Please join us at Caring Palms on Saturday, September 17th, 2 - 4 pm for a Group Past Life Regression facilitated by Laura Bogen, Certified Hypnotherapist and QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) Practitioner. Using a simple, but effective visualization technique, you will experience one of your past lives that is most appropriate for you to see at this particular time in your life.

Were you the guardian of an ancient Greek temple? A witness to the burning of the Library of Alexandria? Perhaps a Crusader in the Holy Lands? The possibilities are endless.

Then stay a bit longer for the second part, where you will meet your spirit guide or guardian angel, who will bestow you with a gift and special message relevant to your life. All you have to do is show up! (We recommend that you bring a pillow to sit on, as space is limited.)

$20 per person 

Call Caring Palms to reserve your spot. 

Check out Laura's website HERE.

We at Caring Palms hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday.

Caring Palms currently has two treatment rooms for rent by some holistic arts practitioner. This could be massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, herbs, counseling, or others. The rent for each room is $400 per month. If you are a holistic arts practitioner, or you know anyone looking for space for their business at a reasonable rate, have them contact us. We are looking for others to come and be part of our healing arts center.

Caring Palms Looking for Female Massage Therapist for Part-Time Work 

Caring Palms is a great place to work, located at Jackonville Beach in a busy shopping center. Compensation is 50% + tips. Any discounts come out of Caring Palms' end. The sessions are spaced half an hour apart so you don’t feel rushed between clients. This is an awesome position for like-minded individuals who are interested in healing others and learning new things. We are looking for a female LMT who would like to find a spiritually receptive work environment for part-time work. Experience or a natural gift is necessary, as well as up to date license and insurance. Technical skills are a plus. Please call us at 904-246-2206, or send resumes to brian@caringpalms.com.

"Intention"

by Faith Stansbury

Everyone needs to have intention in their lives. It is how we focus our energies to achieve a desired result in our daily activities or in the long run. It takes a strong will and drive to focus and follow through, but with intention set in our everyday tasks, following through becomes easier and soon we find all the little boxes next to our to-do list have been checked off.

Total focus in the task at hand creates a state of peace in the action. Resistance is minimal because we find, in that moment, efficiency in the movement. We are able to order tasks in a way that takes the least amount of time and the least amount of stress. These concepts might be familiar to everyone. Maybe you heard them growing up.

“Follow the path of least resistance.”

“Everything is Kung Fu.”

“Work smarter, not harder.”

The anecdotes are endless.

At the risk of sounding cliché, our movements need intention too. Yoga, tai chi, martial arts, organized sports and a plethora of ways to learn to focus intention of movement. However, there are a great number of people who don’t take focus into consideration and injure themselves because they do not make conscious movements. For example, it is possible to actively take yoga classes and never get any benefit from the stretching exercises.

People get so pulled in by the health benefits; lengthening of the muscles, increased flexibility, lower blood pressure, etc. that no focus is put into what they are actually doing. To get the full affect, we have to be in that moment, feel the breath traveling from our lungs to the rest of our bodies, stretch until we feel we have stretched to the point we can safely go. It is in that deepening that we realize, “Oh! If I lower my shoulders like this, I can stretch just that much further! Wow, that feels good!”

Beginners often make the mistake of going to Hot Yoga or some similar class that is not really intended for people who don’t know how to stretch. It is fast paced and overwhelming for a novice. There is no time to melt into a pose before moving to the next posture, and no time for the instructor to guide you into the correct posture if you aren’t quite there. It is sad to think that people get turned off because they had one bad experience.  

As with everything, we must start slowly to gain strength and endurance needed to perform a task. Being fully aware of what we are doing helps us to learn faster. It can help us run faster too.

First, set your goal. We can’t accomplish anything if we don’t know what it is we are trying to do.

Next, research how to achieve that goal. Without proper preparation we come across obstacles we never imagined. They can stop us short. Just a little bit of outside information can prepare us for any trouble we come across. Educate yourself on the subject and you will know how to overcome these obstacles. Sometimes, we just need to find a good teacher to guide us along the way.

Lastly, go into action. Nothing has ever gotten done by anyone who just thinks about it. We have to think and do. Concentrate on what you are doing at the time. Let everything else fall to the background and only think about what’s in front of you. This is focus. The goal is the intention.

One thing at a time, everything will fall into place.

Diversity

by Brian Dean

This world has all types of people. Each has their own beliefs, feelings, attitudes, and personality. Each one is uniquely different. But that’s a good thing isn’t it? After all, we’re not all clones. If we were there would be too much cloning around. Sorry.

But what is good about being different? Being different means that one doesn’t fall into a category of sameness. It means that there is just a shade of difference that sets each and every one of us apart. And we want to be set apart.

Imagine what it would be like if everyone was the same, had the same personalities, liked the same things, had the same level of intellect. The world would look like one of those sci-fi movies where everyone wears the same clothes, goes to the same job, does the same work, listens to the same music, and watches the same programs on TV. But it really comes down to more than that.

If we were all the same, there would be no music, or no TV. Why? Because everyone would have to have that talent and creativity. And if we did, then there would be nothing but music.

Unless we all had the talent to write, there would be no books. And imagine how boring that would be as everyone would have the same level of imagination. Talk about no surprise endings.

And what about technological advance? With everyone having the same level of intellect, either we would all be geniuses, or idiots, or just somewhere in the middle. There would be no spark of genius that would create new things, and if we were all geniuses, we would all have the same ideas.

It is our diversity that makes us special, that makes us unique. It is why some people have the ability to create beautiful music, to write intriguing novels. It is that which allows some people to come up with the most out of this world ideas, and make them work to advance technology.

Because we are different, it gives us the opportunity to learn about other people and other cultures, and in that process, learn about ourselves. It allows us to see through someone else’s eyes and understand things differently.

As people, we are black, white, yellow, red, genius, ignorant, nerds, jocks, larges, mediums, smalls, creatives, normals, mundanes, and everything from one end of the spectrum to the other. And every one of us has something to offer to the whole that is humanity. We each bring a piece of the whole pie, a spark of ourselves to what makes this planet revolve and evolve.

There are too many things going on today that are trying to separate people into groups, and pushing that one group is better than another. But instead of doing this, we should be acknowledging and celebrating our diversity.

We should be looking at what each person has to offer and see how they (when combined with everyone else) can better this world. As right now, this is the only planet we have. So let’s embrace our differences and work to make it a good planet to be on.

Marching to the Beat

by Brian Dean

How do you make music? What movements do you do to create song? Do you tap your pencil at your desk? Or do you tap your foot? Maybe you whistle while you work. But what song is really down in there driving you? What drives your soul?

I was told at one time that my creativity comes from music. It seems I am always listening to something, and that something changes depending on what I am doing. If I am cooking, I would rather be listening to music than watching television. The same is true for moments like right now when I am typing this article. In those moments of creativity, I prefer classical music. And although I love big orchestral pieces that move and intermix a lot of instruments in different rhythms, during the time I am creating, I prefer something nice and soft and relaxing. To me, it opens a point in my mind that allows spirit to come in and flow their creativity through me.

Of course, when I am driving, it has to be rock and roll. It gives me something I can listen to, sing with, and just keep me moving. Of course, I listen to things that limit the tempo so I am not doing 90mph down the highway.

Did you ever have a song that just stuck in your head? That at every quiet moment, it pops out to let you know it is there? Of course you did. This is the way I am all the time. There is always some piece of music running around loose in my head. When I need calming, it is usually a calm piece like “Mariner” (which I play in my studio work room). When I need to get moving, I hear something more robust, like the theme music for the “Indiana Jones” movies. I constantly hear pieces of music from all places, rock, movies, ditties. It has gotten to the point that I can usually identify a lot of music and where it came from by hearing a few bars. (I can name that tune in…)

What speaks to you? What do you have singing in your soul, and what do you do with it? What do you hear for what types of tasks that you do? Do you make your own type of music? Do you march to the beat of a different drum?

I like to think that life can be set to music, like a soundtrack. There are the songs we listen to growing up. There’s the one we associate with a certain boyfriend/girlfriend. Then there’s the one we remember hearing when we broke up. There’s the song that reminds us of happiness. There’s the one we remember from when things went all to Hell. Yes, the soundtrack of our lives.

One could even see parts that repeat. We have the music that is theme for the hero, and it changes from times when he is being heroic, to quiet, to when he is losing. Then the theme for his girlfriend appears. And of course there are themes for each of the antagonists that we deal with from horrible bosses to bullies. John Williams could be kept busy writing the music for each of our movies.

So what are your themes? What are you humming or hearing right now? Take this music, and let it flow through you. Let it follow you, guide you, and even help your mood. Let it flow from your soul. Then you will truly be part of the song. Is that rhythm there, or am I jive talking?