Here again it's about the feelings.

With daily, dedicated time (before you go to sleep at night or before you get out of bed in the morning, for example) for your own Healing Touch Quick Steps - Powerful Things You Can Do Instantly to Bring Your Body into Harmony®, you give to your Self what millions want someone else to give them - love and respect.  Being with your Self, paying attention, devoted to your wholeness, feeling the pulsing of your life force flowing through your body, exhaling, sighing, inhaling, feeling unburdened, enlivened, uplifted, strengthened, peaceful - this practice can only lead to self-love, self-knowing, self-appreciation - the very things we all want and need. And, YOU are the catalyst for this deep peace and joy in your own life. 

Consider learning to love your Self through therapeutic self-healing touch. Start with 5 minutes a day and work your way up to an hour a day - just for your Self. Experience for your Self the feeling of being well-loved. What will the Law of Attraction bring into your life from that place of love and respect for your Self? Certainly something harmonious! Take care. Take great self-care.

Blessings, Barbara J. Semple

Copyright (c) 2007 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.