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NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2015

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106 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k n o v e m b e r / d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 5 • Chakra 3: Solar plexus—Energy can be directed to formulate a schedule and work toward your personal and professional goals, as well as to achieve success, bolster self-esteem, and eliminate negative thoughts. • Chakra 4: Heart—Aim your energy to heal love issues and relate to others. • Chakra 5: Throat—Energy will empower communication, helping you share your needs and desires, as well as receive intuitive guidance. • Chakra 6: Forehead—Energy can help you create a healthy self-image, envision your desired future, and set future goals. • Chakra 7: Top of the head—Use this energy to access higher spiritual gifts, link with the Divine, obtain your life purpose, and release negative entities. STAGE 2: RESISTANCE We enter the resistance stage if we're unable to obtain relief during the alarm stage. Maybe your energy expenditure didn't result in resolution, or the energy you did spend backfi red, causing more problems. Either way, during this stage, we want to keep fi ghting the perceived danger, but instead we start running out of energy. Indications of this stage are anxiety, compulsive behaviors, cynicism, depression, and weariness. 9 In a nutshell, we sense the resistance to stress resolution and don't know how to achieve a solution. Intuitive Vision Quest An intuitive vision quest is a process that invites insight and inspiration from your wise self, your Higher Power, and even the external world. The objective is to set aside a specifi c amount of time to be intuitively or spiritually open to guidance in regard to the stressor. 1. Commit 3–7 days to conducting this quest. (You don't have to go out of town or sit on a mountain all day and night.) 2. Begin by writing down everything you understand about the stressor. Analyze it from every point of view possible, and then summarize the issue in a single sentence. 3. Ask that your wise self, the natural world, and your Higher Power send you dreams, messages, omens, or signs during your questing time. The purpose of this incoming stream of traffi c is to enable you to redefi ne the stressor and learn from the situation. Grasp the silver lining, and you're done with the cloud. 4. Within the time frame you've chosen, pay attention to advice from others, books you're reading, dreams, sensations, and even license plates, radio songs, and unusual occurrences. Perceive these as instructional in fi nding new ways to handle the challenge. 5. Record your awareness, and at the end of the questing time, commit to embracing the newly gained wisdom and transforming through the situation.

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