2009 Healthy Business Marketing Workshop
July 18, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Healthy Business
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Why Most Ads, Sales Letters, Flyers and Websites Don’t Turn a Profit, And What You Can Do About It!
New Zealand Business Growth Specialist and Copywriting Expert Eric Billoud is About to Pull Back the Curtains On The Strategies That Only His High Fee Paying Clients Have Access To
Would you like to know the secrets that no one else (including your competitors and 90% of advertising agencies) will ever know, and even less of them will use! Secrets like…
- The 7 ways to write a headline that will guarantee 80% of the success of your ad
- The 12 most powerful words in the English Language and how to use them to tickle the emotions of your prospects and give your ads that “je ne sais quoi” that makes your clients buy
- The 7 deadly sins of marketing and how they affect your business
- How a simple ‘7 minute change’ change to your ad can drastically boost results (get this part right, and you’re 80% of the way there)
- The 2 fatal mistakes amateurs make when putting together an advertising campaign
- The single most powerful secret (less than 5% of business owners follow) behind long term advertising success
You will walk away with a check list that will never leave you blank in front of your sheet of paper. You will have peace of mind that you know exactly what to do to distinguish your business from your competitors and leave them in the dust You will know exactly what to look for and problems to avoid when you receive advice that can water down or destroy the effectiveness of your ads.
This Workshop, valued at $295.00 is brought to you absolutely FREE courtesy of Health in Harmony.
There are only 27 seats available and the workshop will fill up, so make sure you secure your attendance by emailing rosie@healthinharmony.co.nz
Queenstown 29th July 10am – 1pm
For full details of the workshop please contact:
Eric Billoud
Breakthrough Business Systems
021 711952
P.S. Register NOW and automatically receive the ebook “78 low and no cost ways to add $17,000 to your small business profits” (value $75.00)
July Relaxation Techniques
July 10, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Holistic Wellbeing, Natural Remedies
Connect with the quiet at the centre of your energies.
Begin by sitting or lying comfortably. Close your eyes, begin to deepen the breath and allow your body to settle, inviting relaxation. Observe your body as you allow the stillness to settle, only the movement of the breath, the sounds of your breath. Leen softly into your experience and give it your whole attention.
Now begin to ask this question into the space between your muscles, your bones, your ligaments, your cells: What is stillness? Now let your body experience the answer while you simply stay in the stillness of a witness to this experience. Let the body’s response wash into every part of you with a wave of relaxation and quietness. Feeling the relaxation wave wash through every part of your body, from the top of the head all the way down to the souls of the feet. As your body quietens, softens just be the witness to the stillness you gather.
Then notice the space of your awareness and allow it to relax within. Let sounds in the the distance pass you by and dont grasp onto them, keep lettting the quietness gather, the softness of the breath bring calmness to your entire being. Letting go of any sense of attachments to the outside world, letting the stillness dissolve any efforts as you simply relax.
(Once you have stayed in this quiet moment for a period of time) Gently start to notice your physical body again, feeling the sensations arising in the body. Noticing your environment, opening your senses to the sounds surrounding you.
Feeling the movement of your breath in the body, then gently start to bring movement back into the body and wiggle the toes and fingers, if lying down roll over to the right side in a foetal position for a few moments, when you are ready sitting up.
To complete the practice come into a prayer position to give thanks for this quiet time you have given to yourself.
Winter Listening & Reading Pleasures
June 22, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Holistic Wellbeing
1. Brainwave Symphony: Relax & Let Go [Digipak] – We all experience many states of consciousness, from ordinary waking and sleeping states to extraordinary states in which we are more at peace, particularly aware, or unusually creative. Each state has a unique pattern of brainwaves that can be mapped and measured. Brainwave Symphony uses inaudible pulses of sound, based on these brain maps, to trigger your brain to produce the state you want to experience.
2. Simple Taoism: A Guide to Living in Balance: – Are you confused about the differences between Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism? Then the Simple series, dedicated to demystifying these Eastern philosophies, should be on your must-read list. Each of these popular gift books is an easy and entertaining introduction to the history, teaching, and practices of these fascinating traditions.
3.Living Green: the New Zealand Handbook for an Eco-friendly, Toxin-free, Sustainable Life – Green issues are hot, and they are here to stay. But where can New Zealanders find an authoritative yet neutral voice that is packed with the facts they need to make informed life-changing decisions? Living Green is a ‘bible’ for every New Zealand family: an assiduously researched and effortlessly readable manual that operates on two levels to appeal to all readers.
4.The Elephant and the Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking – In India, young elephants are trained in obedience by being tied to an immovable object like a tree. No matter how hard the baby elephant pulls it cannot break free, and eventually, after trying to break away and being thwarted time and again, it believes that it cannot escape, no matter what it does. This book argues that what ties you down and prevents you from realising your potential is only a ‘twig’.
Counting the Cents in an Organised Way
May 27, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Healthy Business, Holistic Wellbeing, News
Kinetica’s Katy MacPherson suggests ways to save money by being organised and counting every cent spent:
Are you fed up hearing of doom and gloom … of the tough economic climate? Why not turn the thought around and think positive? Positive-thinking is far healthier for the soul. How about starting with how you can save money? Being more organised is one way. But how?
Being organised saves you money and looking after those cents certainly helps the dollars look after themselves. The purchase of a new fridge of say $1200 requires thought, time and investigation but when you go to the supermarket and spend a third of the amount, do you give that task a third thinking time … NO and that’s where the saving can be made. Not so much on the larger outgoings, as we give them more thought, but on the smaller costs – $15 for lunch here and $20 for the trip out there.
We all need help and support to move forward in life and Katy Macpherson from organising solutions company, Kinetica, is able to give just that. Twenty years in the UK corporate world of pharmaceuticals along with an inherent love of organisation, lead Katy to take a new career direction in Professional Organisation, once arriving in New Zealand five years ago.
Here are Kinetica’s top ten organising tips to retain those notes in your wallet:-
1. Plan your week. Now you might be thinking how does that save money? Well think about how many trips you have to make into town – if you diary the date/time to go to town and list all the things needed to be done, you can maximise your time and reduce the petrol costs and have that business meeting whilst you are there. Car pool where you can. Organise rosters for taking children to after-school activities.
2. Plan your meals. Similarly planning what you have to eat over the week means less trips to the supermarket (reducing petrol costs and saving time), less wastage and more economical meals. Put thinking time into your grocery shopping – it’s a huge expense.
3. Check your bills. Careful checking of an invoice can reveal miscalculations and errors. Check your power bill, especially at rate-change times. Or read the meter, because the power company may not, and waiting until the bill eventually arrives may cost you tens of dollars.
4. Use both sides of paper. If you don’t want to print both sides, then tear up into quarters and staple for use as a notepad by the telephone. Use every piece of paper and recycle when done.
5. Think multipurpose. If you need to purchase a new item, think how else it could be used. Be creative with your ideas so you can save space, time and money.
6. Make your own lunch. How much does it cost you to buy that prepared sandwich in the plastic non-recyclable wrapping from the deli? How much healthier and more delicious would lunch be if the sandwich was home-made at a fraction of the cost and the re-useable sectioned lunch box also contained scrummy home-baking (made in the time you saved by planning your week) and yummy fruit (bought at your weekly supermarket trip)? Start tomorrow.
7. On-sell unused goods. Declutter your home and sell all the items you no longer use. Today there are so many outlets online, through local fundraising groups and local businesses. Take every opportunity you can and strike the best deal. Recycle the rest.
8. Make your own gift cards. Re-use cards sent for special occasions and birthdays, Cut out the graphic and spend your winter evenings sticking to blank card. Make sure the size stays within the dimensions of the lowest postal rate!
9. Get creative in the kitchen. Dig out three tins of food that have been in the pantry for too long – and get creative in the kitchen.
10. Use your diary. Your diary is your key to organisation, whether on paper or electronic. Use it for reminders to save you money. For example, order firewood early, send overseas Christmas cards using economic rate and read the power metre on the rate change day.
Now that is all so easy to keep some of those well earned dollars in your wallet – it’s just like a pay rise! Visit the Health in Harmony website for more details.
Kinetica offers bespoke packages to suit clients’ individual organisational needs whether at home or in the office, offering flexibility for everyone’s budget. Free help and support is available outside the organising sessions by monthly email organising tips. Sign up today by visiting www.kinetica.co.nz
To help you keep those dollars in the wallet, Kinetica is offering a 22% discount on a Needs Assessment. A representative will visit your home or office for a one hour organisation assessment. The visit will be followed by an action plan and six weekly telephone calls as you work through the organisation process. All for $140+gst. Offer is valid for August & September 2009 and for Wanaka area residents only. Show this page to qualify for the discount.
Keep counting those cents.
Author:Katy Macpherson runs office and home organising consultancy Kinetica. She’s available to help you get your paper in order with a personalised consultation. Contact Katy today: 03 443 6224, 021 154 5511, katy@kinetica.co.nz or check out www.kinetica.co.nz
What is Prana Flow Yoga All About?
May 12, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Fitness & Exercise, Yoga
Whenever I tell people that I teach yoga, the first question out of their mouth is: ‘What kind of yoga?’
And when I answer, ‘Prana Flow Yoga’, they stare at me blankly. ‘Huh? Never heard of that…’
Taught by Master Yoga Instructor Shiva Rea, Prana Flow is a liberating, evolutionary, rhythmic, vinyasa-flow class that encompasses mudra, mantra, bandha, pranayama, meditation, asana, kriya and a whole lot of fun. As Shiva states on her website, “It is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga.”
Prana Flow is all about a balance of opposites – strength and fluidity, skill and intuition, vital energy and relaxed being.
So in class, when we do sun salutations, we’re mindful of the integrity of our alignment, while tuning in to the innate intelligence within our bodies that will guide us into the postures. Downward dog doesn’t have to be static anymore, and the spine may undulate, or the hips sway, as we find release and openness from within.
Most of all, Prana Flow emphasizes connecting to the breath and awakening the flow of Prana within. Defined as “the life-force of creation”, prana lives within each of us. When we practice Prana Flow Yoga, we are practicing getting out of our minds and moving down into our bodies, and letting our breath guide us.
At it’s most simple, while breathing in child’s pose, if we can maintain our concentration on the internal processes and follow our breath around the body, we will sense blocks, or restrictions. These can be physical, mental, emotional or energetic. Just by being aware of these blocks or restrictions, and breathing into those places, we active prana to guide us into openness.
In this way, true Prana Flow Yoga practice will unfold breath by breath on the mat, with the practitioner having no attachment to where the practice might go, or even what the postures might look like. The body is freed to move into the exact asana it needs in that moment to find the greatest release and the greatest balance.
In a Prana Flow class, this might translate into asana where the teacher guides you to explore your body within the context of the alignment. If hands and feet are grounded in downward dog, and internal focus is maintained, where does the breath go? How does the body want to move? At first inhales are likely to move up the spine, tilting the pelvis forward and lifting the hips to the ceiling. Exhales travel down the back of the legs, releasing the heels to the ground. But in time, the breath will begin to travel to other places, finding other blocks to release.
This style of yoga was most famously taught at Kripalu Ashram in Pennsylvania, and written about in the books Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, by Stephen Cope, and Self-Awakening Yoga – the Expansion of Consciousness through the Body’s Own Wisdom by Don Stapleton Ph.d. Both men were senior teachers at the ashram, and with one a psychologist and one an art teacher, each brought their own emphasis to the effects of prana awakening within the body.
“The structural details of any yoga practice can be alluring, but practice comes alive with creativity when you commune with your body’s sensations,” writes Don Stapleton. “Being true to the intelligence of the body requires leaving the known as a jumping off point and venturing into unknown territory to allow prana to truly guide you. Taking your yoga learning to this level of personal ownership frees you from the illusion that ‘truth’ exists outside of you – in the authority of an expert or a teacher.”
Prana Flow classes focus on developing students’ connections to their own internal yoga teacher, to the flow of prana within them. It’s not about the teacher telling you what to do, or doing set postures (although both of these things do happen in class). It’s learning to trust your own body’s intuition, and learning to listen to the subtle energies within. And then having the confidence and the commitment to take that connection home to your own yoga mat, in your own time, to explore your own body’s needs.
Once prana is awakened, and a student has learned to surrender to it’s flow, yoga asana will spontaneously arise from within – even asana or kriya that the student has never learned before. It’s a magical process that is inherently natural. We all contain everything we need to know within us, and Prana Flow Yoga reminds of us this buried wisdom we carry.
And it does all of this while reminding us of the simple joys of moving in the body, of finding lightness, of playing. Prana Flow is nothing more and nothing less than life as creative energy, where we celebrate our essence of being.
Author: Kara-Leah Grant, once a Queenstown-based yoga teacher, now teaches in Wellington where she’s discovered the joy of Prana Flow Yoga. Read more of her articles on yoga and the art of living at Prana Flow NZ.
Scientific Support for Yoga’s Benefits
March 15, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Healing & Bodywork, Yoga
Dr. Holt promotes natural therapies that are supported by sound medical research and his book is a helpful reference for anyone considering natural therapies. In this video he tells Breakfast viewers that there is sound research to suggest that yoga has health benefits.
But as his Youtube Channel shows he is not slow to point out therapies whose benefits haven’t been verified by “western” medical research.
Author: Dr Shaun Holt is a GP and medical research specialist, he is the Author of Natural Remedies That Really Work: a New Zealand Guide and appears regularly on TVNZ’s Breakfast.
Top 10 Reasons Why you should NOT “go” on a Diet
February 13, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Fitness & Exercise, Nutrition
The only thing growing faster than the $65 billion diet industry is the American waistline. If one of your New Years resolutions was to Go on a Diet, the only place I guarantee you will go….is up in weight.
It’s a Fact – Diets will only make you fatter.
When it comes to the latest in Diet fads, we are quite gullible and easily tempted by a Diet’s empty promised. Reason being….the diet industry KNOWS we are in search of the “quick fix” and will only play with our emotions – our desperation for the quickest way to relieve looking and feeling fat.
Diets are nothing more than Temporary Solutions with many lingering, negative side effects.
Here are the Top 10 Reasons Why you should NOT “go” on a Diet
1. Diets do NOT work.
Diets have a 99% Failure Rate. Have you noticed a pattern yet? Lose weight….quickly regain it? Over time, studies show if you diet you are more likely to be overweight than people who eat normally and make small gradual changes to their lifestyle. No, the Law of Averages does not apply to this faulty system.
2. Dieting can be Dangerous.
Any time you severely restrict the amount or types of foods you eat you put your health and life at risk. Dieting has been related to injuries and sudden deaths from electrolyte imbalance, malnutrition, and heart arrhythmia’s. Weight cycling, or yo-yo-ing weight, is associated with higher death rates – especially if some type of pills are being used. At no point should you ever place weight loss above your health.
3. Dieting Destroys your Metabolism.
Diets will cause your weight to quickly cycle up and down. Sure, you may lose weight quickly because you are simply not eating enough. In the initial stages, the first seven to nine pounds lost are water, presenting a real danger of dehydration and mineral deficiencies. Even more terrifying ins the break down of lean muscle due to inefficient nutrients and calories. If you are losing more than 3-4 pounds a week, you can be sure this is what is happening – very little fat is lost this state.
Now, any muscle loss will cause your metabolism slow to a crawl. The cumulative effect takes place for you cannot survive very long on very low calories (1200 or less) and you will eventually eat more – on top of a slower metabolism. All those excess calories will be stored as fat – causing rapid weight gain.
4. Dieting is Exhausting.
Diets are just reduced calorie Fads disguised by a clever gimmick. “Lose weight while you sleep” “Eat all you want and still lose weight” Not eating enough or cutting out certain food groups means your body may not be getting the energy it needs, or may lack certain nutrients. You will feel exhausted, light headed and experience some not-so-fun mood swings.
5. Dieting is Disruptive.
Dieting negatively affects your normal eating patterns. Diets can lead to binge eating, overeating and chaotic eating. When you diet, it is common to override your internal signals telling you to eat. You end up trying to use willpower or resist hunger signals and may even go as far as taking appetite suppressants. This results in being unable to know when you really are hungry or wore….when you’re full.
6. Dieting can lead to eating disorders.
Experts state that the high rates of eating disorders in the U.S. are due in part to people dieting, losing weight, rebounding, and becoming chronic dieters.
7. Dieting Causes Food Obsessions.
If you spend a large amount of time and energy depriving yourself of food or certain types of food – you will spend more time thinking about food and become obsessed attempts to control your weight by what you choose to eat or not eat. How long do you want to live like this?
8. Dieting Diminishes Women.
There is way too much attention focused on our appearance and an arbitrary number on the scale. In the midst of this focus – we end up avoiding what really matters to us – our dreams and ambitions. Even worse, it erodes our confidence and self-respect.
9. Dieting Intensifies Negativity.
If you diet, you are more judgmental and critical of yourself and others. Once again, wasted time and energy.
10. Diets Put Your Life on Hold.
Does this sound familiar….”I’ll be happy when I weigh “x pounds.” Guess what, the issues in your life are not related to your weight. Take responsibility and take back control of your life. Decide to be happy now and do what it takes to live a lifestyle that reflects your priorities.
So this year resolve to NOT go on a Diet. Set Yourself Free from this miserable, guaranteed to fail weight loss cycle. Do NOT let the diet industry make money by taking advantage of you. It is time to stand up for yourself and take control.
Author: Holly Rigsby, CPT, MAT America’s #1 Fat Loss Expert for Busy Moms and the author of Fit Yummy Mummy Lifestyle System http://www.fityumymumy.com/ and expert contributor at http://www.efittoday.com She has helped well over 500 Mom’s lose the stubborn baby fat and get their pre-baby body back. Don’t miss her Free Report: Top 5 Busy Mom Metabolism Boosters.
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Multi-Orgasmic Lovers – Healing Love through the Tao
February 4, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Holistic Wellbeing, Life & Relationships
How can we grow and cultivate more love in our life? The ancient Taoists were experts in the cultivation of the intimate arts, and fortunately for us the practices have survived as they have been passed down from Master to student.
Taoist sexuality, also called the ‘Arts of the Bedchamber’, is a three thousand year old tradition that has long known about male and female multiple orgasms and many other secrets of sexual satisfaction. It was developed to help couples experience more pleasurable and healing lovemaking. Through these practices one learns to experience the physically healing, emotionally intimate and spiritually profound aspects of lovemaking.
Mantak Chia, founder of the Universal Healing Tao, is one of the few present-day Masters who is openly passing on these sexual alchemy secrets to the world. In his best-selling books ‘The Multi Orgasmic Couple’, ‘Multi Orgasmic Woman’ and ‘Multi Orgasmic Man’ Chia intricately describes in step-by-step detail a variety of practices for heightening sexual pleasure and intimacy. His belief is that it is everyone’s birthright to have a blissful love life and his teachings inspire couples to not only make love all night, but to make love last a lifetime.
The potential for bliss
According to Master Chia, “shocking as it is for most people to hear, both women and men can have multiple orgasms….However, this is just the beginning of sexual knowledge… When you and your partner are both multi-orgasmic, you will each experience far greater individual pleasure. You will also be able to harmonize your sexual needs and reach ever more fulfilling levels of intimacy and ecstasy together”.
Before going further, I’d like to share how I experience love and sex in my own relationship, so that you get a feel of opportunities that may await you:
“My partner’s presence and awareness allows me to open my heart and body in trust so we can both surrender to the bliss of union. He takes me on a journey and I respond with “active reception”, being aware with movement, like dancing together. I allow sound to express my pleasure. We feel the energy spiralling through us and around us. We channel the universal orgasmic force through us, for the sake of all beings. Deep peace soaks into our bones as we nest. Our joyful play and touch throughout the day is a continual, seamless foreplay. We meditate together and experience alchemical bliss just sitting still in the same room. When I am travelling I feel his presence cuddling and comforting me and I do not feel alone. I am so grateful to have our warm and loving connection in my life”.
Soul Mates
Have you ever longed for your soul mate? A soul mate is someone with whom you feel a mind-heart-spirit connection, which could have been cultivated in past lifetimes. This connection is cultivated by sharing in all three aspects of your being: thinking (views on life), feeling (what you care for) and willing (your life style). Soul Mating is a profoundly intimate experience of union and oneness. It can be felt at a distance. You can experience orgasmic lovemaking on the other side of the world with your partner! Like remote viewing or remote healing, remote soul union is a vivid reality.
The compassion you cultivate in your relationship can deepen your whole spiritual life. As Mantak Chia says, “Sexuality and spirituality are inextricably linked for Taoists”. Body, soul and spirit are one being and work together quite naturally if we do not separate them and judge them as sinful or taboo. He adds “People who deny sexual energy lose access to this vital source of energy and vitality for their life and spiritual growth.”
Sexual energy is sacred. When our raw passionate energy is refined and channelled upwards to higher energy centers it becomes the power behind love, creativity and communion with the Divine or Universal Love. He adds “According to the Taoists, this love and ecstasy that we feel in our most intimate relationship is simply a taste of the Universal Love and the blissful oneness with the Original Force of the universe that we can experience as we grow spiritually.”
Authentic Connection
Starting with a smile The Inner Smile
So where do we start? Despite the many in depth techniques that are prescribed for both men and women, the sexual ‘healing love’ practices always start with a smile. Romantic intentions are worth little if your body is tired or ailing, or if energetic imbalances prevent the sexual energy from overflowing from your heart into your partner’s. If you are out of sorts you will be irritable or emotional, whilst anger or harsh words can hurt, and damage trust and responsiveness during lovemaking.
One of the key foundation Healing Tao practices is the ‘Secret of the Inner Smile’, where you connect with a golden sunny glow of unconditional love and let it flow down your body, melting tension and transforming negativity. Love is the energy of the heart – your feeling centre – and the essence of authentic connection starts with love for one self. Thus one learns to smile to each organ in the body (heart, lungs, liver, kidneys etc) which immediately transforms the chemistry of the body. This exercise, when taken to more profundity during lovemaking, actually allows each organ to have its own orgasm, which in itself is an extremely healing process for the whole body.
Inner Smile Exercise:
If you like, practice this short meditation with your partner in turn. Read it slowly, taking the time to pause in between each segment: ‘Close your eyes and lift the corners of your lips into a smile, feeling the uplifting sensation in your body as you do this. Lifting the corners of your lips creates a whole body smile that is like turning on a light switch. Smile down with love and deep appreciation to every organ in turn, moving from your heart, to the spleen, to the lungs, to the kidneys and finally the liver, as you move through the five elements within the body. Then smile down to your sexual organs, (breasts, womb, vagina and ovaries for women – prostate, penis, testicles for men). Notice how this feels and how your body responds to this intimate inner connection. Get in touch with the life force energy present in your sexual organs which we call sexual energy. Notice how it comes alive just by bringing attention to it’.
Connecting your Orbits of Love The Microcosmic Orbit
Even without any more formal training, you can practice this technique before lovemaking and see how it intensifies your sensual pleasure and deepens feelings of compassion and intimacy. During Taoist training you will learn how to move both unaroused and aroused sexual energy through specific energy channels in the body, starting with the ‘Microcosmic Orbit’ – the two major acupuncture meridians which run up the front and back of the body. Rather than wasting precious life force energy during orgasm, one learns to channel this energy through one’s own Orbit for intensified bliss, and later to share it with one’s partner.
For men, the biggest loss of life force comes through ejaculation, and they are taught to minimize and eventually withhold from ejaculating. ‘Sexual Kung Fu’ is the art of seminal retention, how to pull up the sexual energy with breathing, mindfulness and muscle control instead of letting out through ejaculation. Thus men can learn too to have whole body orgasms: instead of exploding through the genitals the vibrations rises through the Microcosmic Orbit and internal organ channels to the heart and head. During lovemaking this energy can also penetrate through the core channel of the woman, multiply and circle back into him in a continuous loop.
Another fascinating practice is the art of sexual reflexology. Based on the premise that all our organs have reflex points on other parts of the body, reflexology is most often associated with massage of the hands and feet. Yet the most powerful reflex points are on the sexual organs: as specific areas of the penis and vagina come into contact with each other during lovemaking, the internal organs that are connected to each reflex point are stimulated deep within, heightening pleasure and bringing healing.
Sexual Reflexology can also help couples to determine their internal energy compatibility and reveal their character and disposition, which will help define the nature of their relationship.
Soul Orgasm
Soul Orgasm is possible when you feel orgasmic energy circulating and waving through the body. This fundamental circulation of energy in the Microcosmic Orbit becomes a way to receive and give energy and also generate love and light. Once this pathway is open, you and your partner can exchange energy, linking your Orbits into a figure eight, connecting through each others genitals, tongues, foreheads and hearts. The yin energy of the woman flows into the man and the yang energy of the man flows into the woman, creating a harmonious field of united energy. The exchange of energy can be felt even without touching. When a soul orgasm overflows beyond the physical it can feel like a fountain rising out the crown. In bliss, souls can unite above the body. This energetic bonding deepens the potential of long term relationships. You start to cultivate a perennial garden of love, joy, trust and respect.
When we as partners are committed to supporting the highest in each other, we become portals for Source or Unconditional Love to flow through us. As the Taoists teachings say “When sexual energy and loving energy are combined the energy becomes stable and nourishing”. Compassion, a higher state of consciousness, develops and ripples out into all your relationships and the world around you. We urgently need this powerful healing energy to heal this world and to generate more love for generations to come. Mantak Chia says “Multiple orgasms are part of an unfolding process of becoming one with each other and the world.” The whole universe is continually pulsating and vibrating. When we orgasm we harmonize with our own body, our partner’s body and the pulsation of the whole world. Becoming a multi-orgasmic lover is realizing that you are one with the continuous, orgasmic, creative, and mysterious universal process!
Building Love and Compassion Exercise:
Make love in the morning: the Taoists see this as energizing, which gives us the openness and joy to greet the day and deal effectively with any stresses that may occur. Then allow love to flow between you and your partner throughout the day, even when you are apart. Only with this openness of your body and your heart can you truly feel the flow of energy within you, and between you and your partner. The more love that you feel for each other, the more orgasmic you will become. As Mantak Chia says “Learning to make love from your heart is the essence of Healing Love. Without your sincere love for each other, sex is simply friction. Friction is certainly pleasurable, but it is real love that will bind your bodies together in ecstatic lovemaking for a lifetime”.
All quotes with permission from ‘The Multi-Orgasmic Couple’ by Mantak Chia & Maneewan Chia, Douglas Abrams & Rache Carlton Abrams, M.D.
Minke De Vos
Author: Minke de Vos is the Director of Silent Ground Retreats (www.silentground.com) in Vancuver BC. She has devoted over 20 years to the practice of internal arts, working alongside Mantak Chia since 1983. She will be in New Zealand to teach in February – March 2009.
Mantak Chia is the founder of the Universal Healing Tao. Initiated into meditation by Buddhist monks at the age of 6, he has spent his whole life practicing the art of ‘internal energy cultivation’ and is a master of the sexual alchemical practices. He will be in New Zealand for the first time ever to teach in April 2009. See www.taoworkshops.co.nz
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Shape Up Your Office For the New Year
January 12, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Healthy Business, Holistic Wellbeing
Several years ago, I was having tea with friends at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara, when the conversation turned to feng shui, the Chinese art of placement. I knew nothing about it and decided to investigate. I made several attempts to learn more by reading about feng shui, but found the books complicated and hard to apply.
Sometime later, I noticed that two local feng shui practitioners were giving a talk at Border’s. My friend Jill and I decided to attend-a decision that seemed quite innocent at the time.
Little did I suspect that it was going to turn me into a madwoman. The lecturers gave us some simple tips about things we could do in our environments to improve the chi (energy flow), along with a description of the bagua (kind of a blueprint for placement). I spent an hour or so in bed that night mentally moving furniture. I decided that my office was completely backwards, feng shui-wise, so the next morning I began rearranging things. Six hours later, my office had taken on a new airiness and was more inviting than it had ever been.
The speakers told us in order to get things flowing ahead we should go home and move 27 objects that hadn’t been moved for a year. I had no difficulty locating 27 things that were ready for relocation. I changed mirrors and hung crystals, I fretted over sharp corners and pondered ways to soften them.
That was only the beginning, however. Feng shui masters had, in fact, developed a list of principles for improving business. For instance, to get the new year off to a prosperous start, they recommend greeting a new stranger every day for 27 days.
One bit of advice perplexed me: “To stimulate a positive cash flow, collect a small amount of water from nine different prosperous financial institutions, and store it in the far left-hand corner of the office.” My bank doesn’t even have a drinking fountain and I couldn’t imagine asking the teller to fetch a bit of water from the employee restroom so I passed on that one.
Other nuggets of feng shui wisdom were more easily implemented. You can add good energy to your business with one or several of these suggestions:
* To invite opportunity to knock, fix your front door. Allow no squeaking, sticking or or wobbling door knobs.
* To further your opportunities, unblock doorways and remove stored items from behind doors.
* To support your vision and commitment, sit at a desk that is spacious, allowing room for the expansion of your ideas.
* To call forth a clear vision, hang a brass chime just inside your office door.
* To think creatively, hang a mirror to the right and to the left of your desk.
What’s particularly interesting to me about this feng shui business is that it’s a wonderful way to become more clear about the metaphors in your life. For instance, after I moved my computer to the other side of my office, I needed a longer cord. The one I had was quite tangled and I was going to just move it when I realized it would be running through my partnership area. “I don’t want tangled partnerships,” I told myself and decided to take time to straighten out the cord.
It can get more cosmic than this, but I will resist my urge to go on about the metaphysical insights gained from moving furniture around.
“Care for our actual houses,” writes Thomas Moore, “is also care of the soul. No matter where we live, we can cultivate this wider piece of earth as a place that is integrally bound to the conditions of our hearts.” But, then, the Chinese knew that all along.
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Want to know more? I highly recommend Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter which is written with the Western reader in mind.
Author: Barbara J. Winter is a Las Vegas-based self-employment advocate and writer. She is the author of Making a Living Without a Job. She conducts seminars throughout the US and Canada on creative self-employment. Her newest events are a one-day seminar called What Would an Entrepreneur Do? and a three-day event, Compelling Storytelling. She also publishes Winning Ways newsletter, now in its twenty-second year of helping people turn passions into profits. http://www.joyfullyjobless.com
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