Oh my! We are already into our March 2008 issue and January 1 was yesterday. Please explain that to the world - and me. Part of the answer is that time and space are accelerating and humans are changing. Many are passing over, and some are staying and shifting their perception of life and surroundings. One goal of the Edge Life Group is to present information and modalities to assist those who are ready to make "The Shift." We have expanded our menu for 2008 to produce a larger … [Read more...]
Complementary Therapies: Honoring The Power Within
I love the concept and practice of the complementary therapies. They honor the true nature of healing recognizing the Creative Intelligence inherent in the body-mind-Spirit continuum. There cannot be lasting healing without recognizing this inherent connection. Healing isn't a matter of "defeat the enemy." Healing is a matter of recognizing the inherent alignment with Spirit that well-being is! We are Spirit made manifest. Complementary therapies recognize this Truth. It seems odd to … [Read more...]
Old Beliefs and Values Impact us Greatly
I was looking for a way to help my dad deal with Alzheimer's disease when I heard there was evidence that Brain Gym® could help; and my journey into mind-body-spirit work began.I had never heard of Brain Gym® before, so I found instructors on the website, contacted one for books I could read and signed up for a class. I was amazed when I attended the first class and learned the "balance" process right off the bat. As we introduced ourselves that first time, I shared that I … [Read more...]
Somatic Visualizing: How and Why It Works
The most practical way to deal with a gripe is to transform it into a goal! Focus your mind and heart on effecting change, and complaining will fall away.Somatic visualizing is one of the quickest and most infallible ways to bring your goal into reality. Somatic visualizing uses visualizing/ picturing, feelings, sound/inner hearing, and body sensations and movements (e.g., fist pump, grinning from ear to ear, clapping your hands, etc.). I call it "Somatic" (body) Visualizing, because … [Read more...]
Living More Completely in the Now: An Engineering Executive’s Journey
Several years ago when I first read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, I was engaged in an intense self-reflective stage of my life. I had just turned 60 and retired from an executive position after a successful and rewarding 36-year career with a prominent international aerospace engineering and manufacturing company. I had decided that retirement afforded me an opportunity to make a radical change in how I lived my life. In my life as an engineer and executive, I had focused my energies … [Read more...]
Obama: Yes We Can, The Edge Life endorsement for U.S. President
One out of every 220 Americans of voting age has responded to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign by donating money to help him get elected. By the time you read this, the campaign most likely will have eclipsed the magical number of one million donors. I took some time to ponder this vast outpouring of support for a man whom few people knew before his powerful speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. And after extensive reading and research, I have determined that the … [Read more...]
A Healing Perspective
George showed up with tremors from a stroke. The shaking in his hands caused him embarrassment and affected the quality of his life. He had tried to find relief through traditional Western medicine, with no success. As a last resort, he decided to try some alternative healing techniques, including mine.I'm trained in a number of energetic healing modalities. During this first session with George (not his real name), I used a form of Qigong that I learned from Master Lin of Spring Forest Qigong. … [Read more...]
A Glance at New Video & Audio Resources for Body, Mind & Soul
THE ANSWER TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, 80 minutes, DVD, available at GetTheAnswer.orgThe Answer to Absolutely Everything explores the fundamental questions of how to live a profoundly abundant and joyful life. Inspiring people whose stories are documented in The Answer have overcome adversity and realized their dreams. It provides a road map to navigate and powerfully accelerates your life in the areas of health, wealth, relationships, self-expression and wisdom. The Answer to Absolutely … [Read more...]
Healing in the Spotlight – as the Funds Flow in
When popular TV dramas feature energy healing, real-life healers tend to run for cover. Or they feel compelled to watch in irritation and frustration at the way their profession has once again been misrepresented or maligned.So the flaws in a recent episode of the hospital drama "Grey's Anatomy" - "The Laying on of Hands" - hardly came as a surprise. But it was interesting and somewhat refreshing that the show tried - within its own limited confines - to portray healing … [Read more...]
You Can Do What You Love
You are a special, unique person, and you have a meaningful contribution to make to the world. Every person is born with a purpose. There is a reason you are here; you have a role to play that no one else on the planet could fill. The special contribution you came to make is your life's work. When you are doing that work, you are following your higher path, and your life will be filled with increasing joy, abundance, and well-being.Finding your life's work allows you to create abundance and … [Read more...]
Courage is an Acquired Taste
"Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar." - Erica JongThe first time someone told me I was courageous, I laughed out loud. I was perhaps the most timid child ever born on this planet. Partly due to childhood illness and partly because of my peculiar psychic abilities, I didn't act like other children. I didn't play sports, never learned to ride a bike, and was afraid to go into the water. I stayed to myself, reading, pondering, and talking to spirits. And, I was afraid...a lot.I … [Read more...]
A Conversation with our Iowa Holistic Expo Speakers
The following speakers will be presenting March 15-16 at the debut Iowa Holistic Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. The event takes place at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown. For complete details, please go to Iowa.Edgelife.net.ONLINE TICKET CENTER FOR IOWA HOLISTIC EXPOThese are our conversations with each keynote speaker, presented here alphabetically: Iowa Holistic Expo speakers, from left: Dr. Norm Shealy, Kathryn Harwig, Echo Bodine, Lynn Young, Sunny Dawn Johnston and Carol … [Read more...]
What do You Believe about your Health?
As an intuitive healer and manager of a natural health clinic, I have seen the dramatic changes alternative healing practices can have on a person's health and life. I, myself, have made dramatic changes in my own health and well-being. You could almost say I am a poster child for alternative healing. By the time I was 34, I had arthritis and endometriosis. I had gained quite a bit of weight and my naturally curly hair had gone straight. In short, I was in a lot of pain and I didn't feel well … [Read more...]
Charting the Heavens in March
The Sun, traveling through Pisces this month, helps us to smooth out the rough edges and find new places where we can blend with others...until it enters Aries on 3/18 marking the Spring Equinox and igniting us into action. Pisces energy is where we experience our personal boundaries dissolve. The new moon on 3/7, also in Pisces, guides us into deeper levels of emotional awareness of our interconnectedness and inspires us to merge with those we love. It is here, in this place, that we can … [Read more...]
A Glance back at Film: 1998
I have never received as many responses as I did to last month's column about the darkness and cynicism in films over the last several years, particularly 2007. Many of you asked me to recommend some movies that would dissipate the bad taste from last year. As I started to look for some of those films, I was intrigued to discover how many amazing films were released in one particular calendar year: 1998.Why 1998? Perhaps the penultimate year of the last millennium ushered in the promise of our … [Read more...]
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