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This Blog Has Moved

noreply@blogger.com (Sahaja) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:04:00 +0000

After much consideration - I have moved this blog to my own URL.

I would love it if you would follow me there. Thank you for coming by.

I appreciate your interest and look forward to continuing to give you inspiration, information and intelligent comment.

You might also like our other blog..

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- check it out.

With respect
Shazar

Depression

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:00 +0000

In a recent episode of Dr Who…
Van Gogh is lying face down in desperation on his bed..deep in his darkest mood… enter the 'Doctor' - who says - thinking to ‘cheer him up’:

“In my experience – there is always hope.”

Van Gogh retorts from deep in his pillow:

“Then your experience is incomplete!”

You could be one who understands fully what Van Gogh was talking about. In the depths of depression and darkness, any amount of ‘cheering up’ and jollying along is of no use. In fact the 'other' cannot move you from your dark space. Only you can allow that to happen.. can let the shift begin to move you out of your despair.

Certainly a hand to hold – a shoulder to lean against, a person to stand beside you is desirable.. but essentially the other can only allow a support – cannot pull you out of the place you have gone.

In fact the other – in the attempt to change the space you are in, sometimes drives you further into the hole. Because depression is often a place of comparison.. a place where you cannot but compare your deep and dark space to the light around, and almost anything and anyone seems lighter and more able to function than you can in that place.

That place feels never ending .. as if the lights are out and the switch is lost.

Okay – you know the picture .. you know the feeling – it is not needed to describe this further – only to say that there are many shades of depression – many layers of mood disorder – and each has its own flavor and course – and in fact each also has diverse means of traversing and moving through the darkness.

However, there is an important aspect that all who suffer from this debilitation should become aware of. And this is that depression is not simply a mental disorder. Yes for many years it has been considered a mental disease.. and for many years was treated simply as such. But there is much evidence that demonstrates depression to often be a nutritionally based disorder or to be precipitated and exacerbated by toxic load in the body. And in these cases, can respond better to appropriate supplementation with the right nutrients or to intensive detoxification of the toxic elements better than to psychotherapy or psychotropic drug therapy.

No longer can we look at the deeply depressed person and consider them simply to be verging on a state of ‘madness’.
Even Beethoven – who was suicidal for much of his short life – has been found to have been suffering from high levels of lead toxicity.

Mad? Or simply toxic?

How many people have ended up in heavy drug therapy – even electric shock therapy – who were in fact overloaded with heavy metals and other toxic chemicals?

Oh let us not deny the load of psychological stressors that can weigh a person down.. that can create such an emotional load on a person’s psyche that they are unable to crawl out from underneath their sorrows. But add to this a load of chemical toxicity – which in turn disturbs the ability of the body to stay in a balanced and harmonious state.. and you are creating a situation where the person cannot throw off the pain and distress of any sort of life trauma.

So what's the real message here? I would like to simply say that if you are one of the myriad of people who suffers under the load of a debilitating mood disorder - either temporarily or in a consistent way, perhaps you could consider looking at some other aspects of this - get checked for toxic load, think about how you may have been exposed to chemicals, or heavy metals or other toxic elements in your life. Consider the possibility that getting some help to detoxify yourself could make a big shift for you.

For in this time we have a responsibility to realize our full potential. We have chosen to be here on this earth at this incredibly volatile time.. this time in which changes are occurring at a rate we have never seen before. Its time to step up to the job we are here to do.. and that means climbing out from under any garbage we have heaped upon ourselves and stepping into our true nature. Come on out - its time - lets play - lets move into our lives as we are destined to be.

And if you need some help with that.. you can call us.. that's our job here - to give assistance where assistance is required. Best Health.

Sue Woolfe on Writing

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:01:00 +0000

Last night the show Talking Heads on ABC1 inspired me. Well not the show as such - but most certainly the 'talking head' - for tonight it was Sue Woolfe - author and an exceptionally inspirational lady. She spoke of writing and how it happens for her.. and it really struck a chord with me as her process and her understanding of it allowed me to recognise mine.

She said - or words to this effect:

Buzziness of the brain is more silent.. when creating - and
sharing the oneness that comes is dangerous... the writing has to be done in utter loneliness...

What I understood her to say was that when creating one had to go into the silence and allow that creativity to flow through. That this was not a state of having hundreds of ideas rushing through the mind, but rather allowing the mind to become silent and let the flow occur.

That in creating - in fact the mind needed to become silent. The allowing of the flow was what is important and in fact what assisted the flow to occur.

It is interesting that a similar state appears to be needed when working in the healing field, as it can be seen in the following way. True healing occurs when one moves aside and allows what may be called the energy of the universe to flow in. This provides a safe space for the person being 'healed' to move into alignment and a balance where they can either physically allow the body to align, or allow the insights necessary for emotional alignment to occur.

We move in mysterious ways. We think as humans that science gets all the answers, that it is needed to understand - to dissect all the smallest particles to find out how we tick. But in fact most illuminating discoveries and life changing experiences occur out of the mind.

The Masters have stressed this for eons.. that the mind is simply something to create the shopping list with. We do not use the mind to create, to heal, or even to arrive at illuminating discoveries and enlightening inventions or life changing revelations.

The mind it a tool to be used for the purpose it was designed for .. not for working out the meaning of life!

Sue also said...

When you write about your memories you seem to lay down new memories and they have less jagged edges than the original memories and in this way writing can be healing...

This says a lot for the practice of journaling.. long known to assist in the healing of many problems and dis-ease of the being. In fact journaling is one of the factors that seems to prolong the life of cancer sufferers.

Get journaling everyone!! Its a great habit to get into.

One People, One World, One Heart.

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:50:00 +0000

The Thirteen Grandmothers conference call yesterday morning was truly awesome. As they said:

The Grandmothers of this world are shaking people awake.

Flordemayo - a frequent presenter at international conferences who since 1999 has been part of the Wisdom of the Grandmother’s Foundation spoke eloquently. Her words touched me greatly when she said:

"We are making a declaration for the rights of the earth.. she is an intelligent being and we need to hold this in our prayers."

This declaration has already been done in Brazil and we seek it for the rest of the planet. We must recognise that the planet is a living breathing Being that requires our utmost respect.

It was an incredible feeling to be linked with so many people all with one heart. Until a call like this comes through, we don't get a real sense of how many of us there are and we hear that there were over 15,000 people signed up for the call and the energy was palpable.

We were very privileged to receive significant messages from the two grandmothers who were there in person. Many of the other grandmothers had been held up or otherwise occupied with important ritual days. sweat lodges and sun dances and ceremony for the Solstice. However it gave an opportunity for the organiser of the event to open the space up to hundreds of other grandmothers on the call. Some were chosen at random to offer their prayers for the earth.

Much was said of caring for the water.. including mention that the water holds all the Earth's memories. It holds the history of our earth and can hold our intentions. We were called to pray for the courage to do what needs to be done and to very importantly to forgive each other. And Rita Long of the Lakota people invited us to become involved in our own areas in the preservation of our precious waterways and oceans.

And on that note support the Wilderness Campaign to keep big industry out of James Price Point .

13 Indigenous Grandmothers

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:50:00 +0000

It's the time of the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and for us here in Oz - the winter solstice - an important time for us all. A time to gather and meet one another in our sacred spaces and take the opportunity to give healing and attention to our Mother Earth.

The Thirteen Grandmothers ...

Chosen to represent the world’s indigenous peoples, these grandmothers are a source of great wisdom and blessing, reminding us of deep spiritual truths and calling our attention to what is most important. They work together on healing our planet through prayer, ritual, community and engaged activism on pressing social and environmental concerns.

This virtual meeting of these 13 women chosen to represent the indigenous peoples, promises to be an enlightening and healing event. We need this connection and this uplift now more than ever. Join the call if you can, or sign up to listen to the download afterwards if you cannot join in person.

Here is their Mission Statement:

WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children.

As Flordemayo says (one of the grandmoters on the call) -

Humanity is at a crossroads, we can only go one way, as one can't go in two directions at the same time. We do not know what we need to do as a human species, there is only one place to go and that is into the light, as one tribe.

Be sure also to check out the trailer for the Shift Movie here

A Privilege to be Here

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:23:00 +0000

I was very fortunate today to spend some time working with my friend and mentor Sylvia Marina.
Sylvia is a gifted speaker and healer - and with her help I accessed some important connections for myself. Connections that showed me how essential it is to acknowledge our roots.

For Sylvia, with her Maori heritage - roots and ancestry comes close to her being. But for me as an Australian with a mixed bag of relatives and family history, ranging from Scotland to Norway and around again, my roots never quite seemed as relevant as those from the indigenous populations.

But today I was gifted a different view point.

Sylvia led me on a journey - a journey of remembrance and insight. I saw that I am standing on the shoulders of the generations of my ancestors. From this position I came to realise a deep sense of gratitude toward my family, toward the depth of the generations before me. Without whom I would not be here.

For in fact we are the pinnacle of the ancestors. All of their experiences and their love, care and nurturing and their dreams have brought us to the place that we are at today. We have an immense responsibilty given to us - in that it is our task to manifest into the world the fullness of our own being in order to thank and honour them and to realise for them their intention (conscious or not) thereby bringing forth who we are in this world today.

Honouring the ancestors is important for us all. It gives substance and meaning to our lives and a deep respect to those who have gone before.

Grassroots Healing

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:36:00 +0000

I had a very interesting conversation wth my friend Erin recently - she lives in Melbourne. Erin is a profoundly spiritual being with a strong affiliation with Christianity and she told me a very interesting saga.

Having just returned from a visit to her homeland, she talked about how the Chinese people were turning to self education and to self healing because the 'western' medical model was out of their range - the 80% of the Chinese population who are the 'lower clases' that is the poor people of the land, could not afford the western medicine.
So their solution is to return to the simple folk remedies, simple cures for all types of disease. Erin said that there are now many small books available for purchase for these people with the remedies of the early times - remedies that still work.

I found this a really interesting concept. If we consider that all over the western world the health system is in deep trouble - struggling to keep up, struggling to cope with the demands placed upon it.

Western medicine tied its own noose - it convinced people that they should consider the doctor to be the God and that they the humble and ignorant human being - had no responsibility for their own health. That in fact they knew nothing about the way to heal the body - mind or spirit for that matter.
The Medical doctor was God of the body, the psychiatrist God of the mind and the priest, God of the spirit.

So we obediently abdicated our responsibility and handed it over to the powers that proclaimed it was theirs.

Our current view of government is a little like that!

"They know how to do it.. let them fight it out between themselves.. it is not my responsibility!"

And now.. now that the system is falling apart.. it is time we take back that responsibilty and begin again to find where our wisdom tells us the way to balance and harmony lies.

The message is clear - taking responsibiliity for how we treat our bodies, how we nuture our minds and our spirit and how we govern ourselves in all of these respects is of utmost importance in this time of chaos and change.

It is no longer the time to permit another to dictate to us and confuse and distort the truth of how to live in a balanced and harmonious way. Move out of fear and back into the freedom of responsibility. There are many who have already paved the way - you only need to ask and those who see the clear way will step forward into your lives and assist you to join them.

Big blow for big pharma's war against vitamins

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:27:00 +0000

In a newsletter from What Doctors Don't Tell You - (Lynn McTaggart's newsletter) this great snippet came through.. finally a court sees sense and creates a ruling that is of value to the natural health movement.

A US district court has overturned a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bar on a manufacturer of selenium supplements from stating that the mineral helps reduce the risk of cancer. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle upheld complaints from the Alliance for Natural Health USA and others that the FDA ban went against the First Amendment that allows free speech. She said there was credible scientific evidence to demonstrate that selenium helps protect against cancer, and so the manufacturer should be allowed to include the fact in promoting the product.

Its also of note to see that the Alliance for Natural health was the instigaator of this complaint and that their work has been upheld.

It is also of interest to note that this Alliance has has their page deleted from Wikipedia! The 'watchdogs' are at it all over the place. It is amazing that they have the time and energy to hit the natural health industry at all levels - and for what investment? I once posted a very intersting article to Wikipedia about EAV (electro-acupuncture according to Voll) with absolutely no advertising in it at all which was almost immediately deleted from the site with the comment that it was advertising!

However don't let any of this action put us off continuing to put our hands up for health freedoms and freedom of speech and information generally. These rights are so important for us. Keep standing up for them in whatever way you find possible.

System Failure

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:25:00 +0000

Seth talks about this.. in the above post - how information is doubling rapidly - how overload is occurring. And all of this is added to by the bureaucratic nightmares that we live with daily. Sometimes I think.. roll on the predictions of a major shift in 2012 because do we ever need it. The systems are failing - they no longer support us but have become so top heavy and so embroiled in regulations and 'nanny' laws that we can no longer function with any clear intent.

And yes this is going to be a rant so if you are not ready for it.. you may as well stop reading here.

After our months of pandering to the powers that be - in the form of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (for you in the USA - our FDA) making sure that our website was stripped of any reference to any possibility that we could help anyone in their health challenges in any way. Ensuring in this way that we did not offend the straight laced narrow minded bigots that think that science and chemistry and genetics are the only things that have any relevance on this planet. Today we were attacked yet again.

We received another charming email.. stating that a complaint had been made against us.. from yet another department with more powers than they should ever have been given.
The complainant of course.. yet again .. did not have to reveal who they were. However we .. the attacked party were requested to answer to the attack.

But wait a minute.. this complaint was made about an advertisement that was published over 6 months ago.. and not only that.. also directed at a website that is

1. hosted overseas and
2. not a .au site, and
3. is simply addressed at selling to South East Asian countries and has a clear indication that the Avatar instrument which it is about.. is not for sale in Australia.

What a waste of everyone's time.

If by any chance that complainant is still digging and finds this post.. as he/she may well do as they seem to have no time to have any sort of life.. then may I simply request you to lay off.. stop hassling us, leave us to get on with our lives and our business which never killed a patient yet.. but in fact helps many.

And this beautiful planet which is run on energy, which only functions as a result of the energy of light, which is entangled in the mystery of itself far beyond this pettiness, beyond this superficial time wasting garbage.. will go forward past this superficial 'system failure' - the light will prevail.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:56:00 +0000

I am being inspired yet again by Seth Godin's writings - and highly recommend this book.. check it out..

This is a great book.. and not only do you get excellent information - Linchpin meetings are being organised throughout the world for a completely non-commercial chance to find and connect with other members of Seth's tribe, an opportunity to talk, challenge, and inspire your fellow travelers.

Gulf Coast Oil Spill – Sioux Prayer Request

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:50:00 +0000

Gulf Coast Oil Spill – Sioux Prayer Request – A letter from Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Present Chief and Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nation of the Sioux)
Gulf Coast Oil Spill - Sioux Prayer Request

Gulf Coast Oil Spill - Sioux Prayer Request

****** A Great Urgency ****** To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders ******

My Relatives,
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.

I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc’I Maka).

We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.

As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.

So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children’s future and well-being, and the generations to come.

Onipikte (that we shall live),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

Kicking Depression

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:43:00 +0000

Statistics from research conducted by Organon (Australia) on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation of Australia in 2003.

One in four women and one in six men will suffer from depression at some stage in their lives.
Each year, almost 800,000 Australian adults will experience a depressive illness.
Depression is the third most common cause of illness among women and the tenth most common cause among men.
In 2001, Australian GPs reported depression as the fourth most common illness that they dealt with in their practices.
Depression is the leading cause of disability in Australia.
Depression alone counts for more days lost to the workplace than those lost to industrial action.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that by 2020, depression will be the second biggest health problem world-wide, behind heart disease.

What is happening to us? is it the stress of modern living? Is it the insidious effects of the high exposure to toxic load in our environment - our food - our pollution? and what can we do about this?
There are so many factors that can be considered in this debilitating state of imbalance and I could write a whole book about it - let alone a short blog post.

But for now - I would just like to remind us of the six human needs - because if you have been 'in the cave of your depression' using alcohol possibly or drugs, or food or simply sleeping a lot and not talking to your friends and family - there will be at least one of these areas - if not more -that are simply not being met for (or by) you.

These needs are:

Comfort and certainty, (and paradoxically) - uncertainty and variety, significance, connection/love, growth, and contribution.

When we look at our lives in relation to these, and when we understand in what area we are not being fulfilled, this awareness can assist us to fill those gaps and when the wholeness can return to our lives, our mood lifts and we can once again turn our face to the sunshine.

Sometimes it is as simple as giving to another - giving of yourself - the emotional labour of love - the spontaneous smile to the check out girl in the supermarket, the hand to the laden Mum, the pat for the dog you pass in the street, the choice to go out to walk, the recognition of yourself by looking at your image in the mirror and telling yourself you are loved even if it sounds like a lie.

Do it anyway.. make a change - make a shift - move yourself toward the meeting of your needs.

You have a responsibility not only to yourself but also the rest of the world to be the fully realised human you were meant to be.

Live the life.. love yourself - just that little bit more each day.

It will help.

First Do No Harm

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:25:00 +0000

I was a straight laced medically oriented tunnel vision Occupational Therapist. Ready to shoot down anyone who suggested anything out of my belief system patterns. Until my husband – almost ready to die, was healed by a Balinese shaman.

That catapulted me out of my comfortable reality and into a journey which has no end in sight.

It moved me to be aware that there is much more to this world than meets our eyes. To realise that healing has many different shades and colours and that scientific studies and rationale is not necessarily always right or even in fact useful.

My husband - then suffering from severe recurrent pancreatitis - was told clearly by the medical profession that his days were numbered and they had no further answers for him and his incurable condition.

The healer, after sleeping in the family temple in order to dream the method of healing for my husband, used only his hands - and massaged my husband's body with some hot yellow paste. After two weeks he proclaimed him healed and he was.

My husband (now my ex) is still alive today more than 30 years later.

"Scientific?" - no where near it! (using the criteria we consider to be fit and acceptable in our Western mentality). "Placebo?" - if it was who cares.. my husband was healed.

Western Medicine is struggling with the load of chronic disease - and in their struggle they are having the tendency to kick out against anything they don't really understand.. there are many good healers in the firing line for speaking out and walking their truth.
Hippocrates famous advice more than 2000 years ago was "First do no harm".

In our more than 34 years (combined) of practice - neither Sahaja Springer - kinesiologist and facilitator of magic - nor myself - kinesiologist and EAV electrodermal screening practitioner (Avatar) - have ever killed a patient.

Nor have we ever done anyone any harm. There are many that live healthier more balanced lives as a result of working with us. They will tell you that.

We are very happy for that, and despite the huge ugly retraction notice right on the front page of our website, we are still here to serve you and to assist you to live happier healthier lives.

Please look behind the smokescreens that are placed in our way every day.. look deeper to enquire what is really the truth - dig just a little and you will be amazed at what is being purposefully hidden from your view.

Scientific studies on all manner of things from 'healthy margarine that reduces your cholesterol" to pesticides and chemicals that are 'harmless' and only later are revealed to be changing our gene pool (and most certainly not for the better). Drug company funded scientific studies proving that the latest and greatest wonder pill won't kill you have been highlighted in our prestigious newspaper The Australian so simply trusting the 'science' may be dangerous to your health.

Some of the places to look that will give you honest clear information are the following:
The Health Ranger - great entertaining news.. sign up for his newsletter.. its well worth it.
Dr Mercola - who has an amazing array of information for health matters.

Open your eyes - open your minds, allow the information that is out there to reach you through the jungle of advertisements, mis-information and lies. Your health demands it.

I am my Hero

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:50:00 +0000

I am fearless and walk tall with courage.
I am true to myself and full of integrity.
I am generous of spirit, openhearted and live in the centre of my being.
I am a conduit for light and resonate coherence in a unique and extraordinary way allowing others to step into their fullest expression of being.
I am focussed and have clear intent for the greatest good.
I know my own values and contribute freely at the highest level.
My favourite playing field is centred in the evolution of the consicouness of humanity.
My endurance and perserverance assist me to spiral up through the challenges of life with grace.
I am forgiving and loving to myself.

With thanks to all those who inspire me to step into my hero.. and assist me along the way when I forget yet again who I really am.

Sahaja Springer - my sister, my mentor, my dearly loved...
Harley Springer - my gorgeous brother in law
Roger, Roy, .... I cannot name you all.. just know you are in my heart...
I have a world of family and friends out there.. I am in gratitude to so many wonderful beings.

I invite you all to remind me of my true nature at any time so that I may step more securely and confidently into my Hero path.

Shazar

Epigenetics and Dr Bill Walsh

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:06:00 +0000

I was privileged to go to a great talk with Dr Walsh. His claim to fame - for the general public - is that he was the one who did the research on Beethoven's hair samples and found out that he was hghly lead toxic.

That was not what Dr Walsh was discussing the other evening - he was talking about the major biochemical differences found in testing people with various forms of mental illness ranging from schizophrenia to depression to autism and those of other members of the public.

He included in this talk information about epigentics.. that is the effect of the environment on the turning on or off of our genes. This phrase although coined in the 1940'2 has been recently brought to the general public by Bruce Lipton's great book The Biology of Belief: Unleasing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles.

There were a couple of items that really got my attention -
the first - that they now understand that the most important time for creating genetic stress is between day 20 and 24 of pregnancy. At this time if the fetus is placed under stress - eg toxicity of any kind - genetic 'bookmarking' occurs that is - the markers for whether these genes will be turned on or not are created.

How amazing is that? It brings to our awareness that at this very early stage in the pregnancy - often before the mother is even aware that she is pregnant - there can be such important events.

So what's the lesson in this - if you are working toward having a family - make sure that you clean up your act now.. don't wait till you know you are pregnant - the quality of both you and your partner's health can and will have a long term effect on your child and in fact on your children's children.

Challenges for Best Health

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:25:00 +0000

For those of you who sometimes visit our site at Best Health very soon you will see a new front page. It will be almost totally taken up with a red and white huge disclaimer - a statement that we have been very bad and misled the Australian public. In fact it will state that we made an advertisement which claimed to use a product for therapeutic use including the diagnosis and treatment of serious conditions.

This has come about as a result of a undisclosed person/s making a complaint about our site where we had the audacity to link to a site in the USA which had a deeply buried page (completely unbeknownst to us) that mentioned the words diabetes and other supposedly incurable diseases. These were in association with the name of the computerised health screening system we have been promoting. This along with mention on our site of the facility of testing for sensitvities, both foods and other substances, was seen as a threat to the health of our nation.

"Nanny laws" strike again. Heaven forbid that we might mislead someone into believing we could possibly help them feel better.

We trust that not all visitors to our site will be completely alarmed and run away.. but in the meantime - for the next four months - this graffiti must remain.

We would like to assure you that we will continue to provide services and assistance with your health and well being that are designed to assist you to maintain your health without the need for pharmaceutical drugs or invasive treatment.

We will continue to make no outrageous claims, but quietly work in ways that enhance the well being of both the individual and our beautiful planet.

Happy Earth Day

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:07:00 +0000

Today is the day to remind ourselves that we can support our planet in her time of need. Because frankly .. its our time of need too - we are of course not removed from our Earth.. and every little bit of awareness that we can grow in relation to assisting with sustainability is needed now.

Simple things help.. no need to get complicated and think that you have no chance of making a difference. We can all make a difference. Today - just for one day - starting now, don't buy or take free any plastic bags, cover your food with another plate, buy food that is sold loose, not packaged in more stuff to throw away.

Walk when you can rather than jumping in the car for that short distance.

Turn off your electrical appliances - don't leave them on standby.. they use lots more power that way. Turn off unneeded lights.

Forget the chemicals and the pesticides - use natural fertilisers on your gardens and lawns.

Turn off your sprinklers to conserve our precious water - now the weather is cooler here in Oz and the grass is wet in the morning from the dew.

Stand up for our trees!

Here is some interesting info about what fish is healthier and more sustainable to eat - our oceans are fast becoming depleted - its up to us to shop responsibly.

And on this day - take some time to sit on the ground, to connect with the Mother Earth, and simply bless her for sustaining us all of this time.

Have a great Day!

The Tunnel

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:37:00 +0000

I subscribe to a daily email from Neale Donald Walsch - and just wanted to share his latest with you...

"......when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, it
is not beneficial to go out and build more tunnel.

It was John Quinton who observed that politicians do
that. Maybe you've caught yourself doing it, too. Just
when things look like they're getting better, you start
seeing more things that "aren't right," or "could go
wrong."

The Universe is essentially a friendly place. So friendly,
in fact, that it will give you exactly what you expect
it to.

Isn't that wonderful? Of course, it depends on what
you expect..."

He has some gems.. and I enjoy the glimpses he gives that keep us on track! Go to his site and subscribe if you liked this one!

Have a great day

Shazar

Comment on modern Government

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:18:00 +0000

We subscribe to a newsletter called The Daily Reckoning for another point of view on what is happening in the economical situation of the world.. and this comment in their email this morning I found to be very telling and despite the discomfort of it.. it made me smile!

--modern government has grown so grotesquely fat and ubiquitous that an entire generation of Westerners have been trained to think only the government can and should solve problems. It's like having an Uncle stuck in your living room who's become too fat to move. You have to feed and clean and care for him and after awhile he becomes a living piece of inconvenient and intrusive furniture right smack in the middle of your life.

Sounds like a call to wake up to our own responsibility in governing ourselves as well as in taking care of our health. What we see on the outside as the ills of the world are simply reflected in our own bodies and our own lives. If you are the person who is becoming too fat to move as you were designed by nature to do.. its time to take responsibility.

and of course if you need any help with that.. Best Health is still here.. we are committed to our own good health and to yours.

Facilitation or Healing?

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:45:00 +0000

I have been having some very interesting insights about these terms. It seems to me that healing belongs in the world of duality. Let me expand a little on this idea - if I am to heal you that may infer that you are unhealed. That is that you are in a state of need. And I as the healer am in a state of healed, well or healthy - therefore I can heal.
Does this not create duality? where one being is the healer and the other needing the healing?

Facilitation could be considered to be a more evolved frame of reference - in that if we are to facilitate the return to balance - or to the state of coherence - it simply means we point the way - or usher the person toward that state.

Our words and the way we express ourselves create our reality. "I am a healer" - do these words say: - "others (or something) needs to be healed?"

It is a time of discussions about healing the planet. Is this planet this earth of ours really requiring 'healing'?

The original inhabitants of Australia walk the song lines - they sing the land into existence - by their very connectedness they allow the potential of the land to reveal itself. This is facilitation. Not healing.

So therefore in order to facilitate the return to coherence of our earth - we do not need to heal the planet - simply to become coherent - connected ourselves.

It is our responsibility to move to this state. There is nothing else to do but this. It is time to step up into this place - now.

"World-Healers" an excerpt from What Matters Now

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:06:00 +0000

This excerpt from What Matters Now - really touched me - and I didn't want you to miss it so here it is. Thank you Seth Godin for making this possible.

All traditional cultures recognize certain people as
natural-born mystical healers (shamans, medicine
men, pick your label). Modern Western culture
has no category for such people. But that doesn’t
mean they aren’t here. Right now, everywhere,
ordinary people born to the archetype of the
shaman are feeling compelled to begin finding one
another and fulfilling their inborn purpose.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to wage
peace on a globe full of humans while repairing the
unintended damage we’ve inflicted on ourselves,
other beings, and the earth. We need modern
shamans to channel ancient “technologies of
magic” like empathy, creativity, art, and spiritual
interconnection, through “magical technologies”
like medicine, computers, and satellites.

That marriage of ancient and cutting-edge genius can
heal hearts, minds, beasts, plants, ecosystems—
almost anything.
If you feel something stirring in your heart at the
thought that you may be shaman-born, pay
attention.

This is not an accident. Some as-yet
unexplained force is calling you join in a healing of
unprecedented scope. And though that healing
will, of course, follow the laws of science, doing it
will feel like pure magic.

Martha Beck, Ph.D., is a coach, writer, and columnist for O, the
Oprah Magazine.

What Matters Now

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:17:00 +0000

These days it becomes so important to really connect - to be real - to say what you mean - to mean what you say - there is no point any more in beating around the bush, there is not time any more to hold grudges, to bother about regrets, and past events. They are simply the ghost in the machine - the unreal. Ghosts are not real - they only start to appear so if we give them a lot of energy.

Its time to recognise them for what they are - simply ghosts and as such they can be blown away in a small puff of wind. Don't let them become real by giving them any energy. When the guilt or the fear or the regret or the anger or the dislike of self arises - recognise it - "You are just a ghost - begone!"

For some great reading and inspiration and a small handbook about what really matters now.. check out the link above.

Enjoy.

Elephant Birth In Bali

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:20:00 +0000

This amazing video is really worth a watch.. let it download first.. so you see it all in one go.. what incredible tenacity this mother has.

After the Flood

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:58:00 +0000

My friend Ruby of the Daily Apple took me last week - to visit Marikina - Provident Village where the worst of flooding hit two weeks ago. Poor Manila - another typhoon just yesterday.

Ruby and I sat in the back of the car as we drove quietly and slowly through the streets of Provident Village. The road was surprisingly smooth... none of the usual potholes and bumps of the roads that are difficult to keep up in this country.

The reason for the smooth ride - mud from flood had filled all the nooks and crannies in the road. Possibly one of the only benefits felt by the flooding.

Abandoned cars litter the sides of the road here.. no discrimination between Mercedes and old taxi cabs and beat up wrecked trishaws... all filled with mud and many smashed with the force of the water.

Everybody who is still trying to re-inhabit their houses - have their furniture.. their lives out on the street - scrubbing - washing - rinsing - trying to reduce the staining and the damp and the mold beginning to develop on all of their possessions that are water soaked and mud caked.

The energy feels so devastated - Ruby and I hold hands in the back of the car and simply cry - the tears fall for the people who have lost everything in this flood.. for those who have simply walked away from their houses and their ruined posessions - and for those that had nothing before the floods came and have even less now - for their shanty town cardboard and corrugated iron shacks are taken miles down river in pieces.

But the really amazing part of this is that there are still people here smiling - that the spirit in the Filipino people is strong and resilient and shows us all that the human spirit is stronger than the floods - and when we hold hold hands we too are strong and can rise above the flood waters to live and love again.

I salute the Filipino people - who are flooded and washed away and lose all including family members and still show us that together is the only way to live and is the way that we will move through the trials and tribulations of these times.

Take heed of their lessons - it is time to hold hands.

On the Brink of Change - Connection is the Key.

noreply@blogger.com (Shazar) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:32:00 +0000

I have been away - no excuse for not writing - but sometimes it is beneficial to be removed from the computer and available to other influences. I went to Bali to the Roger Hamilton event on Wealth Dynamics.

What an amazing week.

The four day workshop brought revelation after revelation - and I filled a whole special notebook that my sister Sahaja had given me with scrawled writing in an effort to keep up with the torrent of Roger's information.

He was in absolutely fine form. He seemed to simply download from the universal knowledge pool and flowed so much value to us all.

And after the actual seminar, we headed to Vision Villas - the creation of Roger and his family - a place of deep reflection that allowed each person to experience the opening and the opportunities that were in every meeting.
There we spent one day - 33 of us - brainstorming about the best ways to create XL Nation - a nation of connected individuals with a common purpose to create World Wide Wealth.
Here's a short clip of Roger Hamilton - he is talking about XL Nation and if you click the highlighted link you can see the video. XL Nation.

And after the formalities in the seminar room were over .. the real connecting began.

I am back in Perth now.. till I go to see Ruby Cruz (see last blog post) next week in Manila..

and its great to be home.

But hey.. you are in for a treat if you live in Perth and you're reading this.. because Roger is coming to Perth on the 30th Oct.

Heart to heart.. I suggest to you that you take time out to spend with him and us on that day.

We are all perched on the brink of some incredible changes on our planet and we need to become connected. Anything that gives us the tools to do this in the most effective way should certainly be investigated and employed right now.

Roger has some wonderful insights that will stimulate very fertile connections.

Don't miss him.

you can find out more here