Throughout time and culture, nature seems to play a very valuable role in our ability to renew and refresh our body, mind, emotions, and spirit.  It is truly a multi-sensory experience.  Every culture in one form or another seems to place value on being surrounded with nature, or spending time in nature.  Just look at the Japanese and English gardens to know this.  Also, in years gone by; nature was the place of worship.

In nature, we can truly let go of our hectic and busy lives; it gives our minds the opportunity to be clear of distractions, and to let go of the cares of our business worlds.  Our senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and even taste can be heightened, developed, and very open in nature; as we listen to the song of wind and water, experience the textures of earth and trees, and feast of vistas and brilliant colors.  There is nothing like the smell of vanilla and butterscotch flavors from a pine tree.

I did a study in my college years on how being in nature can restore our senses.  The color pallet of browns and greens coming from the natural environment could actually improve our senses, particularly our eyesight.  My optometrist asked for a copy of that study after observing the results for himself; after I moved to a small town with lots of nature, and there was a significant improvement in my eyesight

However, can nature also be our therapist?  Debra Taylor believes that walking through nature is one of the best ways for us to clear out issues that we are dealing with; and come to solutions for what we are struggling with.  She feels that walking in nature can facilitate great transformation.

As for myself, I find nature to be one of the greatest teachers that we have.  Solutions to how to live a rewarding life can be learned by observing nature.  It has often times given me insights and answers to how to work with someone, or how to be in a situation.  My experience is that people not only release quite easily by being in nature but that they open and learn very easily from nature.  My thought is that a great part of this is because it uses all of our senses and all parts of our self to be in nature.  It requires us to be present, and the more of our senses and aspects of ourselves that are used when releasing and learning things; the more lasting the results will be for us as well.

What experiences have you had with nature?  How has nature affected your life?  What has nature taught you, or helped you to release?

Jesse Ann Nichols George

Integrated Development Specialist

Would you like to get a feel for some of my work?  Listen to replays of interviews and my radio show at:

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Books can be previewed at both Smashwords and Amazon

Don’t forget to catch me on my radio show - Activating Compassion In The Midnight Hour - part of the Main Street Universe Group on BlogTalk Radio.

You can catch the show on Friday nights/Saturday morning at midnight - 2am EST, 11pm - 1am CST, 10pm - midnight MST, 9pm - 11pm PST

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The show will also be in the archives at this same link if you miss the live show.

This Friday May 17, 2013

Jesse interviews Debra Taylor – author, drum healer, Productivity and Transformational Coach. She helps others cultivate authentic, sustainable happiness. She seeks and nurtures the seeds of pure potentiality inherent in others. Debra helps others experience their transformational powers. She has 30+ years in profit and non-profit business, developing a unique “toolbox” allowing her to offer Totally TAYLOR’D transformational products and services. Her work helps people to make changes, eliminate obstacles, and experience true happiness. We will be looking at Debra’s work in Walking Your Talk, learning about using nature and walking to create transformation. You can find out more about Debra’s work at www.walkingyourtalk.ca

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We have heard a lot in the past about mind over matter, psychosomatic illness, the power of the mind to change the body.  But what about the body’s ability to change the mind?  Does movement have the ability to shifts our thoughts, beliefs, and ability to perform more creatively and intelligently.  Can our body help us to manifest things in our life?

For years, there has been talk about the impact of exercise on the physical body.  We have learned about endorphins and oxytocin being released through different physical activities.  We have learned that these do have an affect on brainwaves, and as a result shift our thoughts and emotions.  But does any form of exercise improve brain function, stimulate creativity, and bring out the inner manifestation ability?

Some may say yes; however, Francois Netter has brought it more specifically to movement through dance.  Basically, any exercise is able to release stress; but there are few that really allow the body to change thought patterns, release trauma, bring out our inner creator and problem solver, and work on life issues.  Yoga, Tai Chi, and other similar practices are noted for increasing spiritual levels, awareness and mindfulness.  Their movements have known to generate physical healing in the body.

However, dance in particular and movements within dance seem to generate much more.  Dance as a creative form of movement is all about emotional and mental expression without words.  It is our way to speak, release, and regenerate all in one.  The combination of physical movement with expression; allows us to show and let out and fully express what is within us outwardly without the confines of words and phrases.

Now having danced throughout my younger years all the way through college - taking ballet, jazz, modern dance classes; I can attest that dance was not just an escape and physical release as with other exercises, but truly a way for me to tune into my emotions release them and move on with life.  It was truly unique in it’s ability to tap into the whole self body, mind, emotion, and spirit all at once.

Francois Netter explains that this is strongly because dance is a multi sensory experience.  There is the visual form of movement, the sound of the music, the feeling of feet being strongly grounded with energetic connection with the earth through bare feet, and the smells that accompany a stage or exercise room, the sensation on our skin through the movement.  It seems that the more senses that are stimulated with activity the more impact it will have on us.  Dance in particular is non-judgmental and free flowing allowing us to create our own experience and expression for that moment and time.  This is why it can truly release, open our creativity, and help us solve life issues through it’s movement.

Is the body a bigger influencer than we give it credit for?  Can movement truly solve our life issues?  Does dance have the ability to truly empower us in our everyday lives?

Jesse Ann Nichols George

Integrated Development Specialist

Would you like to get a feel for some of my work?  Listen to replays of interviews and my radio show at:

http://www.jesseannnicholsgeorge1.com/Jesse_Ann_Nichols_George.html

Website:  www.jesseannnicholsgeorge1.com

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Blog: http://getyourblisson.tumblr.com/

Books can be previewed at both Smashwords and Amazon

Don’t forget to catch me on my radio show - Activating Compassion In The Midnight Hour - part of the Main Street Universe Group on BlogTalk Radio.

You can catch the show on Friday nights/Saturday morning at midnight - 2am EST, 11pm - 1am CST, 10pm - midnight MST, 9pm - 11pm PST

listen in live, ask questions, join in the chat room at:    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/daniel-michael/2013/05/11/activating-compassion-in-the-midnight-hour—body-and-mind

The show will also be in the archives at this same link if you miss the live show.

This Friday May 10th, 2013

Jesse interviews Francoise Netter – author, educator, conference presenter, performer, and Yoga and Movement For The Mind® certification trainer throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She has been a leading innovator in the fields of Yoga, Stress Management, Body/Mind Fitness, Dance and Movement Therapy for over 30 years. Francoise has taught at numerous Universities; as well as teachers, therapists, and medical professionals. Her passion is to motivate others and use education as a resource for creativity, inspiration, and transformation. Her work has been featured on tv, radio, magazines, CDs, and newspapers; including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Health Club Magazine. Her book “Movement For The Mind: Dance That Awakens Inspiration, Wisdom, and Healing” integrates creativity physically, mentally, and spiritually. We look at how her work allows people to contact their own inner state of creative awareness, choice, and purpose. You can find out more about her work at www.bodyminddynamics.org

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3 New Events have just been added - Hurry as there are limited spaces and registration deadlines

For more information and to register go towww.jesseannnicholsgeorge.eventbrite.com

May 25th & 26th 2013 - Your Life Your Way
2 days of workshops in the Los Angeles / Orange County area of California
Choose 1 or all 4 sessions - Money/Success, Relationships, Facing Your Fears, Walking Your Truth


June 8th & 9th 2013 - Personal Emergence
2 day immersion in personal emergence in Cedar City, UT
4 person maximum


June 10th - June 14th 2013 - Personal Emergence 5 day
A 5 day intensive immersion in personal emergence
4 person maximum

In these days it seems that people have gotten quite busy making things complicated as we develop as a society.  We keep adding apps, social media sites, more options for things.  Even in this time of great awareness building through massive dispersing of information, people express feeling lost, confused, uncertain; as they try to take in all the different pieces of insight, information, and considerations.  However, is this still living outside of ourselves?

Have we become so complicated in our attempts to be aware?  What if life was really simple?  Now, let me point out simple may not always be easy.  For some being simple can be quite challenging.  Most belief systems feel that we are in some way, moving into consciousness, uniting with divine presence, or becoming who we truly are.

People often wonder what they should be doing and how can they truly progress into this spiritual self.  What if it was truly as simple as 1, 2, 3 steps?  What if all we really had to accomplish, in order to have it all, is 3 things?  I have to wonder if we did shift our focus on that, how much our lives would change.  My thoughts are that we would do things much different than we are; especially, if this focus was done as a collective.

Richard Harvey has identified 3 steps.  This involves understanding who we are and working with that in a positive way.  It involves being authentic or standing in our true self.  Finally, it involves consciousness; the ability to be free from fear and desire.

Now, when I consider this aspect it shifts so much.  If I was to use these as guidelines to living, it certainly would change things in my life.  As a matter of fact implementing these much more strongly in recent years; have brought changes that I couldn’t have imagined earlier in life.  Now to be in tune with having no fear and no desire; brings such a tremendous level of peace.

These are some big concepts.  I see many that never learn who they are, and many that learn but do not remain true to themselves.  Many times concepts are confused through attaching things together.  To release fear does not necessarily mean tempting fate or laws of the universe.  To have no desire, does not necessarily mean that life is boring and dull.  Releasing fears can simply be embracing change and putting yourself out there.  Also, one can greatly enjoy everything without desiring it.

How are you progressing with these steps?  Are you making life more complicated than it is?  Has the lack of knowing ourselves, being ourselves, and losing ethics and values to material pursuits led our world to be in the state it is in?

Jesse Ann Nichols George

Integrated Development Specialist

Would you like to get a feel for some of my work?  Listen to replays of interviews and my radio show at:

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Website:  www.jesseannnicholsgeorge1.com

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Books can be previewed at both Smashwords and Amazon

Don’t forget to catch me on my radio show - Activating Compassion In The Midnight Hour - part of the Main Street Universe Group on BlogTalk Radio.

You can catch the show on Friday nights/Saturday morning at midnight - 2am EST, 11pm - 1am CST, 10pm - midnight MST, 9pm - 11pm PST

listen in live, ask questions, join in the chat room at:    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/daniel-michael/2013/05/04/activating-compassion-in-the-midnight-hour—essential-self

The show will also be in the archives at this same link if you miss the live show.

Jesse interviews Richard Harvey – Richard is a psychotherapist, author and spiritual teacher. He is the founder-director of Therapy and Spirituality, a personal and spiritual growth center situated in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Spain. His background is in Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologies, Taoism and Zen. He is trained in western psychology and eastern meditative methods, psycho-spiritual psychotherapy and bodywork. He is the author of “The Flight of Consciousness” as well as several other books and articles focused on realizing our true selves, his innovative approach to human development, The Three Stages of Awakening is discussed in his latest book “Your Essential Self” which will be published by Llewellyn Worldwide in July 2013. We will be looking at his work of blending therapy and spirituality to help people release restrictive emotional-behavior patterns, and embrace positive opportunities for growth and change. Learn more about Richard atwww.therapyandspirituality.com

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We know that when we eat right and take care of ourselves, that many aspects of our being will do better.  It is shown that diet has an impact on how our bodies and mind perform.  However, what about the less tangible things in life?  What about our soulful or intuitive self?  Does it have the power to change our lives?

What is the intuitive connection to our daily life?  Could it be that what is happening in our life is a result of not having our intuition strong enough, or not listening to it enough?  Some people feel that being intuitive is something that you have to be born with, while others feel that it is something that can be developed.  Some people believe that intuition is strictly the 6th sense, and others believe it is all 5 senses working with the 6th sense.  Does intuition speak to us through our other senses so that we can better understand what we need to be doing in our lives?

Janyelle Huff believes that there are many components to using one’s intuition.  She feels that it is something that can be developed.  She comes from a perspective that “The healing of the mind, body and soul begins in the awareness of the energies within you!”  I find this to be a very interesting perspective.

As for me I come from a long lineage (at least 13 generations) of spiritual advisors and healers.  Even those that have a natural ability with their intuition still need to consciously develop it.  After all, how can it benefit one if they do not learn how their intuitive abilities work.  I have found that we often times “intuitively” know what we need.  Our bodies will crave different things in order to help us know what nutrients it is in need of.  Our mind gets “visions” or thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere, giving us insight into what is happening in our lives.

I have always felt that whatever it is that we are seeking we already know the answer within us; but perhaps have just not learned how to see it or pay attention to it, or bring it to the surface.  I do know also with quantum work that we can heal energetically.  The curiosity comes in healing life issues on an intuitive level.  Certainly, I have used my intuition to gain “enlightenment” about different things that have then allowed me to understand the next step I needed to take or how to focus my energy.

What are your experiences with intuitive healing?  Can we truly heal all areas of our lives intuitively?  What is the potential we can use reaching our intuition?

Jesse Ann Nichols George

Integrated Development Specialist

Would you like to get a feel for some of my work?  Listen to replays of interviews and my radio show at:

www.facebook.com/ActivatingCompassion and click on the notes file at the top of the page

Website:  www.jesseannnicholsgeorge1.com

e-mail:  jesse@jesseannnicholsgeorge1.com

LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/spiritualadvisorjesse

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JesseNicholsGeo

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FB Author Page:  http://www.facebook.com/ActivatingCompassion 

Blog: http://getyourblisson.tumblr.com/

Books can be previewed at both Smashwords and Amazon

Don’t forget to catch me on my radio show - Activating Compassion In The Midnight Hour - part of the Main Street Universe Group on BlogTalk Radio.

You can catch the show on Friday nights/Saturday morning at midnight - 2am EST, 11pm - 1am CST, 10pm - midnight MST, 9pm - 11pm PST

listen in live, ask questions, join in the chat room at:    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/daniel-michael/2013/04/27/activating-compassion-in-the-midnight-hour-intuitive-healing

The show will also be in the archives at this same link if you miss the live show.

This Friday April 29th

Jesse interviews Janyelle Huff – known globally as the “Intuitive Healing Woman” and focuses on helping the soul experience the freedom of success in all areas of life. Janyelle is certified in Quantum Touch and NLP, has a background in Christian Counseling and Sociology. She is the author of “I Am More Than That” and offers a variety of services including magnetic healing, ascending intuition, energy healing, hypsnosis, life coaching, and intuitive insight. She works with people on anxiety, depression, and addictions; as well as other areas of life. We will look at her work to open all of the senses including our own intuitive abilities; and her ability to bring healing, motivation, and success to any endeavor. Learn more about Janyelle at www.janyellehuff.com

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The show will also be in the archives at this same link if you miss the live show.

This video discusses how to use mindfulness to clear out the stress in our lives. It discusses how to focus on the journey instead of the destination. I look…