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Every week my husband and I try a new breakfast spot in Calgary. I'd love to share the experience with you. I'll include where we went, what we ate, what we thought of the restaurant and a link if you're interested in trying them out!

Reading is a passion of mine and in the past, I've shared some of my favourite reads. My reading interests have changed over the years and although I still enjoy a good self-help book, fiction is a solid second.

There you have it! Two of my favourite things, eating out and reading!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Being You, Changing the World

Being You, Changing The World by Dain Heer

Access Consciousness
The purpose of Access is to create a world of consciousness and oneness. Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing. It is our target to get you to the point where you receive from Access the awareness of everything, with no judgment of anything. If you have no judgment of anything, then you get to look at everything for what it is, not for what you want it to be, not for what it ought to be, but just for what it is.
Consciousness is the ability to be present in your life in every moment, without judgment of you or anyone else. It is the ability to receive everything, reject nothing, and create everything you desire in life - greater than what you currently have, and more than what you can imagine.
  • What if you were willing to nurture and care for you?
  • What if you would open the doors to being everything you have decided it is not possible to be?
  • What would it take for you to realize how crucial you are to the possibilities of the world?
 Quoted directly from the website -Founder Gary Douglas

This is definitely an interesting book full of non-linear thinking and ideas about moving out of the traditional models of relationship to self and others.  It appears that there is a rather extensive workshop business around this model - not unlike Richard Bartlett - Matrix Energetics.  Worth a look, for sure.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is....A Season of Unlikely Happiness.  This is more than a summer read.  This is a spiritual journey through the painful and personal experience of Laura Munson beginning when her husband announces that "he isn't sure he loves me anymore...and nine hours later he still hasn't come back."

Laura struggles with wanting to accept her husbands uncertainty about their marriage with the skill and compassion of Pema Choron and the clarity and non-attachment of Buddha and conversely to shout ultimatums and induce guilt as a lethal weapon. She is forty years old, an unpublished writer and has spent a lifetime reading Rumi, Meister Eckhart, Thich Nhat Hanh, Richard Bach, Wayne Dyer, Miguel Ruiz, Melanie Beattie and so on. 

Laura decides that her pain does not have to become her suffering and challenges herself to open her heart rather than closing and to take each day as a gift.  As days turn into weeks and weeks into months and her husband does not return to the marriage, Laura meets herself and the crossroads of staying open to each event as it unfolds and the fear that wants to shut her down.

This book is a great guidepost for anyone struggling with change.  One great summer read AND a lesson in putting "knowledge"into action!!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Theta Healing and the Healing Code

In December I was certified as a Basic Theta Healing Practitioner. 

I'm continually amazed by the profundity of the work and the way that we have access to  the Creator.  Through a meditative technique that achieves a  theta brain wave state, the practitioner can literally "look at" issues that block an individual from achieving optimum functioning.  We are riddled with old and not useful belief systems that were acquired before we were able to make conscious choices (usually between the ages of 3 -5).  This technique allows you (with permission from the one receiving the treatment) to see the point where a belief was integrated and then to literally release the belief!!  The unhealthy and false beliefs are generally below conscious awareness and we know they exist by the "issues" that recur and hold us back from living a full, healthy life. 

The Healing Code presents a similar approach using 4 simple techniques that literally undo and replace a frequency that holds beliefs at a cellular level.  "But how do you go about removing incorrect data and replacing it with correct data? This came down to a matter of physics for me, since everything, including digital information, ultimately exists as its most common denominator: energy, with a corresponding vibrational frequency.  Any frequency can be changed if we only know how to do so" (page 15). 

Dr. Alex Loyd states that the #1 cause of 99.9% of all disease is stress.  Stress suppresses the immune system and a compromised immune system hinders the body's innate means to heal disease.  "The healing Codes have been found to eliminate this kind of stress in the body in a way that is unprecedented in history"  (page 57).

I offer these two techniques because each of them has changed belief systems in my own life.  It's not magic, it's techniques that go to the very core of who we are: ENERGY!