Take control of your health!

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!

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,

Everywhere you turn you are being bombarded with ads in every medium, weight loss miracle pills, systems, books, CDs/DVDs and contraptions.  All of which are meant to bring about the new you.   The problem with this is that it prays on our ego thoughts, weaknesses and insecurities about our self’s and our bodies. 

According to ‘Fat Exploding the Myths - by Lisa Colles’ Americans are reported to spend an estimated $50 billion each year on weight loss products and over $6 billion of that is spent on fraudulent products.  On May 8, 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to immediately stop using HydroxycutÔ products because Hydroxycut products are associated with a number of serious liver injuries.  If these products actually worked we would have only slim people, hence no market for weight loss products.  We must remember that the goal of any good marketing program is to entice, lure and capture the audience, which ultimately results in the sale of their product.  The scary part of all this is that the FDA website has a list of over 70 products that are on the market today of tainted weight loss pharmaceuticals–many of which continue to be sold today.

These are just some of the many warnings overlooked by those who are trying to lose weight.  True weight loss begins with acceptance of the fact that we are fully responsible for the state of our current weight.   There are no miracle cures that work for everyone across the board.  Every person brings with them a very unique physical makeup, mind and spirit which determines the outcome of the results.

True weight loss is a matter of the mind.  We must begin with searching for the reason that we have the extra weight.  The Ancient practice of Yoga tells us to love ourselves and learn to accept who we are from the inside out.  We must deal with the fact that the only reason that we are not satisfied with ourselves is because we do not truly love ourselves.  One of the eight limbs of yoga teaches us that we should practice ahimsa, compassion for all living things that includes ourselves.  When we begin to practice ahimsa; we find that we begin to accept responsibility for who and what we are.  Changing our physical bodies begins there. We must accept our current state and that becomes our basis for change.

Mentally and emotionally, we need to accept responsibility for what we look like now.  We need to practice forgiveness, caring and love.  By mentally saying “ I love you” as we look into the mirror we access the deepest blocks that have kept us hostage.   The change that begins to happen is subtle but very powerful.  When we begin to change our attitude towards ourselves we begin to unfold like the lotus blossom, petal by petal.  Weight loss requires dual brain action. Once we work on the weight loss from the right brain, lovingly and creatively we can then begin to work on it by using the left-brain factually and logically, which then becomes a matter of simple math.

Mathematically speaking we must burn more calories then we intake.  For every pound that we gain we have eaten approximately 3,500 calories more than we have used.   Now granted this is a simplistic version, but it does merit us taking a good, strong, look at our caloric intake.  

Interestingly, if we change our mindset of memes that we have bought into we can also begin to change our body.   Healing your body from the inside out, and taking control of your health is the true and only key to weight loss, all the other things are just tools that we can use to help us get to our destination.  Remember, this can be a roller coaster ride, but my best advice is hold on tight and do what it takes to get off this ride in a safe, positive, healthy and loving manner.  Use caution and seek professional guidance when deciding to take any pharmaceutical product. 

Namaste,

Marti Angel

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

Today is a healing day.  As a Reiki master level three with more than 3 certification from three different schools of Reiki, I have come to be able not only to feel energy, but to see energy.  This seeing is something I  was born with.  As a child I remember thinking that I was posessed and that I was a devil child.  Why could I seem to do things with my mind that other kids did not.  I remember wishing bad things on a person and with my eyes fixed on the person, I would bring the feelings of hurt, destruction and terror to my mind and heart.  I would stare at the person with the coldest thoughts and simultaneously thinking the words ” Harm, Hate, Anger and Revenge. My body would begin to heat up and then all of a sudden I would hear the person who was the object of this energy, scream stop it, stop it!  Those words would break my concentration and before I knew it I was in total shock by the tears and fear I saw in that persons eyes.  I would ask “What happened?” not conciously knowing the harm I was causing or that I was the one causing this harm with my thoughts, emotions and feelings.  Then all of a sudden I would get this overwhelming feeling that I was bad, I was a bad seed, this was not God’s work but the work of the devil.  I felt awful.   I remember being the only one on the block that everyone wanted to play the Ouija board with, I could make the eye move without touching it.  It would move on its own.  I could make doors close and people hurt.   Why?   Why?  Why me?  How could I be so bad, so dark, so ugly.  I remember being afraid to go to church for fear that I would burn inside, after all that was what happened to bad people.  Who could help me?  The only person who could help me was my grandmother, who on her death bed said to me- You are different of the 23 grandkids, You can see.  Why me? I was the oldest of the 5th son.  I was born on the 5th month.  I was 5 when I began to manifest this “curse”.  All of my young life, as a teenager, I was living in fear that I must be in control or else the bad in me might come out.  I did everything I could to hide this thing inside me.  I did not realize that It was a part of me.  What was it that I could make people hurt? Revenge? Anger? Fear?  As an adult, I have come to realize that this “thing” could have consumed me.  It could have ruined my life if I allowed it.  I never realized that people could sense it.  I went to psychics and readers who all told me that I could be the one doing the reading, that I had psychic powers.  I never believed them.  I spent my entire adult life looking and searching for answers, never having faith that I was not given a curse but had been given a gift.  So today, I have come to know that I don’t have a curse but a gift.  I am healing.  I am healing.  I am love.  I have been given the gift of healing others and helping them find their healing.  I am sharing who I am.  I am ready.   After living a life that would make a reality show seen like a cartoon, I am ready to heal, to love and to accept all that I am and all that I have.  Now in the age of Aquarius beautiful things will happen, 2010 is the beginning of a new earth, new world, new love.  May my healing bring all of you to a place of silence, love and understanding.

Namaste,

The Essence of Presence

By Marti Angel

It has been said that when you pray you should come to the altar with humility, gratitude and love in your heart.  Truthfully, it is very rare for any of us to truly come to any place, relationship or situation in our life with this presence.  If we did, this would be the most life changing experience we could imagine.  Think about it…When was the last time you came to any relationship or conversation with this presence? 

What this world needs right now is this, the essence of presence.  In these times of stress we should feel thankful for all that we are and all that we have.   We need to take time to evaluate how our life is unfolding, if it is playing out in the most marvelously positive manner then I say please continue on that path, but on the other hand if your life is unraveling and can use some love, patience, focus, or caring, then you need to realize this simple fact, that how you show up to any encounter is what you will receive.

It is very easy to continue on the same path and it may be unraveling in a truly negative way but because we are creatures of habit, rather than change, we tread forward continuing the negativity in all our relationships; personal as well as at work.  Think about it-If you go into a conversation with a head full of negative thought and emotions that come from the thought, than you will only cultivate a negative outcome.  Is that really what you want? 

It is human nature to want to be loved and feel loved.  Knowing this fact will help us to create the kinds of relationships that we truly want and desire to have in our life.   How many times have you built up some negative emotions toward a person based on thoughts that you have cultivated yourself, then picked up the phone to call that person?  It doesn’t take much to realize the outcome of that interaction. Why do we continue on our path of destruction?  It is because we are reactionary creatures that seem to be driven by our own thoughts and demons. 

We must come to a place of healing within our hearts and realize that how we show up for any circumstance or interactions in our life will determine the outcome.   Feel the essence of your presence. Take the time to be humble.

Take a moment, take a deep breath and listen to your thoughts. See where they are leading your emotions, if you are being led down the path of destruction by your own thoughts, than awaken to the fact that it would not be a good time to react, such as by interacting with the person who is the intended recipient of those emotions.

Set your intentions to be full of gratitude and love.  In your mind say “ I love you” then continue to move towards the situation, circumstance or person.

When we realize that the essence of the presence we bring to every encounter in our life, will unequivocally determine the outcome, then we can begin to awaken the true nature of our being, which is to love and be loved.

So in this time of gratitude remember to feel deep down inside, the essence of your presence.  Presence will serve to guide your life in a positive and healing way.

Today, was phenomenal morning!  I was driving through the desert to get to work.  I had just called upon the earth guides to come and and ground me, wow, they act fast when you believe with your heart.   I was in the windiest part of my drive when up ahead of me at the crack of dawn, I saw something in the near distance.  As I got closer I realized that I was looking at a magnificent Ram.  As I drove closer I saw the aura of this majestic animal it was grand, it was an orange, white and gold color and in the center of this cloud of colors was this great strong creature looking ahead at his path.  I was amazed and mesmerized at the same time.  I could not believe that I had gotten close enough to see the details of his great brown horns ( not sure if that is the name) with light tan ridges, it was as if every ridge signified a year of experience that this animal had accumulated.  The feeling I got immediately grounded me, it was as though I had been given a puff of strength, stability and majesty at the same time.  I felt it deep within my 4th Chakra and it was so strong it made take a deep double breath.  I had only experienced this type of breath in deep meditation.   I was hypnotized by the valor and strength that this animal exuded.  He did not flinch as I got closer with my car but I could hear him say ” I am here, Follow my strength”.   Then all of a sudden he took a very calculated two steps and walked away.  I felt so blessed, so overwhelmed with a feeling of energy, that I could not contain it, It made me scream, and I was glad noone was in the car with me or they would have thought I was crazy. I had just experienced a transfer of energy that cannot be explained in words.  My whole being was filled with a powerful force that it was almost overwhelming.   The feeling  from all this energy was a rush of adrenaline that lasted, and stayed in me for hours.  I felt tall and strong and protected!  I carried this feeling around with me the whole day.  It was amazing!    The fact that as an Auravoyant I can see the magnificent colors of many living things is a blessing I know that now and I am beginning to embrace this gift and as I do the signs and wonders of the spiritual world are becoming more and more evident to me.  I am humbled and I am truly blessed on a daily basis!!   I am grateful for all that I am and everything I have.  I am at peace.

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,