I recently discovered a great technique from Mo Gawdat on how to get into a state of happiness within 7 seconds. I’ve been using it with clients with great results in my Distance Healing Sessions.
Before I tell you the technique, I will define happiness and unhappiness.
Happiness occurs when life meets or beats your expectations of an experience or event.
For example, is you go out for dinner and the meal you have is as good as you expected it to be or better.
Whereas Unhappiness occurs when an experience or event doesn’t meet your expectations.
An example of unhappiness: you go out for dinner and the meal is worse that you expected.
The common denominator with happiness and unhappiness are thoughts.
80% of unhappiness is due to negative thoughts.
Consider when you feel unhappy as a survival mechanism and a signal to take specific actions if you want to return to happiness.
The first thing to do is acknowledge you feel unhappy.
The second thing is: What is the trigger?
If it’s a situation in the world like a flood or war on the other side of the world. Has your life changed at all from it?
If not, can you accept it? And can you do anything about it?
Ask yourself the questions: “What can I do about it, how can I make the world a better place from this situation that triggered my unhappiness or how can I become stronger from the situation?”
These questions take you out the of emotional and stressful thoughts (feeling helpless/hopeless) into acceptance and or action thoughts.
When you discover the trigger of your unhappiness, ask yourself whether the thought is true or false?
I work with many people that suffer from depression and anxiety. Many of their feelings are the result of believing a lie that was either told to them when they were young, or they told themselves from a negative experience they had.
Have you ever been bullied by someone that resulted in you not feeling good about yourself and unloved.
If you continued to tell yourself the lie that you are not good enough and unloved it results in feeling more stressed and symptoms of chronic stress.
Chronic Stress Symptoms
Easily triggered
Emotional withdrawal
Suppressing yourself
Fearful of expressing yourself
Shame
Guilt
Decreased immunity
Chest tightness
Trouble letting go
Low energy
Sleeping problems and insomnia
Unfocused and cloudy thinking
Changes in appetite
Aches and pains
Increase in alcohol and drug use
Diseases associated with chronic stress are linked to other conditions, both psychological and physical. These include:
Hypertension, heart disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome, Type II diabetes, and arthritis
Addiction to alcohol, nicotine and/or prescription drugs, and behavioral-related such as addiction to the internet, food, or gambling
Mood disorders and anxiety disorders, which are common secondary diagnoses for people with chronic stress.
Hypertension, depression, addiction, and anxiety disorders are the conditions most related to chronic stress.
If you can relate to living in chronic stress, take the following steps to overcome it.
Acknowledge your unhappy (negative feelings).
Write out the thoughts you have that trigger your stress.
Ask yourself are the thoughts true or false? (FYI: all thoughts of not being good enough and unlovable are a lie.) If they are false let them go by taking 10 deep breaths. Close your eyes, focus on the center of your chest, and say to yourself, “I release any lies that I tell myself that are not serving me in my highest and greatest good.” Notice how you feel when you say this.
By saying this prayer, you are giving your soul and God permission to cleanse the lies from you.
If it is True. Ask yourself, “What can I do to fix it?”
This moves you into the problem-solving part of your brain and helps make you and the world a better place.
If you can’t do anything about it and things can’t change. Like someone dying in a car accident or stuck in traffic. Ask yourself, “Can I accept the situation or experience and make my life better despite the problem."
Make sure that you go to happy and useful thoughts.
If your thoughts aren’t useful, tell your brain not to give you thoughts that aren’t helpful.
On average it takes 21 days to remove negativity and change the brain. So be patient and persistent.
By investing 5-10mins into improving your mindset every day and how you interpret stress you will spend much more time feeling happy than you ever had before.
If you find that you need additional help overcoming chronic stress, I will gladly help you via Distance Healing Sessions.
Have you ever felt stressed during traffic jam, gotten upset to the point of wanting to yell.
This happens because your nervous system is conditioned to react stressfully in that situation.
But what if you could respond differently. Rather than freakout, take some deep breaths and realize “I’m a traffic jam, how can I make the best use of my time right now?”
By doing this you avoid excess stress and emotional pain, along with wasting energy on being unproductive. In turn you make better use of your time and create more healthy energy for yourself.
Some things you can to are call a friend, listen to a podcast or good music, tell yourself, “I love myself unconditionally,” or remind yourself how grateful you are to have a car. These are just a few examples. There are a number of things you can do to increase your wellness during that time….
What is something you would do?
How do you Regulate the Nervous System?
Practice
What are your stress triggers?
Take a moment and write them down.
Examples of Stress Triggers:
Weather
Politics
Family members
Loud noises
Violence
Certain smells
Your work/job
Travel
The unknown
Meeting new people
Your health
Money
How to Heal Stress Triggers
Go to calm relaxing space like a quiet room or out in nature.
Take 10 deep breaths
Get into a calm state of mind
Close your eyes and visualize being in the situation that normally triggers you, but instead being calm and peaceful in it.
See yourself handling the situation with ease.
Example: see yourself having a positive interaction with the family member that normally stresses you out. See yourself being present with them and listening to them. See yourself articulating your thoughts and feelings in a calm manner to them.
Practice doing this until you feel peaceful about the situation that used to stress you out.
Don’t be surprised how good you feel in that situation next time you are in it.
Join me in this Guided Healing Meditation to Connect with your Heart.
In this guided meditation I take in on an intuitive journey to see what lies within your heart.
I use this meditation when I need answers about making important decisions and to bring in new information into my consciousness to support positive change.
So, if there are questions you need answers to, relationships you need healing with, set aside 24mins to connect with your heart.
Can Self-Love actually be enough to power intentional healing of the body?
Most people think that love requires other people, but even self-love has the power to move mountains. Love really does have the power to heal us from the inside out. In fact, love has been proven to heal wounds at rapid paces.
So, what exactly is Self-Love???
How can we know if we are truly loving ourselves unconditionally?
This has taken me a lot of thought.
When I was hard on myself and especially my body, my body internalized that self-judgement with chronic body wide pain.
My body ached and burned for me to pay attention to it and love it just the way it was. It took me a lot of time to learn how to love myself. I think I am still mastering it and it may end up being my personal soul work in this life.
Self-love has taught me that I am loving to myself when…..
I take the time to slow down in my life. When I allow for more flow and ease and give up the stress of trying to control situations.
Self-love to me has been the ability to look inward and ask myself questions while listening for my soul's answers. Listening to my intuition, my soul’s whispers have been my greatest ally.
Self-love has been revelling in the perfection that I truly am. Perfect right now. Every body part, every thought, every curve, every pound.
Self-love is trusting my instincts and saying no when I need to rest or relax. This has not been easy for me. As an empath, I want to heal the world. Saying no has been an art for me.
Self-love has been about being kind and patient with myself and really accepting myself as a perfect creation of god/creator/spirit.
Self-love is about letting go of my judgements towards myself. I have learned that I am my worst critic. Quieting my inner critic with love and respect has been a vital part of my daily practice. It is sort of like brain gym for my negative Nancy. Correcting her behaviour when I notice her coming to visit.
Self-love is embracing my sensitivity. I tend to be a little emotional at times and can easily cry. Embracing this sensitivity has been so freeing for me. I have learned that showing my emotions in all situations has deepened my relationships with people and myself.
Self-love has been letting go of my past mistakes and forgiving myself. Thanking my soul for the knowledge and learning that came with it. After all, my biggest challenges have been my greatest teacher.
Self-love has been honouring my truth even when it is hard. Even when others disagree. I am still working on this one.
Self-love is about letting go of relationships and things that no longer align with my highest and best interest.
It has also been about taking myself on dates, buying myself flowers and being my very best friend. It is about knowing that I deserve the best and giving myself permission to give that best to myself. I love to treat myself to the very best when I can.
We can also lean into loving our partners/spouses/friends and even animal companions more. Making time for hugs and cuddles. Love of all kinds releases lovely hormones like dopamine and oxytocin. They relax the stress response and really make the body ripe for miracles.
When we feel a lack of self-love, love and connection, we are more susceptible to imbalances in the body. Our bodies are so wise. The body shifts as our frequencies shift.
When we are out of cinq with love we can be more susceptible to...
Chronic inflammation
Immune system imbalances
Elevated blood pressure
Increased cortisol levels
Pain
Fatigue
Depression
Anxiety
Increased reactivity to stress
This is really because lack of love can activate our stress response.
When we feel love in our hearts we….
Have more flexibility
Immune systems are balanced
Pain is less
Your Heart beats stronger
Hormones are better balanced
Feel happy
Sleep deeper
Blood sugars are more stable.
Exercise more, and our blood chemistry physically changes
SELF LOVE
For me, it has been about learning to say no, taking time for myself and really turning my attention to self-care.
Self-love has been about being kind to myself and loving every curve and dimple on my body. It has been about being my biggest fan, and my very best friend.
It has been about being patient with myself and knowing that there is a great timing for everything.
It has also been about self-forgiveness and even permission to let out the parts of myself that are not all that pretty.
Self-love has been my greatest healing journey.
Do you practice self-love?
I would love to hear about it. Leave your comments below.
Keri Fulmore Medical Intuitive & Functional Medicine Practitioner
This is something I have been doing for many years and I feel that it has been a huge factor in my development and nourishing of my healing abilities, along with the maintenance of my own health.
What I am referring to is Meditating with a Tree.
You know that feeling when you go for a walk or spend time in a forest; how relaxed and balanced you feel during and after.
That is because you are taking in some of the healing energies available to you. So, what if you took the time to place your hands on a healthy tree and allowed yourself to feel the energy that it wants to share with you on an even deeper level?
This is what I do. More specifically, I ask if the tree has a message for me, if it has a healing for me and if it has anything it wants to share with me.
You see trees have spirits too, they are alive, and they communicate through frequency. Once you attune to the frequency you can understand their language. But that is for another conversation.
If you want to increase your life force, as in help your body be and feel healthier, heal faster from illnesses and injuries, become more adaptable to stress, increase your intuition and simple become more resilient I recommend doing this simple of act of Meditating with a Tree.
The act of Meditating with Trees has a long history and there are many great people throughout history that proclaimed they gained healing power and enlightenment via meditating with a tree.
Two specific people are Buddha and Jesus Christ.
How I Meditate with a TREE
The way I meditate with a tree is I look for a strong healthy tree somewhere where I will not be disturbed (this can even be in your own yard). I stand in front of it placing my hands on the trunk in a comfortable location with my eyes closed. I breath naturally and allow myself to feel the energy of the tree.
The more you do this the more sensitive you become to the subtle energy of the tree.
If you have never done this before I recommend using the same tree daily to develop a relationship with it. You will be amazed that overtime you will feel the love from that tree before you even touch it because it will be projecting to you when you are close by and even from further distances.
To help deepen your relationship with the tree ask it questions like the ones I wrote above. Along with asking it, “is there anything I can do for you?” Trees love it when you give back to them. This can be as simple of projecting love to them or visualizing them healthy.
If you are hearing for the first time, it might sound strange. But, think about it, you have nothing to lose. If anything, you have much to gain.
I’d love to hear from you. Let me know if you have ever meditated with a tree and what your experience was like?
Just this morning I was admiring an ancient tree who lives next door to us and telling it how much I love it and hope it lives many more years. I thought about sitting up against it but it's really cold here! Tomorrow I will put my hands on it and tune in. Thank you for this spirit message Adam! Lizz
My 4 Favourite Essential Oils for Boosting Intuition
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Do you want to enhance your intuitive abilities, feel calm in your day to day life, increase your mental clarity and feel spiritually connected?
Many people are stressed out, overwhelmed and burnt out due to all their daily demands. They don't have time to get calmed down enough to get into the intuitive head space.
But what if you could do it naturally and faster?
Wouldn't that be great to clear the stress that interferes with your intuition and loving-peaceful feelings?
When you increase times of inner peace, unconditional love and spiritual connection it helps to boost your intuition.
Intuitive messages are much easier to receive, understand and act upon when you are calm, balanced and have a strong spiritual connection.
I like to use essential oils, even while driving because they make me a more aware and intuitive driver.
Specific high-quality essential oils are great to achieve fast results. They calm your mind down quickly, provide mental clarity and a strong spiritual connection, so you can trust your intuition and get clear answers.
My 4 favourite essential oils for boosting intuition are Basil, Frankincense, Rosemary and Sandalwood.
I only use Doterra essential oils because I know they’re high quality. Did you know 80% of essential oil brands on the market are contaminated either intentionally or unintentionally.
I know that Doterra oils have extremely high standards, are third party lab tested and therapeutic grade. Making some of them even fit for consumption.
My 4 Favourite Essential Oils for
Boosting Intuition
Basil – The oil of Renewal
Basil oil cleanses and refreshes the soul. It opens to the heart to release thoughts and feelings that can interfere with your intuition.
Basil oil helps connect you with the divine, Archangels, Ascended Master and ancestors to receive clear messages.
Physically, basil oil releases nervous tension, overwhelm and exhaustion from your body. It supports healthy blood circulation and mental clarity.
Basil oil is great for people that suffer from: Anxiousness, overwhelm, tiredness, drained feeling, exhaustion and negative habits.
The positive benefits of Basil oil are: Feeling energized, renewed, rejuvenated, rested and strengthened.
Frankincense – The oil of Truth
Frankincense oil purifies your soul. It clears dark energy and thoughts from your mind. It helps raise your energetic vibration by flushing out low vibrating energy, lies, deceptions and negativity.
Frankincense helps expand your spiritual awareness to understand the bigger picture, your truth, it increases your concentration and focus and aligns you with unconditional love.
This oil opens your spiritual channels and enhances your spiritual connection. Thus, making it a great oil to use during meditation, prayer, energy healing and for when you want to receive intuitive messages.
Frankincense oil is great for people that suffer from abandonment, spiritual disconnect, feel distant from their father, feel unprotected and feel spiritually dark.
The positive benefits of Frankincense oil are feeling enlightened, loved, protected, wise, spiritually open, connected with one’s father and healthy discernment.
Rosemary – The oil of Knowledge & Transition
Rosemary oil helps purify your mind and develop true knowledge and wisdom. It helps strengthen the mind and memory to function better, hold a longer attention span and focus deeper on a topic, person or situation. Rosemary is a great oil to apply on your forehead, temples, neck and head for doing intuitive body scanning, intuitive readings and visualizations.
Rosemary oil is excellent for people that suffer from low attention span, memory problems, brain fog, confusion, difficulty adjusting or transitioning, ignorance and difficulty learning.
Rosemary oil helps stimulate mental clarity, feeling inspired, open to new experiences, teachable and knowledgeable.
Sandalwood – The oil of Sacred Devotion
Sandalwood oil calms the mind and assists with prayer, meditation, intuitive readings and energy healing. It teaches one to be respectful and kind.
I like to apply 1 or 2 drops to my forehead and 3rd Eye Chakra for doing body scanning or at the beginning of a meditation.
It helps people feel grounded as they align themselves with the spiritual world and god. Sandalwood teaches spiritual devotion and spiritual sacrifice helping people let go of materials, habits. foods, and people that do not serve them.
Sandalwood is great for people that suffer from being disconnected from god or spiritual self, feeling empty, overthinking and materialism.
Sandalwood oil is excellent if you want to increase your spiritual clarity and devotion, stillness, surrender, humility and higher consciousness.
You can use all four oils separately or in combination. I take 1-2 drops of essential oil and apply it on my forehead, temples, neck, lower abdomen and bottoms of feet. Sometimes I will mix them with a carrier oil or lotion like fractionated coconut oil or a non-scented lotion.
Doterra essential oils are not available in stores you have to purchase them from a Wellness Adovate like Keri Fulmore
I have not used essential oils for Intuition or anything else. Is there a mixture of all four of these essential oils and coconut oils are available anyplace? Thank you.
januar ciel
July 11, 2019 at 10:40 PM
thank u adam.
love cedarwood. somewhat like sandalwood. its powerful, and for me it's grounding is also a kind of 'wake-up'.
also love lemongrass, finding it very uplifting.
thank u for suggestions of where to put them. i like the heart area too. as u suggested, carrier oils or lotions are good, can help with skin sensitivity.
As a child and teenager, I suffered from severe irritability. I felt like a ticking time bomb ready to go off if someone said or did something to trigger me. It was rare if I didn’t wake up irritated and frustrated.
But these intense feelings I felt were the result of what was going on inside of me, creating perpetual stress.
On an unconscious level I was attached to anger, frustration, fear and sadness to many people without realizing it.
This was because at different points in my past I felt these people had hurt me through their words and actions.
Though it was me that was still holding onto those painful experiences, because I didn’t know how to process them.
Those experiences were kind of like undigested food rotting in my stomach, creating all kinds of different problems.
Those unprocessed negative experiences were telling my central nervous system (CNS) on an unconscious level to be in a state of fight or flight all the time, causing me to feel terrible.
This made it very hard for me to relax and feel comfortable with myself and others.
Physically, this affected my sleep, digestion and caused my body to feel tense and tight all the time.
At the time, I had no idea that I was still being affected from past experiences until I did this….
Quieted my mind and listened through meditation.
When I first began meditating at age 20yrs old, I had a flood of negative feelings, thoughts and images arise to my consciousness. It was quite scary and intimidating at first.
But, I quickly learned anEXERCISE(listen to it below)that was centred around focusing on loving myself and other people.
This powerful exercise helped me process the painful experiences, so I could finally overcome the pain they were causing me.
It helped me to realize that I needed to forgive the people that hurt me and send love to them (including myself).
All the negative feelings I was creating on a day to day basis were creating so much tension in my body that they were continually creating a toxic state for myself.
As a result the physical, mental and emotional symptoms quickly resolved.
Clearing the stress in my mind also enhanced my intuition because it was no longer being blocked by stress and negativity.
When I decided to stop and observe, rather than reacted to every thought and feeling I experienced, it allowed me to create change.
Looking back at it now I find it amazing how simple it was to process the old emotional pain when I decided to let love in and let go.
If you are anything like I was, the following Loving Kindness Exercise may be one of the most important things you do for your healing and moving forward with your life.
I sooo love this simple exercise. It brings my heart more peace and I feel like I'm relaxing more into myself. Thank you for gifting me and others this exercise, Adam.
Greatness doesn’t happen overnight, it’s created through regular consistent investment of your time and energy.
You’re already putting your energy into things, why not direct your time and energy into things that help you to thrive.
Below I share 5 things I have been doing to help me increase my health and happiness and I know you will benefit from them too!
5 Things to Make 2019 Great
1. Exercise for 1hr daily.
If you want to take your health to the next level exercise is the way to do it. I have been working out, lifting weights and swimming 3-4 days per week for 2 months. In that short amount of time I have built up more muscle mass, am physically stronger, improved my endurance and energy level, feel less stressed, and haven’t gotten a sick (in the most notorious time of year to get sick).
On top of all that, I walk 1-2 hrs per day with my dogs.
There are so many benefits to exercise like:
Stronger lungs = more oxygen to your muscles and brain = more energy.
Protection from flus and colds. Exercise increases immunoglobulins, which are proteins that help bolster your immune system and ward off infection.
Mental calmness - Mood-enhancing chemicals, like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, flood your brain for a couple of hours post-exercise and for up to a day if you've competed in an endurance event, like a marathon. Stress? What stress?
Healthy weight - You're blasting calories, even at rest. "For every 100 calories you burn during your workout, you can expect to burn 15 calories after," Example, If you went on a three-mile run, you would torch about 300 calories, which could mean zapping an extra 45 later.
Healthy Heart – After every sweat session you lower your blood pressure for up to 16hrs.
Risk of diabetes goes down - The more you work out, the greater your sensitivity to insulin. That, in turn, lowers your blood sugar levels, reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes.
Physically stronger – regular exercise strengthens your muscles, bones and organs, helping to prevent weakness as you age.
Anti-aging – Fitness buffs have more telomeres. The DNA that bookends our chromosomes and protects them from damage, which can slow the aging process, studies show.
Melt away fat – After 4 weeks of regular exercise, your body ditches flab and gains muscle. Overweight people who took part in a four-week program of moderate aerobic exercise in an Australian study reduced ab fat by 12%. Wow, that’s fantastic!
2. Love yourself every day!
I have been focusing on loving myself unconditionally for the last 6yrs.
The benefits I have gained from this are:
Less stress
Attracted more friends into my life
Developed healthier relationship with family and friends.
Heal faster physically
Feel more optimistic about life.
The trick to loving yourself is to tell yourself, “I love myself unconditionally,” and allow yourself to feel the how you react to that statement.
Allow yourself to fully embrace the feelings created by loving yourself unconditionally.
The next thing, I recommend you do is ask yourself, “What do I want to do today that will help me love myself even more?”
Ask yourself this question in a quiet & calm place and listen to the answer your body gives back to you.
3. Set a goal of something you really want to do for yourself?
This could be a trip, get into better shape and health, learn a new skill or make a new friend.
This is not limited to one goal, set as many as you would like, but remember to take action to make them happen.
4. Go somewhere you have never been before.
This helps you get out of routine, your comfort zone and realize there’s more to life than what is going on in your world.
I know when I go somewhere I haven’t been before I experience a lot of unexpected happiness. This is due to growing and learning new things, which stimulates serotonin production.
5. Meditate on a daily basis.
Meditation is amazing at showing you where you could be limiting yourself. Limits create stagnation and stagnation is the root of all imbalances: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical.
Therefore, by meditating you have the ability to make the unconscious conscious and see how you are affecting yourself and make the changes needed to live a fulfilling life.
To help align with the happier and healthier version of yourself I have created the Meditation Removing Restrictions for you.