Peace Sign Miracle

PICTURES OF THE MIRACLE!!!

News of the MIRACLE ON CAPITOL HILL is spreading like wildfire around the world. Many people feel that this is a sign from Heaven, perhaps indicating the critical nature of the present age and the need for peace. There is still no physical explanation for the peace sign that appeared overnight on the west lawn of the US Capitol, the same spot where James Twyman and others conducted a ceremony of peace commemorating the Season for Non-Violence. "The Children's Cloth of Many Colors," a mile long quilt made by children from around the world to express their longing for peace, had rested on the spot the previous day, and the next morning the miraculous sign appeared.

To see pictures of the peace sign please visit: www.emissaryoflight.com

For more information on the Children's Cloth, visit www.communitiesofpeace.org

MORE PEACE SIGNS APPEARING???

It has also been suggested that this could be the beginning of a worldwide movement where peace signs are constructed in significant places to bring continued awareness to the issues of global non-violence. A website is being prepared to share these photos, either man-made or miraculous, so please let us know if any appear.

Join James Twyman in Jerusalem for one of the most exciting peace gatherings in history!!!

Over 5000 people are coming together from throughout the world to wrap their arms around the Old City of Jerusalem on May 21, sending their prayers and light to help create peace in one of the most troubled spots in the world.

If you would like to join James in Israel for the event and a tour of the Holy Land, please visit his website at www.jamestwyman.com

This is proving to be even bigger than we expected. We are also designing an online component so millions more can join us online or in conference calls.

This is going to be known as "the hug felt around the world."

The Hooking-up Generation

The Hooking-Up Generation

How is this “hooking-up” generation involved in the devolution and evolution of the soul? Are they closer to getting out of Level One or not? They see their “good” as hooking up, right? The sexual and the drug path is their good. They want a permanent high, right? They want a permanent high without pregnancy? They want a permanent high through the body? So, what else is new? That’s Level One since the beginning of time. It’s just more out in the open. It’s just right out there on MySpace, right? No shame, no embarrassment, just hooking-up. No secret. So will it run its course quicker?

Is that all you want: hooking up and getting high? The Forbidden has become Ordinary. Just drugs and sex, that’s all. So, what’s next? There is nowhere else to go? Just more sex and drugs? More sex and more drugs with more people, and that’s it?

So what are you, a hedonist? Oh, that’s right, you don’t have time to study philosophy and history. Too much sex and drugs to find out what’s behind it.

Is God a hedonist? Is God higher than you? Does God ever come down? Is God bliss? If God is bliss, why did he forbid sex and drugs? Aren’t sex and drugs the ultimate high? Maybe we should be born with a needle in our brains where the sex center is located. 24 hours a day orgasm, right? Sex on the brain, right? Is that forbidden? Stay away from the Tree of Knowledge! Are sex and drugs the ultimate knowledge? The ultimate bliss?

Then you mean that the God of bliss didn’t want you to have what he has? He gets to be high, but we don’t? Or, is there another reason? Sex and drugs are surely a strong temptation, but is there a drawback? Does God have more than sex and drugs He wants to offer?

What are the drawbacks about sex and drugs? Make a list. If sex and drugs are not forbidden routes to bliss, they may simply be lacking. If bliss is who you are, why do you need to be “hooking up” to get it? If the wars, crimes, illnesses, accidents and stress all down through history were about the lack of bliss, why haven’t we been able to figure it out?

Isn’t there a permanent hook-up without all of the risks, dangers, diseases, jealousies, losses, loneliness, expense, labeling, secretiveness, and constant need for more? Is that why it’s forbidden?

You are already hooked- up. You were born hooked-up. You just thought you were cut off, left out, excluded, rejected, and victimized. The drive behind hooking- up is ignorance and anxiety. Sex and drugs are your medicine, your substitute religion, your forbidden search for the good where you will only find symbols. You are not really a slut, a whore, a cheater, a sneak, a druggie, an alchie, an addict, a pimp, a gay, a straight, or a prostitute. All of our anxious searching is just ignorant preparation for Level Two. Anxiety, not sex and drugs, is your path to freedom. Why would a god need sex and drugs for self-medication? Why would a god be anxiety-driven and controlled?

A Miracle on the White House Lawn?

The Miracle of the peace sign appearing on the lawn of the US Capitol continues. If you haven't heard the entire story, on Sunday, March 25, James Twyman focused a peace ceremony commemorating the Season For Non-Violence in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, which was held on the west lawn of the US Capitol, the "Children's Cloth of Many Colors" (for more info on this amazing project please visit www.communitiesofpeace.org) was laid gently on the grass in the form of a giant peace sign, and the ceremony took place in the center.

The next day the sponsor of the event, Gerry Eitner, received a concerned phone call from the US Capitol Police saying that the grass where the cloth lie was now discolored, leaving an enormous peace sign on the lawn.

This morning the police department called back with more information. They believe that some type of fertilizer attached to the quilt caused the discoloration. In reality, however, there was nothing attached to the Children's Cloth except the prayers of those present at the ceremony, as well as thousands of people from around the world. Subsequent calls to professional lawn care companies indicated that there is currently nothing on the market that would cause such a sudden overnight change. In fact, witnesses reported that the "peace sign grass" is actually longer and greener than the rest of the lawn.

Has a miracle visited the US Capitol? If so, then what is the message?

From James Twyman:

"I believe that this miracle was caused by two factors. First of all, there were hundreds of thousands of people focusing on the Capitol ceremony while it was taking place. At one point we actually held hands around the peace sign and called upon the energy of all those people from around the world, feeling their presence around the quilt with us. The intent of so many people can be a powerful energetic force and seems to have catalyzed a change in the actual earth causing the grass to grow greener and longer overnight. Second, I believe that in some way and for some reason the earth is literally giving us a sign. This is a critical point in the history of the world. If we don't begin turning our thoughts and actions toward peace, for both humanity and the environment, a deep crisis may be around the corner. For me the peace sign on the lawn of the US Capitol is both a warning and a symbol of hope. I'm hoping we'll listen and begin working for peace."

Photos of the grass as well as the peace ceremony will be online later today or tomorrow. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD BY PASSING THIS EMAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.


JOIN JAMES IN JERUSALEM FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST PEACE EVENTS IN HISTORY!!!!

On May 21 5000 people will gather around the Old City of Jerusalem to literally hug the "City of Peace," sending their prayers of healing and unity to one of the most important places on earth. James will be leading a tour of the Holy Land culminating in the "Jerusalem Hug." For more information on how you can join him go to www.jamestwyman.com.

The New Man

What Does Anxiety Tell Us?

Anxiety tells us that God is our unlimited resource.

Anxiety tells us that Level One is like a desert and that Level Two is like a torrential river.

Anxiety tells us that Level One is our moment-by-moment invitation to Level Two.

Anxiety tells us that suffering is unnecessary.

Anxiety tells us that only awareness is needed.

Anxiety tells us that we have an in-built guide to what is real and what isn’t, what is true and what isn’t.

Anxiety tells us whether we are in our story or not.

Anxiety tells us whether we are on Level One or Level Two, whether we are accessing Earth Man or Spirit Man, whether we are in our war zone or in our peace zone.

Anxiety is a wake-up call telling us what we want is not on Level One, except as a visible symbol or metaphor for what is on Level Two.

Anxiety marks the passageway from Level One to Level Two. We cannot get to Level Two without passing from Level One through the door of anxiety, hundreds or perhaps even thousands of times.

Anxiety is our invitation to open up, rise up, wake up.

Anxiety is our kinesiological stress-meter telling us when we are perceiving piecemeal. (We don’t need a $2500 stress-meter for biofeedback. We only need to know which level we are on.)

On Level One we are pretending to be in a godless, uncaring, meaningless world.

Anxiety is our thermometer, barometer, thermostat and roadmap.

Anxiety tells us that we are still believing the story that we are mere Earth Men living in a material world.

Anxiety is a roadmap telling us which “state” we are in, either Level One or Level Two

Anxiety is an alarm clock designed to wake us from our nightmares.

If Level One is like our computer, Level Two is like the internet.

Level One is story-bound; Level Two is story-free.

Anxiety tells us that we are gnawing and crawling like a caterpillar when we could be flying like a Monarch

Anxiety tells us that we are cursing when we could be blessing.

Anxiety tells us that we are hurting when we could be healing.

Anxiety tells us that we are creating things we don’t want.

Anxiety tells us when we are into broken-record thinking.

Anxiety tells us when we have not yet found our purpose.

Anxiety’s hidden message is that there is another level.

Anxiety’s message is that we are not stuck.

Anxiety’s message is that the Infinite Good is our source, our path and our destiny.

The distance from Level One to Level Two is as far or as near as we think it is.

As long as we continue to think we are mere Earth Men, we will continue to experience disappointment, frustration and anxiety.

Level One is called earth and Level Two is called heaven. Heaven is our highest state. Heaven is here now.

Heaven is a state of ecstasy where things work as they are designed to work.

Earth is a state of mind in which we see a very poor replica of the original.

Earth Man is a very unclear replica of the Original Man.

The New Man of Level Two has no needs, no defects, no stress, no limitations, and no conditionality. The Old Man of Level Two is full of a sense of need, lack, defects, limitations, conditionality, vulnerability, uncertainty, envy and anger.

What function then does Level One play? It is strictly a school of preparation, a place where we learn who we are, a practice run where we re-discover reality.

Every new day is a new beginning for New Man. Old Man is gone. Level One is transformed. A New World opens before our eyes. History is past. Only Godness exists anywhere. Peace reigns. Bliss is our nature. Health is within. Heaven has come to earth. We are free. Nothing binds us. Burdens are lifted. Hurts never happened. Deprivation exists nowhere. Nothing is lost. The Light of Reality is shining Now. Truth is our food. The Very Good has returned. Our Infinite Good is appearing. Anxiety has done its job. The trance is broken. The Door is open. Isn’t that what you want? What else would you give your kids?

Meditate on this paragraph every morning. It is the best breakfast food on the planet!

The Christ Man

On Level Two you are the Christ Man. On Level One matter appears to be separate from mind. We speak of mind over matter. Mind and matter are both energy. Thought is energy in motion. Matter and energy are one in the Christ Man Level of our being. Matter and energy are different aspects of consciousness.

Christ consciousness is our true nature. Level One is Earth Man. Level Two is Christ Man. You appear to be merely Earth Man. But if you were Earth Man in reality, you would not be anxious. But since you are Christ Man in reality, and appear to be only Earth Man, you are anxious. The discrepancy between ego and Self is the discrepancy between Earth Man and Christ Man. Due to that difference, we are anxious. Nothing works on the Earth Man level for a reason. Everything that happens on Earth Man Level has one anxiety-driven purpose, to boost us to Level Two. Limited Earth Man can never be satisfied.

Every crisis, every pain, every disappointment, every apparent loss or failure—all point to one thing: spiritual amnesia. You are the Christ in beggar’s clothes. You are bliss in agony’s clothes. You are a Prince in a victim’s clothes. No wonder we are so angry! No wonder we are so grumpy! No wonder we complain! No wonder we blame and criticize! No wonder we lie and deceive! No wonder we have violence and wars!

Jesus came to bring us one message: that we are the Christ just like he is. Christhood is our potential. Any less brings disaster and dissatisfaction. If you are anxious, you are not being yourself. If you are anxious, you are not Christ-realized. If you are anxious, you are short-changing yourself. Christhood is potentiality.

Hidden in every acorn is an infinity of oak trees. You can count the number of seeds in a single apple, but not the number of apples in a single seed. In Christhood awaits our selfhood. The cosmic man is hidden in you. The hidden man of the heart, says Peter. I am in you and you are in me, Jesus said. You are a great mystery.

Level Two is hidden to Earth Man’s eyes. Earth Man only sees with his five senses. His spiritual eyes have not yet opened. He does not see the world God made. He only sees what the eyes of the media have told him. Our only purpose here is to wake up to our Christhood, to our Level Two. If you can get through the Matrix, the dis-illusioning story, you are home free. Whatever anxiety and suffering it takes, is worth it. Anxiety is your ticket through Go.

The next time you are frustrated, worried or bored, practice anxiety-awareness. Anxiety-awareness is awesome. It requires no action, no fixing. Just be aware that you are anxious. Ask what your anxiety is about. Then listen.

Anxiety is not about the outside world at all. Anxiety is about your hidden potential, your Christhood. Anxiety is telling you that you have no limits. Anxiety is telling you the truth about your abundance. Anxiety is telling you that God is here now. Anxiety is telling you that not one single thing in the universe is denied you. Anxiety is saying that Paradise is Here Now.

Anxiety is a wake-up call about the Secret of Life. You have the keys to the Kingdom. Anxiety is telling you that you do have eyes to see and ears to hear. You can think the thoughts of God. Just wake up from this nightmare of limitation, isolation, and separation. There is no limit. There is no separation. There is no isolation. There is no stuckness. Just rise to Level Two. Rise to your Christhood, whatever you call it. Call it Level Two, call it Higher Self, call it Budda, call it Spirit, call it the Mystery. It is nameless. The purpose of suffering is simply to awaken you to your non-suffering potential.

Infinite Variety

The universe is one, but infinite in variety. No two snowflakes, no two drops of water, no two fingerprints, no two stars, no two molecules are the same. Universal oneness, universal variety. Each and every one is essential, unique, and irreplaceable. Sing your song. Appreciate your uniqueness and your oneness. You make a difference. You change your corner of the world everyday, one way or another.

Our neighbor removes our snow every time it snows. No charge, no questions asked, no expectations, no reminders. It’s grace. I can’t explain it. I joined a website that sends me free money every day. It’s grace. I can’t explain it. The universe blesses us all every day with unexplainable grace. How thankful are we? Gratitude brings more to be grateful for. Be grateful for your uniqueness and for your universality.

You are as big as your mind allows you to be. There are no limits except those that you set. The universe is expanding exponentially in all directions at the speed of light. Are you? Why not!

You can Still see Larry King Live on the Secret

http://jamesray.com/resources/larry-king-live.php?utm_source=lkl3online&utm_medium=interview&utm_campaign=Blast

Cracking the Code

Each of us in on a therapeutic God-Quest

You’re close, but it is a deceptive quest. We have all been fooled. The greatest deception is when you think you know and you don’t. False knowledge. The knowledge of good versus evil is false knowledge. What your senses tell you is skewed knowledge. Your senses and memories, and the logic based upon them are misleading. If you have anxiety, you are mistaken, misled, fooled, and are using false logic.

The Secret behind the Secret is out. We have cracked the code. It is as obvious as the next event in your life. It is right out in the open. The Secret is that there is no Secret. You just need to use the eyes you have. The X-Ray vision. You have all that it takes. Nothing is missing. You have just been looking in the wrong place, with the wrong assumptions. You have been telling yourself that you are lost, left out, alone, cheated, deprived, robbed, handicapped, disadvantaged, abused, hurt, or victimized. None of this is true.

You are not in a bad relationship. You do not need a new job or career. You don’t need to start over. You don’t need a million dollars. You don’t need anything except to wake up to who you are. God made you exactly like himself: perfect. He called it Very Good. With the help of society, you made yourself just the opposite: not very good. You invented an ego concept of yourself, a concept of lack, separateness, and limitation. You got stuck in your story. Your story runs your life. The only victim you could possibly be is a victim to your self-invented story of good-versus-evil. It’s all a lie. There is no evil. There is no loss. There is no danger. There is no inherent suffering. There is no deprivation. There is no inferiority/superiority game to win. There is no one to defeat you or to be defeated by you.

There is no carrot you have to chase. You do not have to leave or change your spouse, parents or kids. There is nothing outside of you that you don’t already possess. God gave it all to you and continues to do so every minute of every day. God is not a withholder. God withholds nothing. God is a giver. He is the Infinite Good and gives it all every milli-second.

The Treasure is yours, but what good is it you don’t know it? The only thing you have to accomplish in this life is to know the truth. But if you assume that you know, you will not know. You have to realize that you don’t know. Anxiety is the final measure of what you know or don’t know. If you are anxious, you don’t know. If you are denying, covering up or rationalizing your anxiety, you still don’t know.

Sit down and be silent. Watch your mind until all of your problems and solutions run out. Are you still anxious? Then you don’t know yet. Whatever your problem is will pop up within the next few minutes. It’s not that complicated. Just watch your mind. You are not your mind. You can watch it.

Find out who is watching. You are not the ego, the one who is trying, the one who is worried, the one who is insecure, the one who is scheming, the one who doubts, the one who feels hurt or endangered, the one who feels some lack or loss. You are the watcher of that one. You are the one who can see, analyze and see through anxiety. You are the one who does not have to remedy, prevent or solve anxiety, Anxiety is not a problem. The only problem is the story which generates the anxiety. You can see that story, and see through that story. That is all you ever have to do. Getting the message of your anxiety is what cracks the code, exposes the box you are in, flings open the door of this self-made prison, reveals the treasure.

We are on a treasure hunt, a God-quest. The treasure is our awareness. God is the truth we have never known. The path to our God-quest is the exact path we are on, but do not recognize. It is the road less traveled. There is nothing but God. We thought that God was hidden or irrelevant or something by that name. We can’t name God. God is everything. Waking up is our life-quest.

Is this too good to be true? That’s why it is true.

What’s the catch? You give up your little known for everything unknown. Would you give your last dollar?

Come to the edge, He said.
They said, We are afraid.
Come to the edge, He said.
They came. He pushed them…and they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Begin right now. Open your awareness as wide as possible. Expand beyond your box, beyond your story, beyond your known familiar world. Expand in all directions at the speed of light. Now we have begun.

Cracking the Code

We are living in a story in which the language we are using is all in code. The words we are using are misleading. Every word that “I” use is incorrect because “I” is an illusion. We have to crack the code and learn a new language. The code is jibberish. Sometimes it sounds like science, sometimes like religion, and usually like television. If you listen carefully, it goes in circles. Our story makes no ultimate sense. Life is a tale signifying nothing, said Shakespeare. He was wrong on that score. All of our jibberish means something, but we just don’t know what.

In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was God, but language got confused, and we forgot the code. Once we crack the code, we are home free. The Owner’s Manuel is written in code. Sorry. We are still ignorant of that fact. We think that what we see and hear tells us the truth. If it does, why is the world in such a mess?

Life is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Science claims to have cracked the code of the Torah, finding in it incontestable evidence that its author was not human. Maybe, maybe not. But one thing we can check out is whether the code is written in you and I.

Anxiety doesn’t crack the code; it tells us we haven’t done it yet. We need to be reminded of why we keep running into stone walls, why we are so dissatisfied, why we are so accusatory, why we are so addicted, why we are so defensive and argumentative.

Every stressful thought is a clue to some false story we are telling ourselves. Every stressful thought contains a hidden key to code-cracking. Is it worth your time? There is nothing else to do. Crack the code, and you are home. You are rich. You are unconditional. The source of anxiety is cut. If it comes back and you get upset, you can get rid of some more of it, until finally the entire collective mind is gone.

Don’t you know that the Christ is being born in you? Jesus and Buddha cracked the Christ Code for all of humanity and made it easier for us. The door has been opened and cannot be shut, but you and I have to enter it. You and I can enter our godhood, the word made flesh. The gate is straight ahead, it is called Now.

Every thought, feeling and perception we have is encoded in symbolism, myth and metaphor. Nothing is literal. Nothing is material. Nothing is mechanical. Everything is alive. Everything is spirit. Everything is revelation. Everything is the infinite in finite form. We are spiritual beings living in what appears to be a physical universe. It’s all code. Nothing is what it seems, not even the body. It’s all light. It’s all a hologram. It’s all God. Whatever you think you see, feel, sense, taste or smell is just energy encoded. It’s all energy. It’s all spirit. It’s all indestructible.

For thousands of years we have labeled things as good or bad, and we have confused ourselves, our values, our choices, and their consequences. It can all be de-coded, de-ciphered, de-hypnotized, and dis-created. There is no such thing as evil, sickness, old age, suffering or death. We made up those ideas. God had nothing to do with it. His only goal is now what it always was, to enlighten us.

You are Unconditional

The Search for the Unconditional

There are two levels of consciousness: the conditional and the unconditional. We all want to experience the unconditional, but we feel stuck in the conditional. And so we experience anxiety and blame it on something or someone.

When you become aware of the unconditional, you are not going to lose anything or be hurt. Therefore you need no defenses or rescue schemes. In the limited world of the ego mentality, you are going to lose and be hurt. Self-defense won’t protect you, nor will self-rescue free you.

If the universe is yours, how can you lose anything? If the universe is infinitely good, how can it hurt you? If evil does not exist, why would you need self-defense or self-rescue? If the universe seems limited and deficient, you will always be guarded lest you lose. If the universe seems dangerous or indifferent, you will always feel subject to hurt. So who decides which universe is true?

The five senses only tell you of the limited life and the conditional universe. The limited life is no more than the belief in what the five senses tell you.

Scientists tell us that the universe is expanding at the speed of light in all directions. In other words, the nature of the universe is more and greater. Not one of us is less than that. We have the capability to expand infinitely also. More and greater is our nature. But if we perceive ourselves to be stuck in a “less” universe, we become anxious. And we do not understand what that anxiety is telling us.

What is anxiety telling us? That we are infinite beings in an infinite universe, telling ourselves a constant story of limitation, danger and deprivation. You will never be satisfied with less. More is your nature. More love, more peace, more freedom, more choices, more creativity, more resources, more power, more belonging, more truth.

We are infinity in motion. There is no one or nothing that can limit us except our story. If we perceive limitation, we will blame. Blame only re-enforces the prison walls in which we dwell. Blame is self-protection, not self-discovery. The only “cure” for blame is Self-awareness. Self-awareness means awareness of the Infinite Good. There is no lack, no evil, no danger, no limitation, nothing to fear. It’s all made up. It’s all Good News. There is only Good News and our ego belief system.

The Secret is that we are searching for the Unconditional 24/7, that our conditional mind is telling us that it does not exist, and that is why we are anxious. Every symptom that we have is a sign of anxiety. Anxiety means that we are attached to a false story about the universe as conditional. Isn’t that marvelous!

Then where is this unconditionality? What if its right here now? If it is, why don’t we know it? We have never been here now. We live in a story about the past and the future, where God is not. The Infinite Good is here now and we are not here now. We don’t have to change the world. God made it Very Good. We just have to wake up, and that is our life’s purpose.

We are not yet spiritually aware. We are only materially, socially and psychologically seeing. This seeing delivers to us a very small universe, an incorrect I, and a judgmental God. We think we know. That is our trap. We don’t know. What we know and what we see is our trap, our prison, the cause of our inevitable anxiety, and all of its futile defense and rescue schemes. All of our symptoms (unhappiness, conflict, depression, illness, and warfare) arise from this very limited and error-filled seeing. We do not know the truth and we are not yet free. None of us.

But we are on the path, and we are here to remind each other of who we are, and of the magnificent truth hidden from us. So, every critical thought we have ever had about anyone was absolutely wrong. All that we have seen is a projection of what we dislike about ourselves.

Do the work. Let us question every stressful, limiting thought we have today. None of them are true.

Massage

From Health Magazine
Massage: It's real medicine
POSTED: 9:48 a.m. EST, March 8, 2007
By Kristyn Kusek Lewis

Having your honey rub your back is sweet, but it's tough to compete with the hands of a pro. A good massage therapist can make you feel like a new person. And now research suggests massage can ease insomnia, boost immunity, prevent PMS, and more. Maybe that's why hospitals are making it a standard therapy.

"All of our surgery patients are offered the treatment -- I call it 'service with a smile' -- and it's a mandatory weekly prescription I give myself," says Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., director of the Cardiovascular Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital--Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and a member of the board at LLuminari, a health-education company.

Our advice: Enjoy your hands-on time with your sweetie, but set aside some time for a real massage, too. Here are some feel-good reasons:

Goodbye, pain

It sounds like a no-brainer, but rubdowns are especially effective for aches like low-back pain. Researchers at the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle, Washington, found that massage works better than common treatments including chiropractic therapy and acupuncture. It's not clear why, but several studies show massage reduces levels of the stress hormone cortisol while boosting the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine. Those changes slow your heart rate, reduce blood pressure, and block your nervous system's pain receptors. Massage also increases blood flow to the muscles, which may help them heal. (Health.com: Frequently asked questions about massageexternal link )

A bonus: Massage also seems to ease distress from migraine, labor pain, and even cancer, as well as the body tenderness seen with fibromyalgia, says Tiffany Field, Ph.D., director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Plus, the benefits may last as long as a year after just a few treatments, says Partap Khalsa, Ph.D., a chiropractor and a program officer at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Com­plementary and Alternative Medicine, the agency funding many major studies on massage.

Hello, dreams

Fluctuations in several types of brain waves either relax you or wake you up. Massage increases delta waves -- those linked with deep sleep -- according to a study at the Touch Research Institute. That's why it's easy to drift off on the massage table, Field says.

Nice to have you back, brain power

The Touch Research Institute study that connected massage to sleep also found that a 15-minute chair massage boosted alertness. "Subjects reported that it felt like a runner's high," Field says. Tests also show that brain-wave activity stimulated by massage is linked to improved attention.

Take that, colds

Massage helps ward off bugs by boosting your "natural killer cells," the immune system's first line of defense against invading illness. "We know that cortisol destroys natural killer cells," Field says. "Therefore, since massage decreases cortisol, your immune cells get a boost." Massage even seems to boost immunity in those people with severely compromised immune systems, such as breast-cancer patients. (Health.com: Which massage is best for you?external link)

Blues, be gone

Less cortisol and more serotonin and dopamine in your system may also mean less stress, anxiety, and depression. "We know that the right side of the frontal lobe of the brain is more active when we're sad, and the left side's activated when we're happy," Field says. "Our studies have observed that massage decreases activity in the right lobe and increases functioning in the left." The well-being people feel after a massage is a big reason why some hospitals offer it to anxious patients pre­paring for surgery and cancer patients going through chemo.

Shove off, PMS

A small study of 24 women with severe PMS found that massage reduced symp­toms such as pain, water retention, and mood swings. Try it with proven remedies such as exercise (and who-cares-if-they-work solutions like a little dark chocolate).

More on the Secret

Thursday, March 8, at 9 pm Eastern, you can catch Larry King's third recent program on The Secret, featuring James Ray.

Is The Secret a Threat?

What is The Secret a threat to? To everyone’s vested interests! Don’t we all have a vested interest in our story? You had better believe it!

The Secret is a threat to the beliefs of scientists, doctors, therapists, churches, politicians, military establishments, business men, universities, even to kindergartens. The Secret is a threat to society itself. The Secret is a threat to all of our stories about how things are.

The Secret is freedom. Freedom is a threat to all of our vested interests. The Secret is a threat to our so-called national security. The Secret is a threat to the war machine. The Secret is a threat to every individual who believes in good-versus-evil.

What will be the fate of the Secret? It will for many be a flash in the pan. Many assume it is another get-rich-quick scheme, another codependency strategy, another new age deception, and soon it will be dropped as being a farce. At least half of those now zealous about the Secret will be bitter about it in one year. It will become more new age fluff for many.

The resistance to the Secret is already beginning to build. Many are already saying it is wishful thinking, it is anti-Christian, it is non-scientific, it is just a big buildup for another let-down.

But what is the Secret? The Secret will require the rest of your life to understand its depths. The Secret is not just a new technique. Eventually the Secret will lead you to the Secret Beyond the Secret. Eventually you will realize that the Secret is just Step One. The Secret shows you how to improve your story. The Secret Beyond the Secret completely undermines your story and the anxiety that goes with it.

Step One is to dig into the Secret. Go all out for it. Learn how it works and doesn’t work! Then see if there is another step, the Secret Beyond the Secret. You can’t get to the Secret Beyond the Secret without "getting" the Secret.

If the Secret is prayer, the Secret Beyond the Secret is praying without ceasing, and who knows what that is?

What is the Secret Beyond the Secret?

What is the Secret Beyond the Secret?

In the Secret we are learning to focus on what we want and not on what we don’t want. This is a major step forward for mankind. It is a modern revision of the art of prayer in terms of metaphysics and quantum physics. Due to the baggage of religion, the teachers of the Secret have minimized religious terminology, and that sets the stage for everyone to more actively benefit.

For me the step beyond focusing on what I want is to focus on what is being given to me right now. Quite often, what I think I want is quite limited. What I think I want is only a symbol. What I think I want is blocking me from realizing what I already have.

Just suppose that right now I am being given the universe. Suppose that right now I already have what it is that I think I lack. Suppose that the universe is already mine and I don’t realize it. Suppose that every event in my life is grace and I don’t see it. Suppose I am spiritually wealthy already. Suppose I am spiritually healthy already. Suppose I am spiritually happy already. Being aware of these facts and grateful about them, causes them to materialize in ways beyond our imagination.

Suppose I am just ignorant and confused. Suppose I don’t have to wait for materialization. Suppose I don’t have to switch my focus from an old car that I don’t want to the new car I do want? Suppose that I am spiritually whole and don’t realize it. Suppose that the kingdom of reality is always fully present in me now. Suppose that I am keeping myself from the whole enchilada by resisting the old and waiting on the new?

How do I know what is best for me? Is a new car best for me? Is God not giving me more good than I can handle already? Am I awake and aware of what that is and where it is? If I am focused on what I don’t have and on what I want, am I going to miss the Infinite Good that is already being offered?

The Secret Beyond the Secret is that I am not aware of the wholeness, the perfect, the Infinite Good, the desirable, the wanted, the abundance…..that is here now. In my very next instant, God is here now. I can receive the wholeness now. It is always being given, it is always present already, we are just not here. We are out to lunch. We are stuck in past or future with our thinking, wanting, regretting, dreading, fearing, envying, complaining, criticizing, blaming and suffering.
We think that joy is pleasure. We think we know what is pleasurable and what is not. We are trying to avoid pain and obtain pleasure about certain things, certain activities and certain people. We do not see that joy is here now in all things, activities and people.

We do not see the difference in pleasure and joy (contentment). Pleasure comes and goes. Contentment does not. Pleasure-seeking is an anxiety-ridden pursuit. Contentment is the end of anxiety. Security-seeking is an anxiety-ridden pursuit. Security-awareness is not. Control-seeking and power-seeking is an anxiety-ridden pursuit. Trust and power-awareness is a present reality and has nothing to do with other people, circumstances or the body. Seeking love, support and appreciation are anxiety-ridden pursuits. Love-awareness, support-awareness, and appreciation-awareness is possible right now and have nothing to do with other people or circumstances. Awareness is the Secret Beyond the Secret.

It’s okay to focus on what you want. The Secret is okay. But there is a faster, more efficient, all-inclusive Secret Beyond the Secret. There is a state beyond the Law of Attraction. This state was called Buddahood by Buddha and the Kingdom of God by Jesus. I have called it the Infinite Good or Reality or godhood.

The Infinite Good does not have to be asked for, sought, visualized, or waited for. Awareness is all that is required. Awareness of Reality is the Secret Beyond the Secret. It is not the action of a law. The Secret Beyond the Secret is Reality- Awareness.

Whatever happens next is a symbol of the Infinite Good. If you think it is bad, useless, boring, or harmful, it is. If you think it is God in form, it is. If you perceive everything that happens as a gift to and for you, it is. You do not have to wish for or wait for anything. It is all here now. The Infinite Good is all that exists. If you wish for a new car, and it gets a fender ding the next day, that ding is your gift as well. The imperfects as well as the perfects are Perfect. The goods and the bads are Infinitely Good. In true awareness, there are no goods or bads. The awareness of the Infinite Good is the true treasure of life. That awareness is the Secret Beyond the Secret.

All that anyone could possibly want is the awareness of the Infinite Good. Even when you want that new car, that new house or that new relationship, you are wanting the awareness of the Infinite Good through forms. The Infinite Good is present already in the old car, the old house and the old relationship. The Infinite Good is present in old and new forms. You can enjoy either, both or neither.

Forms come and go, the Infinite Good does not. What you really want is to be able to enjoy the Infinite Good in all forms. That is the Secret Beyond the Secret.
How do I know that you can have what you want? You already have it. The universe is yours. Access your awareness. Would a perfect god give to his or her perfect child less than perfection? Would God give you desires without fulfillment of those desires? What torture that would be! He gave us desires and their fulfillment both at the same time. The entire kingdom of God is yours. All that he is or has is yours. Nothing has been withheld. Even unlimited awareness is yours. That is the Secret Beyond the Secret.

God sleeps in the rock; God dreams in the plant; God stirs in the animal; God awakens in the human.Rumi

Today I am grateful for the greatest gift of all, the Secret beyond the Secret: Awareness.