Take control of your health!

Today, In the wee hours of the morning, I was on a meditation-healing run through the back trails of my home here in eastlake.  The view of the lake with the sun rising over the mountain hitting the water as the reflection created star like light that danced on the water creating a shine that reflected so brightly I had to close my eyes as I ran by.  I went inside my head and I mentally asked my guides to help me to see what it was that was holding me back from achieving my goals.  Immediately, I felt a fear with a thought that accompanied this feeling.  then all of sudden it was like I was watching myself, similar to an out of body experience that I have had many times in my life time.  I was the voyeur watching the interaction between myself and the thoughts of fear.   I became aware that I was in two places at one time inside my head.  I heard myself saying the words of fear and I felt my body respond with a cringe, yet at the same time I was watching all of this from a distance.  I silenced my thoughts by telling myself, cancel that thought and replace it with what you want to see happen.  I did this immediately inside my head and as I, the voyeur, was watching me do this, I became aware of the fact that I was aware, and I heard my voice inside my head tell me, myself, awaken the power within you to make the positive changes, awaken the feminine light, the power of the force, and watch it all come to you as you ask.  I began to recreate the scene within my head as I would like it to be, and as I did, I felt a warmth that was unlike any other I have ever felt.  It was so overwhelming that I had to cry, as the tears streamed down my face, I felt the trail of tears leaving behind a cold and very comfortable feeling.  My heart was light and my thoughts were beggining to clear.  I, the voyeur, was very pleased with what I was witnessing and I stepped in to tell myself, this my friend is how you listen to the power within, this is how to awaken the person inside.  I was so taken that I had to write about this and share it with you.  May you be as blessed!  Listen to the power within, Awaken the light inside.

Namaste,

Marti Angel

There is a lot of talk among the New Age communities about a return to feminine energy and a return to feminine leadership.  Somehow, it is believed that with women in charge we will somehow clean up all of the world’s problems and magically bring civilization back to a place of beauty and harmony living off the land in a peaceful nurturing way.  I am not sure that this is truly how it will be.   But we can all live in this dream of creation and hopefulness as we anticipate the coming of 2012.  I believe that the time is here when we must begin to usher in this new energy.  Make room  in our mental closets, open our minds, touch our hearts and let our spirits flow.    So what does USHER really mean?  When I look up the word usher-I get this definition-(To bring forward (a plan, for example) for consideration.)  Yes it is time, 2010 is the time to bring forward the age of restoration.  To restore the peace, harmony and love…. all that we have lost with all the  excess male energy surrounding the universe.   We are living in the second and third Chakras.  This can be very harmful  to us as a society.  We are beginning to see the harm and destruction that this can cause.   In one of my previous articles, I write about the difference of the male and feminine energies and how they are represented in our bodies, right and left side.   Today with much meditation and help from the guides that are using my fingers right now to write this, I know different, the male energy has its inception in the lower half of the body and the female energy rules the upper part of the body.  Chakras one, two and three are ruled by the male dominance, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Chakras are ruled by the dominance of the female light, the female energy.  This can only be known by those who listen and tune themselves into their own energy.  When we begin to respect and usher in this great energy that lives in all of us …. male and female….we begin to heal our lives, our planet, our world and our own light.  So with this I chant this feminine energy yoga chant:

Namah Shivaya Gurave Saccidananda  Murtaye Nishprapaneaya Shantaya Niralambaya Tejase

Chant with me as we usher in the beauty and the splendor of this feminine energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7pSswcI6YM

 Namaste,

Marti Angel

Today Sunday as I sit here on my lanai in this beautiful island of Hawaii, I feel blessed, blessed for my health, my wealth and my prosperity.  I accept myself for all that I am and all that I have.   This is not the way it has always been for me.  In my quest for good health I have learned many things and most importantly learned to accept those I cannot change. When we live with illusions we cannot heal.

There are three main illusions that plague us in our quest to heal our lives, bodies and souls.  The first of these illusions is that we are this body.  We identify with this body.  When we do this we use the theory that we are “Finite”.  This is the furthest thing from the real truth.  We are not this body, we are beautiful souls housed in this body that has been on loan to us for our time here on this earth.  It is our temple our temporary home during our journey here on this finite land.  We must learn to accept the fact that we are more than what we can see in the mirror.  We are beautiful light beings.   The second illusion is that our quest in life is the pursuit of happiness.  The problem with this myth is that our understanding of happiness is confused with pleasure.  Pleasure is not happiness.  Pleasure should not be confused with happiness.  It is in this confusion that we become ill.  We become disillusioned with life.  We are seeking and never finding.  We become entangled in a cyclical web of self destruction.  The more pleasure we seek in the aim of happiness the less we find it, and so it goes.  Happiness goes much deeper, it goes to the soul, to our true being-ness.     The third illusion is Power.  The power to be happy, to be healthy, to be what we need to be to have it all.  The illusion of seeking power is been with us since our inception.  Have we not learned from the cartoons of old that always depict the villain as the one seeking all the power at any cost, thinking all along that this power will bring them happiness, only to find that at the end the bigger they are the harder they fall.  We fall into thinking that power is infinite and we go in search of this infinite power, we seek it through material things, we acquire many things.  Then all of a sudden we realize that things, power and other such illusions are not the answers.  Falling into these three illusion will only serve to keep you in a state of stasis.  This place of cyclical unhappiness and illusionary feelings.   We need to learn to love and accept ourselves totally, unconditionally and lovingly.  Love is the only answer for healing.  Love is the true power.  Love in its purest sense if the real healing.  Love yourself, accept yourself and begin to heal yourself from the inside out and this will heal your mind, your body, and your life circumstance.  We must learn to give love, receive love, share love and accept love.  When we can truly do this will be able to begin our healing.  The healing of our body, lives, spirit and most importantly the healing for this land we call mother earth.

Aloha  and Namaste!

Today, is a special day.  April 30th, 1983  — someone whom I loved dearly was taken from me in a very dramatic and horrific manner.   I was teaching yoga to 4 year olds, at the local gym and I got an emergency call from an unknown detective.   Then I looked up and the television was on the news channel, all of a sudden, I was whisked away by the manager as he covered my eyes, and said don’t watch come with me as he took me to the back room to call home.   I called home and I spoke with my father, he said “come home immediately!”   I called my husband and told him to meet me at my parents home.   When I arrived It was the most solemn scene I could imagine. It was out of the twilight zone.  There were 3 black town cars parked outside my parents home and about 4 men in black suits standing around the entrance of the house.  I walked inside, as I did I heard the horrible wails and crying of my mother and my aunt.  I looked up and my father was also in tears.   What happened? What in the world happened to hurt everyone so much?  All I kept thinking was “Dear God what do I do? I walked into the living room and a detective identified himself, I asked what was going on.  He said “I am sorry to tell you this, but your grandmother and her husband were shot to death in the early morning hours, with sawed off shot gun, while they were sleeping so I don’t think they felt any pain.”  We need someone to identify the remains at the home and we think it should be you, because your mom and your aunt don’t seem to have the strength to do this.   Within 2 seconds my world came crashing down on me!   WHO? WHAT? WHEN?  I felt my legs go weak underneath me, I inhaled the biggest breath as I gasped and keeled over, I thought I was going to be sick! It felt as though someone had knocked the wind out of me. I began to sweat. My ears were ringing.   I cannot remember if I was crying or not……… … the details only got worse…………….. I only know that an angel was with me, because I felt a wave of love and strength come over me.  My angel was there to help me, I felt this, I know this.        It is now my angel who tells me it’s time to tell YOU!   It is time to let go and heal.   It has been a long time but it is time to heal.     To YOU who took away the life of my grama whom I loved so dearly I forgive you, to YOU whom I hated so much, to YOU who I wished  would die, to YOU whom, I spent many nights wishing your life become the worst hell!!  To YOU whom I would say your name and spit on the ground and smash it with all my might.  To YOU whom I prayed would burn in hell for what you did.  To YOU whom I wished someone would cut your throat!  To YOU whom I would spend my days thinking about ways to hurt or even kill you!

I FORGIVE YOU, FOR YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DID!  Thank you, for making me a much stronger, trusting, loving and compassionate person.  May you find peace within the echoes of your mind, rest assured that I will bless you in my prayers.  For today on this the anniversary  (April 30, 2010) of this tragic and torrid event I forgive and I heal.    Thank you for giving me the opportunity to value and be grateful for all  have and all that I am.  Thank you for allowing me to have the beauty of the angel whom I am sure was my grama who was with me that day!  For all those ugly things I wished on  you, I am sorry please forgive ME, thank you and I love you!

I am at peace, I am whole, I am blessed! I am forgiven! I am healed!

Blessings and light for the rest of your path here on earth.

Namaste,

Angels and true guidance-

It has been said over time that those who hear voices are going mad.  What about those who hear voices in their dreams?  Are they mad also?  How do we determine when we have heard the voice of the angels, and when we have received true guidance?  One of the easiest things to do is to discount those voices we hear in our dreams as just that, dreams.   The truth about it is that we can easily learn to discern true guidance from ego demands.  We receive our best guidance from our dreams; this is due to the fact that in our dream state our conscious mind is not blocking messages sent to us from heaven.  It is therefore extremely important that we do not discount what we recieve in the form of a dream.  This becomes especially true when the guidance we receive leaves us with a lasting feeling of peace and a sense of calm that seems to follow us through out our day.

To determine if the guidance we receive is a gift from our angels or a command from our ego, we must be able to tune into our feelings and use our feelings as a radio frequency to help us determine the difference.  If you have a dream in which you see your angels or hear the voice of your angels, notice how you feel upon awakening.  Notice if you feel a sense of prolonged peace, a feeling that absolutely nothing can ruin your day.  You wake up feeling great.  You can also remember the dream with a rare vividness, and an uncanny recall of this dream with every detail for many days, or even years afterward.  Equally when you begin to recount this dream experience to yourself or to someone you once again find yourself experiencing those great feelings, akin to what we call a “warm fuzzy feeling” inside your being.  These are all indications that the messages you have received are from your angels and therefore constitute true divine guidance.

If on the other hand you feel stressed, or get the feeling of being rushed.  If you notice that you feel uneasy as if you know down deep inside that something bad is about to happen then those words or dreams you thought were true guidance are really your ego mind attempting to betray you into believing that you have been guided.  Notice the difference in the way you feel.  Notice, too, if you are set off easily; if so then you have been in contact with the ego mind during your dream and it has left you with a feeling of betrayal.

All of us have the capacity to hear our angels, see our angels, and talk to our angels the problem is that we all want bells and whistles.  We want reassurance that what we have just heard, dreamt, or envisioned is fact.  We want concrete evidence; we want to know for sure that what we have just heard is the honest truth.  The problem with that is when we want something so palpable that it will stand up in court, we are not having faith.  We are all energy and we must believe, have faith and release our anxiety that what we have just heard, experienced or witnessed is real. 

The one real problem is our inability to have faith. In order to have faith,  we must know what faith is.  Faith is a belief laced with a positive expectation that elicits a feeling of euphoria, and knowingness that everything will be fine.  Faith is the belief in the positive, accompanied by a good feeling inside our solar plexus.  When we have that feeling, we find that faith is easy.   We are in that moment being truly and divinely guided by our angels, or our spirit guides.  When you have faith miracles happen.

“Believe in yourself and thus you believe in me.” These are words spoken by an angel; they were a gift from heaven for me to share with all my readers.  We must always be in total awareness of our feelings so that we can use them to measure the outcome of our dreams.  You have been given the gift of receiving guidance you just have not been taught to decipher the messages from above.  Use your feelings as a gauge; trust that you will be lead with love by your angels.  Know how you are feeling and you will know the source of your guidance.

Namaste,

I am making an all call to all of you especially all my yoga students– Help me send Reiki healing energy to Haiti.  This Sunday Jan. 24th at 4PM pst– Join me in a simple meditation for 15 min– Myself and a group of Reiki Masters-
Here is the meditation prayer:    May all those who were adversely affected by the earthquake in Haiti be deeply healed and guided to the resources and help they need. May all those providing aid including food, water, medical care and shelter and those involved in rebuilding the infrastructure be filled with the love, strength, perseverance and organizational skills needed to fulfill their purpose.
Please lets set aside ourselves our egos and please please join me to help these beautiful folks heal!

Please sit in a quiet place, begin by closing your eyes and feeling love inside your heart.  Once you are in that space begin your prayer.  You will help me in sending love and healing to a place that need it most right now.

Namaste,
Marti Angel

In this world where we are socially indoctrinated to believe that instant gratification is where it is at,  we need to realize it is not the way of the spirit nor is it the way our the natural flow of our bodies.  We all know that we have been given this body as a rental during our stay here on this earth.  This being the only truth of our bodies, we continue to treat our bodies with out respect.  This is not the way of the spirit of yoga.  In our yoga journey we begin to realize that to have the patience to allow our bodies to recover or adjust to whatever it is they need is truly the way of the spirit.  Following this tradition we must also know that when we change something in our bodies and or mind we must give it time to sink in, time to become one with us and our spirit.  Interestingly enough in my nutritional practice I do not see this happening.  This saddens me.  I have a beautiful client who is young in her body and she does not understand that her treatment of her “temple” will not allow her to have this “rental” for very long if she continues on this path of self destruction.  She came to me because she believes in natural medicine, or so she claims, yet whenever we meet I suggest that she slow down and practice patience, and take the supplements that will allow her body to find its way on its own terms at its own time.  She takes all this in claiming that she will do this, but then I get a frantic call claiming that what she is doing is not working, and she would like to see results in a more rapid manner.  I reassure her that it will take time for her body to find its own way and that she must nurture it.   This is not uncommon from many of my other clients, they all seem to want the nutritional guidance I give them to work immediate miracles.  This is not the way of our bodies!  This is not the way of our spirit!  Here is a quote from a doctor whom I admire and have had the privilege of meeting !  Dr. Ray Strand;
There is a major misconception about supplementation. In this era of medication, people believe that they should notice differences within a few days to a week or two. However, nutritional medicine is totally different from allopathic or traditional Western medicine. Nutritional supplements are simply nutrients the body uses in its normal enzymatic reactions. They are not medicines. They are nutrients from our foods, but supplementation allows us to get them at optimal levels that diet alone cannot provide.

It takes between 6 to 12 months to replenish any nutritional deficiency and optimize the body’s natural immune system, antioxidant defense system, and repair system. If you are over 30 years of age or already have a chronic degenerative disease, it may even take longer. This is why I stress over and over that you need to give nutritional supplementation a minimum of 6 months, or even better a year, before you evaluate the benefits. When my patients tell me that they will try using my recommended supplements for a month, I tell them not to even start. If you are not willing to try my recommendations for at least 6 months, you should not even begin.

It is reassuring to know that even a medical doctor faces the same challenges that I do as a Yoga Therapist and Nutritionist.  Remember,

it took a long time to get out of sink, let us remember that it will also take time to get back in sink, but it will happen with full faith and belief but most of all patience and guidance from someone who cares and knows!

To all my readers I say be well, follow the way of the spirit and take a deep breath!!

Namaste,

I believe in Energy,  as I have shared with all of you in my Yoga classes, we are all energy.  The most important thing  that we should know is how to flow with the positive energy and learn to allow ourselves to live life in the most prosperous, loving and healing manner for the highest good of all.  I have told you all that when you resist the flow, basically you are allowing “life to live you”, instead of you living life.  Knowing all of this means that you look for ways to have the most positive experience you can in the time and space where you are right now in the present moment. What this all means to me, is that even my home is a source of flowing energy and it can either flow negatively or positively.  I choose to have energy flow easily, positively and prosperously to me.  So I began to think about the energy of my home and I decided to use Feng Shui to help me live positively and prosper.  I believe in the power and flow of energy and this is what Feng shui does, it enhances your flow of positive energy so that things ( circumstances, events and opportunities)  begin to flow into your life path.  The thing about Feng shui is that you can do it yourself, but you truly need a master to make it more effective.  A Feng Shui practioner is one who practices the art on a daily basis .  A Feng Shui consultant, is a practitioner who not only practices the art but uses it to help others.   Following the teachings of the yoga sutras, I set out on a quest to find the right Feng shui consultant.  This is how I came about finding my consultant who has since become a blessed friend of mine.  Her name is Cathleen McCandless, her web site is http://www.sandiegofengshui.com — This woman is not only a true practitioner, but a gifted intuitive.  Her spirit and her aura are magnificent!  She lives and breathes Feng Shui.  I can tell you about all her media events and things like that, but those do not begin to describe the spirit of this woman whom I am blessed to count as one of my spiritual guides.  I would encourge all of you to think about Feng shui and when you do give her a call, she is honest, generous, creative, spritual and she fits the qualities of the yoga sutras!  She is beautifully marvelous at what she does, she brings spirituality and loving kindess to all her appointments.  Unlike others located here in San Diego that are driven by the money, who will not even lend you a courtesy return email, Cathleen, is motivated by her loving spirit to help all her customers achieve the best they can with Feng Shui.  I will give you a warning though, Feng Shui, just like the Reiki healing energy I practice it allows for the flow of energy to move as it is supposed to move.  This means that things will happen for your higest good and the higest good of all even if you don’t think the outcome is your opinion of good, in the long run what is supposed to happen will.   Feng shui opens the door to allow this good energy to flow more easily to you.   Thank you Cathleen, for being the true Feng Shui master we can count on here in San Diego! Thank you for gently guiding the flow of energy for my highest good!  You are beautiful! Cathleen McCandless you are San Diego’s Feng Shui!!!

Namaste,

In yoga we use the yoga sutras as a guide for our mind, the asanas as a practice for the body and breath as a practice for our spirit. We must learn to practice acceptance and gratitude for what we have right now, and this will in turn help us to harness the power to change our beliefs. We must unblock and remove the obstacles which in yoga are known as Avidya. I found this video that accents the message of the importance of acceptance. My thanks to the makers of this video. As you watch remember your yoga!

Namaste,

After today’s class at SWC, I believe that all my students should be practicing ahimsa, one of the “5 Wise Characteristics” from the  eight limbs of  Yoga.  Today was a powerful lesson in using the kundalini energy to remove any emotional or energetic blocks that may be suppresed by us anda pushed into our physical body without a way out, and thus manifesting into dis-ease within our bodies.  Today we investigated Brachmacharya- sense control– we moved lots of energy and I would like to hear from my students as to what they expereinced.  It is my goal to enhance the students awarenes of what True Yoga really is.   I am thankful for all of those who have been sharing this summer with me.  I am blessed!!   To all my students I ask please share your thoughts and comments about today’s class.  Namaste,