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 INSIDE features, cont. from Mar/Apr 2010 Pathfinder. pg 12, Interview with Rebecca Wiederker & Transformational Kinesiology pg 11, Crossroads pg 15, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Pt 2 For other featured stories in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue |
A Lucy Moorman Interview with. . . Rebecca Wiederkehr . . . and Transformational Kinesiology © by Lucy Moorman  Excerpt reprinted with author's permission. Rebecca Wiederkehr is a Transformation Coach and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in Transformational Kinesiology, which is a means of using muscle testing response to gain insight and direction to help a client make deep, meaningful changes. Lucy: So Rebecca, what is Transformational Kinesiology? Rebecca: It's a journey into consciousness to help people release the belief systems that are keeping them from being who they truly are and bring them back to choice. We don't have to change anything about ourselves because we are already whole and complete but our beliefs, stresses and traumas can keep us from being in the here and now and choosing how we want to live our life. Lucy: Let's break it down. Transformation means a huge change. Rebecca: Right. In order to bring about transformation in a person and crack the code for them as to what their issue is, without putting my stuff on it, I use an access tool called kinesiology. It's a very light touch on the arm while constantly checking to see if you are switching or blocking as we work with thoughts and emotions created through belief systems. Lucy: So what does "kinesiology" mean? Rebecca: It's actually the study of the muscles. I use an aspect of kinesiology. I use the muscles in the arm to determine if a muscle tests strong or weak under certain circumstances to help me get yes or no answers. Very often what happens in our bodies when we are stressed affects our muscles by making them weak. The muscles will signal us by being strong or weak if we ask the question correctly and continue to make sure we have a "clear circuit." If the arm tests strong, sometimes that can mean you are blocked or it could test strong (yes) when you mean no or vice versa. That's called switching and blocking. We know then we don't have clear circuit and we remedy that with clearing techniques throughout the session. Lucy: Oh my, it gets complicated. Rebecca: It can. I am grateful for having some excellent training in specialized kinesiology. Lucy: So, it's what some people call muscle testing. A muscle will test weak when a person is stressed, right? Rebecca: Right, or if they express something that is untrue or not a part of their authentic nature. As a person will tells me their story or what they want to work with, I can use muscle testing to determine what the priority is for that session. Very often when people come to therapy, they'll tell you what they're there for five minutes before they leave. Lucy: Kinesiology can help you get to the real issue much faster. Rebecca: Yes. The exciting thing is "it" chooses the tool as well. I have many tools and techniques because I integrate many modalities. Muscle testing chooses the technique; balance or clearing to use that will most help this particular issue and create the transformation within the person's system. Rebecca: For example, a client comes in with a relationship issue. . . Lucy: Really! Do people have those? (irony) Rebecca: . . . I think that's one of the main things we're here to learn, to understand relationship with oneself and then others. Sometimes it's good to go back and clear the invisible web this person had with their father or mother because they are subtly carrying that into present time and judging their relationships from what they learned way back when. They may have made decisions like "men aren't to be trusted" based on their childhood experience that is affecting their current relationships. I call it breaking the unhealthy invisible web or breaking the karmic strings that have us bound. Lucy: Do you mean karmic strings from childhood or do you go back further like karmic strings from past lives? Rebecca: I work with whatever their beliefs are while not imposing my own on them. Their belief is going to come up so I want to make sure I match that. Sometimes I just call it "other dimensions." Sometimes, I think it could be Carl Jung's "collective unconscious" that a person is tapping into. |
Lucy: So getting back to our example, suppose someone comes in with a relationship issue where they keep attracting someone who leaves them. How would you handle that? Rebecca: As a trained psychotherapist, I would see immediately that they probably had severe abandonment issues as a child. Based on that, they made some decisions early on about what men or women are like. We build a survival kit from our assumptive world. We assume what's going on around us as a child, but it's not reality. It is seen through a child's eyes. It helped us to survive back then but doesn't work in our favor in the present. Since we don't want to be called a liar, we keep subtly attracting relationships that make those early decisions "correct" for us. Sometimes we need an intervention to help us out it. Lucy: As a trained psychotherapist, you can pick up on these patterns from childhood but you take it further than traditional therapy. Rebecca: That's what I might be thinking about the client but there may be other factors. That's why the kinesiology is so powerful – because the client guides the session. Through muscle testing, I can determine the deeper issue and what tool to use to clear it up and break the invisible web on deep unconscious levels – in this case with unhealthy relationships. Lucy: Can you explain more about the actual tools that you use. Is it hand placements or energy or a ritual? How do you get the problem changed? Rebecca: There are many different ways to work. Energy and ritual are very much a part of it. Often I have to be creative on the spot and stay very tuned in. I do a lot of deep guided visualization. The client is literally in an altered state where they can repattern themselves. With permission, I place a hand on the forehead that helps us stay in present time to process and another hand on the back of the head where the reptilian brain and every experience we've ever had is stored. The amygdala is the sentry for the back brain. The brain doesn't know you aren't going through a past trauma in the present so when the amygdala gets activated it thinks you are in trouble so it shuts you down so you can't think because it wants to protect you. So holding the frontal occipital allows the brain to process at a very deep level without going back into the trauma and being re-abused. This process keeps the person in present time where they can relax, think and choose in a healthy manner. Lucy: The amygdala is the fight or flee response that saved our ancestors from being eaten by tigers. Now the tiger may be a memory that gets activated like the person with abandonment issues in your example. Rebecca: True. The more you clean up the back brain where stuff is stored, the better. I sometimes use aromatherapy to clear or release the amygdala because it goes right into the olfactory nerve and right into the amygdala. It will get you into your rational mind more quickly. Lucy: Tell me about your background. Rebecca: I have a Masters in Counseling and did many years of training to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Then I discovered kinesiology as a therapeutic tool and it blew my mind. So I started studying with "Three in One Concepts" and the late Gordon Stokes out of Burbank, Ca. Later I studied Transformational Kinesiology with some powerful teachers from Denmark and have gone on to learn and integrate many modalities as well as drawing from my traditional training based heavily in Transactional Analysis and Gestalt. Lucy: Do you have any amazing stories you'd like to share? Rebecca: Yes. Early on in my practice, a woman was referred to me because she had been repeatedly abused by an uncle. I did a session with her and when she returned at a later date, I brought up her original issue to make sure we had addressed it. She said, "That got taken care of the first time. It was amazing. I had been tortured with that every day of my life until the day I came here. Now I can remember it happened but it doesn't stress me out any more." I was quite surprised because I had no idea that had happened for her. I was new to this "magic." Now that type of thing happens regularly. Lucy: Do you consider T.K. to be energy work? Rebecca: Yes, some people refer to it as Energy Psychology. It is really working with stuck energy. The tool of muscle testing is a gift to help this process along more quickly and it can be tricky because you have to ask the right questions. The mind can take things at face value. Lucy: [You mean that] dealing with the subconscious can be like talking to a 5 year old, eg, being too literal-minded, leading to misinterpretation? Rebecca: You are so right. Muscle testing is not a parlor game. Lucy: Anything you'd like to add? Rebecca: I don't have anything against talk therapy but a client recently commented to me that after a talk therapy session, she feels better but still has all her issues with her when she leaves. She said, "After a session with you, I feel freer. . . I've left it somewhere. It's gone." Lucy: Well, that's saying something. Thanks Rebecca. Lucy Moorman is an energy worker, photographer and traveler. Contact Lucy for more details or to schedule a session at 314-308-6440. |
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Shamanic insights into the time of our. . . Crossroads  © 2009 by Lynn Andrews Excerpt reprinted with author's permission. We live at a time of great opportunity in the human experience. There are blessings and possibilities open to us today of which our ancestors could only dream. At the same time, our societies have grown so complex and riddled with conflict that we are also living under more stress and chaos now than at any [known] time in our history. As I see it, the great flowering of human ingenuity, creativity and the development of truly astonishing technology in which we are engaged today, along with the amazing abundance of our beautiful Mother Earth, have put all of possibility at our fingertips . . . including the possibility of creating technological and social catastrophes from which human beings, like much of life as we know it, might never recover. Along with great accomplishment comes equally great responsibility, and it is the enormity of the responsibilities before us that is causing much of the chaos and confusion under which we are living. There is also tremendous uncertainty in our world, and while nothing in life is ever guaranteed, the kinds of uncertainty we have created in our lives are antithetical to a consciousness of our own well-being. We are literally standing at a crossroads in human existence unlike anything we have ever faced before. The decisions we make and the directions we choose at this crossroads will affect the direction of life on earth perhaps forever, because of the technology we possess. A crossroads is a place of enormous power. It is a place of power precisely because it is a place where choices must be made and acted upon. Thoughts are energy forms, and what we think creates energy. When we stand at a crossroads and evaluate our options, make our decisions, we begin generating energy. As we act to implement those decisions, we generate more energy. Energy is power, just as power is made up of energy. So when you stand at a crossroads, you have within your reach a tremendous amount of power and energy to carry you forward as you choose the path you are going to take, so long as you make a decision and move to act on it. Otherwise, you simply stop growing and moving in life. You become stagnant. |
Think about this whenever you feel stuck. Are you at a crossroads in your life where changes need to be made? The need for change is what brings you to a crossroads in the first place. Once you are there, it is time to make and act upon some very important decisions for your life. While it is imperative to take the time to look at your options carefully and make your decisions wisely, the longer you put off facing and making important decisions, the more your energy is going to be drained. So use the energy that exists when you arrive at the crossroads to move yourself forward onto the pathway that best works for you. The dynamics of energy are truly amazing, for energy creates energy in the never-ending spiral of life in this universe. The simple act of making decisions generates energy. Then you use that energy to begin acting on your decisions. As you do that, you create more energy. The more you get done, the more energy you create. That is why businesspeople like to say, "If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person." There is a catch, however, in the way you generate and use energy. If you are coming into the crossroads as a victim, as one who expects everyone else to make and carry out your decisions for you, you are bringing into the crossroads only negative energy. Negative energy has the ability to create tremendous force in the universe, there is no doubt about that. It is the darkness that defines the light. The possibilities that exist through negative energy, however, are very limited. They are limited by the sheer weight of negativity, which feeds only on other negativity. Using negative energy isn't going to get you out of a difficult place at all; it's only going to get you more deeply into it. Using the energy of negative thinking, which can make you feel very powerful and important for a moment, isn't going to get you anywhere near the center of the crossroads where the power and energy of all of creation exist. In fact, it's going to drain you of whatever positive energy you have left, for negative energy is completely devoid of the power of creativity. Creativity is one of the most powerful forces of all. Creativity is the child of love. Love is of the Great Spirit, and it is the most powerful force in all of existence. Creative energy comes from the very life force, itself.Creativity is one of the most powerful forces of all. Creativity is the child of love. Love is of the Great Spirit, and it is the most powerful force in all of existence. Creative energy comes from the very life force, itself. It is a great privilege to be born at this particular time in human history. The decisions that you make when you stand at the crossroads of your own life and the energies that you use to create and reflect out into the world as you move forward on your chosen pathway are going to have a huge impact on the entire world around you. That is because our very world, itself, is standing at a crossroads. It is a crossroads we all must face. We absolutely cannot allow anyone else to make these next major decisions for our world, any more than we will let anyone make our important decisions for us. We are not victims; in fact, the psychology of victimhood, the mentality that says, "It's not my fault, so take care of me, regardless of the cost to others," is part of the old paradigm of negativity that has brought us to this crossroads amid so much havoc and destruction. We can choose to stay rooted in this victimization, and the results will not be pretty. Or we can choose, individually, one by one until we number every person on earth, to say, "I am responsible. . . for holding up my own dream for a better life . . . for holding up my own dream for a better world." It is when you take responsibility for your life that you really begin to move through the crossroads in very dynamic and exciting ways. This is the vision that I have for our world, that we will move through this crossroads leaving the negativity and victimization of the old way behind us as we reach for all of the light, all of the creativity, all of beauty and joy and power that is the love of the Great Spirit. Reach for the very Life Force itself to guide you into a future of harmony and oneness with all of life. To me, there is no other way. Lynn Andrews is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of the Medicine Woman series and is recognized worldwide as an authority on spiritual healing and personal development. Learn more at www.lynnandrews.com. top |
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PEERS: WantToKnow.info – Review of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins in several parts. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Pt 2 top © by John Perkins Material obtained from PEERS, wanttoknow.info. Excerpt reprinted as "fair use." The following review is edited by PEERS, and differs slightly from the summary published by CapitolReader.com. Perkins has written many other books including The World Is As You Dream It and The Stress-Free Habit. Perkins' Story of Being Recruited as an Economic Hit Man Perkins married a former college classmate in 1967. A good friend of her father's, referred to as "Uncle Frank," was a top-echelon executive at the NSA. Uncle Frank immediately took a liking to Perkins and informed him that a job with the NSA would make him eligible for draft deferment, meaning he could avoid fighting in the Vietnam War. After extensive interviews with the NSA, Perkins was offered a job, but declined it to instead join the Peace Corps. Surprisingly, Uncle Frank supported this decision, largely because it meant that Perkins would have the opportunity to go to Ecuador and live with the indigenous people of the Amazon region. It was with the Peace Corps in Ecuador when a vice president of Chas. T. Main, Inc. approached Perkins about working for MAIN. The man explained that he sometimes acted as an NSA liaison, which made this job opportunity a perfect fit for Perkins, who had intended on accepting the NSA job when his Peace Corps tour was over. Upon returning to the US, Perkins was hired as an economist for MAIN. He was told that MAIN's primary business was engineering, but that their biggest client, the World Bank, had insisted that the company keep economists employed in order to produce the "critical economic forecasts used to determine the feasibility and magnitude of engineering projects." Shortly after being hired, Perkins was trained confidentially by Claudine Martin, a special consultant to MAIN. It was Martin who explained to Perkins what his real job was. It was Martin who explained that he was now an "Economic Hit Man" and that once he accepted this job, he could never leave it. Indonesia Perkins' first assignment took him took to Indonesia. Indonesia was an oil-rich country and had been described as "the most heavily populated piece of real estate on the planet." Perkins' job was to produce very optimistic economic forecasts for the country, showing that by building new power plants and distribution lines, the country's economy would explode. These projections would allow USAID and international banks to justify huge loans for the country, which would then be paid to US corporations to build the projects. In 1971, Indonesia had become even more important to the US in its battle against Communism. Potential withdrawl from Vietnam had the US worried about a domino effect of one country after another falling under Communist rule. Indonesia was viewed as the key. If the US could gain control of Indonesia (with the debts that would incur thanks to the loans for these huge projects), they believed it would help ensure American dominance in Southeast Asia. While spending three months in Indonesia to conduct interviews and study the economic potential for the country, Perkins was exposed to the drastic discrepancy between the wealthy and the extremely poor in Indonesia. While there were certainly signs of a striving economy with first-class hotels and mansions, Perkins also personally saw the tragic side of Indonesia where women and children bathed in wretched, sewer-filled water and beggars packed the streets. He also met some of the country's native citizens and learned of their resentment of American greed and extravagance in the face of their starving children. top |
These close encounters with the Indonesians created a struggle of conscience for Perkins. He wondered if American capitalism was really the answer for the people of Indonesia. He wondered if the population as a whole would really benefit from the infrastructures the US wanted to build in Indonesia, or would it only be a wealthy few who became even wealthier while the rest of the country became more entrenched in poverty and became even more anti-American? While conducting his studies in Indonesia, Perkins was encouraged by his superiors to create strong forecasts for economic growth. He was told that growth rates of 17 percent per annum were expected. Also providing economic forecasts for MAIN was an older employee named Howard Parker. Parker told Perkins not to be pressured by his superiors, he told him not to buy into the game, not to create unrealistic projections. He told Perkins that the electrification project could not create economic growth rates of more than 7-9 percent. Conversations with Parker led to more conscience battles for Perkins. Ultimately, he told himself that the decision wasn't really his to make, it would be up to his bosses and they could simply choose between his high economic forecast and Parker's lower forecast. When the final projections were presented to the executives at MAIN, Perkins' figures pleased his bosses with 17-20 percent growth rate projections while Parker's forecast came in at eight percent. Parker was promptly fired and Perkins was promoted to Chief Economist at MAIN and received a nice raise. Panama In 1972, Perkins was sent to Panama to close the deal on MAIN's master development plan with the country. "This plan would create a justification for World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and USAID investment of billions of dollars in the energy, transportation, and agricultural sectors of this tiny and very crucial country. It was, of course, a subterfuge, a means of making Panama forever indebted and thereby returning to its puppet status." Again, Perkins experienced the enormous differences between the wealthy and the poor. However, in Panama, the differences were most extreme in one area, the Canal Zone. In the Canal Zone, Americans lived in beautiful homes and enjoyed golf courses and firstclass shopping. Just outside of the Canal Zone, Panamanians lived in wooden shacks and among overflowing sewage. These harsh differences created high levels of animosity between the Americans living in the Canal Zone and the natives of Panama. It was not uncommon to see graffiti messages demanding that the US leave Panama. On his trip, Perkins met with Panama's president and charismatic leader, Omar Torrijos. Perkins was very impressed with Torrijos and became friends with the leader. Torrijos was well aware of the EHM practices and knew fully how the game was played. He knew that he could become a very wealthy man by cooperating with the US companies that wanted to build their projects in his country, but he worried about Panama losing its independence and not taking care of its many citizens living in poverty. Torrijos made a peculiar deal with Perkins and MAIN. He wanted Panama to take back control of the Panama Canal and in doing so he wanted to build a more efficient canal, a sea-level one without locks that would allow for bigger ships. The Japanese, the Canal's biggest clients, would be interested in financing this construction, which would anger Bechtel Group, Inc. Bechtel was a company closely connected to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. Omar Torrijos was concerned that these actions might send the wrong signals internationally. He wanted to make sure that Panama was recognized as an independent country and was not dictated by Russia, China or Cuba. He did not want Panama to be perceived as against the United States. Instead, he wanted it known that they were simply protecting the rights of the poor. Torrijos did want to invest in huge advancement projects in electricity, transportation and communications for Panama, but he wanted to make certain that these projects benefited his entire country, including those living in extreme poverty. To do so would require huge amounts of money from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Torrijos worried that his commitment to taking back the Canal would anger the top people at Bechtel so much that it would make it nearly impossible to achieve his plans for these projects. . . . Torrijos made a deal with Perkins and MAIN. He told Perkins that if he could secure the financing for these projects, MAIN could have all the work they wanted on this master development plan. Perkins agreed to the deal and would do Torrijos' bidding. [Pt 3 concludes with the May/June issue of Pathfinder.] For summaries revealing what's really going in global politics, visit wanttoknow.info/bestsummaries. WantToKnow.info believes it is important to balance cover-up information with inspirational writings calling us to be all that we can be and to work together for positive change. Your tax-deductible donations, help greatly to support this important work. top |
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