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ONIONS OVERCOME BACTERIA, VIRUSES & FLU

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people a doctor visited farmers to see if he could help them and many had died, but he came across one farmer and his family that were healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home.
 
The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
 
She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick.
 

I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put one end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty jar...placing the jar next to the sick person at night. It said the onion will be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough the story reports.....the onion was a mess and person was better.

During the plague onions and garlic were place around homes and around the necks of those who worked with the sufferers and survived. Onions have powerful antibacterial, antibiotic, antimicrobial, antiviral properties.

Try and see. Buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. If you get sick try the onion, fork and jar and let us know. Simple remedies can be very powerful.

FURTHER NEWS ON CHILD POLYCYTHEMIA HEALING

Kristina wrote again to tell me her daughter who is now healed from her infant pulmonary polycythemia is only two years old! From all her participation and willing understanding of her own process I was having a hard time accepting she was only three. Such wisdom in a child!! Truly, if we are present with our children and really see, feel, sense, listen, it is amazing what they know and understand.

"Such wonderful results...I feel so blessed!  I did want to mention to you though, she is only two, she just turned two in August (I still count that she would have been technically been two in October, being a preemie, but understand she birthed herself when she was ready.) 

I will also be sending you a picture of a painting she did yesterday.  Although I didn't get to get her saying this on camera, as she painted a few strokes on the right side of her artwork she said aloud, "Mommy's teacher, Baby teacher," she has never mentioned you while painting before and it just struck me by surprise that from my excitement earlier in the day that she understood that "I" finally realized she was healed (I say that because she probably gave me signs before to stop worrying).  Everyday she amazes me in how she is trying to communicate to me her truth and wisdom. 

You opened my eyes more to this blessed gift she is transmitting to me, she continues to do this in any way she can, either by actions or her ability to tell me verbally.  I've encouraged painting as an activity, because when she is tuned into what she is doing, I just sit back, watch, and listen to all she is trying to express and find that she already has so much to reveal.

I look forward to reporting more wonderful progress, and wish you well in your travels and change/transitions.  I hope you know my daughter and I are always sending you loving, happy thoughts.  Kristina

SNM STUDENT HEALS CHILD'S PULMONARY POLYTHYCEMIA

Pulmonary Polythycemia cured!!!! School of Natural Medicine Self Healing testimonials amaze me even though I have heard so many over 35 years. How wonderful to start off the new energy of November with a beautiful email like this one in mostly capital letters ( I love those !) from Kristina, School of Natural Medicine student from the San Francisco area. Kristina enrolled in late spring and attended a Self Healing One on One session with me for three days in September in Vancouver British Columbia. By that time both her and her daughter Kadence had been on their Self Healing programs for a couple of months and even then her concern for her daughter with her conditions and medical prognosis was intense.

Teaching true concepts of cause and effect, constitution, inner ecology nourishment and balancing to Kristina and then mentoring her through all the changes was fascinating and enjoyable as Kristina is so filled with love she is a delight even when she is worried!! It seems Kadence's healing achievement came as a gum inflammation and Kristina brought her through with completely natural treatment and a lot of trust and this is the result. A supposedly incurable condition cured!! Congratulations K & K - what a mother daughter team. This is the three year old who kisses my books and says, Mama's teacher's books, and already dances to the Elements of Life DVD's so we honor her as our youngest student and a being of truth. Love you two dearly. Here is her email, CAPS and all, full of excitement and gratitude – just as life should be when we achieve our dreams!

HELLO FARIDA!!I WAS TOO EXCITED AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET A HOLD OF YOU BY PHONE.. I JUST GOT THE BLOOD TEST RESULTS BACK FROM KADENCE'S PULMONARY SPECIALIST...  ALL OF HER BLOOD TESTS RESULTS CAME BACK NORMAL  ...  SHE DOESN'T HAVE POLYCYTHEMIA ANYMORE!THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION OTHER THAN WITH YOUR HELP WITH HER PROGRAM AND THE HERB FORMULA YOU CREATED FOR HER ALONG WITH THE DIET, AND HEIDI LOVINGLY BLENDED THEM TOGETHER TO SEND TO US...IT CURED HER AND NO ONE OR ANYTHING ELSE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.  I ALSO AM GRATEFUL THROUGH MUCH PRAYERS THAT GOD PUT YOU IN MY PATH TO DISCOVER SUCH A BLESSING. THESE DOCTORS PUT SO MUCH WORRY AND FEAR IN ME THAT IT WAS SO HARD TO LISTEN TO MY INNER VOICE, BUT YOU HELPED GIVE ME CONFIDENCE TO TRULY LISTEN TO THE HIGHER FORCES AROUND ME AND MY DAUGHTER! 

This is such an amazing news that it takes so much weight off my shoulders. I can now feel relaxed to follow through, committing fully to my own Self-Healing now that my daughter is looking to the future with great health and if there is anything that comes up, I understand the steps it takes to get her back to the blissful good health.

THANK YOU SO MUCH...Farida please understand the appreciation that I feel to have you in my life and my daughter's life that I can not find the words to express how very much I treasure you and so grateful that you are willing to share your work.LOVING BLESSINGS...KRISTINA

MIRACLE BIRTH PROVES POWER OF NATURAL MEDICINE

School of Natural Medicine International Graduate Summer created a profound Self-Healing protocol that helped her birth a baby the doctors said was impossible. Summer is a woman and a healer of courage, will and discipline and here is her story and pictures of Darshan Makaini being welcomed in to the world. A miracle son is born to a magnificent mother and an inspiration to all. I kept in touch with Summer and her mother through the process - May through September. It is always a privilege to work with a student of their own life and body willing to do their work!!

In April of 2009, at 14 weeks pregnant, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer.  I was told that my ability to carry my baby to term was unlikely and continuing the pregnancy would be a huge risk to my life and to the baby.  An immediate radical hysterectomy was prescribed, which would have killed my baby.  I chose not to do this, or the radiation and chemo which were the other treatment options given by the doctor.  I chose to keep my baby, live my life and do everything I could to heal myself with natural means which were safe for my pregnancy.  I did a lot of research and reached out to create a great healing team with friends and mentors of mine.  I visited Farida in Vancouver in May to go deep into a healing program.  Farida worked with me one-on-one for 4 days, during which I gained clarity, peace, and ease.  Farida helped me work out a self-healing protocol, which I adopted when I went home.  I was limited in what I could do by my pregnancy and certain herbs and supplements which were not necessarily safe for the baby.  I used herbal formulas, essential oils, water therapy, supplements, diet and other naturopathic techniques for 5 months and felt a great deal of healing of my symptoms.

There was a lot of stress in my life, however, as well as fear and uncertainty, perhaps a bit of disbelief in my healing which caused me to relapse around the 6th month of pregnancy.  I felt all the symptoms coming back and was quite an emotional wreck.  Then a good friend of mine encouraged me to come to a weekend class with Lou Corona, a living food teacher who has been doing it for 36 years.  I became completely inspired to begin his diet and four-fold treatment, which includes diet, oxygen therapy, enzyme therapy, and emotional processing.  I spent the last month before my son's birth on living foods, all the treatments and recommendations of both Farida and Lou. 

I felt all my cervical pain go away and had better energy than ever.  People kept telling me how I glowed and was the most radiant beautiful pregnant woman they'd ever seen.  People kept telling me how healthy I looked.  I would smile inwardly when they'd say this, knowing my truth.  I finally had a follow up doctor's appointment to assess the cancer.  It had not gone away, as I'd hoped, and had in fact grown.  I had, however, managed to keep it from growing too large for the prescribed surgery, which was a victory for me.  A natural birth was not possible, as the birth canal was completely cancerous and would not dilate.  After much soul-searching, I chose a date for a Ceasarean birth and agreed to the hysterectomy surgery.  I prepared for my surgery by keeping up with my program, drinking lots of fresh veg juice with whole fresh cayenne and habanero chilies juiced into them to reduce blood loss.  It was expected that I'd need 1-3 blood transfusions during the surgery, and the possibility of death from blood loss was a concern.  I surrendered to the choice I'd made, and experienced the birth of my son in the operating room.  

It was a beautiful birth nonetheless.  He was born completely healthy, vibrant and intact.  His dad was there to hold him as soon as he was born and cut the cord.  I got to spend some time with my new little son before my husband, Jimmy, took him and the hysterectomy was slated to begin.  I focused on my third eye and called on two powerful gurus in my life just as I went out under general anesthesia.  When I awoke, I realized I was still alive and felt joy.  Then I realized the operation had taken 2 hours less than expected, and I was told I lost less blood with 2 surgeries than anyone they'd ever seen with a Ceasarean alone.  I needed no blood transfusion and my total recovery was unbelievably fast.  The doctors are still talking about it.  My son, Darshan Makani, were able to come home 5 days later.  Darshan is growing at a record pace, already over 9 lbs at three weeks old!  My recovery is going very well, with homeopathic remedies to deal with pain and healing.  

I realise that surgery does not cure cancer.  I still have a healing journey ahead of me.  I have acquired faith in my self-healing.  I believe in it now, and have the opportunity to use methods that were not optional for me while I was pregnant.  I also am aware of the safety of treatments while breastfeeding, and will be carefully putting together my program from now on.  I do know my healing is assured.  Every time I look at my little son and my two older daughters I see how much I have to live for.  Every time I see a new day I rejoice in the beauty of life.  It's like I told the lady who hooked up my IV's on the day of my son's birth.  She had a button on her scrubs which said, "I love presents".  I said to her, "Remember, every moment is a gift, that's why it's called the present."

ONE ON ONE SELF HEALING DIVING DEEP TREASURE

Treasure in therapeutic relationship opens with depth intention and connection as does everything in the field of creation and when I began my practice 33 years ago in 1977 in Cambridge, England it seemed natural and appropriate to give three hours to each new client. They arrived and received a depth Sherlock Holmes consultation inquiry dialgoue as they soaked their feet in a Lobelia foot bath and relaxed. Then they received an iris analysis, photograph after their reflexology session that also revealed information that was confirmed by the iris information. Instructions and mixing their herbal nutrients and writing out their program took the session up to three hours and they walked away on a new path in life.

My naturopathy, iridology, bodywork and herbal practice grew into the School of Natural Medicine, twice monthly weekend trainings, conferences with international teachers I invited such as Dr. Raymond Christopher, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dorothy Hall, Willy Hauser, and Harri Wolf, and a busy practice in Cambridge with two days a week in London in a gynecological practice, with five apprentices in my clinic in Cambridge to help mix and blend and send out the herbal nutrients was based on spontaneous intuitive generosity from wisdom that knew what a person needed to inspire them to take responsibility for their own life. I hope one day to write a book based on the case histories I have preservd of incredible healing sagas and triumphs.

Now with the fourth One On One Self Healing session this summer completed yesterday with a passionate student, Kristina, from the San Francisco area, I am convinced this is the direction Self-Healing has to go if we are to understand and work on all areas of a person's life to mirror, educate and build a relationship that will serve their highest purpose.

How fascinating and wonderful to dialogue and converse for long sessions over three days, with therapeutic healing processes diving deeper into the many areas of life, relationships, habits and culture and unwind the Gordian knot of confusion and create a healing path. I feel blessed at the luxury of my life and the time I give to those who seek this depth work and give gratitude for the quality of those who seek to transform their life to gain the experience and wisdom to guide others in self-healing and self-realization.

Kristina wants to call her practice, Natural Harmony, and that is the perfect name for someone with the vision to create a life of wellness, connection and loving service to self, family and community. Thank you Kristina for being willing to begin your journey. Here is the before picture and I look forward to publishing the In Process and After pictures as they emerge in time with conscious cause and effect choices.

SELF HEALING IMMERSIONS EVOLVE TO ONE ON ONE

School of Natural Medicine Self-Healing Immersions with Farida Sharan, a great new idea birthed this spring of 2009, are already undergoing creative innovation and evolution. Any new idea has to be tried out. You then see what happens. The first Self-Healing Immersion, a five day depth One on One with a SNM graduate, produced the changes and instruction to advance forward into a new cycle of self-love and self-healing with total fun, love, laughter and much joy around miles of walking and living and raw vegetarian meals. The second, planned for two, was interrupted when one canceled, so turned out to be a One on One, and the same depth diving into mentoring sharing exploration created a new ground for emergence and an auspicious beginning to a most loving teacher, student bond. The third, this past weekend, also planned for two was once more changed by a last minute cancellation, and this time I got the message.

From now all, all Self-Healing Immersions will be One on One - an opportunity for those wishing deep mentoring relationship, instructional sharing with a teacher of experience and wisdom, and the time for healing processes and appropriate choices of therapeutic sessions such as Master Touch Reflexology, Raindrop, Core synchronicity, Mayan abdominal massage, Chi Nei Tsang, poultices and anointing with medicinal essential oils and other treatments. Our One on One student reports:

"What a treat, what a weekend, what an experience! I came to Vancouver to have a Self-Healing Immersion with Farida and when I saw her for the first time I was struck by her beauty. Her eyes twinkle with life and wisdom. The first day and a half we talked, or should I say, I talked. I have been walking back and forth from my hotel in downtown Vancouver to Granville Island and enjoyed every stop (aquabus one day too).

Today, Sunday, I received a great gift from Farida. I lay on six futon mattresses listening to El Hadra Sufi heartbeat music, closed my eyes and received the most wonderful and loving treatment of my life. The Reflexology was something I cannot describe in words. It has to be experienced. For a while I felt like I was in India or Hawaii or at an ashram or a luxurious spa. Then she followed up with a Raindrop Therapy that made me feel like I was on cloud nine.

Thank you Farida for taking so good care of yourself that you can be here and take care of us. Love and blessing Eva"

Eva works as a therapist in a chiropractic office. She has a loving heart and longs to create a loving professional educational healing practice and build something wonderful for herself and others in this world. Originally from Hungary, raised in Sweden, Eva speaks many languages and is a most delightful and beautiful young woman - a pleasure to have as a student.

LOVE LETTER APPRECIATIONS FROM STUDENTS

Sharing this wonderful picture of dandelions from my dear friend and student of over thirty years ago in England who accomplished major self healing and is now a renowned flower essence practitioner. These dandelions were floating in a flower essence she was making recently. So beautiful I had to share them. Thank you Carol of the United Queendom.

Here are some recent appreciation love letters from students that touched my heart. Thank you dear ones for the courage and passion to love yourself and create self healing as a way of natural spiritual living.

COMMENTS AFTER A SELF HEALING CONSULTATION
I want to say thank you!  During the consultation I revealed a lot more than I thought I would.  I am an open person by nature, but the events that made a lot of impact on my whole being, sometimes takes time for me to share.  But, you gave me much comfort to allow me to share those deep seated issues that have also helped me to be who I am today. It was nice to tell you a little bit more about myself as I sometimes have trouble articulating what I truly want to express, I can tend to be a bit sentimental and emotional when talking about hurtful topics.  Thank you so much for your understanding and compassion.

SNM GRADUATE ICELAND
I want to share with you some of my future plans and I hope they will become reality within two years or so. First of all I want to develop the Raindrop Therapy with different essential oils according to different ailments. I also plan to open a herbal apothecary with Icelandic herbal blends, teas, tinctures flower drops, fruit leathers and more. So I plan to do something with my knowledge and I will always be thankful to you, the founder of the Iceland school. You are the women I want to look like. Dear Farida you are often in my mind and always in my heart. I wish you all the best...always love. Rannveig

NEW SELF-HEALING STUDENT
Thanks for the protocol.  This is the kind of healing I've been searching for a long time.

SELF-HEALING NATUROPATHY SNM STUDENT
I was told for so long that I could not have children, and within 6 months of being home from your living food naturopathy and mystic yoga retreat at Ann Wigmore in Puerto Rico with you, I met my husband and now have a beautiful baby boy who is a healthy and happy one year old! Thank you so much. That trip changed my life in so many ways. I’m so grateful. Thank you again. Ashley

SELF HEALING RADIATES FROM STUDENT/GRADS FACES

School of Natural Medicine Reflexology graduate, Nannette, from the Boulder, Colorado area, currently attending Essential Oils Therapist training in Vancouver, BC with Farida Sharan, radiates her progress in one year of Self Healing. Wish I had before and after photographs!!

Eyes brighten, faces open, and the clear direct look of being present creates a loveliness of the person lit by their inner world. Nannette has the blessing of a strong clear mind and as she deepens into three brain integration, developing living connections with instinct and feeling through her training and opportunities with the self healing processes in class, a harmonic balance of all intelligences increasingly blesses her being, life and work.

Nannette can't express enough how the Reflexology class last autumn slowed her down, made her experience being present with touch and available to feel and receive truth, information and wisdom when working on clients and transforming her health.

"Studying Reflexology opened a door that led into a room filled with compassion, energy, love and understanding. I have grown spiritually, feel whole, have more confidence and am able to releaseold patterns of thought and behavior. Previous to reflexology my life was one of control and organization and structure to the extreme. Through Master Touch Reflexology and the way we learn it with Farida, I have slowed down, let go and now live completely in each moment. Relationships are better experiences are deeper and spirituality is more intense. My family and friends tell me how different I am. They see me as more patient, kinder, less stressed and definitely less controlling. I feel these changes in my soul and know they are a direct result of the grounding that has occured within me since the training and the work I now do with my family, friends and clients.

We have our next Reflexology class coming up this time in Vancouver in September - still a space - still time to enroll. Still time to experience Self Healing and transform your life and work - and this is not just any Reflexology class. This is the opportunity to access and create living connections with a sensing, feeling, knowing touch of wisdom that nourishes the giver as well as the receiver. Each session is creative and unique to that person and the ability of a practitioner to be present in that way is the result of profound self healing.

To check out Reflexology classes on this blog, click on Reflexology on the right margin and enjoy other classes, see pics, and read student testimonials.

SOLITUDE, COMMUNITY, LONELINESS & INTIMACY

I have been contemplating basic beliefs and clarifying longings for relationship and community as I explore the roots of being here in Vancouver BC. Having chosen to live for a time in the land of my birth, a place I have not lived in for over 40 years, where I hardly know anyone, and where I purposely left behind all my support systems, power objects that identified me such as a car, art and things of history, as well as all the trappings of my previous career except for the Apple computer!!! As I deepen into solitude as a person that loves community and has made a career of creating healing process and movement love-ins (always the sixties child that believes groups can merge into love and be nourished by the invisible forces of the universe) I find myself sharing myself with people of the world not just selected students and privileged friends.

I ride buses (havent done that in 40 years I believe) and I notice and feel love for those struggling with poverty, handicaps, the elderly (I am getting to be one of them at 67 however my health makes me feel and live like 35 or younger), the young, the indigenous, the workers and the bus drivers also, and feel connected in a wider stream as I release a life lived for so long in the company of those with resources and passion and excitement for life and learning. There are many who do not feel this passion to grow and experience. I ask Why?

I find myself asking questions. What is loneliness? What is intimacy? What is community? What is solitude? Inquiry is becoming a way of life where I have time for reverie. I found intimacy in long term depth relationships with students as they sought to know and heal themselves. Yes I have long term and deep family and friend relationships however there is something rich and noble in the mentoring role and as a person who chooses to walk the path of life without a partner I enjoy a signature relationship with each student of life who seeks guidance and support.

Community thrives in my heart when it emerges beyond vested interests and power/dominance struggles so I choose community carefully and in small doses, retreating when I feel those energies rising. I belong to several communities and I lightly come and go as group agreements are often limiting and projections affect one's sense of freedom to be who you are.

As to solitude there is no such thing in my world as I am always in the company of soul, the one great and true relationship. I cherish the growth of the soul and nourish it well in hours of solitude and find its presence within me is the fertile source of all offerings.

As a human being I love to explore the opposites and then reside in neutral ground whenever I can. When I get swept off neutral I become uncomfortable and I can accept that for a while until I need to speak the truth, release, do the work, and return to neutral balance and my essential way of being, for that is what supports the solitude and all relationships.

As I shared processes born of inner explorations I felt the deepening in the students and know that my offerings are a gift to their journey. The best kind of intimacy. The best kind of community. Knowing and being known is intimacy. Sharing that knowing and being known is commuity. With knowing and being known there is no loneliness only the choice of solitude to nourish both intimacy and community.

Sharing a moment with the standing stones at the Star House Community in the mountains above Boulder, where one feels the weight of depth at the same time as swirling in the heavens. For several years we enjoyed our School of Natural Medicine herbal classes here and I participated in dances and activities from the time of its creation when I lived in Gold Hill.

SELF HEALING ARTICLE ON WEB DAILY PLANET MEDIA

The Weekend Daily Planet Web Newspaper and editor, School of Natural Medicine student Patrick Cusick, features a full page article 'How Personal Self Healing Heals the Planet' by Farida Sharan this week.

Check it out on page 25, and also tune in to an amazing weekly newspaper that includes advertising from some of the mega supporters of green ecology.

http://intranet.pressdisplay.com       login: wdplanet@demo.com

password: welcomewdp

Press on Weekend Daily Planet to open pages

SNM's SELF HEALING STUDENT FROM MINNESOTA

 
Meet Eva, originally from Scandinavia now settled near Minneapolis, our beautiful new student in the Self Healing Module. Presently working as a chiropractic clinic, Eva had a most organized way of getting started on her diet changes even though it is tough to give up gourmet love of cooking habits. Eva is working through the E Courses in Naturopathy, Iridology & Herbal Medicine with out UK branch of the school and is coming for a Self Healing program with the School of Natural Medicine Canada in Vancouver in July. Welcome to the school, Eva

SELF HEALING IS A COMING HOME TO ONESELF!

Many times School of Natural Medicine students have said "we are so happy we don't want to go home." The energy field that is created during trainings and self healing processes opens a space of unconditional love that is so nourishing, full, radiant and divine, contentment flourishes and there is a sense of never wanting it to end! This is the home within yourself and once a student experiences this they have received the essence of my teaching.

This beautiful painting by my granddaughter illustrates the Path of Illumination created by Self Healing as we make our commitment to walk the path of truth, light, goodness, beauty and personal evolution.

While Self Healing Immersions offer the matrix for deepening into "home" These teachings and healing processes are also part of trainings in essential oils, flower essences, self healing, reflexology, herbology, naturopathy and iridology where all students are nurtured in an ark of loving divine support during healing processes.

Once a student of life and healing attends a class they understand how important it is to learn how to learn, to feel, to listen with respect, and to devote oneself to self-healing and one's own work. Trainings combined with healing processes offer the opportunity for personal evolution at the same time as embodying the teachings deeply within a student's personal reality so that information and skills emerge as wisdom nurtured in experience.

Learning information and skill is not enough. All seekers of truth, love, healing and wisdom need to be safely nurtured in an environment that envisions a field of human kindness and potential. Trainings are rich in the showering of grace and are the impetus and inspiration to fully develop the most supportive environment possible for becoming wisdom rich and abundance blessed.

It is to this evolution of humanness I wish to devote myself to sharing because it is this restoration of essential self that is the field of loving truth that creates a profound professional integrity and ability of the true healer/teacher/practitioner.

Small classes with personal attention for students passionate to explore self healing and personal evolution add profound depth to trainings in professional skills. Through loving and kind connection students are selected based on their their willingness to do their personal work.

This unique opportunity to receive professional training combined with healing processes is rare in the field of education. Classes, trainings and mentoring are offered individually and students progress at their own speed and from their own choices based on inner feeling, sensing, and knowing to reawaken joy of learning , discovery, exploration and mastery.

Trainings are offered in in an atmosphere of loving support and human kindness with respect for each person¹s strengths, gifts and also their areas of growth and healing. Through experience each student awakens their conscious understanding of health, healing and wellness and becomes a living example of the teachings and radiant guide for others.

SELF-HEALING HEALS THE PLANET ONE PERSON AT A TIME

Self-Healing with the School of Natural Medicine transforms the planet one person at a time, in keeping with SNM student Patrick Cusick and his www.planetmedia.com 'plant one tree for every person on the planet' vision. Self-Healing transformed my contribution on this planet from one of weakness, exhaustion and ill health from hereditary pernicious anemia and cancer to non-stop joyful creative service for the past 35 years. This profound experience launched my career in natural medicine.

My Self-Healing transformed a so-called negative illness to a positive victory that gave me the wisdom and understanding to guide others through the complex unwinding of causes of illness in habits, heredity, constitution, emotions and karmic destiny with a confidence that continues to astound me. The greatest joy of participating in that students choose Self-Healing when they wish to realize their highest potential, when they are tired of a indulgent life that wastes their energy and health, when they are ill, in pain or dying, when they long for enlightenment instead of settling for temporary ignorant bliss, and when they wish to live in harmony with the laws of the universe as a true human being.These times of choice are times of transformation.

If each person stands tall like a tree with their roots deep in the ground of reality and truth and offers shade, fruit and seeds to the world around them, it makes this world a better place. Just as the vision of a tree for every person on the planet sends positive ideas through the planetary energy field, the vision of each person reaching their highest potential for health and positive contribution influences the field of creation. When a person is strong in their health and energy they give shade, shelter and value to those around them.

As students go through their programs they seem to wake up, seek wider horizons, choose creative work that helps others, become independent, creative and self motivated and this increased light of being is their offering to a healthier planet and a better world.

This increased light and awareness gives a positive attitude, energy, the wish to do good, to make a contribution and to enjoy work that gives satisfaction and helps others. Regardless of what kind of work they may do, a healthy person imbues their relationships in livelihood with kindness, honesty and positive energy.

The choices those who have chosen Self Healing as a way of life make become conscious choices that lower the carbon footprint from living more simply with consciousness of the effect of what you do on others and the planet, to choosing to eat vegetarian foods and supporting a green economy and environment.

Together each one of us creates the future we leave our children, choice by choice. Parents who choose Self Healing before conception overcome hereditary weaknesses and other toxic conditions and birth healthier babies. Human beings who have overcome tendencies to strong emotional states during their Self Healing create harmony in their community instead of dissonance. If we have energy and joy that is what we offer daily as we move about the world living small tasks as well as large ones.

If our voices offer kindness, our hearts radiate consciousness, and our mind positive vision we can create a force of love so strong it will overcome the negative manipulation of profit seeking multi-nationals and those that diminish education, healthy, safety, environmental beauty, nature in the name of profit, greed and desire. It will stand strong in the face of potential destruction of species, rain forests, pure water, coral reefs, clean air and healthy food.

Healthy people care about their bodies and their homes and their life and the future of their children. Healthy people are human people who realize the world they live in needs to be respected and preserved. It is not about taking all you can it is about leaving this world a better place for our being in it.

Choose personal Self Healing as a way of life and receive the gifts it offers so that your offering in this world can come from a reservoir of energy, respect, love and service.

AN IDEAL STUDENT IS A SEEKER OF TRUTH

Every so often I am blessed with an ideal student - one who from the beginning recognizes the truth of this work and the opportunity - one who is ready to do the work - who just says YES and dives in - one who receives and responds with trust, passion and loving appreciation. My experience with Rebecca is that she was able to receive the highest level of transformation with ease and to understand and welcome truth - a great gift for a teacher.

I just spent two + days with Rebecca - our new student from Washington state - a young mother seeking truth and healing and wisdom and her drive to Vancouver was the first time she had left her young children in the care of father and in laws. So beautiful to participate in her process and observe with respect her healing transformation - like Summer she also loved Vancouver!!

Rebecca will be attending all the classes offered this summer beginning with the oils class end of June, then end of July, reflexology and continuing Self Healing.

After consultation and iris analysis sessions were focused on developing her constitutional strengths - in her case deepening into feeling, knowing, trusting to relieve her from worry and anxiety - the evolution of the Iridology constitutional type Anxiety Gastric in my system of Iridology.

The Self Healing Immersion sessions with Farida brought me "into deeper connection with my being through feeling ..... a dissolving of worry, fears, anxiety with feeling energy and understanding as well as clarity on how to just simply be and allow life to happen. There was a release of stagnant energy allowing flowing movement to rise and balance. The love of a true teacher and friend is so sweet and comforting and new....delightful."

GOD APPROVES OF OUR SCHOOL

 

I learned that in Volume II of Conversations with God, the author, Neile Walsch includes information about schools and how students learn during a conversation with a potential student who was interested in studying with the School of Natural Medicine.

When answering questions a potential student asked me during an interview I spoke of how important it is that there is a warm and affectionate relationship between teacher and student. I also talked about mentoring during Self-Healing as they build higher levels of well being and consciousness and how I respond to questions and offer support during their studies.

The student's husband then said with a smile, "God approves of your school."

Surprised but delighted, I agreed, "Yes I know God approves of my school. That is why it is so joyful and why so many students experience such deep levels of healing and transformation and happiness during their studies."

He then explained about Volume II of Conversations with God and how the author spoke about how Waldorf schools are based on a deep relationship with one teacher through all the years. Parents and teachers make a commitment to share the journey of together - enjoying the benefit and challenges of bonding and connectedness.

Above is a picture of my beloved teacher, Dr. Raymond Christopher, who I met in 1976 during a training in Healing Waters, Arizona, and developed a strong bond with, and brought to England in 1982 after I studied with him in Utah where I received my Master Herbalist Diploma from his School of Natural Healing. My respect and love for him was the ground of truth for a lifetime path of teaching and practice. I tell the story in my book, Herbs of Grace - Becoming Independently Healthy, a book all students of SNM receive as part of their Self Healing and E Courses Home Study.

This delighted me even more and confirmed my belief and trust in what I offer to students during their studies and the embodiment of their studies in their life and work through Self-Healing.

I remain committed to interviewing and selecting students who feel passionate about the opportunity to study with the School of Natural Medicine and join my classes and Self Healing relationship. I feel very blessed to offer and be part of this dynamic loving training with the approval of God.

SELF HEALING - SELF DISCOVERY - SELF-FISH-ing

School of Natural Medicine Self Healing students say "My friends and family say I'm selfish if I take time for my healing treatments, if I rest or take baths ....." and I say right back to them, celebrate SELF, be SELF-ish, put a sign on a private room saying KNOW THY-SELF!!!! Take the time for SELF before the SELF takes you to illness, hospital, exhaustion or surgery. Take the time to love SELF, care for SELF.

Self Realization leads to God Realization. You can only give and serve with what you have, your SELF, so make that SELF the best that SELF can be. Take time for your SELF. Heal THYSELF.

Jettison the guilt. Let go of the shame. Shake it all off like water on a duck's back (seen a lot of that recently at the Vancouver lagoons and ponds). Be-COME your SELF. Have the courage to be YOUR SELF!!! Celebrate Self. Heal THYSELF!

This image of the iceberg is a great visual metaphor for the work we need to do to dive deep and find out who we are. When I meet a student for the first time I feel like the greatest detective of all time, whether Poirot (my favorite) or Sherlock, nothing can compare to a School of Natural Medicine graduate who seeks and mirrors the information on all levels, physical, emotional, social, mental, karmic, spiritual and more that weaves the matrix of illness, ignorance, unconsciousness, constitutional patterns, thoughts, destiny and more that make up the Gordian knots we love to weave around ourselves, to imprison ourselves, to limit ourselves, to destroy ourselves.

Cut through. Take the sword and go for it. Commit. Begin. Take the first step. Make the intention. Once you go through the portal everything starts to shift and open. Move past resistance, obstacles, negativity, delay, excuses, laziness, indulgence, weakness and offer yourself to your divinity. Begin Self Healing and discover who you are and what you can become.

Enjoying living connections, enrollment and beginning new students of self healing. Connect today: email to set a time to talk to Farida and begin your journey to SELF DISCOVERY.

SELF HEALING ONE ON ONE - VANCOUVER BC

School of Natural Medicine begins its 2009 summer program with Farida Sharan in Vancouver B.C. with a depth One on One Self Healing Immersion with a Naturopath SNM Graduate, Summer, mother of two and soon to be three, of Asheville, NC.

It proved an amazing week - welcoming a dear friend and graduate to explore deeper work. As well as our profound self healing body work and processes we enjoyed the beach, seawall evening walks to absorb the mountain and sea views, a harbor Aquabus cruise and a Stanley Park walk, as well as the movie of spiritual activism, Fierce Light. We shopped daily at the Granville Island market for fresh organic produce, making the most divine meals - our favorite - quinoa cooked with garlic bulbs and steamed vegetables, fresh juice, seaweed and pesto salad, all the while happy and appreciative and full of gratitude for many blessings.

Summer shares: "I have been studying life and healing with Farida through her school since 1999, each time transformational to the core of my being. It was a joy to graduate as a naturopath in 2004 and use the wisdom and passion that was cultivated in the school to begin a successful career in health and healing.

Having been recently faced with a health challenge of my own, I immediately sought the help of my beloved teacher. I consider it an honor and a gift to be able to spend a several days of healing, one-on-one, with Farida. I see her as a living example of a life of purpose, service, truth, balance and "purehealth". By her example I see how to cultivate a healing temple out of my own life as well.

My path is becoming clear, my body and being is open to receive my healing. To connect with Vancouver, with the mountains and sea, proved a healing environment for me, one also rich with childhood memories. It is a coming home to myself."

Summer's mother who supported her One-On-One writes: "My deepest thanks and respect for the work you and Summer have done to energize her spirit to heal her body. I am beyond grateful. Love, Sylvia

JOYOUS ACCEPTANCE INTO NATURAL UNFOLDING

Carol Rudd, a dear friend of over thirty years, a former Self Healing student of her own life and body in the early days of the School of Natural Medicine in Cambridge, England, recently sent me this photograph of an unfolding spiral as we were in a delightful dialogue about spirals on Facebook.

Carol is now an amazing and creative flower essence practitioner in Norwich, England and is a true living example of self healing transformation. She attended many of the conferences I organized in the 1980's to study with my teachers, Dr. Raymond Christopher, Harri Wolf, Dr. Bernard Jensen and other classes with SNM and other teachers in Polarity Therapy and more, and has emerged with her own synthesis of grounded creative service.

It is a delight to be in touch with a dear friend and share the illuminated journey of a life transformed by Self Healing. A writer, teacher, practitioner and researcher of flower essences, Carol has created her path of loving relationships - a book coming soon!

The spiral is the movement of evolution and is seen in unending variation in the fractal world. Spring is a time of opening and unfolding and allowing what is to be to come into fullness without resistance or holding back. Allowing oneself to flower in the summer and bear fruit and seed in the winter is the work of each year.

This year make the determination to unfold into your Self Healing and become all you can be.

TREES, PLANTS, & SPRING FLOWERINGS SEEK THE LIGHT

School of Natural Medicine International and Farida Sharan's teaching has evolved again - this time with offerings of Self Healing Immersions in Vancouver, BC. this summer of 2009.

This lovely photograph sent by new student, Beka, who is coming to a Self Healing Immersion in May and the Oils and other trainings through the summer reminds me of the beautiful reaching into the inner worlds to open our inner eyes toward the inner light of spiritual consciousness.

In this time of increasing light it is good to be aware that we reach toward the light and that makes us stretch and grow and seek. We are not alone in our seeking. The light of the universe is a reflection of the light within, the soul light, that shines on us and nourishes us from within.

Self-Healing attunes us to this amazing light of consciousness, the pure light of soul, our source that we came from and the goal at the end of our life journey.

So enjoying the seeking souls coming toward the light of One on One Self Healing Immersions and Self Healing small group immersions this summer. The divinely beautiful work that has evolved through the oils and essences healing process has opened the way to this profound work. I am available through the end of September for these offerings.

To discuss Self Healing and set a time to talk send your phone number and time to call and email Farida

WHAT ARE YOU SEEKING IN THE OCEAN OF LIFE?

Wes, a fishing guide at the Sonora luxury fishing resort and spa in the inland wilderness islands east off Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, took this wonderful fishing picture of the illuminated mystical catch of all catches one magical morning. When I look at it I see the fishing rod, the symbol of the dream of the big fish, the perfect fish, and the happy excuse for going out into nature and having a wonderful day as you hope for the big catch.  Wes is my nephew and he was raised by my brother, Barrie and his courageous wife, Marnie, in the wilderness of Murrell Island by Surge Narrows, living the life many of us dream of living in nature.

The picture stirs my heart and these questions. What are you fishing for? What do you hope to land? What are the dreams you hope to come true? What big catch are you waiting for?

The light shining through the mist gives the image of the mystical fish from the invisible spiritual ocean of love, the gift of grace that reveals the mysteries of the inner worlds being glimpsed through the veil of knowing. I offer this picture because of its beauty and because it speaks to the seeking heart and the dreaming longing soul.

It connects me deeply to my dedication to self healing and the living and teaching of truth and personal evolution in the School of Natural Medicine, in our Health Master trainings and in our Self Healing Immersions and healing processes. Sometimes we are just like the fisher, waiting and hoping, and then something more magical than we ever can imagine, appears and it is a time of grace. It is for us to do the work, to surrender to the waiting, to prepare to receive and then enter into the gratitude. All these phases are part of the journey. We learn them in self healing, we practice them, they enter into our life and become our spiritual love in action.

Thank you dear nephew and brother for sharing your wilderness world and the ideals of effort and skill in nature that is changing far too fast though there are few with the courage to live like pioneers as you did.

SELF-HEALING OPENS INFINITE EVOLUTION

School of Natural Medicine UK, USA and Iceland training preparations for autumn 2008 classes have included a depth exploration of fractal realities over summer. As well as watching DVD's (see an earlier August blog) and exploring the web and U Tube, I read Patterns of Chaos by John Briggs and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful photographs and the fine writings of this portal into the quantum infinitely unfolding universe. However making something both practical and personal and part of SNM's Self-Healing processes is my personal and very enjoyable creative study.

Understanding anything begins with understanding the language and asking the right questions. The phrase  that dropped into my mind, "The View Between", opened the portal and the right question for me when I was driving through the green hedgerow lanes of Devon - you are enclosed in lush growth and suddenly a space opens, a gate, revealing a world of fields and farms and sky and then you are enclosed in green again. The phrase came into my mind and brought an immediate understanding of the Quantum Field and Fractal Reality in terms of living a life that opens to this larger Field.

Where is transformation and change and evolution visible? How do we resonate and be a co-creator with infinity unfolding? Where can we see Fractals in ourselves and the world around us? How can we use Fractal, Quantam realities and The Field to improve our life experience?

Feedback, both positive and negative, leads to an ever unfolding experience in a zone of turbulence with forces pulling toward order at the same time as they are pulling toward chaos. If we pay attention to this growing edge frontier during our Self Healing, accepting that old patterns are falling away as we create new patterns, we can surf the waves of change, accepting the  sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes humbling, sometimes thrilling and ecstatic experiences, and become truly alive in the present. There in that dynamic zone of change is a beautiful imperfection, a roughness combined of both order and confusion and an awareness reality of participation in the unfolding universe.

Everything is connected. We are not separate. Everything we do affects everything else and everything affects us. We are fully a part of life and the more conscious we are of our participation and responsibility the more alive we are and the more we give and receive.

A Self-Healing student in Washington DC, ready to graduate as a Naturopath and a true example of authentic being, shares his appreciation for his evolutionary process - "You've worked so hard for so many years, and are creating a legacy for many years to come.  What an inspiration you are in applying the universal principles of "do what thou wilt be the whole of the Law" in your beautiful manifestations.  Can't wait to be a graduate of your wonderful program.  Love to you Dear Teacher!" Namaste, Chris.

Students of Self-Healing. Join in the dance of life. Awaken to the possibility of full giving and receiving and becoming all that you are and all you can be!!! Keep the image of the ever branching expression of unfolding into every moment.

DNA PROVE SELF-HEALING

DNA DISCOVERIES prove our experience in SNM's Self-Healing!

1. This proof reveals that the universe is held together by a field, an invisible web of energy, and our DNA is in constant communication of receptivity and response with this energy.

2.Our DNA and living cells communicate through a quantum form of energy, an energy not affected by time and distance but by attention. This is a non-local form of energy, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time.

3. When researchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, their DNA responded by TIGHTENING UP. They actually became shorter and SWITCHED OFF many DNA codes! If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down too. The shutdown of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were FELT by researchers.

This experiment was later followed up by testing HIV positive patients. They discovered that feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation created 300,000 TIMES the RESISTANCE (to the AIDS virus and other diseases) than they had without those feelings. So here's the answer to what can help you stay well, no matter what dreadful virus or bacteria may be floating around, stay in feelings of joy, love, gratitude and appreciation!

Evolved and spiritual individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of their DNA. Therefore love itself is related to this field of energy that connects all of creation. This energy appears to be a TIGHTLY WOVEN WEB that connects all matter. Essentially we're able to influence this web of creation through our loving resonance VIBRATION.
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Science of Emotions Experiments:
Gregg Braden. Healing Hearts/Healing Nations: The Science of Peace and the Power of Prayer.

SELF-HEALING AS A SPIRITUAL PATH

SELF-HEALING AS A SPIRITUAL PATH
In September 2007 I was invited to the first Icelandic Spiritual Conference as the keynote speaker in Seythisfjördur in eastern Iceland, where the ferries have arrived from Europe and the Faro Islands for over 40 years. It is a most beautiful place of many waterfalls, rivers, a calm inland sea and a charming town. The air is invigorating and you feel yes, there just might be elves and ferries and trolls nearby as the energy and nature is so magic.

While preparing the lecture it gave me a splendid opportunity to dive deep into 30 years of participating in evolutionary healing paths and processes with students and clients and seek for the main themes of the Self-Healing commitment and opportunity that is the foundation of the School of Natural Medicine in the USA, UK and Iceland and other international training destinations.

When I was healed breast cancer naturally over 30 years ago I was willing to let go instinctively, even prepared to die, and yet I was healed and have shared what I learned ever since. I explain what I learned by experience and also share what I know to be true in other models . I challenge everyone to dive into your own Self- Healing and discover your amazing and incredible gifts and powers and open to fulfilling your highest destiny. Following are some of the concepts that explain my experience and way of living.

Preparing to Receive: if we have a dream or a goal or wish to achieve healing or health then we have to be willing to make new choices, release old thoughts and patterns and prepare to receive what we long for. Being willing to do the work to attract, deserve or resonate with your goals develops a receptivity in alignment with the natural unfolding universe, instead of a stress, push, overexertion that often produces an another reaction of instability.

Timing: when you learn to live in harmony with the unfolding universe, preparing to receive, and enjoying the process of co-creation with patience and respect, what is meant to be part of your life will appear in the right way at the right time. Trusting is part of the process.

Self-Realization: we learn and grow and evolve by facing ourselves, not escaping or avoiding our problems or challenges. We open to discovering our highest potential on the path to God-Realization. What will we offer the universe when we shed our body? Will we open to a process of transforming after preparing to receive death consciously or will we resist in pain and fear. What we practice in life becomes part of us and what we experience in every new life situation.

Transformation:
Nature is full of examples of transformation and cycles with life forms that molt or periodically shed or transform their external skeleton at each developmental stage and emerge in a new form – the butterfly is a fine example. Did the pupae ever imagine its winged freedom? Do we ever imagine how what we can be if we are willing to let go? We experienced this process physically in our embryological stage and we are still being offered the possibilities of transforming emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Complete metamorphosis has an incubation stage where the old form dissolves and is then reorganized into a new form. I love to call this the cocoon experience that precipitates a new stage of organization. These same forms are visible in the plant world. Look to the entire cycle of life, not just a part. Recognize how life change is a part of a bigger cycle that we may not at first recognize.

Growing Your Soul:
We need time and attention to our own being and our inner life. Self-Healing helps us return to sensing and knowing our own body, emotions, mind and spirit and renews the connection with our essence and ground of being, our soul and our spirit embodied in form.

Dynamics of Change:
There is a fascinating model of change called Spiral Dynamics that I share in advanced trainings that explains how we reach a point and cannot evolve further and describes the resistances, excuses, comfort zones, fear and reactions that cause us to retreat from change instead of risk or embrace transformation. This can be applied personally, socially and politically, whenever old patterns create problems that need release so that new patterns can evolve. Our lives and bodies can product a crisis, illness, disease process, emergency in order to draw our attention or we can participate in the need for change by listening to our bodies, hearts, mind and spirit messages and the messages that appear as gifts from the world around us.

Fractal Unfolding:
Enjoy the beautiful infinite unfolding and growing edges of fractal reality that clearly reveal how all life forms are endlessly evolving and always changing. Being part of the continuous unfolding transformation creates evolutionary possibilities instead of hardening suffering resistances. Enjoy movie visuals on u tube by searching fractals and exploring clips. In the UK contact Gordon Films for Colors of Infinity DVD or search on www.amazon.com in the USA.

Growing Younger:
Facing the reality of who we are, our life, our world, our choices is the life process we are all part of. Imagine retaining all the positive aspects of childhood (curiosity, flexibility, enthusiasm, energy, ability of learn and more) and combining all that with experience, understanding, wisdom, discipline . The beauty of the elder is as beautiful as the newborn. Whether we have just arrived from the invisible world of spirit or are returning let us face the moment with courage, love, and surrender - be willing to let go and be willing to receive.

SELF-HEALING REVEALS MAGNIFICENT MYSTERIES & GIFTS

School of Natural Medicine Iceland Health Master three year Naturopathy student, Vala, reports on the completion of her Self-Healing module. What is remarkable is how much she achieved when pregnant, and unable to do many of the protocols like herbs or cleanses. She did what she could with food, oils, flower essences and home naturopathy treatment. The changes Vala speaks about show the value of her dedication and effort, and the positive healing effect of simple and practical changes in our daily habits and attention to our own being. Congratulations, Vala.

“This has been amazing journey for me both physically and emotionally. I feel I have started something I will do the rest of my life."

"Much has changed and cleansed emotionally. I feel calm and have more self-esteem and therefore it is much easier to solve problems and that gives me a really good feeling. Of course it can be up and down, but when I am tired or anxious, I now solve it and release it so it doesn’t bother me for long time, like before. When I came to the school and started this work this feeling that I am on the right path and everything is going to be exactly as it should be came and didn’t go again like before. So the conclusion is a big emotional healing and I’m looking forward to work on physical changes soon.

"The big struggle for me was to take time for my self. Finally I came to enjoy time for my self and to feel my body: now I do Epsom salt baths, skin brushing and good nutrition for just me, even when I make different things for my husband and children. I didn’t always like my body but now I’m so much happier in my body.

"Another change was to release old emotions and be able to solve problems who showed up with new emotions (this work began during the first days at the school and developed at home and during student gatherings and study groups, first slowly, then suddenly there was a big change on my emotional level even when I wasn’t trying hard…maybe that was the problem before…I was trying to hard to fix and analyze myself and judge myself that I could not release!

"So the outcome is this really good calm feeling about my self and my life. Also there is a feeling of trust and safety, that things that come to me are there to serve my purpose and I’m the one who co-creates what comes to me.

"Also there is a big change in my relationship with god and the angels, I \now know it is ok to ask for help…I’m not bothering or disturbing….they are there for me and want me to ask and pray…I’m loved for what I am now not for something I should be or could be or could do... as I am right now.

"I realize now that I have knowledge about many things, both deep about myself and on many aspects in this life. I have an inner power that I can trust and I also have power to perform many things that serves my purpose. I can now change my attitude more easily than I ever thought possible. I can also now express myself and release something I need to right away. I don’t hold my self down or think or analyze for a long time now. I express what I feel."

SNM Students Live the Teachings

YES, IRISES DO CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO DEPTH PURIFICATION

SNM OILS STUDENT
I love the students (AND THE TEACHER!) at the school--the positive energy,
the love and encouragement are all uplifting.  Be well . . .  Margie
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BOULDER SELF-HEALING & ESSENTIAL OILS STUDENT
I am definitely planning on taking Oils level II. I am ready to order my herbs and start Self Healing. Positivity and movement forward is in motion and the more I am opening my heart the more it is coming...so so many connections outward with people...so much synchronicity and appreciation for inward growth... I have trouble with diet my whole life. Setting extreme standards for myself makes me anxious of the discipline...the thing I want most is to shed my addictions and make space for yoga and meditation. I have been working a ton which is great and feeling grateful! I really am excited to start the herbs and maybe when I am putting those in my body I will feel more inclined to purify!! Thank you  Lots of love   L
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SNM GRAD
Dear Farida - your July 6 newsletter was such an inspiration.

I have now acquired a most unlikely client - my father!  He has resisted natural healing in the past, but when he hurt his back recently, I pestered him into allowing me to do some trigger-point, energy work and a ginger poultice with Star of Bethlehem Bach Flower Remedy since I could sense the injury was very painful (he refused to take any herbs).  Not only did this relieve his pain, but he said he felt his whole attitude had adjusted, and even apologized to my mother for being snappish lately.  He said he had not realized the burden of pain he was carrying.  For him to humbly admit not only to a physical difficulty, but also to an emotional one, was a huge step.  My hope is that he continues with this insight.  I am treating him very diplomatically, since I fear any hint of "I told you so" will cause him to curl right back into his shell.

I love hearing from you and love hearing about other students' progress. Have a beautiful summer.  Love, Anna
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SNM SELF-HEALING STUDENT TO JOIN ELEMENTS OF LIFE & ESSENTIAL OILS II
Thank you so much for my session today. I definitely feel a lot of healing going on. I can definitely feel it in my emotions. I know the fatigue is telling me something. I need balance. Thank you for being here for me and helping me work through my healing process. You are truly an angel and I'm
so thankful to have you in my life! I'm definitely looking forward to August and September!

The iris photos are great. Will the colors change as I heal?

Thank you again so much. You truly are a blessing. Peace and love,   Kathy :)
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UK SELF HEALING CLIENT
Dear Farida, Greetings from a happier Helen!!  I hope you are well. I continue to have very good and grateful memories for the way you looked after me.  It feels as if a lot of resolutions are happening around my illness.  How many things have flowed toward me even though I was so blocked and could afford little!  It felt as if the spiritual world decided to get me better and it was my own deep resolution as well. 

I am now certain that the real problem came from the bladder area; the kidney weakness you pointed to seems the most intractable and you were the only person to discover it.  Colonics are helping and the bowel rhythms slowly returning.  I went back to full time teaching, big step, tiring, but I did it.  So far, so good.  Best wishes,  Helen