There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
[William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar]

It has been said many times that timing is everything. However which timing to use can be so confusing. Many systems, many ideas, many concepts.

One basic, simple system that I have seen work thousands of times, is to use 2 parts of the lunar cycle.

The first is the period from the New Moon to the Full Moon, and the second is the period from the Full Moon to the New Moon.

The Waxing Phase:

The New Moon, which is the darkest phase of the Moon, is also the start of a two week period where the moon increases in light. New Moons are optimal times to set new intentions. One cycle is ending, while another cycle is beginning.

The New Moon is the first part of the lunar cycle. The New Moon is the part of the lunar cycle to focus within to create or “plant” your intention. This intention is your vision for what you want to create, grow and transform during this lunar cycle.

If you take this idea and apply it into your life, the waxing moon is the time to begin to plant your new seeds. These are seeds of taking action that brings a new idea into physical reality, or that begins a new relationship, or just opening to yourself that you really want a change. The waxing moon is a time of action.

The New Moon is a powerful time to start new projects. It is the time to take action. First have a clear intention and take action from that intention.

The second part of this cycle is the period of time between the Full Moon and the New Moon- the Waning Phase.

The Waning Moon phase is when the Moon is decreasing in light. This is a time to complete and review. It is not a good time to begin a new project. This is due to the lessening of the energies of the lunar cycle. Projects that are started during a Waning Phase tend to be one’s that are not completed.

During the Waning Moon phase is a perfect time to give out and share the knowledge, insights and any profits from your actions. Clear your life of projects and business that has not been completed. Clear your working space, finish all the administrative work that you have been delaying until now. All of these actions will allow you to benefit from the next New Moon.

If the opportunity arises for a new project or you have a great new idea, it is best to just let it stay on the back burner until the next New Moon. The New Moon will usually provide a very changed perspective on ideas and projects.

The simplest way to understand both timing cycles is to use the New Moon to Full Moon time for action, and the Full Moon to New Moon time for reflection and planning the next action phase.

Most calendars have the New Moon and Full Moon dates listed on them. Try this timing in your business and personal life. It will attract great success to your work and personal life.

© 2005 Christopher Stewart

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Article by Christopher Stewart

In her series of books the author Elaine Aron details the experiences and challenges of the approximately 15-20% of the population who are highly sensitive persons or HSP’s. We have all seen portraits of these people in films and books. They are usually portrayed as shrinking from the world, being weak, or overly shy and retiring.

According to Aron and others the trait of being an HSP is normal. Your nervous system is just more sensitive to subtleties. Your brain processes this information more quickly and reflects upon it at a deeper level.

As an HSP, you may be overstimulated easier than other people. You may feel more stressed out, overwhelmed and have problems with crowded public areas and social events.

In an increasingly more complex and interdependent world the abilities of an HSP are needed more and more.

The more we are in touch with ourselves, the more we feel our inner desire to know and be who we truly are. We want freedom to live as we are supposed to live, to fulfill our soul’s potential. When we don’t we suffer, however that suffering is a hunger for our true selves to live, to be free; it is a message that we want to return to our true nature.

For an HSP to embrace their essential qualities, to open to all of their abilities requires support, skill building and practice.

To empower and support the emotional body of HSP’s I have used flower essences with great success in my medical intuitive practice.

Flower essences are the vibrational imprint, or etheric pattern of particular flowers or plants prepared in liquid form. You can imagine, as science tells us, that everything – plants, animals, the Earth, stars – is made up at its very basic level of vibrations of energy. Then you can also imagine that every flower species has a particular vibration different in some way than any other. The energy of a dark red rose is different than that of a bright white lily in color, form, scent, texture, and so on. These tangible factors are associated with the flower’s individual vibrational pattern or ‘etheric essence’.

The vibrational pattern of each flower can be ‘imprinted’ in pure water through certain preparation methods – one used most often is the infusing (like making tea) of fresh flowers just picked in glass bowls of spring water sitting in bright sunlight. The water then takes on the etheric vibration of the flower, resulting in what has been termed a ‘flower essence’.

The 2 most used essences for HSP support are Walnut and Yarrow. Flower essences may be found at most health food stores, ordered online from many different vendors.

Walnut Flower Essence is the remedy to help to protect against outside influences in general, and against the effects of change in particular.

Walnut types are people who are fulfilling their purpose in life but who under the influence of the opinions, theories or beliefs of others or of external circumstances in general, may be led to doubt their path.

Yarrow Flower Essence – As the soul becomes more spiritually open, it necessarily becomes more refined, sensitive, and absorbent. In the past many of those on spiritual paths were removed and protected from the daily conditions of living, so that the soul could safely harmonize and expand its boundaries. Modern conditions require that the path of spiritualization be connected to the physical world and to practical responsibilities.

Using flower essences is easy. Just make a mixture of the essences into a gallon of spring water, and drink often during the day. You don’t have to drink the whole gallon in one day. When the gallon of water has been used, just make another mixture.

The subtle healing properties of flower essences restore equilibrium on all levels of being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. They can enhance personal development and are a powerful aid to transformation. They offer us the opportunity to address outworn behavior patterns and negative states of mind which may contribute to or cause disease, emotional imbalance and spiritual disharmony. By stimulating the body’s inherent ability to heal itself, flower essences restore order from a higher level and help to strengthen desirable or positive qualities such as courage, inner peace, love or acceptance.

Copyright 2010 Christopher Stewart

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A medical intuitive is someone who has a special working relationship with the human body, its energies and systems with the ability to diagnose the disruptions that can invade the body, mind and spirit.

A medical intuitive views the body on the physical level, the energy level and the spiritual level. Medical intuition assists healing the mind, body and spirit when other methods are unsuccessful. Many doctors and healers are medical intuitives in their own practice.

When you have a medical intuitive consultation you will gain greater insights into the energetic imbalances contributing to depleted well-being or illness. The experience will lead to increased options for transforming these imbalances into health and wellness.  The medical intuitive consultation will provide an intuitive roadmap for your health and wellbeing.

With these medical intuitive insights shedding light upon your current path in life, new horizons will open for you, old patterns will be released and provide a focus for your energy and healing process.

If you are looking for new, empowering ways to assist your body with the healing process, contact me to schedule a session.  We’ll look at what is taking place within your body & your life and work together to form a plan of action.

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Time Team America, a PBS television series of archaeology unearthed post holes at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Roanoke Island, North Carolina as seen on their 07-08-09 episode ‘Fort Raleigh’. Sam Sumner, Director of the Lost Colony Project claims the post holes are the northern corner of a previously documented and described wall by remote viewer George McMullen in 1995.

Roanoke Island, NC August 18, 2009 — The Lost Colony Project announces that a site at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island, North Carolina has been identified on the basis of guidance using a scientific protocol called Remote Viewing which allows individuals, using only the power of their minds, to describe persons, places, or events, from which they are shielded because of the interposition of either time or space, or both.

Canadian Remote Viewer, George McMullen of British Columbia, perhaps the best known Archaeological Remote Viewer ever studied by science, provided The Lost Colony Project, in the person of its Director, Sam Sumner, with the location of the previously unknown location, including highly specific descriptive information as to what would be found. This technique has been previously used for archaeological work that resulted in the discovery of Cleopatra’s Palace, and Mark Antony’s Timonium, in Alexandria Egypt — in which McMullen also participated — and by the CIA, for intelligence work.

In 1995 McMullen visited the site, and produced what he calls an intuitive survey. He described and gave a party of archaeologists, park rangers and a museum curator a tour of the settlement of the lost colonists living in a long house surrounded by a wall. McMullen went on to describe the locations of three bodies, a soldier’s barracks, powder shed, storage area, dock and a well.

Time Team America, a PBS TV series excavated and filmed this recognized McMullen Site at the Fort Raleigh Historic Site and broadcast the process and the findings. Post holes were unearthed which are the northern corner of a previously known wall dubbed “The McMullen Wall” by Sam Sumner. Archeologist Eric Deetz in the PBS episode said “I’m going out on a limb, this looks like early 17th century building posts.”

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Dear Friends,

The next new moon forms on Thursday, August 20, at 3:02 AM PDT at 28º Leo. This is the fourth of five SuperMoons this year, when the Moon is at both perigee (its closest approach to the Earth) and syzygy (either at New or Full phase), intensifying its gravitational pull on tides, tectonic plates, and our psyches as well.

What we were born to do? What were we born to be? What brings us joy? These are the questions that Leo seeks to answer. This is the sign of the Lion and the quest of the lion-hearted. It takes courage to be true to ourselves, to keep moving in the direction of our dreams, our dharma, our destiny. We are subjected to so much programming, so much pressure to conform, to kowtow, to compromise our integrity. All those pressures make it difficult for us to know and live our essence, our authentic self. When we accomplish that, we fulfill our role, our singular place in the grand scheme of things. Ethel Waters summed it up beautifully: “God don’t make no junk.” Each one of us is a treasure — a unique, irreplaceable expression of the Divine. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be genuine and joyful. No one else can be you.

This New Moon highlights the ongoing conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune in Aquarius, reminding us that the more we become who we really are, the easier it is to find our team — those who are playing by the same rules and aiming for the same goal. This rare conjunction marks one of the major milestones heading toward the Age of Aquarius — the age of liberty, equality, and freedom for all, the age of unity in diversity. Unity does not mean uniformity; it is the synergy generated from the expression of each unique individual. United, we experience peace and abundance; divided, we fall into discord and destruction. Jupiter in Aquarius increases understanding and tolerance, making it easier to see beyond superficial differences of gender, race, or religion. Chiron in Aquarius helps to heal the wounds of ignorance and fear. Neptune in Aquarius dissolves the barriers, borders, and beliefs that keep us from recognizing our interconnectedness and our divinity.

This New Moon is further potentized by the formation of a very powerful grand cross. The ongoing Saturn–Uranus opposition and the approaching Uranus–Pluto square are aspected by Mars at 27° Gemini and Mercury at 24° Virgo. This generates three oppositions and six squares, demanding real, not cosmetic changes. We stand at yet another important crossroads. Pluto, the archetype of the dark, the unknown, the evolutionary imperative — points the way forward. Each one of us, along with the whole human race, is progressing into uncharted territory, which the old maps depicted as blank spaces, at best, and “There be dragons” at worst. Like the image of the Fool in the Tarot, we are stepping off into the great unknown. If you are feeling some doubt, worry, or trepidation, welcome to the club. Fear is a message that we have reached a new frontier. Meditate and dialogue with each of these archetypes. Invoke Uranus in Pisces for inspiration, Saturn and Mercury in Virgo for practical solutions, Mars in Gemini for courage, and Pluto in Capricorn for the strength to “feel the fear and do it anyway” (the title of a wonderful book by Susan Jeffers).

Watch your day and night dreams closely, as the Sun squares Neptune on Monday (8/17). Beware of impatience, especially around Tuesday (8/18), as Mars forms an exact square to Uranus that day. Make time around the New Moon on Thursday (8/20) for a date with your higher Self. What do you know in your heart of hearts? What keeps coming back around in your life? Write your “Bucket List.”  Remember: “Our true wants are our umbilical cord to God/the Universe” (Mary Georgia).

Namaste,

Stephanie Austin

Stephanie@EcoAstrology.com

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On an operating table at a medical center in San Francisco, a breast cancer patient is undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. But this will be no ordinary surgery. Three thousand miles away, a shamanic healer has been sent the woman’s name, a photo and details about the surgery.

For each of the next eight days, the healer will pray 20 minutes for the cancer patient’s recovery, without the woman’s knowledge. A surgeon has inserted two small fabric tubes into the woman’s groin to enable researchers to measure how fast she heals.

The woman is a patient in an extraordinary government-funded study that is seeking to determine whether prayer has the power to heal patients from afar — a field known as “distant healing.” While that term is probably unfamiliar to most Americans, the idea of turning to prayers in their homes, hospitals and houses of worship is not. In recent years, medicine has increasingly shown an interest in investigating the effect of prayer and spirituality on health. A survey of 31,000 adults released last year by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 43% of U.S. adults prayed for their own health, while 24% had others pray for their health.

Some researchers say that is reason enough to study the power of prayer.
“Almost every community in the world has a prayer for the sick, which they practice when a member of their community is ill,” said Dr. Mitchell Krucoff, a Duke University cardiologist and researcher in the field of distant prayer and healing. “It is a ubiquitous cultural practice, as far as we can tell…. Cultural practices in healthcare frequently have a clue. But understanding that clue, learning how to best use it, requires basic clinical science.”

Science has only begun to explore the power of distant healing, and the early results of this research have been inconclusive. In an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2000, researchers reported on 23 studies on various distant healing techniques, including religious, energy and spiritual healing. Thirteen of the 23 studies indicated there are positive effects to distant healing, nine studies found no beneficial effect and one study showed a modest negative effect with the use of distant healing.

The study of distant healing was once the realm of eccentric scientists, but researchers at such prominent institutions as the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco are involved in the field. And the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has spent $2.2 million on studies of distant healing and intercessory prayer since 2000 — a small fraction of the agency’s annual budget, which totaled $117 million in 2004.

Some people think even that relatively small sum of money is not being well spent.
“You can’t use science to prove God,” said John T. Chibnall, an associate professor of psychiatry at St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, who co-wrote a scathing rebuttal of studies on distant prayer published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2001. “We shouldn’t waste the money of the government showing that Jesus is ‘the man,’ ” Chibnall said in an interview. “Faith is faith. Science is science. Don’t use science to strengthen or diminish belief in God.”

While some scientists oppose such studies on religious or scientific grounds, others question whether it is possible to devise a scientifically valid method for measuring something as nebulous as the power of prayer.

What constitutes a “dose” of prayer? How does one define prayer? Is channeling Buddhist intention or reiki energy the same thing as praying to a Judeo-Christian God? And how do you determine whether it was prayer that made a patient better, or something else, such as the placebo effect?

“There are enormous methodological and conceptual problems with the studies of distant prayer,” said Dr. Richard Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University in New York. “Nothing in our understanding of our universe or ourselves suggests how the thoughts of one group of people could influence the physiology of people 3,000 miles away.”
For example, said Sloan, unlike clinical trials where researchers can carefully monitor the dose of medicine each patient receives, it is all-but-impossible for scientists to control or quantify the amount of prayer directed toward a patient.

“People all over the world are praying for the sick,” said Sloan. “Friends and family are praying for people in any control group. Unless you assume some potency — that the prayers of certain people are more powerful than others — you are talking about a tiny amount of prayer against the enormous amount that is already out there. It is like taking a drop of water, putting it in Lake Michigan and trying to detect the effect.”

Weighing the possibilities
One of the leading centers for such research is the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1973 and located on 200 acres of oak-studded hillside in Petaluma, the institute describes its research mission on its website as “exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models.”

Marilyn Schlitz, vice president of research and education at IONS and a senior scientist at California Pacific Medical Center, is leading the study of breast cancer patients.

For more than 20 years, Schlitz’s research interest has been studying whether the human mind has hidden capacities to promote healing. Some of her projects sound a bit far-out. She once studied whether off-site healers could revive anesthetized mice. Another time, working on research funded by the Pentagon, she conducted experiments designed to determine whether someone could provoke a physiological response in a person in another room simply by staring at his or her picture on a video monitor.

Her work continues to look at whether mind can influence matter.
“The survey data is saying people pray, that they are using it as part of their healing regimen,” said Schlitz. “Shouldn’t science look at that? … Maybe it helps in certain kinds of conditions and not in others. Well, we cannot answer that unless we take a rigorous, systematic look at what people are actually doing.”

Early research
Cardiologist Randolph Byrd did the first major clinical study on distant healing at San Francisco General Hospital in 1988. He divided 393 heart patients into two groups.
One group received prayers from Christians outside the hospital; the other did not. His study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, found that the patients who were not prayed for needed more medication and were more likely to suffer complications. While it had flaws, the study garnered considerable attention.

Since then investigators have continued to look at the possible effects of remote prayer and similar distant healing techniques in the treatment of heart disease, AIDS and other illnesses as well as infertility. Numerous experiments involving prayer and distant healing have also been done involving animals and plants. One such study found that healers can increase the healing rate of wounds in mice.

“Critics often complain that if you see positive results in humans it is because of positive thinking, or the placebo response,” said Dr. Larry Dossey, a retired internist in Santa Fe, N.M., and author of numerous books on spirituality and healing. “Microbes don’t think positively, and are not subject to the placebo response.”

In the early ’90s, Elisabeth Targ and colleagues at the California Pacific Medical Center studied the effects of distant healing on 20 AIDS patients. Schlitz, who worked with Targ (who died of a brain tumor in 2002), said the study found those receiving prayer survived in greater numbers, got sick less often and recovered faster than those who did not. A follow-up study of 40 patients found similar results.

At about the same time, Duke University’s Krucoff was leading a small but unusual experiment to determine if cardiac patients would recover faster after angioplasty surgery if they received any of several intangible (noetic) treatments. His study compared the results of healing touch, stress relaxation and distant healing with standard care.

Spiritual healers from around the world — including Jews leaving prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Buddhists praying in monasteries in Nepal and France, Carmelite nuns in Baltimore offering prayers during vespers, and Moravians, Baptists and fundamental Christians praying during church — each simultaneously prayed for one of several designated groups in the study.
All of the groups did better than the standard care group, with those receiving distant prayers doing best. He has since completed a larger, multi-site study. That study — the largest to date — is currently under review for publication in a medical journal.

The IONS and California Pacific study, which will be completed next year, will follow 140 breast cancer patients who have undergone reconstructive surgery. At the time of the surgery, each patient has two small, spaghetti-like tubes of Gore-Tex implanted in her pubic area to measure how much collagen is deposited as her wound heals.

The study is designed to address one of the primary concerns raised by critics of distant healing research: that the studies are not designed to account for a placebo effect.

Researchers have divided the patients into three groups. One group will be prayed for but will not know of the prayers; another will be prayed for and will be told of the prayers; and a third group will receive no prayers and will be told nothing. The healers who will do the praying must have years of experience in distant healing and come from varied traditions — such as shamanism, bioenergy and reiki.

After eight days, the tubes will be removed and collagen growth in the wound area will be analyzed — an accepted scientific method to measure wound healing. The rates of healing of the groups will then be compared.

But even some who believe in prayer’s power to heal concede the difficulties of designing a good study.

“I do believe distant intention works,” said Dr. Loren Eskenazi, a California Pacific Medical Center surgeon who is working on the study. “I don’t know how, but it works. But it is so hard to design a study that works. We don’t know the mechanisms. Is their whole church praying for them? That could skew the results. If someone wishes [a patient] ill, that could void the results.”

Mary Destri, 43, a reiki healer who is participating in the study, also had misgivings about the study design. She said she had participated as a healer in other scientific experiments, but had typically been given more information about the patient.

“This is the first time I’ve ever worked on someone I’ve never met, the first time I’m working with someone I have no access to, cannot communicate with,” she said. “It helps with intentionality to have a sharper focus.”

Dossey said such concerns were a challenge for researchers.
“I think you can sanitize the process so greatly you eliminate the effect,” he said. “They are taking prayer out of the real life context to the extent that you wonder if this has a real life applicability. People in real life tend to pray for people they know and love. Healers will say if you want healing to work it has to include a factor of profound love and compassion. Many of these randomized, controlled trials virtually eliminate any knowledge whatsoever of the subject.”

As a cardiologist Krucoff has seen many patients near death. He says that what determines their survival often reaches beyond technology and medicine. Whether you call it chi, faith, divine energy or placebo, this intangible factor makes a difference, he says.

“We are pretty good at doing studies on the safety and effectiveness of pills and procedures,” said Krucoff. “We have a well-established approach to figure out what the risks and benefits are likely to be….

Could you inadvertently kill someone with a loving prayer? Not too many theologians want to have that discussion. But in healthcare, these are fundamental questions.”

Hilary E. MacGregor L.A. Times

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Without the rigidity of concepts, the world becomes transparent and illuminated, as though lit from within. With this understanding, the interconnectedness of all that lives becomes very clear. We see that nothing is stagnant and nothing is fully separate, that who we are, what we are, is intimately woven into the nature of life itself. Out of this sense of connection, love and compassion arise.

From: ‘Loving-Kindness – The Revolutionary Art of Happiness’Sharon Salzberg p88

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All of us have a natural capacity to be intuitive; however for many people these natural talents have been suppressed or forgotten. Living with the stresses of the 21st century will suppress intuition as well. Intuition is skill that can be learned, and like a muscle your intuitive abilities can become much stronger and sharper with practice. The right kinds of practice. That I will cover in later postings.

Christopher Stewart
Medical Intuitive

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Pema Chödrön is a fully-ordained Buddhist nun and the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Her article How We Get Hooked from the March, 2003 issue of the Shambhala Sun was a real teaching for me, on how we experience fear, uncertainty, and discomfort, and how we truly suffer when we try to escape.

http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/2003/200303mar/200303_chodron_pema_shenpa.htm

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A couple of times per week, I will answer questions emailed to askamedicalintuitive@gmail.com on this site.  Please include your first name, gender and age. The questions chosen for the site will have the largest general interest.

How Can I Stop Taking Zoloft Safely?

Full Question: I’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and as a consequence was prescribed several drugs to help me cope. However, I chose to see this as a blessing in disguise and have been pursuing a career in natural healing. However, I would like to eliminate Zoloft from my drugs — how can I do that safely?

D.K., female, age 47

The process to eliminate Zoloft (Sertraline) from your body needs to be done very carefully. I would recommend reducing the dosage of Zoloft by 25mg every 2 weeks. Do this until your dosage is 25mg per day, then reduce it to 12.5 mg every 2 weeks until you are no longer taking it. Please be careful with this. Be sure your doctor knows what you are doing. If you are taking a time release version of Zoloft you will need to get a new prescription at the lower dose. Do not break apart time release tablets.

For your Fibromyalgia and to replace the Zoloft I would recommend using SAMe(S-adenosyl methionine). SAMe is used by your body to make neurotransmitters as well as the pineal hormone melatonin. There are more than 100 published studies on the effectiveness of SAMe for depression.

Start with a dosage of 200mg 2x per day for 2-3 weeks.

You may then increase the dosage if needed. Do not take more than 1600mg per day of SAMe. Take SAMe during daylight hours for the best results.

Malic acid is also very helpful for Fibromyalgia. 2400mg per day is a good dosage.

Be Well,

Christopher Stewart,
Medical Intuitive

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