Easier Lives Through Gratitude

What is gratitude? It is a state of being, a presence of grace that flows around us and through us. With gratitude, every ounce of our being is focused on all that is right, all that is good, the abundance and prosperity that fills all areas of our lives.

Sounds like fairies and pixies and dancing through fields? A more practical and probably relevant question us readers are probably wanting to cut to the chase on is: how does one focus on being grateful when it seems like there are so many challenges everywhere we look? How and why should we focus on being grateful when our friends or maybe even we ourselves are facing layoffs, there are all sorts of economic uncertainties going on, homes are being lost, or we might just be more wound up and snappy toward the ones we love without meaning to be, simply because of the mounting pressures we're facing and feeling?

It's easy to be grateful when things are going well. The sign of spiritual maturity and growth is when we can be grateful even when our surroundings test us. Not everyone may be on a conscious path to soul evolution or mastery, however, all beings can benefit from a little grace and gratitude in their lives. What makes gratitude so important?

Gratitude is all about attitude (seriously, we're not just trying to be clever with words here). Gratitude is a choice to create a positive, upward trend or momentum of energy that directs where your life—and everything in it—heads. Do you want to focus all your energy on that which you actually do have (no matter how small it is, we still have something we can be grateful for) or do you want to focus all your energy and attention on everything that is wrong and that you don't have?

Similar energies attract; opposite energies repel. We've seen this discussed and represented through numerous mainstream vehicles—e.g., the popular online movie “The Secret”, best-selling books like “The Law of Attraction”. More and more people are discovering every day that which GrandMaster Choa Kok Sui has been teaching through Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga: “that which you focus your attention on will tend to appear.”

So, gratitude is about making a conscious decision about how you want to live your life and then directing your energy toward the end result, thereby manifesting and materializing better, easier lives for ourselves.

We know all the “pros” for living a life filled with gratitude: you start to feel better, you have a more positive attitude and outlook, you tend to be more open and willing to try new solutions and ideas for those areas where there are “gaps” waiting to be filled with abundance. There's not a whole lot to lose on the “pros” side of the list.

What about the “cons”? What if you were to surrender to gratitude? Some think that you aren't being realistic if you fail to focus on the issues/problems at hand. Some people feel that you have to worry about what's going on, you need to anticipate the bad that could happen so you'll be ready for it when it does happen. There absolutely is a place in every person's life for planning. Here's the secret: gratitude and planning CAN go hand-in-hand. There is no reason to keep an eye on your financial investments with a sense of regularity and to balance and re-balance your portfolio to adjust to market conditions. Just be grateful that you have some money to even invest or to worry about even losing. You can save money, keep your resume updated, and make sure you're networking regularly with contacts in your industry in case layoffs do hit your company. But in the meantime, be grateful that you have a job to go to, no matter how not-fun the company's environment is, and be grateful that you have enough skills and talents to put on a resume, or that you're even healthy enough to get out of bed, shower and change yourself without assistance. We guarantee you: you can always find something to be grateful about, even if it's just the breath of air you inhaled. It's all about choice.

It's a natural tendency to worry, especially in times of uncertainty. And, if you are okay with the role that worry plays in your life, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Let us ask you, though: does focusing on what could go wrong control it from not happening? Let us phrase it another way: if worrying actually made a difference in the outcome, wouldn't the worriers have less challenges in their lives and the happy-go-lucky non-worries have more challenges? Wouldn't you be able to brag, “I am such a fantastic worrier that I have a wonderful, blissful life because I've worried all bad things out of existence?”

Again, we're not advocating irresponsibility or lack of planning. However, once you've done everything within your power to cover all your bases and account for that which you can, it's the surrender to allowing gratitude into your life that takes you the rest of the way home to a place of comfort, to an easier, more joyful life.

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Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives -- Superbrain Yoga®

For some time now, scientists and researchers alike are learning more and more about the importance of brain waves—or, the energy of the brain—as demonstrated by the abundance of biofeedback programs, brain synchronization tools, and other brain wave therapy programs. From mainstream, off-the-shelf solutions to in-clinic therapies, people are turning to the brain for deeper answers.

Superbrain Yoga is a simple and effective yogic technique to energize and recharge the brain. This exercise transforms or internally alchemizes the energies from the lower energy centers into higher subtler energies. These energies are then utilized by the upper energy centers. When those centers are highly energized, they energize the brain so it can function with greater efficiency and effectivity.

Superbrain Yoga not only energizes and activates the brain, but also assists in balancing the energies of the heart, throat, ajna, forehead and crown energy centers.

Scientific studies have shown increase in Alpha waves and synchronization of left ad right brain waves with the practice of Superbrain Yoga. Studies conducted on school children—including those with ADD/ADHD, development and cognitive delays, down syndrome and specific learning disabilities— have shown significant increase in academic and behavioral performance, greater class participation and improved skills.

Benefits of prolonged practice include increased intelligence, greater psychological stability, reduced stress, greater mental clarity, balanced left and right brain activity. This technique is so simple, even young children can easily learn it—plus, it can be done in less than 5 minutes per day!

Interested in learning more? Superbrain Yoga will be taught in Sacramento (Fair Oaks) on March 19, 6:30-9:30 pm. Please contact us for more details.

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Allowing Greatness Into Your Life

When is "Good Enough" Not Enough?

“Good vs. Great” is a phrase coined by life coach, Cheryl Richardson, in her book “Life Makeovers”. She describes the choices that people make when they settle for “good enough” instead of holding out for “great” in their lives.

For many of us, good enough is just that—after all, who are we to expect, or even ask, for more? Many of us have been raised with negative associations when it comes to asking for what we want, or have faced disappointment for wanting and expecting more...and then not getting it. It only seems logical then, that staying in the realm of good enough is safe—we get close enough to what we want without any risk of being disappointed because we haven't invested or gone out on a limb to shoot for more.

But, what if we started off this year by imagining something different? What would our lives look like if we only accepted great? What if, in the game of blackjack, a “17” was no longer good enough and instead you wanted a “21”? Take a moment to list the following areas of your life (and any others you may want to include): career/work, finances, romantic relationships, friendships, family, spirituality, and health. On a scale of 21, what number do you rate each area in terms of satisfaction and fulfillment? Do you have “21s” across the board? In which particular areas are you settling for less? And, are you okay with how you see your life?

Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui has said, “the greatest obstacles come from within, not from outside.” Obstacles to great may come in all forms and flavors. Lack of self-worth—truly believing you deserve to have the best; guilt about having a great, easy life when others around you may not; difficulty receiving (it's easy for you to give, give, give, but difficult to allow others to give back to you).

With Pranic Healing, it IS possible to have easier, happier, richer lives in all areas—21s across the board, GREAT instead of good enough. By changing and energizing your intentions, by removing and disintegrating the obstacles, you create room for your new, positive, better lives to materialize!

Pick an area of your life where you want a “21”, where you want greatness. Write out what you want for this area of your life—even your wildest dreams. What does a “21” look like for this part of your life? Create your list with the end-goal in mind, i.e., what DO you want, as opposed to all the things you DO NOT want. Once you've completed this list, one a separate piece of paper, list out all the things that you feel prevent you from having this life that you've just described. List all the feelings, thoughts, doubts, emotions, internal self-talk, and people who are more comfortable with you as you are. This is your private list, so be as thorough as you can about all the reasons why you think you can't have the life you just described.

For those students who have taken Pranic Psychotherapy, Kriyashakti or Arhatic Yoga, use the Whiteboard or Blue Triangle techniques to disintegrate and remove the obstacles on your list. Thought forms, obstacles, emotions – these all have energy behind them. By disintegrating and removing these obstacles, you remove the energy that attract that which you no longer choose to have in your life. If you have not taken these classes, a simple invocation will work as well. For example,

“To the Supreme God (or to whomever you pray), Divine Mother, Divine Father, to all the Great Ones, to all the Holy Angels, Archangles, Spiritual Helpers, Teachers and Beings of Light...to Our Souls, to our Divine Selves:

We humbly invoke and thank you for gently and mercifully disintegrating and removing all of these obstacles from our lives. Thank you for the Divine Purification and Healing in all areas of our lives.

In Full Faith and with Thanks, Amen.”

Once you have cleared the obstacles, energize the brand new life that you've described for yourself using the Materialization techniques in Kriyashakti. Through this practice, you are creating the energy that attracts what it is that you DO want. A simple invocation for your goals could be:

“To the Supreme God (or to whomever you pray), Divine Mother, Divine Father, to all the Great Ones, to all the Holy Angels, Archangles, Spiritual Helpers, Teachers and Beings of Light...to Our Souls, to our Divine Selves:

We humbly invoke and thank you for my brand new life of...[list the characteristics and things you have described in your new life, e.g., divine happiness, divine self-confidence, divine trust and faith, etc.]

In Full Faith and with Thanks, Amen”

Continue this practice every day for 30 days, and then move on to the next area of your life that you want to change to GREAT.

Pranic Healing Northern California, in affiliation with U.S. Pranic Healing Center | pranichealing.ncalif@gmail.com

Empower Yourself - Allowing Anger to be Your Guide

Anger is often a misunderstood emotion—something that tends to be correlated with negative connotations, harm and violence. For many of us, it is one of the emotions that carries a power and force behind it that can be intimidating and frightening.

In Pranic Healing, we learn that all emotions and feelings are simply energies with different vibrational frequencies. Likewise, as we play and experiment in classes, we see that energies can be disintegrated, transformed and transmuted into higher-frequency energies. The most salient example of this is the Meditation on Twin Hearts—a meditation that not only brings tremendous blessings to the entire Earth, but also transforms and transmutes energies into love, happiness and inner peace. Have you noticed how easy it is to let go of the stresses and worries of the days after you've practiced Meditation on Twin Hearts?

What does this have to do with anger, you might wonder? Anger can actually be a positive, healthy emotion that helps to empower and make our lives better. Anger is a signal, a communication from your higher soul that lets you know when the actions or behaviors of another oversteps what is acceptable to you and your boundaries. Think back to some of the times that you have been angry; what do you see when you look beyond the situation, words, actions that took place? Did you have feelings of discomfort? Did you see something happening that was not okay with you?

Embracing anger and using it in a positive, healthy was is nothing to feel guilty or ashamed of. Wrong-doing or transgressions can be as obvious as someone betraying your trust, to something more subtle like always being the one to go pick up the lunch every time there is a team meeting. The emotion of anger helps you identify when you feel like a boundary is being violated or when your own needs are not being met. How lucky are we that we have such a salient, helpful signal to tell us when our divinity is not receiving the respect or treatment we would like it to have?!

Healthy expression and releasing of anger is another aspect of using anger in a positive way. Begin by simply turning your awareness inward throughout the day and notice what things trigger the emotion of anger. It doesn't need to be anger in the full-blown, screaming, raging aspect. Even something as simple as being irritated is a dimension of the emotion of anger. Take note as to when you feel these emotions and identify what it is about the situation that is causing the emotions to arise. Are you feeling angry because you are always giving to others but not receiving the same courtesy? Are you irritated because a co-worker is draining your energy by always complaining about your boss? Is the baby-sitter demonstrating a lack of respect for your time by always showing up 15 minutes late thereby throwing your schedule off? There are so many dimensions to anger; it's not just the scary violence we see in movies and read about in newspapers.

Change the situation with Right Thought, Right Speech and Right Actions. This is one of the most empowering ways to release and use anger to benefit yourself. Being angry does not mean one needs to be nasty or violent. Anger can be channeled into setting clear expectations and boundaries about what will/will not work for you, and then can be the fuel you need to reinforce those expectations and boundaries when they are not being met. While it may seem intimidating for those who are conflict-adverse, Right Thought/Right Speech/Right Action provide you with the ability to disentangle from the emotions and to express yourself clearly without necessarily engaging in conflict. It is amazing how people will respond to pleasant but firm statements about your expectations or needs!

Bless with love and cut the cords. Love has the power to transform and transmute. Bless the situation, bless the person or people involved who have done something to cause your emotions to be angry. Bless and the cut the cords. Let love and God take over and give the people/situation what they need. It is not your responsibility to fix those involved in your situation. Your responsibility lies with staying true to yourself and empowering yourself by standing up for what your soul needs and wants—by giving your soul the right environment to focus on its Divine Purpose and Divine Work here on Earth. Let love and Got take care of those who are at the cause of your anger. Let anger be your guide along your path to Divine Purpose.

The purpose of this article is to discuss anger as a general emotion in everyday interactions and situations around us. If you are in a situation where your safety is at risk, where there is abuse, violence or other harmful actions taking place, please reach out and seek help—through the local authorities, a trusted spiritual minister or counselor, or many of the local and national hot lines and organizations that are set up and trained to provide the right and proper assistance. Please do not ever think or feel that this type of behavior is justified or deserved.

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Manifesting What You Want – A Gift to Yourself

We often spend much of our time and energy fulfilling the daily responsibilities asked of us from our families, careers, households, relationships, etc. It's no wonder, especially for those of us who are entrenched in the world of high-tech jobs and Silicon Valley costs of living, that after a full day of “doing” we could use a lot more personal time for “being and dreaming”.

The gift of time, the gift of space, the gift of solitude. These are some of the most priceless gifts the soul could enjoy. It is in times of solitude and stillness that we get to hear the voice of our soul, the gentle guidance it gives us when we are faced with choices in life, along with the sweet nudges it gives us when we stray off the paths of our authenticity and divine purpose.

How much time have you spent with yourself this past year, asking your heart what it needs, what it wants in life? Do you know what really makes you feel joyful and fulfilled? To take it to an even larger scale, what would you choose for yourself if failure was not an option? If for but a moment, “not succeeding” disappeared completely from existence and you could achieve anything you desired?

When we become frustrated by our perceived lack of getting what we want or having our desires materialize, it often helps to take a step back and check in with ourselves: do we really know what we want, or do we just think we know what we want. Take a moment to hold this thought in your head, let it swirl around for a moment. In the past month, have you taken the time to really connect with your soul and identify what it really needs? There are two parts to this. The first is the list of easier things to identify: “I want my health to improve”, “I want a new job”, “I want a more harmonious relationship”, etc. The second is the list-behind-the-list: “My soul wants me to release anger and rage at past situations so the body can heal itself”, “My higher self wants me to stop sabotaging myself every time a potential work project with great visibility arises”, “Divinity is showing me a pattern of co-dependency in relationships that needs to be healed.” Sometimes when the first list does not readily manifest, it's a sign that something deeper needs to be healed in order to bring the first desire to fruition.

A second obstacle to manifesting our goals is where we focus our attention and how much time we spend there. It seems to be a human tendency to focus on what is happening in the moment and, more specifically, to focus on the fact that what we don't want is what is happening in the moment. Resistance to that which is is a form of energizing. The current conditions or situation is what it is. Added resistance creates additional energy that fuels the thing you do not want. What would happen if we took all the time and energy spent focusing on identifying all the instances where what we DON'T want appears, analyzing why it is happening, blaming and being angry for its existence, and instead we re-channeled that energy into picturing what it is we DO want to have materialize?

In Pranic Healing, specifically in Kriyashakti®--the practice of power through purification--we find it helpful to make two lists when you want to pave a way for manifesting what you want: the list of goals and the list of obstacles hindering the goals. In doing this, you can focus on and energize the list of goals and wants, while at the same time disintegrating and removing any obstacles that are getting in the way. If you've taken Kriyashakti or Pranic Psychotherapy, you may use the Blue Triangle, White Board, Prosperity and Concertizing Meditation techniques to materialize your goals and projects.

Pranic Healing sessions by a certified healer can be used to help with your goals. Contact us for more information about rates and sessions.

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Success Story: Pranic Healing Helps Client With Weight Management Program

Weight had been an fluctuating issue for several years for BD until doctors discovered an imbalance in her thyroid hormones which resulted in a rapid 15-pound weight gain over the course of one month. In addition to the stress of not knowing what was wrong pre-diagnosis, BD was also under various pressures at work and turned to food as a means of stress relief and comfort.

“I never had a problem in the past staying fit and exercising the body,” described BD. “However, all of a sudden I was having rapid weight gain and no matter how hard I worked out, the weight wouldn't come off. Then, I started getting really tired all the time and between that and not seeing any results, my motivation to keep exercising just disappeared. I comforted myself with food.”

Discouraged, disliking her images in pictures, and dressing in baggier clothing, BD came to Pranic Healing originally to help heal her endocrine system. What she found was priceless.

“Not only did Pranic Healing help me deal with the roller coaster ride that my endocrine system was going through, I found out it could be used to help with all of my issues – physical, mental, emotional – about my weight.”

Pranic Healing sessions were applied twice weekly to BD. Within two weeks she started noticing changes.

“One day I decided out of the blue to ask one of the trainers to help me put together a brand new workout plan that was totally different from the one I was using. It just popped into my head to drop the old routine and start with something completely fresh.”

Something fresh turned into a three-times-a-week exercise routine at the gym. “Little by little, I noticed that I was just doing it. There wasn't an internal battle inside about whether or not I felt like going to the gym. I just started doing it.”

Other changes started appearing as well. “I lost my cravings for dessert. I had developed a habit of needing something sweet after every meal. One night I noticed that I hadn't touched the carton of ice cream in the freezer for at least five consecutive days. I couldn't believe it.”

BD's weight management program is now under way and she is excited about the path she is taking. “I am seeing changes in my body, my muscle tone is coming back, my clothes are feeling better. I'm getting excited about how good it feels to start taking care of myself again, and not sabotaging myself or my goals anymore. Pranic Healing really works!”

If you would like to schedule a session with a certified Pranic Healer, please contact us.

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