My heart opened like a beautiful flower to take the Light of Truth into my spirit. 

So my spirit returned back into my life on earth. 

The book, In the Light of Truth, gave me the essence for my ascent back to my spiritual home. Without this understanding it is not possible to go there. 

The church that I attended as a young woman did not give me any understanding of real life. I needed to be able to see, I needed to be able to hear and understand. Blind faith does not go with this situation! 

From this point of my life, my spirit blossomed like a beautiful flower that opened up to the radiation of the Light in order for me to return to the spiritual realm, to my original home. 

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​SUSTAINABLE PATHS TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND THE PLANET

 In the year 2000, my mother-in-law left a sum of money to my husband when she died, he encouraged it to be used to develop my designs in textiles and other products. Not being very worldly, and in fact being very naive, my heart was set of on a trip which I thought would enable me to find some manufacturing houses and create products for children that in turn would assist me to help children in the developing world.  I had spent my life to that time, nurturing potential in children as an educator, and caring pastorally for families.
The funds enabled me to go to India. I commenced the journey with a friend whose family lived in Poona, and who said, she would guide me in my travels and help me with introductions. I was hopeful and excited.
 I had illustrated a children’s reading series, for indigenous children from the Arranda tribe   years earlier while working with them on the banks of the river Murray in the northern part of Victoria in a place called Gol Gol (which means giggling out loud) a happy place. I desired to exploit these  bush characters and have them made into beautiful fabrics to decorate children’s bedrooms. I also wished to create some lovely sensual toys, bedding and furniture for children having learned of the importance of stimulating the senses and nurturing the potential in children after having a child diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at birth and working with him to stimulate him.
The day came, and I found myself in Mumbai with introduction from my friend. I was visiting   the manufacturing houses for Bloomingdale and Masseys’ department stores in New York. My first impression was of great sadness as I witnessed the conditions that the women were working in. The women were huddled into a room with sewing machines fastened together side by side, their backs folded over the machines with arms closed in beside them in locked position. Each garment was perfectly made the same, each expression was the same on the faces of the women. There was a sadness and a depression that I could feel, it filled the room.
I was thrown out of that manufacturing house that day, as I dared to suggest that music be played and listened to while the exquisite pieces was being done, and that the women could work with me to develop their own individual style in a comfortable position that would embrace other skills and their own ideas bringing life back into their bodies.
I learned that they were paid so little but the work they produced was sold for so much. The broker taking most of what was created. I left that day never to return. I could never be a part of such exploitation. I left wanting to become the broker and return profit to the people while ensuring conditions were life enhancing and creativity nurtured in all I was involved in.
Similarly, I found myself in the remote villages in the Hills east of Bangalore working with women, who again I found to be exploited in every way.  However, in the villages there was difference, still a smile. As women gathered, sang, shared meals, and worked together to produce what they had been asked to make. There was joy to be experienced. Even with the exploitation by others, I saw a joy not found elsewhere. Women shared the responsibility of caring for their children. Elders were respected and laughter, song and love and respect perfumed the environment as we made paper together from the rubbish we collected from the roads and bush nearby. That Paper is now selling in Harrods in England.

​I left India with a dream, a dream to help create cottage industry that empowered women and realized the potential in both their lives and the lives of their children. I commenced working with African women in Australia and networking them into communities, kitchens, gardens and schools so resources could be shared. Secondary schools having vast amounts of resources.
 I wished for profits to be returned to them and their lives given the freedom to choose without losing the unity and the life-giving togetherness I had witnessed.  I desired to create a system that enabled this and a brand name that supported these visions. I chose Bumblebee, as the humble bee, works collaboratively and produces sweetness that gives life, healing while following the light.
 From the year 2000 to this I have worked continuously to realize this dream, my own designs locked away as my ideas and systems emerged and I have encouraged creativity, unity, care for the environment, and holistic food security systems in many countries. I have gained knowledge in shipping, logistics, administration, marketing and sustainable and climate smart agriculture, and always empowered others as I have guided systems to be developed that encouraged communities to formulate their own cooperatives and social enterprises based on sustainable holistic best practice. The systems ensure the networking and sharing of resources with each other to realize individual dreams. I have worked with many people in many countries encouraging creativity and a celebration of uniqueness and respect for difference.
 
 
 
 
I understand that over the past years’ life has become harder and harder for so many people in our own lands. Indigenous peoples have encouraged me to teach how to care for those lands and ensure that our little feet are protected from a world that speaks untruths, that the little feet learn to love themselves and know of their own gift to the world.
The emphasis in the world is on materialism and capitalizing on the suffering of others as I had witnessed in India.  I know another way. I have tried to educate people in so many ways over these years to go with in and cherish the uniqueness, the gifts given and the celebration of the difference in others with a focus on alignment and working together. My belief is that the divine is in all of creation. Seeking to serve the divine in creation and in service to each other is the foundation of my work. 

​As I write this reflection on my dreaming, I have been written to by some impoverished women in Burundi who desire to set up their own enterprises. And it has come to my attention that there may be some women reading this article that may wish to also develop their own social enterprises and help themselves here.
It would be my greatest honor to support the women of Burundi and connect them with a sister group here and guide the process of creation not to fund raise for them, but to empower them and women here to develop social enterprises that assist women and children with the work of the hands in illuminating ways sharing our resources and ideas together. I welcome hearing from anyone who is interested.  I have vision, it needs people  who see as I do, that we need to work together and share our gifts.
Blessings Pauline Mary Crosbie.
Bumblebee Foundation Ltd.     Paulinecrosbie4@gmail.com          0419754724.
 

Book Extract: BioMagnetic Healing with Hands in the Frame of a Meaningful Lifestyle, by Edeltraud Grace 

​The right attitude in self-healing sessions and session for others
 
We always start a healing session in becoming fully aware of the other person standing or sitting opposite of us. We give the person respect.
The same, you should also do when you start a self-healing session. We stop for a moment and become fully aware of ourselves. Perhaps you can recognise that there is a child of God. Perhaps you can also recognise the wonder of your life and body.
 
Then we can open up to Divine healing energy. It is about our inert tuning towards the Divine. Then we relax when we lay our hands on. You indeed do not have to dislocate yourself to treat areas in hard to reach places as all can be accessed via your chakras. When you have pain at the back, you can lay your hand opposite on the front and treat yourself that way. At the end of the treatment, you say a “Thank You” for the Healing energy and the healing.
 
With self-healing, we can have the opportunity to practice the right attitude that we also should have when treating our children or partner or friends.
We open up in PRAYER for the divine healing energy, and we experience ourselves as a CHANNEL or INSTRUMENT. We need enough TRUST to open up for the healing energy, and as we do not know how the healing energy will affect us, we are in the space of simple and humble opening and a state of not ‘knowing’. Let us then stay open for that space for a moment, consciously and with full trust.
Additionally, we can practice GRATITUDE. For what can I be grateful for in the situation that I find myself in in my life? Am I able to be grateful also for small improvements?
PATIENCE. That principle is also in self-healing important for us. How patient am I with my body? How does it feel like when I am patient with my body?
Another principle is here naturally also LOVE. Can I love myself when my own body does not function the way I would like it to function? How does it feel like if I feel empathy with my suffering? Do I have the same sensitivity and care towards myself than I have for other people who are also suffering an illness? When we are in contact with love and empathy towards ourselves, and we also can give it easier for other people.
 
Laying on of Hands is a path of practice.
We will experience times when it goes easy to open up and to let go, to be patient, trusting and loving, and other times, we find it hard and almost impossible. Laying on of Hands is like a COMPASS. It always reminds us of what is healed and light in us and eternal. We open up to the Power of Love and healing happens on that level that is possible.
 
Edeltraud Grace
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Summary

Part 1: Discovering intuitions
Chapter 1 What is an intuition? 
Chapter 2 Searching for the origin of intuitions
 Chapter 3 The spirit, source of intuitions
Chapter 4 How do intuitions come to us? 

​Part 2: The different manifestations of intuitions
Chapter 5 The intuitive flash
Chapter 6 The first impression
Chapter 7 The voice of conscience
Chapter 8 Premonitions
Chapter 9 Inspirations 

Part 3: Developing our intuition
Chapter 10 Why aren't we more intuitive?
Chapter 11 How can we develop our intuition? 

​Christopher Vasey 
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Telepathy, orientation, diagnosis, precognition: the amazing abilities of animals. 

HERMINIA Denot was an Argentine schoolgirl, brought up on a ranch and had a pet horse 'Pampero'. The two were inseperable, but the day finally arrived when Herminia had to leave in order to attend high school in Buenos Aires and could only return home during the holidays. 

This story of separation is not uncommon or unusual if it were not for the amazing events witnessed by the head ranch hand and Herminia's family when she came home to visit. 

They all noticed that a few days before Herminia arrived, Pampero would become very agitated and would gallop around his paddock, whining and neighing incessantly. Then on the day of her arrival, the horse would become very quiet and stand waiting at the gate. If Herminia arrived by train, he stood facing north in the direction of the train station, but if her parents went to pick her up by car, he would face southeast, towards the street. 

HUMAN beings have very complex and varied relationships with our animals. At our worst, we cruelly use animals for different types of research in our laboratories, not to mention the horrible way we mass produce them on animal farms only to be brutally slaughtered for our consumption. Thes practices can in no way be considered humane nor serve as our model in the way we should handle our animals. 

Yet on the other end of the spectrum, we have millions of pets that are loved dearly by their owners, sometimes more than other family members. And quite frequently these pets are more than good-natured and dear and loyal compansions. They possess certain abilities that far exceed the capabilities of human beings and could be an invaluable help to us, if put to good use. 

Here are a few examples

• ​they have a telepathic sense of time when the master begins his journey home; 
• they have a certain ability to be connected with people, sometimes thousands of kilometres away and to feel how they are; 
• they have an incredible sense of direction and can find their way back home over great distances. They can always find their spawning or nesting places. Some animals have been known to find their masters far from home and save them from an emergency situation;
• there are animals that have proven an incredible accuracy in diagnosing certain diseases, such as dogs with certain types of cancer;
• they can sense in advance before a person faints or has an epileptic seizure and have protected the concerned person from a serious accident or even death. 
• and probably the most extraordinairy ability animals have isto know in advance before serious accidents occur or devastating natural catastrophes take place, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and so on, and could save thousands of lives. 

THESE striking abilities of animals have always attracted the attention of several people, so that accounts have been passed down the ages, especially when animals have saved people from an emergency or prevented serious incidents. Yet, in relation to the significance and fascination of these phenomena there are astonishingly few serious and systematic studies. 

The English biologist Rupert Sheldrake has collected and systematically evaluated the most extensive case studies over several years of work in a database. The following case descriptions come from his highly recommended book Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. His detailed portrayal demonstrates why the most astonishing events cannot be explained by our usual perceptions though the five senses! 

​Sheldrake may be considered one of the few scientists who do not simply ignore or deny the astounding phenomena, such as telepathy, but have tried to approach and explain them. Thus he coined the term 'morphic fields' in order to prove the connection between living creatures that cannot be explained with even the most acute sense but may imply a kind of invisible 'elastic band'. these 'morphic fields' would be a kind of formative, energy field that holds together, for example, animal groups in a mysterious manner, extensible to any length and therefore making it possible for individual animals to find the way back to the group over great distances. 

This is also how the connection would take place between an animal and a human being, with one element crucial for the degree of attraction. This involves the strength of sympathy, or in other words, the love that an animal feels for its owner. Also a strong dislike for a person or loveless mistreatment can be the key reason for a corresponding rejection or flight reaction, which can already set in several minutes before this person arrives. 

Sheldrake's supposition that non-measurable and unverifiable morphic, hence formative, fields exist, is quite daring in today's scientific enterprise, as he treads on ground that is open to attack. Consequently he still exposes himself to more or less strong hostility from fellow scientists, who are not willing to look for solutions to observable phenomena that are beyond measurement, and therefore deny them. 

But even with regard to this bold approach, the question arises whether from an integral viewpoint, incorporating finer, invisible material planes and realities, simpler explanations could perhaps be found for the stunning observations. 

So now after so much theory, let us proceed to the fascinating and often truly refreshing practical situations and examine some case studies!

ANIMALS AS HARBINGER OF THEIR MASTER'S ARRIVAL 

The first cases to be discussed are pets, mostly dogs and cats, but also parrots, parakeests, monkeys, and so on, that in an inexplicable manner seem to know when the mistress or the master of the home is returning. 

A case featured in a number of TV documentaries in the 1990's is the story of Englishwoman Pam Smart and her terrier called Jaytee, now deceased. 

Ms Smart worked as a secretary and lived with her parents. From the very beginning, it struck them that Jaytee would almost daily leave his place at 4.30 pm and wait by the patio door for 45 to 60 minutes before her arrival at home. It was therefore logical to assume that the dog had a very accurate sense of time. 

Events became quite strange when Pam Smart lost her job in 1993 and started returning home at irregular times. Regardless of where Pam went and what time she decided to return home, Jaytee always returned expectantly to the patio door at the exact time that Pam Smart decided to come home.
It did not matter whether she walked, took a taxi, rode in her car, Jaytee just knew she was on her way. 

In one of the documentaries, a camera was installed to watch Jaytee, while another camera simultaneously accompanied Pam Smart. Without knowing beforehand, she would be beeped on a page to return home. On a split screen, viewers could observe Jaytee as he reacted to Pam Smart's intention, without any regular means of communication. 

qIt was only seldom that Jaytee did not react; mostly when he was sick or was distracted by a female dog in heat from the neighbourhood. 

STUDIES HAVE SHOWN: PETS KNOW INEXPLICABLY WHEN THE 'MISTRESS' OR 'MASTER' IS AT HOME. 

​There is an equally amusing and amazing case concerning a spaniel dog that belonged to the mother- in -law of a veterinarian. This is a story as recounted by the veterinarian: 
"The dog always knew if I came for a friendly visit or in my capacity as veterinarian. She would jump up on me and break into a joyous howl when I paid a friendly visit. But when I came as a veterinarian, she would hide behind the boiler. I could never understand what she saw that triggered her knowing that I was coming as her veterinarian. At any rate, she would always hide before I even entered the house. And each time she was right. I actually came quite often to visit, stopped by briefly or did all sorts of things, but I appeared only seldom as a veterinarian. And I made my vistis not only because the dog was sick- sometimes it was over some routine matters. But the dog always knew when I was on duty or just visiting for pleasure. "

There are also interesting cases where dog owners change their plans and do not come directly home as usual but stop to go shoppping, for example. Once again the animals react with a certain irritation at times, or they go back to their regular place until their master is finished shopping and makes the decision to drive home. 

There are numerous and touching portrayals in which time and distance play no role. Whether it is the first mentioned beloved horse "Pamperor", which days beforehand perceives and reciprocates Herminia's anticipation, or the secretary's dog Jaytee with his uncanny ability to know about her time changes, the reactionsare always there! 

​But how can we explain these happenings when references to physical functions such as extremely heightened senses, do not seem to be satisfactory explanation? Does this then not point towards the clear and and logical evidence of a finer material world? 

In my opinion the key to answer these questions can be found in the work In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message where the author writes about intuition and thought forms. It is explained quite simply that whatever human beings think and perceive, we produce corresponding forms that are highly effective energetically. These forms are also not bound by distances. If therefore a 'pulll' exists between people or between man and animal- and what bond could be more intensive than that of love- then the thought and intuitive forms immediately form a bridge. And apparently animals generally react more strongly to these influences than human beings. However, Rupert Sheldrake has also registered similar cases among people, especially between mothers and their children. 

THE EMPATHY AND COMPASSION OF ANIMALS

Animals have the incredible ability to support human beings through their empathy. Millions of people are regularly helped by their beloved pets through simple companionship to relieve loneliness, overcome illness or bereavment. Moreover, it has been repeatedly shown with reference groups of people with pets that they are healthier and more balanced than people without pets. 
(These ducklings are Mrs Grace's pets and she mentioned that they relieve stress after work) 

The help animals provide can go a long way! Here is an impressive example: "A woman with difficult marital problems had concluded it was too much for herand decided to take her own life. She left her dog and her cats "sleeping peacefully in front of the fireplace" and went into the kitchen to get a glass of water and a bottle of paracetamol tablets. Suddenly William, her beloved English springer spaniel, jumped up, ran to her and did something it had never done in the whole 15 years of its life: "It growled! Its lips were completely pulled back so that it was almost unrecognisable", she reported. "Terrified, I screwed the bottle shut again. I was really afraid of the dog, went back into the room and sat on the sofa. William ran after me, jumped on me and began frantically licking my face, its whole body shaking."

Here is another case of a dog demonstrating the ability to bridge large distances and recognise the state of being of its owner, and in this instance 6,000 miles away:

"My son was very close to our West-Highland-Terrier. [...] In April 1982 his ship, the HMS Coventry, was sent to the Falkland Islands. On 25 May the dog jumped on my lap in the early evening, trembling and whimpering. When my husband came home, I said: I don't know what's wrong with her - she's been like that for over half an hour now. She doesn't want to get off my lap anymore'. In the nine o'clock news we heard that a 'Type 42' ship had been sunk, and then we knew it was the HMS Coventry, although the name was not announced until the next day. Our son was among the missing. Our little dog burned himself with grief and died after a few months." (Iris Hall, Cowley near Oxford). (retranslated from the German edition)

 This wonderful bond between man and animal can also work in the reverse manner. A horse owner woke up one night and was very worried about his favourite mare. For some reason, unbeknownst to him at the time, he picked upa flashlight and a pair of wire cutters, went outside in the pitch dark of the night and intuitively and quickly found the horse that had become entangled in barbed wire. 

In all those cases it is assumed that a finer invisible material bond of strong affection exists between the spirit of man and the sould of the animal, a type of radiation connection with regards to the mutual state and signals emitted, when more or less incisive things happen. 

TELEPATHY AND TELEPHONY

Older model telephones without a display screen and a single ring are wonderful devices for verifying the telepathic abilities of animals. With this type of phone we cannot know who is calling, or can we? 

There are numerous cases of mostly cats, but also dogs as well, where these pets react only when the phone rings and it is their owner, no matter what time of day or night, and totally ignore calls from other people! Rupert Sheldrake describes a case in which a cat was particularly sensitive to phone callse from its owner, whom it particularly liked. Whenever this man called, his cat ran to the telephone and would even sometimes manage to knock the phone off its receiver and greet him with a happy meow! All other callers were of no interest to it. 

WIth a dog called Jack the reaction started even before the phone rang: "About ten minutes before a particular phone call took place, Jack the dog sat by the phone until it rang. On other evenings when my father did not need to call, the dog did not stir at all and stayed in its basket. It also was unmoved by any other telephone calls at all other times." (Mr. S. Waller)

Many people also have the ability to have a presentiment about specific callers, but usually in a considerably weakened and more unreliable form. 

It is also logical in these cases to assume that animals pick up their owner's intensions through channels of thought and feeling forms, thus again through fine-material radiations. 

MILLENIA-OLD 'SATELLITE NAVIGATION' - PUZZLING SENSE OF DIRECTION

Homing pigeons have long fascinated human beings and are a popular hobby today.

These pigeons have long fascinated human beings and are a popular hobby today. These pigons can be taken from 100 miles up to an incredible, 1,000 miles away from the home loft, relreased and then monitored. When left to their own devices, they have found their way home again. 

Prize-winning pigeons fly up to almost 1,000 miles without interruption and arrive back home after about 12 hours of flight- a phenomenal achievement at an average speed of approximately 80 miles per hour. This also proves that they wasted no time in searching for a way back home! The pigeons fly straight home from completely unknown and constantly changing locations. 

Experiments in which pigeons were blindfolded did not, incidentally, impair their ability to find the home dovecote whatsover. Under these conditions, however, the final landing approach led to major problems. For instance, the pigeons collided with trees or fences. There is an obvious need for visual contact during the last meters. 

Also, albatrosses taken to other continents unerringly found their nesting sides from distances of 4,000 to 5,000 miles and over oceans within about two to four weeks. 

Attempts are constantly being made to explain these phenomena. This is done by trying to associate these capabilities through an orientation to the sun, the stars or to the earth's magnetic field. But in most cases, this is not convincing since the birds unerringly find their route at night or with cloudy skies as well. And as far as the magnetic field is concerned, this would of course asume that a mysterious magnetic sense exists to recognize the earth's magnetic pole. This would be to no avail because the geographical coordinates of the bird's location are unknown. It would then only know where the north or south is, but not its exact location. Let us not forget the reliable navigation on the high seas, until recently presented a great challenge to human beings!

Marine animals are just as amazing. Sea turtles, for example, will correctly find their spawning grounds over and over again in spite of trails of thousands of miles of ever-changing ocean currents. 

The search continues within the scientific community to understand how all this works. But a satisfactory explanation will never be possible on the basis of a purely materialistic approach without reference to the finer, invisible worlds!

It would be worthwhile to take into consideration the references from the work In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message where once again the author gives clear and precise explanations of all happenings. He reveals that nature is inhabited by conscious nature beings that are, in general, invisible to most human beings. They are however, well known throughout past history and referred to today as myths and legends. Would this not be the simplest explanation for the phenomental orientation of many animals? Being closer to their species, animals can see them and are guided by them to find the shortest and safest route. Neither should it be excluded that nature beings are able to produce a kind of energetic field or a fine-material radiation connection to the destination that the animals then siply follow. Such a controlled energetic and formative, 'morphic field' could at least begin to explain the following:

• ​why flocks of birds move in a wave of absolute synchronity that in a split second pulls through the whole flock; 
• why it is possible for blind termites to errect an incredibly complex structure indepent of each other in a perfect division of labour; 
• what allows schools of thousands of individual fish to form a very big hole in perfect condition within a split second when approached by a predatory fish that then pierces through it in vain. 

DOGS AS PROPHETS AND DIAGNOSTICIANS

Dogs have especially amazing abilities in anticipating epileptic seizures or dangerously low blood sugar levels in their owners and then warning them. Even if the warnings are at the last minute, this is usually enough time for the epileptic or diabetic person to help himself or seek medical attention. The British veterinarian, Andrew Edney, carried out studies on the warning behaviour of dogs. Rupert Sheldrake also mentions highly interseting cases. 

Here is an account of an equally fantastic and touching example of the premoritory abilities of a rescue dog called Rupert, belonging to Amonia Brown-Griffin from Kent, England, who suffered up to twelve severe epileptic fits a week:
"He can feel up to fifty minutes before a seizure occurs and taps me twice with his paw, which leaves me time to get to somewhere safe. He can also press a button on my phone and bark when lifted on the other end to summon help, and if he thinks that I will have a seizure while I am in the bath tub, he pulls out the plug. I simply can no longer imagine a life without him."

It is conceivable in such cases that the dogs are able to react even to slightest disturbances in the energy balance of their owner, which indeed we human beings can perceive as a kind of change in vibes of our fellow humans. In a close personal contact with the owner this cannot be excluded. It becomes puzzling, however, when the animal, perhaps asleep in the next room, comes bursting out with warning signals at the relevant time. In this case, an explanation that incluses contact with (nature-) beings makes more sense. 

Only one other form of animal diagnostics can be explained by the physical senses, even if it is also astonishing. Some dogs have a marked capacity to diagnose certain cancers, such as skin or lung cancer with unbelievable accuracy! In lung cancer detection it is a legendary 99 per cent acccurate and in breast cancer at 88 per cent certainty, this clearly demonstrates a higher success rate than the conventional medical mammography. The dogs trained in this manner sniff the breath and the affected skin tissues of patients and sit down if they can detect cancer. 

This can be explained by the extraordinairy sensitivty of the dog's nose that has 220 million olfactory cells and puts this well above humans with 5 million cells. 

All the same, such a gentle diagnosis or diagnosis hedging would be a great aid. But this simple way has not yet been introduced, at least on a larger scale, into hospitals. 

Warning of disasters and catastrophes

For centuries there have always been accounts where animals have stopped people in their tracks or forced them to change directions through extremely striking behaviour and thereby saved them from injuries or even death. 

Once again these are situations that cannot be explained conclusively by referring to normal or heightened senses because some of the perceived events lie in the future, such as traffic accidents or falling trees. They were 'foreseen' minutes beforehand by cats or dogs riding along in the car that unexpectedly started behaving in odd or loud ways, yet they were insulated from outside influences. 

Animals have also warned people of a landslide that transformed a mountain road just around a curve into a gaping abyss, and of more similar indicents. There are also accounts from the Second World War in which animals warned of enemy bombing and in their reaction could distinguish exactly between safe movements of their own Air Force and those of the enemay attackers. Even more striking still were the forebodings of animals that could anticipate the insidious V2 rocket attacks by the Germans, although they were flying at almost three times the speed of sound, sometimes at night, and were therefore quite impossible to detect by the nomal senses. 

Snakes and toads as life-savers too! 
Countless lives could be saved through perhaps the most valuable ability of animals and that is their anticipation of major natural disasters. There are many accounts of remarkable animal behaviour during the devastating earthquake in Haiti (January 2010), the overwhelming tsunami in Southern Asia (December 2004), and in earthquakes in China, including one case in early February 1976 in which the city of Haicheng was evacuated and many thousands of lives were saved. 

Toads and snakes are especially and frequently excellent earthquake sirens and often react many days in advance. 

'Toads are better than the best seismographs' according to a study conducted by biologist Rachel Grant of the British Open University. She had travelled to Lake Sand Ruffino, which lies 74 km north of L'Aquila, Italy, ten days before the earthquake for a scientific observation. On March 28, 2009 more than 90 male toads had gathered at the spawning site around the lake, two days later the number rapidly decreased. On April 1, five days before the earthquake, 96 per cent of the male toads had disappeared. 

A few days after the earthquake of April 6, dozens of common toads returned to the lake during the full moon, a high point of the mating season. The number was about 50 to 80 per cent lower than in previous years and then decreased immediately again. 

It was not until two days after the last aftershocks that the number of observed toads clearly increased again. Moreover, three days before the quake, all toad pairs had disappear4ed. And furthermore, between the earthquake and the last heavy aftershocks also no fresh toad spawning was discovdered. 

The behaviour of the toads is, according to Grant, extremely unusual: 'Normally, male toads would not leave a certain area until the end of the spawning season.'

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There are also numerous reports that wild animals always reach safety before natural disasters, so that for example, after the devastating tsunami of 2004, the beach was scattered with human corpses, but far and wide hardly any dead animal was found. 

Ancient knowledge and new insights
 Most of the described astonishing phenomena cannot be grasped by the usual scientific reasoning. But would it not be absurd to deny or refuse to believe them just because they aparently compel us to acknowledge a different reality that lies beyond the physical senses and reaches into the world of finer material matter? 

The theory that there is nothing beyond the earthly has taken root in the comprehension of many contemporary people. But was the former religious dogma of the churces not replaced with just a senseless scientific dogram that threatens to undermine our spiritual conception? 

Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that there are very good and welcome developments with scientific advances and the gradual disappearence of some thinking prohibitions such as the confirmation of ancient knowledge through the results of new scientific research! 

A noteworthy example of this is the large-scale investigations and evaluations on near-death experiences conducted by Dutch cardiologist Pin van Lommel. He produced sensational results, according to present day standards, that human consciousness can exist independent of the body. This confirms the ancient wisdom of an independent soul connected to the body. 

Likewise, Fritz-Albert Popp provided evidence that living cells emit light, for which he was initially challended until the phenomenon could no longer be denied. This too fits with the ancient knowledge of the existence of an aura, a radiation rng that surrounds every living thing and can be seen by clairvoyant people. 

​Also Rupert Sheldrake's first class studies on the 'seventh sense of animals' may be regarded as very valuable in terms of the effect of 'otherworldly' influences, such as our own inner perceptions, often referred to as intuition, or the activity of the nature beings, no matter what name we give to the observed phenomena. 

Much depends on whether we can get used to the idea of finer worlds lying above us as part of the great whole of Creation. We cannot see these directly, but experience their effects persistently, because they 'spill over' to the gross matter visible to us. 

Only by following this path will we probably find logical, verifiable and plausible explanations of many phenomena that are bound to remain a mystery with the hitherto fixed view to the purely material world. 

It is high time for a new synthesis of integral, spiritual knowledge and a new science that is ready to leave the narrow, thus severely limited and one-sided purely material worldview. 

And if with open perception we regard all the areas where animals can help us, what they basically also do gladly and willingly, one thing will certainly not be missing: a higher self-esteem, a respectful and loving treatment of our fellow creatures, which are and should be our best friends! 

Author contact Schmitt@musik-geisteswerte.de

​Compiled by Edeltraud Grace 

One day in my youth, when feeling lost and overwhelmed, by life's problems, I went to visit a wise old lady. She told me that I should completely change my life in order to cope with my situation. But how should I go about this? I did not have two pennies to rub together and could see no way out. The wise lady said: "Devote yourself to a flower every day. Just one bloom a day will help you to rearrange your life. "

So I went home and found some daisies in the meadow behind our house. I sat down and gazed at them. They seemed to smile and warm my heart. 
I was relieved for a while. But soon my problems began to invade my thoughts again. How could these lovely little daisies help me to overcome my feelings of despair? 
I felt depressed again. 

A little voice whispered: "Just one flower!" Without wondering who was talking to me I immediately picked one daisy, took it home and put it into a vase. As darkness set in I still cowered in front of the little flower. I lit a candle and was surprised by the gleaming, brilliant white of its petals. My thoughts focused on their beauty and my mind seemed to grow lighter and brighter. 

The next day I woke up refreshed for the first time in ages. But on looking at my daisy, a sad sight awaited me. It had withered and shriveled up! After a while I succeeded in overcoming my frustration and went to the market. In front of a flower stall I found a lonely rose lying on the floor. I quickly picked it up and felt so happy about this unexpected event. When I put it in my freshly refilled vase at home I said to my rose: "Now don't let me down! I am depending on your help!" 
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I marveled at its beauty and was amazed at the simplicity of the rose bloom like never before. Calm and silence came over me. I collected my thoughts and step by step I arranged them in proper order. 

After a week of caring for one flower every day I did feel much better. New ideas came into my mind and I began to read interesting books and meet friends. It was as if the flowers told me each day what to do. I felt so grateful to it, for its beauty, color and form, for its smile and its whisperings. Through my thoughts of gratitude a new confidence grew in me. After a while my inner voice spoke more clearly than ever before. I became increasingly happier. Dark and heavy thoughts had melted away. Little by little my everyday life was joyfully reshaped for the better. 

This happened a long time ago. 
And I still make time to arrange flowers each day. 

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Arranged and images by E. Grace. Text Marion E. Jacob

Above images: Stations of the history of mankind: The Roman Empire- The French Revolution- The Second World War....Has it always been the same human spirits, who over and over stamped the events of world history? 

As a rule we cannot remember a previous life on earth. We therefore consider the idea of reincarnation as inept. But time and again there are people who remember- more or less clearly - a former life. They are witnesses for the fact that we human beings do live more than just once on earth! 
- Prof Dieter Malchow-

With the usual rejection of reincarnation in many cultural circles nowadays, we possibly quite subconsciously assume two things. Firstly: If memory depends on the brain- and this has been shown impressively by the sciences- then we could also have no memories, because the brain with the body disintegrates with death. Secondly, we assume that there is only the body. Today a dualism of body and soul in which the soul animates the body and represents us as a personality is generally rejected, because it appears incomprehensible how something nomaterial (soul) could interact with matter (body). 

But an interaction can certainly take place. Study of nature already teaches us that; the individual elements like earth, water and air maintain intensive exchange, and even photons interact with plants and provide them with energy to grow. The photomechanical principle of the steelblue jewel beetle, to which infrared beams show nearly 80 km of the way to a forest fire, so that it can lay its eggs in charred trunks, is also an example. 

Are memories of former lives possible? 
Ian Stevenson has collected such proofs of reincarnation. He was a professor at the University of Charlottsville in Virginia and has examined many thousands of cases of children who can remember a previous life on earth. 

An example: Parmond Sharma was born in October 1944 in India (in Bisauli, 45 kilometres southwest of Bareilly). When he was 2 to 3 years old, he told his mother she should not bother cooking, because he had a wife in Moradabad (90 kilometres to the north of Bareilly) who could cook. At three to four years he told of a big soda water and biscuit store which he had owned as one of the Mohan brothers in Moradabad. At that time he had fallen ill from eating too much curd. 

In 1949 Parmod travelled with his father to Moradabad. From the railway station the five-year-old showed the coach driver the way to his former shop. On arrival, he complained that his seat in the shop had been changed (in India it was a custom that the owner had a seperate seat at the front of the store). Parmod also knew exactly how the soda water machine worked. Although the water had been turned off to mislead him, he got the complex machine started on his own. He recognised many members of his former family, shed tears and openly showed his affection. He acted like a husband to his then wife and like a father to his children. He asked them to call him father, and said he had merely grown small. The previous owner, one of the Mohan brothers, had died in May 1943 of a chronic bowel infection, after he had eaten curd in excess. 

How is such a recollection possible? We must only assume that certain memories are picked up by the soul as well as by the brain. These are the episodic memories, events which we ourselves have experienced. Experiences which have made an impression on the soul are preserved, although the brain disintegrates at death, and they can become conscious again in a new earth life with the aid of the new brain. 

All merely insinuation? 
An argument against reincarnation is that the memory has come about by thought transference or through prompting by the deceased from the beyond. This cannot be excluded of course in principle. But it becomes very unlikely if one experience the manner in which children remember. This was also a matter of concern for a journalist, Tom Shroder. He asked Ian Stevenson to take him along on his travels to the children, in order to get a picture for himself. He has written an exciting book about this and disclosed all his doubts, in order to dispel them there and then. For there is hardly a case which is suited as perfect proof. The children were often already older before Stevenson heard of them and was forced thereby to check the credibility of the eyewitnesses. The memories were sometimes incomplete or the families in question had theoretically the opportunity to have known of each other beforehand. But Tom Shroder was convinced by the way and manner the children behaved when they carry memories of former lives within them. They do not act as if they are repeating something whispered or speak as directed by another person. They actually are this former person. It is evident in the conduct of Parmod towards his relatives: "Why have you moved my seat to another place?" And to his wife: "Why do you not bear the sign?"  (a red mark on the forehead, to show that she is married). Furthermore, even if we are told how to work a machine, we are initially clumsy and have doubts whether we really are doing it right. But the five-year-old toddler managed to get the complicated machine going. 

Another indication to the genuineness of the reports is the emotional behaviour of the children and of the former relatives. Parmod cried and openly showed his affection. Also the erstwhile relatives feel a psychological bond in many cases; many a child had preferred to remain in the family of his former life on earth. 

Reincarnation- how does it work? 
Another pressing question concerns the mechanism of incarnation. For Tom Shroder the union of body and soul is a great mystery. How and when should it happen? Also in this case nature shows that inside an animal things can prepare themselves which, seen properly, are a complete wonder. Think of the hatching of a butterfly from what now and then looks like a pretty ghastly caterpillar. It is the new form, which starts off within in the course of a caterpillar's life and is completed in the puga stage, and finally leaves the old dwelling as a butterfly. 

The soul of a child growing in the mother's womb is attracted by the soul of the mother. This happens in the middle of the pregnancy, but not arbitrarily. It is subject to the Laws of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species and of Reciprocal Action. 

This becomes clear especially with twins. Ian Stevenson describes 26 well documented cases, where at least one of the twins remembered his previous life. In 19 cases the former personality of one twin had a relationship to the other twin, sometimes in a marriage; in the remaining 7 cases it was as a friend or acquaintance. This shows that also the second soul must in some way suite the first one, and that these relationships were already established in a previous life on earth. 

The Burmese twins Cho and Ko Thien, for instance, remembered lif as a lady owner of a rice mill and as a rice farmer who used to bring his rice to this mill. The behaviour of these twins mirrored the somewhat haughty manner of the rich miller and the deferential attitude of the rice farmer. We do not know which relationship from the life at that time life has brought them together this time. If it was affection, then their current life as sister and brother places a different task before them. For the soul has the opportunity to mature in the course of the life on earth and to gain strength. 

Why do we forget the former life? 
Some children can remember, but most children cannot. Stevenson found out that very many of the children he studied who had died relatively young from accidents or illness were reborn fairly quickly. The average figure for more than 600 cases was 15 months. This short time span could be the reason that the memory overflows into the next life, because the ones concerned were torn in the middle of life and the past life was emotionally still dominant. 

Ordinarily we do not remember. It is a stroke of fortune. Why? This is explained by the example of an English woman, Jenny Cockell, who remembered since early childhood a life in Ireland, in a village close to Dublin . 

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Jenny was in her childhood very often haunted by an awaful dream, in which she experienced her own death as Mary, the mother of 8 children, and awoke with great feelings of guilt, because she had left her children in the lurch. In the course of her present life Jenny was always inspired by the wish to find her lost children. She actually did manage to complete her search successfully, beside holding down a job and starting a family. The most difficult part was to convince her children, who were now much older than herself. This succeeded because she had many memories in common with her eldest son. See youtube

Our present life is influenced by memories from a former life. If the memories are missing, we can have a life unencumbered by the past. We are thereby in the fortunate position to enter upon new paths, to awaken new abilities slumbering inside us. The memories have of course also brought Jenny good things. For instance the friendship with her son and the certainty that life continues after death. 

How do lives on earth differ? 
Does the personality find other possibilties to develop in a new life on earth? Parmod was not as successful in his present life as in his former one as a businessman. After 27 years he had only managed to become an ordinary secretary working for the state. He had not married and lived alone. He still often visited his daughter and sons, less so his wife, with whom as he once said "I always had arguments". His present subordinate position as an ordinary secretary without job security affords him the opportunity to see life through the eyes of an underling. 

Things look rather different for Jenny Cockell. As Mary she led a very simple life of poverty and privation, in constant fear of her abusive and alcoholic husband. In her present life she struggled to learn something (she became a chiropodist) and so to obtain the means to be able to search for her previous children. This latent feeling of guilt, to have left her children in the lurch, had been a powerful drive in her life and motivated her to leave nothing untried. In spite of the suffering at the hands of her husband at that time she has married again and this time has also found an understanding husband. 

Far-reaching conclusions
What conclusions can be drawn from the fact of the memory? 

Life does not end with the death of the body. The soul absorbs the experiences of the past life, which under certain circumstances - such as a quick re-birth after a sudden death- can be roused in early childhood. There really is a dualism between body and soul, whereby the soul has the qualities which we ascribe to a person, such as willpower, character, judgment, self-consciousness, experiencing, intentions, and so on. 

If is often claimed that knowledge of reincarnation really has no effect. In India, for example, where many people have knowledge of reincarnation, there would still be as much crime as in other countries. Consider: Many people smoke, although they know that it is harmful. If therefore depends on the individual how they take their knowledge to heart and how they convert it. It is useful to hang on to the thought that all the events in the entire history  of the world, all the heights and depths of humanity, as for example the founding, the flourishing and the decline of the Roman empire, the Inquistion, the French revolution, Germany at the time of the second World War, and so on, were under the formative influence of the same human spirits. It has to be taken into account thereby that nationality, religious affliation and social status are time and again intermingled, always acccording to the behaviour of the individual. The laws of Reciprocal Action and the Attraction of Homogenous Species regulate the conditions into which we are born, so that the saying "life is what you make it" only receives its validity over the span of different earth lives. 

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Literature
Stevenson Ian, Children Who Remember  Previous Lives: Question of Reincarnation, 2001

www.grailmessage.com  Abd-ru-shin, In the Light of Truth - The Grail Message, Stiftung Gralsbotschaft, Stuttgart

Thomas Shroder, Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives, Simon and Schuster 2001

Jenny Cockell, Across Time and Death, 1994



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‘The Eternal Feminine leads us aloft’
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Womanhood. Not always the most comfortable topic. Perhaps I have a chip on my shoulder about it. We see and hear such a wide variety of viewpoints and opinions, many contradictory and misleading, about what it is to be a woman. Viewpoints that go to extremes and do not seem to leave much room for the possibilities in between, or furthermore for real life conditions. More often than not, the views that are the most publicised are from people with vested interests.
Wherever we look in the world today, we have been bombarded with messages about womanhood and her role but with ignorance of our actual abilities. Women should embrace traditional roles; women should take on roles previously reserved for men. We should be virtuous, but at the same time if we look at the media, the idea of woman as a sexual object is increasingly prevalent in the tide of music videos and movies. We should be perfect housewives and mothers, and yet we should be out in the workforce.
By Diane Labrosse
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It goes from bad to worse when people are judged by their choices or their circumstances as they try to navigate a life path for themselves. Since there is not just one single path in order to evolve and grow as individual human beings, we experience many different roads, and sometimes it looks like we are stuck in the brambles, trying to untie ourselves from the consequences of the choices we have made in our lives. In wanting to be free, we have knocked down fences and crossed boundaries that we should never have crossed. We are judged and criticized for all these choices, and sometimes even ostracised if we have taken a path less travelled.
Fashion dictates much of what we wear, what is ‘in’ and ‘out’; however, women are unique individuals and ‘one fashion does not fit all’, it limits the expression of who we are and the inherent beauty we all carry within us. Society gives us few ‘models’ of genuine beauty, and it can be very cruel if you do not fit the mould, follow the trends, or are seen to be ‘getting old’.
In reality, there is an amazing diversity in the expression of womanhood. Much like flowers in nature, we display an abundance of variety, such as roses, and violets, cacti flowers, orchids, thistles, daisies, birds of paradise, peonies, lilacs, edelweiss, daffodils, and even dandelions, which thrive in rich loam, in deserts, in cold mountainous conditions, and even in the cracks of tarmacked urban environments. So, too, women exhibit different strokes and personalities.
Collectively, we have done so much. Some bared their bodies scantily clad without shame, whilst others covered themselves in concealing garments designed to keep everything out of the public eye. In between, dressing that enhanced the natural beauty. There were those that flourished in the public eye, as politicians, anchor-women, celebrities or as fashion icons. Yet
many kept their lives private in simple day-to-day life, or as stay-at-home wife or mother. We behaved as servants to others in our households, or as princesses – more tyrants than wise queens – of our homes, feeling entitled to all without being responsible to anyone or for anything. We bore burdens and responsibilities beyond imagination, without the relief of kindred spirits to help us. Or we had no other purpose in life, no other goal but to be a decorative object or somebody’s social status ‘symbol’, with all the wealth at our feet, and an inner life as barren as a desert. We thrived surrounded by friends, or we suffered in unbearable loneliness. We have embraced traditional roles presented to us; we have taken roles far from the well beaten paths, such as those held by men, in fields like mining and manufacturing, construction, politics, finance, or others. We have nurtured our feminine qualities, or jeopardised them with choices that were less than appropriate.
We did the entire gamut in between. We have a full rainbow of things we have done and still do, from dark to light, from damaging to uplifting.
In all of that, none of us is perfect, or should see ourselves without redeeming values. If we were given a mirror that could reflect our inner life as well as our outside appearance, if any, none of us would be at the same place or level of maturity. We would see very different things, some of which we might be proud of, but much we would not like – whether physically, morally or spiritually. But there would be beauty in every one of us, and wherever we would be, there would be a path to a better us. But that path would be different for each and every one of us, and it would be up to us to figure out the best one to take. And it would be up to each and every one of us to have the courage to take it.
Each and every one of us, no matter what level we are, can help to uplift the world and make it a better place. The arts have shown us how much and how deeply we can inspire and move the world when we apply ourselves to the good and to an enlightened goal. With both feet securely planted on earth, we could reach for the sky and strive for the highest goals. We can cultivate beauty in our own personal way. There is so much that can be done, and it is up to each and every one of us to dig seriously within ourselves to bring forth our personal potential and riches.
The subject of womanhood is richer and much more complex than we realise. At the heart of the matter is the fact that our spirit is always the animating core of our being, whilst intellect is but a useful tool to facilitate life on the earth plane. We have a high goal and a most sacred calling, which we must fulfil with our delicate intuitive perception.
From our own experience and the place where we now find ourselves, we must take all of what we have become, and bring it to the next higher level. We have to fulfil our true nature, our spiritual mission and express the quintessence of what we are, the very reason for our existence.
Abd-ru-shin writes in In the Light of Truth:
‘Only when she has become truly conscious of her womanhood does woman stand at the highest place spiritually! […]
 
‘Thus woman’s principal task also here on earth, in the World of Matter, is to ennoble her environment.’
(Volume III, Lecture ‘Woman and her vocation’)
This work convincingly answers questions about the meaning of human life, our origin and destiny. It gives deep insights into womanhood, its nature, its purpose, its meaningful and uplifting role in Creation. The encounter was, for me, like finding a map and a compass for somebody lost in the forest, like finding the ‘instruction manual’ for life that we somehow misplaced along the way.
Truly a treasure chest of spiritual knowledge, a priceless gift for spiritual awakening in these dark days.

This article appeared first in Pearl Magazine 

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The feeling of being dead while the body is still alive
‘Last week I again failed to accomplish anything, was just tired and run down!’
‘Since the breakup with his girlfriend my son lies about depressed and complains that he is unable to study!’
‘Everything is pointless, empty and grey; the best thing would be to end it all.’
Each of these statements suggests a phase in a human life that tells of dejection, heaviness, fatigue, pessimism and perceived futility – thus a state of depression
The concept of depression is used, on the one hand, to account for unproductive phases or to explain negative sensations, and on the other hand, also to describe severe mental suffering. In fact, these symptoms are so common that they seem to have transformed depression into an endemic illness: In the estimates of the World Health Organization around one fifth of the human population is so seriously affected at least once in their lifetime as to warrant psychotherapeutic intervention on their behalf. Depression can occur in children, adolescents and adults. It can last for a shorter or longer period and can totally paralyze a person mentally, physically and emotionally. It may be a temporary hiatus of upset as well as evoke a far-reaching mental ailment. In extreme cases life is perceived as so endlessly grey, stressful and pointless that suicidal thoughts can creep in.

By Marianne Klauser-Stalder
Winterthur, Switzerland

If I could at least feel sad!
We all know the hours in which we feel despondent, low-spirited and sad. The longer we have worked on ourselves, the better we will know which thoughts are able to help us at such moments to regain a cheerful mood and a more optimistic perception. Indeed, most of us have suffered losses, which need to be mourned. Feelings of grief, despair and pain are indeed unpleasant and dampening, but nevertheless quite natural – so that they are not symptoms of depression in the real sense.
Real depression can be compared to a persistently grey, heavy, constricting straitjacket; a condition which renders thoughts as well as the mind heavily burdened so that those affected feel tired, listless, weak, joyless and trapped. They are pessimistic and see everything as gloomy, cannot concentrate and are slow in thought and action. Decisions are endlessly difficult and the memory function is also impaired. ‘When I have my Alzheimer’s days …’ is how a housewife describes her depressive states.
During the depressive state, the energy levels are in a state of exhaustion, the thoughts circle in the same darkly brooding orbits, the emotional world is devoid of freshness and the present is unable to be experienced properly. An absence of a zest for living as well as the loss of a natural feeling of happiness is typical of this state. Often annoying physical symptoms such as, for example, pains, insomnia, restlessness, cravings or loss of appetite also tend to accompany this emotional low.

Many of those stricken by depression feel guilty and ashamed of their predicament because they have a distinct notion of what to do about it but cannot follow through because they lack the necessary strength and drive. Well-intentioned advice from their surroundings such as, for instance, to ‘try to think positively’, usually only makes the situation worse, because gloomily pessimistic thoughts cannot simply be turned off. The fact that this state of being, despite the recognition of its consequences, cannot be improved by one’s own efforts causes anxiety and gnaws at self-esteem.

Depression can therefore be described as a state of friction between high and often exaggerated expectations of one’s own goals in life on the one hand and, on the other, a paralysis of energy, a lack of perception of present-day realities, the absence of the invigorating warmth of spontaneous experiencing of everyday life, the curtailment of the full vigour of activity as well as a paucity of inner liveliness. This attenuation of vitality and clouding of thoughts thus paralyzes the free will. The essence of the human being, the perceptive capacity, is therefore rendered impotent or at best, becomes severely restricted in its activity and this is the very thing that signifies the crux of the ailment. Erich Fromm has summed this up well when he wrote: ‘What is depression? It is the inability to feel, it is the sense of being dead, while our body is alive. It is the inability to experience joy, as well as the inability to experience sadness. A depressed person would be greatly relieved if he could feel sad. ” (The Sane Society)

Growing in grief
Grief, however, is an archetypal human feeling, which is a part of every life on earth as a natural reaction of the soul to a loss. The death of a loved one causes grief, just as do other forms of separation which life imposes on us. Grief announces itself even if we desired and brought about this separation ourselves, so that grief in such instances is sometimes perplexing to us. Our children move out cheerfully and well prepared, eager to make their own way in life; we are happy for them and sad at the same time, because it brings a warm, vibrant phase of life to an irrevocable end. Some transitions in life bring us sadness because we have to let go of something familiar and precious. Also, the behaviour of other people can make us feel sad, especially conflicts and attacks, because such things may undermine our self-esteem, reputation and sense of dignity and diminish our participation and trust in the social network we belong to.

Children, too, are sad – often not knowing why – and then require comfort.
However, it is just these unpleasant situations of grief and pain which enable us to grow and mature, even to the point of being able to experience the great power that continually envelops and sustains us. It is therefore necessary to perceive, accept and experience whatever approaches us, even if this does not always bring happiness and sunshine.

Trusting grief…
Grief follows its own paths; in most cases waves or phases can be identified, which come and subside again of their own accord. The goal is to embrace this rhythm and experience the troughs of the waves with their different shades exactly in the same way as the high points. Every person who has experienced this at least once knows that waves of sorrow grow weaker over time, slowly lose their grip and finally fade away. Grief furthers healing and development as long as it is perceived in purity and not perchance interlooped with other feelings, thoughts and fantasies.
Grief thus initiates a necessary emotional moulding process, from which a person can emerge, strengthened and imbued with new spiritual knowledge and an expanded consciousness.
… but not submerging in it
Grief becomes unhealthy only if we are submerged by it and hold on to it needlessly for a long time, thereby subjecting others to burdensome entanglements or by embellishing the original grief with fantasies and longings of our own. Holding on to grief can give rise to a chronic melancholy, a taunting grouchiness or even a state of permanent embitterment, a disorder which harbours at its core a reproachful attitude to fate and a belligerent attitude towards other human beings.

In contrast to this, incipient grief can, however, also be edged out like an unwelcome guest because it makes excessive demands or does not fit into our concept of life. Ousting or repressing grief is just as unhealthy as needlessly prolonging it. In both situations the catalyst that may give rise to a future depression rests with the one-sidedness displayed therein and this holds true for all other aspects of one’s life as well.

The many faces of depression
Depending on the nature and biographical origin, a depression can find expression in many different forms; for example as ‘winter blues’, when in the autumn the days become shorter and sunlight becomes increasingly scarce. At that time of the year many people struggle against fatigue and a dampened mood. This type of depression is due partly to natural causes: The human organism wants to step back during this season and become quieter and more withdrawn but, unfortunately, our corporate structures and work practices, attuned as they are to relentless activity, do not allow for such a subtle retreat. Many of those affected find relief during these months by switching on a lamp, which is also a symbol for the fact that, in order to escape a depression, we should adjust our antennas in a new way so as to connect with the light that constantly surrounds us, not only to sunlight, but especially to light not visible to the eyes, which streams down from higher spheres.

Postnatal depression, called ‘baby blues’, also has partially natural causes: The rigours of birth as well as the subsequent radical hormonal changes taking place, combined with high expectations of motherhood, can lead to despair, acute exhaustion or even a psychotic episode. In most cases it would be enough to lovingly look after the mother and relieve her of some of the stress until her own energies are again in balance and the joy of having her little one awakens.

In a similar manner, lingering worries, unsound relationships, work-related issues and unresolved prolonged conflicts may gnaw at the soul of an affected person and in time trigger depressive moods.
After a lengthy engagement, such as caring for a relative, for example, or undergoing challenging trials, a so-called relief depression may surface, which necessitates the person concerned to pause, take stock and then tread the path to recovery.

In phase-related depressions, the so-called transitions of life, whether they occur in adolescence, in mid-life, during menopause or at an advanced age, often bring into focus a key issue in a person’s life that has to be re-evaluated, put into perspective and brought to a close, so as to make room for a new inner orientation and spiritual direction which is now due with the next phase of life, in order to give it new meaning.

The issue of change and transition is found in many cases of depression; for example, the days of emptiness and helplessness which may set in after the children have moved out or when a company is suddenly restructured and nothing is quite the same as it was before! Hermann Hesse alludes to this very natural process of life in his poem ‘Steps’: ‘Courage, heart, take leave and fare thee well!’ We should therefore in the course of life bid farewell again and again to ideas, grand designs, ambitious goals, cherished habits and sometimes also to people. Resistance to change consumes essential vitality, constricts and dulls our perception and clouds it in anxiety. If one is able to mobilise trust in the forces active in Creation and to face the coming changes with a firm resolve, then the mind too, will be much more at ease.

Escalation to severe mental trauma
Sudden and unexpected traumatic events such as an accident, the loss of one’s job, the death of a child, a separation or the suicide of a loved one can cause the soul to cry out in petrified anguish and, metaphorically speaking, even ‘turn it to stone’, just as is illustrated in the Old Testament: Lot’s wife solidified into a pillar of salt when, disobeying the command from the angel, she looked back and witnessed how the sinful city of Sodom was consumed in a rain of fire! This emotional distress, which is described as reactive depression in psychology, can develop in a person when the inner self freezes up after a severe battering and, mentally overwhelmed by what is happening to him, life for this person suddenly seems no longer worth living. Treatment involving ‘digestion’ of what has happened is called for in such cases, until the events lose their terrifying grip and find a meaningful place in the person’s own life story. Only then can the capacity to perceive and experience be re-awakened. Such things normally take their time, and are best initiated under the guidance of a professional.

Other forms of severe depression can engulf people from ‘out of the blue’ and seemingly without any discernible cause. In former times, these conditions were, on account of the severity and frequency within a family, referred to as ‘endogenous’, thus as inherited. However, this idea, which suggested that little could be done other than in prescribing medication to alleviate the symptoms, has been largely abandoned by professional circles today.
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In manic depression or bipolar disorder a person mostly gyrates between two extreme emotional states: ‘on top of the world’ and ‘down in the dumps’. There is hardly an intervening state of everyday normality. Those affected feel an incredible burst of energy and an almost inexhaustible potential for ideas when in the manic phase which drives them to make purchases, launch projects, start-up businesses, and carried by this energy and self-belief, they simply bulldoze what gets in their way or infect others with their enthusiasm. However, for no apparent reason all this drive and energy collapses at a certain point, and the person finds himself again in a dark hole, despondent, depressed, unable to realise anything, with only a deep yearning for a recurrence of the manic phase and the associated ‘high’ experienced by it. The individual phases can last days, weeks or months and seem subject to an externally imposed rhythm.

As a matter of urgency, those affected must learn to recognise that the alluring but dangerous characteristics of the manic phase are actually symptoms of a diseased state, so that they do not inevitably fall back into the depressive hole of exhaustion which follows. The great task for them is to strike a balance by forgoing the grandiose, appreciating ordinary normality, showing restraint and pacing themselves in order to conserve energy.

Cut off from experience
The causes of depression are as diverse as there are people, and range from severe traumas and feelings of being cast aside by others, the detrimental effects of a flawed upbringing, a self-styled one-sided way of life, exaggerated goals, a pessimistic and brooding mind-set, a deeply felt erosion of the meaning of existence and suppressed or unrelieved grief that has become chronic.

The one-sided emphasis on the intellect that dictates the direction of life for almost all human beings living in the present time plays a fundamental role in every depression, because, as a result of the cognitive dominance of the frontal brain, the impressions of life reaching us are dissected and analysed by it, from which no real experiencing can arise. The endemic nature of depression in our society demonstrates in a dramatic fashion the one-sided mind-set pursued by this society, which focuses only on functionality and achievement, on the back of which the constricted capacity for experiencing resulting from this incursion, leads to a narrowed outlook on life, unbridled ambition, low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority, distrust and bitterness. Thus many of those affected by depression are minded to judge their lives in a pessimistic way and thereby live continuously under mental duress. They feel as if enveloped in a grey cloud standing ‘beside themselves’ and cut off from their own inner mental resources.

In addition, dependence on others often plays a constricting role, whether in the family, in the workplace or in a partnership but also in sought-after relationships as well. An intense desire for acknowledgment by certain persons as well as a favourable comparison with other people in general leads to loss of individuality, one’s inner liveliness. It is aberration that avenges itself bitterly and about which there is warning in the Work In the Light of Truth by Abd-ru-shin:
‘It is the Will of God that man should absolutely develop an individuality of his own, with the most pronounced awareness of his responsibility for his thoughts, volition and actions!’ (Lecture: ‘The Family Bond’)

The disguised longing for the Light
In their suffering, most of those affected by depression are unaware that they carry a deep longing within themselves, not only for relief from burdensome feelings, but in reality also for a deeper understanding, for spiritual nourishment, which alone is able to animate them and give new meaning to their lives. A depression may thus be understood as the soul’s outcry for a fundamental change, for a development that makes room for new life and fosters the actuation of free will!

Five aspects of a new vision of life
Abd-ru-shin’s work In the Light of Truth – The Grail Message conveys an entirely new vision of life, which is significant for the shaping of one’s personal life and provides those affected by depression with the guidelines for a way out of the maze, because ‘Joy and happiness can exist in all Creation! You men alone bring about distress and sorrow, disease and crime, for right up to the present day you did not want to recognise the source of the vast power which was given to you for your journey through all the worlds, in which by your own desire you must all wander for your development!
‘If only you adjust yourselves aright this power will forcibly bring sunshine and happiness into your lives.’ (The Grail Message: ‘Servants of God’)

1. The Creation Law of Movement: The above-mentioned power, which is capable of forcibly bringing sunshine and happiness, can be found in all Creation. Everyone can open himself or herself to it. But, in spite of this universal accessibility, it is not a physical power but instead, the all-embracing Light Power, which alone can inspire the innermost core of the human being, the spirit. If a person opens himself to this power, he can glimpse the universal cycle into which he himself is integrated: He perceives this power as an animating factor and must pass it on in some way in order thereby to become a useful member of this cycle himself. It is in this that the secret of the Bible proverb ‘that it is more blessed to give than to receive’ lies. Only by voluntarily imparting to his surroundings what he has received can a person adjust to the great all-embracing Creation Law of Motion, within which everything in Creation moves and develops. In a persistent depression this movement has stalled. Therefore, even in the darkest depression, it is primarily a matter of adapting to the Creation Law of Movement in a way appropriate to the individual personality because a small movement is always possible, but the impulse for this very small movement must nevertheless arise from the individual himself. This is the first step to escape from the disengaged, inertial state of a depression.

What has proven of value, for example, is the simple act of moving the eyes back and forth in search for something beautiful. Something beautiful can almost always be discovered, be it in one’s own dwelling, in a hotel room, in the workplace and especially in nature.
In addition, listening to music, letting the sounds of a singing bowl sink in, humming or singing a tune or perhaps even sounding an instrument, bring about an inner experience of being involved and thus a first small movement. Skill levels are irrelevant in this respect: ‘How very quiet the forest would be if only the birds would sing that sing the best!’
Also, the regular reading of a poem that bears within it a specific rhythm and meaning stimulates and enriches the mind, thereby lifting it out of its passive state. This is especially so if the poem can be committed to memory.
Furthermore, shorter or longer forays into the natural world, perhaps into the woods or mountains as well as gazing at the night sky are invaluable aids to engender inner movement.
Such small outer movements are able to spark the inner experiencing of the present and increase mindfulness in everyday life. Where an inner contact can be felt, there it becomes necessary to press on, because the individual’s personality has stirred itself.

2. Living in the present: ‘Life on earth must be really experienced if it is to have any purpose! Only what has been inwardly lived through in all its heights and depths, what has been thoroughly perceived in one’s intuition, only that may one truly call one’s own!’ Hence the work In the Light of Truth also urges: ‘Therefore each moment of life can never be taken too seriously, so that our thoughts, words and deeds shall not deteriorate into meaningless habits, but pulsate with vital warmth!’ (The Grail Message: ‘The Mystery of Birth’)
We all tend to be preoccupied on the one hand with coming to terms with past events and, on the other, with planning for the future, whereby during this process we forget that which is more important: to perceive and acknowledge the immediate present! It is only experiences related to the present, by way of a conscious perception using all the senses, that bring real life. In this also manifests the symbolism which applies only to the personal life. Not only the exceptionally moving experiences, but also the small events of everyday life should be viewed as personal pointers, perhaps even warnings, and are able to provide insights into how things should continue from there.

Whoever opens himself consciously to the present does not need artificial stimulation in order to ‘get going’ and feel happy. However, individually structured exercises may be called for in this respect, because a calm focus on the present initially requires full concentration and attentiveness, without having to be artificially contrived. Therefore it is recommended for the beginning to practice this at three different times of the day, simply to be mindful of everyday situations, taking them in without generating judgmental thoughts and without expecting anything specific or of major significance … until this can strengthen into an inner attitude, which then becomes second-nature.

3. Distancing the self from intellectual dominance: The innermost part, the core of the human being is the spirit, which connects him with the spiritual world, his true homeland and thereby enables him to continuously feel a longing for unconsciously perceived higher planes, although often in an encoded, unrecognised form. The urge for the good emanates from this innermost spirit core, as well as the ability to recognise the living Laws of Creation by one’s own effort and thereby also the ability to read the Handwriting of God. It is this core that enables a human being to find an affiliation with all that is alive in Creation, thereby gaining unlimited possibilities for his development. The inner voice, which originates from the spirit, speaks to the self from a living core of being and conveys buoyant perceptions but also serious warnings and prompts man to exercise his free will. Finally the human capacity to love also originates from this innermost source, which bears within it the key to the true recognition of God. In contrast, the intellect and the feelings dependent on it represent useful tools to deal with life on earth but lack a penetrating radiation as they are not connected to the Light Power. However, the demands of the structures of today’s society, especially those of the professional world, one-sidedly emphasize intellectual activity. The schools too, above all else, concentrate on developing the cognitive abilities of children, with the aim of making them excel intellectually. Many young people collapse under the weight of these pronounced expectations of success, which they cannot meet and fall into passivity and the many forms of youth depression.

The widespread distribution of depression is, with all its many forms, in the end above all else, a dramatic expression of how the limitations and one-sidedness of intellectual dominance can have an impact, namely in the endless, energy-sapping, exhausting grinding of thoughts and musings, which block the connection to the innermost core of spiritual vitality.

Everyone needs regular moments of silence and reflection, during which his innermost being reaches out tentatively and inquiringly towards higher spheres in order to replenish his energies by seeking a connection with the power currents encountered there. From there he can gain all the help he needs for the understanding of his fate. These spiritual aids are always available in abundance, but the human being has to initiate his own search movement upward, in order to avail himself of these supports. Viewed in this light, prayer too acquires a whole new meaning, the real prayer which seeks God in gratitude.
For this reason Abd-ru-shin gave the advice in the Grail Message: ‘You men, could you but pray aright at last! Really pray! How rich would your existence then be! For in prayer lies the greatest happiness you can receive. It uplifts you to immeasurable heights so that supreme happiness streams through you blissfully. Could you but pray, men! That shall now be my wish for you!’ (Lecture: ‘Ask, and it shall be given unto you!’)
Here are a few questions for a personal reflection on life: Does my intellect serve a useful, upbuilding function? What kind of thoughts does it produce? Are these thoughts animating? Are there enough moments in everyday life during which the intellect is silent, giving room to the inner, receptive perception?

4. Cultivating good thoughts: ‘Your thoughts are the messengers you send forth, which return heavily laden with similar thought-forms, good or evil as the case may be. This actually happens! Remember that your thoughts are realities that shape themselves spiritually, often becoming forms outliving the earth-life of your body … ’ (The Grail Message, lecture ‘Awake!’) The conscious cultivation of good thoughts attracts what is good and is able to soothe one’s feelings, since every good intention immediately obtains invigorating support from spheres above the earthly, through the mutual attraction. Therefore it is not a case of convulsively fighting gloomy thoughts, but it is sufficient to register them as such, to recognise their genre, to know that they will have originated from somewhere, perhaps even having a message of sorts for us but then we should let them pass by in front of us. Afterwards, it is essential, purely and simply to consciously make room for all that is good in life, continuing to do so again and again. A little notebook can be used to document something good each day, such as a quotation, an experience, a new idea, an interesting encounter, a successful day at work, the weather, health issues, a new venture, a recognition, or a past event seen in a new light. Forgiveness, too, goes hand in hand with good thoughts and bestows spiritual relief on both parties, with an immediate liberating effect upon the minds of those involved.

5. And following up with good deeds: ‘An Eternal Law operates in the Universe: That only in giving can one receive where lasting values are concerned! Like a sacred legacy of its Creator, this Law deeply permeates the whole of Creation. To give unselfishly, to help where help is needed, and to understand both the suffering and the weaknesses of your fellow-men, means to receive, because it is the simple and true way to the Highest! ‘And to will this seriously brings you immediate help and strength! By one single, honest and ardent wish to do good, the wall which your thoughts have hitherto erected as a barrier is cleaved as with a flaming sword from the other side that is now still invisible to you …’ (The Grail Message, lecture ‘Awake!’)
All good perceptions and intentions only gain real value when they are put into practice! It is only in the active implementation of the good that the cycle, into which every person is integrated, will close for us and thereby also open the way for us to experience the love and true happiness connected with it.

Thus it is by no means retreat and rest that is called for, but rather an animated exchange with other people, which includes giving as well as receiving assistance. Such an exchange will bring new impulses, illuminating insights and freshness to new experiences. As a result, genuine gratitude and a new joie de vivre will be perceived, because ‘Gratitude is closely linked with joy!’ (The Grail Message, lecture ‘Thanks’)

Additional questions that can be asked are ones such as: What can I do to become personally engaged, personally involved? For other people, for a good cause, for nature? Such questions are able to initiate a change in the personal direction and focus, away from the brooding observation of oneself and also of others to a free, joyful, unencumbered readiness to give.

Like a mountain hike
Liberation from the gloom of depression does not happen overnight, even if there are brief bright spells now and then. There is often a very long path to cover, which can be compared to a mountain hike: The beginning is shrouded in fog, which does not lift over long stretches. Nevertheless one foot must be placed in front of the other in the firm belief that the first rays of sunshine will suddenly break through eventually. Sometimes it becomes necessary to explain the way to another hiker and to give assistance if the need arises. Just like in a mountain hike, the first as well as all further steps must be taken by the individual himself. Under no circumstances should one wait around until a solution is offered from the outside or that certain wishes must first be met, before the healing process can commence.
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The first step must be taken, even if it requires a lot of effort to do so and the step itself may only be small. For it a matter of casting off the dross which burdens us, becoming re-attuned to the great Creation Law of Motion and then giving ample room to the good, which will find expression in loving thoughts, good intentions and helpful deeds.
Thereby, the promise which Abd-ru-shin has given in the Grail Message: ‘But all that is burdensome therein truly serves only as a blessing! It is a mercy!’ will find its fulfilment. (Lecture ‘Thanks’)

This article appeared first in Pearl Magazine 

When a BioMagnetic Healing Practitioner and Energy Healer conducts a Healing Session, s/he uses a certain Power of Radiation. 
Now we want to answer the question, where does this Radiation Power come from?

The following article is written by Herbert Vollmann and it will help to bring the reader to a deeper understanding about the "Fountain of the Water of Life". It is an extract from the composite Volume "A Gate opens".  More info here 


THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE
(Revelation 21, 6)
The earth is a great school for the spirit of man. Here he has to develop to that stage of consciousness which brings with it the final turning away from the sway of earth, and a continuing ascent into Luminous Heights, until he is able to enter Paradise as a human spirit, conscious of itself.
   But the human spirit's becoming conscious of itself, which proceeds in many stages, and the absorbing of the many-sided Knowledge of Creation necessary for this, cannot be accomplished in one earth-life. 
   The human spirit must return to earth a number of times, and incarnate in human bodies.
Human beings often meet each other again in the various earth-lives. Sometimes we fleetingly divine this when we meet some earthman who is unknown to us, and then intuitively sense that we have known him for a long time already. We find the same with certain places and regions. 
    With regard to the development of earthman to spiritual maturity, we must however bear in mind that it cannot take just as long as we like, nor be interrupted and continued again as often as we please. 
   A plant does not ever again interrupt its  growth either, to continue growing afterwards, but it develops steadily towards maturity in the span of time set for it by the Creator. 
    This Law of Nature applies also to the spiritual growth of man, who like the plant is a product of Creation. 
     In the great school of mankind he too is given a period of time in which he must have reached the climax of his spiritual development. 
     This climax is now here! It is determined by the great Cosmic Turning-Point which is linked with the maturity of Creation. 
  
    With it comes a final extension of the Knowledge of Creation, right to the Knowledge of the Holy Grail! Its actual existence is confirmed and explained in the Grail Message "In the Light of Truth" by Abd-ru-shin. 
​     In the course of thousands of years, tidings of the existence of the Grail in the Spiritual have often come down to earth, but the human intellect made it so earthly that the true origin remained unclear and hazy, and the genuine longing for the lofty and pure which is contained in the Grail could not arise in the souls of men. 
     At the time of Jesus men did not yet show themselves so far advanced as to be able to grasp the Knowledge of the Grail. About this Jesus said: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16, 12-13). Here Jesus calls the Son of Man proclaimed by Him the "Spirit of truth". 
     Man must gradually make himself familiar with the thought that not only on earth, but also in the supra-earthly regions, everything is formed, although of finer, lighter species of Creation. 
     Indeed the earth is simply the coarsest image of the already-existing supra-earthly prototypes, which are far more perfect and beautiful than the forms visible to us.- 
    The Holy Grail actually exists. It is a Chalice, which is to be found in the Grail Castle in the highest Spiritual Realm, the Primordial Creation, at the boundary to the Divine Realm. 
    The Grail Castle is the sole point of connection between Creation and God; it can also be called a Power-Transmission- Point for the Radiation-Power coming from the Divine Realm. 
    Since the beginning of Creation, through the mediation of the Son of Man, the Holy Spirit, in prime-eternal rythm like pulse-beats, the stream of Spiritual Power from the Holy Grail flows into Creation to renew and maintain it. 
    Just as the heart allows the blood to pulsate through the body, so the Spiritual Power streams anew out of the Grail into Creation at regular intervals once a year, on the Day of the Holy Dove- when the Dove appears above the Grail. It is the Day of the Outpouring of Power through the Holy Spirit!
    The human spirit also lives from this Power, but alas, he has mainly applied it wrongly, and misused it for base ends. He has become the most destructive element in the world!
    At that time the disciples experienced in a special way this Outpouring of Power, thus the annual Renewal of Power, which Jesus had promised them.
    In the Revelation (Acocalypse), given from a spiritual aspect, John describes in picture-language many happenings, localities and personalities connected with the Grail. His spiritual eye beheld in pictures tremendous happenings that took place, and will yet take place, in the Divine Realm, down to the deepest depths of the Darkness!
     Thus he designated the Grail Castle, standing in the Spiritual, the "temple of God" (Revelation 11, 19; 15, 5).
    But the "fountain of the water of life", mentioned in Chapter 21, 6, is the Holy Grail!- 
    However unusual to the seeking man this new Knowledge may be at first, he will have no choice but to occupy himself with it seriously, because the time for this is ripe!
    The true Knowlege of the Grail will give the spiritual character to the new epoch that now dawns with the Cosmic Turning-Point, because the human spirit will then be able at the right time to receive consciously and gratefully, to the blessing and joy of all creatures in Creation, the Power, the Water of Life, streaming out of the Holy Grail. 
    Full of promise, therefore, are the words of the Revelation of John:"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." (Revelation 22, 17) .
     To him who uses this Power out of the Holy Grail aright, the Gate to Paradise will open, and he may receive the Crown of Life (Revelation 2, 10) , the gift of being allowed to exist eternally!-
     At the present time we are in the midst of one of the most important fulfilments of the Apocalypse, of the Revelation of John:  in the Cosmic Turning-Point, in the World Judgment!
     Revolutionary events that can no longer be stayed, an abundance of signs, inevitably point us to this. 
     Through the guilt of men that has arisen over thousands of years, the world is out of joint, and only God alone is yet possible to redress the balance. 
    But in all the confusion and distress, the Message from the Grail brings salvation and help out of the Luminous Heights!
​    Amid the downfall of all evil, It mediates the Power for renewal and upbuilding! 
    
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Followers of natural medicine believe that most of our health problems stem from dietary and environmental toxins. These chemicals can cause blood clots, organ failures, and inflammation, lowering our energy levels and disease resistance. But with the right foods, exercise, and natural remedies, you can keep your body toxin-free.

These health problems can be caused by many different toxins, acting alone or reacting with others. It isn’t necessary, though, to understand every toxin and its effects. In fact, all toxins can be put into one of two groups: colloidal and crystalline wastes.

Colloidal Wastes

Colloidal wastes such as phlegm are responsible for illnesses like bronchitis, oozing eczemas, acne, varicose veins, and cellulite, and are eliminated by the liver, the sebaceous glands, and the respiratory tract.

Crystalline Wastes
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Crystals such as grit in the joints and acids which make us lose our acid-alkaline balance trigger ailments such as dry eczemas, itching, arthritis, tendonitis and neuritis. Crystals are eliminated by the kidneys and the sweat glands.

When you identify which of the two kinds of toxins your organs are affected with, you can pick the best treatment. If you’re suffering from crystal buildup, for example, you should stimulate your kidneys by drinking more fluids. Don’t encourage bile production though; crystals cannot be removed by the liver. One way to avoid the problems caused by toxins is to detox your body on a regular basis.

Benefits of Detox

Detox therapy can clean the “grit” from your “organic motor,” healing and fending off diseases while lowering your risk for infections. It also helps you to maintain high energy levels and a healthy weight,raising the quality and length of your life.

The best way to cleanse your body is to stimulate your liver, intestines, kidneys, skin, and lungs. These organs remove waste from your blood. Taking care of these organs will help rid the body of many wastes, bringing it back to health. Here are some steps to start.


Four Steps to Detox

1. Drink 2.5 to 3 litres of water or herbal tea (without sweetener) a day to carry the toxins out of your body
2. Drink an infusion of dandelion or rosemary tea three times a day to stimulate your liver to eliminate the colloidal toxins
3. Drink an infusion of heather or bearberry tea three times a day to stimulate your kidneys to eliminate crystalline toxins
4. Jog one hour three times a week to sweat your crystal toxins out

Where Toxins are Found:

If you want to be toxin-free, go straight to the source. Toxins are often found in food: carbohydrates and fats produce colloidal wastes, and proteins and acids produce crystalline wastes. By cutting back on certain foods, you can reduce your risk for toxic buildup. Asthmatics, for instance, should reduce their fat and carb intake, while rheumatics should limit protein and acidifying foods.


The Takeaway

By eating well, exercising, and detoxing on a regular basis, you can stay clean and healthy. Get the most out of your body by keeping it toxin-free.

Christopher Vasey, N.D., is a naturopath specializing in detoxification and rejuvenation. He is the author of several books including Optimal Detox and the bestselling The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health. He lives near Montreux, Switzerland.
The article first appeared here  

By Herbert Vollmann (What lies behind it....!) 

The Kingdom within us

This expression is often used. People also say: the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God within us. 

​As to the real meaning of these words there are only vague ideas, which leave open the main questions: In what way is the Kingdom of God within man? Has it always been within us? Or does it only enter into man later, perhaps through the Word of God? 

The "Kingdom within us" is closely linked with the Law of the Cycle, which can be easily observed in Nature. 

The human spirit also is subject to this Law, which means that each one must return to its origin, just as the blood ever again flows back to the heart. 

But where does the origin of the human spirit lie? 

In the Spiritual Realm, which we call the Paradise of the human spirits, or "the Kingdom of Heaven"; there is his origin, his true home, the Kingdom of God. 

Far above the Spiritual Realm is the Divine Sphere, and God Himself in His Unsubstantiality, eternally unapproachable and incomprehensible to the human spirits. 

Hence the human spirit cannot bear within it anything Divine, because its origin lies much lower, in the Spiritual Realm. 

It lives there as an unconscious spirit seed-grain, which is released (expelled) from Paradise, and plunges into the material substance of the World that lies below. Here the spirit awakens to full consciousness, and in natural development returns to Paradise as conscious of itself, as the "prodigal son" who has found his way back to his homeland. 

The core of man, thus what constitues the essential part of man, his spirit, is of such a kind as exists in the Spiritual Realm. 

Through this he is himself a part of the Spiritual Realm, a part which he as earth-man bears within him and which is eternal, wheras all the coverings which envelop the human spirit are transient.

When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees "when the kingdom of God should come" He answered them: "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17, 20 and 21)

In the last Wittenberg edition of the Bible of 1545, published during Luther's lifetime, it says, "the kingdom of God is within you". 

In a 1916 edition of the Bible of 1545, published during Luther's lifetime, it says, "the kingdom of God is within you."

The reason given for this by various sources was inaccuracy in the translation of the original text, and the objection that the Kingdom of God could not have been within the Pharisees because they had opposed Jesus. 

Nevertheless we have seen that this is so, because spirit, and with it a part of the Kingdom of God, is in every human being. Except that through evil thoughts and actions this "inner kingdom" has been completely buried in some, and in others it is less strong. 

But then all is not done with the "Kingdom of Heaven within us". We must earnestly strive, indeed strive with unflinching diligence, really to maintain the link with the native Luminous Fields. 

We are helped to achieve this by the spiritual power that comes from the same spiritual origin and streams through Creation. 

The spirit within us, like the physical body, needs its nourishment so that it can grow into the necessary consciousness which alone makes it a complete human spirit. Just as the physical body is unable to do without water, so does the spirit need the "Water of Life", spiritual power. 

It has surely been noticed already by everyone, when a strong inner shock, whether of deep sorrow or great joy, loosened the dense coverings surrounding the spirit. He then sensed for some blissful moments the nearness of this power, of which he hardly becomes conscious in everyday life. 

With the help of this spiritual power, and with the gifts and abilities originally vested in him, man would have been in a position to let a Paradise-like condition arise on earth!

​Instead of this he is suffering today from an extreme self-estrangement. He has estranged himself from his self, his spirit, by allowing the awareness that he has a spiritual core within him to be extinguished. 

Only through a constant good volition shall we be able to reawaken this consciousness. Therefore let us listen within, let us hearken to the inner voice, and heed every gentle urging of the spirit towards what is beautiful and noble, every sorrow over lost spiritual values, every silent reproach of having doen little or nothing yet at all to unfold to full blossom the gifts bestowed by the Creator. 

When often in the midst of all darkness and all affliction, we are seized by homesickness for bygone beautiful things, for happy hours formerly experienced, for a tender, deeply spiritual mood, as may perhaps have been the case at a Christmas festival, we usually describe this today by the word : nostaliga! 

But let us just for once examine closely with the inner perception whether behind it there is not hidden the unquenchable longing of the suppressed spirit that strives away from the earth to the Eternal Fields of the Kingdom of God, of which we bear within us the smallest part. 

With the awakening of this inner longing we draw ever more luminous rays from the Universe, which gradually loosen and eventually altogether dissolve the self-created dark covering, so that the spirit on earth can again shine forth radiantly, as once it did in the springtime of mankind! 

Herbert Vollmann, What lies behind it...! The Grail Message Foundation Publishing Co. Stuttgart 
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In this Blog post I will give you a thorough understanding of the concepts of Health based on the Laws of Nature. We will also understand how the spiritual attitude is affecting our health but also how we can adapt to the Law of Give and take in the areas of nutrition, muscle movement, skin and sleep. 
This post will be most beneficial for you when you step by step, answer the Reflection questions and try to build bridges to your actual life. 

The whole person in the mirror image of health and illness

Everywhere we look we see concepts that point to the interaction of spirit, soul and body. However, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about the specific parts of this trinity, which make up the whole human being, because a precise idea of ​​spirit and soul is lacking. Thus, the often-cited “holistic healthcare or "wholeness" usually remains more or less one-sidedly limited to the visible physical. In order for us to integrate with an inner conviction lifestyle changes to prevent illness or re-establish health, we need to fore up understand the human being as a whole, and also clarify the functioning of the body, and additionally, we need to bring clarity to the concepts of Soul and Spirit. Then later on also the application of Healing Magnetism will make sense and brings us a lot of joy in self application or application on others.
 
The truly holistic understanding of man not only encompasses the horizontal axis, which is effective in body functioning and organic interrelation between each part of the organism, in the dependency on nature and effects on health coming from the interpersonal relationships in our human environment but also includes the vertical axis. The vertical axis refers to the inner orientation towards the spiritual world, which determines the inner-spiritual pursuits and actions and includes the path for us for becoming truly human beings. With these two axes, all humanity is connected to the Laws of Nature that move and sustain the whole universe. We are embedded in these Laws of Nature.
 
Let’s first look at the human being in this world.
 
To understand the different concepts, we will look at it from the viewpoint of the Grail Message, In the Light of Truth, as here we find a clear overview. (www.grailmessage.com) The inner human being, our "I", is spirit. With spirit, we do not mean the brain functions or our intellect, which is generally regarded as "spirit" in today's worldview. Rather, the spirit is what we carry in ourselves as the actual living part, as the vitalizing source of our inner being. It is immortal, everlasting, therefore not of this world according to its kind; but the spirit is at home in the spiritual region of this creation. This region is known as the "paradise" and is seen as the goal of the most inert human endeavour as described in almost all world religions. From there, the human spirits started their journey of development and maturation to be then born into the dense matter of this earth. On the way from the spiritual home downwards to the earth, they descended from one plane of creation to the other, receiving the corresponding encasements/cloaks of these planes to be able to live there. So, it is also with the densest and last covering - the earthly body which enables us to live and move and experience life on earth. 

​Figuratively speaking, this development can be compared to the circumstance when a man travels from a tropical zone to the arctic zone. The traveller must dress according to the increasing, climatically-caused cooling off in the zones. Therefore, he has to wear ever warmer and denser coverings. He always remains the same person, but his visible clothing increases and gives him a different appearance. His applied encasements serve only for his protection and his ability to live in the different climatic zones.
 
The spirit of a human being with its finer ethereal encasement, The Grail Message (www.grailmessage.com) calls the "soul", which during incarnation enters the earth body and leaves again at the time of so-called death. A decisive transitional and connecting function between the soul and the earthly body fulfils the so-called astral body, known already by many people. Like a switcher, the astral body forwards the impulses coming from the sphere of the soul to the physical body, and in the same way, conveys things that are happening in the outside to the "inside". It also belongs to the bridging function of the astral body that the astral body is, as it were, a pre-formation, a "model" of the earth body. This model is designed by the spiritual individuality of the human being; exactly as s/, he is in his/her specific stage of development. The knowledge about the astral body is of great importance for our understanding of Healing Magnetism and our understanding of health.

Although the astral body is of a fine material substance, it is nevertheless closely connected with the earthly physical body and what we find here is that therefore the state of the astral body affects the earthly body. If a person has some internal emotional, soul disturbance, such an inner soul disturbance usually precede physical diseases most of the time, and this is due to the connection between the inert state of the soul with the health of the physical body, and it is quite noticeable. Thus, emotional disturbances always manifest first in the astral realm, before they act on the bodily organs from out of the astral body. There is also a correlation and a symbolic meaning in regard to which organ is affected by a disease which is in direct relation to the underlying soul problem. Many diseases are thus densifications of an astral radiation disharmony, which is why the therapeutic-regulating influence with various healing methods, especially in regard to the astral body is so crucial. Healing Magnetism is one of these methods capable of treating the astral body, and in coming units, you will start to learn how to apply Healing Magnetism to harmonise the astral body which directly has an effect on the physical body.

Reflection. Have you ever experienced how your inner state of being, the state of your soul, your emotions and feelings have affected your physical body? Give an example.  

The body itself ultimately serves as the "dwelling" and the "instrument" of the spirit in its earthly existence, through which a human being, in the daily struggle of existence and the many experiences s/he makes, continuously can become stronger. The experiences offer him the possibility for spiritual growth towards a matured spiritual personality.
                  
The picture of the human being in his entirety sketched so far should summarize a section from the lecture "Soul" of the Grail Message as it makes it clear: "...
……the spirit is the actual human being, all else being only the cloaks. By wearing them the spirit becomes strong, and the consequent compulsion to bestir itself ever more in­creases it's glowing.
The glow into which the spirit is thus transposed does not die down when the cloaks are laid aside, but raises the spirit and leads it up­wards into the Spiritual Realm.
Just through being forced to bestir itself under the weight of its cloaks the spirit finally grows so strong that it can bear the stronger pressure in the Spiritual Realm and remain conscious, something it was unable to do as a spirit-germ.
Such is the course of its development which took place for the sake of the spirit. The cloaks themselves are to be considered nothing but the means towards the end.
Therefore nothing changes when man on earth lays aside his physi­cal body. He is still the same human being, only without the physi­cal cloak, with which there also remains the so-called astral cover­ing necessary for forming the gross material earthly body, and which originates from medium gross matter.
As soon as the heavy earthly body together with the astral body has fallen away the spirit remains clad in the more delicate cloaks only. In this condition the spirit is called “the soul” in contradistinction to the earthman of flesh and blood!
In his further ascent the human being also gradually lays aside all the other cloaks, until finally he only keeps the spirit body with a spiritual cloak, and in this way enters the Spiritual Realm as a spirit without any cloaks of other species.
This is a natural happening because then no alien cloak can keep him back any longer, and consequently he must in the natural course of things be uplifted through the species of his own nature.
Therefore this is the difference which very often causes you difficulty in your desire to understand, because you had no clarity and thus the conception of it remained vague.
In reality only the spirit comes into question with a human being. All the other designations depend purely on the cloaks he wears.
The spirit is everything, it is the essence, thus the human being. If together with the other cloaks he also wears the earthly cloak he is called earthman; when he lays aside his earthly cloak he is considered by earthman as soul; when he also lays aside these delicate cloaks he remains spirit alone, which he always has been in his species.”

The inert human being is, therefore, our spiritual ego, which also moves and uses its coverings according to its will. This also applies to our material body. Like the Earth body, all other cloaks or bodies of the human spirit also have sense organs that allow seeing, hearing or experiencing on all levels involved. In the English language, this is expressed pictorially, for example in idiomatic expressions such as "listening to oneself or listening inward", "seeing it with other eyes", "having something in front of the inner eye". Something we all experience when we go “inward”.
 
The cohesive connection between the individual cloaks is ensured via the magnet-like radiation and attraction of our spiritual "ego". Through the magnetic radiation, the totality of the inner and outer man is made, and disturbances in it, whether they be on the spiritual, soul or physical area, can be felt like a disease. This is important to keep in your mind.
 
Of course, for the possibility of the direct influence of the spirit on the heavy earth body, a functioning communication system must exist that connects the Astral body with the physical body. And in particular, the human blood takes over this task. In its individual physical quality, it is increasingly formed already during the fetal growth phase via the radiation of the spirit and then serves the spirit in the entire earthly life as a necessary radiation bridge to the earthly gross matter.
 
In the fundamental difference between the earth body and the spirit that invigorates it, the blood acts as a mediator with the astral body. Due to its fluid nature and its lighter molecular structure, it forms an ideal carrier substance for the vibration of spiritual radiation power and is pumped by the heartbeat into all parts of the body. The blood is also the basis of the so-called "aura" or “Od” of a person, so his radiation wreath, as it can be seen by clairvoyant people.
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​For the blood to fulfil its mediating function, the right blood composition, adapted to the nature of the spirit, is an absolute prerequisite. We have to keep this in mind to enhance our health or that of our children.
The basic structure of the blood, as described above, is formed developmentally via the spiritual influence on the body. Changes of the blood and its radiation, be it strengthening or weakening, up to disturbing shifts, are possible through different influences. These influences are in basic the personal spiritual attitude, nutrition, skin, muscle tone, sleep. We will explore these aspects partly in the frame of this Blog, but whoever would like to delve here much deeper into the secret of the blood, we would like to recommend the following book: The Spiritual Mysteries of the Blood by Christopher Vasey

​The basic composition related to the personal nature of the spirit is also recognizable in the respective, individually distinguishable blood groups, as a physical identity card of the ego.
 
Natural changes within the radiation and the composition of the blood result from the physiological age stages, which in turn are connected to the temperamental or - developmental sections in the life of a human being.  Through illnesses, bad habits, also in regard to food and drink, as well as the effect of mental and emotional burdens and stress, the composition of the blood can be greatly distorted. Therefore, for example, not only the proverbially perceivable radiation of a person after a serious illness, persistent sorrows or grief can be severely weakened or inhibited but also, the overall radiation changes unfavourably, and then one says of such people that they appear "colourless" or simply "juiceless and powerless".

Reflection: What connects the spirit and body?  


The laws of creation

The eternal laws of creation and their effects cannot be denied by someone who takes his humanity seriously. To recognize, to obey and then to use them is left to the free will. As a fate-triggering factor, free will is often called into question. But it is a characteristic of the spirit that gives man the free choice of decision, that is, to do or to let go of what he is "willing" to do. Through this freedom of decision, therefore, man can, at any moment, orient himself to one side or the other, towards good or evil, according to the standards of the laws of creation, or even opposing them.

 In order to better understand the importance of the freedom of choice and the responsibility that goes with it, we must know that throughout the world events, every action lawfully triggers a response; that means that every action, whether it consists of inner feelings, thoughts, or external actions, brings about consistent retroaction, according to the nature of the action either good or bad. This simple and irrefutable fact that decisions trigger reciprocal effects, we have so far only wanted to see or were forced to see, in the widest aspects of our living environment; but as in the largest as it is in the smallest, therefore, the laws act also in the smallest and finest. They hold everything in the whole of creation and act as watchdogs and helpers who always objectively and incorruptibly trigger the corresponding reactions to our will.
 
So if, for example, illness, mental or physical suffering are in our life, we must understand that these gloomy issues are not provided for us in the plan of destiny as "fateful", but that they occur as a logical consequence of our self-desired behaviors, with which we disregarded the given principles of order as given by the Laws of Nature.
 
The unconditioned logic in the context of cause and effect becomes fully recognizable in the certainty of repeated earthly lives. For not all that we express in the present earthly life by our volitional decisions can, by all means, come to equalizing effects in this one life. For this more earth, lives are necessary, but all of them serve the personality development and maturation. If we usually do not remember past incarnations is so for a reason as there is great wisdom in that; for in every moment of the present, we have the opportunity to decide anew, as we are now, not cause of what we once were. That the retrospective effects caused by us often cannot come directly to us, but in a delayed balance, perhaps in another earth lifetime, is probably also a reason why the free will is no longer seen enough by many people and therefore questioned.

 
Recognition of these laws of creation is not difficult with open eyes, and with a free heart, we can find them everywhere, for these laws are clear and simple expressions of the Eternal Creator’s Will and His Love. Their effects are always supportive, constructive, and help for all creatures, even if the experience should be painful. Three basic laws are to be mentioned above all:
 
First of all, the Law of Gravity: according to that law, something heavy sinks and lightness rises. If therefore, a human spirit is burdened with guilt, he can no more rise and move freely upwards as the one who has entered into a bond that holds him in the earthly. For the burdens and attachments, man is responsible himself through his free will; but he can also voluntarily change his mind and thus free himself from guilt and entanglements. Thus he becomes lighter and can rise.
 
The Law of Attraction of the Homogenous Species is another great law. Just as people always come together with similar predispositions, in the same way principally in the whole of creation, the same always attracts the same.  Thoughts and feelings also have an increasing power of attraction strengthening similar emotions of other people; this leads to the accumulation of good or bad energies, which, as centres, have a retroactive effect on the earthly.
 
Finally, there is the Law of Reciprocal Action, which can also be called the Law of Give and Take. In the impact of these laws, everything finds the corresponding consequences, which we put out into the world as thoughts, words or deeds. It is the Law that gives the Bible the sentence: "What a man soweth, he shall reap". From this, it can be concluded that right and natural doing and thinking can only bring healthy reactions, while wrongly oriented will and action only brings damaging repercussions and elicit, for example, also disease.
 
All lawfulness applies to spiritual matters in exactly the same way as they can be observed as physical principles of order in the sense of natural laws or within social relationships.
It looks like one law is developing out of the other, but they act side by side, and they affect logically and autonomously all. These three laws work incorruptibly and continuously in creation, simple, clear and great; their triad pervades the whole life. Here God speaks to us directly and shows us His Will.

Reflection:  Were you aware of these laws of nature? Please give examples of your own experience in that regard.  
 
 
 
Language of Nature
On our property in Australia, each springtime millions of blossoms appear on our fruit trees. 

Like every year, the appearance of the spring blossoms in our garden awakes in me a deep sense of jubilant joy. If we could read in the book of nature, we could discover the secrets of life that nature transmits to us in living images.
The exuberance in the blossoming of nature let people sometimes ask the question: “Why this incredible overabundance? Why these millions of blossoms, which appear to flower meaninglessly, as not all of them will bear fruit? And also, the fruits of the tree, so many and how few of them can drop their seeds, the pit, into the earth, for it to grow into a new tree? Did nature in all its overabundance arrange things meaningfully?”
Would we human beings have a say here while having the aim in our mind to bring about fruits to sustain the species, would we not go about it much more rationally?
The term “rational” fits here very well as all what the present time is planned by human beings is mainly dictated by his rational concerns, by his intellect. He always directs his focus on one specific point and lets that what happens in the environment out of sight, most of the time. Only when the reciprocal actions come, then one thinks about the fact that everything happens in a space and in that space and environment a variety of life happens at the same time which has an effect and reciprocal effect on each other.
When we think back on the flowering fruit tree.
It offers with its wedding gown millions of little life forms nourishment and protection, whereby these also according to the law of give and take enable the pollination. Also, the time of harvest, with its overflowing abundance offers many animals and life forms food. All feast joyfully on the table of nature.
 
We can see that nature not only gives in abundance, nature is in alignment with the law of beauty as well, which can also awaken in us humans the longing for harmony and beauty.
Nevertheless, unfortunately many people in their narrow thought structures, cannot grasp this anymore, that there are laws that govern all around us in nature and these laws do not stop before us. Therefore most human beings can see the function of these laws only superficially and not for that what they mean for the human being himself. We could learn so much from it, especially how we can live our life in a way that we spread blessing instead of harm.
In the following we want to try to open our eyes a bit more for the language of nature and how we can apply it to our own physical body and soul.
 
 
 
 
 
Understanding the Basics 
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We have to deal with the problems of the present fully alert and with attention.
Every single area of ​​life categorically demands this of us today, and if we follow this demand, we soon come upon simple and clear solutions and insights, that can show us where the right tracks are, which we then safely can follow if we so wish so.
Through such new vision and knowledge, we will then be able to disentangle the knot of confusion derived from past ideas and outdated opinions.
And especially we people in modern times have it good as biology, natural science, and physics already possess the knowledge of a fundamental law in creation which works and creates most simply and completely and always in the same way. They bow to this insight, to the phenomenon of this "divine power". They know that all organic life originates from the cosmic radiation, they explain these rays and thereby found the process of abiogenesis, spectral analysis and cell radiation.
 
The limitations of God-distant materialism have long since been overruled by science and science has found its way to the unity with the Laws of God. Eventually, in this knowledge of the Laws of God, all relationships will be presented without any gaps, scientifically explained and proven. We will experience the harmony of the scientific findings and discover in it the Wisdom of our Creator.  The great harmony of the basic laws having effects in the great and in the smallest will be revealed to us everywhere.
 
With this, humanity will once again find the true back-link to the divine laws, and thus also recognize their actual task in creation: to be the bridge of radiation between the earth and the cosmos; because our Earth body is equipped with a radiation wreath (Od). Now there still seem to be two scientific directions. One who embrace the new understandings and others who vehemetly ignore and deny it.


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Many are still blinded and sick on the body and sick on the soul, helplessly exposed to all the dangers that come from today's chaos, are most people, even if they do not admit it. Despite all the achievements of technology, medicine and the natural sciences, man today is not armed against sickness and infirmity, vitiation and degeneration. 
 
From the chaos of opinions and the variety of illnesses, humanity must learn to see and recognize the clear path of unity and simplicity in the realm of healing again. The laws of creation also govern the human body; there is no exception for him in it and also no complexity. Nevertheless, to grasp this we need to completely change our way of how we deal with things.  
 

 
The great problem we face today in health care is the divide that has been created between body and spirit throughout many centuries in almost all ethics and religions and cultures and that separated people far from anything natural, clear and simple.
It will, therefore, take from us some effort, until we realize what is important again. We will have to go that path step by step. But then it is like finding the proverbial Egg of Columbus! If we endeavour to put things once right in front of us, then suddenly we will breathe a sigh of relief - liberated from ignorance, free from the great lack of understanding for our earthly body and then everything becomes clear and simple to us.
 

​The earth body 
The law of all life and all growth, of all development for any physical body, be it animal or human body is in nature closely connected to the principles of constant movement which shows itself in the overcoming oneself, struggle and exertion.  What does not move cannot prevail. It is prevalent throughout the cosmos and makes no exception to our earthly body. The working capacity of all body cells, of all organs, of all body parts, increases or falls with their activity, and everything unused become unusable and thus has an inhibiting effect. Finally, it must be shed or becomes degenerated. At first, it lowers the living forces of resistance in the body, and thus, the door is pushed open for sorrow or sickness.
 
The root cause of almost all diseases is a hypofunction of oxidation in our body. Health means integrity, intactness of this oxidation (burning), which is fed by the food supply and promoted by the right movement. (Law of Give and Take).
 
A perfectly functioning body is immune to degrading influences; it cannot be ill or become ill. But where only one cell, one organ, one part of the body has a disturbing activity, the function of the cells, organs, parts is diminished; because the body is a unity, it is an indivisible whole which obeys to the laws of the bigger Whole, the Laws of Nature.

What causes that in the body? The blood circulation and the lymphatic system and nerve tracts alone cause this; they enter through and connect the entire human body. Thus, there can never be a partial disease. The more we acknowledge the unity and wholeness of our body, the easier and clearer the causes of disease become for us. The symptoms and the location of the disease are changeable, but the disease itself is not. Once the fundamentally new healing pathways are taken, then the coming healing methods will begin with the blood circulation and the composition of the blood to maintain order or eliminate the disturbance. Also, Healing Magnetism treatments belong to that.
 
For this purpose, we must become acquainted with the Laws of Nature and get used to the subordination under these laws. We have to adapt to them, we have to subordinate to the Laws of the Cosmos. How strange does that sound to us modern folks who want to feel free of  any restrain and want to do whatever can fulfill our many desires?  Therefore, how far from these laws do we stand, how strange they have become to us! But we have to re-experience them if we want to build up anew and become healthy in Body and Soul.
 
A uniform self-acting lawfulness constantly governs over us, around us and in ourselves. We talked about that before.  In Creation, which reflects the perfection of the Eternal Creator, an irrevocable wise order prevails through the anchoring of the self-acting fundamental laws. There is no deviation or disorder. Under this law or order is also the body subjected, because there is no exception. In the smallest as well as in the greatest and all levels, these laws of God rule.  But how often do we want to take different roads as the Creation Laws so clearly show to us? How often do we believe we are wiser than our Creator? Only when we adapt to these laws can we also reap health and happiness.
 
 
The Pillars of health 
In coarse matter, we most often encounter the law of reciprocal action; it must, therefore, be our concern to practice getting to know this law better in regard to our health and wellbeing.
 
We have in the body a "game of the subconscious" through the vegetative or involuntary nervous system. It has already occupied many researchers and received this apt label. Its work, however, remained enigmatic in contrast to that of the voluntary central nervous system. Without the play of the unconscious, however, our body would be like a machine without drive. This nervous system is the basis for every earthly life function; its continuing activity takes place without the will and knowledge of man and it shows us that the laws of nature are in us and around us.

In coarse matter, there is nothing comparable to a nerve; it is the finest and most differentiated, what exists. It is simply inimitable in its construction and function. If we trace this miracle, the breath of the cosmic Creator touches us; full of awe and emotion we stand in front of it and a deep sense of gratitude rises up in us. Much finer and more differentiated than all the other blood vessels, the nerves are running through our bodies, every limb and every organ - in dense nets they collect into centres or nodal points.
 
They are used to transmit stimuli, similar to blood vessels are used for the administration of blood. They guide the stimuli in every subtle differentiation and nuance; towards every stimulus occurs an exact reaction that is a reflex, and thus the triggering of a function. This is called "reflex chain"; it becomes clearer to us when we say: chain reaction in the law of reciprocal action. In the "game of the unconscious," exactly the law of reciprocal action takes place. Here lie the start and lever for our well-being and woe in the world of matter.
 
We are a complete microcosm in the macrocosm of the world creation; this will become clear to us on closer inspection. Our nerves precisely absorb the stimuli from our environment and trigger the reflex according to the stimulus. This means that a completely natural environment with natural, orderly habits will give only natural stimuli, after that the answer to these natural stimuli is exactly natural as well, whereby natural functions in our body are triggered, which must result in full health. We are inescapably subject to this chain release according to the law of reciprocal action, that is, like the stimulus, so the reflex; this must simply become aware to us once. So we have the task of following the "game of the unconscious" in its full effect and scope, to see and recognize the new healing pathways. This does not give us half a knowledge or a vague concept here; we must grasp and get to know all the details in fullest, and only then will we grasp all the great connections and can adapt our life accordingly. We can then adapt our lifestyle, our daily habits, our striving as human beings. Consciously and with joy can we work on improving our own health and the health of our societies and hereby also the health of our planet.  This asks from us full alertness and inner and outer movement to be able to truly perceive what is going on.
 
The autonomic nervous system intervenes invariably in every activity of the body; the law of reciprocal action is thus constantly in us, just as in the cosmos. The finest and the coarsest, while waking and sleeping, are taken up by the nerves and moved and triggered in the body with pinpoint accuracy and then according to the trigger either building up or disturbing. So perfect is our tool, the earth body built up; perhaps now we begin to foresee what a perfect instrument it can and will become when this fine instrument is played and treated intelligibly and masterfully by us.
 
 
Below is a conceptual depiction of the human brain and nervous system cells, called Neurons that process and communicate information. Our human brain has an averaged 100 Billion of these, (though some scientists debate that we have in the region of 86 Billion). The cerebral cortex and our nervous system have billions more again to communicate signals, decisions and automated commands from the brain to the body parts/organs, and these body parts, sensors, skin, physical senses etc. relay signals back from these to the brain. The glowing pods at the ends of the tendrils are called synapses, where electrochemical processes in the neuron cause electrical pulses to spark or flash across the synapses to other neurons across the brain.
 
Each & every instance of electrical activity is accompanied and made possible by electromagnetic fields & energies, no matter how small these may be. They are inseparable. In organisms, these are called Bio-Electromagnetic, or BioMagnetic Fields and Energies. These are just as inseparable.

“A neuron (nerve cell) is an electrically excitable cell found in the human brain that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals. These signals between neurons occur via specialized connections called synapses. Neurons can connect to form neural networks. Neurons are major components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and the autonomic ganglia of the peripheral nervous system.” (Wikipedia - Neurons)
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​ These approximately 100 Billion nerve or brain cells inside of each of our heads, with each these cells connecting to upwards of 10,000 other neurons/brain/ nervous system cells for communications purposes, enabling the physical aspects of thinking, awareness, cognition etc.
 
This magnificent and live network is a surging mass of hundreds of billions of micro-sparks per second are Creating a surging micro-ocean of Biomagnetic Fields and Energies.
 
Every one of these electrical interactions, “sparks” and Bio-Electrical pulses creates and exists due to the existence of a Bio magnetic Field.
 
The typical neuron fires off miniscule electrochemical “sparks” 5-50 times per second. For this explanation and example, let’s average that at 20 neuron pulses per second, going out over an average 10,000 neuron connections. (synapses) Considering those 100 Billion brain cells (Neurons) then we have approx. 200 Trillion of these electrical pulses per second.
 
Just be in awe for a few seconds as you consider the sheer magnificence of what Nature has made available for us to let us spiritual beings function in this physical World, and how intrinsic the fine balances are maintained through Bio-magnetic Fields and Energies.
 
This neural network and consciousness then either automatically or consciously causes and directs everything to happen that our body and mind does. Electrical impulses continually flow through our nerve (nervous) system to all parts and cells of our bodies. We are flooded by and immersed in the biological version of the universally present electromagnetic fields and energy that pervade our entire physical Cosmos.
 
Consider this though: With these billions of minute Biomagnetic or electromagnetic fields continually being generated in the brain, the electromagnetic, the BioMagnetic field of the human heart is over 100 times stronger than that of the brain…
 
Does that not give us cause to pause and ponder this for a few moments? What then is the primal engine that drives our human body and intuitions, emotions and well-being? It is our spiritual attitude.
 

Let us now imagine a scheme for understanding the range of action of the vegetative nervous system; we just make a circle. We then halve this circle and call one half of the circle the spiritual attitude of the human being. The other half of this circle, we now divide into four sections and call these sections:  Good Nutrition- Skin Activity – Game of the Muscles - Good Sleep.
 


 
We now want to provide each section with the necessary illumination to show and prove the chain reaction in the Law of Reciprocal Action. If we walk then the path of the natural order in all districts, then the reaction can only return to us in a natural order, which must give us health; because the "game of the unconscious" is the basis of all life functions, in which all cells, organs and body parts must be involved in any case. This is the Egg of Columbus that with simple, clear terms, we gradually get the full understanding for all the connections.
 
Now we have a lot of thoughts to process as a new base of thinking; if we seek confirmation in daily life, we will enter the circle of joyful experience. Then we will gradually acquire a higher perspective of thinking based on the creation laws. We then know of the possibility of ascension out of all human misery and all unhappiness, all illness and all suffering.
 
 
 
 
Let’s start here with
 
The spiritual attitude of man
Those who are not yet completely dulled towards their environment and who still have a small spark of spiritual interest for the things that move the world, feel that the time in which we live in exerts an oppressive pressure on all our life impulses. Both on our body and that of the soul. In every family there is concern or misery of some kind; struggle, depression and disease dominate the people in quantity like never, and the destruction of the family foundations in the marriages and problems with the children is frightening and alarming. All concepts are wavering, every hold on the outside and every strong attitude in the inside is missing, and the traditions fail. It looks bleak for all aspects of humanity and human dignity.
 
The misuse of this Grace itself to be able to choose and decide determines the course of the life ship and has brought humanity to where it is today!
 
If we still do not want to recognize the fruits of our actions and the signs of our time, nothing will stop us from continuing our way into the dark abyss, chaos and illness. However, when we reflect on why we must suffer all this, the bitterness of our present distress and the sickness of our body, we will come to the realization that we must seek and follow completely new paths that heal soul and body again in order for us to become happy and healthy and to get out of the whole process of today's circumstances.
 
We cannot continue the old paths; they have all turned out to be a dead end. We need to have the courage and the strength to risk being new - to become new in everything and every aspect of our Spirit, Soul and Body and of who we are and how we live our life. For this we must awaken the spirit again, our innermost flame of life; for it is only from this new birth of our innermost core of being, that our life can renew itself and at thereby also the powers of our body.
 
Our free, spiritual decision to subordinate ourselves to the Laws of Nature and our active desire for good is a spiritual attitude that decides if we go up or down in our life, like the tip on the scales.
 
Beyond that, however, we must realize that this spiritual attitude which radiates via our thinking and feeling intervenes in all areas of our body and permeates all our cells.
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The autonomic nervous system "plays" with the impulses emanating from our soul. The inner man creates a sound similar to a bell sound, harmonious or disharmonious, happy or sad, loud or quiet and in all possible nuances, and at this moment the "play of the unconscious" vibrates in us or is effecting us with disharmony and dissonance.

Reflection: What inner sound are you creating with your spiritual attitude?  

The Nerves immediately receive all the stimuli as the finest and best antenna and then reflect them according to the Law of Reciprocal Action. The domain of this great player in us encompasses our psyche and physical existence. The delimited districts of the same are those of nourishment, skin function, muscular activity and sleep. Within the spiritual attitude of man, there are no single districts; although we only put it into half of the circle it intervenes into the whole process; it is comprehensive and decisive for the well-being or woe of the whole body. Like the hands surrounding the circle, so also does the spiritual attitude effect all parts of our being.

The thinking, feeling, and intuitive perceiving of a human being elicits continual impulses or stimuli, which must transfer to the functions of the body exactly interacting with one another and thus have an uplifting or disturbing and destructive effect. Now let’s keep that in our awareness!
 
 
The stark proof of the negative effects we do have in those cases where people without the will to live, do languish and whither spite of all medical efforts and all healing attempts and in spite of having no particular illness. Wherever such a negation, a pessimism that leads to total resignation, is held onto, life has to come to hold too. But we can even see such effects in animals. Even animals react very clearly in this respect, for example, a dog who grows up in loving care, who never heard a hard word, can respond to an unusual and a very harsh rebuke of his master within a few days in getting seriously ill or even dying. What we want to have our attention on is that our inner life requires far greater attention than hitherto considered; it is the lever and starting point for all our health. Our inner life affects our body.
 
Our inner life affects our body
 
For this, before we continue, let’s bring to our awareness a very simple fact that is but often overseen although we modern people have the knowledge about it. The fact I am pointing you here to is the reality of radiation and that everything is radiation.
Each of us should be aware of “atoms”, those basic building components of physical matter as we know it. Therefore, also basic building blocks of our own physical body.
Atoms look like this in representation pictures:

 
In this depiction (not to true scale) we have the atomic nucleus particles in the centre of the atom (glowing here for effect), with electrons whizzing around the nucleus. The electrons are minute compared to the nucleus particles and are much, much further away.
However, we cannot show you a 30-meter wide picture here.
There are over 100 types of atoms that we know of. They form elements or bind together to form molecules and the physical substances we know of.
Now the subject of Magnetism becomes interesting…. You are looking at one of the smallest generating models of Magnetism in our Universe right here, in that picture:
The whizzing electrons in the picture are also spinning at the same time, just as our Planet Earth spins on its axis as it also orbits around the Sun. Thus, picture in your mind, the electrons spinning like a top while orbiting the nucleus of the atom. Electrons also have an electrical charge (negative in their case).
Moving electrical charges generate Magnetic fields and force, thus also energy. This is a universally pervasive fundamental of physics, a cornerstone of the physical creation and maintenance of our Universe and everything in it that we consider the matter. Therefore, when we think about the healing of our bodies, we have to keep the Magnetism in our awareness and use the understanding.
The origins of these forces, the binding of pure energies to create what we consider to be “particles” and matter, and the underlying architecture of everything we can perceive here, are the outcomes of higher forces at work beyond our physical Universe. (Much more in-depth explanations in that regard we offer in our accredited BioMagnetic Healing with Hands training. www.healing-magnetism.com )
Thus, spinning electrons also generate Magnetic fields, force and energy. As ALL atoms have at least one electron whizzing around the nucleus, without exception, then every single atom in the Universe is producing Magnetic fields. Our body but is made up of atoms. Our own consciousness, our will, our decisions but can effect the vibration and health of the atoms that make up our bodies.  Let’s return after this small interlude again to the theme of our spiritual attitude and how it affects our body.
 
Ignoring our thoughts, our words and intuitive perceptions, which are a positive or a negative force for our body and, beyond that, also connect to invisible centers of the hereafter - these thoughts, words and intuitive perceptions which in the invisible weave our karma and weave destiny with which we are inextricably linked, they fulfil our body interactively with the "play of the unconscious" with spasms or relaxation, with positive or negative, i.e. with healthy or disturbed function of the organs in the body. The variations of the reactions are immeasurable and unnamable; above all, they are quite individual, but always exactly in the Law of Reciprocal Action.
 
It is well known and familiar to us how fear, pain, grief, mistrust, envy, jealousy, anger, etc., affect our bodies, how they can make us sick; as well of course also blows of fate such as death and misfortune, shock or terror of any kind. The less we live in a way that links us back to the forces of the spiritual, the more these things hurt the body; the more self-centered we are, the more we become entangled in everything that touches and hits us. By doing so, we continually connect with negative, destructive force fields through our dark or heavy thoughts and intuitive perceptions and receive recurrent negative and destructive effects in multiple amplification.
 
“The foundation for the upbuilding of a new humanity, which you can­not and must not evade, rests in the one sentence: Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure!” (Abd-ru-shin, "In the Light of Truth," Volume 1, "The First Step"). In keeping with this call to keep the hearth of our thoughts pure, lies the beginning of discipline and order throughout our lives, it is the foundation and condition for true happiness and true health of both the soul and the body.

Reflection: What effect does our spiritual attitude have on our body? ​

​For anyone who earnestly seeks to keep the hearth of thoughts pure will learn to put his thoughts and intuitive perceptions under constant control.
It is this state of "Watch and Pray," which alone prevents us from succumbing to the temptations that entice us every day and every hour, deviate from the right and natural in our habits, and opens ourselves all too readily to the fake and the shameful.
 
We must again learn the humility, the true humility and submission to God's Holy Will, which appeals to us constantly through the Creation Laws. And we have to arouse love again, the true selfless love - then no more evil thought and no evil desire will dare to tarnish the source of a healthy life. Pure and clear and completely harmonious then the spirit and the body will vibrate in the Laws of God, interwoven with the wonders of light and thus radiant with strength and health. Here religious dogma and blind faith have no space, but inner conviction through our personal experiences of these Laws and our conscious adapting to them.
 
In the pursuit of this new, changed mental/spiritual attitude, an unused power awakens in us, which already awoke Christ in man two thousand years ago. What did the Son of God mean by his word: If men had faith as big as a grain of mustard, they could move mountains? He meant nothing more than that: If we still had the "living" faith, the expression of the awake spirit in us, it would move through our bodies into the last fibres and we would get connected to all the help around us, and above us, it would put aside all obstacles easily and playfully, it would truly move mountains! Instead of this living-effective faith, rooted in an awake spirit, a paralyzing,  suffocating resignation dominates the whole life of this humanity, cutting it off from the light and the power, creating the sad image of the human type of the present day, through the senseless rush and hunt for earthly goods and earthly power that wastes its most valuable strengths. Therefore to start here anew, lies in each person’s own free will, and it cannot be forced or dogmatically taught, but each person needs to awake from within. And we have a lot of help for our disposal. But we need to open our awareness to “see” the help again. 

​The true and right use of the powers can only be affected by the human spirit, the bright, alert, radiant spirit; for the great "religio," the backward connection to the divine power, from which alone all life flows, can only take place via the bridge of the spirit via the "living" faith. Inspired by this "living" faith, the first Christians went panegyrical into earthly death. They were glowing with the awakened spirit! We must, therefore, muster all the strength to overcome the resignation in and around us. We must come to this realization to fight our way to life, but for us to be allowed to live as a newborn again will not just simply fall into our lap.  The vitality and ability, which can only blossom out of the liveliness of our spirit, must be recaptured daily; for only the living spark of the spirit pushes aside all the obstacles which oppose us and allow us to overcome all blows of fate joyfully and courageously.

The driving force in the material substance is the spirit; the body has the task of being a useful tool of the spirit. Therefore, we must learn to recognize the laws and their effects on life. Only then can a complete interplay take place again in us. As follows: the more wholesome and healthier our whole body becomes, the greater the clarity and insight of our spirit.  This increase in spiritual clarity increases our vitality, the capacity of our body in all its vital functions. This closes the circle of life and unity: spirit and body become fully aware and clear to us. And the gradual progression in the evolution of the earth body into a fine instrument for the play of divine power then begins to become an experience for us as we gain the spiritual attitude that truly makes us human. Something which we also need to develop when we wish to use Healing Magnetism for our own and other people’s benefit.

Reflection. What stood out for you in this Blog post up to now? ​

​In the following, we would like to explore the law of Give and Take about the importance of a natural diet. Natural Nutrition.  I would like to invite you while reading this section to think about your nutrition or the nutrition of your children or family.  So jot down what is important for you and what you will integrate from now on into your life.
 
Diet in the balance between give and take
There is hardly any health issue that is talked about today as much as nutrition. Hardly a topic also about which one hears so many opposing opinions. One claims that you should eat as many oranges as possible. The next one holds organic muesli for the real thing; a third suggests extended red meat consumption. A fourth thinks that lecithin can protect him against any illness, and the fifth does not dare to eat; it might be unhealthy.
 
Year after year, scientists are trying to find the causes and a solution to the plagues of our civilization, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Even cancer is, as we know today, partly due to nutrition. The discoveries are also changing the practical recommendations for disease prevention. For a long time, linoleic acid has been recommended as a remedy for coronary disease. About carcinogenesis, other fats are now in focus again, so that the health-conscious consumer would have to change the diet almost every year. The press and advertising are doing their part to increase the confusion and, finally, there are the "alternative" directions of nutrition, each claiming to have the true solution to all health problems.
 
Is it any wonder if the consumer is unsettled? In the end, he no longer knows what he should believe and what not. If you want to make things easy, the constantly changing recommendations are a welcome reason to simply eat “whatever”, because "the scientists do not even know it themselves". But we do not want to make it that easy for us here, but ask ourselves what is the cause of this split of opinions. Why are there differences of opinion at all, why cannot even scientists often agree?
 
The sciences
Let's, first, realize what the goal of today's sciences is. Essentially, science strives to test what is true and what is not, in order, ultimately to recognize simple basic laws. Each scientist examines a small piece of reality. He takes it apart and analyzes it down to the smallest detail. He makes experiments on a "model", that is, an assembly that is largely independent of reality. Since you can master the circumstances very well in the model, very accurate statements are possible, but these are not necessarily synonymous for the complex reality. The diversity of the models that the scientists work with causes contradictory results and statements.
 
It is like a beautiful statue, which is dissected by researchers into the smallest particles, in order to grasp the core of this work of art. Since the statue consists partly of gold, partly of bronze and iron, investigating these various elements will bring the researchers to completely different conclusions. And even if they can agree that there is more than one element, they will not be able to grasp the essence of that statue. Also, the reconstruction of the statue will only succeed if you know from the outset of their blueprint.
 
The “alternative” directions
The many "alternative" directions have recognized this problem and therefore consider the diet, which is more than the sum of all parts. That is certain progress. However, the differences of opinion and opposites between the numerous alternative directions show that the real overview is still missing here. Otherwise, such opposites would not exist. The only problem is that everyone looks at reality from his point of view, based on his personal experience. To come to a real solution, we must first try to grasp the overriding basic principles and then delve into subareas. Only then will the research lead to a real understanding and thereby contribute to a real solution of the existing core of the problem of the right diet.
 
Food economy and wholeness
Let's take a closer look at some examples of food production. It often happened in the former communist countries of Europe that something was grown in an agricultural enterprise for which the necessary capacity for further processing was not available so that the crop was then spoiled: so both parts (cultivation and processing) were not coordinated. The reason is that everyone considered only a certain subarea without having the overview.
 
Let's take a look at Western countries. There it is better when we think about the economy, so everything that has to do with productions, trade and money. But if we look at the sequence in the next section, then we recognize a similar problem as the one described above: overproduction here, but hunger in the third world. The environment has also suffered devastating damage because we have never included it in our consideration. The reason here is once again one-sidedness in thinking. We have only thought of what we need in everything, and taken it without giving anything back, so to take other interests into account. There is no compensation, no balance. Examples for that are endless.
 
Lack of balance
If we follow this idea a step further, we see that this balance between giving and taking is missing in our society in general: do not we all think first of ourselves, while the others - as far as they are not close relatives or friends – are included only in our planning, if they can be of service to us? The above-mentioned one-sidedness in thinking is conditioned by a selfish, egoistic attitude. As far as the environment is concerned, the "one-sided" approach seemed to be doing well for a while. That is, we said that we were fine, because we did not see the consequences - or we may have deliberately ignored them. In fact, from the beginning, of course, it was not good, because gradually we created the basis for today's catastrophic environmental situation: forest dying, destruction of the ozone layer, soil pollution - the examples are so well known that they need no further explanation. The complexity of today's environmental issues shows that we are now confronted with the consequences of our reckless attitude just as ruthlessly. Unlike ten or twenty years ago, we can no longer deny the facts. If we want to continue, we have no choice but to give up our old-fashioned attitude. No other choice - either we try ourselves to restore the missing balance between man and nature, or this balance is brought about by nature itself using great catastrophes. You can say that compensation will be made anyway, with or without us, and that this is the only choice left to us.
But how could we restore that balance? Often one hears the opinion that we can solve the existing problems with purely scientific and technical means. However, the above considerations show that the problems are caused by our one-sided and selfish attitude. So, it's this attitude that has to change first. Of course, this requires a full scientific and technical effort, but bringing this about with the old-established attitude would have no purpose. It would only lead to pseudo-solutions, just as in Heracles’ fight with the twelve-headed snake from Greek mythology: as soon as Herakles cut off the monster's head, two new heads immediately regrew. The victory came only when the hero burned out the wounds with a glowing iron - an image that stands for Herakles changed inner attitude through knowledge.
 
Even in the reality of everyday life, we often see such pseudo-solutions, such as the opening of swimming pools when the rivers are contaminated. Or setting up factories to recycle animal manure produced by factory farming and transform them again into cattle feed, while not considering the only real solution (livestock reduction). Everyone will be able to call other examples with no effort.

Reflection: Which examples do come up in your awareness first? 

Nutrition, give and take
Let us return to our actual topic, the diet. It too is subject to the law of give and takes. Our body "takes" through the food and "gives" through the elimination. If we take more than our body needs, then we get overweight. And since we are only set to take these days, is it surprising that being overweight is so common? With serious consequences for our health and enormous costs for society; because metabolic disorders and diseases such as diabetes, coronary disease and many others are caused by being overweight. Of course, there are also people in whom the preponderance is not caused by the diet, but by metabolic disorders, but these are rather rare exceptions.
 
Overeating is not just a problem for overweight people. It is now almost certain that most of humanity's "civilization woes" would decline significantly if every citizen would eat twenty to thirty per cent less. Even signs of aging would decrease considerably: we would be getting old, healthier. Again, there are exceptions: some people tend to be underweight, for which it would not be correct, of course, to eat less. But in general, we eat too much.
How can this problem be solved? Introducing the fashion image of the slender woman is not a correct answer to this problem, but on the contrary, it causes other one-sidedness, such as anorexia and "bulimia" which often alternate with the same person. The one-sidedness shows that this fashion image is not correct. However, a fashion image cannot provide a solution for overeating anyway, because the actual cause is not resolved by it. Also, there are not only overweight women.
 
How could the overweight or overeating be remedied? Let us first consider the scientific facts known. As first, the slow eating of food is crucial. The body takes about 20 minutes until the first signals of saturation occur. So if you eat more than the body needs within that time, the first satiation will not occur until after that time. The slow eating of food should, therefore, be considered the basic rule of health-conscious nutrition. The first condition is: take enough time to eat, so avoid rushing to eat. The second and greatest help to slow eating is a rule that we all know, but most do not apply: good chewing. By prolonged chewing, the food is already pre-digested by the saliva and stimulates the digestive organs via the nervous system. As a result, e.g. gastrointestinal disturbances improve considerably by good chewing or even disappear.
 
Task: Jot down what you wish to change in your life, should this be helpful for you……………………………………………..
 
Let's go back to overweight. It has been found that most people of normal weight start to eat more slowly as they progressively increase in their sense of feeling saturation. This normal reaction is usually absent in the overweight and people who are prone to it. Some scientists seek the cause in disorder in the brain. The real cause lies deeper. Everyone knows that you can push hunger or pain out of consciousness as soon as you concentrate on something else. So you can steer the consciousness within certain limits, "switch off" against unwelcome stimuli. If one does this on an ongoing basis, then one does not perceive the stimulus at all in the long run anymore, a kind of "blunting" occurs. This should be the real cause of a lack of satiety in many overweight people. That such a "shutdown" in the awareness can gradually bring about physically measurable changes in the brain is not surprising.
 
These hints are intended to show that it is not so much about changing some outward behaviour patterns, but about an inner attitude change, a conscious decision. What is our attitude towards daily nutrition? We take our food as something quite natural. Of course, it is but “not” in the literal sense, since, as already mentioned, the largest part of the earth's population has too little to eat. The thoughtless acceptance, therefore, of the daily food, has no justification. Having feelings of guilt towards those who have nothing to eat does not help either. But what we can do, instead of taking food for granted, is to treat it as a gift. In return for this gift, we will give something back: gratitude.  Once we have gained this attitude, we will automatically take our meals in peace and not eat more than our body needs.

Reflection: What are your own experiences concerning overeating?  
 
 
Nutrition, Body and Spirit

Is man what he eats? The substances absorbed by the food are involved in building up the human body. For many people, however, this saying applies as a kind of "confession of faith" of their materialistic view of the world. However, such an interpretation is one-sided, because it only looks at the one, earthly side and disregards the essential. But does not everyone feel the self-consciousness of a “core” that is the same as it was ten or twenty years ago, even though during that time no atom of his body remained the same? Whoever can feel this, will reject materialism.
 
It is also striking that in human history materialism as a worldview is something new that did not exist before in this way ever. The Romans, for example, said "Mens sana in corpore sano", that is translated: A healthy mind in a healthy body. So they understood the mind and body as two different things. How can you visualize that? We could compare our body with a piece of clothing that is discarded when dying - an image that requires a life after death. So the spirit is the real, living core of man, not the earth body. In this sense, man cannot be what he eats.
 
Nutrition and behaviour

From time to time, reports about the elimination of behavioural disturbances through a diet change, e.g. in overactive children are shared. There are also reports from the United States about prisoners whose behaviour has become significantly less aggressive following a conversion of the common prison diet into full-value nutrition. Does the influence of the diet go so far that it can also influence the spirit?
 
This thought is understandable since we are accustomed to looking at everything from the outside, from the outside (body) to the inside (spirit). The path is the other way around: inside- out. Two examples may illustrate this: Everyone knows that a patient can decisively influence his healing by nourishing optimistic thoughts. A second example: A very old woman has been living in good health for years in a nursing home, although she essentially only receives overcooked vegetables and canned food. The explanation for her health is her cheerful attitude to life. Her interest and helpfulness to others enable her body to cope with this kind of nutrition. Indeed, it almost seems as if through this attitude, her body knows how to make the best use of the limited means of nutrition. These examples confirm that the spirit controls the body, not the other way around.

A criminal cannot become a decent person simply by changing his diet. The actual cause of the behavioural change described by diet change lies elsewhere, and this is of high importance to keep in mind, especially also for parents of Special Needs Children or with mental health problems like depression or schizophrenia or similar.  Every human being has radiation that can be perceived by the clairvoyant as a coloured radiance and is called aura or Od. This radiation or aura is different for each person. Partly because of the state of his body, but above all due to his individuality, which is different for every person.
 
This aura connects man on earth with his surroundings. Man is similar in this respect to a radio receiver who receives waves from his environment and the universe. Or, to put it better: is possible to absorb, as which waves, he picks up is determined by his own free will. Just like a radio, humans only receive the transmitting station to which they have tuned via the wavelength of their receiver.
 
The tuning and adjusting the receiver now happens through the radiation or aura. Namely, the radiation or colour spectrum of the aura attracts from the environment radiations of the same frequencies. This happens all the time. Thus, the person absorbs from his environment exactly what he wants. Therein lies the truth of the expression: "Seek, and you will find". Because when someone has a question that moves him inwardly, he sends it in the form of his thoughts as radiation. Suppose someone is searching for the meaning of his existence on earth. Depending on the purity and intensity of his hope for an answer, the answer to his search will come he will find what he longed for. Even if, at first, he seems to have to take detours that do not lead directly to the goal, they will nevertheless help him mature until he finally finds the target.
 
However, with the freedom of thinking, we also have a great responsibility. Because every cherished thought binds us to the source of the radiation, which we first opened ourselves to. For example, if we have thoughts of hatred, then we can create a bridge ourselves over which other people's hatred can find us. Conversely, if we send out helpful and constructive thoughts, then we can also get help from others. In this way, there is a direct connection between our free will and the consequences to our decisions.
 
But not only our inner will but also the health of our body and the diet affect the nature of our aura. Therefore, the choice of food is of great importance for our full spiritual development here on earth.
A wrong, one-sided diet can influence our radiation in such a way that unpleasant disturbances enter.
One possible consequence is the previously mentioned behavioural disorders in children, which can be remedied by changing nutrition.
 
The reduction of the aggression of prisoners after a change of diet can also be explained by a change of the radiation. But there is something else, maybe more important, added.
Extremely aggressive behaviour can be stimulated by otherworldly, i.e. deceased people who live on in the afterlife.
These are usually not high standing human spirits influencing earth humans in that way.  Under certain conditions, such otherworldly people may even temporarily take possession of the body of an earth human, which was formerly called "possession". For that, however, they again need the radiation of the earthling as a bridge. The prerequisite for this is first and foremost, a lack of inner agility of the earth human being since the radiation is primarily dependent on the inner, spiritual will of man. Also, nutrition plays a role, so that a change in diet can contribute to rendering such a disturbing and superfluous influence impossible. (We teach more in-depth in our accredited Healing Magnetism Training www.healing-magnetism.com )
Here parents can help their children immensely with good nutrition that helps the child’s blood radiation to push away otherworldly influences. The same applies to people suffering depression, anxiety or schizophrenic symptoms. Harmonization of the blood radiation which also includes Healing Magnetism can greatly help these affected souls.

Reflection: What are your thoughts or even personal experiences relating to the last sections?  

Now, however, reports on how to fix behavioural disorders through nutritional change are sometimes taken as an example of the claim that the world would be all right if we were all just eating properly. From the above considerations, however, nutrition can indeed affect the bridge between body and spirit, but not the spirit itself. On the contrary, the spirit forms the body, among other things, by choosing the right food. But the inner decisions remain reserved (even with the best nutrition) to the spirit of man. If he chooses to be a criminal, even the healthiest food cannot stop him. Nutrition, after all, only forms the body as an earthly instrument with which the spirit can develop according to its will. This is the limit, but at the same time, the importance of nutrition for us earthlings are at this moment recognizable.
 
Task: Jot everything down into your planner, that might be important for you.
 
Is man a meat or plant eater?
Vegetarianism has become very popular in recent years. There are many arguments for this, such as human evolution, health, refusing to kill animals, and modern factory farming. We will discuss some of these arguments here.
 
As far as the history of human development is concerned, unlike some books, it is scientifically beyond doubt today that primitive man ate meat. The human dentition is also that of an "omnivore". The intestinal length lies between the plant-eater and the omnivore. Thus, human evolution does not provide any proof of the correctness of unconditional vegetarianism, as is sometimes claimed, but of the correctness of a mixed diet, albeit predominantly vegetable, in quantity.
 
Another often-heard motive for a vegetarian diet is health. A vegetarian diet is healthier than the usual civilization diet. Numerous studies on lacto-vegetarians (which do not consume meat as a source of protein but eat dairy products) show better blood values ​​and lower mortality compared to the average population. In other studies, however, vegetarians have been compared with health-conscious non-vegetarians (who, of course, eat less meat than the average population), rather than the average population. It showed that the blood results values ​​and mortality of the vegetarians differed only slightly from those of the health-conscious non-vegetarians. Thus, the complete omission of meat or other animal products does not improve one's health, but only a reduction of their consumption in favour of plant-based products. These last results are less known.
 
Just because the press presents the "health benefits of vegetarianism" so broadly, one could overlook the fact that the complete omission of meat also entails risks. Thus, some minerals such as iron and zinc are present in the meat in a readily available form, while they are less readily absorbed from vegetable products in the intestine. Even more important is the risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Recent research has shown that supposed vegetable sources of vitamin B12 (such as sea algae, spirulina, tempeh or other fermented products) contain no true vitamin B12, but substances that are inactive in humans despite the similar structure. Dairy products are not readily equated with meat in this respect.
 
Vitamin B1 deficiency leads to disturbances in the cell division, for which this vitamin is indispensable. This first affects fast dividing cells, e.g. red blood cells. Therefore, vitamin B12 deficiency (as well as iron deficiency) leads to anaemia, that is, to a significant reduction in the function of the red blood cells. Fatigue and lack of vitality are the most common consequences. Also, vitamin B12 deficiency damages the central nervous system, which can lead to serious deficiency symptoms.
 
As a further consequence of meat abstinence, lactose vegetarians were found to have substantially more irregularities in the monthly period than women of the average population. This is due to changes in the hormone balance.
 
Even if you hardly ever learn about the problem in public, they still play a big role. With the anemia complex, vitamin B12 deficiency is no longer strictly limited to vegetarians, but it is therefore much more regular in lactovegetarians than one might think. The deceptive aspect here is that the outer signs usually only quietly show and can easily be misinterpreted. So can the lack of vitality be perceived as a kind of "feeling balanced" effect. In reality, however, it is a weakening of radiation, whereby man cannot unfold himself fully. This lack of vitality is thus recognizable in vegetarians and outwardly recognizable as a kind of "dullness".
 
This description is certainly not complete; it may perhaps suffice as a clue that complete renunciation of meat has more far-reaching consequences than is assumed! In conclusion: a reduction in meat consumption is quite favourable for health. For complete weaning off, one should give the human body much more time: such an intervening physical conversion does not happen in a few years or decades. Very few people whose parents and grandparents have barely eaten meat may now be able to do without it without harming their bodies.
 
Dairy products
Also, other products should not be easily deleted from our daily diet. Dairy products, for example, also take a special place in our diet; especially as a source of calcium, they are hard to replace. The body needs calcium to ensure the buildup of bones and teeth. For the absorption of calcium, in the intestine and its deposits in the bones, but the body also needs vitamin D. This vitamin, we can even form in the skin with the help of ultraviolet rays. But due to the relatively poor vitamin D supply in some climates, people living in these areas, their body needs more calcium than in sunnier regions. However, in some circles, especially due to the macrobiotic diet, they warn against milk. One of the reasons mentioned is that milk should have a "slime-forming" effect. The practice shows that in the case of colds, bronchitis and the like, the temporary abandonment of dairy products can support the recovery. After recovery, then you should but use these products again.
 
Even in cases of hypersensitivity (allergy), it is better to replace the milk with sour milk products (e.g. organic yoghurt), goat's milk or sheep's milk. Soymilk or almond milk are not considered as a milk substitute, as they have a very different composition and among other things contain almost no calcium. Many people take offence at modern factory farming. Those who do not want to support these methods can nowadays find dairy products in organic stores and often meat from farms supporting animal welfare.
 
Principles of good nutrition

There are many books with practical advice on nutrition. Here we want to restrict ourselves to some general principles that can give only a clue to the design of the diet which has to be adapted to the individual’s intuitive perceptions.  (Should you be diagnosed with a specific physical illness, please always consult your health care provider) 
 
1. Eat everything with moderation
There are two considerations in this sentence. First, eat with moderation, for even the best only hurts when it is enjoyed in excess. And secondly, eat with variety, do not fundamentally exclude certain groups of foods (such as meat, dairy products) from the daily diet. Illnesses can lead to temporary exceptions; because it can happen that either the body must be treated with extra care, or that - for example, if the disease is the result of over-consumption of certain products - these products must be avoided at times. In the long run, however, the body needs to deal with many different foods, which are not without reason on our planet. Just as man needs the spiritual impulses of encountering other people for his inner development and would harm himself if he led a life as a hermit, so does the material body need the material confrontation with the wide range of all-natural foods. As mentioned above, in case of hypersensitivity it may be necessary to temporarily avoid certain foods, but one should consider hypersensitivity as a disease that can be treated, and otherwise try to substitute products from the same product group.
 
2. Care for a wholesome diet
Instead of wholesome one could also say, the food should be as natural as possible.
"Wholesome" refers to the processing of the products. Everyone knows, for example, that refined products such as white flour and white sugar only provide energy ("empty calories") but contain hardly any other vital nutrients. In contrast, the consumption of whole grains or muesli (especially if this grain is only roughly ground) is again for the digestive organs of many people in the long term too heavy and a burden. Whoever but can digest wholemeal products well should eat them, but if you are not able to digest them easily and only reluctantly eat them, just because you think they are so healthy, it is better you avoid them. Wholemeal should always be consumed finely ground rather than roughly crushed since they are in this way, in any case, more easily digested by the digestive organs.
 
This brings us to the second important aspect of wholesome nutrition: preparation. Raw foods still contain some substances that are partially or completely lost during cooking.
Salads and fruits are, therefore, important components of a wholesome diet. To recommend raw food as predominant or even only food, would not be correct. Firstly, in the long run, it would be overstrained on the digestive organs for many. Cooked food is better digestible for the body, in that it “gets more out of it". There is a second reason added. For animals, raw food is best suited. But man has a higher consciousness than the animal. It is not for nothing that he distinguishes himself from the animal by his ability to prepare the food. Through this preparation, the effect of food on our body changes. We also need to be cooked food to give our spirits the right foundation for earthly life. To eat cooked food is, therefore, more important than some natural food directions represent it. Only how one cooks, of course, is decisive. If you cook, for example, vegetables or potatoes for a long time, with a lot of water, and then also throw away the cooking water, then, of course, a significant part of the nutrients has been lost.

As in the choice of food, it also needs the kind of cooking variety. So, you should, for example, do not always eat potatoes as boiled potatoes, because that's healthy, but you can also cook them as salt potatoes. Depending on your appetite. And that brings us to the third point:
 
3. Eat according to the needs of the body, not according to learned rules or principles.
Would it not be boring if a cook cooked the same thing every day? The fact that you have an appetite for a different dish every day already shows that it is not right to follow a strict, inflexible diet and rules. Only the healthy need of the body can show from day to day, from meal to meal, what this body needs. This is most obvious in the case of illness or especially in women during pregnancy. It is then much better to follow this inner urge than to act stubbornly follow any scheme. This applies not only to the choice of food but also to the preparation, as well as the amount is eaten. Always try to free yourself from taught rules and instead let yourself be guided by your inner sense. Unfortunately, this is not as easy for us today as it sounds; because too often we let ourselves be guided unconsciously by our learned ideas and what some famous person does. Nevertheless, we must strive to achieve that we listen towards our inner sense and let that guides ourselves.
 
Also, we will have to learn to distinguish "appetite" for sweets from the real need of our body. Above all, we should eat with pleasure. How important that is, you can already see in the fact that a cheerful attitude at table promotes digestion. We should therefore fully enjoy the meal, but it is important not to let it become excess, greed or addiction.
 
4. Align the diet with the regulating circles of nature
We pay too little attention to the environment when eating. That starts already when shopping. Deep-frozen and canned products need much more energy than raw materials (including packaging) to be produced than fresh foods. Although the use of organically produced food cannot eliminate the existing environmental damage overnight, it would nevertheless be important to support the development of organic farming. Just think of the considerable contribution that environmental pollution has made to modern agriculture: the pollution of groundwater (for example with pesticides, heavy metals and nitrate), acid rain and the disappearance of many types of crops as a result of over-fertilization; the contamination of water and the killing of beneficial animals such as insects by the use of pesticides; and finally, in addition to environmental pollution, modern factory farming.
There are currently a few proven health benefits from eating organically produced foods; one is the relatively low nitrate content of organic vegetables. The harmfulness of this nitrate is that it can be converted in the stomach into carcinogenic substances. The absence of unnatural excipients (such as pesticides and heavy metals in organically grown foods) may also be beneficial to our health. Moreover, it is to be expected that the constant development of research methods will reveal many finer differences that cannot yet be proven. But even more important is not to think about our health benefits, but simply to do what is urgently needed for the environment.
 
In this context, it is also important to use predominantly products from our area we live in and eat according to the season. This is also beneficial for health because every plant strengthens our body the most in the season in which it naturally thrives. This is apparent, e.g. this is because leafy vegetables such as spinach and lettuce contain less nitrate in summer (the normal season in European countries) than in winter (when they thrive in the greenhouse). Also, however, we can learn to place ourselves back in the natural course of the year. Of course, this is not about a rigid rule, but a change in attitude, and there may be exceptions from time to time.
 
Adapting to the cycle of the year equals an adaption into the circumstances of given laws of nature - that is, precisely what we have forgotten the most and what we most urgently need. The abdication of strawberries in winter can only help us. For abdication is giving up, so it is a giving, for which we get back some as a gift: the joy when, after a long wait, the season of fresh strawberries suddenly returns. Or the better taste of sun-ripened fruit. And, perhaps most importantly: an idea of the ​​life processes in nature.

Reflection: What did you learn about nutrition, and what about that will you integrate into your daily life? ​

The skin and its activity

If we want to occupy ourselves now with the skin and its functions, we touch with it an area that is often neglected, because for most people it is completely alien what its proper functioning is supposed to be. Clarification on the importance of the skin and its activity is therefore very necessary because the skin is an organ of our body and indeed a vital organ, equal to the heart or lung or kidney. This is a completely new point of view for most of us.

If we consider the activity of our skin as that of an organ, we see several functions. It is an organ of metabolism since its innermost layer is provided with countless small glands, which serve as valves and regulators. It is on some level also a respiratory organ through the subsequent layer of the dermis (Although only to a minor degree). The term "dermis layer" is well-characterized by its character: firmness and elasticity are combined with permeability through millions of very fine pores. There is a continuous gas or sweaty metabolic excretion through the dermis of the skin glands. Finally, in the third, upper layer of the skin, the widely branched nerve endings are embedded. They act like fine and finest antennae, exercising extensive sensory activity through innumerable nervous reflexes which react to the environment as a result of heat, cold, air, light, moisture, contact, etc... A sensory center is embedded in the skin surface, which also activates the defence mechanism of the body, e.g. Regulation of body heat compared with outside temperature makes in various possibilities and the finest differentiations and to such perfection possible, that the skin becomes a dress and a house for the preservation of our body.
For it is completely covered by the skin and is protected and preserved by it. The very nature of the skin alone bears witness to the perfection of the body in the earthly matter, whereby the nerves, with their reflexivity in the law of interaction, perform a wonderful, clear play before all our eyes. Here, this law is plainly and simply revealed to every eye, because no misunderstanding from complicated interpretations can intervene, as is the case today with other organs.
To describe the wonderful details and the chain reactions in their consistency would be too much; it is a complete process, a constant intermeshing. And yet that is still a clumsy comparison to the fineness of the body. The chain reaction in the body does not take a mechanical course in the sense of a clockwork; it is variable and highly differentiated. Here we have the wonder of the game of the unconscious before our eyes, a highly differentiated mechanism that could never be reached by any clockwork or machine made by human hands; it is inimitable in its versatility and liveliness. With what immense variety of devices would have to be provided with the construction that only approximately reproduced the chain reaction of a healthy skin condition; even a roughly similar representation of the "living" activity would not be able to approach it.
The nerve endings embedded in the skin differ, e.g. between cold and warm, between wet and dry, between light and shadow, and that in turn with all nuances and degrees. And through the same line then take the most varied reactions. Where else can we find something so fine and something as inimitable in the coarse matter as a nerve? It absorbs the finest and most tender stimulus and reflects or guides it further into the stimulus-appropriate gearwheel according to the law: like the stimulus, so the reflex. What we can observe here, however, is only one of the many chain reactions; namely, the defence mechanism of the skin as the complete protective device of our body, of which there are still others; we hardly ever fully appreciate this defence mechanism in its original living happening. How inconspicuous and incidental but our skin seemed to us so far!
That's where the Goethe word says, "What's the hardest part of everything?" – “The hardest thing is what the easiest thing is to you: to see with your eyes what's in front of your eyes." It will only reveal itself to us as far as we can see and how deeply we can see; here, when looking at the skin, everything escapes us when we stay on the surface. But if we try to broaden our horizons, then we will see something unexpected, and then the understanding of our earth body will blossom. Joy and enthusiasm make us aspire to the goal of fully experiencing this body in all its wonderful functions and keeping it pure, beautiful and healthy through understanding care.

What purpose does it have when we consider our limited lifetime, to do this today and tomorrow something else with our body and tomorrow after tomorrow have forgotten everything again? This makes us neither happier, nor does it make us healthier; if, on the other hand, we create the foundations for understanding and then slowly but steadily incorporate them into our daily habits, we will not tend to stop with the habit again as we realise that we then really and truly experience our body. Only what is truly alive can help us, no dead scheme or dogma of any kind! Also, excesses do not help at all, with this, we never create a healthy, harmonious body; At the very least we are disturbing with such actions the last normal functions and go from a state that is not so good to an even worse state.
Only sensible little things, regularly done on our skin, can be the cause for the fact that our skin is gradually becoming fully functional again. It has to come about quite natural if we want to revive the natural again fully – it has to happen in a matter of fact, as animals show us by their example daily; because they do not exaggerate anything, but they also do not refrain from doing what is necessary.
Our skin needs three things: air, light and cold water as natural care products; through these three, over time, our skin can restore its full activity as a body organ. Certainly, we civilized people no longer need the skin as a dress and no longer as a house; but on the other hand, we cannot make our clothes and our homes, which serve us as a shelter and dwelling, to harm for our skin. We only allow the face and hands or arms to be in constant contact with light, air and rain; we need to know what the consequences of this are for our health: the metabolism through the skin, the entire defence mechanism of the skin as a sensory organ must be mitigated.
That is very mild expressed; because we know from the law of nature that everything withers that is not used (and does not move), and we also know how long we have not been given our skin any opportunity to function through comprehensible care. So, we cannot expect a living functioning from our skin anymore! The less porous our clothing is, the less the skin can function. And furthermore, the less porous our clothing is, the more the excreted toxins are driven back into our bodies as they cannot go anywhere else, so they must return to the blood. By preventing their use, our perspiratory glands are gradually losing their ability to work; all excretion via the skin thus gradually stops, which causes the kidneys to be unnecessarily overloaded with excretory toxins, without being able to carry out the task of excreting these poisons. For it is the job of the skin to excrete a multiple of what the kidneys can excrete. As a result, the body is in a predicament of having to withhold toxins continuously, and as a result, is prone to illness and premature aging and dying.

Reflection: Is your skin in contact with air, light and cold water regularly? 

We notice the harmful condition very well on the big, unexplainable fatigue which we then try to overcome again by pleasure poisons of all kinds. The realization of the simple fact that we have paralyzed one of our most important organs, the skin almost completely, is beginning to give way; spas and saunas have now appeared everywhere like mushrooms as if what had been neglected had to be made up and made good by force. By sweating in a dry sauna, we will also be able to help our bodies release toxins. However, we only give some of our skin acuity an opportunity to function temporarily. Even if we do a Kneipp treatment (special kind of water treatment), we temporarily mobilize only other parts of the skin and their chain reactions in a good and excellent way - as far as that is tolerated at all by the degenerated skin. But our skin wants, should and has to breathe, release toxins and feel every day, when we want to be healthy and stay healthy.

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The possibility of bringing our body to flourishing activity lies only in the regularity of its careful daily care. Individually and without a scheme or dogmatic approach, this path must be taken by everyone. Necessary common property can only be the basics of care as well as the exact knowledge of the activity of the skin as an organ. The principles of regular care are based on air, light and cold water and not on little or no clothing, but porous clothing. How long and how intense, the brushing, tapping, massaging, and cold wetting of the skin happens daily with the window open depends on the time and the well-being of each. The main thing is that it happens. This care of the skin with cold water and brushing and exposing to light and air has to be done with "feeling", otherwise you will catch a cold of course because the natural defence mechanism is unfortunately no longer intact with us and we must first awaken it slowly step by step. But soon, we will enjoy it!
 
Here is such an example of proper care for the skin. Please note that some readers might find the following over the top, but it is still interesting in my opinion. The following is an older text written by a Dr med. Jackson. His measures are quite thorough, but I find them also inspirational:” I sleep in an unheated room (unheated at night), year-round, windows open top and bottom, bed screened from draft, and wear no night clothes (pyjamas or nightshirt), but always sufficient bed coverings to keep me comfortable. Early morning I throw bed coverings over foot of the bed and exercise for a half-hour lying on the bed nude, windows still open, as they have been all night, regardless of temperature. Of course, in below zero weather, I do not open windows so widely as in more temperate weather, but always they are open top and bottom. After bed exercises I retire to bathroom, open window when it is not frozen too hard to be opened; drink three glasses of water, hot or cold as suits fancy; respond to nature's calls; cleanse teeth; shave, wash, take a second set of exercises standing, designed to exercise fully all the muscles of the body, but especially those about the waist and abdomen; follow with quick, cold bath, taken as follows: Soap parts where odours might be present from accumulations; scrub with well-wrung-out washcloth; wash off soap with sopping washcloth; immerse body quickly for a few seconds, rapidly rotating the body with a side-to-side rocking movement while immersed; stand in tub, wring washcloth and briskly friction the entire body with it, then make it into a tight roll and grasp it firmly with both hands, arms fully extended straight forward from shoulders, hands close together, palms down make very rapid striking movements with both hands, simultaneously moving the whole body by bringing the hip and knee joints into rhythmic movements with the striking movements of the arms and hands, one hundred times; take four to six deep breaths, exhaling through the compressed lips, and simultaneously raising the arms outward from the sides until they meet overhead during the inhalation, and lowering them during the exhalation; the same position, grasping rolled washcloth, arms forward, snap arms sharply to one side, six to ten inches, then as sharply in the opposite direction, oscillating very fast one hundred times; repeat deep breathing.
I then rub my body well with wrung-out washcloth; leave tub and allow the body to dry in air or wind through an open window while with closed fists I pummel myself from scalp to toes; follow with a quick palm rub over the entire body that can be reached. Regardless of room temperature, I am now glowingly warm and completely thrilled. I dress without underwear, winter or summer, and begin a five-mile walk wearing no underwear, vest, nor overcoat in the coldest weather; in summer as few clothes as the conventions and the law allow. Then I breakfast on fruit and half-and-half or Kofi-Sub (apples, oranges, and grapefruit or the sweet fruits - especially in winter - dates, raisins, figs prunes, or any fruits in season). Lunch is a large bowl of granulated wholemeal porridge (Roman Meal), with milk; or Roman Meal bread with butter, honey (my only sweet except sweet fruits), and Kofi-Sub to drink; and a large leafy salad with onions, radishes or tomatoes in their season. Dinner is almost always a large salad, as above, with cheese, cottage cheese, baked beans, nuts or nut butter. Frequently, in winter, I add steamed vegetables, served only with butter and little or no salt. In summer, dinner may be berries and milk only. In winter, if I feel I have over-indulged in food, I may make a dinner of sweet fruits and milk, or nuts and raisins and a cup of Kofi-Sub. I eat no dessert unless it is a few dates or raisins or the acid fruits.
Occasionally, I live for one or more entire days upon juicy fruits alone, or juicy fruits and half-and-half, to rest and cleanse the digestive tract and the blood, and change the intestinal flora.”
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​Once again, when our skin "lives" fully as an organ of excretory, defence, respiratory and absorption, we are filled with life-force and joy never seen before. The more comprehensible we are, and especially when we live in the city, and incorporate the basic natural laws of the body into our habits of life, the happier and healthier we will be. It takes some effort, some diligence and perseverance, but it is worth a thousand times! If we are then physically fresh and healthy through natural skin activity, a new great insight opens up for us: The inner life of the body surges like a roaring sea through the blood capillaries to the periphery of the skin. On the same end, the waves of blood in the capillaries end and the skin prevents the escape of the same; it forms the protecting cover and the transfer point to the return flow. By the ending of all the blood vessels in the skin, the blood emission or OD of the human being has now been explained to us. The permeability of the skin on the one hand and the tremendous pressure of the blood, on the other hand, have to bring about radiation beyond the circumference of the material, which can often be seen as a radiate wreath by some people, but which is unconsciously and involuntarily but felt by all people as an image of the personality of the person whom you are currently facing. This is the so-called aura that makes us someone appear friendly or unfriendly, attractive or repulsive. The recognition of spiritual maturity and developed capabilities, which is clearly and without the possibility for deception, is revealed in the blood radiation.
The skin as a sensory organ of the human being when we take proper care of it, we will be able to refine and develop unimaginably even today if we cultivate and cherish it correctly.
 

​The game of the muscles
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As in all previously discussed areas of human bodily functions, the superficiality of the general approach is again apparent in the play of the muscles. Certain concepts have become embedded in our consciousness, which we allow to exist as a deciding reality, without any questioning or without trying to experience them ourselves. These terms are neither living nor comprehensive and in no way correspond to the true natural body. As a result, the debt account is burdened by the habits that work against the nature of civilized people. But if we want to stop confronting our earthly body with such equanimity and understanding as before, then we also must deal with the usage of the muscles. 

​This area is more extensive and anatomically more difficult than the area of ​​skin function; therefore, we cannot explain it in detail. We limit ourselves to the essentials.
It is amazing how many new points of view and insights emerge, just as in the areas already discussed; one enters a new world, which lives and works in us, in the perfected microcosm of our earthly body. It fulfils us with respect for the Creator of all life and awakens in us the obligation to finally understand and fulfil the laws of the human body. We already know that our body is a unity, a whole and that every partial disturbance is transferred to the whole and has an impact. The muscle function is in about 95% of civilized people broke or is poorly exercised; that means a fundamental disturbance in the body's household. The function of the muscles consists of contracting or "exercising" (using force), in which the moving of the body parts only belong as a small part. The presence of strong muscles indicates the need for an expenditure of muscular forces. Otherwise, the muscles wither (weaken) - they are in a state of atrophy - and their activity becomes almost impossible; if suddenly asked then to move, it leads to exhaustion and often to collapse. Muscles that are unused or rarely used continuously deposit poisons; they are, as it were, metabolic depots, which, when reused, return the poisons into the blood, causing severe fatigue and even collapse. For we have muscles everywhere, external and internal, voluntary and involuntary.

Our heart is also a muscle, arteries and veins have muscles, and the diaphragm is the largest and the strongest muscle of the body, through which the breath works. In the muscle chain, we can approach life itself, namely the heart function and the activity of the lungs, and thus the bloodstreams in the body. The lever arm of the normal muscle function and its reaction chain thus go much further than is generally assumed. 

We then must continue to become aware of the problem of right and wrong muscle exertion and muscle strain. The rhythm of meaningful muscle-usage is tension-relaxation-rest. But in this rhythm, we almost only practice the first phase; the full, unbroken rhythm is shown to us only by the animals. We, humans, have our muscles almost constantly under tension, and of course our nerves as well; for there is no activity of the body without stimulation of the nervous system. So, we live in continuous, uninterrupted nervous tension and thus nerve expenditure by completely wrong muscle activity because we do not practice the natural rhythm of tension-relaxation-rest. It is a state of chronic muscle and nervous tension that wears away the living nerve power.
From this point of view, one only needs to observe oneself and others and unveil the mystery of our exhaustion today and of all our nervousness as well as the blemish of the ugliness of all human attitude and movement. Undoubtedly, the greatest wastage of human power and energy is in the unconscious nervous and muscular effort instead of through voluntary muscle tension, through the inability of the human to relax the muscles and nerves, to avoid any tension, effort or contraction - in short: always to be relaxed, without any tension, and to avoid any contraction except when the tension is due to a particular act of will for a particular purpose. Here we can learn a lot from the animal kingdom. The overly violent, spasmodic, the inhibited and the unloved that one can perceive not only in the bodies but also in the psyche of people everywhere is the typical image and the expression of our civilization. Here the true state of today's humanity is clearly and openly documented: the right body control is lacking because the control of the will is lacking because the spirit of man is sleeping.
Power and serenity or relaxation come entirely from the spirit, while strength comes from the body. A body full of spiritual power has elastic movements full of grace and beauty. In this case, even a superiority vis-à-vis the animal body would have to manifest - but the sleeping state of spirit causes just the opposite! The wrong way of life, the non-control of the whole body via the inert spirit is expressed in all movements, especially in the human being. Not only grace and beauty are lacking, but also the union of suppleness and strength, vitality and dignity, which is the evidence of a spirit pulsing through the body in all activity and leading of life. We clearly show all our emptiness and disharmony through our attitude. We will experience the healthy state of a complete body that is controlled by the spirit and therefore shows an alternation of tension, relaxation and calmness that can only be found in a body pulsated through by a radiant spirit.  In recognizing and knowing these great connections, we have the golden key that opens the door to a new and happier life.
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A healthy activity through a constant exercise of the muscles is still a necessity today. The muscles must be systematically and regularly practised. Exercise and relaxation, activity and rest: that is their law, and from this, the muscular apparatus receives a healthy constitution. Therefore, a normal respiratory activity and a normal circulation develop, from which increased efficiency and health has to come interactively. Individually, depending on the nature of his professional environment, anyone can design his exercises, which may be short, and incorporate them into the course of everyday life; but they must take place as regularly as possible to keep the muscles going. Certainly, there is no lack of guidance, and no special system is needed if one has recognized the essence of muscle usage and also there has to be not to be followed a particular sport.

Reflection: Are you getting enough exercise?

(By the way, there are helpful and free organisations in most countries of this world to support you in raising your movement levels. Here, for example, the 10 000 steps a day website in Australia. https://www.10000steps.org.au/ )
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Excessive use of the muscles leads to the same result as inadequate use: both lead to atrophy.
In pathology, two types of atrophy due to underuse and atrophy due to overuse are distinguished. Overworked muscles, too, become stiff and no longer readily respond to the stimuli of the nerves and can easily inflame if overloaded and overburdened. In severe cases of exertion, the muscle fibres change to a fibre tissue, which completely stops and blocks the ability of the muscle to expand and contract again, and thus the functioning of the muscle is inhibited.

This is then the final picture of the complete destruction of the muscle by overstraining. Let us think of our heart: every athlete carries damage to the heart muscle very quickly, faster than he often suspects. The "sports heart" is well known; it does not bother particularly in youth, because the body still compensates and regulates.  But later, it often turns out to be a burden, because the aging person is much more subject to arterial death. This arises from deposits in the arterial walls of the arteries and the underuse of their muscles in the calmer course of older life. This degenerates the vascular walls and inhibits the full flow of blood, whereby the heart muscle is overworked. An athlete succumbs to arterial death much earlier as it already degenerates. If we would take the time to grasp the essential connections of physical activity, we could reshape our entire lives immediately. In this way, today's humanity oscillates between neglect and exaggeration in the play of the muscles and bears the consequences of the disregard of any order of life in the law of interaction, whereas instead we could follow the path of life joyfully by following the laws of life in happiness and health, in beauty and dignity.
 
Reflection. What did you learn about muscle movement?  
 

Sleep 
In the course of our previous observations, we have recognized the influence of the spiritual attitude of man, the effects of natural nutrition, healthy skin activity and proper muscle functions in the physical process and were able to observe how in each of these districts the cause and effect are delivered as chain reactions. As the last sector in the circle of the great connections, let us turn to sleep, which must act as a necessary balance if the five reflex chains form a sound defence mechanism, and the physical functions are to be governed in perfect order. It is a prerequisite that the physical functions must be spared as much as possible from unnatural stimuli and are not to be used until exhaustion. If these requirements are met, the body would need to be in a state of being largely immune to the disease.
 
But the image of man today shows us the measure of his transgressions against the laws of nature, which would have given him with the right way of life, all the help to restore his body to health and normality again. Especially the finely differentiated play of the nerves makes the body so adaptable and every healthy, natural stimulus must show healthy effects: The spirit is strengthened and is fostered by purity in thoughts, words and works - and the body becomes healthy by the care of the natural. The spiritual attitude of man is determinative and comprehensive, as we have repeatedly stated; the sphere of influence of the three next functions, namely the natural nutrition, the activity of the skin and the play of the muscles, is limited and, depending on their natural or unnatural reactions, sleep will also have an effect.
 
When we are no longer refreshed in the morning, happy and alive, but awaken feeling heavy, distressed and saddened, this is an unerring sign that there is no harmony in our bodily functions and that we are in the zone of latent weakened health, which is the prerequisite for a later illness. A serious sign of this is the leaden and heavy sleep, accompanied by burdensome dreams, which make people preoccupied until late in the day. The thoughts are flowing lethargic - a sign that the fatigue poisons in the body could not be excreted by sleep but are still circulating in the blood. Through a persistent bad sleep, the ability to perform is constantly diminishing, the person gets into a chain of fatigue and exhaustion and is thus stretched far beyond the limits of his normal physical ability, he must use his last reserves to handle the normal workload of his day's work, The first aid in this condition would be a careful compilation of the diet and stimulation of the skin and muscular movement. Fundamentally, however, human beings must also be regarded here as a totality, as an indivisible whole, and every cellular pathology can only lead to partial successes here.
 
The natural and restful sleep is characterized by a light and fast falling asleep and a deep, refreshing slumber. From such sleep one awakens refreshed, as newborn, to the day's work; Spirit and body are permeated with a good sense of recovery. Unfortunately, we almost only experience this condition in healthy children; it has become rare in adults. One of the root causes of our unhealthy sleep is the disturbing influence of the environment on our whole nervous system: noise! Even in sleep, the nerves absorb the noise, without having to wake up; the torturing nerve tension takes place nevertheless since the impressions are received by the body. The noise of the road, the noise of the city, is the greatest nerve burden - not only during the day, even at night. Humanity defends itself here rightly and takes up the fight against it.
But often we voluntarily bring noise into our sleeping space with electrical devices like tv, computer, smartphone. We are constantly bombarded with nerve stimuli.
The question of the duration of sleep is determined not only by the individual himself, by his nature and his needs; it is also largely dependent on the noise that occupies the workrooms in the factories, in the offices, or which penetrate the houses and streets. In earlier centuries, even before the invention of engines, this uninterrupted noise was a term unfamiliar to humans. Since the sleep of 8 hours was the quite normal measure of sleep, which was enough to renew the creativity. Today, however, science has already realized that by overstraining the human nerves through haste and overload, 12 hours of sleep would have to be normal, to give the body freshness, that rest and that relaxation which is necessary to keep the body and mind of the working person healthy. In America, attempts have been made to renew the used-up energies through an additional midday rest; Students who slept at noon were fresher in the afternoon and up to 30 percent more efficient. Other tests in a factory showed that just a few minutes of sleep - in darkness and silence and in a completely relaxed position - was enough to regain freshness and resilience.
If, as a result of constant muscular tension and nonstop nerve stimuli, insomnia becomes a chronic condition, it has already led so far today that many have to resort to sleeping pills. It is well known that tense muscles are often to blame for insomnia, and one now tries to relax the muscles by taking calcium tablets; this is intended to circumvent the harmful effects of sleeping pills. Is it not unfortunate that we only use outside resources instead of combating the causes?
The mental and spiritual attitude of man can also be referred here much more than is usually assumed; for the mental state of man bears the main blame for insomnia. When we lie down in the evening, we are for the most part still full of the hurry and bustle of the day; we are unable to put aside the day-thoughts and to forget them but take them to sleep. We can no longer rid our minds of comprehensive reflections and instead of worry let our inert spirit rise towards higher things, and seek in prayer the connection to the light force from Above; we would then find help and win the inner peace that is urgently needed for a truly restful night's sleep.
 
When we go to bed in the evening, we only lay our bodies to rest, the spirit stays awake and is especially in full receptivity due to the elimination of the sleeping frontal brain. Not only the fatigue poisons are removed from the blood by sleep, but rather a strengthening from above, because the spirit is opened as the thought-power is turned off, something he can no longer experience during the day-consciousness. That's why folk wisdom also suggests that it is good you have a night’s sleep before deciding something which is of great significance in your life. And from the Bible, we know that the God-sent prophets received the instructions and revelations through words and pictures in their sleep. Sleep is not only for relaxation and refreshment for the body - it is the bridge to absorb energy from the higher spheres of creation.  It has been called the "brother of death". And when one knows that earthly death is a birth into the hereafter, then sleep, the daily sleep, becomes a daily new birth - not into the sphere of the hereafter, but the here and now of life.

Reflection. What did you learn about sleep that you find useful for yourself?
Think back on this Blog. What will you implement actively in your life? ​
 
Blog Sources:
Healing Magnetism in the Frame of a Meaningful Lifestyle, Course book by Edeltraud Grace
The Grail Message, Abd-ru-shin. www.grailmessage.com
Neue Heilwege Wilma Breuherr und Dr. Annemarie Banzhaf
Den ganzen Menschen heilen. Gesund werden – gesund bleiben

 
 

Severe forms of occupational crises have increased significantly in recent times; they often overshadow longer periods of adult working life. "Burnout" is the most common and most prevalent occupational crisis of our age. How does it occur and what can be done to prevent it? 

The concept of burnout, as the word itself implies, describes a condition of being burned out. But only someone who has been on fire, that is, someone who has been working red-hot can burn out. It is often committed poeple who are affected by this condition, people who take their responsibilies seriously and have given their all to their occupation, day in, day out over many years. 

However, over time signs of work-weariness, creep in, at first hardly noticeable, but then ever more pronounced: The person affected feels fatigued or exhausted and realiises that the drive and enthusiasm he once had have waned. Now he must often force himself to do certain tasks that previously came easy to him. He recognises his slower working speed and his diminished powers of concentration. He sees what needs to be done, but he can no longer summon the energy to see it through.... It feels just like after a surgical operation, a feeling of weakness which engenders dismay or even anger because he would have never thougth this possible. 

In particular, enthusiasm for new ideas has largely dried up. Also, supportive contacts with others that require physical or mental interaction quickly become vexatious to the worker. 

If the condition persists, it may happen that those affected react in a maladjusted, prickly and even in an aggressive manner towards their surroundings. In recent burnout research this condition is described as "cynicism", indicating a significant emotional difference to other depressive illnesses. 

Having to experience the gap which exists between the external or internal requirements and the actual performance level may sometimes cause anxiety and uncertainty which can then trigger inner conflicts with oneself and with one's surroundings. 

One looks forward to the holiday or to the weekend as a "break" from work in order to relax, but no sooner has the work started again, when this feeling of chronic fatigue and sluggishness returns, accompanied by feeling of alientation from the responsibilities incurred by the job. 

This phase may well last years, and can almost turn into a habit, unless a genuine impetus to change one's life comes from within or changes occur from without that compel a radical reappraisal, which in turn compels new steps to be taken. 

If in this phase the steps towards recovery are missed, then this omission may eventually engender severe forms of depression. 

Burnout - a new phenomenon! 

Although the number of people affected by burnout has grown tremendously of late, the phenomenon itself is not new. Probably the most impressive portrayal in literature is seen in the novel "Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann. The quotation below is from the perspective of the youngest scion of the Buddenbrook family, Hanno, who becomes painfully aware of hi father's exhaution. 

"He saw not only the unerring charm which his father exercised upon everything he saw a well with strange and anguished penetration, how cruelly hard it was upon him. He saw how his father, paler and more silent after each visit, would lean back in his corner of the carriage with closed eyes and reddened eyelids; he realised with a sort of horror that on the threshold of the next house a mask would glide over his face, a galvanised activity take hold of the weary frame..."

​Hus fatgerm Senator Thomas Buddenbrook, the head of the respectable firm Buddenbrook, for his part, is painfully aware that in view of the steady decline of his business, he would need to full strength and vigour he had in his early years in order to turn things around, but: 
"He was possessed by one desire: to give in to this dull despair, to steal away and lay at home, with his head resting on a cool pillow."

The New York psychiatrist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout syndrome" in the 1970s. Together with a team of volunteers he had established a drop- in centre for drug-dependent people. After a period of strong commitment he noted in himself and in his staff growing signs of exhaustion, and increasing irritability towards the users of his advice centre. 

These examples describe the essence of a burnout disorder impressively; it is about standing aloof from one's task, about being emotionally drained, about physical weariness and perceived futility. The ones affected can no longer connect with their task. The joy of activity is lacking, as is the inner movement, the "glow" for a task. 

Something is out of balance

The examples given here show how varied the causes of burnout can be: Thomas Buddenbrook placed the reputation of the family and its tradition above everything else and never questioned his duty to preserve it; neither did he seek any other meaning for what he did not thought about whether the type of work really suited his nature. 

Not only that, he even tried to reshape the education of his only son Hanno in order that he be suitably qualified to enter the family business and to coerce him to do so, although this child with his musicality and his whole being showed a very different nature, rather similar to that of his mother, which was totally unsuitable for a business career. 

Quite different is the case of the New York staff helpers: These had been fully committed and enthusiastic about their task, which apparently suited both their personal aspirations and professional qualifications well. However, they had to organise this drop-in centre as volunteers in their leisure time, thus in addition to other psychological counselling activity. Needless to say, this one-sided energy  expenditure quickly exhausted their reserves. 

Thus with every burnout disorder individually different causes can be identified; causes that in one case can have more to do with the occupational side, while in other cases the cause tends to be rooted in the personal nature instead. 

The identification of these individually different causes of burnout is an essential prerequisite for any cure. 

Causes on the job level

Present-day pressure to hold down costs in many companies often forces employees to work at a persistently high speed. A one-sided and rapid consumption of energy can be the result. At the same time the worker also has to monitor his output in purely quantitative terms, which means that many work processes must be recorded statistically and converted into costs, even in the social professions. This promotes a one-sided intellectual orientation. But he who can no longer have a feeling for his work is in danger of only functioning mechanically. So it is with many carers who must record every action taken in the care of their patients at the bedside with a code. But purely human actions such as cheerful conversation, a comforting handshake, or the art of just being there and listening are not on the list of codes, and are therefore given no score and thus not taken into consideration in assessments and appraisals. 

Moreover, the first burnout investigations in the 1980s already illuminated the detrimental effects of saddling social services with a high administrative workload. 

Recent studies point to other occupational hazards: being under public scrutiny and in the media spotlight for long durations (politicians), scarcity of information about how a job is to be done well; lack of mutual assistance; role conflicts; lack of acknowledgment and feedback culture; unnecessary restrictions in the exercising of competencies and an environment where quantitative efficiency counts above all else. 

A large output of work required over a long period of time and involving a large number of hours worked per week at a persistenly high speed holds an especially great risk at burnout. 

Common to all these occupational risk factors is a one-sided focus on economic and other concepts which concentrate on material values only, that then make it difficult for the individual worker to be engaged with feeling, responsibility and a sense of fulfilment. 

These issues also highlight the direction in which the necessary measures for the prevention of burnout should be sought on the organisation and management level: to engender a human and appreciative working atmosphere, in which there is space for mutual assistance and support, which in turn, will then carry the best prophylaxis against burnout and other stress disorders, as many current health research studies reveal. 

Causes at the level of individual

The risk of suffering from burnout is especially great for those people who give their occupation a very high priority in their lives. 

In the case of the ambitious hard worker, the "workaholic", who "throws" his best energies into his occupation over many years, it can happen that, often triggered by and unpleasant incident, all his strength suddenly dissipates. He must realise that he - without having noticed it himself- has relentlessly used up his energy reserves. 

The employee, who intends to meet all expectations, without ever setting boundairies, on the other hand, experiences a gradual process of energy depletion, which assumes increasingly drastic forms the longer this behaviour lasts. 

In addition, the individual temperament as well as the ageing process holds the risk of the affected worker no longer being able to keep up with present-day demands regarding the pace of work. 

This discrepancy between the demands made and the individual's ability to cope with these requirements is the most important cause of stress disorders. 

The reasons are different again with younger performance oriented people who invest a lot of time and money in ongoing vocational training, who then go on to carve out new careers, but suddenly come to the realisation that they are not happy with their new duties, since their new line of work does not conform to their nature - an experience that brings discomfort, such as if one is walking in ill-fitted shoes. 

Thus the present-day demands for ongoing professional training and further education can also increase the risk of a disconnection from one's occupation taking place, as recent studies show. 

This risk is inherent even in the very first career choice taken by young people, namely if the job is selected only according to external criteria such as job security, remuneration levels and promotion opportunities. 

The experience that a vocational field does not suit or no longer suits one's personality, one's own views and abilities compels an unnatural effort to be made in order to remain in the occupation. It costs considerable effort to counterbalance the associated loss of energy over the longer term. 

Escaping burnout

The healing process necessitates self-awareness as well as a critical examination of one's occupational field and requires time for a necessary reorientation of one's life as well. Checking whether one's current vocation meets one's personal requirements is probably the first question that should be addressed. 

But first of all an admission must be made that one is entangled in a disharmony , which acts as an impediment to the joyful experiencing of life, stifling all creativity. 

It makes sense then to look back in review to find out where the causes of the current disharmonious situation lie, whether they are more likely to be found in the workplace or within oneself. In most cases, it will be a mixture of both. 

Of course, the knowledge about one's own contribution is especially important, since time and time again the life stories of individuals attest to the fact that the quest for security and distinction is often linked to an excessive workload. 

With these fresh recognitions that have been gained by soul-searching, it is then a matter of letting the corrections envisaged by these personal recognitions be gradually incorporated into one's life. In this process, the search for meaning, for spiritual values is of particular importance. 

In most cases, fundamentally new answers are called for not only with regard to work, but also regarding the entire life. 

While only in very rare cases is it necessary to turn one's life completely around, generally speaking it is mostly a matter of expansion, an enrichment of life on the perceptive level. 

It is in this way that people find a new independence, which can create a new significance and fill their personal lives with warmth again. Then it is possible to set healthy boundairies, boundairies against external requirements and social norms, but also against one's own psychological "driving forces". 

Opening up to new models of experience

Trying new things and/or consciously modifying our behavour in given situations are the best means to intentionally counteract one-sidedness in our life. The following list of suggestions is only meant to serve as a motivation 

• dealing with matters of life and death and seeking new answers to unsolved questions. 
• being on the lookout for constructive and clarifying literature; 
• experiencing nature and sensing the laws resting in it;
• taking walks on a river or lake, putting one's feet in the water and tracing the waves;
• viewing landscape photographs and finding out where the light comes from;
• taking walks in forests and woodlands and identifying birds by their song;
• studying constellations in the sky;
• hiking in the mountains, including steeper slopes in order to evaluate one's strength;
• experiencing elements of nature by learning to sail; 
• splitting wood;
• switching diet temporarily to impart new vitality to the body: for example, giving preference to fruits, vegetables and herbs when they are in season; 
• resolving old conflicts, casting off dross, letting go of old issues which have lost their relevance; 
• focuing on the really important relationships, especially on what one can contribute to these;
• drawing up a list of the things in life which we are good at or aspire to be and consciously applying increased energy towards perfecting and developing these;
• pausing briefly in the morning and afternoon for reflection, taking a deep breath and consciously adopting an athletic, upright posture;
• trying something new and experiencing the "pioneer spirit", for example learning to play the saxophone or another instrument, going to concerts, joining a choir;
• restricting leisure time spent on the computer and in front of the TV to a minimum; 
• avoiding shopping malls, large stations or other large gatherings of people. 

These examples may show that the point is to give room to the intuitive perception in everyday life, to reserve a little space for the "innermost self" and to consciously form havens or "retreats" in life which act as a counterbalance to one's professional or occupational life. The way will then be opened to the acquiring of new values and the gaining of new experiences on the inner perceptive level which are the nourishment the soul needs to regain its vigour. 

Then the (former) burnout-affected person will be in a position to realise that although the professional job is an important pillar in life that is to be appreciated, it nevertheless does not represent the most important thing to care about and to achieve in life. 

The highest things in human life are those eternal spiritual values which stimulate and animate us throughout our existence, even in times when our workload threatens to overwhelm us; those eternal values that transcend the short-term realities of everyday life. 

The conscious maintenance of a triad

The functions of life to promote development and strengthen health and vitalitiy are best understood in the context of a triad in which not only the known areas of life (work, family and sports) have significance, but spiritual values above all else msut play a decisive role. 

These spiritual values alone can give valid answers about life in general as well as clarification on the life events of individuals. 

Thus what is meant are all those values that lead people out of mere "functionality" to the recognition of a higher meaning and which also bestow a new significance to the everyday events. 

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All one-sidedness in life has an unhealthy and debilitating effect in the long run. Work-related one-sidedness can be caused by today's professional and educational requirements, but also by the personal ambition of the individual. Helpful against all one-sidedness in everyday life is the concept of a life-triad: Just as in music, where a triad generates more harmony and beauty than the repetition of a single theme, so also life, which act refreshingly in a similar way to musical counterpoint by supplementing or balancing each other. Thus working people should not devote all their energy to their work and vocation only, but, according to their nature, also cultivate their personal relationships and social contacts, and engage in leisure activities, culture and art. This creates a healthy balance, which acts refreshingly upon body and soul. The third side of the triad, however, is the most important: the conscous maintenance of spiritual values. Only they are able to offer an inner guidance as well as the capacity to imbue occupational tasks, social relationships and leisure activities with warming vitality. Spiritual values of life allow us to see our occupational work from a new perspective and in a new light. In addition, they also impart depth, love and attentiveness to our social contacts. Out of the triad of life a real zest for living can develop. 

Of course, it would be an illusion always to expect life to be a triad! However, the concept of it can help us to make adjustments and plot course corrections in life at the appropriate time. 

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Author: Marianne Klauser
Compiled for this Blog Post: Edeltraud Grace

Of what use is all this research if people neglect above all to learn details about the nature and effect of thoughts, with a view to a spiritual upward striving and to a healthy earthly upbuilding. 

​We can no longer remain indifferent spectators of a happening which each day brings new, evil surprises, but are now forced to concern ourselves seriously with problems which lie outside our sensory perceptions, that is to say, in the spiritual sphere, because ultimately our spiritual survival also depends on it. 

The view was recently expressed that crimes could possibly be prevented if, through basic research, adequate information were obtained about the mechanisms which at regular intervals drive human beings to the collective crime of genocide. 

These mechanisms, or rather collective actions, are rooted in part in the dark throught-centres, of which tehre are many as the crimes man is able to devise. But there are also thought-centres of peace and pure love. 

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In accordance with the Law of the Attraction of Homogenous Species, similar thoughts unite in centres. These in turn are connected with homogenous spheres of Darkness and of Light. 

All those involved in them are linked with these concentrations of evil or of good by threads, and receive via this line of connection an ever new supply, which allows evil as well as good to grow within them. And some day the moment comes when one or several persons, or whole masses, will transform for example an evil which at first was embodied only in thought-forms, into deeds somewhere on earth, and in this way perpetrate a collective crime. There are no earthly barriers in this. All of them, in whatever country they may be, are connected with one another through a real collective guilt. 

Thus it happens that we hear of crimes of a similar nature perpetrated in the most diverse parts of the earth. "It is in the air", as the popular saying goes. Something unpleasant or disastrous is impending. But to this "air" also belong the thought-forms with their radiations, which press towards realisation, and wherever there are weak or dark places the fruits of evil volition manifest on earth. 

Such cases are now brought to our attention nearly every day. Let us for instance only consider the new types of crimes. First there is a "precendent", an isolated case, which then as a chain reaction is followed by others. 

Of the "thought-sinners" only the wrongdoes whose deeds are physically visible can be caught and convicted. The remaining "accomplices" stay at large because their complicty is invisible. 

All, however without exception, are subject to the Laws of Creation, which in their incorruptibility provide for a just reaction; but also for the severance of the dark threads of fate, if the readiness for it exists in the originator through a continuing good volition and conduct. 

In contrast to the foregoing statements, a collective crime pictures according to earthly interpretation, which places the burden of the criminal deeds of individual members on the community (nation, family), cannot be substantiated either legally or morally. 

For on earth, where the homogenous species are not separated, participants and non-participants, the guilty and the innocent, find themselves intermingled in a community. 

If therefore a collective guilt is thrown upon a community, those not involved are also implicated and morally degraded (discriminated against). 

From all the explanations it is already evident that thoughts cannot be free. On the contrary, we must often pay even a very heavy penalty for them. In ancient times there was a saying: "No one is punished for his thoughts." Later this was changed to the proverb:"Thoughts are free."

If a man allows bad thougths to arise within him, they are not free, thus not free from punishment. According to the simple Law, "What a man sows he must reap", these thoughts return many times over to their originator as evil fate, which was put into the world by himself. Man has at all times full responsibility for what he thinks and does 

How important it is then also to be alert in thought, and to examine  what "goes through one's head". Above all, reflection on the world of thoughts should increasingly prompt us to awaken and cultivate within us the concept of the pure and noble, so that we shall not one day have to reproach ourselves with being involved through frivolous thoughts in the evil deeds of others, which deep in our hearts we detest and condemn. 

If we bestow as much purity as possible on our thoughts, we thereby further the thought-centres of good, and help to eliminate the "thought-garbage" that devastatingly contributes to the environmental pollution in the beyond and on this side, and thus gradually to close down the "mechanism of evil" to which the dark thought-centres also belong. They must then wither and dry up, because they no longer receive any supply. Therein also lies ultimately the prevention of crime. 

Herbert Vollmann, What lies behind it...! The Grail Message Foundation Publishing Co. Stuttgart
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A dummy medication with no active substance, which merely looks like the real mediation, should actually have no effect. In the meantime, however, many studies have shown that a so-called placebo is nevertheless effective. Why that is so and in what way an effect might be possible we will explore here. 
Placebo is an artifical word derived from the Latin, with the meaning: 'I shall please'. First let us turn to the question why a placebo 'pleases'. 

A matter of faith
Many placebo studies have been conducted with pain control, on the one hand because pain is often not easy to resolve, and on the other hand because the intensity of pain can be appraised quite well by questioning. 

Some basic points on the mechanism of action: a placebo administration can only be successful if patients believe in the effect. The belief is evoked by the assurance of the doctor that one is receiving an effective medication. In the case of pain a release of endogenous pain-relieving substances, which are similar to morphine, takes place as a result of the placebo administration. They are called endorphins and reduce pain very effectively. (1)

The following experiment describes in an exciting manner how tricky science can be and what role the faith of the patient plays in treatment even without placebos: to relieve pain, a new drug was administered. For comparison, and therefore to find out if this drug is effective, a control group was given a placebo. Both administrations were carried out with an assurance to the patient that the medication he or she receives is very effective. The trial subjects did not know of course if they had received the placebo or the drug. The results showed that the new drug was clearly more effective than the placebo. This naturally caused great joy, because it usually takes many years for a new drug to have a proven track record of success. 

But when one day this new medication was applied without the knowledge of the patients, thus without expressly assuring them that it is an effective remedy, it was found that the drug was not effective at all. (2) The pain did not decrease. It took a while before it was found out why: the new drug works because it prolongs the life span of endorphins in the body, or, in other words, because it strengthens the placebo effect, thus the faith in the effect. However, if the medication is administered 'secretly' and the patients have no expectations of effect, then the mechanism is not set in motion that leads to the release of endorphins, and the new drug cannot become active. 

Belief in the treatment success is therefore essential for the effect of the placebo, and in this particular case also of the medication. 

MANY EXPERIMENTS HAVE VERIFIED THE TREMENDOUS INFLUENCE OF BELIEF OR DOUBT IN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MEDICATION

What influence this conviction or even doubt in the therapeutic effect that an agent has, is clearly demonstrated in the next experiment: 
Three groups were formed to measure the magnitude of the effect of an analgesic substance. The first group entertained no expectations with regard to the drug. The participants were neutral and after the administration reported a 30 per cent decrease in pain. The second group was sceptical and doubted the effectiveness of the drug: it reported an average of 16 per cent less pain. Test subjects in the third group, who were all convined, however, that the medication would help, benefited from an almost 60 per cent reduction in pain. (3) Expectations thus play a big role in the effectiveness, and it is therefore worthwhile even with the best medicine to let the doctor assure that it is very effective. 

The fact that faith alone can help also shows the success that can come from a conditioning. By conditioning is meant the influence of circumstances that accompany an event. For example, the dog is already looking forward to the food when you only have in your hand its empty feeding bowl and place this where it usually gets its food. 

The human being likewise reacts to such cicumstances. 

If, for example, an immunosuppressive agent is given several times, and along with it a tasty drink, then the drink alone can in the end be sufficient to trigger the release of the corresponding active substances in the body. (2)

What really works? 
For the placebo effect, the assurance of the physician that one is receiving an effective medication can be an important prerequisite. But in what way does a person himself really contribute to his healing? Is it the thought that evokes the will to recovery? Do mental forces and energies bring about the release of pain-relieving substances in the body, or are there psychological forces that are necessary to achieve this? 

The study of brain activity in patients who were given placebos, compared with individuals who received no medication, showed that the frontal brain is stimulated more strongly, thus that part of the brain that is necessary for performing tasks. (4) It might be needed to trigger subsequent processes in the brain, which then reduce the pain. 

The American neurologist Dr. Sean Mackey wanted to explore the connections between brain activity and pain perception in greater detail and tested whether pain can be influenced through the regulation of a brain region. He showed his test subjects, who lay in a scanner for measuring magnetic resonance, the activity of a brain area while they were subjected to severe pain in the arm. This area is believed to play a role in pain relief. The volunteers were to try to consciously reduce the activity in the area shown and thereby dampen the pain. The trial was successful: in his publication Dr. Mackey wrote that up to 60 per cent of the pain could be reduced in this manner. (5) 

It does not mean, however, that it is possible to relieve pain quite simply in this way. A journalist, who read about Mackey's experiment, wanted to have his own pain threshold tested. He went to Sean Mackey, got a metal pad strapped to his arm, and his skin was made sensitive to pain with a pepper-based cream. While he was lying in the scanner, the pad was made hotter and hotter, just so long as he could tolerate it. But his attempt to mentally influence the line on the computer screen, which indirectly indicated his pain, failed to produce the desired result. Apparently success, as Mackey explained, is a 'matter of practice' (6), and it is not so easy to exert an influence on pain at will with the mental faculties. 

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iThe placebo effect therefore obviously does not depend (only) on mental activity. But what else, apart from the mind, could bring about faith and hope? Does confidence play a role that one will experience outside help, and thus that one will no longer have to worry about the problem? 

The aspect of 'outside help' is, as evidenced by the following research results, not to be underestimated:
For a study women were selected who had long stable romantic relationships. Whole being subjected to pain, they could look at different images - of objects, of strange people and finally of the beloved partner. The women reported in this experiment that they clearly felt less pain when looking at the picture of the partner. In addition, the relevant pain areas in the brain, showed less activity. Interestingely enough, of the brain that has nothing to do with pain, but which signals protection and safety. (7)

One can conclude that emotional aspects also play a role in the effect of a placebo. In the experiment the certainty of the love and care of the partner counted. It is also known, for example, that men who received a bypass, need less pain medication and recover quicker if they are visited frequently by their wives, as compared to those patients who were visited less frequently. (7)

The power of the spirit
A placebo 'is pleasing', it can make one healthy and happy - but how does it work? 

Whether drug or placebo - both help the psyche in maintaining the hope of soon becoming healthy. The insecurity of having helplessly to cope alone with adversity is removed by setting self-healing forces in motion. 

But excactly how this effect comes about is not known in science. One thing that is certain, as we have seen, is that placebo treatment triggers a release of endogenous substances. Since the placebo pill contains no active ingredient, it must be the conception, the faith in becoming healthy, which makes it happen. But that would mean that there must be an entity in us which - figuratively speaking - knows where the shoe pinches. Endorphins are secreted to reduce pain, interleukins are produced to support the immune system. The process triggered by the placebo thus depends on the ailment, while the placebo administered is always the same. There must something that knows what is useful in different ailments, and which feels addressed by the belief and hope. 

This entity is possibly the soul, more precisely: the human spirit. If something touches us deeply, then it affects our spirit, our innermost core of being. Nowadays we think of the 'spirit' rather in terms of our intellect, of our mental activity. But the word spirit is also used in another sense, for example, when one speaks of 'giving up the ghost' or seeing 'with the mind's eye'. 

If we picture something intensely, we examine it 'in spirit'. That is indeed so. Everything we see is processed by the brain. The brain provides a picture of the environment, for example an event, which someone looks at in order to understand, evaluate and derive further actions from it. This 'someone' is the spirit of the human being, the ego. We are in our core of being spiritual, the eyes and brain are merely aid. The spirit is synonymous with the personality of the human being. 

These explanations should clarify that the body is not left to its own devices. If someone gets 'inspired' about a thing or a task, then we can be sure that he will commit himself with all his strength and abilities to it. He no longer needs to be encouraged and urged to do it by himself. His spirit is fired up for the task. With an action showing our presence of mind or rather: of our spirit, even at the last moment a threatening event can be turned for the good, because we act in the power of the spirit, bypassing the intellect. This eliminates the slow, intellectually-driven course of action. The spirit reacts with lightning speed. 

We can therefore assume that the hope of recovery by way of a medication - even if it is a placebo - enlivens our spirit, makes new energies flow from the spirit to the body that were hitherto blocked by fears, worries and doubt. The idea of soon being healthy, being mobile without pain, is, as it were, a preparation for the actual occurrence of what is desired. The placebo resolves the doubts in the mind, reinforces the idea that 'outside help' is on the way, and the self-healing powers of the spirit can unfold. 

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“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.” ~ Arthur Golden

Blog post by Beth Terrence 
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I have been feeling to bring Star Of Bethlehem into the monthly posts and now is the perfect time as the energy and support it brings can really be of benefit this time of year.  As I shared in my recent post, Autumn Tips For Happy & Healthy Living, this season is one that can bring feelings of sadness, loss and grief to the surface.  Dr. Edward Bach, creator of the Bach Flower Remedies, referred to Star of Bethlehem as “the comforter and soother of pain and sorrows”.   It is one the five remedies that is part of the well-known Rescue Remedy®, which is the only pre-made composite Bach Flower Remedy designed for use in emergencies and for acute stress and it is an essential part of any holistic medicine cabinet.

In the Bach Flower System, there is a category of remedies that are indicated for Despondency and Despair; Star of Bethlehem is in that group.  This can also be defined as remedies that may support “depressive feelings”.  I say “depressive feelings” because in the Bach Flower System and other holistic modalities, we do not treat a specific disease or condition such as depression or diabetes, but we focus on the whole person.  As Dr. Bach would say, “We treat the person, not the disease.”  These types of feelings or traits are an indicator of where a person is experiencing some type of imbalance or disharmony that needs to be addressed.

In determining what Bach Flower Remedies would best support a person, the practitioner and client work collaboratively to identify emotional states and personality traits that are present at the surface.  It is by addressing this outer layer of experience – i.e. what is at the surface or being experienced on a daily basis that we begin to access where a person is out of harmony with their soul and ultimately, the greater whole.  The remedies help to soothe our imbalances and like beautiful music, bring in vibrations that harmonize our being.  As we address one layer, then another will surface, bringing to light others areas that are in need of attention and healing.

In my own healing journey and my work with others as a practitioner over the last 15 years, I have found Star Of Bethlehem to be one that is often needed.  Star of Bethlehem is indicated when there are feelings of sorrow, grief, sadness or loss at the surface as well as when there are old losses coming up that we have not grieved.  Also, as the remedy of shock and trauma, Star Of Bethlehem is highly beneficial for anyone who has experienced trauma, and although it is this can occur in varying degrees, most people have experienced some shock or trauma that has gone unresolved in their lives.
Trauma can exist on all levels – body, mind, emotion and spirit.  And, it is something that creates an imprint in our being that often stays with us until we attend to it.  Some traumas resolve themselves naturally, however, it is not uncommon for those energetic imprints to remain and lie dormant until something triggers a re-awakening signaling it is time to be resolved.  This is often experienced when we have a loss occur and the new feelings arising tap into the great pool of unresolved loss we tend to carry within ourselves.

We may think of this only in terms of emotional trauma, but this can even be seen in the case of physical traumas or injuries when suddenly the pain or restriction of an old football injury or childhood accident resurfaces.  And, from many of the case studies of Dr. Bach, it was seen that unresolved shock and trauma on any level might later manifest into a physical condition.  Star Of Bethlehem is the remedy indicated to help resolve these patterns that may be affecting us on many levels.

Dr. Bach shared the following words about the Star Of Bethlehem remedy:
“For those in great distress, under conditions which for a time produce great unhappiness.  The shock of serious news, the loss of someone dear, the fright following an accident and such like.  For those who for a time refuse to be consoled, this remedy brings comfort.”
Here are some questions to see if Star Of Bethlehem may be beneficial for you at this time:

• Are you experiencing feelings of sorrow, grief, sadness or loss?
• Have you had a recent loss or one from the past that you are still struggling with?
• Do you have a tendency toward feeling despondent?
• Have you experienced trauma or abuse?
• Are you working to resolve the effects of past trauma or PTSD?
• Are you in a state of shock or numbness?
• Do you feel a sense of agony that comes from what you have experienced?
• Are you in a grief period or in the process of healing or grieving prior losses?
• Do you feel like you carry a thread of sadness that won’t leave?
• Are you experiencing a seasonal type of depression with feelings of sadness, loss and grief bubbling up?

Star Of Bethlehem has many benefits that support our ability to move through shock, trauma and loss.  Here are some of the ways this remedy can provide support:

• Neutralizes shock in any form, current or past, from bad news, accidents, losses, etc.
• Helps to clear and release trauma
• Eases feelings of sorrow, grief, sadness and loss
• Supports inner child healing
• Brings us a deep sense of comfort
• Helps to bring us back into the body and awaken us after shock or trauma

In thinking about losses, we tend to focus on the loss that comes through a death.  It is important to consider that there are many types of losses that can affect us – the loss of relationship, a job, a home, or a phase of life.  Even when we have an experience that is positive, such as getting married or having a child, it is possible that we feel some sense of loss due to the change in our lives.  It is natural to need to give some time and space to the feelings of loss that may arise in response to the constantly changing aspects of our lives.  In these cases, Star Of Bethlehem can provide a support as can Walnut, which helps us to ease through our transitions.

Also, I’d just like to mention that Star Of Bethlehem can be highly beneficial for animals that have suffered any type of abuse or trauma.  In my work with Rescue animals, their histories are often uncertain.  Whether they have experienced abuse in their prior situation or merely the trauma of being moved from one situation to another, Star Of Bethlehem can support them.  Rescue Remedy is always a good starting point for “Rescue” animals, but treatment with Star Of Bethlehem can be a great support in the resolving the trauma an animal may be carrying and can help them to settle into a new situation with greater ease.

I’d love to hear your experiences with Star Of Bethlehem or any thoughts, reflections or questions that may arise in response to the post.

Special thanks to Beth Terrence for allowing us to use her article. Visit her website here 

Your home should be your safe haven -- the place where you feel relaxed, happy, and at peace. But when bad energy is lingering around, your home can quickly become the complete opposite -- a place of hostility and negativity. And when you have this negative energy in your home, it can affect every other aspect of your life. That’s why house cleansing can be an important part in your personal well-being. 

If you’ve just moved into a new space, you should cleanse your home of any negative energies that might still be there from the previous owners. Or, if you’ve just gone through a breakup, had a big life transition, or you’re just in a funk -- clearing bad energy from your home can help. But how do you know if you have negative energy in your home, and how do you clear it out? 
The following article will give you a clear guideline.  (original published by Redfin) 

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​Signs you have bad energy in your home
Knowing how to detect negative energy in your house can actually be quite simple. You can tell whether the energy in your home is good or bad – or neutral – based on the way you feel inside while you’re inside it. A house filled with good energy feels fresh and vibrant -- it’s full of life and you feel good being there. Some may say it has good qi or feng shui. On the other end of the spectrum, a home drowning in bad energy will make you feel like you’re being stifled, smothered, or even crushed. You can feel the tension in the air, and there are a thousand places you’d rather be.
Negative energy and stress go hand-in-hand, so if you’re constantly frazzled or at the end of your rope, your home could be partly to blame. If you’re not sure whether your home has bad energy of its own, check out these red flags:

• Excessive complaining. If you or your family members catch yourselves complaining, even when things are okay (or worse, when they’re actually pretty good), you may have negative energy in your home. The same is true if you’re struggling to find positivity in life.
• Negative relationships. When the people around you – spouses, children, family, and friends – are negative, it’s worth taking a look at the kind of energy you’re putting out there. Negative energy attracts more negative energy, and it becomes a vicious cycle.
• The blame game. Household members always pointing the finger? Negative energy in the home could be preventing them (and you) from looking inward to place responsibility where it really belongs.
• Criticism. If there’s a lot of criticizing going along with all the blame, your home could be swamped with bad energy. When you or others in your house send out negative vibrations, you’re increasing the bad energy in your home.
• Clutter. One of the biggest signs of negative energy in a home is clutter. Clutter blocks the way energy flows through a home, so it could be keeping bad energy in and making things worse.

Even if you aren’t picking up on any of these warning signs that you’re dealing with bad energy, it’s a good idea to cleanse your house when someone has had an argument, been sick, or is experiencing stress at work. Negative energy can seep into your house over time, so it’s okay to clear it whenever you feel like doing so.
Your home is the one place you should feel safe and secure, but if you open the door and you’re practically swimming in a pool of bad energy, you need to cleanse it – and this checklist will help.

​Clearing bad energy from your home: the ultimate checklist 
Unless you’re living in the former house of an accused witch in Salem, MA, removing negative energies from your home is fairly easy. All you need to do is follow this straightforward checklist for an all-over house cleansing. 

1. First thing’s first: clean and declutter your house
Get rid of all the clutter by putting things away or disposing of them, and make sure you clean every corner. Open all the blinds, and, weather-permitting, open your windows. Let in as much light and fresh air as you can while cleaning. Don’t forget to dust, vacuum, and check for cobwebs – you don’t want the negative energy to have any reason to stick around.  
As you clean your home, know that keeping broken items in your house is bad feng shui – and items that don’t bring you joy can only drag you down. If you have an item that’s irreparably broken, it’s time to get rid of it and move on.
When you’ve cleared away the clutter and removed broken items from your home, you can finish removing negative energies with this naturopathic remedy. You’ll need the following for this house cleansing solution:

• 5 lemons
• ¼ c. ammonia or white vinegar
• Sage, frankincense, or copal (or all three)
• A fireproof dish for catching embers and ash 
• Sea salt
• A bell
• Selenite

2. Begin house cleansing with doors and windows
The doors and windows are where outside energy enters your home. Keep them purified by mixing a bucket of water with the juice from five lemons, one cup of sea salt, and ¼ cup of ammonia or white vinegar. Clean the doorknobs, doors, and frames, and windows in your home with the solution to keep them purified.

​3. Continue removing negative energies throughout your home 
The ancient Native American technique of smudging can help remove bad energy in your home. The Native Americans used it for millennia because they knew it worked – and fortunately, the same materials they used are readily available in health food stores and online.
Burning sage – particularly white sage – is a simple and fast way to clear out bad spirits and negative energy. Add frankincense (which you can use alone, too, if you don’t like sage) and copal incense to chase out all the negative vibes so there’s plenty of room for good ones. You can also use patchouli, palo santo, or other herbs recommended by healers for house cleansing.
Follow this step-by-step guide to smudge your home with sage (or other herbs):

1. Stand in the center or at the front door of the room you want to cleanse. Most people begin in the kitchen, as it’s the heart of the home.
2. Light the sage bundle like you’d light incense, and let the flames die out (they will, very quickly).
3. Fan the sage carefully to encourage a steady stream of smoke. Envision the smoke absorbing bad energy and carrying it away.
4. Cleanse yourself first by lightly fanning the smoke around your body, beginning at your feet and working up toward your head.
5. Walk clockwise around the room, swirling the sage bundle in circular motions. Pay special attention to the walls, corners and floor, and don’t forget the ceiling.

This process will help manifest positive energy in your home. Some people choose to recite incantations or make positive affirmations as they’re smudging. If you’re comfortable, saying a prayer or appealing to a higher power for positive energy can help with house cleansing.
After you’ve smudged each room, you can now cleanse your house with salt. Pour salt into each corner and let it sit for 48 hours (the salt can absorb negative energy). Ring a bell three times in each corner to break up any stagnant energy, which the salt can then absorb. In two days, vacuum the salt away. Many people choose to use salt lamps to continue clearing bad energy, as well.
You can further protect your home from negative energy by putting selenite on your windowsills. Selenite can cleanse energy and raise the vibration in your home to a higher level. Many healers recommend using other healing crystals, as well. For instance, black tourmaline is a protective crystal that absorbs depression and negative energy. Rose quartz opens the heart chakra, while amethyst helps with intention setting, and citrine allows you to manifest your dreams. If you have a favorite that works for you, place it in rooms where the bad energy seems to collect.

What to do after you’ve finished house cleansing and removing negative energies
Now that you’ve cleared the bad energy from your home, you can focus on attracting positive energy to your space. Having salt lamps in various rooms is a great place to start. Revamping your interior design to make you happier at home and creating good feng shui throughout can also help bring in those positive vibes.
It’s important to be aware of the energy your home continues to bring you - good or bad. If you notice a shift in the energy as time goes on, consider clearing bad energy from your house again. After all, your home should bring you joy and be a source of positivity.
Originally published by Redfin
 
WHAT IF you have a sense your house is haunted? What if you feel an unpleasant "presence" in the house that does not remove with the above stated suggestions? Please contact us here. 

​Remember setting your air conitioning at 65 degrees insures it will always stay colder than 65 degrees. If you set your heat at 65 degrees it will always be warmer than that temperature.
But the differences between men and women add an extra wrinkle.

Sleep Temperatures and Men

Men are the simpler of the two when it comes to finding the right sleep temperature. That’s because their body temperatures remain fairly constant during the course of the night.

This means that their body’s don’t struggle as much to adapt to changing conditions, be they internal or external. As long as the room temperature falls within the above range, men shouldn’t find that the temperature prevents them from sleeping.

Sleep Temperatures and Women

Things get a little more complicated for women. This is because their body temperatures rely on their menstrual cycles. As the cycle progresses and changes, a woman’s body temperature changes along with it.

This lack of consistency means that even a room within the perfect temperature range may not always suit their needs.

This is a particular problem for menopausal women. They often experience hot flushes throughout menopause, which causes their body temperatures to rocket up. Sleeping in a room with a temperature within the range above does little to keep them cool.
One minute they feel too warm. The next, the flush ends and they feel too cool again.

1. Experiment with Different Ranges

​The recommended range above is only a general guideline. Most people’s ideal sleeping temperature falls within that range, but a few may sleep better in warmer or colder conditions.
There is no one optimal sleeping temperature for humans.
Try experimenting with different room temperature settings. Record your results the next day. Having a sleep tracking device, such as a FitBit may help you to figure out how well you sleep at each temperature.
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​5. Change the Sheets

Your bedsheets and nightwear may be to blame for you failing to find the right temperature. Thin sheets during winter leave you feeling uncomfortably cold. A heavy duvet in the summer keeps you too warm.

A quick change of the sheets may be all that you need to stay at the right temperature. Keep separate sets for winter and summer.

The Final Word

Finding the ideal sleep temperature isn’t as easy as you may think. It’s as much to do with your own body as it is your sleeping conditions.

Ideally, you’re looking to ensure the room falls within the right temperature range and that you account for as many external factors as possible. Often, a simple change of the sheets is all you need to bring the temperature to the right level.

Ideally, you’re looking to ensure the room falls within the right temperature range and that you account for as many external factors as possible. Often, a simple change of the sheets is all you need to bring the temperature to the right level.

WRITTEN BY

Natasha
​Natasha sleeps about 7–8 hours on average. Maybe a bit more on the weekends. In her free time, she enjoys travel and listening to music. Natasha's writing has been featured on multiple international publications.

A few years ago I wrote the "Manual for more Joy in Life". The following is a little extract from the book that can be downloaded freely on our website. 

More than ever are we seeking what brings us more Joy in Life, despite the difficult circumstances we find ourselves in. 
A good way to lift our mood is to focus on what we can be grateful for. 

 
Gratitude
If we are in a state of gratitude we are blessed with a sense of contentment. Inner contentment can lead us to feel inner peace and this can lead us to a feeling of happiness.

If someone gives us a gift we are for sure grateful. On one hand for the gift itself and on the other hand for being valued by another person, but for many gifts we receive from life we are often not grateful for, as we hardly recognize them and rather occupy ourselves with the things which are unpleasant.

As a human spirit we have the possibility to choose what we are focusing on. Someone who looks at his life with gratitude will experience life differently as someone who does the opposite. In the first case the soul receives beneficial nourishment and in the second case this nourishment will be denied. So two people can live in the exact same circumstance and one might feel grateful and therefore happy whereas the other might see only what is not right and therefore perceives his life as not worth living. In the second case the soul becomes stunted in the same way as the body would become stunted if it would not be properly nourished. And we have to remember that we are here to develop, to unfold, so also our unpleasant experiences should be accepted from us in order to learn from them or to develop our spiritual muscles and strengths and for this we also can be grateful for.

What then if someone cannot recognize any reasons for gratitude? He only should become aware that a lot of people work around the clock to enable him to live in the circumstances which we call “civilized”. And how many people worked on the living standards we enjoy nowadays? We would be even more grateful if we would become aware for the untiring work in the invisible world of Creation, which enables us to lead a life we are used to. To focus again on what we are grateful about and in that allow our soul to be nourished by it, changes our perspective, and opens also our soul for further growth. I invite you to start a diary of Gratitude. The purpose for it is to help us to “focus” on the good and life supporting and if we experience a hard time in life we can take this book in our hands in order to remind us on the blessings we have also received in our life.

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Exercise: Write down every evening into a diary what beautiful things the day had brought to you. Find at least 5 examples when not more.  You will realize that who seeks will find as you will find suitable incidents on your day you can be grateful about. Focusing on the good changes suddenly your perspective.  Five beautiful things I experienced today
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Changing our perspective but changes the way we feel and the way we feel changes our decisions and has an effect on health and wellbeing.  (How already mentioned, Quantum research knows now that our emotions have a vital effect on our health.)  Here find some other examples for which you could be grateful for:

• The sun which warms our bodies and manifests food for our sustenance.
• All foods, fruits, vegetables, salads, nuts, grains, and beans which give pleasure to our taste and vitality to our bodies.
• For the animals the cows, sheep and goats who give us their milk.
• For all other animals who our companions on this earth.
• The beauty of nature around us; the trees, grass, the blue of the sky, the sea and rivers in which we bathe and are refreshed.
• The water we drink and which we use to clean our bodies, clothing, and homes.
• Our comfortable homes that protect us from the extremes of nature - not all beings have such comfort as we.
• Our clothing which protects and warms us.
• The air we breathe which gives us life force and joy.
• For our families whom we love and who love us.
• For all our friends and relatives, and even the strangers, who we are eventually befriending. (Even via distance means)
• And even for those who test us and teach us many lessons and strengthen our character.
• For books, magazines and films which inform us.

What you will find if you end your day with Gratefulness and start your day with Gratefulness is that you invite more happiness into your life. What we “cherish” will become more. What we disregard will become less.

That is why it is always important also in relationship to cherish your partner or family member or friend. The relationship will as much blossom as much value you will give it.

A perception of gratefulness can change how we feel. It does not matter in which circumstances you find yourself in you will find some things for which you can be grateful for. In being grateful we carry peace in ourselves whatever we experience otherwise. We must remember that we have a body and we have a soul and both body and soul can give us pain. Sometimes we get used to painful states of things. Only when we feel better again do we then realize how bad or depleted we have felt.  Sometimes we even start to surround us with a soul armour in order not to feel certain unpleasant feelings and emotional states anymore.

When I say we “have” a body and we “have” a soul which we can feel, then the “I” who recognizes this must stand above body and soul. And that is also the case. How mentioned already, the human I is spiritual. It is what we truly are. The body and psyche are only layers around the spirit. We can say therefore that as human beings we are capable to perceive consciously and we have a soul and a body. Often, we interchange the concept of intellect with spirit and this gives us the blockages to understanding. Intellect is not spirit but intellect is bound on the brain, whereas spirit comes from the spiritual sphere where we begin our journey through Creation and in becoming self-conscious, we can contribute to the upliftment and further development of Creation.

The fundamental recognition that we as humans are spirit and as spirit we can stand above states of our body (soma) and soul (psyche) is of central importance regarding emotional crisis. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), founder of a spiritual oriented Psychology, the so called Logotherapy, talked about the defiant power of the human spirit and said that we do not have to accept “every nonsense” from ourselves. That means, me the spirit, is not dependent on the emotional states and irritations derived from my psyche or body, but I can take a stand towards them, and it is up to me if I let myself be overcome by problems or if I can, despite these problems, lead a meaningful life. (More about Logotherapy and how we can use it in our day to day life in Chapter 3)

Every person experience in his life not only high times and success but also low times and often are the low times the times which can encourage the person to orient themselves towards a new direction. During these times of fateful crisis, the person is reminded on what is truly important.

Often people then change their profession or their outlook on life and discover the unspectacular principle of neighbourly love again. They discover that happiness can be found through making others happy, to not live as a burden to others but to live to the benefit to others. This path to happiness is known since ancient times but still is it a new approach in our times. How can we give happiness? Alone the giving of time can bring happiness. Time is one of our greatest goods in our modern times. In giving we experience happiness. To give great life joy to others there is often not much necessary. It is about us perceiving the other in his life situation and to sense what he needs and then to react on that to be of a little support or even some comfort to the other person. Many people realize that they feel happy if someone needs them and if they can be there for another person. Sometimes we just must look and sense more consciously around to discover the person who could benefit from our attention and honest felt care.

The social interaction with each other, the exchange from person to person is one of the most important conditions for true lasting joy of life. A person, who sees himself as an island, cannot be truly happy as happiness comes from being in accord with our fellow men, with nature and with the Power which is beyond the perception of our five senses. With that we also touched the great importance and power of neighbourly love which the old sages talked about since ancient times.


Exercise: Think about your relationship to others. Do you live as a burden to others or do you live to the benefit of others? What do you want to change in the future perhaps?
 

 
Are you willing to perceive the other in his life situation and to sense what he needs and then to react on that? Think on an example of your own life.
 

 
If we only search for happiness in superficialities, in material goods it is as if someone has thirst and drinks salt water. The more you drink the thirstier you get. A person who would own the world would then want to own the moon. There is never an end.

True happiness can be found in our inside and it is a happiness no one can take away from you. We all have inner riches and we can decide what to do with it and no one can take away from us these inner riches. Naturally, we do have to be willing to discover these inner riches and ask ourselves who we truly are behind all our masques we carry and roles we play in daily life.  To discover and develop our inner riches can give us a deep sense of joy, freedom, and fulfilment.

Exercise: What can you give to others from your inner riches that is meaningful to you?
 
 

Self- help approaches that truly work will always relate to these life supporting principles that relate to our spiritual nature. 

Extract end: 
Download the "Manual for more Joy in Life" here. 

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Blog Post by Edeltraud Grace

The gateway for the spirit

The tremendous importance of the Solar Plexus- watch this video

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The human body possesses many ganglia – the only one well known, however, is the solar plexus. A role is also often attributed to it that goes beyond the organic effect and touches the area of emotions and the psychic life. Is this a mistake, or is the solar plexus in actual fact associated with non-material events?


The plexuses in the body are nerve junctions, thus networks of nerves, which meet in small centres and act together in regulating certain organic functions.

The solar plexus, which is located at the level of the pit of the stomach, should therefore have an effect only on the organs with which it is connected – thus the liver, pancreas, kidneys, stomach and intestine.

Yet even if someone, who is racked by nervous tension, has trouble breathing freely, it is said rightly that he has ‘cramped’ or ‘blocked’ his solar plexus, although breathing is not part of the functioning of the solar plexus at all! Then a massage of the solar plexus or applying compresses releases a deep relaxation, which spreads throughout the whole organism.

Clearly the solar plexus therefore actually plays a more influential role than is generally ascribed to it. An additional indication comes from its anatomical structure. Normally the nerve centres in which ‘decisions’ are made are grey on the outside (thus the term the ‘grey cells’ or ‘grey matter’ of the brain) and white inside. The white nerve networks are responsible for receiving and forwarding information. But in the solar plexus the behaviour is exactly the reverse: the white matter is located outside and the grey inside. This suggests that in this plexus the receiving function is very important. But which impulses can the solar plexus receive, given that it is not part of the central nervous system and therefore does not receive any stimulation from the five senses?


The special significance of the solar plexus
This question finds a new answer in the work In the Light of Truth – The Grail Message. The explanation is given that the task of the solar plexus is receiving information and decisions from the non-material core of the person, from the spirit. From here, the spirit’s impulses are passed on to the brain, the centre of our day consciousness.

The seat of the personality of a human being is his non-material spirit, while the brain is only a tool made available to him and just one of the physical body’s many tools that are available to the spirit for the duration of its connection with the body (incarnation).

So that information emanating from the spirit can reach the brain, a communication route is necessary. In the body this pathway begins at the level of the solar plexus, which thereby represents to a certain extent the ‘gateway’ for the spirit to the body.

This picture finds anatomical confirmation: the solar plexus is situated between two branches of the autonomic nervous system emanating from the tenth of the twelve pairs of cranial nerves. This is also the only pair that does not supply the face with nerve stimuli, but extends down directly into the abdomen. As the name suggests, cranial nerves originate from the skull, more precisely, from the brain stem, to which, among others, the cerebellum is attached. Thus there is a nerve connection between the solar plexus and the brain.

Apart from the above-mentioned anatomical foundations, one’s own experiences also show that the solar plexus is the gateway of the spirit. We perceive strong impressions and emotional stirrings – joy, fear, love, and so forth – not in the head, not in the brain but in the stomach area, at the level of the solar plexus.

Well-known expressions confirm this experience: In a state of excitement we say that we have ‘a tingling in our stomach’ or that fear will ‘tie the stomach in knots’; someone lacking in courage has ‘no guts’; lovesickness leaves a person ‘broken-hearted’ and so on. Descriptions of perceptions mention the stomach area or the heart, not the head or the brain, but body areas near the solar plexus.

The solar plexus and the ‘silver cord’
The solar plexus is also the place where clairvoyant people recognise the ‘silver cord’, which connects the body and the soul. The silver cord is like an umbilical cord made of finer material and allows the soul to animate the physical body. The silver cord is also mentioned in the Bible (Ecclesiastes 12, 6), with severing this cord leading to the separation of body and soul, thus to death.
Sensitive persons can sometimes perceive this connection quite well when awakened from deep sleep. Since the connection between soul and body is loosened during sleep and has to be tightened again forcefully by the sudden awakening, this process can be clearly felt at the level of the solar plexus. Those affected feel a pressure and warmth at this spot and sometimes comment that they ‘return to the body’ via the region of the solar plexus.

Certainly not everyone has had such experiences. But we all unconsciously know exactly where to find the gateway of the spirit in the body. If we are called, for example, and to be sure that we are the ones meant, we point with an unaware gesture to ourselves: ‘Who? Me?’ And the finger does not perchance point to the brain, but to the region of the … solar plexus.

This knowledge about the importance and task of the solar plexus can serve to know ourselves better, to attain the realisation that our life does not take place primarily in the head.

Although thoughts emanate from the brain – enthusiasm, volition, love, endurance … these are all abilities of the spirit, which we perceive in the region of the solar plexus.
Christopher Vasey

Treating the Solar Plexus with the Intuitive Perception Empowerment Treatment

The following is only to show you how accredited Practitioners conduct such a treatment.

The Intuitive Empowerment Treatment is divided into 2 sections

1. Cleansing and Energizing
2. Treatment of Solar Plexus-back brain-frontal brain connection

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Slide 1: ​We start with the unblocking and cleaning of the solar plexus. (Connection between the astral body and physical body)


You conduct counter-clockwise circles with your right hand above solar plexus. The left hand is pointing downwards, away from your body and acting as a lightning rod. Then place your right hand on or above the solar plexus, pray for Healing Light while your left hand receives energy and pass it on to the person. 

Slide 2

Here again, counter-clockwise movements with the right hand above the forehead and eyes. The left hand is acting again like a lightning rod or vacuum cleaner. Once the cleaning is completed, this area will be then be provided with Healing Magnetism.
To learn how to absorb Healing Magnetism please enroll into our international accredited Practitioner Training. 

Slide 3

Also, energise between both eyes Now the treatment between solar plexus and brain/s can start.

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Slide 4 and 5
The right hand is on Solar Plexus and left hand first on the neck, then back brain and frontal brain area. Pray for Healing Light to flood between both hands. Keep the different positions always until you have a perception of harmony and fullness between the hands and the sensation of proper energy flow. Then energise between both ears.

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Afterwards:
15 minutes Rest 

When you have given a treatment someone else it is important to conduct some After Cleansing. 
Hold your hands under running cool water and visualize standing under a white-golden Light shower that washes away all remnants from the session.