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10-13 Our body’s organs have a spiritual purpose in our lives BY EWALD KLIEGEL
16-18 Feng Shui and the Sri Ha Po Tibetan Protection Mandala BY HINDA ABRAHAMSON
20-22 Transformational Travel for Women to Mexico: Nov. 1-8, 2014Circle Mind Body Medicine together with the Traveling Goddesses presents its First Annual Trip to Akumal, MexicoBY SHEILA BAUER
24-26 Align your vibration with Mother Earth BY SUE SAMUDIO
28-29 Brennan Healing Science:Setting a high standard in Energy Healing for 30 years BY CAPRINA BROWN
32-33 Learning to Hug Trees BY KERI MANGIS
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Our body’s organs have a spiritual purpose in our lives
N LET Your Body Speak: The Essential Nature of Our Organs by Ewald Kliegel and illustrated by Anne Heng, we discover that our organs have an
inherent knowledge of their role in our body and the spiritual aspect to their purpose in our lives. In the book Kliegel fully describes all organs. Here we have chosen five. Experience the mystery of the body in a more intuitive way.
BLOOD I am the grail of the life energy and the liquid elixir that flows through it. Continuously pulsing, my red life force flows through the nearly unending meander of the body. From the fountain of my being I thus replenish over and over again a delta full of the finest vessels, which reach even the most distant corners of existence in
order to provide the inner as well as the outer universe with energy and warmth. Where I am is life in all its abundance, is the fountain of the freely flowing joy, is love in all its energy forms, is healing and sal-vation in the stream of existence.
BRAIN Is it not wonderful? Each of my two halves contains its own world. While the left one is more devoted to the mind and logical thinking, the right one shines in the colors
of emotions and intuition. I organize the inner coordina-tion of the organs and look after their relationship to the outside world. Thereby I secure the person’s survival on this planet and the opportunity for them to fill their life with experiences.
HEART Placed in the flow of life, my rhythm and my warming gush powerfully direct the fabric of body and soul into the most distant corners.
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“Blood”
“Brain”
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Our body’s organs have a spiritual purpose in our lives
BY EWALD KLIEGEL
“Heart”
ORGANS SPIRITUAL PURPOSE CONTINUED
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With sensitivity I register even the smallest impulses and synchronize the interplay of organs as far as and including the spiritual levels. My comprehensive wisdom dispels unclarity and imparts necessary answers from the realms of the feeling soul that follow a deep inner under-standing. This opens new gates for love and creates room for undreamt-of realities to come into a person’s life.
LARGE INTESTINE My task consists in concen-trating on the essential. This includes the physical aspects, the handling of emotions and, in a much wider sense, everything that has to do with the topics of value and possession. With my strength I focus energies, condense all material matter and enable basic values to radiate in full brilliance. Whether in the final phase of digestion or in the less visible aspects of the
spiritual realm, I reduce every-thing to what is truly important.
LIVER I am the central organ of metabolism for body and soul. Whether nutrients, emotions or thoughts, through my way of operating I appropriate the environment for us. To do this I transform the absorbed nourishment into fuels and building materials, modify them and, if necessary, detoxify them. In equal measure I examine mental and spiritual impulses,
situations and encounters with regard to their coherence.
LUNGS From the first cry to the last breath my powerful wings follow the rhythm of life. My force has many names: Prana, breath, or chi. They are all an expression for the current of life energy that arises out of the inner self. This energy flow disperses in endless form through body and soul, in order to start anew with the next breath following its reunion with its source. At the cusps of these movements we connect the interior with the exterior world. These are exactly the moments in which we reveal the mystery of coming into existence and passing from it, this is where we bring the pulse of the universe into life and keep endowing the pendulum between self-preservation and surrender with a new impulse.
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“Large Intestine”
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“Lungs”
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FENG SHUI AND THE SRI HA PO
Tibetan Protection Mandala
S FAR back in history as there are records, talismans and amulets have been used in
spiritual traditions to help focus thoughts that lead to intended results. A modern day example is imbuing everyday objects with intentions in the practice of Feng Shui. The ancient, holistic system of Feng Shui is based on the simple premise that we are affected by our surroundings, for better or worse. Evaluating the chi (life force energy) through-out your home or business helps to identify areas where energy may be blocked, stagnant, oppressive or too strong, all of
which can adversely affect the over-all health and well being of the occupants. The influ-ence of the year, direction the building faces, birthdate, as well as a building’s shape, room placement, decor, and energy imprint of previous occupants contribute, for better or worse, to its vital environmental chi.
CREATE YOUR SPACE WITH INTENTION One way to affect positive change is to create your own personal talismans by charging everyday objects with inten-tions and placing them strategi-cally in your space. A common example is the use of round, faceted crystals, a frequently
recommended Feng Shui “cure” and because of their refractive qualities, crystals keep positive energy moving while absorb-ing any negative energy. When items such as crystals, wind chimes, and mirrors are used as symbolic talismans, they multiply individual efforts by holding focus and intention. Some objects come to us with an existing history of spiri-tual and ritual symbolism. One such talisman is the Mandala. Mandalas are used for focusing attention, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to medita-tion.
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TIBETAN PROTECTION MANDALA CONTINUED
The ancient Tibetans mani-fested a beautiful way of crystal-lizing intention and harnessing the power of Feng Shui when they created the “Sri Pa Ho” or Astrological Protection Mandala.
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Shui Institute of the Midwest, a community resource for the art and science of Feng Shui, invites you to a special evening event at The Marsh. FSIM is sponsoring James Jay and his master class on the Sri Pa Ho Tibetan Buddhist Mandala. He will explore the history, background, and symbolic
“Sri Pa Ho” or Astrological Protection Mandala
meaning of this powerful Mandala and provide instruc-tion on using it to reinforce good Feng Shui. He will also share its use as a beautiful protection from any negative influences. A native of California, James is considered to be among the world’s foremost experts on Feng Shui. A veteran China travel expert, James and his wife, Helen, sponsor a variety of educational training programs in China on topics including Traditional & Black Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Acupres-sure/Tui Na Massage, Cuisine of China, and Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. Join FSIM and internation-ally known Feng Shui expert, James Jay, for a unique evening at The Marsh on Apr. 22 from 6-9 p.m. Space is limited.
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Transformational Travel for Women to Mexico: November 1-8, 2014Circle Mind Body Medicine together with the Traveling Goddesses presents its First Annual Trip to Akumal, Mexico
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Align your vibration with Mother Earth
THE BEACH Boys sing about “Good Vibra-tions.” People remark that someone is
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(slightly fluctuating) 528 Hz. Scientific research, some done by NASA, has shown that the vibration of human DNA reso-nates with the Earth. This is not a coincidence. We come into resonance with whatever vibra-tion we share space with for any length of time. Why don’t we feel it? Some of us do, to some degree. However, our bodies are equipped to perceive only a certain range of sound and vibration.
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TUNING FORKS ENABLE US TO COME INTO A GOOD RESONANCE Our bodies are made up of between 60 to 75 percent water. Water is an excellent conduit for energy and vibration. Our bodies are easily able to come into reso-nance with a frequency when
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Learning to Hug TreesOR YEARS, my spiritual teachers have suggested a simple yet profound exercise: Practice Tree Pose. Not the
one practiced on a yoga mat in a comfortable room gazing out the window at a tree while balancing on one leg, but the original Tree Pose. In other words, their sug-gestion was to find a tree—then touch, smell, see, and listen. Wrap my arms around it. Spend time with it. And immerse myself in the teachings of a living master! Last week I finally tried it. I went for a walk in the woods, felt drawn to a tree, silently asked permission, and then wrapped my arms around it, resting my face against its great, powerful trunk. As I rested
there, I opened to the incred-ible insight available through hugging trees!
WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO GROUND
Sense and follow the immense root structure down to the center of the earth with your mind’s eye and experience feeling truly grounded. From this deep support, reach up, spread wide and open to all pos-sibilities!
DRAW SUSTENANCE FROM THE EARTH
Let the tree teach you how to live off the earth—to draw up the energy she wants to give you in the form of life force, courage, strength, or wisdom. Then send down to her your pain, sorrow, and losses to hold and heal.
EXPERIENCE THE NATURAL BALANCE BETWEEN STRENGTH AND FLEXIBILITY
The tree stands strong and powerful yet it also bends, twists, and sways through life. In this sacred dance of effort and sur-render, the tree survives through all manners of circumstances.
LET GO
Follow a tree through the seasons and witness the grace of letting go. The tree does not cling to its autumn leaves. It willingly releases them to the earth for recycling. It doesn’t try to hold on to a leaf it found especially beautiful or grew attached to. It surrenders to the natural flow of birth and death.
BE VULNERABLE
A tree stands, all winter long, naked and vulnerable for us to witness. How many of us have
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the courage to stand and be seen for who we are behind the safety of our masks, titles, experiences, and personality, and be truly, exquisitely, vulnerable?
EXPRESS YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF
It’s silly to imagine trees comparing themselves to one another on the basis of looks, placement or leaf count! Each tree is a unique, unmatched expression of beauty, and none of them would want to be, or could be, anything other than what they are. I’m certain there are even more lessons waiting to be explored through trees, and also rivers, rocks, wind, and more. I hope to sit in turn with each of these living masters! So, have you hugged a tree today?
Keri Mangis is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, spir-itual teacher and healer in Minneapolis, MN who carries the intention to hold space for the highest level of healing each individual desires. [email protected]
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