: Your Life-Your Choice July, 1998 ==================== issue 10 Letter from the Editor It's great to see you all here again! I just have a couple of announcements to share with you, then I'll let you move on to the "good stuff"... You know, the information you subscribed for! :) ANNOUNCEMENT #1: I would like to extend a welcome to Marge Clark who has just joined the Your Life-Your Choice team. She will share the knowledge she has accumulted over the past several years in her own monthly Aromatherapy Column. In fact, her first article is featured in this issue's Aromatherapy Section. Please send me your feedback, and I will be more than happy to share it with her. Welcome aboard Marge! ANNOUNCEMENT #2: On behalf of Your Life-Your Choice, I am constantly looking for ways to provide you with more quality information and more value. I have received very positive feedback on last month's Magnetic Therapy feature. Consequently, Your Life-Your Choice has arranged for Dr. Boyce N. Berkel to continue his contributions on this issue. Welcome to the Your Life- Your Choice Team, Dr. Berkel! In order to facilitate space requirements, we will be sending out a second supplement. ANNOUNCEMENT #3: Nutritionist Wanted!!! To complement the new supplement and its' proposed contents, I would like to offer a regular feature article on basic nutrition. Topics would cover issues like: Foods That Help Control Cholesterol, Do Carrots Really Help Your Eyesight?, and many more. Your Life-Your Choice is currently looking for a certified nutritionist to join our team and fulfill this role. I'm sure that we have list members who can fill this role. Anyone interested should mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com with a subject heading of Nutritionist Wanted. Please include your credentials and your own thoughts of potential articles. Until next time Your Life-Your Choice wishes you health and prosperity. Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Traditional Medicine Isn't Enough Any More! Your life is your choice-don't make it the doctor's choice! http://www.Life-Choices.com/yourlife ********************************************** @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @ IN THIS ISSUE: @ @ 1. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take a @ moment to visit them. @ @ 2. TESTIMONIES FOR SUCCESS @ Discover how others @ successfully solved your @ problem. @ @ 3. Holistic Dowsing @ Part two - GETTING STARTED @ Alternative medicine is always keenly interested @ in practical tools and aids to diagnosis. Many @ practitioners already use a pendulum extensively @ in their work. With this in mind, we have @ commissioned a series of four articles written by @ an experienced dowser on this most versatile and @ fascinating tool. @ @ 4. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take a @ moment to visit them. @ @ 5. AROMATHERAPY: GETTING STARTED. @ The beauty of Magnetic Therapy is that it can be @ used to maintain health, as well as prevent or @ reverse health problems. @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Subscribe: mailto:life-choices@oaknetpub.com Type "subscribe" in the body without the quotes. Or you can subscribe from the newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Unsubscribe: mailto:life-choices@oaknetpub.com Type "remove" in the body without the quotes. Or you can unsubscribe from the newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Copyright 1997-1998 by Brigitte Synesael All rights reserved ******************************************** Section 1 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS - YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!! - Thousands of interested prospects will know where to find you. - Have YOUR name available when your services are needed. - Highly targeted local and global promotional benefits for less than $1/week. 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Share your story and help other readers who share your health concerns. ********************************************** Section 3 Holistic Dowsing By Joe Mullally Part two - GETTING STARTED If we approach dowsing as a 'conversation with the intuition' then our first step is to set up and agree a mutually understood language for this dialogue. Getting this part right is the key to obtaining reliable information from dowsing. We must bear in mind that we are dealing with the subconscious mind which has little critical faculty and so, everything we ask and say to it will be taken literally. For instance, in the UK one time, a hypnotised subject obeyed her hypnotist's instruction to go 'straight back to her seat in the audiance' to the letter, and promptly walked off the front of the stage (not thinking to go by the side stairs ) with tragic consequences. This is how literally the subconscious takes suggestions and this is why it is so important to 'get our language right'. The attention, time and patience we give to this one factor, will have a crucial impact on our working results. The considered effort we put into planning the language and defining the terms we use will, itself helps instill precision in our minds even before we put the results into practise. And the more we attend to such preparations, the more we and our intuition come to learn about and understand eachother. Our first step to opening communications lies in finding our pendulum 'Yes' and 'No' and 'don't know' responses. If you already use the pendulum stay with your own method. Never change from what already works for you - 'if it aint broke, don't fix it!'. Readers new to dowsing may like to follow the startup method given here. Some teachers advise you train the pendulum to give specific responses, I am from the school prefer if you ask the pendulum for it's own natural movements in each case instead. And so to work! Allow your pendulum (any small weight attached to a line) to hang down with three to four inches of line length, pinched between the thumb and first finger of your dominent hand. Begin by consciously swinging it toward and away from you, then letting your hand remain still so the tool continues to swing on it's own. This is called the NEUTRAL or 'ready' position. If the motion slows simply swing it consciously again before relaxing your hand once more to leave it on it's own. Now, ask a question in your mind to which you know the answer is a definite YES and direct the pendulum mentally to show you your YES response. If you observe all this passively and relaxed for a time, eventually the pendulum will change it's motion 'on it's own' usually forming a circle ( either clockwise or anti - clockwise ) or swinging to and fro in a different direction to the NEUTRAL. This new motion is your YES response and once you have agreed it with your pendulum, it will always remains the same. Next, stop the pendulum and CLEAR it by grasping the line near the suspension point, with the thumb and first finger of your 'free hand' and by pulling them lightly down along the line, 'stroking the line' from top to bottom. You repeat this a few times while emptying your mind of previous questions and thoughts. When all is clear, you may move on to repeat the same questioning procedure again, getting your NO and finally your DON'T KNOW responses in the same fashion. Remember to CLEAR your pendulum and your mind, after each new question you ask. If for some reason you find that this exercise is not working out for you at your first attempt, leave the pendulum aside and start again in a few hours time. Should your pendulum continually refuse to provide a 'natural' response for any of the three 'answers' then, in this case, you may train it to move any way you choose to indicate that particular 'answer'. This is done by moving the pendulum in the desired motion while mentally affirming that this is the response you require. This may then be tested by asking a question and verifying the pendulum now autonmatically adopts the 'learned' response you showed it. Your next task is to take your time and write out your definition for each term you intend to use in your divining work. For instance, if you intend checking for allergies using your pendulum, it is vital to agree exactly what you mean by 'an allergy' to a substance. Do you want the pendulum to show up any substance which has ever or will ever 'disagree' with the person. Are transient 'sensitivities' which might last for only a short time, to be included in the term also - or will you use a separate term ( such as the'sensitivity' word itself ) to cover these. Give these things a lot of thought, spell them out, refine them well so you get them precise and right, for this will serve as the foundation for your future dowsing work. Many times when dowsing faculty seems to be unreliable the remedy lies in redefining our terms and questions correctly. The final part of the process is to relax quietly, ask your pendulum if it is ready at this time to have you input the terms and conditions you've settled upon, and provided you get a YES response, read the terms aloud as your pendulum continues in your YES response. When the list is finished, say so, indicating also that these conditions are to remain in force without change unless and until you modify them by going throught the above procedure again. Your pendulum will then return to the NEUTRAL response pattern. When your YES and NO and DON'T KNOW responses have been agreed and your TERMS and CONDITIONS have been securely input, you may move on to train and exercise your new skill over the next ten days. Each day sit in a quiet place, take out your pendulum, breath deeply and relax your body and mind. Ask your pendulum ten questions, the answers of which are known to you, allowing the instrument to reply to you using the 'agreed' responses in each case. Exercise for no longer than ten minutes on each day. At the end of this ten day program, you can proceed to ask the pendulum any questions you wish. Providing always that you relax in the correct frame of mind, that your questions are precise complying with your agreed terms and conditions - that your intuition has access at some level to the information requested - and also that receiving such information will be in accordance with your own personal ethical and moral code, then you will be given the answer. Getting a DON'T KNOW response indicates that the question as asked, poses a problem in some of the areas above. Even when this occurs, one can usually ask and determine the precise area and reason for the lack of response without much difficulty. In Part 3 of our series we will explore the important issues relating to the use of lists, charts and witnesses. Email address earthwise@tinet.ie Visit our ANAM website at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~diviner/ ******************************************** Section 4 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS 4 MILLION BOOK TITLES, 20-40% DISCOUNTS! - BEST price! - credits towards FREE books! - send in your review! Send a book as a gift: We will gift wrap your choices, enclose your personal message, and ship them anywhere in the world. All purchases are 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Don't wait! Visit now! http://www.Life-Choices.com/bookstore.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The shop on the Internet dedicated to the potential of your future. Powerful mind enhancement tools, self-hypnois, subliminal recordings, better health, dieting and motivation. Free Colorful Catalog and Secure Online Ordering! http://www.icemall.com/shop/index.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ******************************************** Section 5 AROMATHERAPY: GETTING STARTED. By Marge Clark I first came in contact with the essential oils perhaps 15 years ago, as a way to scent potpourri. Their healing power awed and fascinated me from the start. Several years of study and experimentation with the essential oils followed. Finally, a few years ago, I was given the opportunity to leave behind a lifetime spent in the corporate world and do what I love. The founding of Nature's Gift Custom Aromatherapy Products followed, partially as a way to finance and rationalize my experiencing more and higher quality oils, and as a way to share my love for them with others. When not dealing with the oils, I am a grandmother, live in a small over crowded house with my partner, my grown daughter, three dogs and four cats (not all mine!) I have been online for about 12 years and am really delighted that the internet gives me a venue to learn from others, and to share what I've learned. ----- Aromatherapy is derived from the ancient practice of using natural plant essences to promote health and well-being. It consists of the use of pure essential oils obtained from a wide assortment of plants, which have been steam distilled or cold-pressed from flowers, fruit, bark and roots. The appropriate oils can have powerful effects, both on the body and the spirit. "Fragrance Oils," "Perfumes" and other artificially made substitutes cannot produce these amazing results. Modern scientific research has proven the potency and healing qualities of pure Essential Oils. Many have powerful antibacterial and antiviral qualities which, unlike pharmaceutical drugs, do not leave behind dangerous toxins. Intrigued? Want to try some of these wonderful oils for yourself? My first recommendation would be to educate yourself. Put yourself in the hands of someone knowledgeable in the field, either locally, if possible, or if not, through the library and the Internet. Read everything you can about the oils and their effects, and don't be afraid to experiment. To start with, many of us first tried Lavender. It is an oil that can occasionally be used full strength on the skin and is a virtual 'first aid' cabinet in and of itself. A touch of lavender essential oil on the temples and back of the neck can ease a headache. A drop of full strength lavender can soothe and help heal a minor burn, bug bite, or skin outbreak. It is a potent antiseptic, and an antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent. If you have a local source for true essential oils, use it. Or order from online vendors. Check the Latin Name. You want either LAVENDULA VERA or L. AUGUSTIFOLIUM, L.OFFICINALIS. If it is labled Lavandin it will have different properties and not work as expected. Now, what to do with it, other than for the " first aid " purposes listed above? Lavender is lovely in the bath. As with most essentials, 6 to 10 drops is enough. Rather than adding the oil directly to the bathwater (because essentials don't blend with water) try diluting the lavender in a tablespoon or so of honey, a teaspoon of unscented bath oil, or for a Cleopatra luxury bath, some cream. Or you can make your own bath salts by mixing Epsom salts, sea salt or table salt, and/or powdered milk, and adding lavender. Bottle these and let them stand for a week or ten days. A lavender bath will relax tired muscles and a tired mind. It's a wonderful way to relax before bedtime. Be careful not to use too much, however; too much lavender can be stimulating, rather than relaxing. To induce restful sleep, put a few drops of lavender on a cotton ball or tissue and tuck it into the corner of your pillow case.Ten drops of lavender to one half ounce of your favorite carrier oil makes a wonderfully relaxing massage oil. The same massage blend, with an appropriate facial oil, could be a valuable part of your skin care routine. The above are just a few hints to get you started. Coming next month: using Essential Oils safely. Nature's Gift Custom Aromatherapy Products Therapeutic Quality EOs, Aromatherapy Accessories, Books, Carriers, Etc NEW ADDRESS: <> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Disclaimer All material appearing in this newsletter is provided for educational purposes only. It is provided with the understanding that authors and contributors are not offering medical advice or services. 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