Recently in General Category
I was recently interviewed about Easy
World by Isabel Morales and it's now in the archives at Joy Vibe Radio
and ready for listening! I think you'll enjoy the energy--truly a "joy
vibe"!
Isabel is one of several who hosts on Joy Vibe, which was started by Sierra Goodman, the amazing woman who runs a dolphin and whale sanctuary in Costa Rica and who lost 180 lbs. through using LOA principles. Isabel, who I met through the old Powerful Intentions community, and I have great chemistry and she is very attuned with Easy World, so that made for a really fun time.
Living
in Easy World with Julia Rogers Hamrick on Joy Vibe Radio
Enjoy!
Isabel is one of several who hosts on Joy Vibe, which was started by Sierra Goodman, the amazing woman who runs a dolphin and whale sanctuary in Costa Rica and who lost 180 lbs. through using LOA principles. Isabel, who I met through the old Powerful Intentions community, and I have great chemistry and she is very attuned with Easy World, so that made for a really fun time.
Living
in Easy World with Julia Rogers Hamrick on Joy Vibe RadioEnjoy!
I am down 3 sizes, I'm continuing to
detox, problems I hardly even knew I had are clearing up, and I feel
better than I have in a long, long, LONG time. So I just have to share
what I've been doing! I meant to do this before but the energy didn't
show up with the inspiration, so, true to Easy World principles, I just
waited till it did. Now's the time!
Since the clinic in Spain, where I fasted for 17 days, not including the 2 days leading into the fast and the 4 days coming out of the fast, I've been eating mostly raw veggies with a few (healthy) cooked items added in to keep me grounded. I'd say I'm at about 75-80% raw at this point and it feels SO good! I haven't been following a rule book--indeed, the whole turning point for me was when I surrendered my healing to my Spirit and committed to following its guidance step-by-step, in the moment.
That was probably the biggest healing factor of all since I had been living as a "house divided" for so long--knowing that I was eating to satisfy my emotions and hide from my real feelings instead of to support my health and honor my body temple. It was the one holdout in my life--the one area I had not truly allowed my Spirit to be in charge of. Finally being willing to allow myself to flow back into alignment with my Spirit and the divine blueprint for my health has freed me in a way that one cannot imagine until one experiences it.
I'm eating lots and lots of salads--and pretty much constantly craving them. While I was fasting, I wasn't craving stuff that most people might crave--I was craving salads! (I believe the fast was pivotal in breaking my addiction to certain things like fats, heavy protein, dairy etc.) In addition to eating salads, I'm drinking them, too! Drinking them?
I've been consuming a preponderance of my greens in "green smoothies." Green smoothies are blended greens of various sorts and fruit, blended in the VitaMix (powerful blender that can blend hard veggies, etc., into liquids very rapidly). Our first favorite (yes, Rick is drinking them, too!) is kale, banana, and strawberries (plus water and flax seeds and a little agave nectar to sweeten if needed). It's hard to believe that is good until you try it! You can't taste the kale--only the fruit.
Our newest favorite green smoothie is a recipe from Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life. It's spinach, lime, banana, and apples. It tastes like a cross between key lime pie and Margarita mix! Victoria is the "mother of the green smoothie movement." She did research on chimpanzees (because they're the human animal's closest relative) and discovered that their diet is predominantly greens and that they often wrap their bananas in green leaves, thus giving her the idea to make greens palatable by blending them with fruit. Way to go, Victoria! Green smoothies are making a huge difference in a multitude of lives by giving bodies what they need to be healthy in an easily assimilated form. When you break down the cell walls of the greens by blending, you release the nutrients to be effiiciently absorbed. (We don't usually chew long enough to accomplish that!)
So...I highly recommend eating lots of raw veggies, especially green smoothies, but most important, surrendering your eating to your Spirit and watching your amazing transformation unfold as I am!
I created a Facebook Fan Page today. Please become a fan!
Since the clinic in Spain, where I fasted for 17 days, not including the 2 days leading into the fast and the 4 days coming out of the fast, I've been eating mostly raw veggies with a few (healthy) cooked items added in to keep me grounded. I'd say I'm at about 75-80% raw at this point and it feels SO good! I haven't been following a rule book--indeed, the whole turning point for me was when I surrendered my healing to my Spirit and committed to following its guidance step-by-step, in the moment.
That was probably the biggest healing factor of all since I had been living as a "house divided" for so long--knowing that I was eating to satisfy my emotions and hide from my real feelings instead of to support my health and honor my body temple. It was the one holdout in my life--the one area I had not truly allowed my Spirit to be in charge of. Finally being willing to allow myself to flow back into alignment with my Spirit and the divine blueprint for my health has freed me in a way that one cannot imagine until one experiences it.
I'm eating lots and lots of salads--and pretty much constantly craving them. While I was fasting, I wasn't craving stuff that most people might crave--I was craving salads! (I believe the fast was pivotal in breaking my addiction to certain things like fats, heavy protein, dairy etc.) In addition to eating salads, I'm drinking them, too! Drinking them?
I've been consuming a preponderance of my greens in "green smoothies." Green smoothies are blended greens of various sorts and fruit, blended in the VitaMix (powerful blender that can blend hard veggies, etc., into liquids very rapidly). Our first favorite (yes, Rick is drinking them, too!) is kale, banana, and strawberries (plus water and flax seeds and a little agave nectar to sweeten if needed). It's hard to believe that is good until you try it! You can't taste the kale--only the fruit.
Our newest favorite green smoothie is a recipe from Victoria Boutenko's book Green for Life. It's spinach, lime, banana, and apples. It tastes like a cross between key lime pie and Margarita mix! Victoria is the "mother of the green smoothie movement." She did research on chimpanzees (because they're the human animal's closest relative) and discovered that their diet is predominantly greens and that they often wrap their bananas in green leaves, thus giving her the idea to make greens palatable by blending them with fruit. Way to go, Victoria! Green smoothies are making a huge difference in a multitude of lives by giving bodies what they need to be healthy in an easily assimilated form. When you break down the cell walls of the greens by blending, you release the nutrients to be effiiciently absorbed. (We don't usually chew long enough to accomplish that!)
So...I highly recommend eating lots of raw veggies, especially green smoothies, but most important, surrendering your eating to your Spirit and watching your amazing transformation unfold as I am!
I created a Facebook Fan Page today. Please become a fan!
Last night, as I
watched one of our two remaining elderly pet mice struggling to return
to the sock hideout where she seems most comfortable, in what appear to
be her last days, I found myself crying and feeling really bad for her.
"Knock it off," my inner voice said. "You do not do her any favors by feeling bad for her. She's not a victim--she's having her own experience of being God in mouse form in the reality matrix called duality."
But it felt good to me--a relief, at least--to allow myself, if only for a moment to have those feelings and shed those tears. Her struggles weren't alleviated by my having them, but perhaps my own were. Resisting Difficult World only puts you deeper in Difficult World! And wallowing in it beyond the point where the energy is released does the same thing. Pay attention to where you are in your process to know whether you're in resistance or non-resistance as it can flip in a nano-second. Non-resistance is the key to higher frequency.
As human beings, with the capacity for compassion and empathy, we do walk a fine line between allowing ourselves to relieve the stress that builds up as we spend time in Difficult World, triggered by what we see in the mirror of our surroundings, and maintaining our confidence in the Divine Order of it all. Because even when we don't understand it, all that occurs really is in Divine Order. When we fall into the trap of seeing what is happening as wrong, we ensure that we are more ensconced in Difficult World than ever. And when you're in Difficult World, you can be sure that difficulty and pain will be there with you.
So, after indulging for a moment in feeling sorry for Nettie (the mouse), I realized that, indeed, I was not helping her or myself beyond my release of built-up energy that flowed out in my tears and my temporary indulgence in victimhood. To empower the situtation, I needed to be clear so I could do what is needed.
As I thought about this, I thought, too, about the earthquake in Haiti, and I realized that feeling bad about it and empathizing with the people who are involved at close range is of no value beyond releasing my own stress and being non-resistant. It surely doesn't help them.
You might say, "Well, those feelings might motivate you to do something in a practical sense to help."
Yes--but remember, your wisdom and access to divine guidance is available at higher vibrational frequency, not lower. So, after releasing the sad energy, the way to assure that what you do to help is in alignment with the Design for Harmony, re-affirming Divine Order and moving back to higher vibrational frequency is the way to assure that your actions will be of the highest possible service. Radiating Love is the most potent thing you can do, and being caught up in painful feelings doesn't allow you to do that effectively.
If you haven't yet donated to helping the people of Haiti, consider Partners In Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been in Haiti for 2 decades and is staffed mostly by Haitians.
"Knock it off," my inner voice said. "You do not do her any favors by feeling bad for her. She's not a victim--she's having her own experience of being God in mouse form in the reality matrix called duality."
But it felt good to me--a relief, at least--to allow myself, if only for a moment to have those feelings and shed those tears. Her struggles weren't alleviated by my having them, but perhaps my own were. Resisting Difficult World only puts you deeper in Difficult World! And wallowing in it beyond the point where the energy is released does the same thing. Pay attention to where you are in your process to know whether you're in resistance or non-resistance as it can flip in a nano-second. Non-resistance is the key to higher frequency.
As human beings, with the capacity for compassion and empathy, we do walk a fine line between allowing ourselves to relieve the stress that builds up as we spend time in Difficult World, triggered by what we see in the mirror of our surroundings, and maintaining our confidence in the Divine Order of it all. Because even when we don't understand it, all that occurs really is in Divine Order. When we fall into the trap of seeing what is happening as wrong, we ensure that we are more ensconced in Difficult World than ever. And when you're in Difficult World, you can be sure that difficulty and pain will be there with you.
So, after indulging for a moment in feeling sorry for Nettie (the mouse), I realized that, indeed, I was not helping her or myself beyond my release of built-up energy that flowed out in my tears and my temporary indulgence in victimhood. To empower the situtation, I needed to be clear so I could do what is needed.
As I thought about this, I thought, too, about the earthquake in Haiti, and I realized that feeling bad about it and empathizing with the people who are involved at close range is of no value beyond releasing my own stress and being non-resistant. It surely doesn't help them.
You might say, "Well, those feelings might motivate you to do something in a practical sense to help."
Yes--but remember, your wisdom and access to divine guidance is available at higher vibrational frequency, not lower. So, after releasing the sad energy, the way to assure that what you do to help is in alignment with the Design for Harmony, re-affirming Divine Order and moving back to higher vibrational frequency is the way to assure that your actions will be of the highest possible service. Radiating Love is the most potent thing you can do, and being caught up in painful feelings doesn't allow you to do that effectively.
If you haven't yet donated to helping the people of Haiti, consider Partners In Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been in Haiti for 2 decades and is staffed mostly by Haitians.
I need to get focused on packing and such--I feel like I've been in a complete fog and I'm just now waking up and realizing that there are only 3 days before the morning when I leave for Spain! So many details to handle. Very glad I know about Easy World. Now, to remember to choose it... (grin)
But I did just want to report the latest in the Choosing Easy World book saga.
I received the Spring/Summer catalog from St. Martin's Press, Choosing Easy World's publisher, today, and not only did they give it a 2-page spread, they had listed their marketing plans for it and they are HUGE and exciting and I feel SOOOOOOO blessed.
I also connected with the marketing manager for the first time today and in her email she said, "I LOVE the book. You have created an amazing, totally accessible and wonderful work. I'm so thrilled to be working with you on it!"
I'm in total awe of how Easy World is handling all this. Naturally, Easy World wants the book about itself to do great, but still--wow!!!
I'll see if there's a chance to write again before I leave, but I suspect my next blog entry may be from Spain!!!
But I did just want to report the latest in the Choosing Easy World book saga.
I received the Spring/Summer catalog from St. Martin's Press, Choosing Easy World's publisher, today, and not only did they give it a 2-page spread, they had listed their marketing plans for it and they are HUGE and exciting and I feel SOOOOOOO blessed.
I also connected with the marketing manager for the first time today and in her email she said, "I LOVE the book. You have created an amazing, totally accessible and wonderful work. I'm so thrilled to be working with you on it!"
I'm in total awe of how Easy World is handling all this. Naturally, Easy World wants the book about itself to do great, but still--wow!!!
I'll see if there's a chance to write again before I leave, but I suspect my next blog entry may be from Spain!!!
Please excuse my blogging lapse--I've been busy having some breakthroughs and such!
The injections in my knees have been a huge success--one more session to go this Friday, and my next healing move (at least, my next tangible one) will be to go to the clinic in Marbella and do the 21-day juice-fast. I'm getting excited and, if the truth be told, a little teeny bit scared about it. Not the fasting, just the weight I've assigned to the whole thing. The Difficult World Dictator is very threatened by this undertaking, and thus is inserting as many doubts as he can get through the wall of enthusiasm and confidence I've erected.
Here are some of his taunts: What if it doesn't work? (Julia--why would Spirit have guided you to do it if it isn't going to be effective?) What if I get better but can't keep up what I need to do in order to sustain feeling good? (Julia, then Spirit will guide you to the next doable step.) What if don't lose as many lbs. as I feel I ought to while I'm there and my knees continue to bear the stress of the extra weight and I end up needing a total knee replacement? And what if that doesn't really work? And what if I end up not being able to walk and I'm stuck in a wheelchair? And on and on. (Julia, get your mind out of the gutter--I mean, Difficult World and create it the way you want it, not how you don't want it! Anyway, this isn't a sprint, it's a marathon, and the guidance about what to do and when will come to you in the moment, when needed.)
Yet, regardless of all the stuff the DWD is lobbing at me, I feel so high-vibe and fantastically faith-filled and sure that this is right! I went to the chiropractor yesterday and though I could have walked, I allowed Rick to wheel me from the car into his office without resistance or being embarrassed or anything--something of a first. It just made sense! And who really cared? Only my vanity. Phooey on it! I want to save all my knee power for the trip. It's amazing what dropping resistance and allowing can do for one's energy. Between that and the adjustments, Dr. Stimson measured my vibrational frequency/level of consciousness (ala David Hawkins in Power vs Force) at 1280! That's over a hundred points higher than last time. I've not made such rapid jumps since he first started measuring me several years ago.
There may really be something to this notion of letting go of resistance and following your Spirit! (insert big wink)
There's more, but I'll let you digest this one and get back to you on some of the fresh insights that have started downloading into my brain...
The injections in my knees have been a huge success--one more session to go this Friday, and my next healing move (at least, my next tangible one) will be to go to the clinic in Marbella and do the 21-day juice-fast. I'm getting excited and, if the truth be told, a little teeny bit scared about it. Not the fasting, just the weight I've assigned to the whole thing. The Difficult World Dictator is very threatened by this undertaking, and thus is inserting as many doubts as he can get through the wall of enthusiasm and confidence I've erected.
Here are some of his taunts: What if it doesn't work? (Julia--why would Spirit have guided you to do it if it isn't going to be effective?) What if I get better but can't keep up what I need to do in order to sustain feeling good? (Julia, then Spirit will guide you to the next doable step.) What if don't lose as many lbs. as I feel I ought to while I'm there and my knees continue to bear the stress of the extra weight and I end up needing a total knee replacement? And what if that doesn't really work? And what if I end up not being able to walk and I'm stuck in a wheelchair? And on and on. (Julia, get your mind out of the gutter--I mean, Difficult World and create it the way you want it, not how you don't want it! Anyway, this isn't a sprint, it's a marathon, and the guidance about what to do and when will come to you in the moment, when needed.)
Yet, regardless of all the stuff the DWD is lobbing at me, I feel so high-vibe and fantastically faith-filled and sure that this is right! I went to the chiropractor yesterday and though I could have walked, I allowed Rick to wheel me from the car into his office without resistance or being embarrassed or anything--something of a first. It just made sense! And who really cared? Only my vanity. Phooey on it! I want to save all my knee power for the trip. It's amazing what dropping resistance and allowing can do for one's energy. Between that and the adjustments, Dr. Stimson measured my vibrational frequency/level of consciousness (ala David Hawkins in Power vs Force) at 1280! That's over a hundred points higher than last time. I've not made such rapid jumps since he first started measuring me several years ago.
There may really be something to this notion of letting go of resistance and following your Spirit! (insert big wink)
There's more, but I'll let you digest this one and get back to you on some of the fresh insights that have started downloading into my brain...
There is much more to what I'm about to tell you than will fit in this
one blog entry. I believe it's important enough to devote as much space
as necessary to it, so this will be the first of a series in telling my current healing story. It's my huge learning
at this time, and that means, it's my big teaching as well. I've been
putting off sharing this for a variety of reasons--the main one, I
believe, is embarrassment. I'm past that now--at least, mostly.
You know from my recent blog entry about Spain (and others preceding it) that I've been having a lot of trouble with my knees. I haven't wanted you--or anyone--to know how bad it had gotten. Or that, for the last 10 years (up until about a month ago), I've been on a pharmaceutical drug called "Enbrel" (an immune suppressant with dangerous side effects). It quit working recently, and after a depressing visit to the rheumatologist, who insisted I needed to go on another couple of toxic meds, with worse side effects than the Enbrel, I just felt everything in me say "NO!" It is time to get right with mySelf on all levels, and start trusting my Spirit with my health again, even if it's inconvenient and requires changing my life.
Why has my physical condition been too embarrassing to reveal? I'm Easy World Julia! I'm supposed to live in Easy World, where everything is easy. That, however, is something you can't do when you're out of alignment with your Spirit. What I've been experiencing with my body in recent months has definitely not been an EW experience. I'm the one who, in 1982, was guided to get off all medication and put rheumatoid arthritis in remission by following her Spirit--the very thing that led me to Eden--and who has made that very public, so I'm doubly embarrassed not to have been able to maintain that level of wellness. My main message is that the key to reaching the higher vibration necessary to experience Paradise is to follow your Spirit no matter what. When it comes to my health--especially, my eating--I have not been, at least, not fully, walking my talk. That is all changing.
Why do I feel I can finally reveal this now? Because I am at the point where I am once again being called to a level of impeccability with aligning with my Spirit that is unmatched in my experience since those days in 1982 when I found myself on the amazing path of healing that led me to cosmic consciousness. I can no longer dodge the call. My body is absolutely dictating that I heed it. I have been holding out in a number of ways, obeying my appetites, and my harmful habits, as well as giving into my fears and the fears of others, and I just can't do it anymore and survive. (As you may have noticed it is one of my great challenges to accept my human-ness and to forgive myself for not doing this all perfectly!)
Last week, I could barely walk, even using a walker, and was in so much pain, I had to loudly and forcefully blow out air or yell "Ow!" to even take a step (you should have heard me making my way down the hall!). Getting from the edge of my bed to the toilet, literally just five feet away, was a feat that would sometimes take 15 minutes--or much longer sometimes when I would find myself too terrified to even try to stand up. Sitting there on the bed for forty-five minutes just getting up the courage to do it was not uncommon.
After reaching the point a few weeks ago where I was desperate and calling out to Spirit for answers, I was guided to go to Spain to the clinic for therapeutic fasting. That felt so, so right--and still does. However, as the state of my knees continued to decline, I was not sure how in the world I would be able to get there if I couldn't walk, but I knew that Spirit did.
Some hours after asking for help specifically for my knees, an inner voice told me very clearly to Google "knee specialist, Denver," so I went right to the computer and did it. What I found with ease was information on a procedure called "Knee Vitality," administered at present only in Los Angeles and...Denver! (They treat the Dancing With the Stars folks!) I contacted the pain management center here that does them, and went in for a consultation week-before-last. (Thankfully, our insurance has paid for a rental wheelchair so I could get there!) I loved the place and the staff, and it was clear to me after the visit that this was to be the answer to my prayer for how I would walk well enough to get to Spain.
So I went in Wednesday for the first of three injections of a mixture of medicines (including the dreaded corticosteroids that I have been studiously avoiding for 27 years) and a form of hyaluronic acid that creates a buffer where cartilage has worn away. (Even though my main problem is rheumatoid arthritis, I have very little cartilage left in my right knee due to osteoarthritis.) They do this procedure using x-rays to see exactly where to place the needles. It was very fast and not very traumatic. Even though it involved 2 of my things on the list to avoid--steroids and x-rays--I didn't have the heebie-jeebies at all, a sure sign I was in the embrace of Spirit.
The injections were a success, as I was pretty sure they would be. I am not yet walking normally (glad I'll be getting 2 more treatments), but am far and away better off than I was. As Rick noted, I'm not puffing and blowing when I walk, and not screeching in pain. My right knee, which had been so swollen and stiff I could not straighten it or put weight on it for a very long time after sleeping or even sitting for awhile (this is why it took so long to get to the bathroom), is no longer swollen, and I can get up and down with relative ease. Yes, I'm VERY well aware that this is a temporary solution, but it will get me to Spain where my intensive healing can commence. Meantime, I've already lost 10 lbs. with ease, just from eating as my Spirit is guiding me to instead of the way I was.
I feel so blessed.
More soon...
You know from my recent blog entry about Spain (and others preceding it) that I've been having a lot of trouble with my knees. I haven't wanted you--or anyone--to know how bad it had gotten. Or that, for the last 10 years (up until about a month ago), I've been on a pharmaceutical drug called "Enbrel" (an immune suppressant with dangerous side effects). It quit working recently, and after a depressing visit to the rheumatologist, who insisted I needed to go on another couple of toxic meds, with worse side effects than the Enbrel, I just felt everything in me say "NO!" It is time to get right with mySelf on all levels, and start trusting my Spirit with my health again, even if it's inconvenient and requires changing my life.
Why has my physical condition been too embarrassing to reveal? I'm Easy World Julia! I'm supposed to live in Easy World, where everything is easy. That, however, is something you can't do when you're out of alignment with your Spirit. What I've been experiencing with my body in recent months has definitely not been an EW experience. I'm the one who, in 1982, was guided to get off all medication and put rheumatoid arthritis in remission by following her Spirit--the very thing that led me to Eden--and who has made that very public, so I'm doubly embarrassed not to have been able to maintain that level of wellness. My main message is that the key to reaching the higher vibration necessary to experience Paradise is to follow your Spirit no matter what. When it comes to my health--especially, my eating--I have not been, at least, not fully, walking my talk. That is all changing.
Why do I feel I can finally reveal this now? Because I am at the point where I am once again being called to a level of impeccability with aligning with my Spirit that is unmatched in my experience since those days in 1982 when I found myself on the amazing path of healing that led me to cosmic consciousness. I can no longer dodge the call. My body is absolutely dictating that I heed it. I have been holding out in a number of ways, obeying my appetites, and my harmful habits, as well as giving into my fears and the fears of others, and I just can't do it anymore and survive. (As you may have noticed it is one of my great challenges to accept my human-ness and to forgive myself for not doing this all perfectly!)
Last week, I could barely walk, even using a walker, and was in so much pain, I had to loudly and forcefully blow out air or yell "Ow!" to even take a step (you should have heard me making my way down the hall!). Getting from the edge of my bed to the toilet, literally just five feet away, was a feat that would sometimes take 15 minutes--or much longer sometimes when I would find myself too terrified to even try to stand up. Sitting there on the bed for forty-five minutes just getting up the courage to do it was not uncommon.
After reaching the point a few weeks ago where I was desperate and calling out to Spirit for answers, I was guided to go to Spain to the clinic for therapeutic fasting. That felt so, so right--and still does. However, as the state of my knees continued to decline, I was not sure how in the world I would be able to get there if I couldn't walk, but I knew that Spirit did.
Some hours after asking for help specifically for my knees, an inner voice told me very clearly to Google "knee specialist, Denver," so I went right to the computer and did it. What I found with ease was information on a procedure called "Knee Vitality," administered at present only in Los Angeles and...Denver! (They treat the Dancing With the Stars folks!) I contacted the pain management center here that does them, and went in for a consultation week-before-last. (Thankfully, our insurance has paid for a rental wheelchair so I could get there!) I loved the place and the staff, and it was clear to me after the visit that this was to be the answer to my prayer for how I would walk well enough to get to Spain.
So I went in Wednesday for the first of three injections of a mixture of medicines (including the dreaded corticosteroids that I have been studiously avoiding for 27 years) and a form of hyaluronic acid that creates a buffer where cartilage has worn away. (Even though my main problem is rheumatoid arthritis, I have very little cartilage left in my right knee due to osteoarthritis.) They do this procedure using x-rays to see exactly where to place the needles. It was very fast and not very traumatic. Even though it involved 2 of my things on the list to avoid--steroids and x-rays--I didn't have the heebie-jeebies at all, a sure sign I was in the embrace of Spirit.
The injections were a success, as I was pretty sure they would be. I am not yet walking normally (glad I'll be getting 2 more treatments), but am far and away better off than I was. As Rick noted, I'm not puffing and blowing when I walk, and not screeching in pain. My right knee, which had been so swollen and stiff I could not straighten it or put weight on it for a very long time after sleeping or even sitting for awhile (this is why it took so long to get to the bathroom), is no longer swollen, and I can get up and down with relative ease. Yes, I'm VERY well aware that this is a temporary solution, but it will get me to Spain where my intensive healing can commence. Meantime, I've already lost 10 lbs. with ease, just from eating as my Spirit is guiding me to instead of the way I was.
I feel so blessed.
More soon...
I have two hugely exciting, seemingly unrelated (although we know that everything is related!) items to report about Spain.
First, I got word week-before-last that my publisher, St. Martin's Press, has sold the Spanish foreign rights (Spain only) for Choosing Easy World! According to my agent, this is extra cool for this to happen so early in the process. I am super excited to see it in Spanish!
And I'm going to need to brush up on the pitiable amount of Spanish I recall from high school, because I am going to Spain in December! Not because of the book deal, but because that is where Spirit has guided me to go for healing.
If you've been reading my blog, you know I've been extra challenged of late with the rheumatoid arthritis I've had for almost 28 years now. I kept the disease in remission for a long, long time after having gone to a Swiss natural healing clinic in 1982, not long after I was first diagnosed. Rheumatoid arthritis was threatening to ruin my life, but in answer to a desperate prayer, Spirit guided me to Bircher-Benner in Zurich. I had huge success there in getting off all medication (and I was on a lot at the time, including high doses of corticosteroids), getting total pain relief, and recovering all joint function by eating a raw-foods diet and getting all kinds of natural therapies.
It was during this time that I had the experience of cosmic consciousness that I reported in the Introduction to Recreating Eden (you can read this for free online--just click the link). This came from my total devotion to listening to and obeying my Spirit's guidance impeccably, eschewing all other input and advice. It was an amazingly magical time.
Flashing forward to now, in praying for an answer for my current situation, I realized that, in a nutshell, I had fallen out of alignment with my Spirit when it comes to my health. Lots of reasons I won't enumerate now (this could be a book in itself), but suffice to say that the time has come to re-align. With the rheumatologist having only more toxicity to offer me, and it just feeling so, so wrong, I knew that working with my body instead of against it was the way, even if it meant changing my way of eating completely, with all that entails emotionally and practically. As I surrendered this all to Spirit and said I was willing to do whatever I needed to, magic started happening again!
In a series of cool synchronicities, I was guided to discover a German clinic that uses similar approach to Bircher-Benner (which, sadly, is no longer) that has a branch in Marbella on the Costa del Sol. It is Buchinger Marbella, which
can check out by clicking the link. Going there appealed to me more--for
obvious reasons--than going to Germany in the winter! It's very
expensive, but Spirit provided for that, too! Some money that had been
tied up just "happened" to come available now. And my dear, sweet 88-year-old Dad, who isn't up to traveling,
has donated his airline miles which will cover the flights.
I'll be blogging a lot more about this, but it feels so right to be doing this and to be really willing to do whatever it takes to be well. No more messing around--I literally need to walk my talk about aligning with my Spirit in order to make it through this time of extreme energy upheaval (as we all do). Of course, in order to do this, I need to be able to walk, period, and things are well underway now for me to do so with ease once more!
First, I got word week-before-last that my publisher, St. Martin's Press, has sold the Spanish foreign rights (Spain only) for Choosing Easy World! According to my agent, this is extra cool for this to happen so early in the process. I am super excited to see it in Spanish!
And I'm going to need to brush up on the pitiable amount of Spanish I recall from high school, because I am going to Spain in December! Not because of the book deal, but because that is where Spirit has guided me to go for healing.
If you've been reading my blog, you know I've been extra challenged of late with the rheumatoid arthritis I've had for almost 28 years now. I kept the disease in remission for a long, long time after having gone to a Swiss natural healing clinic in 1982, not long after I was first diagnosed. Rheumatoid arthritis was threatening to ruin my life, but in answer to a desperate prayer, Spirit guided me to Bircher-Benner in Zurich. I had huge success there in getting off all medication (and I was on a lot at the time, including high doses of corticosteroids), getting total pain relief, and recovering all joint function by eating a raw-foods diet and getting all kinds of natural therapies.
It was during this time that I had the experience of cosmic consciousness that I reported in the Introduction to Recreating Eden (you can read this for free online--just click the link). This came from my total devotion to listening to and obeying my Spirit's guidance impeccably, eschewing all other input and advice. It was an amazingly magical time.
Flashing forward to now, in praying for an answer for my current situation, I realized that, in a nutshell, I had fallen out of alignment with my Spirit when it comes to my health. Lots of reasons I won't enumerate now (this could be a book in itself), but suffice to say that the time has come to re-align. With the rheumatologist having only more toxicity to offer me, and it just feeling so, so wrong, I knew that working with my body instead of against it was the way, even if it meant changing my way of eating completely, with all that entails emotionally and practically. As I surrendered this all to Spirit and said I was willing to do whatever I needed to, magic started happening again!
In a series of cool synchronicities, I was guided to discover a German clinic that uses similar approach to Bircher-Benner (which, sadly, is no longer) that has a branch in Marbella on the Costa del Sol. It is Buchinger Marbella, which
can check out by clicking the link. Going there appealed to me more--for
obvious reasons--than going to Germany in the winter! It's very
expensive, but Spirit provided for that, too! Some money that had been
tied up just "happened" to come available now. And my dear, sweet 88-year-old Dad, who isn't up to traveling,
has donated his airline miles which will cover the flights.I'll be blogging a lot more about this, but it feels so right to be doing this and to be really willing to do whatever it takes to be well. No more messing around--I literally need to walk my talk about aligning with my Spirit in order to make it through this time of extreme energy upheaval (as we all do). Of course, in order to do this, I need to be able to walk, period, and things are well underway now for me to do so with ease once more!
I can hardly believe I've been at this for five years. I let the actual
anniversary of my first blog entry just blow by, but at least it's
still October! I made my inaugural post October 4, 2004.
To help you help me celebrate (because I know you're excited to do so!), I'm giving you an opportunity to win prizes. Who doesn't like to win prizes?
Correctly answer the quiz questions below (the answers are found in my blog) and be entered into a drawing to win a grand prize package that includes an Easy World "magic wand,"
an Easy World mug, an Easy World button, and a signed first
edition of my first book, Recreating
Eden!
If you answer the questions correctly and your name isn't drawn as the grand-prize-package winner, you're still in luck. Just for answering the questions correctly, you will win an audio download of your choice from the Recordings page on JuliaRogersHamrick.com, and a mention on my blog (with a link to your website if you like).
You can either read my blog from beginning to end (believe it or not, some people have done this!), or, the answers can be researched using the blog's search window. The bonus question will require a little bit of extra research. (To access the archives organized by month, just click on the heading "Julia's Blog" at the top of each page and you'll find a list on the left side--you may need to scroll down a bit).
Have fun!!!
To help you help me celebrate (because I know you're excited to do so!), I'm giving you an opportunity to win prizes. Who doesn't like to win prizes?
Correctly answer the quiz questions below (the answers are found in my blog) and be entered into a drawing to win a grand prize package that includes an Easy World "magic wand,"
an Easy World mug, an Easy World button, and a signed first
edition of my first book, Recreating
Eden!If you answer the questions correctly and your name isn't drawn as the grand-prize-package winner, you're still in luck. Just for answering the questions correctly, you will win an audio download of your choice from the Recordings page on JuliaRogersHamrick.com, and a mention on my blog (with a link to your website if you like).
You can either read my blog from beginning to end (believe it or not, some people have done this!), or, the answers can be researched using the blog's search window. The bonus question will require a little bit of extra research. (To access the archives organized by month, just click on the heading "Julia's Blog" at the top of each page and you'll find a list on the left side--you may need to scroll down a bit).
- What geographical location did I go to when I went to "Happy Land"?
- How did my dog, Roly, get drunk?
- When I was seeking an elephant walking down a Colorado highway, what did I find instead that satisfied my need to see an elephant?
- Where was I kidnapped and by whom?
- What song was playing when I was at the gas station in Raleigh in 2006 that had everybody groovin' at the pumps?
- What kind of station wagon did I keep seeing that seemed to be evidence of being in a parallel reality?
- Which anniversary did Rick and I celebrate in 2008 and where did we celebrate it?
- Who says I can't have that? (2009)
- What musical instrument did I get in August of 2009 and why did I get it?
- Why did Rick and I stay at the cottage for an extra day this September?
- **And a bonus question--answer this one correctly and get an extra
entry in the drawing: Which blog post of mine had received the most
comments as of October 27, 2009?
Have fun!!!
As you may
already know, a horrific event occurred October 9th in the desert near
Sedona, Arizona at a retreat led by James Arthur Ray, well-known author
and personal development guru. Two people died immediately and another
died this weekend after participating in a questionably executed sweat lodge. Almost two dozen
others were hospitalized with illnesses ranging from dehydration to
kidney failure.
I don't wish to lay blame--others will be doing that, and it's strictly an ego exercise to do so. But I did want to communicate one important message in light of the outcome: Never, ever obey anyone's authority over that of your Spirit.
If someone seems to know more than you do, have achieved more than you have, have obtained what you want to have, or seems more enlightened than you believe you are, it is not a signal to abdicate your own sense of knowing to subject yourself to his or hers. Partake of their ideas, yes, if you're attracted, and try them on to see if they fit for you--or not.
If you are receiving any internal signals that something is wrong--or even not quite right, or just simply not a match for you--pay attention and heed those signals. You don't have to prove anything to anyone--even to yourself. Don't let your own fearful ego lead you astray in a quest for something it's telling you that you haven't got. Ego is a consummate liar and will sell you down the river in a heartbeat.
All knowledge is already yours. All your desires are already yours, even if you aren't yet experiencing that. But the way to realize and manifest them into your reality is to follow your Spirit to the vibrational level where you can claim them. And you can't do that if you're busy following someone else. Or a group of someone elses. Or your own ego. Following anyone other than your own Spirit will lead you down in vibration.
If you find yourself caught up in group energy, something that often occurs due to the longing to feel the energy of being at one with your fellow human beings, pay special attention. You may find yourself willing to do things and take risks you'd never take if your energy was centered within yourself and not in the composite mind of the group.
I am somewhat painfully familiar with that dynamic because I once found myself streaking naked across my college campus after getting so caught up in the pack mentality and energy, I was compelled to join the streaking crowd. In that case, the only deleterious effect was a photograph of the back of me in my birthday suit (blessedly, with a shirt over my head) that showed up on the front page of the city's newspaper.
And here's one I have been learning the hard way: If your body is telling you to back off whatever you are doing instead of pushing, listen and obey. Ease your way into growth--don't force your way into it.
As a spiritual teacher, I take my responsibility to influence very seriously. For me, having your attention is a sacred trust and I am intent on keeping my ego in check to keep that relationship clear. Starting with the experience I tell about in the introduction to Recreating Eden, I have been continually shown that rejecting all authority outside one's own being, and honoring the voice of Spirit within is the very key to reaching the highest level of vibration and experiencing enlightenment.
My Spirit has always made sure I understood that trying to assert any authority over a person's own inner guidance, no matter how right my ego may tell me I am, is a ticket to disaster. My desire is to empower you to listen to your Spirit and be yourSelf, not to get you to take what I have to say as being the gospel. You don't need a guru--you have one within.
I can only imagine the pain that James Ray is in right now, not to mention the loved ones of those who died or who were otherwise injured. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that all involved may have stopped listening to their inner guidance. Then again, that is an ego-based judgment, based on limited evidence. Everything is in Divine Order, even when we don't like what Divine Order looks like at any given moment.
The take-away as I see it is this: Anyone who urges you to deny your internal signals so as to expand and evolve may just be, without even realizing it, asking you to risk your life. Anyone who tells you they can show you the way to Nirvana who isn't emphasizing that your Spirit is your only true authority is under the influence of ego and can't be trusted (only your Spirit can be trusted). But don't take my word for it--ask your own Spirit if this is true.
I don't wish to lay blame--others will be doing that, and it's strictly an ego exercise to do so. But I did want to communicate one important message in light of the outcome: Never, ever obey anyone's authority over that of your Spirit.
If someone seems to know more than you do, have achieved more than you have, have obtained what you want to have, or seems more enlightened than you believe you are, it is not a signal to abdicate your own sense of knowing to subject yourself to his or hers. Partake of their ideas, yes, if you're attracted, and try them on to see if they fit for you--or not.
If you are receiving any internal signals that something is wrong--or even not quite right, or just simply not a match for you--pay attention and heed those signals. You don't have to prove anything to anyone--even to yourself. Don't let your own fearful ego lead you astray in a quest for something it's telling you that you haven't got. Ego is a consummate liar and will sell you down the river in a heartbeat.
All knowledge is already yours. All your desires are already yours, even if you aren't yet experiencing that. But the way to realize and manifest them into your reality is to follow your Spirit to the vibrational level where you can claim them. And you can't do that if you're busy following someone else. Or a group of someone elses. Or your own ego. Following anyone other than your own Spirit will lead you down in vibration.
If you find yourself caught up in group energy, something that often occurs due to the longing to feel the energy of being at one with your fellow human beings, pay special attention. You may find yourself willing to do things and take risks you'd never take if your energy was centered within yourself and not in the composite mind of the group.
I am somewhat painfully familiar with that dynamic because I once found myself streaking naked across my college campus after getting so caught up in the pack mentality and energy, I was compelled to join the streaking crowd. In that case, the only deleterious effect was a photograph of the back of me in my birthday suit (blessedly, with a shirt over my head) that showed up on the front page of the city's newspaper.
And here's one I have been learning the hard way: If your body is telling you to back off whatever you are doing instead of pushing, listen and obey. Ease your way into growth--don't force your way into it.
As a spiritual teacher, I take my responsibility to influence very seriously. For me, having your attention is a sacred trust and I am intent on keeping my ego in check to keep that relationship clear. Starting with the experience I tell about in the introduction to Recreating Eden, I have been continually shown that rejecting all authority outside one's own being, and honoring the voice of Spirit within is the very key to reaching the highest level of vibration and experiencing enlightenment.
My Spirit has always made sure I understood that trying to assert any authority over a person's own inner guidance, no matter how right my ego may tell me I am, is a ticket to disaster. My desire is to empower you to listen to your Spirit and be yourSelf, not to get you to take what I have to say as being the gospel. You don't need a guru--you have one within.
I can only imagine the pain that James Ray is in right now, not to mention the loved ones of those who died or who were otherwise injured. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that all involved may have stopped listening to their inner guidance. Then again, that is an ego-based judgment, based on limited evidence. Everything is in Divine Order, even when we don't like what Divine Order looks like at any given moment.
The take-away as I see it is this: Anyone who urges you to deny your internal signals so as to expand and evolve may just be, without even realizing it, asking you to risk your life. Anyone who tells you they can show you the way to Nirvana who isn't emphasizing that your Spirit is your only true authority is under the influence of ego and can't be trusted (only your Spirit can be trusted). But don't take my word for it--ask your own Spirit if this is true.
In an average week, I am asked at least a couple of times to help
promote the books of other authors. You've read about some of these in
emails from me and on this blog. Because of the volume of requests I
receive, I'm having to become more selective about which books I help
promote.
These days, I'm saying "no" more and more often. Thus, when Richard Blackstone, an author I'd never heard of, approached me to help with his book campaign when I was already booked up with stuff to get done before leaving on vacation, I was pretty sure I was going to decline. But something nudged me to ask to see a copy of his book before making a decision. I read over it, and my mind was changed. I loved it!
Richard's book, Nuts & Bolts Spirituality, is a perfect book for those just awakening to their spirituality--but I'd also recommend it for you and you
r friends who have been
consciously on the path for awhile as it will affirm what you already
know and show you some things from a helpful new perspective. Nuts & Bolts Spirituality provides an
amazingly comprehensive and clear view of spirituality, showing what is
required to find alignment with Source and create your life by the
divinely implanted blueprint your Spirit administrates for you. I love
Richard's style of writing. It's very personal and friendly--very
accessible.
If this sounds like a book you'd love to have or give to someone you care about, you're in luck! If you buy a copy (or more!) of Nuts & Bolts Spirituality today--that is, October 8, before midnight-you will be able to download a boatload of great bonus gifts, including a chapter from Recreating Eden and a chapter of my upcoming book, Choosing Easy World, from me! Check out the bonuses and find out the easy steps it takes to gain access to them here: http://www.nutsandboltsspirituality.com/amazon.htm
These days, I'm saying "no" more and more often. Thus, when Richard Blackstone, an author I'd never heard of, approached me to help with his book campaign when I was already booked up with stuff to get done before leaving on vacation, I was pretty sure I was going to decline. But something nudged me to ask to see a copy of his book before making a decision. I read over it, and my mind was changed. I loved it!
Richard's book, Nuts & Bolts Spirituality, is a perfect book for those just awakening to their spirituality--but I'd also recommend it for you and you
r friends who have been
consciously on the path for awhile as it will affirm what you already
know and show you some things from a helpful new perspective. Nuts & Bolts Spirituality provides an
amazingly comprehensive and clear view of spirituality, showing what is
required to find alignment with Source and create your life by the
divinely implanted blueprint your Spirit administrates for you. I love
Richard's style of writing. It's very personal and friendly--very
accessible.If this sounds like a book you'd love to have or give to someone you care about, you're in luck! If you buy a copy (or more!) of Nuts & Bolts Spirituality today--that is, October 8, before midnight-you will be able to download a boatload of great bonus gifts, including a chapter from Recreating Eden and a chapter of my upcoming book, Choosing Easy World, from me! Check out the bonuses and find out the easy steps it takes to gain access to them here: http://www.nutsandboltsspirituality.com/amazon.htm
