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Numerology and Inner Healing

The quest for healing can be about seeking out ways to bring about ways to live a simple, healthy, uncomplicated, and comfortable life. However, to truly heal we often must become more aware of ourselves, our actions, and the way in which we lead our lives. Utilizing spiritual tools, like Numerology, we can become more self-aware and begin our own personal healing.

However, there may be roadblocks in your path. You may have to do a lot of examining of your thoughts and your life. How often do we hear negative phrases, or stories, about how bad life is? After a while this information takes on more and more power in your life. Many of us have living and healing that we want to accomplish. If you want to heal, then it’s time take action. Roll up your sleeves and begin the work that you know you want to do, rather than giving a greater percentage of your power to the negativity in life.

True healing can only come from within you. Of course, we need to recognize that important health information can come from our inner voice, yet it can also come from the world around us, or it may come from the loving advice of friends and family. When you come to understand that changes need to take place, you will realize that healing involves doing. Our healing is about attending to our selves and our inner needs. But again, it's not about ignoring the world, it's recognizing that we need to address our own issues if we truly want to effectively be able to be of service to others or the world at large.

Numerology can help you to recognize your strengths and your weaknesses. Unless we embrace ourselves in total, we won't be able to claim our full power and step up to our true potential. Indeed, working with our own Shadow can be one of the most healing things that we'll ever do.

Next, we'll discuss how to work with your Soul Number to find ways to nurture and listen to your inner voice. After all, pushing aside your inner wishes, hopes and dreams can be a source of conflict, stress, and tension, which can prevent you reaching your goals and accomplishing the healing you deserve in your life.

Quote ~ C.G. Jung

No amount of skepticism and criticism has yet enabled me to regard dreams as negligible occurrences. Often enough they appear senseless, but it is obviously we who lack the sense and ingenuity to read the enigmatic message from the nocturnal realm of the psyche.

Seeing that at least half our psychic existence is passed in that realm, and that consciousness acts upon our nightly life just as much as the unconscious overshadows our daily life, it would seem all the more incumbent on medical psychology to sharpen its senses by a systematic study of dreams.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

TED Talk - Kathryn Schulz - on Regret

Quote ~ Mark Epstein

When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves--from other people, relationships, or material goods--or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.

Making changes for 2012

The coming New Year offers an opportunity for you to not only make resolutions, but to review your past and perhaps step away from situations which no longer support you. Certain habits, people or activities may not be appropriate for your overall mental, spiritual or emotional health. It might be difficult to distance yourself from the things and people that may seem integral to your life, but if their presence is doing more harm than good, you need to be willing to let go.

Whatever you need to let go of, the process is not necessarily an easy one. However, letting go can help you to heal and build the life you really want. Letting go can create space in your life for something new to unfold. Letting go can help you to step past restrictions and constraints, which hold you back and prevent you from making desired changes.

You may wish to hold some type of observance or practice, which others can take part in as well, to help you release and let go of harmful or unhealthy situations, habits or relationships from your life. As part of a New Year celebration, you could gather and talk about the things which you’re trying to let go of. Together, you can guide and support one another. Having a group of people behind you can help you to feel supported and honored. Feeling supported can help you to have a better chance of sticking to your desired changes and resolutions.

To add a sense of sacredness and specialness to your observation you can light candles and have a roaring fire. According to many traditions, fire represents purification and cleansing. With the fireplace, in addition to talking about your issues, you can write them down and safely burn them in the fire. Placing your issues into the fire represents a willingness on your part to do what’s necessary to let go. Being willing to let go means that you’ll consciously live your life in a way that supports your desired changes. For instance, you might decide to let go of unhealthy eating habits, and this might involve clearing out your cupboards and donating the foods that no longer support you.

Numerologically, 2012 offers the opportunity to learn more about ourselves and our lives, and find greater meaning in life. Curiosity is a strong theme within the year. Be willing and open to looking at your life as a mystery. What does life want for you? What do you feel drawn to uncover?

Working with the fire practice can help you to explore your life and make room for new opportunities and new learning. This is not necessarily about going back to school, but simply finding ways to allow your life to have specialness, deeper meaning and importance, which often comes through listening to your heart. Utilizing the fire, you can open to the true call of your heart. What is it calling for? Now is the time to listen and act on it.

Throughout the year you can light a candle each night to support the changes you wish to make within your life. You may wish to set aside a special time each day to sit in silence before the candle. You can use this quiet time to reflect and meditate. It can be a chance to deepen your connection to your heart. You can also journal the thoughts and ideas that come to you in silence.

Inspirational People ~ Keegan Reilly

In 2003, Keegan Reilly, who lost his legs in a car crash, successfully climbed Mt. Fuji in 4 days. He utilized a purpose-built titanium climbing bike, which he propelled by a hand-crank.

He's gone on to other climbs and to compete in road races. He climbed Mt. Shasta with three other disabled climbers, including Pete Reike, who made the first arm-powered ascent of Mt. Rainier.

"I want to show people what I am able to do. Maybe it will inspire them." ~ Keegan Reilly

Quote ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

When you dwell in stillness, the judging mind can come through like a foghorn. "I don't like the pain in my knee...This is boring...I like this feeling of stillness; I had a good meditation yesterday, but today I'm having a bad meditation...It's not working for me. I'm no good at this. I'm no good, period..." This type of thinking dominates the mind and weighs it down. It's like carrying around a suitcase full of rocks on your head. It feels good to put it down. Imagine how it might feel to suspend all your judging and instead to let each moment be just as it is, without attempting to evaluate it as "good" or "bad." This would be a true stillness, a true liberation. Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.

Quote ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Inspirational People ~ Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer

Dr. Dorothea is the author of several books about energy therapies including Healing Touch: a guidebook for practitioners. See her excelent article about staying positive and motivated when the seasonal changes get you down. 

In her article, she mentions some great ideas:

• Track every negative thought and replace it immediately with a positive opposite.
• Treat any negative thought as quickly as possible with a gentle rub to the heart center (or any other place on the body that needs a caring touch) and the reminder phrase, “Even though I get discouraged with …cold wind…rain…a gray day, I deeply and completely love and accept myself and choose to kindle my inner lights and energies.”
• Surround yourself with reminders of your intention to live fully in the season, to enjoy the most out of what is given in the way of external weather.

Ancestral Healing (part 3)

Previously, we've talked about working with Ancestral Healing to bring balance into your life. Now, I'd like to talk about more intimately connecting with your ancestors through “feeding” them during special festivals or ceremonies in their honor, such as Samhain, which falls on October 31 - November 1st.

Samhain was a widely practiced tradition in various Celtic cultures. Today these traditions have changed their form, but are still honored in celebrations like the Feile na Marbh (“festival of the dead”) in Ireland. The Catholic church also has All Souls’ Day or All Saints Day. These modern traditions, like Samhain, offer the opportunity to honor the deceased members of your family and community.

Samhain means “summer’s end” and is used to recognize the transition from one cycle of the the year, to the next. It’s about transitioning, recognizing a new cycle and about letting go of the past. It was celebrated to honor the coming winter, and the new beginnings that can come out of it. This was the main celebration of the year. Every household would dampen their fires, and wait for the druids to light a new fire to signify the start of the new year. After this fire was lit, prayers and ritual objects could be cast into the fire.

Today, many of the rituals of Samhain, such as the “feeding our ancestors”, are still practiced, but in more modern or Westernized forms. The practice of “feeding your ancestors” is a part of the ritual of “silent” or “dumb” suppers, in which a meal is eaten silently, but a space is set aside for those in the family who have passed on. Usually, favorite foods and dishes of your ancestors are prepared for the meal, which will be eaten silently. It’s thought that you eat in silence, to honor and make room for those who have passed on. In silence, we’re better able to connect with the spirits and ancestors. As we let go of our words, and make a space almost outside of time, this allows us to better connect with our hearts, and be better able to hear and connect with our ancestors.

As you eat in silence, a memory or feeling from a past event may come to mind. Allow these events to come and go as they will. You may be moved to raise your glass to silently toast the space set aside for your ancestors, or you may find other ways to honor them. It’s important to remain silent during the meal, and allow everyone to have time to have their own experiences. After the meal is finished, you may wish to share your experience of the meal with others. Each person can have a different, and very meaningful, story to tell, even if they are from the same family. Often, each person may have special memories to share about certain dishes, and the memories that are connected to them.

After the meal, in order to bring the dinner to and end and break the silence, the ancestors should be thanked and released. You may come up with your own words, or simply say, “Thank you.” We’re effectively letting our ancestors go. Thanking our ancestors and letting them go is important, because we are not asking for them to permanently come back to our world. We each have our own space. We’re simply honoring them and temporarily asking for them to share themselves and their wisdom with us.

As part of the meal, you may have a fireplace set up into which prayers, regrets or simple requests may be placed. Regrets might be things that you’re willing to let go of at this time. Requests might involve asking for help in some area of your life. During the meal, when you feel motivated, you can place your requests into the fire. The fire will consume these requests, and help you to lift any burdens that you may have.

It's best if you approach this meal with respect, reverence and compassion. This may involve some grace and forgiveness on your part. The meal is not meant to open or deepen old wounds. It's meant to be a conduit for healing and releasing parts of our lives that call for healing. The meal may stir some long lost memories that help you to cast new light on the past, and to help you make healing shifts in your life. Used in this capacity, the meal can help you and your family to heal the past, and prepare for the future.