Welcome to the mid-October issue of Fair Oaks News. Fall is definitely here. I walked into the office on September 22nd and noticed the fig tree had dropped a pile of leaves over the night, right on schedule.
As most of you know I cut back office hours by closing on Wednesdays due to slow business a few months back. Since then I launched the new Gracework program to help people resolve chronic and stress caused health issues as well as to build more freedom, compassion, and joy in their lives. My plan was to use the closed Wednesdays to do Gracework. However the feedback I have gotten from many of you was that you want to do Gracework but the time just doesn’t work. Life is adaptation so I am opening my schedule every day from 10:30 to 11:30 and 4:00 to 5:00 on Mon, Tue, Thu, and Fri for Gracework and re-opening Wednesday mornings to general practice care patients.
I really want to encourage everyone to give Gracework a try. There is just nothing quite like it for addressing the root causes of our tension with life – which ultimately results in all those muscle and joint tensions that seem to show up for no good reason. How many times have I heard “I must have slept wrong”, or “I didn’t do a thing, my back just went out”.
These are the typical results of tension with life due to not having the feeling skills to get what we want or need in life. Gracework is about learning those skills and applying them in a successful manner.
Try your first session on me free of charge !
(Special secret: many of the patients in my test group got as much pain relief from the Gracework as from my regular Activator adjusting, yet Gracework is less expensive!)
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Hey, I found that new no calorie sugar while cruising the health section at Raleys a couple days ago. It goes by the trade name of Z-sweet. Raleys had it on sale for $13.69 for a 1 1/2 lb bag…cheaper than what I found it at the health food store but not as good as what I have in the office.
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I periodically bring medicinal bits of dark chocolate into the office for the staff to keep them functioning at the highest level possible. Until now I have not known just how much chocolate is a medicinal amount. Italian researchers have actually tested and measured this very concern in a large scale population study. Isn’t science wonderful? Check out the article on this in the On the Wire area below.
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Community
Life is pretty topsy turvy right now in the financial world. Many of us have the chance to play the fear and worry game. I myself lost 75% of my retirement IRA. So what are we to do?
Answer – build community. In my view this is the purpose of hard times within a society. The hard times are usually created by excess individualistic self interest. Life is the school for learning balance between individualism and community. Self interest is a good thing to a point as it is our job to develop ourselves sufficiently to have something to share with our community. When self-interest becomes selfish interest and turns to hoarding and unethical behavior the balance is lost and society falters. The fear or reality of loss of our creature comforts forces us to re-evaluate our priorities in terms of where our support for survival comes from, meaning those we are close to.
If you life has been in the self interest and development stage for a while you may have let your connections with friends and family lapse. Now is a good time to put your energy back into connection. Your 401K is not going to give you that vacation home in the virgin islands at this point. Your house is no longer worth $300,000 more than you bought it for 3 years ago. Even your barely enough social security is no longer secure. Security now comes from people coming together to support each other. It is now time to learn the skills of connection and community.
We are starting by hosting a block party in our neighborhood so everyone can get to know each other better. Ellen finally decided that it is silly that we have been in this neighborhood for 14 years and yet don’t even know most of our neighbors. We know the folks on either side of us and across the street and that is about it.
It is your relationship with the people around you that determines how easily you survive in times of hardship. In fact you may find that instead of hardship you find abundance. Connection promotes abundance. It is connection that eventually returns the society to balance and rebuilds the mutual flow and exchange that launches a new growth cycle.
We have been creating ourselves for a long time. Now it is time to shine out with what we have created and share it with the world. The illusion that we can have it all, all by ourselves is cracking. Now the reality that what we really have is what we all have together is surfacing.
Rather than fear and worry, we can embrace the next few years as a time to enjoy the expansion of our small world to include many others.