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August 2011 Issue

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All Healing is Self Healing August 2011 Newsletter

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Sacred Listening Newsletter          August 2011
Thank you for allowing me to serve you in your Spiritual Path!
In This Issue
Partner Spotlight
12 Weeks to Self-Healing
Yasodhara Ashram Experience
Using EFT for Headaches
Candess’s Bookshelf
Young Living Essential Oils

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Partner Spotlight!  

Curious about the benefits of EFT?  

Check out Christa Smith’s Article in this newsletter!  

Christa Smith

Emotional Freedom Technique  

 

 

12 Weeks to Self-Healing: The Gift of PainCheck out Week 11! There are two new audios and lesson plans.Linda Lucas shares about Essential Oils for animals (and humans!)Marcia Riley shares about how you arrange your home can affect your health! Get her  tips on Feng Shui!

Lavender Pot

 

Feeling stuck? looking for direction? Need some help getting where you are going? 

 

Coming Soon!

Sacred  

Life Coaching

with  

Candess M. Campbell, PhD 

An alternative to therapy: Coaching will guide you to success in your life

with the focus on

 

 

  • clarity
  • action
  • accountability
  • follow through!

 

  There are only a few openings. Let me know

if you are interested and I’ll send further details!

 

 Listening to my body at the Ashram!

The last 10 days of July I had an incredible experience at the Yasodhara Ashram in beautiful British Columbia.  I was aware of this Ashram because of the Radha Yoga Center in Spokane where I have taken yoga and dream classes for several years.

You may be aware of my experience with adrenal fatigue in 2008 and 2009. At the retreat one day our focus was  on Relaxation and Rest. What happened for me was I realized (again) I didn’t know how to rest. Previously, I would get tired and use caffeine and sugar to push through.  We experienced Hidden Language Yoga and it was wonderful. After the pose, we journaled. First we did the Bridge and Tranquility Poses to become aware of our spine. Then we did the Cobra. We dialogued with ourselves after each pose. The question I journaled with  was “What do I surrender to?”  The answer could be another blog or newsletter. For me my back clearly disclosed that it needed further support and in the cobra I understood my abdomen needs to support my back. This will alleviate the back twinges I get occasionally.

 

Also, I contemplated the relationship between Joy and Surrender. I clearly understood I fight with mySelf inwardly by choosing confusion and indecision rather than surrendering and moving into a state of wait. I fight outwardly by resisting rather than accepting and letting life unfold. When I surrender, there is no struggle and I feel JOY!

Class focused on rest and we did some relaxation and visualization exercises. It was delightful. During lunch and on our break we were asked to be in silence. I spend a lot of time alone, but I became aware of how much rest I get when I am in conscious silence.  I spent time on the beach of Kootenay Lake Kootenay Lake and had quite a walk back up to my room in Saraswati.  As I began the journey back I decided to bring rest into my life. I will write more about this when I write and share my Karma Yoga experience. On the way back I decided to stop to rest after so many steps. I looked at the flowers, the trees, the birds, the cherries and the apples on each rest stop. When I got to the steps I decided to take 10 steps and rest, 10 steps and rest. It was an incredible experience. Whenever I stopped, the colors were so much more grand!

My desire for the retreat was rest. Now I am rested, have learned incredible tools and am more conscious of my life and my relatiosnhip with the Divine!

Bless your heart,

Candess

Photograph of Kootenay Lake by Candess M. Campbell

 

 

 Using EFT to help a Headache and More!

guest column by Christa Smith

Anyone who’s ever suffered from a headache (and that’s just about everyone) knows how how miserable and debilitating it can be, especially if they are chronic and comes in the form of migraines. It takes time and effort to relieve them, and for some people it controls their lives.

What if you could relieve a headache, any kind of headache – tension, migraine, cluster – with a simple, easy to learn, non-evasive technique and often only takes 5 minutes? This is absolutely possible with EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique.

EFT (emotional freedom technique) is a form of psychological acupressure based on the ancient principles of acupuncture. Instead of needles, EFT combines gentle tapping on key acupuncture points while focusing your thoughts on pain, uncomfortable emotions, memories, cravings or any other problem. EFT is a complimentary therapy that helps the body to re-balance itself, and accelerates healing.

EFT is a simple, yet powerful tool to use when addressing any physical or emotional issue. Headaches, or any other physical ailment, is simply a message that there is a disruption in your body’s energy system. EFT restores the balance of the energy system and allows the body to resume it’s natural healing ability.

A typical EFT treatment for headaches begins by identifying the intensity of the pain on a scale from 0 to 10, followed by a progression of tapping on various acupressure points on the body using your own fingertips, while focusing on the headache.

A phrase such as “Even though my head is throbbing” or “Even though I have this pain behind my eyes” or simply “Even though I have this headache” is used to set up the tapping round and then a reminder phrase such as “This headache” is applied throughout the round to help you stay focused on the issue.

Often the pain is reduced in one or two tapping rounds. If not, there may be other aspects that need to be addressed before complete relief is obtained.

Contact Christa at    EFT For Positive Living

For more information EFT Universe

 

 

Candess’s Bookshelf

The Radha Yoga Center in Spokane has introduced me to several books I love. The one that teaches Hidden Language Yoga as described in my writings in this newsletter is

The Inner Life of Asanas.  If you want to strengthen your body and create a deeper relationship with yourself, this is the book for you!

The Inner Life of Asanas: The Best of Hidden Language Hatha Yoga from Ascent Magazine

by Swami Lalitananda by Timeless Books
Paperback

List Price: $23.95
Our Price: $19.44

Buy Now

 

 Young Living Essential Oils
Whenever I talk about Essential Oils and especially when you put the oils directly on your body (which is called neat) or when you ingest them, use only therapeutic grade essential oils. That is why I use Young Living.

PURIFICATION

Great in the first aid kit for Summer! 

A delightful antiseptic blend of Citronella, Lemongrass, Rosemary, Melaleuca Alternifolia, Lavandin and Myrtle formulated for diffusing to purify and cleanse the air and neutralize mildew, cigarette smoke and disagreeable odors.

The many uses of Purification!

 1. Diffuse to clean the air and neutralize foul or stale odors.

2. Put several drops on a cotton ball and place in the air vents in the home, office or hotel room or other enclosed area to cleanse the air.

3. While traveling, inhale Purification during flights to protect yourself from pathogens found in the re-circulated air.

4. Put on drop on insect bites to cleanse and stop the itching.

5. Apply a drop on blemishes to clear the skin.

6. Rub a drop on the outside of a sore throat when it is first beginning.

7. Rub a drop on a blister to cleanse & disinfect.

8. Spritz several drops of oil mixed with water to repel insects.

9. Apply Purification & Peppermint oil diluted with V-6 to a cotton swab and rub just inside the ear to eliminate ear mites in cats and dogs.

10. Mix a few drops in a spray bottle and spray pet bed to repel fleas.

11. If bitten by a bee, apply immediately and watch the pain of the sting disappear.