Intuitive Self-Healing: Achieve Balance and Wellness Through the Body’s Energy Centers

by Marie Manuchehri, RN

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Even doctors and the most sophisticated tests can’t always find the source of a health issue, but there is one authority that always knows–your own body. “We intuitively perceive what we need for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.” teaches Marie Manuchehri. “The biggest challenge for most of us is learning to trust our inner guidance.” With Intuitive Self-Healing, this registered nurse and renowned energy healer provides accessible instruction for helping readers tune into their health at a deeper level. Offering a compendium of illuminating case studies and practical self-care techniques, Marie invites readers to learn more about:

• The chakra system–how to access and activate seven energy centers that hold the key to our wholeness and intuitive gifts
• Tools for self-analysis–a chakra-by-chakra examination of where specific health and emotional issues arise
• Energetic preventative care–detecting and addressing potential health problems before they physically manifest
• Your intuitive style–how to discover your unique strengths for reading and working with subtle energy

Just in time for the Westminster Dog Show and Grammys week, an unexpected music album debuts on Billboard’s Classical chart at #19: Through a Dog’s Ear music has gained an enduring track record of being true to its claim that it does indeed calm stressed out dogs. The album recently got a boost onto Billboard after being featured on Good Morning America, by VetStreet’s Dr. Marty Becker as one of his favorite products for de-stressing your pet.

Through a Dog’s Ear: Music to Calm Your Canine Companion, Volume 1, the first in a series of music clinically demonstrated to deeply relax dogs. This music was scientifically composed to help dogs who tremble under the bed at the first clap of thunder, who chew the new couch to pieces, and who regularly leave a large present on the Persian rug. High-anxiety dogs melt with this music.

According to psychoacoustic expert Joshua Leeds and award-winning concert pianist and Juilliard graduate Lisa Spector, just as music can reduce stress levels and anxiety in people, it can do the same with dogs. With the help of veterinary neurologist Dr. Susan Wagner, Leeds and Spector discovered that changing doggy brainwaves—and therefore calming, reducing anxiety, and helping to overcome behavioral issues in canine listeners—called for more than conventional Bach or Beethoven. Using psychoacoustic principles of tone, rhythm and pattern identification, Leeds and Spector handpicked, modified, and rearranged traditional classical pieces to create canine music of simplified sound. To get the desired results, they changed tempos, removed entire melodic sections, and used various arrangement and re-orchestration techniques to regulate the amount of auditory data.

Clinical trials of the music conducted in kennels, shelters, clinics, and in homes produced results that were…well, like music to any dog-lover’s ears. Seventy percent of dogs in kennels and 85% in households were noticeably calmer. When the music was played for dogs with specific anxiety disorders—such as separation anxiety, excitement with visitors, thunderstorm and fireworks trembling—over twice as many stressed-out behaviors were reduced compared to standard classical music.

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By Joseph M. Marshall III *AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 1 2012

 In Lakota tradition, the bow and arrow were more than tools for hunting or battle.  The bow’s resilience and flexibility, the arrow’s grace and power, the archer’s focus and patience—in these, we find the essential qualities for living a life of strength, purpose, and simplicity. In The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage (Sounds True, February 1, 2012), Joseph M. Marshall III builds upon the central metaphor of the bow and arrow to provide a treasury of insights, stories, and irreplaceable wisdom. With elegant and captivating writings, this master storyteller illuminates timeless lessons on:

Michael Beckwith created the Life Visioning Process to be a transformational technology for applying deep inquiry and spiritual practice to enable the growth, development, and unfoldment of your soul. With Life Visioning, he details the process in its entirety, with invaluable insights and meditations to help you each step of the way, including:

• The four stages of consciousness: Victim, Manifester, Channel, and Being—the characteristics of each stage, and how we move through them
• The dance of co-creation—establishing the balance between effort and surrender
• Where powerful intentions come from, and why they are much greater than self-serving desires
• The “dark night of the soul”—a guide for navigating the uncertain transition between stages of consciousness
• Cultivating intuition as a key to realizing the highest vision for your life
• Applying the Life Visioning Process in all of your life structures including relationships, finances, livelihood, and spiritual practice

“When your thoughts and actions begin to align with the imperatives of your soul,” explains Beckwith, “you enroll the full support of the universe. Unimagined possibilities begin to open up as you synchronize with the divine.” With Life Visioning, this dynamic teacher shares an unparalleled method for navigating every stage of your evolutionary journey—and fulfilling your highest calling as only you can.

Beginner’s Mind

It tends to be a momentous occasion to intentionally stop all your outward activity and, just as an experiment, sit or lie down and open to an interior stillness with no other agenda than to be present for the unfolding of your moments — perhaps for the first time in your adult life.

The people I know who have incorporated the practice of mindfulness into their lives remember quite vividly what drew them to it in the first place, including the feeling tone and life circumstances that led up to that moment of beginning. I certainly do. The emotional topology of the moment of beginning — or even of the moment of realizing that you want to connect with yourself in such a way — is rich and unique for each of us.

Suzuki Roshi, the Japanese Zen Master who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and touched the hearts of so many, is famous for having said, “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Beginners come to new experiences not knowing so much and therefore open. This openness is very creative. It is an innate characteristic of the mind. The trick is never to lose it. That would require that you stay in the ever-emerging wonder of the present moment, which is always fresh. Of course you will lose beginner’s mind in one way, when you cease to be a beginner. But if you can remember from time to time that each moment is fresh and  new, maybe, just maybe, what you know will not get in the way of being open to what you don’t know, which is always a larger field. Then a beginner’s mind will be available in any moment you are open to it.