April 19, 2005

A friend sent me this beautiful article.

I wanted to share it with my readers to help remind us of the consciousness, compassion and tolerance found in humans and non-humans alike at times of crisis.

From Jim France of the Pavilion Hotel Group in Bangkok:

At a resort on Phuket, one of the most popular attractions is (was) elephant rides.

As many as eight people on one elephant, first into the surrounding forest, then down to the beach, to lunch at a fresh water lagoon, then back to the hotel.

The elephants (nine) were kept chained to in-ground posts, not because they needed to be, but because it made the mothers feel better. Their children seemed safe from a tromping when feeding the beasts.

About twenty minutes before the first wave hit, the elephants became extremely agitated and unruly.

Four had just returned from a trip and their handler's had not yet chained them.

They helped the other five tear free from their chains.

They all then climbed a hill and started bellowing.

Many people followed them up the hill.

Then the waves hit.

After the waves subsided, the elephants charged down from the hill, and started picking up children with their trunks and running them back up the hill; when all the children were taken care of, they started helping the adults.

They rescued 42 people. Then they returned to the beach and carried up four dead bodies, one of them a child.

Not until the task was done would they allow their handlers to mount them. Then with handlers atop, they began moving wreckage.

Many super-human and super-sentient capacities were exhibited through these wonderful elephant beings, including concern and compassion for one another and their fellow humans through the transitions they were going through.

For me, this is another sign that we will eventually awaken to recognizing the animals as our companions and conscious co-creators of life on earth, instead of beasts of burden, food and clothing.

April 18, 2005

Yes... Spring has arrived.

For the ancient Taoists (now mostly frozen in bronze) it was a time to clean the temple, the vital organs, and maybe the self as well...

And for us -- why not get into shape for summer too, look and feel our best. I’m like that -- April is my favorite month for positive change all around.

When it comes to health, the Spring time -- no matter where you’re living in the world — is a time of cleansing and re-birth.



What is the ultimate means for cleansing the body?

You might be surprised to know, but its fasting.

And it’s best done in April, or at the end of the winter months.

But anytime is good.

The idea is to stay in tune with the cycle of the seasons, and we want to thrive in the summer.

For those of you who think of fasting as some sort of extreme sport reserved for health fanatics, I want to talk to you about fasting in a different light.

Fasting is truly one of the premiere health practices that can and should be incorporated into everyone’s life on a regular basis.

People who’ve never fasted for more than a day don’t know much about the health value of fasting. But fasting is an ancient practice that profoundly purifies the body.

Our bodies are 'food bodies'.

And fasting from food gives the body a rest from the constant labor of digestion and assimilation.



How to heighten your awareness, sharpen your senses, renew your energy and calm your mind...

What happens when give your body a rest from the constant round of digestion and elimination is the process of autolysis -- where the body consumes or gets rid of all its excesses, including weight and toxins.

Cells that are weak don’t survive the process, only the healthy cells continue to function, creating a renewed strength, vitality and energy

Fasting has actually been reported to be more effective than chemotherapy in reversing cancer and other diseases.

I know two people who recently reversed early stages of cancer permanently simply on a regime of periodic fasting and intelligent dietary change.

It makes sense, of course. Fasting is how we clean house.

Fasting is serious business and it purifies the body of a lot of toxic build-up from junk food, prescription drugs, alcohol, drugs, metals, pesticides and preservatives.



What happens to all the toxic garbage we put into our bodies?

Well it doesn't necessarily come out on its own.

And these toxins can (and will) remain in the body for years compromising the health of our liver, kidneys, heart and brain.

Without fasting for a period of time, your body will not have a chance to rid itself of these toxins.

Now -- you may not be ready to go on an extended fast to purify your body, but in the mean time you can start right away with a one day fast.

Anyone can safely fast one day a week without any worries.

It’s not that hard. (I know because I do it myself. And trust me, no one loves food more than I do.)



Let me give you the straight goods...

Giving your digestive process a 24 hour break once a week is such a powerful health practice that doing this alone can literally add a decade to your life span.

This is no joke.

Chinese men and women who live in Ningxia, China live well into their hundreds with a vitality that makes them look like Jack LaLane.

Regular fasting, natural herbs and no access to McDonald’s seem to be the main reasons for their happy-meal lifespan.



Can you do a one day fast?

I don’t know. Can you sit in front of a T.V. for an hour. It’s really just about as easy as that.

Ok, you can do it.

So here’s your step by step program:

Try it just one time, and you’ll be converted for life.

You want energy, stamina, beautiful skin, and the confident feeling that your finally giving those 21st century biohazards a knock-out punch?

Here it is baby. Go for it!



Here are the simple steps...

1. Go to the market and buy two gallons of pure spring water, 8 lemons, and a bottle of organic maple syrup.

2. Eat your “last meal” of the day – something light and healthy, a salad, rice and vegetables. Something that feels good.

3. Now the next morning when you arise, go to the kitchen, walk right past the coffee grinder and prepare your “fasting lemonade” for the day. If you don’t like lemonade, use grapefruits.

Juice about four lemons and strain out all the pulp. Mix the juice with a gallon of pure water.

Add maple syrup to taste. Drink a couple glasses right there in the kitchen.

4. Now shower and get ready for the day. If you catch your reflection in the mirror, say “you the man! (or lady!)”.

5. Continue to drink the gallon jug of your “fasting lemonade” on and off all morning and finish it by about 2 p.m.

6. Make your next batch then (or you could have made both batches in the morning to save time -- storing one in the fridge).

7. Drink the next batch during the day and finish it about two hours or so before bed. You’re basically drinking whenever you feel hungry, to reduce the craving and get you through the day.

8. A few times throughout the day gently massage your abdomen, exercise, do a little yoga or take a short walk or two to activate your organs and glands, helping to move the toxins through (and eventually out of) your body.

10. The next morning your fast is over.

Refresh yourself with a soothing herbal tea, and have some of your favorite fruit.

11. At lunchtime, congratulate yourself. You did it! Try not to go straight to your favourite indulgence, but eat a moderately healthy meal…


Wasn't that easy?

Now -- if you do this simple one day fast a few times a season and you will notice profound benefits.

My own confession?

I do this very fast every Sunday -- and I can tell you that it is the single most invigorating, energizing, rejuvenating and effective health practice in my regime – and I do more things for my body in a month than most do in a lifetime.

Not to brag.

But just to impress upon you the extraordinary value of giving your body a single day to enjoy a full day of rest.

That day of rest once a week can make the difference between an average life and radiant one.

(and radiance is a good thing...)

love and good health,

daniel

To reach Daniel for a complete health consultation, write to me
corinne@feelingtoinfinity.com

April 18, 2005

About a year ago I got a call from a promoter friend of mine in L.A. saying he was about to gamble a huge portion of his (much in demand) consulting time on promoting a totally unknown film.

He felt like people were ready for something a bit radical and spiritually challenging. And his instincts were right on.

“What The Bleep Do We Know?” is exploding in popularity, winning awards in every film festival it enters, and now hitting major theaters around the world.

What the bleep’s it all about?

If you were around in the 70’s, someone, somewhere, probably at one point handed you a copy of Fritjof Capra’s, The Tao of Physics.

A revolutionary book that showed how ancient mysticism and modern physics were actually part of the same study.

“What The Bleep Do We Know?” visually explores quantum physics -- exposing you to some of life’s great questions and opening a door to spirituality while highlighting the scientific facts that support its truths.

Down the Rabbit Hole...

The movie walks you through profound investigations about reality that leave you feeling like you’re teetering on the edge of a vast abyss -- longing to jump, but afraid to leave behind any certainty that you know what the hell is going on here.

As this film races through the mainstream in America and Europe its gaining a following of people who are just happy to know there are others out there who think and feel like they do.

While the visual effects in the film are stunning, so are the interviews with some of the world’s most renown physicists and scholars.

Your Thoughts Effect Water Molecules... And What Else?

At one point, the main character is introduced to an experiment conducted by Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist who shows how positive or negative thoughts drastically change the formation of a single water molecule.

Emoto took bottles of water and taped a word or phrase on each of them.

Sometimes he’d use music or even just intentioned thoughts associated with an emotion -- love, appreciation, hate, gratitude, anger, etc.

The positive messages consistently created symmetrical, beautiful, snowflake-like formations, while the negative thoughts produced chaotic and disturbed formations, with no order or pattern.

It begs the question: “If thoughts can do that to water and your body is made up of 90% water, imagine what our thoughts can do to us”.

What Have You Been Thinking About Today?

Thoughts, as quantum physics proposes, are vibrations.

Each thought has its own frequency. The frequency of a thought impacts the overall frequency of your body.

How many thoughts have you had today? Thousands? Millions?

How many of them were negative or characterized by self-doubt, fear, anxiety, anger, stress…

What effect did each of those thoughts have on the cellular structure of your body?

What patterns were you ingraining into your brain chemistry.

A lot of what I speak about in Feeling To Infinity is based on research into vibrational medicine done by people like Bill Moyers, Fritjof Capra, Anodea Judith, Deepak Chopra, Richard Gerber M.D. and Fred Allen Wolf, to mention only a few of those who have stepped into the public light.

Raising Your Body's Frequency To the Highest Level Possible

All of them agree that you can alter the vibrational frequency of your thought patterns by introducing substances of higher vibration into your body.

Clinical research shows that essential oils have the highest frequency of any substance known to man.

In essence, this is how therapeutic essential oils work on the emotional and physical body as modes of healing – above and beyond the obvious herbal, chemical and pharmacological properties, which are all richly documented.

“What The Bleep” talks a great deal about how our negative thought patterns can become chronic and how we can become chemically addicted to certain types of neurotransmitters based on the emotional experiences they’re creating for us.

Are our bodies chemically addicted to negative patterns of emotion?

Something to think about…

Every emotion, like every part of the body, has a specific vibrational frequency and this is why certain emotions are associated with various energy centers of the body.

We take on the very qualities of what we put our attention on. And since 80% of our internal-talk is typically negative, there is a lot of emotional clearing to be done!

Therapeutic essential oils are soluble to the cell membrane. They effect change on a cellular level in our body and our brain.

Oils that are used for emotional healing are uniquely chosen based on the frequency of each oil, and how it effects the pattern of emotion its addressing.

So next time you find yourself overwhelmed with your job, your relationship, your future, take heart in the message of quantum physics:

Nothing is as it seems.

You and everything around you is a mere shifting pattern of frequencies, existing simultaneously on multiple planes, unified with all of existence, already perfect.

Truly -- the more we learn about the inner workings of ourselves and our world, it becomes more rational to ask: what the bleep do we know?