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Monday, 9 July 2012

Is Working as a Therapist Making You FAT?

I have a little theory and most of the time it appears to be along the right lines as this is something that I have consistently observed not only in my life, but with many others are well. Working with 'energy' or just being around highly charged situations, in the healing professions is making us fat.

In my line of work I come across a lot of therapists. These might be people who are doing energy healing, seeing clients one on one as counsellors, massage therapists, nurses, hands on healers, psychics, mediums, life, drug and alcohol coaches, GP's and just about nearly everyone in between. 

People who spend a lot of time around others who are experiencing pain, crisis, wounded spirits, broken hearts and bodies, various stages of inflammation, illness and dysfunction. You name it - we deal with it and work very hard with others to try and sort it out.

What this means for those of us doing the energy work, giving the massage or helping to work through the pain, is that we are exposed to energy. Much of it heavy, dull and often dark - with spikes of fear, negativity and stress bouncing around a room for an hour or so at a time. 

Now this does not mean for one minute that we cannot deal with this energy or that humans are incapable of wading through the muck and coming out the other side intact. We certainly can and we are more than able for this work. 

However, when we do not prepare and care for our bodies in the correct way - spending time immersed in someone else's energy can add layers of toxins onto us which translates into weight. I am not kidding and I know that there are many of you out there who are right now nodding your head as the connections are made.

Start doing the energy work, call ourselves light workers, healers and therapists and in just a short amount of time watch the excess weight pile on. The number one thing that I have noticed is that the cravings are stronger, my body and energy field can start to feel foreign and dense and my own energy was not moving as well as it should do.

The problem here was that I was coming home from work feeling as if I needed a bath, and taking one but not realizing that I also needed to take a bath inside as well. That's right - washing, cleansing or cleaning our bodies on the inside as well as the outside is no longer a distant thought but an immediate necessity.

If you are working in any of these capacities and consider yourself a healer, counsellor, therapist, teacher of any sort - you must clean your body and energy field thoroughly or you will gain weight, increase toxins, and generally become unwell. This is a gradual build-up which needs to be cleaned up and takes time to remove. The only way to do this is with clean, chemical free water and healthy food. 

It has taken me years of working as a Medical Intuitive and Energy Therapist to recognize that when I fasted and cleansed on the inside, my health (body) and abilities responded on the outside. Try it for yourself and see!

Walk the talk,

April

Sunday, 8 July 2012

Fasting Today...

It's always nice to start the week with a fast day, as I feel that I am beginning with a clean slate and a better approach to organizing my time. Today I feel good, and am still seeing the deeper effects of my mini cleanse last week.

My thinking is changing yet again - I feel more settled and I am just far more efficient in getting things done. One way to describe it is that I feel that I can do more with my time and therefore I get more done in the same amount of time.

Today I plan to exercise a bit more, I have been in the garden a lot over the weekend and I did not exercise ( in a formal way) as much as I would have liked to. Garden came first because it wasn't raining and there were so many things that needed to be done.

So, my challenge to myself today is to accomplish one of two things - to either exercise every hour for 5-7 minutes or to do at least 3 mini sessions of 20 minutes each. I have already done some free weights, skipping, rebounder and a short walk, so now to see how disciplined I can be today to keep this energy flowing.

I call this my 5 minute challenge and will post it later today, anyone want to join me?

Have an active day!

April



This is a honey bee flying between flowers on a tree in Bantry House 

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Another 3 Day Mini Cleanse Done

This is a great way to get some good quality fasting done in a short period of time and to focus my time and energy on a project or something that needs to be done. I really love the level of concentration that I am able to achieve during a fast and I think we are all benefiting from increased energy levels.

Today has been a busy one with getting chores done outside finally (it has stopped raining long enough) and into the garden to do the weeding. I love working in the garden and I will tell you why. It is the perfect analogy for the shadow side of the human energy field.

Going out into your garden is like moving around in the back of your body (the shadow) and when we are out there cleaning, clearing, planting, creating etc - this is just a perfect time to think about the things that are being worked on in our own lives.

For me, I have a medicinal herb garden, now many of my herbs are large enough for harvesting, drying and storing for use in teas. Others are ready to be separated into several plants and thinned out in general. 

What might this tell me about myself? Perhaps that some projects are coming into their own or that some aspect of my life is taking shape and changing into a more useful form? And that parts of myself are growing and ready to be incorporated into my life more fully. 

Have a look at your garden, even if it is a pot outside your door - what care have you given it and what can you do to work with it to create the life you choose to live? 

This cleanse has been bringing up many things for me - with shadow work definitely on the increase but I have also been giving a lot of thought to consequences. This word has been on my mind for sometime and I have applied it to situations where it seems that people are committing crimes or doing wrong without any apparent negative results for themselves. 

Instead the negativity is spread around to many others who then take on responsibilities that are not their own creating a very unbalanced and unfair situation. Those causing the problems are left to continue on without any apparent concern for anyone else. Any of this sound remotely familiar to you?

This has been happening far more then is reasonable and the pattern needs to be broken. Perhaps a good theme for my next fast day!

Have a nice weekend,

April

Friday, 6 July 2012

3rd Day of Mini Cleanse

Today is my last day of this little cleanse that I am doing, and I am feeling great overall loads of energy and it seems that my dreams are back loud and clear because I was dreaming all night. All seemingly about projects and things that I should be doing or following through with some plans that I have made.

Perhaps this cleanse has been all about clearing things off of my 'to do' list, because that is what I seem to be doing quite a bit. And even the weather has not been as bad as was predicted so that has been a bonus as well because I have been able to get out into the garden and pull some weeds.

Today I am also busy cooking (go figure, while fasting LOL) and have made honey oat bread, fairy cakes for the kids and prepared a lamb tagine which will go into the slow cooker to cook overnight so that it is ready for breakfast in the morning.

I love my breakfast and always look forward to eating after a fast - the planning phase is probably far more fun than anything as I find that I dream up new ways of doing things and tasty recipes when winding down from my fast.

If you haven't yet tried to do a fast, I cannot say it enough - food, fast and feast has changed my life and the way I look at food (and even the way I look apparently as I was told last night that I looked about 25!). Order The Pagan Diet and get started on your journey to better health in a slim body!

Have a lovely day,

April

The Pagan Diet - Food, Fast & Feast! 

by April Danann, MSc, BSc (Hons), Dip MI, Dip NT

Thursday, 5 July 2012

2nd Day of Mini Cleanse

Today is my second day cleansing - funny how I hardly ever even count the first day anymore as it is so much like a regular fast day that it just counts as a day to wind down and shift into the fast. Today, then would feel like the first day all over again.

So, this morning I am feeling pretty good, although I am very aware of toxins moving and feeling a bit yukky. My body is definitely into this and is working right along with me here - my thoughts are a bit scattered right now too as there seems to be so much going through my mind.

The best thing this week is that there are many outward changes - of course that means that there are equally inner changes as well. And I know that the changes are a direct result of these cleanses and detoxes that we have been doing. It just seems as if things are speeding up.

And of course this is exactly what we have been waiting for. Change and progress. Water is the Universal healer and dissolves all toxins (and everything else) so of course fasting, healing and working with water to move us forward in our lives is going to produce wonderful results.

I have been having dreams but they seem so far away that in the morning I am only remembering bits of them - I know they are there somewhere! Yesterday as I was doing some Yoga I remembered a dream that I had the night before and it was about a demon that I had to confront; it was in the guise of a person who bullied me as a child and who I was very frightened of.

In my dream I was no longer afraid and was ready to confront her, from a position of complete power. Perhaps this says it all and now I can't wait to see what this mini cleanse brings for us.

Have a great day,

April

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

A Food Day

Today is not a typical food day as we got up very early for a certain boy to go sailing and have been munching all day after fasting yesterday. I am planning on another 3 day mini-cleanse starting tomorrow because I felt it was so successful last week that I wanted to do it again. So I am enjoying my food today! LOL

I am really excited about this next phase of detox and am seeing change all around me - mostly in the way of rising levels of creativity and inner magic. But how would I go about explaining what inner magic means - I think that you might just have to experience it to understand it. 

If I was to paraphrase it - it can be a little like being able to manifest things, only not using the usual means of tapping into potential energy sources. Magic is far deeper, it seems to come from the place where energy originates perhaps before energy is even energy! If that makes sense...

If you have not yet tried fasting to create some changes in your life, do it for even a day - this is the healthiest approach to detox, cleansing and diet change (including weight loss) that I have ever come across and it really works. For whatever your needs are.

I will keep you posted on my mini cleanse - anyone want to join me?

April



This is wholegrain spelt thyme bread fresh from the oven and ready to eat!

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Another Mini Cleanse done and...

We are feeling pretty good today - off to an early morning start as we rightly figured that the early hours would be the driest to get something done in the garden. And we were right - it has been raining for the past few hours now and is very wet out there. 

Lots of cooking today - making some mini celebration foods and Sunday dinner rolled into one - shepherds pie with sweet potato and goats cheese topping, garden fresh salad and some other goodies on the go for a rainy day inside. 

Yesterday we got down to the Baltimore Pirate Festival and enjoyed a great talk on pirating in the area by a woman actually doing a PhD in pirating! My son enjoyed it in particular as she was also an under water archeologist as well. From there we then went to Loughbeg Open Farm in Lowertown Schull for a walk about to see the animals and enjoy the rest of the sunny afternoon. 

I am loving these outings with the children and am busy each week planning one day of the weekend - and I actually have fasting to thank for that. My focus, attention and energy are far better than ever and I just feel as if I finally can look forward to extra activities every week. It is not a chore but a pleasure! 

Well, off to keep cooking here as I have some new recipes that I am working on....

Have a lovely day,


April


My daughter on the farm walk in Loughbeg, Schull