August 19, 2002

Welcome to the newsletter for Odyssey To Wholeness. This newsletter is a forum to discuss a wide range of issues regarding mind-body psychology. There is little, if anything, that does not affect the mind-body connection. That gives me, the author, wide latitude with an opportunity for fun. I rarely do things if they are not fun! If you would like to have a particular topic discussed, send me an e-mail.

The contents of this newsletter are:

1. The Soul Healing Workshop on September 14 in Houston.
2. Managing Emotions
3. Resources I have used
4. Abundance opportunities

I am continually amazed at what Spirit brings forth. I am having in Houston a day long workshop on Soul Healing. The date is Saturday September 14. If you sign up before August 25 the cost is $100. After that the cost is $125. You would want to come to this class because there will be times of deep inner healing. Not only will you meet and work with your Soul Healing Angels, you will leave with a plan to continue your own healing. We will have powerful healing experiences to heal birth issues and other issues particular to yourself.

This is a powerful workshop that I am being called to bring to other places. If you would like to work with me to bring this powerful workshop to your area, please e-mail me.

When I go to other parts of the country I am available to do individual healing sessions and spiritual counseling.

The last newsletter spoke about managing our thoughts. I would appreciate hearing from you about how your own work at managing your thoughts is going.

Now I would like to focus on the managing of emotions. I have found that people understand the concept of managing thoughts better than the concept of managing emotions. I certainly had a difficult time with this idea that emotions could be managed. I thought they “just were.” In fact, isn’t that what we have been told for years, “Feelings (emotions) are neither good nor bad, they just are.”

From an energetic perspective everything, including feelings and emotions, are nothing more than energy. Energy is neither good nor bad. The judgement we make about the energy gives it the label of “good” or “bad.” Perhaps we could look at this like a math equation. (You math-phobes don’t run away here and you math aficionados, please, don’t judge me harshly!)

Energy + Motion = Energy in motion = E-motion
E-motion + Judgement = Feeling

Compare a frightful experience you have had with a wonderful experience. Compare a time you were in an accident with a time you were infatuated with someone. If you examine the way the body responds to both of those experiences, you will find some similarities. Adrenalin rises, the stomach feels heavy, there is a hyper sense of alertness as well as many other physical symptoms. When a judgement is made about what is happening, death vs. love, then other physiological forces come into play. With love endorphins rise and with fear T-cells, which support our immune system, decrease.

Now the complexity of judgement comes in. What if being in love (or infatuation) also brings a fear response. Perhaps someone had been hurt badly in a love relationship. There might be a judgement that being in love represents danger. The physiology of fear is activated rather than the physiology of love. Another person has strong positive feelings about being in love. The physiology of love is now in place. The only difference is our judgements about the event.

To examine the aspect of judgement and feelings, let’s take an example of someone leaving an abusive relationship and the reaction of various people. (The person doing the leaving could be male or female.) One person could see the event as an empowering situation. Another could see the event as a failure. Still another could view it as dangerous. The person doing the leaving could feel empowered, fearful, excited, angry, peaceful or all of them. How s/he is feeling at the time depends upon what the mental focus is and the judgement of that focus. A judgement about the financial situation regarding leaving might be different than the judgement about being out of the abuse.

The point is that we, individually, get to make the judgement about the situation. We can change that judgement. Fear, which is the basis of any feeling that is not love based, is not about the present. Fear takes an experience of the past and projects that onto the future. What would happen if we stayed totally out of the past and made a judgement about how things are RIGHT NOW. Go back to the person who left the abusive relationship. S/he is walking down the street and suddenly the thought about finances comes to mind. S/he panics for whatever reason. The future looms ahead. STOP the image of financial insecurity! Go into the heart. Stay there. Now ask: “What can I do now that would help the situation?” Listen to the answer. You might get something you hadn’t thought of before because fear was blocking clear thinking. One thought you might get is “Nothing.” Well, do nothing, keep walking and tell the fear to go away. I mean that literally. Sometimes you might even yell at the fear to go away. Choose to feel something else. Choose to go back to a good feelings. Choose to feel the peace of not worrying about an abusive relationship.

If you want to read more on managing emotions read the following books: The Power of Now by Eckard Tolle (I reviewed this book last newsletter)

Walking between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion by Gregg Braden (This is a great book for all of you who want science and logic behind what you do. Gregg is a scientist and a mystic)

Freeze Frame by Doc Lew Childers (Another book for those who enjoy science as well as excellent for all of us.)

The wisdom found in these books come into my work with people every day.

I have read and studied the three books that I recommended above. They are powerful books if you choose to practice the principles within them.

Some of us need more help than a book. I want to tell you about a company whose products I have used that have been a great help to me and to others. They are called Learning Strategies. They have a program called Ideal Mindset which helped me change a belief system or mindset that was interfering with a friendship. Yes, it took work and dedication, but the tapes in their program, as well as the workbook did wonders in just a couple of weeks. If you want to let go of the past and form new powerful and energizing belief systems, I suggest you try it. Click on the link below.

The tapes are fascinating. They work on both sides of the brain and are best used with a stereo headset. It is very difficult to describe what happens, but my experience is being able to hear the messages from different parts of my brain. They are not subliminal messages. You can turn down the sound on either side and hear what is being said into the other ear. The results, for me, were remarkable.

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That’s it for now. Take care. Let me know your experiences with controlling thoughts and emotions. This is a simple concept and takes tremendous discipline. I can tell you from personal experience that it is well worth the effort!

Blessings to you.
Cathy Chapman