DAILY OM ~ Unmedicated. The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness

Unmedicated. The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness

By Madisyn Taylor The following is an excerpt from Madisyn Taylor's new book, "Unmedicated: The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness." If you would like to purchase the book, click here. When we think of medication in the traditional sense, we think about pills taken on a daily basis to provide relief from a specific ailment. Our doctor writes us a prescription for what ails us and we begin the regimen. Normally we accept the medication without question, because we fully believe it will make us well and we trust our doctor with our health. In many cases, this belief is warranted. In these situations, the medication has a direct intent and use, and taken for a period of time, it can give much-needed relief and healing. Unmedicated offers an alternative, holistic path for people who want to heal themselves from the crippling effects that excessive reliance on medications such as antidepressants can create in the body, mind, and spirit. I hear too often from my friends, colleagues, or those who write to me through DailyOM, "I'm suffering on medication." This book is for them and for you--for anyone who wants to be their healthiest. I want to provide a new, gentle option--a guide based on the assumption that you know best the roots of what debilitates you and prevents you from living fully. I'm a big believer in taking your health into your own hands, which really means taking your life into your own hands. You must advocate for your own health because nobody else is going to. You must practice being inquisitive, informed, and proactive. At first it may be challenging and maybe even intimidating to question your doctor. I know firsthand because I had to learn to find the courage to speak up. Now, whenever I am offered medication, I always ask these two questions: 1. Is there a lifestyle change I can make first to avoid taking this medication? 2. Is there an underlying, root cause of the condition? It isn't always possible to find the answers, but I always investigate first, and being informed leaves me feeling empowered rather than deflated. When you decide to really advocate for your own health, it means having a conversation with your doctor and then researching on your own. I check the website of the pharmaceutical company to read side effects and studies, I check with friends to see if they have taken the medication, and I look online for any negative feedback from other people who have taken it. I do the same thing when exploring an alternative: Is there an herbal or homeopathic remedy? A lifestyle or dietary change I can make? For too long we have given our power away to our doctors. If you are fortunate enough to have a family doctor who has known you well and for a long time, count yourself lucky. Most people have multiple doctors for different ailments and have zero personal connection with their caregivers. Because we often lack a relationship with our doctors, there is a disconnect, and we simply take the prescription order and fill it; we assume that is what is best for us. Maybe the prescription is best for you, but you owe it to yourself to find out why. There are other types of medication, though, besides pharmaceuticals--the type we use to self-medicate, such as addictive behaviors involving food, social media, work, sex, gambling, alcohol, isolation, and illicit drugs. We tend to self-medicate to numb ourselves of an emotional pain, past abuse, or trauma; we want to protect ourselves from the deep pain we don't want to feel. I know this from personal experience. All of these types of behaviors throw a blanket over us so we no longer have to feel our feelings or participate in life fully, with an open heart. We are so brilliant as a human species that we have a built-in protection system to keep us from harm, and each of us chooses what seems to fit appropriately. Any behavior you engage in to make you not feel your emotional pain could be considered self-medicating. Slowly, over time, these behaviors take hold, become addictive, and take over your existence, often without your recognizing it. We know about the destructive habits of illicit drug use, but we may not notice how the behavior of isolation can become detrimental to our well-being. When isolation becomes a firmly rooted belief in your life, shielding yourself from friendships and relationships, it can silently evolve into a deep fear that prevents you from ever leaving your house. Because there is no blood test needed for this, we pass it off as just wanting to be alone. Or maybe you enjoy your wine each day after work but don't realize when, at some point, it shifts into needing the wine each day rather than just enjoying it--the point where one glass becomes two or three. Or perhaps you feel bored, which leads you to spend countless hours online, surfing the internet with no real purpose or value. You don't recognize that the boredom and isolation are signs of depression; you don't recognize that getting tipsy or drunk each day allows you to ignore feelings that desperately want to be acknowledged. All of these physical and emotional behaviors and actions derail you from living your best and most fulfilled life. You don't mean to do it, and you aren't a bad person or a failure for taking up these behaviors. Like I shared in my own story, by continuing to ignore and numb my feelings, these behaviors never went away but instead manifested as debilitating illness, depression, and anxiety. Fortunately, all of my self-medicating behaviors changed and I am healthy now, and you can do the same thing if you take the time and dedicate yourself to improving your wellness. For more information visit: > Unmedicated: The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness

SaLuSa 10 October 2014 ~ via Mike Quinsey

SaLuSa  10 October 2014 ~ via Mike Quinsey

We are as ever closely following your progress and pleased to note that so many of you are fully engaged in preparing yourselves for the continuing rise in vibrations that are carrying you into the higher levels. As we have previously informed you, because you are raising your vibrations at a rate that will carry you forwards to the point of Ascension into the next level, it need not be seen as a separate happening. You are flowing with the increases in vibration, and slowly but surely you are creating a crystalline based body with all of the advantages that come with it. You will ascend by your own efforts and dedication to bring harmony and balance to yourself. Clearly not every soul is capable of achieving such a level, but all will eventually find their ideal and perfect level. Already many of you are in total control of what is taking place where you are concerned. We encourage you to stay completely focused on your goal at such an important time, and do not link your energy with anything that is of a lesser vibration.

There is always a risk that you will be pulled into other peoples affairs, which is alright as long as you keep yourself centred at all times. You can be a peace maker without getting personally involved in other people’s issues. You can still be a healer if that is your desire, but remember to close your aura at the end of a session. I am sure that you need little reminding of these precautions, but there is a need to be fully aware of any risk to yourself. Self-healing will continue but as time passes it will become less and less necessary. You will find that your body will “rejuvenate” itself in the course of time, and indeed we know that some of you already feel that your bodies are becoming more in balance regardless of your age. So you see that you are entering a period of notable changes that will also affect souls who are otherwise unaware of them. Ultimately all souls will find the right level that is necessary for them to carry on progressing and evolving.

For many souls this cycle will see the end of their need to experience in the lower vibrations. Once the lessons have been learnt you move on to a higher level, and so you continue to evolve where progress takes you higher into the Realms of Light. At present you are but a small point of Light, but it is rapidly expanding as you move higher and higher. Ultimately you will become an immense Being of Light, but for the time being it is sufficient to say that you have started that journey. Meantime you can start looking forward to an exciting time that will give you all manner of interesting experiences. Perhaps you will find the prospect of meeting your Space family the most exciting, and the opportunity of returning to your home planet. There is so much for you to explore and a whole variety of missions that you can undertake. Your future will be one that you choose, and it will be to spread the Light far and wide.

Some people on Earth have a certain degree of curiosity about their purpose for being on it, and are interested in life in general but find it difficult to know which sources of knowledge to trust. Generally speaking we would say simply follow your intuition, as it will lead you gently onwards to find an appropriate source of information. Clearly you can be overwhelmed by the truth and it makes good sense to gradually introduce it a level that will be acceptable to you. Also bear in mind that once you become receptive to receiving information, the more you will receive. All of you have Guides and Helpers who will “arrange” events so that you meet the right people, and also have enlightening experiences. These are all carried out with your knowledge and acceptance, although you may not have any waking memory of them. You are never left alone to seek without help, and even those souls who wallow in the darkness have help on hand as soon as they respond to the Light.

Sometimes in the depth of depression you can feel as though you do not have a single friend in the world, yet help is always just a thought away. In these emotional states you are very difficult to reach, but you are showered with love that will eventually lift you up. You may ask why you are allowed to experience such trauma and the answer is “for the experience” to enable the growth of your soul. It is such circumstances and the lessons to be learnt that bring about a rapid growth, that allows more Light to be attracted to you. You could say that the Earth is the place of the hard taskmaster, and that is generally true but it is also where you learn your lessons most quickly.

We look upon Earth and see souls at all various degrees of evolution, and how they mix and work with each other. Sometimes it leads to violent acts as there is a tendency for them to become very insular and selfish. These are observed by more advanced souls who can still learn lessons from them without getting involved. The interaction between different groups of Beings is all part of experience that enables you to evolve. Karma can be extremely complicated, but be assured that it works out perfectly so that all souls involved can benefit from it. You would in fact be surprised if you knew how much attention was given to karmic issues, to ensure all souls involved gain from it. You will no doubt be relieved to learn that once you have risen above the 3rd dimension, you will have effectively cleared your karma.

As your eyes are opened to the truth of your being even more questions arise as your level of consciousness expands, and there are always more knowledgeable  Beings around you to give the answers. Even now if you can put yourself in a meditative state and clear your mind so that you are receptive, you can communicate with Higher Beings. Let them know what information you need, and you may get an immediate response, or it may come to you later at a time when you are not expecting it.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and always pleased to work with Michael for your enlightenment. May the Love and Light be with you always.

Thank you SaLuSa.

Mike Quinsey.



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Your Angel Messages for September 15 - 21 from Doreen Virtue's weekly angel card reading

Your Angel Messages for September 15 - 21
from Doreen Virtue's weekly angel card reading

Here are your Angel Messages for this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQhqqbEHCnQ

This week, you'll receive and experience lots of new beginnings! You have released SO much, that the new that you have prayed for now has room to enter your life. If you want to receive even more new, let go of an equal measure of the old. Know that you deserve these wonderful and healthy new opportunities that are coming to you now, and welcome them with open arms!

The Indigo Angel Oracle Cards used for this reading are co-authored with Charles Virtue who has a downloadable class about Awakening Your Indigo Power at http://charlesvirtue.com/

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Four Winds: A New House Built on Dreams and Not Pain

Four Winds: A New House Built on Dreams and Not Pain
http://thefourwinds.com/newsletters/english_version_more_mar.html

"Early trauma is commonly associated with social ills—from drug abuse and sexually risky behavior, psychological problems that range from depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia to deficits in attention and impulse control. Recent research shows that adverse childhood events can affect gene regulation and expression as long forgotten memories can remain etched in an individual’s luminous energy field (LEF) and the neural networks in the brain. Even experiences that occurred when an infant was still developing in the womb can affect the LEF and neural networks.

The LEF serves as a blueprint for what happens within the body. Disturbances in the energy can manifest as cancer, autoimmune disorders, pain, inflammation, or other imbalances and ailments. Neural networks act like blueprints as well, dictating the forms and structures of the psyche. The anger you feel in response to a missed airline flight or a perceived slight by a coworker may be very old anger that lays dormant in your neural networks and expresses itself in the present whenever it is triggered by an overly sensitive warning system for danger. The threat is not to your person but to your pride and sense of self. Yet you either shout like a ram attacking a rival head-on, or retreat with the intensity of a rabbit running from a coyote. Brooding, retreating, and scheming become art forms as you respond to life as if it had a personal vendetta against you.

We all do this, although some of us develop better mechanisms of denial than others, a favorite being to blame our circumstances and other people. “If only he didn’t…If only she wasn't…If it weren’t for my terrible luck.” We write stories to support our sense of entitlement to jealousy, or resentment about the gap between what our lives were supposed to be and what they have become.

When neural networks determine your emotions and the thoughts that surround them, a mildly irritating situation that should frustrate you for only a few moments can become a source of rage and aggression, or fear and depression. Your future becomes dictated by the past as you become caught in the web of cause-and-effect.

If you are to break free of suffering from the same old problems you’ve struggled with for years, many of your neural networks—the blueprints for structures of thought, feeling, and behavior—need to be replaced. But who will be the architect who draws up new blueprints? And will this architect maintain a fear-response system that serves you well in times of physical danger without constructing a palace of pain that traps you in old responses to new situations?

You have the capacity to choose a new destiny rather than the one dictated to you by the events of the past and the DNA you inherited from your parents, grandparents, and ancestors. You can begin to draw a new blueprint when you consciously recognize that you have been using one that no longer serves you. You begin sketching a new one, actually generating new structures in your brain, when you start detoxifying your body, your thoughts, and your emotions. The sketch is filled in further when you employ shamanic practices for communicating with the invisible world, the realm of all creation where every tool is available to you. The old habits and stories of persecution begin to fade as you draw new lines, imagine new rooms to inhabit, and conceive of an entirely new structure for your life. With the invisible realm of Spirit nurturing, guiding, and inspiring you, you feel confident in what you are building for yourself.

A man I knew lived in a house that was built from a kit sold in a Sears Roebuck’s catalogue many decades ago. It was solid, small, and practical, and it suited him well. As the years went by and his circumstances changed, he outgrew the little home. Its charms were lost on him, and he longed for a house more appropriate for the life he was living and the life he wished to create. Should he find another home he would surely outgrow someday? Should he build a new one? And what if that one turned out to be unsuitable years later when his life changed again?

We live for a time here, and for a time there, letting go of the familiar and stepping into the unknown with faith and curiosity. We can learn to be like the hunters and gatherers of ancient times, the nomads who trusted in their abilities as builders, creators, planners, and dreamers. Their faith came from knowing they could rely on more than their wits or the structures created by those who came before them. They could speak with the force that moved the rivers and pushed the seedlings up through the soil. They could listen to the advice of the clouds and the sun, the tides and the herds, and find the wisdom at the intersection of the visible and the invisible. And on that spot, they could build a new home."