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Trauma is an elusive foe. It hides in the body, making it tricky to recognize—mainly because it often is not what people think it is. Many believe trauma results only from major events like a fire, a terrible accident, or a natural disaster. However, the truth is that trauma happens when the body perceives a threat or senses danger—whether real or imagined. Everyone has experienced these sensations at some point. The panic might hit when you realize you may have left the stove on or the sinking feeling from a hard-to-read email at work. These moments leave a trace. Each time your body encounters a perceived danger, it stores that experience as a marker of harm and builds a ...
Have you ever felt dogged by bad luck? Confounded by challenge after challenge? Suspected there was a dark cloud following you around or hovering over your head? You may have thought it was just an unhappy string of circumstances, but at many times throughout history it was exactly those types of circumstances that would have led people to suspect that they may have been cursed: not just an unfortunate happenstance, but the result of something far more sinister. What Is a Curse and How Do They Happen?By definition, a curse is something that is done, something that is said, or perhaps even something that is thought that has the express purpose, intentionally and directionally, of bringing ...
As human beings, one of our most interesting and curious capabilities, within our physical form and our vibrational one, is the miraculous ability to heal. Even though there is an answer to why it is possible (which I briefly describe in my book, Heal the Water) it does not make it any less of a miracle. The scope of what we can heal is endless: physical injuries, mental illness, and spiritual damage—whether within ourselves or in our external environment. At some point in your life, you have done this, even if you weren't consciously aware that you were doing so; maybe you offered kind words to a person down on their luck, or perhaps you sent a prayer out into the universe asking ...
When you took general science classes in school, your teachers told you that when electricity goes through a wire, a field forms around that wire. Something similar happens in and around your body. You have electrical, magnetic, and life force energy flowing through your body. Of course, the body is much more complicated than a wire. It has legs and arms and all sorts of things including a head, so the field has many forms. Your energy field begins in the center of your body and radiates outward several feet from your physical body. Some people call it an aura, though it can be easier to simply refer to it as the energy field (people may be more comfortable with that). Within the energy ...
