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Are you the production manager, getting the job done and never having a life? Or are you studying on the sidelines and always planning for the game of life? Are you the bridesmaid and never the bride?  You’ve watched the Secret, know about the Law of Attraction, understand quantum physics and the entanglement theories of “What the Bleep do We Know?”, subscribed to Notes from the Universe (TUT.com), went to an Esther Hicks Abraham workshop, done Donna Eden and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), watched Oprah and Dr Ohmet Oz, read all Dr Phil’s  and Bryon Katies’ insightful books, taken all Adam the Dream Healer workshops, and been to Michael Beckwith, James Ray, Ray Cantfield, Bob Proctor, Lisa Williams’ positive thinking seminars, created your vision board, and still aren’t having the life you envisioned. Do you feel “stuck” in your rut “just existing”?  Make a New Year’s resolution to live your life, no longer as the studious observer event planner, forever the participatory player!

Stop "processing" and start "progressing!"

Although you’ve read, understood, examined, analyzed, justified and explained everything you’ve processed in your mind, have you done anything about it?  Many times on a spiritual, self help, self growth, or self development journey you feel you have gifts, talents, opportunities and options that you are not using. You believe that you are here to benefit others or know inside yourself that you came to have a different life. However, with your very busy life of career and social activities, lessons, classes, readings, experiential workshops, seminars, and lectures you still are not actually moving forward in life. 
You feel like you just exist.

Stop "processing" and start "progressing!"

Do you feel like you have read and done everything that you can? Do you keep telling yourself you are moving forward, yet forward resembles a gerbil on a spinning wheel?  Then you’re in “processing” mode.  “Processing” is about reading, watching, listening to, mulling over and analyzing lots of material whether in educational, career, or social venues, experiential activities or just conversations with your friends.  Even great dreams at night constitute sub conscious processing.

If you’re thinking about a New Year’s resolution, altering and living a few words in your vocabulary will bring productive changes into your life.  “IF” is a tiny word with huge ramifications. “IF” suggests a probability, not a current now factual happening. IF I do this or that, sets up "never never" land  thinking. “If” used for planning stages allows hypothetical thinking that can be changed to become an actual event.  “IF” is part of the processing mode.

“WHEN” I do so and so. “When” is also processing verbiage. “When” begets more data gathering or discussions and sometimes hollow intentions before your “rubber hits the road.” Facts you process in the “when” stage usually contribute to and help create the action of going forward in your life.  “When” also  hypothetical thinking explores what you could, would or ought to do or rather do, rather than claiming “I AM” doing this!

Example: You want to go to Paris. Reading brochures, studying French, learning current currency rates, having your passport made, is all about processing your intended trip.  Buying the plane ticket is  “progressing” because you’ve moved out of your fact finding “processing” to ACT!
Your ACTION sets your trip in motion. Your action makes your trip intention concrete and not just a discussion forum, an analytical educational analysis, or a hypothetical dream.

“Progressing” in life is “I AM” going to the gym (within a specified timeframe that very day).

Deciding which gym is the best, what exercise do I need to focus on, how many days should I exercise, which tennis shoes do I wear, are all active choice making ingredients borne within your journey’s progression.  While living and doing activities, various participation choices, on the spot decision making, fact gathering, assessments and evaluative dialog is progressing, because you make the choice and act on it immediately.

Learning by doing is progressing. Processing includes studying, assessing and following thru on your cumulative fact findings derived from your ‘IF” or “When” hypothetical while you are experiencing.

Progressing includes using “when” or “if” as a research tool to understand how to accomplish or maximize what you ARE currently doing.

You won’t flourish with a new life if you just nourish your dreams with abstract thinking, analytical “what if’s” and “when I” planning.  Actions make your thoughts progressing realities.  Even if you choose a wrong “action” you are progressing with the “learning opportunity” you created from your choice.

Processing and hollow intentions keeps your life in remission.  Processing is participatory practice of intention at the highest level. You’re always the understudy learning and planning how to act the part, but never being on the stage of life.  You are the perpetual understudy, not the actor.  Progressing is living action; evolving, expanding and learning no matter where each choice or experience in your life’s journey takes you!  Life is what you choose to do breath by breath. Be all you are and can be, not one iota less.

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Disclaimer: Brent Atwater collaborates with and participates in ongoing energy medicine and intuitive diagnostic medical research, and independent case studies with the world's leading doctors, physicians, researchers, scientists, and medical facilities, helping to create evidence based research that documents the bridging of traditional and alternative healthcare into integrative medicine. Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Brent offers her opinions based on her intuition, and her personal energy healing work, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or trained health care professional concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change programs. As in traditional medicine, there are no guarantees with medical intuition, intuitive anatomical medical diagnosis or energy medicine.

You are invited to visit Brent Atwater’s Blogtalk Radio show featuring “Stroke Damage”
         in her radio archives at   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/brentatwater   
                                           in our Radios archives

     Suddenly you feel a portion of your body pause, loose sensation and stop functioning correctly.  Your eyes may see double, your tongue might tingle, and your arm or leg may drag for few minutes. If these symptoms continue for a few minutes (15-20) you are having a stroke.  Those are the symptoms of a TIA or Transient Ischemic Attack, known as a mini stroke.  The sneaky part is that in both a TIA and a lesser stroke, the symptoms come and go for the lucky individual.  If you can't produce an even smile on both sides of your face, remember the date, or have continued numbness on one side of your body, go to the hospital emergency room immediately. You have a 3-hour window to have an opportunity to reverse any major damage. 

For those who exhibit and experience major impairment and who are unable to obtain immediate treatment, stroke damage may result in paralysis, nerve damage, and other dehabilitating symptoms.  The good news is, usually in time, you can have some form of restored function in the areas of your body that were initially damaged.

 Acupuncture has recently been providing significant restorative results by improving some physical functions for stroke victims.  According to CBC News, "The functional electrical stimulation rowing machine, developed by researchers in Edmonton and England, helps people with disabilities (paraplegics and others) enjoy the benefits of regular exercise." 

As a medical intuitive and distance energy healer, energy healing is another modality that provides electromagnetic stimulation and shows great promise in treating and curing stroke damage and regenerating damaged nerves.  By using directed electromagnetic bio molecular energy healing, we can reframe bio structures, ie nerve impulse generators and their neural pathways that direct your body's physical functions to their initial blueprint of health.  Neural pathways can be restructured so that those with paralysis can move their legs or arms.  Numb extremities can be revived and regenerated to sensation. 

 In several clients with stroke complications, after their cellular and neural connections were restored and regenerated, physical therapy was used to restrengthen their muscles that had weakened due to lack of use during the early stages of their rehabilitation.  To date, various stroke symptoms and complications can be lessened or reversed with energy healing. 

 Energy healing is cutting edge and is being clinically researched as a healing modality that shows great promise in assisting and restoring the physical health of those who have experienced a stroke. 

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Email: mailto:Brent@BrentAtwater.com

 Disclaimer: Brent Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Brent works in Alternative & Integrative Medicine. She offers her opinions based on her intuition, and her personal energy healing work, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or trained health care professional concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change programs. As in traditional medicine, there are no guarantees with medical intuition or energy work.
  

       You are invited to visit Brent Atwater’s Blogtalk Radio show featuring “Spinal Cord Injury”
                in her radio archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/brentatwater
                                                    in our Radios archives

                                                       another source is
    Dr. Bernard Brucker, founder and an original co-director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis,       
         currently directs the University of Miami School of Medicine's Biofeedback Laboratory. 

Spinal cord injury (herniated discs, pinched nerves, collapsed vertebrae) is one of the most devastating catastrophic injuries that one can endure. The spinal cord is the gateway for all nerve paths.  The location of the injury and the severity of the damage determine the complications involved and the dysfunction. Science is discovering that the sooner the spinal cord injury is addressed and treatment begins, there is a direct correlation to recovery of the affected areas.    

As a medical intuitive and "human MRI", when assessing a spinal cord injury, I look at the 360 degree view of the traumatized area.  Failing to "see" the entire injured area can produce further injury, and create neglect in areas that need to be immediately addressed.  It is best to look at each segment of the spine (discs and vertebrae) and spinal cord  nerves in 4 equal quadrants.  When helping to diagnose and evaluate the damaged area, reevaluating every 3 hours for the first 24 hours until the client is stabilized produces more accurate readings and beneficial results, as inflammation, further compression and damage can progress after the initial injury has occurred.

 Although the initial site of the catastrophic injury is your primary source of dehabilitation, the damaged neural pathways can extend beyond that original area and days later create problems of their own. To counter this problem, "tracking" the energy of the affected neural pathways will give you further information of possible deterioration and additional side effects.  If you do not have extending neural circumstances, containing the affected areas in a bubble of Healing energy will usually suspend further exacerbation of future problems.

While the allopathic physicians are providing their treatments, you can effectively use energy healing to complement and integrate with their procedures.

Removing pain is usually the first consideration, unless the client is rendered "numb" by his experience.  Secondly, work on inflammation to help minimize current damage and to alleviate possible secondary symptoms and spinal surgery.

In my experience in healing the spinal cord nerves, vertebrae and herniated discs of a paralyzed dog in 90 days, it is best to work on each issue separately so as not to overload the client's health response system during a time of great stress.  Use energy healing to build a solid foundation step by step to rebuild the molecular structure of the cells and in turn the bodily systems.  It is also best to work in increments and intermittently, so the molecular structures can recalibrate, and regenerate without stressing the physical structures.

 First, regenerate the vertebrae's cellular structure in order to provide a foundation that is capable of holding the disc.  Secondly, reestablish the health of each disc, leaving the neural pathways as your last concern.  Once the spine is stabilized, then revitalize the neural pathways. If you reactivate the nerves before you have a solid base in the spinal column, you might create more inflammation and pain than necessary. Rebuilding a system, inch by inch produces a stronger foundation that will allow the client to rebuild his muscular system with physical therapy without causing extra pain.

 Although stem cell research is providing a gateway of hope for Spinal cord injuries, electromagnetic bio molecular energy healing can and will be a beneficial healing modality

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Also see : Website of Dr. Laurance Johnston, www.healingtherapies.info
  author of Alternative Medicine and Spinal Cord Injury
& http://www.sci-therapies.info/
 

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You awaken with a cold sweat, have trouble breathing and your heart is racing. In the grocery store or mall your body starts to feel funny, you get nauseated and you think you might pass out.  In a crowded room, at an office function or a large party filled with friends you feel confused, unable to function, you’re shaking and your heart feels like it’s beating out of your chest.   Sometimes alone, you starting crying uncontrollably, can hardly catch your breath, and start picking at your hair or yourself or exhibit other frantic physical fidgeting symptoms.  You’ve been to a doctor, a psychologist or psychiatrist concerned you are a heart attack waiting to happen or to see if you’re “losing it!”  Your diagnosis: Panic attacks, those dehabilitating, non life threatening, indicators from your energy field that you are registering energy overload to your physical system thru physical “stress and anxiety symptoms.”

How do you handle your “fight or flight” response?  Heightening your sense of awareness and activating adrenalized physical abilities to protect yourself is your body’s natural defense mechanism. Many times people in automobile wrecks or traumatic scenarios manifest extraordinary courage or personal strength because their mind thought “I MUST do this in order to survive,” and their physical body responded enabling them to accomplish the task.  My mind goes to the man who had to cut off his arm in order to free himself or freeze while he was trapped under a rock on an ice and snow covered mountainside. You know he had to “get his mind around” the pain of sawing off his own arm, and then walk to find help.  That is mind over matter!  He was definitely choosing thoughts that ensured his survival.

How do you handle your energy overload reactions?   Do you alter your anxiety or choose medication as an outside “fix?”   In Power vs. Force, David Hawkins, M.D., illustrates how your consciousness creates thoughts that either weaken or strengthen you.  Think about this, when you are afraid, your heart races. Your thoughts either empower or disable your energy to assist controlling your energetic reaction.  Every thought that you make has more far reaching effects than you may have considered. By adjusting your mental response to your sensory energy overload, you can choose to be the victim or the victor of your anxiety.

A client had taken sedatives for 19 years and visited her psychologist and or psychiatrist on a weekly basis.  I’m a believer in identifying the issues, then take the Nike approach “just do it” i.e. fix it, and move forward with your life.  In my opinion, she wasted years experiencing the fullness of all of life’s flavors while choosing to live on tranquilizers. She told everyone she had panic attacks and was a fragile soul in order to set her apart from others. Her attacks also created drama and begot short term attention whenever her life was functioning smoothly and she was bored.

After working with her for 6 weeks, she learned how to control her body’s energy systems. She used her mind body connection (biofeedback techniques) to manage and override her physical anxiety responses through conscious vigilant awareness.  For months she was fine, but tiring of constantly directing her life.  Her friend called one day and stated that she had gone back to medications.  I called to inquire why she stopped managing her energy.  She stated “it was easier to take a pill than to be conscious all the time, plus I was bored.”  Which group does she represent? 

In my medical intuitive diagnosis and energy healer practice, I have noticed several characteristic “types” of individuals who experience panic attacks:
1.  Those who have medical conditions and malfunctions that create chemical insufficiencies
     in their body which cause  imbalances that produce  anxiety like symptoms.
2.  Folks who are insecure (poor self esteem) who physically react to intimidating situations by allowing themselves to be overwhelmed which produces physically reactive
     symptoms.
3.  People who are needy for attention to center on them; individuals who choose to be a
     victim in life as an identity so they overtly demonstrate dehabilitating symptoms to gain recognition.  They do not choose to be responsible or accountable for what occurs in
     their life.  Life happens “to” them.
4.  Persons who actually enjoy and feed off of the sensational “drama” exhilarations and the attention of a panic attack.  These people think that a smooth life is boring and unfilled. They think experiencing momentary and unanticipated dramatic effects and palpable physical reactions in their life proves they are having an “exciting” life.

Are you a member of any of these groups?

Panic attacks are manifested by sensory overload from outside your energy system.  It’s not YOUR energy that is creating the situation, it’s the incoming overload.
Anxiety attack symptoms are mismanagement of your protective reactions to that sensory overload.

When you start feeling a panic or anxiety attack “coming on,” do you go into victim mode  or evaluate the situation and take control of your environment and direct your energy field? 

The first thing you to do is recognize that you ARE starting to experience sensory overload. Do not respond to your body’s “happenings.” State “I am not the victim of my body.”
Next, ask yourself “did I shield myself today?”  Nine times out of 10 you have forgotten to shield that day!  If you are that sensitive to everything, this is REAL!  SO get real and learn to shield yourself.

If physical symptoms begin to register, in order to give yourself more time to assess your circumstances start saying “shield, shield, shield” then “I command my body to stabilize now, to stabilize now.”  Next, you need to say your affirmation of protection and shield your physical energy field (sometimes called an aura).

Soul is the concept of the essence of your energy field that exists forever.  In addition to representing your essence it factually includes your energy field, which is the energy is what keeps you alive and protects you!

Think of your soul’s energy (aura) as a lighthouse lamp that continuously encapsulates, rotates and sweeps around your body in a 360 degree fashion like a lighthouse beam protecting the shoreline. Your soul’s energy beam is registering everything to protect you.

The glass windowed lighthouse room through which the light shines is the lighthouse keeper’s control room, just like your mind is the control room of your “energy or soul’s light.” As the director of your soul’s light, you must choose to allow anything access to affect your building (body) or not.

When you have placed a protective shield around soul’s energy and body, you are standing in your director’s room bubble, empowered to make your choices of what to do with your energy that beams out in your life. Like the lighthouse lamp has a room around to keep its beam from any harm, your shield safeguards you.

Your soul may be protected through whatever intentional mode you currently use, however your soul’s energy lives in a physical body that resides on a physical earth.  These are two separate issues.  Your leased building (body) and the environment it resides and works in must be protected as is weaves in and out of environmental and people’s energy all day long.

You must continuously and consciously be aware at all times to choose to direct your mind and to construct thoughts that control your body’s energy in response to outside forces, be they human (screaming Aunt Sarah who makes you nervous, shopping mall crowds), environmental (microwave ovens, blaring noise, airports), or self directed (allowing yourself to get worked up over a matter). Use biofeedback.

Biofeedback was researched by Dr. Miller in the 50’s and was a revolutionary approach using your mind to control your voluntary and involuntary muscle responses.  Biofeedback works!  In today’s’ world, we call it talking to your body (the current “term” is named the mind body connection) as in the Secret, or the movie What the Bleep do We Know *!?   

Dr Emoto’s scientific breakthrough demonstrating the fact that talking to water cells changes their molecular structure signifies that we can change our body’s response by directing and talking to our cells which are made up of over 60% water.  When you talk to and command your body’s cells you are in fact orchestrating your energy’s physical response rather than having a reaction to the sensory overload you and your body are experiencing. Use your mind to instruct your body’s responses.

To take care of yourself I suggest each morning place a bubble of protection around your soul’s energy field and your body. This is a prayer of intention that will shield you from any and all things.

I ask, and it is my intent to surround myself in a seamless mirrored--(cocoon, bubble) of the Christ White Light (insert your Higher power’s name), to protect me now, forevermore, and always, and to only allow that Energy that is for my soul's highest and best good to come thru. So be it, it is done. Thank you.

Use the term “seamless” so nothing can come into your sealed control room, and only you direct what goes out. State “mirrored”, so that you automatically reflect any negative energy or overloaded energy beamed at you like sunlight off mirrored sunglasses.

When you are standing in this cocoon, you are standing in your full power and totally protected with all the energy that you have available to you in this lifetime. Once you create this bubble Nothing or no one or anything or energy or entity can ever get into your control room or disempower you for any reason whatsoever, unless you allow it!  Usually in less than 20 seconds you can feel your body calm down. You have managed to divert incoming sensory overload. The more you practice this exercise the quicker it works!

If you get another bombing of sensory overload for extra or touch up shielding, you can also add the affirmation “Shield, shield, shield.”

Just like the lighthouse keeper maintains his building, you need to keep your energy field and body cleaned from all that it bumps into, moves through, or is assaulted by while you are having a life. Fluorescent lights assault the energy field, as do computers or microwave energy fields.  Everything that you come into contact with on a daily basis interfaces and interacts with your soul’s and body’s energy field.  Therefore I suggest (like you clean your teeth each night), that you clean your energy field so that it can operate with maximized efficiency and responsiveness to your directives. Here’s a quick test: Put a glass of clean water between you and the computer screen.  In a few moments the water will be filled with bubbles from the computer screen’s energy that would have been assaulting you!

This is an intention statement to clean your energy field from energy bugs that you acquire each day. You’re keeping your bubble clean!

I ask and it is my intent to remove release and detach any and all energies and entities form my energy field now and to send them to the Christ White Light
(or your Higher Power) , SO be it, it is done.

 As director of your energy field, you do want to recognize excess energy for personal protection, however you want to choose to disallow sensitivity overload to register within your being.  It may take a few days or events to get you body back under YOUR control. Do not feel dismay, just set your intent more firmly and be even more aware of what’s happening around you to divert any “triggers” that might begin to start an overload response. Conscious and vigilant awareness is the downside to maintaining your control center, however no more full blown anxiety overloads is the reward.  You control what happens to, in and around you!

Take charge of your energy and empower your life.  Be the CEO and not the victim of your body. Remember, the more you do this exercise the more rapidly your body complies. To me, it’s a permanent fix and it takes care of the very gift of life that you are experiencing.
YOU are the ONLY energy/entity/ person who can allow any other energy or entity to affect you.

You are invited to visit Brent Atwater’s Blogtalk Radio show featuring “Panic Attacks” in her radio archives at   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/brentatwater    or
on her website http://brentenergywork.com/BLOGTALK_ARCHIVES.htm

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Brent Atwater, Alternative Energy Medicine Specialist
Medical Intuitive Diagnosis, Distance Energy Healer
NC Phone:  910.692.5206 USA
Mobile:  404.242.9022 USA
Website: http://www.brentatwater.com/
Email: mailto:Brent@BrentAtwater.com

Disclaimer: Brent Atwater collaborates with and participates in ongoing energy medicine and intuitive diagnostic medical research, and independent case studies with the world's leading doctors, physicians, researchers, scientists, and medical facilities, helping to create evidence based research that documents the bridging of traditional and alternative healthcare into integrative medicine. Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Brent works in Alternative Healing, Healthcare and Medicine - Integrative Medicine. She offers her opinions based on her intuition, and her personal energy healing work, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or trained health care professional concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change programs. As in traditional medicine, there are no guarantees with medical intuition, intuitive anatomical medical diagnosis or energy medicine.

Support groups come in all sizes and flavors, in person and online.  Whether you're looking for a divorce support group, a cancer support group, depression, grief, or weight loss support group, the elements for providing you with substantive and positive emotional, mental, physical or spiritual support are still the same.  There are two kinds of support groups: positive and negative. 

Positive:
A pro-active positive support group is one that promotes learning about new medicines, new procedures, new clinical trials, new books, CD's et al about your disorder.  This group promotes going forward, and helps facilitate your research and personal empowerment as a blessing.

When you are introduced to the group they do not spend endless hours recounting the disease story about why you are here. It's a fact that does not need to be addressed again and again that you have a disorder story.  YOU live it, so why keep going over it and over it and over it, to activate all that negative energy? That's WHY you joined that particular group.

 The positive group leader is not intimidated by your unanswerable questions, but is inspired to become more educated about your topic. Your leader encourages you to ask current unanswerable questions and challenges each member to think beyond disease limiting conditions and current horizons. They promote all of the members to participate by delegating various positive assignments for everyone. If this is a local group, you take "glad to be alive, share life" field trips that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the disorder, and EVERYTHING about feeling good about yourself, seeing the world, laughing and having a balanced life.  This group supports taking care of your appearance, sharing new ideas, resources and adventures about makeup, hair, wardrobe, personal hygiene and physical rehabilitation and exercise. This group wants you to care about your personal appearance, so when you look in the mirror and are seen by friends, you look alive, and as healthy and refined as possible for your condition.  They discourage maintaining a "sick" image.

 Negative:

It should be a great concern to be in a group that does nothing but recount what was and all that is unhealthy and unhappily going on in the life of it's participants.  Inevitably this will negatively impact participant's minds and spirits.  This is often seen in online Internet groups. Research tends to support that recounting your horror story and reading the countless venting of others, does not support a positive attitude that promotes physical healing and healthy emotional and mental responses. This group meets only to go over and over and over your tale of diagnosis and personal devastation, from your introduction "story" to your tale of weekly woes.  This is a disorder "victim" group.  It is commiseration of negative energy at the highest level of disguise.  No matter how much you think that this group is helping you, they are not.  They exist to talk about and share negative experiences creating a "stuck" atmosphere.  It’s bonding by perpetual "downers." 

You do not receive points on the other side for being a victim of your diagnosis, disease, or plight. You are in fact, contributing to your own demise. Acceptance is one thing, denial another. Being a victim assists your problem in draining your own life force energy. Having a problem and addressing it with the "pity poor me" approach is futile.  It may elicit help for a while, but the keyword here is for a while.  Give up the pity party. Fight! Instead, use that time researching how to restore and regenerate your life.

Do not use the fact that you are having a terrible reaction to something in your treatment as making you special or as your identity. I have seen many cancer clients who wanted attention, and used the negative occurrences in their illness as a banner to set them apart.  This is not productive.  It frustrates your healthcare provider. They are aware of the psychological reasons you are using your negative reaction for attention. Understanding that this is a confusing and complicated time in your life, try to take your identity from your positive approach to life. Therefore, when you healthcare provider does not emphasize or respond to your negative identity crisis, it’s a good sign. Their job is to assist your health, not enable you.

Grieving is an area that takes a little more time.  HOWEVER, positive attitudes are essential here also. Although you have lost a loved one, living with a dead memory can kill off your life force energy day to day and breath by breath.  I personally understand this as my fiance was killed in a sudden auto crash. I never had the chance to say ANYTHING!  However, it's better to celebrate their life and remember all the good. Then you keep all the "positive" alive which is contributory to your healing.  By celebrating their life, you never have to bury their memories. You can take them out at any time, like a special gift and savor all the wonderful thoughts and feelings. 

Weight loss is just that.  It takes times.  However, while waiting, you can focus on the light at the end of the scale, instead of the chocolate bars and emotional traumas creating your health issue. You CAN tell a health story that presents your "learning opportunity" as a learning opportunity to help heal the others in your group, rather than a commiseration band aid. 

If your group is not continually teaching you new and progressive things, and supporting your positive emotional, mental, spiritual and physical and appearance growth, leave.

If your group doesn't embrace having an open mind and awareness without censorship other than that of your personal intuition, leave!

UNTIL you take your knowledge gained from any group and turn it into a positive learning opportunity that you do something about! you are not going forward.  Unless you choose to grow forward, you will remain in the same condition that brought you into the group in the first place. 

Research continues to affirm that being a part of a positive support can add quality and quantity to your life.  Although the intent of most support groups is to be contributory in helping it's members, a negative group can ultimately do more harm than good. 

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Brent Atwater, Alternative Medical Specialist
Medical Intuitive, Distance Energy Healing
ATL, GA Phone: 404.242.9022 USA
NC Phone: 910.692.5206 USA

Website: http://www.brentatwater.com/
Email: mailto:Brent@BrentAtwater.com

Disclaimer: Brent Atwater collaborates with and participates in ongoing energy medicine and intuitive diagnostic medical research, and independent case studies with the world's leading doctors, physicians, researchers, scientists, and medical facilities, helping to create evidence based research that documents the bridging of traditional and alternative healthcare into integrative medicine. Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Brent works in Alternative Healing, Healthcare and Medicine - Integrative Medicine. She offers her opinions based on her intuition, and her personal energy healing work, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or trained health care professional concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change programs. As in traditional medicine, there are no guarantees with medical intuition, intuitive anatomical medical diagnosis or energy medicine.