August 2017 Snake Oil
Just The Right Spot
This spring of 2017 seemed to be one of the worst allergy seasons on record. Many of my friends who also have seasonal allergies complained of suffering far more than usual. I also talked to a lot of people who never really had major problems with sinus issues in the past but were bothered this year as well. As far back as I can remember I have always had them. Yet over the years, while they haven’t completely healed by any means they have decreased quite a bit. Herbal supplements, acupuncture, sea salt lamps, local honey and a few other holistic techniques have worked to decrease a lot of my symptoms. My body and health in general seems to be stronger than it has ever been. This year, while everyone around me was sneezing or clogged up, I actually hardly suffered at all. After years of well meaning friends suggesting Nettie pots, Jin Shin, and acupressure points I finally listed to one of the suggestions. I looked up some online video instructions sites for how to do your own trigger point therapy to reduce allergies and sinus trouble. I used some of the techniques they suggested and they actually worked!
It does take some time to hit all of the trigger points. Because I do watch a few hours of television most evenings I added the process of working the trigger points while doing my television watching. The whole process of working to hit about seven pressure points usually takes about 15-20 minutes. Now, in addition to the grooming supplies next to my remote control that I use like tweezers, moisturizers, dental floss, nail clippers, and a nail file I also have another fix-it thing to do to maintain staying healthy and well groomed while watching television. Most of the time I use my fingers, but have also used the shredder* as well to hit points. I have aways been able to multi-task (mutable Sun sign) so it is no problem for me to do this while relaxing in front of the tube. In some respects it is even more appealing because I feel productive. I have used the techniques a number of times in hotel rooms while on vacations.
Well meaning friends, often less holistically inclined have suggested different pharmaceutical products to help when they saw me struggling with seasonal allergy. Except in a few, rare cases I don’t use pharmaceutical remedies. Precisely because they usually are not cures. They may mask or help, but rarely solve. Dis-ease is ALWAYS multilayered. Many people choose not to acknowledge this and are not able to take advantage of potential healing from other sources. While physical symptoms and problems are quite physical, all events are interconnected. Emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, and other unresolved patterns are part of the story. In Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal your Life, she mentions sinus issues as: “Irritation to one person, someone close.” She also mentions Hay Fever as: “Emotional congestion. Fear of the calendar. A belief in persecution. Guilt.” Myself included, I think people with allergies are often very determined people. It’s like there are things, and people in this world that drive us nuts, maybe even piss us off, yet we had the courage to come here to this world in this lifetime to confront them anyway. Whether its Hay Fever, food allergies, pet allergies or any other type of allergy there is something inside that resists what the things we are allergic to represent. This could be trauma from other lifetimes, childhood patterns or any number of other types of blockades. The emotional and limiting beliefs become a physical discomfort when energy is blocked.
As far back as I can remember I was always allergic to cats. In my younger years if I was in a room with more than one cat I had extreme reactions. When I dated and fell in love with someone in my early thirties who had a cat, it was difficult to say the least. After uncovering a painful past life memory connected with cats and using practical methods for minimizing contact I began to improve. Actions like just allowing myself to pet a cat and to wash my hands afterwards helped. I slowly began to have less reactions to the cat and eventually all cats in general. Three years later when we broke up, I kept the cat. I am not allergic to cats at all anymore. I physically worked through the issue, but it was also about recognizing what cats represent and why I had this denial. I worked through my cat allergies at multiple levels and the internal shift contributed to the physical healing. Cats are very tactile animals. In Druid tradition they represent guardianship, detachment, and sensuality. I struggled in my younger years with being truly comfortable with intimacy. I worked though this while working through the cat allergies at the same time. Both problems have been resolved. I no longer struggle with either of those issues.
One of the most interesting things about working with trigger points and pressure points was not just the release of quite of bit of my sinus struggle. After doing this work for about six months, I began noticing a few other things of value. There was a shift in my thinking and the way I reacted to others. I am becoming more detached and taking things that used to frustrate me far less personally. I have also noticed that my dream recall has heightened dramatically. I remember more of my dreams and have become far more lucid while in the dream state. I am more clear about the meaning of my dreams and seem to be getting more “work” done in the dream state, while at the same time waking up more rested. My physical ability to breath better has also triggered shifts in other areas that were blocked in the past. I am flowing in more areas and looking at and changing beliefs from childhood that made me uncomfortable with receiving.
There may be areas in life where we were born with certain challenges and dispositions that we cannot change. We can often see both the positive and negative aspects of these attributes in an astrology chart or numerology charts. While there are simply too many reasons to list here for the patterns behind illness, one very common theme connected with physical limitations and disabilities are often more about developing purpose and strength by overcoming and/or accepting the limitations. People with any type of disability, whether they’re born with or later acquired a major illness, born with missing limbs or losing them later in life can often be far stronger than people who have never really experienced difficult challenges. They often become tremendously inspirational to everyone around them, and even transform others by the courage they show. There are some aspects of life we just need to accept and change our view of it to live more peacefully. Still, there are a lot of limitations that can be changed. I used to see my refusal to accept physical limitations, and limiting beliefs from religion, society, and my early teachers as a defiance or something that added to my belief that I was an oddball. Now I look at my refusal to accept limitations as a strength. If something can be fixed to improve my life I will eventually tackle it and change it for the better. I can then use this knowledge to assist my friends and the clients who are willing to listen! Hitting the right spots can take some work. It can be uncomfortable to be willing to shift things we often cling to even when we don’t like these aspects. Often a healing crisis is part of the shifts that lead to permanent healing. Yet, when we hit the right spots internally and externally the changes to the flow of energy make the effort required well worth the benefits that follow.
Jim Ventura 7-17
Notes:
The summer is in full bloom. I find myself checking sunset times almost a bit compulsively. Understanding when the Sun rises and sets is one of the reasons why the summers are so hot. The more sunlight each day (longer days) the more heat, and we have plenty of that in the valley of the Sun. On the positive side the monsoon has been doing its work and we have had a few good rainstorms so far. Summer started earlier than usual here so hopefully it will end a little earlier!
In addition to local in-office sessions and phone consultations, I am now offering the option of FaceTime for phone sessions. I will get a good cam option sometime this year and be able to offer that in the near future. If interested in booking a session remember that all current subscribers get $5 off my listed rates for all sessions and local in-office clients can take advantage of an additional $5 off rates for cash or check payments. Clients currently in my Regular Client program receive $15-$40 off my rates. Contact me for information about the benefits of getting involved in this beneficial program.
Thankfully fall is around the corner-well I am convincing myself of that anyway lol
I have a friend who created a product called the Shredder if you are interested in ordering one click on the link below.
Wishing everyone a Happy August. Let the Leo parts of you shine brightly this month even if you aren’t actually a Leo! Cheers, Jimmy V
Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.
Doctors and healing
“In your society you have for many years placed strong emphasis on going to the doctor. Many if not most of you were born with the aid of medical personnel. As a result your minds hold a very strong belief that you need doctors in order to be alive and that you need doctors to promote your wellness. This is a very strong thought in the consciousness of your society, especially in your Western world.
As a result, often you need to go through the motions of going to the doctor or to some medical personnel in order to stimulate the healing and release. It may not be that what they do has any positive effect on your physical organism, but your belief that they can do something to help you creates the climate for healing. This is the reason why so very often in medical studies there is a significant improvement with placebo groups, because they believe something is being done to them that is stimulating health, and therefore the mind promotes health.
So, even though theoretically you could breath out any illness, and certainly we encourage you to utilize the breath and to utilize full oxygenation of the being, we suggest that you use wisdom to recognize the whole complex mental set that you come from in your culture and that you therefore do not resist visiting medical personnel to stimulate the process of healing.
Prescription drugs, for example, are directed to curing the symptoms, but the homeopathic practice is based on the philosophy of bringing the illness to a healing crisis so that the body’s own healing mechanisms can come into play. It is geared toward getting the body to heal itself, not just suppressing the symptoms.
The holistic practices you hear so much about today are not new. What we have here are some very basic thoughts about experiencing doubt. If enough people believe that there is more than enough of everything for everyone to have more than enough, there will be enough belief in abundance that any opposition on the part of the AMA to holistic healing can be healed. There are many ways to achieve the same goal, and there is no right and wrong in the universe.
The differences between the holistic community and the AMA come strictly from an outgrowth of the strong right/wrong thoughts, from the belief that there has to be ONE right way. The more you open your minds to believing that there is an infinity of ways to accomplish the same goal, the more you will find this gap between the holistic community and the traditional medical community closing up.”
Seth Spirit Speaks magazine 1992
“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.” Lindsay Wagner
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Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what’s causing the problem. Dean Ornish
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January 1st 2017 thru August 31st 2017 Special: New Client introductory offer
$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Ask for the special when you email Venturasag@yahoo.com to book. Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session you can also take advantage of these rates!
$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Ask for the special when you email Venturasag@yahoo.com to book. Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session you can also take advantage of these rates!
My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $80. 70 minute sessions $110. 90 minute sessions $130. Sessions can be in-office or by phone.
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.” Michelangelo
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