Helping Souls Grow
God lives in the sound of laughter!
Laughter calls forth our desire to live. It releases us from anger, sadness, apathy, discontentment – all of the emotions that are not a part of our true being. The power of laughter is infinite in its ability to heal and unite. Today, make it your mission to play and laugh!
The act of asking and giving forgiveness is an essential part of the human experience. Whether your child breaks your favorite vase, someone cuts you off in traffic, your co-worker bad mouths you at work, or you and your spouse have a misunderstanding, every day we encounter situations that require us to exercise forgiveness. As it turns out, when we practice this key to spiritual living our health improves.
About.com has an extensive health section that is reviewed and supported by the Medical Review Board. Here is what About.com had to say on the topic of forgiveness.
Barbara Y. Martin explains that when we truly forgive we are alining ourselves with our divine nature. When we give genuine forgiveness it appears in the aura as the pink light of divine love, and when we ask for forgiveness it can appear as the purple light of peace. The act of asking for and giving forgiveness brings in the higher dimensions of consciousness.
Dimitri Moraitis emphasizes that when we forgive we’re actually freeing ourselves from negative and detrimental energy. If we choose not to forgive, we tie ourselves to the person/situation that created the disturbing condition to begin with.
It is hugely important to forgive as soon as possible. Why? Because the longer we hold on to the offense, perceived or real, the more difficult it becomes to forgive and move forward.
To help the forgiveness process ask the deep rose pink light of divine love to go the person you are forgiving, or the person you are asking forgiveness from. See yourself and the other person encircled in the pink light. Pray that everyone involved be uplifted in love. You can also ask the angels to enfold the other person in the light of love. You may have to forgive many times, but stay with it until you feel the release.
No matter what someone does, you have the power to forgive.
This is one of the greatest tools of healing you will ever have.
Sources:
About.com
Karremans JC, Van Lange PA, Holland RW. Forgiveness and its associations with prosocial thinking, feeling, and doing beyond the relationship with the offender. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2005.
Lawler KA, Younger JW, Piferi RL, Billington E, Jobe R, Edmondson K, Jones WH. A change of heart: cardiovascular correlates of forgiveness in response to interpersonal conflict. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Octover 2003.
Lawler KA, Younger JW, Piferi RL, Jobe RL, Edmondson KA, Jones WH. The unique effects of forgiveness on health: an exploration of pathways. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, April 2005.
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Join aura expert Barbara Y. Martin for the latest information on the aura and health. Discover how spiritual energy is the single biggest key to manifesting health. Barbara, along with Dimitri Moraitis, will guide your through aura meditation techniques to help heal physical, mental or emotional distresses. This is one of Barbara’s most popular workshops!
Learn:
Includes a meditation
and demonstration of aura readings!
Date: Saturday, July 30
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Held at the CoLoft
920 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, Ca 90401
FREE, but space is limited.
Call Spiritual Arts to Register:
(800) 650-AURA (2872)
Don’t live in the Santa Monica area?
Join us from the comfort of your home via teleconference! Email us at info@spiritualarts.org for the call in number.
Energy Awareness Radio with 
T. Love
Barbara and Dimitri join host T Love for an illuminating look at the aura and spiritual energy today, Wednesday, July 27 at 6:00pm EST (3pm Pacific time)
Call in number (347) 202-0227.
www.blogtalkradio.com/energyawareness/2011/07/27/aura-readings
Be sure to tune in!
by Jaqueline Marie – Staff Writer
“Thanks are the highest form of thought;
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
~G.K. Chesterton.
The simple act of being thankful has the power to transform our lives. U.C. Davis professor Robert Emmons is the world’s leading authority on the study of gratitude. Since beginning his research in the early 1990′s, Professor Emmons has conducted numerous experiments with remarkable results.
Through his research Emmons has found that individuals who record their reasons for giving thanks in a gratitude journal on a daily basis feel more loving, forgiving, joyful, enthusiastic, healthy and optimistic.
Summary of Findings:
Metaphysics emphasizes the importance of gratitude. According to Barbara Y. Martin, an internationally recognized clairvoyant and author who has taught metaphysics for over 40 years , gratitude shows up in the aura as a beautiful pink light in the solar plexus area concurrent with the emotional nature. It also can also show up as brilliant gold light in the Hermetic center (heart chakra), showing the confidence and outgoing nature gratitude can bring.
Dimitri Moraitis, co-founder of Spiritual Arts Institute, explains that sometimes we get so self absorbed in our problems and concerns, we forget there is a greater power working with us at all times. Expressing gratitude has the power to lift us out of those detrimental patterns that can paralyze us from taking action.
Take a moment today and write down all the things you’re grateful for, big and small. Reminder: There is always something to be grateful for.
Robert Emmons website: I Am Thankful
Get started today with a free Online Gratitude Journal
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By Jaqueline Marie – Staff Writer
Can prayer heal?
For centuries metaphysics has advocated the power of prayer as a key means of healing. Now science is beginning to understand what the mystics have known all along – prayer heals.
Not long ago science scoffed at the idea of prayer and meditation having an effect on the healing process, but due to the surmounting evidence suggesting otherwise, the mainstream medical community is taking note. Research into the healing power of prayer has doubled in the last 15 years. Dr. Mitchell Krucoff, a cardiovascular specialist at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., has been studying prayer and spirituality and its links to healing since 1996. Medicinenet.com cited him as saying,
“We’re seeing systematic investigations — clinical research — as well as position statements from professional societies supporting this research, federal subsidies from the NIH, funding from Congress. All of these studies, all the reports, are remarkably consistent in suggesting the potential measurable health benefit associated with prayer or spiritual interventions.”
In the Handbook of Religion and Health more than 1,200 case studies on the relation between prayer and health are documented. Some of the findings include:
It’s exciting to see the medical community beginning to acknowledge the power of prayer in healing, a truth metaphysics has been practicing all along. According to metaphysics, when you pray and meditate you are accessing a spiritual power that accelerates the healing process. It is this spiritual energy that is sustaining the body.
By working with the aura, your spiritual blueprint, you are directly accessing the source of your spiritual power. This spiritual energy can then be directed to any area of your consciousness that needs healing or transformation, mind, body and soul.
The way you draw spiritual energy into the aura
is through mediation and prayer.
Healing is a proactive, spiritual process. Health consciousness is a key factor in healing. When we meditate and pray we align ourselves with God, bringing ourselves into a greater awareness of God. Renowned healer and teacher Joel Goldsmith understood this spiritual principle and achieved extraordinary results because he was able put his mind in a state of consciousness where illness does not exist.
While science has not yet definitively pinpointed why prayer is helpful, it is already demonstrating that the very act of prayer is healing. To quote Dr. Krucoff,
“We’re looking at whether in all of the energy and interest we have put into systematic investigation of high-tech medicine, if we have actually missed the boat. Have we ignored the rest of the human being — the need for something more — that could make all the high-tech stuff work better?”
Your responses and feedback are welcome!
Source: medicinenet.com
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Blessings beautiful souls!
On this glorious Monday we invite you to join us in setting a powerful, positive tone for this week by attuning to Divine Motivation – motivation that streams straight from the heart of the Beloved.
Heavenly Father, Holy Mother God,
As we enter into a new week and set forth to accomplish our goals, duties, tasks and dreams, we ask for a blessing of motivation to propel us forward in a God-like manner, enabling us to meet each person, place, circumstance and situation with joy and enthusiasm. We ask to be quickened in the light, the consciousness, of motivation, so we may perceive the magic and wonder inherent in each moment.
May we co-create our reality hand in hand with you with deep gratitude and profound knowing that we are only given that which we can handle, and that at every step of the way we are always guided, assisted and protected.
We rejoice in the gift of life! We celebrate the opportunity to know ourselves as divine! With the heart of a child, we welcome this week of blessings, growth, learning and opportunities with awe, and answer the call to greatness with a resounding, YES! We ask that all of our brothers and sisters be quickened in the light, so that together we create heaven on earth now, in this moment, and in each subsequent moment hereafter. We thank thee that this is so. So be it!
It is our great pleasure to share with you the work of one of our students, Shon Prem Bon Soeng. Shon is a student in the Teacher Training Program and is certified with the institute as a spiritual healer. She recently began participating in a clinical study at prestigious hospital in Israel as to the beneficial effects of aura healing with cancer patients. Shon is revolutionizing the medical field. May Mother/Father God bless her work~
I have been a student of Barbara Y. Martin and Spiritual Arts Institute for several years and recently was certified as a spiritual healer through the institute’s Practitioner Healing Program. Although I live in Israel, I have been taking the program online, as well as attending retreats in Southern California.
Since December 2010, I have been participating in special two-year study being conducted at Rambam Medical Center, one of Israel’s most prestigious hospitals, where they are exploring the beneficial effects of alternative therapies with cancer patients. This research aims to find out how complementary medicine affects the quality of life of oncology patients, particularly regarding the symptoms of the secondary effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of the disease itself in the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual aspects.
In this study, I am practicing the Direct Healing techniques learned through Spiritual Arts Institute in a clinical environment. After only six months of work, I would like to share some of my extraordinary experiences with you.
Rambam Health Care Campus is Northern Israel’s largest hospital, housing Rambam Medical Center, a European Society Medical Oncology Center (ESMO) of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care. It is now the 8th year that oncology patients of Rambam Hospital can choose to receive complementary medicine sessions in the Oncology Supportive and Palliative Care Unit alongside their chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatments traditionally received in conventional medicine.
The Supportive Care Unit, where I conduct the spiritual healings, is located in the Oncology Day Care Ward, where people with different types of cancer and at every stage of the disease come to receive their chemotherapy treatments. Patients that choose to receive spiritual healing sessions or other complementary medicine sessions within the Unit can also take part in the ongoing research conducted. Patients who agree to participate in the research start the spiritual healing sessions are at different stages of the disease and treatment. Spiritual healing sessions are also being given to patients who are considered to be at a terminal stage.
Overall, patients who take part in the research receive 6 sessions of spiritual healing, 45 minutes each, once a week. As of this writing, more than 100 spiritual healing sessions have been given in the Supportive Care Unit. Results of the research will be published in an internationally renowned scientific magazine in 2012. While the healer is not informed of which patient is taking part in the research, all patients give their direct, spontaneous and immediate feedback.
Patients that have been receiving healing are from 24 to 72 years old, and come from different social backgrounds and beliefs. For those with a religious background, patients have shared they have been praying to God to heal them and are so moved by the fact that these spiritual healing sessions are offered in the hospital. For them it is God sent. As a consequence, they are very open to receive the healing Light.
Some patients are atheists. They say they do not especially believe in God; even the word ‘God’ creates some kind of resistance in their minds. However, they keep on coming back to the healing sessions, saying they feel comfortable and interested by our talks, with which we open every session, and that the healing makes them feel better. Believers or non believers, they want to be healed. My job is to help facilitate that by bringing the person into a state of consciousness where they are relaxed, open and ready to receive the Light.
Examples of Spiritual Healing
Here are three stories of the effects on patients during and after healing sessions:
Reactions to Spiritual Healings by Medical Doctors
A few months ago, I was asked to give a short lecture about Spiritual Healing in a day seminar for the Medical Staff of the Oncology division of Rambam Hospital. The medical staff was divided to 7 groups. At the end of one lecture, after demonstrating the direct healing technique, a social worker commented with teary eyes, “I had some terminal patients that had just been told they only had a short time to live. Some have young children and very sad family stories. They asked me questions and I didn’t know what to answer or where to send them to. I wish I knew that I could send people to these sessions when they are asking me existential questions and I don’t know what to say or where to send them, now I know.” She said with relief.
Another doctor asked me “How are these sessions helping the patients when they only have a few more days to live and anyway they are going to die”? I spoke about the continuation of the soul and the work on the astral body, about preparing them for an easier transition, as well as simply receiving them with love and compassion, listening to them, allowing them to ask any question they might have and helping them to connect with the higher.
Just before the closing circle, the senior doctor (who is the director of the supportive care unit, the initiator and responsible for the research on the effects of complementary medicine on cancer patients), asked for a healing session for himself. He laid on the treatment bed for a 15 minute healing session. It was in the big hall in the presence of other medical staff and participants in the seminar. When he got up off the treatment bed he said he had had a leg pain before the session, which he didn’t tell me about, and that it had passed during the session.
To finish, the chief nurse of the oncology division, responsible for all the therapists and the patients of the supportive care unit (She was participating as a member of the first group of the medical staff groups) shared with me in the presence of the other members of the group that she is sending the most difficult cases to the spiritual healing sessions and that the patients are reporting to her that they are very pleased with the healing sessions.
A Story of Personal Healing
There are many more stories of the effects of spiritual healing on cancer patients I could write about. Every day of work in the oncology ward is rich with people’s moving life stories, but the last one I chose to share is not someone else’s moving life story, it was happening at home. It is the story of my own mum.
My mum is in her mid-fifties, a school principle in Israel. Six months ago she was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer in advanced stage. It was growing fast and spreading everywhere through the lymphatic system. She was quite shocked at the diagnosis and afraid of what she was going to go through. She knew all that so well, as her own mother died from cancer at the age of 49.
She was prescribed 8 cycles of chemotherapy and biological treatments. When she returned home after her first treatment, I started doing healing work for her as well as ask for the healing support of Spiritual Arts Institute. After the second chemotherapy treatment, we did more direct healing and there was a special moment. While she was praying strongly to God to heal her and I was holding my hand above her hermetic center, we could both see the atoms leaving her body and being dissolved.
From that moment on, she knew she was going to be healed.
When she reached the 4th cycle of chemotherapy, she was taken to do a PET CT scan to see the progress of the disease. The results of the scan were amazing! Although she was only half way through the conventional treatment, there were no signs of cancer in her body whatsoever, not even a trace of the disease that usually takes some time to disappear from the body even after chemotherapy treatment is finished, but here nothing!
Our joy was immense, but she was now faced with a decision whether to continue the difficult chemotherapy treatments. She decided to finish the cycles. Another PET CT scan after the 8th treatment confirmed, once again, she was indeed completely healed and there was no trace of cancer in her body. We were all so grateful.
I can very clearly see how the healing principles helped save my mum’s life and are helping to save other people’s lives. I am deeply grateful to God and the Higher to be able to do this work and to Barbara and Spiritual Arts for all that I have learned. All patients are someone’s mum or dad, daughter or son. It is always the same healing method and technique that I am practicing while at work in the hospital. It is always with the same level of consciousness that I enter the healing room and receive the patient for their healing session, always keeping the vision of their divine image in which they are already healed.
Shon Prem Bon Soeng is a certified psychotherapist and an officially authorized Zen teacher. Her spiritual healing work is certified through Spiritual Arts Institute. She lives in Israel and is currently opening a healing center where she will conduct clinical psychotherapy, spiritual healing sessions and classes in metaphysics and Zen. You may email her at: One@SpiritualSpring.org
It has been asked what the spiritual significance of the summer solstice is. Astronomically, the summer solstice marks the moment when the Earth’s North Pole is pointed closest to the sun in the northern hemisphere and the first day of winter in the southern hemisphere. It is the longest day in the year for the northern hemisphere and the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere. And as we all know, summer represents life in full bloom, a time to enjoy ourselves, take that vacation, etc.
Spiritually there are 
rhythms of activities connected to the seasons as well. Spiritual growth is a continual process but summer does represent a period of spiritual flowering. Actually the spiritual peak of the year is during the Spring Equinox but summer is when we feel the effects of that peak the most. It is generally a time to reap the rewards of accumulated spiritual efforts rather than starting a new flow of energy (Fall and winter are the best times for starting a new spiritual flow).
So take a moment to express your gratitude to the Divine for what you have and all that has been done for you. Take time to enjoy yourself and to better appreciate the spiritual opportunities that are opening up. Despite current challenges, this age we live in is one of the best times to grow in the Divine Light.
In Light and love,
Barbara Martin, Dimitri Moraitis
Spiritual Arts Institute
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Live simply that others might simply live.
~Elizabeth Ann Seton
To live simply is to learn to let go. By letting go of the need to be right, the need to have/do/be more, the need for others approval, etc., we free ourselves from the illusions of this world and begin to bear witness to the inherent divinity present in all things, at all times.
How do we learn let go?
We have been blessed with an abundance of tools to assist us in becoming ever more aware of the beauty of THIS moment. Luckily for us they are accessible and enjoyable!
Color:
Colors are various gradations of Light perceived by the physical eye. In metaphysics color is seen as spiritual energy and can be defined as, “Divine Light that propels the life force of God to all creation.” (Change Your Aura, Change Your Life) With this understanding of color, we can become more centered, more loving, more peaceful just by the colors we surround ourselves with. One of the easiest ways to use the power of color is to mindfully choose the colors we dress ourselves in. If you’re needing more vitality, wear red. If you are in need of balance and harmony, green is the way to go. Needing to tap into some inspiration? Powder blue will assist you.
Affirmations:
Our thinking has a direct impact on the quality of our lives. By declaring affirmations with spiritual power and sincerity, we attune our mind to the positive flow of the universe and attract into our lives the experiences our hearts are most desiring. Affirmations are positive declarations – they do not contain the words “not” or “never”. An example of this would be instead of saying, “I am not sick” say, “I accept only perfect health”.
Movement:
One of the easiest ways to center and let go is by becoming present to movement of our breath. By peacefully observing the inhale and exhale, the gentle rise and the fall of the belly, we slow our heart rate down, calm the nerves, and release tension. This small act can completely transform our reality. The next time you are feeling rushed, or are in the midst of a challenging experience, stop for a moment and take a deep inhale through your nose and exhale out through your mouth. Repeat this cycle at least 3 times, allowing your chest to soften and your stomach to expand. To add to the calming effect, when you exhale let out a sigh, a deep, “Ahhhhhh”. This sound alerts our subconscious that its safe and tells the muscles in our bodies to release and let go.
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