It can be said that while Attention (the other critical component of healing) is the path, Intention is the engine of both healing and manifestation work.  It’s what drives you to evolve, change, grow.  In that respect it’s akin to desire.

Yet while desire carries its own fuel in the form of the emotions it invokes, intention makes you work to produce the energetic fuel it requires, and therein lies its spiritual usefulness.  It teaches you to first become aware of the energies you’re putting out and then to transform them – tune them – to resonate with what you want to have, do and be.

Thus your Intention offers you a challenge.  If you meet it you will succeed in reaching your goal or carrying out your mission; the result may be highly specific or far-ranging depending upon the vantage point you start from.  If you fall short of whatever you have intended, you will simply be given another challenge, and another and another.  The process, which some have referred to as the future calling you forward, in fact is endless and within it there is no such thing as failure.

So how do you energetically match your intention?  The means is both simple – meaning there are no complicated steps to learn – and difficult in that it can take a lifetime to master.  It is an iterative two-pronged process of holding your intention uppermost in mind, using every sensory means at your disposal, while holding in unconditional love the parts of yourself that are out of energetic alignment with it due to a belief in unworthiness, impossibility, undesirable consequences or fearful side effects.  Eventually all judgments dissolve back into the cosmos of illusive thought forms from where you got them and all parts re-integrate into the Self.  It is a process of culling your truth from all the untruth and allowing the pure light of that knowing to mold your future in its image.

Unconditional love – in its myriad forms of awareness, allowing and acceptance – has been treated at length in this series.  The other side of this work, holding an intention, also requires love – no surprise, since I’ve been writing an ANTHEM to Love – in the form of giving yourself permission to dream.  In this space you entertain the possibility that anything can come true AND realize that even if it doesn’t the dreaming itself was worthwhile.  After all, this is why we go to the movies, read novels and play as children, isn’t it?

The inescapable result of aligning with intention is expansion, which in turn brings us closer to grasping and acting from our true nature as part of the Oneness.  And that is the one intention that was programmed into our being from the beginning of time.

If you’d like some help in energetically matching YOUR highest intentions, get in touch with me here.

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This may be the one principle that is most familiar to those of you who have done some energy healing work.  It’s mentioned a lot.  Yet many don’t understand its full implications or power.  Awareness makes everything possible – in fact consciousness is the stuff of which our universe is composed, and awareness combined with energy (otherwise known as emotion) is how your reality is created.  (That process of manifestation will be the subject of another post.)

Awareness allows you to bring energy to an area that could use it (like a tired part of your body), and it’s also the means to move energy out of an area where it is stuck or create a more complete and balanced flow in your body.  And these are just the physical benefits.

Emotionally, awareness equates to light and love, which are other names for energy.  And love is what all the neglected parts of yourself are wanting.  I’ve wrtten about this before, so there’s no need here to repeat it all.  But please don’t underestimate the power of being present, in love, with the aspect of you that is hurting, fearful or angry.  Awareness alone brings hope, comfort and the ability to let go of whatever burden you’re carrying.  Nothing more is needed, as long as the awareness is deep, pure and there for as long as is required.

Cellular memories are released under the gaze of non-judgmental awareness.  Limiting beliefs are exchanged for higher truths.  Traumas soften their sting.  And perhaps most importantly we reconnect with our Divinity simply by allowing ourselves to be aware of (remember) who we are, why we came here and how vast is the love available to us.

I highly recommend that you take a few minutes a day (at least) to bring awareness to your self and all its magnificent elements.  Notice the sensations in your body, pay attention to your emotions and what they feel like (and where you feel them), observe your thoughts and who’s doing the thinking.  And just be with whatever you find.  The energy that your own awareness carries is a powerful healing balm.  Use it liberally.

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I’ve decided to write this post backwards.  That is, I want to talk first about the ultimate fruits of this practice and then wind my back to how to begin it.  I’m doing it this way because, unless you know what awaits you, you may not be motivated to practice this or understand why it’s so important to your spiritual evolution.

Ultimately Harmonizing with what is allows you to partake of and enjoy ALL that is, which is so huge and magnificent from this vantage point (3D reality) that you have no idea of its true scope and splendor.  It includes more manifestations of consciousness, beauty and creativity than you can even imagine, and you get to share in it all, like a cosmic candy store.  Although you will not experience the full magnificence of All That Is while living in 3 – or even 4 or 5 dimensions – you can, however, catch glimpses of it – and receive any bits you require or desire, but since reality is primarily energetic, you can only do this through the energetic act of harmonization.

In order to get to that point you must first experience other beingness in a specific way, close-up in a kind of energetic merging, which is like looking at the world through each pair of its eyes (and ears and all other senses both recognized and not).  Other beingness, by the way, includes animals, plants, buildings, stars and rocks as well as other human beings.  And harmonizing with it requires full acceptance, appreciation and compassion.

So now we’ve come full circle around to your healing task, because the only way to develop real compassion for any and all other forms of being (consciousness) is to cultivate it for yourself.  Therefore, the practice of harmonization must first address yourself with all your “flaws”, shadows and emotionality.  In other words you must learn to be in the same room (energetically speaking) with all parts of yourself, especially the ones that have been screaming at you out of fear, anger or unrequited grief and the ones that have been hiding out of shame.

This principle, like the others, is an aspect of Love and, as such, is both gentle and powerful.  There is nothing much to do to harmonize with yourself, except to remain conscious, which means to embrace all aspects of you within the whole of your Divine Self, which is made of Love.  Harmonization does not mean reliving the traumas of the child or engaging in the drama or acting out the feelings.  These are all acts of losing the Self.  It DOES mean allowing yourself to feel whatever your upset, fragmented self is feeling and holding that part in love.  This is a re-discovery that leads to integration.

You’ll notice that I’ve used the word feel frequently.  This is how we contact the world of energy, which makes feeling a critical element of any healing exploration. The most evolved human beings feel in full consciousness, and all the time, meaning they are not afraid to feel – and in fact draw strength from it – while they act, relate and create.  And this is the harmony I wish for you.

Contact me if you’d like a session in which you get to take the first steps toward Harmonizing with What Is.

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Over eons of time, human pathology has become so severe that people no longer even recognize what they want.  They see it in reverse – through the lens of what they DON’T want.  You may have heard of polarity reversal, the state, resulting from stress, in which your energy flow changes direction.  It’s one of the most common hindrances to healing because when you’re in this state, all energy inputs simply become more fuel for your current trance, drama or dis-ease.  Many brain scientists have even said that evolution has given us a negativity bias, a tendency to focus on what can hurt us, as a survival mechanism, unpleasant though it may be.  If you’re in danger of being eaten by a tiger, you better focus on the threat at hand rather than some pleasant daydream.

But situations in our modern lives are rarely this dire, and a state of physical stress is rarely helpful (and, engaged in often enough, can even create some serious diseases).  The good news is that un-reversing the polarity can be as simple as tuning in to and stating what you desire.  Simple, yes.  But don’t let that fool you.  Doing this is one of the most powerful healing acts you can perform.

In fact full healing REQUIRES you to invoke and identify with (in other words become) the beingness behind the objects of your desire.  This might be the sense of freedom that a new car would give you or the knowledge that you are loved underlying the ideal relationship.  Invocation, the act of calling in, means recognizing those states as available to you – at any time and in any situation – and claiming them as your true, Divine nature.

By the way, that’s why the uprisings going on around the world are so spiritually significant.  People are starting to claim what is rightfully theirs, and, in the collectiveness of the rebellions and the compassion and solidarity expressed in them, they are encouraging others to claim their Divine rights as well.

Saying what you want in the midst of a “reality” that looks very different from that requires you to trust the desires that your innate wisdom reveals to you and to believe in the abstract existence of a state which, at the moment, is not being reflected back to you.  This is just another way of saying that you need to imagine it.  Imagination is one of the simplest things we can do.  Yet most people, once past childhood, only partake of this act in the form of worry about the future or regret about the past.  The healing imagination, on the other hand, creates the future you prefer and can even rewrite your past.

Did you always wish for your mother to appreciate you (rather than criticizing)?  Imagine it.

Would you have liked your father to give you permission to be who you truly are?  Imagine it.

Do you want to be doing the work you love for abundant compensation?  Imagine it.

Would you like a juicy relationship full of laughter and sharing?  Imagine it.

So how do you know when you’re doing it right?  By how you feel.  Feeling good – joyful, lighthearted, creative, empowered – is your sign that your mind is where it needs to be for your highest good and your greatest healing.

One final note….   The Gift is a process I designed to help people reclaim the power of imagination, reconnect with their desires and trust their hearts.  If you like the idea of this path to healing, contact me to begin.

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“In the beginning was the Word,” the Bible says, and from that entire worlds were created. Many students of metaphysical thought, such as myself, believe the Word stands for vibration, the energy of Creation.  And yet we know that words themselves have power, that when we pronounce the name of something – anything – we are forging an intimate energetic connection with its essence.  And this gives us access to it.  Its as if a thing’s name is the key that allows us to bring to bear on it the impact of our intention and creativity

And so we come to the second principle of spiritual healing, the N in ANTHEM, which stands for Name it to Release it.

When we name what we are feeling or the thought we are having, or even simply bring our recognition and focus to a bodily sensation, we open an energetic channel, a conduit between our conscious awareness and everything that ever caused or lent energy to the object of our focus.  And it is through that energetic channel that the sensation, emotion or judgment may be released.

The name for this energetic connection, coming to us from the world of physics, is resonance.  I’ve found resonance to be one of the most – perhaps THE most – powerful tools for healing that we have. In fact I have often been amazed to find that simply naming a thing was enough to let it go.

But there is a trick, a sort of key to the key.  And it is this: The awareness doing the naming must, itself, be completely detached from the thing being named.  It may not be caught up in the drama that the conscious (ego) mind has used to continually energize the thing you’re wanting to release. And this ability to remain the calm center of the energetic storm is the province of the Higher Self alone, that all-knowing and embracing witness to outer experience – and it is powered by Love.  So we arrive at another realization, that each letter of ANTHEM represents a different aspect of Love, the only real healer there is.  To heal is to sing an anthem to Love.

Many have written of the Higher Self and many have wondered how to know what it knows and make use of its power.  The truth is that the Higher Self is not hard to contact.  It simply requires surrender to its presence, the simple recognition or statement (there’s the power of word again) that I AM and therefore I know and do.  All else follows naturally, including the return to wholeness, power and joy, which is the desired goal of any healing journey.

In summary, just as Creation requires the Word of the Creator, healing requires you, as the creator of your life, to consciously use your words, your awareness and your love to vibrate and thereby liberate your being.

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I have not posted in quite some time because I’ve been playing with new modalities and gathering experiences.  It has been quite interesting and rewarding.

But now I’m ready to begin communicating with you again, in the form of a series of posts on the foundations of spiritual healing.  This new beginning coincides with the week of my birthday – always a good time for starting things – as well as the debut of my new radio show on News for The Soul (every other Friday at 2 pm ET). It’s Fall here on the East Coast of the U.S., and the air feels crisp and full of new energies.

I love acronyms, so this series will be based on one.  The word is ANTHEM, and today we’ll discuss the A, which stands for Allow everything.

The only force that truly heals is Love.  The spiritual meaning of love is unconditional acceptance.  To those of you who have been working on healing for some time, it may be obvious by now that the LACK of that kind of acceptance of self – with all your faults, flaws, feelings and perceived failurse – is the only thing standing between you and experiencing life as you truly desire.  But for many this is still a fairly new concept, since we put so much energy and focus into the outside forces (like other people) that we THINK are the cause of the problem. Some examples:  My body won’t do what I want it to, My boyfriend (or husband) doesn’t love me the right way, My job doesn’t make me happy, The economy is terrible and that’s why I’m poor.

So how do you get to that unconditional love of self that I’ve asserted is the answer?  By fully allowing everything you see “out there” to just be without trying to change it.  When you do that, for some magical reason you begin to turn the focus around to the being within yourself.  Your first realization is that you are the only being you can change.  Then, with your new focus of Allowing, you start to spend time with your various parts/aspects withOUT trying to change them and Voila!, one day you finally realize that all parts of you really only want love and that you have actually begun to give them that.  Take a moment (or two) to congratulate yourself.  I knew you could do it, since we were all born to create, face and resolve all our challenges and issues.  With Love.  It’s how we were designed.

Allowing each and every part of yourself – the fearful parts, the angry parts, the sad parts that don’t want to get moving – at first can seem like a big, complicated job.  But the wonderful  paradoxic of healing is that this level of allowing brings about the full integration, and even dissolution, of all the parts into the whole that is You.  And that makes life a lot simpler, as well as more joy-filled.

It can be a bit (or a lot!) scary when you first commit to Allowing everything.  It feels at first like giving up a safety net because we associate resistance with protection.  So keep in mind that I’m here to help.  And remember that the rewards are well worth it.

The next post in this series will appear one week from today.

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Here’s an example.

The other day I was sitting in a restaurant having lunch with my daughter when she told me she couldn’t breathe.  She said she felt like she had been punched in the chest, but nothing like that had happened and there was no outer bruise.  Every time she tried to take a breath it hurt, and she wasn’t getting enough air in.

How would you feel?  What would you do if your child told you that?

I know how I would have felt not too long ago.  Very afraid for my child.

That fear would have put me into instant red alert status.  I’d have revved up the parental action motor, gone straight home, called the doctor, or perhaps tried a slew of home remedies, which might or might not have worked, eventually necessitating a trip to the doctor (or even hospital emergency room), lost work and school time, etc., etc., and in the best case eventually the problem would have gone away.  In the worst case it could have been the start of something chronic or led to other problems, maybe even worse.

This time, however, – remember, we’re still in the restaurant – I performed a process that uncovered the two causes of the breathing problem and removed them. Simple as that.

I know it worked because when I was done I asked my daughter to take a big breath and tell me how she felt.  She said “Fine”.  Never have I been happier to hear that word, which usually frustrates me in how little it communicates.  This time it said a lot.

I did the entire process without touching her.  No one in the restaurant knew what we were doing (it was done silently).  And it took all of 60 seconds.

Sound like  miracle?  It did to me the first time I learned of this process.  Then I found out that anyone can do it.  It’s one of those things that we usually attribute to the Divine.  We call it a miracle or say our guardian angel must have been helping us.  But turns out we all have this power.  My belief is that that’s because we’re all pieces or facets of the Divine.  But that’s a subject for another post.

Would you like to learn how to “perform miracles”?  I’m happy to teach you how.  All you have to do is contact me through the Contact Me page. I can teach it to a single individual or a large group. Anyone can do it, no matter what their age, circumstances or abilities in other areas.  All you have to do is take the first step….  I assure you, life will never feel the same after you do.

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I’m reprinting here the Continuous Cleansing Prayer from Immunics as a way to get you started with intention (or boost whatever you’ve been doing up to now).  To learn more about the Immunics process (as simple as intention itself) to boost the power of this prayer and any other intentions you set, contact me through this site and/or go to Immunics.org.  I can offer you other simple yet powerful processes as well.  Happy intending!

Continuous Cleansing
(the all level immunity prayer)
The prayer isn’t something you say — it’s something you do. When I get the signal:

• All my bodies are free of pathology.
• All my bodies are free of immune dysfunction.
• All my bodies are at full function.
• I’m bringing my immune system up to twice the level it needs to be at to handle
the toughest challenge I will face today.
• I’ve installed all necessary immunological shields.
• I’m attracting remedies and antidotes to dysfunction.
• I’m leaving behind everything that slows me down.
• All my God connectors are in.
• I’m installing the reflex to give love and empowerment.
• I am attracting warm, happy feelings in others.
• I’m merging my results bodies with _____ (people you choose – remove and
install the right factors).
• I’ve installed discrimination between things (people, activities, and locations)
that win and ones that don’t, a reflex to drop the ones that don’t even when I’m
succeeding with them and a reflex to do the ones that do even when I’m a
beginner at them.
• I’m attracting powerful, benevolent allies.
• I’m on the best side of my highest possible dimension.
• I’m removing all disturbances from the emotional bodies of everyone in the
world.
• I’m protecting myself and my people from incipient catastrophes.
• I’m realizing the loving, world shaping, and God given intentions I’ve carried
from life to life.
• I’m causing my career and those of the people I love to be what God intends.
• I am attracting increased capacity in myself and my group to accept power
infusion.
• My particle attributes are in balance and at full strength to succeed at God’s
work.
• All my bodies are in God.
• All my bodies are one rainbow.
• I am free.

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The energy drinks that seem to fill the coolers of every convenience store and checkout line carry more risks than what we’ve been led to believe. Experts have been cautioning teens and other adults for years against stoking up on multiple cans of the stuff before sporting events, for instance, because it can actually increase the risk of dehydration and contribute to an elevated heart rate even before exercise begins.

Now new studies suggest that the drinks’ caffeine boost can do even more damage to people with high blood pressure — as well as those who mix buzz juice with booze.

Johns Hopkins professor of behavioral biology Roland Griffiths, PhD, agrees. Griffiths has been studying the effect of caffeine on the body for many years, and he says the stimulant is the most widely used mood-altering drug in the world.

Griffiths says energy drink consumers are being misled by advertising for the products.

“The ads give people the idea that they are getting a cocktail of various ingredients fine-tuned to synergistically enhance energy,” he says. “As far as I can tell, this is bogus. The effects of these drinks are largely due to the presence of added caffeine, and the magnitude of the effect is completely caffeine-dose dependent.”

The first study was presented Tuesday before the American Heart Association’s annual scientific meeting in Orlando, Fla.

In fact, while the drinks are often marketed around images of extreme-sports competitions, marathons or study days, researchers are finding that many high-school and college students are using the energy drinks to keep them awake for longer alcoholic binges.

Another study shows that college students who drink booze mixed with energy drinks are twice as likely to be hurt or injured than those who did their drinking without the aid of the boosters.

This was among the findings of Wake Forest University researchers that were presented to the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Washington this week.

The Wake Forest team also found that those students who mix are twice as likely to require medical attention or to ride with an intoxicated driver than students who just drank alcohol.

Additionally, those who mixed energy and alcoholic drinks were more than twice as likely to take advantage of someone else sexually, and almost twice as likely to be taken advantage of, according to the study. It was based on a Web survey of nearly 4,300 college students from 10 universities.

“We knew, from speaking with students and researching blogs and Web sites, that college students mix these drinks and alcohol in order to drink more and to drink longer,” said Dr. Mary Claire O’Brien, an associate professor of emergency medicine who led the study.

“But we were surprised that the risk of serious and potentially deadly consequences is so much higher for those who mixed energy drinks with alcohol, even when we adjusted for the amount of alcohol.”

Just as the time-honored practice of pouring coffee into an inebriated partygoer produces a “wide-awake drunk,” O’Brien says younger party goers may not realize how impaired they are because of the stimulant effect.

“Only the symptoms of drunkenness are reduced, but not the drunkenness. They can’t tell if they’re drunk and they can’t tell if someone else is drunk. So they get hurt, or they hurt someone else.”

For more on this see: “Energy Drinks: What the new studies tell us” from Scripps. For more on the truth about what caffeine really can do to you (and your student/children), see: “Caffeine Fuels Most Energy Drinks” from WebMD.

And if you’d like some REAL, naturally created energy, check out…

The Ultimate Energy Starter Kit

Until the end of March, if you decide to purchase this kit after checking it out, you’ll be entitled to one FREE phone session on what’s draining YOUR energy and, more importantly, how to recover and increase what you’ve been losing.  You must contact me by email (E.Kratka@sbcglobal.net) after you purchase to let me know you’d like to take advantage of this special, time-limited offer.

Also take a look at The Feast  an honest-to-goodness energy drink, made from a slew of fruits and vegetables and other good things.

And you may want to educate yourself about what types of health products really nourish (build energy) and which ones merely stimulate (ultimately sapping energy and life force).  Click on this link:  Wellness Lecture  and use the password: E.Kratka@sbcglobal.net.

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