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Approaching 2013

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein

I've been discussing how 2012 is very much about shifts and the questions that life has been bringing us with others and here on this blog. Now, I'd like to discuss how we need to come up with answers to our questions, as I believe our healing, both on an inner and outer level, depends on actually answering them.

I'd like to focus at this time on the physical level. I believe that if we take steps to slow down, and find inward calm then we can approach the outer world from a more settled mind. Then we'll be able to help others to take similar steps. Simple actions, such as regular meditation, exercise like yoga, reading instead of television, and making space in your life for family and friends can help you to feel better emotionally, inwardly, spiritually and physically.

You may have been having guiding dreams related to what I'm talking about. These dreams can help you to find answers to your life questions. Perhaps you've even had a series of dreams and outer reminders about stress, relationships and other issues, especially those surrounding your health needs. Others, perhaps unasked, may be making recommendations to you. But, somehow you're able to tune out these reminders and push off potential changes, even when knowing they'll be helpful. However, Numerologically, quality time can now be spent considering your self-care routine, which can help foster your healing and growth.

Of course, your dreams may also be related to many other mental, emotional or spiritual issues. Yet, no matter the issue, it can eventually take a toll on physical health, especially when it's related to worry, doubt and anxiety. So, again, if you're being nudged to make changes, inwardly by dreams or outwardly by others, it can be important and rewarding to make a connection with your dreams. It's really about recognizing that the separation between what you and I think of as the unconscious and waking reality is thin. And, that's what I believe Albert was talking about. Everything is connected.

Your dreams are offering guidance and they always have. And as the Numerological theme for 2012 is related to the mystery, magic and mystical in life, you can connect to your own magic by paying attention to your dreams and the wisdom they bring. It's also about recognizing that your dreams are actually bringing your own inner knowledge, which you need for your outer life, and it can also be valuable to others.

Early in 2012 I had a simple, yet powerful healing dream, which I'm still learning from. In the dream I saw a smoky and charred frozen food box in the oven. The oven was on, but there was no fire. That was it. I'd already been making many new food choices, but in reality I was relying on too many frozen and quick cook options. I've since started cooking more of my own food. I recognized the dream as a real opportunity to make a “healthy choice” in my eating habits. And, I know I have more work to do too.

I'm focusing on healing and physical needs because 2013 brings with it opportunities for clearing and healing on a deeply personal level. While 2012 is allowing us to look at changes within our lives, and how we actually have greater influence on the world around us than we know, 2013 will allow us to reconnect and make space for comfort, life, relationships, love and family. This is in itself can be very rejuvenating.

Since 2013 is Numerologically related to relationship and connections, connection will be an important issue in 2013. However, you'll need to be able to make yourself fully available, rather than just connecting on a superficial level. Again, our dreams can reflect the true changes that our lives need for shifting or growth. Some of your healing work may involve recognizing when you let yourself hide from being truly present. And, healing work for many of us may involve addressing the Shadow.

Personal satisfaction with life is often fostered by reconnecting with the activities and people that bring happiness and joy. So, being involved in community, especially where it's connected to the heart, can help you to step more deeply into life. What's exciting is that people like Professor Nicholas Chistakis have done research showing that each additional happy person in your social circle makes you happier! In other words, happiness is contagious! Energetically, you'll feel pulled to spend more time with those who are close to you.

However, the challenge for many may be to make space for social time. That may involve slowing down, finding ways to believe in yourself, or healing family issues. Whatever your challenge is, remember that healing can take compassion, patience and time. Of course, not all issues will have a simple fix, but the first steps may require that you want to heal. Healing does require compassion, especially for ourselves. We have to believe that we're worth it! But, as we heal and share ourselves, we can bring about changes in the outer world we never expected.

As we're approaching 2013 you may want to focus on the following healing related questions:

• How am I spending my free time?
• Who am I spending my free time with?
• What is my impact on my world?
• What activities or events help me to truly feel alive?
• What message do I have for healing that I'm not yet sharing?
• What daily practice do I have to connect with the mystery of my own life?
• Are there any healing communities that I've held back on joining?
• What area of my life can benefit the most right now?
• Am I paying attention to my dreams?
• What divination tools am I using to help navigate my life?
• How can I bring my healing to others
• How can I help to heal my family and community?

You can also benefit by reviewing your Numerology Personal Year at this time. What is its theme? You might want to evaluate where it might conflict with the Universal Year theme of 2012 and 2013. Also, where does it energetically match up with the themes of these two years. If there is a conflict, some of what you're working on might seem challenging. But, with a little persistence, patience and compassion, you should be able to reach your goals. Again, it's really about valuing and believing in yourself and your abilities and honoring your dreams!

I'm available to discuss more about your Personal Year, 2012, 2013, Numerology and your dreams! Just contact me via twitter (tweet or DM), skype or email.

Notes on 2013

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. ~ Yoko Ono

Numerologically, 2013 brings with it opportunities for healing on a deeply personal level. While 2012 allowed us to look at changes within our lives, 2013 will allow us to reconnect and make space for life, love and family. This is in itself can be very rejuvenating and healing.

What's exciting is that people like Professor Nicholas Chistakis have done research to show that each additional happy person in your social network makes you happier! In other words, happiness is contagious! Energetically, you'll feel pulled to spend more time with those who are close to you.

However, the challenge for many may be to make space for social time. That may involve slowing down, finding ways to believe in yourself, or healing family issues. Whatever your challenge is remember that healing can take time. Of course, not all issues will have a simple fix, but the first steps may require that you want to heal.

Healing does require compassion, especially for ourselves. We have to believe that we're worth it! But, as we heal and share ourselves, we can bring about changes in the outer world that we never expected.

To be continued...

Finding Inner Healing with Numerology

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, such as 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, feelings and the way in which you live 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. It's time to 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.

Deep and lasting healing comes from leading a life that matters, and listening to the voice within. Important health information can come from our inner voice, 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 "needs."

You may have been denying your needs for some time. Numerologically, your inner desire (represented by your Soul Number) may be unfulfilled. In any pursuit of greater health, it is important to find ways to nurture and listen to your inner voice. Pushing aside your inner wishes, hopes and dreams can be a source of conflict, stress, and tension.

Also, keeping track of your important Numerological rhythms can be very important. Your rhythms can help you to be aware of the energies that are available to you as you move through your life (Personal Year). They can give you an overall perspective of your life, and your role in it. Being aware can help you to more readily accept change, and avoid or better handle tension/stress causing events.

Today many well-respected medical professionals feel that stress is a major cause of illness. Author and physician, Dr. Andrew Weil, says, "I am convinced that stress is the primary cause or aggravating cause of the majority of illness."

Would it not be prudent to find ways to alleviate stress in our lives? What works for you? For many people, music can offer great healing benefits. Music can be one part of the puzzle in your journey toward leading a healthier life.

Author, Don Campbell (Mozart Effect) states that "by listening to music with longer, slower sounds, one can usually deepen and slow the breath, allowing the mind to calm down...As with breathing rates, a lower heartbeat creates less physical tension and stress, calms the mind, and helps the body heal itself. Music is a natural peacemaker."

According to proponents of Vibrational healing, pollutants, toxins or allergens that enter our body, can alter the normal vibrational patterns of the body. When we have an unbalanced emotional or mental attitude, our normal vibrational patterns are altered as well. When we are unbalanced, sickness or pain can result. When this happens, the body needs help restore itself to its original vibration. This is where the use of vibrational/sound therapy comes in.

According to Vibrational therapy, when you focus sound vibrations to a problem area, balance to that area can be temporarily restored. When there is balance, the body is more effective in eliminating toxins.

Pythagoras, founder of the study of Numerology, is said to have revealed the musical and numerical nature of our universe. The Pythagoreans even went so far as to develop something called "musical medicine," which were songs accompanied by an ancient Grecian instrument known as the lyre.

The lyre was considered to be the mystical symbol representing the human constitution. The body of the lyre represented our physical form. The strings represented our nerves or nervous system. The musician himself represented the spirit. The Pythagoreans were known for their aptitude to cure many physical and spiritual afflictions through the use of this music.

Music has been used for healing for thousands of years in many cultures, including the early teachings of the Greeks, Chinese, East Indians, Tibetans, Egyptians, American Indians, Mayas, and the Aztecs. Music seems so incorporated in Chinese medicine that in their writing, Music and Happiness share the same character. Also, part of the Chinese character for Medicine is the same as the character for Music.

Continuing research on incorporating music into our lives is being done today. There are many avenues that are available for learning about healing through sound. Tuning forks and Vibrational Healing are two of the most popular. However, Finding a quiet place, and just listening to music that you enjoy can help you to learn about yourself, and alleviate overall stress and begin the job of addressing certain issues that you may have.

As you listen to your music, you may wish to close your eyes and imagine a particular color swirling around your body. There are many authors who can expound on the subject of color healing. The basic application of color and music in your life can be to develop desired personal traits/qualities in yourself. By understanding the meaning of the numbers in your personality you can begin to apply sound, color, and music as a personal growth tool in your life.

I think that finding yourself a good set of tuning forks, or music bowl can help you to learn more about attuning to the particular music notes. The chart below provides a basic correlation of colors and notes to numbers. Many different systems of healing relate these same colors and notes to the Chakras.

#	Note/Chord	Color	Helps with:
1	C	Red	Physical strength, Emotions, Energy
2	D	Orange	Rigidity, Stress, Self Confidence, Fear
3	E	Yellow	Nervous System, Emotions, Digestion
4	F	Green	General Healing, Heart
5	G	Blue	Cleansing (for the skin), Calming
6	A	Indigo	Clearing (for ears, eyes, nasal passages), Motivation
7	B	Violet	Cramps, Kidney problems, Spiritual growth, Dedication
8	High C	Rose	Opening up, Sharing
9	Middle C/D	Gold	Understanding, Movement, Acceptance

An interesting side note is the prominence of 7 and 12 in music and time. There are seven whole notes in the octave and 12 half steps in the octave. We also see the prominence of these same numbers in our time divisions - 12 hours each of day and night, 7 days in a week, 12 months in the year.

Another tool that you can use in your quest for better health is breathwork. Many disciplines can work well when you begin to understand the power of your mind. Breathwork is one of these disciplines. It is about reconnecting and integrating all aspects of ourselves. This process, while difficult at times, can be tremendously healing. This involves dealing with unresolved feelings, issues and events (recent, younger/childhood events, etc.) which we have kept buried and which can have significant impact on our overall health. If you wish to heal, or develop certain qualities, then perhaps breathwork can be your bridge to get there.

Element	Numbers involved	Helps with:
Earth	4	Groundedness, Stability, Strong Foundations
Air	7,9	Intellect, Judgement, Thought, Decision
Fire	1,3,8	Creative abilities, Potential, Power
Water	2,5,6	Intuition, Emotion, Inner Wisdom, Understanding
Ether	1,5	Insight, Understanding, Expansion

Pursuing the process of healing and transformation using these techniques can be an enormously rewarding process. However, it must be said that it can be difficult, rewarding, frustrating, and invigorating at different times in your search.

Also, know that your mind's ability to trigger the body's ability to heal is so common that doctors factor it (placebo effect) into every medical experiment. Healing then must be a matter of stimulating whatever natural processes that reside within yourself.

There are many ways to tap into healing in your life. Find out what 'works' for you. Any system that works for me, may not work for you, or work for you in the way that it does for me. Spirit is important in any kind of healing. Determination, grit, persistence, willpower, stamina, inspiration and drive all play a vital role.

This ability to heal ourselves lies within each of us. It is just a matter of learning to tap into this incredible resource, to make the Mind/Body connection, to reach within ourselves and discover how much power we have over our bodies and ourselves. This is what will ultimately lead us all to a higher quality of life, true health, and wellness.

Discovery News: Cultured People Feel Less Stress

People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, a study finds.

ScienceNews: The Impact of Gossip

Psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University in Boston recently undertook a study that illustrates that disapproving gossip quickly gets associated with a matching face, but that this connection operates outside our everyday conscious awareness.

“Encountering negative gossip about someone makes it easier to register that person’s face than neutral or positive gossip does.” ~ Lisa Feldman Barrett.

[Psychology Today] Top 10 Psychology studies of 2010

Psychology Today has published an article, by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D, detailing the top studies of 2010. They all cover different techniques and tools that can help you to improve your life experiences. The studies are listed below:

• How to Break Bad Habits
• How to Make Everything Seem Easier
• How To Manage Your Time Better
• How to Be Happier
• How to Have More Willpower 
• How to Choose a Mate
• How to Feel More Powerful
• How To Tell If He Loves You
• How to Make It Easier to Cut Your Losses
• How to Fight With Your Spouse

[Psychology Today] Helping Causes Liking; Harming Causes Hating

Psychology Today has published an article by Nathan Heflick about how your actions for/against someone can help or hinder you in actually developing a closer relationship with them. The post talks about research which suggests that by helping others, you foster greater liking for them. And, that when you harm others you develop greater dislike for them.

Discovery News: Taking Naps Could Boost Your Brainpower

Sleeping may play a larger role in learning than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley studied 44 college-aged participants. The study included monitoring performance in facial memory tests, finger tapping memory tests and an alertness test. The researchers found that success in learning correlated with the amount of stage-2 non rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.

Science Daily: Personal Well-Being Is Linked to National Satisfaction

A new study of people from 128 countries has found that the higher the level of satisfaction that people have with their country, then they will feel increasingly better about their lives. The study, which was published in Psychological Science,  is based on a Gallup World Poll.

"This [study] shows that those who are very rich or live in a Western culture assess their well-being in different ways than those who are poorer or live in non-Western country." ~ Mike Morrison, University of Illinois

For more information about this study, please contact: Mike Morrison at: mmorris8@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu

Rejection shown to have physical impact

According to new research reported on at Science Daily, social rejection upsets your heart. When you feel rejected, your heart rate drops for a brief time.

Researchers, Bregtje Gunther Moor, Eveline A. Crone, and Maurits W. van der Molen of the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University in the Netherlands were interested in discovering the ways in which social pain can actually affect you on a physical level. 

In the study individual participants were shown photos of unknown people who had rated whether or not they liked the participants, based on the participants own photos. Surprisingly, the participants heart rates fell in anticipation before they found out how they were rated by others.

"Unexpected social rejection could literally feel 'heartbreaking,' as reflected by a transient slowing of heart rate," conclude the researchers in their report.