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Lee Harris’s March Energy Forecast

I have run out of time to adequately share with you my feelings and remarks about Lee’s March 2013 energy forecast.

Actually, I have a great deal to share, especially as it relates to an article I just finished writing entitled Divine Connection Through The Heart.

Lee’s forecast is so powerful and helpful in grappling with the changes we are all experiencing that I thought you would want to see it right away this month.

Check back soon and I’ll have more to share.

Enjoy!

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Hi everybody and welcome to the March Energy Forecast.
 
It’s just after 8 AM here in Colorado where we have snow and we have birds that are very, very happy to be awake (bird song is heard). And ‘awake’ is a key word this month. How awake are you feeling recently?
 
Some of you will feel like you’re being dragged through a bush backwards (as we like to say in England), and some of you will feel very alive. This energy dance has been going on for years and I’ve been talking about it for years, as have many other people.
 
And some of the symptoms that can show up for you right now are;

  • Feeling hyper
  • Feeling over-stimulated
  • Feeling that so much is going on that you are losing your mind.

This is a great gift, if you are losing your mind. I love losing my mind. (Smiling)

But for now, we are talking, so we have to use the mind to access what it is that we’re looking at with words.
 
And this is how we have grown up. This is how we have been so far, mostly, trained – especially in our Western society. We have been trained to access as much as we can through the mind.  

It’s not that that aren’t physical or sensual pleasures on Earth, because there are and we’ve all experienced them. But a great deal of our interaction, intimacy, relating, understanding, and education in Western society has come through this part of us – the mind.  
 
And so you take in the words, you take in the education through your mind, and it filters down through the body. And depending on how clear your mind interpreted the words, the filtering takes place at greater or lesser speed through your body.

Rapid filtering is an experience we are all in right now.

So yes, some of you might be consciously meditating, some of you might be consciously eating well, some of you might be exercising well, some of you might be occasionally stopping to look at anything in your past that seems to replay for you or haunt you, some of you may just be doing it through dreams and using your dreams to consciously intend change or resolution. 
 
But regardless of what you are choosing to focus on, we’re all in the surrender of this filtering and upgrading process.  
 
We are in response to the energy waves now moving through and across our Earth, our planet, and these are universal energy waves that we are on the receiving end of and in the eye of the storm with. These energy waves have their own pathway and as a byproduct, they have a greater emotional and psychological intensity on us than we’ve ever experienced before.
 
I often feel like a broken record when I do these energy forecasts because there are so many aspects of the shift that I am called time and time again to repeat. But that’s because the symptoms repeat and cycle through us.

But what you should notice is that you should be changing through your experience of the symptoms.

So if you feel long-term stuck, then it is likely that you are stuck. The question is what do you do with being stuck? And I know for many of you, what you would do with being ‘stuck’ is to beat yourself up and question what is wrong.
 
Try and see that now as the old paradigm. If there is any spiritual teacher or person out there that tries to tell you that you’re wrong, or you’re stuck, or you’re in resistance, recognise it is old. If it feels good to be told those things and if those things actually do move you somewhere then, great, maybe that’s what you need to go with.
 
But generally all that does is compress us. Compresses our potential expansion. And often the reason we listen to those judgments is because something in our earlier life taught us that that was our pattern – our energy pattern of compressing ourselves, because we were put down or judged or scared of what people might think of us. So we shrank every time somebody sent something negative our way.
 
So, the act of awakening that is a ‘doing’, for those of us who are moving through this, is the act of awareness. And allowing yourself to bring awareness to yourself and your patterns – questioning, “Am I always negative on myself after this happens?” or “Do I always tend to feel like I crash after something good has happened?” And just question that pattern, and become aware of the answer. Because every pattern can change.
 
It’s not about forcing yourself to change or kicking yourself because you’re not changing as fast as you’d like. It’s actually just allowing the possibility of change and not letting the voice in your head tell you what is or isn’t happening. Because, that voice in your head is very small – very, very small.
 
Our energy fields as human beings are wide and high. So you’re currently looking at me as a physical figure, but I extend out and up and down around my physicality, and so do you. Wide and high.
 
The part of us that is our mind however, is very, very localized.  So, especially when you’re dealing with words, you’re looking at processing words through a very small area of yourself.
 
This is why so many of you will have felt recently like you cannot be in your mind like you used to be. This is a great thing, (unless of course you desire to get certain ‘mind’ things done).
 
The reason many are vacating their minds now, is that it is very over stimulating up there. We’re opening more into multi-dimensionality as people, and so what’s happening is our mind is revolving faster than ever before with great intensity through a process of filtering, organizing and assessing what is going on in us and for us.
 
So for example, 10 years ago many of you may have taken a week or two to get through an issue you were having.  Now that’s what you deal with and wrap up before breakfast, then after breakfast you move on to something else.
 
It’s hard for us to track the speed of life because we move with life and so we go through the changes gradually. But if you really stop and ask yourself “Is it true that I’m moving a lot faster now than I was 3 to 5 years ago?” The truth is you will be, and I can hear those of you who are now feeling stuck questioning that, which is understandable. 
 
So what I would ask you guys to do is to allow yourself to release the stuckness.  And all you need to do to begin this process is to say “I allow myself to release this.”
 
Physical illness is slightly different to feeling emotionally or psychologically stuck. It’s not immutable, but it’s a slower process. The body is slower in general than your energy field, your thoughts, your emotions. And once something has become imbedded in the body, it can take time to work through the physical healing process.
 
So if you are physically ill, don’t beat yourself up and see that as a failing. That’s what you’re choosing to experience right now in the bigger form of life – the soul perspective.

But of course in the micro-detail, the part of us that is just a human being and forgets about the soul and an evolutionary journey, that way of seeing things can move pain, shame and guilt, judgment – all sorts of negative feelings and thoughts through you.

And all of these denser energies are just ingested.
 
For example, babies who arrive in our world have a soul history and they have a soul path, but they haven’t, at that point, started to greatly ingest any emotions other than their mother’s, the body that they came through. That, in itself, can be a lot but the point here being that we can work backwards from what we have ingested and become. It is all releasable once you identify the limits you are experiencing.
 
Here is the caveat though: if you find yourself saying “I just want to change everything about my life, I just want to change myself.” Why, is the question you have to ask yourself?
 
Because what is wrong with you? You’re a beautiful human being doing the best you can every single day to have the best life that you are able to within your circumstances. While also giving what you can to those around you, honouring those relationships and being part of the wheel of life on this beautiful and sometimes crazy, volatile planet.

So be good to yourself.
 
Remember too, that most of the methods of stimulation around us, whether it is the internet, the media, or anything that is informational, uses words to convey energy. It’s time that you decide for yourself what each piece of information is energetically telling/sending you.

What are you ingesting and how does it feel?
 
So for example, very negative slants can be put on things going on around the world. And I’m not talking about disasters or what we would call tragedies. I’m more talking about things that are being spun, things that aren’t exactly as they seem in terms of the way they are being reported.
 
This happens all the time. Because we are all individuals and we all have our own personal filters. And this is where you have to come back into your centre and your body and ask yourself what do I feel is true?
 
We are having a shared experience, and as we awaken we learn to share more, give more, and be more a part of the wheel of life (rather than an individual egoic self). But within that we are also still within our personal energy fields and within our personal bodies and we have to trust that we can discern what is right for us in each moment.
 
And, the sooner that we trust that, the more we start to trust,
“Okay, today I did something that I see I could improve on.” Or, “I wish today I had been able to have the clarity or the light that I had the other day so that when I was in today’s difficult situation I had done better.”
 
But again, that’s an okay way of looking at things provided you don’t get heavy on the judgment on yourself.  Because judgment compresses us and keeps us small.

If you can simply learn to trust what’s happening in you in your life, you will naturally go through your own spiral of evolution and keep expanding.

And this can be tricky sometimes, because it may mean that certain things you previously judged yourself for, you will now be asked to not judge yourself for.  And that is often for many of us the final doorway before release.
 
There were certain things in my life that in my 20s I would have been very hard on myself for and in this decade, my 30s, I’ve begun to learn to just trust whatever I’m experiencing. This guidance was given to me and it’s interesting how with that piece in place, so much accelerated for me to allow me to feel more peaceful more of the time no matter what was going on around me.
 
It doesn’t mean you’re immune to emotion and it doesn’t mean you’re immune to feeling sorrow or compassion for what’s going on around you, but it does mean you have a greater sense of location in your own body because you have cleared out so many of the ingested influences that you were fed or that you believed in, but that weren’t really representing you.

So let’s just take a moment together to look at locating yourself in the body.
 
Take your hand, right or left, and just place it on your heart chakra center (the center of your chest). And then take another one and place it gently on your stomach.
 
Just breathe for a moment and fill your belly. Just feel the breath going in and out of this torso, this body of yours.
 
And if you had forgotten about this body while watching or reading, just notice that. In your mind, you were listening to my words, listening to your own reactions and thoughts to my words, and notice how during that you’d forgotten this beautiful torso beneath your head.

It comes with us everywhere. The whole body is always with us. And it’s true that when you travel into your mind or your higher consciousness you can sometimes forget about the body.

But there is a perfect meeting point between body and consciousness; there is a bridge. That’s why we do things like this exercise. That’s why we physically exercise and look after our bodies. The bridge lies in finding the grounding point between spirit and human. And from that place you can really create what you’re here to create.
 
So just breathe, back to the torso.
 
Let yourself feel your own hands sending love into your body. You can do this any time and we forget to do it.
 
You may want to say inside your mind, “I love myself, I love this world.”
 
If it feels challenging to say, that’s okay. You can say it anyway and it will move something for you. If it feels like you don’t want to, don’t say it.

Don’t do it just because I mentioned to if it doesn’t feel right.
 
This is one of the other big aspects we have been looking at today. There are people like me everywhere talking and giving you information. What do you feel about it?

That’s really important. Because there will be some things which are just perfect for you and some things that aren’t meant for you.
 
And rather than get into a fight with it, doubt what it is you are hearing or need to change the other person and their perspective/information, you can keep your flow alive by simply moving on.

This is why arguments are usually detrimental to your flow. The exceptions can be resolution arguments where you are purging yourself of a difficult relationship with somebody, or the person arguing with you gives you an opportunity to release suppressed past emotion, but even these are just momentary steps on the path rather than habits of awakened relationships.
 
Many of you may have noticed the arguments inside parts of yourself recently getting faster. It’s like a crazy house in that mind sometimes – so many voices and opinions. This is because so many aspects and voices are being shown to you now, and it’s great – you can just observe them all and see how busy it is up there in the mind as the releases occur.

In March, keep slowing down; keep slowing your life down. Keep going as slow as you possibly can.
 
If hearing that suggestion makes you scared, recognize adrenaline and fear is driving some of your speed. And deal with calming or moving the fear/adrenaline to lose the power in the fear thought.

If my suggestion makes you feel delighted, good – keep slowing down.
 
You see there is so much moving now at such a speed, that if you get caught up in it, you can lose your footing at the moment. The month of March is going to be very much about this – stabilizing and grounding yourself in order to create.
 
The second half of March my instincts tell me is going to be intense in a way that we haven’t experienced in the last few weeks. And the sense around that is externals in our world will be the focus of the intensity.
 
So, many of you have been in resonance with what’s upcoming anyway, because we are not disconnected from any of it. We are constantly affected by everything that is going on on this planet and beyond. We may just not always be consciously aware of it.
 
That is why the multi-dimensional self is now starting to become more aware of everything going on at the edges of (and beyond) your energy field, rather than just this localized self. Awakening the localized or ‘smaller’ self involves resolving and purging parts of yourself that you took on, or compressed, in response to other experiences. And until that awakening happens, the multi-dimensional self can’t fully open.

So, one last breath, back to the torso.  

Just keep breathing everybody. The new-world birth continues and you can look at it in a long-range way and you can say we are in a shift and you can see years ahead and you can see years back.

Or like the birds, you could find yourself, in any single moment, experiencing the sensory nature of your life and reawakening those inner senses, so as to reawaken your multi-dimensional self.
 
Remember this physical re-grounding. It’s a very simple exercise. You can do it very quickly several times a day and it will just bring you back to your body and take your energy focus away from the mind when it gets busy up there.

Until next month everybody, lots of love and take care.
Lee
x

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From Marc David- A New Definition of Metabolism

Once again I am passing on to you the simple, intuitive truth about food and our bodies that Marc David specializes in.

This week’s discussion is about the concept of metabolism. I loved one of the final paragraphs in which metabolism is equated to personal power.

Does this ring true for you? It certainly does for me.

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From Marc David- When You Eat Is As Important As What You Eat

This post by Marc David contains information that is familiar to anyone who has read about or has studied the traditional Asian system of healing known in the acupuncture meridians and the five elements system.
What I enjoyed about Marc’s writing on the topic is that he clearly relates the connection of the cycles of metabolism and food digestion with the environment of human beings. This is also the case when one studies the meridians and elements, but there seems to be less abstraction here in Marc’s  simple explanations.
Our body cycles correspond clearly to the planet we live in.  Marc reminds us that most Americans patterns of food consumption are out of synch with the cycles we live in.
So if you are a night eater,  notice the ways  the current culture we live in encourages our eating in patterns that are not optimal for our maintaining vibrant good health.
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When You Eat is as Important as What You Eat

Posted on February 14, 2013 – 12 Comments

Eye ClockRhythm is everywhere. Each particle of our being moves and pulsates, dances and sings, and keeps to the beat of a brilliantly conceived symphony. The whole of our biology is a fantastic clockwork of precise chemical and hormonal rhythms whose timing is critical for our survival and well-being. Your heart beating is a rhythm. Your lungs breathing, inhaling and exhaling vital atmosphere, is a rhythm. The electrochemical pulsation of the brain is a rhythm. So too is the menstrual cycle, waking and sleeping, digesting and eliminating, and the contraction and expansion of every cell, vessel, and organ in the body. Interfere with any of these and disease or death can follow.

Master rhythm and you master metabolism.

Indeed, much of what ails us from a nutritional perspective – weight gain, fatigue, digestive complaints, carbohydrate craving, overeating – can be resolved by entraining with the kinds of rhythms that naturally and effortlessly regenerate us. Lets take a look at how we can better understand and harness this important metabolic force.

One of the simplest and most reliable ways to measure the metabolic rate of the human body is to take its temperature. The hotter you are, the more metabolic you’ll be. The Latin name for our midsection-solar plexus-means “gathering place for the sun.” This highlights how we’ve long known that the basic design of the human form is a capturing device for the sun’s energy. The more efficiently we harness the sun’s warmth, the better we digest, assimilate, and calorie burn.

It’s no accident that we use temperature metaphors to describe what excites us. An energetic person is called “a fireball,” an attractive person is “hot,” we “warm up” to some people while others leave us “cold.”

As evolutionary fate would have it, body temperature has a rhythm that is consistent and predictable for most everyone, and this daily rhythmic fluctuation reveals some important insight into unleashing our metabolic potential. During the evening and early morning hours when we sleep, body temperature drops. It makes sense that our bodies are cooler at this time because were not busy hunting for animals in the jungle or hunting for bargains at the mall. Our muscles have little work to do at this time; the body is in a state of rest, healing, and repair. We do burn calories as we sleep, but not at the amount we use up in our waking hours.

The moment your eyes open in the morning, body temperature automatically begins to rise.

This is the same thing as saying your metabolism wakes up when you do. It makes biological sense because now the sun is up, and it’s time to find food, find a mate, do battle, and perhaps do a few good deeds. Even if you stayed in bed all day and didn’t move, your temperature/metabolism would still elevate because we’re programmed to entrain with the rhythms of the sun.

Since you’re naturally heating up in the morning, eating at this time is a smart bet if you’re trying to lose weight. Adding food to your gut will increase metabolic rate even more and provide your body with the nutrients its already preparing to process. Think of your gut as a furnace. When you add fuel, the heat rises.

There are, of course, exceptions to every nutritional rule. I’m presenting this information as guidelines – not absolute facts for everyone. Many people who live in hot-weather climates do great with no breakfast, a light breakfast, or a fruit breakfast. You’ll also find that you might do well on a substantial breakfast in the colder months, but will be drawn to eat lighter in the early hours during the warmer seasons. You may also go through periods where the first meal you eat isn’t until after lunch, and that too works fine, until your metabolism shifts into its next phase.

Body temperature continues a slow, steady rise and subsequently peaks around noon. It will exactly reach its apex the very moment the sun finds its high point in the sky – this is a little known scientific fact that shows our profound connection to the cosmos. Our digestive force is therefore hottest at lunchtime. It makes sense, then, that our largest meal would be best consumed at this time, when our ability to pulverize food is strongest.

After our metabolic peak at high noon, body temperature dips for the period between approximately 2:00pm and 5:00pm. It shouldn’t surprise you that just as we feel more awake when body temperature is rising, we feel sleepy when it’s falling. So if you’ve ever felt that there’s something wrong with you because your energy drops somewhere between 2-ish and 5-ish, don’t worry – you’re perfectly normal. Most people you ask will tell you that they feel tired during this time. It’s the human rhythm. Lions love to lounge around and absorb after their big kill. So do you and I.

Body energy – in the form of blood flow and oxygenation is rerouted to digestion after our midday meal.

The result is that we feel even more tired. People in many European and Latin American countries typically have their biggest meal at lunchtime – the peak metabolic time slot of digestion and calorie burning. Then they take a siesta. Businesses shut down, social activity goes quiet, and people snooze. They are honoring and working with the natural rhythms of the body. Entire cultures are designed to function in relation to digestive rhythms.

Except ours.

In America, most of us tank up on caffeine or sugar during the metabolic decline of 2:00 to 5:00 PM, pushing through our fatigue in service to a way of life that values the overdrive gear more than any other speed. Can you imagine what life would be like if you could relax during this time and let go of achieving and conquering? Numerous studies have shown that one or two fifteen- to twenty-minute rest periods during the day will profoundly increase cognitive function, physical performance, mood and energy. You don’t even need to sleep during this time. It’s simply about rest, stillness, closing off outside sensations, and recharging your batteries.

Simply put, resting is a metabolic enhancer.

At around 4:00 to 6:00 PM body temperature starts to rise again. This is when most people feel their energy return. It’s also when the English stop for teatime. It makes perfect sense to do your caffeine at this point, when metabolism is picking up anyway. By around nine o’clock, body temperature begins another downward trend in preparation for sleep. Indeed, sleep research reveals that we cannot fall asleep soundly unless temperature is dropping. Anything, then, that would raise body heat in the late evening would be counterproductive to good sleep. Recall that the act of eating raises body temperature. A big meal before bed could therefore interfere with your slumber. Once again, though, Americans have it backward. We tend to do a small to nonexistent breakfast, a moderate sized lunch, and a more often than not, a big dinner before bed. And this is exactly what you ought to do if your goal is restless sleep and weight gain.

When you eat is as important as what you eat

In a typical study, researchers put a group of people on a 2,000 calorie diet. In the first part of the study, test subjects could only eat their 2,000 calories at breakfast. They ate nothing else for the rest of the day. With this one meal in the morning, everyone either lost weight or maintained their existing weight. In the second phase of the study, the same exact people ate the exact same 2,000 calories diet, except this time, they could only eat it at dinner. With this one meal for the entire day, eaten in the evening, every single person in the study gained weight. Can you see why counting calories to lose weight can be a waste of energy if we don’t take into account when we eat those calories?

Timing is everything. Sumo wrestlers have known for centuries that large meals eaten in the late evening hours will give them the physical advantage they covet most – flab. Simply put, we calorie-burn less efficiently in the late evening hours.

So, if you want to get the ultimate metabolic benefit of eating, don’t eat your most substantial and nutrient-dense meal when your digestion is on a downturn in the late evening hours. Unless you’re seriously considering an unusual career change, I suggest that you relinquish the Sumo diet immediately. Eating little food during the day and much in the evening will never take you where you want to go when it comes to optimizing energy and burning calories.

I would love to hear your experiences with eating and rhythm.
Please let me know your thoughts below – I don’t always get a chance to comment on each one but I do read them.

My warmest regards,

Marc David

Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating