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Making A Medicine Wheel
A medicine wheel is an amazing model of all things and no thing. In a sense it does not exist, yet you can create one. It ebbs and it flows, it breathes and exhales. It is a symbol for the microcosm and the macrocosm. All the power that ever was or will be can be accessed through this sacred stone circle.

Making An Altar
We've put this resource together to offer some suggestions to help you create power places and altars in your home and even your office or workspace.

Nutritional Amino Acid Therapy
Along with general nutrition therapy, another important area of the use of nutrition in recovery and relapse prevention is the addition of appropriate amino acids that serve as the building blocks for powerful chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters. These neurotransmitters, including epinephrine and norepinephrine, GABA, serotonin and dopamine, are closely tied to addictive behavior. With the use of various amino acids, brain chemistry can be changed to help normalize and restore deficiencies in the neurotransmitters that spur cravings that can lead to addiction and relapse.

Emotional Scale
This information comes from the leading-edge book, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. It is about having a deliberate intent for whatever you want in life, while at the same time balancing your energy along the way. As you come to understand and effectively practice the processes offered in this book, you will not only achieve your goals and desired outcomes more rapidly, but you’ll enjoy every single step along the path even before their manifestation. As such, you’ll find that the living of your life is an ongoing journey of joy, rather than a series of long dry spells between occasional moments of temporary satisfaction.

Energizing with Archetypes
Archetypes are impersonal patterns of behavior and influence that are both ancient and universal. They become personalized when they are a part of our individual psyche. Archetypes provide us with the means to interpret our reality without the influence of our sensory stimulation. Therefore they are very powerful to our psyche, because they are a pure energy download which can directly interpret our belief system bypassing subjective processes of thought, logic and reasoning. Find out how to use archetypal energies to heal and empower your life.

About Your Chakras
Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel, or vortex, and it refers to each of the seven energy centers of which our consciousness, our energy system, is composed. All of your senses, your perceptions, your possible states of awareness, everything it is possible for you to experience, can be divided into seven categories. Each category can be associated with a particular chakra. Thus, the chakras represent not only particular parts of your physical body, but also particular parts of your consciousness. Find out how to heal your energy body through your chakra system.

Pattern On The Trestleboard
Read this every day from top to bottom. Then start at the bottom and read it from bottom to top. Do this every day. If you do nothing for yourself beyond this one thing, you will shift your energy in subtle and pervasive ways that you may not yet even be able to to imagine...

Fat Is A Spiritual Issue
Every part of you is perfect, whole and complete. Your appetite is no exception. Food cravings and a voracious appetite don't mean that something is wrong with you or that you are weak in any way. Rather, they show that your appetite is operating exactly as intended. Once you know how to interpret your food cravings, your urges to overeat will never overwhelm you again.

Find Your Voice
Communication is often a frail thing, yet, it is at the very essence of how we express and experience our human "beingness". We are "broadcasting" at all times. Even when we don't realize it, we are announcing ourselves and our intentions to the world, equally with what we do and say, as with what we don't do or say.

The Role of Sacred Sexuality In Divine Union
What will be uncovered is that the real thing, at any price, is just too good, too fulfilling, too healing and too magnificent to miss. When we step into awareness that every time we engage in anything but sacred sex, we are trading and forestalling our ability to bring the very thing that we want most into our lives. It is then that we will become more conscious about what sex really means to our existence and our well being and our choices become clear cut.

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