Our Thoughts Create Our Reality, Our Health or Our Disease

This article was found while I was surfing the web. The information is so valuable I wanted to share with all of you.

Our Thoughts Create Our Reality, Our Health or Our Disease
Before embarking upon any change for better health, it’s important to understand the influence of our thoughts on our biology. As important as our efforts to cleanse and alkalize are, our attitudes preclude all else. Following are some comments from the brilliant Dr. Joe Dispenza. “The thinking brain, the neo-cortex, is the seed of our freewill and allows us to have a choice and opinion. The one thing I noticed about people who had changes in health had changed their thinking. If they changed their thinking, was the effect in the brain sending a new signal to their body? The answer is yes. We begin to construct new thoughts based on new knowledge. This wires our thoughts permanently in our brain, in the innate intelligence or spiritual essence, the higher order in every human being. Our thoughts have a direct connection to our direct level of health. Thoughts make a chemical. If you have happy thoughts, then you’re producing chemicals that make you feel happy. If you have negative thoughts, angry thoughts or insecure thoughts, those thoughts make chemicals to make you feel how you’re thinking. Those chemicals are messengers feeding the cells of the body. If you keep thinking the same thoughts for 20 years, you have an assault on the cells. They begin to cause the cells to produce proteins that are unhealthy. We do one thing as our privilege as human beings; that is to modify our behavior. If you are not changing your thoughts, you’re living from the emotions of the past and that’s what causes people to become diseased.” “My research and what I have been teaching starts with a thought and goes to the cell. Thoughts push the genetic buttons that cause disease. Feelings and emotions are the product of an experience. The problem is at a certain point in life people stop experiencing new things and new chemicals. They rely on feelings of the past.” “Study the anatomy of your thoughts. Most of our thoughts are automatic and those are the ones that run our behavior. Once we understand the way we process thought, people begin to understand what it is about them that keeps them separate from what they want in life.” “Anytime we embrace change in order to interrupt a program that runs life, ask important questions like; “What would it be like to be a happy person?” “What is the greatest ideal of myself that I could have?” “Who do I know (in history) that inspires me?” “What would I have to change in order to be great?” Ask yourself these questions every morning; you have to stop the program from running for a few minutes. The brain begins to reformat in a new sequence of neurological connections. Now we know scientifically that if that process is repeated, the neurological architecture will change within it, and we start growing new circuits. So, once we grow new circuits, we’re preparing the body and brain for a new experience and we are no longer going to be our routine, automatic self. We each have the privilege of being a human with the freewill to change in the same lifetime, instead of after generations of adaptations. And than we begin to create new circuits, which become the circuits we rely on more than the old familiar circuits. And that’s the cliff notes version of the course!” In other words, and as Dr. Joe says, ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!
From an interview in Today’s Chiropractic.

The Controvery over Cell Phones - Are they Safe?

I share this article with you because what we don't know can hurt us. Something to think about....Sheila

Cell phones and Your Health - Sub Sentinel, Florida - October 02, 2005

Cell phones now come in child-sized versions, some in pink for girls, some with cartoon themes designed to appeal to boys and girls alike.

But before you buy a wireless phone for your child's next birthday, you should know that government agencies and expert panels in several European countries have cautioned against routine use of the phones by children because of health questions raised by recent studies.

Some experts say research conducted during the past decade indicates the world's 1.6 billion cell phone users are the equivalent of lab rats in a grand living laboratory and that children, with many years of cell phone use ahead of them, might be particularly vulnerable.

"There is evidence from the laboratory that isn't necessarily conclusive, but does point to a possible problem in the future," said Norbert Hankin, an environmental scientist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, who has studied the effects of radio frequency/microwave radiation for 33 years. He says some of the research findings are "worrisome."

"Once people start using cell phones, they don't change," Hankin said. "Kids 10 years old are using cell phones. Is there going to be any kind of effect long term? We don't know."

Research about cell-phone use hasn't received the same media or public attention as other environmental health issues. But scientists are engaged in an escalating debate over the potential risks -- a debate that some researchers say parallels early public-health disputes about secondhand smoke and toxic chemicals.

Wireless phones emit low-level radio frequency/microwave radiation as they transmit a signal to a base station blocks or miles away. Research has shown that some of the radiation enters the user's head, and some researchers are concerned repeated exposures over time might pose serious health risks, including cancer and benign tumor growth.

Two U.S. agencies with authority to regulate the radiation emitted by the phones, the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission, have issued statements saying there is nothing to fear from the phones, and that they are safe for children.

Joe Farren, a spokesman for CTIA-The Wireless Assocation -- the international group representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers -- cites the FDA and FCC stances in saying the industry is offering a safe product to children and their parents.

"This is an issue that should be guided by science, period. And the evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless phones," Farren said. "What we constantly hear from parents is that they have a tremendous peace of mind when they give their child a phone."

Farren said some models for children allow parents to control the phone numbers their kids can call and block unwanted callers, as well as control the total number of talk minutes allowed, and the time of day the phone is operational.

Walt Disney Internet Group announced in July it had created Disney Mobile and is teaming with Sprint to provide cell phones for "the family mobile market" beginning next year. Disney withdrew cell phone faceplates featuring its Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters about six years ago when health concerns were raised by cell-phone research.

"The FDA has said that scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless," said Disney spokeswoman Kim Kerscher.

But Hankin said it is not clear how protective current safety standards are because they are based on preventing the radiation from heating tissue and do not take into account research that has shown biological changes, such as DNA breaks, at much lower levels of exposure.

He also expressed concern about epidemiological studies that have linked long-term cell phone use to an increased risk of acoustic neuroma, a non-malignant tumor on a nerve that links the ear and brain.

Research findings

Last fall researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden reported that people who had used cell phones for 10 years had almost a fourfold increase of these tumors on the side of the head where they most often held the phone, compared with the other side of the head.

A group of researchers from several European countries has found DNA damage in human and animal cells exposed to cell-phone radiation, and said mutations were passed on to the next generation of cells grown in the laboratory -- a process that can lead to cancer.

The research, led by Dr. Franz Adlkofer, of the Verum Foundation in Munich, Germany, was published in the June 6 issue of Mutation Research.

"We don't want to create a panic, but it is good to take precautions," Adlkofer said when the study was released. He and other health experts recommend using a landline phone whenever possible, and using a hands-free headset when talking on a cell phone.

I challenge you....

Are you up for a challenge?

I challenge you for the next 30 days to commit to a meditation practice for 15 minutes once a day.

The guidelines I recommend are:
i) Meditate daily for 15 minutes
ii) Be consistent with your time of meditation practice, it will become part of your daily routine. Choose either the morning or evening to sit quietly.
iii) Become the observer of your thoughts, meditation is not about doing something, it is about just being.
iv) Choose a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and be sure to turn off your cell phone. You may want to set a timer for 15 minutes, to ensure you mind does not become occupied with how many minutes have lapsed or how many minutes you have left to complete your commitment
iv) Do not judge the experience you have, many people give up in frustration claiming meditation doesn't work for them. To those people I say, all the more reason you should continue, acknowledge your frustration and keep meditating.
v) Just allow yourself to be and enjoy the 15 minutes of quiet, you will be surprised at the results you achieve after one month of a committed meditation practice.

I invite you to share your experiences with me and the other readers on this blog, as we can all learn from each other.

So what is Meditation?

• a powerful way to allow changes to manifest in our lives.
  
• creates a space in our thought processes to see situations differently
• a shower for the mind, it washes away all the chatter that lingers in our minds
• it can be used for visualization and manifesting your goals
• it has been proven that meditation increases our immune system, lowers blood pressure levels, decreases stress levels and as a result decreases the rate at which we age

The picture above is from a meditation retreat I participated in Thailand, March 2003.
It was truly a life changing experience. But what I have learned is, meditation is about creating a space within, understanding our thought processes and how our thoughts impact our daily life experience. It is not necessary to travel to the mountain tops of the Himalayas and study with a Master Monk to effectively participate in meditation.

As a psychotherapist, one of the biggest obstacles I encounter when working with clients is assisting them through their own thoughts and beliefs about what is true for them. What I do know is that our thoughts are creative, change your thinking change your life. This is the power of meditation, it allows you a glimpse inside of yourself, many fear to go on this journey within, and this is the challenge i present to you.
Meditate for 30 days, step through the negative thoughts, beliefs and challenges that occupy your mind, making room for what you really want to manifest in your life.
Blessings,
Sheila