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Healing Cards -October 12-14, 2011
I was guided to bring to you some “Healing Cards” A Daily Practice for Maintaining Spiritual Balance - By Carlline Myss and Peter Occbiogrosso: Today’s Healing card is:
October 13, 2011
” The Soul is on this Earth or it’s own delight.”
“The Soul is on this Earth or it’s own delight. Consider this amazing possibility: You incarnated on this earth just to experience the joy of being alive. Do you even know what gives you joy? Do something about that today.”
Guide Book additional Message: Sometimes the simplest wisdom is the hardest to acknowledge-like the fact that pleasure and joy can be beneficial to your health. When mystical poets such as Rumi and Kabir use objects of beauty and delight, like roses or wine, as metaphors for the Divine, they’re subtly linking the excitement of Earthly pleasures with Divine enjoyment. Recent medical research seems to agree that what pleases us-beautiful music, delicious food, and soothing aromas-can also improve our health and help us resist illness. Internalizing the world of natural beauty with the soul’s capacity of joy expressed in these sayings (the first two from the Sufi poet Rumi, the third from a Chinook prayer) helps us harmonize with the aesthetic balance and pleasure they provide. As the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart points out, things in themselves are never bad, only our propensity to become attached to them to the point whee we can’t easily let them go.
John Moyne and Coleman Barks. Open Secrets: Versions of Rumi. Rutland, Vt, : Threshold Books, 1984.
Colemen Barks and Michael Green. The Illuminated Rumi. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
E. Barrie Kavasch and Karen Baar. American Indian Healing Arts: Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life. New York: Bantam, 1999.
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., and David Sobel, M.D. Healthy Pleasures. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 1990.
Cynthia`s Comments: I have realized myself when I get flowers, a complement, a new out fit, or a gift; just to name a few, I do feel better and I am happier. I remember that it was my birthday and I was feeling blue, they kids did not say anything in the morning, nor did my husband. But by mid afternoon, my daughter gave me some flowers, my husband also gave me flowers after he came home from work and friends called and I got a lot of Birthday wishes on my Facebook page. I noticed that through out the day from feeling blue in the morning to letting that feeling go and becoming more and more happier through out the day. I did not realize that I was loved and cared about that much. Just a simple pleasures can help with your health. Today is a really good day to start by just giving someone a single flower, take out your friend for lunch, or maybe even make them lunch, give your children a hug and let them know how much you love them and then give them a small amount of money just because or have something they always what and give it to them. It is a great day just to sit and have a glass of wine at the end of the day and just sit and breath deeply. I do believe that simple and big pleasure can help in the healing of the body, mind and soul. When we are happy, your vibrational energy changes and helps make the body, mind, and soul more in balance and when that happens the body, mind and soul heals in a wonderful way.
So go out today and have a simple pleasure and enjoy what your life has to offer you!
Sending the Healing Light of Love! Cynthia

October 12, 2011
“Forgiveness means more to God than sacrifice”.
“Forgiveness means more to God than sacrifice.Forgive one person today. Open your heart to that person, and release unnecessary suffering from the past. Feel the peace that follows from this simple act”.
Guide Book additional Message: This insight ties together the Jewish tradition contained in the Hebrew Bible with the teaching of Jesus from the New Testament. In the book of the prophet Hosea (6:6), written during the last years of northern kingdom of Israel, God speaks directly: “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.” The message was clear: The old rituals of animal sacrifice to placate a vengeful God were to be replaced by an emphasis on compassion for one’s neighbor. When asked to name the most important commandment of the hundreds listed in the Torah, Jesus singled out two teaching that emphasize—Love of God and Love of neighbor. And when the Pharisees questioned why he would eat the “tax collectors and sinners, ” Jesus challenged them back by quoting Hosea: “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:12-13). That transition in the Jewish and Christian traditions, from fear to love as a basis for relating to the Divine as well as to other human being, has become the starting point for most of today’s spiritual teachers. But their insights owe a lot to the teachers and prophets who preceded them.
Cynthia’s Comments: I believe that Forgiveness is one of the most important challenges we as humans have to learn how to do and it is not an easy one, but do-able! It does take practice and patience and the understanding of letting go of that energy(feeling) of hurt completely go. For most of us we hold on to these feelings of hurt and the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body pain in one form or another. We need to make Forgiveness one of your daily routines so when some thing really big happens we will know what to do and how it will feel. A good friend of mine helped me with this and it works magic. It comes from Hawaii, it is called “Ho-oponopono” meaning, “Making Things Right”. All you have to do is repeat the simple phrase:
Dear Father
I am sorry
Please forgive me
I Love You
And Thank you
As you keep repeating this phrase think of the person you would like to forgive. I started with myself first in a situation that I had with my husband and then my husband and to let you know it really works! Try it for yourself and feel the sift and the peace in your heart for this simple forgiveness and love prayer. Here is also recorded version:
May you feel the power of Forgiveness in your life, along with peace, joy, love and happiness!

Sending the Healing Light of Love! Cynthia
Stress Triggers Back Pain!
Stress Triggers Back Pain!
Stress and other emotional factors are believed to play a major role in low back pain, particularly chronic low back pain. Many people unconsciously tighten their back muscles when they are under stress, stud
ies revealed.
Low back pain is used to describe a range of symptoms. Depending on the cause, low back pain may be dull, burning, or sharp. It may be felt at a single point or over a broad area.
It can come on gradually or suddenly and may occur with muscle spasms or stiffness.
Back pain can either be acute or chronic. Acute lasts for less than three months and most people gain relief after about 4 to 6 weeks of home treatment.
Chronic on the other hand lasts longer than three months.
Experts said stress causes tense muscles which are tight and feel “hard” to the touch.
People who are stressed often have neck, shoulder, and low back pain. This may be caused by constant tension in the muscle because of stress. Stress also affects rheumatoid arthritis.
Easy remedies:
For chronic back pains, simple home remedies will ease the pain. Applying ice for 5 to 15 minutes every two or three hours will do a lot of help. Taking a hot shower or using a heating pad or hot water bottle can do wonders for some.
Others opt the fast and easy relief from pain medicines like Tramadol. Taking Tramadol on a regular schedule usually works best instead of waiting until the pain is severe. A number of online pharmacies including drugstoretm.com. carry Tramadol.
For the first day or two, rest in a comfortable position. Try lying on your side with a pillow between your knees. Or lie on your back on the floor with a pillow under your knees.
Medical experts advise patients to get back to their normal activities as soon as possible. Movement helps your muscles stay strong. Staying in bed for more than 1 or 2 days, they said, can actually make the problem worse.
Walking is the simplest and perhaps the best exercise for the lower back.
However, if symptoms are severe or pain does not stop even after two weeks of self care, it is best to consult a doctor. Stronger pain medicines and physical therapy may be necessary.
Strive to make your lives stress-free as stress is one of the main causes of back pains.
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Cynthia’s Comments:
I agree that when you get back pain because of stress, you can use some easy remedies like ice, and heat; but it is important that you use them wisely and when it is deemed too. If you just got a sore back today
then
use ice first for the first three days. There is always inflammation when that occurs after a injury. Then after that you can use cold and hot, usually 10 minutes each, twice to three times a day. I do not agree that an easy relief is meditation, because it is like a bandage on a sore; it helps for now but it hurts more when you ripe off the bandage and the sore is still there. I would always try the natural way first; Ice, peppermint essential oil massage blend, self-massage, Trigger point self-massage,heat, and rest. There is also another natural way to help a sore back is breathing. Deep breathing for pain relief. It is very easy; settle your self and take a slow deep breath in and hold just for a second and the
n slow and very slowly breath out. Do this deep breathing until the sharp pain is gone. If you have tried all of these natural healing remedies than I would try medication. Please read direction carefully when using any kind of medications. It is also very important that you never stop moving when you have any kind of back pain, unless the pain gets worse and worse go see your medical Doctor as soon as possible or go to the emergency. Always listen to what your body; it is trying to tell you something! Just remember there are no side effects in trying all natural first. To all of you with back pain, take the Natural Healing Journey first, You will be pleasantly surprised!
Here is a great book to help you with your back pain naturally:
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