Take control of your health!

This morning as I was practicing my morning ritual of giving thanks, saying my clearing mantra, giving thanks and praying.  Then all of a sudden I thought what is it that I am doing or not doing to create all the abundance I truly want in my life?  So I began to be thankful for all that I have and all that I am.  This usually does the trick for me and as if by magic all my guides and angels line everything up for me and I begin to see, feel and hear things flow naturally and easily to me.   So I thought, I believe I am stuck because, I am falling back into the comfort of having everything be comfortable.  Then as if to hear an angel say to me look up, I did and I saw the majesty of a silver hawk open his wings and fly over my head.  I was so taken by the sight that it literally knocked the wind out of me.  Then I thought what is this bird doing here in a common neighborhood?  It is out of its natural environment!  It belongs in a mountain setting.  Then, I realized it was a sign!  I had been given a sign, this bird was out of its comfort zone.  That was the answer, I need to be out of my comfort zone in order to get unstuck! I spoke to myself mentally….. Marti, you need to be out of your comfort zone in order to grow!!  There you have it, the more you can be out of your comfort zone the more you will grow. Think outside the box! Be strong, Be bold, Be all that you can be.  Be out of your comfort zone!  Fly like a bird!

Thank you for the sign!

Namaste,

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,

Om Shanti,

Today I am sharing a vision I received in my dreams.  Many times we discount our dreams as something we might have watched on TV.  Take this for sure, when you are energetically open and all your chakras are open be prepared for the voices and divine guidance that comes your way not only in your waking state but in your sleep state.   We usually take our dreams for granted.  We beleive that they don’t mean anything but in fact they may.  How do we know if our dreams are divinely guided?  Well if your dream was beautiful and gave you a beautiful and peaceful feeling that perhaps lasted longer than a day and when you recall the dream it brings back the same feelings, then you know it is real!  You have been divinely guided.   Let me tell you about mine.  Last Tuesday evening, I went to bed right after my meditation practice, I was tired from the day.  I began to dream and that particular night, I had two aparitions of Angels.  The first one came in the form of a beautiful female angel with golden hair flowing down to her waist.  She was in full body with baby blue dress and a royal blue overcoat that flowed into the air as if it were being blown away from the body  the bodice of the dress underneath was semi fitted and it cam together at the waist with a white ribbon.  There were no wings on my angel but her aura was magnificent.  She was bathed in blue, white and pink light that seemed to eminate around her as if she were inside a buble.  Her arms out streteched, I could see her hands and her skin was almost translucent, from her palms came another sort of light that I could   see it was white and translucent.  She spoke to me telepathically, her lips never moved, she told me ” Don’t worry, everything is going to be fine”.  As she spoke the words a sense of peace, serentiy and love filled my soul.  I became aware of the fact that I was dreaming and I had a thought within my dream.  I thought, I don’t know what she is talking about but it feels great.  She raised her hand to me as if to say goodbye and she was gone.  I felt like I was floating on water that was warm and healing.  I felt good.  My second aprition which came that same night was a bit more earthly.  I was sent to look inside a place of residence and as I walked in I saw and angel standing there, this time it was white, male and from its body came a blue light.  I was so excited to see it in my dream that I sreeched!  “oh my god!  I can see it!!  I asked the other persons in my dream if they could see if too.  They could’nt!  I screeched again — I can see it.  Before I could contain myself the Angel smiled and with his presence told me that only I could see him.  I was meant to see him.  I felt a sense of peace.  I fell deeper into sleep.  When I awoke that morning  I was very peaceful, blissful, happy and elated all at once.  I had been visited by two angels.  I made my way to the gym and worked out.  I went to the car only to notice that my phone was  misplaced.  I looked for the phone and right when I found it I recieved a text from my dautghter telling me that her brother had taken my husband to the emergency room because he had not slept due to a painful stomach ache that never went away.  I called her and as she began to tell me the symptoms, I immediately knew that it may be his apendix.  I then began to get flustered, as I did my eyes welled with tears and in those tears I saw my angel again and I remembered what she had told me the night before.  I felt an unexplicable wave of peace and calm come over me.  All of a sudden I just knew that everything was going to be all right.  I got to work, I taught 3 periods and then headed home.  I called two people who were able to get to the hospital faster than I due to the fact that I was out of town.  They reported that my husband was out of surgery and in recovery doing well.  I trusted my angels to get me home safely.  I was blessed and everything was fine.  I trusted in the divine words that came to me in a dream.  May you be as blessed and as lucky as I.

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

December 31st 2009,  will present a celestial event that happens only once every 2.5 years the next blue moon will happen again on August 31, 2012.  This New years marks a very special and spiritual event that for many of us is quite needed.  This is the time for New and inspired beginnings. This lunation, occurring on the last day of the year, can help sweep away low-vibration attitudes and situations, generating a force field of joy to bless the New Year. This is a very special event in that there will be a lunar eclipse and a “Blue Moon”.  This only happens Once in a Blue Moon A “Blue Moon” occurs when two full moons happen in one calendar month.  We will be experiencing the alignment of the lunar and solar calendars and a rare blue moon on December 31. This will be a potent time.  There are many challenges the world is facing today.  There are also many of us facing tremendous challenges in our daily lives.  As I move on with my studies in yoga therapy,  I am finding that for thousands of years the teachings have been that the greatest power to heal and to transform is love.

So on this very special day I ask you to join me in ushering in the birth of the Female light and kundalini energy.

Today  December 31, 2009 throughout the day and evening I invite you to join with me to drop into a deep place of unconditional love. This means opening your heart with absolutely no expectations of what will come from this event.     Place your hands on your heart and breathe deeply into your heart feeling the love for the earth, life, and all that is precious to you. Take some time and get into a true place of love that goes beyond your thinking mind.

Start by experiencing love for yourself and all you have been through to get you to this point in life. And when you feel ready expand your heart and allow your love to flow out to our circle throughout the world.

1) Light a red candle, saying something like,

This flame reminds us that we are not alone, but accompanied by the light and power of Omnipresent Good, that is guiding us and assisting us to let go of conditions, belongings, relationships and attitudes that limit the expression of joy and love.

2) Light incense as you say:

This is an offering for the Divine Mother and the Angels of Release and Joy, whose assistance I request to complete this cycle and enter into a new, more joyful phase of existence.

3)  Say this while holding your hands close to your heart.

I’m ready to rediscover joy, I’m ready to release any attitude or situation that inhibits joy. Thank you, Divine Mother-Father,Holy spirit, son as one for lifting these unnecessary burdens from me and my life. Thank you. Thank you.

Then bgin to dance with  your joy guides and angels!!  Smile, laugh and love all!

May you be blessed and full of love this beautiful day– The gateway to our New Beginnings!!

I send you all Love, Light and blessings!!

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.

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,