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The Last Answer You’ll Ever Need

Monday, July 27th, 2009 by Maryam Webster

wtf_girlRemember when you were little and on a long car trip with your parents? At a certain point you started kicking the back of the seat, punching your brother and asking every two minutes:

“…are we there yet?”

Spiritual and personal growth is like that too.

Have you been “working on” yourself, or been on a “spiritual path” for a long time but just don’t feel there yet? Like you really don’t have the answers you want? Here’s how you finally get that, once and for all, in three different flavors for your pick ‘n play delight. Taken from advanced practices in my ETHOS Method (which sees its first birthday next month – woohoo!) and the Everyday Bliss Process.

In the below, the “thing you want to know the truth of” could be a decision, a thing to buy/acquire/maintain, a relationship, job, moving, getting the messages of and getting rid of chronic pain or symptoms – just about anything at all. The techniques you’ll learn here work equally well for all.

1. First Method: Take the item you’re wondering about the truth of and imagine it fitting into your heart. Does your heart feel heavy with that thing in there? Then it’s wrong for you. Does your heart feel light? Then that thing would be good for you.

2. Another take: Expand the thing you’re wondering about the truth of outside your head to the size of your room, then your house, then your city, state, country, the entire world. Expand that thing right out to the edges and beyond the end of the universe. What happens to it? If something doesn’t have enough substance behind it to nurture and sustain you, it will disappear or feel spacey. If instead that thing gets huger and huger and fills your entire attention span, then that is the truth of the matter.

3. And One More: Put your hand on your heart and your other hand on your solar plexus. Remember feeling very deeply loved, or in love – that time when it’s 100% joyful.

Yes, just like that. Just feel it, and how it feels in your heart and stomach.

Now, take your hands off your body and notice the floor, the walls, the color of your clothes.

Place your hands back on heart and solar plexus. Now remember a time when you felt the pain of rejection or breakup and feel that in heart and stomach. These are two poles like north and south on your “bliss compass”. Contrast this thing you wish to know the truth of against these two feelings. Which does it feel more like? Which feels lighter, more joyful, more irresistably attractive? This will be the truth of the situation, the thing you should do right now, that which you need to pay attention to. Go there.

These are three ways intimately connected with your own core truth. You can use these tools like a magnet to attract exactly that which is best and most desirable for your life.

Taken together and spiced liberally with ETHOS to step on into that Unlimited Self that doesn’t need protection spells, charms or symbols, you now have the Key that unlocks the secret of every conundrum you will ever be presented with.

What will you do with it? What doors, boxes, windows, gates and pathways will you choose to open? I’d love to see your thoughts on this below…

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Telephone Networking for Young Women Survivors Of Breast Cancer

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Just read about this at Sandra Ghalinger’s "Tittyology" website courtesy of Suzanne’s ezine – thanks, Suz!

Sponsored by Young Survivor’s Coalition:

Free International Telephone Networking Session for Young Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Join the next telephone networking session for young women with metastatic breast cancer on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. (ET). Registration information available here.  If you miss it, the calls happen monthly.

If the registration link doesn’t work, try this: Backup to registration page for call

Also of note at this page is the event being held Friday, August 24-26, 2007:

The Second National Male Caregivers’ Conference: Men Empowering Men to Care for Women with Breast Cancer

Find out more here: http://www.youngsurvival.org/

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It’s Official: Work Stress = Mental Illness

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Again scientific confirmation comes for a syndrome most have long known exists – stress at work = anxiety and depression. Family troubles. Failures in business. And there doesn’t seem to be much difference in occupation studied from this quote:

"The most toxic factor here is high psychological demands. That can be present in multiple professions: the media are always working under time pressure;  doctors, firemen, nurses, builders, plumbers – it applies across the board."

From New Zealand, generational research proves the  link between high stress on any job and the mental illnesses of anxiety and depression. Other studies have linked such stress to chronic pain perception as well. Keeping in a stressful situation does more damage than you may have thought. Just look:

Now the proof: Work Stress Makes People Mentally ill

Work stress is making people from doctors to plumbers mentally ill, new research has found. The Dunedin-based study found that 14 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men who were stressed at work suffered depression or anxiety when aged 32. They had not had these conditions before.

They were among nearly 900 people Otago University has been following since they were born in 1972-73.

For the latest paper, they were asked at the age of 32 about psychological and physical job demands, the level of control they had in decision-making and social support structures at work.

The paper, published in the British journal Psychological Medicine, found that women who reported high levels of psychological job demands – such as long hours, pressure or lack of clear direction – were 75 per cent more likely to suffer from clinical depression or general anxiety disorder than women who reported the lowest levels…

Jeepers. But then, we already knew this…didn’t we?  Click to read the whole article here  and click to get relief here

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Women DO Perceive Pain Differently (duh)

Sunday, June 24th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Haven’t we been telling them this all these years? Well just recently, the docs and scientists finally wised up in this article from CNN:

You know you’ll get killer cramps or that nasty headache any minute now, but nothing you take seems to help once the pain hits.

You’re not alone: Many women have a tough time finding the right kind of relief for their pain –and for good reason: Until recently, experts hadn’t actually studied women’s pain specifically, and most research wasn’t conducted with a woman’s hormones and physique in mind. All that’s changing, though.

Docs now know that to banish our aches, they must develop treatments formulated for women’s bodies. What’s more, researchers are also looking for — and finding — ways to head pain off at the pass, so those of us with chronic troubles such as migraine, fibromyalgia, or backache don’t have to be hobbled by pain on a daily basis. Here, the new research will help you live an (almost) pain-free life.

Maryam’s take: If you’d have asked us, we could have told you – right ladies? So you can use epidural blocks and the like suggested in this article, or you could simply do what I did when faced with pain so gaspingly disabling from a broken back I could literally not get out of bed: Energy therapies.

Whether you turn on Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) or the point-free ZPoint Process (a little ZPoint humor there – wink), they all work well for pain and symptom relief once you understand how  to work them, and without the side effects of Oxy-Contin or other commonly prescribed "killer" pain  relievers.

The article goes on:  What should have been a relatively simple injury became an odyssey that had Weiner visiting specialists all over San Francisco. She finally found a podiatrist who "took a detective-like approach to the problem," Weiner says, by exploring and treating each joint and tendon in a methodical search for the pain’s source. Thanks to this care, which includes regular pain-preventing cortisone shots, the 55-year-old mother of one has been able to resume her hobby of salsa dancing.

Very important in your care to find someone who (1) Believes in you  and (2) Is willing to take the time to be a detective and find out what’s really wrong, instead of shopping you every pain pill in creation without doing the sleuthing first. And, to be a sleuth in your own body, for what bugs you, what is good for you and what you notice that’s different.

In the middle of pain and physical drama? Notice what’s happening from a deep place inside the felt-sense of your body. Take notes and start a journal of your symptoms, precipitating foods, events and people. Be a body detective…

To be continued…

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