Daphne Michaels

Who attends the Vibrational Health Institute™?

2010-02-28T06:12:00.000-08:00

People often ask what types of students attend the Vibrational Health Institute™. We don’t have a typical participant. Instead, our classes and sessions are made up of a wide range of interested individuals including community leaders, business managers, military personnel, physicians, legal counselors, artists, parents, college students and others who seek more information about their evolutionary potential and the wisdom of the vibrational paradigm. Some are merely beginning their journey while others embarked on this spiritual path years ago. Regardless of your place on the continuum, we welcome your participation.

Call us at 253-627-7257 to find out how to expand your consciousness. Start your journey now…

*Vibrational Health Institute ™ is a Washington State licensed, private vocational school dedicated to human development.

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Join the Vibrational Health Society™ and Online Network

2010-02-24T13:18:00.000-08:00

As part of my work at the Vibrational Health Institute™, I have formed the Vibrational Health Society™, a community that supports individual paths to conscious living. In addition to exploring the Vibrational Paradigm™ which guides our work, benefits of joining the society will include lively discussions, exercises to cultivate your evolutionary potential, and an opportunity to be listed in the Vibrational Health Society Network, our online forum.

In addition, we host an alumni gathering the first Wednesday of each month at the Marriott New Events Center (1530 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA). For details about becoming a member, call us today at 253-627-1209.

Intentional, inspirational and invaluable support for conscious living and evolution.

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Daphne Michaels Offers Conscious Life™ Consulting?

2010-02-19T15:15:00.000-08:00

Along with our Conscious Life™ Mentoring program, we offer Conscious Life™ consulting which offers custom organizational development and renewal packages tailored to your specific needs. Conscious Life™ Consulting will help you to strengthen your leadership presence by organizing yourself at your evolutionary edge. You will discover how to lead your organization to greater product development, customer satisfaction, financial success and human fulfillment. With this program, you will become a fully-developed leader capable of shaping and defining today’s new world.

Step into the Vibrational Paradigm™ through Conscious Life™ Consulting and discover the potential this emerging worldview has to offer. For more information, please visit our website or contact us.

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Make the most of each moment

2010-02-16T11:38:00.000-08:00

"Each moment is an opportunity, calling you to participate, to engage, to fulfill your potential."

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

What is Conscious Life™ Mentoring?

2010-02-11T11:35:00.000-08:00

At the Vibrational Health Institute™, we offer Conscious Life™ mentoring and consulting. Our mentoring program offers an opportunity to schedule individual sessions with Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™, to receive personalized instruction in professional renewal and conscious living.

Whether you are just starting your journey to enlightenment or have studied with the Vibrational Health Institute™ before, our Conscious Life™ Mentoring service will guide you to an evolutionary new way of being. Visit our website for more information or to contact the Vibrational Health Institute. We look forward to helping you along your journey of conscious living.

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Restorative Touch™ - Embody your potential

2010-02-05T11:38:00.000-08:00

"Each time we experience a connection with the cosmic field, it is a Restorative Touch."

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Your Next Step

2010-01-28T08:41:00.000-08:00

“Take your next step, individually and together.”

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Vibrational Systems Certificate Program

2010-01-26T16:36:00.000-08:00

When we step into the Vibrational Paradigm™, we experience a sense of freedom and potential. We discover that our own personal essence is encoded with evolutionary potential. With this awareness and instruction in how to define our deepest intentions, we move into new ways of being in relation to self, family, profession, community, the world…and, perhaps, the cosmos. Our journey begins.

The Vibrational Systems Certificate Program is a year-long transformational study of new frontiers located at the intersection of psychology, modern physics and spirituality. It will guide you on your journey.

In addition, we offer a Vibrational Systems Post-Certificate Program which supports graduates in their new level of awareness. This nine-month continuation is based on the companion essay series, Now Is the Time: Living a New Era of Absolute Freedom by Daphne Michaels. The program of study begins with developing intention and concludes with learning to create vibrational templates of intention in the physical body.

To learn more, please visit the Vibrational Health Institute online or contact us for more information or a schedule of upcoming classes.

The Vibrational Health Institute is a Washington State licensed, private vocational school dedicated to human development.

Restorative Touch™ - A Unique Model of Energy Work

2010-01-21T13:31:00.000-08:00

Restorative Touch™ is a unique model of energy work and a portal to the cosmic field. Created by the Vibrational Health Institute™, Restorative Touch™ works to align the individual with his or her highest potential. The results include heightened clarity, increased radiance and pristine emotional balance.

Whether you are interested in Restorative Touch™ to support your own evolutionary journey or to become a practitioner to help others along their paths, this profound model of energy work promises to take you to a new understanding of what it means to embody your potential. To learn more, please visit the Vibrational Health Institute’s website or contact me directly: Daphne Michaels.

Be Inspired

2010-01-17T10:26:00.000-08:00

“Consciousness cannot be mass produced, but it can be mass inspired. Be inspired.”

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

My mission

2010-01-13T05:31:00.000-08:00

My mission is to illuminate paths to professional renewal, leadership redefinement, and conscious living. My guidance is rooted in the Vibrational Paradigm™, a body of work I’ve developed from my integrated view of psychology, organizational development, modern physics and spirituality.

I have spent 20+ years as a psychotherapist and organization specialist, combined with degrees in human services, applied behavioral science with an emphasis in leading and consulting, and self-defined doctoral coursework in integral psychology. This education and experience have been instrumental to my discovery of the new frontiers featured in my work. I look forward to sharing them with you.

~ Daphne Michaels, founder and president of the Vibrational Health Institute™

Welcome to the Vibrational Health Institute!

2010-01-05T05:27:00.000-08:00

As we step into a new year and new decade of possibilities, I want to thank you for reading my blog. The wisdom of others like Ram Dass helps us to see things from a higher perspective and raise our own consciousness. In fact, I have devoted my life to living consciously and guiding others on their own paths. I invite you to join me on this journey through the Vibrational Health Institute™.

You’ll see when visiting my website that we offer many tools at the Vibrational Health Institute™ to help you live consciously, regardless of where you begin. We are a state licensed vocational school dedicated to human development. We offer individual sessions as well as certificate programs and society gatherings. Among our offerings are Conscious Life™ mentoring and consulting, Vibrational Paradigm™ Certificate Programs, Restorative Touch™, and support through the Vibrational Health Society™. I hope you will take a few moments to explore the site to learn more about us.

Thank you and best wishes for an enlightened 2010.

~ With energy!
Daphne Michaels

Universal Energy

2009-12-29T13:57:00.000-08:00

“We can tap into the greater pool of universal energy or even energy from Earth to help heal others.”

~ Richard Gerber, M.D. (p.221), author of Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves and other books

Discussing Energy Medicine with Donna Eden

2009-12-26T13:56:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “One of the things many people are doing today is meditation. Does Energy Medicine take us beyond meditation?”

Donna Eden: “I think meditation is wonderful. It is one way to move some of the stress out of your body, but in a moment when you are out in the world or at your job and you have lost your energy, Energy Medicine is what you can do in 30 seconds to start getting your energy back. There are ways that you can just tap the ends of the meridian lines and suddenly the energies start moving again. You can stretch some of your body, because the energy will start getting congealed. I teach a five-minute routine that, if you start doing it every day at least once a day for five minutes, you will start teaching your body to not get thrown off by all the things that that normally throw you off, whether it’s a boss yelling at you or somebody or something just throwing you off. We often get our energies thrown off, and we don’t know why.”

~ Donna Eden (p.88), author of The Secret Life of Water and other books

Richard Mann, N.D. on Homeopathy

2009-12-22T13:55:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “Please give us a brief description of homeopathy.”

Dr. Richard Mann: “Homeopathy is a profound and deep medicine that has been practiced in the United States for almost 200 years. Homeopathy is a lovely and fulfilling practice because many times after you give the medicine, not only does the patient’s illness resolve, but the whole person seems to bloom. It works for many different kinds of illness. Children respond especially well because children are so vital.”

~ Dr. Richard Mann (p. 166)

Relaxation Response

2009-12-19T13:52:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “When you say psychosomatic, are you talking about stress related illnesses?”

Dr. Dolores Krieger: “Yes.”

Daphne Michaels: “Such as headaches related to stress and depression caused by life situations?”

Dr. Dolores Krieger: “That is absolutely true and, of course, our best statistics tell us that more than 70 percent of the world’s illnesses are stress related."

Daphne Michaels: “It sounds like the relaxation response that you are talking about would work well with stress related illnesses.”

Dr. Dolores Krieger: “Absolutely, and not only that, but one of the things that Dora [Kunz] was actually able to perceive was that the relaxation responses actually open the body to healing. Consequently, before we began to work with the subtle energies, we would attempt to evoke a relaxation response in the patient. Herbert Benson is the person who coined the term relaxation response. One time he and I were on the same program in London, England, and I had the opportunity to speak to him about the study that we were doing. I mentioned that we could evoke a relaxation response in four minutes. I asked him whether that seemed plausible to him, and he was very excited about it. He said “D, you are even better than biofeedback. Biofeedback, at its best, takes at least five minutes.” (laughing)”

~ Dr. Dolores Krieger (p. 98), author of The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch, and other books.

Vibration

2009-12-16T13:50:00.000-08:00

“Existence is vibration.”

~ Dr. Masaru Emoto (p. 221), author of The Secret Life of Water, and other books

What Would You Leave Behind?

2009-12-11T13:49:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “You have asked your readers this question, “At the end of your life, what would you wish to leave behind?” Nicki, can you answer that question for us today – what would you wish to leave behind?”

Nicki Scully: “I would hope to leave behind a body of work that resonates with people and that those who have discovered it will then integrate it into their own lives. It will grow and change within them and expand and come out in new ways and achieve healing and bring light and hope to people. That is what I hope to leave.”

~ Nicki Scully (p. 63), author of Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, physical, and Transformational Medicine, and other books

Our Higher Selves

2009-12-08T10:46:00.000-08:00

“We don’t normally see our higher selves, because we are so far away from our own hearts. We don’t know anymore how to listen to our own hearts, because we don’t have the space of the silence to listen.”

~ Victor Sanchez, author of The Toltec Oracle, and other books (p. 220)

Melissa West on the Relationship of Pain to Joy

2009-12-04T13:34:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “I want to give you an opportunity to talk about whatever comes to your mind.”

Melissa West: “Something I was thinking about this morning is the relationship of pain to joy and what happens for us when we are cut off from our own pain. We are actually cutting off from our own authentic joy as well. They are opposite ends of the same continuum of being alive, and the more we deaden ourselves to our pain, the more we lose the capacity for deep joy. What I have been astonished by is some of the people I know who have the greatest capacity for really wonderful joy, oftentimes, these translucent people have experienced the most pain in their lives. I never understood that connection before, but the more I work with people in transitions, the more I realize that if we can allow ourselves to be broken open to life itself, the more our capacity for deep and authentic joy expands.”

~ Melissa West, author of Soulful Living: The Process of Personal Transformation, and other books. (p. 124)

Heart

2009-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:00

“The heart is the real source of spirit itself.”

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Magical Child, and other books.
(p. 221)

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~ With energy!
Daphne Michaels

Teaching vibrational medicine

2009-11-25T08:16:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “I can imagine that as you teach Vibrational Medicine to the medical community, many physicians must say, ‘We knew something was missing in our traditional training and here it is. Here is the rest of the story.’”

Dr. Richard Gerber: “To a certain degree, yes. When I attended medical school at Wayne State in Detroit, I was considered the oddball by some of my student colleagues. But there were a number of professors who heard my mini-presentations on aspects of what I thought was the leading edge of medicine, and they recognized it as the direction that medicine was going.
It is kind of ironic that I have been invited back to my medical school to lecture in their alternative medicine educational program for the last eight years. I have also been presenting to third and fourth year medical students as well. These kinds of curricula are starting to spread in highly established medical schools throughout the country, so education on Vibrational Medicine is gradually getting into the system. What tickles me is that my book is being used as a text in naturopathic and other types of schools. This is something that I’m very happy about.”

Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves, and other books. (p.151)

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Daphne Michaels

Laughing at Aging (Ram Dass)

2009-11-22T08:12:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “Ram Dass, can you tell us different ways that we can approach aging?”

Ram Dass: “By laughing.”

Daphne Michaels: “By laughing? Tell us more.”

Ram Dass: “That should be enough.”

Daphne Michaels: “(Laughing) What is it about laughing?”

Ram Dass: Well, when we age, we can laugh at our attachments because aging is changing. We change our friends, we change our bodies, we change our points of view, and so on.”

Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now, and other books. (p. 5)

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Daphne Michaels

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf discusses his spiritual journey

2009-11-19T08:06:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: “In your writings, it seems that your spiritual journey has taken you into the mysteries of Shamanism, Eastern Mysticism, and Judaism. Tell us more.”

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf: “Although I was born from Jewish parents, I really didn’t study my roots very much. I got into Kabbalah, which is often considered to be a Jewish form of mysticism. Actually, Kabbalah is neither Jewish nor non-Jewish; it is something that came, even according to the ancient Kabbalists who studied this, at the time of Abraham, then called Abram. Abram was a Chaldean from what is now Iraq, and thus not a Jew or a non-Jew; in fact, Jews didn’t exist until he fathered them. The Chaldeans were known to have an interest in the mystical nature of the universe and that must have influenced Abram.

To me, it is interesting to study the various religions that have cropped up in our world. I am interested in the spiritual underpinnings. I became interested in Shamanism primarily as a challenge from my then-publisher. We were talking about what my next book project would be, and the idea came up as kind of a joke. I would do something called shamanic physics, and the publisher got very interested in the idea. As a result, I began to look into what I knew about the field Shamanism. That led me to the jungles of Peru and then onto the reservation lands of North and South Dakota where I spent time with the Sioux Indians in various part of that country and then in other places. I’ve been with Hawaiian shamans called Kahunas and Anglo-Saxon shamans. Wherever I went whatever type of shamanhood I learned from, the key idea was that the universe sprang from vibration. All shamans I’ve talked to have agreed that vibration is a key insight into how the universe was constructed.”

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, author of Quantum’s Little Book of Big Ideas: Where Science Meets Spirit, and other books. (p. 38)

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Daphne Michaels

Water as Vibration

2009-11-13T08:04:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: Dr. Emoto, tell us the importance of water transporting the energy of our souls. How does the water move the information from the soul?

Dr. Masaru Emoto: That is a difficult question. What happens is that the water can feel the vibration and water can also send vibration from words, pictures, and any type of photos. The water can memorize and transport the information. I call it Hado, which means vibration or motion in Japanese.

~ Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Secret Life of Water, and other books. (p. 30)

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Daphne Michaels

What is a holistic surgeon?

2009-11-10T07:58:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: Tell us what it means to be a holistic surgeon.

Dr. Benjamin Haslund: There are two ways of answering this. The more interesting way of answering your question is nonlinear which, I believe, will come out in the bulk of our discussion this afternoon. In the more linear sense, holistic medicine addresses the various aspects of our being, including the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. Certainly, as a surgeon who addresses physical needs when disease processes become concretized, the role of surgery can still remain in the holistic world. Here I actually see that people’s disease processes become a departure point towards healing at a much deeper level. That is really where holistic medicine becomes interesting to me, addressing nutritional and psychospiritual aspects as part of the disease and healing process.

Benjamin Haslund, M.D., see discussion for Vibration Health Institute. (exerpt from p. 178)

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Daphne Michaels

Therapeutic Touch

2009-11-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

“Therapeutic Touch is not only a list of techniques, but it turns out to be an inner journey, and it is the inner journey that becomes so exciting, because it becomes a personal growth experience.”

~ Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., author of The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help and to Heal, and other books.
(p. 220)

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Daphne Michaels

James Endredy on Mother Earth

2009-11-04T07:41:00.000-08:00

Daphne Michaels: Do you have a sense that Mother Earth loves us, even though it’s not her responsibility that we live in harmony?

James Endredy: Yes, I think the Earth has done everything she can for us, and she wants us to keep going forward. I really do. I think that when you are talking about Earth the way we are now though, it’s kind of an abstract concept. It’s almost too big to think about. What I like to do is break it down into smaller increments, so that we can not only wrap our minds around it but really feel it.

That’s why I try to help people work with what I call spirits of nature and accessing knowledge from specific natural entities. The biggest ones are air, fire, and soil. Other ones that are more easily accessible to us are animals, trees, and birds. When you get out into the natural world that is in harmony, you very easily find that there is love everywhere. There is a grand web of things going on outside the human sphere. When we connect to it, we lose the existential isolation that we all feel from living in this cocoon. We discover other creatures, beings, and entities that share the planet with us. They are also our brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers. When we get out of the purely human sphere and connect in these ways, we don’t feel alone in this universe anymore. We feel that everything around us can be supportive and loving. That is not to say that there aren’t dangers at any moment where we could fall from a cliff or be eaten by a bear, but the point is that we lose the feeling of loneliness that so many of us have. We lose a sense of isolation when we connect with something bigger than ourselves.

Daphne Michaels: Is that what you mean by restoring a sacred bond with Earth?
James Endredy: Yes, exactly!

James Endredy is the author of Ecoshamanism: Sacred Practices of Unity, Power, and Earth Healing, and other books. (excerpt from p. 136 of "Light of Our Times")

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Daphne Michaels

We Are Creations

2009-10-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

“We are creations, and we are intended to continue creating ourselves.”

~ Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way and other best-selling books
(p. 212)

Donna Eden on the Relation of Chakras to the Aura

2009-10-27T15:13:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: “How do chakras relate to the aura?”

Donna Eden: “As the chakras move out from the physical body, they connect up with the field that begins to spin around the body. I always think of the aura as a person’s invisible space suit that he wears here on Planet Earth. It allows him to be here and function well, so that his sensitivity doesn’t become so extreme that he can’t tolerate being in the world. We have all known people who are too sensitive. Sensitivity is wonderful, but when it fries your nerves, sometimes it isn’t. Well, the aura can be strengthened, often through the chakras.

“Everybody knows the aura, even if you can’t see it. When you feel really happy, charismatic, spirited, and alive, your aura may fill the entire room, but if you are feeling sad, despondent, and down, your aura tends to crash in on you.” (p. 85)

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Daphne Michaels

The Purpose of Alchemical Healing

2009-10-24T09:13:00.000-07:00

“The true purpose of Alchemical Healing is to become present and aware beings – to engage and deepen the connection between the person being healed and the healer and to be more aware at any given moment of the miracles that constantly happen around us that we previously haven’t been present enough to notice.”

~ Nicki Scully, healer, author and teacher of metaphysics, Shamanism
and the Egyptian mysteries (p. 51)

How Our Views Affect the World

2009-10-20T06:51:00.000-07:00

“We affect the world out there by the ways we go about looking at it. If we change our way of looking at things, we actually change the world we are looking at…”

~ Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, author of Taking the Quantum Leap
(p. 40)

Word as Vibration

2009-10-16T08:36:00.000-07:00

“The vibration has the positive and negative, and each word has a certain vibration. Therefore, the word is very important…The word is a vibration from the Great Maker. There are different types of vibration, just like Adam and Eve when they created words that all came from nature and, if there are words of love or happiness, then these words will carry a positive vibration, while anger and darkness have a negative type of vibration.”

~ Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages of Water
(p. 30)

Thomas Moore's Broken Heart

2009-10-13T16:27:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: “You were told by your physician that you had a broken heart, and you went through angioplasty. Will you tell us about this?”

Thomas Moore*: “There is so much to say about that. I was surprised. I am someone who tries to lead from my heart when I give lectures. I don’t use notes. I try to connect with people, and I spend a lot of time signing books and talking to people. I feel like I live a lot from my heart, so I was surprised to see that my heart had this blockage in one of the main arteries, and then to have this physician say it looked like a broken heart really stuck with me. It really struck me at the time, so I have reassessed my life. I just described what I am going to continue doing, but I realize that there are areas in my life where I could be more connected, where my heart could open and where I could take care of it more.

“One thing I plan to do is to take a trip to Ireland. Ireland really soothes me. My blood pressure goes down when I am there; it just drops right down. So I am trying to listen to illness as an opportunity to reflect not just on my body, but on my way of life.” (p. 23)

*Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul and Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals, and other books.

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Daphne Michaels

Personal Journey of Expanding Consciousness

2009-10-04T00:24:00.000-07:00

“Once we discover through our personal journeys of expanding consciousness that we also carry this light within us, we realize how important it is to nourish and cultivate it, so that it may grow and express itself through our daily lives.” ~ Daphne Michaels, author of Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders in Health & Spirituality, page 219.

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~ With energy!
Daphne Michaels

Julia Cameron on Creativity

2009-09-30T00:19:00.000-07:00

“One of the big myths we have about creativity is that we need to have unlimited time. We are all waiting to have a year off, and then we will be creative. What my tool kit says is “No, you are not going to get a year off. Your life is going to stay just as busy as it is right now, so let’s see what you can do with the life that you’ve got!” ~ Julia Cameron, author of the best-seller The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 216, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Daphne Michaels

The Tension We Live

2009-09-25T00:17:00.000-07:00

“This tension that we live with is not going to go away in our lifetime. It took hundreds of years for us to get here, and we are not going to get out of it quickly. So part of how I dance with writing as healing is to discover how we stay in the big story and keep creatively inviting and holding that tension so that it doesn’t consume us. By doing this, we see the tension as part of the voltage of being alive right now.”
~ Christina Baldwin, author, educator and consultant

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 106, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Daphne Michaels

Nicki Scully on Being a Healer

2009-09-22T00:15:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: Tell us about the time when you first realized that serving as a healer surpassed all other priorities.

Nicki Scully: I speak of that in my book, because I think that commitment is also of fundamental importance to stepping onto a path of healing or Shamanism for that matter. I realized how much I was living that commitment in the early 1980s at a New Year’s Eve celebration. I was part of the Grateful Dead family in those years. My husband was one of the managers for the Grateful Dead, and there were about six years where he and I would go on stage at midnight on New Year’s Eve and dance in the New Year wearing skeleton costumes and throwing roses out to the audience. It was the high point of our year, if you can imagine.

On this particular New Year’s Eve, right after midnight as I was coming off the stage, a friend took me to where somebody had fallen off a balcony and landed on his sister. She was being carried off on a stretcher, so I followed her into the medical room and put my hands over her head. The doctor cleared the room and asked me to stay. When he realized that her back was probably broken, he asked me to go to the hospital with him. So here I was in a rather altered state of consciousness, barefoot with a rose wreath and wearing a skeleton suit, and I found myself in the ambulance going off to San Francisco General. I saw the girl as far as I could, maintaining eye contact with her; they took her into a place where I couldn’t follow. New Year’s Eve is a very crowded night in San Francisco General, and I was sort of the grim reaper in roses walking past all those gurneys in the hallway, so I hitchhiked barefoot back to the concert.

By the time I had returned, the concert was over, but I knew then that my experience had been a rite of passage. I realized that my priority was in serving, in healing in whatever way I could. The woman’s back was broken and as soon as she got out of the hospital, she called me. When she was able, she came to study with me because she said I had a tremendous impact on her, and I had helped her through that traumatic injury.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 57-58, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Daphne Michaels

“We are all healers…”

2009-09-17T00:13:00.000-07:00

“No matter what the profession, we are all healers. We are all healers, just by touching another person, by smiling at another person, by being in another person’s presence.” ~ Dale Golden, energy healer

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 220, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Presence of the Soul

2009-09-14T00:10:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: It sounds like the kind of research you do recognizes that your soul is present.

Victor Sanchez: Yes, it is a significant point because one of the problems or consequences of not embracing the duality of our consciousness is that we separate science and soul. Without embracing our duality, science and soul are divorced parts of ourselves that do not relate to each other. People who are spiritual often see, with a certain reluctance, people who deal with materialistic knowledge, and people who have a material or very rational understanding of the world are often reluctant about spiritual practices. But you know what? We are dual beings. We have two sides: reason and silent knowledge, science and magic. Both are a part of who we are and, if we take one over the other, we end up with a state of imbalance.

Sciences like anthropology and other social sciences are afraid of taking a look at or participating in spiritual practices, because this kind of participation would be considered unscientific. The problem with that thinking is that we still have souls; we still have that magical side. My work is about building a bridge between the side of reason, the side of my formal research, and the side that holds a place for the soul. The only way to do that is by allowing myself to be immersed in shamanic practices and to let those practices affect every part of my life.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 70-71, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Richard Mann on Healing

2009-09-09T00:07:00.000-07:00

“Healing is helping a person to return to a more harmonious and creative place, a place of freedom where one’s awareness is not constantly called back to what is ill and what needs to be healed.”
~ Richard Mann, N.D.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 221, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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The Spiritual Role of Community

2009-09-03T00:02:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: Ram Dass, in your book Still Here, you talk about the role community plays in helping us to remain conscious in the face of challenges. Tell us about the spiritual role of community.

Ram Dass: I call community satsang; it is a Sanskrit word meaning “a community of truth seekers.” It’s wonderful to be a spiritual community, witnessing together. In other words, we are souls looking at our incarnations.

One of the privileges I have is to sit with dying people; it’s wonderful for my spiritual growth. I used to go visit the dying, identified with my role as a helper, a nice spiritual man coming to visit and then one day I said to myself, “Why am I doing that, going in with that identification?”

For example, the patient that I was visiting had a very bad sickness and my going to visit in my role as “helper” would only make him identify with his sickness, so I prepared myself as a soul and I walked in and I saw a soul.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 4, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Donna Eden on energy medicine

2009-08-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: I understand that scientists have recently been using the term subtle energy to describe these intelligent forces that we’re talking about. It seems that they exist in the body and in the environment and can be directed by individuals to effect their own healing. Is this what you are talking about in terms of engaging in a dialogue with your own energy system to effect your own healing?

Donna Eden: Yes. The tools and techniques of Energy Medicine really capitalize on the intelligent design of our bodies. When you begin doing these energy exercises, they become a part of your life, like taking a shower or brushing your teeth. It is a practice of engaging with energy and interacting with it so that you truly begin to affect how you feel at all times, whether it is to take away your stress, your illness, or your pain. But even if you can’t believe it, if you can enter in on the energy level, you will begin to believe. For millions of years, this was the way we fueled ourselves, and we carry those forces in our own DNA. We can learn to tap into those healing forces again. I have never met a single person that didn’t have healing abilities. It simply isn’t possible, because we carry these abilities forth from our ancient ancestors who had to heal themselves in order to survive.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 80-81, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Ram Dass on planes of consciousness

2009-08-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: Living in two worlds or from two planes of consciousness at the same time is one of the ways that suffering remains manageable?

Ram Dass: Yes. For example, when I had my stroke, the pain was so severe that it moved me up into my soul where all I did was witness the pain. The witness wasn’t hurting.

Daphne Michaels: You moved to a different plane of consciousness to manage the physical pain? Is that what you were talking about in your latest book, Still Here, when you realized after your stroke in 1997 that you had distanced yourself from your physical body because you knew how to focus on physical realms of the spirit?

Ram Dass: Yes! In other words, I had lived in my soul; I was identified through my soul. The soul goes in and out of incarnations

Daphne Michaels: Say more about that—in and out of incarnations.

Ram Dass: Well, it’s reincarnation. If you are a soul, you come into incarnations because you are yearning to meld with your beloved, the One, the vibration in which we are all one, including trees and rocks, etc. The soul uses each incarnation to get closer to the One. I have used this incarnation to understand and work with suffering and love. Love is the medium of souls.

I haven’t talked to anybody that is as knowledgeable about planes of consciousness before. It is such fun to talk to you.

Daphne Michaels: Thank you! We want to learn from you. The Vibrational Health Institute teaches about spiritual concepts from ancient wisdom to modern physics. We are interested in learning more about the realms of consciousness that can come together for a soul-fulfilling life. You are one of the greatest teachers in the world. You can teach us so much about this.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 2-3, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Spirits of nature

2009-08-19T08:45:00.000-07:00

“When I finally returned to the spirits of nature, everything started to fall into place.” ~ James Endredy, quote from Light of Our Times, page 131.

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We don’t value beauty.

2009-08-16T08:44:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: In beginning to understand beauty’s role in human life, what are the obstacles? Do you think it is more expensive to create beauty?

Thomas Moore: No, not at all. It takes nothing to create beauty.

Daphne Michaels: So what are the obstacles?

Thomas Moore: The obstacle is that we don’t value beauty. We have a culture that is totally caught up in the spirit. The spirit is overdone. I don’t mean spiritually in a religious sense, but in a more general sense. In other words, we are very interested in speed. We love machinery. We love the fact that we can buy a computer that can go a few seconds faster than it did last year. All of these things we do seem awfully important to us. I think that is the problem—our priorities. The things that we consider important and valuable come from a place other than the soul, and that is where the soul is undervalued.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 19-20, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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The healing power of love

2009-08-13T08:42:00.000-07:00

“We can memorize all the homeopathic remedies and flower essences of Vibrational Medicine, but ultimately we have to allow ourselves to transform our own consciousness to understand that the presence of love is the most powerful healing force in the universe.”
~ Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational Medicine, quote from Light of Our Times, page 153.

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There are no one-way streets in nature

2009-08-10T08:40:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: It’s fascinating that we are coming to a place where we have an ability as individuals to shape life.

Joseph Chilton Pearce: Yes, but I hesitate saying that we shape life. Although I believe we enter into the shaping, we are not the shapers. The reality we experience is a mutual affair between ourselves and the creative force of the whole universe. It is a two-way street; there are no one-way streets in nature. For instance, we discovered that DNA and the genetic system are profoundly sensitive to emotions. There are no one-way streets; everything influences everything else. While we enter into it, we are not the totality of our destiny.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 162, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Dr. Richard Mann on Vital Force

2009-08-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

“When the vital force is strong and harmonious, then we are strong. When the vital force becomes impinged or disharmonious, we become ill, and when the vital force leaves us as someday it must, that is when we die.” ~ Richard Mann, N.D., quote from Light of Our Times, page 170.

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The world is grieving

2009-08-04T08:31:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: The world right now seems to be grieving. Do you have a sense of a generalized grief among people these days?

Melissa West: We are in a massive global life transition. We are in a rite of passage as a planet where the old is passing away quite rapidly, and we are entering a place of utter unknown. We don’t know what will take place, and my experience is that this affects all of us at some very basic level that we can’t name. We are aware in our hearts and souls that life as we know it has ended, but since there is no public discourse about that, we turn it into a private grief and go shopping or eating or whatever it is we do. Part of my work is to educate people about that and help them to understand how that level of loss and grief actually affects them every day.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 119, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Wisdom by Julia Cameron

2009-07-29T09:47:00.000-07:00

“We are creations, and we are intended to continue creating ourselves.” ~ Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 213, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Dr. Richard Mann thanks his patients

2009-07-26T09:34:00.000-07:00

“Physicians deal with more and more suffering every day. I would say that I silently thank my patients for all of the gifts they bring to me. They bring me the gifts of understanding and humanity. My patients are no different than me, and yet they come to me with so many kinds of illnesses and with sadness, anger, joy and jealousy; as well as great emotional and physical suffering. I see myself in all of them…every day I see ordinary people who are incredible heroes.”
~ Dr. Richard Mann, homeopathic physician and natural healer, Bastyr University

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 176, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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James Endredy on Spirits of Nature

2009-07-22T09:33:00.000-07:00

“Daphne Michaels: Do you have a sense that Mother Earth loves us, even though it’s not her responsibility that we live in harmony?

James Endredy: Yes, I think the Earth has done everything she can for us, and she wants us to keep going forward. I really do. I think that when you are talking about Earth the way we are now though, it’s kind of an abstract concept. It’s almost too big to think about. What I like to do is break it down into smaller increments, so that we cannot only wrap our minds around it but really feel it.

That’s why I try to help people work with what I call spirits of nature and accessing knowledge from specific natural entities. The biggest ones are air, water, fire, and soil. Other ones that are more easily accessible to us are animals, trees, and birds. When you get out into the natural world that is in harmony, you very easily find that there is love everywhere. There is a grand web of things going on outside the human sphere. When we connect to it, we lose the existential isolation that we all feel from living in this cocoon. We discover other creatures, beings, and entities that share the planet with us. They are also our brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers. When we get out of the purely human sphere and connect in these ways, we don’t feel alone in this universe anymore. We feel that everything around us can be supportive and loving. That is not to say that there aren’t dangers at any moment where we could fall from a cliff or be eaten by a bear, but the point is that we lose the feeling of loneliness that so many of us have. We lose a sense of isolation when we connect with something bigger than ourselves.”

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 136-137, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Christina Baldwin on Healing

2009-07-18T09:28:00.000-07:00

“I believe one of the most significant healing actions we can practice in America right now is to talk and to listen to each other, especially strangers.” - Christina Baldwin, author of Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story; One to One: Self Understanding Through Journal Writing; and more.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 113, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Dr. Richard Gerber on Vibrational Medicine

2009-07-13T09:31:00.000-07:00

“Daphne Michaels: It is fascinating that the information about Vibrational Medicine precedes technology.
Dr. Richard Gerber: Oh, yes, definitely. The ancients knew this. They could perceive this directly. They could see the acupuncture meridians and the chakra system. I think much of the plant-based knowledge was based on seeing how different herbs and plants interacted with the energy field of the patients, as observed by shamans in different cultures. Many people that we consider primitive by our technological standards, in fact, have cures for illness that we are now researching in the South American jungles. We want to learn more about plant-based therapy and its healing effects on the body. I think part of the reason that drug therapy and herbal medicines work isn’t because of the molecule binding to a receptor; they work because of the vibrational affinity between a particular plant substance and a particular organ of the body. I think even drug therapy to a certain degree is a type of Vibrational Medicine. There is some research suggesting, for example, that when you take a drug or release a chemical into the body, the effect of that chemical is first transmitted as an energetic signal to the cell receptors.”

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 150-151, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Water is the mirror of the soul

2009-07-10T09:24:00.000-07:00

I had the great privilege of interviewing Dr. Masaru Emoto on The Vibrational Health Show. During that discussion, Dr. Emoto elaborated on his work that shows the “hidden messages in water.” Dr. Emoto has been studying photographs of water crystals for many years and believes that the vibrations in water are sharing powerful messages with us. In particular, Dr. Emoto believes that water holds the potential to create peace on earth.

“Water is the mirror of the soul, so water can be contaminated if somebody approaches it with an impure consciousness.” ~ Dr. Masaru Emoto

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Spontaneous Creation

2009-07-07T09:16:00.000-07:00

“Life is a continuous state of spontaneous creation,” Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Professor Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, author and lecturer. He debuted as Dr. Quantum in 1981. He is the author of books including Taking the Quantum Leap, Mind into Matter, Spiritual Universe and The Yoga of Time Travel. You can read more about Dr. Fred Alan Wolf in Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders in Health and Spirituality, pp. 35-50, by Daphne Michaels.

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
pp. 54, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Nicki Scully: The Four Principles of Alchemical Healing

2009-07-03T09:13:00.000-07:00

According to Nicki Scully in my interview with her on The Vibrational Health Show, there are four principles in Alchemical Healing:

1) The skill and personal power that an individual brings to this healing path.
2) A person’s relationship to spirit
3) The mystery, the unknowable, the magic that we can’t command and have no actual determination over
4) Gratitude and appreciation that can be woven into the entire process.

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Listen to the heart

2009-06-30T09:53:00.000-07:00

“We don’t normally see our higher selves, because we are so far away from our own hearts. We don’t know anymore how to listen to our own hearts, because we don’t have the space or the silence to listen. We are too nervous; we think too much. Listening only to the voice of the ego keeps us in anguish.”~ Victor Sanchez, author of Toltecs for the New Millennium and The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul

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Spirits of nature

2009-06-25T09:52:00.000-07:00

“The spirits of nature talk to us in many different ways.” ~ James Endredy, author of Earthworks for Body and Spirit: Exercises to Restore our Sacred Bond with the Earth

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Thomas Moore on love

2009-06-21T09:50:00.000-07:00

“…I think our society is caught in narcissism. We don’t know about love. We are a bit hardened to love, and we don’t have a strong sense of self, so there are a lot of narcissistic people trying to prove themselves everywhere. I think what we need is a certain kind of dark night where we have to face that fact and discover who we are and what it takes to love. That story says a great deal about modern experience, what men and women experience today, right now.”

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Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

2009-06-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

“…it is better to be ‘in the mystery’ than ‘in the know,’ because when you are in the mystery, you are willing to explore, play, enjoy, and enrich yourself. You realize there is something really magical going on. This point of view is very enlivening and healing.”

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Daphne Michaels & Dr. Masaru Emoto discuss the hidden messages in water

2009-06-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

“Daphne Michaels: “Dr. Emoto, it sounds like your work is trying to teach people that they must have a sacred relationship with water. Is that correct?

Dr. Emoto: Yes, absolutely. Water is the mirror of the soul, so water can be contaminated if somebody approaches it with an impure consciousness.

Daphne Michaels: Water teaches then about our own souls. Is that correct?

Dr. Emoto: Correct, yes!

Daphne Michaels: Can we learn how to take care of our souls from water?

Dr. Emoto: Yes, water is a very good teacher. It is a messenger of God. We should study. We should learn from water. We still don’t know that much about water, so we need to study more.

Daphne Michaels: Dr. Emoto, can we study water to know more about our lives?

Dr. Emoto: Yes, because we are made from water, almost 75 percent, so materially we are water, but we don’t know much about water. Therefore, we don’t know much about ourselves.”

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Donna Eden – Energy Medicine

2009-06-12T09:41:00.000-07:00

“…Energy Medicine absolutely has the tools and techniques to overcome any autoimmune illness. One thing that happens regardless of what kind of illness you have, from a cold all the way up to cancer, heart problems, and autoimmune illnesses, is that something gets “off” in your energy first. Before an illness manifests in the body, something is off in your energy systems. Maybe you find that you are getting more tired. If that’s it, the energy in the meridians may literally be running backwards. With Energy Medicine, you can do something so simple to turn your energies around so you are again in alignment.”

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Melissa West on Elders

2009-06-09T09:37:00.000-07:00

“An elder is a dishonored role in this culture, but if you look at all of the tribal cultures, elders are honored. They are people who tend to be older, who have been around the block enough, so to speak, and they are not afraid of change. I tell people that elders are fearless. They may have some fear in their own personal lives, but as far as the process of change, they are fearless and they completely trust the process. They are openhearted and supportive, but they have no investment in the outcome. So often when I am going through a big change, the people that most love me are invested in my getting through it and are sometimes invested in a particular outcome.

What is wonderful about elders is that they trust the process so much that they are able to hold a space open for whatever it is that most needs to appear. The third element is that elders have some sort of map of this process, so they are not totally flying by the seats of their pants. They understand how this unfolds and how they are supposed to show up in each stage.”

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Daphne Michaels – Emergence of new lives

2009-06-05T09:35:00.000-07:00

“There is something very important about trusting that something is happening because, as individuals move through transitions and out of wilderness into the new lives emerging, they still don’t know what that new life is.”

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Dr. Benjamin Haslund on the healing properties of Jin Shin

2009-06-03T09:31:00.000-07:00

“One of the things that I love about Jin Shin is that it is inherently nurturing. It’s very gentle, very yin, very receptive, very intuitive and, in some ways, very feminine. It is the idea of creating that quintessential space of unconditional love, so that patients can actually heal themselves. It brings them into a gentle state of balance, so that they can explore and address aspects of distress that keep them from feeling comfortable within themselves and those things that, over time, manifest in more concrete forms of disease.”

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The Soul in Chemical Clothes

2009-05-30T11:17:00.000-07:00

“One needs to embrace a bigger picture of who we are as evolving spiritual beings as far as being more than just a body of flesh and bones. We are the soul in chemical clothes. It is understanding this journey of the soul through physical life that allows us to make sense out of what some people call illness or disease. We begin to see that this illness or disease is a potential learning experience for the soul.”
~ Dr. Richard Gerber

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 145, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Committed to the Task of Being

2009-05-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

"Daphne Michaels: What does it mean to be committed to the task of being?

James Endredy: It means to be who you were truly meant to be. This is one of the most important aspects of my work, helping people remove social and cultural masks so that they may see through the eyes of the Great Spirit. I want to help people to see who they are underneath all the protective layers that we carry around with us in order to survive in this concrete jungle we have created. When we remove the masks that obscure the spiritual realms from us, we can see and feel what we were truly meant to be. The task of being is finding the core essence of who we are, what specific specialties we bring to this world, and then learning how to express them."

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 132, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Painful Life Transitions - Melissa West

2009-05-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

“Because painful life transitions often cause our hearts to become tighter in that grief, suffering, and fear, it is important that we start to consciously practice gratitude…There is something about gratitude and the opening and softening of the heart that returns us to self-compassion.”
~ Melissa West

(Excerpt from “Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders
in Health & Spirituality,”
p. 123, Copyright © 2006-2009 Daphne Michaels.)

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Christina Baldwin on the Power of Story

2009-05-19T15:00:00.000-07:00

“I was interested in listening to your introduction to The Vibrational Health Show in which you talked about science and religion as though they are two pillars on opposite sides of a canyon. For me, the bridge between those is story, so my interest in writing is constantly seeing how the story we are telling ourselves moment by moment in our lives impacts how we get from one place to another.

“I think the bridge that we make before us step by step is the story we tell about where we are going. Writing is a way of putting that story down on a page so that we are more deeply conscious of it. It is a way to set our language into a more intense vibration, so that we can see the story that we are telling to both ourselves and others. In this way, writing helps us to be more accountable.”
~ Christina Baldwin

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Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine

2009-05-16T12:00:00.000-07:00

“Everybody knows the aura, even if you can’t see it. When you feel really happy, charismatic, spirited, and alive, your aura may fill the entire room, but if you are feeling sad, despondent, and down, your aura tends to crash in on you.”
~ Donna Eden

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Victor Sanchez, author of The Toltec Path of Recapitulation

2009-05-11T05:40:00.000-07:00

"Daphne Michaels: What is the main goal of recapitulation?

Victor Sanchez: The main goal is personal freedom, freedom to choose what we are, how to live, and how to be. If you think about the process of going through life, we could describe destiny as the consequence of our past. Because of our past and present, we are going to have a certain kind of future. Our past determines us. Now, through recapitulation, you can erase your personal history, meaning you are not condemned to live just in accordance to the past you have had. You can actually make a big change. You can reinvent yourself.

Daphne Michaels: How do you know what to reinvent yourself as?

Victor Sanchez: Well, that is a really good question. There are two main angles for understanding this. One angle is from the problems an individual has as a consequence of his past and the other is from the dreams that have not been experienced. Considering those two angles will provide a sense of how an individual can reinvent himself.

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Nicki Scully on Shamanism

2009-05-08T07:20:00.000-07:00

Daphne Michaels: “The similarity between Shamanism and modern alchemy then is the connection with the world.

Nicky Scully: Yes, I think that being in service to one’s community is fundamental to Shamanism and extremely important to alchemy right now. There is just so much need, and for any of us who find these tools, it is vital that we share them.”

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Dr. Fred Alan Wolf on Consciousness and Time Travel

2009-05-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

“The universe began in chaos and got more organized and more orderly as it went on. To me, that is the effect of consciousness coming into the universe. Otherwise, it would have just continued in chaos. When we start learning something, we are actually moving the sequence forward in time. When we start to ride a bicycle, we fall over the first time, but as we learn to ride, we begin to master the ability. That is what we experience as moving forward in time. When we unlearn or let go of something, we are actually moving the sequence backward in time. We are going back to an earlier time when we didn’t have that particular thinking embedded in our consciousness. This is what I believe the yogis were talking about as time travel.

"They were talking about letting go and freeing the ego. Going forward, which is the mastery of the physical, is more about concentrating the ego. As we concentrate the ego and master something as a self, we have what we call self-mastery. That sense of mastering the physical elements around us moves us forward in time relative to objective time. As we let go, as we release, we are moving backward in time relative to objective time which still goes forward. This is a new idea. This idea is going to take a little while to catch on, but it’s based upon my understanding of quantum physics…”

~ Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Created from the Earth

2009-04-30T09:41:00.000-07:00

“Our bodies and our minds were created from the Earth. We weren’t dropped here in this form from someplace else and asked to adapt. We were born from this Earth. These shamanic lessons which I learned from indigenous cultures and from my own connections to the spirits of nature I share with people. We lose our innate faculties if we don’t use them. Let’s open that immense book of knowledge and find out what is in our bodies and in our minds that has evolved through our time on this Earth.”
~ James Endredy, author of Earthwalks for Body and Spirit: Exercise to Restore Our Sacred Bond with the Earth, p. 135

Getting caught up in the details

2009-04-25T09:39:00.000-07:00

“Daphne Michaels: What do you mean when you talk about life transition or trauma as a destiny point?

Melissa West: What I mean is that most of us, given the complexity and hurriedness of life, tend to get caught up in the details: car-pooling, fixing dinner, going to work, dealing with meetings, etc. and part of us goes to sleep about who we really are, why we are here, and what we want from life. What happens during one of those big transitions is that we can’t keep on the same old way, so it is an opportunity to rethink our lives from the ground up about what gives us hope, meaning, and new life. It gives us an opportunity to reconstruct new lives from the ashes of the old.” p. 116

Thomas Moore

2009-04-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

"Daphne Michaels: What is the difference between spirit and soul?

Thomas Moore: It is very difficult to dispel the difference quickly. It took me a number of years of thinking through and meditating to feel comfortable about the distinction, but I can tell you a few things. Normally, the way we understand spirit is that it is something within us and within a culture that, first of all, is interested in the future and moving ahead. It might be interested in speed and getting things done quickly. It is interested in knowing as much as possible, so spiritual people like to have the answers to what happens after death and what it means to be a moral person. They want to answer the big questions. The spirit is big, it’s vast and tends to move upward. Spiritual organizations are often thinking upward. Churches have steeples pointing to the sky. People look to the sky when they think about God or Heaven or things of that sort.
The soul is different; the soul is more interested in the past. I notice in psychoanalysis that Freud is very interested in the soul. We are interested in finding out what happened in the past. I think if we had a soulful culture, we would want to honor the past. We wouldn’t want to just constantly build into the future, but rather to preserve old buildings, preserve the stories of the past. We may want to tell the stories of our own families. That’s a very soulful thing to do. Also, the soul tends to be deep rather than high, so we use metaphors and images with a downward movement—going down deep into life and down deep into yourself, deep into whatever you are doing. This idea of soul and depth has been around for at least 2,500 years, so that’s not a new idea.
The other thing is that the soul is more interested in connection, to tying people together or to connecting us to something that were are interested in or to our homes to have a strong sense of the place. So soul and spirit are quite different, yet both are necessary. Both are extremely valuable—equally valuable—and the trick is to be able to take care of both at the same time.

What exactly is Vibrational Medicine?

2009-04-17T09:33:00.000-07:00

“I think of Vibrational Medicine as consciousness-based healthcare, because it can be used to not only help people heal from various illnesses, but, perhaps even more importantly, to support spiritual growth. Vibrational Medicine is a term used to refer to a whole range of healthcare practices that considers human beings intricate and complex energy systems that can be influenced by a variety of healing methods. Some common examples of Vibrational Medicine are acupuncture and homeopathy. All Vibrational Medicine is geared toward balancing and harmonizing the energy systems embodied in the individual, which I think of as aligning and harmonizing the spirit, mind and heart within the physical body.”

~ Daphne Michaels, founder of the Vibrational Health Institute and author of Light of Our Times: Conversations with Today’s Leaders in Health and Spirituality, p. 188

Dr. Benjamin Haslund on vibration

2009-04-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

“I think that our physical body is very much still a vibrational body, and I see that the physical medicine and surgery I practice are just Vibrational Medicine at a very slow or low vibration.”~ Dr. Benjamin Haslund, holistic surgeon, p. 182

Understanding Your Personal Story

2009-04-09T09:31:00.000-07:00

“Sometimes when I talk to people about the importance of understanding their personal story, I give them big sheets of paper and invite them to start mapping out their known territory, asking them about the territory they are currently editing in terms of how they are changing their minds about who they are and where they come from. ‘Where is your unknown territory?’ I ask, ‘Where is your silence?’ You can’t see the edge between story and silence head on. You can’t just walk up to it and knock on it, and say, ‘Okay, talk to me.’ One of the things I teach people is how to notice the silence they are maintaining in their writing from the very edge of their view.”~ Christina Baldwin, teacher and author, p. 105

“More than a pile of chemicals…”

2009-04-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

“Medical science is focused on illness and paths of physiology in terms of where things go wrong in the physical body, so many scientists seem to think that we are nothing more than a pile of chemicals, electrochemical reactions, and neurons firing in the brain, but we are more than a biomechanism of flesh and blood. We are animated by spirit and a life force energy that flows through us.”~ Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational Medicine, p. 143

Connection to the past

2009-04-02T07:53:00.000-07:00

“A connection to the past feeds the soul a great deal…”~ Thomas Moore, author of Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals, p. 19.

Brain and heart in perfect entrainment

2009-03-31T06:03:00.000-07:00

“When your brain and your heart come into perfect entrainment with each other, so that what you are thinking, acting and speaking are one and not divided against themselves, you come into a position of great power in which you have dominion over your own life. When that which you are thinking and saying or thinking and feeling are different, you have no power. It is when you move into a single entrainment that our true state of dominion over our own life opens up.”

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, pp. 162-163

Author and Artist Julia Cameron

2009-03-27T16:02:00.000-07:00

I was honored to be able to interview Julia Cameron for The Vibrational Health Show. Cameron is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, including the ever-popular “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.” Here’s an interesting look into her view of the Great Creator in terms of her creative work.

“We need to believe that the Great Creator is friendly to our work, wishes us well, and isn’t just setting us up to take a fall.”
~ Julia Cameron, p. 216

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“We carry healing in the marrow of our bones…”

2009-03-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

An excerpt from my interview with Donna Eden, author of “Energy Medicine.”

“I often think how instinct-wounded people in our culture are because we live in a world that teaches us what we should do, what we ought to do, and how we need to be. There are so many how-tos that, as we are told what to do, we get farther and farther away from ourselves. Plus we live in a world where it is easy to run to the doctor or pop a pill, but the truth is we carry healing in the marrow of our bones. That is why people do things instinctually, but because they are not taught to stay with what they just did, the instinct goes away.

“I will give you an example. When you felt stressed or shocked about something, have you ever taken your hand, thrown it up to your forehead, sort of hit your forehead, then held it there for a minute, and said, ‘Oh my God!’? I think of these as the ‘Oh my God’ points, because people often hold their foreheads when they are shocked about something or when they have stress. Well, that is instinct because when you get stressed, you lose blood from your forebrain. It goes into your body for the “fight or flight” response to either run away or beat somebody up. If you would just keep your hand there when you are feeling stressed, you would draw the blood back up into your forebrain and your body would start moving out those stress chemicals. I’m sure people had to have learned that long ago, or we wouldn’t be doing that today.”

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Evoking the Mystery

2009-03-19T15:59:00.000-07:00

“My work is about getting people to evoke the mystery within themselves, to play with it, and to try to understand it better rather than simply accepting it.”

~ Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, p. 41

Keeping the Toltec Traditions Alive

2009-03-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

Here’s what Victor Sanchez shared with my listeners and me about keeping the Toltec traditions alive:

“When I started to know the indigenous communities that were keeping the Toltec traditions alive, I realized that nature was so present in their lives and so relevant in everything they were doing. I wanted to know much more about that aspect of their tradition, because I realized that these people didn’t have the anguish that we see in the everyday lives of people in modern societies.

“One reason that the communities that keep the Toltec traditions alive don’t have that kind of anguish, I believe, is because they don’t see themselves separated from nature. In fact, from a larger perspective, they don’t see themselves separate from anything around them, and they don’t see themselves separate from God. With this sensation of connectedness, the human soul stays healthier and we become much more expressive of what we can and should be.

“A relationship with nature is very relevant in societies that, like the Toltec, were developed around Shamanism as opposed to societies that were developed around religion. This has played such a different role. When I talk about Shamanism, I am talking about something that happens in ceremonies in connection with nature. Some of my criticism about the way modern society often approaches Shamanism is that the connection with nature is put aside and, if you take the connection with nature away in the shamanic procedure, you are taking away part of the core.”

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God loves beauty

2009-03-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

I had the great honor of interviewing Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, on the Vibrational Health Show. Here is an excerpt from that interview where I summarize Dr. Emoto’s beliefs on God and beauty.

“The research that Dr. Emoto has done is truly groundbreaking. It moves beyond science and into what he calls ‘art in pursuit of beauty’ and, even more than art, Dr. Emoto’s true message through his work is about God and that God loves beauty. Dr. Emoto has told us today that he sees water as the messenger of God, and there is so much we don’t know about water. We still need to learn so much about it, but it is clear to Dr. Emoto in his research that water is the great messenger because water transports energy. It can reflect the truth back to us. It can show us the truth of our own consciousness. With this, we can understand that we don’t have to move in a direction of disharmony. We can consciously move in a direction that will bring beauty to our world.”

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Love and Gratitude

2009-03-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

“The reason why love and gratitude create beautiful (water) crystals is because, when you think about love and gratitude, love is the active energy and gratitude is the passive energy. Through this yin and yang, we create balance. Therefore, love and gratitude are the most balanced.”

~ Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water

Crossroads

2009-03-03T09:42:00.000-08:00

When faced with choices in life, we say that we are at a crossroads. How do we move beyond these intersections to make the right choices for ourselves? Your answer may be the Vibrational Paradigm, a body of work I have developed over the last 25+ years that illuminates paths to conscious living.

By integrating psychology, philosophy, modern physics and ancient spirituality, program participants at the Vibrational Health Institute explore health, healing and the evolution of consciousness that results in personal transformation. If you are at a crossroads, visit the Vibrational Health Institute online to learn more about the Vibrational Paradigm. I look forward to guiding you along the way.

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We are the mystery

2009-02-27T06:03:00.000-08:00

“We are the mystery. When we begin to live in that sense of mystery, life takes on a certain kind of joyous aura. We begin to really enjoy whatever we are doing, whatever is happening, regardless of its physical consequences.”
~ Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Melissa West explains transitions

2009-02-24T05:00:00.000-08:00

I was thrilled at the opportunity to interview psychotherapist Melissa West on my show. She is an expert at helping people during life transitions to find hope, meaning, clarity and new life. Here is an excerpt from that conversation:

“Daphne Michaels: What do you mean when you talk about life transition or trauma as a destiny point?

Melissa West: What I mean is that most of us, given the complexity and hurriedness of life, tend to get caught up in the details: carpooling, fixing dinner, going to work, dealing with meetings, etc. and part of us goes to sleep about who we really are, why we are here, and what we want from life. What happens during one of those big transitions (death, divorce, job loss, etc.) is that we can’t keep up on the same old way, so it is an opportunity to rethink our lives from the ground up about what gives us hope, meaning, and new life. It gives us an opportunity to reconstruct new lives from the ashes of the old.

Daphne Michaels: When people go through a major, sudden transition, like a job loss or death in the family, there is a tendency to think, ‘I can’t wait until things get back to normal!’ But you’re saying it is not about trying to get back to normal; instead, there is something else to do.

Melissa West: Right. I think the great grief of a big transition like that is that it is actually impossible to return to the old normal. That old normal is gone forever, whatever that was, and so many of us get understandably lost in trying to bring it back. It is about opening to the mystery of what is before us, which will eventually turn into a new normal.”

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Living in harmony

2009-02-21T06:38:00.000-08:00

“Living in harmony with the ecological systems that provide us with life should be pure common sense. We can’t expect to keep taking from the Earth without repercussions. Living in harmony and balance is not only for those on a spiritual path. It should be in the hearts of each and every one of us.”
~ James Endredy

Anyone can heal

2009-02-17T05:30:00.000-08:00

“…Healing is a natural potential. It is not a mumbo jumbo, exotic technique that only a few people can use. I am sure that you and many in your audience have had the experience in your lifetime of having somebody who was ill or in pain, and you found by chance that in trying to help that person that your hand went right to the pain. Why that happens, of course, we don’t know, but we do see that we are able to help people without having special training or certifications.”

~ Dr. Dolores Krieger

Discover your heart

2009-02-12T05:03:00.000-08:00

“The greatest thing we can do for our children is to open up and discover our hearts. Look inside. Get in touch with your heart any way you possibly can. Breathe through your heart; think in your heart. Meditation on the heart is very powerful.”
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Love is the field of all fields.”

2009-02-09T07:01:00.000-08:00

One example of the timeless wisdom that came through my radio program “The Vibrational Health Show” is that of the work of Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child and Evolution’s End. It was a privilege to listen to his thoughts on love. I want to share them with you today:

“Daphne Michaels: In one of your books, you say that ‘love is its own field.’

Joseph Chilton Pearce: I would say that love is the field of all fields. The electromagnetic spectrum, which the heart produces and that surrounds our body, is essentially the same as the one Planet Earth produces. The sun produces the same electromagnetic spectrum which surrounds the entire solar system. The idea is that this field of all fields is the highest of all states of being, and it is called love which is really a state of being. It is the actual constitution or nature of consciousness itself. To me, true spirituality is recognition of this powerful, overall embracing state of love.”

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Julia Cameron on creativity

2009-02-06T06:02:00.000-08:00

“One of the big myths we have about creativity is that we need to have unlimited time. We are all waiting to have a year off, and then we will be creative. What my tool kit says is, ‘No, you are not going to get a year off. Your life is going to stay just as busy as it is right now, so let’s see what you can do with the life that you’ve got.’”
~ Julia Cameron

Nicki Scully on learning from history

2009-02-03T06:01:00.000-08:00

2009 is a promising year. We have the opportunity to move through new portals of consciousness. These portals exist in our personal psyches, our country and in the world. They allow us to touch the field of universal potential and recalibrate our lives in resonance with our deepest truths. They allow us to come into alignment with our highest wisdom. Hold the intention to discover a portal of consciousness and you will be amazed at how quickly you move beyond pain and into the light of meticulous connection.

“Daphne Michaels: Is it necessary to undergo a painful or dangerous ordeal in order to gain this spiritual knowledge?

Nicki Scully: I am hopeful that we have the intelligence to learn what is going on around us through examples in history. One of the advantages of being human is that we actually have the capacity to learn from what is going on around us. I don’t think we need to continuously reinvent the wheel, so to speak. We have the capacity to learn in other ways. Unfortunately, we don’t always make the wisest choices. I don’t think we need to create those situations for ourselves. In terms of utilizing painful experiences, it is very empowering that, when things happen to us, we can turn those experiences to our advantage. I think that is something that we can and must learn to do.

I also believe children show a propensity for wisdom that we need to support. Their natural tendency is to come in at a higher level of enlightenment than we came in at. We need to support that. I am hopeful that, as more and more people become conscious, we will realize that we have enough natural catastrophes to deal with without bringing more upon ourselves.”

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Existence

2009-01-30T05:13:00.000-08:00

"Existence is vibration."
~ Dr. Masaru Emoto