Healthy Happy Loving Life: Magnetism in Our Lives

28 Thursday Apr 2022

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How many times have we heard someone say, “Wow, that guy has a magnetic personality!” And we talk about some people “lighting up the room.” We have all seen toy magnets, or those magnets that hold things onto a frij door or metal cabinet. We know instinctively what magnets are and that they can attract or repel, depending on their orientation. So when we say someone has a magnetic personality, we’re talking about attraction. But we’re not just liking their looks, their sweet voice, and their warm smile. In fact, the human body has electrical circuitry, so maybe you are literally being magnetically drawn to someone. Or repelled.

Yup, your body runs on current, but not the same as your toaster. Now, hands up, everyone who has ever had an EKG or ECG. You had an ELECTRO CARDIOGRAM. You had your electric levels checked. Your heart is a wetware electrical motor, and the EKG/ECG printout was showing the electrical output of your heart. Very informative! The nervous system is the wiring of the body that carries messages from head to toe and from the toes back to the brain. Remember reaching out to shake someone’s hand, and getting a big shock? That was a discharge of electrons (electricity) from one human to another.

Electricity pioneer Nicola Tesla said,

If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

Remember being told not to stay in the pool when it was raining? That’s because lightening often comes with rain, and lightening is massive discharges of electrons (electricity). And if those discharges connect with your body, you will be zapped, damaged, and even electrocuted. Remember being advised to get off the golf course when rain was coming through? A friend of mine was playing golf with his two brothers, on a Michigan golf course, when it began to rain. My friend quit playing for the day. His brothers stayed to enjoy playing, and both were struck by lightning. Neither brother “was the same again”, and both died young of heart issues. Oh, you mean you can burn a motor with too big an electrical current? Yes.

In Arizona, there are high-capacity electrical transmission lines you can see as you drive along the biggest freeways. These lines, often crossing the most beautiful landscapes, can actually be heard buzzing if you are walking in the area. And warning signs under the lines advise you not to pause under the lines, such as to have a picnic. The lines are, in a sense, leaking electricity. Too much for the human body.

So on the pleasant side, why do humans shake hands? I believe it’s to literally connect with each other’s energy for a moment. Why do people kiss? Do you ever feel “electricity” with your partner? Does your pet like to snuggle with you? You are then in each other’s electrical fields, sharing energies. We’ll talk about chakras, the energy centers, in an upcoming article.

Meanwhile, if you feel repelled by someone’s energy, stay away from them. If it’s raining, stay away from water. If you have electricity with your partner, you know what to do. And hug all your loved ones while you can. And that would be you, increasingly energized, Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Instant Calm for Busy People

26 Tuesday Apr 2022

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I recently shared a brief way to break into meditation practice, in 8 quick steps (https://wp.me/pw4HM-1dw). Many loved it, and some said they couldn’t meditate because their minds were too busy, like the yogini above, and just too full of chatter. I promised to write a piece on instant calm for busy people, and that’s what brings us to today. There are many ways I can share, to instantly calm yourself. Here are 3 hand poses that will take you to calm very fast.

1. Gently place your hands together, palms touching. The palms access your central nervous system and calm you instantly. Now exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference. Feel the sides of your head let go and relax. Feel your brain slow down.

2. Place your hands in the classic prayer position, fingers intertwined. You have now connected most of the meridians in your body to each other. Exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference as your whole body calms. Try bringing your hands toward your forehead and leaning in. Feel the difference.

3. Place your hands together, palms touching. Bring this position back to your chest and feel the heart connection. Hold for one minute. Notice your face relaxing. Feel the contrast as your mind, body, and spirit calm down.

Apply these moves whenever you need calm. And let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. And that would be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 8 Steps to Meditating Today!

24 Sunday Apr 2022

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How would you like to be so mellow that your shoulder tops feel like pudding? Yet you are not tired, just deeply relaxed? A great way to get there is through meditation. And you don’t have to convert to Hinduism and use Indian words in order to meditate. Meditation is also a Christian practice going back centuries. The current Pope uses the word “meditation” in several ways daily. So don’t worry about your faith origin. If you’ve been curious about meditation, maybe now is the time to give it a whirl.

A major key is to set up a comfortable place to sit, away from distractions, preferably for 20 minutes at a time. For the meditation time to work for you, of course you will close your laptop and turn off your smartphone. Change the lighting to soft. Think of it as a set of agreements you are making with yourself! And the more you meditate, for example twice daily, the more you will feel your thoughts, your body, and even your skin relaxing. This feels so good and so healthy, that you might get addicted to it! There are many sources for meditation music, seats, drums, and electronic devices that are offered as helps for different types of meditation. But I have found that low tech, no-additive meditation is really great: refreshing, inexpensive, no-fuss, and life-changing. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here are 8 steps, to try this amazing practice at home:

Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight; this allows the spinal energy to flow well. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute or so.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. Has your sense of stress shifted? Notice any changes in your relationship to stress over the next week or month. Notice if some of your routine aches and/or pains are subsiding. Now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm! To learn more about the history and types of meditation, you may want to check out my book, Sacred Meditation.

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 5 Secrets to Tap the Power of Journaling

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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Journaling is one of the great tools of a successful and fulfilling meditation practice. And the most difficult aspect of this practice is remembering to spell the word with one “l”. It can multiply the effects of your meditation and accelerate your spiritual growth in the Divine slipstream. There are 5 secrets to tapping the power of journaling:

Do it. Set your intention to do it, then do it. Don’t worry about rules like “journal at the same time each day” and “set aside the same amount of time to journal each day.” Open that journal whenever you have a comment to make to it.
Find the format that works best for you. This may be handwritten napkin notes you save in a drawer, scribbles on loose paper, neatly dated . Or it could be a gorgeous bound volume. You may like a spiral-bound notebook so the front can be folded easily back. Play around with what feels best. Some like to journal for several minutes at a time, in the Notes app on their smartphone. Since most people have their smartphones with them all the time, they can quickly open their journaling folder/documents and record some thoughts. They can even take notes during a counseling session or class. Then they can email the notes from their phone to their email cache and pull the journal paragraphs out into a word processor document. For those who are writers and keyboard-fluent, simply keyboarding into a word processor document may be most satisfying and easy to file. Sometimes, you may feel moved to include drawings or photos. Then do that!
Keep different journals for different areas of interest. Yes, some people have a few journals! I know a woman who has seven! One might be for your thoughts on your workplace and career, one for relationships, one for world affairs. Or perhaps you are in a recovery program, and you want one journal simply for your observations, questions, resources, and progress.
Find a private place for your journal, and keep it there. This will allow you to feel safe about writing whatever is on your heart and writing as many details as you feel you want to. If you live in an unsafe environment, your journal may be safest hidden under the driver’s seat of your car. Another safe format, if you journal by word processing, is to name your journal something irrelevant (i.e., “Records”), and store it in an irrelevant drive (i.e., “Accounting”) Then, from time to time, back it up to a thumb drive and hide the thumb drive in a safe deposit box. And be sure to use the special Protection Meditation (Sacred Meditation, Chapter 15).
Notice how different you feel with journaling. Notice how much more clear and relaxed you are as you have been practicing journaling and trying different formats. It is beautifully liberating to “speak” with complete candor, as you can when you share your thoughts and feelings in your journal, in perfect privacy. Notice how the “next steps”, the things you need to work on next, the areas in which you know you want to grow, become crystal clear. Notice your heart becoming lighter as you sit down to meditate. Notice how receptive you are becoming to Divine Guidance. Make notes on these experiences in your journal.

The late prominent writer Anais Nin was said to have started journaling at age 11, for a total of over 10,000 pages, plus novels and contributions to other works. (How did she have time to write all those pages?) She was a leading cultural influencer of the Sixties and Seventies. No one is asking you to compete by volume. You may be more concise than Ms. Nin, or you may be even more prolific. Try weaving journaling into your spiritual practice and your secular hours. The Divine can take you places you’ve only ever dreamed of.

And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Peace Meditation

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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This is the next-to-last piece in our series on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Today, we offer a type of Peace Meditation.

This meditation is a type of Special Purpose Meditation, which may be used to shift the energy of situations and places. For any special purpose meditation, begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

Sit comfortably and quiet your breathing. Be aware of Luke 12:32 (KJV):

It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Feel your heart slow and relax. Feel your core pleasantly melting toward the floor. Know that you are grounded in the Earth’s creative energies.

Extend your awareness from your heart, up through your mind, and up toward Heaven (or out into the Universe). Feel yourself connect strongly with the Heavenly Source, and feel the Source Energy flowing down through you, comingling with the Earth energy that is rising. Now you are in your most creative space, or state of being. Now bring your vision of a desired thing into your consciousness. See the images, hear the sounds, taste the flavors, smell the fragrances, and feel the sensations of your desired reality. Sit with this multisensory vision for a few minutes.

In this moment, know that your vision is now true. Feel your gratitude. Give thanks to God/the Divine/Spirit. Repeat this step whenever you think of the situation you want to be different.

PEACE MEDITATION

Now consider a Peace Meditation, a meditation directed at bringing peace, to yourself, to people, and to the Planet. We live in times of much conflict in many areas. Mass shootings and bombings shatter communities. A global pandemic threatens travel and supply chains and hospitals like never before. Nations disagree with nations, and supranational terror groups are claiming to be nations. Even in the US, conflicts may seem to dominate at the highest levels of government. Many yearn for personal, local, and global peace.

For your peace meditation, begin with contemplation or prayerful listening, using prayers such as this short prayer for peace, from the Church of England:

Gracious God,
We pray for peace in our communities this day.
We commit to you all who work for peace and an end to tensions,
And those who work to uphold law and justice.
We pray for an end to fear,
For comfort and support to those who suffer.
For calm in our streets and cities,
That people may go about their lives in safety and peace.
In your mercy, hear our prayers,
now and always. Amen.

Sit, saturated in the feeling and knowing of peace, for a few minutes. Now journal out your feelings. Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Repeat as desired. And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Mantra Meditation Quickstart in 9 Steps

21 Friday Jan 2022

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Today, we continue a series on meditation, based on excerpts from my latest book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Mantra Meditation is a powerful yet simple controlled practice of opening the mind. It takes the meditator to a deeper brain state, increasing awareness, insight, and relaxation. It then allows release of stress: negative thoughts and feelings a person has been holding. Emotional attachments and judgements will tend to soften and disperse. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here is a quickstart in 9 steps, to try this amazing method on your own:

Select a harmonious word, or mantra, to repeat. To start, try “Om” or “Spirit” or “Love”. For a deep treatment of the subject of mantras, refer to the work of Herbert Benson, M.D.
Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Close your eyes and repeat your selected harmonious word or mantra. Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Change the mantra you try from time to time, and find out which takes you deeper or relaxes you faster. Try meditating like this twice a day for two weeks, and notice your unpleasant emotions dissolving. Make notes on what you experience. Consider making this a long-term part of your spiritual practice. Remember that you attained this new level of BE-ing absolutely free, in exchange for simply choosing to try it out. Celebrate!

And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

Now journal out your feelings. Has your sense of stress already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Protection Meditation

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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Today I offer a type of Protection Meditation. This is part of a series of articles on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The more you play with these methods, the more you will find your stress shifted and the closer you will find yourself with the Divine. Meditation is a powerful stress management tool. It will increase your productivity and magnify your efforts in every good thing you put your mind to. Bless you in your journey!

This special purpose meditation should be done whenever you realize you are feeling unsafe, due to financial hazard, the loss of a loved one, neighborhood crime, or a stalker. It is also a good meditation when you feel unsafe due to international conditions of conflict or contagion. This would also include feeling vaguely unsafe, even though you don’t know why.

Any special purpose meditation can shift the energy of situations and places. Begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Take a minute to think about your purpose. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

For the Protection Meditation, try beginning with contemplation of this portion of Psalm 91 (NIV). Or study the entire Psalm, when you have the time:

⁹If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways

Vision in detail how safe you and your family truly are. Remember to give thanks that all this is true. And repeat whenever you think of these feelings. Consider posting a sign on your mirror that says, “He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”

If you are threatened by a particular enemy, such as an aggressive ex, a stalker, a nasty neighbor, or an abusive boss, you may want to begin with a contemplation of this scripture, Psalm 25: 1-3 (NIV):

¹To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

² in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

³ No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

Now journal out what you hear and experience while contemplating and meditating on God’s protection. And, as always, give thanks for what you are visioning for. In this case, it’s your safety.

Now journal out your feelings. Has your concern already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would be you, also, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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How Stressed Are We?

02 Thursday Apr 2015

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As a professional stress management speaker and coach, my passion is to share stress information, to help people develop better stress coping, in specific, and often easy, ways. And this month is National Stress Awareness Month! So please jot down any stress questions that come to mind as I share today. And then either email me or pop the questions into the comment section, below.

You probably know very well when you are stressed. There are lots of symptoms that tell us we are stressed: fatigue, irritability, forgetfulness, high blood pressure, high heart rate, digestive tightness, overreacting, headaches, back pain, insomnia, and even a weakened immune system. In Japan, there is even a word for death from overwork. That’s really bad stress! Short of killing yourself with commitments, what symptoms do you experience? What stress reactions would you like to be done with?

The American Psychological Association has been taking an annual survey of how stressed we are in the U.S. They call it “Stress In America: Paying With Our Health”. People were asked to rate their stress on a scale of 1 to 10. Since 2007, when the APA began the Stress In America survey, money has consistently been the top source of stress. For 2014, APA found:

More women than men say that their stress has increased in the past year (32 percent vs. 25 percent).
Far more women than men say they have lain awake at night in the past month due to stress (51 percent vs. 32 percent of men).
Women are more likely than men to say they felt a sense of loneliness or isolation in the past month due to stress (29 percent vs. 19 percent of men).
Millennials are more likely than other generations to say their stress has increased in the past year (36 percent vs. 24 percent of boomers and 19 percent of matures).
Millennials are more likely than any other generation to say they have felt a sense of loneliness or isolation due to stress in the past month (34 percent vs. 24 percent of Gen Xers, 21 percent of boomers and 12 percent of matures).
More parents than nonparents say they are not doing enough to manage their stress (31 percent vs. 20 percent).
Parents are more likely than nonparents to report engaging in unhealthy stress management techniques, such as drinking alcohol (18 percent vs. 12 percent) and smoking (17 percent vs. 10 percent).

So on a scale of 1 to 10, how stressed would you say you are? Do you think you’re doing enough about it? Would you like to know more about stress and how to handle it differently?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author. She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within: Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition. Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Sacred Meditation and Peace Within are available through her office. Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.
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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Magnetism in Our Lives

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Instant Calm for Busy People

Healthy Happy Loving Life: 8 Steps to Meditating Today!

Healthy Happy Loving Life: 5 Secrets to Tap the Power of Journaling

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Peace Meditation

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Mantra Meditation Quickstart in 9 Steps

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Protection Meditation

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