Enjoy and benefit from this profound interview with Cindi Sansone-Braff, and then get her amazing book, Grant Me A Higher Love.
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Q&A Audio
I hope these answers help!
Don’t Need It. Don’t Want It. Don’t Gotta Have It.
I wish I could say it’s good to be back in the big, bad apple–my home for the past 18 years, but, in truth, re-entry into New York City after two months of surf, sand, and sun in a state of clear, connected consciousness for two and a half months has been a disturbing experience. There’s nothing like being away from all the madness to see it for what it is — a relentless assault of images — subliminal and overt — directing all receptive minds and resources toward a parade of unnecessary trends, products, and social directives. From this lucid vantage point, I see it as an obvious form of mind-control and group madness. Ask me next week and I might be sucked back in just enough to excuse it and accept it as I have historically done, so I didn’t want to wait to express this.
The world of merchandizing and image-mongering is extreme. For decades of living in LA and NYC, it had me in its clutches. I bought in, sold my soul, pursued and purchased as directed, like a marionette. Over the last ten years of deep cellular cleansing, my ability to see through the programming increased significantly, but today it is so clear that I simply can’t find the purpose in any of it or support it at all anymore. Life cannot grow through concrete. Dead indoor air, chlorinated water, processed food, greedy pursuits, and the like cannot support life.
I have spoken several times about the trajectory of mutation–but to reiterate, it grows into disfigured rogue form over time as the mutation grows more pronounced. Physical, psychological, mental and emotional imbalances begin with lesser symptoms and bit by bit, those symptoms grow more pronounced, more acute as their cause goes uncorrected. If corrections are not made to the trajectory and the organism fails to be restored, the future generations of both the cells within that organism and the generations of that organism’s offspring (remember we always look at an organism holographically, appreciating the micro- and macro-cosmic effects) will carry more dire mutations. This is how we read the Universal Laws of Life and can thereby predict the outcomes of all causes. In the case of our civilization’s life-deteriorating trajectories, we have received countless warning signs of where it is headed (too many warning signs to mention here, but think autism, schizophrenia, infertility, depression, Parkinson’s, etc.). So we can predict that the next generations are going to greater expressions of these symptoms. If you conjured up images of zombie-like monsters depicted in movies like 21 Days Later,Night of the Living Dead, and Shawn of the Dead, you would be spot-on.
Think that might be a stretch? It turns out that right on 23rd Street and Park Avenue, where my husband’s offices are, there are a number of people exhibiting zombie-like symptoms. My husband and his colleague were telling me about it last night. There are many of them–pharma-addicts, a.k.a. pharmaceutical junkies. Apparently, they freeze. That’s right. They actually freeze in place–anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours or more–while clutching a cup or making a gesture or just sitting or standing, often with their head dropped down. Pharmaceutical drugs, my friends. If this is what extra dosages do, do you think small “recommended” doses are safe? Is our way of life a highway to a world of human zombies? How about that expression on your ten-year-old’s face while watching TV programs and ads? Is truth not only stranger than fiction but on par with horror? Is life mimicking horror, or horror mimicking life?
(Note: as I’m reading this to Ana, she nods and tells me she has seen them too. Surely, this is not a stand-alone event. Perhaps it’s just the proximity to a big-name drugstore.) Apparently the dealers are pretty easy to spot. Are pharma-drug ringleaders modern-day drug dealers? What’s more, the squirrels are going the way of the snake pit too. Apparently, urban squirrels in many of the local parks are jumping on people with packaged foods and drinks. They too have become addicted to the intensely addictive substances in our foods and are insistent upon getting their fix!
Everyone knows New Yorkers are the trendsetters. If this is any indication of what’s to come and what’s brewing, is it really the trajectory we want to be on? And let’s face it, we’re in it together. Separation consciousness is an illusion. Life is a great web. Parts disconnected from the vines of life (carrying vitality from the great interconnected organism of planetary life) cannot live for long. They wither or mutate, or both. If these people become zombies, cleansers are affected too! Do you think their choices do not impact you? Do you think their refuse does not enter the water supply or that animals that become addicted to the substances they ingest from our garbage don’t make them dangerous to you? Small consolation, but at least it sounds like you’re safer carrying around apples than chips!
Sure, you may be cleansing, but what is your teenager sneaking from the local drugstore? Do you think there are no pharma-junkie dealers in your neck of the woods? Can you be sure they or their clients won’t freeze while going 65 mph on the highway? We are all connected. Awareness followed by conscious change is the only way out. There is a great southern African philosophy called Ubuntu that essentially states, “I am who I am because of who we all are.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered this definition: A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
Are we losing our Ubuntu? Are we choosing greed and dead things over connection and living things?
Going through piles of mail, I came across several catalogs. One popular brand screamed from the cover: “You Need It. You Want It. You’ve Gotta Have It!” As I tossed it into the recycling bin, I thought, No, I don’t need it. I don’t want it and I don’t gotta have it.
The lyrics of this great Elton John song, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters,” nicely echoes my sentiments about my long-beloved city:
Until you’ve seen this trash can dream come true
You stand at the edge while people run you through
And I thank the lord there’s people out there like you
I thank the lord there’s people out there like you
Subways no way for a good man to go down
Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown
And I thank the lord for the people I have found
I thank the lord for the people I have found
While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can’t and that is why
They know not if it’s dark outside or light
And Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends!
Love,
Natalia
P.S. I thank the Lord that there are people out there like you.
Detox Walks On!
I’m looking forward too seeing all the Detox Walkers laced up at the fountain (see events page for exact location) this Thursday, September 9th, at 9 a.m.! I can’t wait to see what’s growing at the conservatory! See you soon…
Love,
Natalia
Cover Girl Culture Audio
Macha and I recorded this conversation after watching the new documentary, Cover Girl Culture.
www.byoaudio.com/play/WbcwpwXx
More Brutal Honesty: An Audio
Are You Ready for A Higher Love?
I rarely feature a full-out endorsement for a book in this blog space, but I’ve just read and digested what may just be the clearest, most revelatory, and most helpful books on modern relationships for our time. The book is called Grant Me A Higher Love. It’s written by gifted mystic and counselor Cindi Sanasone-Braff, whom I’ve had the great pleasure of communicating with over the phone and hope to meet in person as soon as she is nearby on Long Island. I was moved to call her immediately to thank her for this great contribution that will no doubt bring about greater states of relationships for all who open their hearts to her teachings.
This is one of those very special books that you will not be able to put down and that will forever change how you view relationships. It removes old lenses and enables you to see relationship dynamics with radical clarity. This is a book that anyone at any stage of relationship–romantic, platonic, or familial–should read. I cannot recomend it enough. I know you will enjoy and benefit!
Here’s to higher love,
Natalia
Consciousness & Breast Milk Audio
Audio with Macha: Labels or Self-Leadership
Miscellaneous Q&A Audio with Macha
This audio discussion is divided in two parts because the phone line broke off about two-thirds of the way through.
Miscellaneous Q & A Audio with Macha
Content covered in audio:
* Understanding how and why the body thrives on less
* What the body thrives on
* How to use our unique strengths to benefit society at large
* Using deep breathing to center the body before emotionally eating
* The art of balancing your inner self
* Grounding yourself using the image of the “7 Directions”
Quotable Quotes in audio:
* “Once you remove the addiction, the body becomes very serene, clear and happy, and prefers not to be inundated with substances.” – Natalia
Part 1 (19 minutes):
We discuss the link between a pure, simple diet and longevity, and we discuss balance and the importance of “grounding” when undertaking transformative spiritual and dietary disciplines.
http://www.byoaudio.com/play/WmdSckS4
Part 2 (approximately 8 minutes):
The discussion continues…
http://www.byoaudio.com/play/WfGrHDW4
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Disintegratin’ Bones!
In this latest audio, Macha Einbender and I discuss the deterioration and rectification of the skeletal-muscular system as it applies for all ages!
http://www.byoaudio.com/play/WYv9gsD4
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Disintegratin’ Bones
Content covered in audio:
* Understanding the skeletal and muscular systems of the body:
* How to maintain their inherent strength
* Origins of bone deterioration in the body and how to reverse it
* Which foods are meant for the human body and which are not:
* Balancing taking in alkalinity tempered with transition foods
* Achieving muscle tone without much exercise
* Methods of applying the concept of moderation in our context
* The danger of modern children going down the non-life-generating trajectory
About Macha Einbender: Macha Einbender (a.k.a. the Spiritual Makeover Artist) is devoted to lending her voice to help others enhance their lives thru meditation, healthy lifestyle, and overcoming negative thought addiction. She is a mentor for women and a spiritual activist. She is commited to supporting women on their individual journeys.
For access to her audio blogs and interviews:
http://www.herfuture.com/profile/MACHA
For her Overcoming Negativity Addiction Radio Show with author Denise Coates:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/denisecoates
Town Meeting Roundup
Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to take a moment to fill you all in on what’s going on here at Natalia Rose Institute and what you can look forward to in the coming months.
1. Emotional Eating S.O.S.! is now complete and available for free on the membership DetoxCommunity and for purchase on the site. This project is very close to my heart and definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write because I had to retrace my steps and recapitulate my life–all that wired me for emotional eating and all that liberated me from it. But I persevered and went into that dark space for hours at a time until it was done because I think this is one of the biggest challenges people face today. The material can be applied to any self-destructive behavior, not just disordered eating.
2. Our Detox Walks have been so much fun this year! In the last two weeks, the groups have grown quite a lot and it’s been wonderful to meet more new people. Our lively, large group snakes through the park like a beautiful cobra, drinking in all the great collective energy and soaking in the vibes from this very special nature reserve in the middle of Manhattan. This coming Thursday, June 24, will be the last walk I’ll be able to attend for a while, but the walks will continue without me. We have a torch-bearer, Lisa, who has been with us every week and who will lead the group until I come back after Labor Day. So please keep going strong. Many people have told us that the walk is the highlight of their week!
3. The larger Natalia Rose Institute International Community is still incubating, but we hope to launch this summer. So please stay tuned. Soon there may be a group near you!
4. The Parents Community is also in production, as is a newsletter, which we’re working on to offer you even more guidance and support. You’ll soon see a “call out” area on the homepage to sign up if you’d like to receive it. You’ll find recipes, tips, discounts on local colonics and juices bars, and much more!
5. The Rose Program Culinary Institute is booking up its maiden course in October very quickly. Anyone who has tasted Doris’s food, attended one of Doris’s cooking deomos, or tried her recipes in the DetoxCommunity knows why. She is a genius–ever at the cutting edge of our culinary future!
6. I send out a Good Luck wish to all my former and current students who are taking the Rose Program Certification test. It is not an easy test–if you pass, you really know your stuff. We are receiving many completed tests, so please be patient while we grade them with detailed care and feedback. Please give us 2 to 3 weeks to get back to you.
Ana will remain hard at work all summer, and she still has a few openings available for personal consultations (in person or via phone). I am taking July and August off to spend time with my family. So, more than ever, please remember that between the blogs on this site and the extensive guidance offered in the private DetoxCommunity, you will find everything you need.
We receive more correspondence than we could possibly keep up with, so please understand if we cannot reply to all of your questions. This is what the DetoxCommunity is for. There are many advanced students here who can answer your quetions. We are not expanding to meet the increased demand with more employees. We have no corporate ambitions. We believe there is a way to serve you while remaining tranquil and connected, in the moment, instead of falling victim to the technocratic pace of modern life that depletes inner power.
I’ll write a few blogs and post a few more audios with Macha over the summer to stay connected with you all. I look forward to seeing many of you at the September Advanced Training Class and the Rose Program Culinary Institute in the fall. Remember to visit our Events page!
Wishing you a wonderful summer (and to our friends down under, a beautiful fall).
Love,
Natalia
Kung Fu Daily
With the release of the new Karate Kid, I suspect there is going to be a resurgence of interest in all things related to kung fu. I was nine years old when the original Karate Kid came out, and I got a life-size poster of Ralph Macchio for my bedroom wall. While I was a die-hard fan of the original version and soundtrack, and generally do not like remakes of films, I believe that this new version is going to strike a deeper chord with viewers than the original did.
In this version of Karate Kid, there is a depiction of ancient Taoist power in the monastery scene in the mountains. I go to my authority on Taoist chi practices, Kostos Danaos, author of Magus of Java and Nei Kung: The Secret Teachings of Warrior Sages (both of which I highly recommend for those of you who are interested), for the definition of kung fu. Danaos writes:
…the first term, kung, is written as a combination of the characters kung and li. Kung means “to build, to construct.” Li means “power or strength.” The second term, fu, is made up of the single character fu, which is a complex ideogram to interpret. Fu is derived from the character for man, with added widespread arms and an adult man’s hatpin through the character (in medieval China each adult male wore a hatpin through his hat and hair). The implication is of a mature, large, responsible adult man or father figure; the character is also used in other contexts to denote someone’s husband. In other worlds, the term kung fu actually means: “the construction and development of one’s energy over time, through daily effort, such that in the end one obtains mature power and the spiritual development of a Master.” Kung fu, in other words, is a path of continual discipline and training, of nonstop growth over your entire life.
I feel this movie is going to strike right to the hearts of filmgoers because it arouses an ancient knowledge that has lay buried deep in the unconscious mind—knowledge about essential human power—chi, or life force energy. We are a culture that has taken active, living things and rendered them dead in exchange for materials that we think we want, that we think drive our world forward. But the attraction to kung fu betrays a far more magnetic attraction: our innate desire for life force energy.
We have grown lazy and calcified in our patterns, but in kung fu we are reminded of the beauty of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline—the ingredients for progressing cooperatively with life and the living power within us. This is what is deeply fulfilling for us, not the Ferris wheel of plasticity that we culturally subscribe to through the regular purchase and consumption of industrial foods, products, and blueprints for socially accepted living.
The power we are instinctually attracted to is living power, in all its fullness and abundance, in all its beauty and health-generating inspiration. But we cannot attain that kind of power through laziness and the herd mentality. Where does the herd’s uncultivated energy go? To the cattle driver, of course!
We can cultivate our power through the disciplines that shape it, or we can relinquish our power by stepping into line with the social norms that routinely destroy our greatest resources. The choice is ours.
Traditional Taoists are among the few remaining keepers of an ancient wisdom—a knowledge of energy so powerful that it can be lethal in immature hands. It tells us something about the power we carry within, and what happens when we relinquish rather than cultivate that power. With this power we can shape what indigenous peoples call “the dream,” “maya,” or “illusionary reality.” With this power we can also change the dream, as the remaining keepers of this ancient wisdom have long been urging us to do.
You, as a living being, are brimming with tremendous potential power. It is yours to cultivate and craft, to create and direct toward the life you want. By the same token, it is also yours to relinquish, whittle away, squander, or ignore.
Our culture has raised the last few generations to give their life force away—in exchange for a prepackaged life—in the form of packaged foods, relationships, careers, indulgences, entertainment systems, and so on. We now live in a world of devitalized adults and children who know nothing of their inner power, only of where to go for their next purchase.
Yet, even in our devitalized world, a young person will sometimes catch a glimpse of kung fu or feel a surge of chi. When that happens, what do we tell them? That it is the stuff of fantasies? Try telling that to the Shaolin monks, for whom telekinesis, the absorption of enormous amounts of momentum, displacement of matter, and electrogeneration are not supernatural events, but entirely natural and normal for a mature human being.
When our chi falls away from us like sand through our fingers, simply because we cannot see it with our modern-day eyes, so too do our forces of intuition, instinct, and connection—all those things that keep us alive and progressing.
As Danaos explains in his books, in order for there to be life, there must be a balance of yin and yang, the dance of the energies of life – the yin personified by the female (the inner negative pole, representing night, etc.) and yang personified by the male (the phallic positive pole, representing day, etc.). Within us we find the yin and yang energies running concurrently, parallel, side by side, propelling life in all its electromagnetic power. These energies can combine powerfully when we learn how to cultivate and harness their flow.
Eastern energy practices are a great place to begin appreciating the value of life force. Whenever you are vigilant of your inner power, where it resides and where it is going, and whenever you make the life choices that honor it, you are practicing kung fu, you are cultivating and maturing your physical and spiritual power. This is true wealth. Don’t let anyone take it from you!
Reproductive Health Audio
Macha and I explore (unbridled) the critical subject of reproductive health in this approximately hour-long audio. Enjoy and BENEFIT!
http://www.byoaudio.com/play/WF5rL82s
Reproductive Health Audio
Content covered in audio:
* Causes of infertility and how to reverse it
* Why reproductive symptoms manifest and how to reverse them
* How the body ideally was designed to go through menstruation
* Contraceptive options: the ideal and the non-ideal
* An ideal plan for preconception
* Sexual energy as a natural outgrowth of a loving relationship
* How the image of clean cells conducting life force mirrors sexual energy in a relationship
Quotable Quotes in audio:
* “We don’t age the body by how many times we go around the sun. We age from how much we accumulate going around the sun.” – Natalia
* “The being that you are bringing into this world is a reflection of everything that you are and everything that your mate is.”
– Natalia
About Macha Einbender: Macha Einbender (a.k.a. the Spiritual Makeover Artist) is devoted to lending her voice to help others enhance their lives through meditation, healthy lifestyle, and overcoming negative thought addiction. She is a mentor for women and a spiritual activist. She is commited to supporting women on their individual journeys.
For access to Macha’s audio blogs and interviews:
http://www.herfuture.com/profile/MACHA
For her Overcoming Negativity Addiction Radio Show with author Denise Coates:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/denisecoates
Summer of Power!
Summer is here and it truly is the season of power. The sun is the great generator. For the next three months, solar energy is at its peak in this part of the world, which means that we have access to more energy now than at any other time of the year. It means that we can greatly benefit from this power if only we know how to connect with it. In summer, we can get charged up by this solar power and feel deeply infused with energy.
If you open yourself up to this solar power, you’ll feel it in your blood stream, in your muscle tissue and bones, in your womb if you’re a woman (this is a great time to boost fertility), in the creative centers of your mind and body, and last but not least, in your heart. Summer is not the time to melt and become lethargic, but a time of great opportunity for every living being.
There is nothing like the electric feeling of waking up to the summer sun in a clean body, with electromagnetic life force, chi, solar fire running though your blood, with your heart beating strong and your mind brimming with creative thoughts, propelled with a desire to capitalize on this power. This feeling is among the greatest gifts life has to offer. So let me give you a few tips to get you there.
In order to receive this solar energy, you need to be clean internally and externally, and connected to the earth and to nature at large. While it helps to live in the country, you can tap into nature’s energy almost anywhere. As I write this, I am fully linked up with enormous solar energy right here in the middle of New York City. The flow is intense, not because I’m tanning to a crisp in the noonday sun, but because I’ve consciously opened myself up to great web of energy all around me.
Unity consciousness—the perspective that life is an interconnected whole, ever pulsating with life-generating energy—keeps me connected. Separation consciousness, the typical perspective in our culture, keeps most people disconnected from the web of life and thus choked off from all the power it carries. Most people believe they get their energy from calories alone (usually unnatural substances completely devoid of life force) and seek security merely in following the social norms—such as maintaining steady jobs, signing up for health insurance plans, accumulating credit, investing capital, and so on.
The problem is that these things can be stripped away at any moment. Banks can close, jobs come and go, health insurance plans offer no insurance of health, emergencies strike, governments fail—the list of social insecurities is endless. But rooting your energy, your power, your raison d’être in nature’s great web of life is the best investment decision you could ever make. If your job, your health insurance, your stocks, and good credit were stripped away, if society were crumbling around you, you would still have your breath, your energy, your health, your passion, your inspiration.
This is not to suggest that we should ignore the workings of society and reject the world. You can certainly hold down a job (hopefully, one that you are passionate about), live in a beautifully appointed home, pay taxes, and so on. The difference is where you get your energy, where your consciousness is. Real energy and power do not unravel based on day-to-day events, news cycles, and financial markets—all the whims and vicissitudes of the social order. Real power, the energy that propels the life cycle at large, is never-ending, continually fortifying, evergreen.
We human beings are part of a great network designed to receive the electromagnetic power of the sun. That power is the life force that flows in such abundance through every atom in the natural world, in every unseen wave particle that charges the air. It is in the sun’s rays and in the earth’s electromagnetic field. The energetic field is all around us, but in this culture of separation consciousness we all too often cut ourselves off from it.
We are made up of layers of energy and energetic pathways, from our very subatomic structures—the electrons that carry the electromagnetic energy from one atom to another, from cell to cell—through our neurological pathways, bloodstreams, lymph systems, brain waves, muscles, organs, reproductive systems, spinal fluids, skeletal systems, and the unseen nadis and meridians of our energy body.
Our culture is all about separation, wielding one power over another, taking power at the expense of another. Our culture is hierarchical; we understand life only mechanistically, in parts, not holistically. Thousands of years of separation consciousness have cemented this disconnect in the minds of its citizens. Separation consciousness manifests in every single thought and practice in modern society. No wonder so many tramp off to work each day, only to come home deeply exhausted, laden with waste and disappointment. We are seeking energy and life in all the wrong places, in all the wrong ways, when there is more than enough healing, invigorating, creative energy to go around!
To perceive the great web of life, to connect with its energy, takes an enormous leap in consciousness. To step into it requires the heart and passion of a hero. You are invited every single moment of your life to link up with this great force. A powerful, pulsating sea of energy is always ready to fill your pathways and revitalize every cell of your being. Think of summer as the season of high vitality. Unblock yourself, open up your pathways, step into the light, fuel your creativity and all that is closest to your heart.
Here’s to your Summer of Power!