For as long as I can remember I have been what you may call a “worry wort”.

Although I remember worrying as a child, my habitual worrying didn’t seem to become constant until until High School. The pressures of growing up caused me to worry about friendships, having the right clothes, getting good grades, speaking in public and of course boys. I am sure there were many other things that I worried about but these were the ones that seemed to top my list. It was during this time of my life that I started experiencing anxiety, although at the time I had no idea there was a name for what I was I going through.

I remember whenever I had to do a presentation or speak in class how my heart would beat a mile a minute, my hands would shake and become clammy, my face would go bright red, and sometimes I felt so light headed that I think I may have left my body for a minute or two.

As I moved from High School to College my anxiety progressed to having panic attacks and I just accepted that this would be something that I would have to deal with for the rest of my life.

As the years have gone by my worry habits have changed. As an adult I worry about my family, my children, my health, the health of my family and friends, money, being a good friend, wife, daughter and of course being a good mother.

When my journey lead me to yoga a few years ago for physical reasons, the last thing on my mind was how yoga may help with my anxiety and panic attacks.

Within the first few months of my yoga practice my family and friends began to notice how much more calm and relaxed I had become.

I was a little harder on myself and although I began to notice certain changes, I seemed to be waiting for the worry wort to strike again!

I am happy to say that since my yoga journey began, I hardly worry anymore. It hasn’t disappeared completely but yoga has taught me to become aware of the “worry wort” in me and I now realize that I have the ability to choose what needs my attention to worry about.

That is the amazing part about yoga, it makes you aware! In yoga we become aware of our body, our poses, our breath, and our thoughts.

Meditation

1. Lie on your back and support your body in anyway that allows you to feel comfortable. Maybe a pillow under your knees, a blanket or towel under your head and an eye pillow or facecloth over your eyes to allow yourself to connect inwards.
2. With your eyes closed, place your right hand on your heart and then place your left hand over top of your right, so that both hands are resting at the heart centre, the Heart Chakra.
3. Begin to breathe through your nose and allow the breath to soften, lengthen out and become deep.
4. Let your attention rest on your heart centre and imagine a green colour. As you continue to breathe imagine that the colour is getting brighter and creating warmth in heart. Allow your hands to feel that heat coming right out of your chest and warming up your hands.
5. Think of something that makes you happy and allow that feeling to rest in your body. Maybe even find something loving to say to yourself. Tell yourself how much you love yourself, your smile, your generous nature or anything that resonates with you.
6. Allow yourself to feel joy and love and acceptance for who you are.
7. Stay here for as long as you like.

So the next time you find yourself worrying try this meditation and allow yourself a few minutes of “worry free” time! As Bobby McFerrin said in his 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”.

Susan Di Ilio is a 500 RYT Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor. She has worked as a Correctional Officer and brings her love of working with people to her therapeutic yoga teachings. Susan teaches Gentle Yoga, Yoga for Fertility, Restorative Yoga and Deep Tension Therapeutic Yoga.

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Medicine, Miracles, and Manifestations: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Worlds of Divine Intervention, Near-Death Experiences and Universal Energy is a nonfiction narrative about the surgical career and spiritual quest of Dr. John L. Turner and his evolutionary journey into the field of Integral Medicine. After graduating from the Ohio State University with a degree in engineering physics, Dr. Turner continued in graduate school at the Ohio State University, Department of Physics.

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LIVE SHOW: Monday, January 4th at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST

Aleya Dao is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico and a Licensed Acupuncturist in Colorado. She is a spiritual teacher, and advisor for individuals and groups around the country. Aleya received her B.A. from Lewis & Clark University in Portland, Oregon, and her M.A. from the Southwest Acupuncture School in Santa Fe. N.M.

She is a master sound and energy healer and a performing artist. In addition to numerous toning CDs, Aleya’s first commercially release CD, Awaken, was released in 2007. Awaken is a powerful, musical journey that moves the soul into a state of connection and bliss.

In 2001, Aleya Dao experienced enlightenment as she was awakened to her true being and essence. One result of this awakening was her uncanny ability to tune into multiple levels of subtle energies and consciousness fields and to perceive multiple dimensions of reality. Another result was the emergence of her ability to shift and heal individuals and groups through her voice (sound healing). In addition to having a compelling and beautiful story of transformation and enlightenment, Aleya is a dynamic speaker, performing artist, and sound healer who will inspire audiences everywhere.

Since her enlightenment experience, Aleya is clairaudient and has the ability to hear and then reproduce the sounds that come from the angelic realm. Her meditations, toning concerts, and musical performances move people into states of higher consciousness, a sense of deep connection, and awakens within them a place where they once again feel at “home.”

In 2009, Aleya began her Daily Meditations project. Each day, subscribers receive by email a 5-9 minute unique meditation recorded by Aleya. These meditations have balanced, stabilized, and empowered all who have listened to them.

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LIVE SHOW: Monday, December 13th at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST

Michael’s interest in meditation started in 1965 when he was introduced to the Quakers. The Quaker’s belief is that God is within you. This was a revelation, an “aha” moment that struck a deep cord. Within pointed to a place where Michael felt that he could experience God directly. However, it was 25 years before he actually discovered the blissful freedom that comes from within. In his practice he had many useless diversions and wrong turns. That’s why he wrote Making Your Wisdom Come Alive; so that you can take the direct path to this freedom, which turns out to be your genuine Self-Nature.

What do we experience anyway?

We all experience our own self-nature, right? That’s just who we are. Then what’s the problem? Self knowledge is a matter of ferreting out what we actually experience from what we are supposed to experience. This means looking at our self afresh with wonderment, as if looking through the eyes of a baby.

We often filter our experiences through our thoughts about them, or through what we’re told our experiences are supposed to be. These filters include our definitions of life, our mind, and what we are. When we take a fresh look into what we really are, we find that our mind and the nature of the world change in ways that we could not anticipate. Life becomes a beautiful adventure. This change does not come from changing our thoughts. That would just be a temporary fix. Rather it comes from standing in our real center, the place where we really stand anyway.

So how do we get to experience the glow of life, the way we intuitively feel it is meant to be. By intuitively I mean that no one feels happy being measurable. Even when people attempt to end their life, they hope to find more happiness than they experience here. That’s because underneath it all, people feel there is a place where they can be completely happy, free from the limitations that they seem to face.

When we look to our core, what do we find?

The good news is that it’s possible to find a freedom that’s greater than many of us have ever dreamed of. The way you get there is like a sculptor. You strip off the limitations that you see, until you find your original face as pure Consciousness and Bliss. The problem is that you can’t know your own Self-Nature the way you know an object, with your senses and mind. That’s because you abide on this side of your senses and mind.

But still you can know yourself. That’s because you are yourself. Like the sun is light, you are Consciousness and Bliss. You wouldn’t need a candle to find the sun, would you? In the same way you don’t need a separate light like the mind or the senses, to know what you are; you know yourself in a more direct and immediate way. You know yourself because that’s what you are. So at your core what do you experience anyway? Is it limitation and suffering, or is it the blissful freedom of your own nature?

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LIVE SHOW: Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST

Daya Devi-Doolin is an internationally known author and speaker of metaphysical and self-growth books and topics.  Her inspirational speeches share her secrets for a successful life through an empowering thought system. She has assisted hundreds and hundreds of clients over the past 25 years.  She is the award-winning and best-selling author of, The Only Way Out Is In: The Secrets of the 14 Realms to Love, Happiness and Success!; Super Vita-Minds: How To Stop Saying I Hate You….To Yourself and a NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Recipient for her books, The Only Way Out Is In: The Secrets of the 14 Realms to Love, Happiness and Success! and another NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for co-authoring Americans Saving Ourselves Together: How to Thrive in the 21st Century.  She’s received an EDC Creations Literary Award for The Only Way Out Is In book in the Non-Fiction/Motivational Category.  She is a TV/Radio personality and Host of her own BlogTalk Radio show www.blogtalkradio.com/padaran – The Only Way Out Is In based on one of her books.  She is the Director and Co-Founder which offers alternative healing at The Doolin Healing Sanctuary & Yoga which offers Reiki classes and healing sessions, Rebirthing workshops and sessions, Hatha Yoga for Beginners and Seniors, Positive thinking, visualization, imagining, meditation and holistic healing for the world community.

She writes songs, performs and plays guitar under the Duo name of aka Level Seven with her husband Chris.  Their music is distributed and sold by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Padaran Publications and books distributed by DeVorss Company. Their next music project and related book will be released this fall/winter both entitled, Smile America.

Her philosophy is “Thoughts are things. Thoughts are substance and form. They draw unto themselves the likeness of their form.  We have the power by our Word to form all that we wish to create or mis-create.”   ~Daya Devi-Doolin

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“We are all capable of knowing much more about our past, our future and ourselves than we realize. Secrets about our inner complexity remain secrets only because we have not sought the truth or have refused to acknowledge it and grow accordingly when faced with it.”
Gary L. Wimmer, Master of Lithomancy

Gary L. Wimmer recognizes that by nature all humans are psychic to some degree and that those who want to enhance their natural psychic abilities and learn to ‘read the signs’ can do so via practice, trust, and devotion to development. He adds, “As we move into the Age of Aquarius, a period of immense change that will bring us closer to enlightenment, more and more people are becoming spiritually aware and recognizing their psychic abilities because this is both our collective past and our collective destiny.”

Convinced that the truth could be known, Gary started questioning God and the Universe early in life. At twenty he read the works of profound psychics like Madame Blavatsky, Ruth Montgomery and Edgar Cayce, leading him to understand and develop the psychic abilities he experienced since childhood. By the early 70′s he was giving readings using playing cards, Tarot Cards and other methodologies.

In 1980, Gary learned Lithomancy, and for decades he has used this system to give accurate and comprehensive readings to people in the USA and in Europe. For Lithomancy readings Gary drops ten Planet Stones (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) and six Personal Stones (Love, Luck, Life, Magic, Commitment, Place) into a leather Circle. By interpreting the Pattern in a clock-wise fashion, Gary first explains in detail a person’s current situation, then addresses all major issues and opportunities and how they interrelate over the next twelve weeks. Lithomancy readings always reveal the ‘light at the end of the tunnel,’ regardless of the situation, so Gary never leaves anyone without a great deal of hope and insights, regardless of the situation.

Using intuition and decades of experience, Gary also taps into past lives, other people and situations, spiritual guides, karmic ties, discarnate souls, and systems at work under the surface, all of which shed light on how a person can become and stay empowered, develop intuition, and create positive outcomes. A master of Lithomancy, he is also the author of the only comprehensive book on the subject: Lithomancy, the Psychic Art of Reading Stones.

He works regularly at psychic fairs, conventions, parties, fund-raisers, on cruise ships, for state agencies, on live radio shows and at all sorts of gatherings and events. Gary asks no questions prior to giving a reading, and over the decades he has consistently received positive feedback about the accuracy of his insights into all matters: personal, spiritual, business, relationships, etc.

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Dr. Eric Maisel is an author, family therapist and cultural observer and is widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach. His more than 30 books include Coaching the Artist Within, Creativity for Life, Creative Recovery, Fearless Creating and The Atheist’s Way. Dr. Maisel has written on a wide variety of subjects, from handling toxic criticism and performance anxiety to living the writing life in Paris and San Francisco, and his special interests are the classical existential themes of making meaning and taking personal responsibility. Dr. Maisel trains creativity coaches and meaning coaches, provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association, and works with individual clients on issues of creativity and meaning.

Dr. Maisel holds degrees in philosophy (B.S.), psychology (B.A.), creative writing (M.A.), counseling (M.S.), and counseling psychology (PhD). He is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, hosts two shows on the Personal Life Media Network, and writes a monthly “Coaching the Artist Within” column for Art Calendar Magazine. He lectures and provides workshops nationally and internationally at venues like the Design Your Creative Life Conference in London, the New Shoes Creativity Day Conference in Antwerp, and the Paris Writers Workshop.

Dr. Maisel has presented on creativity issues and creativity coaching at venues like the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer’s Digest Writers Conference, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, and many more. He has given the keynote address at the Arizona State University Arts & Letters Faculty Convocation, the Oklahoma Writers Federation Annual Conference, the Win-Win Writers Conference, the 25th Annual International Lettering Arts Conference, the Jack London Writers Conference, the 2005 Indiana Community Arts Conference, and many other venues.

Dr. Maisel, who was born in the Bronx, raised in Brooklyn, and attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, now resides east of San Francisco in Walnut Creek, California. He has served as adjunct faculty at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, California) and founded and wrote Callboard Magazine’s “Staying Sane in the Theater” column.

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How many times in your life can you recall that you were not telling the truth to yourself or someone was not telling the truth to you? When we don’t speak the truth it brings suffering not only to ourselves but to those who are receiving it. I am of course not speaking of those little white lies everyone tells at some time or another in their life, I am speaking of the ones we create because we’re too afraid to tell the truth out of fear.

In this moment can you bring awareness to specific situations in your life where you decided not to tell the truth with some regularity? If you take the time to inquire why you told a lie in the first place, you might discover there was some form of fear attached to it. The fear could be that if you tell the truth your life circumstances may change or you may indeed see an aspect of yourself you are not ready to deal with and the choice then becomes to stay in denial of what is.

If you want to be free of any lie you have created in your life it’s time right now to make a conscious decision to STOP and simply be free of the lie by telling the truth. When we tell lies it keeps us from celebrating who we really are and we cannot begin to know how our lie impacts other people’s lives . Many people are very intuitive and can sense when someone is not telling the truth. Although we may not like hearing a particular truth it is much more acceptable than being told a lie as it brings up many other emotions such as deceit, anger, resentment etc.

Recall times in your life when you didn’t tell the truth or someone was not telling you the truth and you might see there was some form of suffering involved. When we tell the truth it allows others to make choices based on the truth, but when we make decisions based on lies it changes lives and usually not in a positive way. Sometimes we don’t tell the truth because we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, but there is always a way to tell the truth with compassion and kindness. Ask yourself are you willing to stand up and honor yourself by always telling the truth, no matter what? Pay attention next time you tell a lie and do some investigation as to why you told the lie in the first place and, more importantly, make a conscious decision to STOP telling lies from this moment forward.

There appears to be a belief system that if you tell the truth about who you are you will not be loved or accepted. And the truth is some people may choose to not be part of your life as a result of speaking YOUR truth and remember your truth is not necessarily someone elses truth, but you can always live in freedom when telling the truth.

The following was written by Marianne Williamson it’s one of my favourites, see if it resonates with you.

OUR DEEPEST FEAR

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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New York Times bestselling author, Eldon Taylor, has researched the power of the mind for the past 30 years. He has earned doctoral degrees in psychology and metaphysics and his work has been featured on numerous radio broadcasts, television shows and film documentaries.

Eldon is the current talk show host of Provocative Enlightenment on Hay House Radio. He is also a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association (APA), a Diplomat in The Academy of Certified Chaplains and was awarded the 2005 International Peace Prize by the United Cultural Convention for his “outstanding personal achievements to the good of society as a whole.”

You know that your thoughts create your reality, but what you do not know is the plethora of research that has been carried out simply to discover ways to control your every thought and desire. What you will learn in will both shock and horrify you. Tweaking your psyche has become big business. Never again will you be able to ignore the truth – your very thoughts are not your own! But what can you do about it?

In Mind Programming, Eldon Taylor not only exposes the massive efforts to program your thinking, he also provides you with all the tools to fight back. Learn how to hypnotize yourself and program your own subconscious. Discover the various self-help tools and gadgets available, from light/sound machines to cortico-electro stimulation. Try out the 50-day plan that will turn your life around. Access your higher self through automatic writing, mind mapping and dowsing. Uncover the truly practical approach to metaphysics that will give you the connection you have been looking for.

Eldon provides the insight, information, and easy-to-use methods that will empower you to realize the life of your dreams!

www.eldontaylor.com

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