This coming 9th of September, the lush botanical gardens of ‘Pluk Den Haag’  are host to the ‘Conscious Experience  Festival’, (Bewust Ervaren Festival) organised by ‘Bewust Den Haag’,  a group of local professionals and contributors to  an inspiring way of looking at life , all evolving around personal wellbeing and a more durable world.

Together with fellow energy therapists and counselors,  energycounseling,nl  will participate with a colourful booth, exchanging information on several ways to approach Energy Medicine Therapy, Retreats, Personal Development and Counseling  and free Bodylanguage of Energy clinics;  sharing simple energy medicine techniques to apply in daily life,  using the naturally available the energy systems of your own body.

Last but not least, draw a Nan Yar – Who Am I card with which, like no other, you are your own coach and counselor.

Free Body language of Energy clinics in English

• Throughout the day the Botanical garden of Pluk will be the backdrop to our Body language of Energy clinics in groups of max. 12 people.
• To register in advance send a mail through the contact form, with your name, age and possible circumstances we should take into account.  On the 9th of September itself, go to our energycounseling.nl booth, where you will be informed on starting times and location in garden. 

To have a one to one exchange with one of our energy therapists or counselors

• send your question trough  the contactform  and we will connect and set an appointment.  

Merel de Waard,  (Energy Therapy, Retreats and Energy Academy) Monique Luijken (Energy therapy and Transpersonal Counseling) Monique van der Tang (Foot reflexology and Shiatsu, Marc Altena, (spiritual counselor i.t.)and yours truly  Ingrid Schippers ( Nan Yar Who Am I and Bodylanguage of Energy) heartily invite you to exchange on the art of enjoyment and experiencing in unity with yourself and others.

More information on the festival in Dutch can be found on: Bewust Den Haag bij Pluk 

This blog continues with  a short ‘why and how’ energy medicine can be applied by everyone,

The good thing about applied energy medicine, is that the body already knows about the techniques that are accessible 24 hours a day.

Rejuvenation with the help of simple energycises. 

Our present day society feeds an incredible amount of information every day. This impacts the nervous system, harbouring the ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response in the reptillian brain since the very beginnings of human time on earth. During the Hunter and Gatherer days, this system served a survival mechanism.  Their moments of stress however were relatively short lived. Every burst of adrenaline used for hunting or defence had a recovery program waiting  at the campftire, exchanging experiences and rebuilding energy reserves.

Even up to 200 years ago, life supplied less interference with the average life traveller only challenged by local misgivings rather than global.
Only 50 years ago cell phones were yet to be invented and workers spending full days behind computerscreens were yet to be born.
As it is now, being available 24 hours a day, keeping up with the most profitable buys, latest trends and international breaking news disasters (because bad news pays off),  has become so normal, it goes unnoticed how the human nervous systeem is switched on 24/7; manipulated by governments, marketeers and trendsetters to enhance an overheated economy (which a larger percentage of the world population suffers for)

Take responsibility and rejuvenate

The infamous ‘flight fight or freeze’ response is often seen as the culprit of stress. Less known is that the same vagus nerve that is at the center of this ancient way of dealing with life,  also has a recovery mode.

Both the individual  and group ‘energy counseling’ clinics at the Festival of September 9th introduce simple energy medicine techniques to switch from ‘flight, fight’ to recovery mode, such as:

• Therapeutic touch and transmission of energy
•  How to ground, how to breath and how to be present in simple and easy ways
• ‘Tapping and Tracing.  Simple energy techniques with which to regulate and enhance the Yin and Yang energy flow.
•  Practical information about the rejuvenation capacity of the nervous system and how to invite this into your life.

Sources :

The Body Language of Energy
Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and David Feinstein ISBN 9781585426508
Accessing the healing power of the vagus nerve, Stanley Rosenberg ISBN 9781623170240
Overprikkeld brein,(Dutch) Charlotte Labee, ISBN 9789043924887

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The world is slowing down. I can almost hear her exhale in relief looking for a place to relax after making circles around herself for intensifying decades; accommodating world wars; feeding a growing number of people, enduring pollution and abuse; warming up in the process.

Mother earth gives what she has to give, as mothers do. She supports her children with every step they take en donates her resources unconditionally to every lifeform that is born in her lap.

From an evolutionary point of view; we live in interesting times. Only recently did we step out of a time period known as the Kali Yuga.

• The Kali Yuga started around 3100 BC during an extraordinary constellation of planets. According Rudolf Steiner it ended in 1899. Other sources say 2012 or 2020 is the end date and still others believe the end is yet to come in the next one hundred years.  

During the  Kali Yuga humanity developed a peculiar habit known as ‘money making’. Basically it implied that rather than to share the earth resources, – like we used to do in our Hunter and Gatherer days- , people started to sell things to each other. A side effect of this development was that people who were too late investing in ‘making money ‘  had to pay with their overall wellbeing, as they became subordinates to the people with money.  The ‘rich’ on the other hand started fighting amongst each other over material wealth; drifting away from their spiritual roots and sense of purpose. Money became a goal, rather than a means and natural resources that were once available to all earthlings, became exclusive to a small group to ‘earn’ money on.

One would expect people to get their wits back after 1899, when Kali Yuga ended.  Time periods however work like tides; tsunami even. At first they seem to withdraw but then swell up, overstepping natural boundaries one more time, overwhelming humanity while excluding nobody, rich nor poor. The aftermath of an enormous contraction; the effects lingering a while longer. Those ‘lingerings-on’ are the times we live in now. We’ve only just come out the overwhelming experience of 5000 years of  making money while our minds lost their natural connection with spirituality and disappeared in religious institutions dictating people what to believe.

• As we are right in the middle of this tsunami it is still hard for most people to see the new age coming. Yet there are those already seeking strange new worlds, new life and new ways of civilization. They boldly go where no one has gone before

Those who want to cling to how it used to be, put in one last effort to keep change at bay and start to hoard even more of the matter that used to define their standard of living, hanging on to the old ways of life; unaware that times are changing and new ways of living are opening up.

Now it is up to humanity to break the spell of illusionary wealth created by marketeers, advertising campaigns and politics. It is time to be thankful for the opportunities the world is offering, rather than to abuse her. To dismantle the decadence that grew into our systems like cancer. To stop over- consuming and to only buy what we need and is good for us. To ban the over-the-top cruises polluting the seas; throwing tons of perfectly good food overboard; killing off  with their propellers the big whales who follow in pursuit. Time for supermarkets to stop and ‘give away’ stupid plastic trinkets of collectables that only serve the markets to earn more. It’s the consumer who pays for them.

Elsewhere in the world, the storyboard tells of people – many of them children and young adults – who after generations of poverty still lack the funds to build a life without having to depend on charity. Humanity owes them a future. The word charity should be superfluous. It should be normal for everyone to have a normal life; to eat what is needed for nourishment; to wear what is needed to properly dress oneself.  ‘High heels, caviar and expensive cars are sóóó Kali Yuga.

Mother Earth, after millions of years of evolution, still has a long way to go with her children. We probably did better in our Hunter and Gatherer days when we were living in tribes. As packs in nature, we might have had the occasional dispute amongst each other, but we at least understood the Art of Sharing and Surviving Together.

For one to do well; all need to do well.

The chance of change has come. We can simply grasp it by taking responsibility over our own lives within the margins of our own ethics; leaving the greedy, matter-oriented politicians, multinationals and those rich and famous who go for appearances and want things exclusively for themselves, to figure out how they are going to live without the power they used to hold. Those who fail to understand this planet is for all of us, miss the point entirely.  It is time for further (r)evolution; time to break the spell; to toss the ring into mount doom; it is time to unwind, along with the world.

And in a hundred years from now, in the year 2120, it will be commemorated how the year 2020 went down in history as the year in which people became aware

• how ‘not done’  it is to go on  ‘all inclusive’ holidays, while the people cleaning the hotels hardly earn enough to get around. .
• how ‘not done’ it is to book a way too cheap flight to conquer a spot at the hotel swimming pool, while the emission of CO2 should be drastically reduced.
• how ‘not done’ it is to have children play computergames in which they have to eliminate others.

In the year 2120 people will state the year 2020 was the year people started to realize

• they were living  in a maddened world, governed by material blindness.
• there was more to live for than buying matter that had been bought many times before in a slightly different version
• how ‘not done’ it was to watch violent television series, together with millions of other people or to watch programs showing people being evicted from their homes or having to outrun creditors.

In a 100 years from now…when the tsunami of the Kali Yuga has finally withdrawn.

Ingrid Schippers

The Hague, March 20- 2020

Click “The World” card to read more on its meaning

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Don’t Offer the Good Biscuits; Abridged version of the spoken end-of-the-program-blog of June 11 2019 for Dutchbuzz; the radio broadcast for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday from 9-10 when in season.

a 3 minute listen to.

In the world around me I see a lot of angry people. Angry at their governments for taking down perfectly healthy trees to feed the bio mass ovens. Angry about animals in the bio-industry being maltreated. Angry at the present president of the United States, – the one whose name we do not mention.  Angry at multinationals being exempt from paying taxes; while other workers- who earn far less than multinational CEO’s –  are being mauled between the millstones of the Dutch tax system.

And all of this is true! All angry people have every right to be! There is loads of injustice in the world! There are a great many inconsistencies in how things are divided. It is true people who pay mandatory health care premiums die or remain ill because the Dutch healthcare system denies them the care they are entitled to. And again the CEO’s of these insurance companies have million plus yearly salaries. Why? Because they are good at squeezing money out of the system they are part of; rather than good for the people they should be serving. It is all true! And yes the present president of the United States is a blatant liar and totally unfit to rule that office. Future historians and investigators will find he committed more than the just now visible crimes against humanity to serve his own interest and that of the billionaire people in his vicinity; the rich who apparently never have enough.

There’s also local injustice. Politicians lying through their teeth during election-time. Deals behind closed doors. Decisions by civil servants ruining other peoples lives; simply because they can.  All of that happening in your own city; a place where one would expect things to be just; a place that should  be just.

The thing though about targeting the negative is that it tends to take up the place of the positive.  Of course one should object against injustice. Beware however of getting stuck. Remember to also pay attention to the things going right. It is much healthier to put the main focus on the good things of life.   Positivity preserves and multiplies the radiant energies. Put the bad happenings in perspective by approaching them with a good sense of humor like the sign someone held up during the recent state visit in England of you know who;  saying : ‘Dear Queen, don’t offer him the good biscuits’

When we emanate the negative; we attract the negative.  Emanate the positive and attract the positive. This Universal law applies to everything.

So my humble take on this is:

• Humor the negative things
• Understand the Injustice without allowing it to take you Hostage
• Make the Difference
• Be The Change
• Live to Be Grateful
• Evolve into a life changing human being

While there are plenty of Nan Yar-Who Am I cards that fit the bill connected to the subject of replacing the negative with the positive (basically all cards really) I ‘happened’ (do these things really happen by accident?) to bump into a lovely practice presented by Prune Harris; one of the teachers I highly value in Energy Medicine.

This 7 minute meditation helps release emotions that no longer serve you

Wishing you loads of positive vibes and energy

Ingrid

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In the old days a farmer or seafarer would look up at the Sky and predict what type of weather it would be in two days time. These days we look at our phones instead of out of the window to check if we need an umbrella.

Navigation systems in cars tell us which way to go.

Television news selects 20 minutes worth of news items gathered from all over the world, a summary of what happened to over 7 billion people in one day; that same story shown to millions of people, often repeated a few times a day

Zillions of commercials lie to us about the properties of products we should really buy; things we never even knew we needed until the commercial told us so.

Social media narrow down our minds to cat video’s and funnies and again all sorts of trend-setting commercial feeds, also here repeated in several cycles and timelines.

All in all…

When you really think about it; without being aware of it,  humanity in the 21st century lives in a horror movie, directed by a small group of very, very influential people who tell us what to eat, what to wear, and even worse how to think, what to feel and what to want.

On a daily basis we are bombarded with a scary amount of feeds, that shape our understanding. Even more so, we react to them. We go to the shops to buy the products advertised; buy the fashion and the foods as dictated by multinationals.

My point is that while we live in the so-called days of consciousness and growing awareness of who we are, who we want to be and how to separate the lies from reality;

There is an anti-current trying to mold us into a prototype of human beings. West World characters serving an elite who feel they can do as they like to the robotic mob.

And while social media also give that same mob the opportunity to connect and post their delights and concerns; we are at the same time being brain washed to an extend that it manipulates and eliminates  our first birth right: Freedom of Choice.

All this, while each unique individual  is meant to go through their own learning curves, their own fires; sail their own waters, create their own breathing space and in the end even dig their own graves; as there is no one else who can make that last journey for them.

So next to switching off the television, I try and remind myself to only buy what I need, to look around me to see who needs help, and look at the sky to see if I need an umbrella.

The card that goes with this train of thought is: The 8 of Tools, Exploration;

‘Tools’ being the earthly things and properties we need, to find out way in the Jungle of Life;
And the number 8 being the number with which we start to add our own unique characteristics to a life time.

Click the card to read more.

You can also draw your own card at the right hand side of this page and see what it has to mirror from your very own subconscious

EnjoY

Ingrid

The abridged spoken version of this blog, features as end note on  ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday  from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM’ and can be found in the Programme Archive of  the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated  November 6th, 2018.

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Meridians and their Affirmations,

a Body language of Energy session.

This coming Sunday, June 25, I will do a (more or less) one hour presentation amidst the energy medicine presentations of Angela Denis and Jorine Janssen on the Meridians and their Affirmations at Zee van Licht in Scheveningen (The Hague) from 1 pm onward. For more details of the event on Facebook, go here.

Love donation based – registration in advance (max 15 spots available) through the contact form

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Practicing what I preach, I’ve made it my daily routine to say out loud what I call a ‘Body Prayer’.

It is based on an energy routine designed by the renown American Energy Medicine explorer, teacher & author Donna Eden and her husband David Feinstein.

The energy routine is named:   ‘Tracing the Meridians’.

Meridians are the energy pathways of our bodies. They transport the Chi,  Energy, Prana, Life-Force, whatever you want to call it, enabling us to perform our daily quest. Luke Skywalker would call it the ‘The Force’ .

The Meridians, 12 in all, are an intricate labyrinth of energy, connected to all organs and bodily functions.

• Spleen,
• Heart,
• Small intestine,
• Bladder,
• Kidney,
• Circulation Sex (Matters of the heart)
• Triple warmer (The flight, fight or freeze response)
• Gall bladder
• Liver
• Lung
• Large intestine
• Stomach

Together they form an Energy Wheel, one following the other; one more active than the 11 others during 2 hours each day

The 12 Meridians are guarded by two main ‘parenting’ meridians.

• Central meridian, – running from pubic bone to lower lip-,
• Governing meridian, – running from the base of the spine, up along the spine over the center of the head and face to the lower lip.

Central and Governing meet at the base of the throat where they connect. When we yawn we can feel sort of a stretch all the way at the back of the throat. This is basically a reconnecting, reinstalling, rebooting of the  Central and Governing connection. It allows the flow of energy to strengthen its connection.

Stretching in general is good for all meridians. Compare it to stretching a rubber balloon before filling it with air. When stretched beforehand, the air will access the balloon more easily.

In between Central and Governing, the remaining 12 Meridians form an the internal road system which regulates and/or remodels the highs and lows in every phase and daily life situation.

All meridians are interconnected. I often compare the meridian system with a long and winding garden hose, transporting the water through all of the hose; passing past all organs, delivering and extracting whatever is needed where.

The difference between a Meridian and a garden hose is that the latter has a beginning and an end, while the movement of the meridian wheel is continuous, constantly reincarnating the energy derived from and donated to all body functions and organs along the way, admitting fresh energies while letting go of the old.

To give meaning to the magic the meridians perform and make them comprehensible to our human perception, the meridians can be defined by words, giving a name to their properties and the miracles they perform unconditionally every moment of our life, whether we are aware of this or not.

Addressing, reaffirming the unconditional energy supplying presence of the Meridians, causes their energies to lighten up even more.

Tracing them at the same time, i.e. following their pathways with your hands from origin to end, using the magnetic energy of the palms of your hands to encourage the flow of energy, the river if you will of Chi that runs through that particular part of your body, emphasizes their life force yet again.

Each Meridian has its own Affirmation; just as each Meridian, each organ, each function of our body, plays its very own part in the pursuit of life’s potential.

Spoken in sequence, the Affirmations are like a Prayer, touching on each sacred function, organ and natural mechanism contributing to our lives.

Donna Eden’s  ground breaking book Energy Medicine contains drawings showing the pathways of the meridians. These  pictures can also be downloaded from the inner source hand out bank. Simply type in the name of the meridian you want to know more about into the search section.

The handout bank also supplies the affirmations. as they were designed by Susan Shanley

For my own use I have made slight adaptations where I felt my own words corresponded more with my personal perception of a particular facet of life.  As such, the 14 Affirmations as listed below , differ slightly from the inner source handout bank.

• I centre myself in Spirit (Central Meridian)
• I ground myself in Gratitude (Governing)
• I nourish myself with love (Spleen)
• I love myself deeply and completely (Heart)
• I am decisive and I know what I want (Small Intestine)
• I am in acceptance, vibrant and fully in the present (Bladder)
• (so) I step forward with courage  (Kidney)
• (while) I take excellent care of my heart (Circulation sex)
• (and) I trust my inner warrior, knowing I am safe (triple warmer (stress meridian)
• I release judgment easily and assert myself peacefully (gallbladder)
• (so) I am kind to myself (Liver)
• I inhale fresh air (Chi/Energy), exhale what I do longer need in my life  (Lung)
• I release Fear, Shame and Guild. (Large Intestine)
• I trust the mystery of life (Stomach)

Generally ‘Spleen ‘is seen as the starting point of  the ‘Tracing the Meridians’ cycle, as Spleen holds an important nourishing part in ‘the feeding’ of the Meridians.

Each meridian has its own energy peak time, as can be seen by the 2-hour time slots mentioned in the Meridian Flow Wheel, in accordance with the natural rhythms at play during the 24 hours of a day.   For Instance: when it is 4 pm, I will start my body prayer with ‘Bladder’, as Bladder Meridian is at its active peek between 3 and 5 pm. Should I choose to do the exercise between 1 and 3 in the morning I could choose to start with ‘Liver’.

An alternative starting point is to start with the Meridian most active at the time of day you do the tracing/affirmation cycle.

Rather than doing all meridians, it is also an option to work with the Meridians/Body functions that need it the most at any particular moment. Again Donna Eden’s book ‘Energy Medicine’ explains in detail how to work with the Meridians in this fashion; tracing, flushing, strengthening, sedating them or  attuning them to the earth’ Meridians.

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The year is 2117; the day January 17.

82-year old  Luther is in his rocking chair on the porch of his self sustaining, solar pannelled house overlooking the organic vegetable garden. A few feet away his grandson Oliver sits at the picknick table . Oliver is preparing a presentation he will be giving at the creative learning institute of his local community on the theme:

The World a Hundred Years Ago Today

The evening is quiet. Other than the chirpin’ of criquets and the occasional cackle from the chicken pen, the setting is still, the first stars visible at the darkening sky, a content Old Luther watching them, his arms folded under his head.

“Grampa?”

“Yes Son?”

“Why were so many people hungry in 2017? There was enough food available to feed everyone 3 times over; the supermarkets were stuffed, they even tossed out loads of foods!”

“I think that was because profits were seen as more important than sustainability in those days Oliver”.

Using his holographic imager Oliver now projects pictures of a man with a funny looking hairdo and a double chin when you look at him from the side. The man is making a speech to a whole lot of people and waving his finger angrily in the air.

“Grampa?”

“Yes Son”

“Why did people build walls and keep others outside of their borders in places where these others perished?”

Old Luther sighs. “We’re not quite sure Son. It seems people thought they could own themselves by owning the land they lived on and use it to their own advantage.”

Oliver frowns. “You mean they didn’t know about the value of legacy?”

“No…unfortunately most of them didn’t,”

“But why did they have to own everything and leave very little or none for others? Could they not just own themselves the way they wanted and grant other people that same right? There seemed to have been enough in the world to give each and every person a comfortable lifetime?”

“Well you know Son, this is a phenomenon we do not understand any more these days, but people back then thought that to have a lot of money invested in matter was what gave them a life. They did not grasp the concept that life is about who you are, Luther emphasized, and not about what you are or what you own.”

Old Luther unfolds his arms from under his head, leans over  to Oliver and continues: “But you do not want to make your project about those people Oliver. You want to commemorate the ones who made the difference; the ones that really mattered. The ones that grasped the concept of sharing. The ones who understood that keeping everything to yourself leaves you with nothing in the end.  The ones you want to commemorate are the ones who saved this world.
Go find yourself those role models.

At that old Luther folds his arms back under his head and returns to gazing at the stars.

Ingrid Schippers, 17 January 2017

To connect, send me a mail at info@energycounseling.nl,

And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of January 17 2017 and broadcasted  on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm every Tuesday or can be heard on the Dutchbuzz podcast of  January 17 2017

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US born, Sara Allen, PhD, is a doctorate level holistic health practitioner. She has studied extensively food as medicine, as well as supplemental & herbal medicine. Her specialty is a particular self-brand of energy medicine – best described as a combination of ancient Chinese and East Indian modalities that are systemized via Energy Kinesiology. She is deeply skilled in Eden Energy Medicine, Pranic healing, Touch for Health, EFT, Advanced Psych-K, Animal Energy Medicine and she just cannot stop talking about the fascinating world of German New Medicine

In this interview we talk about applying energy medicine in the process of dying.

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How much prior knowledge does one need to have about energy medicine, in order to understand the many layers that are involved in the application of it ?

Sara Allen: My manual on how to balance and align the energies for the dying is the only piece of intellectual property I endlessly give away to family members or anyone else involved in the process.
The feedback I get from people is simply that they are so grateful, because when you’re sitting at that deathwatch and think there is nothing you can do, there is this helpless feeling;
while knowing simple techniques, like putting a finger at the elbow or finger at the ear, can make someone feel better or diminish the pain.

Most people can’t see Chi or can’t see colors. Yet, they can imagine putting the color purple on someone, one of the techniques we will be showing; and help people feel better and observe their response. It is really powerful.
From the 8 to 10 years that I have been doing this, I’ve experienced that novices really feel good about being able to contribute to their loved ones’ passing in a positive way. Energy Medicine gives them tools to work with and takes away that feeling of helplessness.

How about terminology such as ‘source point’ is; or how to strengthen or sedate a meridian; or even what a meridian is for that matter?

Sara Allen: I teach 2-day workshops at schools for hospice nurses in the US. They do not have energy medicine or acupressure or yoga backgrounds, but they are able to translate it.
Let’s take the source points as an example. There are very good diagrams on which you can locate these. They offer probably some of the most profound methods to help the dying and its just very simple for people to sit there for 5 minutes and hold those points, without the knowledge that they are using one of the most ancient pieces of our entire physiology and energy anatomy.
The novice can sit next to the advanced practitioner and both of them will go away with whatever they need to know. When I do teach this course to advanced practitioners, my language is not much different.

The attitude in our society towards the process of dying often evolves around extending life as long as possible, even against the odds, medicating it to the very end or heavily sedate the process.
Is it correct to say that you speak of it as supporting a transition?

Sara Allen: It is not so much a transition. Dying is not a disease. It is a reunion with your perfection. If we are conscious on that deathbed, it is an extraordinary experience that can give a feeling of fulfillment.  When you experience the separation of the Yin and the Yang; which is what the process of dying is; when the weight of the world, which is the Yang, begins to lift and the worries and duties of the Yin begin to go back to the earth; one shrinks and the other expands. Your soul begins to expand and you see things as in an eagle’s flight; you see the bigger picture.  Not only do you get to live through that experience as you are meant to, everyone around you gets to witness it as well. The wisdom that gets imparted by those who are sitting by your bedside as you go, is indescribable. You are talking with all of the collective unconscious at that point.

In your experience can energy medicine replace the use of for instance morphine?

Sara Allen: It is actually part of my mission to talk about this to doctors and nurses involved, for in many hospice facilities in the US and perhaps in Europe as well, the situation is that when a patient for instance refuses chemo therapy, the insurance company drops the care.
The only thing I can say is that we do not use any medication. Energy medicine does not push the body in any specific direction; it allows it to be in its own rhythm. Dying has its own rhythm. When you align with that- keeping in mind that pain, discomfort and disease is a misalignment with the laws of Chi and keeping in mind that medication can cause misalignment,- you will find that the energies will start to move better.  And by that I mean that even while your physical vitality starts to diminish, your spiritual vitality starts to expand.

What I would like to add to this is that it is very difficult to talk about the process of dying without involving the spiritual component. The way I see this spiritual component however, is from a scientific viewpoint.
It is my personal belief that the modern day physicists will be the next shamans. Spirit is a physical vibration that can be tracked. It can be enhanced and infused. The political changes in China took a lot of spirit out of ancient Chinese medicine, on which a lot of Energy Medicine is based.
Modern day practitioners in Chinese medicine use different approaches. In some ways a lot of the essence of it has disappeared, so you really have to go back to the ancient methods. There are acupressure points that treat Spirit, already known for thousands of years. The difference today is that presence of Spirit in our world has become a quantum physicist discussion.
In all the years I have done this work; there has not been one single session, where I did not use Spirit points. Disease is a separation from your Spirit, for the Spirit does not ever get sick. Spirit does not ever carry any disease. So when we align with that piece of us, that’s when healing starts to happen. Our true rhythm, our true purpose, our true understanding of who our soul is, why we came to this earth, all these metaphysical discussions that sound religious, are actually beginning to be quantum physics questions.

What skills in general does it take, to help people in their process of dying?   

Sara Allen: Every body’s death is as individual as their thumbprint and their needs. Simple energy tests to determine what process they need, what food they need, are a start.  What we need to remember is that the body of someone in the process of dying is no longer vital; it’s the Spirit that is vital. The general questions you will ask when energy testing are: Will this enhance the process? Is this what this person needs? Their bodies hold all the answers; they come fully equipped.
We don’t have to know anything. The people dying don’t know most of time, but their bodies are totally conscious; the body is totally present. Finding out through energy testing what their bodies need, is how I would answer that question.

How much do you need to understand of the process of living, in order to understand the process of dying?

Sara Allen: Dying is a part of living. It is a living process. You are still alive when you are dying. It almost sounds as if I am being a smart aleck when I say it this way but you are still alive till you are not. So your body has needs, your body has reactions, just as it has when you are vital; it’s just that it is not about your vitality any more.
I would say that the most important distinction is that it is about your Soul’s vitality. Dying may be the last phase of living; but it is not the end of life, put in a philosophical perspective.

Question 7: The attitude towards the process of dying has frequently changed throughout history and is very different in several cultures; varying from having all loved ones gathered around and involved in the process of dying, to isolating the dying person. What are your views on this and where do you think we stand in Western society at this point of time?

Sara Allen: It is so frequent that I get guilt ridden messages from family members of my clients, maybe even 70% of the cases, who have spent hours, if not days at the side of the dying and then they go for that one shower or that one cup of coffee and their loved one only dies when they are not there. What is happening there is that the physical presence of that family member is anchoring the body of the dying person; so they can’t take off.

The big difference between the commonly used medical procedures, where dying is seen as a process of deterioration and treated as such (basically extending that process of deterioration), and the approach I talk about; is that we switch vitalities.
We switch from physical vitality to spiritual vitality, spiritual in the quantum physics manner of understanding as previously outlined. Then you are in this concept, where you have this celebration, this remembrance; this consciousness; imparting all this wisdom. When the dying person is actually in that space and consciousness of being in two places at once, which is what starts to happen. I’ve seen people get out their notebooks and just ask the great questions about the essence and meaning of things; as you have access to that knowledge. In turn, the people dying feel valued, recognized, are able to share the experience and the people they are leaving, feel touched. It is still vey very sorrowful and sad, it is still separation from the living; but it’s a way to build a legacy that could otherwise be missed.

What if the person dying is not ready to accept such a state of being? What can you then do for them then to participate in their process?

Sara Allen: First of all, I have no judgment whatsoever on what people choose to do in their process. If somebody wants chemotherapy to extend life as long as possible, or whether they want morphine to sedate the process, then that is what they should choose to do. Part of the ‘drug death’ as I call it, is pain and fear of pain. In Energy Medicine pain is really seen as energy that is stuck. There is a choice; an alternative to the pain. You loose nothing by initiating these techniques and then switching to morphine if you have to. Again however, when people have said all they can say, and have made that choice, then that is as deep as they want to go. It will be interesting to see, how people who have been working with Energy Medicine for a long time during their lives; using it on themselves to align their energies as much as possible, will go through this process.

Can energy medicine be used in combination with compassionate euthanasia?

Sara Allen: The biggest discussion why compassionate euthanasia – which is a much better term for it than assisted suicide – is illegal in most of the US, is that they do not want someone to turn the morphine up for the wrong reasons. The idea that there is so much medication involved, raises the question if we would notice when it was falsely used and that is a worthy argument.
In energy medicine techniques we do not use medication. Energy medicine follows the natural rhythms of the body. The thing about these techniques is that when you are not ready to go, they will not let you go. You cannot kill anybody with these techniques. There is a lot of things we can do with Energy Medicine to ease the suffering and some of those techniques could well overlap the techniques used for aligning the system of the terminal ill, but you have to be ready to go.
In fact, I often quote the example I witnessed of a man who was thought to be in his last hours. He suffered from dementia and during life had not been into energy medicine or any such things at all. He had quite a controlling personality and displayed aggravated behavior. When the Energy Medicine technique of applying color was used on him, he recovered real quickly and asked for breakfast only a few hours later. Energy Medicine techniques will always support the vitality that the body is in, you are going to be better either way. You are going to be more vital, either in your soul or in your physical body.

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Have you thought about your new years resolutions yet? Exercise more, stop smoking, have more quality time with the kids, loose 10 pounds, find a job you really like, be nicer to your ex?
There’s is always lots to choose from.

Now before you go wild on setting yourself all sorts of tasks you might already in the second week of January forget about again, there’s 3 little tips I want to give you.

Tip Number 1: Be Kind to thy Self.
This means do not stretch yourself any further than feels good. You might actually need to loose 20 pounds, but if you loose 10 or even 5, or yes even 1, be proud of yourself. The second pound will then follow by itself as feeling good about who you are is the number one rule to changing habits that do not serve you.

Tip Number 2: To Inhale, Exhale first. The 9 of Challenges of the Nan Yar Who Am I personal development card says:

To inhale, exhale first, 
To renew let go of the old, 
To grow stop resisting.

This is a big challenge as we tend to be faithful to old shoes, fondly remembering how far they brought us. Remember though, a new pair might give you wings.
The number 9 in this card symbolizes the added value, the things we are able and in fact only able to create ourselves, as the numbers 9 represents the personal talents we use in harmony with life.

So here’s Tip Number 3: Let It Go, Let It Go, Let It Go,
That is easier said than done you might say. ‘I have lots of responsibilities in my life I need to tend to; I cannot be expected to simply let them go…’

True; but you know how, when you’re asked by your dietician to write down what you eat on a daily basis, your eyes tend to pop when at the end of the day the calories are counted/; how you always thought you were doing much better than that.
Well…same goes for the amount of responsibilities we think we need to take on on a daily basis.

Don’t know about you, but I tend to take the world on my shoulders, getting grumpy over things varying from dog poo on the pavement in front of my door to Donald Trump’s head appearing on television.
Problem is though that investing energy and getting upset on things I cannot change, will only deplete my energies.
What I can do though is take a bucket of water and flush the poo into the sewer system and when I see Trump switch off the television and yes…let it go….for that is how anger gets to us. It enjoys when I get upset, when it occupies my mind, when it gets me angry; it feeds on me when I do.

So, my advise Let it Go, let it Go let it Go,
I use a little trick when I find myself moping and loop thinking about things that bother me.
I indeed take a full deep breath in and an even longer full breath out and when that doesn’t do the trick I sing to myself, on a very appropriate melody for the holiday season, but rather than “let it snow let it snow let snow, I make it,

Let it go let go let it go

Merry Christmas Everybody and all the best for 2016

Ingrid Schippers
15-12-2015

This blog was recorded as weekly end-note of the Dutchbuzz edition of December 15, the radio program for internationals, every Tuesday on The Hague FM from 10 to 11 pm.
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Inevitably the course of a lifetime brings a varying few people who turn certain situation into quite a challenge.
From parents to teachers or politicians who abuse their power.
Everyone, at some point in life,will be confronted by actions like these, causing feelings of great disappointment, anger, fearfulness or defeat.

Feeling misunderstood and humiliated may well be one of the hardest pitfalls to live with. It has the potential to debilitate people to a point where they question the use of life.
While going through some pretty harsh experiences of my own over the past few weeks, a little booklet came my way and when I opened it one particular sentence caught my attention;

When you send  feelings of love to trying situations, miraculous shifts take place.

Something deep inside me stirred when I read that. A truth, long harbored, yet not completely understood, not yet ready to set sail. A ray of light though, shed on the understanding, that holding a grudge to a certain someone or certain situation feeds the negative energy it already emits.

Learning how to love, basically defending my right to be happy, is an extremely important antidote against negativity in life.
We may be a long way away from it yet, but it is my personal belief, humanity is destined to learn and live together as a peaceful group of people who support and encourage each other, instead of being divided and ruled by politicians and religious institutions.

Perhaps we should see these challenging situations as personal casestudies, enabling us to discover the Power of Love as the Trumpcard to use against the antiforces at play;
teaching us along the way how we can change the fate of the world by changing our own fate first.

We were all given a life of our own when arriving on this earth, with the freedom of choice to live it any way we want.
And we know this, for we’ve seen it in examples throughout human history. Famous names, Fransiscus of Assisi, Florence Nightingale, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, all Children of the World preaching love, proving their point by setting the example, empowering themselves, not by denying the injustice, but by sending it love.
And while theirs has proven not to be the easiest lives to live, they are certainly the most admired. That to me proves humanity knows, deep down inside, that our true goal is to become loving human beings.

Ingrid Schippers
Den Haag, 30 November 2015

This blog is recorded as weekly end-note of Dutchbuzz.nl, the radio program for internationals, every Tuesday on The Hague FM from 10 to 11 pm. All programs are archived at Dutchbuzz.nl.

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Each season brings along, not only its own characteristics, but also its own influence on people.
While one group suffers from a feeling of blues when the first leaves start to drop, others enjoy the splendor of colors autumn brings.

This morning me and my dog went for a very early morning walk in the park.
In summer when the sun rises early, animal world is fully alive with birds chirping and singing their song, when we arrive.
This Sunday morning in October however, arriving shortly after sunrise, the forrest was amazingly quiet. It felt as if the birds had decided to stay ‘in bed’ a while longer, curl up, stick their beaks under their wing-feathers and go within to the land of dreams.

Also the trees were silent.
‘Trees never talk’, you may object, but to me trees glow in summer, spreading the message of abundance and growth, their leaves rustling with birds flying up and down feeding their young and attracting their mates, while in autumn the energies retreat into the core of the trunk and the branches allowing the leaves to fall and nourish the earth to prepare it for new arrivals next spring.

That process of fertilizing the earth takes a couple of month and while some will see it as decay, it can also be seen as the laying of the foundation of new life.
Autumn to me is like getting ready for bed, knowing my dreams are waiting, that I may have a rest after having done my thing, and regenerate my energies.

While some try and defy autumn, by going to the sun-bank or booking a holiday to a warmer country, I prefer to emerge myself in what I see as the Gifts of Autumn; the quietness of it, the permission to slow down, to shed thoughts, activities and urges that have no place in this stage of life. At the same time I feel free to weave my own true colors when the abundance of summer retreats, when the outside world slows down and the inside worlds get a better chance to come out.

In her book Energy Medicine, Donna Eden describes the emotions and personal characteristics that come with, what she calls, The Five Rhythms, Winter, Spring, Summer, Indian Summer and Autumn, accompanied by exercises to balance the mood-swings that come with each season.
‘Cradling the Baby‘ is designed for the period of time we are in right now, redirecting the energies of mercy you would usually show others, back to yourself; nourishing the self, taking time to rest, enjoying the gifts of autumn.

I found ‘Cradling the Baby” on Youtube demonstrated and explained by Donna Eden

Ingrid Schippers
The Hague, 18-10-2015

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Sometimes a story steps into a persons life at just the right moment.
In my case it was a story that came to me, through a book I was reading shortly after I had been severely shocked by a post on Facebook, made by members of our local community, where someone called the thousands of refugees that are trying to find a better life, ‘all bitches’.
I see a lot of controversy on the refugee subject on tv and in the newspaper, but when something like this is said by someone who lives in your home town, it suddenly comes awfully close.
The discussion went on about how ‘they’ (the bitches) were only coming to the Netherlands because they were given food, a bed and a house for free.

Even though I realize comments like this are probably made by people who are very fearful and find it hard to see both sides of a situation, it is, to say the least, very very saddening.
I would like to invite the people who made that post to listen to this story that came my way;

It goes like this:

A man dies, leaves the earthly plane.
He is quite curious, a bit apprehensive even, about where he will end up, in heaven or in hell.
St Peter welcomes the new arrival, observes the anxious look on the man’s face and asks,
‘What is troubling you my friend’
Stammering the man reveals he’s not sure what will happen to him.
‘O but that is entirely up to you and what you want’, St. Peter answers
‘Aren’t you the one to decide that?’ the man asks in surprise.
St. Peter smiles and says,  let me show you the difference,  so you can make up your mind.

Puzzled the man follows him to a door on the left.
‘I’ll show you hell first’ St.Peter says and opens the door.
The man finds himself in a huge hall, filled with long wooden tables carrying a lavish amount of foods and wines, open fires burning, there to make the hall comfortable and warm.
At first glance it looks like a very comfortable place to stay, until the man notices how all people sitting at the tables look very unhappy and are basically only sitting there, doing nothing but looking glum.
Then he sees the reason why. Instead of having forks and knives at the sides of their plates, the people seated at the tables have long inflexible wooden arms, extending into a knife on the right side and a fork on the left. Since they cannot bend their arms, they cannot use these tools to feed themselves, leaving them no other choice than to just sit and complain to each other on how it has been made impossible for them to lead a proper life after death.

Then St. Peter closes the door and beckons the man to follow him to a door on the right and opens it.
‘And this is heaven’ St. Peter says.
To the man’s surprise he is given the exact same view; long wooden tables, filled with food, open fires burning to keep the space nice and warm. All people present have the same long wooden arms, one with a fork and one with a knife, unable to bend and yet these people are cheerful, happy and smiling to each other.
Then the man sees why. The people in heaven are cutting each others foods and use their forks to feed their neighbors.
‘So’ St. Peter says, ‘Have you made up your mind?’

Ingrid Schippers
September 28 2015

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