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Posted by Craig Flentke on January 31, 2012 at 10:31am
Last month we talked about the first four layers of thought, how to recognize them and live within them as a conscious and intentional practice. Let’s continue with the final three layers or levels of thought. Recognizing and understanding the steps or levels your thoughts move through may be helpful in managing them. And ultimately, choosing which layer you want to live in.
As we do this, please don't get locked into these layers as rigid lines. There is actually a fluidity and flow between them. As mentioned before, the flow from one layer of thought to the next is similar to watching the dawn of the day progress. For instance you can't easily identify 6:30am, or 6:32am by looking at the sky. The sun rises and the sky flows from darkness into light. A moment ago it was pre-dawn. Now the sun is up and shining. Fifth Layer of Thought
This is the layer of thought where things really begin to get creative and quiet. This is where your consciousness begins to naturally, organically pull together many of the floating, curious pieces, combines them with the deeper, unconscious aspectsof you and begins to organize in such a way that you become much more conscious, focused and capable with your innate knowledge. This layer takes the curious interest of the fourth layer (the field of possibilities), and brings it to your mental workbench to organize and become more real as a possibility. This is done not with greater thought or concentration, but with a greater quietness, allowing, stillness and trust. This is where “I wonder where I would like to move?” unfolds into “Yes - Boise Idaho feels aligned, right, and good” with no effort or worry or figuring out. Living in this layer of thought is magical, although it isn’t magic. It is inspired. Many artists and writers create when in this layer. The creation process just flows and the book writes itself. Sixth Layer of Thought
This layer is similar to the great meditation where you find yourself easily sitting still for three hours and you think, “This is so good I don’t want get up.” This is the extremely quiet place where you begin to access deeper fields of awareness. You begin to think (or better yet exist) without thought. This occurs because you are in the higher fourth and fifth dimensional fields of knowledge. You begin to have conscious access to the greatness that you are. It's in this space that you begin to have a sense of your powerfulness as a very positive word, your presence, what you are capable of. You touch your ability to think, and you do things without the influence or affect of others. This is where a thought is first thought. This is where the Rays of Creation truly begin to be used to arrange and rearrange all possibilities without any limitations. Although no thought is thought in words, everything comes effortlessly to you. It is in this layer of thought that much of the Level 3 work is practiced. You begin to play in a fifth dimensional time where time and space and gravity all operate differently than is understood in three-D. Alchemy here begins to be where you rearrange the frequencies of thought, change the harmonics of matter and you apply the elements of love in such a manner that, on your terms, you rearrange the molecules and begin to instantaneously produce in simultaneous time whatever you desire.
Can you make that happen in this moment? The answer is “yes” - but not if the noise of the first three layers of thought are your habit. As you play at this and become more masterful, building more templates, more platforms to create from, more structures to live your life from, these fifth and sixth layers are where you live most of your day. You can then do what is necessary to allow more light to come into your body. You can build the unified field of consciousness, which becomes One with this field of possibilities. It is in this space that you begin to know your self as the Soul, fully integrated into the creative universal mind of Creator. Fully consciously, it is attainable at this minute, and you practice and live in the sixth layer of thought. Seventh Layer of Thought
The seventh layer of thought is not definable. There are no words available to describe it. It is where the thought-that-thought-you-into-existence and you think together. Now, if I was to skirt around the edges of that with some definitions, I could say that this layer is the place where you have a relationship with your Soul. This may be unimaginable to you. Your Soul has so much to do with the creation of you; Creator created you but your Soul also created you. And when your Soul, within the higher aspect of Creator, and you begin to think together in the unified field, you are no longer a third dimensional being. You are then beginning to play very consciously in the fifth, sixth, and seventh dimensions. Here, you are a citizen of those dimensions.
At this point you won’t have a physical body as you know it now, but instead you will have a version of the Light body. It may be physical as well. The Light body is now becoming very available to each one of us, but to create that Light body, these expanded levels of light have to be brought into this form through the mental and emotional bodies. And those bodies are where we hold the third dimensional resistance, resentment, etc. That’s where the ugly thoughts, ugly emotions live. The predominant purpose of this Shift is for you to become conscious of being conscious, aware of being aware, integrating enough light into your mental and emotional body to the point where you don't have those ugly thoughts and emotions; those reactions and resistances. When you can clear that energy from your emotional and mental bodies, you can begin to play at the sixth and seventh layer of thought. You will begin to change the density of your physicality from a carbon-dense body that does not absorb light to that of a crystalline nature of light that will allow a very significant transformation of your physical body. This possibility is available right now. It's do-able right now, and this is the course that we are pursuing in all of this work right now.
This is our target.
This is what begins to happen in that seventh layer of thought, but what I just described doesn’t adequately speak to what is possible. And we are getting closer to finding those words.
In the meantime, I hope this has helped you gain a better sense of these layers of thought, and that I have created a structure upon which you can better stand and become more and more aware of your inner workings. As you do; as you become the quieter observer of your thoughts and patterns, the noise will lessen. A stillness of understanding and knowingness will prevail. And THAT is precisely where humanity is headed. You are at the head of the race. You are big and important and have much to contribute. And now is the time to know yourself.
May you experience laughter and stillness on your journey Home.
Posted by Craig Flentke on January 31, 2012 at 10:29am
As you know, our minds can be very noisy sometimes. As this Shift continues to unfold and trigger more of the who-we-are-not to surface and move out, understanding the steps or levels our thoughts move through may prove helpful in managing them. We are moving toward becoming more masterful of every thought, every emotion, and every action in every moment. Thoughts occur at many levels of loudness from the complete silence of knowingness to the screaming and arguing inner voice. Although there are many levels or layers of thought, let’s keep it simple and talk about the seven distinctive layers available to each of us. As we do this, please don't get locked into these layers as rigid lines. There is actually a fluidity and flow between them. The flow from one layer of thought to the next is similar to watching the dawning of the day. For instance you can't easily identify 6:30am, or 6:32am by looking at the sky. The sun rises and the sky flows from darkness into light. A moment ago it was pre-dawn. Now the sun is up and shining. First Layer of Thought
The first layer of thought is where we simply speak without thinking much about what we are saying. We see this occur every day. The man in the airport just blurts out meaningless comments. The woman chatters away as if she has no filter. Two minutes later, they don't remember what they were talking about. Functioning in this layer of thought, a person is generally unconscious of being unconscious, and goes about their day in a default-mode vs being conscious and intentional. Those who have not awakened spiritually live here. And those who are more awake and self-aware may still find themselves in this layer of thought. You might make a project of becoming more aware when you are in this layer. Notice when you make unnecessary comments, gossip, or contribute to a conversation that is noisy. When you begin to become conscious of this layer of thought, you will quickly begin to not participate in the unconscious babble. You will make better choices about how to present yourself and in what layer of thought you want to live. Second Layer of Thought
This is the layer where you have conversations or arguments with other people in your head. You go back and forth in your mind about the situation and how you were right/bad/wrong/hurt. You scold the other person about how they were wrong/bad/hurtful/stupid. Guilt and blame lives here. So do resentment and revenge. All these thoughts can be very, very loud and consuming sometimes. Although not spoken, this level of thought also has a relationship to telepathy and clairaudience, because that conversation you are having in your head is very real in the moment and it is happening. Whether the person is next to you or a thousand miles away, the conversation is happening. On an energy level, that other person can feel the energy you are throwing at them. This is also the layer where you really want to curse at the person standing before you: “You stupid person/idiot/jerk,” but instead you smile pleasantly and continue to argue with them in your head. Like the first layer of thought, this one has a huge amount of internal motion to it. In both layers you are still “going-to,” or engaging with the situation versus being still. Third Layer of Thought
This third layer is where you figure things out, strategize, and problem solve. There is still a bit of motion here, and an internal, back and forth type of conversation. There is still a degree of engagement and emotional attachment.
“I tried three different things and know this next way won’t work. How can I get this computer issue figured out before this deadline?”
“Okay, I said hello to her but she didn’t see me. What do I do now to get her attention?”
“What does that sign over there say? It looks so interesting.” Although not as screaming and intense as the first two layers of thought, there is still a little bit of undisciplined focus. Your mind is bouncing around trying to find an answer. There is a looking outward for the answer vs taking a breath, becoming quiet, and allowing the answer to make itself available to you. Fourth Layer of Thought
This layer is a place that I will define as pondering. It is being curious and sitting back without being engaged in a situation. This is the first non-engaged, non-invested layer of thought. Curious: ”I wonder how that works?” Or “Where did that come from?” Or “What an interesting possibility.” There is no emotional attachment, judgment or pre-definition of answers or possibilities. Many times you get into this easy layer when you are not stressed or not being pushed on; when there are few external demands on you at that moment. You might begin to think, ”Well, maybe it's time to consider moving. I wonder where I would like to live?” This is a question without a defined answer to it. The question is open-ended. The answer appears where that non-charged question is asked. All you have to do is allow it and not “move” from your thought to search for the answer. The answer, and the wandering thoughts surrounding the answer, then come into your awareness from the broader field of possibilities: “Well if I go to Portland, Oregon I will have this experience, but if I go to Tokyo I will have that experience, and then I could always move down to Perth in Australia and have this.” The process unfolds by itself and you are simply watching the process from a place of neutral curiosity. In this layer of thought someone may say to you, “Have you considered Boulder Colorado?” and you are open enough to consider it without rejecting or judging the possibility. No opinion. Curious.
Try it. Feel the difference – and let us know what you discover.
Posted by Craig Flentke on January 30, 2012 at 10:43am
What was taken for granted is challenged non-stop, what you know to be truth is challenged, what you believe in your heart is challenged. The body has received so many mixed signals, it feels like a long island ice tea. All of humanity is in overload. All circuits are in busy. Senses are so overworked they are taking a leave of absence which creates that fuzzy disconnected feeling.
Earth is at an intersection of time with no clear directions. The playing field of earth is being changed forever. It is becoming a clearing house of light and information for all Universes. We are traveling in and out of time sequences, past present and future, no longer are we anchored and docked in 3-D. The time fluctuations are accelerated when the sun shakes her golden locks and her explosive nature is seen by all who are brave enough to look. We are being escorted into different time portals of experience and this will continue in a dramatic fashion for the next several years.
Father Time makes Himself known again rerouting the very best of intentions, sidestepping the 24 hr day and running us around in circles. Time as we know it cannot be forced into pigeon holes nor trained to do our bidding. Time has grown its own wings and takes flight into previously unknown patterns, reconstructing the highways and byways of what was. The sextants of humanities DNA demand that it fly in a direction that brings a quickening. Do not take for granted what is etched in sand on the hourglass of time. For what once was instructed and carved in stone has shifted in context. The timelines cannot be tamed nor ridden into submission.
Earth is experiencing a Timestorm which is one of the side effects of disrupting the flow of time itself, caused by something altering the timestream. When a wormhole travels close enough to a star during a Solar flare, its timepath may be altered. A side effect of this is Time Dilation. Time Dilation slows down or advances the speed of time, reversing time in a localized field. Time is only altered within that field and not throughout the entire universe. This can slow down the progression of time to the point that one year would equal a thousand years outside the field. If we all think time has sped up and slowed down simultaneously this is the reason.
Solar cycles always play an important part in the ungradement of human consciousness. Solar activity is a catalyst for our evolutionary process. Solar light stimulates change in matter, energy, and consciousness. It pushes us into a higher position of knowing and the ability to integrate and use that knowledge for the betterment of all Universes. Evolutionary change is Sun driven. New energy is coming from deep space via this Solar portal.
Our Sun as the pulsing heart of this solar system, sends a twelve-faceted geometric light into every atom of its solar universe. The Sun is a portal which streams information in the form of light from other light/solar systems and worlds beyond ours. It is a storehouse of vital energies and is considered to be the Great Heart.
Stars like our sun are the visible raiment’s of celestial beings. Their inner aspects are invisible, just like ours. The sun is simply the heart and brain of our little Universe, The mighty heart of the solar system beats to a different drum disrupting and erupting time at any given moment. With each beat, the sun expels its accumulated light and energy through sunspots projecting to the remotest corners of the solar system. The sun feeds its family: just as the heart feeds the body.
Earth and all her inhabitants are living receivers and transmitters. Solar flares affect the Central Nervous System all brain activity (including equilibrium), and all human and animal behavior. Solar flares can cause us to be nervous, anxious, worrisome, jittery, irritable, and lethargic, have short-term memory loss, lose time, feel nauseous, headaches, trouble with all forms of communication--both human and technological. Solar activity illuminates consciousness causing old patterns to be consumed in Light, just like a phoenix making way for the new prototype.
The very word time is a 911 vibration that leads itself full circle into a multilayered learning. When face to face with itself time escorts itself into the sacred portal of 11. Eleven is the number of masters. It is an encoded molecular structure of Remembrance that seeks to be found. it is a doorway or gateway into your highest potential as a human who is seeking divine memory. letting go of man-made and coming into Christed Creation. Doorways open and close and you are in-between all. The 'one' seeks itself through mirror like reflection of the world around it.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 29, 2012 at 3:31pm
Arcturus Confederacy - 22nd January 2012
We see many starting to awaken; starting to recognize that there is change coming and much already here with regard to the way that life has been lived up to this time. We see many are beginning to let go of the idea that there is only one way to accomplish things, or only one way of understanding an issue. This is progress dear ones, because this means that more and more are opening up to the energies of light now pouring onto your planet. As a result, many who heretofore lived in fear and obedience, are starting to take back their power.
It is time to let go. We have made this statement many times before, but we must say it again. You cannot carry that which is old and finished with you into the new energy, it is of a higher frequency. This is why many of you are experiencing headaches, flu like symptoms, ringing ears, sleep problems, and various aches and pains; you are releasing cellular memory and old dense energy still stored within your energy fields from lifetimes. Much is to be accomplished in the next few months. If you choose to remain a bystander, living life as usual, that is fine, it is your choice. But again we say, you cannot take the old and untrue energy with you into the new.
We see much about to occur with regard to world financial situations. Many countries are beginning to question, and amongst themselves are talking about new and better ways of financial working but you do not hear about these things, because your news is not open and true. It is on your Internet that you must search for the more open news.
Do not be afraid dear ones, things will occur that may cause you to doubt or fear, but all is proceeding according the plan. All is moving into a higher resonance of seeing and being. Nothing real is ever nor can be, lost. Some things may seem to be lost, but if they are the manifestation of your state of consciousness, they will then reappear on a new and higher level; remember, your state of consciousness governs your world. This is why successful businesses are often sold, but then quickly fail, for a business expresses the consciousness of the owner and a new owner consciousness may be very different.
Many are finding their work moving in new directions. Try not to hold to what you have done in the past, but allow your work, whatever it may be, to unfold and new ways. The mantra of "this is the way we have always done it" will begin to ring very hollow for some.
Old beliefs of everything are shifting; government, healthcare, relationships, foods, entertainment--all are changing and shifting-if you allow it. All have free will and can choose to stay in third dimensional energy, moving into the higher frequencies at a later time. Some are choosing to leave because they realize that they will not have enough time to complete their life lessons. These dear ones are choosing to leave now and then come back into the new energy at a later date. Know that all have been given the choice as to whether they wish to stay or leave during this time of shift.
This choice is made on a deeper consciousness level, so many now preparing to leave do not realize that this was their free will choice.
Please do not fear, hate, or even love death. There is no death; what you call death is simply a change of location. a going back home, for you are spiritual beings, not physical. Those who excessively mourn the dead--building altars and calling out day after day, cause their loved ones to stay attached to earth and hamper their journey of evolutionary understanding.
It is time to realize the illusory nature of all third dimensional appearances. It is time to understand that the the world is not an illusion, it is your perception of the world that is the illusion. Many have gotten tripped up in this fine point, saying to themselves; "Oh well, this situation is only an illusion." The sick or sinning person you see before you is not an illusion, it is your concept of him that is the illusion. Recognizing this distinction is imperative, for only as the spiritual student begins to understand this, can he begin to see through the negative as well as positive appearances of the third dimension-- good and bad are both just ends of the same duality stick. Being in third dimensional energy is like observing every activity of life through a stained glass window. You see it, but in a distorted way.
With the recognition of the illusory nature of appearances, you begin to realize reality-- everything is Source manifesting as... All that is real is governed by Divine law and can never be changed or eliminated. If disease resided within Divine consciousness, governed by Divine law, no one anywhere or at any time ever would be able to cure it.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 29, 2012 at 3:30pm
At this Coffee Shop, Random Acts of Kindness Top the Menu
Customers at South Carolina eatery find that strangers have paid their check in advance If you’re measuring the kindness at the Corner Perk in Bluffton, S.C., it’s safe to say their cup runneth over. It’s a cycle of generosity that started two years ago — and lately it’s spinning faster and faster.
In a time when everyone seems to be hard-pressed for cash, more and more are starting to give it away. “It made my day, it really did. It made my day,” customer Michael Aldea said.
“When I went to go pay, they said ‘Oh, it’s paid for. Somebody paid it forward,’ ” customer Sheri Buda said.
“People will come in and say, ‘What do you mean? I don’t understand. Are you trying to buy me a coffee today?’ ” And I say, “No, somebody came in 30 minutes ago and left money to pay for drinks until it runs out,” Josh Cooke, owner of the Corner Perk, explained.
Paying it forward
The pay-it-forward phenomenon kicked off two years ago when an average-joe customer left the first $100 bill.
“It’s someone that just has a kind heart and wants that to generate in this area,” Cooke said of the anonymous female donor.
That donor got what she wanted — not just customers, but strangers who heard what was happening started paying for people who follow. The owner says the lady who started the pay-it-forward tradition kept it going for a few months now and then — but in the past few weeks, the phenomenon has really taken off, with other anonymous contributors following suit.
“He said, ‘I want to do that, too,’ Corner Perk’s Sara Clemmons said of one donor. “He just gave me the hundred dollars and left. He didn’t even get anything.”
None of the anonymous donors leaves their name: only their money, and a feeling of inspiration that is jolting this community.
“For someone to come out of the blue and think about someone other than themselves, it’s refreshing,” Aldea said.
“It’s very inspiring to just see someone living out what so many of us talk about, and doing things for other people,” customer Jenny Dolin agreed.
While they all walk in for a pick-me-up, lately that comes from the compassion that comes with the coffee, not the caffeine.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 28, 2012 at 2:57pm
Thought you might like a look at this home in Wales. I want one!!
Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for $4700--by Heidi Stevenson , Original Story, Jan 28, 2012
Simon Dale is a family man in Wales, the western part of Great Britain. His interest in self-sustainability and an ecological awareness led him to dig out and build his own home—one of the loveliest, warmest, most inviting dwellings you could ever imagine. And it cost him only £3,000, about $4,700 American dollars! Can you imagine a more charming entrance than this?
Simon gives two reasons for building the home. The first elegant one, from his website, is:
It’s fun. Living your own life, in your own way is rewarding. Following our dreams keeps our souls alive. His second reason is a plea for sustainability, in which he states that “our supplies are dwindling and our planet is in ecological catastrophe”. You can read the full and passionate statement here.
Simon is also a photographer, and as you can see throughout this article, a talented one.
A beautiful view in another home that Simon is helping build for someone else. (Originally, this was mistakenly identified as a photo of the home he and his family are living in.)
The tools are fairly simple. The main concession to modernity was a chainsaw, which he used to cut down about 30 small trees. No old growth forest fell to his family’s needs. He focused on tools that used his own energy, like shovel, chisel, and hammer. Yet it took him only four months to produce this lovely home.
The home is constructed from wood, stone, straw, and has a sod roof. It’s heated with a wood fireplace and has a solar panel for power. Most materials were scavenged. The effect, though, isn’t of a run-down get-by-with-second-best sort. It’s creative, artistic, elegant, and cozy.Most amazingly, the home didn’t require years of training or experience. Simon had none. He’s not an architect. He’s not an engineer. He’s not a carpenter. He started from scratch in every sense. He told the Daily Mail:
Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience of the construction industry.
Building from natural materials does away with producers’ profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.
He was fortunate in obtaining the land for his home. The plot, a bit of a large piece, was given to him in exchange for its caretaking.
Simon Dale, his wife Jasmine Saville, and their two children in front of their completed home just 4 months after starting it! This and all photos on this page are by Simon Dale (http://simondale.net).
The attention to making the home eco-friendly extends to a compost toilet, the use of straw over a plastic layer for insulation, and a refrigerator that’s cooled with air that flows from under the home’s foundation. Cement is a high carbon emitter, so the interior walls are finished with lime plaster instead of cement plaster.
Simon is now involved in building another home for the Lammas Project, an organization dedicted to low-impact building. Focus is not only on the homes themselves, but also on planting trees and gardens, and on low impact living in general. Here’s how he sums up his view on his home and the Lammas Project:
This building is one part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life. This sort of life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things simply and using appropriate levels of technology. These sort of low cost, natural buildings have a place not only in their own sustainability, but also in their potential to provide affordable housing which allows people access to land and the opportunity to lead more simple, sustainable lives.
I cannot imagine a home more lovely, appealing, and livable than this one. This could be and should be the wave of the future in home building.
For more information about Simon Dale’s home, plans, and more photos, please go to his website, A Low Impact Woodland Home
me rakesh .. some days before one dog bite me. aind aim taking injection(one finished.) anyway i cant stop my smoking habit. now iamso fear about my smoking ,, with my injection
pls heal that situation, and i need to get advantage of injection, also no need any side effect of smoking with that injection. i always smoking 25, but now i started injection.. so i less smoking around 8, pls heal me, and save me
Posted by Craig Flentke on January 25, 2012 at 9:20pm
2012 - A Glimpse Into The Magnifient Year Ahead Archangel Metatron Channel via James Tyberonn Greetings Masters ! We encircle each and every one of you with a nurturing energy and with the field of self empowerment, for each of you are truly Masters on your path of Ascension. It is our purpose to offer you inspiration and clarity, but indeed it is once and always requisite that YOU, as a sacred and sovereign BEING, practice discernment with this and any such 'channeled' message. We will begin this assay regarding 2012, a truly auspicious year, by addressing the fears some of you may have. We will first tell you the Ascension is on track, and will in fact occur. You have made it so. In many aspects, the Ascension has already taken place. What remains however, is tantamount to the completion of the Crystalline Grid, and the final activations of the Crystalline Transition. Now, regarding the fears, we gently ask all of you to look at the world around you for just a moment. What do you see ? Your media outlooks are reporting war, famine, disasters and economic collapse. And what is broadcast is what is seen in 3d. It is oft full of gloom and doom, is it not? The doomsday prophets are especially in high gear on this topic, are they not? Some of the doom speculators are on particularly fertile ground in this arena, generating fear followings around collisions of comets, asteroids, cataclysmic polar reversals and economic collapse. Whether these naysayers recognize it or not, they feed on the fear the generate. Dear Ones, we tell you again the Ascension will occur, and humanity have made it so. It is time to let go of old energy, of FEAR. The doom prophecy, the Global Cataclysmic disasters will NOT take place. We tell you there is a new sun dawning, and it is indeed the sun of change. It brings the light of the magnificent New Earth. And Dear Ones, we do mean magnificent. Masters, there have always been the naysayers on the planet, those who predict gloom and doom and warnings of fear. And these serve a purpose in duality, and certainly a quick glance around the globe would seem to justify their stance. But we tell you it is old energy. And it is not the role of Spirit to ever tell you to give up hope, or to let go of your free will. Our message is to tell you of your Divinity, and to tell you as a matter of fact, as a point of truth, that the planet and indeed humanity will Ascend....and are absolutely on track for that to happen. Period. So we speak of 2012 !
The Year Ahead 2012 is an incredibly important year. It contains within its sequential linear flow, points of multidimensional intersection and time-gates. It is in fact the enhanced points of manifold time that have allowed the Ascension to occur. These points are the gateways many of you that are 'envoys' from the future , Sirian-Pleiadean Navigators and Code Carriers entered through to be here on the planet for the Ascension. 2012 is a final awakening clarion call for many of the code-carriers. And there is much to do in 2012. In many ways your work truly begins in 2012. The 2012 Envoys: Now, many of you involved in the Planetary Ascension have found yourselves in a phase of Earth time that you occasionally cannot fully fathom, cannot totally embrace. It is at times as if you are a visitor here, far from home, and your energies do not exactly fit into the earth of 2011 and beyond. In fact you have at times felt lost over the past decade. Dear Ones, know that these feelings are valid, and are in a true sense, culture shock, as you awaken into the flowering multidimensionality that is unfolding before you as you enter into 2012. You see many of you, in your terms, are indeed from the future! ....You are indeed Envoys of Crystalline Light, Ambassadors of Love. You have moved back from the future, in your terms, in linear Earth time, to assist mankind in navigating through the tumultuous times that have unfolded in the last forty years, and the times that will be presented in the next twenty. You see many of you are only awakening to your 'future in to past roles in 2011 and 2012. And that is by design. The time gates of 2012 are trigger points. You began accumulating in mass in what is termed the 'Baby-Boomer' generation, the post WWII era; and your numbers have steadily increased into what is termed Generation X, Indigo and Crystalline children. You are the Envoys of Crystalline Light, the pioneers of the alternate Earth.... the Ascension. Many of you walked-in to current bodies during your 7th 7-year cycle and 8th 7-year cycle, your years of 49 and 56 in terms of linear age. You have walked into physical bodies that were in fact versions of you, and by what may be termed 2nd Stage walk-Ins. And that is a more highly developed version of your future self, stepping back in time for a specific purpose. This is similar to, but quite different from a Soul Integration as it is a specific role in which a time gated link from a succinct evolved future self is connected to a present sojourn for a specific purpose of assisting the Ascension. You have had many roles, many assignments, and many duties. You are the Wisdom-Keepers, the Earth-Keepers, the Shamangelics, the Fire Dancers, Dream Walkers, Warriors of Light, Shape-Shifters, Star Beings, Elders, Strength Bearers & Healers of Time! You came here to engineer the reconstruction of a different outcome here on the planet of duality, the Earth! You are here to guide mankind through the parallels of probable calamities and potential catastrophes that otherwise could wreak havoc, as has happened so many times before through troubled waters. You are here to make sure history is NOT repeated. And we tell you , you have succeeded. You see, you are the troubleshooters, the renegades, the paradigm busters! We use the analogy of the sea to clarify this concept of the Envoys of Light. Imagine the ascension as a sea going vessel, the Light Envoys are expert navigators that know exactly where the currents are perilous, where the tides are crashing into rocks...and the Envoys know how to avoid them, where to sail past, how to maintain ballast. They are the teachers, with expertise in many fields, and in your vast gathering you bring a collective wisdom that is unparalleled on the earth at any time in the planets history. You see, many of you have experienced the Ascension of other planets and other worlds, several times; and you know the perils. You understand the mechanics. And you are now almost done. There are a few rough patches remaining in 2011 and 2012, and then the game changes, as you will remain over to lead the masses in 2013 from 2012... the true beginning. Perhaps the most important role for you envoys in 2012 is to assist all by shining your light, and not succumbing to the Fear and throes of the Old-Energy. Do not be discouraged. For in 2012, the old energy will kick hard to discourage the change. Amplify your energies, and anchor the light. Align the Crystalline.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 25, 2012 at 1:20pm
New post on Kauilapele's Blog
Benjamin Fulford 1-17-12…”The Old World Order wants to surrender but to the people, not to the New World Order” by kauilapele
Highlights• The negotiations on a new financial system for the planet are proceeding well but due to the complexity of the situation, it will take time before any public announcements are possible... • The final solution to the problem will need to involve an audit of the real world and the removal of all fraudulent funds from the system. • The owners of the Washington D.C. Corporation have already decided on Mitt Romney as the new President of the United States. • The future of the U.S. dollar is also now being debated. • If the US does issue treasury dollars and devalues them by about 50% this is what will happen: First of all, all that Chinese stuff in Wall-Mart will double in price overnight. • There will also have to be a one-time write-off of most of the US debt to the rest of the world. • ...the White Dragon Foundation is proposing that the Japanese people continue to finance the US 7th fleet and turn it into an institution dedicated to exploring and enhancing the Ocean’s eco-systems. • There is also going to have to be very thorough disclosure through a South African style truth and reconciliation committee. • Most of all it will mean releasing in a safe and responsible manner most of the 6000 or so patents that have been suppressed for “national security reasons.”
The Old World Order wants to surrender but to the people, not to the New World Order
The negotiations on a new financial system for the planet are proceeding well but due to the complexity of the situation, it will take time before any public announcements are possible, according to sources close to the negotiations. The current owners of the Federal Reserve Board System and the Washington D.C. corporate government are hoping to offer enough reforms that they can stay in power. Their money has been frozen, though, by a group that would rather see them all put in jail.
The final solution to the problem will need to involve an audit of the real world and the removal of all fraudulent funds from the system. It will also involve a massive redistribution of wealth, meaning that the American people and other worldwide victims of the cabal will get their stolen funds returned to them.
The owners of the Washington D.C. Corporation have already decided on Mitt Romney as the new President of the United States. They have been rigging opinion polls and primary results to make sure their decision is enforced. The corporate media propaganda machine is also in on the decision. The Asian creditors to the Western nations do not interfere in the politics of other countries so they will take no stand on this issue. They say this is an internal matter for the American people to resolve on their own.
The future of the U.S. dollar is also now being debated. The current proposal being put forward by White Dragon Foundation representatives is that the United States government will need to issue Treasury dollars controlled by the elected representatives of the United States Government. These new treasury dollars will have to be separated from the international dollars now in circulation and devalued. The reason for this is that 90% of the dollars ever created are not owned by Americans.
The interests of those dollar holders and the interests of the American economy are not the same.
They do not want those dollars, which they use to trade with each other, to lose half their value.
If the Americans insist on continuing to use international dollars as their currency, then they will have to wait until US wages fall to Chinese levels before the US economy will once again become competitive. Until that time, the Chinese will take increasing ownership of the United States.
If the US does issue treasury dollars and devalues them by about 50% this is what will happen: First of all, all that Chinese stuff in Wall-Mart will double in price overnight. That is the tough part. The good part is that there will be a huge investment boom in the United States because the US will once again be a competitive exporter. Americans will also start buying more made in America products, creating real jobs and real wealth for the American people. There will also be lots and lots of free spending foreign tourists flooding in, also creating real jobs for real Americans.
There will also have to be a one-time write-off of most of the US debt to the rest of the world. The Americans are hoping to accomplish this by delivering physical gold they control in various locations.
For the United States to get rid of its structural trade deficit, however, the military-industrial complex will have to stop relying of foreigners to finance it. That means retooling it from a machine dedicated to invasion and pillage into something constructive, defensive and welcomed by the peoples of the planet as a beneficial institution.
For example, the White Dragon Foundation is proposing that the Japanese people continue to finance the US 7th fleet and turn it into an institution dedicated to exploring and enhancing the Ocean’s eco-systems.
They would dedicate themselves to going where no man has gone before a la Starship Enterprise.
Fighting pirates and stuff like that would be a side job.
There is also going to have to be very thorough disclosure through a South African style truth and reconciliation committee. The pharmaceutical industry, for example, will have to come clean about how they were creating and spreading disease and infertility drugs as a part of a depopulation agenda on the part of the cabal. The petroleum industry will have to admit they have retarded human progress by 100 years by suppressing new energy technology.
The pharmaceutical industry can then change its business model from one that profits from disease and death into one that makes its money by increasing health, longevity and by creating new drugs to enhance human ability and enjoyment of life. The petroleum industry will be able to capitalize on its ability to carry out giant infrastructure projects to do things like turn the deserts green and create tropical year round resorts around Northern Canadian lakes.
The military industrial complex will also have to come clean about all the secret projects they have been carrying out. This will mean opening area 51 and other secret bases to public tours for American citizens.
Most of all it will mean releasing in a safe and responsible manner most of the 6000 or so patents that have been suppressed for “national security reasons.” A new era will begin.
Tuella is a Higher Dimensional Being who walked into the body of a woman by the name of Thelma Terrell.
Under hypnosis Tuella explains her name change:
“I am called Tuella because that is my name and has ever been my name. The Earth name given to this form in the beginning was incorrect but permitted, until that time when I COULD MANIFEST MYSELF.”
I met her in the 80's and in the motel in Anaheim CA & before her speech I did my automatic writing and that is when I got the name of my ship called Olympia in my automatic writing
Tuella the soul actually came through shortly after the birth of the baby Thelma. Tuella stayed in the background, allowing Thelma to live her life as a normal happy, healthy child. Then when Thelma went through a traumatic incident in her early teens, Tuella and Thelma went through what is loosely called a soul – exchange.
Tuella explains this process herself under hypnosis as:
“Tuella stood by the auric field until such a time as the entity Thelma, so called, reached a child’s consciousness and awareness. Then Tuella entered and manifested, but only on the higher consciousness level, until the events of life and the time involved were proper for full manifestation of the soul entity.”
Tuella, had come through, just like any other soul, fully veiled. So the soul-exchange took place as contracted with Tuella not realizing what had happened. When asked under hypnosis about the time of the completed soul-exchange, Tuella had this to say:
“Before the final commitment of this phase, Tuella was given a total physical examination, rendered in total love, and it was determined that all physical energies were present and capable of carrying on the responsibilities. This was blocked from her memory, but took place in 1970, during one of her visits which she partially recalls.”
Since Tuella was veiled, she carried partial memories of being onboard crafts. Ashtar said this about the actual exchange:
“Your higher spirit did descend and take control of your form at the time of your severe surgery in Maryland. This did take place during one of the nights immediately following. The delay was to determine that the form had survived. It would not have survived had this exchange not have taken place, for the soul of Thelma was ready to depart. You are now the sole possessor of this form, you are a strong projection of the Christed Being Tuella. There has now been permission granted for a stronger force of your Being to filter through this form for the culmination of the coming public ministry.
You, Tuella, now control this form as a vehicle of LIGHT FOR THE PLANET. It cannot be destroyed by man, neither can it be vacated except by the granting of leave by the Great Karmic Board. It has been dedicated to the use of a representative of the Ashtar Command, therefore this cellular structure shall be permitted replacement with a broader spiritual encoding in its DNA/RNA functions for completion of mission in full power.”
Thelma had grown into a woman, married, and had children, just as other women of her generation had done. Then Tuella received a “higher calling” to be a minister. During the course of Tuella’s career, Tuella was ordained into five different religions.
Then in the Spring of 1973, Tuella went through a tremendous soul cleansing. Lord Sananda informed her that this cleansing was to wash away all of the sorrow from her past, in this life as well as from past lives. This was to prepare her for what was to come.
With her ministry background Tuella had visions that came to her. In these visions she saw and talked to Jesus, Peter, and Philip. They would tell her things about her that took her out of conventional religion. Like they would explain reincarnation to her, about where and when and why that information was taken out of the Holy Bible. Tuella went through a period of broadening her boundaries, so to speak. Then more came through Ashtar, Monka, Andromeda Rex, Athena and others.
Her awakening came about in such a way that those of us that have gone through similar techniques might laugh and nod our heads in agreement. She joined a book-of-the-month club. She read books by Edgar Cayce and Ruth Montgomery. Shortly after reading these books she was brought the message, “You are a volunteer on Earth assignment.”
Tuella began a newsletter, then a publishing company, then another newsletter. During the course of her tenure here she wrote six books, helped with a seventh book and channeled many, many hours of wonderful inspiration.
Her last book is the book that I helped with, “Secrets of the Father’s Little Book.” Her membership in Guardian Action International had grown to such proportions that new members wanted back issues of her newsletter, “The Throne Connection“. It became more advantageous to put them all in a book than to keep sending out individual copies to members. This book contains all of the issues of “The Throne Connection“, except for the last one which was concerning Desert Storm. When Tuella retired, she sold the copyrights to most of her books to Inner Light Publications. This book, “Secret’s of the Father’s Little Book“, is no longer available except through Debbie Wright.
The body that contained Tuella passed on in September of 1993. Before she graduated, Tuella asked her daughter Donna if she would carry on the work. Donna’s answer was that she had worked on it long enough. So Tuella then asked Donna to give it to Debbie Wright, her last paid employee of Guardian Action International. Debbie now has the backdrop that Tuella used during her lectures and was given the master videotapes of Tuella’s lectures. Debbie was also given permission to make and sell copies of the two books that Tuella did not sell the copyrights for: “Secret’s of the Father’s Little Book” and “World Messages for the Coming Decade.”
She also gave to Debbie a few other personal items, which Donna brought to Debbie in December of 1994. You may want to read the section of “Who Is El Morya?” to get some idea of what that meeting was like.
“It goes with the territory” was one of Tuella’s favorite sayings. When things get rough and the way is not paved, just keep reminding yourself – it goes with the territory.
“We are the reflection of the octave in which we abide, AS WELL as the one from which we have COME! We are subject to this dimension BUT WITH A DIFFERENCE. Make no apologies for your humanity, rather, thank God for your Divinity. Because we have taken on humanity, we can accomplish what Angels cannot do! Without having become a part of humanity our mission would be pointless.” Tuella
“Our physical temples house a GREAT GUEST!” Tuella
All of this information plus more can be found in Tuella’s book, “On Earth Assignment.”
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 25, 2012 at 1:18pm
Posted by Elizabeth Cusova
Russian DNA Discoveries Explain Human 'Paranormal' Events Summarized by Baerbel
Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.
The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mindâ¬"s influence on weather patterns and much more.
In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered "junk DNA."
The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore that 90% of "junk DNA." Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary!
According to there findings, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code - especially in the apparent "useless" 90% - follows the same rules as all our human languages.
To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.
The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of DNA. In brief the bottom line was: "Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation." This means that they managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influenced DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.
Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!
Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies (sound) are being used. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language.
While western researchers cut single genes from DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically created devices that influence cellular metabolism through modulated radio and light frequencies, thus repairing genetic defects.
They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA.
This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation: by simply applying vibration (sound frequencies) and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure!
This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.
Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.
Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and development in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.
The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. But the higher developed an individual's consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device: one can achieve these results by oneself. Science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn't end there.
The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in a vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).
These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper-communication (telepathy, channeling) is most effective in a state of relaxation.
Stress, worry or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper-communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hyper-communication has been successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insects proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as "intuition." But we, too, can regain full use of it.
As an example from nature, when a queen ant is separated from her colony, the remaining worker ants will continue building fervently according to plan. However, if the queen is killed, all work in the colony stops. No ant will know what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the "building plans" even if far away - via the group consciousness with her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive.
In humans, hyper-communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to information that is outside one's knowledge base. Such hyper-communication is then experienced as inspiration or intuition (also in trance channeling). The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini, for instance, dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning Tartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory. He called it the Devil's Trill Sonata.
For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majorities of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and reached technical details of which he knew absolutely nothing.
When hyper-communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA, as well as in the human, supernatural phenomena.
The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen, a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effects encountered most often in hyper-communication in humans are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons concerned.
Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work: the better the atmosphere and energy, the more frustrating it can be for recording devices as they stop functioning at that exact moment. Often by next morning all is back to normal.
Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically inept; it means they are good at hyper-communication.
In their book Vernetzte Intelligenz, Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been just like the animals: very strongly connected to group consciousness and thereby acted as a group. In order to develop and experience individuality, however, we humans had to forget hyper-communication almost completely.
Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness - namely one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just as we use the internet, our DNA can feed proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the network, and can establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained. Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper-communication.
Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a distinctive individuality; otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily manipulated. Hyper-communication in the new millennium means something quite different.
Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind.
Fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.
At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born. Something in those children is striving more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it can no longer be suppressed.
As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may be influenced by group consciousness (nothing new about this to some indigenous tribes). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies (Schumann frequencies). But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize their thinking or when individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is not at all surprising that they can influence the weather.
A modern day civilization which develops group consciousness would have neither environmental problems nor scarcity of energy: for if it were to use such mental powers as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural consequence.
When a great number of people become unified with higher intention as in meditating on peace - potentials of violence also dissolve.
Apparently, DNA is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature, as opposed to artificial superconductors which require extremely low temperatures between 200 and 140°C to function. In addition, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This further explains how DNA can store information.
There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these super-small wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second. Under certain conditions stable wormholes can organize themselves, which then form distinctive vacuum domains in which for example, gravity can transform into electricity. Vacuum domains are self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions in Russia where such radiant balls appear very often.
Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally to some of the discoveries mentions above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls in the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be.
I thought once: "Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle." And suddenly, the light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks: they accelerated from zero to crazy speeds while sliding silently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as many others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles just to please me.
Now, the Russians found - in the regions where vacuum domains often appear - that sometimes fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, and that these balls can be guided by thought. Since then it has been found that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency that are also produced in our brains and because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our thoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea, because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are capable of mutating our genes.
Many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or during energy work, which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm. Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order, quality and origin of the vacuum domain. There are some spiritual teachers, like the young Englishman Ananda, for example, with whom nothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or meditate in hyper-communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair.
In certain Earth healing projects, such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, this phenomena has to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are ever more stable forms of wormholes and displays of hyper-communication with energies from outside our time and space structure. Earlier generations that experienced such hyper-communication and visible vacuum domains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them: and we cannot be too sure to what forms of consciousness we can get access when using hyper-communication.
Not having scientific proof for their actual existence, people having had such experiences do NOT all suffer from hallucinations. We have simply made another giant step towards understanding our reality. Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth that contribute to the formation of vacuum domains. Recently gravity anomalies have been found in Rocca di Papa, south of Rome.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 25, 2012 at 1:16pm
The New Birth January 21, 2012
Dearest Beloved Ones,
This new season heralds a new birth of light that is transforming the physical dimensions of the Earth. This transformation will assure that all souls will have access to the direct and embodied experience of God's light if they choose.
In previous times on the Earth, the energies of separation and the density of physical matter prevented most souls from directly experiencing God's presence.
This time is now ending and a new time is arriving as the birth of God's light on the Earth completes. May all souls be blessed with the light of their One true being which is eternal and which is light, love and truth.
Posted by Melodie Munro on January 25, 2012 at 1:15pm
Today's Daily Health Tip
Restless Legs Syndrome Linked to Fibromyalgia by Jon Barron
There’s news for people who lie awake in bed at night suffering from restless legs syndrome (RLS). A new study published in the October issue of Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine showed a strong link between RLS and fibromyalgia (FMS). In fact, the overlap of these two conditions is so strong that people with fibromyalgia are 11 times more likely to have RLS than people in the general population.
Both fibromyalgia and restless legs syndrome tend to keep sufferers awake at night. Restless legs syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by creepy sensations running through the legs and accompanied by an uncontrollable urge to move the legs to get some relief. Individuals affected with the disorder describe the sensations as burning, tugging, or feeling like insects are crawling inside their legs. The sensations range in severity from mere discomfort to considerable pain. In contrast, fibromyalgia is a tricky condition with a varied set of symptoms. Until recently, many in the medical establishment viewed people with the condition as hypochondriacs. As with RLS, the causes are unknown. FMS symptoms include multiple tender areas (muscle and joint pain) on the back of the neck, shoulders, sternum, lower back, hips, shins, elbows, and knees; fatigue; sleep disturbances; body aches; reduced exercise tolerance; and chronic facial muscle pain or aching. About 85 percent of fibromyalgia cases occur in women.
The link between fibromyalgia and RLS was discussed in a Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine study that followed 172 people suffering from fibromyalgia. Of these, 93 percent were female. This group had a mean age of 50. They were compared to a control group of 63 people who did not suffer from pain and fatigue and whose mean age was 41. The researchers found that 33 percent of the fibromyalgia group also had RLS as compared to only 3.1 percent of the control group.
Contributing author Nathaniel F. Watson, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a news release, "Sleep disruption is common in fibromyalgia and often difficult to treat. It is apparent from our study that a substantial portion of sleep disruption in fibromyalgia is due to restless legs syndrome."
The medical establishment typically treats RLS with drugs, hoping to improve sleep and thus improve the overall condition of those who also suffer from fibromyalgia. This approach dates back to a study published in 1996, which also found a connection between fibromyalgia and RLS. Back then, the suggested regimen was to prescribe the drugs clonazepam, carbamazepine, or levodopa to get the RLS under control. But these drugs are such side-effect whoppers that if you were diagnosed with RLS in the 90s, you might have been better off suffering with it. The side effects of clonazepam, for example, include drowsiness, dizziness, blurred vision, muscle pain, excessive hair growth or loss, change in sexual desire, weight change, increased saliva production, sore gums, depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts, and other mood disorders. Carbamazepine has caused rare cases of skin reactions so severe that they have been fatal. It has also caused severe reduction in bone marrow function, plus all of the side effects we just listed for clonazepam.
And then there is levodopa. According to Medicinenet.com. "Most patients receiving levodopa-carbidopa experience side effects, but these are usually reversible.
Occasional involuntary movements are the most common of the serious side effects of levodopa-carbidopa therapy. These may include chewing, gnawing, twisting, tongue or mouth movements, head bobbing, or movements of the feet, hands, or shoulder." Sometimes I think doctors should have to take the drugs themselves they prescribe, but don’t get me started on that topic. In any event, it’s hard to justify taking a medicine that stops leg twitching in exchange for gnawing, gnashing, and head bobbing.
The current drugs of choice for RLS are dopaminergics, which act like the neurotransmitter dopamine. One of these is mirapex, which has a list of side effects longer than a twitching leg. Among the many delightful experiences you might have are sleepiness, nausea and vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, chest pain, and compulsive behaviors. If you don’t like how that sounds, there are always the benzodiazepines, which include Valium and Xanax. Or else there are opiates like Darvon and Percodan. Of course, both of these categories are highly addictive. And finally there are the latest and greatest of the anti-convulsants, like Nuerontin and Tegretol. The latter is a carbamazepine which I mentioned above and the former has a long list of side effects that include drowsiness, dizziness, unsteadiness, fatigue, vision changes, weight gain, nausea, dry mouth, constipation, and more rarely suicidal ideation, depression, and on and on.
While RLS causes patients considerable distress, there are more benign and effective approaches to decrease or control the symptoms of this condition. As I’ve reported in the past, RLS is very responsive to dietary and lifestyle changes, detoxification, programs that balance out hormones, and massage and physical therapy. And the side benefit is that the dietary and lifestyle changes and detoxes will also help with fibromyalgia. But it should be noted that FMS is a systemic condition and can’t be effectively dealt with unless you treat it as such.
You might as well ask why anyone would subject him or herself to a side-effect laden pharmaceutical approach? Partly because doctors tend to think like pharmaceutical companies when it comes to conditions like these. They ask, "What drug can I dispense to push these symptoms out of sight?" And as long as doctors think about symptoms rather than about the patients manifesting those symptoms, patients will be advised to try expensive treatments replete with side effects, rather than treatments focused on deep, systemic healing.
I probably should point out that several years ago, my wife, Kristen, developed severe RLS that totally disrupted her sleep patterns. She got significant relief when she added bio-identical estriol crème to her regimen, but it wasn’t until she added a form of deep muscle massage called BioSync that she got complete relief. From the very first session of BioSync she received, she has not had one single further incident of RLS for some five years now. And yes, she continues to get BioSync work approximately once a month. Unfortunately, BioSync is not widely available, but I would guess that any deep muscle work would prove helpful.
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