Empowering Your Mind

I was introduced to Silva Mind Control back in the 1980’s. One of Jose Silva’s books helped me get back on track during a difficult time in my life. His daughter, Laura, has created an incredible new system that is changing millions of lives. The Silva Life System teaches you how to control your mind to achieve the results that you want in life.

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I’m beginning my last series of classes for the county’s Tobacco-Cessation program. Our state has cut all funding for county tobacco cessation, prevention and education programs. Not only do I regret that I won’t be facilitating these classes anymore, but I’m upset that people who want to quit smoking now will only have a toll free number to call for coaching. Although phone coaching is certainly helpful, face-to-face contact and discussing the situation with people who are going through the same thing is incredibly important.

It’s interesting that this has resulted during a period when I’ve been focused on things being easy. And many of the situations in my life have unfolded without any effort whatsoever. I choose to conclude that something better is in the wings, and the stage is being cleared for it.

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I’ve lived in the New Age Mecca, Sedona, Arizona for twenty-five years. I’ve seen and experienced all sorts of interesting, fantastic and downright odd things. However, today on my walk, I saw something that I haven’t seen before and was a bit bizarre. Jeff and I walked down to Red Rock Crossing / Crescent Moon Ranch Park and continued up Oak Creek to a flat slab of red rock where many people go to take photos of Cathedral Rock. At the far end of the slab, we saw several people, in their birthday suits (nude), facing and honoring the setting sun. There they were, in all their glory, under one of the most photographed sentinels in this area, exposing themselves to the sun and any visitors who meandered down there. Welcome to Sedona.

Photograph Copyright 2007 Jeff Colburn

This past month has been incredibly busy, with my preparing for and delivering my first Teleprogram. The topic was Self-Esteem, and it went very well. I’m planning on offering a four class Teleseminar in January on Spiritual Self-Esteem. For more information, visit “Self-Esteem: The Key To Unlock Your True Potential.”

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine sat in on a lecture by a Zen Master. He said that meditation didn’t heal traumas. After sitting doing meditation for fifteen years, he recognized that he still had a lot of emotional baggage and entered into some emotional healing therapies. He warned the listeners not to attempt to use Zen meditation to fix their lives.

This touched on a subject that I’ve often talked about to my friends and clients. In thirty plus years of being a spiritual seeker, I’ve seen so many people expect that their spiritual practices would wipe away their emotional issues. It does help strengthen them and allow them to face them better, but it doesn’t make them go away. So I wrote my article for my monthly newsletter, “Can Spirituality Be An Escape?”

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This has been a strange week at my office. Every one of my clients’ appointments has changed. Each client has either cancelled, or cancelled and rescheduled, but they’ve all moved from their original appointment time. I talked with a friend who also works with the public, and she and a colleague of hers have experienced the same thing. Every once in a while, this happens. It’s like the Universe plays musical chairs with my appointments. Whenever this occurs, I’ve learned to affirm that it’s all in Divine Order. And if someone cancels, and doesn’t immediately reschedule, I affirm that the Universe brings someone else to me to fill that space. Generally, when I do that, it all works out.

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Jeff (my significant other) and I went to see Michael Moore’s film “Sicko.” Instead of focusing on the 20% of the population who has no health insurance, he investigated those who do. It seems that they have less coverage than they think. The health care system in our country is flawed at best, and disastrous at its worst.

I know of people who had health insurance, but their illnesses sent them over their policy limits. They lost their jobs, homes, and became homeless due to their medical costs. We have the highest infant mortality rate in all the industralized (and some of the third world) countries and our population has a shorter life span.

In Northern Arizona, many insurance companies and HMO’s have eliminated their coverage. This happened to a couple I know in a medium sized community in California. They had to move to a metropolitan area to get medical services. If this trend continues, a person won’t be able to live in a rural area and have health insurance.

For years, we’ve been told that universal coverage would mean delayed and poor quality care, with health care workers receiving low wages. I’ve talked to people who’ve lived in other countries and discovered that what we’ve been told is propaganda. Michael Moore’s movie highlights the differences between our health care system and the ones in the other developed countries, and our system fails miserably in comparison.

At a time when major corporations and school districts are slashing health care benefits for employees, their families and retirees, when our emergency rooms are clogged with U.S. citizens who can’t afford preventative care and don’t seek help until their condition has advanced to a state where it can’t be ignored, we need to open a dialogue about the condition of our health care system. This movie brings that discussion to the forefront. Whether you agree or disagree with Michael Moore, and his politics, this movie is one to see.

For a more detailed review, visit Jeff’s blog, TheCreativesCorner.com.

On July 25th, our arid desert received torrential rains of about one to two inches in an hour. That evening, Jeff and I walked down to Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing near Sedona to see how high the water had gotten. The creek was brown with runoff mud and was still higher than normal. From the flattened weeds and debris that had been washed to the waterline, we could tell that it had been near floodstage. But as it does in this area, the waterlevel quickly raises with a lot of runoff, but just as quickly drops.

While we were there, we bumped into someone who was with a film crew. They were filming an independent TV-movie right beside the Creek. It’s called “Angel Wishes” and he said it would be shown on cable’s “Lifetime” channel in December. Its website is Angel Wishes Healing Ministeries. It’s amazing what you bump into here in the red rocks.

Jeff and I worked the Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society’s Celtic Games a couple of weekends ago. We listened to music all weekend long, as the pub that he manages has a stage at the far end. Ocean’s Apart and Knockabouts serenaded us.

Ocean’s Apart

Knockabouts

On Saturday, we had a thunderstorm with pea-sized hail. The rain and hail hitting the tent roof was so loud that we could barely hear the music. But the patrons who had taken refuge in our tent didn’t care. They had a grand time clapping in time with “Ocean’s Apart.” It seemed that every time “Ocean’s Apart” played that day, it rained. The clouds must have wrung themselves out, because Sunday was a beautiful day.