By Marcia Schulte, Lotus Stress Relief

Looking at the next few weeks and wondering how we are going to make it through the Holiday Season? Decorating, shopping, cooking and baking, entertaining, religious services plus many special holiday events. Even remembering previous holidays seems to feel like way too much stress.

Let’s think of how we want to feel this time of year. As we celebrate Light, Love, Peace and Brotherhood, how can we best achieve those feelings?

Being aware of what causes us the most stress, we can make some choices. Who do we want to connect with? People we really love and appreciate. Does it all have to include food and drink? If rich foods and drinking too much makes us feel bad, let’s not feel obligated to please others. Stress often happens when we have a resistance to something we really don’t want to do or feeling we have too much to do.

Most of all, we need to take out some stress-relief time for ourselves: taking a warm bath, walking in nature, meditating on peace, listening to soothing music, having a LIFE biofeedback session!

What really helps us is being conscious of the feeling we want to have and how we can achieve it. It really is a choice.

A friend with a large family was gathered for a lovely holiday meal that she had spent hours preparing. Everyone was so slow getting to the table. Exasperated, she re-heated the mashed potatoes three times. Then she heard everyone laughing and chatting and realized it was more important to enjoy her family even if the mashed potatoes were cold!

1. Lowering Blood Pressure
2. Increasing Awe
3. Promoting Cancer-Fighting Cells
4. Helping With Depression and Anxiety
5. Helping with ADHD Symptoms

What does this mean for people located within cities? You don’t necessarily have to leave town and find yourself a forest to walk in. Or your neighborhood park will do it.

WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT? TRY EARTHING.

There’s no way to escape it. We sit at computers absorbing electro-smog. We talk on cell-phones, endlessly pressed to our ears and to our brains. Electro-smog is everywhere. Maybe the body, given another 100 years, will learn to adapt to it. But right now – what can you do to help out your poor, smogged up body and brain, trying to cope with it?

Think greenery. Think outside. Think earth connection. Nothing will help you to neutralize electro-smog better than Nature. But you’ve got to do more than walk through it.

Think connection. Take off those rubber-soled shoes. Connect your feet with the ground. Leaves are OK. Grass is OK. (If it’s not full of weed chemicals.) Sand at the beach shoreline is fine. Or just sit on the ground with your shoes off. The electro-smog that has built up in your body over the last few years can be neutralized as you ground yourself into the earth.

This costs nothing. The earth is readily available. But remember – no pavement. You can’t do it through asphalt or through concrete. You need to connect with the ground. And remember – take off your shoes. Rubber soles insulate you from the earth. Bare feet work fine.

Too much Electro-smog in your body? Expect difficulty going to sleep. Or waking up in the middle of the night with a non-stop brain. Leg and foot cramps are another sign. So is arm and lower back pain. Along with hot flashes. Headaches. Poor digestion.

Start connecting with the earth for 10 to 20 minutes a day. You can expect this grounding to pay big dividends. You’ll notice it after a day or two. The new word for this is EARTHING.

And don’t forget that children and pets are not immune from Electro-smog. They need Earthing too!

If you have a heavy build-up of electro-smog, you can always contact a Wellness Center. They can measure the level of electricity in your body, as well as the magnetics. They can then begin to de-stress your brain, your nervous system, and re-balance your hormones. Nothing will age you faster than Electro-smog. These people work in distance, and they are experts in this area.

You can contact them through their website: www.distancehealing.net or call them at their offices: 941-927-5657. If you want to be on a demo to learn everything they can do for you, email or call them. These people are experts on the new frontier of stress relief … so you can be at your Healthy Best and enjoy Well-Being … all the time!

BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK

DID YOU KNOW? … That if you feel DEPRESSED for an hour… you’ve produced around 18 BILLION new cells in your body that have 18 billion new peptide-receptors calling out for MORE DEPRESSED type peptides. On the other hand if you can feel HAPPY and ENTHUSIASTIC for an hour . . . you’ll have 18 billion new cells calling out for more FEEL GOOD peptides.

This is not just an “emotional-mental” idea. Those 18 billion peptides are physically produced by your body in your hypothalamus gland in the center of your brain. The new cells exist within you physically.

So every emotion you experience . . . from anger to hatred to resentment to frustration to depression to joy to enthusiasm to happiness . . . are physically duplicated in your body to give you MORE of what you think and feel. (The research and background on this came from Harvard University and Candace Pert in her book Molecules of Emotion.)

This brings new depth and meaning to the saying: What you focus on expands. No wonder some people are stuck in their thoughts and doomed to a future worse than their past (!) Either no one ever told them this . . . or they couldn’t hold onto the idea because their undisciplined MIND was running the show.

Most people do not have the discipline nor the power to control their own thoughts. Like Plato said:

“The undisciplined mind is like a boat at sea . . . where the Captain and the Navigator have been locked up below deck … while the crew sails around the oceans in aimless circles, with no destination nor goals nor plans in sight.”

Each one of us is much more powerful than we might give ourselves credit for. Our thoughts and feelings have the power to crave more of the same. This goes from the craving for drugs and alcohol – to the craving for money and success. What you focus on – you get more of. When you learn to discipline your mind — instead of letting it run on and on in mindless circles – great things are possible!

The very idea that we can create ourselves by what we think and feel … is amazingly good news for us!

Today you can actually go to a Wellness Center where they can stimulate your hypothalamus gland to expand all the feel-good emotions you want in your system.

Then they can connect you up to a NEURO-FEEDBACK computer where, first, they can de-program your old, dysfunctional thought patterns. Then they can empower you by programming in NEW NEURO-PATHWAYS — to build a stronger, happier, more powerful you. This is actually a miracle — all possible today because of the miracles of NEURO-Science.

(Now, see if you can discipline your mind to hold onto this powerful idea — and do something with it!)

Call Lotus Stress Relief today for a session in Neurofeedback – 941 927 5657.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse that occurred last Wednesday, March 22nd threw a punch that few people were expecting. On top of a powerful period growth and transformation . . . millions of individuals nationwide have been suffering from very high stress levels due to the life shifts and changing directions that have been caused by this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse.

It is true that whatever challenges come up for you after this Eclipse . . . will ultimately help you to get in touch with your inner and outer world.

However, in the meantime be aware that you may suffer higher stress levels, depression, confusion and anxiety like never before. The changes have been causing some to have memory lapses, feelings of low self worth, frustrations that life has not been playing out according to plan.

Family and relationship issues that you may have thought were long gone . . . may resurface at this time. This is because, astrologically, we have come to the end of a long period with Libra, “The Balancer.” This is the time for people to tie up their old emotional baggage, toss it out, and be done with it. Sometimes, however, this is easier said than done.

Some of the key themes of this Full Moon Eclipse are asserting your self-worth, knowing your value, and knowing how to respect others. You are also encouraged to pay attention to your relationship with money, your work life, and your goals and dreams.

Many individuals have been suffering rising blood pressure, acid reflux, anger issues, coupled with anxiety and strange dreams. This is a time to visit your local alternative health practitioner and wellness center, get a reactivity scan, and find out about any serious areas of stress that you need to work through.

This Lunar Full Moon Eclipse is helping you to determine what you want the new chapter of your life to look like. It will help you to discern your forward path, and to know whether you want to keep heading in the same direction, or start changing course.

If things have felt uncertain or if you have been unsure about how to approach or change a certain area of your life, this Eclipse may also give you the motivation to move forward.

If we allow this energy in, this Eclipse is going to help us balance the scales once more and to see things from a totally new perspective. This Eclipse has been a long time coming, and it will be the last Eclipse in Libra for some time to come, so use it wisely. The effects of this Eclipse may also be felt until the next Full Moon in April . . . around April 22nd.

So calm down, de-stress yourself now, and stay open to the signs and messages the Universe delivers to you.