"The Emotional Freedom & Healing News" Issue #146 August 11, 2006
© 2006 Richard Ross. All rights reserved.

Greetings and Welcome to old friends and new subscribers!

Table of Contents:

1.It's Time to Begin Again

2. Richard's Healing Invocation

3.Guest Article - Creating Balance With Zensight by Carol Ann Rowland

4.Suggested Resources

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1. It's Time to Begin Again

Wow, it has been quite a while since I published the last regular issue of this newsletter. If you are a long time subscriber, my apologies for the extended sabbatical. I am back and re-energized, and although I'm not yet ready to commit to a specific twice-monthly publishing schedule, you will be hearing from me regularly again.

This is a time of great movement for me on many levels. It's ironic that I am returning to the newsletter again now while I am right in the midst of packing, and releasing 99% of what I own, in preparation for a physical move at the end of this month from Ashland, OR to Durango, CO. If you happen to live anywhere near the Durango, CO area please drop me a note to say hello. I hardly know anyone yet in the area.

This is a particularly lengthy e-zine issue, so I will wait to say more about my move, and what led up to it, until a future newsletter. Thank you for remaining a subscriber during this past break time. It's good to be back with you again.

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2. Richard's Healing Invocation

I do many forms of energy work and emotional healing work, and several of the processes I use take the form of visualizing a particular scene, or listening to a particular statement and/or affirmation while silently saying, thinking about, or seeing a "Healing Image".

I've created a page on my website that takes you through the steps of creating and installing your own personal "Healing Image". I encourage you to take a few minutes now and go to that page:

http://richardross.com/healinginvocation.html

and create your own personal Healing Image or Healing Symbol. There is no cost for this. Once you do, your symbol belongs to you and you will be able to use in in many powerful ways for your own healing. I especially encourage you to do it now before reading the Guest Article below, since Carol Ann Rowland provides you with some very powerful healing statements that I believe can be enhanced with the use of a personal Healing Image/Healing Symbol.

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3. Guest Article

"Creating Balance with Zensight" by Carol Ann Rowland, MSW, RSW ©2006

Headaches, muscle tension, anxiety, insomnia, weight loss or gain, fatigue, high blood pressure, chest pain, depression, irritability, memory problems, phobias, social isolation, rage, and feelings of overwhelm: all of these are just a few of the many symptoms associated with stress.

We live in a modern age, with increased technology to assist us in our daily tasks. However, at the same time, our tasks have greatly multiplied.

Single parent families are increasingly common, with one adult needing to perform the job of two. In two parent families, two incomes have become the norm - as has commuting making the balancing of work, parenting, and childcare, increasingly complex.

Our increased stress and responsibilities have been widely recognized: with terms such as "superwomen", "time-starved world", and the "sandwich generation" often being used.

We have become a society that expects people to have more, do more, and be more, than the generations that went before us. Workplaces often expect longer and longer hours from employees, and it has become increasingly difficult to obtain well paying employment without - and even with - post secondary education.

Furthermore, downtime has become increasingly difficult to obtain. Email, cell phones, pagers and the blackberry, intrude upon the home life of many, with the work day frequently extending well beyond the time that is actually spent at work.

There are many different and wonderfully valuable approaches to reducing and managing stress. Yoga, massage therapy, delegating tasks to others, increased assertiveness, healthy eating, exercise, relaxation tapes and meditation are all excellent and wonderful approaches with countless benefits.

However, while the helpfulness of such tools in managing stress is relatively well known, many of us choose not to use them. What is it that stops us?

In many cases, what underlies the reluctance - or perceived inability - to do what is needed to reduce and/or manage stress, is fear: fear that one is not deserving enough; fear of what others will think; or fear that if we work less we will fail.

Sometimes the fear that lies underneath excessive busyness is a desire to avoid feeling upsetting emotions. We may keep ourselves even busier than we need to, so that we don't stop and feel our unhappiness about our past, our work, relationships, or life situation.

A comprehensive - and yet fast and easy approach to stress management, wellness, and internal equilibrium - is necessary in order to maintain not only physical, but emotional and mental well being.

Furthermore, it is not enough to simply tack on a relaxation approach, on top of one's existing life. In most cases, when this approach is taken, we will not stay with the new habit that is being implemented - or if we do stay with it, we may experience feelings of guilt or added stress because we are taking time away from what we feel we "should" be doing.

Instead, we need to not only bring in and use tools that will help us to feel better - which in the vast majority will actually lead us to becoming more productive rather than less - we also need to heal the underlying issues that have been preventing us from using these tools before now.

Zensight is not only highly effective as a stand alone technique for managing stress, it also has the added advantage of being useful for releasing patterns of guilt, fear, and anxiety, so that we simultaneously experience less stress while also feeling good about setting limits and doing the self care that is needed.

You can use Zensight to release these old patterns by stopping and noticing any visual images, body sensations, or emotions that come up as you think about doing self care, using relaxation techniques, and/or the stress that you are currently experiencing in your life.

Use your healing symbol to allow these images, sensations, and emotions to gently soften, transform, and dissolve.

If the picture doesn't change, if no picture is seen, or in order to resolve any remaining upset, you can use healing statements to further accelerate the process.

Examples of possible healing statements are:

"I now heal, transform and release, any and all patterns of fear, anxiety, or guilt, from all areas of my life."

"I heal any and all feelings of being overwhelmed."

"I heal the original decision that any parts of me have made that I'm not good enough, or not deserving, for any reason."

"I heal all of the beliefs about work or about relaxation, that any parts of me have internalized from my family, from society, or from anyone else, that don't serve my highest good now."

"I now heal transform and release any and all stress, tension or discomfort that is being held in any area of my body."

"I now heal any and all anger, resentment, or frustration that any parts of me are holding onto, for any reason."

"All of the different parts of me now experience a growing sense of peace, comfort, and relaxation."

"My entire body is relaxing now."

"I now create and install new patterns of feeling completely confident and comfortable in taking time each and every day to take care of myself."

"I now fully recognize that when I am rested and relaxed I perform better at work, in my relationships, and in my life."

While a full and completely effective healing session targeting the creation of increased balance will likely be far more comprehensive than this, these statements will get you started.

With Zensight, healing even embedded emotional and behavioural patterns can be extremely simple, and yet powerfully and deeply effective. Best of all, when an additional focus is placed upon healing energetic imbalances, past traumas, relationship issues and other related concerns, results are usually permanent and will be experienced in many different areas of life.

For more information on Zensight and the work of Carol Ann Rowland click Here

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5. Suggested Resources

I especially encourage you to order her great e-book "Discover Zensight: Easy Energy Healing & Personal Transformation".

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A note from Richard:

If you are on a path to greater personal wholeness and full expression of all your many abilities, I can help!

I offer individual sessions by telephone across the country and abroad (all over the world), to support you in moving past old seeming issues or challenges that are keeping you from becoming a full expression of who you are.

I am skilled in many healing modalities for those who want to quickly move through longstanding issues, in a peaceful, gentle way. If you are ready to transcend the past call me at 541-482-0800 or go to http://www.richardross.com/consultation.html to arrange a free consultation.

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I wish you a wonderful light-filled time on your path. The next issue will be in a few weeks.

Much Love and Many Blessings,
Richard

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Last, but not least:

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