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Discover The Natural Healing Gift of Negative Ions

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

wave1To date, I haven’t met anyone that has told me they can see them, taste them or smell negative ions. Yet, in nature, they are there all around us.

Visit the ocean and you are in the company of negative ions. Visit the mountains, splash around in a stream, or take a walk in the woods and you’ll be breathing in negative ions.

How do you know when you are in the presence of negative ions? You feel better. You relax and you feel more at ease with yourself and with life. That’s because negative ions increase the levels of serotonin in your body. Serotonin affects your moods, and you may find it lifting stress and even, depression. Some people become energized in the presence of negative ions.

Consider this excerpt about negative ions from The Root of All Healing:

“… quite a bit of medical research has been done demonstrating that negative
ions help us simultaneously relax, reduce stress and energize us. Ecstatic, Ltd. in the United Kingdom commissioned a review of literature on the effects of air ions and concluded: ‘The consensus of the literature reviewed is that environmental air ion concentration levels and balance can affect a wide range of biological organisms, including humans. Elevated negative air ion levels are widely reported to have beneficial effects on humans including enhanced feeling of relaxation, and reduced tiredness, stress levels, irritability, depression, and tenseness.’”

http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-positive-vibes

If you are having difficulty sleeping, concentrating, feeling energized, relaxing, enjoying life, and opening up to your greatest healing—one of the simplest, sweetest ways to enhance your healing is to spend more time with Mother Earth.

I recommend getting out in nature every day. That’s right. Every day. That’s how beneficial nature is in the healing journey. It is one of the most over-looked prescriptions for healing, and it can be among the most powerful.

Nature slows down those hurried paces we think we have to keep up. Those rushed speeds and stressful lives are contributing to our discomfort and preventing us from relaxing enough for healing to occur.

As I share in my book, “You don’t get to physical health, inner peace or joy through stress and tension.” In order to heal you have to slow down and getting out there in those negative ions is one of the best ways to relax and discover a greater natural source for balanced energy.

You can read more about the benefits of spending time in nature in my book, The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything— http://misahopkins.com/therootofallhealing/

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Are You Feeling Emotionally Numb?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

winterbirdAre you feeling emotionally numb, but your body is in tremendous pain?

When someone asks you how you are feeling, do you shrug your shoulders, not really having a clue about what you are feeling?

It is very likely that because you are not feeling and acknowledging your emotions, they are screaming through your body as pain.

Fear, sorrow and anger simply need proper channels of recognition, and sometimes—expression. If your healing journey is anything like mine, I learned to suppress my feelings in order to protect myself from the intensity of what I was experiencing. I found my true emotions too overwhelming, and in my need to be in control, I did my best not to notice them, until they boiled out of me uncontrollably .

I’ve met people that didn’t think it was spiritually proper to feel angry, jealous or sad, and because those feelings were actually occurring, they suppressed them as a way to live a better spiritual life. What happens in this case is that because the person is not being completely truthful with themselves, the underlying feelings that long to be acknowledged become powerful motivators for unconscious and conscious self-sabotage. This plays out as—I’m doing all the right things, but nothing is working.

I’ve also met people having intense feelings like a deep under-current, but weren’t willing to acknowledge them. This can be a reaction to parents or loved ones that expressed their intense emotions without regard for the people around them—such as a parent lashing out at their child without considering the harm and damage they are doing. However, ignoring the feelings is like swimming in the ocean and ignoring that there is an under-tow. Eventually, the under-tow is going to pull you down.

Unfortunately, so many of us have had such negative experiences with emotions that we become afraid of them and attempt to conduct our lives around them. And yet, there is nothing spiritually or physically healthy about suppressing emotions.

Pent up, unexpressed feelings eventually break out—in bursts of anger, lengthy bouts of depression, and long-term physical illness.

As we discussed in the last article, emotions tell stories about our wounds and our beliefs. They are part of who we are. When we find healthy ways to honor them, we can release years of pent up angst and hurt, along with belief systems that may be limiting our capacity to heal.

There are all kinds of emotional release techniques available today, designed to support you in honoring your emotions, along with the beliefs and stories of our past that accompany them.

This does not mean, you will suddenly start lashing out at everyone around you. That is what happens when you are not honoring your emotions. When you acknowledge your feelings properly, you can then find appropriate ways to release without hurting people around you and without becoming overwhelmed.

You may have discovered that the more you pray for and intend healing, the more emotionally uncomfortable you feel or the more numb you become. These are clues that your illness has a strong footing in emotional trauma.

If you are feeling numb, or you know you are suppressing intense feeling, I suggest you do some research to find a healer or therapist that can support you in doing some emotional release work.

While you are looking for the right healer or therapist, I’d like to suggest you become acquainted with a Creation Meditation that is all about honoring all feelings; allowing difficult feelings to transform naturally in the embrace of your compassion. It is one of the most soothing meditations I’ve ever experienced for calming intense emotions. http://newdreamfoundation.com/forums/index.php/topic,75.0.html

Let me encourage you, to honor your emotional numbness and become acquainted with the emotions running beneath it. Very likely, your emotions are a major key in your healing journey.

Reverend Misa is the author of The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything.

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Use Your Emotions to Help You Heal

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

waterfall1Emotions tell stories about what is really going on. You’ve just got to be willing to sit with the uncomfortable ones long enough and with enough self-honesty to discover  what they are telling you about what you need for your healing.

This is going to make a lot more sense if I share a couple of poignant stories from my life.

Years ago, I was in loving relationship where my sexual energy started to fully awaken and blossom. Naturally, I was grateful to be in a relationship where I could enjoy my sexual expression, and yet at the same time I was emotionally very raw—so raw that I was frequently on fire with anger. I dealt with that anger by either being sarcastic or withdrawing. To compound matters, I would get raging migraine headaches after making love during day-time hours.

Finally, as the relationship was ending, I started going to therapy and uncovered that I had been sexually abused as a child. In order for that realization to become apparent, I had to learn how to be with my anger without judging it. I needed to let go of my need to blame others for the fact that I felt angry, and instead understand where that anger was coming from—the old wounds that had set my angry responses into motion.

As I reflected on my realization, I came to understand that my recent sexual opening was triggering the abuse I had suppressed. My emotions and my headaches were both telling me something was very wrong, but it wasn’t about what I thought he should or shouldn’t have been doing, it was about the hidden emotional pain of my childhood experience.

When you sit with those uncomfortable feelings long enough, they can help you uncover difficult, but important truths.

Years later, with a new lover, we discovered more about why I would get terribly crabby. One day, while I was in the kitchen contemplating why I felt so angry inside when nothing bad had happened, he lovingly explained to me that I tended to get really rude and judgmental with him just after making love in the afternoon.

My eyes flew wide open. It was so obvious. Yes, that is the time of day I remembered being sexually abused. Then I remembered how awful it was to be abused and then go about the day as though nothing had happened.

Clearly, I had more healing work to do. Fortunately, my lover was kind enough to talk this through with me and we together we created a transition between making love during the day and attending to household activities. With his help, I healed.

Today, I don’t get angry and don’t have  headaches when I choose to make love during day-time hours. To get to that place, I needed to honor the anger and pain I was feeling. They were the outward expression of a deep and important story. Until I sat with the discomfort of my anger, it ran my life.

Running from emotions rarely helps us in the healing journey. They need to be honored, and I don’t mean by harming and hurting other people. I mean we heal by sitting down and have a “cup of tea” with our feelings so that we can understand the hidden stories behind our emotions and heal the root cause of our pain.

Reverend Misa is the author of “The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything.”

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Receiving the Gifts of Prayers Part I

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

cuppedhandssmThis weekend some wonderful initiated elders came to our house for a visioning retreat where they held individuals and groups across the world in their sacred feminine arms. In that space of profound love, tremendous healing can occur for those of us open to receive.

Though the ceremony is completed, the power of the ceremony continues and the healing energy is available to all of us.

As I held space for our elders, knowing that I was being graciously included in their prayers, I reminded myself that the benefit of such loving prayers are only truly received as I open myself and willing receiving the blessing.

And so I did, by giving thanks for their prayers and opening my heart to receive their love. Once my heart was filled with profound love, I invited the love to fill my entire body, including the broken and wounded places within me.

Opening to the precious gift of loving prayers requires more than saying or thinking about receiving them.

You really have to open your energetic field and one of the best ways to get that process going is to open your heart.

Here is one of the benefits to receiving prayers based in holding you in loving energy. It allows your own higher consciousness to determine what is right and best for you. The person holding the energy for you is not directing it; simply making the love available for you to use.

I invite you to take a few moments to sit quietly today and receive the love that was held for you this weekend. Allow your heart to open and your higher consciousness to know what to do, and allow yourself to receive the healing benefits their prayers.

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Take the Time

Monday, November 16th, 2009

canoeMy sister-in-law recently crossed over to the other side of the veil and I traveled home for her memorial service. I noticed during this trip, as I have when other family members have died, that when someone I care about crosses over to the other side, I can’t help but slow down my life and reflect about what is really, really important to me.

When I was in my worst pain and discomfort, I discovered exactly the same thing. I needed to slow down enough to reflect on what was truly important to me and let the rest go, because quite frankly, the “rest” was either making me sick or contributing to it.

While I was visiting friends back home, a woman I know that just had major surgery said exactly the same thing. Before she had her surgery, she ended the contract work she was doing that was draining her energy. She just didn’t want to do work that didn’t fulfill her anymore. She knew that she needed to focus on healing and then make some decisions about work that would feed her spiritually as well as physically.

It is so easy to stick with work just because it pays the bills, even though it is not truly our work to do. You can identify that kind of work because you go to work and come home from it more exhausted than energized.

It is so much easier to maintain status quo than it is to make peace with friends and family, find time to meditate, or enjoy time with others. It is easier to stay in relationships that are familiar, but aren’t working for you because it is scarier to heal or leave them. It is easier to repeat non-productive patterns than it is to make change, yet those very patterns may be shortening your life.

Yet, how are you supposed to stay healthy, when your energy is drained and you are stressed?

Once again, I find myself committing to paying attention to what is truly important in my life and making whatever changes I need to make sure that what I do fulfills me. Fulfillment is a powerful way to enjoy life more and put energy into my health.

How about you? If you made the time to get really still and clear, what is truly important in your life?

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In Order to Accelerate Your Healing, You Have to Slow Down

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

treeI know “to accelerate your healing, you have to slow down,” sounds like an oxymoron, but it is true. When we are busy, running around, uptight, and stressed, we actually slow down our healing process. The body simply must be in a relaxed state for deep and lasting healing to occur.

Black Elk, a powerful Sioux medicine man, is known to have given a mattress to someone seeking his help in healing, then tell them to begin by spending several days resting and sleeping under a tree. He understood the importance of re-establishing natural rhythms before beginning healing work.

Natural rhythms are slower than our usual, hurried pace, and are more conducive to natural healing methodologies.

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Help on Your Path to Self-Healing

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

All of your sharing on this blog humbles and empowers me. It also reinforces what I intuitively perceived … that too many good people are needlessly suffering too much, for too long. You don’t need to suffer any more. You can make the decision right now, to choose your power, to reinforce your ability to heal. I’d like to help.

I’d like to gift you with the first chapter of my book,
The Root of All Healing: Seven Steps to Healing Anything.

This chapter lays the energetic groundwork for your healing, no matter how you decide to act upon and take control of your illness physically. All you need to do is enter your name and email below and click the “Get My Free Chapter” button, and I will immediately send you an email with a link. Click the link in that email to be taken to a page where you can download the chapter digitally, instantly. Literally, within five minutes from now you could be starting the next great chapter in your own self-healing story. There is no cost. There is no obligation of any sort. This is my gift to you, as you have been a gift to me, and to the others on this blog. Being part of a supportive community is so important to all its members.

It’s Time

I’ve told you I decided to offer the teleseminar. Well, I thought it was going to be weeks away, until I realized I was going out of town in September. That would put it at two months or more before I’d be able to offer you this urgently needed service. So, I went into overdrive and over the last week and a half put in hours of time to put together a groundbreaking course that can not only get you started, but take you a long way down the road to self-healing. If the last class was any indication, you may find your self-healing complete before it’s even over.

And the doors to the teleseminar are now officially open,
but only until this Friday, August 7th, 2009.

If you decide the teleseminar is right for you right now, you’ll receive over $418 in additional gifts and bonuses towards your better health that I’ve never offered before. All the details are on your free gift download page. I explain all the details of the program on the same page where you download your free chapter. If this feels right for you, now, I look forward to working with you personally. Regardless, you’ll have the free chapter to support you. I’m grateful to have the chance to walk with you on this portion of your path to self-healing.

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Elderly woman grew a new valve to her heart

Friday, July 31st, 2009

redblossomBy Misa

I promised you notice about a tele-class on self-healing, and I’m hustling to get it ready for you. In the mean time, enjoy discovering yet more hope in this incredible story of healing by an elderly woman, and now—friend.

Early in my sound medicine career, I had an experience with a woman in her seventies, who had never worked with energy medicine, but her results set the standard for me in regard to what our healing potential truly can be. For the protection of her privacy, I call her Ellie in this story.

Several years ago, I was asked to assist an elderly woman that needed to strengthen her heart in preparation for surgery. One of this woman’s heart valves was not functioning well, making her heart too weak for surgery on an aneurism.

Her daughter flew me out to their home where we spent one week together working toward the simple goal of strengthening her heart. Ellie had a remarkable ability to visualize that she discovered in the process of working with me. Because she was new to energy healing, I gently guided her and supported her in trusting her visualizations.

Our regular routine was for Ellie to lie down on the couch and allow her mind to bring her a visual image of health while I sang sacred healing sounds to her. Then, before she fell asleep, she would again affirm that she had a strong heart.

I parted company at the end of the week and patiently waited to hear the results from Ellie’s next chest x-ray. The following week, the x-ray showed some remarkable results. This 70-some year old client had grown an entirely new heart valve and had been determined ready for surgery!

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Fighting for Her Power and Healing

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Your responses have been so powerful!

They are as important to this blog as the stories I am sharing, and I’m grateful. Let us know you’re here. Keep sharing your questions, insights, challenges, and victories. We all benefit from them. I will respond to every comment. And if you have something to add to a comment, please also feel free to do so. We’re here to support one another.

This next story comes from my long-time friend and President of New Dream Foundation, Ariann Thomas. Not only did she also heal herself from a breast tumor, it was documented by her doctors!

One of the things that make her story so interesting is that her path to healing was so completely different from Krystalya’s, but they both arrived at the same destination … health and self-empowerment. Also, pay close attention to how she dealt with the medical establishment. It’s an important lesson about how to place the power for your healing where it belongs.

This interview is longer, at over 30 minutes, but I couldn’t edit a single minute out of it, it’s all so important.

So make some time, light a candle, relax, and let this story’s lessons bathe you in possibility.

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I mentioned in the last post that I decided to offer another tele-seminar series on healing, and asked for your feedback. And boy how you’ve responded! Your insights are extremely valuable to me and will directly benefit all who attend the class, so I would ask that you continue to include in your comments the answer to my question:

What are the two most important things you need from live instruction and education on self-healing?

I guarantee that I will personally read your post. To leave a post, do either of the following:

  • scroll down to the bottom of this post, and there will be a comment box, or you can click on the word “Comments” in blue.
  • scroll UP and click on the headline “Fighting for Her Power and Healing.”

From there, scroll to the bottom to read other comments, and leave your own. You may log in to the Intense Debate system, or if you’d prefer, skip the login and Post as a Guest. Simply enter your name, email, website if any, and your comment!

Stay tuned for our next story. It’s about a man’s self-healing. These processes are just as powerful, and enacted by, just as many men. I’m excited to share it with you.

Until then, know you remain in my heart and songs.

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Seeing through Breast Tumor

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I cannot tell you how inspired I have been by the stories of challenge and success that you all have shared with me! Ever since I posted Judi’s story, you have overwhelmed me with your responses, here on the blog and through email. I am touched, and honored by your courage, heart, and sharing.

Because of this, I have made an important decision. I’ll share that with you in a moment.

First, in response to your requests for continued sharing of self-healing stories, here is the next real success. This one is an audio of a phone interview I did with a dear friend of mine, Krystalya Marie. She eliminated a breast tumor in a way and time you’ll find amazing!

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As I mentioned, I’ve also been inspired by your responses to make an important decision … to take a further step to support you in your health.

I have decided to offer another live tele-seminar series on self-healing.

This is something of an “open secret”… I recently published a book on self-healing entitled The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything. Also, a few years back, I offered a telephone seminar series on self-healing.

This new telephone series will be MUCH more powerful than the first one. It will incorporate all the lessons and successes from the first seminar, and include so much more that I’ve learned as I prepared to write the book.

I’m not sure exactly when I will offer this seminar, but it will be soon. Weeks, maybe.

One thing I am sure of, the class won’t be big, because part of my purpose will be to make sure that all questions are answered, and all efforts towards self-healing are supported. I can’t do that with 100 attendees.

I’ve learned so much from my first class and writing this book that I deeply believe the value of this new tele-seminar will be tremendous to you.

But before I offer this telephone class, I want to do one final check to make sure that this series really has everything that YOU need. So I have this one question for you…

What are the two most important things that you need from live, small-group instruction on self-healing?

I guarantee that I will personally read your post. To leave a post, do either of the following:

  • scroll down to the bottom of this post, and there will be a comment box, or you can click on the word “Comments” in blue.
  • scroll UP and click on the headline “Seeing through Breast Tumor.”

From there, scroll to the bottom to read other comments, and leave your own. You may log in to the Intense Debate system, or if you’d prefer, skip the login and Post as a Guest. Simply enter your name, email, website if any, and your comment!

I look forward to sharing more stories, and helping you even more towards your own success with self-healing.

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