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This is one way (among many others) we can use the creativity in hypnosis.
A wonderful description what can happen when we use our 'right brain' when we get access to our 'pictures' and 'imagination' and let 'creative' healing happen in cooperation with our deep inner wisdom we can get access under 'hypnosis'.............


The Hidden Treasures of Dreaming
by Catherine Shainberg, PhD

We live in our body, but we often forget how connected to our body we really are. We act as if our body were an alien being, inaccessible to dialogue, which must be taken elsewhere -- like an object -- to be fixed. We experience the usual plethora of sensations, emotions, feelings, and even pains -- yet we don't seem to grasp the possibility that we may directly and powerfully affect the health of our own body. Instead, we give our power away to medicines and drugs, or to the doctor, therapist, chiropractor, pharmacist, healer, or even our friends. And we often do this without even asking ourselves, "Can I heal myself?"

The Treasure Is in Our Dreaming

When speaking about, or to, the body, it is best to speak in images. For images are a language the body understands far better than words. To illustrate what I mean, let me tell you a story:

Once upon a time in Cracow lived a Jew named Eizik, son of Yekel. Riddled with debt and responsible for a large family, Eizik longed for someone or something to relieve him of his burdens. But nothing seemed forthcoming.

One night, Eizik had a strange dream. He saw himself in Prague, the distant capital, standing under the bridge that spanned the Vltava River, just next to the king's palace. "Dig!" said a voice in his ear. "On this very spot is buried a treasure. All your problems will be solved." But upon awaking, Eizik dismissed the dream as just a figment of his imagination. He felt that he had neither the strength nor the resources to travel so far.

But the dream would not go away. Night after night, he dreamed the same dream. Finally, Eizik realized that there would be no peace for him until he journeyed to far-off Prague to verify its truth.

Upon arriving at the capital, exhausted and hungry, Eizik went straight to the king's palace. There, he recognized the bridge from his dream, the exact spot he had visioned. But soldiers were guarding the bridge. How was he to approach?

He decided simply to tell the truth. And, as you may imagine, Eizik's revelations provoked the soldiers to great hilarity and teasing. "As for myself," one of them mockingly said, "I dreamed there was a treasure buried in Cracow, under the chimney in Eizik the Jew's home! And I'm leaving right now to get it!"

Upon hearing these words, Eizik had a sudden illumination. He hurried back to Cracow, removed the stones in his chimney, and, lo and behold! there was the treasure.

That the treasure lies inside ourselves, always within reach, is the first and most obvious message of this famous Hasidic story. But that the treasure lies in our dreaming is a message that is less often understood or realized.

But if the moral of the story is carried to its fullest extent, we can see that we are being told that dreaming itself contains the answer to our problems. In this story, dreaming is the magic wand that disperses our clouds, opens our locked doors, moves our land masses, cleans our cobwebs and dusty mirrors, and reveals the treasure hidden within each of us.

Is this true? Can we actually use our dreams to clear our own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies? To answer this question, we must ask another one: "What is dreaming?" Two Warring Brains

We have only one body, but we have two arms, two legs, two eyes, and two brains. Without these ''twos'' we could not strive for the tension of balance. Unfortunately, however, one side of our mind and body will often become atrophied, thus weakening and undermining the other side. For example, if your right arm is used too frequently, the natural symmetry of your posture can become unbalanced.

Our two brains (to simplify matters we'll call them the left and right brains) have traditionally not lived happily side by side. The left brain has dominated our way of thinking since the advent of Scientific Enlightenment. It deals with logic, language, abstraction, mathematics, physics, problem-solving. Its thinking is sequential, linear, rational, and objective. Its progression is dependent upon the laws of cause and effect. The left brain tends to underrate and debase the subjective right brain.

The right brain, on the contrary, is essentially involved with the body and all of its attendant manifestations, sensations, and emotions. The right brain interprets facial expressions and body movements. It deciphers lightning-speed, complex signals, reconstructing them to gain knowledge. In this way, for instance, not only does the right brain report on other people's appearance and state of well-being, it also makes an assessment of their deeper emotional landscape.

The right brain operates instantaneously, holistically, and intuitively. As the English language so aptly puts it, we are ''in-formed'' by the right brain, which picks up pattern, shape, and interacting forms. Thus, our smell cilia are ''in-formed'' by the shape of the molecules that waft towards our noses. Our ears are imprinted with the wave patterns of sound, our eyes, with the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation.

The right brain not only receives, but also responds to the outer world and to the fluctuations within our own bodies. It does this by bringing clusters of pattern, shape, and movement into our awareness. Our interactive right brain is actively dreaming day and night.

Why then do we undervalue this twin side of ourselves? If we are right-handed, would we ever think of cutting off the left arm, simply because it is not as useful as the right? Who is it that tells us our right brain is not useful?

The answer, of course, is: the left brain! Having claimed our attention, the left brain refuses to relinquish its prerogative. It tells us that the cognitions of the right brain are dreams, and that dreams are mere fantasy. But are they?

Dreaming and Fantasy

Before we go on to describe the forgotten powers of dreaming, we must dispel the notion that dreaming and fantasy are one and the same. The left brain, being willful, aggressive, and competitive, sets itself goals that it proceeds to realize. Fantasy is the left brain's way of twisting our true dreaming to its own purposes.

For example, we might fantasize that our boss is fired for stealing money from the company, and, lo and behold, we are offered his job! Fantasy is self-serving. Our claims, expectations, desires, longings, and resentments color the fantasy and its outcome.

True dreaming is free of such conniving. Instead, it responses playfully, like a child does. Presented with a grimace, it will stick its tongue out. Presented with a beautiful woman, it will light up with a wondrous smell or a beatific landscape. Dreaming responds to what it perceives, not simplistically, not foolishly, but in a manner that is direct, spontaneous, and creative.

We will call this responsive dreaming ''Active Imagination.''

The ''Health Foods'' of Relatedness

Imagine an infant deprived at an early age of its mother. It cries and cries -- and continues to cry into adulthood.

What do we feed it? Words. ''Talking cures.'' Unfortunately, however, talking cures affect only the mind. They cannot affect the poor body, still longing for the soft touch of a mother's caressing hands, the sweet sound of her cooing, the luminosity of her eyes and smile.

Words only wrap the unfortunate story of loss more securely around the suffering body. They cannot cure the body of its hunger. Only through ''in-forming'' the right brain -- using Active Imagination to feed it lived experiences, the embodied relationships, the sustenance it so desperately needs -- only this way can the void of patterning be addressed. By in-forming the right brain through the Active Imagination, the twisted configurations patterned by early lack can be unraveled and reconfigured.

How can we in-form the right brain through Active Imagination? How does this actually work?

To begin with, through the therapist or other helper, the right brain instantly picks up the sound of the listening ear, the look of the loving eyes, the feel of the hand that caresses the body, or even its proximity. Half the work of healing is done by attentive presence, caring, or touch.

Even at a distance, the right brain is wired like a radio, picking up the shape of these caring frequencies. We experience this phenomenon in our daily life, when we think of someone, only to find them calling us in the next hour or day. The vision of that person's face and the emotion generated in our right brain sends a localized signal to the other person in the same way that tuning to a radio station will cause specific sounds and content to be received. Resonance to subtle thought and feeling is the hallmark of the right brain.

Personally Attending to Our Pains

Because of the right brain's ability to pick up sustenance as described above, we do not need to wait in order to feed ourselves the healthy food of relatedness! Others, in attending to us, may stimulate our responsiveness. But we can attend to ourselves in the same way. In fact, being always in our bodies, we can do this even more powerfully than anyone else. All it takes is turning our senses inward to harken to our own needs.

Where do we start? With our bodies. At first, we start this re-patterning of the configurations of lack by attending to our body's pains and discomforts. When we contract against our pain, trying to distance ourselves from it, we are feeding the pattern of lack. When we conquer our natural impulse to run away and instead begin to feed our right brain the experiences, the subtle energies, the sustenance our body seeks, we can reverse the negative patterning and create healing.

Here's how to do this:

Attending to Your Pain Close your eyes, breathe out slowly three times counting from three back to one. See the "1" tall, clear, and very bright. Now, turning your eyes inward -- inside your body -- let your vision travel down to the area of the physical, emotional, or mental pain. Allow yourself to be in-formed by the pain: What does it look like? What color is it? Does it smell? Does it have a texture or a sound? Is it hot or cold? Inflamed or dull? Wet or dry? Describe to yourself everything you ''see'' about your pain. As you do this, you will be impelled to do something about what you are ''seeing.'' For instance, let us imagine that you have been in-formed that there is a fine-line fracture in your bone. How might you deal with it? The answer is found only through your own inner impulses. Just as you did when you were a child, you play. You improvise. For instance, you might get the notion to fill up the crack with a ray of sunlight. Or you might have the impulse to glue it with the white paste of a chewed radish. Find your own images. You have received an inner image of a fine-line fracture, and you respond by offering an image back to the image offered you. In this way, you are feeding your right brain. Through the neuronal pathways, this new message is transmitted to your bone. Your bone, accordingly in-formed, hastens to heal.

Please, don't believe what I am saying! Instead, put it actively to the test. Words cannot in-form. Only images perceived, fully experienced, and embodied will do this. The next time you experience pain, use your active imagination to heal yourself.

Responding to Inner In-Formation

Pain -- contraction -- is not the only way to access the right brain. Relaxation offers equally compelling in-formation. For instance, when you are dozing off but not quite asleep yet, you may suddenly be flooded with novel sensations, vivid colors, lights, and strange images or juxtaposition of images. These images (called hypnagogic) are revealing the contours of your right brain. When you are falling asleep, with exterior stimuli shut out or muted, the right brain surfaces like a sunken island out of the ocean of sleep oblivion.

Your dreams present you with yet another unfinished puzzle to which you can add your own pieces. For instance, you dream that you are swept away by a swollen torrent. You wake up with a feeling of terror. But after contemplation, you recognize that your life is just too busy, that you are out of control. In a case like this, what do you do? Call up your therapist in a panic? Possibly. But a better way, perhaps, is just to sit down, close your eyes, and return into the dream. This method of dealing with your fear is faster and cheaper, and it frees you to be responsible and independent.

Here is how to go about it:

Attending to Your Dream Close your eyes, and breathe out three times, counting from three back to one. See the "1" tall, clear, and very bright. Now, return into the dream. See yourself being swept away by a raging torrent. What do you do to extricate yourself? You could, for example, relax completely -- let go, and let yourself be carried by the raging waters. Soon, you drift down to a calm, sparkling sea. Or you might hang on to a low branch and heave yourself from the roiling waters. Or you might simply decide to sink to the bottom of the torrent and rest there, becoming the water, then rising, realize that the waters have become calm. Watch what unfolds. When you feel that the movement has come to completion, breathe out and open your eyes.

So you do have many options. But please remember this: When you re-enter a dream, only one of those options will surface. The dream image and that one option serve as both your diagnosis and your healing. You find the resolution to a difficult image through the unfolding of your active dreaming, and in the process you in-form your body of the abatement of the physical, emotional, or mental storm. You have participated directly in your own healing.

Dialoguing With Your Right Brain

Will you be satisfied with just responding to a pain or to a dream? How about dialoguing directly with your right brain? You know now that it needs your imput to return to health and then to continue being healthy. Are you not tempted to find out what treasure is buried under your emotional chimney? To pull away the stones that have confined and hidden it from view? To plunge unabashedly into the space just opened up?

To do so, you must act. You must ask a question, expecting the answer to reach you -- not in words, but in a 3-D, surround-sound, all-encompassing experience. Your right brain is just like a well-cared-for child. The more you dare to ask questions of it, the more active, vital, perky, and playful it gets. Soon, it is joyously manifesting the cornucopia of its hidden world. Your crying infant who became a sad adult is suddenly feeling replete.

By paying attention to yourself, you are being fed, enriched, moved and transformed. The old fixed configuration of loss and impoverishment is breaking up, transmuting, and flowing into the promised land of milk and honey. Abundance, richness, creativity, joy, lightness of being, love, grace, beauty -- all spring up from that inner land. To access it, just utilize this in-formation:

Dialoguing With Your Dream World Close your eyes. Breathe out three times, counting from three back to one. See the ''1'' tall, clear, and very bright. Imagine that you are standing in a meadow, looking up into a clear blue sky. Stretching your arm up to the sun, and catching a ray of light, use this ray of light to draw a circle of light in the right-hand side of the sky. Breathe out and bring your arm down. Look into the circle of light, and see what wonders are appearing there for you. When you have seen, respond directly if the need arises. Or else, if the image completes and satisfies you, breathe out and open your eyes.

There are an infinity of ways of tapping into the imaginal Source. Clues to how this can be done may be found by modeling yourself on the poet. The poet inhabits a no-man's land between words and image. He jolts us out of our habitual mode of seeing by juxtaposed or leaping images, paradoxical or unexpected effects, sharp directional shifts. Stuffy configurations are disposed of, new ones configured. You can learn abundantly from the poet's craft.

Remember that your left brain wants to disclaim everything you have just read. Your right brain, on the contrary, leaps up to the bait of pattern, image, touch, sound, smell, and taste.

Will you feed your hungry inner child the healthy foods of your imagination? If you do so, you not only heal yourself, but also propel yourself into new and exciting adventures. Like Eizik of Cracow, by actively participating in your own dreaming, you can discover the buried treasure in your hearth. Therein lies your own, inborn heritage of health, abundance, happiness, and a balanced life.

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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

......lets have fun...........




Whenever the owners of this house with a pool came home, they found puddles of water near their pool.
They believed the neighbors' kids waited until they went out to use the pool.
They hid outside and filmed this...

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The discipline that we would like you to exercise is to make a decision that nothing is more important than that you feel good, and that you are going to find thoughts that feel better. Your cork floating is the only thing that is worthy of discipline.

                            --- Abraham

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The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. (Bruce H. Lipton)

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from: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Be-Creative/520037801372620

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Type 1 Diabetes

 

Acidic Drinking Water Significantly Increases the Risk of Type 1 Diabetes
Drinking tap water or any acid demineralized water is going to take one to their grave a lot faster than drinking high alkaline high pH highly mineralized water will. Tap water pH 6.2–6.9 is associated with a fourfold higher risk of type 1 diabetes compared with pH ≥7.7. This hard information tells us everything we need to know about the kinds of water we need to drink to not get sick and become dependent on a medical system that makes us miserable and cures nothing.

Drinking the wrong type of water will contribute to the onset of many diseases. When we look at the fact that the quality of drinking water influences the risk of type 1 diabetes we are looking simultaneously down at heart disease, strokes and cancer because the chances of contracting these diseases increases for diabetic patients.

... Type 1 diabetes results from an immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic β-cells, but the initiating causes are unknown to western science, which does not have the ability to see much of anything when it comes to the truth about health and disease.

Dr. Lynda Frassetto of University of California, San Francisco knows, “Insufficient amount of bicarbonates in our blood reduces our capabilities to manage (neutralize and dump) the acid our body produces. This is the cause of aging. The age of 45 is the average age when human beings start to show symptoms of diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis and many other adult degenerative diseases. And since we cannot manage the acid, we accumulate acidic wastes in our body. These wastes show up as cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, urate, sulfate, phosphate, kidney stones, etc.”

It is important to note that people living/working in a polluted environment have fewer amounts of bicarbonates in their blood than people working in a clean environment which means that the more of an urbanite you are the more you need to pay attention to the quality of your water.

http://drsircus.com/books/e-book/new-paradigms-in-diabetic-care/

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A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

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

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”
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It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

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Forgive yourself and others:


"I release myself from all the demands and judgments that have kept me limited.

I allow myself to go free.

I give myself permission to create beautiful fulfilling relationships, first with myself, then with others.

 I release myself from the past to have a successful life. I release myself to experience life abundantly.

I choose to be free. I release all others from any demands and false expectations I have

placed on them.

Today, I begin a new journey, exploring the vast possibilities that life has to offer......."



 
 

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You are the only one who can change your story, and you do this by changing the relationship with yourself. (Don Miguel Ruiz)

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children and adolescents (and adults)

http://wiredchild.org/schools.html

http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/child-focussed-in-links,39,0

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Mindfulness, A Teaching With Thich Nhat Hanh

from the website Art of Dharma (http://www.artofdharma.com/mindfulness-teaching/)

 

Thich Nhat Hanh gives an explanation of mindfulness. Too often are we preoccupied With things that keep us from true mindfulness. Mindfulness, allows us to be in touch with the world, the universe, and the present moment. When we become mindful, we can find gratitude and happiness wherever we are. From admiring the blue sky on a sunny day, to admiring the rain drops on a rainy day. If we learn to practice mindfulness and gratitude, we won’t need anything else to be happy. So, check out the beautiful teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh below, learn to stop running and be present with the universe.

watch his little video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xD7i6VUOriI

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See-through brains clarify connections

Technique to make tissue transparent offers three-dimensional view of neural networks.

http://www.nature.com/news/see-through-brains-clarify-connections-1.12768

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eye-movements.......all Brainspotting-therapists will understand.............

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Hypnosis

'Kaiserschnitt' (Cesarian) under Hypnosis

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151477995736708.1073741866.326155696707&type=1

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