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Hello,

This time of the year is often the busiest time in my private practice as a holistic psychotherapist helping people to manage the stress of the holidays.  The expectations of the season are often unrealistic with shopping, decorating, parties, trying to please everyone with gifts, etc.  Unfortunately, at a time when we should be enjoying being with family and friends and celebrating the meaning of this sacred time, we are overloaded with too much to do and little time to accomplish it all.

 Mercury in Retrograde

To complicate matters, the planet mercury is in retrograde (looks like it is moving backwards).  This happens three times annually for three weeks. (This one will be over December 14.)   When this occurs, communications  can be confused leading to the need to repeat or correct them.  Travel can be disrupted and delays are also normal during this time frame.  It is usually not the best time to sign contracts, to buy cars or electronic equipment.  It is not life threatening but causes minor glitches and disruptions which can contribute to the holiday stress.  It is a good time to practice patience or to review the past, such as, doing a past life regression.

Suggestions For Dealing With the Holiday Stress 

Getting overwhelmed at this time of the year is quite common.  I want to offer you some simple suggestions for navigating the challenges of the holidays.  It is so important to take a breather and take relaxation breaks.  Different things work for different people and you have to find what works for you.   For example,

1. Take a mini vacation in your mind by taking a couple of deep breaths and imagine yourself in a beautiful, safe place in nature, such as the ocean, mountain, meadow,  garden, forest or your favorite place to relax.  Immerse yourself with all of your senses by noticing the colors of your surroundings, hear the sounds of nature, smell the fragrances of the outdoors, feel the breeze against your skin.  Even a brief 5 minutes of doing this once or twice a day can keep the stress from accumulating.

2. Lower expectations for the holidays.  You don’t have to be perfect and please everyone.  Many people are starting a tradition of giving money to a charity rather than giving expensive gifts that are quickly discarded.

3.   Practice forgiveness of others’ mistakes with the idea that we also have made enough of our own.  Smile at the cashier in the store or practice patience with the servers who might be slow or extend kindness to someone that needs it.

4.  Meditation calms the “monkey mind” and restores a sense of inner peace.  If you have trouble with this (which many people do) you can do a movement meditation, such as yoga. Dr. Brian Weiss, with whom I trained, has
some nice meditation/stress CDs.  (Available on Amazon.com)

5.   Practice “an attitude of gratitude.”   Read a wonderful article on 10 steps to cultivating gratefulness.

http://www.uthealthleader.org/archive/mind_body_soul/2007/gratitude-1121.html

6.  Listen to a  guided imagery CD for stress.  Belleruth Naparstek has some of the best guided relaxation CDs with beautiful music and a great soothing voice and words.  You can order them from Amazon.com

7.  Walking or gentle exercise is a great stress reliever even if it is only a few minutes.

8.  Listen to your favorite relaxing music.

9.  Take a sea salt bath with lavender.  I like the Masada or Himalayan (Solay) brands of sea salt.

10.  Get a massagefor relaxation.  Put yourself at the top of your list for a change.

Returning the Sacred to the holidays 

“The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness.  See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come.”
-from A Course In Miracles, Text, p. 327

May the Holy Spirit Bless your Holidays with Peace,

Susan

Hello,

I hope that you will join me today for a few moments of quiet time to take advantage of this remarkable day where thousands of people will be joining together to send positive thoughts and energy to our planet.

The number 11 in numerology is a “master” number and stands for illumination and connection between the Divine and human. It represents the planet Uranus which brings extreme insights and liberation from conventional thinking, innovation and invention. This planetary influence also represents the psychic and Soul nature of humanity.

You can just take a few minutes any time today to close your eyes, quiet your mind, and say a prayer of goodwill and blessing for our world and each other. Whenever you do this today you will be joining with many others in different time zones and countries who are sending the intention of love, forgiveness and peace. Whenever a large group of people come together to meditate there is a counterbalancing consciousness that is very much needed right now as we go through many transitions individually and collectively.

If we go to the still place within us and remember our True Nature as spiritual beings we reconnect with that center of peace and oneness with the Divine. So no matter whatever conflict is happening in the outer world we can always return to the calm within us. Although today provides an amazing opportunity we must cultivate this mindfulness practice for ourselves on a daily basis.

So perhaps you could just close your eyes take some deep breaths and focus on the feeling of peace or your own personal ideal of compassion, joy, love for even 5 minutes today.

I recently returned from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) conference in Virginia, where I enjoyed meeting new like-minded people, hearing some great visionary speakers and signing my books.  I will share with you in upcoming posts some of the highlights

Energy Psychology

Energy psychology is often referred to as accupuncture for the emotions without the needles. Some of the more common forms include the EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), TAT (Tapas Accupressure Technique), and WHEE method (Whole Health Effortlessly and Easily). These interventions address:

•  Energy pathways (meridians and acupoints),
•  Energy centers (chakras)
• Energy systems (the human biofield that envelops the body).

They are used for the treatment of emotional challenges such as addictions and compulsions, anxiety, depression, limiting beliefs, personality disorders, phobias, stress, and trauma.

I use energy psychology in my psychotherapy practice and write about these methods in my book “Soul Visioning: Clear the Path, Create Your Future”. In chapter 5, “New Methods to Clear Your Path”, I teach the reader simple step-by-step techniques of EFT and WHEE to clear unconscious limiting beliefs. For those people that need more than just a self help approach, I integrate many different methods that quickly get

to the root cause of the issue including past life, between lives regression, hypnotherapy, holographic memory resolution, EMDR (bilateral brain stimulation technique), EFT, TAT, and WHEE.

With all of the world disasters that are happening right now, earthquakes, floods, fires, tornadoes, radiation accidents, genocide, etc, it is good to know that there are healing interventions to help the victims who have survived these. Not only have there been national and world wide devastation, many of us have experienced secondary trauma by witnessing or hearing about it.

One of the workshops I attended talked about how Energy Psychology (tapping certain meridian points) is being used successfully in communities devastated by large-scale trauma including Rwanda, New Orleans, Japan and other hard hit countries. Trauma teams from ACEP and other organizations taught key people in the community like health care workers, teachers and orphanage directors how to use these techniques, which increased the number of people who got treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What is remarkable about energy psychology is that the results are quick and simple and can be easily taught.

There were many exciting leading edge speakers at the ACEP conference that spoke of the new developments in the field. For example, Dr. Claude Swanson, a MIT physicist who wrote the book “Life Force, The Scientific Basis: Breakthrough Physics of Energy Medicine, Healing, Chi and Quantum Consciousness” spoke about “torsion fields” that explain psychic phenomenon, the placebo effect and healing at a distance.Torsion fields are a physics explanation for subtle energy. Dr. Swanson explained the latest science behind energy healing, which explains how the body’s energy fields are produced starting with the cell’s DNA and acupuncture meridians, creating the holographic pattern of energy which govern growth and healing.

What is interesting to me is that science is starting to catch up with what many of us already know in the metaphysical world. This is important because it begins to bridge the gap between spiritual phenomenon and the mainstream world. This is the kind of work that brings more credibility to what we do as healers and will open more doors to those that might otherwise dismiss all of this as “woo woo” practices

Keynote Speaker:
Susan Wisehart

International Association for Regression Research and Therapy Conference

San Diego, Ca
Hilton Hotel

OCT. 15, 16, 17, 2010 -
Friday, Oct. 15:  Opening Ceremony (Susan to present Keynote Address) 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 16 – Soul Visioning Workshop

Please join me and many other wonderful speakers at the IARRT conference including Andrea and Bruce Leininger, authors of Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot, a story about a 2 year old boy who remembered incredible details as a WWII pilot.

Susan’s workshop is based on her groundbreaking book which teaches you how to create a life of passion and purpose by following your Soul’ s wisdom. Using breakthrough methods such as Energy Psychology (acupuncture for the emotions without the needles), guided journeys, forgiveness practices, and past life and life-between-lives regression, you’ll discover practical, step-by-step techniques to heal the unconscious beliefs that block the awareness of your true spiritual identity and life purpose.

The soul visioning journey connects you with your Higher Self to guide you into the ideal expression of your soul in your work, relationships, health, finances, and spirituality. Powerful and inspiring case examples with long-term follow-up interviews demonstrate the remarkable results that Wisehart’s clients have experienced from these life-changing techniques.

“Soul Visioning, is an expansive and comprehensive manual that will help you understand your soul’s purpose. This beautiful and practical book is filled with wisdom and includes techniques and exercises for accessing your own deeper states of self – awareness and inner clarity. Wonderful case histories and clinical vignettes powerfully illustrate the soul lessons. I highly recommend this book.” Brian L. Weiss, M.D., author of Many Lives, Many Masters  (Review comments of Soul