Sound familiar? Of course you must be wondering how in the world the words “beautiful” and “rut” could fit into the same sentence, much less side-by-side where one word describes the other.  So I’ll explain.  Believe it or not, this is one of the most important things you’re ever going to learn in your life.

If you’re stuck in a rut, it’s because you have personally dug yourself into it.  Yes, sometimes we might get stuck in a rut of someone else’s making, but that’s only because we’ve chosen to come along for the ride, and we can walk out of theirs at any time by leaving the situation.  Today I’m writing about your rut.  The one that you dug yourself into – that mean old nasty rut that you want to get out of so much.

Could you just imagine for a minute that you are physically in your rut?  Close your eyes – or keep them open if that works for you – and just imagine that you are really observing it.  What does it look like?  How big is it?  Is it a little rut that has sucked your foot into it?  Is it more like a trench all around you?  How big is this rut you’re in?  Just observe without judgment.

What Are You Getting Out of Your Rut?

Now you’re going to ask yourself the hard question.  The question that forces you to be very, very honest with yourself, because this is what is actually going to help you to get out of your rut. Please ask yourself now:  “What am I getting out of being in this rut?”  In other words, there is actual beauty in your rut that you must acknowledge in order to get out of it.  So what is the beauty in your rut?  What is it giving you?  I assure you, it is giving you something that you intensely desire, or else you would not be sticking around in your rut.

Take a moment and just look at your rut without resisting it, without judging it.  Simply observe.  Look for its beauty.  Appreciate it.  Why did you create it?  What is it there for?  I’ll give you a hint:  it’s all about protection and safety.  Your rut is there to protect you from something.  If you stop resisting it for a moment and simply appreciate its beauty, you can determine what it is that you’re afraid of so much that you unconsciously feel you need to stay stuck in your rut to protect you from it.

If you’d like help in digging in and finding out what it is that’s got you digging ruts for protection, please contact me for a session.  Getting to your core issues and soul lessons is my specialty.  Let me help you get out of your rut.

So go ahead and allow  yourself to acknowledge that there is indeed beauty in your rut.  Once you stop judging and resisting it, you can appreciate how it’s not only been holding you back, but that it has also been helping you as well.  Once you’re ready to confront and let go of the root fear, you can simply give thanks to your beautiful rut and step right out of it, without any further need of it to keep you safe and protected.

Chances are, you don’t really know the answer to that.  You might believe it’s because you eat too much, or that you don’t exercise enough or drink enough water.  But that’s not actually the truth.  How simple would it be if it were?  If you want to find out what the real reason is behind your weight, you’ve got to examine your subconscious beliefs.

Subconscious Beliefs and Your Weight

Have you heard some of the diet experts say that you’ve got to eat all the time in order to lose weight?  Why would that be?  Doesn’t that go against simple common sense?  Not when you consider the reason behind this approach.  If you find that you release excess weight by eating more food more often, the likely reason behind your weight is a subconscious fear of starvation.  It could be that you had an ancestor who lived during very difficult times and endured starvation, and the starvation program was passed down to you genetically.  As long as you’re eating, your subconscious fear of starvation is put on hold and suppressed.  But suppression does not solve the root core issue.  What happens when you get tired of all that constant eating?  That’s right.  You put the weight back on.  Who wants to have their entire life revolving around eating food all the time?  It might be fun at first.  For a day or two.  But, believe me, having to schedule in your food breaks gets mighty exhausting after a couple of days.  Better to work on releasing that subconscious fear of starvation.

What about the experts that tell you that you have to eat less and exercise more in order to lose weight?  Then you do that, but nothing happens.  Well, there could be a number of reasons behind your weight in that instance.  Your subconscious belief may be that it’s unsafe for you to be slim or attractive, and so in order to be safe, your autonomic nervous system – which is a part of your greater unconscious mind – refuses to release that extra weight, no matter what you do.  Until you address the subconscious fear of danger in being slim and attractive, you’ll continue frustrating yourself with efforts beyond belief to release the extra pounds, to no avail.  Your willpower exists in that tiny 3% area of your conscious mind – that is no match for the 97% of your subconscious and unconscious mind that exists to keep you safe – even if it’s really even more unsafe for you to stay overweight.

Other times, we may have seen a loved one become ill and “waste away.”  The subconscious program created in that scenario becomes the belief “I have to get deathly sick in order to lose any weight.”  Consciously, you realize that’s not true, but your subconscious mind has some weird ideas.  Consequently, you may find that every time you begin to release excess weight, you find yourself either sick or injured… and then your unconscious mind puts the breaks on the weight loss and puts the weight back on you, so you’ll get better.

What about having an underweight body and unable to gain weight, no matter how hard you try?  You may have a subconscious belief here that says you need to be invisible for some reason, often times attached to childhood trauma and abuse.  It believes you must be insignificant and small, in order to hide you from an oppressor, and doesn’t take into consideration the difference between smallness of being and smallness of size.  You may have endured a trauma as a young one, in which you felt the need to shrink or hide, or suffered a belief of inferiority so powerful as to make everyone in the world seem bigger than you.

Ultimately, it really doesn’t matter so much what we eat.  Yes, there are certain foods and chemicals we’re best off to avoid, such as high fructose corn syrup, MSG and aspartame; and yes, it’s true that your body functions much better when you’ve got your acid/alkaline balance in order, and when you detoxify poisons out of your system, but the real truth is that when your subconscious beliefs are healthy and positive, your body will metabolize what you put into it at exactly the rate that it should.

There are thousands of possible beliefs that your subconscious mind could be holding onto, causing your weight to be too high or too low.  This is why it’s so important to explore your beliefs and find out what’s really going on there underneath it all.  If you’d like some assistance with digging into your own subconscious programs about your weight, and find out what YOUR reasons are behind your weight, consider contacting me to schedule a session to help you get your mind where you’d like it to be with your body.

He further goes on to explain that “Residing in Self is liberation.  When man raises himself above the idea creation of this Darkness, Maya, and passes completely out of its influence, he becomes liberated from bondage and is placed in his real Self, the Eternal Spirit.

“Liberation is salvation.  On attaining this liberation, man becomes saved from all his troubles, and all the desires of his heart are fulfilled, so the ultimate aim of his life is accomplished.

“Troubles are born from Avidya, Ignorance.  Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent and the nonperception of the Existent.”

“What is ignorance?  Ignorance, Avidya, is misconception, or is the erroneous conception of the existence of that which does not exist.  Through Avidya man believes that this material creation is the only thing that substantially exists, there being nothing beyond, forgetting that this material creation is substantially nothing and is a mere play of ideas on the Eternal Spirit, the only Real Substance, beyond the comprehension of the material creation.  This Ignorance is not only a trouble in itself but is also the source of all the other troubles of man.”

Sri Yukteswar then continues to teach why man is bound.  ”By the influence of these five troubles – Ignorance, Egoism, Attachment, Aversion, and Tenacity to the material creation – man is induced to involve himself in egoistic works and in consequence he suffers.”

The “ultimate aim of the Heart” is to end suffering, with the ultimate goal being the permanent cessation of suffering.  In other words, our truest, deepest desire is simply to remember Who We Really Are – for that is where there exists no suffering.  But as long as we continue to believe in the illusion of physical life – that the illusion is the reality, and the Actual Reality is simply imaginary or completely non-existent because we cannot measure it by the ego’s standards of physical sensory proof or “scientific evidence” – we remain in the darkness of illusion, always striving for our material desires to actualize, for that is all we know how to base our happiness and satisfaction upon:  external results.  If we would simply go into our Heart and allow ourselves to experience Truth from our Hearts and accept what we innately Know from our Hearts, without tossing it aside as “preposterous musings of a wild imagination,” we would find our Real Joy and realize that we have no need to attach ourselves to any “external results” to dictate our happiness.  We would become our True Joy, Love, and Peace – and all that we think and feel and say and do would then be coming from Truth, rather than chasing after anything outside us, or running away from all that we would rather avoid.

Sri Yukteswar explains what the real necessities are:  ”Man naturally feels great necessity for Sat, Existence; Chit, Consciousness; and Ananda, Bliss.  These three are the real necessities of the human heart and have nothing to do with anything outside his Self.  They are essential properties of his own nature.”

The ego’s version of knowing something is based on past experiences – filtered reality – universal data that is filtered by the ego-mind in such a way as to allow only the data that supports the ego’s need to be right into its awareness. All the other data that would prove the ego’s beliefs about itself wrong gets filtered out of conscious awareness. Basically, the ego’s version of “knowing” is simply believing that things will be as they were before, because only the experience that can be measured with the physical senses can be the truth. It’s a twisted form of faith.

After dealing with all of that, I decided that I would seriously explore and apply only natural healing methods, and I became an expert in nutrition and mind-body-spirit detoxification, after spending years researching, and tens of thousands of dollars, using myself as my “guinea pig. ”

I decided to go to a chiropractor to help me with the back pain I was still experiencing, as my discs continued to degenerate, and more discs began to bulge.  My chiropractor’s treatments were always effective and helped me tremendously.

It Made My Pain Disappear in an Instant

One day when I went to see my chiropractor, I was experiencing another intense bout with the pain and inflammation in my back.  That day, before he began to adjust my back, he pulled out a bottle of something that had a wonderful fragrance, and much to my surprise, he put a couple of drops of it onto my back and rubbed it into my skin.  After that adjustment, the pain that had been intolerable was gone.  Completely, inexplicably… just gone.  And not just gone – I actually felt great.  So the next time I went back to see him, I asked him what that was.  He brought out a small bottle of something called “Valor” and introduced me to what he called his “chiropractor in a bottle.”  I asked him if he would use it on me again before my adjustment.  I couldn’t believe how well it had worked before, and I wanted to be sure that the significant results I’d experienced were really because of this little miracle oil.  He agreed, and sure enough – once again – there was no more pain, and I left the session feeling wonderful.

It’s Actually Formulated to Help Raise Self-Esteem and Confidence

Valor is actually an essential oil blend – spruce, rosewood, blue tansy, and frankincense – that’s meant to help to promote feelings of self-esteem, confidence, and courage, and aid in visualizing and attaining self empowerment.  I was surprised when I learned that after the fact, because the physical pain relief I experienced was so profound.  I had to think back to try to remember if I also experienced the mental/emotional benefits of the product.  All I could know for certain was that I sure felt better about myself without all that physical pain in the way.  So I thought I’d try Valor on my own, without any physical pain and see what would happen.  And what I can say is that Valor is definitely true to its word.  As it turned out, the “feeling good” that goes with pain relief could definitely be attributed to more than just pain relief.  Emotional and mental pain are experienced when your self-esteem is low, when you’re not feeling so good about yourself.  Valor definitely helped me to feel better about myself.  The thing is, the more often you can feel better about yourself, the better your life gets.  Valor helps you get to that mental and emotional place that allows you to open up to your innate Awesomeness.

So I highly recommend Valor – whether you feel down and out about yourself and want a mood boost, or whether you’re feeling intense physical pain in your body, and you’re looking for fast pain relief – in any way you just want to feel good – do yourself a favor, and try out Valor for yourself.  It does not disappoint!

Try out the Valor Roll-On for easy application.  Get one for yourself, get one for someone else as a most excellent and unique gift!

 

What are you doing when you leave the present moment of now and spend time worrying about something you’re afraid of?  What are you doing when you ignore this moment and trade it in for worry or concern over what you believe you are lacking?  You’re trading in your gold.  Giving it away.  For what?

Today, take just a moment, and think of something or someone in your life, something or someone with you right now.  Something or someone that you love and appreciate.  Could you take a moment and just come back to this present second and appreciate what you have?  Think of this something or someone as gold.  Perhaps it is a food you enjoy, or running water.  Perhaps it is a person – a spouse, child, family member, friend, or a pet.  Could you take a moment and give this something or someone your full attention and appreciation?  Can you step out of future worries for long enough to see the precious gifts you already have?

What you have in this moment is gold.  This is your moment of power.  Right now.  Not in the past, not in the future.  Right now.  This moment.  Yet we tend to resist this moment, and invest our powerful thoughts into reliving past troubles or making up stories about the future that haven’t even happened – and likely won’t – or wouldn’t, if we didn’t invest so much power into believing them.  There is so much for you to appreciate, if you can simply come into the present moment to see it.

Where is Your Gold?

Having trouble thinking of what you appreciate?  Here are some ideas that can help.

Take a deep breath into your lungs.  Expand your belly and allow your lungs to fill up from the bottom.  How does that feel?  Does that feel wonderful?  Do you know what life-giving breath is?  It’s gold.

Take a shower.  Feel the warm water on your skin.  How does that feel?  Doesn’t that feel so good?  Do you know what that is?  It’s gold.

Step outside into the sunshine, and feel that warmth radiating on your skin.  See the light that it gives, look at all there is to see in that light.  What is that?  It’s gold.

Think of the people in your life.  Even anyone you might be having a hard time with.  Do you have someone who loves you?  Do you have someone to talk to, to share your thoughts with?  Do you know what that is?  It’s gold.

Do you have a pet?  A furry, cuddly, warm little creature who adores you and loves you without condition?  Do you know what that is?  It’s gold.

Look in the mirror.  Look into your own eyes.  What do you see?  What else?  And what else?  What’s the one thing that you do see, no matter what else you might see?  YOU ARE ALIVE.  Do you know what that is?  It’s gold.

And every time you step out of this moment to focus your mind on your worries, you are trading in your gold.  Giving it away.  For anything… for something… for no thing.

“This too shall pass.”  This applies to everything in life.  Everything.  Not just to the things and experiences we’d rather not go through, but also to all the beautiful and wonderful people and things we appreciate and enjoy.  This too shall pass.  Don’t take this moment for granted.  Don’t take the people in your life for granted.  Appreciate everything in this moment of NOW.

So the next time you feel compelled to worry about something that may or may not happen in the future, remember to bring yourself back to this moment.  Don’t live a life of regret.  Don’t trade in your gold for anything.  Don’t trade this moment for anything.  Think for a moment of the end of your life, what you’ll look back on, what you might wish you had done differently.  Put yourself there for just a moment, and ask yourself, “if my life was ending right now, what would I wish I had done differently?”  The answer people give is almost always that they wish they would have appreciated what they had when they had it.  So the answer is, “Live NOW.”  Be present.  Your opportunity to appreciate everything is right NOW.

 

 

 

 

When your life is out of balance, and you perceive yourself to be lacking any sort of structure in your life, what happens energetically is that your body’s acid/alkaline balance goes out of whack, and then you tend to begin procrastinating, become more acidic, develop digestive issues, excess candida, hormone imbalance, and lose the ability to assimilate minerals properly.

Likewise, if you have too much structure in your life, without allowing for adequate time for yourself to just be, your body’s acid/alkaline balance again goes awry, becoming overly acidic, generally due to stress, and you end up with too much biounavailable calcium in your blood vessels, weakened bones, cavities, and organ malfunction, as your body will leech calcium from your organs, bones, and teeth in an effort to alkalize your bioterrain.

Taking ionic minerals, particularly with a good balance of calcium and magnesium is only the beginning of correcting the acid/alkaline balance in your body.  It’s a good beginning, to be sure, but by scheduling your time properly, you will begin to assimilate your minerals more readily, on the energetic level.

On the energetic and emotional level, balancing your time with structure and free time for yourself begins to balance the body.  If you are too structured, then you will do well to add some magnesium to help you become more flexible, and to allow the calcium in your body to be able to become reabsorbed properly.  It’s also important for you to get outside in the sunshine for some Vitamin D, or take supplemental Vitamin D.   Schedule some free time in for yourself to do whatever you want, without the pressures of life taking that away from you.  Whether it’s a few minutes to meditate, exercise – go outside and play! – or take a relaxing bath, or get out in the sun, whatever it is, put it into your daily schedule, and stick to that.  Also, allow yourself one day a week to do whatever you want, whenever you want.  You’ll find yourself becoming less rigid and more flexible, in both mind and body, and watching your acid/alkaline balance corrected with minimal effort.

On the other hand, if you lack structure in your life, make it a point to schedule some daily time in for whatever it is you are wanting to accomplish.  Eat at the same time each day.  Go to sleep and wake up at the same time each day.  Schedule in your meditation, as well as your physical exercise, and stick to it.  Schedule in some work on a project, or chores.  Do this until it becomes your habit.  Take a little extra calcium to help you to achieve some structure in your life.  This will also assist you in attaining that ever elusive self-discipline we all require to accomplish our goals in life.

Acid/Alkaline Balance and Bioavailable Minerals Based in Fulvic Acid 

When it comes to minerals, I highly recommend taking the fulvic based ionic minerals that are completely bioavailable and in organic form.  One of the best (and least expensive!) mineral complexes I’ve found and personally use is Fulvic Mineral Complex from Vital Earth.  Here’s the product information on Vital Earth’s Fulvic Mineral Complex, copied from their website:

 

OVERVIEW: 

All natural Fulvic Mineral Complex comes from an organic humic, plant based source.  Its power lies in the reactions it enables within the body.  Fulvic spreads through the system correcting imbalances, restoring proper function of vital processes, re-charging electrical potential of cells, boosting the immune system and metabolism…and just generally making everything work better.

Minerals provide the catalyst for absorption and utilization of nutrients. With its high fulvic concentration, this product has the potential to energize cells, detoxify heavy metals, increase the absorption of oxygen, change the metabolism of carbohydrates, and escort free-radicals from the body.

Why Fulvic Mineral Complex is “100% Fulvic in Solution”

Fulvic is a natural component within Humic minerals; Humic substances contain approximately 3% to 7% Fulvic.  To get fulvic, it must be extracted from a natural humic source.  Using a gentle proprietary extraction process, we have isolated the Fulvic from our organic Humic source material and this is what we bottle.  100% Fulvic, in liquid solution.  We never add any harmful chemicals, or use high heat or pressure extrusion- all of which destroy fulvic.

Vital Earth’s humic source

Vital Earth’s original humic source contains an impressive 7% fulvic potency, whereas many mineral products come from sources that are only 3% to 4% fulvic to start with.  Our humic contains a higher percentage of fulvic.

Why Vital Earth’s extraction process makes our minerals different than other products

How Humic minerals are handled during the extraction process is crucial.  Because of our gentle, meticulous process that utilizes nothing but cool, purified water, Vital Earth’s Humic/Fulvic has a highly beneficial alkaline pH.  Our minerals are NOT acidic like so many others on the market.  We do not use any chemicals, high heat, or pressure extrusion.  Our Humic/Fulvic is as natural as you can get.

Some manufacturers use harsh, toxic chemicals to rush the process, to turn out more product in less time… but this unfortunately destroys the precious Humic and Fulvic, the very ingredients they should be seeking to extract.  These products many times tout a high mineral concentration, which is misleading to consumers.  This type of sub-standard extraction produces a mineral product with acidity levels reaching as low as 2.0 pH.

Minerals in exactly the right form – plant based; from a fresh water source

Because the minerals in fulvic come from plants, they are immediately recognized by the body, triggering proper metabolic responses that allow them to be utilized exactly where they’re needed for energy, healing, proper organ and hormone function, and more.  Fulvic minerals never build up in the tissue like metallic or clay based minerals can.  ”Organic, plant based” means there are no metallic or clay based minerals in our product.

And Vital Earth’s fulvic is from a fresh water source,  Fresh water fulvic deposits have the lowest molecular weight, and are much more bio-available.  The fulvic nutrients are easily absorbed by cells because of their small size, as opposed to salt water minerals, which have minimal bio-availability.

Fulvic Mineral Complex is NOT a Colloidal

Colloidals are solid particles that are simply being held in suspension in a liquid; they are too large to be easily used by cells and offer little health benefit.  The ionic particles of fulvic are “dissolved”, and are so small they are not measurable in liquid form, which means they are able to pass right through cell membranes into the cells where they’re needed.   Ionic minerals offer incredible benefits, but the benefits of colloidal minerals are marginal at best.   There are no colloidal minerals in Fulvic Mineral Complex.

About Fulvic

Fulvic: A natural, organic electrolyte

Fulvic is nature’s way of re-balancing and energizing the body.  Fulvic bonds to and strengthens all biological properties it comes in contact with.  Fulvic  can change, alter, or combine with both organic and inorganic matter to correct and enhance the biological performance of cells. What this means is that fulvic electrolytes are literally capable of restoring life to damaged cells.  Progressive stress, illness, infections, bad diet, and loss of sleep all contribute to diminished cell energy.  Left uncorrected cells eventually mutate or die causing gradual failure of organs, lowered immune function, loss of energy, and more.

Experiments have shown ruptured and disintegrated cells that naturally  reconstructed and were brought back to life when fulvic electrolytes were reintroduced.  This means fulvic has the potential to rejuvenate not only cells, but organs, and all the systems of the body.

Fulvic: The nutrition booster

When fulvic is present in the body, it dissolves nutrients (from both food and dietary supplements) into the simplest ionic form, ready to be utilized by the body.   Fulvic essentially prepares nutrients to inter-react with each other and extends the time those same nutrients are available to the cells.  Since fulvic easily passes through cell membranes, it transports the nutrients it has dissolved into its fulvic structure, right into the cells.

Weight loss

Although we don’t advertise it as a weight loss product, a great side benefit is that many people report losing excess weight after starting to take Fulvic.  Body weight balances naturally because fulvic helps correct chemical and hormonal fluctuations, assists the proper metabolism of food, and diminishes mineral deficiency cravings. When these changes occur, blood sugar levels are balanced, and food is used for energy instead of stored as fat.  Hunger is decreased along with cravings for high calorie starches and  sweets.

Can you get too many minerals?

Many people wonder if they will be taking “too many minerals” if they are consuming other products that also contain minerals…such as a calcium supplement.  The answer to this question is, no.  The reason is fulvic minerals are in an organic form, not metallic or clay, and therefore do not remain in the tissues – they are fully utilized by the body.  When you take minerals that come from plants there is never any danger of toxic buildup.  Plants have converted the mineral into a form that is safe and fully usable by the body.

Benefits of Fulvic

• More energy
• Better mental clarity, focus, concentration, alertness
• Faster metabolism of nutrients
• Stimulates and boosts immune system function
• Diminished food cravings
• Sound restful sleep
• Super antioxidant and detoxifier – helps flush pollutants and heavy metals from the body
• Transports up to 60 times it’s own weight in nutrients directly into cells
• Balances hormones
• Changes the metabolism of carbohydrates
• Intensifies the metabolism of proteins
• Increases assimilation and utilization of all nutrients it comes in contact with
• Energizes cells; powerful bi-directional electrolyte
• Inhibits the absorption of viruses, helps eliminate them from the system
• Destroys acids in body fluids, and increases oxygen in blood
• Increases Enzyme Activity
• Extends time nutrients remain active…
• And much more…