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BUSY BRAIN SYNDROME

Sun, 13 May 2012 04:03:00 GMT

BUSY BRAIN SYNDROME. written by Sylvia Marina

Do you have a constant dialogue in your head?

Are you the person who wants to be everything to everyone?

Too much time spent planning, too little time to do!

The ‘busy brain syndrome’ is at an epidemic magnitude in our society and it requires real effort and awareness to manage. The good news is, it is possible to manage but until you do, you will be restless, rushed and constantly focused on time management and issues relating to quality of life. You may even hear yourself voice-ing statements like ‘I don’t have time’ or I have to make time!

Friends, you can’t make time and neither can I. Time just is!

It is our self we must manage.

Recently in Russia the people I mentor in that country speak of the pressures of business, lifestyle, family and relationships. It is the same life pressures for my clients in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Europe ...

When the brain is overloaded with jumbled thoughts, excessively remembering appointments, messages and meeting deadlines, mental exhaustion happens. It is then mis-takes and accidents happen...and more, the body, whilst doing all it can to support the state of busy-ness you are in, begins to give you signs of weariness and exhaustion.

You begin to experience –
Forgetfulness, Irritability, Sleeplessness, Exhaustion

You have concerns regarding your –
Finances, Family, Relationships, Lifestyle

You desire -
Approval and Recognition

You have spent your entire life studying and training your brain to be clever and now that you have taught it to multi-task you discover it is time to re-train the brain to be still and quiet!

You yearn for –
Time for Self

Your ultimate goal now is to train your mind to be quiet, focused and content, no matter where you are or what the circumstance.

It is unusual for a person to journey through life without health challenges. People who do, have the ability to deal with the day to day challenges in such a way that they constantly retain an inner sanctity! They have a meditative way of life, an inner place of peace and stillness.

I’ve charted the lives of many who excel in managing their lifestyles with seeming ease … they have family, mortgage, relationships … but have an ability to remain stable through the pressures, seasons and journeys of life.

By quieting your mind you enable the body to heal and sustain a healthy wholeness.

I practice and teach emotional mastery techniques and the most common question I am asked is … Sylvia how many hours a day do you meditate?
Meditation is a part of my daily living. I meditate for five to ten minutes, two to three times a day.
In times of extra pressure on my time or long distance travel, I will increase the frequency of meditation; it’s a proven way of eliminating the ‘Busy Brain Syndrome’.

© Sylvia Marina ND., Expert In Human Behaviour.
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Enrol in her four day Transforming DNA Memories program.
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CHANGE, CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:33:00 GMT

CHANGE, CHANGES EVERYTHING! written by Sylvia Marina

The one who doesn't struggle sometimes, is the one who doesn’t grow... ouch?

All growth requires change and unless it is the change we yearn for, and sometimes even then, discomfort will happen.

For example. The little six month old in our lives, is cutting teeth, once those teeth are through his life will begin to change forever. Other growth markers are happening too. New body movement, new strengths, recognitions and discoveries!

As I watch his growth and change I wonder, why do we in adult life so often resist change?
Is it because change, even small change, changes everything!

Our deciduous tree on the front lawn is currently undergoing change.
For almost forty years I have witness this specific ‘tree’ change. I recall the day I planted her.
He said it would grow and the roots would break the driveway, he was right, it has! For me coming from cooler climate in the south of New Zealand, I wanted shade for the front of our home in summer and clear daylight for the winter, every year I watch the positive changes and we, in our hot dry climate have the comfort of the summer shade at the front of our home.

When I planted that tree I didn’t anticipate another benefit ... the magnificent leaves catch the breeze providing a natural fan at the front of our home. And a disadvantage to our neighbours, when the leaves fall, its messy... I love it as it tells another story about change.

Often in our living we want change, we want a more expansive life but look at the possible pain, upheaval or mess and settle for a less expansive way of being alive and as a result, our daily lives rarely live up to the potential we’ve witness in the lives of others or we our-self may have tasted in our most enlightened moments.

Perhaps the reason we resist change is that we are afraid, or perhaps we feel safer to stay where we are and as we are. However, in life, as with our front-of-house tree, nothing stays completely the same!

It is possible for life to make sense. When we stop getting caught up in our unconscious patterns, when we stop emotionally struggling with worry, fear, doubt and insecurity... what if the caterpillar had doubts...will I be beautiful, what if my wings expand and dry and they are a different colour, width, shape to my siblings!

But, what if... in the depth of freedom that you have tasted in your most profound moments could become the living foundation for every moment of your life – it can.

You can touch a deep source of magnificence, beauty, stillness and radiance when you learn how.
To date, there hasn’t been a way for you to bring that greater depth into every moment of your life. Until now!

An Expert in Human Behaviour, Sylvia Marina, Helps People Through Time Of Change.

© Sylvia Marina ND., Expert In Human Behaviour.
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She also presents the four day program for change, Transforming DNA Memories in Theta & Delta
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EMOTIONAL MASTERY and YOUR HEALTH

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:25:00 GMT

EMOTIONAL MASTERY and YOUR HEALTH written by Sylvia Marina

Suppressed anger can inflict havoc on your well-being and overly expressed anger ruins relationships. These relationships not only exist in your outside world but also, your inner world.

The emotion of anger aggravates the energy to your organs and systems of the body, silently breaking down and weakening your immune system. Some receive a warning of pain or un-wellness, but not everyone is fortunate.

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. It’s when it gets out of control and turns overtly or covertly destructive; it leads to problems in the overall quality of your life and in most cases, also the lives of those nearest and dearest to you. Both you and your loved ones are at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion.

So, where does anger come from?

There are a lot of things that can possibly cause somebody to have anger issues. It could be as basic as hormonal changes that your body is going through, which is often the case with adolescents along with their growing understanding of the world, or it could be of some deep-seated fear that goes back from your childhood and is triggered by an event, or it could be a recent traumatizing experience that hurt you a lot.

Examples include feelings of loss, bankruptcy, lack of money, loss of career, death, divorce, break up of long term relationship, lost or broken friendship, abusive or dysfunctional childhood situations including not getting the childhood love you hoped for, lack of love and consideration during formative years, feeling nobody appreciates or values you, self expectation disappointments, jealousy, feeling lost, traumatised from a mugging or home invasion,...

Many things, happenings and non happenings can cause anger issues, affecting us because some way or the other, it touches something that is important to us.

People do not get angry without a reason, the same way that people do not just do things that can hurt them or other people. Many anger’s are deep within our DNA, we brought them into this lifetime buried within our genetic history; oh, if only they would stay buried, but no, given a stimulus they bubble to the surface and the result can be fast or a slow simmer, both actions have a destructive outcome.

Anger is a way of coping, a way of reacting. You can turn anger into something constructive. You can track down what makes you angry and work with it. Anger does not have to be there forever.

How to make the change that changes everything!

To really deal with anger you have to find its source, the roots of where it all started. Only then can true healing begin and you can finally move on to a more beautiful life.

Your questions have answers, for most the answers are buried within the genetic memory. In our program Transforming DNA Memories in Theta & Delta you will find answer to questions you may not have even consciously formed.

Is it time to stop the self destructive, unresolved emotion of anger?
Help yourself or help a loved one move on to a more beautiful life.

PURPOSE and GOALS

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:20:00 GMT

PURPOSE and GOALS written by Sylvia Marina

Have you ever sat down and thought, “What is my purpose in life? What is my passion? Where do I go from here?”

These questions are everywhere.

Perhaps the question is really... Are your goals yours?
Is what you are doing ‘your purpose’ yours or someone else’s unfulfilled dream or desire that has been so imprinted on and in your life that you are convinced it is yours?

Truly, your purpose is your own and you know it is your own when through the times that you cannot envision the future your faith in yourself (passion) never diminishes.

Many question their purpose and waiver when they feel challenge. To me ‘my purpose’ is my life’s work. Each life is a living message (purpose), do you know yours?

PURPOSE & GOALS

There is a different between purpose and goals. Goals are impermanent; we constantly achieve our goals, move our goals and set new goals – realizing that goals are impermanent can relieve stress and contribute to your inner peace. Goals are external.

Consider this, if you seek fulfillment only through external grounds what happens when they come to an end? Recently in our Breakthrough program participants (all parents) became palpably aware that the dedicated years of parenting children had come to the ‘time to let go’. Be aware, it is possible to pretend to let go but still manipulate or simply let go and continue in peace.

Parents will always be an influence, even when you have no personal contact with them!
Manipulating though, is always inappropriate devious control.

Parents who understand the art of ‘letting go’ are parents with an inner purpose, a passion, a knowing that life has more. For a short while, maybe a moment there can be the question. ”Where do I go from here?” This is what I call a regroup or a reset moment.

Perhaps the reason we sabotage our life is that we confuse our goals with our life purpose or in other words, our goals and life purpose are not in alignment.

I never doubted my purpose in life. From a very young child I had a deep internal knowing of my life’s work. In my thirty plus years of ‘helping people through times of change’ I discovered over and over again that very few remember their purpose.

Children at play include being the person they know they will become and they play that role over and over again. As they grow they gather knowledge and wisdom, these childhood and young adult elements combine to become their passion.

As a child I had a very long ‘talking/walking stick’ and (an item that eventually became real), a pine-cone was my pretend microphone! My audience was Fli the Kelpie and her puppies, the ducks, a few farm geese, the bantam hens, the pet lamb ... these rascals were the ears for my many childhood and what were to be ‘unfolding’ life stories.

For a period of time in my young life, others choices for my life were forced upon me. These decisions created conflict to the point that my early teen-years living arrangement became impossible. But out of bad, came good! I discovered what wasn’t right for me. And this brought me again to my purpose, the truth that as a child I shared with my farmyard friends – to be different to the mold others wanted me to fit.
Instead to look to my inner knowing and live my truth and purpose! I wish you love and inner peace as you connect to and have the courage to embrace and live your true purpose.

Then my friend, you will know and understand the inner power of emotional mastery.

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FIVE DO-ABLES TO CHANGE YOUR WEEK

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:07:00 GMT

FIVE DO-ABLES TO CHANGE YOUR WEEK written by Sylvia Marina

This week has been a heart touching time. People I barely know and people I have never met before pouring out their story of loneliness and feelings of helplessness!

I listened. I realised people are looking outside their self for inspiration. I’m glad I was there.
Many are barren when it comes to in-spir-ation. This is why so many drift into feelings of helplessness.

Helplessness, is a learned behaviour. Helpless people self doubt, they feel powerless and ineffective. If this is an aspect of your life or someone you know, it is time to step into your own shoes, or on the case of another, their own shoes.

Too often we look outside our self for inspiration! We watch movies, read books, chant affirmations, friends if affirmations are rightly worded, rightly timed and in the right energy, we only ever need whisper them once to our absolute innermost. You don’t need to keep chanting or repeating a phrase, to spirit energy, it must sound as though you are whining, or whinging or doubting your own request. Spirit energy is not deaf! Perhaps we say things over and over again because we are deaf to our own expectation and worthiness to receive?

And what happens when there are no movies, no books available, things to inspire are not within our arms reach? The only one that is with us is our own self! Social media has brought the world closer, given us faces to friend 24 hours a day, and even there I hear the desolate cry and respond with deep gratitude that I and many of you my friends are there for that one moment, that one person.

Inspiration begins with you. The word is an active, doing word ...in-spire!

FIVE DO-ABLES TO CHANGE YOUR WEEK

Get rid of useless things. Go through your home, throw away everything you don’t use or need anymore...it may take more than a week but at least get started today. This will make space for better things to come. As you clear the clutter it will also affect your mind.
You will feel more peaceful, creative and will be inspired to do more.
Finish what you started. Do not start another pile, another task or project – until you have finished what you started. This discipline will boost your confidence.
Clear your mind. View the mind as you do a museum. A good place to visit but unless well tended can get disorganised, cluttered and dusty. Only keep that which increases in value.Memories that inspire have value.
Take a few minutes every day to find the quiet place within. Breathe and relax. Imagine relaxation as an energy, flowing from the top of the head – with your eyes closed focus on relaxing your face, throat, shoulders... slowly all the way down to the tips of your fingers and the ends of your toes. This one discipline practiced every day will clear the mind, refresh the body and inspire your soul to take care of the ‘most important’ ... YOU!
Smile often! Look for reasons to smile. A smile is a little curve that sets a lot of things straight! Smile before leaving the mirror!

REASON, SEASON, or LIFETIME

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:13:00 GMT

REASON, SEASON, or LIFETIME written by Sylvia Marina

I’ve spent much of the past week sitting at a hospital bedside, observing, chatting, and at times just being the quiet companion.

A sad and serious scene stayed clearly in my mind of the caring wife and companion of a retired but youthful business man who had lost his sense of reality. His medical diagnosis, Dementia!
His wife spoke to me of his changed life and how in a bid to keep him safe, she had become a prisoner in their home.

She cherished their years together and now, it is different!
As we chatted I recalled the following and share it with you today.

Reason, Season, or Lifetime

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a Reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty; to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a Season, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.

Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your task is to accept the lesson, love the person,and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. ~ Author Unknown

Life is short, there is no time to leave important things unsaid. ~ Sylvia Marina

Love & BlesSings. Sylvia Marina.

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EMOTIONAL MASTERY

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:02:00 GMT

EMOTIONAL MASTERY written by Sylvia Marina
EMOTIONAL MASTERY (pdf)

Have well meaning friends or self righteous family ever told you, you need to ‘confront an issue’.

Have you ever been challenged by a therapist who says you are ‘blocking’ (does anyone know what that really means), and then they continue to tell you, you need to forgive!
I ask…forgive what?

I battled for years to resolve a reoccurring childhood issue, to eventually come to the sacred realization there was actually nothing to resolve. I use the word ‘sacred’ because when the dawn of realization occurred I really, truly, deeply, felt blessed.

The issue involved three people, actually five people! The extra two people were the parents, the supposed authority of the household who never had the skills, backbone or competence to ‘nip the kids childish behavior in the bud’ (in hindsight they actually supported bullying behavior because they never stopped us). Subsequently it simmered for years, way into adulthood!

Professionally, I often find that it is an emotion that has not been recognized and responded to in an appropriate way that is the cause of much distress in people’s lives. Due to a lack of emotional understanding, few know how to use their emotions in healthy and creative ways, rather they become slaves to a notion which may manifest as either out of control or control fanatic.

The tragedy was no-one told us our stealthy behavior was emotionally disempowering and spiritually caustic! As kids it was a game, in youth we were covertly aggressive. Aspects of ‘the behavior’ cropped up when the emotional energy was triggered when aspects of the dynamic’s came together! Sometimes it was just in thought! I guess this is why so many families both love and hate family gatherings i.e. christmas. It is the unresolved issues that you don’t fully understand that click in each time a certain energy vibration is activated.

Are you or your siblings lugging around destructive behaviors that began in childhood, carried through to adults and now you wish you could resolve?

This weekend as I presented the Mastery program I again became aware that in many relationship misunderstandings … there is nothing to forgive, nothing to resolve, just a few realizations to ponder and appreciate.

From my many childhood dilemma’s, misunderstandings and blames, once I understood this basic key, that there is nothing to forgive, nothing to resolve, just some realities of life to be understood, my thoughts, attitude and life changed.

Do you know what it was to belong, to allow yourself to feel a physical or non physical embrace, to feel alive, abundant and connected with others around you and the pieces of life just fitting together, effortlessly!

Emotional Mastery is about developing a strong, stable, healthy core.

Some people’s emotions are so big that they feel overwhelmed by them. Many avoid doing things or being involved for fear of ‘sadness and fearfulness’ because they don’t know how to handle such emotions in their-self or others. Others spend much of their lives feeling very little and struggle to connect with and express their emotions or allow their life to be magnificent. Emotional Mastery means bringing our emotions to a place of understanding and harmony.

Emotional Mastery creates meaning…when we get the right emotion we find a way!

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ASPIRE CONNECT UNITE

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:05:00 GMT

ASPIRE CONNECT UNITE (pdf)

What would it mean to you to be really connected to your highest wisdom?

Recent months I have the privilege of working with people who aspire to have a better life.

How long have you aspired, hoped dreamed and wished that miraculously life would be different?

These are individuals just like you and me, taking their place in society, financially supporting their family, yet deep within feel lost, wandering without a greater purpose, without a defined reason to be.

As personal and professional lives responded to demands and busyness, many found themselves disconnected, depleted, burnt out, tired, under weight, overweight, lacking money, money but no time, relationship difficulties, lonely...

If you relate to this experience carried by many of my first time clients then, like them it is time to lift your vision to higher sights, build yourself beyond its former limits. Connect to your higher wisdom and become your own leader.

An effective leader is not someone who attracts attention to himself or herself but who is seen as the quintessence of something important – something that is oriented towards issues that touch us all.

If you want to make a difference become a leader in your own life, how?

Connect to your wisdom and spiritual purpose.
Learn from the people who are being and doing what you desire to do and be!

Let me help you.

At a young age I created a spiritual life purpose statement – I already had a vision of what I would do in my life but there was a void. I had an understanding that spirituality, personal and professional achievement, are inextricably interlinked.

A spiritual statement calls for wisdom, passion, connectedness, unity, leadership.

Not just any leader, but a leader who makes a difference.
Leaders who influence rather than demand tend to be more successful.
An example is parenting, parents who kindly and consistently influence rather than demand have better life-time rapport.

Let me help you begin. Three simple steps...

Create your spiritual statement
Write it down
Create a vision board

Creating your spiritual statement takes courage.
Writing it down makes it a commitment.
Creating a vision board brings clarity.

Every choice you make either brings you closer to, or further from your spiritual wisdom values!
When you have clarity, each life decision evolves from your spiritual wisdom connectedness.
Deep within you’ll have a knowingness that you are on track!
You may not see the individual steps clearly but you will have an inner knowing that you can trust the journey process.

Are you on track yet?

HELPING PEOPLE THROUGH TIMES OF CHANGE - committed, passionate, inspirational and positive.
© Sylvia Marina is a Spiritual Educator and Professional Intuitive. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural

WHO YOU SPEND TIME WITH IMPACTS ON YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE!

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:07:00 GMT

WHO YOU SPEND TIME WITH IMPACTS ON YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE! (pdf)

Who you spend time with impacts on your quality of life! Examine the scope and influences that impact your life. This includes who you listen to, who you learn from, the books you read and TV programs you watch.

Your future will be the same as your past unless you examine your quality of life. By this I’m not referring to the place you live, car you drive the chattels you’ve gathered or the stocks and shares you have accumulated.

To examine your quality of life, listen to your body.

   Is your thinking excessive?
   Does your body carry anxiety?
   Is your solar plexus relaxed or do you feel flutters of unease that are
   more like excited seagulls than *graceful butterflies!
   Do you have harmony in your heart charkra?

*There are times when we feel little flutters in our tummy. These little flutters are usually short term and relate to good stress, eustress, the definition of stress given by endocrinologist Dr Hans Seyle, for the stress evoked by any positive emotion or event.

Good stress refers to healthy and/or fulfilling arousal! The thought or sound of that ‘special someone’, preparing for a long awaited special event, watching your favourite sports team...

If your past has not been as harmonious as you desired, honestly examine the capacities and influences that impacted your life and of the energies that are still influencing your life choices.

I have mentors some of which are no longer living but their influence still has a positive radiating effect on my life. On the other hand, there are those whose lives and life choices impacted our lives negatively and it is to these we need to address decisions if our future is to be different to our past.

Consciously and unconsciously negative influences are contributing factors to distress. Distress is not healthy, the list of diseases related to stress is long and scientific research adds on a regular basis more mental and physical diseases to this list. Examples of stress related diseases are depression, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, sexual dysfunction…sadly the list is large.

Whether distress be covert or overt it has the power, silent or otherwise, to put people into a depressed, ineffective mode. Unless ‘nipped in the bud’ this behavior can have a crippling effect on the once healthy body.

Distress often stays in an alert state much longer and for this reason researchers refer to this state as the flight or flight response. Unaddressed becomes the foundation for disease.

If while reading you have identified contributing factors to distress, what are you willing to change? Some may say, there is nothing I can do. This dear reader is another subject for another time – it is called ‘helplessness’.

“Change brings opportunity.” Nido Quebein.
It takes courage to change but change brings new opportunity, better health and brighter tomorrows. So whatever it is that you have been promising yourself to do, make a decision and do it now!

© Sylvia Marina is a Spiritual Educator and Professional Intuitive. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural abilities are supported by her professional background in health and behavioural sciences and thirty year career as a professional kinesiology teacher and practitioner. Living in Perth, West Australia she runs her own private practice and mentor program and travels nationally and internationally to speak at events, presents ‘life change’ programs enabling people to empower and transform their lives.

Helping You Through Times Of Change.

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CALM THE MIND, STOP EXCESSIVE THINKING

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:00 GMT

CALM THE MIND, STOP EXCESSIVE THINKING Created and written by Sylvia Marina ©

The way to calm your brain and stop excessive or unnecessary thinking is similar to how to clear a muddy pool. Not by action, by doing or by stirring it up, but by stillness, by letting it be, and by letting it settle itself.

Too many ideas from the past have sought to educate us into thinking that unless we set the filters of our mind really high, ‘unscrupulous others’ will program it with bondage for you.
This desperation thinking is just nervous harassment which snuffs out your natural radiance.

The most challenging part of your life is not your neighbourhood, bad weather or an uncertain future, it’s your mind.

As we approach another new beginning, let it not be a repeat of a negative past, the disabling things/relationships we attach to, are those which also enslave us!

Within each of us is an amazing power to transform any challenge or difficulty into gifts beyond our imagination.

It is in quietness, when the two sides of the brain learn to function as one, then our experience of reality is different.

When you learn how to tap into the limitless part of you, stress melts away, your creative energy flows and you connect to your vibrant spiritual heart energy, (I am not referring to the physical heart here, that has its human limitations) it is then you will fully connect to your life and purpose. You will feel and know the deep sense of inner peace and connection.
And you will truly know the light of love, the radiance of being present, in the present.

Inner happiness, freedom, joy and comfort are not privileges, they are your RIGHTS!

Connected to your energetic, vibrant spiritual heart wisdom gives you an intuitive advantage to your every future choice.

Wishing you connectedness, love and wisdom!

Desperation snuffs out the light.
Gratitude and Contentment sends up the brightest flares for attracting!

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TEN STEPS FOR GETTING THE LIFE YOU WANT

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:48:00 GMT

TEN STEPS FOR GETTING THE LIFE YOU WANT! (pdf) written by Sylvia Marina ©

This is the time when many set an intention for their festive and holiday season, closely followed by their new year love and lifestyle objectives.

I recall the lament of many of our readers who last year, overspent in the days close to christmas.
From a December over-spend, it is difficult to get a clear start to the new year.

Here are some tips to assist you to stay on track

Don’t carry old baggage into a new year. Manage your finances, address negative emotions and patterns of behaviour. Start the new year with a clean slate.
Visualise what you truly want.
If you create an overdrawn bank account – what are the consequences!
If you want a specific lifestyle, visualise step by step how you will make that happen.
Identify limiting beliefs. Sometimes awareness is all that is needed to change a belief.
Every morning connect with your wisdom energy.
Align your energy with your soul purpose.
You’ll know when your lifestyle, soul purpose and wisdom are aligned.
When energy is aligned, you feel an inner peace, happiness, joy, miracles and prosperity happens.
Stay on track. You’ve had enough dissapointments. It is time to learn your lessons.
2012 is a year of change. Now is the time to alignment with your soul purpose, harmony and bliss. Do you need a mentor or soul coach to help you map the way?
Be kind to yourself.
Don’t overburden yourself. Honour yourself. Know when to say no!
Don’t accept seconds! Second servings has consequences!
Reward yourself, spend time connected to nature.
Take time for creative expression, art, music, singing, gardening – whatever brings you joy! Meditate in theta and delta, it will lift your spirit.
Be open to receive. Stop writing the lists for a perfect partner, lifestyle or career.
Let go of all that clouds your beauty.
Become the person you dream you will someday be – be that person now.
Be honest with yourself. Most look at their life from the inside out. Take time to observe your life from the outside in.

Life is precious. Life is love. If love has not reached the innermost part of your soul, isn’t it time to unveil the magnificent you so that love can transform and evolve your life?

© Sylvia Marina is a Spiritual Educator and Professional Intuitive. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural abilities are supported by her professional background in health and behavioural sciences and thirty year career as a professional kinesiology teacher and practitioner. Living in Perth, West Australia she runs her own private practice and mentor program and travels nationally and internationally to speak at events, presents ‘life change’ programs enabling people to empower and transform their lives.

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THE BEGINNING HOLDS THE SEED

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:37:00 GMT

The beginning holds the seed of all that is to follow!

From the innocence of attending a training seminar nearly thirty years ago, new pathways, and many new beginnings evolved. The plain and bluntly spoken speaker of the day pushed us to put into writing our goal and dream of the future.

I was a reluctant participant!

You see, my problem was never what to do with my life, I knew my life mission therefore, it seemed futile and limiting to imprison my life purpose in words. Others is the class were busily writing and I didn’t wish to appear ungrateful to the person who had invited me to the event! Unwillingly, (my negative body posture declared my attitude) I searched for words to convey what I needed to express.

I wrote:
“To travel the world teaching people to care for their own soul and the body that it’s cradled in”.

What did it really mean?

Recently I accepted an invitation from the Russian Federation in Moscow to present three four day wellness seminars. As I entered the aircraft that would take me on my mission to Russia, the sculptured words of so long ago reverberated from the chambers of my heart where I had stored them in the conscious awareness that when the invitation came to blaze a trail, I would be ready and prepared.

Like most, I’ve grasped many opportunities and experienced multiple ‘new beginnings’.

"The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken." ~ Plato

From birth I was raised under the social welfare scheme and it seemed that harsh beginning set the stage for an adult life of yearning, yearning to understand myself and educate myself to the highest appropriate degree. A natural progression of my life was to be an educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, is purported to have said, "Let enthusiasm radiate in your voice, your actions, your facial expressions, your personality, the words you use, and the thoughts you think!"

I learnt quickly to discard the bad habit of a stubborn mind, this behaviour had the potential to cripple my future. With new awareness, new beginnings were forged. Another season of life began, a season of growth and prosperity. New awareness and wisdom!

It was winter and as I travelled through ice and snow and the bitter cold of Siberia I was reminded of my childhood in the south of New Zealand where during winter tiny bulbs would lie frozen in the ground and with the miracle of spring would bring a transformation of majestic beauty on the earth.
And so it is with each of us.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.~ Louis L'Amour

Sylvia Marina is a Professional Intuitive and Spiritual Educator. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness as well as CD’s to uplift your energy and vibration. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural abilities are supported by her professional background in health and behavioural sciences and thirty year career as a professional kinesiology teacher and practitioner. Living in Perth, West Australia she runs her own private practice and mentor program and travels nationally and internationally to speak at events, present Creative Self Mastery programs empowering people through times of change.

Tel: +618 (08) 9457 3763 | E: info@sylviamarina.com | www.sylviamarina.com

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FREE SPIRIT, LOVE AND PASSION!

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:11:00 GMT

What is the common factor that has projects unfinished, love unexplored and dreams unfulfilled?

If I were given the power to cure just one ill that haunts mankind, writes Todd Puntolillo, I would pass up cancer, AIDS, and overlook heart disease because curing the malady I have in mind might just cure most of the others as a side effect. The cure I would seek would be the cure of criticism. No disease shrivels up children, destroys the family unit, ruins the business place, incapacitates government, nor produces stress like criticism.

The terrible three (criticism, judgment, and complaint) do more to dishearten the spirit and, in general, create misery, pain and sorrow than anything else I have ever encountered, says Todd.

Recently we embarked on a new to me art. I was excited about the prospect of exploring another aspect of the creative spirit. To friends I passed the frivolous comment that I hoped the evening didn’t finish with the dream being bundled into the box marked unfinished products.

It didn’t! I completed the project and now have a beautiful piece of wearable art that I enjoy.
Oh, the joy, smiles, accolades from our friends! And I was ecstatic! I’d finished my project, oh the satisfaction!

In conversation we began to mentally explore items that become unfinished projects and wondered why they had not been completed. Not having time was an excuse, as was not sure how to complete and change of mind, and no longer appropriate was why the project(s) lay dormant and then... Criticism we decided, was why most projects, remain incomplete.
For many criticism had not been expressed just the notion of what others may think or be thinking and not being supported in the dream, are debilitating factors.

We have no control over what others think, or say. Demeaning comments, judgement and criticism debilitates the innocent spirit, cripples ideas, fades and erases dreams and incapacitates human desire.

Probably all of us know the difference between receiving encouragement and being invalidated. Criticism puts the criticiser in a loveless place while the person being criticised feels inadequate loved-less and un-love-able. It’s a place devoid of kindness.

Unappreciated, people endeavour to cope by closing off emotions to the point they begin to operate their lives from a place of disappointment and then to move on in life, unfeeling.

Locked in ‘unfeeling’ people continue to physically live, emotionally freeze and spiritually diminish. Afraid to reach out and explore they stay stuck in the familiar environment of silent and verbal taunts continually longing to feel and know what love and kindness is! And internally yearning and asking, what is freedom?

What does it mean to have a free spirit?

To be able to express your initiative without fear of negative response
To live your life and life’s purpose with clarity and passion
To trust your knowing – understand the invisible and do the impossible

This is what it means to ‘evolve your future’, and truly know the love and joy of living.

RELATIONSHIPS - Non-Verbal Communication, it’s powerful!

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:13:00 GMT

RELATIONSHIPS - Non-Verbal Communication, it’s powerful! (pdf)

Daily, people communicate with much more than words. Research shows that the majority of our communication is non-verbal. Non-verbal communication, or body language, includes the tone of our voice, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, posture.

Good communication is the foundation of successful relationships, both personally and professionally. The ability to understand and use non-verbal communication is powerful tools that will help you connect with others, express what you really mean, navigate challenging situations, and build better relationships at home and work.

If you are serious about improving your relationship skills observe how many non verbal messages impact your daily interactions.

Louder than words!
Often it is our non-verbal communication that sends louder messages that the spoken word. As we interact with others, we continually give wordless signals. The way we sit, how fast we speak, what we do with our hands, how close we stand, whether our shoulders are angle or direct, depending on cultures eye contact or no eye contact, crossed or uncrossed legs. The nonverbal signals you send either produce a sense of interest, trust, and desire for connection—or they generate disinterest, distrust, and confusion.

Many of you are aware of my ongoing study in Face Language (physiognomy). The human face is extremely expressive, able to express countless emotions without saying a word. And unlike some forms of nonverbal communication, facial expressions are universal. The facial expressions for happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust are the same across all cultures.

Too often, we send negative non-verbal signals without even knowing it, and then wonder why the developing connection and trust are lost in a relationship.

Queen of her castle: Is this you?
Her castle is her domain whether that be the kitchen or the office?
I will give you a true life example:
After a luscious meal at ‘her home’ my partner offered to dry the dishes. Not having been to her home before he put the clean dishes onto a clear patch on the kitchen bench. Soon he was being directed to put the dishes in their allocated space and according to directions he did his best, shortly ‘queen of her kitchen’ began huffing and puffing, clicked her tongue and rearranged.
In aware of her dominant behaviour, I the observer was amused at the non-verbal antics.

Alone later that evening ‘he’ commented he would never ever offer to help in her kitchen again.

Unappreciative, bolshie behaviour! Is this one of the reasons why so many people yearn for close meaningful relationship and either don’t attract or attract and push the other interested party away– in an endeavour to be perfect, to always be ‘right’, through inflexibility, are you pushing people away!

The way you listen, look, move, and react tells the other person whether or not you care. The best way to understand non-verbal communication is to observe your own behaviour before judging another. They may unconsciously be mirroring you.

In her Relationship program and Speak-Up Master Class Sylvia Marina opens awareness into the ‘silent messages’ we emit.

Sylvia Marina is a Professional Intuitive and Spiritual Educator. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness as well as CD’s to uplift your energy and vibration. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural abilities are supported by her professional background in health and behavioural sciences and thirty year career as a professional kinesiology teacher and practitioner. Living in Perth, West Australia she runs her own private practice and mentor program and travels nationally and internationally to speak at events, present Creative Self Mastery programs empowering people through times of change.

Tel: +618 (08) 9457 3763 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting | E: info@sylviamarina.com | www.sylviamarina.com

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CHANGE HAPPENS in Theta & Delta

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:37:00 GMT

CHANGE HAPPENS in Theta and Delta (pdf)
written by Sylvia Marina ©

There are times when life throws you an experience you had not planned.

In 1997 following a horrid accident I had a dramatic change of life. My body, was badly fractured and for a period of time I was unable to do for myself. What to do? Firstly, I tried to discover what I could do! Very little!

While my body mended I reviewed my life. In childhood I had a non specific place where I could connect to my inner self and it was to this place that I instinctively travelled, to the quiet place within, the place where many mysteries of life can be solved, physical hurts healed, clarity where once confusion and misunderstanding reigned ... the place of solace, healing and positive change.

Deep in the DNA, Deoxyribonucleic acid, of each species on earth is a knowing. A knowing of our physical life purpose, the purpose of every organ and system – the purpose of life for you, the whole being – our DNA our blueprint! Along with this knowledge of survival and endeavours for the continued existence of life i.e. within the reproductive system comes the knowing of what is required for the ongoing survival of not only humans but every species, is the knowing of how to heal our life, how to change, how to be all that we aspire to be.

The importance of every human is contained in the DNA remembering their true structure and function. For cells that are damaged or dis-empowered, we can access the remembering when they were empowered and functioning according to nature and connect them back to the full complement of genetic information that we inherited from our parents, especially the set of chromosomes and the genes we carry, remembering within each gene is a wealth of knowing – its cradled in our magnificent cellular memory.

Cellular memory holds emotional imprints and beliefs and our current ‘bio and geo’ graphical stresses and contributing factors to disease. How to access cellular memory? That’s where the quiet place comes in!

The brainwave patterns of Theta and Delta hold the keys to cellular memory. Learning how to connect to the exact brain pattern energy where a negative imprint is stored and then changing the pattern of that energy has led to outstanding success in people’s wellness.

It is not only physical illness where accessing memories in Theta & Delta is helpful. People have advanced their career, improve relationships, transformed from low self esteem to increased confidence and more. It is a simple matter of training the brain.
Once you have trained the brain it becomes a natural progression of life to use the brain wave pattern to focus creative energy for behaviour change, healing, relaxation, meditation.

To understand how each brainwave pattern has a role - healing and permanent change takes place in Theta & Delta.

Brain Pattern	Frequency range	Activity	State
High Beta	21Hz - 33Hz	Highly alert	Controlled by time & deadlines.
Beta	14Hz - 21Hz	Alert and focused	Logic, wants power & control.
Alpha	7Hz - 14Hz	Relaxed but alert	Creative energy
Theta	4Hz - 7Hz	Deep Relaxation (also first stage of sleep) Meditative state for changing behaviours.	Connected to knowledge & purpose. Creative energy to manifest what our heart yearns for - love, intimacy, belonging, creative expression.
Delta	0.5Hz - 4Hz	Ideal Meditation state for Healing & Transformation Deep sleep	Transformation & Healing, Creative Hypnosis Connecting to Wisdom

When a certain brainwave state is experienced and practiced over a period of time, the brain will "learn" and it will become easier to self-produce the desired brainwave state at will. Applying a stimulus to the brain will eventually bring the brain's state closer to the desired frequency. We use distinctive audible sound, finely tuned to the specific brain pattern frequencies for the purpose of educating the brain to switch from Beta to a desired state for healing, behavioural change or relaxation. Once you have trained the brain it becomes a natural progression of life to use the brain wave pattern most suited to focus energy, creative energy, behaviour change, relaxation or meditation.

Sylvia Marina is a Professional Intuitive and Spiritual Educator. She specialises in helping people heal their body, emotional struggles, blocks, and fears. She has developed a series of programs to enhance Intuitive Awareness as well as CD’s to uplift your energy and vibration. An experienced teacher and personal development mentor, her natural abilities are supported by her professional background in health and behavioural sciences and thirty year career as a professional kinesiology teacher and practitioner. Living in Perth, West Australia she runs her own private practice and mentor program and travels nationally and internationally to speak at events, present Creative Self Mastery programs empowering people through times of change.

Tel: +618 (08) 9457 3763 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting | E: info@sylviamarina.com | www.sylviamarina.com

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