Albert Einstein, Wayne Dyer, and You

Do you want to be right…

Or do you want to be free…

Albert Einstein has said that you can’t solve a problem with
the same consciousness, or level of thinking, that created it.

And Wayne Dyer has said very powerfully:

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

So my question for you today is, what do you want?

Do you want to prove yourself “right” about the way things are for you…

or…

…as Jesus asked the infirm man at the pool of Bethesda,

“Do you want to be well?”

In coaching clients on their own journey to wellness, as well as
working with myself and with others in the context of a business
to create financial freedom, I find that we’re often attached to
our “story”…our way of looking at things…the way things “are”,
at least from our perspective…and it’s not until we really want
things to be different—more than we want to be “right” about the
way we see things—that we’re open enough to see things a different way…
and thereby to create a different experience…

Often it’s the very questions we’re asking ourselves and others that
show us where we’re coming from…and that powerfully affect where
we’re going…and what we “see”.

What questions are you asking?

Are you asking questions to prove yourself right or someone else wrong…

Or are you asking questions to create a new chosen outcome…

Such as being well…

Or

Being free…

Food for thought…and for creating a different experience…

To your joyful and prosperous well-being,

Dr. Ben

P.S.  To intentionally learn to “see” differently and create a desired outcome
in your health, your finances, or your life, you can still register for the online
“Brain” course with Artemis Limpert at:

http://tinyurl.com/4uopuj then email me your receipt dated
between June 17th and Friday, June 20th, (send to drben@doctorbenlo.com )
and I will email you in return:

1)  A “Dr. Ben” bonus that people normally purchase

2)  Tips on how to get the most out of the “brain” course–
most people will miss these key steps

3)  And for all of you that send me a receipt dated by June 20th and your phone number,
I will give you a focused one-on-one coaching session where we address one area or question
you have and find 3 specific strategies you can apply to progress in that area right away.
 

The Art of Living “Imperfectly”

Yesterday Rachelle gave some fun eating ideas and also touched on a key principle—–
the art of “inner acceptance” and thankfulness.

Today I want to take a couple moments and address this further…

No matter where you are in your health today…

or in any area of your life for that matter…

…beginning from a place of inner acceptance and gratitude feels better now,
and also puts you on a path toward empowering steps you can take to continue
to feel better and better…creating a very different result than frustration, striving,
or feeling that you’re never really doing all that you should…

Yes, I know there may be things you want to change…

Yes, I know there’s always something we could do more or do better…

But what if you start today with the practicing of finding joy and gratitude right now…

What if you find a way to be thankful for the food and drink you take in today…thereby
maximizing it’s benefit and minimizing it’s potential “harm” if it’s not “perfect”, and finding
a little more joy with what you have today?

Then you may find yourself happier with yourself and your life, and also find it
easier to then choose a “next step” that may take you a little further into health—
maybe it’s eating a “healthy snack” of a piece of fruit or vegetable, or taking a few
moments in the sunshine—–a “life-affirming” step—that over time adds up to a
healthy and vibrant life…and you feel good along the way.

Practice the art of being “perfectly imperfect”, and finding joy and thanksgiving
each day of your journey to wellness.

Though seemingly simple, this daily practice of acceptance, thankfulness, and
then openness to “what’s next” can have a profound impact on your life.

So practice daily, enjoy the journey, and share your own comments and questions below.

For a complete system of “life-affirming” steps with both specific, practical nutritional
and health guidance, as well as key “inner” principles for approaching your own health
and well-being in just minutes a day, you can visit Your Journey To Wellness With Dr. Ben.

And if you’re ready to take a further step and want the guidance of working together
one-on-one over an extended period of time together, I’m about to open three more
spots for my personal mentoring program.

This program is not for everybody, in that I’m only looking to work directly with a few
people who are ready to really change specific patterns in their thinking and habits to
progressively transform their health and how they feel during the weeks we work together,
and to develop strategies they can use to continue to transform their health…and their life…
long after we’ve finished working directly together.

If you’re ready to take this step and commit to yourself to discover and accelerate healthy
change (yes, a word many people subconsciously fear!), you can call or email me directly
(1-888-909-6601 or drben@doctorbenlo.com ) for a personal interview
to see if you qualify and if this would be a match for you. 

Either way—whether indirectly through Your Journey To Wellness, or directly
via one-on-one mentoring, I look forward to working with you and hearing
about the wonderful changes you step into for the rest of 2008!

Dr. Ben

Music For Your Soul…

Recently I enjoyed watching the movie August Rush with my family, and was caught up in the music and modern fairy-tale-like story.  After watching the movie, I mentioned to my wife Rachelle that though the events in the story seemed very miraculous and wondrous to those of us watching…to the actual characters in the story, much of their path seemed painful, confusing, and at times like it almost could have turned out very differently at certain critical moments.  This made me wonder about our own lives, and reminded me of Einstein’s thought—that either everything is a miracle, or nothing is…

After watching the movie, I hopped on over to Amazon and downloaded “August’s Rhapsody”–an amazing piece of music that is tied together throughout the film and then provides a final unified piece at the end…I’ve listened to this 7 minute piece again and again…each time it carries me through a series of soaring emotions and lifts me out of the mundane or “task-oriented” world I may be caught in at the moment. 

Music is a powerful way to tap into different vibrations and shift how you feel almost instantaneously, and this piece in particular is remarkable in its ability to do so in an uplifting and powerful way–with a very pertinent 2-sentence message from August himself just as the music ends.

You can sample the music here, and get your own copy for just 99 cents–a great value for over 7 minutes of music that will lift your soul.

Enjoy, and leave your own comments and experiences with music below!

Dr. Ben

“Instantaneous” Cancer Healing?

I recently heard about a particular case of healing that is quite remarkable because it illustrates a whole paradigm shift in how we view our bodies…healing itself…and what’s possible for us.

Author Gregg Braden tells of a woman with an inoperable tumor in her bladder who went to a “medicineless hospital” in Beijing where—fully documented by ultrasound—her tumor “disappeared” in less than 3 minutes without surgery or medication.

What “treatment” did she undergo?

She had three practitioners who stood around her and simply held the feeling of a “different way for her to be.”

When Gregg asked what the practitioners were doing, he discovered that they weren’t judging the cancer or the woman, and they weren’t trying to make the cancer “go away.”

In fact, they weren’t focused on the cancer at all!

Rather, they simply held a different possibility, a different reality, a different way for her body to be, and under ultrasound documentation, her body altered almost instantaneously to match that new possibility.

At first this might sound like “magic” or a faith healing that we simply can’t understand and therefore can’t duplicate.  But quantum physics and the language of science are now catching up with the ability to describe such remarkable experiences in ways that our western, more materialistic and “scientific” minds can understand, and this woman’s case vividly illustrates what’s already being understood on the quantum level—that the smallest “particles” which make up our physical universe are really “bits of energy” organized in certain ways—and that at any given moment, there are multiple “possibilities” or “ways” for these quantum packets of energy “to be.”

Sophisticated experiments have already documented that it’s our attention—the very attention and focus of the observers in an experiement—that affects the particular “possibilities” and characteristics that are expressed on the quantum level.

Now we have a living example of this quantum phenemonon on a fully “human level” that affects “real life.”

Interestingly, Gregg asked whether the woman could have achieved this change in her body on her own.  He was told it’s possible, but not likely given the beliefs and thinking she’d been surrounded by up to that point. 

It’s much easier for us to hold a belief when surrounded and supported by others who hold that belief with us.

That’s often what a coach, mentor, or prayer-partner does for someone—simply hold open a door, a new possibility, a new way of thinking and being—that a person can then access and step into.

So what does this mean for you?

As I describe in Your Journey To Wellness, your current diagnosis or condition—your “current reality”—even if given by an expert, is simply a description, a snapshot if you will, of the current patterns and possibility or path you’re living now.

If you stay focused on all the aspects of your current condition, and all the things you “have to do” for it, you in a sense “perpetuate” that particular path and experience for your body and for you.

So how about choosing a new path, a new possibility, a new way for your body—and you—to be?

How do you do this?

Here’s three simple steps you can take right away:

1)  You can begin by allowing for the possibility in the first place…the possibility of a different way for you and your body to be…

2)  Support yourself—and open doors of possibility—by reading and listening to more on this subject…on people who have stepped from one path of experience (e.g., an illness) onto another path (being well), and on the the thoughts and beliefs of those who’ve coached them through this.

You can begin with the different entries on this blog, and you can also read more on Gregg Braden’s perspectives surrounding the above case of healing here.  You may also have a renewed appreciation for the sacred texts of your own particular spiritual heritage and what’s possible “if you believe.”

If you want to step into new possibilities and perspectives beyond what you can see for yourself right away, consider working with a healer, coach, or mentor one-on-one.

3)  Take “life-affirming” steps to support a new way of being.  Gregg Braden points out that the success rate of the medicineless hospital in Beijing is extremely high if the person continues “life-affirming” steps thereafter.

You have many such steps in the Dr. Ben email letter and on this blog, and a great resource to give you such life-affirming steps in both audio and written form is Your Journey to Wellness and The Foundational Wellness Program, two resources I’ve put together to give you a complete guide to integrating life-affirming and door-opening steps into your daily life clearly and easily.

If nothing else, I hope today’s article has opened a new door of possibility in your mind, and that you’ll begin taking steps in a new direction.

Remember, the direction you’re heading is more important than where you are right now…

All the best to you!

Dr. Ben

P.S.  I’m currently opening up spaces for two people to coach one-on-one with me by phone this month.  If you’re ready to step directly into new possibilities for your own health and want to see if an investment in yourself like this is a match for you, call me at 1-888-909-6601 for a free coaching assessment.  You may get to be one of the two!

“I am willing to change…”

Sometimes the biggest key to our healing is a willingness to change…

Now that may sound obvious, but let me ask you this:

In seeking to “get well”, have you had certain “parameters” around how the “answers”
and the “healing” could come to you?

How about with your money situation…

Again, have you held certain “fixed” ideas about how things would have to be,
or what would “have to” happen for things to get better?

For example, I spoke with someone yesterday who’s been searching for answers
to a physical condition for many years.

Let’s call her Carole (not her real name).

And in searching, Carole has undergone numerous tests and treatments—–both medical and “alternative”, but she’s frustrated because her condition continues.

What I realized in talking with Carole is that for her “healing” to come, the first thing
she’ll want to do is to let go of her attachment to how that healing would come—
the form in which it “should” come—–in this case, in the form of tests, diagnoses, and “treatments”, even though each of these may play a role.

I once heard about a practitioner in California who saw numerous clients
whose conditions had failed to respond to any kind of “ordinary treatment”,
and were at the end of their rope.

When they came to see him and asked him if he could help them, he would answer,
“If your problem is real, I can’t help you.  But if it isn’t, I can.”

Now at first this response may come as a shock…and in a sense, that’s what
it was intended to do—–to shock the person into a whole different paradigm,
a whole different way of looking at things—–from which standpoint their “healing”
could begin.

Sometimes with all of our seeking after tests, diagnoses, and treatments, we’re
“locking in” the “realness” of our condition…and keeping it there the way it is…

So today’s discussion is really a continuation of last week’s—–that the single
biggest factor in your healing is ultimately *YOU*—what beliefs are you rigidly
holding on to? and what are you willing to “release” in order to see things a
different way, and perhaps be given a whole new perspective that opens up
new possibilities for you…

a new way for you to be…

and a new experience of your body, your health, your money, or some other area of your life.

I’ll wrap up today with a phrase from Louise Hay that a wonderful client of mine used
in coaching someone else this week.

It’s an affirmation that’s really the starting point for all healing to begin:

“I am willing to change.”

If you want something to be different in your life, it all starts with you.

So are you willing?

Are you willing to change?

Play with this affirmation this week:

I am willing to change.

And see what comes up for you…

Here’s to a prosperous and blessed week,

Dr. Ben

P.S.  Each month I have space to work with a few clients one-on-one by phone
to launch them on a path toward healing that continues long after our
coaching session is done.  If you’re ready to explore investing in yourself
at this level, you can call me at 1-888-909-6601 to schedule a free 10 minute
coaching evaluation by phone.  If this proves a match for you, you can get on
on the waiting list for the next available spot!

Natural Healing: Practicing Life-Affirming Steps and Creating A “Happy, Healthy Atmosphere” For Your Cells

I’ve been pulling together some different material lately,
and while lying in bed with my wife and a couple of my kids
the other morning, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to share
with you.  Jotted them down, but didn’t get them on the blog
until today.

Firstly, a good friend just loaned Louise Hay’s wonderful little
I Can Do It book and CD to my wife Rachelle,
and after listening a bit, Rachelle shared with me a  thought
from Louise on health that immediately caught my attention:

Take simple steps to give your cells a “happy, healthy atmosphere”.

Today I want to combine this thought with one we’ve touched on
previously — what’s the single biggest factor that affects
your health?

Hint:  it’s got 3 letters…

And it’s not something you take or do…

It’s YOU.

Author Gregg Braden has several books out, including his newest one
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits, that make
accessible the large amounts of scientific research supporting the idea that our attention — and our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs — physically affect the molecules and space we live in and interact with.

So the biggest factor in your healing is not what supplement you
take or what treatment you engage in…

…but rather…

   **YOU**

That’s why you can have someone who’s not “doing everything right” (e.g.,  nutritionally),
but who’s happy and joyful and taking a few simple steps that give their
cells a “healthy environment” who’s thriving…

…while on the other hand, someone else who IS “doing everything right”
but feeling stressed that “there’s so much to do” and that they might not be
“doing enough”, continues to be ill…

This may not seem “fair” until you realize how things work, and that we all
get to choose every day which path we’ll take — one of struggle and fear,
or one of trust, love, and joy.

So practice taking simple steps to give your cells a “happy, healthy atmosphere” —
Gregg Braden calls these “life-affirming steps” — and then magnify them with
a joyful, grateful attitude.

To your abundant well-being,

Dr. Ben

P.S.  For my complete guide to life-affirming steps you can take in just minutes a day
to transform your health, get your own copy of Your Journey To Wellness and the
Foundational Wellness Program
.
 

Natural Healing: “Why Am I Sabotaging Myself?”

Today one of my private coaching clients asked the question:

“Why am I sabotaging myself?”

Ever wonder that yourself?

Why you don’t do what you know you “should” to allow things to change?

Well, let’s hop back into our forest analogy from last week

Imagine you’re in a forest, and you suddenly realize you’re not where you want to be, and you’re heading somewhere you don’t want to go…

And let’s say you get a glimpse—perhaps from a map, sign, brief hilltop view, or outside input—of the direction you do want to head to get where you do want to be.

Well, at this point, if your goal is to get somewhere else, let me ask you this:

Is it more productive to ask why you’re where you are in the forest…

Or…

To simply start heading in the new direction you now realize you want to take?

Think about that for a moment…

Now back to “real” life.

We’re not actually in a forest…so what does heading in a new direction “look” like in our experience?

It looks like new patterns…new steps…that we practice daily.

Once you realize you want to change the direction your body, your health, or some other aspect of your life (money, relationships, etc.) is heading, then the next step is to ask yourself,

What is one step I could take today to start heading in this new direction…

to start creating a new pattern…

that if continued and practiced daily…

will lead me to a new “place”…a new result—or experience—in my health, my body, or my life?

Then take that step…

And practice it daily…

Until you’ve created a new pattern…

And begin experiencing a new result.

Let me know your own experiences, comments, and questions below.

And have a blessed and wonderful week!

Dr. Ben

Natural Healing and Change–So What If You Have A “Setback”…?

imageJust finished a coaching session with a client, and one of the topics that came up was, what do you do when an old symptom or pattern “pops” back up?

Ever feel like you’re doing all the “work” — changing your eating, doing affirmations, learning to focus your attention on things that feel good — and then something “happens” and you react just like before — maybe it’s losing your temper, getting “tight” in your lungs, or “binging” on food or an activity in some way just when you thought you were doing well?

I know when that “happens” to me, I’m tempted to unravel everything like a ball of yarn and feel lousy.

But here’s a distinction I shared with my client today:

Imagine you’re in a forest traveling down a path, and suddenly you see a sign that shows you’re heading in a direction you no longer want to head, and you realize the path you really want is “over there.”

This is a critical moment of awareness, and of a change in direction (for your cells, your health, or your life, business, or relationships).

But even though you now know there’s a different path you want to get on, and you’ve changed your direction, we still live in “time and space” in our physical experience.

So as you travel over to the path you’re now choosing, you may still be passing through some parts of the forest that you don’t like much.

And when you look at your immediate surroundings, or your current health or condition, it might seem like not much has changed, because indeed, the leaves in this part of the forest still look similar since you haven’t moved very far from where you were…

…yet…

But something very significant HAS changed — your whole direction.

And as time goes on, each day you continue in a different direction — practicing new patterns — pretty soon you’ll find yourself on a very different path, and in a very different place, than where you were before.

So here’s the key.

When you take your eyes off where you’re heading and start to look at your immediate surroundings — your current condition in your body, your finances, or your relationships — you may find that things don’t look that different, and be tempted to get discouraged.

This is another critical moment.

Because something very significant has changed — your direction — and if you continue in this new direction, eventually what you see around you — in your body, your money, and your relationships — will change, too.

But…

If you allow yourself to get discouraged, and believe the “evidence of your eyes”…the “facts” that currently surround you…and you forget that  your direction is more important than what’s around you right now…and you stop heading in the new direction you’ve started…then you could get “lost” in this part of the forest, where you’ve already decided you don’t want to be.

So…

Remember this:

*** the direction you’re heading in is more important than where you are right now ***

and don’t let where you are right now — your current condition — stop you from continuing to create new patterns and heading in the new direction you’ve chosen.

To your prosperous well-being!

Dr. Ben

Direction33

More on “Can You Rebuild Cartilage?” and How Much and What Forms of Calcium to Take…

Okay, by now you’ve read the PDF and watched the video (see past 2 days’ entries), and understand that your own beliefs and attitude play a key role in magnifying or blocking anything you do.

Now let’s talk about a couple specifics in answer to the questions on “rebuilding cartilage”, and how much and what form(s) of calcium to take. 

(For a complete guide on specific steps combined with timeless guiding principles to address all areas of your health, I recommend the Journey To Wellness & Foundational Health Program I’ve prepared for you.)

Ok. Let’s start with a couple specifics on cartilage.

I have found a particular combination of quality glucosamine, an herb called Boswellia, the spice tumeric, and a combo of antioxidants and minerals to be very effective in people with joint pain, stiffness, back pain, and even a “frozen” shoulder.

You may be able to find these in combination from wherever you normally get your supplements, or if you can’t find them, or the form you’re using doesn’t seem to be working for you, you can contact me directly by phone or email about the specific brand I use. ( drben@doctorbenlo.com   1-888-909-6601)

I’ve found that with a quality formulation, even people who’ve been on glucosamine or joint supplements for years are getting relief they’ve never felt before.

Next, a quality multivitamin with “chelated” minerals (making them more absorbable) is helpful—and potentially better yet are “nano” molecules which are something I personally use now.

Here’s something else—If you’ve read my letters on Omega 3’s previously you know their benefit to virtually every system of the body…

Well, Omega 3’s are particularly beneficial for joints, and you definitely want to include them in your diet.  Omega 3’s can be very anti-inflammatory.  If you’re not getting results with what you’re taking now, you may want to double or triple the amount you’re taking, or switch forms.

(Generally, the fish oil-derived form is more readily and consistenly used in the body than vegetable forms, and Omega 3’s from krill seem to be the most readily used by the body).

Again, if you want to know how to get the specific form I use and recommend (called “Marine Omega”), you can contact me directly.

Finally, regarding calcium—as I mentioned in yesterday’s video, food sources seem to provide best results, even if the overall “numbers” are less than what someone is getting in supplements…(most research suggests 1200-1500 mg/day of calcium for adults, but as I mentioned in yesterday’s video, this kind of “exactness” may really be misleading since there are so many factors that actually determine what actually gets into your bones, and whether your bones are “brittle” or supple…)

and secondly, getting calcium along with a full “spectrum” of bone minerals and nutrients (just like from food) is best.

Some less commonly thought of food sources of calcium are:  sesame seeds, almonds, broccoli, and dark green leafy vegetables such as collard greens and spinach.

I mention these sources in particular because there’s actually some controversy about dairy’s benefits to your overall health (unless you can get “raw” unprocessed dairy from grass-fed cows);  and also, “too much” animal protein—with its higher amounts of phosphorous and tendency to make the blood more acidic–may actually “leach” calcium from your bones to buffer the acidity.

So…

This comes back to eating as nutritionally as you can, (starting with step #1 in the Special Report from: https://doctorbenlo.com/blog/?p=47 )

giving thanks and being appreciative of everything you do eat or drink…

and then if you choose to supplement,  I’d recommend chelated forms of minerals (more absorbable) or the “nano” form I currently use myself.

Okay…there you have it…some specifics for you in answer to your questions.

Let me know your own followup questions, comments, and feedback below!

Yours in health,

Dr. Ben

How To Navigate the “Sea” of Natural Health Information…(or How to Feel Better Today…Even Without Knowing “All the Answers”)

Today I’ve prepared a special 2-part video for you triggered by the following question:

“In my Quest for good health, my biggest concern is the different answers you get when you only need a accurate answer, believe me when I say it can be a large difference, example, the research I have done on coral calcium, 1000mg per day with 1/2 that amount in magnesium and about 750 IUs of vitamin D, There are some that say 1000mg of calcium is too much, others say more 1200 and 1500 mgs of magnesium, no mention of vitamin D, just a sample…”

Now whether or not you have a question about calcium, in the following 2-part video I’m going to give you a great free resource you can access online that’s like having your own online natural health encyclopedia, and then I’m also going to give you some key guidelines for navigating the sea of health information in a way that’s simple yet powerfully effective.

So enjoy, and leave your comments, questions, and feedback below!  (Be sure to scroll down and watch both part A and Part B–they’re only about 9 minutes each!)

Dr. Ben

Part A:  (Scroll down to watch Part B after you finish Part A)

Part B:

P.S. For a complete Foundational Health Program that will save you time and money and equip you in minutes a day with the core health principles to create lasting results, visit Your Journey to Wellness.

And stay tuned for the “Get Back On Track With Your Health” coaching calls available starting Friday.