1. Problems only exist in contracted awareness—that is, when you have a narrow view. The more you expand your perspective, the easier it is to find your solution. (inspired by Deepak)

Action: Try it on. During our Group Healing sessions, I’ll often suggest that you consider your issue from a new and different angle—which can often offer a bright new insight on things. But I’m also going to invite you to step back from the problem and look at it from a ‘few paces back’ and see it from further away to see if you see anything new in the picture that you didn’t notice before…use your wide angle lens on it. Alternately apply your telephoto lens, to move in for an extra close-close up in case there’s some key detail that you’ve missed…

2. Tell the truth, to yourself, about yourself. (Iyanla)

Action: Get clear on your intentions about What you do, How you do it and Why you do it and see what is up; lurking underneath and driving your particular pattern of behaviour that you are trying to shake.

3. Instead of wishing for no problems, be ready for them because the more you take the opportunity to find your own solutions, the more you find peace and can share that solution with others. (inspired by the Bishop)

Action: Next time you lament your life, problems, issues etc…recognize that this is how life gives you opportunity to reveal for yourself, the fullest expression of your potential here—that is a gift equally for yourself, for humanity, and for the planet.

4. We all have stories. You have to decide. Decide if they are true and useful for you. (inspired byTony Robbins)

Action: Letting go is only possible when you realize that something is now hurting you more that it helps you. When a feeling of safety turns into a sensation of a straitjacket—it’s a sign that something needs to change. Figure out what that is for you. (Chung)

5. Final amazement: OWinfrey somehow managed to make a room full of 8500 people feel like her living room. The ability to cultivate that degree of warmth and intimacy is rare and kind. It demonstrated to me, what Deepak had said about the best way to teach children—but that I feel (naturally) applies to being with everyone—to give attention (deep listening), appreciation (notice the good things), and affection (show them that you care). (…because really, we’re all kids inside anyway…)

Action: Cultivate your ability to do, 1, 2, or all 3 or these things everyday when with others. Be attentive. Be appreciative. Be affectionate.

Notice things. Go forth. Take Action. Change it up. And Make Things Happen.

When you allow your body to heal itself, it’s a powerful step towards personal evolution. But when we gather together in focused meditation, with the intention of healing yourself and the planet? That’s a revolution.

Join us for a powerful series of monthly sessions, or drop-in when you can. Live in Toronto, Canada, or via Livestream channel from anywhere in the world (see details below).

This is the fantastic and collaborative way (and no deep disclosures necessary!…promise.) to get a personally guided experience of healing with my medicinal-meets-meaningful perspective for a fraction of the cost of a 1-on-1 session with me—bonus is getting shared mojo from a group of keen and conscious individuals with a series of guided meditations for group healing, and ample space for curiosity, shared acumen and Q&A.

We’ll settle in. We’ll set our intention. Address both light + shadow sides with realism + respect. And together, we’ll question our long-standing biases + knee-jerk reactions, cultivate greater sensitivity, and send powerful forcefields (yeah, I said forcefields) of healing energy, into the world.

And just so you know…the feedback and results have been electrifying; it’s surprised even me. What started out as ‘just a hunch’ over a year ago has become something that has truly exceeded my expectations and set off integration, connection and empowerment that I never could have expected. Simple. Profound. Personal. And, gives back. Just the way I like it. Check out a few snippets of buzz here (and catch more on the site…):


…I was in complete awe of our powerful collective experience. The synergies of the group experience allowed me to go deeper into surrender and connection with all that is in an easy way, guided by you and your loving wisdom. -Nancy Mills

…2 hours was perfect time. Style was simple yet profound. Pace was just perfect. Price was a bargain. I’d love to have the meditation available for purchase so we can do on our own…I felt lighter and more relaxed after the session. – KC

…I loved it…I wouldn’t change a thing. I felt very spacey the last few days, but not in a bad way. I feel a big change on the horizon…I feel a lightness, and any fears that come up I am able to just let them go. (for a change…). I would (and have) told quite a few people about this and I would definitely attend the next ones! – JG

…I felt my stones dissolve…my lesions clear…I felt something clear and move out from my lymph nodes… -GT, LJ, and ML

…I have attended three of your group healing sessions, and each of them left me with new insight to myself. They also left me feeling very connected to the others present. The power of the collected group becomes palpable. When you lead us through the opening of our heart energy the room is awash with ‘aha’ moments…I am deeply thankful for this opportunity each time. – LS

Rally your people. Spread the word. And I’ll see you there.

Register for this now and know that 10% of all proceeds (actually, of all my events) are donated to charity. This one is dedicated to Women for Women.

About Dr. Diane:

As a Naturopathic Doctor, Diane Chung empowers patient-partners to become their own healers, and then unleash their own ‘medicine’ into the world as agents of social change. Integrating insights from her training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and Harvard’s Mind Body Medicine program, Diane brings a medicinal-meets-metaphysical approach to her 1-on-1 client sessions, collective group healing experiences, writing, public speaking + mentoring for professional healing practitioners.

To stay in contact, sign up for the mailing list at drdianechung.com or connect with Diane online on Facebook + Twitter at @drdianechung.

About Women for Women:

Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife, and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. The change the world one woman at a time.

Live Livestream Access:

Please purchase a ticket and you will receive the link to our livestream channel page so you can sit in and participate from anywhere in the world.

Come online at 730pm EST.

In January 2012 I will be launching a series of Clinic Workshop Sessions that will help you learn how to listen and heed messages from your own body (and soul), and will also be offering a Practitioner’s Mentoring Circle to support fellow healers. I am restructuring my practice and will still be offering a limited number of Private Healing Sessions but will be focusing more on deep, transformative work (rather than on general practice), and on doing more group healing work. I am making this shift so that you can get the best out of me, and so I can spend more time writing, speaking and teaching.

Please explore the new offerings, by clicking on the following links:

1. Clinic Workshop Sessions
2. Practitioner’s Mentoring Circle
3. Private Sessions with Dr. Chung

I am feeling exhilarated and recharged by these upcoming changes, and look forward to continue, to grow, learn and share together.

You are welcome to e-mail Melanie at info@drdianechung.com with your questions and comments. I will be aware of all correspondence and will respond as I am able.

A note to all of you who live outside of the Toronto area, to look out! Online programs should be available in the Fall of 2012.

Please note that the absolute best way to get the very latest practice news and to stay in touch is to join our mailing list right here on the site (do ya see that big orange box in the upper right corner? Yes!)

With warmth and blessings for a fantastic 2012,

Diane

In this life, we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa

I do my best work when immersed in dense, deep, strategically practical hour blocks. The fee schedule as of Jan 1, 2012 will be $500 + taxes per session. With rare exceptions, all appointments will be scheduled for an hour.

To clarify, it is no longer an hourly rate, it is a rate per session. We allocate a full hour for your visit and my intention is to provide you with skilled expertise and results rather than a session based on time spent. This may mean we are done before an hour has elapsed, but that you have gotten all you need from the session. I no longer offer shorter (15, 30 minute) session blocks because my focus is shifting to deeper, more transformative work that emphasizes multi-level healing.

5% of all sessions will continue to be donated to Free the Children, Nature Doctors International and Women for Women.

These will be taught in my regular, down to earth, real-deal, (ok…occasionally giggly) and spiritually matter-of-fact style. They will be informative, interactive, fun and hopefully—life changing. We aren’t looking to diagnose cancer or cure your chronic diseases overnight but rather my intention is to give you a basic understanding, experience and comfort with the fact that your body can be your useful ally, that you can be proactive in preventing and treating minor symptoms and irritations, and feel more empowered in your health and healing process.

2012 Schedule:

Clinic workshop sessions are held in-person on Saturday mornings from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in downtown Toronto and will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants per session. Pre-registration is required.

Sat Jan 21st: Self Trust and Self Confidence
Sat Mar 24th: Introduction to Healing Maps (Chakras, Chinese Medicine)
Sat Apr 28th: Introduction to Healing Tools (Cards, Pendulums, Guides, Writing)
Sat Jun 23rd: Working with Supplements and Remedies

Included:
Notes will be provided.
A recording of all sessions will be available as a resource for you to keep.
+ Two Bonus support sessions that are open time for practice and Q+A; available only to those who have registered and attended at least one Clinic Workshop session.
Thurs February 16, 2012: 7:30-9:30pm
Wed May 23, 2012: 7:30-9:30pm

Investment: $500 for all 4 sessions, includes 2 open practice sessions;
single sessions are $150 per session as available.

[Please note that these sessions do not qualify for extended insurance coverage as they are not 1:1 consultations.]

(5% of all investments will be donated to Women for Women)

The Mentoring Circle is a 6 month commitment that will be limited to 12 participants. I will be providing information, insight and mentorship to shift patterns, pull you out of uncertain ground, challenge your perceived limitations and make your practice more fulfilling. Basically this is healing for your practice, for healing the healers. I have provided a tentative schedule of topics but this will also to be shaped by you—the participants—based on your wants, needs, goals, struggles and burning questions. Yes. You can ask me, anything.

2012 Schedule:

Mentoring Circle sessions are held in-person on Saturdays in downtown Toronto for a maximum of 12 participants. An application, deposit and 6 month commitment is required.

Sat Jan 21, 2-5pm: Introductions. Individual and Group Intentions
Sat Feb 11, 9:30am-5pm (all day intensive): Personal Energy Dynamics
Sat Mar 24, 2-5pm: Managing Client Relationships. Ethics
Sat Apr 28, 2-5pm: Marketing (website, social media, networking)
Sat May 12, 9:30am-5pm (all day intensive): Effective Business and Practice
Sat June 23, 2012: 2-5pm: Closing Q+A and wrap up

Included:
Small group mentoring (includes: 4 half days and 2 full days of training, monthly group healing sessions, discussions, intimate Q+A, personalized homework for 6 months) [minimum $6000 value]
Private online forum for questions, networking and exchanges [$600 value]
Includes all Clinic Workshop Sessions (with practice sessions) [$500 value]
+ A recording of all sessions will be available as a resource for you to keep.

Investment: $3000 + taxes for 6 months (Jan-June 2012)
(5% of all investments will be donated to Nature Doctors International)


Registration is by application [MentoringApplication2012]  and is due on Monday December 19, 2011.

When you allow your body to heal itself, it’s a powerful step towards personal evolution. But when we gather together in focused meditation, with the intention of healing the planet? That’s a revolution.

On Sunday November 13th from 2-4pm, join me for a Cellular Collective Group Healing Session—live in Toronto, Canada or via Livestream channel from anywhere in the world (see details below).

Each of these three time yearly larger Live events will centre around a theme—approached from a medicinal-meets-metaphysical perspective—with a series of guided meditations for group healing and space for curiosity, shared acumen and Q&A.

We’ll settle in. We’ll set our intention. Address both light + shadow sides with realism + respect. And together, we’ll question our long-standing biases + knee-jerk reactions, cultivate greater sensitivity, and send powerful forcefields (yeah, I said forcefields) of healing energy, into the world.

Rally your people. Spread the word. And I’ll see you there.

Register for this now and know that 10% of all proceeds (actually, of all my events) are donated to charity. This one is dedicated to Free the Children.

About Dr. Diane:

As a Naturopathic Doctor, Diane Chung empowers patient-partners to become their own healers, and then unleash their own ‘medicine’ into the world as agents of social change. Integrating insights from her training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and Harvard’s Mind Body Medicine program, Diane brings a medicinal-meets-metaphysical approach to her 1-on-1 client sessions, collective group healing experiences, writing, public speaking + mentoring for professional healing practitioners.

To stay in contact, sign up for the mailing list at drdianehung.com or connect with Diane online on Facebook + Twitter at @drdianechung.

About Free the Children:

Free the Chidren believes in a world where all young people are free to achieve their fullest potential as agents of change. We are a charity and educational partner that empowers youth to remove barriers that prevent them from being active local + global citizens. Our international projects has brought over 650 schools and school rooms to youth and provided clean water, health care and sanitation to one million people around the world, freeing children and their families from the cycle of poverty.

Live Livestream Access:

Please purchase a ticket and you will receive the link to our livestream channel page so you can sit in and participate from anywhere in the world.

Come online at 2pm EST.

What is your legacy?

What have you triggered?

Whose heart have you healed, by revealing your medicine?

Is your body a choir, ringing in harmony?

Or a dissonant chord—overmedicated, silenced, and ignored?

Were you an agent of change?

An unstoppable force?

A gracious crusader for the Collective Great?

Did you attune to the vibration of harmonic wellness, unleashing your gifts into the world?

Or did you languish in passable health, creating “just enough” and giving back “when you could”?

Do you feel the way you wanted to feel?

Do you have any regrets? At all?

Did you laugh (daily), speak (freely), evolve (swiftly) and connect (deeply)?

Did you challenge your deep-set preconceptions?

Or perpetuate ancestral beliefs?

Will you leave your precious medicine—your tangible genius, your message + vision, your immeasurable talents—for the world to keep as a gift, when you’re gone?

Or will you take it all with you? Never to be revealed?

Be honest: were you ALIVE? Or just…around?

You are 100 years old. There’s little time left.

Start a vibrant revolution—in your cells, in yourself, in society.

Let your mission leave an impression. Somewhere. Anywhere.

Be a healer to yourself, if only for today.

Open your health.

Create the conditions you need to be brilliant.

Just be whole. Just be bold. Just begin.

Announcements+Events

1
Cellular Collective Group Healing Session @The Inner Garden on Sunday November 13th from 2-5pm. Open to the public.

Details:  http://drdianecellularcollective.eventbrite.com.

This is the first public group in nearly a year! Tell your friends + neighbours! If you can’t attend in person, you can register at the same website to attend via live Skype feed and/or receive an MP3 recording. Live event seating is limited.

2
Guest speaker at the Serentity Restoration Meditation Retreat at Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre Nov 25-27th, 2011. Facilitated by Chopra Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher, Isabelle Moreau. Come learn and share in some amazing meditation + atmosphere. It promises to be an amazing weekend. All levels welcome.

Details:  http://serenityrestorationmeditationretreat.eventbrite.com/

Clarification
There was a time I thought this too. I remember observing enlightenment as a rather flat and boring state and, well in one way, it is.
Because it invites in peace, neutrality and equanimity, and ushers out drama, confusion and suffering.

You decide which you want, and how you want to live.

Exploration
Interestingly, the events and circumstances that you encounter may be no different.
Because it is your interpretation and assumptions around them are actually what determine the feelings that result and thus, the degree to which suffering, or non-suffering occurs.
Ideally, you begin to question if those interpretations and assumptions are valid and when they are not, you let them go. Voila! Suffering averted!
But sometimes, you don’t realize you’ve invited in the drama until you are in the thick of it. In these cases, forensics are in order and it is important for you to look back and consider the part you played in allowing it, and then decide if it is something you want to continue doing.
If you decide it is not—and you do have to consciously decide if you truly want the suffering to stop—then you start to practice being on the lookout for whenever a similar feeling arises; and begin to choose your responses differently.

So, if you’re not struck by instantaneous insight, then this is how you become enlightened. The process to consciously awaken is to take the opportunity to constantly and curiously challenge your own assumptions, decide what you want to do instead, and clear through your archive-arsenal of backlogged grievances from your early life—so can choose your response with neutrality (true freedom) and hence, differently—this has been the path of the traditional seeker.

But please take note that, in these seismic times, this is the work of us all.

The opportunity that these times is offering you is to be liberated sufficiently from your own web of assumptions, beliefs and conditioning so you can provide a considered response, rather than merely a conditioned reaction.

The Considered Response doesn’t deny, resist or fight with what is.

And let me be clear, this is not a state of passivity. It actually reveals the most challenging sort of proactive personal leadership, because it is not caught lamenting in the past, or wishing willfully about the future; it is present centered, real and unflinchingly measured in sizing up the situation and what is possible, and not. This clarity is what opens the door to finding solutions with the most ease, maximum satisfaction and minimal amount of suffering for those involved.

Mmm. If this is boring. I might want some.

Dispensation
Consider how much daily drama you are allowing in your life. How willing are you to let go of the illusion of suffering; the tiara of the drama queen? Are you willing to trade it in for peace with what is? What would you do for an increased sense of ease, fulfillment and freedom in your life?

He speaks of three levels: Camel, Lion and Child.

The camel is sleepy, dull, self-satisfied. He lives in delusion, thinking he’s a mountain peak, but really he is so concerned with others’ opinions that he hardly has any energy of his own.

Emerging from the camel is the lion. When we realize we’ve been missing life, we start saying no to the demands of others. We move out of the crowd, alone and proud, roaring our truth.

But this is not the end. Finally the child emerges, neither acquiescent nor rebellious, but innocent and spontaneous and true to his own being.

-From Osho Zen Tarot, 1994. St Martin’s Press.