Why and how does this sensing and mindfulness work ? In the language of  common sense ( from Gramsci) and  brain science (from the neuroscientist  Dr.Luria)  we can use our eyes, ears, hands,nose and taste buds to know the life movies that goes on in our minds. Yes, we are constantly making a movie of our life with our brain and heart. This movie is non-stop and weaves all kinds of stories that get embedded in our skin, our heart, our brain.

When I studied  body talk health system with Dorothy Friesen and Ben Manalo, they gave me a protocol that systematize the techniques for balancing the brain and allowing to view one’s  health issues . When I learned the biomuscular feedback in the early 70′s, I didn’t know that 4  decades after, this technique has been used by body talk system to listen and learn about the body’s current priorities. I was amazed at how fast the body gave  an answer to the query where to find the imbalance. I also realized the body system is like a galaxy of organs, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, synapses and cells communicating their work and issues. For two years, i practiced sensing and listening on my family and friends until word got around that i could even ‘converse with those in comatose states.”

How does this help realize one’s new year goal? First, make a story of your goal – a beginning, a middle and an end. Say ” I am  Alice in Wonderland. I will make 2012 a year of adventures.” Or you can do Harry Potter ”  I AM the  boy who survived to be the greatest wizard.”  Second, be imaginative and visualize your settings, your ensemble or supporting cast  and write your script with all the emotions that inspire you. Third, do it now, not after xmas, not after 2012 strikes, but today. For me, i prefer the epic stories so that it keeps me on my best toes – like living the life of Lord of the Rings or  Princess Amygdala of Star Wars. This story will resonate in your energy and what you wish to be, to do, if viewed and experienced by people who see you,  who sense you, who listen to you – will make your story come true.

Life is a blossoming story . Make your new year a wonderful story where you are the main actor. Do it now.

Please consider the following and read more from the web sources.
“Scientists know that increasing SO2 in the air deflects sunlight, which cools down the earth; when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in 1992, for instance, the SO2 sent into the atmosphere created a brief global cooling spell.”

“When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, the amount of sulfuric ash it sent into the stratosphere cooled global ground temperatures by 1°F for the next two years. To be fair, it hadn’t erupted for six centuries, so there was some catching up to do. A year before the eruption, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck about 60 miles northeast of Pinatubo, causing landslides and an increase in steam emissions from one of the volcano’s geothermal areas, ultimately setting the stage for the 1991 explosion. While the eruption resulted in more than 700 deaths, many scientists predicted the explosion, thus saving the lives of an estimated 5,000. Still, the eruption produced one of the most dramatic environmental scenes ever witnessed. With ash that rose 22 miles into the sky, it is considered the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.”

“Convert agriculture from chemical fertilizer to organic fertilizer derived from biodigestion of the biomass waste stream. That’s a way to cancel huge amounts of methane (due to fertilizer and manure runoff acting to decompose cellulose in wetlands) and nitrous oxide from chemical fertilizer and manure. Not to mention that biogas from the process of making organic fertilizer can help to backup distributed generation and storage smart grids.” The AETAS with Education for Life (ELF) and the Dept of Agriculture (DA) have a FOOD Security project in Zambales, especially in Botolan. We are assisting them in developing  biodiversity in their ancestral domain in Mt. Pinatubo and provide enough organic food for the indigenous communities so they will live above the poverty line. Their work is  beneficial to all of us, locally,nationally and globally. For every peso/dollar we give to the project, it saves the Earth from heating up.

1.Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1931993,00.html#ixzz1fdeXpBBJ

2.http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2014572_2014574_2014585,00.html #ixzz1fdfqRHdw

3.http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-03-superfreakonomics-chapter-climate-change

Now that am soulsmithing, I list down all the people I know will welcome the prayers I offer in their behalf. As I  learned and experienced people sending their messages during their final crossing phase across lifezones, I added papercuts as prayer rolls. Last friday, I  hang the prayer rolls in our garden. In the medieval ages, the Scottish and Irish traditions made this Halloween rites part of their autumn rituals and the Scots and Irish believed that the souls need to be ushered from purgatory to heaven.

I pray for the hundred and twenty one persons on my prayer roll. Sophie Bodegon posted a lovely prayer in her Facebook wall . My favorite is Rumi’s discovery of the Divine  and am reposting it in this blog with Steve Job’s  final words.

“I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.
I am in the house of mercy,
and my heart is a place of prayer.”
Rumi

“Oh Wow, Oh wow,Oh wow.” Steve Jobs

Today, I was joyful to hear from a friend, Eva Betita who told me her husband Bebot found my blogs here in wordpress. I havent seen these two friends for years and am happy they are well and happy. Eva is our RP ambassador to Brazil and also Surinam and Guyana. Our friendship goes a long way to the UP years in the mid 60′s.

I also had to pray for another friend, Boteng Santiago when Eva and Bebot wrote about. Boteng was a good friend way back in the UP days though he was an Atenean.

Friends are gifts you give to oneself. It is important to remember friends. Having many friends you think of  multiplies your  soul gifts . Even thinking good of friends who have not been in touch will give you a wonderful energy. But the precious lesson for me is thinking of strangers as friends in waiting. So smile at everyone and be kind. You will never be wanting in friends when you do it.

I read page after page because  Jonah wrote about the different  mysteries like a movie  and linked them to brain issues. The brain has several features and of the many parts, Jonah stressed the prefrontal cortex – which he compares as the conductor, the CEO in our daily lives.

After finishing 3 chapters, I realized how important my modules one and two in BodyTalk are. Now I tap my crown, temples, tap around my forehead and ask myself “what’s the most important thing I should focus on today  as a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter?”  As a senior, I decide 5 hours for my  wellness chores and 7 hours to enjoy my life.

How?  I begin by  tapping  on the cortices,around the forehead and eyes and sternum . It is called in BodyTalk “tapping the cortices.” It helps to get me creative and the outcome is – meaningful and  joyful. my heart and mind literally sings rather than palpitates.

I tap  Ed and Ayen also and told them  to read  the book  because Jonah writes like Robert Ludlum.  The research cases he cites read like a novel. Jonah describes  the various parts of our brains in very graphic and persuasive case studies , eg.  in the Mischel study  of 1970 to 1985 – he explained why  four year old children who ate their marshmallows at once did not fare as well as those who waited – they did not  control their impulse.  The children who waited used reason to control their impulse to eat the  first marshmallow. This is evident in the development of children – the  growing ability to withstand emotional urges and use of their pre frontal cortex.

Now what is also useful in this book? Insights  on learning from mistakes. The physicist Niels Bohr defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Citing Jonah, “from the perspective of the brain, expertise is simply the wisdom that emerges from cellular error. Mistakes arent things to be discouraged, they should be cultivated and carefully investigated.” Successful education is the “ability to learn from mistakes”  according to Carol Dweck, Stanford psychologist. This is relevant for families with children  with learning issues, who have ADHD, for  teenagers and adults with bipolar  issues,  and even with siblings  and partners  who cannot control their debt and financial  issues.We should look at their efforts, not discourage them, but praise and help these children for trying to learn from mistakes. And also learn from our own mistakes in treating these issues.

Mistakes will help you understand not only why but  how to solve emotional issues and how to make better decisions involving problems with family, with work, even with the larger society. Investigating mistakes will also allow you insights on how to deal with anger and rage, loss,sadness and grief.

Jonah wrote also why we make moral decisions as human beings and how our brains lead us to these moral issues. Relevant for the bishops, the clergy  and laity on why we need to do reproductive health education.

Thought for today – “Chance favors the prepared mind”. Louis Pasteur

When I accept the request, a family member would usually inquire  “How do you communicate with people in coma states ?”When I give them a story, “the people dig deeper ” Can you talk to people  also who are diagnosed with ALS or severe autism?”

This blog is a photo story. It shares how I prepare for a request to help a family talk to their loved one who is in coma. First my name is given to the person whom I need to receive messages from. It is a request for permission to enter her/his inner mind and heart.

Then I do my meditation until I receive a message which gives me an image or a word to work on. I usually prefer not to know anything except the name and birthdate of the person. This allows me enough energy and space to interpret and validate if the images or words are coming from the requested person.

I take my origami paper and start folding while I wait for more messages. When I get at least 3 words correct that identifies the person, then I breath and go to the more relaxed state of consciousness . I send the messages in sms or email forms to a family or friend who has accepted the task of being my co-communicant. The conversations with the person can be short, can be in a phrase  or the person can travel and show me places where she/he is. It helps if am able to check immediately with the co-communicant where the person used to go so that my mind is not overloaded and the messages are sent clearly.

I may get a message for a deed to be done by the family and I stress  this deed as priority . After a  day, or a week , I usually inform the family to be more receptive so that they can continue talking to the person. If the family needs more time for the deed to be completed, I continue the service but this means more energy on my side. It is like being on 24/7 call from beyond and my senses are at its peak performing rate. It does affect my daily routine and I have to avoid crowds . I also have to stay at home and be quiet. On the other side,  when the family notice or sense a certain serenity in the house ,I can close the channel until another message comes. It is normal for the family to ask ” Please wake her up  “  when I start receiving messages, in visual or a variable of sense forms. Gently I explain ” I cannot wake her up po. She answers in another state . It is not in my power to do so.”    I offer prayers so that the person can feel she/he is loved and is safe.

This is Aca’s painting of her sisters. She has been in coma for 10 months now but she has a beautiful mind and colours her messages with love. Love is the main source of the energy from where she communicates and from where I receive.

Seniors like me feel it is important to know what your loving partner see upon waking up. The first thing I do is look at Ed when I open my eyes. “I see all the years in his cheeks and especially around his jawline.” “I say to myself :  mukhang dapat haplusin at himasin, yan ang unang salubong sa umaga namin.” So I wake him up with various strokes of haplos,himas, hagud,halik.  Of course this starts his morning and he wakes up speaking in tongues. This goes without saying that love is the talk of the day.

Being 60, am not retiring but refiring my life. Am posting a series of stories in pictures to show that seniors can grow and be happier with 45 years of learning on our plate. We do feel young. Art Linkletter wrote that aging is wasting away but saging ( SAGE not SAGING aka banana ) is the better way to go.

I have a sense why i can receive messages from comatose persons but i tell the family that i cannot communicate everything they want to know. i usually receive and transmit but do not conduct q and a sessions with the person. the wonderful thing is that the messages can be validated by another person, either a friend or a relative who receives the same messages. it may not happen simultaneously but in my experience, the person gets the same messages.

how do i do it?  when a request is made, either by text or email, i do the first sensing from a distance – either the person is in cubao, cavite or as far as cagayan de oro. i usually ask for at least three hours to prepare myself if it is urgent but if the family can give me three days, better. my name is given to the person in need and i request for permission to scan her/his conditions, eg. like the protocol of bodytalk system asking for innate wisdom. when i get at least 3 items that provides the ID it is coming from the person, i accept the service. the mode of communication is meditative and i focus on what the person wants. i ask for a family member with a mobil fone to be accessible so she/he can observe anything i need to validate, if the person’s head is warm, if her lips are parched, if the person’s hand moves as i scan. then i transmit the messages and for as long as i can attend to the person, am on call.  when the person ask for a face to face visit, i accept only if the distance is within a day’s travel. otherwise, i can still do it from any location. the longest is for a month but not longer than 40 days. the whole service also can start from the final hour to the internment. but i avoid being in the ICU or in the chapel when family starts to grieve. i respect this sacred moment and rarely do i want to be present when the doctor announces the medical moment that the person is dead. it is enough that the family believes their loved one has crossed over serenely and that i was of help in that matter.

the problem i have now is accepting more than one ER call. this march, i accepted six ER calls  from friends and last night, my blood pressure went down to 70/50. i was so tired and went to bed after lunch. after  tapping my cortices and heart, taking water and hydrating myself, my bp still was dangerously low. i already texted Ed and wrote on my FB wall in case i lose consciousness. i did my breathing ala duduk nafas and prayed i wake up alive and well.

lui  manansala wrote on my  FB wall to clean myself of all the toxic energies with salt and i thank her for that. everyone told me to take a rest but my problem is that there are still two friends in their fragile condition. if i close the channels  - i also dont know if i close it well since i still get the message), i would be abandoning them and my consciousness will bother me. also, can one take only one client at a time? what is the optimum number of clients for healing from a distance? what should i refuse to take on?

so friends, help me design a better healing regimen. for those who dont know me, am a trained psychologist and educator  for 3 decades. these healing services are pro bono even if i call the persons in need as ‘clients ‘.  i have done it because of empathy and compassion. i do not advertise my services and wouldnt write about it the way i do now.  but  going online  helps because  i need help.