This is coming from someone who has paid thousands of dollars on learning how to blog… But I am a perpetual learner, and besides the course is free. You can’t beat that.

I am just realizing that I have been selecting “soaring eagle” as my warrior name, and my possibility for eons. My soul was speaking to me that way, my all knowing. Because, though I was yearning to soar, I had no idea what was keeping me from soaring. Today I “unconcealed”, uncovered, saw for the first time, the self made shekels I have placed on myself.

So here is another picture of an eagle… so I never forget that I am now free.

So I am sharing my own experience of Pam Ragland’s work, “Quantum Thought Shifting” which is an 8-month program, and I am in the middle of it…

There is a distinction that I never heard before Pam’s program, called “caretaking.”

It is a crafty little distinction, because on the surface it seems that it teaches you to be selfish, but that is really just the very surface.

You are caretaking if there is no winner. Neither you win, nor the one you “caretake”.

I did not think it applied to me, but then again, Pam said, that caretaking drains your energy, and increases your negativity.

So I started to pay attention to my energy level (and how much work I got done in a day), and my negativity level (in my case bitterness, or the lack of ambition, enthusiasm, sleeping well).

A few weeks ago I started to notice that I am quite forceful in wanting to give (to everyone, especially people that I diagnosed as they could use my help.) It wasn’t without pleasure, especially when they didn’t say no.

One day I found out that one of those people actually didn’t want and didn’t need my help, in fact he was way ahead of me in a class we are taking together, because he seems to have more energy, and he seems to ask for help when he needs it. He didn’t ask for help from me. I felt crushed, but I started to pay attention. I suspected a pattern here…

The next door neighbor, when he went to rehab about 15 months ago, asked me to take care of his cat. I have been taking extreme hardship to take care of the cat, and I am noticing that the cat is neither grateful, nor is the experience a rewarding one.

When I look back at my life, it seems that I have “shacked up” with people who “needed my help” only to end up unappreciated, and often dumped.

The only common denominator is me. Hm. Interesting.

So it seems that the pattern is that I “help” unsolicited, I am unappreciated, and I am crushed.

When I looked what is underneath that, I saw that there is an underlying conviction that I am not wanted for myself, that I need to earn my keep, that I am on borrowed time, and that I am buying a sense of belonging.

Now, since the “shift” all of these “truths” have become less controlling of my life, but they are obviously there, given these new acts of caretaking/victimhood.

The homework has been to identify a negative emotion and replace it with a positive… I think the negative emotion is something like I am ALONE, and the positive could be, I am FREE. A free agent… wow, what an insight. I have created ties, chains and bonds to create a sense of belonging, but it did not work that way.

Just the thought of being a free agent brings a lightness to my heart, a fluttering, a joy, tears into my eyes. I have never been a free agent! (This is how you know that free agent is not an “IS” but is an attitude, a state of mind, a “BEING”. In Landmark we used to create beings all the time, it never occurred for me to create free agent as a being.

Amazing. This stuff really works. Thank you Pam, thank you Landmark.

Barrett Loses Appeal, Leaves Town

Fight Back, Join the Foundation for Health Choice

Self proclaimed Quackbuster, Stephen Barrett, MD, recently handed crushing defeats by chiropractor Tedd Koren and Ilena Rosenthal, has announced he is leaving his home town and operating base in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

On June 11th, 2007, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a lower court dismissal of Barrett’s defamation suite against Dr. Koren. Barrett’s case was so lacking in merit the judge blocked it from going to the jury. Barrett simply had no case against Dr. Koren. This followed another stunning defeat last month in California. There an appeals court ordered Barrett and crony Terry Polevoy, MD to post bonds of more than $400,000.00 after they lost a defamation case against Illena Rosenthal virtually identical to the Koren case.

Perhaps the fact that lawyers and judges in Allentown are catching on to his intimidation schemes explains why Barrett is moving to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Barrett can run but he can’t hide. Chapel Hill collection attorneys are already being asked to locate his assets to pay his unmet legal obligations. Assets of other Quackwatch, Inc., principals might also be sought.

Who Is Steven Barrett, What Are Quackbusters?

Steven Barrett is an unlicensed Pennsylvania psychiatrist, who, though he failed his psychiatric boards and has been criticized for his lack of expertise by several courts, still claims to often advise the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FBI, State Attorneys General, HMOs, Consumer Reports, medical journals and state medical, chiropractic and dental boards.

The insurance industry cites Barrett’s highly opinionated “Quackbuster” attacks to deny paying claims for chiropractic and other natural healthcare.

Barrett and the “Quackbusters,” a vigilante group of self proclaimed skeptics of any medical or health modality that avoids drugs, surgery or radiation, attack almost all non-conventional healthcare practices as quackery. Ignoring all scientific research to the contrary, they dismiss Gulf War Syndrome, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Chemical Sensitivity, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and dietary supplements as rubbish. Double Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling is on their “quack” hit list along with many well known and respected doctors and scientists, including Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, and dozens of others.

Barrett claims to give over 500 interviews a year to newspapers, magazines, and television shows, including CNN and the Today Show. He claims to have been a peer reviewer for seven medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, even though he had no license to practice medicine when he did the reviewing.

The Quackbusters run over 70 websites. Millions of people go to them every year. Look up chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy or even vitamin C, as well as almost every other natural health topic, on the Internet and you (and the public) will be led to Quackbuster sites advising you of natural health “dangers.” In all these forums Barrett and the Quackbusters relentlessly attack the consumer right to informed choice. These activities continue the AMA’s anti-quackery committee’s activities that were struck down by federal courts as an illegal restraint of trade in a landmark lawsuit brought by Illinois chiropractor Chester Wilk. They also help insurance companies deny consumer reimbursement claims.

At the same time, Barrett flacks for products like aspartame (NutraSweet), which is the subject of tens of thousands of consumer complaints. Question (asked on Barrett’s web site): “An email message is being circulated with many statements to the effect that aspartame is dangerous. How worried should I be?” Answer (from Barrett): “Not at all. The message is pure rubbish.”

What Did Dr. Koren Do to Provoke Barrett’s Shakedown?

Dr. Tedd Koren is a well-known chiropractor, researcher, writer and lecturer. Barrett sued Dr. Koren in 2003 for calling him a Quackpot, saying he was in big trouble because of a racketeering law suit brought against him and attacking his lack of a medical license in his internet newsletter.

The trial judge and three appeals judges agreed unanimously that these statements were so far from defamation that no jury could be legally allowed to call them defamation. Dr. Koren also said Barrett was “delicensed.” One of the three appeals courts judges thought a jury might be able to find this to be defamation. However two appellate judges disagreed and jurors interviewed after the trial said they too saw through Barrett and felt that he was a litigious, ungrounded and biased denier of the truth.

In part jurors formed this view because Barrett testified with great self-satisfaction in the Koren case that he had sued many doctors-close to forty-in similar cases, demanding up to $100,000 if they wished to avoid a costly lawsuit. Some paid-how many is yet to be discovered. Drs. Koren and Rosenthal and a few others did not. Barrett has failed to win a single lawsuit in this shakedown scheme.

Dr. Koren’s Legal Team

Well known consumer advocate, James S. (Jim) Turner, general counsel to Koren Publications, who several years earlier had persuaded the FTC to drop an investigation against Dr. Koren (brought at a time when Barrett was a consultant to the FTC), organized and coordinated the legal team that represented Dr. Koren. Attorney Christopher Reid of Allentown, Pennsylvania acted as associate trial counsel and appellate counsel and California health freedom attorney Carlos Negrete acted as trial counsel.,

Mr. Negrete said, “Fortunately for all of his colleagues, Dr. Koren decided not to back down and took the case to trial. Barrett is part of a group of intolerant individuals. I am not certain who the supporters of the so-called Quackbusters are, but they seem to me to be just skinheads with stethoscopes.”

During heated and often dramatic courtroom proceedings, Mr. Negrete pointed out many of the questionable statements Barrett includes on his websites attacking chiropractic, as well as facts about Barrett’s own credentials that shocked even his supporters.

Mr. Turner says, “It is very important that a very responsible judge in Barrett’s hometown recognized that he was making false allegations and dismissed the case. Barrett has cost untoward numbers of consumers pain, anguish and probably serious harm by his misrepresentation of the facts about subjects ranging from acupuncture to zinc.”

Mr. Turner, who among other campaigns led the team that got acupuncture needles approved as safe by FDA, worked with a Senate committee to abolish the dysfunctional vaccine regulatory agency, worked with whistleblowers to stop the Swine Flu inoculation campaign, kept aspartame off the market for ten years, and played a key role in lobbying the Organic Food Production Act through Congress (all areas on which the Foundation for Health Choice focuses), says, “Our objective is to end Barrett’s abuse of consumers by eliminating the false and misleading information from his website and his entire network of websites and replacing it with sound, useful information for consumers.”

Says Dr. Koren, “This is just the beginning. Just as the FTC battle was not about Tedd Koren alone but had ramifications for the entire chiropractic and natural health professions so the Barrett v. Koren battle will have major ramifications for all. We’re going to give the Quackbusters a taste of their own medicine. They’ll learn how dangerous medicine can be.”

“Our mission is not just about revealing the Quackbusters to be the unscientific bigots that they are. We are fighting for health care freedom. One of our goals is to permit parents to make sound decisions about vaccination for their children. There are too many sound health reasons for certain children to avoid vaccination and the government has recognized too many vaccine caused deaths and maimings (over $1.5 billion of compensation has been paid to bereaved families by the federal vaccine injury compensation system since 1988) to allow a non-vaccinated child to be refused day care, school, college, or employment,” says Dr. Koren.

Mr. Turner is also lead counsel in a case brought against Barrett by Dr. Don Harrison, the chiropractor who founded and leads Chiropractic Biophysics.

Join The Foundation for Health Choice Free, Make a Contribution

Dr. Koren, Jim Turner and others have formed The Foundation for Health Choice (www.foundationforhealthchoice.com ) to fight for health care freedom.

The Foundation for Health Choice has a comprehensive multi-phase strategy to advance consumer access to the wide variety of health and wellness initiatives available to consumers that do not involve drugs, surgery or radiation, including:
° Providing access to information currently resisted by the established medical system,
° Investigating and reporting on activities and organizations that undermine chiropractic, naturopathic, homeopathic, acupuncture and other non dug based approaches to health and well being,
° Working to eliminate concealment of evidence of such modalities’ usefulness, the undercutting of insurance programs for patients, and the subverting of government inquiries by special interests,
° And numerous other activities to eliminate the monopoly over health care that currently exists in this country.
Says Dr. Koren, “The Foundation needs members and donors, especially monthly donors, to sustain its activities. Ten dollars a month from enough people can make a big difference.

Please join us. Visit us, write to us, support us at www.foundationforhealthchoice.com

Tellman came up with a brilliant idea that will energize the program and cause “longevity” of participant: creating cooperative projects or businesses that he can coach us in.

3 groups got formed, and I am part of 2….

Oops, I have to go, I’ll continue later…

The world that we see is made up of light and energy.

We need to plug into this source of energy call it God or as he (James Ray) states, the zero point. (In Kabbalah we call it The Light)

We thrive at the place between chaos and order. Example stressed grapes make the best wine. We must be able to handle the edge.

Wealth comes from the same word Well Being comes from, money is just a small part of wealth.

His coined concept is Harmonic Wealth: It has five parts:

Financial
Relationships
Intellectual mental/ Emotional
Physical
Spiritual

It is not about balancing these it is about the specific key that fits into the universe in the NOW

Sometimes we have more focus in Financial and that effect relationship and physical world. It is a flow, a synergy.

Your results are the truth in your life. Look around and see what you have, and then work it from there.

To have change you must work at a different level. Choose any of these five and work it and the others will respond also.

He said we must work on the HOW from the inside.

He talked about our DNA as being the key to attracting and producing more light or Life.

We must relax or DNA to do this. Tight DNA less light.

We loosen our DNA by experiencing more LOVE, JOY, GRATITUDE, and BEAUTY. No cost to any of these, great start.

We tighten with worry, fear, anxiety, anger, greed, and so on.”

I am impressed especially by two statements above: the one in the title: stressed grapes make the best wine. I think this is under the truism that you must stretch yourself beyond what’s comfortable for the Light to find any vessel in you. Your vessel, when you are not stretching, is full. And you know what happens when you try to pour tea into a full cup? It flows, but in the saucer and then on the table and then on the floor. When I say Light, I mean energy to do more, feel more, have more, love more, enjoy more. So, very counter-intuitive (misnomer alert!): the more you are willing to be uncomfortable the more light you can get, in any moment.

The other statement I like is the one about the tight DNA: “We must relax or DNA to do this. Tight DNA less light.

We loosen are DNA by experiencing more LOVE, JOY, GRATITUDE, and BEAUTY. No cost to any of these, great start.”

When I first started to do the Healing Codes, August of 2005, I was so tightly wound, that I got almost no light to survive. I had a growth on my lower arm that seemed to love it. The tighter I was the more it grew.

I started to do the “codes” on this skin growth by doing the code for Joy. When I started I wasn’t even able to smile… I could feel as the sadness left my body, the tightness released, and on the 3rd day the growth first changed color from angry red to a paler pink, and by the end of the day it shrank and fell off. It left a white spot the size of a dime on my arm. I still have it, shrunk a little but it is still there.

So what am I saying? That as I put my attention on joy and gratitude, my whole being became looser, softer, malleable, and the Light could come in and do what the Light does: put Life back to life.

A great lesson I haven’t forgotten.

It is fun and funky. I have created a site there (they call it lens… I don’t know why just yet) and my address there is http://www.squidoo.com/newincomesource/

My site is nothing much yet, but other sites are spectacular. Go visit.

Second part is learning, re-learning this whole niche thing. I have been feeling very confident… except. Today I listened to one of my teachers’ Joshua Shafran’s live presentation with Randy Gage and a 3rd person whose name I didn’t catch.

One of the attendees of the seminar had a niche for smoking cessation… the said it is not a good niche, if your product is working you have to start to look for new customers… And that, even though I may have heard it before, had a dramatic effect on me: a client/friend/provider/collegue, of mine, Pam, has just picked a niche: addiction. And even though it feels like a sexy topic, it is not a good niche, you can’t offer them products for years, because outside of their problem nothing is in common with them… of course if you were in the business of giving them what they are addicted to: you would have a goldmine. Wow… I am embarrassed and elated.

Jan’s temporary site is here

It was the first multi speaker event where I have a feeling that I am actually going to implement a lot of what I learned here… so I definitely got my money’s worth.

Jim Edwards is the most generous marketer I know, and it is great to be a beneficiary of someone’s generosity at last.

I am going to sign up to be an affiliate of his stuff later tonight and I’ll post some links to my favorite stuff that he has published: they are definitely worth buying, whether I make a commission or not, highly recommended.

So stand by, and watch this blog for further info. xoxo
Sophie