Notes Along The Journey

We, The People...

2012-01-21T17:08:00.000-08:00

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Looks like "we, the people" maybe getting fed up with some of the "old ways"...like government bail-outs, banking crises, inflation as regulated by the Federal Reserve, costs and restrictions on healthcare, unemployment....shall I go on? You get the idea. We have unlimited strength if we are willing to claim it...strength to stand up and speak out, to roar so our voices are heard, to say no to injustice and poverty and abuses in any form...and yes to love and equality and peace for all! Let's make our voices heard!

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Power to Speak Up and Be Heard...

2012-01-21T14:45:00.000-08:00

Yay.. We people have the power to make ourselves heard! I recall having heard my son, a computer scientist, saying many years ago that the internet is the most democratic institution we have ever seen on this planet, because anyone who has access to a computer can have an equal voice in the "community"...and will be unless or until there are regulations on the internet. At the time, I was just learning about the internet, but also had been diagnosed with an early stage of cancer. I fortunately had access through the internet to some of the best information on the planet, but also knew better than to pay attention to the scare stories that were also online. My complete recovery over 12 years ago with no further concern, was due in part to the vast wealth of information available to me. In fact, when I saw the oncologist, she said "We wish that our patients were all as well-informed as you are." So my belief is that having all information that is available on the web being freely available to all is imperative, and, at times, can be life-saving. Let's keep speaking up...let your voice and mine be heard. I just called my Senator's office...easy to do and easy to leave a strong message! Encourage you to do the same.

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2012...Finally Here!!!!

2011-12-30T18:10:00.000-08:00

So here we sit on the cusp of possibly the greatest adventure in history. Certainly, this is a time of major transformation; and the massive change of some sort to occur around the year 2012 has been predicted many times in many arenas. Some have been dire, some challenging. My best estimate, and that of many, many others on the planet, is that the confusion has occurred because at this time we enter an era unseen before on our planet. To put it in terms of energy or quantum physics, we quite possibly now enter or now focus into a quantum field with a frequency level significantly higher than in our last periods of human development.

What does this mean in ordinary terms? It means, on the one hand, that all of us are challenged to address and clear out the negative aspects of our lives that we have held on to in the past. That energy...whether anger or victimhood or blame and judgment...will no longer "work" in the new field we enter. On the other hand, as we do this, it is my profound belief that we enter into a new realm of possibility unlike any we have seen before. What has previously been seen as "impossible" now shifts, as we shift our perceptions and our beliefs into this new arena. As we enter en masse into the state of expanded consciousness that has been cultivated on this planet for decades, our collective consciousness expands. Perhaps we now enter the time when "peace on earth" and "love for all humanity" and "being connected in one humanity" rather than just in separate units is actually about to unfold. We just may, in the coming year, have the power to unfold progressively more into the compassionate and loving human race that we have the supreme potential to become.

Of course, that expansion is beyond our identification with being "just" human. We are, of course, passionately that. But this unfoldment, according to many of us on the planet doing the transformation work for decades as it has unfolded, is one into understanding and knowing ourselves to be intimately connected to the Divine from which we draw our Source. Perhaps the more accurate term to describe what potentially emerges is that we are taking giant steps toward becoming the "Divine Human", human beings who live in the present awareness of our strong and indivisible connection with the Divine, the Sacred, our Source. It follows, of course, that we also then live in profound awareness of our intimate connection with each other and the planet we call home.

Perhaps we now engage the opportunity to own our powers of creation and to design the earth we now reside upon as a place of peace, harmony and love. To many of us, there is the understanding that there really is nothing real but love...all else is an illusion or a reflection...an illusion that love is not present, or a reflection of the very human parts of us that cling to our anger, shame, blame, and judgment. Ultimately, perhaps now we discover that all that stands in the way of our experiencing "heaven on earth" is our own beliefs that we are separate from God or whatever we each call the Divine.

Is this "wishful thinking?" Perhaps. But it is the powerfully and firmly held position that many hundreds of thousands of people on the planet have acquired. In our journey, including in my own journey, it has become very, very clear that we are creators of our lives, individually and collectively, and that we have the ability to claim that birthright and use those very same powers to create our individual and collective experience as we choose. Responsibility? Yes, to the max! Scary? Yes, unless we interpret that same sensation as excitement. Perfect? No, as I said, we are each clearing out lots of "old stuff" that is no longer useful to us.

When we accept that we are already "perfect" but on an adventure for the sake of creation, and accept that we are, at the very core, all connected...then watch the "magic" unfold! Life on this new earth will never be the same!

Great blessings for each and all of you as we step forward into this great time of transformation. Have the very happiest of celebrations as we open the great, gilded doors into this brand new year...and perhaps, brand new era! Happy 2012 and beyond!!!

Blessings for peace and love!!
Namaste, Pauline DeLozier

2011-06-05T13:49:00.000-07:00

What price technology? Can we not find a better way, a higher course of action that honors all people? I am writing about this in my upcoming book. I believe that we CAN find a better path!

The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

By: Thomas Doo Marmo

2011-02-16T00:11:00.000-08:00

Response I posted on Psychology Today Website to inquiry regarding beliefs about death (2-16-11):

i have had two Near-Death Experiences before becoming a psychologist. Subsequently, I have been involved with the International Association of Near-Death Studies, know people who did a lot of the early research on NDEs, and know many, many people who have had NDEs. While I definitely agree that there very well be a substantial neurological component with the NDE, most people who have had NDEs...and the research indicates now more that 8 million reporters of NDEs in the United States and that is probably an underestimate...not only believe strongly that the event occurred. There also are often, maybe even usually, personality or other significant changes following an NDE. Two of the main factors in a usual NDE is out-of-body experience, and the "encounter" with one or more other out-of-body beings. My own adult experience involved both, including an encounter with three out-of-body beings who were as real for me...or more so...than anyone I have ever encountered in body.

That said, I have been in the psychology field for decades, including having been Chief of Staff of a psychiatric faculty, a major university medical school instructor, and am currently a faculty advisor at a major university medical school in Southern California. To many I know who explore developing consciousness in many forms, including the paranormal...ghosts, aura, et cetera, I am often seen as "the scientist". But I also agree with their perspectives and have had many of the same experiences. Many of us now are serving as bridges to connect the scientific and medical world with greater expansion into these realms. And. of course, quantum physics is helping us do that. (And, I heartily endorse What the Bleep, even on my website: www.paulinedelozier.com.)

The reason I responded is to let those of you interested know that scientific and professional work is rapidly advancing in these areas, as more and more people, including professionals, speak more openly about their own experiences, as well as information they have access to. Just as one example, there is a new national organization recently organized to train health, mental health and other professionals how to understand and assist people who have had Spiritually Transformative Experiences, including NDEs. I am honored to be on their national advisory board with planned conferences and eventual trainings throughout the country. If you'd like, You can check out the info, including some initial training material, at www.aciste.org.

We are in a time of beginning to expand our understanding of who and what we are to incorporate a more extensive version of "reality", both personally and collectively. Though there has been much resistance to what is unknown and unfamiliar, this shift or expansion is happening, not only for individuals, but collectively as well. Much is beginning to move out of the "woo woo" category into a changing paradigm for human development and functioning.

Thank each of you for having the courage to speak up and at least ask the questions!! I personally am from a tradition that said you had to "choose science or religion". My life-long stance has been, no, you don't. A much more integrative perspective is now on the horizon and becoming more of a very real possibility every day. My belief is that we've only begun to understand "reality".

Thank you for the exploration!! And the courage to say, as in What the Bleep, that maybe...just maybe...there are real "ships out there", even though we have never held that belief in our collective and personal consciousness so strongly until now. I would really welcome interaction with any of you who are also moving in that direction. Blessings!!

CHANGE ... IN CAPITAL LETTERS

2010-07-16T19:39:00.000-07:00

Oh, my gosh!!! So much that is so amazing emerges with our choice to stop running faster on the hamster wheel, give up "My" direction for my life, and literally make decisions only as they emerge from a deep and powerful source beyond our logical mind. I can only describe this process, one strongly happening for me, as becoming willing to allow Spirit to direct my life. As one of my friends and great teachers has recently said to me, at this point, the path narrows...you either do what you are here to do now, or you do not stay in body. (BTW, no particular judgment about that for many of us who have had near-death experiences. The belief is that consciousness, which is what we are, then just continues development and creation in some other way.)

But this powerful, emerging process then is re-vamping almost EVERYTHING in my life!!! My "mind" clearly does not know what to do except carry out each step put in front of it. Example,instead of continuing to work in the same office, I am changing directions in practice. And instead of "sweating" about selling my office furniture on sudden notice, I decided that it would "just get taken care of if I just did my part and trusted the rest. Less than two hours later someone was asking to buy some of the furniture!!

Not that I am not "freaking out" periodically about the hows of it all!!!!! But overall I KNOW that something far more powerful is emerging here!!

Part of the experience however is that my "logical" approach doesn't work!! Ego and logic at this point assume their appropriate positions as the "mail clerks" (as someone i know put it)...to carry information from the world around me to me and carry my directives back out into the manifested world. But the "my" is from a much deeper source...from my willingness to bring forth my particular part of life's unfoldment rather than just asking for what "I" want in the way "I" think I want it.

As this huge change in course unfolds, I am in the very unaccustomed position of asking...frequently...for the help that I am so unaccustomed to doing!!! I'm getting rides from people because my car "evaporated", I'm closing and moving my office (not all of my practice) and home within weeks and moving at least temporarily away from the ocean and many people I dearly love. It seems that I NEVER would have consciously made these decisions!!!!! But deep within me is the beginning of joy and light I can see at the end of the tunnel. The light may for now be only "as big as the spark of a sparkler on the Fourth of July", as another dear teacher says, but it IS there!! I CAN begin to see it!!! And it IS transformation in it's most fundamental form...a birthing process from one life into another.

I had told a friend months ago, feeling that so much of what had been the focus of my life was done, that I felt my life as it was was over. Not that I was or would die, but that my challenge now was to "create a new life". I knew that clearly. But I had asked, "How on earth do you create an entirely new life at the age of 69?" His response..."If your 92 year old mother is any example, you have a long way to go!" I think I'm beginning to find out the answer to my own question!! Ironically, in yet another way, it is the age-old "Let go and let God!" And I mean REALLY let go and REALLY let God!!! And so it is!!!!!!

So how does this process of trusting our deepest "true self", as Charles Whitfield would say, emerge for each of you? Where are you in this process. tentatively putting your toe in the water or doing a "cannonball" smack into the middle of the pool???? We all have unfolding lessons about trust...in whom and when and where and so forth. Go inside to find who YOU really are, and allow, as you choose, that knowing to emerge into YOUR own unique path, your own contribution to this great adventure of humankind at this time and this place.

Namaste!!

Pauline

Fresh Start Surgical Gifts

2010-04-26T20:42:00.000-07:00

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I was hospitalized for serious illness as a child and, after having been a dancer, I then was on five-years of restricted activity. During that time, the constant message to me, along with the constant medical intervention, was "If you move, you die." I appeared healthy to others, but deeply understand how medical challenges can impact childhood. I also have a son who had serious, life-threatening illness for a long time, so I also comprehend the effect on the parents of serious childhood medical problems.

While I do not and cannot fully understand the circumstances and experiences of the children and parents served by Fresh Start, I do understand enough that it seems perfectly in line with my life experiences to support them in whatever way is possible to me. While I have had cancer and have reasons to connect with other organizations that support healthcare and recovery, Fresh Start is in my community, literally across the hall from my office! I need look no further for a great organization to help support.

Please consider support to this excellent organization. together we all can make a difference.

The Wounded Healer

2010-03-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

The concept of the wounded healer is actually one of the time-honored paths of most, if not all, native cultures around the planet. In native cultures, the path of becoming a shaman (or native healer, whatever the label) is generally not just by learning to apply knowledge and "positive energy" to help others (as we often try to do in our medical approach, for example). Instead, it is by having traveled through their own personal challenges and having learned to transform their own "negative energy" that they then can become very powerful healers for others.

My own personal path has followed this route in so many ways (and still does), and, in turn, I have been honored to be able to help guide so many others toward self-healing and self-discovery. In fact, even in my teaching or advising in a medical school, I have reminded medical students that no one ever heals anyone else. What any "healer" does is help create the conditions under which some can heal themselves...if they choose. Believe it or not, I even know some medical doctors who agree with this perspective. And, with this perspective in the work I have done for so many years, I have been honored to accompany so many others on their paths to living more of their potential. But, truly, so much of my "wisdom", such as it is, is because I have walked the path and I can then share what I have learned with others on their journey.

So I really agree that pain...though we do not welcome it... serves a great purpose if it is addressed and healed. I believe that we are supposed to pay attention to it and resolve it, not just stay stuck in it either by self-pity or through trying to pretend it is not there. Sharing the wisdom that you have earned through your journey then becomes a powerful source of influence for others.

In what ways in your life are you, or could you become, a "wounded healer"? This process is not just for those who consider themselves to be "healers" in the usual sense. ALL OF US help create conditions for ourselves and for others that can provided opportunities for healing on some level. Where in your life have you been in pain..."wounded"...and what has or could emerge from resolving this pain that is or could be a source of great inspiration and wisdom for anyone whose life you touch?

Give this some quiet reflection. You may be surprised to discover that, sometimes even in small ways, your path through pain and its healing becomes a great gift in some way for others as well.

Namaste,

Dr DeLozier

Publication News Flash!!

2010-03-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

NEWS EVENTS: Dr. DeLozier has just signed contracts for publication of both "Collections" booklets...Tips for Parenting and Tips for Thriving in Business in Any Economy...with a major publishing company in Indonesia. Booklets are to be translated into Indonesian, marketed and distributed in Asia. This is exciting news in both marketing potential and in providing much-needed information to areas in great need.

Both booklets, as well as the Steps to Personal Power booklet, are being marketed both nationally and internationally. For example, they all were recently exhibited at the Franklin Book Fair in Germany, focused on foreign rights publication. That became the connection for the recent Indonesian sale.

As I teach others, once you set a new direction by setting "intention", and then take steps and give "attention" to moving in that direction, you can NEVER predict exactly WHAT steps are going to show up to take you to that destination!! This opportunity is such an example of exactly that principle!! I would never have thought to "expect" this turn of events!! As we are often told, when you move into acting in faith in the direction of "your dreams", the ground literally appears just as your foot is about to land!!! It is not even there until you take action!! That is both scary and amazingly exciting!!! So, Indonesia, here we come!!! As a colleague said, maybe the next stop will be doing a conference in Bali!!!!!! WHO KNOWS????!!!!!???

It is exciting to look forward to unknown potential for whatever appears on this path!!

I trust the journey and the path can be JUST as exciting for each of us!!! Just as unpredictable...and just as amazing!!! ENJOY THE RIDE, as we are often reminded!!!!

( Note: As indicated on this site, if you or your company or business are interested in either large-quantity sales of these materials to market your business and/or in publication rights, please contact Dr. DeLozier at: drdelozier@paulinedelozier.com or by calling 760-431-2958. Correspondence may be addressed to: Dr. Pauline DeLozier, 2011 Palomar Airport Road, Ste. 205, Carlsbad, CA 92011.)

Change is Here....The Time is Now....

2010-03-02T21:18:00.000-08:00

I generally write my own comments for a blog entry. However, I enjoyed this Youtube video clip so much that I would like to share it with any visitors here. Change is here...perhaps the great change that has been foretold for all time and throughout all cultures. We are becoming more of who we can be...the time is now.

There are many metaphors for this predicted transformation. Please enjoy this video of one person's view of this great change.

In this coming springtime...our yearly time of rebirth...may your life blossom with new growth and new meaning.

Namaste, Dr. DeLozier

(Please note that additional video clips have not been viewed or intended for inclusion.)

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How We Define Ourselves Matters

2009-12-01T22:55:00.000-08:00

To be a "victim" implies ongoing helplessness. To be a "survivor" defines someone as having survived something. In a way, this very definition still carries an anchor with it, a link to a "negative past". To "thrive", though, does not carry that reference to "something bad or unwanted", but just simply conjures the images of health and growth, as in saying that a plant thrives with sunshine, water and the right soil and food. We are no different!

Eventually, though it is a process, we do not need to stand on the rocks we have overcome in order to live our best life. Once we climb out of the rough places, we just need to stand up in the sunshine and fresh air and CLAIM our birthright to thrive to our highest and fullest potential!

We are all learning to let go of identifying ourselves with the problems in the past, and instead to step into the sunshine of all the potential in our life. Here's to LIFE!! Make it your very BEST!!

Dr. DeLozier

Positive Media

2009-11-24T22:59:00.000-08:00

Highly recommend this site for cutting edge videos, discussions, thought provoking material! Some really amazing people and ideas found here!! What do you think??

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2009-10-01T20:20:00.000-07:00

Wisdom Training?

While learning to put some of my photos into my new computer (now a Mac lover again!!), I came across a photo taken in the rainforest on the Big Island in Hawaii a handful of years ago. In the picture I am with a Hawaiian guide and a native Hawaiian Kahuna (native spiritual leader). We were on a four-hour hike in the rainforest, and I was supposedly on the easier of two planned hikes. That is, I was until the guide told a few of us about something not-to-be-missed way up off the trail. Several of us followed and discovered a magnificent native ceremonial site with amazing formations among the overgrowth in the forest. This photo was taken an hour or so later, back down on the trail, after...unknown to me then, I had just broken my leg!!! I can see the pain on my face in the photo!!! And I had broken my leg...though thought it was just a sprain...while climbing up onto a particular ceremonial platform.

I hiked two more hours out of the rainforest, went out for an all-day whale watching cruise (magical with what we experienced..a whale mother and her calf and male escort APPROACHING the boat and traveling all the way down from the bow to the stern in slow-motion...almost heart-stopping in the moment); went swimming with the dolphins, spent another day hiking to and around the volcano, and was there for a six-day conference!!

Actually, I then came home and worked for a week before my chiropractor (seen for a different reason) sent me to have my ankle X-rayed. The doctors, seeing a clear and complete break in one of my leg bones (fibula) almost two weeks after it happened (!), told me I could NOT have done all I did on that leg without moving the bone out of alignment and requiring surgery. They said and showed me that it was completely snapped across, one piece just resting on top of the other..."nothing holding it in place", they added!! However, I had done all that I had said, and there were about sixty witnesses to all of it! I must say that the energy on the Island and in the conference was very high!! Maybe that had helped. Nevertheless, I then had a cast for six weeks!!

Back to the photo, the Kahuna in this picture later did with us the same ceremonies that are done for kahuna initiation. These ceremonies are never done for the public, only as initiation. He said we were all at the same level, though from different pathways. One of these ceremonies was done on the edge of the crater of the volcano where he had himself been initiated twenty years before!! He did exactly the same ceremony with us!!

The reason this photo catches my attention now is because NEITHER THE KAHUNA NOR THE GUIDE ARE BEHAVING AS IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEM...ACTUALLY, THE OPPOSITE. THEY ARE BOTH SMILING AND LAUGHING...AND I AM TRYING TO JOIN IN!! And just why were they smiling and laughing?? I wasn't at all sure then, especially when I was in so much pain. Is it that perhaps they knew something that I did not yet comprehend, at least not for that moment??

I later learned that the very place where I had broken my leg was a Kahuna initiation site!! And that what happened was very similar in character to an initiation ritual!! Was it even possible that they knew that the pain I was in was only a very small part compared to the great gains made and to be made in the near future?? Was it that they knew there was MUCH more reason for celebration and joy than for anything but a momentary nod to the pain that is part of the path to get there?? At the time, I just had no idea why they were so joyous. Maybe now I can see the possibility, at least dimly.

Is that so very true in our lives in general?? I know when I wrote recently elsewhere about my "shamanic path to wisdom", it seemed all too similar to what I see and recall regarding this adventure in the rainforest. And, by the way, these two and others offered any help I needed along the way, but neither they nor anyone else there behaved in ANY way as if they felt "sorry" for me. Maybe they knew that the "injury"...the "break"...was only a small part of the great gains, both then and later. Unless I track them down again, maybe I'll never know. Then again, maybe I already do!! At least I have a strong feeling of intuition....

Great teachers they were, even now as I look at the photo many years later and learn even more from today's perspective!! Maybe we can all be grateful for the beings along our path who have helped us when we needed assistance, but not too much that it took the great teachings of the experience away from us!!

Blessings on the journey, Pauline

Freedom is Inside

2009-09-24T12:08:00.000-07:00

I was asked recently about my perspective regarding two concepts: One, that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear and, two, that we keep trying things that don't work because that is what we have learned to do. The example presented was a story about a fly continuing to try to escape from a room by flying into a window when, in fact, a door was open across the room. This was my response:

From my perspective, both of these concepts are so true: first, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and, second, that we keep ourselves so limited by continuing to do what we are accustomed to, even when it is not working!! This latter, as happens, becomes patterns that appear in our lives...patterns that call for our attention. In working with myself or my clients or patients, teaching, writing, and so forth, I am always encouraging people to look for the PATTERNS of what is not working well for them, so they can discover how to change them, if they choose. It seems we all keep "flying into the window", struggling, trying harder!!!!! Until we can consider another way.

As you probably know by now, I have a very strong scientific bent, but also have learned from so many other sources of wisdom for many years. These same messages are everywhere.

As an example, in Zen Buddhism, there is reference to these same principles. I have, and recommend, a tarot deck (yes, I said "tarot"...not magical, but can be yet another source of information to be used ONLY WITH YOUR OWN DISCRETION) that is based on Zen teachings. Called "Osho Zen Tarot: The Transcendental Game of Zen", the deck contains a card...entitled "Understanding". It depicts a bird standing at an open cage door, watching other birds flying free outside. The bird has been "trapped" in the cage, but now realizing that the door has always been open. In fact, the bars of the cage have been an illusion.

That dawning realization has us feeling shaky at times, when we realize that we have actually been free all along!! Our beliefs, our perceptions, our "illusions" have been our limits!! But the great joy is to know that they can be changed!! Freedom already is ours, we just need to be willing to claim it!! Willing to step outside of the cage we have lived within.

As it says in the accompanying description to this card, "All the stars and the moon and the sun belong to you. You can disappear into the blueness of the beyond.... Just drop clinging to the cage, move out of the cage and the whole sky is yours."

Of course, this is all about INNER freedom, not only freedom in the outer or physical world. In fact, that is the great wisdom that came to Nelson Mandela as he was imprisoned for decades. Freedom is inside!!

We all are limited by beliefs we have learned to accept as "truths". So were the Europeans before Columbus challenged their belief that the world was flat. So were the "learned" scholars and philosophers before Copernicus (who withdrew his beliefs because of severe criticism), then Galileo (who would not withdraw his statements but was then tried, found guilty and put under house arrest for the rest of his life). They insisted that the planets, including the earth, rotated around the sun, instead of the earth being the center of everything in the solar system. We now say that, of course, they were "right". Others were not yet ready for those radical changes in belief structure. So, these once radical thinkers are "right" for now...according to what we believe as scientific "truth" at the time.

But, once we are ready, absolutely, the teachers are already there!!! Just as in the movie What the Bleep, when we shift our belief to include other possibilities, we then can see "the ships on the horizon".

This is such a great time to be alive!! Humanity and the planet itself is SO full of potential!!! And, yes, as we each individually say "yes" to new possibilities, the change we become and the change we then can allow is magnificent in its potential!!!! We already are...and can experience ourselves to be...Free!!

Love and peace to each of you in this grand adventure!

Namaste, Pauline

Regeneration - It's for All of Us

2009-09-23T22:06:00.000-07:00

This is a copy of a note of encouragement I posted elsewhere. I'm posting it here for whatever help it provides to any others as well. We ALL have "damaged" cells, as well as emotional wounds. But we need, in our journey of change, to remind ourselves that WE ARE CONSTANTLY LITERALLY CREATING OURSELVES ANEW!!! Each new positive step...even the tiny ones, each new positive thought, each new decision...even if "just for today" that we make and act on, EVERY TIME WE CAN...EVEN FOR A MOMENT...LOVE WHO WE ARE AND LOVE THE CELLS THAT COMPOSE OUR BODIES, WE CREATE OURSELVES IN A NEW UPDATED VERSION!!! I know of people who, with this approach have changed even what was considered to be a "genetic condition". So, it is my hope that ALL of us, no matter where we are, can see ourselves as works in progress...growing, changing, becoming a new and better version of ourselves moment by moment. This is NOT wishful thinking!!! It is based on the latest scientific knowledge and understanding! Please let us know if any of this is helpful to you or to someone you know.

So, here is the post....

"..., I use your name because, no matter HOW important someone else or our roles with someone else are to us, YOU...the being YOU actually are....is SO important!! Why do you think YOU matter to others?? Why do you think YOU matter to God?? Because You are a precious Child of God, just like every one of us!!!

I have taught and am a faculty advisor at a medical school. I say that only to say that I have good sources for this information: We know now that THE BODY IS CONSTANTLY REGENERATING ITSELF!!! In fact, we know now that there is probably not a single cell in our body that was there 5 to 7 years ago!!!! NOT A SINGLE CELL!! So, every cell that we have "mistreated" is being replaced continuously. And we all have damaged cells. What the body needs, in addition to whatever help is available from medical sources, IS TO BE FLOODED WITH LOVE AND LIGHT so that each new cell is able to create itself in the best possible fashion!!

I have helped so many clients and patients with this very process...resolving and releasing the pain and learning to "feed" themselves, with the help of others, with the positive thoughts and beliefs and experiences they CHOOSE INSTEAD! (And, believe me, I am continually working on this myself.)

There are a ton of resources to help with this...!! Among the resources I recommend are the book, Healing the Child Within by Charles Whitfield, and the movie What the Bleep (What the Bleep Do We Know). I have had such a LONG journey of healing, from abuse and loss and illness and on and on, and I'm still not done. But, as someone who has traveled so far and has helped guide so many others, I want to add my strong encouragement for you as you heal the "stuff" and replace it with the love and light you so much want and deserve...both emotionally and in your body!!! Peace and love to you on your journey of discovery and change.

By the way, believe it or not, the tears are cleansing!!!! There is a great little book, an allegory about healing, called The Knight in Rusty Armor. In story form, it follows the path of how to change the "suit of armor" we all have learned to wear, initially to protect ourselves. Interestingly, once he becomes motivated to change, the knight cannot blow-torch the armor off...we all wish that we could!!! He goes on a journey. I won't reveal the plot, but, if you read it, you would find that shedding tears plays an important part in healing!!

Just remember that EACH tiny movement you make toward healing literally "feeds" the new cells that, as we speak, are being created and are needing direction. LOVE EACH OF THEM!!!! Be, if you can, the loving (person) to YOU also!! I know that the more I have been able to do this, the more I have been able to show up more to be the loving person for my children and grandchildren! You are brave and courageous. Thank you for sharing with all of us!

In love and peace, Pauline

Blessings to each and every one of you engaged in this process!! YOU are SO important to bringing change to this planet!! Pauline

Thoughts About Anger

2009-07-25T18:44:00.000-07:00

I was recently participating in another forum with a discussion about anger and how it needed to be handled. A Zen master had said that "anger is not even a feeling", from his perspective, but covered up a "real feeling", either sadness or fear. Here are my thoughts:

To me, it seems that we need to separate the feelings from the behavior, though I know that thoughts themselves can be seen as "behavior". Outward expression of anger always stems from an internal dialogue, no matter how quickly it occurs, and I think that the references here are inviting a slowing down of the process to discover the origins. I absolutely agree that, if the internal "feelings" are examined carefully, we will find a thought (an interpretation of experience or perception, no matter how quickly it happens) that leads to the feeling.

And, absolutely, it seems that, underneath the "angry feeling" is always something else--sadness and fear. And sadness always has fear as a root also. Yes, we only get "angry" (the feeling) about something that matters to us!! What is it that we are sad about? Even deeper, what is it that we fear?

But, of course, I think that none of this discovery and resolution can happen if we just pretend that we never have any angry feelings to begin with. As for me, I certainly don't want to live in anger--it destroys my life energy if I allow that. But, for me, the way out has been to be honest with myself about how I feel, but with the responsibility to address it in a deeper internal way so that I can transform it. And that process absolutely leads to forgiveness, that is, a letting go of the hold of that energy on me and on the other.

And I am STILL in that process, but have made great progress, and now with far less anger and sadness and fear in my life in general. That means I mostly get to use my life energy for much more productive and rewarding things!

Just my thought regarding this discussion. What do others think?? Pauline

Thoughts About Our Shadow Side

2009-07-19T21:13:00.000-07:00

Guess if I am going to do a Blog, I could (almost said "should"!) do it! Don't know where the first part of this year has gone! But, since I am beginning to participate in blogs on other sites, I am seeing how easy it is, so want to add some things here, hopefully with more frequency!

I just posted this on another site, but think it is relevant here also:

Thoughts About Our "Shadow Side"

In my way of thinking, "positive" and "negative" (the best of us and the shadow side) are always present and for good reasons. Our entire experience in life is based on "duality" (good/bad/right/wrong/up/down/black/white) because it serves as the backdrop and platform on which we can have these amazing life experiences. (Try imagining painting a picture on white canvas in a white room with only white paint! We need contrast!)

The problem isn't that there is the up/down or positive/negative. The challenge is that so often we want to acknowledge ONLY the "good" stuff and pretend that the other isn't there. Then it HAS to make itself known--usually through our "bummer" experiences.

When we can acknowledge and own ALL of it though (love and laughter as well as our anger and sadness, etc.) then WE GET TO CHOOSE! We get to DECIDE where we want to put our life energy according to our personal choices. If we want "Love", how do we support it in ourselves and others? If we choose not to have an angry world, how do we find and transform our own sources of anger--the part we CAN do something about? For me, knowing the "shadow" side offers the possibility of not having "It" control me, but of having true choice and being able then to feel more in charge of my life.

Just my thoughts for consideration. What do you think?

In peace and love,

Dr. DeLozier

2009-03-17T15:43:00.001-07:00

Hello All,

Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Since my maiden name at birth was Kennedy, I cannot miss an opportunity for a "Top O' the Day" wish for each and every one of you. May the Luck of the Irish be yours!!

HOW did it get to be March??? What happened to January and February??? Time marches on, as they say, more rapidly than ever it seems.

There has never been a more appropriate moment, in my memory, to be aware of the choices we each are making about whether to focus on hope and opportunity or to be mired down in the fear and alarm that surrounds us. With the current economic, housing and employment situations that are challenging us all, where are your thoughts? What are your beliefs? What are your feelings? And how do these thoughts, beliefs and feelings affect your outlook now?

Do we really believe in scarcity, in only having so much in the way of resources available to us? Do we believe we have to compete and struggle for those resources? Are we mired in fear when the funds we "depended" on seem fragile at best and sometimes outright disappearing? Do we channel our frustration outwardly, focusing on our anger at the excesses and abuses we see? Do we believe that just throwing more money at the situation--or hoarding more resources for ourselves--is the way out? And where does all of this focus take us if not into more doom and gloom, more despair, both individually and collectively?

Is there another way? And is there more opportunity in any other approach? I believe strongly that there is. What is it and how do we get there?

What if we did not believe in scarcity? What if we really believed that there is plenty for all, and that the resources are not outside of us, but within us? What if how we approached the entire situation was different, if we thought that maybe the stage is being set for opportunity rather than just crisis? What if, as the title of my practice brochure says, there is a "Gift in Every Challenge"? And what if we just need an emerging new approach to make the shift that will allow the gifts and opportunities to appear?

If you, like me, would like to explore that possible shift and those opportunities, then stay tuned for information to come. Meanwhile, you are welcomed to get and read my booklet, "Steps to Personal Power" that addresses some of this changing perspective. The book in process will carry this even further, as we also do in seminars and other venues. But more will be posted here for you to consider in these challenging times.

Maybe, on this day of celebration, we can look forward to more positive things to come.

Once again, Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!! Laugh a lot and love a lot--today and on all days. And be SURE to dance every moment you can!

In peace and joy,

Dr. Pauline DeLozier