July issue 2016

Aura ImbarusFrom East to West in Search of a Beautiful Spirit

SOULCIALIZEby TARA-JENELLE WALSCH

By MICHAEL K RAMIREZ

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ContentsAURA IMBARUS 6

SOULCIALIZE by Tara-Jenelle Walsch 22 HELLO HOLLYWOODby Allison Chance 26

THE COST OF ENOTIONAL DEPENDENCYby Luca Bosurgi 28

FAMILY MATTERSby Frank Daly 32

THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVINGYOUR OWN CONVERSATION WITH GODby Annie Sims 34

THE FALSH PROPHETby by Michael White Ryan 36

NUTRITION SHAKE by Michael K Ramirez 40

PAST LIFE THERAPHY by Ann C. Barham, MA, LMFT 42

THE POWER OF POSITIVE WORDSby Arnaus Saint-Paul 46

THE FIRST ELEMENTEMOTIONAL WOMDINGby Sunita Pattani 50

A FAMILY OF HEARTby Jan Diana 56

MARIA-ELENA INFANTINO 60

JESS WAYNE 66

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From East to West in Search of

a Beautiful Spirit

It All Began in Transylvania - The Land Beyond the ForestsTransylvania, the land of Dracula, surrounded by mountains, thick forests, and mesmerized by clean rivers in a world filled with history and engraved in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque architecture, is where Aura Imbarus was born. People of the Western Hemisphere commonly associate this part of the world with vampires due to Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, the famous novel, Dracula. Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means “on the other side of the woods” and was first referred to in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning “beyond the forest.” This mysterious land has been dominated, conquered, and fought over, and this is where Aura’s life was rooted and developed.

Aura Imbarus


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Sibiu: Her LoveSibiu is one of the most important cultural centers of Romania. In 2007 it was named European Capital of Culture along with the city of Luxembourg. For-merly the center of the Transylvanian Saxons, the old city of Sibiu was ranked as "Europe's 8th most idyl-lic place to live" by Forbes. Sibiu’s first official record dates back to 1191, when Pope Celestine III confirmed its existence under the name Cibinium at that time. Starting with the 14th century, Sibiu became the most important ethnic German city among the seven cities that gave Transylvania its German name Siebenburgen, which literally translates ‘seven citadels’. The German and Hungarian communities have blended nicely over the centuries, giving Aura her “melting pot” roots.

Aura and the Imbarus FamilyGreek roots, Hungarian and German blood, Romanian ancestry all blended nicely in Aura’s small body when she came into this world. A total mischief since she was born, and inquisitive beyond belief, she received the unconditional attention of Buni, her beloved pa-ternal grandmother. In addition, there were the core values instilled by her Bunu, paternal grandfather, and the love and admiration of her parents, Rica and Stefan. They thought of her as being the darling of the world.

By the time she was four, she already knew how to read the newspaper and write in cursive. Grandpa took her on endless walks down sunny streets and empty parks, chatting on and on about physics, chemistry, Dar-win’s theory of evolution and eternal life. They often returned to the row of chestnuts trees, the ones Aura loved so much, and hand in hand they dissected the rules of existentialism, nihilism and Nietzsche’s struggle with God.

Human arteries and the ‘three-pound universe’– the brain – were Aura’s favorite topics. Her childhood was an adventure, climbing the trees, playing hide-and-seek with her best friends she used to call “sisters,” Monika Szekely and Daniela Neagoie, ice-skating on frozen ponds, ‘robbing’ the neighbors of their ap-ples, pears, and plums, getting into fights with boys, all while maintaining straight A’s in school. Painting and drawing, playing volleyball, ballet and running track and field were her life. Fashion came in at a young age as well, while she was tearing off her Barbie dolls’ clothes to make new ones for them. Like many of her male friends, she was fascinated by cars. The gifts she always wanted for Christmas were not dolls, but

cars, and more cars, and red cars if possible.

Aura has always been bound by love and pride in her paternal grandparents. Her Buni instilled in her the love for opera and composers such as, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Pucini, Richard Strauss, and Georges Bizet. Her Buni’s love story resembled that of Romeo and Juliet, without the tragic end. Buni came from a mod-est Hungarian family, while Grandpa came from pow-erful Greek roots, from a wealthy and educated family. The Imbarus family was mentioned in writings by the well -known Romanian poet Octavian Goga and by the historian and prime minister, Nicolae Iorga. The Imbarus family had their coat of arms in Vienna, own-ing banks, real estate, many homes, farms with arable land, vineyards and orchards, and large green pastures. Ioan, her Bunu, her paternal grandfather, dated Irma, her grandmother, but was not allowed to marry her, for she was poor and of Hungarian descent, not of the much desired Greek or Romanian heritage. He was forced to marry a rich Greek woman, who died a couple of years after they married. After a long and emotional wait, he returned on bended knee, back to the love of his life – Irma. She took him back, and they were married. Buni was the best wife to Bunu, and even if she only had a two-year college degree, while he had a PhD in Economics, she was educated and polished and made face to the demands of the high-class family she entered. Their love conquered all the barriers imposed by culture, religion, and social and financial status.

Both served as powerful role models to little Aura while she was growing up. The Imbarus family suffered deep losses under the communist regime. Their assets were confiscated by the communists; their phone was bugged, mailed searched, and Aura’s Dad was taken away from home for monthly interrogations. The situa-tion worsened when two of her father’s cousins crossed the border illegally. After being given political asylum in Germany, they badmouthed Ceausescu’s regime on dif-ferent international media channels. The situation was grim. As tension grew, the masses were brainwashed, religion was forbidden, and indoctrination was at its maximum. Winters were long and cold with no gas; food was rationed; electricity was monitored; Christ-mas was stolen, and it seemed, God was dead.

In contrast, was Aura’s family. Buni made her French toast every morning, and Rica, her beloved moth-er, who resembled a young Sophia Loren, was spoil-ing herwith small heart felt gifts. From her Mother, Aura got her charming smile, her gentle touch, her



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giggle and joie de vivre, her kindness and sincerity; from her Dad she inherited a strong will, determina-tion, integrity, and humor, and a sparkling personal-ity. Aura has always been blunt, for lies were never tolerated in her family. People delivered the truth “without gloves” and honesty has been one of the core values she grew up with.

From an early age, Aura was exposed to foreign lan-guages in Romania even though learning them was not a common practice because Romania was a com-munist country and its borders were closed. She al-ways had an inclination for arts: photography, paint-ing, fashion, writing, dance, but she chose to attend a chemistry/math high school initially, wanting topursue a college degree in science. Then, as many teen-agers do, she changed her mind, not once, but many times, swinging from science to law, from physical education to dance, and finally to foreign languag-es and literature. Aura returned to what she initiallystarted a long time ago, her love for philology. Teach-ing was always there, innate somehow. She loved ar-ranging her dolls in rows and pretending to be the teacher, delivering speeches and counseling them. She always loved people, compassion being one of her strengths.

She went to Octavian Goga High School, and from there, graduated with a PhD in World Humanities and the distinction “Cum Laude” from her belovedAlma Mater, Lucian Blaga University where she stud-ied with the brightest minds in Romania, such as: Dr. Dumitru Ciocoi-Pop, President of Lucian Blaga Uni-versity, Doctor Honoris Causa, Professor of American and British Studies; Dr. Andrei Bantas, Romanian lexicographer, translator, and teacher, and Dr. Liliana Ciocoi-Pop, Professor of American, British and Cana-dian Studies.

In 1989, the whole world watched the Romanian Rev-olution as a nation shot its president and his wife ona live broadcast. Aura struggled to understand what the newly elected government was all about, and how the new term “democracy” would be played and un-derstood in her native country.

She worked relentlessly to have the lifestyle she always wanted but that was never available to during the communist regime.



The so-called Marxist theory that everybody is equal, never worked, and Aura never believed in it. Yes, peo-ple are equal (DNA) but they were unique as well, and she felt they should be paid in proportion to their effort, education, and intellect. She believed that if she would do all those things, she would succeed in life. Material possessions started to accumulate and Aura was earning way more than the average Romanian through her ability to maintain multiple streams of income.

However, things just didn’t feel right. A Moon baby, born on July 2, Aura had always been in tune with her feelings. She believed in energies and chakras, em-braced Hinduism and Buddhism at a young age, even though her parents were born and raised in the Greek Orthodox and Lutheran faiths, respectively. The heav-en that everyone was looking for to Aura was a state of mind; the “here” and “there” notions, Earth, Heav-en, and Hell were never embraced, for she never be-longed to any religion, but has always been spiritual.

When Aura was seven years old, she had her first vi-sion of the death of her beloved Grandpa. This was just the beginning of her “peak into the other world.” More premonitions followed. It got to the point where Aura, at the age of fourteen, saw herself walking down a coastline; to the right there was the endless blue ocean and to the left amazing, tall palm trees. This vision become so frequent and imprinted on Aura’s mind that she confessed to her mother, Rica, that she knew she would not stay in her homeland of Romania, but envisioned a country whose name be-gan with the letter “A.”

Still living in a communist country at that time (Ro-mania eventually became free when Aura was eigh-teen), Rica told Aura that those were great daydreams. The high school entrance exam was approaching and Aura told her parents about the topics she perceived would be on the test that she knew were being held in absolute secrecy. She passed the entrance exam with the highest score in her chemistry/math division. As her visions intensified, she preferred to draw, write, and spend a lot of time alone in thought. As a senior, she decided she wanted to pursue a career in languages and literature, so she prepared on her own and cov-ered the whole four-year curriculum in humanities in order to be prepared for the brutal university entrance exam. She even skipped the high school prom to max-imize her intense educational regime. The hard work paid off, and she made it into the top 20 at Lucian Blaga University, English – Romanian division.



It was meeting her family photographer, who told her about the Green Card Lottery as a safe way to come to the United States that changed her life forever. She applied once – and won. The image of the palm trees and shoreline of the ocean became a reality. She moved to America with her husband Michael Chiorean (her college crush), starting a brand new life from ground zero with $400 in her pocket.

America: Los Angeles – the City of Angeles The daydream became a reality. America became her home and Los Angeles her adopted city. From the moment she stepped off the plane at LAX, a feeling of “returning home” overwhelmed her. She knew she was supposed to be here; she knew she had found herself and so the American story began. There were ups and down, tears and distress, long days and long hours of work piled up. She never once complained and never once thought of going back to Romania. This was home to her and she felt it in all her being.

Her degrees transferred over and after a year of work-ing in the hotel industry, she went back to her love of teaching. Back to school at UCLA in order to further her education. There were 14 hr. shifts daily, teaching in the morning full-time while going to school. Her love for teenagers grew stronger every day, and she decided to teach high school full-time and college at night, part-time.

Beautiful characters, amazing young minds, sincere hearts and blunt personalities educated Aura whileshe taught them. Life lessons were exchanged every day; memories were created and lives were touched and changed. Gratitude notes started pouring in from her students, and she knew she was in the right field; this was her passion. If you love what you do, you will never work one day in your life. This was Aura’s case.

Teaching was second nature to her, and so was writ-ing. Someone once said, the moment you became a journalist, you will always be one. Aura went back to writing for different journals and magazines in the US, Romania, and UK. In 2010, she published her life story in a memoir that became an Amazon best-seller and was an entry for the Pulitzer Prize, entitled Out of the Transylvania Night: A Story of Tyran-ny, Freedom, Love and Identity detailing her life in Romania during the Communist regime. She was featured on NBC, ABC, CNBS, Good Morning San Diego, Forbes Romania, etc.

In 2016, because of her love for young minds, she founded See Beyond Magazine, a publication focus-ing on the challenges faced by adolescents in the 21st century, motivating and inspiring them to do their best while becoming their best.

Always remembering her roots and love for Transyl-vania, Aura Imbarus became the Cultural Director of Viitorul Roman, a Romanian Cultural and Aid Society in California while being the President and Co-Founder of RAPN – Romanian American Profes-sional Network. She now sits on the Board of Wes-ley Foundation UCLA and is a mentor for Scott L. Schwartz Children’s Foundation, a non-profit and professional organization whose mission is to help chil-dren with disabilities.

Following a period of emotional and financial dev-astation, Aura pledged to herself to become her own therapist and motivator; she started emulating the best motivational speakers in the world and training with them over a period of five years.

In order to understand the nature of human beings, while at the same time on a quest for her own spiri-tual awakening, Aura went to Brazil to meet a world-renowned spiritual guru – John of God. Those three weeks reconnected Aura to her own visions’ journey, premonitions, quantum physics, and convinced Aura that she should become a licensed clinical hypnother-apist. She went back to school for another year and trained with Dr. Wanita Holmes. Her love for the work of Dr. Brian Weiss, found her training with him in past life regression therapy at the Omega Institute, NY.

Her passions of learning, reading, teaching and writ-ing continue as an adult; she still adores fashion and sporty cars. She is in love with traveling all over the world, and enjoys sports and nature; meditation is a big part of her life; she still has premonitions and be-lieves that we are all energy, and that words express just 10% of who we really are.

For more info, please see: www.auraimbarus.com www.seebeyondmag.com Out of the Transylvania Night on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


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John of God, BrazilBeyond Belief


"For Those Who Believe,No Words Are NecessaryFor Those Who Do Not Believe,No Words Are Possible."

Saint Ignatius of LoyolaThese words were written at the Casa de Dom Inacio, a serene center in the small village of Abadiania, Brazil, I visited exactly three years ago. With an open mind and an even bigger open heart, I decided to go where my soul was guiding me, and that was to this center forgotten in time and space, painted in blue and white and surrounded by lush vegetation, trees, bushes, and multicolored flowers. Around 7 am, this quiet place came to life, and “white snowflakes” were cascading and inundating the streets. Human be-ings all dressed in white, all coming here from all four corners of the world having one belief - healing - were powerfully guided by their own intuition to Dom Ina-cio, the most incredible spiritual healer I have ever had the chance to meet. The center is called after one of the entities, St Ignatius de Loyola, founder of the Jesu-its, who comes through João de Deus aka John of God. João has been working free of charge for more than thirty years at this center, curing people of all kind of illnesses such as, AIDS, cancer, auto immune system disorders, sport injuries, accidents, addictions, and a variety of emotional disorders so many people suffer from in this super stressed world of the 21st century.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are “office days” when João de Deus or John of God is seeing peoplelike any doctor would see his new and regular patients. He has two sessions, and everybody will be seen no matter how late at night it would be. In his case nobody is turned down for not having the right medical insur-ance or money. I guess the work of the Spirit is free, after all! Some of the procedures done by John of

God and the entities that are coming through his body are invisible surgeries.

Born and raised in a world where in order to believe it, you have to see it first, the idea of invisible surger-ies has definitely stretched my faith. And still, all big discoveries were “seen” first with the power of the mind, and then they were achieved and manifested in the “real world” with a visible track record of success. The Wright Brothers had nobody to copy; Steve Jobs - nobody to imitate; Walt Disney – nobody to plagia-rize; Edison - nobody to bootleg. But they all believed in themselves and in the power of their thoughts, and,of course, the results fascinated the world, revolution-ized the laws of physics, mechanics, math, and created a new, improved society for all of us.

So, I was thinking to myself, “what if I would believe in these invisible surgeries, and what would it take to have one myself?” Well, always be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.

On Aug 28, 2013, standing in line, all dressed in white and accompanied by Adrienne Grierson, the most amazing guide someone can possibly have while vis-iting Brazil and the Casa of Dom Inacio, João started scanning each and every person as he/she approaches him and decides what is the best treatment for him/her. Crystal beds, a visit to the holy waterfall, herbs and, last but not least – surgery are the recommended treat-ments. I gave Adrienne my list of three things I want-ed to be helped with: release of all the gathered fears while growing up in a communist regime in Romania, release my Mother’s soul to go to her Creator (Mom passed away on Jan 1, 2009 due to liver cancer), and un-block my mind, so my creative juices can spring again.


Most surgeries are done in an invisible way and only by request they will be performed in a visible way, al-though as Adrienne explained to me the first day I arrived in Brazil, entities are working everywhere and the treatment has begun as soon as people arrive in Brazil or even before that. Energy is everywhere, so a geograph-ical location of a human body on this planet is irrele-vant to these spirits. Love is the only feeling that heals and the entities’ job was to clean people’s energetic field to enlighten them and become balanced in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual realms.

We derive from God, from the Universe and, as the part is a reflection of the whole, so are we a reflection of our Creator. Love is the red thread that links all of us no matter where we are on this planet or beyond the material world.

“Surgery,” said João de Deus after looking at me for the second time that day. I have known that all along, and I had a dream about it, so tears started gathering in my eyes. “This is what I came here for,” I said toAdrienne, and I am happy that I can get it.

Aug 29, 2013, queues are formed, people are moved through the current rooms of the centre to see João de Deus, while I am being escorted to another loca-tion: the surgery quarter. In Portuguese the word 'cor-rente' means chain; they are formed by mediums, who are meditating and helping João hold the frequency of the incorporated entity, while he is healing people, one by one. With another 49 people we are sitting in benches, in rows and the ritual starts with prayers being said in Portuguese and English. Small “ants” start crawling on my right foot, and they advance up to my stomach. A huge gap is being opened in my stomach, an invisible orifice is being carved, and I feel an over-whelming emptiness. The ants are trotting back on my right leg and down to the ground they go. Silence. Not one sound. An eerie feeling and then I hear the prayer again while in Portuguese someone is announc-ing that the surgeries have been performed and we are ready to go. All these happened in 30 minutes, but I felt as just five minutes passed by. Einstein was right: time is relative.

Two years have taken me to realize what has happened that day: now I am at peace with my Mother’s pass-ing and even if I feel her every day, I am not chaining her down anymore. I am back to my crazy self living life on the edge (as freely as possible) and my creative juices have been released again, and not only am I working on another book, but more than that, I start-

ed a motivational and inspirational publication called See Beyond Magazine; it is done mostly by teens for young minds and young-at-heart adults. Its purpose is to guide people beyond the obvious, finding their in-ner positive warrior.

Everything is a matter of belief after all, and whatever you believe in – either way you are right!

Aura Imbarus, Ph.D. is an awarded educator, freelance journalist, and author of “Out of the Transylvania Night,” a memoir detailing her life in Romania during the communist regime. Her latest work, “Returning Home: A Journey of FindingOneself ” is due out in early 2016.

She has a BA in Foreign Languages; MA in American and British Literature; PhD in World Humanities. She has been teaching high school and college level classes in So Cal since 1998. Aura was featured on NBC, ABC, CNBC, Good Morning San Diego, Forbes Romania, etc.

Aura is the Cultural Director of Viitorul Roman, a California Nonprofit Cultural and Aid Society. She is also the President and Co-Founder of RAPN- Romanian American Professional Network and President of EuroCircles in LA.

She is on the Board of Wesley Foundation, UCLA, a Reconciling Community & Immigrant Welcom-ing Community, and she is involved with Scott. J. Schwartz Foundation helping children with disabili-ties.”

She writes for The Global Woman Magazine in London, Beverly Hills Times Magazine, The Immigrant, Hermannstader Zeitung in Transylvania and she also works as a freelance journalist for Enter-tainment and Sports Today!



SOULCIALIZEfrom the book, Soul Courage

by TARA-JENELLE WALSCH

Soulcializing is a way of being. It’s the daily practice of creating truly conscious interactions by being present and being authentic. Not only being mindful of yourself and how you are feeling, but mindful of those around you and how they are feeling—and then, how you are feeling about how they are feeling.

It’s about checking in with your personal energy, letting your walls and inner chatter drop and choosing to be fully present, then making an effort to connect by ac-knowledging others in some way—whether it’s simply looking at them and saying hello, offering them a com-pliment, or striking up a conversation.

When we embrace this simple approach and integrate it into our lives, we experience ourselves as a whole being; with mind, body and soul expressing together in harmony.

It’s the kind of thing that often happens naturally when you’re in a good mood, except this is different, because it doesn’t happen automatically, it happens in-tentionally. The act of Soulcializing involves conscious-ly reminding yourself to feel, and to share your feelings with others.

Soulcializing is not about being a social person; it is about being a soulful person. It is about being full of your Soul, and—at last—out of your mind.

Someone may have 100,000 friends on Facebook, their phone may be constantly ringing off the hook, and they may even be going out five nights a week, lighting up the town. This person would most definitely be consid-ered social, yet they may not actually be Soulcializing in the least bit.

Why? Because the act of Soulcializing is not about being

out physically, it is about being “out” energetically and emotionally. It's not about having your outside go out—rather, it’s about having your inside be out.

Soulcializing is also not about being unnaturally extro-verted or gregarious.

This is important to know, so that you aren’t mislead into thinking that you’re required to “be” someone you're not. Soulcializing isn't about changing who you are—it’s the complete opposite. It’s about bringing who you are out of hiding.

Why Soulcialize?Since all of life is about energy, with “like” energy attracting “like” energy, and because Soulcializing allows everyone to experience all the energies of their whole being (body, mind, and Soul), by practicing this daily, you will soon begin to attract more connection and wholeness into your life. In doing so, I believe you’ll find yourself becoming open to life in a way you may never have thought possible, and as a result, you’ll be more fulfilled.

Let me give you an example: When we Soulcialize, we often hug others without giving it a second thought. That's our Soul instinctively reaching out and connect-ing with another. It wants to do this all the time.

It not only wants to reach out and connect with others, but it earnestly wants to reach in and connect with you. Your Soul wants to connect with your mind and body to experience Itself more fully. And sometimes it doesget to reach in and connect—little scraps here and there. And if, on occasion, conditions are agreeable and things are just right, your mind will be open to your Soul connecting with it in a larger, more sustained way.


But Soulcializing is not about waiting for conditions to be right, or simply welcoming good things into your life. It’s about intentionally waving them in by creating the right conditions.

Through all of your awareness, presence, deep feel-ing and full, authentic expression, you have awakened your mind to the Soul’s presence. Now it can empower your mind and body to manifest all of your desires—in-cluding your Soul’s desire to feel Oneness. This empow-ering place of unity (in place of isolation) is the perfect space from which to manifest all of the life’s goodness.

Everyone hopes to have abundance in their lives—whether it is physical abundance (better health), emo-tional abundance (love & connected relationships), spiritual abundance (inner clarity, purpose & wisdom) or monetary abundance (moo-la!). When we Soulcial-ize, a new flow of energy, the energy of the Soul, begins to move through and around us, and life as we know it begins to change.

We’ve shifted ourselves to a higher vibration, and since like energy does attract like energy, the mere act of focusing on the Soul by opening our heart to more of life (more goodness, more love, more abundance, more freedom, and more Oneness) brings more of these aspects of life to us—all the result of a single decision: the choice to engage and connect with ourselves and others at a deeper level. This is about living “Soul first,” and is done through re-focusing on the Soul by “check-ing in” with how the mind and body are causing you to feel at any given moment.

The Irony of Seeking ConnectionIn a supreme irony, it can often be our very desire for connection that stops us from creating it.

We may be reluctant to reach out to others because we believe that before connection with others must come the approval of others, and we fear that by fully feeling and expressing our emotions we will scare others away or turn them off, creating a disconnection between us—exactly the opposite of what we desire.

This fear can lead us to the belief that it’s necessary to keep our energy aligned with other people in order to continue staying connected. We can get so consumed with keeping the approval of others that we unconscious-ly match their energy in order to keep the connection. In the process, we far too often deprive ourselves of our

own joy, managing the feelings of others while ignoring our own.

By going along with the behavior and energy of others despite the fact that it is not our true nature, or even the mood we're in, not only are we abandoning ourselves by not expressing our feelings, but we are also betraying ourselves by taking on someone else’s behavior to gain their approval. (For instance, a really sweet boy might “energy match” the tough kids of the block in order to appear “cool.”)

A more common example of this is if you're not in a mood to go out, but all of your friends are, so you do it anyway, abandoning how you really feel and betraying your genuine behavior with hopes of being approved of and staying connected.

Another way that we unwittingly engage in Energy Matching with others is through lying. These are most-ly “little white lies,” just fibbing here and there, to pre-serve the current situation or relationship. Some people are aware of the lying, but just not aware of why they are doing it. They may even question themselves later, as in: “Now why in the world did I say that to them?”Other times people aren’t even aware that they are fibbing. It’s just something that “happens” before they know it, as a product of an unconscious survival mech-anism.

Regardless of whether the fibs are something as small as agreeing with someone even though we may secret-ly disagree, or a more substantial lie such as fabricating an entire story—and despite the fact that both are spawned from the desire to maintain the flow of har-monious energy in the moment—we are disowning our-selves in the process.

Our conscience has gotten lackadaisical and allowed our mind to seduce us into believing that we’re protected from abandonment by sacrificing our true selves for a moment of harmony. But it is the opposite.

Rather than go through any part of this Energy Match-ing dance, we often—when experiencing highs and lows in our life—unconsciously seek out others who we know in advance are feeling similar emotions about something in their life. Then the mutual exchange, whether it is joy-ful or painful, becomes a shared celebration.


This is why misery loves company. The people involved are creating a connection with their pain, and further-ing that connection through the expressing of it, which creates an illusion of safety and deepened compatibility between them.

This is also why when we are feeling excited and joyful and we’re around others who are feeling the same way, our love and admiration for them is heightened, and the like energy between us creates an inebriation of sorts

If there is no one around who we know is experiencing feelings similar to the ones we’d like to share, we’ll like-ly retreat to those with whom we already have an exist-ing connection, hoping that we can rely on their energy expanding or contracting in harmony with ours, accord-ing to our needs.

We often resist fully feeling and expressing around others who aren’t in our safe zone or who aren’t expe-riencing similar emotions because our mind fears thatthis would swing us into the danger zone It’s our thought that if we “risk” feeling and expressing ourselvesfully around those whose emotional compatibility or congeniality is uncertain, our connection with them may be flawed or broken due to the raising of uncom-fortable energy between us.

Our mind gives us all sorts of reasons and rationales in support of these fears. It will tell us, for instance, that if someone is not in a place of joy, it may be difficult for that person to listen to, let alone feel, another human be-ing who is. There is also the thought that we will be dis-connected through envy. What if we express our joy and it makes the other person envious and sad? That could instantly disengage us.

Likewise, our mind will convince us that if someone is not in the space of pain, it sometimes becomes unbear-able to feel the pain of others. There is also the thought that we will be disconnected through another person’s feeling of having little or nothing to offer us during our time of distress. That could instantly disengage us as well.

Why does our mind imagine it’s likely that we'll encoun-ter these kinds of responses from others? Once again, likely because many of us don’t even give ourselves the gift of feeling our own joy and our own pain—so we can’t imagine others being capable of feeling it with us.What is unfortunate is that the very thing we are with-

holding, taming or controlling in hopes of connecting more with others, is the very thing that can deepen our connection with them.

So yes, it takes courage to move out of our own story and really be there with another person: Celebrating their joy in full presence without competing feelings of envy or despair around our lack of joy. Comforting them through their pain in full presence without com-peting feelings of wishing that someone would comfort us through our pain.

This is why feeling and expressing our emotions always leads to connection, which guides us to a place of per-sonal freedom so large that it expands our fulfillment of life. And then the ultimate revelation occurs: Living with Soul Courage at this level soon shows us that there is no need for courage at all, because there is truly noth-ing to fear.

And so, it takes Soul Courage to find out that you don’t need courage at all anymore.

Tara-jenelle Walsch is the author of the book, Soul Courage and the founder and spirit behind the Soulebrate greeting card company, the cards of which are being sold in hundreds of stores worldwide, carrying messages of encouragement & empowerment. She also speaks publicly about a personal development program she created called Soulcialize that increases emotional awareness and inspires others to live soul first, which she believes creates Soul Connection and has the ability to enrich the world at large.

Tara-jenelle was raised in Annapolis, Maryland and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently lives in in the beautiful hills of Ashland, Oregon with her pug, Sascha.



Expressions Unlimited“Showcase Sizzle”

by ALLISON CHANCE

HELLO HOLLYWOOD

Bobbie Chance’s A-List Thursday Night Showcase is a Hollywood Legend. It is a Star-Making Showcase, performed by thehottest, freshest, castable talent, performing scenes from the best films, tv series, and plays. Two and a half hours of non-stop raw, emotional entertainment. Academy Award Winner Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Giovanni Ribisi, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, and Martin Lawrence are among some of the celebrities that have worked out on Bobbie’s Stage. All celebrities, all high rolling industry professionals, all movie investors are welcome to our Showcase on a weekly basis.

(opposite page)Picked by E! Entertainment, Acting Coach to the Stars Bobbie Chance with Exec. Producer Jeff Jenkins of Bunim/MurrayProductions (Producers of the iconic Kardashian Show, I AM Cait, etc.). Here on Expressions Unlimited's stage, taping 'The Boy George Pilot Project' the infamous artist George himself taking his brilliant artistic creative skills as a singer and entering into the exciting world of the dramatic arts.

credit by Robert Weigand photos courtesy of Renowned.

With Boy George



The Cost of Emotional Dependency...

by LUCA BOSURGI

And How A Revolutionary New Protocol & Virtual

Reality Are Freeing Us of Our

Self-Destructive Behaviors


Imagine a world where you can enjoy everybody be-cause everyone in your world is there by choice, not need. Imagine being able to use all of your mental power to invent, conquer, achieve, and love instead of wasting your brain's resources on seeking love and validation from others. Imagine the freedom that comes from feeling equal to everyone, choosing instead of being chosen, or loving unconditionally insteadof trying to secure love and appreciation from some-one else. Imagine the power of being beautiful, skilled, and rich because you are, instead of trying to acquire those as a means to secure emotional rewards. Imagine being able to love without fear, and simply enjoying it. Imagine a life without all the pain, fears, and addic-tions resulting from emotional dependency. Throughout my life, I have loved and studied the beauty that the mind holds. One of the main focuses of my research has been the daunting condition of emotional dependency. I realized from an early age that dependency upon others for emotional support was not natural in adulthood, and there was another way to live. I knew there had to be a way to release this unhealthy need for others and transform painful emotional dependency into highly rewarding interde-pendency. I embraced the challenge and it became my life's mission. To address emotional dependency I needed to under-stand the cause of it; therefore, I worked to gain knowl-edge about the purpose of our mind, body, and our lives. I realized that everything in the mind and body is equipment that operates to maximize our efficiency. Our skin, our bones, our thinking, our emotions all

strive to achieve our life's goals of promoting safe and efficient behaviors. This concept evidenced that emotional dependen-cy had a natural value in the course of our lives. By observing the early development of mammals, as well as tribal initiations into adulthood, I was able to iden-tify its purpose. Emotional dependency is built into us from birth to ensure the need for love, safety, valida-tion and guidance toward our parents and educators. This bond with our parents protects our vulnerable lives in childhood and stimulates our early learning. We are meant to transition to emotional and physi-cal independence as we progress through puberty; and these skills are refined during the teenager years. Self-leadership and self-reliance are learned behav-iors that we acquire from our parents. Unfortunately,most parents today do not have the models needed to guide their children toward emotional independence during the impressionable childhood years. When the time comes to release their parental duty, insteadof empowering us with self-reliance, they have left us with the only pathway open to us: to transfer our emotional needs from our parents to the people around us. This is why emotional dependence still exists in adulthood for most of us. We see the result in low self-esteem, self judgement, the choices we make in our relationships, the failure to create or sustain healthy relationships, depression, fear of rejection, addiction, financial struggles and so many other dysfunctionalor self-limiting behaviors. We act out of our need for approval from others.


As soon I identified the origin of this condition, I focused my energy and resources towards finding a solution. The challenge was to identify a methodolo-gy that provides the mind with the same self-reliant models that we were supposed to receive from our par-ents. Through 10 years of research and clinical testing with more than 2,000 clients, I established a protocol offered in a state of deep meditation that guides the mind to self-reliance and the removal of the obsolete behaviors built to cope with emotional dependency. The Bosurgi Method™ is based on the theory that the mind always strives for perfection, implementing and choosing behaviors that grant the best possible re-sponses to one's daily events. Optimal responses are selected by the mind in order to maximize safety and efficiency--whatever the occurrence. Of course, the tools available and the perception of the event's influence or limit our behavioral choice. Meaning that if we are driven by emotional needs, we will implement entirely different life choices from the ones we would do if we were self-reliant. Imagine the different set of behaviors that we would use if we try to be beautiful, smart, rich, cool or confident--in order to gain love and approval, or if instead, we just are, without worrying about judgment or rejection. However self-reliant models, if already in place, are more efficient and safer; therefore the mind will prior-itize them over less-functional emotionally dependent sets of behavior. The Bosurgi Method™ helps the mind to identify those powerful self-reliant models; the same ones we should have received from our parents. As soon as this new clarity is implemented, the mind is free to archive the now-obsolete behaviors. This is the process that searches out obsolete behavioral re-sponses, actions, thoughts, feelings or experiences that trigger the old emotionally-dependent models. As soon as these are retrieved, the mind makes the required behavioral updates, so that in future events, these responses are in tune with the new self-reliant model that you have now set as the priority. This pro-cess is subliminal and effortless, not requiring someone to consciously process or remember events to create change or free oneself. The mind is like a computer, if doesn't need to recreate images and sounds; it can simply browse through millions of events in a fraction of a second, and do the upgrade! While, it may seem very complex, in reality the Bo-surgi Method™ only helps the mind to accelerate the

same evolutionary process that we normally use to learn and improve. My next challenge was to bring this method out of my practice and to the world. Two years ago, the ad-vancement in Virtual Reality technology allowed me to convert my method into a home therapy that can be used anywhere, anytime. Virtual Reality is main-ly used for interactive entertainment, but it has much more value than games and fantasy experiences. It engages our two main senses in a fully-immersive setting that replicates the way we learn natural-ly--through experience. It also offers captivating vi-suals able to calm the mind and keep it focused on the experience. The process enhances this learning environment by guiding the mind into the Theta state, the same state used by Buddhist Monks for mind and spiritual development work. In this emotion-al state, our highly intelligent mind is less distracted, therefore more open, to analyze and acquire alternative models and acceptable guidance for self-reliance. It is so natural and simple. No years of therapy, an-ti-depressant drugs, or multiple seminars. It unleashes your natural powers, creating the freedom for you to experience emotional

Luca Bosurgi is the creator of The Bosurgi Method™ and founder of Mind Fitness Lab. Using the MindFitness phone app coupled with a VR mobile headset, individuals can unwind years of codepen-dency-- to experience com-plete emotional independence in under a month. The easily affordable Bosurgi Method™ has been proven to be effective 95% of the time, radically changing thousands of lives. For more information and to see comments from users, go to www.MindFitnessLab.com



by FRANK DALY

Family Matters

Upon arrival into this productionA character is formed

Molded by those who appear familiar If clay is our substance

Will we ever be permitted to use our own hands?Are we destine to handle this alone?

Our individuality only exists due to family Be it friend or foe

Obligation is not part of the designThe cobblestones that pave our journey

Are laid by family


The moment we arrive to experience this physical world, this place we call home, we are surrounded by those we accept as family. They are like trees in a for-est. They grow with us, provide shelter, give us some-thing to lean on, as well as the opportunity to climb, and at times their branches break sending us falling back to the ground.

We have all heard the saying, “You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family.” This thought allows us to disassociate our character from that of family members that we not feel we connect with, the idea being that if we could choose we would not have chosen this person.

We choose our family before entering this physical ex-perience in order to play out a particular theme and yet at times we wonder what that theme could be and why we would ever choose this experience, especial-ly if it involves great pain and frustration.

If we can accept we asked for a certain theme and these are the characters that were placed on our production set called life, we begin to understand that our family members help us adapt to contrast, whether from love or fear, either way they are on the job.

When we are in a loving family setting it feels easy and comfortable, the feeling we describe as home. What is it about this setting that makes us feel good? Whywhen we are out of this setting do we feel bad? The reason is when we arrive into this physical experience we were already equipped with an internal guiding system that is always directing us to our desires on a path of least resistance. our feelings are an indicator to whether or not we are moving in the right direction. Just as a GPS functions, if we pay attention to the di-rections we gain a sense of confidence knowing the GPS will ultimately lead us to our desired destination, even if we do not understand the logic of each turn. Even if we get distracted and off course, the GPS will recalculate to help us back on track and with a simple u-turn, we are again on course.

When we accept the power of our inner guidance we see our family in a new light. The members that we love dearly and get along with help show us how life is supposed to feel, while the family members we do not connect with allow us to overcome obstacles and gain a greater understanding of our true power. This true power is the ability to stay steadfast in the direction of feeling good. Family enables self-awareness by hold-

ing a mirror to our current state and providing an op-portunity to embrace what is or to change direction if the present state is undesirable. This can seem easy or hard based on our belief about circumstances.

Are we willing to accept there is no inherent built in meaning to anything and that we are the ones who give the circumstance and situations their meaning? If so, we will come to appreciate the true meaning of family because we realize why a family member may upset us. It is nothing they are saying or doing that generates negative feelings, it is the belief we hold about what they have said or done that puts us out of balance. Negativity is generated because the belief we hold is in opposition to what our self guidance system knows perfectly well.

Remember, our guidance system is always moving us towards what is desirable. When we change our beliefs to ones that make us feel better about the situation at hand we find ourselves moving in the right direction.At this place we can see that negative emotions are simply indicators letting us know we are moving in the wrong direction, away from our desired outcome. It isn’t a punishment, it is uncomfortable simply to keep us steadfast in the direction of our desire.

As we understand how our guidance system operates we become the director of our own production. We are the leading character and our family is the supporting cast. The greatest stories are filled with twists and turns leading us to a beautiful outcome.

Frank Daly is a wellness coach and author who has transformed lives for over 15 years with his ability to enable his clients to see beyond the immediate drama of life and connect to the greater whole.

His recent publication, Enjoy the Ride is a simple explanation of how to use your inner guidance system to reach your goals and live a life of joy. Frank lives in Arizona with his wife and son and is currently working on his second book.


THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING YOUR OWN CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

by ANNIE SIMS

“If you do not go within, you go without.”

How many times is this simple admonishment repeated throughout the Conversations With God books? Certainly enough to drive the point home. There are so many powerful, transformative messages in the CWG material, yet, if I had to choose one that’s had the largest impact on my life, it would be this.

Virtually all religions and spiritual teachings advocate going within, through prayer or meditation. Why? Because when we tap into our soul space we tap into that larger part of us that is always purely connected to God. Re-centering in this way is one of the most important spiritual practices we can do.

CWG gives us a larger reason to go within. As most people are taught that communication with God goes only one way—we talk/God listens—CWG invites us to consider the possibility of it going both ways—we talk/God listens and God talks/we listen.

Neale taught us how to do this at his 2008 year-end retreat in his “How To Have Your Own Conversation With God” process. He asked us to consider, if there was just one question we could ask God, what would it be? We each wrote down our question, then he led us on a powerful guided meditation. Once our minds were still and we were all in a very relaxed and receptive place, he softly said, “Now, take out your notepad and pen, and write down the first thing that comes to your mind. Don’t censor it. Just allow the words to flow.” As they meant so much to me, I’d like to share with you here my question and answer from that very first CWG:


“How can I be fully happy in spite of animals’ suffer-ing?Just BE happy. Trust the process. Go on faith.

They come home to me too. They come here because they choose to. They are not unhappy, you just think they are. They are loved and they know it at a soul level. Don't worry about them. I take care of them just as I take care of you—all of you. They are joyous in coming here just as you were. And you thought Neale had all the answers. I talk to you too. I always have and you know it. That's me you hear at night when you get quiet.”

As one by one, people in the retreat started sharing the messages they’d received, it was literally jaw-dropping. It became apparent very quickly that this is an extremely rich experience we can all have. Perhaps most interest-ing is the fact that even though the answers were person-al to different people’s situations, all of them contained wisdom that was universal to all. My husband’s first CWG that day blew me away too. It was beautifully eloquent and quite different from his normal manner of speaking. We both loved the process so much we con-tinued doing it when we got home, especially when we would be down or confused about something. We each now have large collections of our own CWGs!

Since Conversations With God says God is talking to all of us all the time, we get to decide if and how to consciously engage with It. For me, in addition to do-ing CWGs, I gratefully notice little messages and signs I see throughout the day. I also dialogue with God when I wake up in middle of the night. I rarely turn on the light to read myself back to sleep anymore because when the house is quiet and dark I’m very receptive to hearing messages. Same goes for first thing in the morn-ing, when I’m just waking up, so I keep a notepad and pen in my bedside table for jotting down ideas and bits of wisdom that come through.

If you have a problem in your life (and don’t we all!), I encourage you to ask God what is the highest and best way to handle it. Write down your question and thank God ahead of time for any answers that may come through. Then go within, quiet your mind as much as possible in whatever way works best for you, and see if any response comes to you. If you don’t hear anything at first, please don’t be discouraged because this is a spiritual skill that, like any skill, gets better with prac-tice. Try to stay open-minded because messages from

God have an uncanny way of showing up in the strangest ways, in order to get your attention!

If you, like many people, have trouble quieting your mind, Neale has created a tool to help. It’s a recording of his CWG process, much like the one we did at the 2008 retreat. It’s available here for purchase, either by download or on CD:www.cwginvitation.com

In closing, I leave you with a message I received in one of my most profound CWGs. I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to share it with you here, in my very first blog for CWG Voices:

“Go Within for guidance. This is the most important thing any/all of you can do. THIS is what you are here to teach, Annie: That prayer is a two-way communica-tion. Teach our Oneness, that there is no separation from anything and that's why it's so important to get in touch with that on a regular basis. This is how to get your life to take off!”

Annie SimsAward-winning singer/songwriter Annie Sims has composed and performed inspirational songs since 2005 when she toured to eight countries in Europe with best-selling author of Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch.

The tour led to personal training with Walsch and she now serves as Global Director of Conversations With God Advanced Programs, author/instructor of the CWG Online School, and as one of five Conversations With God Life Coaches personally chosen by Walsch.

Her music can be heard at AnnieSims.com and she can be reached for comments or questions at [email protected].

by MICHAEL WHITE RYANwww.languageofspace.com


THE FALSE PROPHETPATH of the HAPPINESS

JUNKIE


When did it all happen, what emotional point in our lives did we take that left turn from our natural “Rite of Passage?” When we turned our back on ourselves and ran away from change, down this so-called path lined with Pink Balloons, Sex, Starbucks and whatev-er pretend happiness, “the path of self-denial”!!! And now in all its glory, has become the bandwagon en-trance to another new religion called “culture.” Are we all sleep-walking? Have we all decided that every challenge is bad by joining the “Comfort Club” because it feels so much better? Really???

When has and when will avoiding self responsibili-ty ever benefit anyone? When we deny, live in denial of the challenges given by Divine Grace, given by the Self, forged by our past-actions and desires to evolve, we have just chucked in the towel and moved on over into the substitute, happy land. It’s oblivious to most, for they are totally unaware of what it is they have en-tered into and probably never will, as those unseen motives drive us towards happiness at the cost of self,in order to promote the new me, me, me! Promoted from what, and from which emotional mindset did we ever give permission?

The unfortunate part of taking a deep dive into ones personality is actually taking the dive, for in this world of complete connection, nothing escapes and nothing has ever escaped. We may turn and hide within our futile mindset, we may substitute, substitute, substi-tute till the cows come home, but it won’t help! The movie Matrix, that’s if it was a movie, explored many reflections in how we function in this so called, real life reality. Forever wanting to move out of that which sucks…..and then wishing we didn’t, as crap feels and tastes better than what is actually real. And so when, what we have sucks is staring us in the face, we face it Yes, No??? When we turn the other cheek and face it square on, life delivers benefits, not to say it will be easy but our evolution does move forward as opposed to the constant pretend forward growth disguised incycles of moving repetition.


It’s never “WHAT WE DO” that defines us, it’s our actions which the status quo expects and confines us to forever repetition. It’s “WHY WE DO” that delivers the results in alignment with the changes one must face which even-tually defines who we truly are!!! The cause comes from within and the connected results show up in our exter-nal behaviors. I find it amazing when a business thinks it is doing well with a profit of 150%, when in reality they are doing themselves a disservice by not looking at diverse options (change), that would easily double that figure. The same applies to us, our logical-thinking-mindset tricks us into thinking we have made a change when we switch from coffee to organic herbal tea. Did we make a change or are we still feeding the habit with a change in product???

It is a sad state of being when what we think is a pos-itive thought, holds us to ransom and we never, never get to discover our true value! It all starts with being aware of what you are already doing to avoid who you are. Every single act repeated, is the self, giving permis-sion to continue down an existing path just so we can get better at being that someone else we were never meant to be. Holy cow could this have merit!

Logic allows us to do all the things in life necessary to live. Logic also gives us the reasons why whatever we do is OK. Logic is the very dam, thought process inside our head that has nothing to do with the understand-ing, observations or knowing what steps are necessary to move you, the human on an evolutionary path of self-discovery. Then to top it all off, we think we are a consciousness being in control of our logical thinking.

Action speaks louder than words, so a wise person once said. We have become a society of thinkers. Our mindset thinks by having a thought it now knows, without having to experience the action. Can the two function separate-ly, yes, does it have anything to do with reality, absolute-ly not! So where do we go from here? If you have been searching, seeking, discovering across multiple modalities and have discovered new knowledge and have changed your lifestyle, great. Now go deep inside and ask the question? Are the difficulties of the past resolved, or are they now the unseen chameleon pretending, change !!!

Yep, you got it, we are on the road to “self-discovery” and that very word describes exactly where the only place you will ever need to shine your flashlight. For we are the long lost…The long awaiting!

SELF-DISCOVERY…SELF-DISCOVER…SELF-RECOVER The essence of Feng Shui is made up of a trinity, Heaven, Earth and Man. The first place to start is with all three. Heaven your father, Earth your mother, Man the self. All three can never be separated if you are seeking “the unfolding”.

Blessings to all, as rain quenches the grounding,

Michael White Ryanis a co-founder with his wife Pamela Edwards of Language of Space.They are leaders insustainable business growth via PerformanceDesign and Performance Code. Sustainable designencompasses both Western and Easternphilosophies including advanced Feng Shui principles, Environmental Design, Buildings, Alternative Health, Business Advisory Consultants and 20 plus years as entrepreneurs.Recognized in the top 100 globally and are Americas Leading Feng Shui Business Consultants.

They are on faculty at CEO Space International one of the oldest business organizationsin America today, currently operate in 7 countries and reside in Henderson NV.

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Past Life Therapy and Our

Search for Meaning


by ANN C. BARHAM, MA, LMFTCertified Past Life Therapist

“If hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.” So observes Dr. Viktor Frankl, psychia-trist and survivor of the Nazi death camps, in the preface to the 1984 edition of his classic work, Man’s Search for Meaning. In my own experience working with clients over the past 20 plus years, this burning under our fingernails for the meaning of life is no less true today than it was in the ‘60s, ‘70s or ‘80s. Certainly it is an integral part of the human condition no matter what the era; from time immemorial, we humans question who we are, why we are here, and what the greater picture and purpose is to human existence on the planet.

Although many people rely upon their religion to address these questions of existence, more and more of us define ourselves as “spiritual, not religious,” part of an emerging consciousness based on personal experiences of a spiritu-al nature rather than religious doctrine. And even those who identify with an organized religion often find them-selves puzzling over the specific purpose for their own life, or the larger questions about life itself. In my work as a psychotherapist, I have seen people from all walks of life, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and vastly differ-ing political and religious belief systems find a new depth of meaning and understanding of this human adventure by embracing the concept that we are eternal souls ex-pressing in human form across multiple lifetimes -- and then accessing and processing their experiences from pri-or lifetimes through past life regression therapy.

What is past life regression?Past life regression is a therapeutic approach that helps people to recall and work through their unconscious memories from their prior lifetimes. (To regress sim-ply means to go back in time; we are “going back” to lifetimes before the current life, consistent with theo-ries of reincarnation or the soul expressing over multi-ple lifetimes.) Similar to the impact of early childhood experiences which can exert unconscious influenc-es on us in our adult lives, often the events from pri-or lifetimes are impinging on our emotions, our rela-tionships, or even physical aspects of our current life without our knowing it. By uncovering the memo-ries, working through any trauma or places where en-ergy is stuck, and integrating our past life experiences into our current awareness, we can often resolve issues and release unhelpful dynamics that have been resistant to other approaches.

art by Maryam Morrison


What is past life regression?Past life regression is a therapeutic approach that helps people to recall and work through their unconscious memories from their prior lifetimes. (To regress simply means to go back in time; we are “going back” to life-times before the current life, consistent with theories of reincarnation or the soul expressing over multiple lifetimes.) Similar to the impact of early childhood experiences which can exert unconscious influences on us in our adult lives, often the events from prior lifetimes are impinging on our emotions, our rela-tionships, or even physical aspects of our current life without our knowing it. By uncovering the memo-ries, working through any trauma or places where en-ergy is stuck, and integrating our past life experiences into our current awareness, we can often resolve issues and release unhelpful dynamics that have been resis-tant to other approaches. Why are so many people seeking answers in prior lifetimes?With past life therapy, we are able to help people re-solve a myriad of issues in rather quick order, often as quickly as just one session, as compared to some-times years of traditional counseling. Given the fast pace of our modern society and the desire for quick results, this is an approach that appeals to more and more people. In addition, the “efforting” that we see in so many self-help or “change your life” programs is often dissolved. When issues are effectively dealt with at their activating event, which can be many centuries in the past, desired changes gradually evolve seemingly on their own.

Here are just a few of the interesting issues and con-cerns that clients bring to my counseling office, look-ing for resolution through past life work:

• Emotional Challenges: Feeling invisible or unappreciated; Enduring feelings of depression or guilt that don’t connect with current life experiences; Inability to speak up or stand up for oneself; Unreasonable fears and phobias; Gender identity issues.• Relationship Dynamics: Conflict with a boss, coworker, or family member; Difficulty in love relationships; Reconnecting with a deceased loved one; Understanding important connections with others.• Physical Symptoms: A physical challenge that

has defied the medical community, including insomnia, infertility, back pain, irritable bowel, and even birthmarks.• Direction and purpose: Looking for a new career direction; Wanting to increase artistic expression; Difficulty in finding financial success; Developing new strengths and talents.

The Spiritual QuestAlthough it can be fun and entertaining to explore that question, “I wonder who I was in a past life?” and it can be helpful to address current life impasses like a difficult relationship with a parent, past life therapy inevitably also incorporates deep spiritual work and many people specifically use it to explore and broaden their spiritual quest. This work often enables us to access an amazing degree of individualized spiritu-al guidance that can help us on many levels. As we process and incorporate the past personality’s talents, strengths and life lessons learned, these can all be very applicable to our present lives. As we see loved ones from the current life (both living and deceased) showing up in important roles in other lifetimes, we more deeply understand our connection with and often feel comfort that those who have passed are in-deed still with us.

Similar to having a near death experience (NDE) without undergoing the associated trauma, after go-ing through one’s death in a prior life most clients lose their fear of death, realizing that their existence is eter-nal and ongoing. We typically connect with some type of guiding spiritual being which often shares insight on current life situations and helps with information about the soul’s higher purpose in the current life. This spiritual guide is something that many clients are able to call upon as a resource on their own after the session.

And very importantly, as we experience ourselves in different bodies and personalities, different genders, ethnic origins, political views, and life circumstances, we begin to understand on a much deeper level the intellectual concept that our outward differences are only a temporary illusion. By bringing an awareness of past lifetimes into mainstream consciousness, my hope is we can help heal the divisiveness between rac-es, religions, and political ideologies that so challenges our planet.


Sharing Clients’ ExperienceIn fact, one of my key objectives in writing about my work as a past life therapist is to nudge the awareness of past lives into the mainstream. I’ve accumulated such a wealth of client stories over the years, filled with dramatic life stories as well as key spiritual in-sights, that I was convinced these stories needed to be shared with a broader audience beyond just sitting in my professional files. The Past Life Perspective:Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Life-times, brings over 20 client sessions to life as the reader follows the path of discovery seen in my office.

These stories illustrate such essential truths about hu-man existence. One client alone uncovered the fol-lowing lessons in one session: be sure to follow your heart; release worry about what others think, that’s not important; do what you can to help others to be enlightened; and know that your spiritual connection is a resource that is always available. It’s easy to give lip service to these concepts, but there is an entirely different impact when you re-experience a lifetime that perhaps went off the tracks by failing to incorporate these principles, or a life that demonstrated how ap-plying and living these concepts lead to happiness and meaning.

Just as Jesus taught through parables that got through to his audience more effectively than a straight lecture would, individual past life stories teach us in a way that is memorable and easily assimilated. If you’re skeptical about the concept of reincarnation (and in fact, a number of clients who’ve had wonderful past life sessions weren’t sure themselves), these stories can serve as marvelous symbolic metaphors for the issues and situations being faced in the present time. They can be just as effective in resolving current issues on that basis. In the same vein, we can all enjoy and benefit from other peoples’ stories, even if we choose to remain skeptical about the whole past life concept. What is amazing is how many people are able to re-trieve detailed memories of past life events of com-mon, everyday people, that would not be found in any historical record.

Making Meaning For OurselvesAs modern life continues to increase in pace and com-plexity, many of us feeling more involved with our technology than we are with each other, man’s search for meaning becomes even more vital and insistent.

Past-life therapy is a window into other realities that can bring us back to what is important and help us address those questions that Frankl aptly described as “burning under our fingernails.” As we open to the possibility of, or actually embrace the concept of mul-tiple lifetimes, it brings such enrichment to our cur-rent lifetimes. It expands our vision of life and what it means to be human, enhancing our understanding of what our purpose is here on the planet. It rich-ly magnifies our relationships with the people in our lives now, particularly when we see the chains of love and connection that have endured across lifetimes. The bottom line, for so many people who experience past life therapy, boils down to one client’s insight: “it’s not what we do with our life, it’s who we are while we do it.” A perspective that embraces our many expe-riences across multiple lifetimes can help us approach each person and every situation with as much kind-ness, compassion, and love as we can muster. For all we know, we were in their shoes in a prior life – or will be sometime in the future! It is up to us to create meaning in our everyday interactions.

Ann C. Barham is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified regression therapist with training in transpersonal psychology, hypnosis, therapeutic imagery, and trauma release modalities. And she is the author of the new book THE PAST LIFE PERSPECTIVE: Discovering Your True Nature Across MultipleLifetimes (Atria/Enliven Books, 2016). Throughout her nearly twenty-year career, she has evolved her practice to merge her interest in spirituality with her counseling work, now focusing almost exclusively on past life regression therapy, which she believes has the greatest healing impact for her clients in the shortest amount of time. She lives in California.http://www.pastlives.org/


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The Power of Positive WordsCan we change our body with words?

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Words. We use words so often that we tend to believe that they are just that: mere words, whether they are positive words or not. So much so that we do not pay attention anymore on how we use them nor the impact it can have on others and our own life.

Many ancient texts from the Bible to the Upanishads teach us how important words are in anybody’s life as they are the root to any experience we have. Anything that goes through our life is first expressed in thoughts, in words, and then in actions that lead to the manifes-tation of our surroundings which in turn foster more thoughts, etc.

In this series of articles we are going to confirm the different underlying sciences that prove the capacity of thoughts and words (positive words included) to mod-ify our body and surroundings. We will also more im-portantly uncover ways to let go of this unconscious process and take the helm of our own life through the use of simple techniques.How thoughts become words

Each thought that appears in our daily life is made of words as a result of a tiny bit of energy (or ‘e-motion’ aka Energy in Motion) within us that needed to express itself. Behind each word an intention is then expressed which, if manifested through our talking or writing, will have a direct impact on our environment.

Most of us understand this in a very natural way in sit-uations like an argument: we see how any word we say affects the other person in real time as the emotions be-hind these words create a turmoil in the other person’s psyche who then reacts and so on.

Our body is made of waterWhat seems less evident as we cannot see it as clearly is for instance how it impacts water, the element without which life would not be possible. As a matter of fact, you do know that our body is made of 99% of water molecules, right?

Through the scientific studies carried out by the famous Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto was able to visually document molecular changes in water by means of his photographic techniques. In 2005, he published a New York Times best-seller The Hidden Messages of Water which shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health. Emoto demonstrates in his book that water exposed to positive words or

thoughts (intention) will result in “beautiful” crystals being formed when that water is frozen and that neg-ative intention will yield “ugly” frozen crystal forma-tions. Dr Gerald Pollack later confirmed such findings.

Positive Words (or Negative ones) alter water’s structureAs Emoto brilliantly showed us, it is not difficult to imagine that every aspect of our lives, every positive words we read, write or speak could have a very di-rect influence on our physical body. In other words, as common sense teaches us, if we bathe ourselves in an ocean of negative talks (inner: our thoughts, or outer: the words we listen to, read or write), the probability of a negative outcome becomes very much a reality. The same applies to positive words as well which will bring us further on our pursuit of happiness.

By extension, we can, therefore, understand that thoughts going through a negative or positive pattern will gradually transform one’s body.

We are very powerful indeed with our words.In the next article “The Power of Positive Words – Vibrations, the key to yourself“, we will explore how words are also vibrations and we will show how they also affect our surroundings as such.

Roxana Jones and Arnaud Saint-Paul devote themselves to their life purpose: To open as many hearts as possible and to help shifting the consciousness of the planet.

As spiritual healers and teachers, life and business partners, their intent is to “ help millions around the world to embrace change and start living the type of love, happiness and abundance both ofthem now know exists for everyone once they are healed.” Together, they work enthusiastically in bringing to their audience the best of themselves so that everyone can connect to their own Truth and unveil who they truly are: divine beings enlightening the world in their own unique ways, even when darkness makes it hard to believe it is so.




The First Element: Emotional Wounding

The Transcendent Mind and Internal Dichotomies

by SUNITA PATTANI

We are dichotomous in nature and understanding how this dichotomy plays out in our life lays the foundation for emotional healing. According to the oxford dictio-nary, the term dichotomy is a division or contrast be-tween two things that are represented as being opposed or entirely different. For example, science and religion may be regarded as a dichotomy. The two disciplines are thought of as being entirely different, or even opposed. Science is based on facts, research findings and keeping an open mind, with careful consideration being given to limitations. Religion on the other hand, has been passed on through the ages and it is difficult to say to what de-gree the information is factual.

We experience dichotomy in many areas of our life and not understanding how to manage this is what creates an inner conflict. Here are some ways in which we person-ally experience dichotomy:

1. We are both an individual mind and part of a Transcendent Mind, which means that we appear to be both separate and connected at the same time. This is the grandest dichotomy that we experience.

2. We have both a ‘head voice’ which is the voice of reason, and ‘heart voice’ which is the voice of intuition.

3. We are naturally designed to be authentic in our behaviour but we are socially programmed to ignore this authenticity. Instead we are encouraged to be a certain way in order to ‘fit in’ with society.

4. We have both a ‘dark side’ as well as a ‘light side’ to our personalities. This is why seemingly ‘good’ people sometimes do ‘bad’ things.

We don’t just experience dichotomy as individuals but we also see it playing out in our environment. For exam-ple: night and day, hot and cold and up and down. The only difference is that nature’s dichotomies don’t create an issue for us because we accept them completely as a way of life.

The Greatest DichotomyLet us look at ourselves in more detail. To start with, I believe that each one of us is dichotomous at our very core. In other words, we are both an individual mindas well as being part of the Transcendent Mind. This is the grandest dichotomy that we experience. All oth-er personal dichotomies that we encounter in our lives stem from this foundation.Our individual mind allows us to exist in our own unique way, and to make our own decisions. It allows us the freedom to make the all-important choice: that when responding to what life brings, will we choose the path of love, or will we choose the path of fear? Traditional psychotherapy works with our individual mind, helping us to become more aware and make more conducive choices. It doesn’t however fully address the question of who we are beyond our individual consciousness and this is why it is only partially effective.

Beyond our individual consciousness, we are part of a Transcendent Mind. So far we have explored aspects of this mind. We know that we’re all connected via the Tran-scendent Mind, but we also know that love, compassion, kindness and empathy are what connect us as human beings. These are feelings that we can’t measure, but yet are felt powerfully. It is the feeling of compassion and empathy that we experience for one another that creates transformational change in society.

from excerpt Dichotomies The First Element: Emotional Wounding The Transcendent Mind and Internal


As I write this today the situation between the Israelis and Palestinians is delicate, with a lot of innocent lives being lost. Yesterday, one of clients phoned up and said that she needed to postpone her therapy session, as she was busy making sweet treats that she could sell. Allthe proceeds were going towards helping civilians who had been hurt in this conflict. My client is thou-sands of miles away from where the conflict is occurring, but yet feels compassion and empathy for the people who are suffering across the globe.

Deep down I believe that we are all naturally wired to express these expressions of love. It is important howev-er, to recognise that natural does not necessarily mean normal. Natural is what we have been designed to do whereas normal is what we get into the habit of doing. For example, it is natural for us to express love, kindness and compassion towards others because ultimately we all function in the same way. We know what pain and loss feels like and hence we are able to relate to anoth-er’s circumstance. However, normality can be different. Many individuals have been raised with an each-for-themselves attitude. I have lived close to Central London for most of my life and I am continually amazed to watch people on the trains. It can become very busy at times with people having no regard for one another. There is little acknowledgement and connection on this public transport system, as many people are engrossed in their own technological gadgets.

If however, we are all connected via the Transcendent Mind and if we are all wired naturally with tendencies such as love, compassion, kindness and empathy, than then I believe that the language of the Transcendent mind is love. This is what connects us and this this what creates transformations in consciousness: a renewed sense of love for ourselves, love for others and, love for our environment. We face challenges in life because somewhere within we face a deep inner conflict. There is a part of us feels that we are good, loving and connect-ed to others. Many a time we hear ourselves saying that even though we’ve made mistakes, we’re good people atheart. And that is the truth. Our natural nature is one oflove.

The conflict is created however, because we have been conditioned to believe that we are only individual beings; and rather than listening to our hearts and following our calling we need to be making a living – even if it means doing something that we don’t like doing. Rather than working together, we compete against

one another. Rather than nurturing the creativity of each child, we label him or her when they don’t fit into the academic system. We live in a state of fear: fear of not being good enough, fear of not having enough, fear of not being talented enough. We have been conditioned to live in fear when our natural state is love, and this is what creates the deep inner conflict. This is the great-est dichotomy that we experience. If we don’t recognizethis dichotomy playing out within us and if we don’trecognize our true natures, how will we recognize the truth in another? If we don’t learn how to forgive our-selves, how can we possibly forgive another? So under-standing ourselves is the key, and this is why understand-ing our dichotomous nature and the Transcendent Mind is so important to emotional healing.

The Other Personal DichotomiesNow that we have some understanding about our di-chotomous natures-the fact that we are both individual and connected at the same time, we can deepen our understanding about the different ways in which this affects us.

Our Transcendent Mind knows the deeper pur-pose of life. It recognizes that we are deeply con-nected at some level. I believe this is also where our‘gut instinct’ comes from - that feeling that we get which may be against all the odds, but proves to be the correct decision in the end. Some time ago, I re-member reading that Richard Branson strongly follows his gut instinct even if his advisors do not agree with his decision. I have also known of people who have avoided fatal motor accidents because they changed their usual route after getting a ‘bad feeling’ about it.A while ago a friend of mine was on her way back to London from Leicester. She was bringing a friend back with her and by the time they reached London it was around 10.30pm. In order to get the passenger home, my friend had to drive a further twenty five minutes past her own house, so the overall journey was going to take her an extra fifty minutes. When they got into London and the passenger realized that my friend was going to drive her all the way home, she insisted that would be fine taking a train home for the rest of the journey. However, my friend told her that it was too late to take the train and that she would rather drop her home to ensure that her safe return. Upon hearing this, the passenger told my friend that she really was a nice person; to which my friend replied, “it’s not that I am a nice person, it is just that I do the right thing”.


Many of us can relate to this circumstance, where we have travelled an exhausting long journey and want nothing more than to be home, curled up on our sofa with a hot chocolate and our favorite movie. However, we have made that extra journey because deep down we know it is the right thing to do, we choose to act out of empathy and compassion over our exhaustion. In these cases we’re following our true inner guid-ance. (I will discuss more about this later in the book, as even in these circumstances there is a balance to be achieved).

The Transcendent Mind is also the inner voice that we don’t want to hear at times. The voice that tells us that our current relationship is failing and we need to leave; it is also the voice that tells us that even though we may be in a really well paid job, it is time for us to reconsider our career path so that we are able to follow our inner calling. The Transcendent Mind is our inner guide and if we listen to it, it will keep us on the correct path. It is the ‘light’ side of us – the authentic side of us. The only issue is that sometimes courage is required to act upon this guidance.

We also have within us the complete opposite of our light side. We have within us our dark side too and this is what forms the dichotomy. The dark side stems from the belief that we separate beings. If you remember, our natural state is one of love and connectedness, but yet we grow up believing that we are individual in everysense. This creates an uncomfortable void within us that plays out in a number of ways. In some cases the manifestation can be quite self-destructive, such as people engaging in alcoholism or self- harm to a degree where it severely affects the quality of their life. In other cases it may not be as apparent and it may mani-fest perhaps as a subtle constant undertone of loneliness, frustration or depression.

Growing up, I was a well-behaved child. I was consid-ered to be intelligent by the current academic standards and I was also emotionally mature for my age too. As I got into my early-twenties, my life seemed perfect from the outside. I had a good job, I was getting married and settling downand life was good. However, what people didn’t know (even those closest to me), was that I had battled an eating disorder for a majority of my life because I was able to hide it well. Up until my mid-twenties no-body was able to tell because I had managed to keep my weight and public eating behavior incheck. However, when I got into my mid-twenties

I was unable to keep up the internal conflict and the eating disorder spiraled out of control, resulting in substantial weight gain. And of course with the weight gain came insensitive comments from family and friends, which gave my self-esteem a further battering to the point that I stopped socializing completely. In fact some of my family did not get to see me for a five-year period. I remember wondering how such an intel-ligent, nice, successful girl had become someone who was overweight and battling with her relationship with food, socially recluse and in a marriage that was on the verge of breaking down. I was still that nice girl only that my dark side was playing out heavily because I hadn’t yet learned how to manage my physical, emo-tional and spiritual life effectively.

It was only when I started my own journey to recov-ery and internal exploration that I realized that both thelight and the dark existed within me, and my job was to learn how to manage these aspects. I also realized that the people who judged me did not yet recognize thetruth about who they were either. We can only treat aperson as far as we have come in our personal develop-ment. If we haven’t yet learned how to be compassion-ate and forgiving towards ourselves, then we may not be able to extend these qualities to another. In other words, if we have not owned up to and accepted ourown darkness, then we will find it difficult to accept the dark side of another.

Authenticity is another area within us that gives rise to a dichotomy. Rachel had been privately educated from a young age. Being part of large family, she had en-countered many issues whilst growing up. However, her parents provided her with material wealth and giftedher an excellent education. Rachel was highly intelligent and excelled in most subjects at school. She secured a place at a good university where she studied a degree in economics. After university and much to her parents’ delight, she landed a good job working a tax inspector. There was only one problem: Rachel absolutely detested the job. During the four years she spent fulfilling the role, she gradually found herself falling into a state of depression. Life had lost its spark and Rachel was mis-erable.

Rachel had arrived at an interesting junction in her life. On one hand she was desperately seeking the approval of her parents, and the role as a tax inspector was fulfill-ing this void.


Her parents were immensely proud of her, as their in-vestment in her education had paid off. But deep down Rachel was attracted to working make a real difference in the lives of young people in a fun way. She also had a natural entrepreneurial streak and desperately wanted to bring these two areas of passion together. Eventually Rachel decided to quit her role as a tax inspector, but unfortunately she lost the respect of her family too. She was no longer the intelligent, high-achieving daugh-ter. She was now perceived as someone who had lost her way and wasted her education. She had gone from earning an excellent wage to earning basic rate pay, and was constantly reminded of how she had failed in life. Rachel soon started to believe the people around her and both her self-confidence and esteem plummeted. Sheno longer considered herself to be worthy and intelligent, but rather she had become so full of fear that she could no longer feel her own authenticity.

It took a while to work with Rachel and we slowly start-ed to peel back the layers of pain that had accumulated within her. She realized that she had many unresolved issues with certain family members, and she started to understand the power of forgiveness, compassion and acceptance. She also began to understand the concept of healthy boundaries and the fact that her thought and opinions were worth something. Although it took her a couple of years, she slowly started to progress towards expressing her authenticity in every area of her life. She knew that she would never feel completely fulfilledin a finance-based career, so she took the step to startright at the bottom in a education-based career instead. All the while she continued to work on herself. In time, various areas of her life started to heal. She began tounderstand her family from a place of compassion, and she worked tirelessly to improve her financial situation She grew stronger as she continued to express he authen-ticity, and just recently she has just purchased her first educational franchise. like many others, Rachel experi-enced the dichotomy of authenticity strongly. Left un-resolved this dichotomy would have caused her much suffering throughout life. If Rachel had chosen to ignore her gut instinct and if she had stayed in a job where she was miserable, Rachel’s quality of life and emotional wellbeing would have suffered severely. But by taking the courageous steps to address this major conflict that she was experiencing within, Rachel turned her life around. She transcended the dichotomy.

Managing DichotomiesBy now you will have understanding of how dichotomies

play out in our lives. One of the keys to emotional healing is learning how to manage your internal dichotomies. It is about firstly becoming aware of your own inner conflicts and having strategies to deal with them, and secondlyrecognizing the grander truth about your mind. If we want to heal emotionally, we need to start taking steps towards uncovering our natural natures and we also need to begin thinking and behaving in ways that allow us to express who we truly are. Element three discusses how to manage dichotomies in more detail.

Sunita Pattani is a Psychotherapist and Author based in East London, who specializes in exploring the link between mind, body, spirit and emotional healing. Since childhood, she has been fascinated with science, spirituality, consciousness and the deeper question of who we really are. She explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective, and implements the findings within her therapy practice. Pattani is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, where she obtained a degree in Mathematics, Science and Education in 2003, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in ducation (PGCE) in 2004. Pat-tani taught for five years before she returned to college to study an advanced diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Counseling. Alongside running her Psychotherapy Practice, she shares her message through a combination of speaking, running workshops and writing. A regular blogger for The Huffington Post, Pattani’sfirst book, My Secret Affair with Chocolate Cake– The Emotional Eater ’s Guide to Breaking Freewas published in 2012. Her second book TheTranscendent Mind–The Missing Peace in Emotional Wellbeing was published in 2014. 2015.In her private life, Pattani practices spirituality and personal transformation. She Lives in East London, UK with her husband, Hinal, and cat, Coco.WWW.SUNITAPATTANI.COM

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A FAMILY OF HEARTBy JAN DIANA


Greetings, My Beloved Children of Heart,

“You are of such sweetness! To touch upon you with my thoughts brings me such joy, such delight. We are truly a family of heart.

As we move through this moment in time togeth-er, we embark upon a great and glorious journey. Our adventure which we share is made up of your own individual adventures. You are never alone on your journey, as we of course are always connected through our hearts. It can be no other way. Knowing this connection to each other is part of your adven-ture, to discover and remember this truth and the truth of your divine nature, your true self.

Today, as we share in this communion of spirit, let us look upon each other from the perspective of our hearts. Our hearts know of our connection to the oneness, to our family of heart. This knowing of our heart connection is a constant held within our hearts. It is a purpose of our journey for us to re-member the fullness of that sweet joy.

To begin to see the connection to all that is, is a glorious journey of discovering pathways of light. Each pathway assists us in making connections from our minds to our hearts, opening up to that place where all is known within.

When you take a walk in nature, look upon the beauty of the sky, the trees standing tall, the flowers blossoming. As you see their beauty, think to yourself we are one family in heart. We share the same source of our beauty and wonder. When you in-tentionally make this connection, you will begin to feel the nature of the divine, this flowing of joy and lightness.

As you develop a greater awareness of this connection, you will also begin to notice your connection with the birds that sing, as well as all the blessed animals and creatures that share our Earthly home. Making these connections of heart helps us to remember our true self. This leads us to knowing the nature of our divinity, our soul purpose, and our forever connection to our one loving source.

I joyfully sing to each of you My Beloveds that you will feel our connection and find your way back to our center of oneness. We are A Family of Heart, now and forever more.”

With this awareness comes a greater reverence for life, for all living creatures and for all people. Making these heart connections, allows us to feel our own divinity. How precious and beautiful is all life. How precious and beautiful are you. Each life is a beautiful reflection of the divine source.

We can feel and sense this more as we ponder on these sweet thoughts. With pondering comes inspiration. Having a reverence for all life opens us up to path-ways of awareness to loving and respecting ourselves in new ways.

All of life is precious, beautiful and perfect as it was created from divine love and is love. All that mayappear as less is simply playing a role within an illusion for a short time in the journey. The illusion will release in time allowing the truth to reflect in greater ease and clarity.

This is your grand adventure, to discover your truth and remember. You will find value in reflecting upon questions such as these. “Who am I and what is my nature? What does it mean to be so beautiful and wonderful? What am I capable of dreaming and experiencing?”

These are many wonderful thoughts to ponder on. As you reflect on these and others that come to mind, you will begin to have a greater sense of who you are and the direction you desire to take. You will feel like a magnificent magnet is pulling you deeper and deeper into your heart. Step by step you come closer and closer to knowing more of your sacred self. Ah, the excitement of discovery brings such joy.

The glory of the journey is that as you discover more, you will desire more, reaching even deeper into the sweetness of your forever heart. Let your heart guide you. Feel the sweetness of the wonder as it enlivens you, elevating you and propelling you ever further onto pathways of golden light.

All pathways lead to the heart. Each of you are fol-lowing your heart at your own pace and choosing. All hearts are connected to the One Source Heart. As

you become aware of your heart connection, you will also feel the connection to each other, to all life and all that is. You will feel the oneness and flow in the joy of knowing and sensing Our Sacred Heart.Be at peace on your glorious journey, for you will all succeed. There is no failure, only choices of experi-ences and timing.

Allow yourselves to open and receive the great wis-dom and love that is guiding you through your heart. Let yourself bask in the sacred rays of the heart and flow within the sweetness of the golden river of light.

I joyfully sing to each of you My Beloveds that you will feel our connection and find your way back to our center of oneness. We are A Family of Heart, now and forever more.”


3Jan Diana is an intuitive healer, spiritual teacher, and master practitioner.Her mission is to assist clients & students in creating harmony, balance, heightened levels of clarity, develop innate gifts & abilities, empowering them on their personal evolution to create the dreams of their heart. She utilizes several modalities including SVH L3M, Animal healing, GHM, Language of love, Reiki Master, and more. Sessions and Classes by phone.

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Maria Elena Infantino was born in Italy where she grew up in a family of Opera singers and where art and love of life blended together in perfect unison. At the age of eighteen she moved to London to attend the Foun-dation Acting course at East 15, and then went on to train for three years at the Academy of Live and Record-ed Arts (ALRA). She has worked in various Shakespeare productions in both Rome and London, and also had a part in Emmerdale for ITV Yorkshire television. In 2011 she hosted and produced her own show in Lon-don’s West End at the Leicester Square theatre, as a trib-ute to her famous father, the tenor Luigi Infantino, where she also performed his song from the movie Godfather Part 2.

From Infantino’s first major singing performance at the Beatles 50th Anniversary star-studded concert, to being nominated as an International Artist for the 21st annual L.A. Music Awards and on to her most recent performances in May at Palazzo Della Cancelleria – a fifteenth century palace known for being the headquar-ters of the Vatican's Tribunal - Infantino has wowed audiences with her outstanding voice. Infantino also keeps very busy as an actress. She has appeared in sev-eral movies including, "Jobs Daughter,” which she co-produced and starred in, with five time Emmy winner Doris Roberts, Thaao Penghlis from “Mission Impossi-ble” and “Days of our Lives,” and Golden Globe Nomi-nee, Eric Roberts.

Infantion’s sold out performances in Rome at Palazzo Della Cancelleria were a truly memorable one of a kind event. The evening was broken up into two segments. In the first half of the show, Infantino wowed the 400plus crowd as she sang songs from her acclaimed one-woman show of the iconic singer Edith Piaf. The narration of the selected French songs was done by art historian Mirko Baldassarre. The second part of the show was a tribute to the music of Academy Award winning composer, Maestro Ennio Morricone, who composed the music for the Academy Award winning movie for best foreign language film, "NuovO Cinema Paradiso," and many more legendary movies that made Italian and worldwide cinema history. His son, Maestro Andrea Morricone, also an acclaimed composer, played selected pieces on the piano while images of famous mov-ie scenes were projected onto a big screen.

Maestro Andrea Morriocone is actually credited with having composed the most recognizable piece from “NuovO Cinema Paradiso,” the love theme entitled “Dimmi Perche.”Maestro Andrea Morricone then invited Infantino on stage to join him and she sang,

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"La Forza Del Sorriso," which he wrote for Expo Milan Italy and where it was sung for the opening ceremonies by Andrea Bocelli. The evening concluded with a very special surprise. Last year, Maestro Andrea Morricone, along with Paola Lorenzi, wrote lyrics for “Dimmi Per-che.” This was the fist time anyone in Rome would be hearing this new version with the lyrics. Infantino belt-ed out the song, which brought the audience to their feet for a standing ovation. Our local photographer Kerstin Alm flew over to Rome from Los Angeles to photograph the special occasion.

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Bruno Serato owner of the “Anaheim White House Restaurant" graciously for the first time will be sharing some of his recipes with The Eden Magazine readers around the world.

We are proud to feature every month one of his most delicious dishes.

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10 oz semisweet dark chocolate3 oz chocolate hazelnut milk1 ½ cup manufacturing cream1 tbl Vegetable oilPinch of salt

Chocolate Ganache – chocolate sauce

1 1/2 cup manufacturing cream1 tablespoon butter9 oz dark chocolate1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps to make Chocolate Mousse1- bring the chocolates to a metal bowl on a bain marie & begin to melt down2- 2- As the chocolate melts add oil and salt3- Once melted remove chocolate from bain marie and set aside4- Whip the cream to medium peaks and fold in the chocolate base gently5- Pipe into desire mold, glass, etc

Steps for Ganache1- Bring the cream in a small pot and boil add the vanilla extract2- Place chocolate in a metal bowl and combine with the hot cream3- Chill for 5-10 minutes and serve

Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Serves 10 ppl


Jess Wayne aka Douglas Wayne Jessop was born in 1951 in West Point, New York. His father was in the Air Force and the family moved frequently in the early years. Ultimately they settled down in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Jess started playing music when he was eight years old - first on autoharp, graduating to tenor ukulele and finally guitar. He took guitar lessons when he was 11. Soon, he was invited to join the first of many rock bands playing the latest music of the time - Beatles, Hendrix, Rolling Stones and more. In college (University of Colorado Boulder), his interest shifted to acting and psychology. Although his electric guitar was stolen, he kept playing and writing on a borrowed acoustic guitar. After graduation, he went to New York City to learn and perform modern dance - ul-timately receiving a Master’s Degree in theater and dance. He performed and toured with several NYC dance compa-nies and listened to and danced to very avant-garde music. He also worked a lot of ordinary jobs - dishwasher, short order cook, bus boy, draftsman, handyman, janitor, paint-er, messenger, carpenter, sports team mascot, and secretary.

He still found time to play guitar. By the time he was 29, it was time to move on. After briefly interning for a filmmaker, he spent the next two decades as a successful , nationally-recognized lawyer with an international practice based in Denver where he raised a family, and even took a turn as a law professor. But it was never enough: he formed a variety of bands during this period, studied jazz and music theory and played as much as he could despite his demanding work schedule. In 2009, he closed his law firm and headed to Los Angeles. There he immersed himself in the Musicians Institute’s Guitar Institute Technology program. Today, Jess is fronting the Jess Wayne Band, singing, playing guitar, touring and writing songs. He also plays for other projects and artists both live and in the studio. He recently published a book of poetry entitled Before They Were Songs - A Musician’s Love Poems To His Muse.


Jess Wayne

Band: Jess Wayne is a poet, writer, singer/songwriter and guitar player with original music fusing folk, blues, indie, roots, and country. Music with a groove for adults who have lived and know that life is complex, messy, muddy, simple and beautiful - all at the same time. The band was formed in Los Angeles in 2015 when Jess reached out to three world-class players for a recording and performing project. Currently the band includes John Matthew Rosenberg on piano and keys (Cab Calloway, Carlos Santana, Jerry Gar-cia, Bonnie Raitt, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis, Larry Carl-ton, Bobby Blue Bland, Maria Muldaur and Dan Hicks), Jimmy Ledezma on percussion (Arco Iris, Los Pinguos, Wild Colonials and Huayucaltia) and Jesse Holsapple (Dale Okerman, Tiran Porter - both of Doobie Brothers fame, James Durbin - American Idol, and Mootheband). Jess Wayne’s debut album is scheduled to be released on June 10, 2016.

Some fan quotes: “Soulfulness, sincerity and groovy”“Subtle lyrical notes and textures”“Haunting yet hopeful”“Regretful but not defeated”“Songs like the story of life, with all its distortion and consola-tion, in compact”“The voice, not like any other, recognizable from the very first moment”“A bit of Tom Waits, but with better vocals”“Picture painting lyrics”“From the heart”“Connecting our ears, spirits, and thoughts to the flowing harmonics of the Universe”

Singer/Songwriter, Poet, Guitarist, Dancer, Attorney!


Benefits and Advantages of Vegetarianism

By Abhinabha Tangerman

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life

on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

Albert Einstein


Vegetarianism is defined as the avoidance of food which is obtained by killing animals. Over the years vegetarianism has gained a growing number of followers. In my own native country of The Neth-erlands the percentage of vegetarians has increased from 1.9% of the total population in 1999 to 4.5% in 2005. What can be so attractive about the vegetar-ian diet?

Vegetarianism goes back a long way. History's first famous vegetarian was the Greek statesman, mathe-matician and philosopher Pythagoras (569-475 BC). He abolished the sacrificing of animals under his rule and was a fervent advocate of meat abstinence throughout his life. He is considered the founder of vegetarianism in Europe and even until the 19th century vegetarians were still called 'pythagoreans'. Pythagoras was a vegetarian on moral grounds pri-marily. He was deeply convinced that the killing ofanimals for personal consumption was an act of dire barbarism, leading to man's moral and spiritual decline.

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love". Pythagoras

In India Gandhi echoed Pythagoras' beliefs in his passionate claim that "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its ani-mals are treated." Recently this utterance became the inspiration behind a new political party for animal rights in The Netherlands, who at the recent elections in November 2006 earned a surprising two seats in Parliament.

People become vegetarians for different reasons. Some choose the vegetarian way of life based on health related motives, others become vegetarians out ofsilent protest against the suffering and mistreat-ment of animals in slaughterhouses, while still othersshun meat for spiritual reasons. The Buddhist's veg-etarian diet is a logical consequence of the Buddha's doctrine of *ahimsa* or non-violence towards all sentient beings. Eating meat is seen as being part of the killing process and thus leads one away from the path to enlightenment. Fruits and vegetables are believed to stimulate mental and physical purity,

while meat is said to cloud the mind and hinder one's meditation. Spiritual philosopher Sri Chinmoy ex-plains, "When we eat meat and fish, the aggressive, animal consciousness enters into us. Our nerves be-come agitated; they become restless and aggressive, and this can interfere with our meditation."

Adversaries of vegetarianism often claim that a vege-tarian diet misses out on essential nutrients, especially protein. However, this claim has never been backed by scientific evidence and is merely a widespread myth, as all essential nutrients are readily available from vegetarian sources, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, nuts and seeds.

More recently a contrary view has won wider pub-lic appeal, which argues that not shunning but eat-ing meat poses considerable health risks. This view has been scientifically proven, as meat eaters tend to consume unwholesome fat and an excess of protein, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. To quote dr. William Castelli, Director of the Framing-ham Heart Study, "Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease... Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate." Elaborate studies in England and Germany have also shown this 40 percent ratio.

Finally, the vegetarian diet could prove to be a solu-tion to the world's food problem. Roughly half of the world's corn crops are fed to cattle while every day an average of 40,000 children die of starvation. The same food that is now given to animals for meat production could put an end to world hunger. The environment would also benefit from the change in diet. Cattle farming uses up far more land, crops and energy than does agriculture. Large parts of the South-American rainforests are cleared to grow crops for cattle-fodder. The earth further suffers from the emission of nitrogen caused by animal manure, caus-ing acid rain and the pollution of our drinking water.

The world's greatest mathematician, himself a devout vegetarian, sums it up beautifully:

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