The torturing of Joss – “just to be sure”

11 Oct 2014 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Medical business, Propaganda & denial

Joss is one of my neighbours. A friendly man with a good sense of humour.

He retired young and all was fine for him until he received a bizarre mail from a government health agency.

The envelope he received (I know, because I received one too) contained a bag and precise instructions. In a nutshell he was invited to send (free of charge) a fresh sample of his pooh to the agency’s lab. They would analyse it to see if his intestines were all right, i.e. free of colon cancer.

Thank goodness, he threw away the lot.

But “they” are persistent.images Symbol of Medicine

Some time later he received a second envelope, with a more insistent message. Somehow he got worried and followed the suggested procedure. You never know, he thought.

Indeed, you don’t.

And guess what, they found suspicious “polyps” in his intestines. So he’d better come round to the university hospital to see to that. Through a non surgical (but nevertheless pretty intrusive) procedure they managed to remove some of these polyps.

Some, but not all.

So he had to have surgery. Again he followed the suggestion, and ended up with 30 cm of his intestines removed. Mind you, he recovered well from the operation and was riding his bike soon afterwards.

But “they” don’t let you off the hook so easily.

What if these polyps were cancerous?

They recommended six month chemo-therapy, “just to be sure”.

He had no choice, he thought. Doctors know about these things better than him. So he started the chemo over a month ago.

We see much less of him in the street these days.

I met his wife this afternoon. She put on a brave face. He’s not feeling too bad yet, she said. He gets the treatment once a fortnight, and he’s better the second week, when the effects diminish. But, she added, they‘ve warned that he would feel worse as the treatment goes on.

Three months ago, Joss felt on top of the world, had no complaint, no symptom.

He hadn’t received the second envelope.

But “they” had  him on their radar screen.

Fear not, trust your inner voice.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2014

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The right conditions for psychic powers

18 Mar 2014 1 Comment

by leoforesta in Consciousness, Health & healing, Parapsychology

Here is the link to an extremely interesting article by Bredan D. Murphy published by Zen Gardner reviewing various pieces of research on psychic abilities:

http://www.zengardner.com/a-practical-guide-to-developing-your-unseen-powers/

Research has shown that factors enabling a subject to successfully use his/her psychic abilities include:

– his own open mindedness (minimum condition for psy to work)
– confidence in his own abilities (also a basic condition for psy to work)
– atmosphere of trust around him (sceptics around are inhibitors of psy)
– relevance, emotions (psy works better when the stakes are real)
– novelty, interest (boring stuff doesn’t stimulate psy)
– peaceful state of heart-based coherence (rather than mindset of conflict)
– initial intention followed by let go (stop trying too hard leads to better results).

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The article is concluded with a series of tips for development of psychic abilities. And these tips are very valuable generally because psy is just part of our natural body-mind-soul system.

You can read more about this subject matter in Brendan Murphy’s new book The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis Of Science And Spirituality – Book 1, available for purchase at www.brendandmurphy.net.

Fear not, don’t let closed-minded sceptics run you down.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2014

Spirit release therapy opens up new horizons

28 Feb 2014 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Consciousness, Dark side of existence, Health & healing, Spirituality

A number of qualified psychotherapists in the US, UK and other countries routinely use “spirit release therapy”. Yes, you read correctly. The technique is about convincing invisible entities to leave the mind and body of a living patient.

At first you might think this is old exorcism repackaged under modern fancy names. But in fact there is a major difference. Whereas exorcism practiced by specialist Catholic priests seeks to chase away the possessing spirit in a confrontational mode, modern non religious spirit release encourages the earth-bound spirit to leave amicably and continue his/her spiritual journey towards light and harmony.

This is very interesting because it is a proven practical application of non judgemental love in the universal field of consciousness, the central concept in the holistic worldview. And the key point is that the technique actually works on a consistent basis. Annoying as it may be for narrow materialists, patients are treated very efficiently through a procedure which logically implies the existence of the subtle realm, of entities within it and of direct interactions between them and the body and mind of a living human.

You can find detailed information on the subject at  www.spiritrelease.org. In the video below American psychotherapist Edith Fiore explains very clearly how she came to use the technique:

This technique is not only very helpful for individuals suffering from severe possessions, but it also has wider implications at the collective level.

We all know that today’s society is upside down. No need to review the many attacks against people, animals, and eco-systems perpetrated 24/7 by the globalist corporate system and its pawns in governments and institutions. All that is well known. But a less well known fact has been decisively highlighted by a number of studies: the fact that there is a much higher proportion of psychopathic personalities among CEO’s and other individuals in similarly high positions.

Now let’s put two and two together. On the one hand, people with severe mental problems including split personalities and psychopathic tendencies respond very well to spirit release therapy. Which shows that possession by entities is central to their condition. On the other hand, many people in high positions in today’s global society where power is heavily concentrated do present clear psychopathic tendencies. And evidence of what goes on in the world shows that their actions create total disharmony. These guys are possessed and the root of the system’s obvious madness lies in the workings of the possessing entities.

Esoteric and religious traditions offer a number of names and symbols for possessing entities. And there is a distinction to be made between those that have never been incarnated as humans and spirits of dead people who, for some reason, remain “earth bound”. Without discarding such traditional wisdom, we can use a modern computer metaphor and look at possessing entities as pieces of nefarious software infesting the consciousness network. And if we stick to a metaphysical vision centred on pure love, we can say that these pieces of nefarious software are misled, misguided, rather than being “evil”. We don’t need to hate them, to fight them, but we probably need to help them on the path towards harmony.

Now think of the psychopaths, perverts, paedophiles in high positions covering each other’s back; don’t hate them: they are sick. Because they are possessed. They need treatment. And ultimately any deep treatment must be rooted in love, pure love, non judgemental love.

This opens a totally new perspective for contemporary activism against tyrannical globalism, doesn’t it?

Fear not, and take care of your own possessing spirits.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2014

In touch with your cellular memory

09 Sep 2013 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Consciousness, Health & healing, Meta-science, Metaphysics

imagesCA3M7235Memory isn’t just in brain cells. It’s in every cell.

And not just in living cells, but also in clusters of water molecules and in stones and crystals; in fact in every tiny portion of the material world.

Memory stored in the structures of the material world is part and parcel of the vast subtle field of information underpinning all that exists: visible stuff, shadows, thoughts, emotions, souls, spirits, angels and demons.

The bits of information stored in your body cells form an interface between the Source and the loose entity called you. Metaphysicians refer to a hologram model which states that the totality of universal information is reproduced in every sub-entity.

What does this imply for each of us? That every possible thought, emotion or attitude lies deep in our body in a latent state. And everything we do, mostly unconsciously, is determined by which bits of information get activated as we go along.

If confidence, love and openness are activated, events in our life tend to flow fairly harmoniously, but when fear, sourness and distrust are activated, our thoughts and actions combine to create a very difficult course of life.

What can we do to ensure that the positive bits get activated?

Before addressing that question let us first consider the situation on our planet; it is obvious that collectively and individually we possess a clear potential for harmony, but somehow this potential very often gets overridden by activated negativity.

Why?

Human nature, many will sigh.

I don’t buy that.

We are not naturally a bunch of sour pusses or brutes.

Something pushes us into negativity. Something activates the bits of latent info stored in our cells that trigger negative thoughts and actions.

That something comes from the dominant culture in our world, and the entities behind it. The phenomenon is not new but it is reaching a peak.

Consider what the political and economic elites keep talking about, what mainstream media keep showing us, what the educational system keeps feeding into the minds of children and young adults: life is a struggle, it’s survival of the fittest, you have to fight, you have to work, you have to perform, financially and sexually, dangers are everywhere, terrorists, viruses, genetic diseases …etc, etc.

No sir, no madam. Life isn’t a blind desperate struggle against all kinds of competitors and enemies. Life is a fantastic experience. An opportunity to grow spiritually and connect to the Source.

The dominant elite uses fear to divide and rule. So much is evident. But who or what is behind the dominant elite?

Frankly, it must be entities in the invisible realm, in that portion of reality which lies between the source field and the material world. You may call them evil spirits, Lucifer, ghouls, fallen angels, whatever. The fact is that we see “bad” people behaving as if possessed and we ourselves often get strange impulses within us, not knowing why.

The late Stuart Wilde wrote in one of his last posts that in his experience of healer most diseases, and possibly all of them, were due to some form of spiritual attack.

I believe this is a useful model to consider.

Which brings us back to the key question of what to do to activate the positive bits of info stored in our cells.

In our cells but also in the pulsating electro magnetic fields related to these cells, and in the clusters of water molecules in our body, and in the cells of microorganisms living in symbiosis with our body, etc.…etc.

A positive attitude at the level of our conscious intellect is a good start to activate the “positive” bits of cellular memory but it is not enough, not by a long shot.

To reach cellular memory (and all related forms of deep seated memory) we need a fundamental intuitive shift. This can be facilitated by meditation, prayer (or equivalents like ho’ponopono), energy based healing techniques, or using harmony enhancing signs and symbols.

Evidence that something is moving down there at the appropriate level can surface through some form of physical release of stress like shedding tears, spasms (sometimes quite impressive) involving the lower back, shoulders, arms or other parts of the body. People with visual limitations like short sightedness can experience flashes of perfect vision lasting from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the depth of their state of modified consciousness.

Achieving the fundamental intuitive shift able to activate deep seated positive information is a profoundly personal experience. At the same time, it is one that sets you free from your “personality” with all its old baggage of fears, beliefs and judgements. You let yourself immerse in an infinite pool of unknown, and you trust that unknown, completely, totally.

This is the exact opposite of control. In fact, intellectually and physically, you give up trying to control anything. For someone brought up in the materialist system of thought this is a hell of a jump. But once you have managed to do it, even for only a few seconds before lapsing back into old habits of fear and attempted (and usually failing) control, you know there is something powerful there, something powerful and beautiful. Eventually you will return to that beautiful unknown and trust it more and more.

Fear not, hug your cat.

Love,

Leo,

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2013

Open letter to Angelina Jolie

22 May 2013 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Medical business, Women

By Yves Rasir (*)

Dear Ms. Jolie,

Since we don’t know each other and you will probably never read this letter, I would like to call you Angelina.

I’ll be frank and direct; between your doctors and your breasts, I’m afraid you made ​​the wrong choice.

Of course, at first glance your decision to undergo a double mastectomy might seem justified. Women who, like yourself, carry the BRCA1 gene have an 87% risk of developing breast cancer. And surgery is supposed to drastically reduce this risk down to 5%. Sacrificing your bust would seem to spare you the fate of your mother, who died prematurely at 56.

But do you know that these cold statistics hide appalling lies?

Besides the fact that breast tumors account for less than 5% of female mortality, and represent therefore only a relative danger, a first terrible lie is to have you believe that medicine is getting better and better at fighting cancer.

This is a delusion based on statistics suggesting that the rate of remission after 5 or 10 years is improving. But this apparent progress has nothing to do with the presumed effectiveness of conventional treatments.

In reality, this is mainly a consequence of widespread screening: as cancers are diagnosed earlier and earlier, the time between verdict and death gets longer statistically, with no real benefit for patients.

As Doctor Marc Girard points out in his latest book (1) there is in fact “no serious evidence that early treatment of cancer improves the chances of survival or cure.” On the contrary, there are indications that heavy treatments undertaken after mammography shorten life expectancy.

The emerging industry of preventive mastectomy is a new way to hide the failure of conventional medicine in cancer treatment. By removing an organ, all we do is circumscribing a local problem, but with no benefit to overall health. And probably even to its detriment.

Another truth that was shamefully hidden from you, Angelina, is that your risk of getting the disease was probably much lower than claimed.

Let me explain: all human beings carry oncogenic promoters of cancer, yet only a minority actually develops the disease. Why? Because the genetic make-up may well remain closed. The progress of a new science, epigenetics, enables us to understand that gene behaviour during life depends heavily on the context, and circumstances external to the cell are more decisive than its internal structure. To paraphrase Claude Bernard, one could say that “the gene is nothing, its environment is everything.”

There is no fatality, because anyone can ensure that the damaged DNA fragments inherited from his or her parents are not awakened by negative stimuli. Through a healthy lifestyle, we can put defective genes to sleep and build immunity capable of controlling runaway cells.

Concerning breast cancer, for example, it has been shown that exposure to pesticides, contraceptive pills and menopause treatment by synthetic hormones are risk factors. By contrast, the practice of sport, breastfeeding and a diet rich in Omega 3 and resveratrol (from grape pigments) have been identified as protective factors. I don’t know if you like fatty fish or sport, but I know that you have had three children and that you look after three others, and that you must love wine since you own wine production in the South of France and your vineyard is in a village devoted to organic viticulture.

Your usual pallor suggests you may be wary of the sun, which is a pity because the sun is a friend of the breasts through vitamin D, but for the rest you have a really “anticancer” profile. If you had known, would you have had the “courage” (as Brad put it) to allow being butchered?

The people who cut off your breasts also lied to you on the validity of their scientific data.

There is in fact no evidence that mutation of the BRCA1 gene is the Damocles sword suggested by the scary “87% risk “. The alarmist studies were conducted on families where most women developed cancer. The estimate of the threat has been calculated on a very narrow segment of the population, instead of on the total population. This is a huge bias since it is not possible to compare the relative influences of lifestyle and heredity.

This has been recognized by the National Cancer Institute of the United States, and here is their official statement: “Because members of the same family not only have genes in common, but often also share the same environment, it is possible that the number of cancers observed in these families may be due to other genetic or environmental factors.” (2) Therefore, in the current state of knowledge the presence of BRCA1 should not allow anyone to make you panic. Moreover, there is no long-term study comparing the health of women carrying the mutated gene to that of women genetically “healthy”.

But there are two studies whose crucial conclusions have undoubtedly been hidden from you.

The first one, published last January in The Journal of Cell Biology (3), indicates that vitamin D supplementation significantly reduces the likelihood of developing breast cancer, with or without the BRCA1 gene. Which means that the latter does not have the role attributed to it or that the nutrient hinders its effect.

The second, published in 2009 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (4), highlights the remarkable benefits of selenium supplementation for women at risk. This research on double-blind mode has shown that the first blood cells of female carriers of the defective gene were indeed fragile. When exposed to chemical attack, they have an injury rate of 0.58 on average, against 0.39 in women without BRCA1 mutation. In a second phase, the researchers prescribed 276 micrograms of selenium per day to participating carriers of the gene. After three months, they found that the percentage of damaged DNA was decreased to 0.40 on average, roughly the same level as in the cells of genetically “correct” material. In other words, the antioxidant element found in abundance in seafood does as well as surgery to protect mammary glands!

Before they mutilated you your doctors also lied by omission in not telling you that the psychological factor is not negligible in the genesis of cancer.

Yet it is in scientific literature, that, for his latest book (5), psychologist Gustave Nicolas Fischer found the arguments to highlight the link between the psyche and the onset of the disease. Although psychological factors can’t be isolated or quantified as objectively as biological ones, there are many studies showing that negative emotions play an important role in the etiology of cancer.

But what would you have done if, in addition, you’d had knowledge of the works of Doctor Ryke Geerd Hamer and Doctor Claude Sabbah?

With his “iron law of cancer,” the first one discovered it takes a major emotional shock to trigger a malfunctioning which is in no way anarchic. In boldly stating that “the gene is not the cause but the consequence” the second suggested that cancer could be “programmed” by the traumatic experience of our ancestors.

This is highly relevant! What are breasts for? To feed and to seduce.

The first function is obvious, and the second one too when we remember that the woman is the only female mammal whose breasts are still swollen outside periods of lactation.

The disease develops when a “nest conflict” alters the relationship of a mother with her children (real or symbolic) or with a sexual partner. Even when they have a legacy of deadly memories, happy moms and women tenderly loved run little risk of experiencing the carcinogenic emotion.

For all these reasons, Dear Angelina, you shouldn’t have surrendered to the scalpels. You shouldn’t have accepted the removal of your beautiful natural bust which silicone ersatz could never replace.

But your sacrifice will not be in vain.

Now the whole world can see that Western medicine is reaching the peak of its materialist mechanistic delirium.

It used to change parts of the human machine, now it goes further and removes them preventively to avoid failure! When will they emasculate to avoid testicular cancer or decapitate to prevent brain tumors?

Your personal drama has the merit of exposing how deep in irrationality allopathic medicine is sinking.

Incidentally, offering your two breasts draws attention to a strange fact: you could still develop breast cancer in the absence of your breasts! To explain this your senologist may have pointed to the limitations of surgery and told you that cells surviving the scalpel could stay long in the surrounding tissues or travel erratically.

According to an alternative hypothesis, more fascinating and more credible, these particular breast cells are actually stem cells with a mandate to differentiate under instructions from the brain.

Anyway, this phenomenon of “breast cancer without breast” after mastectomy reflects the tremendous intelligence of nature and the biological purpose of its special programmes called diseases.

Diseases, as evidenced by the new medicine of Doctor Hamer and total biology of Doctor Sabbah, are no just pointless maledictions, but pain expressing inner suffering.

Contrary to appearance, they are solutions of survival! And when a body organ is gone, the body acts as if the lost organ was still there until the causal stress is resolved.

I hope this will not be the case for you, Angelina, and I hope that your nest will be free of conflicts. I hope you never have to regret having sacrificed a splendid part of your anatomy for nothing.

If, by chance, you read this letter, forgive its hardness and be assured that I would be very happy to discuss with you while enjoying a bottle of your delicious rosé.

Yours sincerely,

Yves Rasir

(*)  Yves Rasir is editor in chief of “Néosanté” a French language magazine dedicated to a free and lucid view on medicine, healing and health

link to English page of the site :  http://www.neosante.eu/?gtlang=en

(1) « La brutalisation du corps féminin dans la médecine moderne »  (disponible dans la médiathèque de Néosanté)

(2)  www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/BRCA

(3) BRCA1 loss activates cathepsin L-mediated degradation of 53BP1 in breast cancer cells. The Journal of Cell Biology, 2013; 200 (2)

(4) Selenium Supplementation Reduced Oxidative DNA Damage in Adnexectomized BRCA1 Mutations Carriers -Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev November 2009 18; 2923

(5) « Psychologie du cancer », Editions Odile Jacob.

From placebos to self healing

04 Nov 2012 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Materialist system of thought, Medical business, Parapsychology

A placebo is a cheat with remarkably positive effects. You are given a pill containing no active substance, but you firmly believe it is a real medicine…and it works. Triggered by belief, your neurones send messages to various organs and these generate the hormones, chemicals, tissues or whatever is needed for recovery. All natural, no harmful side effects. The strength of placebos is well documented by mainstream science.

But could belief with similarly positive effects be induced in our neurones without having to be cheated?

Yes, definitely, but under one important condition: belief must be genuine and complete. Nagging doubts spoil the mechanism.

Ah. Here the sceptics will jump and briskly dismiss the whole idea as old magic practices rooted in credulity and ignorance. Note, by the way, that the word “sceptics” is a gross misnomer for people who routinely accept any piece of misinformation from the establishment without much if any critical analysis. But let’s leave this aside.

Thoughts can set physical processes in motion in the body; this is well established and recognised by official science. Thoughts of resentment, despair, hatred …lead to various ailments, sometimes very serious. On the other hand, thoughts of optimism, joy, gratitude, forgiveness…. do reinforce the body’s natural resistance.

Furthermore, recent studies have shown that the altered state of consciousness attained through meditation not only calms the mind but leads to more regular heart activity, improved digestion, better skin condition, stronger immune system, etc.

All this is good news, but does it provide a sufficient basis for effective natural healing relying mainly on positive thoughts?

The answer is entirely linked to the worldview you choose to adopt.

In the materialist worldview, physical things follow a cold mechanistic logic, with few if any influences of the mind, and on the contrary thoughts themselves are seen as solely based on a sophisticated physical mechanism as yet largely unexplained. From that perspective it is hard to imagine that pure thoughts could do the trick when required; reliable cure has to come from medical procedures, either with chemicals or natural remedies.

In the holistic, energy and consciousness based worldview, thoughts are expressions of universal awareness. They are totally intertwined with energy flows. What appears to us as “material” is structured energy. Structured dynamically by information, which itself originates in consciousness. This is a model of metaphysics. It is consistent with hard science, but it goes further in that it is enriched by intuition.

Self healing is part of total opening to intuitive guidance. Overcoming specific ailments, however satisfactory and important per se, is far from the whole story. The consequences of trusting intuition to receive guidance from universal source are wide and far reaching. Life is fundamentally changed. Relations with oneself, one’s own body, other people, other creatures, situations, events are experienced in a totally new way, lighter, deeper, freer, more serene.

There are quite a few practitioners, writers and teachers of intuitive self healing and more generally intuitive guidance. Here is one I know through someone close to me: Inna Segal, an Australian lady originally from Belarus. She has a written a very clear and well structured book. Her site is at http://www.innasegal.com/

When you improve your own health and life trajectory through non egotist self healing, you radiate to the world. With more power than you can imagine.

Fear not, take a sip of good wine and open your heart.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2012

New paradigm starts at breakfast

02 Nov 2012 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Historic transition

The first step to contribute to a better world is to treat one’s own body with care and gratitude. And this starts with the first meal of the day: breakfast.

Nutritionists have written volumes and it is quite a challenge to choose which advice to follow.

After a conference given by enlightened nutritionist France Guillain four months ago my wife, several members of our family and I have adopted her recommended breakfast, and we all feel it is doing us a lot of good.

So here is her magic formula. She calls it Miam ô fruits.

For this breakfast extraordinaire you need the following ingredients:

– half a banana

– half a lemon juice

– rapeseed oil

– seeds of sesame and linseed

– two or three kinds of nuts

– three fruits in addition to the banana and lemon. Most local or exotic fruits will do, except oranges and grapefruits (too acidic)

– wheat germs as an optional addition.

Start by grinding together the sesame and linseed in equal proportions. Use a dedicated coffee grinder which needs to be kept clean. The powder obtained is put in a jar and can be kept in the fridge for a few days.

Then grind some of the nuts, also in equal proportions, using a different grinder. Put the broken nuts in a jar which can be kept in the fringe.

You are now ready to prepare the mixture. If possible all ingredients should be natural, preferably from organic agriculture. Do not use anything else like milk, cream, yoghurt…

Mash the half banana, squeeze the half lemon, and mix them together with two large spoonfuls of rapeseed oil, two large spoonfuls of the grinded seed and one large spoonful of broken nuts. Add three other fruits cut in small pieces and if you feel like it sprinkle some wheat germs.

Yummy. Take your time to eat, ensure that each mouthful is properly masticated and soaked in saliva before swallowing. You can drink hot water or light tea without milk or sugar.

No panic if this seems too little. In fact, you will soon discover that it keeps you full of energy without feeling heavy for at least four hours.

After four and a half hours or so you will be quite peckish and it will be time for lunch. France Guillain recommends as much uncooked vegetables as possible with plenty of olive oil (cold squeezed and organic). A little bit of meat (from small producers, not from industrial animal concentration camps) is OK once every two days, say. You can also have fish. Few dairy products, and preferably none in the same meal as meat or fish.

Whichever meal you eat, go for natural food prepared at home, slow cooking, no microwave.

Now and again a little bit of wine (preferably bio dynamic) or beer (preferably organic) will do you good.

Respecting the plants and animals we eat, respecting our stomach, enjoying good naturally tasty food and being grateful for it is part of the spiritual journey.

Finally here is an article on France Guillain: http://www.pureinsideout.com/france-guillain.html

Fear not, enjoy your meals.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2012

Wonders of deep relaxation

04 Oct 2012 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Consciousness, Health & healing, Natural vision, Path to enlightenment

Lovely maiden relaxing on sofa – 1908

Next time you see a cat or a dog lying in the sunshine notice just how totally relax and happy it looks.

Then try and do the same.

It’s not so easy, but it is possible and very rewarding.

The trick is to take one’s attention away from the incessant talk of the ego, focus on bodily sensations, and embrace complete trust in the universe’s goodness and wisdom.

This is not an intellectual exercise. In fact, some people with a highly rational turn of mind may find it more difficult than others, at least initially.

If your first attempts fail and your attention quickly drifts back to the usual stream of worries, fears, desires and frustrations, don’t be discouraged.

Try again, and again, patiently. There will come a time when you manage to hold the mental posture of let go and start noticing very pleasant physical sensations.

These sensations may be particularly noticeable in places which are usually quite tense, which are your weak spots where vital energy gets blocked.

For example, if you are short sighted, a successful relaxation will produce agreeable sensations around the eyes, or around one eye. You may also feel a sudden very brief and very acute shooting pain in one eye immediately followed by pleasant soothing sensations, provided you’re not afraid by the shooting pain and don’t tense up again.

You have to feel these things for yourself to know what I am talking about. Have confidence in nature, in the universe.

Everything that happens in your body, in your mind happens for a reason. Nothing just happens by chance. The universe sends your inner consciousness messages to guide it towards more harmony.

Remember you, I and everyone else are clusters of energy and consciousness within an infinite whole in which everything interacts.

What you experience are minute bits of information picked up by your senses and reaching your neurones. Your neurones then create a sort of 3D video with sound and sensations: that is your “reality”.

The quality of your thoughts – confident, trustful, loving, or resentful and negative – directly impacts the content of your 3D video. In that sense, we create our own reality.

Deep relaxation is the gate to positive, trustful thoughts rewarded by agreeable sensations.

It’s the key to spiritual progress.

Fear not, relax like a cat.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2012

What are the odds of pills working?

27 Jul 2012 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Medical business

Overused statistics often create a smokescreen for lack of rigour and honesty in science.

This is clearly the case in the medical domain.

But let’s see how average rough statistics could be interpreted fairly to address the old question of allopathy versus homeopathy.

Say you are a skeptic. You don’t believe in homeopathy. But you respect logic.

It is well known and accepted by official medicine that, generally speaking, a number of patients recover without any treatment, while others recover when receiving only  placebo.

Percentages found by studies for these two groups are surprisingly high.

Let’s say that, on average, roughly a third of patients recover without any treatment and another third get better on pure placebo.

Logically, this means that when you are unwell, there is only about one chance out of three that taking either an allopathic drug or an homeopathic treatment will possibly help you beyond the pure placebo effect.

But there is more to it.

Official medicine recognises that drugs don’t always work. Percentages of cases where the drug does positively work vary considerably with the types of ailments and the molecule.

Let’s say that, on average, a drug will work positively in three quarters of cases.

There is still another consideration to bear in mind. Most drugs are known to have side effects of widely varying severities.

Let’s say that in one case out of three the side effects will be at least as serious as the condition being treated.

So, looking at the one chance out of three that a treatment may help you beyond pure placebo effect, if you choose allopathy you have to consider that half of that one chance out of three will be wasted by the drug either not working or producing side effects at least as bad as your condition.

In other words, there is on average about one chance out of six that an allopathic drug will positively help you. And of course if you do take an allopathic drug, there is on average, say, one chance out of three that it will harm you at least as much as it helps.

As a skeptic you are convinced that there is zero chance for an homeopathic treatment to help you, but being intellectually honest you have to concede that the chance of being seriously harmed is close to zero.

What can you conclude from the comparison; take no treatment at all, since the odds for successful effects versus drawbacks are so low? No, for in that case you forego the key placebo effect.

Serious studies have shown that when people strongly believe in their treatment, be it conventional or alternative, the placebo effect is significantly more pronounced.

So if your doctor knew that you believed strongly in the treatment he was going to prescribe, he might reason that the chance of the placebo effect might jump from one third to say 40%, meaning that the percentage of chances of effects beyond recovery without treatment or placebo would fall to around 27% (100-33-40) instead of 33%.

Applying the halving for no action or side effects at least as serious as the condition, the percentage of positive action falls to 13.5%, a bit more than one chance out of eight.

For your doctor, the ideal would thus clearly be to give you a placebo.

But of course, for the placebo to work, you would have to believe it was a conventional drug. That would entail cheating you, with the complicity of the chemist.

Understandably your doctor doesn’t wish to embark on this course.

While not too sure how to proceed in the best interest of his patients, he gets frequent visits by sales people from pharmaceutical companies. Finally, he’s only human. Why make his life complicated when easy pickings beckon?

We can’t judge him. Neither can we judge the sales person from Big Pharma. Neither can we judge R&D and marketing folks from Big Pharma. All of them are trapped in a system.

A system of thought. Powerful, insistent, just sufficiently mildly threatening to keep (almost) everybody in line.

Mind you, if you aren’t a skeptic regarding homeopathy, things are much easier: you take the homeopathic treatment. For one it doesn’t harm you. Then you benefit surely from the placebo effect. And if it works beyond placebo, that is extra benefit.

For my part, I’m sure it does work, even at very low dilutions where no molecule of the substance is present. For it is not a question of a molecule being present, but of an energy signal being present.

Embracing the holistic paradigm is liberating.

Fear not, enjoy maths combined to intuition.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2012

Women all the way

26 Jul 2012 Leave a comment

by leoforesta in Health & healing, Women

Yesterday we went to the seaside. We took the train. The station was bristling with people looking forward to enjoying sunshine on the beach after weeks of rainy miserable weather.

My wife, with her sharp sense of observation, noticed the amazingly skewed gender distribution in the station and particularly on all trains departing to the coast: two thirds women, one third men.

Roughly the same proportion as at conferences, seminars and workshops on all things alternative and spiritual: natural healing, shamanism…

What is the connection between the subtle stuff and taking the train to the seaside?

Before drawing conclusions, let’s gather a few more observations on metro, buses and other trains.

In the meantime here is a good video of a lady spiritual healer:

This particular healer is in Australia, which is very far from where I live, but there are more and more people engaged in spiritual activities all over the world, including some men, presumably with their yin and yang in proper balance.

Fear not, relax and admire ladies.

Love,

Leo

Copyright © Leo Foresta 2012

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