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?

March 10, 2005

In 1986 I was living (or surviving might be a better word ) in Manhattan.

I lived about 5 minutes from Greenwich Village and used a 10 speed bike to get around town.

I spent most days speeding and ducking through traffic, and breathing exhaust from buses that were too old to still be street-worthy.

I loved New York. That little island felt like a huge heart that never stopped beating.

But as all New Yorkers know, you pay a price for the ride.

For me that price was an invisible shell I wore around me to protect myself from the onslaught of psychic energy that comes from living in such close quarters with your fellow islanders.

A Thread Through the Traffic...

One day, while riding with my shell securely fastened, senses heightened by streaming traffic, car horns, shops, buyers, kids, junkies and limos, I caught a split second scent of something wafting through the hundreds of other smells on the street.

I stopped and started sniffing the air like a deer. Then I turned around and rode back to the spot where I first noticed it.

I tracked it down from around a corner and two blocks away, coming from a street vendor selling incense. It was Frankincense.

I was shocked at the emotional response I had from this scent. I couldn't attribute it to any conscious memory, but it made me feel calm, grounded, connected.

Like Water in a Desert

Frankincense has been used for centuries as a holy anointing oil as well as a general cure for countless physical ailments -- diffusing it, inhaling it and take it internally.

It supports the immune system and reduces symptoms of allergies, high blood pressure and headaches.

It's especially known as a primary ingredient in blends for depression and anxiety. And it's come to be known as one of the most powerful anti-oxidants found in nature.

This rare and valuable oil was gratefully received by the parents of new born babies as a form of blessing in the Near East.

It was also the holy incense of the Hebrews, burned perpetually in their tabernacles for more than a thousand years during the time of Christ and in Catholic Churches for over 2000 years now.

Frankincense is precious, and the price reflects its value.

It comes from a tree requiring a rare desert climate. It grows only in North Africa and the Southern Arabian peninsula.

If you find a bottle of Frankincense for less than $60-$70, it's been cut with alcohol or massage oil. Don't compromise on purity if you're spending money on Frankincense, because the real thing will blow your mind.

And if you don't have the spare change to put out for a bottle of this pure gold, you can receive all the benefits of Frankincense through a number of different blends designed to compliment and enhance it's therapeutic value for a fraction of the price.

This is one of the gifts of blends -- they're created by a master blender who weaves together the right single oils to produce a potent effect on the body and mind.

Two of the most popular oil blends containing Frankincense are:

Three Wise Men
This blend promotes a feeling of grounding and spiritual awareness. It's a blend of oils formulated to open the subconscious mind and enhance emotional equilibrium as it soothes and uplifts the heart.

Ingredients:
frankincense, sandalwood, juniper, spruce, myrrh (note the number of woods...very grounding)

Inspiration
This blend includes oils traditionally used by the native peoples of Arabia, India and North America for enhancing spirituality, prayer, meditation and inner awareness.

Ingredients:
frankincense, cedarwood, spruce, rosewood, myrtle, sandalwood, mugwort

(here are links to 3 Wise Men and Inspiration...)

Thanks for spending some time with me.

I hope in the midst of a busy day you turn a corner and find your own aromatic sanctuary when you least expect it.

breathe deeply and feel to infinity,

corinne

P.S. The photo above is part of a porcelain sculpture series by contemporary Chinese artist Ah Xian.
Press here and scroll to the bottom of the site to see more of his unusual work...

March 04, 2005

The word pretty much describes itself.

Your flame is being exhausted.

Your wick is at its end.

No more fuel to keep your body’s fire alive.

You don’t have to be a CEO or high powered anything to know what its like -- you feel numb, void of feeling, even empty of tears.

Don’t panic -- your body’s just telling you to recharge your batteries.

Burnout is not a ‘corporate condition’.

Lost love, family struggle, life change, health ups and downs... no matter how busy we insist on keeping ourselves to avoid feeling, our emotions will not be ignored.

And you may find yourself shutting down, leaving you feeling like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way.

The oils below are for general emotional burnout -- a way out of the bubble that may be keeping you on the outside of life, looking in.

The oil blend made of these 4 oils is

Release

Geranium stimulates nerves and assists in balancing hormones,
opening and elevating the mind.

Sandalwood is rich in sesquiterpenes, which stimulate the pineal gland and the limbic region of the brain, the center of our emotions. The pineal gland releases melatonin, a hormone that enhances deep sleep. Sandalwood is similar to Frankincense oil in its support of nerves and circulation.

Blue Tansy may help cleanse the liver and it calms the lymphatic system, helping you to release anger or frustration and regain a feeling of self-control.

Ylang Ylang brings a sense of relaxation and helps balance male and
female energies.It restores a rested self.


Release helps you rekindle your own internal flame.

And those in your life who stand in that glow will be happy to have you back.


--c.

February 18, 2005

I decided to watch the Superbowl this weekend. To be honest, I’m not a big football fan, but I do have a great appreciation for smart marketing. And when someone is spending 2.4 million dollars for 15 seconds of your time, you know they hired the brightest marketing minds in the country.

So contrary to most, I work while the game is on (and give my full attention to the commercials).

What’s funny is that no matter how crassly commercial and full of political agenda this event becomes, there’s always a moment when I find myself heart-moved by the sheer humanity of the tens of thousands all gathered together in one place.

You can’t help but feel the unity of sharing this little planet together, and the compassion for each one living their life, loving, suffering, striving for a sense of purpose and peace.

1 in 30 Americans Are On Some Kind of Antidepressant

Something struck me though as I was writing this newsletter and gazing over the sea of faces at the Superbowl. According to statistics, 1 in 30 Americans are on some kind of antidepressant (for women, it’s 1 in 10.)

So, of the 76,000 thousand people sitting in the Alltell Stadium in Florida, watching the Superbowl, that means that 2,300 had taken an antidepressant that morning with the hope that their day would be free of depression, anxiety and fear.

Thanks to aggressive and persistent marketing by drug companies, relying on drugs to keep you emotionally balanced is becoming more and more common, from teens to the elderly.

Watch Network TV For a Day and Count The Drug Commercials

How many of the TV commercials are telling you that all your unhappiness, anxiety, and depression can be erased with the help of a little pill...

Drug companies know how to market. It’s subtle and packaged with happy faces and gentle music. If you have an emotional problem, there’s a pill out there for you that can take away the pain.

How many people are taking that little pill because life is just not working out the way they planned, or they just don’t know enough about alternatives to choose something other than what’s on their doctor’s prescription pad. After all, why would your doctor give you something that’s not good for you?

I don’t want to suggest that depression and anxiety are not real. They are very real for those who suffer from them. Chemical imbalance is a disease that can be corrected. And many people find help in prescription drugs.

I’m not a medical doctor and I’m not qualified to personally direct people on the use of antidepressants, but like any choices we make in life, I highly recommend that you educate yourself on the full disclosure of antidepressants.

I Have 5 Friends Who Take Antidepressants Every Day

Out of those five, I feel that only one really needs to.

The other four are just like you and me. They’re looking for something that life isn’t giving them. They’re searching for happiness and not finding it, and they’re trying a chemical approach to finding a way out of their pain.

For some people, antidepressants not only fail to deliver the peace of mind they seek, but they can lead to addiction, complex side effects, severe and sometimes life threatening withdrawal symptoms and in some cases, greater suffering than most will ever want to experience.

So, in that light, and in support of those who are fighting their own personal battle, I offer you this story, told to me a couple years back by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy.

She’s the founder of DrugAwareness.org and a true expert in the field of serotonin-based drugs (such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Serzone, Remeron, Seraphim, etc…)

This story is also a testament to the power of essential oils and the natural path to healing and well-being.

September 21, 2004

As I was saying in my last entry, the media has played a big part in creating a feeling of inadequacy in women, including, not the least of which, the idea that sexual response is something you turn on and off like a light switch.

Emotional balance and sexual response can never be separated. If you are stressed, sad, anxious, or simply preoccupied with daily business, you will have a hard time convincing your body and your partner that they have your undivided attention for erotic play.

Although the mind can be a master at suppressing emotions, the body is not as good at suppression as it is at relocating those emotions. We can make our routine appointments with our chiropractor to move emotional blocks from our neck or backs but do we realize that those same emotional blocks can get transferred to the lower chakra or sexual area of our bodies.

Releasing emotional blocks that suppress our sexual desire is never simple. Uncovering the reasons behind sexual unavailability can take patience and understanding, but if you are inclined to make changes, therapeutic-grade essential oils give you a very good chance at loosening those blocks and restoring your sexual energy.

I wrote a free Complimentary Report called The Feeling Art of Bodily Pleasure, which you can ask for on this site. It goes into some of the ancient history of erotic oils and how they have been used throughout the centuries. In this report you’ll find the formulas of some of those same erotic oils that can start you off on your explorations.

More to come on this subject…there is literally no end to the uses of essential oils for a woman’s sexuality and hormonal balance.

August 19, 2004

The Daze of The Dragon

After some months of denial, I have finally come to accept the fact that my personality alters for a few days due to the hormonal changes of PMS. Even though I feel perfectly normal, my husband can see what’s happening from a mile away (which is usually the distance he would prefer to take until the tides change).

I’m not a plate-thrower but I do see how my mental state becomes agitated. My mind leans toward the negative and if I observe my words they tend to dwell in the same realm. Once I get hip to what’s going on I can bring some discrimination to my state and basically ignore the content of the internal conversation.

I am humbled by the consequences of changing hormones and I have great sympathy for those who suffer more than I do. Has anyone written a paper on the percentage of marital arguments that stem from shifting hormones? Every man should consider it his obligation to monitor their partner’s menstrual cycle and learn to not take her moods too seriously for a few days. A little extra loving on stressful days can move those storm clouds out in no time.

So, here’s the thing that I found that makes all the difference for me. It’s an essential oil that balances the hormones called Dragon Time. The week before my period begins I apply it to my ankles and the bottom of my feet. I also use it as a compress on my abdomen. I’m a great test case. Every month that goes by without the imposition of nature’s emotional disruptions is a small victory. And dealing with health issues without the invasion of chemicals is a GREAT victory.