Featured Topic: My Struggle with Fear, Being True

My Struggle with Fear, Being True

By Kim Wencl 

Our featured topic: Coping with Fear After the sudden death of my 20-year old daughter in 2003, amazing experiences of signs and messages from her were all around me. I was led to an amazing medium and teacher and I began to wonder if these experiences were common -- did this happen to everyone? I didn't think so, but I was clueless as to why they were happening to me. I loved them -- they brought me much needed peace and consolation -- but why? Please keep them coming, I would plead … [Read more...]

Featured Topic: Fear, blindness and vision

Fear, blindness and vision

By Jerome Buchmeier 

Our featured topic: Coping with Fear I'm going blind. Little by little. Well, maybe. Five years ago, I had murky glue over part of my left eye some mornings. The ophthalmologist said, "It's a cataract." I said, "It comes and goes each day." He said nothing. I wondered if he heard what I said. And one day it stayed, and gradually clouded over completely. Not so bad. A little bit harder driving at night. The only thing I can't do is play ping-pong. I don't trust surgery, except maybe … [Read more...]

Control Your Reactions – and Determine Your Destination

By Deborah Fairfull 

One minute you can be traveling along feeling peaceful and loving towards yourself and the world – then you meet someone, they say something and the next minute you’ve been completely taken away from your peace. At this point you have a choice: you can blame the other person or use your reaction as a learning opportunity to grow and learn to experience your world in a more peaceful and loving way.

To do this, it is important to be able to begin to understand your inner world in terms of your thoughts and feelings. This involves developing skills to observe your thoughts and feelings — which are actually the same thing — rather than being swept away by them. Your thoughts determine how you feel; for example, if you are thinking “I love my life” on a regular basis, you are likely to feel great. However, if you were repeatedly thinking, “life is a struggle,” you would quite possibly feel sad or even depressed.

When you develop the ability to observe your reactions and thoughts in a loving way they will begin to flow energetically through your body. It is as if you are the chariot driver, your feelings are the chariot and the horses are your thoughts. As the chariot driver you want to be in charge of the horses, otherwise they can run away and you can end up in undesirable situations.

Your reactions are a wonderful guide to what is really going on in your inner world. Very strong feelings are involved in reactions, which are brain responses associated with survival. Reactions are caused by a small nut-shaped structure in the brain, known as the amygdala, which scans the environment for signs of danger. It is associated with emotions such as fear, rage, anger, and fight or flight. If the amygdala senses danger, it will signal the body to either act aggressively (fight) or withdraw (flight). The fight response manifests in things such as road rage, saying things you don’t mean and later wishing you could take it back, while flight may make you feel “frozen,” unable to find the right words to say.

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Read the full article, and others like it at: http://edgemagazine.net/2011/12/control-your-reactions/

Profile: Hypnotherapist Eric Christopher

Profile: Hypnotherapist Eric Christopher

By Staff Reports

What happens when liberating spiritual teachings blend with the most effective emotional healing methods? A productive, results-oriented therapy that becomes an awakening experience in each session. Eric Christopher, Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, Certified Hypnotherapist, specializes in emotions – anxiety, fear, depression or any stuck, unwanted feeling or pattern.

Eric J. Christopher, hypnotherapist

From his own 20-year quest for spiritual truth, Eric knows that beneath the most disturbing emotions or negative beliefs lie wholeness, wisdom and deep peace. Therefore, he guides clients to experientially feel this aspect of themselves in each session. From this perspective, solutions replace problems, deep insights and harmony overshadow turmoil. His approach reveals the truth of Einstein’s words: “You can’t solve a problem at the level of consciousness that created the problem.” The problem dissolves from a “deeper” or “higher” perspective.

Freedom from a negative emotional issue (anxiety, depression, “stuckness”) is achieved when two things happen:

• You dissect the problematic emotion to its subconscious core, revealing a body sensation and a memory which carries a false, unconscious belief.
• You view the issue from a dimension of yourself that already feels whole and secure, untouched by the problem.

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Find the full article, and others like it at: http://edgemagazine.net/2011/11/profile-eric-christopher/