Here’s something beautiful, peaceful, and free that I’d like to share with you…
“Only a few decades ago, medical students were taught to view the body as a machine whose parts would inevitably break down until it could no longer be repaired.
“Today science is arriving at a radically different understanding: While the body appears to be material, it is really a field of energy and intelligence that is inextricably connected to the mind.
“All of the thoughts, perceptions, memories, emotions, and feelings in our mind influence every cell of our body. When we have a loving thought or focus on a happy memory or feeling, our brain triggers a cascade of molecules that promote wellbeing in our physiology.
“On the other hand, when we hold onto emotions such as anger, fear, and doubt, this creates stress and damage in the body.
“Through meditation, we can reverse the effects of accumulated stress and toxicity. Meditation takes us into inner silence, allowing the body to restore balance and repair itself.”
These are the words of Dr. Deepak Chopra, probably the most powerful mind-body leader alive. He’s certainly been an important mentor for me.
Right now, you can join me in absorbing the peace and beauty of his meditations, at no charge.
Although the 21 Day program began last week, you can still gain access to all of the meditations. Here’s where to register for free:
-> http://www.chopracentermeditation.com
Wishing you happiness,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
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Feb 12
10
Politics as Practice
In the USA, there’s quite the media frenzy of attention on the
possible candidates for president. When you pay attention to it,
it’s easy to get caught up in beliefs in powerlessness, scarcity
and separation.
Now that I think of it, that’s probably true for most of the
“news.”
It’s great practice in awareness, to just notice what happens to
your thinking and then how you feel, when you listen to what’s
being said.
Do you find yourself tempted to criticize others?
Do you want to defend your own position, or convince others that
you are right?
Do you feel worried that something you care about will be
damaged or destroyed?
Do you feel fear for your safety?
Just notice the feelings, and the thoughts you are believing.
When you remember that it’s up to you to choose beliefs that
support your well being, beliefs that will create the experience
you really want, ask yourself this:
Do the beliefs reinforced by the news media
I read, listen to, and watch support the
life I want to create?
Something to think about!
Feb 12
10
Resilience
If you woke up tomorrow morning and found your body 10 years
younger, what would be different? How about 20 years younger?
You might be tempted to think first of how you looked 10 or 20
years ago. Maybe you’ll remember having more energy, better
eyesight, or better memory.
The truth is, youthfulness can be summed up in one word:
resilience.
It’s all about the ability to respond and bounce back.
And the good news is, you can have a more youthful body by
focusing on resilience–but not on physical resilience.
The more the average person longingly focuses on having the
body, skin, energy, vision, hearing, teeth, blood pressure,
cholesterol levels, etc. of a healthy young person, the more that
person usually experiences powerlessness, frustration and even
depression that that’s not what’s happening.
Then, the more powerlessness, frustration and depression about
the aging process, the more stress, and the more quickly aging
progresses.
WAS WATTLES WRONG?
But, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Aren’t we supposed to
focus on what we want to manifest?
Even though Mr. Wattles advises this, my experience is that most
people do not experience healing or reversing the aging process
by focusing on health or youth.
It’s not because Mr. Wattles was wrong.
It’s because most of us are not in a high enough vibration most
of the time to be able to create that kind of body
transformation.
What should we do instead?
One of the best things I’ve found is to focus on resilience.
You’ve no doubt heard the advice that when you fall down, don’t
just wallow in the mud. Get up!
But it’s important to know the metaphorical significance here.
It’s not just the ACTION of getting up. It’s the courage to
change the story you are telling yourself about what it meant to
fall down, what it means to get up, and why you want to.
And, it’s not just changing the story, challenging your thoughts
and beliefs, it IS also about taking the action to get back up.
Resilience is all of that.
This may sound good and well as a general idea. But it’s
meaningless until you can actually recognize when you are in a
relevant situation and apply it in your life.
AN EXAMPLE
Here’s an example to help you out.
Elvis has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He feels
pretty depressed about the likelihood of losing his sex life
permanently, the time, effort, attention, and money it will take
to be treated, not to mention the possibility that he won’t be
around for his grandkids.
In his case, the “falling down” is falling prey to the barrage
of negative thoughts about what it means for him to have prostate
cancer. Getting up is about reinterpreting his situation, telling
a new story about what it means, and putting his attention on his
reasons for making the mental shift–and this last part is
critical–REGARDLESS of the signs and symptoms in his body.
In other words, getting sick or injured is not “falling down.”
It’s not a sign of failure or accident. It’s the natural,
cumulative result of your own energetic vibrational state.
The falling down part is when you believe you are powerless to
create happiness, that there’s something wrong with you, that
someone is to blame for your situation.
The getting up part is when you remember your true relationship
with the divine, with all of creation. It’s when you remember you
have eternal life, so your opportunities for love, life, growth,
and creation, are endless.
The getting up part is when you remember that you are entirely
capable of believing what you choose to believe, and that you are
therefore capable of being happy, you are fine just where and as
you are, and you are powerful enough to create your life as you
wish it to be.
Even if this doesn’t quite match your religious or spiritual
beliefs, you can apply the concept of resilience to any situation
in which you find yourself.
It means that whatever mood you find yourself in, whatever you
find yourself focusing on, if you don’t like it, turn your
attention to what you would prefer.
As soon as you start thinking about resilience, you’re
remembering that it isn’t always like this. You aren’t always in
this space. This isn’t the only way to view what’s going on. You
are a person who can shift from wherever you are to a more
flexible perspective.
It’s a funny thing that happens to some people as they “age.”
They get more attached to being right about “how it is,” because
they have piled up lots of evidence to confirm their beliefs.
But, if it’s true that your beliefs are self-fulfilling
prophecies, then the only thing that has happened is that
beliefs, helpful or not, are reinforced by their own
consequences.
When you understand resilience, you understand that you do not
want to build your life based on evidence that limiting,
scarcity, separation, or fear-based beliefs are correct.
You want to build your life based on evidence of abundance,
oneness, goodness, power, optimism, expansion, and possibility.
YOUR OWN RESILIENT LIFE
When you think about how to apply resilience in your own life,
consider the situations in which you feel stuck or limited.
Family relationships? Money? Career? Home? Intimate relationship?
Friends? Something about your body or personality that you don’t
like?
What beliefs are you practicing? What aspects of things are you
focusing your attention on?
What would be a more resilient way to respond to the situation?
In a way, resilience is all about applying the serenity prayer:
having the courage to accept the things you cannot change, change
the things you can, and having the wisdom to know the difference.
The key is to know just how much power you really do have to
affect change your own life experience, by focusing on the two
things you really can change: the thoughts, beliefs, and
sensations you focus your attention on, and the actions you take.
Jan 12
1
New Year’s Blessing
May you know and nurture the pure seed of love
and greatness inside you.
May you know and nurture the pure seed of love
and greatness inside everyone you encounter.
And may you always remember that the force is
with you.
Thanks for being with me in letting 2011 go, for
all it was and wasn’t, and starting fresh, with
open hands and hearts, to create and allow of all
kinds of wonder in 2012.
With love and appreciation,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
Dec 11
2
Why Jerry Kicked the Bucket
If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that
Esther Hicks was instrumental in the miraculous healing
I experienced about six years ago. I’ve been a big fan
of her and her husband Jerry ever since.
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve received quite a few
emails regarding Jerry’s transition from life as we
know it.
How could this have happened???
Here are excerpts from one of the emails I received.
“I was shocked to hear…that Jerry Hicks
died on 18th Nov. Seems he was having
chemotherapy for leukaemia.
“People are now asking whether this is the
death of Abraham-Hicks and questioning
whether they were a scam…
“They can’t understand how Jerry got cancer
in the first place if everything Esther
teaches is true. If you think about a
positive healthy life then you should never
attract something like cancer into your
vibration according to Esther.
“Secondly her fans are upset that they went
straight to chemotherapy and didn’t use
this opportunity to stand up to the power
of their teachings and actually put it to
the test.
“What do you think? I’m definitely v. shaken
by it and am clinging on to hope & faith here.”
— Debbie
So, let’s talk about this.
As with anyone who gets sick and makes the transition
from living in the body with with we are familiar and
appears to “die,” the rest of us are left to fill in
the unknowable with our own beliefs.
We have no way of knowing what was going on in someone
else’s mind. We can’t know all the things that really
influenced the decisions they made, what really
“caused” the body to respond the way it did, or what
would have happened if different decisions had been
made.
We can’t prove what happens to someone after they
“die,” where we came from before “birth,” what really
lies beyond the physical world we live in.
And even in the physical world, we each have an
individual perspective about what’s really going on,
because of the limitations of what can be proven.
That leaves us each with our own life experience,
almost 100% beyond anyone else’s ability to fully
comprehend.
Hmmm.
So, why did Jerry get cancer? Why didn’t he
immediately fully recover and sustain life in that
body? After all, in Esther’s words, translating the
wisdom that he and Esther shared with the world for so
many years,
“We’re going to make a very bold statement:
any disease could be healed in a matter of
days, any disease, if distraction from it
could occur and a different vibration
dominate-and the healing time is about how
much mix-up there is in all of that.”
If Jerry couldn’t do it, who could?
This question, of course, implies that he wanted to.
How can we even know that?
Maybe there’s more to the story.
We could get all bent out of shape about how the idea
that Jerry got sick, and then passed on, means that
what he and Esther believed and taught was wrong, or
impossible to apply.
But where is the benefit in that conclusion? To me,
it’s depressing and stressful–and certainly counter to
my own experience.
Stress is counterproductive to health. The entire
point of what he and Esther shared was to let go of
stressful beliefs.
Here’s the thing. Those “why” questions–why’d he get
sick and not get well–are only answerable with
unprovable beliefs.
BELIEFS. Not facts.
Because I’m in favor of the fully alive, vibrant
health of the rest of us, and I believe that stress is
behind all the pain, sickness, and suffering that are
the opposite of fully alive, vibrant health, I’m a fan
of finding the least stressful, most comforting
possible beliefs to explain anything.
So, let’s consider what beliefs could explain Jerry’s
adventure, given that we can’t possibly know.
Here’s a guy who is my role model for being the most
fully alive, fun loving, happy, intensely curious
adventurer who wasn’t out to prove anything to anybody,
didn’t care what anybody thought of him, and certainly
didn’t want any followers.
For years, he has pushed to know more about what
happens in the great beyond. For years, he has talked
about the belief that there is no death, that it’s all
an adventure, that there’s much more to life than this
one, and that when one has milked this life for all
it’s worth, every one of us chooses to leave it.
Sounds like that’s exactly what he did.
To me, that’s comforting.
How about these beliefs:
- Illness is not a sign of failure. It’s a sign that
one is rapidly expanding and stretching, and there’s
resistance in the system that’s not allowing the full
expansion.
- There is no such thing as death. There is only a
withdrawing of focus and energy from the physical
realm. Life is eternal.
- We are each magnificent beings who are constantly
expanding, and our physical bodies are the result of
focused energy by the larger, non-physical parts of
ourselves.
- When we are ready to move on to another level of
life experience (“die”) we choose an exit route. For
some it’s an “accident.” For some, it’s an illness. For
some, it’s a quiet night of sleep from which one
doesn’t awaken.
- What happens in our bodies isn’t a conscious choice
by the limited part of us that we identify by our names
and personalities. There’s something much bigger going
on in the world of our true expansion. We can tell what
direction we’re headed by how we feel.
I had no direct exposure to Jerry while he was ill. I
have no idea what that experience was like for him, or
if he suffered.
So, I can choose to fill in that gap of knowledge by
imagining he suffered terribly, tried hard to cure his
disease and failed.
Or, I can choose to fill in that gap of knowledge by
imagining he laughed merrily all the way to the end,
filled with love and excitement about what would come
next.
I can choose to be sad for the loss of him.
Or, I can choose to raise myself and be exhilarated by
the wonderful example of a free and happy being he was
in the flesh, and the free and happy being he still is.
You, too, get to choose.
What do you choose to believe about your own state of
health? What about the passing of others you care
about?
If statistics are any indication, ten out of ten of us
will pass on sooner or later. As far as I know, every
great teacher, master, enlightened person, and every
other person in history has gone on. Does that mean
they all failed? That what they taught was bogus? That
they are gone from us forever?
Or that their lives were meaningful contributions
whose value continues; that they are all still part of
the universal consciousness that every one of us can
access?
You decide what to believe, and therefore, you create
your experience of life.
Me, I’m choosing to aim for joy and freedom. Thanks,
Jerry!
With great love,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
P.S. If you’re unfamiliar with Jerry and Esther Hicks,
you can learn about them at:
-> http://www.abraham-hicks.com
Nov 11
8
Murmuration
Here’s the sweetest, most wondrous treat I’ve
sent you in a long time. It’s a gift from Ireland,
a breathtakingly beautiful illustration of the
power of non-physical forces we don’t understand,
and one of my very favorite things to see–though
I’ve never witnessed anything quite as splendid as
this one.
It’ll take you two minutes.
May you notice the miracles all around you today.
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
Could it really be true that any chronic pain you have isn’t the
result of damage, but instead is the result of conditioning–even
if it *looks* like damage according to medical imaging and tests?
Could it be that the conditioning *preceded* the “damage?”
Could it be that if you can break the conditioning, the “damage”
disappears???
In my experience, yes.
The human body has a remarkable ability to heal quickly from
anything. If yours isn’t acting so resilient, what’s going on?
Consider this possibility:
Most of us have developed useful strategies to avoid feeling
uncomfortable emotions, because we were shamed as we grew up for
being “crybabies” or something similar. In most cultures it just
isn’t acceptable for “mature” adults to display much emotion.
Was showing emotion as you grew up viewed as a sign of immaturity
or weakness? It might have led to being teased, scorned, or
worse.
On the other hand, physical injury or illness would have been
taken “seriously.”
Because most cultures don’t hold us responsible for our illness
or injury, we get attention, sympathy, time off work, medicine,
and other special treatment.
In other words, it’s much more socially acceptable to talk about
your physical pain than your emotional pain. It fits the cultural
tendency to blame something outside oneself for one’s physical
problems.
The downside of this tendency is that it creates the belief in
powerlessness in the realm of the body.
Pretty depressing, in my humble opinion. AND, completely
unnecessary.
You are NOT powerless when it comes to your body.
But, you may have been conditioned to believe that you are.
The result?
Pain–or some other unwanted physical
manifestation.
The result of feeling that your emotions are unacceptable?
Pain–or some other unwanted physical
manifestation.
The result of believing that *you* are somehow unacceptable, that
you can’t get what you want or need?
Pain–or some other unwanted physical
manifestation.
So far, the most efficient tool I’ve found for breaking the
patterns that hold us in our suffering–both physical and
mental–is tapping.
Here’s an example of how it works:
“We had great success with last night’s tapping.
While my husband, Larry, was tapping he had a
lot pain in his right knee. It went away after
tapping, but then his left knee started burning.
“So, we paused the audio and kept tapping, one
more time and guess what? That pain left too!!
He realized that all of these years he had been
holding his tension in his lower legs! Then we
realized that, that is where his family (Mom
& Dad) always ALWAYS complained of pain.
“They ran a restaurant and always blamed the hours
they stood on concrete for everything. We realized
that this is where Larry probably picked up the
same complaint. Anyway, what an eye opener!! We
LOVE this tapping and are already sharing it with
our friends. Thanks again!”
-Judy Gardner
Larry had been conditioned to hold tension in his body in a way
that created pain. Amazingly, all it took was tapping to break
the cycle.
Can it work for something involving real damage with evidence on
an MRI?
Read this:
“I am a 50 yrs old, single and working mom, boys
and a girl grown up now; Last year, I often wasn’t
able to get upstairs into my bedroom, sometimes i
crawled, pulling myself up the stairs. crying,
praying- stubborn me. I tried to dig my car out
after snowfall with a hand shovel- thats all I
could lift.
“Car rides further than 15 min hurting soo much. I
was reading, learning, applying all to become well
again. I stumbled somehow across you and the
tapping summit. I have learned so much!
“Seriously, I am pain free- not taking any meds
(and it’s not a condition that disapears overnight
–MRI reports)
“Since listening and tapping, I have even began
workout exercises to strengthen my muscles even
better, I can go upstairs and downstairs without
dragging my *bad* knee behind. no more crawling!
“I have told Pud (87) about this and promised i
will teach him to do the tapping too.
“Hey, can you believe, I’m even able to push the
snow off my deck and steps with the big snow shovel
now!!!! Little by little, my strength is coming
back. My life is transforming and I feel it more
every day. All due to your wonderful tapping
course.
“THANK YOU SO MUCH!
“I could give you two hugs and more hugs you cannot
imagine what that means to me one of my grandbabies
is *only* 1 hr away. Now I don’t hurt when I drive
there, and I can even pick her up and snuggle with
her! cheers”
-Gudrun Johanna
Here’s a chance for YOU to get a big dose of help with tapping
for relieving pain in your body, at no charge:
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/painrelief
This live online event begins Monday, October 3. Will you join me
there?
Warmly,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
P.S. If you’ve ever participated in one of the free “Tapping
World Summits,” you know how exciting and packed with value these
events are.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/painrelief
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Aug 11
23
If You’re In Pain, Do This
A couple of weeks ago when I was out for a walk,
my friend Ruthie drove by, screeched to a halt,
and leapt out with, “I have to talk to you!”
Ruthie had chronic back pain since she was thrown
from a horse years ago. She’d tried innumerable
things, but found her life quite limited by the
pain.
“I feel like a new person!” she said, and then
told me about this book she’d read: Dr. John
Sarno’s “Healing Back Pain.”
If you’d like the medical explanation for how
a mental shift can heal the most intractable,
chronic pain, even if it’s associated with a clear
injury or activity, and even if you have imaging
showing arthritis, disc problems, or other damage,
read this short, brilliant book.
It’s based purely on standard medical observation
and research–nothing spiritual or “woo-woo.”
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/sarno
If you’d like to move directly to a method to
eliminate the pain, and get the explanation later,
watch this video:
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/pain
You’ll see how, in eight minutes, a man with 26
years of intense, full body pain that had not
responded to any treatment, got it to dissolve.
Amazing.
What’s this all about?
Dr. Sarno, a well-respected MD who has worked for
more than 45 years in a facility for
rehabilitating people with musculoskeletal
injuries, found that our common assumptions about
pain representing damage are not medically
accurate.
Your body is remarkably resilient and capable of
healing quickly. Your mind can be a powerful ally,
or can get caught up in beliefs that interfere
with your healing.
You don’t need to be a doctor to read this totally
empowering, sensible book.
When you understand what’s really going on, you’re
free.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/sarno
One of the things you can then do is use something
as simple as the tapping you’ll see in the video,
because you won’t be sitting there thinking that
there’s no way it could possibly work for you.
(Maybe you don’t need the explanation, but my
thinking generally tends to get in the way if what
I’m doing doesn’t make any sense to me. I like to
get my beliefs to line up with accurate medical
information so my energy is available to just
apply the technique instead of doubting and
arguing against it.)
Psychologist Dr. Carol Look has been teaching the
use of “tapping” to produce all sorts of miracles
in people’s lives. What she does with people
works, and I recommend that you check out this
video.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/pain
It’s inspiring, and useful.
Warmly,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
P.S. The video will only be available for a short
time to those who don’t take advantage of the 33%
off sale they are having on the program this week.
Here’s the link again for the video.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/pain
Don’t miss it!
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Can you relate to this?
“Saying no is not an option. I’m
going to eat that thing I want,
and no one is going to stop me.”
Does this happen to you? All those voices that
“know better” are chiming in to tell you this is
bad for you, you shouldn’t eat it, you know
better, you’ll gain weight, you’ll feel awful
later, you should have more self control, etc,
etc, etc.
Those voices are yours. *You* are telling yourself
all this, even if you’re echoing other voices from
your past. But there’s a stronger energy in you, a
louder voice, one that would make excuses, lie,
hide, manipulate, do whatever it takes to get what
you want, and that’s the one that wins.
And you’re left with the consequences.
You’re left with the body that is fatter than you
want it to be, or the guts that hurt, or the
difficulty breathing, or whatever symptoms you get
when you eat what you “shouldn’t.”
You’re left with the shame, guilt, disgust, low
self esteem because once again you betrayed your
own intentions to be kind to yourself.
And you get to feel the stress of always being at
war with yourself.
I’m speaking from personal experience here, as
well as witnessing so many others who struggle
with food and alcohol issues.
If you can relate, watch this video.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/cravings
You can participate, and feel better immediately.
Or, you can just watch, and see if it’s relevant
to you.
I found it very moving, and very useful.
The video is of EFT expert Carol Look using
EFT Tapping with an audience member at a live
event called “The Tapping Experience”, to help
her overcome her overpowering food cravings.
Here’s what I recommend…
Watch the video and as you do, do the EFT Tapping
along with them. Even if you don’t know how to
do Tapping just copy what they’re doing and
repeat what they’re saying as if you were
one of the members of the audience.
And as you do you’ll begin to feel how effective
EFT Tapping is in helping people get to the
root cause of food and weight issues and how
it is used to resolve these issues quickly.
Here’s the link to the video:
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/cravings
You probably already know that your food issues
aren’t about the food…
I find it helpful to know how much I’m not alone
with the issues they ARE about. You, too?
This is some powerful stuff that can have an
immediate impact on your life.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/cravings
Wishing you the priceless blessing of loving and
accepting yourself just as you are.
Warmly,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
P.S. – Even if you’re not new to me and SOBW, you
may still believe that they key to dealing with
weight issues is to eat less and exercise more.
According to the medical literature, it’s not
necessarily true, even if you CAN do it
consistently.
Whether for you, it’s about changing your
behavior, changing your thoughts, or both, this
may help.
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/cravings
Aug 11
12
HEAL YOUR CRITICAL VOICE
The free audio you’ll find at the link below is absolutely
BRILLIANT, and worth every moment you’ll spend with it.
It’s also interactive. You, like I did, may well find it the most
USEFUL session you’ve had in a long time.
Go here:
-> http://www.scienceofbeingwell.net/criticalvoice
Here’s to transforming that critical voice into something more
supportive!
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