Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic method for detox and rejuvenation. It’s a simple practice, with quite remarkable results. Many have heard of it, but never actually dove in to try it. It definitely has a mystical and exciting vibe around it, which made me eager to try. But what exactly is it? What does it do?

In a (coco)nut shell:

To oil pull, simply swish your choice of unrefined, high quality oil in your mouth; similar to the way you would use a mouthwash. My favorite is coconut oil. This can be done anywhere from five to 20 minutes. The process attracts and removes bacteria, toxins, and parasites that live in your mouth or lymph system, and also pulls congestion and mucus from your throat and loosens up your sinuses, which is amazing! With the help of your saliva, all these scary undesirables bind with the oil, ready to be disposed of. Pulling also helps re-mineralize your teeth and strengthen your gums by thoroughly cleansing the area. This sounds good, right? But how exactly do you do it?

Traditionally, oil pullers used virgin sesame oil. The reason I prefer to use raw coconut oil is because it has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and enzymatic properties. This provides the added benefit of killing any unwanted bacteria that may be residing in the mouth, while leaving behind healthy probiotic strains. A perfect exchange!

To start, scoop ½ to 1 full tablespoon of oil into the mouth; if it’s cold, allow the oil to melt. Now push, swirl, and pull the oil between your teeth, around your gums, and allow it to touch every part of your mouth except your throat. You don’t want the oil getting in contact with your throat because it’s now carrying somewhat toxic material. No gargling!

Have fun with it, though! Hum a little song, or practice deep breathing through your nose. Allow this to be a sacred time. Enjoy the feeling of cleansing, the relaxation with the absence of talking. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of smiling with a mouth full of oil. Something about it just feels so right!

Once your time pulling is over, spit into the trash or toilet, but never the sink — the oil could solidify and clog your drain. Now rinse your mouth out with clean water two or three times. Finally, drink a glass of water and relax. You should be feeling fresh and rejuvenated.

Why oil pull? A popular reason for oil pulling is to find relief from congestion in the sinuses and throat. It is unbelievable how quickly this happens! Immediately after rinsing, you will find yourself blowing your nose and clearing your throat. I have worked with people struggling with chronic sinus congestion who experienced relief unlike anything else, after oil pulling only once! Their condition improved and the congestion eventually went away completely.

I began pulling to benefit my gums and teeth, which used to be extremely sensitive. My gums strengthened, and teeth became much whiter! It also proved to be beneficial to my skin, which cleared up dramatically, and became bright and almost glowing. Swishing with coconut oil has also proven to be beneficial to those with skin disorders such as psoriasis, and is great for anyone who wants to detox and begin taking better care of their immune system.

Oil pulling can be done at any time of the day, but for a more thorough detox, its best to do this in the morning, before eating or drinking. If you are having a hard time fitting oil pulling into your routine, I’ve found a nice time to do this is while in the shower. This way, you aren’t counting the clock until the minutes are up; simply spit when your shower is done.

I hope you enjoy this healing, divine and sensual experience as much as I do. Love the oil. Love the process. Happy pulling!

About the Author

Morgan Potts is a certified holistic health nutrition coach living in Rochester, NY. She is passionate about nutrition, its impact on happiness, and effect on the mind. Eating meals rich in unprocessed, whole and nutritious foods has renewed her life with feelings of health, vibrance and energy. With a specific focus on balance, conquering anxiety, and living with mindfulness, she teaches us to really slow down and experience life.

Morgan received her training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, where she learned traditional nutrition philosophies and lifestyles. She works both locally, and over the phone with people from around the world. If you are interested in working with Morgan, talk with her today!

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Every human being that lives on this planet is the combination of both feminine and masculine energies. These two polarities are there to support one another, allowing each individual to have an experience of their emotions and their mind, creating an equilibrium within their being so that the mind becomes a direct energy and the emotions becomes the understanding of the effect of this energy. These energies come together to bring awareness, understanding, and purposeful duty to loving and creating a world in a structure that supports one another, however in our current world, feminine energy has been misrepresented as a threat to humanity.

If the mind itself, meaning the masculine, creates only the idea of structure and thought without the emotions, then it will build things without understanding its affect upon other people and its environment. If the feminine itself was to do the same there would be an understanding of what is happening, but there would be no structure, order, or understanding of how and why the situation is and how it works and functions for the greater whole.

There is a great marriage that must take place within each and every living being, however throughout history the feminine has been looked down upon. This occurs mostly in religion and belief systems that paint feminine energy as an energy of manipulation, of leading someone down a path of destruction as depicted in the story of Adam and Eve. Eve is the cursed one who led Adam astray from his path with God. Through her powers of will, through her love, and through her sensuality she coaxed Adam into eating the forbidden fruit, thus causing “The Fall of Man.” Great masses of people have bought into this idea. This idea in itself serves nothing but the untruth and the perpetual deception that limits humanity as a whole.

There cannot be one energy without the two, for the two become one in themselves. If one is missing the other, there is an incomplete – wholeness becomes ripped and the fibers of humanity fall apart. This isn’t in question to men versus women or women versus men; this is in the energy, not the physical aspect of men and women that religion has used for centuries to describe the ultimate connection between a man and a woman. The idea of men versus women doesn’t support the higher lessons and love that directly emanates into our being from our divine Mother and our divine Father. The awareness and understanding is given from the divine that everything and all things support the greater whole. The structure, direction and precision from the masculine allows the emotional, the vessel, to fill. Structure is the vase and the emotion is that which fills the vase. There is a marriage and an acknowledgment that each energy must honor its truth so as to be in balance with one another. This creates what we know as harmony.

There is a great discord amongst people because of the persecution of women and the falsification of who they are in their identity. The misunderstanding of feminine energy has served the purpose of subjugation amongst women throughout history, where they were seen as beings of manipulative purpose, lies and deceit, and at any moment using their ability through their sensuality to coax men into giving up their power and their strength. In turn this has profoundly conflicted men in their roles and in the suppression of their emotions. The discord is amongst men, between men and women, and amongst women. Some women have completely disconnected from the divine feminine and when the divine feminine is disconnected from the heart flame of Mother God, life itself cannot sustain. The energies of earth begin to spin into complete chaos because the one that makes the two is missing. This is seen through war, crimes against other people, through suffering and pain, through sickness and disease, and through all of the many trials and tribulations that we all go through.

Known by mystics, shamans, and all those who seek the way of spirit and the way of the planet, is the understanding of union. When there is a union the two come together and create a bridge so that all may pass with ease and grace. When we come together in a union, not just between the feminine and the masculine, but a union amongst race, people, beliefs and ideas, we will begin to see a world that is filled with truth, respect and love, as it is in heaven. This is why so many beings have come at this momentous time, for the complete healing and transformation of bringing the masculine and the feminine into rightful order. This is also why there are so many people who have within them a vibration of feminine and masculine, where they can bring forth one aspect or the other to balance out any situation, space or energy that is out a frequency.

When men lose touch of their own inner feminine nature they not only act in a chaotic way towards themselves and others, they cannot pinpoint how their actions and ideas are affecting humanity. The feminine ray of Mother God allows us to open our heart chakra and emotional body so that when anything is created from the thought guided by masculine energy, it is only qualified through the heart and emotions if serving the greatest good for all. All must benefit from everything that is being created. The union brings harmony, and the harmony brings equilibrium. When equilibrium is achieved great cities, knowledge of agriculture that supports the elemental kingdom, reverence for life, and a universal brotherhood and sisterhood are realized.

This transformed new world is a place where there is no discrimination or suffering, because all suffering is an imbalance. It is an imbalance of the body, mind, emotions and spirit, not being able to live its truth, therefore living in fear. Those living in this fear are doing so because the people around them are placing their views and ideas upon them, giving the experience of love being pulled away or love being withheld until they fit or actualize themselves to how the other person wishes to see them. The unconditional quality never takes place until masculine and feminine are in a harmony, union and equilibrium that creates peace, well-being, tranquility, ecstasy, joy, abundance, foundation, happiness, and the list goes on. This leads to a transformation in not only the planet and all of nature but in all of the people who are sharing the space. It is sent out into the universe, to other planetary kingdoms as a clarion call to all beings that belong to the Father and Mother we know as God.

About the Author

Shaman Durek is a Los Angeles based spiritual guide and gifted healer. As a Shaman, Durek acts as mediator or “bridge” between the spiritual and physical planes, and applies ancient spiritual wisdom, coupled with decades of devoted study and practice, to help bring success, happiness and healing into clients’ lives.

Follow him on Twitter @shamandurek or check his website http://www.shamandurek.com

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We are all connected, moving to a similar pulse, hungry and thirsty for the same thing, wanting to feel that we matter. This connection provides us with a network that when used to it’s fullest capacity can cause electric transformation and change. If you conceive of an idea born from guided inspiration that may be of great benefit to someone, chances are that that someone is waiting for your gift to be shared.

What we need to remember is that when we light a spark from heart led inspiration, it will ablaze. If you want to set this world on fire and be a positive, impactful force– you already have everything you need. We were all given uniquely different talents to contribute to this life experience. Do something you have never done before in a whole new way with the intention of feeding the world with the tools and gifts that only you have.

You may wonder, what is spirit inspired action? A clue I can share is if you’ve been absent of any real passion, exuberant joy, or fulfillment then you likely have not been living life from a such a place. When you are making choices that are in alignment with your gifts, talents or that come from the heart AND you get an buzz doing them, it’s safe to say that you are in the right place. It is when you operate from this awesome feeling with clarity, focus and determination that your spark catches fire and others want to drink your Kool Aide.

You know you are out of alignment with heart led inspiration when you:
•hate waking up in the morning to go to work
•feel unfulfilled
•know that you are holding back
•have an idea for a project, business, movement that you can’t let go of
•no one else knows how magnificent you really are
•are frustrated because you are not living the life that you dream of and are capable of living

Here’s what you can do about it:
•Celebrate your uniqueness
•Get in the habit of sharing what makes your soul sing
•When great things happen for you remember to pay it forward
•Choose and commit to making a life change that will make you feel magnetic
•Create an affirmation for yourself that keeps you on track. For example, “Each day I create an opportunity to enhance my life and the lives of others”
•Trust your Intuition!
•Live your life for yourself not for your parents, friends, siblings, etc.

It does not take a grand master plan to make an impact– just the ability to let go. Allow your glorious spirit to lead you to the perfect way to express yourself. It’s usually that thing that’s been shoved to the back of your mind; the idea that just won’t go away. When you move with meaningful action you are connected to the greater purpose and feeding a need. You know your spirit better than anyone else. If your soul is stirring you are in the right place. Here’s to your spark!

About the Author

Dr. Lisa is all about grabbing life by the horns and living out loud. Acknowledging that life is so precious in our physical bodies, she is passionate about making the absolute most of it.

By trade she is an Acupuncturist, Chiropractor and owner of an online nutrition business. A firm believer in mind-body healing, Dr Lisa H. Upshaw’s practice combines Chinese medicine and functional nutrition with Chakra balancing and affirmations. She is passionate about empowering others with tools to enhance their life experience. Living by her mantra,“follow your bliss”, Dr. Lisa loves coaching and supporting those who may be in a stuck pattern, wanting greater alignment with the spirit and the physical.

She is happy to share all she knows and looks forward to meeting you on your journey.

Please take a moment to visit Lisa’s website http://www.beingwellbody.com

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Foods that have an incredible array of health benefits that go well beyond just their nutrient value are considered superfoods. These foods are typically loaded with a combination of critical fatty acids, anti-oxidant phytonutrients, and essential amino acids. Goji berries contain an extraordinary amount of unique nutrients and anti-oxidants that give them amazing power as a superfood in our diets.

Goji berries are classically grown from an evergreen shrub found in China, Mongolia, and in the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet. Goji berries are also called wolfberries in many of these countries. These berries are a member of the Solanaceae family of plants that is also called nightshade veggies. The relatives include tomato, potato, peppers, eggplant, tomatillo, and tobacco.

Goji berries have all 18 amino acids as well as mega doses of vitamin A (beta carotene), B1, B2, B6 and vitamin E. Goji berries contain more vitamin C by weight than any other food on Earth. Goji berries also contain more iron than spinach as well as 21 other key trace minerals. Goji’s are extremely rich in the unique phytonutrient anti-oxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which are some of the most important nutrients for healthy eyes and nervous system.

Goji berries are also rich in unique compounds known as Lycium barbarum polysaccharides. These nutrients have been shown to enhance immunity and have a similar chemical structure to immune stimulating compounds within maitake mushrooms and echinacea. These polysaccharides provide immune cells with special sugars that enable them to communicate more effectively.

Key polysaccarides enhance immunity

These polysaccharides are also one of the preferred fuel sources of good intestinal bacteria. These bacteria help to orchestrate a healthy immune response as well. By supporting the immune cells and probiotic cells with their preferred fuel these polysaccharides present in goji berries modulate immunity and reduce inflammation. Famous author and pharmacist Earl Mindell believes that these polysaccharides are master molecules because of their influence on many of the body’s biochemical defense systems.

These polysaccharides are very effective at enhancing detoxification within the body. They aid in the removal of metabolic waste products such as lactic acid that accumulates in muscles during exertion. They also support the liver and protect it from damage that may occur during intense periods of exercise.

In Asia, goji berries have been used as a cultural medicinal for inflammatory based disorders such as asthma, allergies, chronic pain, and cancer. The polysaccharides also show promise in blunting auto-immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and Crohn’s disease.

Goji berries are also a rich source of sesquiterpenoids which help to stimulate human growth hormone secretion by the pituitary gland. This is the only known food source that is known to stimulate HGH. Additionally, goji berries contain L-arginine and L-glutamine, along with potassium. These nutrients further promote growth hormone production.

These key nutrients synergize to have a very powerful effect on the key endocrine glands such as the adrenals, thymus, thyroid, and pituitary. Goji berries can be classified as an adaptogenic aid in that they enhance the body’s ability to successfully adapt to stress. This unique array of supernutrients make goji berries one of the world’s premier foods for optimal performance and longevity.

About the Author

Dr. David Jockers owns and operates Exodus Health Center in Kennesaw, Ga. He is a Maximized Living doctor. His expertise is in weight loss, customized nutrition & exercise, & structural corrective chiropractic care. For more information go to www.drjockers.com To find a Maximized Living doctor near you go to www.maximizedliving.com Dr. Jockers is also available for long distance phone consultations to help you beat disease and reach your health goals

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I apologize for my inability to develop a conscious relationship. You were right there with your beautiful heart on your sleeve but I was too attached to my individualism and afraid of this unknown terrain. I know the forests, the marketplace and the ways of the outer world so well, but my inner geography is foreign to me. You called me to a place I was ill-prepared to go, although I sensed, below the surface of my bravado, that you called me home.

I am grateful for your willingness to believe that who I was in those rare moments of vulnerability was the real me. You were right- the real me lives inside of my heart- but a few moments now and then was the most I could handle. I saw you as dangerous, for in your presence I began to taste a surrendered way of being. Nonetheless, your faith in my goodness kept me going through many a battle, and restored my faith in life when I most needed it. You were the light at the end of a barbaric tunnel, and I am blessed.

I am grateful that you stuck with me through thick and thin, and I also understand those times you had to give up and let go. I now recognize that there is meaningful difference between a love-ship and a relationship. Love alone is not enough. Without a shared willingness to become conscious, there can only be frustration. I was so often impossible, clinging to my unconsciousness like a soldier clings to his weapons. I recognize the courage it took for you to keep your heart open in the presence of my resistance. You had every right to seek an authentic relationship, as your spirit was ignited in its presence. Your beautiful heart had every right to be met in its openness and willingness. I am grateful for the time you gave me, a moments respite from the hiding places I mistakenly called home.

I am grateful for Grandmother, for no one saw my tenderness more clearly. I am grateful for Mother, for choosing to bring me into being and for nourishing my body until I could find my feet. I am grateful for Mother Earth, for grounding my expansion and enlivening my spirit. I am grateful for the Divine Mother, the real Mother of us all. I now feel her divine presence, so close. Fiercely compassionate, she was always right here, breathing life into me, holding me safe. I sit in her lap as she breathes me.

I look forward to the day when the only thing that ignites relationship is two souls calling out to one another, two soul-hearts beating in the same direction, a whisper of longing that bridges one essence to another. I want to want you not because it gratifies my ego, not because you are outwardly beautiful, but because your very presence invites my Godself out of hiding. I want to touch you with my heart on my sleeve, to know chemistry between us that is not gender identified, but that is essence sourced, loves liquid lava flowing from the heart to the genitals to the great beyond. In this love-struck world, relationship will always be experienced as spiritual practice, a devotional expression of our God-self.

I had always believed that sensitivity is impossible to hold to in a harsh world. Yet in this moment, I feel sensitive, but without the fragility. I am still wearing armor but there is a shift in the direction of my intensity. I can linger in the heart-space a little longer than I once could, I am softening in places. After so many lifetimes with weapon in hand, a tenderling warrior is being birthed in the core of my being. He is confused, but he intuitively knows that this is the way home.

Please don’t give up on me or my fellow warriors. Forgive us our misdeeds, or, at the least, be open to the possibility that we will change as the trail expands to meet our shifting intentionality. The day will come when our warrior spirit loses its harsh edge, and comes into alignment with benevolent action. Some of us are already there, and many more of us will follow. The road to transformation is dependent on a bridge between genders, a benevolent bridge that celebrates our differences with respect and kindness. That work must begin with healing the rifts along the gender continuum, working hard to heal the collective heart until one day we can stand on a bridge across forever, hands held together, hearts open and alight, embracing the sacred masculine and divine feminine living at the heart of us all. I will meet you there.

May you feel the love of the Divine Mother crashing down on your heartfelt shores, graciously lifting you up above the madness of the world, nestling you in the grateful arms of those you have nurtured. Those of us who have received your blessings may not always acknowledge it, but your acts of love have landed within us, growing us stronger and infusing us with love’s light. Thank you.

About the Author

A former criminal lawyer and psychotherapist, Jeff Brown is the author of ‘Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation’. Endorsed by authors Elizabeth Lesser and Ram Dass, it is Brown’s autobiography – an inner travelogue of his journey from archetypal male warrior to a more surrendered path. www.soulshaping.com

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I apologize for my inability to distinguish the benevolent warrior from the heartless warrior, a reflection of my own confusion dealing with the battlefields of yore. When I opened my heart too wide, I was vulnerable to attack from warring factions. I was conditioned to believe that I had to stay rigid, focused, prepared for any eventuality, in the desire to protect myself and others from attack. But I went too far, and closed too tight, and eradicated the bridge between our hearts. I am seeing this now and I am sorry.

I apologize for my perpetual absence, a reflection of my own inner absence, my inability to connect from a heart jammed tight by unresolved emotions that I did not have the tools to work through. I still lack many of these tools, but I am open to their emergence.

I apologize for my inability to distinguish relationship from war. Like a warrior in enemy territory, I would sneak in and out of your life in the night, plundering and selfishly taking what I needed, then crawling back to the other side of the abyss with the spoils. I gave little back for fear that I would become vulnerable to attack. I had war on the brain and I could not see the river of love waiting on the other side of the battlefield. I now recognize that love is the antidote for the armoured warrior, but I could not drink the antidote in my driven state.

I apologize for not seeing you, my eyes blinded by congealed rage and unshed tears. If it is any consolation, and I imagine it is not, I could not see myself either. I saw only that which served my hyper-vigilance, my warrior focus. My mirror was a battlefield.

I apologize for my ungrounded materialism, my power driven tyrannies, my obsession with accumulation. Somehow I imagined that accumulation would protect me and those close to me, but I failed to recognize that it just perpetuated the madness. I also apologize for my egoic abuses, a reflection of my own misguided ego, pumped up to deal with an inherently competitive world. I couldn’t distinguish the healthy, confident ego from the cocky, unhealthy ego. I went much too far in the wrong direction.

I apologize for a sexuality that was objectifying and disconnected from the heart. I know you longed for real intimacy, a merging of our souls along the heart-genital highway. But there were too many defences around my heart, and no bridge could form between our souls. There were moments when your loving ways freed me from my body masks, but I had no template to stand in that heart-fire. I am sorry for this, for I know that the path you longed for was the path to God.

I apologize for my horrifying acts of violence, a reflection of my own congealed rage, my own inability to distinguish real enemies from friends. There are no words that can undo what I have done in those moments of madness. I know this, I do. I would hide my face in shame, but that won’t make things better. I need to own my misdeeds, and then find a way to believe in my capacity to move from a more loving place. I call out to other male warriors to be accountable for the actions of our gender, not in a way that is self-hating, but in a way that is courageously self-honest and genuinely compassionate. The heartfelt warrior acknowledges the error of his ways, and has the courage to do all he can to make amends over time.

About the Author

A former criminal lawyer and psychotherapist, Jeff Brown is the author of ‘Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation’. Endorsed by authors Elizabeth Lesser and Ram Dass, it is Brown’s autobiography – an inner travelogue of his journey from archetypal male warrior to a more surrendered path. www.soulshaping.com

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How long are you going to hold on to your anger? How long are you going to keep it festering inside of you, this fire, this inferno of poison and venom? How long can you keep acid in your stomach, in your veins, in your blood and in your mind before it begins to eat away at the very core of you?

All for the purpose of being hurt, feeling wronged and experiencing betrayal. To justify that anger is no more than an emotion of sadness and hurt. Many people dissociate and mentally detach when suffering, while others cry and scream, allowing the animal core of their being to fall to earth for healing and renewal.

People become hurt collectors. They hold onto it, recording and documenting, gathering up one hurt after the next. In the throat, in the closet or in a box somewhere deep inside, hidden from the rest of the world like a dirty secret.

The thing is that other people do see it. It’s in their words, the way they express themselves, in their actions, the stories they tell and in the way they touch. It’s in their reactions to conversations, choices and experiences. Their anger is revealed in their health, their internal system, in their organs and in their eyes. It’s in the way they love.

With knowing how outwardly obvious this is on levels subtle and not so subtle, how can we keep the pain and sadness a secret any longer? How can we continue to live as a stranger to ourselves and to others? How can we truly be free in the activities and events we are taking on for growth and education if we aren’t able to see the poison that we continue to digest, that we feed our minds, our emotions and our bodies until becoming a cesspool of venom and darkness?

I know for I have lived this myself, being a shaman. I have opened my heart to love at such levels that for some it is overwhelming. I kept loving and I continued to love, however to love can be painful because you’re putting yourself out there, leaving yourself open and vulnerable, as if being stripped of your clothes and possessions, standing naked and bare in front of gnashing teeth and claws saying, “here I am, here I am!”

When someone hurts you, deliberately goes out of their way to cause you harm or to affect you in some unpleasant way, you begin to think that the world and every other person that you meet might be the same. This is the greatest misconception held by many. Too many times I’ve been hurt by people. Hurt because they were jealous, hurt because they couldn’t control me, hurt because they didn’t like what I said, and hurt because they didn’t want me to say it. All of this because I believed that I was helping them to grow, prosper and evolve to becoming what I saw inside of them.

I realized over time that people are who they are and if I allow them to just be who they are instead of placing my energy, love and wisdom upon them it would be easier for them in that moment. This however is not what I did. Instead I focused my energy on loving them beyond where they could love themselves, therefore creating an expectation of their triumph, happiness, health, freedom, and all the other potential I saw. Many times though this resulted in more stress, fear and pain, and it was through this reaction that I began to experience the hurt of these dear people that I love so much.

This hurt amplified when some of these people went out of their way to hurt and cause viscious harm to me, which resulted in the deepest pain. I am sharing this experience because I know that many of you are carrying anger, who are either frustrated or filled rage because you are hurt. You are hurting so badly and you don’t have justification for the hurt you endured, why it was done to you, and why did you deserve such a thing. The truth is that you didn’t deserve it and you may not know why it happened but you must acknowledge that it happened.

This is the first step in understanding: it did happen and by recognizing that it happened begins the first stage of freeing ourselves from the calamity, suffering and pain that we took on. When we acknowledge that it exists and that it did happen we have an opportunity to exercise our free will in deciding what to do next.

So what do you do with all this anger? The answer is clear: we allow ourselves to understand the truth of anger. We allow ourselves to recognize the opportunity to identify our values and principles. We look at who we are, what we deserve, and we love ourselves more than ever before. Expressing one’s self to the person who caused the pain can teach us about ourselves, so that we can become wiser and stronger, with an opportunity to be more compassionate and humble, to open up new energies for creativity, freedom and expression. This can create an experience that is the true resurrection of our being. This can allow us to release toxins from our bodies.

We can release all shadows from our mind and cast away all energies that do not serve the principles, values and integrity that love instilled in each and every one of us! We cannot under any circumstance allow someone’s actions and behaviors to change who we are, just because we got hurt, broken and sad inside. We must rejoice, connect and understand that this is the only way in which we can truly find salvation from our pain and suffering!

We are so much more than the incidents and circumstances of our lives. We are only experiencing these things so that we can go further within ourselves for introspection and increased awareness. Love is always present, waiting for us, calling to us, beckoning us at such a level where there is no lack and limitation.

Look upon the new day after you have released the sadness. Speak your truth and express your feelings because the sadness needs a voice. This means so much to the spirit that you have been able to learn and grow in ways you never thought possible, and that you now understand the law of cause and effect. It brings comfort to know that a simple cause of your need to grow led you down this path to pain and suffering. The great masters say that this is part of the journey of life and becoming great, so that we may reach others with our stories and our experiences.

As people we can go beyond our human selves and step into the awareness of unconditional love, not just for our fellow men and women but for ourselves, for the planet, for the conditions which we experience day to day.

Know that there is a reason for all of this and if you continue to stay the course with love in your heart for the lesson that is being taught, you will see the unfolding of something so majestic and powerful! You would have never turned away if you knew the reward that waits at the end of this dark tunnel.

I say hold on and don’t give up! A whole new world is born through you and your ideas. This in itself is worth more than any gold, diamonds or treasure you could acquire, as no thing compares to the level of riches that you’ll receive by walking through the trenches and emerging from the lions den. This brings great hope for the generations to come, to show what is possible when you heal and discover the glorious gifts bestowed. I wish you this journey and the love, happiness and enlightenment that it yields!

About the Author

Shaman Durek is a Los Angeles based spiritual guide and gifted healer. As a Shaman, Durek acts as mediator or “bridge” between the spiritual and physical planes, and applies ancient spiritual wisdom, coupled with decades of devoted study and practice, to help bring success, happiness and healing into clients’ lives.

Follow him on Twitter @shamandurek or check his website http://www.shamandurek.com

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I’m not strictly wheat-free but I hardly ever eat wheat.

This happened when I started to tune into my body, and my body naturally started to want foods that were wheat free. When I don’t eat wheat I notice that my body feels much better. My digestion improves and so does my sluggish. Many people find that IBS, digestive disorders and other chronic skin and diseases heal by themselves.

Today, I feel better, healthier and have more energy when I live and eat wheat-free. When I suggest to people that they try going wheat free for a few weeks most people agree but then look at me with confusion and ask, “If I don’t eat bread and other wheat products what do I eat?”

What is the difference between wheat and gluten?

Gluten (from Latin gluten “glue”) is a protein composite that appears in foods processed from wheat and related species, including barley and rye. It gives elasticity to dough, helping bread to rise and to keep its shape, and often giving the final product a chewy texture.

When you are eating bread made out of wheat, barley or rye, you will also be eating gluten.

Enough of the human population suffers from gluten sensitivity of one kind or another that many foods are now labeled to clarify whether they contain gluten

I always try to stay away from elimination, and instead always do substitution.

Today we are lucky as there are many options for wheat flour substitutes and alternatives!

Alternatively you can work with a Natural health practitioner and have allergy testing to find out what foods you are sensitive to. As we are all unique, this can be a great way to customising a unique, and healthy eating plan for yourself.

Check out your local health food shop. Just to get you started… potato flour, spelt flour, kamut flour, rice flour, barley flour, amaranth flour, arrowroot flour, brown rice flour, chickpea flour, cornmeal, millet flour, potato starch flour, rye flour, quinoa flour, sorghum flour, soya flour, tapioca flour, white rice flour….

Do a search on Google and find out how to use each one as they all have their own cooking requirements. Be brave! Venture into new territory and experience better health and more energy!

Another thing you may want to try is to eat organic wheat. Many times we think we are allergic to the wheat when actually we could be allergic to the herbicieds, pesticides and fungicides that are sprayed onto the wheat.

So what do I eat instead?

People always look so relieved when I explain that they can still have bread – my favourite at the moment is Spelt Bread (with loads of pumpkin and sunflower seeds on top). I substitute white pasta and white wheat noodles for rice noodles, raw zuccini noodles or even for an occasional treat, I will enjoy eating organic fresh egg pasta.

If you are wanting more energy, or wondering if you have an allergy to wheat try eating wheat free for 1-2 weeks and notice how you feel for yourself.

And please ask any questions or share any delicious wheat free recipes on the comments section below. I’ll answer any questions about this topic as I think it is a vitally important area that can create health and wellbeing or destroy it.

Sharing really is caring, because you can be sure that if you’ve got a question, someone else will also be struggling with that same question!

I really look forward to hearing how you are eating – are you able to tolerate eating wheat and gluten products or do you avoid them, and substitute other grains instead? I look forward to reading your comments and trying your recipe ideas! Thank you for sharing them!

About the Author

Katrina Love Senn is a Hatha yoga teacher, healer and author of the ground breaking book Losing Weight is a Healing Journey: A Woman’s Guide to Losing Weight Naturally. She is also the founder of the Yoga Girl Revolution.

She has been featured on Sky TV, Natural Health magazine and High Spirit magazine. She is also a regular contributor to popular US lifestyle and wellness blogs including MindBodyGreen and Elephant Journal.

Katrina also leads Yoga and Detox healing retreats in the beautiful Sabine Hills in Italy. She runs her own-signature healing 3-day workshop, Love Your Body, Love Your Life and runs weekly healing hatha yoga classes in the United Kingdom.

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by Paula Peterson

Flanagan was a child prodigy whose debut upon the public scene began at age twelve when he submitted his latest project to a science fair. It was a device to detect atomic bombs and guided missiles. The government took control of his invention, but Flanagan’s precocious genius was established. The rest, as they say, is history. In 1997, he was voted Scientist of the Year by the International Association for New Science.

Besides his groundbreaking work on identifying and duplicating the benefits of “youthing” waters, Flanagan’s work spans inventions like the Neurophone — a helmet-like device that enables deaf people to hear — and technology that was used during the Viet Nam war for training dolphins to recognize and report the country of origin of approaching submarines. In fact, much of the work Flanagan has done, including the dolphin communication research, has been co-opted by the government and is no longer available even to him.

The author interviewed Dr. Flanagan in person at his home.

Paula: When did you begin to take an interest in water?

Patrick: It began when I was still in my teens. I met Dr. Coanda of Stanford University, an amazing man — you can read about him in the Encyclopedia Britannica — who built the first jet airplane in 1911. [1] He also is known as the father of fluid dynamics. During his lifetime, he obtained five hundred patents on fluid amplifiers.

Dr. Coanda was in remarkable health when I met him — he lived to be one-hundred and one.[2] I myself was already a student of health and nutrition and was a pure vegan at the time.

He told me that based upon what he had learned about me, he had decided to share his research with me so that I could continue it. This was because he believed he could not finish it himself in his own lifetime.

He went on to say that the legend of the Fountain of Youth was true, and that there was scientific fact to back it up.

There are five places on Earth, he told me, where people were in extremely good health and lived to be over 100 years old: Hunza Land (in the Karkorum Mountains north of Pakistan), a place in Ecuador, another place in Peru, the county of Georgia in Russia, and a place in Mongolia.

In these locations, the people all have very different diets. The one thing they have in common is the water.

Paula: Most of us don’t learn in school that there can be differences in water.

Patrick: Yes, in school we learn that water is the same everywhere in the world: It freezes at zero degrees [centigrade], boils at 100 degrees, and has a certain viscosity and surface tension.

But those are only the average qualities of water. Dr. Coanda said water was different everywhere in the world and that he could predict, just from analyzing the water they drank, the average lifespan of the people who lived in any given area.

Coanda had gone to Hunza Land at the turn of the century. To get there, he had to hike for three months through jungles, climb mountain peaks, and cross rope bridges. While he was there, he found that the Hunza’s water came from glaciers that were millions of years old.

There were certain characteristics of Hunza water that Coanda tried his whole life to duplicate. But he never succeeded. He told me, “You, Patrick, will invent a machine that will create this kind of water anywhere in the world. You will save many, many lives.” He then gave me the characteristics of Hunza water.

Paula: Do the significant characteristics go beyond the mineral content?

Patrick: Well, he had no idea which characteristics were significant. He thought that it could even have been the cold temperatures, or the altitude — Hunza Land is a valley at 8000 feet elevation, surrounded by some of the tallest mountains in the world. These mountains have ice-blue glaciers, and this is where their water comes from.

The Hunza people themselves claimed that their secret of health and longevity came from drinking the glacier waters that were filled with all these minerals from the glacial silt. There actually was a well in the area that had clear water, but none of the residents would drink from it — they saved that water for the tourists.

So at age seventeen — in parallel with everything else that was going on at the time — I started my own research into water. I tried everything: magnetic treatments, alternating different frequency fields, electrolysis — about anything that you could imagine in order to create anomalous properties in water.

I discovered that when I put rubies, quartz crystals, and other gemstones in water and let it sit, that changed the structure of the water and lowered the surface tension. Each night, I would put a brandy snifter next to my bed filled with distilled water containing the crystals. In the morning, I would drink this water, being careful not to cause any turbulence — because even though crystals change water dramatically, all the structuring goes away if you shake it, stir it, or bump it.

Paula: It’s that fragile?

Patrick: Yes. Magnets are the same way. I found that crystals have a very orderly matrix of electrical charges, both positive and negative. They will align themselves to the crystal structure of precious stones and then extend out into the water.

Then I reasoned that if I could make the crystals small enough that I put into the water, the change in structure would lower the surface tension and be maintained even through drinking or shaking.

Paula: Before we go on with this explanation, could you please tell us what is meant by the surface tension of water?

Patrick: Surface tension has to do with penetration. For example, if you put a drop of water on a piece of paraffin and look at it from the side, that drop of water will form a nearly perfect sphere because it cannot penetrate the paraffin. But if you put a drop of water on a quartz crystal, it penetrates 100 percent and the drop goes flat.

The surface tension of water is also called the “webbing angle of water.” It is well known in food science that every food and substance has a certain webbing angle of water. If the substance is above a certain angle, it cannot wet the food. As an example, it’s difficult to mash potatoes with cold water, as they will only clump up. Boiling the water causes the surface tension to go way down, which makes it much easier to mash the potatoes.

Ordinary water has a high surface tension of about 73 dynes per centimeter — a dyne is a unit of force. Boiling water can get as low as 37 dynes. Hunza water has a surface tension of about 67 dynes — and also a different viscosity and a slightly different freezing and boiling point.

Paula: How does all this work in our body?

Patrick: The cells in our body have to be fully wetted with water in order to exchange compounds, getting rid of toxins generated by their own metabolism, and absorbing nutrients. If the cells are not wetted, nutrients and toxins cannot penetrate the surface of the cell. And since the cells are covered with protein lipid membranes — which are fatty acids, and as we know, oil and water do not mix — it’s important that the surface tension of the water around our cells water be low enough to allow penetration.

So the Hunza water has a low surface tension. Furthermore, the minerals in the Hunza water are in colloidal suspension. The really cloudy minerals drop out — those are not colloids, and are suspended only while the water is in motion.

Paula: So you are saying that a colloidal mineral is different than other minerals?

Patrick: Yes. Basically, colloidal minerals are more bio-available. In fact, they are what the body needs and uses. The body has to work really hard to separate minerals out of compounds. For example, if you take magnesium chloride in order to get magnesium, your body has to separate the magnesium out of the chloride before it can use it.

But a colloidal mineral is suspended in the solution (not dissolved).[3] When the suspension medium is water, the minerals must be small enough, and must carry a strong enough electrical charge, so that they don’t coagulate and repel each other.

Colloidal minerals also have a negative electrical charge, which is very important. The higher the negative charge, the more of the mineral will suspend in water without dropping out. So colloidal minerals have to be tiny and have a strong negative charge.

Consequently, I realized that the secret of Hunza water was in the tiny size of the colloidal minerals. And I found that these minerals were mostly silica. Silica is an essential mineral for the human body. It helps to produce collagen: the matrix that holds our skin together.

Paula: Is that the same kind of silica that’s found in quartz crystal?

Patrick: Yes. Quartz crystal is silica in a crystal form. There is also amorphous silica, which is totally non-crystalline.[4]

By the time I had worked for almost 30 years on this, trying to figure out how to make Hunza water, I had become famous for the book Pyramid Power, and was a featured speaker all over the world, with television specials and a movie made about me called Outer Space Connections.

In due course, my wife and I went through a hermit stage and I withdrew from the public eye. We moved to Sedona, Arizona, and bought a house on forty acres of land. The house was fifteen miles up a dirt road that had no name. Trees completely surrounded our property.

We essentially isolated ourselves for fourteen years, and it was during these years in isolation, along with practicing specific spiritual disciplines, that I made some of my most revolutionary discoveries.

Paula: Which discoveries were your most important?

Patrick: I created Crystal Energy, which was my first concentrated colloidal solution. When added to water, Crystal Energy restructures it.

We went on a six-month fast on water and juices supplemented with Crystal Energy. At the end of the six-month fast, I had lost 45 pounds and my wife lost about 25 pounds. Friends who visited us were astounded and amazed that we looked like teenagers, even though I was 45 years old at this time. I’m 58 now.

Paula: I have to say that you look extraordinarily healthy!

Patrick: Thank you. I know it’s from using Crystal Energy and also from the water I later developed, called silica-hydride, using microclusters of silica.

We had the Microcluster® water tested at different universities. These tests showed that our product was little spheres. Not only that, the little spheres would group together and form bigger spheres in which other things could be inserted.

For example, flax seed oil goes rancid faster than any other known oil because it is highly polyunsaturated and can easily be attacked by oxygen. We found that when we mixed flax seed oil with the microcluster powder it would not go rancid, not even after two years of sitting on the shelf!

Paula: That’s amazing. What was your next stage of discovery?

Patrick: I found a way to make silica Buckyballs in my lab through using nanotechnology. Buckyballs, named after Buckminster Fuller, are formations of structured carbon made up of tiny little spheres that look like soccer balls. Further findings proved that atomic nuclei could be trapped inside the Buckyballs and used as a carrier for transporting pharmaceuticals into the cells.

The minerals in Hunza water were like Buckyballs, only they were made of silica instead of carbon. When they were added to water, they lowered the surface tension. My technology reduces the surface tension of water to 28 dynes per centimeter. Pure ethyl alcohol is 27 dynes per centimeter. This means that this re-structured water has the solvent capabilities of ethyl alcohol. It’s really quite remarkable.

In subsequent research, we took hundreds of people off the streets to do darkfield microscope studies of their blood. We found that most people’s blood looked like sewers: The cells were all clumped together with free-radical damage, and sometimes we’d see little parasites swimming around.

After taking the silica-hydride product, their blood cells would become beautiful and discrete again, the parasites would disappear, and all the damage from free radicals would be gone — all within fifteen minutes of taking only two capsules.

Most people are walking around in a chronic state of dehydration where their blood is clumped together. It’s a condition in modern people that eventually leads to plaque on arteries, heart attacks, and nutritional deficiencies caused from a build-up of toxins that the body cannot eliminate.

Paula: Now, that’s something that intrigues me. I learned that most people are dehydrated most of the time, but that after a certain period of dehydration they don’t seem to crave water. Why is that?

Patrick: No one knows why our sense of thirst seems to disappear as we get older. When we’re babies, we know immediately when we need water, and we cry for it. And yet as we get older we can become severely dehydrated and not even know it.

To make matters worse, the surface tension of the bodily fluids goes up as we age, and again, no one knows why. Dehydration is one of the major indicators of the aging process. On top of that, in today’s world, various factors like electro-magnetic pollution, unhealthy diets, and, in particular, poor water destroy the electrical charge of blood cells.

Studies show that silica-hydride is the greatest hydrating agent ever discovered. In our studies we gave people silica hydride, and in four weeks the average person on the study reversed age — as far as hydration is concerned — by five years.

Paula: Is there evidence that this kind of water was more available on the Earth at one time?

Patrick: Yes, and there are many theories about that. A friend of mine who is a biblical scholar says that in the Bible it tells of a time when people lived to be hundreds of years old, and that there was a constant light everywhere — everything was lit up.

Some scientists believe that the Earth was once surrounded by ice crystals high up in the stratosphere. The ice crystals refracted sunlight and blocked cosmic rays that are damaging to our DNA. Cosmic rays are passing through us all the time, now.

Paula: Does that have anything to do with “the firmament” that is mentioned in the Book of Genesis? It has been hypothesized that the firmament was an atmosphere made of water.

Patrick: Yes. That’s what it was. The theory is that the Great Flood of Noah’s time — which is recorded in many ancient texts throughout the world — was caused by the ice crystals coagulating, as colloids tend to do. And so it rained for forty days and forty nights, which flooded the entire Earth. Even prior to the flood, rain occasionally may have come from the firmament, making healthy water much more available in those days.

Paula: I am aware of theories humans once ate only flowers, leaves, and fruits, and that something of a catastrophic nature happened that destroyed nearly all living things. According to these theories, surviving humans became nomadic, since much of the Earth was then uninhabitable and there was less available food, and humans began to eat the animals.

Patrick: Yes. There are theories that humans did not eat meat prior to the Great Flood, which is another possible answer to why humans had longer life spans. In certain areas above and below the equator, where our ancestors originally came from, humans lived in jungles where they simply reached out and picked their food. Since their food was so abundant, they didn’t have to work for it, and so for the most part they played.

When Earth’s climate began to change, and the rainforests started drying up, fruit became less available. So humans began scavenging for food outside the forests. Not only that, the earth’s axis was once straight up and down, which caused spring to pervade all year long all over the planet.

Paula: You certainly have lived a fascinating life. Can you share with us any new research on water that’s particularly exciting for you right now?

Patrick: Yes. I recently discovered another component in Hunza water that I didn’t know about. I found that Hunza water had hydride ions, which are hydrogen atoms with a negative charge plus an extra electron. A hydrogen atom normally has only one proton and one electron, but it can actually take on and carry an extra electron. That extra electron is of the right potential to neutralize free radicals and participate in all the thousands and thousands of chemical reactions in the body that require extra electrons.

By using a laser and other techniques, I discovered that these hydride ions — or H-minus ions — are in Hunza water, and also in the juices of all fresh raw, living fruits and vegetables.

Paula: I’m so glad you said that. Being a health educator for several years, I have encouraged others to eat raw, living foods.

Patrick: We should all eat raw food, period, and no cooked food. When food is processed, dried, or cooked, the first thing that leaves the food are these important hydride ions.

Paula: The enzymes are destroyed, too.

Patrick: Well, the enzymes can’t function without the H-minus ions, and that’s why the enzymes stop functioning and die from heating. I think it’s the most important nutrient. However, it’s also the one that disappears the fastest. Most people are very deficient in it. I’ve known many people who were dying of cancer who went on a raw food, raw juice only diet and cured themselves, because they were giving their body all the right nutrients. These extra electrons are the most abundant in freshly made, raw juices.

When I discovered hydride ions and figured out a way to impregnate water with them, I started drinking the water. It gave me so much energy and made me feel so good that I eventually developed a very stable form of microclustered water with H-minus ions.

Those who took the water reported miracles — unbelievable things. One woman reported restoration of her nerve-damaged arm after she’d had no feeling in it for fifteen years. Diabetics have reported the return of feelings in their legs after having lost it for twenty years.

The remarkable thing about all of this is that it has been such a win/win situation. It has done great things for so many people.

Paula: Thank you, Patrick, for being so generous with your time today. Your discoveries are truly remarkable and continue to offer hope to so many.

About the Author

Patrick Flanagan, PhD, is the author of the bestselling books Pyramid Power and Toward a New Alchemy, and he is a leader in the fascinating field of structured water!

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