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Dr. Sharon Martin - Maximize Your Healing Power · Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman

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My name is Victor Ferman. Some call me the Voice. I've always been
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fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science, and the crossroads at which they
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meet. Join me now and we will explore these topics and so much more
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with fascinating guests, authors, and experts who will guide us to Destination unlimited.
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Is it possible to build a bridge between traditional allopathic medicine and the spiritual
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healing practiced by shamans and others? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited,
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Doctor Sharon Martin, had an awakening experience that led her on the path of
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combining western medicine with energy medicine to create maximum medicine. Doctor Martin is a
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certified graduate of the Healing and Light Body Curriculum of the Four Wind Society,
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a premier training program in shamanic energy medicine. She's currently medical director of a
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rural health clinic in south central Pennsylvania. Her website is doctor Sharonmartin dot com
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and she joins me this week to share her path and just published book,
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Maximize Your Healing Power Shamanic Healing Techniques to overcome your health challenges. Please join
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me in welcoming to Destination unlimited Doctor Sharon Martin. Welcome Sharon. Oh,
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thank you, Victor. This is so fun. Thanks for having me on
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this beautiful while we're recording on the holiday weekend, but beautiful late spring,
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absolutely nice warm day here in New York too. Please share with our listeners
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your path and how it led to your calling in traditional medicine. I never
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new I never actually wanted to be a physician. I wanted to be a
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veterinarian. But you know how spirit sort of puts your path in front of
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you and you end up stumbling onto it. I stumbled onto the path of
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graduate school, and then I was on faculty at Emory University, and then
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I stumbled into medical school and stumbled into rural south central Pennsylvania, and there
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I saw mainstream medicine and its limits. The rush. We all know about
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the rush, the financial overlay, we know about that, But also because
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I was never taught in medical school or residency to engage the patient at the
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soul level. And that's the stuff for those of you who believe in a
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soul. I happen to believe in a soul. That's the stuff that warms
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my heart. And those are the connections that keep me going. I love
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science, but you know, those heart centered connections really keep me going.
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So when I saw that mainstream medicine was limited, I started seeking other esoteric
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and we'll call it ancient wisdom to start studying. And I was led to
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study Peruvian shamanism, and there I rekindled what I think fed my soul the
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most is that recognition and the validation that every living thing on the earth has
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intelligence, it has an energy, it has a spirit, and that we
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can engage with that and pull together those resources. So when I started to
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learn that and I brought that into my awareness, I think it made me
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a better doctor. I don't always share it with patients, but it certainly
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has opened my eyes to talk to people differently. Just published book, Maximize
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Your Healing Power. You share with readers. Something your father said to you
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when you expressed to him your chosen path. What did he say and what
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was your reaction? This was probably in ninety two when I first started medical
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school, and he was grumbling about the limits of science and pills. And
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he had a heart condition and so he was subjected to science and pills and
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he was grumbling, and he said Sharon Sharon Sharon, you've just got They've
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got this all wrong. You've got this all wrong. And I said,
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what do you mean, Dad, You've got this all wrong? And he
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said, there is so much more to medicine that has nothing to do with
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pills. He said, you need to open up and share that with people
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and teach them that, and you need to write a book. Why At
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that moment, I thought, okay, Dad, that's a nice idea.
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Thanks very much. You know, I'll write a how to take care of
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your sinuses, how to handle a cough. Well here we are years later,
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and literally my father died in the early two thousands, but I'm telling
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you his spirit's been with me the whole time. And when I wrote this
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book, Maximize your healing Power, I said, Dad, this is the
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one you wanted me to write. I've done it. It's thirty years later,
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but I've done it. So toast to you, Dad, and a
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toast to toast to our ancestors who have passed on, who still guide us
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absolutely. And you also say that he quoted physician heal myself and I thought,
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you know, he was being cliche, but he meant it. And
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I see it now that we as people as humans have to take back our
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power. We have power to heal ourselves, and that's what I hope my
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book will teach some techniques to start learning how to do that. Absolutely,
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And you started addressing some of the shortcomings that exist in traditional allopathic medicine,
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especially in the United States. What are some of the feelings that we have
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in the medical career, Unless you're a psychologist or psychiatrists, we don't address
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the sole journey. We don't address somebody's illness as a learning in their sole
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path and their destiny. Then the other thing is we do not know.
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Western medicine does not understand the concept of an energy body, and many indigenous
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healers know that. And in the Peruvian shamanism, they saw the energy feel
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that when my teacher's teacher diagrammed it for him, my teacher recognized that these
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were the acupuncture Indians. So that knowledge of those energy constructs of our energy
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field, when we start to incorporate that into western allopathic medicine, we're going
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to expand our potential so much. I think I've seen many doctors in my
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life, and many of them are wonderful and warm, and some of them
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are rather cold. And I was actually having a discussion with a friend the
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other day about the importance of what's referred to as bedside matter. What's lacking
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in that, especially today, where we have people sitting there with laptops making
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notes and not really connecting with the patient. You know, that ability to
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look eye to eye and to feel somebody, to be empathic and compassionate,
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and even if you have to type on the computer, you can stop and
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in a few minutes engage and or remember something they've told you from previous to
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Some people want to be an entity, they want to be an individual.
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They want to be seen and heard, and not just a number or the
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next appointment on your schedule. So I think i'd tell the story in my
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book that what was so striking about my medical school training was when we went
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on our clinical rotations and we're walking down the hall and we go in and
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it's about teaching the medical students and the residents. So I appreciate that need.
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But to stand there and talk about a patient's illness while the patient's in
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the bed in front of you, and talk about the risks and how close
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to death they are, that's so lacking in compassion and humanity. I couldn't
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stand it, and I think we are channeled down into these conveyor belts,
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these treadmills that doctors are running on. I mean, there's so much wrong
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in mainstream medicine, and the financial overlay makes it such often. But if
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we could just stop, just stop for a minute and look eye to eye
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and put the computer away and say, is there anything else I can help
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you with today? Even that wouldn't that be a change? Absolutely? Is
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emotional intelligence something that should be added to the medical curriculum? Yes, right
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now. I think it's labeled. It's stuck in a category and filed in
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a back drawer. It's called the art of medicine, which is not validated
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at all. It's what every doctor knows. People get intuitive hits, they
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they have psychic moments. We could put that under emotional intelligence, but we
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don't value it. In fact, if you say I think so and so's
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got such and such, and they'll say, well, why tell me,
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give me the data, and you can't give the data, they blow you
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off. Absolutely. Now, speaking of emotional intelligence, in maximize your healing
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power, you share an event that took place to open your consciousness to adding
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body mind, spirit healing to your traditional practice. Please tell us about that
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event. So I opened my book with a story, and the story,
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you know, Victor, the story has even more meaning for me today.
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It goes beyond a mere doctor patient encounter because I believe it was a nudge,
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not so little nudge, maybe a boot in the rear end by spirit.
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So just let me just set the scene for you. I'm in rural
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south central Pennsylvania. I've remodeled an old restaurant to be my clinic, and
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I'm working a lot to make sure I pay the bills. Yeah, just
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really working hard. And it's a Friday night. It's five o'clock. I'm
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finishing my last chart. I want to go home. I'm tired. And
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my receptionist comes down the hall with a worried look on her face and says,
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there's a young man up front. And I could tell by the worried
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look on her face that something's wrong with him and that I have to see
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him. And I am not happy, and I am not charitable in the
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thoughts that are going through my mind. Oh my golly, you gotta be
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kidding. He's not even my patient. Why do I have to do this
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outcome. I can't go home all of these things. So I see this
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young man, and on retrospect, he looks like he looked like a cherub.
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He was beautiful, porcelain's skin, with curly blonde hair, sweet sweet
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disposition, and knowing what I know about energy fields, he had light.
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He had incredible light. I didn't know that way to discribe it at that
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time. And he sits down and he tells me that he is very worried.
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He doesn't say I think I'm crazy, but he says he's very worried.
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He has bad dreams, he can't sleep, but his dreams, he's
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seeing things, He's seeing people, he's seeing events. And I said,
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well, are you seeing things that aren't there? He said, he sees
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them in his mind's eye and his dreams. And I said, well,
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then do they come true? He said that they did. That he was
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predicting, and I thought, okay, And this is where spirit says to
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me, put down the computer and think outside the box. So my mind's
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racing through the allopathic thing. Is he hallucinating? Is he schizophrenic? Is
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he depressed with psychosis? Do I have to have him committed? Am I
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going to have to call the state police to cart him forty miles away to
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hospital, and then when he gets there, how good is that going to
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be? They're going to sedate him. My mother was bipolar, and when
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she was psychotic, they sedated her till she know her mouth would hang open,
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she'd have drool at the corner of her mouth. I thought, will
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I be doing him any good? Are these abnormal thoughts and psychoses that need
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to be squelched? And I kept coming back to the answer no. In
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fact, all you're going to do is medicalize him, give him a label
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and a diagnosis, and that the best. You're going to sedate him.
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But this young man is intuitive, he's psychic, he's intuitive. So I
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thought, well, I've got to do my due diligence and at least try
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to put some reality to this. I called his girlfriend in and I said,
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when he has these dreams and they come true to other people, see
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that he sees these She said, oh, yeah. He's known for being
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predictive. His grandmother told him when he was three that he had the and
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his grandmother was a Roman egypsy. And I said to the young man,
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I said, you are not crazy. He almost cried. He was so
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relieved. I said, but you are so open. And now I'm talking
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and Victor, you know this when you're talking and you're downloading something that your
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human mind doesn't know what you're saying, and you're kind of watching yourself say
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it that you're sort of like weight. Where's this coming from? That download
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from spirit, my higher self, my soul's connection whatever it was? Starts
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talking and I said, you are incredibly permeable to everything around you. Your
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field touches everything. You are unbelievably sensitive and you're picking up on data.
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But what's happened is it's exhausted you because you're taking it all in. Now.
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I had no construct for that. I'm kind of like watching myself,
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going, are you a weirdo? And said you need to learn how to
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shut it off, to put a barrier up, and then to open it
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when you choose to. Do you have anybody in your extended family who has
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the sight? Now right there by saying that I validated that he has the
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sight. Not he has psychosis and bipolar. You have the sight. You
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need to start learning how to train yourself to shut it off and turn it
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on when you choose. Well, they left relieved and happy. My staff
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when I came out of the room, was like, are we calling the
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police? What are we doing? They were all nervous. I said,
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everything's good. He left so relieved, and I left with already one foot,
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if not both on the path to start seeking out a different way of
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looking at illness and healing. Wonderful experience, absolutely pivotal and shifting my course
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of my life. And as you have touched upon earlier, that led you
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to seek out the interest in shamanic healing. Tell us about your introduction to
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shamanic healing. I've always loved the paranormal. I've gone on to many mediums
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and psychics in my life, and my grandmother and mother were both very psychic,
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And to me it was not woo woo. To me, it was
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if someone can sit down, a total stranger can sit down and tell you
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accurate things about yourself, then to me, I'm like, doesn't that prove
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the existence of what now I know edgar Casey called the acoustic field or the
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universal matrix, whatever you call it. So it has to be real if
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someone else can see pieces and I've never met them before, so there has
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to be another dimension that's existing around us. And I started reading Alberto Violdo's
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book Shaman, He and Sage, and knew that I had to seek out
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the indigenous, an indigenous way of looking at human illness, and it happened
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to be Peruvian shamanism. I think I was drawn to the indigenous quality of
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it. I was drawn to the animistic that every a rock, a bird,
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the earth have spirit in them, they have life force. Then you
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can commune with them. And I personally believe in past lives. I was
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a medicine man in a Native American tribe on the East Coast in a past
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life, and those things came up in visualizations as I learned this, but
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it awakened that part or reawakened brought it back into my awareness, wonderful energy
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to remind ourselves of our connection to every living thing. Absolutely. I had
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studied various healing arts in the late nineteen eighties early nineteen nineties, and one
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of the teachers was a Peruvian shaman, and one of the things that he
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taught us was that shaman's look beyond the physical realm, and they look at
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the energy field that surrounds everything you're looking for as a disturbance in that field,
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and that's where they focus the energy on. Is that's something that you
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learned, Yes, but you can see, you can call it the aura,
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you can call it the energy field. You can see and I say
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see in quote, you can feel or sense or train yourself to know when
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there's life force flowing and when there's gaping holes and wounds, and when there's
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stagnant or when there's ikey things that don't belong to the person. And oftentimes
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I've seen this most specifically in interactions that people have with other people, usually
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that those other people are toxic to the person, and yet they're in a
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relationship, but codependent relationship, and you can see you can just see the
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dark, tarry, thick, swampy stuff, and you can see that they're
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not flowing fully with the light of being downloaded from spirit. Absolutely. What
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are some of the other elements found in Germanic practice? Ritual is a big
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one. So connection to spirit and the spirit can be animistic, to nature,
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spirits, power, animals, but ritual and for me, ritual is
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stepping into sacred space, stepping into not just a location, but a state
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of awareness where you bring your entire self, mind, body, spirit present,
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you open to something higher than yourself. I happen to believe in whatever
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God is, that's something bigger than us, the universal field, and ask
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to be connected. And in that act of the ritual, you are connecting
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yourself and bringing an intention forward. So if you're kneeling in a church,
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if you're lighting a candle, if you're scattering tobacco, if you're walking the
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labyrinth, all of those things are moments that you're in that sacred connection.
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And the other thing that I remember being taught was that whatever you take from
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the earth, you must give something back in attitude. That is a key.
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And so there are gratitude is a big one, and reciprocity, and
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you can't ask. You can, but it's not going to be a sustainable
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relationship to ask for help from these unseen forces and not be willing to give
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something back. That imbalance doesn't last. And I often say, and I
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think I say this in the book, I say, nothing sends a power
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animal or your spirit guide packing quicker than you disrespecting it and you don't honor
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and offer gratitude. Doesn't stick around. When you honor it and you offer
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gratitude most of the time in my meditations, if I'm in dialogue with some
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higher being and I'll say what may I do for you? Or what do
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you want of me? Nine times out of ten there's nothing to do to
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really give them except go out there and be better and be your best.
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In other words, take the gifts that they, these energies and beings have
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given you, and go out there and put them in the world. And
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what does that? Just makes sense to me spiritually anyway, the ethics of
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spirituality absolutely My guest doctor Sharon Martin her new book, Maximize Your Healing Power
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Shamanic Healing Techniques to overcome your health challenges. Sharon, please tell our listeners
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where they can get your book and find out more about you and your work.
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My website is doctor Sharon Martin dot com. Dr Sharon Martin dot com.
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If you order, you can order on Amazon, on Barnes and Noble,
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on Inner Traditions. If you order there, bring that order number back
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a more conscious lifestyle. Back on Destination Unlimited. My guest this week is
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doctor Sharon Martin her new book, Maximize Your Healing Power Shamanic healing Techniques to
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overcome your health challenges. Sharon, how did you blend shamanic practice with traditional
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Western medicine and develop maximum Medicine? For me? Maximum medicine is a construct
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for me when I'm thinking about a person and assessing a person, and it
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pulls in all the different things I've learned as well as two things I've intuited
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and gives me a broader way to assess somebody and to visualize beyond just what
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the lab values or the blood press sure tell me when I'm looking at somebody.
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Allopathic is good at measuring blood values and things like that, But to
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see somebody and think about their destiny, to think about their soul's journey,
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it adds a depth of richness. I don't always use my shamanic tools with
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my patients directly, but I think that I do always use them in my
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assessment, in looking at somebody, intuiting about somebody, thinking about how to
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steer help them steer the course of their illness. And again, for me,
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the shamanic training is one of recognizing that we are not alone, that
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there are other energies that we interact with, that we are interdependent with heaven
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and Earth, and that we can use the power of our tensions through ritual
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to really evoke a whole different outcome. You share that incorporating the mystical and
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spiritual are important for shifting a life challenge, Please explain unless a patient a
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person can really engage their higher self and pull in an image and a belief
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and an intention for a healed state. I don't think much can be changed.
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I can fix somebody's blood pressure, but I don't know if I can
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necessarily make their life more full of more well being. But when you can
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call on your higher self, your consciousness, link it up to the powers
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of what we often call the Akashic field. Be able to set an intention,
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then you can make shifts, and those shifts can be incredibly miraculous.
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Someone said everything is energy, and intention guides it. How do we guide
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that energy with our intention? To me, intention is an arrow, a
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laser focused arrow onto the target. And you can have a wish for something,
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but it could be all over the place, and oftentimes our wishes are
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I don't want to be this anymore, or I don't like this in my
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life anymore, which continues to keep that present in your thinking, because when
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you're saying I don't want your still stuck in that feeling and energy of what's
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not there, the absence, the missing, the defective. But if you
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can shift it to being, and it's more than affirmation. For me,
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it's intention has a higher energy than affirmation. You are putting your heart congruent
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with your thoughts, and you are setting a desire and that desire is very
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deep and resonates through your whole mind, body, spirit, and aiming at
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the thing that you want, not the thing that you're missing. And those
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I think are keys for how we change our thinking and we can bring in
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a new outcome, we can steer our destiny. So intention is really your
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thoughts really do matter, and the way that your thoughts get congruent with your
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actions. The more congruent you are, the more powerful, the more positive
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your thoughts are looking at bringing in your healed self. And I really believe
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in the power of visualization, meditation, even self hypnosis, even leading yourself
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on a guided visualization. When you activate that depth of your subconscious, tapping
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into your higher self, you're really activating the powerful part of yourself. Many
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of our listeners have regular meditation practices. Please share with us how we may
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incorporate what you're sharing within those meditation practices. If you want to shift a
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health challenge, and this could be a life challenge as well, in your
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meditation, perhaps you would want to incorporate a guided visualization where you have a
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dialogue, sacred dialogue with something. That sacred dialogue could be with your higher
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self. It could be with your future healed self. It could be with
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your guardian angel, it can be with a wise person. But if you
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guide yourself to enter a sacred space and visualize yourself sitting down across from this
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being or this energy, and you could sit across just say there's a part
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of your body that isn't working right. You could sit across from the wise
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energy of your arthritic knee and have a dialogue, a sacred dialogue to say,
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what do I need to know about why you're hurt? And what am
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I doing that's making that hurt worse? And what can I do to make
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that better? And how can I bring in healing energy to shift this?
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And you could repeat that dialogue every day in your meditation, it'll change and
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what you understand and learn will expand, and then you get the insights of
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what to do differently. And those insights are probably deeper than what you could
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just sit and think of on your own, because you are in a sacred
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meditative space. It's interesting and part of my spiritual coaching work. When someone
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has a complaint about something, be it a physical complaint or an emotional complaint,
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I'll ask them to give it a name. What name comes to mind,
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and quite frankly, those names are often people that they're in difficult relationships
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with or situations that they're in difficult situations with, and by identifying them that
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begins a healing process. Do you find the same? Yes? And what
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you're also alluding to is there are so many people in our day to day
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experiences that drain our energy, that are difficult. And it's one thing to
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have a soul lesson with a difficult parent. Many of us have had difficult
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parents, but it's another thing to consciously pick someone who continually drained you,
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and maybe by naming it, you can be aware of how that person is
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really sucking your energy dry. Many years ago, I took part in a
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Racky marathon, and Ricky Marathon was where a group of practitioners and masters got
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together for the benefit of one person who would be there literally on the healing
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table, a massage table, all day. And when my shift came and
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I approached the table, I didn't know anything about this woman other than the
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fact that she had asked for healing and I was scanning her abdominal area and
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when I got to the area above where the ovaries would be, I saw
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two initials, and I said to her, who are the initials X and
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Y in your life? And she mentioned two names and she said, that's
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my husband and my son. And I said, how are you feeling about
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them right now? She says, I felt as if they've abandoned me.
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As it turned out shadow varying cancer. And apparently that manifested in what happened
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to her, the feelings about her her husband and her son and the sense
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of being yeah, abandoned her and being not loved. And in the process
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of doing that, we collectively, the group of healers there, helped promote
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a healing for her. Wonderful. I love that. And so consequently,
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identifying these things, identifying the connection between the emotional, the spiritual, or
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the material cause of what's affecting your health is an important part to the healing
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process, isn't it. Yes? And I think for people who maybe new
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at this, you were trained in reiki at that time, and you have
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good extrasensory perception. But if somebody's brand knew at this, start to really
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pay attention to your intuitions. It might only come from fraction of a second
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and you kind of blow it off. Start to pay attention because we do
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have the ability to take in data through other means than what you know.
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Then just what we're taught in school and what's in front of us, and
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we can really amplify our knowings when we increase our intuition. There's a song
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by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues called The Voice, and part of the
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lyrics says, make a promise, take a vow, and trust your feelings.
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It's easy now understand the voice within and feel the change already beginning the
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Moody Blues that brings back. We're showing our age. Pick yes, we
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are. In your new book, Maximize your Healing Power. You share the
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four a's of maximum medicine. We've briefly touched upon some of that. Please
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share with our listeners the four a's of maximum Medicine. So I describe medicine
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wheels in my book because to me, they're symbolic and people might resonate with
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them from Native American the symbolic journey to go around the circle. But I
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intuited how the majority of challenges can be broken down into four steps that I
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put on a medicine wheel called the four a's and the first is to be
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aware, and you do that by having more intuition. The second step is
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to allow, which I love this step because this is where you let in
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all the energies of the unseen world, all of those higher energies, and
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you could call them ascended masters, angels, your ancestors who have crossed over
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already, things like that. You know, even the spirits of the trees
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when you walk in the forest. And then you take an action. So
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the third A is act, and you take an action because you've now become
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more aware and you're helpers that you've allowed have given you more insight, and
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you take an action such as clearing your energy field. I do teach how
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to do that, how to visualize your healed self, how to get out
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from under a contract that your soul had been operating under, and then you
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affirm it. The fourth A is a firm and you affirm it by practicing
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it or bringing it into your day to day life for many weeks after,
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because you really want to seal in the energetic shift. And so I like
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that way of looking at a process, and I call it the medicine wheel.
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Of the four a's is belief or faith necessary for these practices to work.
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I think belief is necessary because if you don't believe, there's going to
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be incredible resistance and those changes aren't going to flow through. I think you
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can have work done to you by a very gifted healer, but if you
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don't believe, I don't think it will last because your human mind, with
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your self doubt, your lack of confidence, your unwillingness to think outside of
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the box, is going to put barriers up into the new energy flow that
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perhaps that that gifted healer established for you, and boom, you're back where
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you started. Can the everyday person who's never had any experience with any of
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those understand and work with the energy field absolutely, because once you start to
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sense it, you'll get validation of what's there. Once you allow yourself the
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language and the pot just to be able to say, let's talk about your
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energy field. Let's say you have this energy field around you. Do you
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feel that it is full and powerful? They'll say no, Do you feel
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that you're drained? Yes? Do you feel that when you're in such and
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such situation your energy is draining more or getting better? Now it's draining more?
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People already sense the very basics of that, and then I do teach
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meditation and a technique that you can work with that. But with practice,
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I never knew I had. I knew I had the little intuition, but
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I never knew I had other ways of seeing. But we practiced that in
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my shamanic training, and we practiced describing to our classmates when we were in
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exercises with them and saying, well, it feels like such and such here,
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and I sensed this density here that I'm going to remove now. And
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then you tell the person and person you've never met before, they're your classmate,
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but you never really sat with them. They said, well, that's
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exactly right. That's where I had my auto accident and such and such I
39:47
got a penetrating wound. I mean, those kinds of synchronicities are going to
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come forward and you're going to see that you're not making this up. Absolutely.
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Sharon Martin her book Maximize Your Healing Power. Sharon, you started touching upon
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this a little bit earlier. In the book. You discuss the concept of
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soul contracts. What are they, how may they affect our health? And
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may they be altered or dismissed in our belief system is often a belief that
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comes about an agreement that you made, that your soul made. And again
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I'm speaking as I believe in a soul. I believe in past lives.
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But you made an agreement to act in a certain way and in that lifetime
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or in that time in this life that may have been very useful. So
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take, for example, you had a lifetime where you were the eldest child
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of I'm just making this up as I go along. Your settlers going out
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on the plains something happens and your parents are killed, and there you are,
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as the eldest child, having to take care of and be in charge
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of everything for the ones who are younger beneath you. And then in this
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lifetime you continue to take care of everything, to be in charge, to
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put yourself aside in order to keep taking care of everybody else, and then
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you hit the place where you become emotionally and physically exhausted and you start to
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manifest illness. Well, if you can put yourself in a meditative space to
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see what are the rules that you're operating under, because I have people who
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do it a lot, and they're exhausted, and I'll say, you do
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all this for everybody? Do you have to? Oh, yes, I
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have to. And I'll say, well, why do you have to?
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Well, because I have to. But if you are able to engage and
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talk and just say you're operating under this rule, this contract that you made
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that said you would be in charge and you would take care of everything.
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And at the time you made it, that was very noble and wonderful and
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necessary, but now it doesn't fit and it's actually becoming harmful to you.
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And in my book, I teach a visualization you can do to shift that.
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When you can, again in sacred space and meditation, visualize yourself going
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to and I teach this in my book, going to the Hall of Contracts.
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And this is a great big library filled with scrolls or books where every
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person in every lifetime had written and signed these sacred soul contracts. And say
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you have a magical librarian, bring you your contract forward. You see that
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it's written down there where you said I will take care of everybody. And
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then you are able in sacred space to say to this magical librarian, I
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don't want to work under this contract anymore. I want to negate it.
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I want to start over. I want to make a new one. And
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in sacred moments like that, when your soul is really engaging with spirit,
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you are able to shift. And so I have you visualized bringing a piece
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of paper out, write down the new one. The new one perhaps wants
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to say, I will help when I can, but I take care of
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myself as well, or I will stay in balance with all of my energies.
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So something else, and you negotiate in this sacred moment to shift that,
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and then you can just visualize having them, fold it up and put
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it in the inactive section of the library. You can envision having a form
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of it being burned by a sacred candle and take on the new one.
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Because if you are working under beliefs, beliefs that are there, deep,
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deep, deep in your subconscious, you aren't going to shift anything if those
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If you keep doing these things that you think you're supposed to, but not
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everything is written in stone, and what you agreed to before may not work
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in this lifetime, and you are able to change it, and you are
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able to stop following those rules. Because it's so important, Victor, to
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shift your limiting beliefs, to get out of the cage that you've made from
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beliefs that you hold. And it takes a lot of courage, but it's
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so important to think of, why do I have to have this cage?
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Open window, open the door, push down the bars, think a different
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way, expand see yourself differently. See a possibility, even if it doesn't
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feel highly probable, Lock onto it, Lock onto it and give it your
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energy and your life force and make that new less probable but still possible.
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Destiny take forth. Did you read my Akashak records before we started her no.
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Why what did it say? Because you were just describing how I spent
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the majority of my life, And in fact, a few years ago I
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finally learned to say the word no, and I wrote a poem called the
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Healing Power of know which you wouldn't mind I share with you. I think
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I would love to hear it. Yeah, A time comes for choosing rather
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than losing the essence that makes us so and in the bestowing. There's power
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in knowing the freedom that comes with no. When said with compassion, not
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angry, in fashion and letting the self love flow, there's a sense of
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renewing and deep soul imbewing the awareness that comes with no. So with gentle
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voice and the power of choice and the courage to make it so, I'm
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still here, my friends. There's no means in this end, just the
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healing that comes with no. Oh, I love that. I love that.
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I must have had a psychic moment. Let's talk about nature and earth.
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What are the powers that we can get from the nature and from the
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earth. So first, what seems very obvious humans do not exist without the
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Earth. We can go up to space stations and maybe we'll travel to Mars.
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But humans are intricately linked their evolution, their existence is linked to Earth.
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Earth has an energy, and Earth has an intelligence and nature. All
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of the creatures of nature have intelligences and energies. And you would think,
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of course people know about trees, having a feeling about trees and wood,
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spirits and spirits in the garden, but even stones. In fact, the
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Mayans, their medicine men, when they died, would put their spirit into
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one of the big stones. Take Polanque for example, one of the big
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stones in the castles or the temples in Polankee. But that power that we
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get when we reconnect to something that we've been that our species has been connected
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to way before technology, and that actually can heal you. Earth has the
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ability to really dissipate any short circuits in our energy field, and it has
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a creative force that if we'd line up, visualize ourselves connecting and alive,
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we can get a lot of resource of power from and using. For me,
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shamanism doesn't exist without nature. I don't think I can think of a
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single indigenous culture in which their medicine men and women didn't incorporate the energies.
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And you know, the herbs, the trees, the flowers of nature.
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So nature to me is key in any kind of healing work you want to
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do, and you can gain so much from restoring your field by being in
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concert with nature. How do you envision the future of medicine all my I
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would love to have medicine have more holistic in the sense of incorporating these ancient
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wiz from the indigenous healers and from what we start to learn about the energy
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field. I really see a frontier use in the concepts of consciousness. How
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do psychics know something outside of time and space? What is this acastic field?
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I believe that that can be tapped into in my view of medicine in
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the future, you can tap into that and align with the templates, the
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cellular and biologic templates of how a human organism is supposed to grow and work.
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And in that case, you could download the healed version and override override
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the short circuited you know, defective version that's operating. And that sounds a
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little bit side five, but I think if we keep exploring consciousness, we're
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going to find that that's potential and if we could bring that as our future,
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I would love that what would you like readers to take away from Maximize
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Your Healing Power? That each person has power over their physical and health destiny,
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and that these awarenesses and rituals and following the medicine wheels that I teach,
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those can help you with an important adjunct to any kind of allopathic treatment
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you want to do. And take back your power. Because I believe the
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humans are much more than we know ourselves to be. So that's what I'm
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all about. Be a partner in your healing. Yes, absolutely absolutely,
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my guest doctor Sharon Martin her book Maximize Your Healing Power, Shamanic Healing Techniques
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to Overcome your health challenges. Sharon, one more time, please share with
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our listeners whether it can get your book and find out more about you.
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So my book, by the way, it's number one on Amazon in a
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congratulation play. That's so exciting. So thank you everybody for your interest.
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It is all about giving you, the listener, the reader, the power
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back. You can buy my book on Amazon, you can buy it on
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Barnes and Noble, you can buy it on Inner Traditions and then don't forget
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bring your order number back to my website. Doctor Sharonmartin dot com. Dr
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Sharonmartin dot com and put the order number in and download a whole bunch of
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freebees, writings from my colleagues, meditations, visualizations, pictures I took around
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the land I live on that you can use as wallpaper. There's all kinds
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of fun things and you can send me an email if I can help you
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in any way, send me an email. Sharon, thank you so much
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for joining us and sharing this very important and loving wisdom. Victor, thank
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you for having me. It was so wonderful being with you, and thank
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you for joining us on Destination Unlimited. I'm Victor the Voice Berman. I
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have a wonderful week