Quantum States of Healing

We are very excited to announce that we have formed a new company, Quantum States Inc., which is a subsidiary of PDP II Research Foundation. Quantum States Inc. will produce our latest mind-body medicine cognitive restructuring project, a revolutionary product that will change the field of healing for generations to come. This, we believe, is the future of medicine. 

We have many visionary experts on board, including a consciousness scientist, a world-renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and a brilliant psychologist, and there is a lot of support and excitement in others we’ve consulted.

This cutting-edge project blends the latest in technology with proven, effective mind-body medicine practices, to bring relief to millions suffering from many illnesses and diseases.

 To bring this product to market, we have incorporated as a Benefit Corporation, a brand new type of company in the United States, a new class of corporations that are required to create a material positive impact on society and the environment and to meet a higher standard of accountability. B Corps emphasis the Triple Bottom Line, People, Planet and Profits.

We are very proud that last year, it was our very own San Rafael Assemblyman, Jared Huffman, who introduced the historic Assembly Bill 361, allowing California for-profit companies to file as a Benefit Corporation in order to pursue social missions AND tap the capital markets to raise money.

Our new company, Quantum States Inc., is a subsidiary of PDP II Research Foundation, but it is a stand-alone corporation, able to receive investments from venture capitalists, angel investors and companies.

We are gathering together our team of visionaries, raising start-up funds for Quantum States Inc. This exciting project will have countless benefits for humanity, we sincerely hope that you will join with us as we bring this state of the art, transformative mind-body medicine to humanity.

We dream of a better world………….

2012
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Donald and I have been blessed to participate in, and even to be the catalyst for, many miracles….

Donald and I have been blessed to participate in, and even to be the catalyst for, many miracles, not only in our own lives, but in the lives of our families, friends, students and clients.

We set our intention for specific outcomes, and more often than not this reality unfolds before our eyes.

Twelve years ago, one of our very dear longtime friends, Norman Schwartz, a Wall Street whiz, was walking his dog in the early New York City springtime when he slipped on black ice and broke his leg. The fracture was very bad, and while still in the hospital he developed compartment syndrome. His doctors were considering amputating his leg, as the swelling was quite severe, and getting worse. Donald flew there immediately, and stayed by Norman’s side performing healing prayers and rituals until Norman was released from the hospital with his leg intact.

It took Norman quite a while to heal completely from this injury, and Donald and I flew several times to New York to be with him and do healing work on him. During one long, particularly powerful meditation/prayer/ healing session in Norman’s twelfth-story apartment in late spring, we glanced out the plate-glass windows and saw, although the sky was blue all around the city, snowflakes falling but only over Norman’s apartment building!

Not long after this, Norman called us from his hospital bed, telling us the doctors said he was dying from osteomyelitis in his leg and a stubborn high fever, several days of antibiotics were not working, and he begged us to come see him and save him from dying. We flew in the very next day, and the moment we walked into his hospital room his fever started to go down, and the infection started to recede. His girlfriend and the doctors attributed it to the antibiotics finally kicking in, but we knew in our hearts that his belief in us, and our belief in our healing abilities, brought Norman back to recovery.

In mid-2000, Donald’s mother, Maria, was diagnosed with uterine cancer at Montefiore Hospital, in the Bronx, New York. A sweet, seemingly delicate woman, Maria didn’t believe she was sick, and she went to doctor’s appointments only reluctantly. For the next year, Donald traveled to the Bronx every six weeks to spend a week or two with his mother, doing bio-energy healing work on her. Her extensive tests from Montefiore showed that the cancer had metastasized to her lymph system, pancreas and liver. Donald took her to the top cancer hospital in New York City, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where a noted oncologist agreed to see her. More tests were done on Maria that confirmed the findings at Montefiore, and it was noted by Maria’s doctor that her uterus looked shrunken and diseased. Finally, surgery was scheduled, and Donald sat in the family waiting room, deep in meditation, ‘seeing’ his mother free of cancer and mentally guiding the surgeon’s hands.

After the operation, the doctor came out to talk with the family. She was practically in shock and mumbling to herself, “I don’t understand, I don’t understand.” Donald asked her about his mother, was she okay? The doctor said, “Your mother is in the recovery room. But I don’t understand.  I just took the uterus of a seventeen year old out of your mother. So I had to go and review the tests that were done at Montefiore and here at Sloan-Kettering. Those tests clearly showed that there was cancer present, and that it had metastasized. I just did biopsies of the organs, and I am very puzzled because I couldn’t find any cancer! Your mother does not need chemo or radiation, and in fact, I’m sorry to say the surgery itself was not required.” Donald told her, “As long as my mother is okay, what we’ve experienced is nothing short of miraculous. Thank you for your role in this miracle!”

Maria continues to live cancer free to this day.

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Physician as Placebo

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‘Physician as Placebo’ refers to the phenomenon of patients feeling better during, and after, a visit to their doctor or health care provider, and healing faster than normal.   

Try Googling ‘Physician as Placebo’ and you’ll find that there isn’t much out there on this important concept. We have seen the effect of this time and time again in our private practice, our clients come to us with life-threatening illnesses, and through our work they transmute their illnesses and bodies into states of extraordinary good health, and transform their lives.  

What causes this positive change? We believe it is because of the power of our minds, our trust and belief in ourselves as healers, and the faith and trust placed in us by our clients.

Placebos are defined as substances with no active medicine in them, or procedures and devices that have no curative effects.  Placebos are considered deceptions, these substances or procedures somehow ‘trick’ people into the desired outcome, whether it’s shrinking cancerous tumors or lifting depression, or lowering blood pressure, to name just a few.

But how to explain the phenomena of positive results in the patient through the physician/patient relationship? Why do some patients respond better to treatment, real or placebo, with some doctors and fail to respond with other doctors? And not just doctors, but healers from the spectrum of health care providers?

The answer might lie with mirror neurons. A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires when a person acts as well as when the person observes the same action performed by another. The neuron “mirrors” the behavior of the other, as though the observer were himself acting.     

If you feel that your doctor, or health care provider, sincerely cares about you and your positive health outcome, you develop trust in that person. Thus, whatever medications, if any, real or placebo, that your doctor prescribes for you will more work more often than not to quickly bring about a positive health outcome.  

 The power of belief and certainty

These doctors trust and believe in their own wisdom, they have a certainty borne of long years of practice and interaction with patients. This certainty radiates from the doctor, she is an authority due to years of experience and training, it is in the words she speaks, the assured tone of her voice, the comfort you feel from her caring touch, her belief that you can get better, and soon.  

As you watch her, and listen to her, and feel her certainty, your neurons are firing in empathic response to her brain activity. You believe you can get better because she knows that you will.   

V.S. Ramachandran, the eminent neuroscientist, writes in The Tell-Tale Brain,[1] “It is as if mirror neurons are nature’s own virtual-reality simulations of the intentions of other beings.”

The doctor knows that the body is a healing machine, it begins healing itself automatically. When you cut yourself, the repair to the injured area starts immediately. If you break a bone, it starts knitting back together; if you have a cold or flu, the immune system, always working in the background, kicks into high gear to fight off the bacteria or virus.

So, choose your doctors and health care providers carefully, they can help you accelerate your healing process with their care, their wisdom and their certainty.

 “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” Hippocrates.
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[1] The Tell-Tale Brain, V.S. Ramachandran, W. W. Norton & Company (January 17, 2011)

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Physician as Placebo

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‘Physician as Placebo’ refers to the phenomenon of patients feeling better during, and after, a visit to their doctor or health care provider, and healing faster than normal.   

Try Googling ‘Physician as Placebo’ and you’ll find that there isn’t much out there on this important concept. We have seen the effect of this time and time again in our private practice, our clients come to us with life-threatening illnesses, and through our work they transmute their illnesses and bodies into states of extraordinary good health, and transform their lives.  

What causes this positive change? We believe it is because of the power of our minds, our trust and belief in ourselves as healers, and the faith and trust placed in us by our clients.

Placebos are defined as substances with no active medicine in them, or procedures and devices that have no curative effects.  Placebos are considered deceptions, these substances or procedures somehow ‘trick’ people into the desired outcome, whether it’s shrinking cancerous tumors or lifting depression, or lowering blood pressure, to name just a few.

But how to explain the phenomena of positive results in the patient through the physician/patient relationship? Why do some patients respond better to treatment, real or placebo, with some doctors and fail to respond with other doctors? And not just doctors, but healers from the spectrum of health care providers?

The answer might lie with mirror neurons. A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires when a person acts as well as when the person observes the same action performed by another. The neuron “mirrors” the behavior of the other, as though the observer were himself acting.     

If you feel that your doctor, or health care provider, sincerely cares about you and your positive health outcome, you develop trust in that person. Thus, whatever medications, if any, real or placebo, that your doctor prescribes for you will more work more often than not to quickly bring about a positive health outcome.  

 The power of belief and certainty

These doctors trust and believe in their own wisdom, they have a certainty borne of long years of practice and interaction with patients. This certainty radiates from the doctor, she is an authority due to years of experience and training, it is in the words she speaks, the assured tone of her voice, the comfort you feel from her caring touch, her belief that you can get better, and soon.  

As you watch her, and listen to her, and feel her certainty, your neurons are firing in empathic response to her brain activity. You believe you can get better because she knows that you will.   

V.S. Ramachandran, the eminent neuroscientist, writes in The Tell-Tale Brain,[1] “It is as if mirror neurons are nature’s own virtual-reality simulations of the intentions of other beings.”

The doctor knows that the body is a healing machine, it begins healing itself automatically. When you cut yourself, the repair to the injured area starts immediately. If you break a bone, it starts knitting back together; if you have a cold or flu, the immune system, always working in the background, kicks into high gear to fight off the bacteria or virus.

So, choose your doctors and health care providers carefully, they can help you accelerate your healing process with their care, their wisdom and their certainty.

 “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” Hippocrates.
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[1] The Tell-Tale Brain, V.S. Ramachandran, W. W. Norton & Company (January 17, 2011)

 

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We give thanks and gratitude for all our blessings, including YOU!

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You are amazing, and we want to thank you for being in our lives.

You give meaning to our work, and we are so grateful for your support and love.

I know it’s easy to ignore all the blogs that are out there, and I am glad that you didn’t ignore this one.

From me, and from all of the thousands of global citizens who have benefited from our work: thank you for helping us make the world a better place!

We truly believe in the power and potential of every person to control and direct their own free will, and we want to see everyone, everywhere, thrive in a sustainable manner.

As a nonprofit organization, we define success in terms of enriching people’s lives and building healthy communities.

By joining your good intentions with ours, you help us heal the world, one person at a time. That is no small thing, and it is very important work, especially in this time of turbulence and uncertainty.

Our values and our commitment to you and to the planet:

  • Providing you with the most current health information
  • To reach into all corners of the earth with free digital eBooks in all languages to uplift mind, body and spirit
  • The highest quality organic and natural supplements and products available.
  • Our standards are very high, and we expect the same from our suppliers and from our clients. We know that there is no substitute for quality, and we sell only those products that we have tested on ourselves.
  • Our Mission: To bring you only the highest quality sustainable products with integrity, excellence and honesty.
  • Our Philosophy: Sustainables by Rubbo products are created with the greatest care and compassion for the earth and our customers.
  • Imagine peace.

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Across the decades, my father sends his love………

Magic, mysticism and miracles in everyday life….

My family and I lived at Olema Ranch, CA, in the late sixties and early seventies, one of the communes of “The Free Family.” There were communal houses and land scattered over Northern California: Olema Ranch in West Marin, the ‘intentional community’ Black Bear Ranch on the California/Oregon border, The Red House in Forest Knolls, and the Clipper Street House in San Francisco, to list just a few. The Free Family was a loose tribe of people going “back to the land,” as described in Peter Coyote’s critically acclaimed memoir, ‘Sleeping Where I Fall.’ Many of the people I shared my life with back then were shifting the paradigm by studying acupuncture, herbal medicine and sustainable farming.

I lived at Olema Ranch with my father, J.P. Pickens, my mom Mary Ann, my sister KayAnne and my brother Paul (nicknamed ‘Owl’ by Peter Coyote) for a couple of years, starting when I was twelve. My parents, actually my father, built a room in the large barn, and he filled it with his collection of stuff, things he’d find in his travels around the Bay Area. All kinds of things, he always had a plan to incorporate the objects he brought back into works of art. A renowned banjo player, he also built his own banjos and he collected banjo parts to repair his instruments.

J.P. Pickens playing banjo 1973

Just recently, KayAnne was here in the Bay Area for Peter Coyote’s 70th birthday bash, and a couple of days after the party we went for a drive to west Marin to look at our childhood home in Lagunitas, where we lived before we were enfolded into the ‘Family.’

After we drove up Alta Road, next to the Lagunitas Grocery and inspected our former home and the changes made to it since we lived there (for the umpteenth time!), we decided to continue driving out to the Point Reyes area, it was a nice day, maybe we’d drive all the way out to the beach. As we drove past the overgrown, nearly-hidden driveway up to the ranch, we looked at each other and KayAnne said, “Why don’t we walk up to the Ranch?” So, we parked the car by the driveway, and we walked the familiar road three-quarters of a mile up to the Ranch.

At Olema Ranch 1970

I had not been back to the Ranch for 40 years, but I wasn’t surprised to see that all of the buildings –  the main house, outbuildings and barns –  were completely torn down, in most places as if they never existed. Only fencing outlined the area were the barn had been. The land is now part of the Point Reyes National Seashore.

All that was left of a vibrant community of people were memories whispering in the wind.

While we were walking about, we poked around in the mud just to see if any small items from our childhood were to be found. We found some shards of pottery here and there, an unbroken small brown bottle in the mud by the creek, and what looked like an ancient Native American hide scraper, among other small things.

I walked up toward the hill, past the fencing of the former barn. I was thinking of my father (he died when I was sixteen), the memories crowding my mind, while I kept a sharp lookout for anything stuck in the earth.

Looking down, I glimpsed a small something, white, half hidden in the ground about six feet from the end of where the barn would have been. I pulled it out, and went over to where KayAnne was.

She immediately exclaimed, “That’s an Earl Scruggs fifth string tuning peg, for a five-string banjo!” We just stared at it, in awe and slight shock.

Earl Scruggs fifth string tuning peg for a five-string banjo

Although many musicians spent time at Olema Ranch, our father was the only banjo player who lived and played there……..

No trace remains of the main house and outbuildings

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Healing begins in the imagination

  • Channeling the Healing Power of Imagination

    Imagination = the ability to form mental images, sensations and concepts in the mind, independent of the five senses

  • Intention = thoughtful and deliberate goal-directedness
  • Ideas = thoughts, mental images, goals

Imagination is the foundation of our new book ‘The Extraordinary Command’, as you will be using your imagination, your ideas (your thoughts, your mental images and your goals), and bringing them – physically – into your reality.

Long ago, the natural order of getting around was that we walked everywhere, and then we walked or rode horses. Traveling from place to place took a very long time. Then someone had a dream of traveling faster from one place to another, and the wheel came into existence, which opened up the entire world for mankind. Centuries ago someone had a dream of books printed for the masses, and the printing press came into existence, which allowed the sciences, the arts and religions to flourish and spread. Not too long ago, scientists had dreams of curing or containing seemingly incurable, horrific public health problems, and vaccines came into existence, which brought greater health to the world.

Wheels, books and vaccines did not exist before someone had a thought of them, and then took action to create them.

From an idea  – which is actually the electrochemical processing in our brains  – our reality is created.

How can we influence reality with just our thoughts? This process is really quite simple, and based in science. Thoughts are energy, created by the firing of neurons in our brain. Neurons process and transmit information by electrochemical signaling.

Everything we see around us is energy, in its purest form, and our intention, imbedded in the electrochemical waves of the neuronal activity in our brains, moves out into the Universe.

Just recently, scientists have been doing research with quadriplegics, teaching them to use their thoughts to control objects  – computers, televisions, robots even! – in their external environment. These scientists are looking to the   future and expanding the possibilities of brain power that will benefit not only people who are paralyzed, but actually everyone.

We are saying the future is now, and using your imagination, you can indeed control your reality!

(We are editing and polishing the manuscript for The Extraordinary Command, keep checking back for updates!)

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Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and personal strength

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From Harvard Medical School, Harvard Health Publications:

Want to improve your health? Start by focusing on the things that bring you happiness. There is some scientific evidence that positive emotions can
help make your life longer and healthier.

But to produce good health, positive emotions may need to be long-term. In other words, thinking positive thoughts for a month when you already haveheart disease won’t cure the disease. But lowering your stress levels over a period of years with a positive outlook and relaxation techniques could reduce your risk of heart problems.

Pathways to happiness

In an early phase of positive psychology research, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson of the
University of Michigan chose three pathways to examine:

Feeling good. Seeking pleasurable emotions and sensations, from the hedonistic model of happiness put forth by Epicurus, which focused on reaching happiness by maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

Engaging fully. Pursuing activities that engage you fully, from the influential research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. For decades, Csikszentmihalyi
explored people’s satisfaction in their everyday activities, finding that people report the greatest satisfaction when they are totally immersed in and
concentrating on what they are doing — he dubbed this state of intense absorption “flow.”

Doing good. Searching for meaning outside yourself, tracing back to Aristotle’s notion of eudemonia, which emphasized knowing your true self and acting in accordance with your virtues.

Through focus groups and testing hundreds of volunteers, they found that each of these pathways individually contributes to life satisfaction.

Things that won’t make you happy

People tend to be poor judges of what will make them happy. While most people say they want to be happy, they often believe in myths or carry
assumptions that actually get in the way. Here are some widely held myths about what will bring happiness:

Money and material things. The question of whether money can buy happiness has, for more than 30 years, been addressed by the “Easterlin
paradox,” a concept developed by economist Richard Easterlin. His research showed that people in poor countries are happier when their basic necessities are covered. But any money beyond that doesn’t make much difference in happiness level. This idea has been challenged periodically, as in 2008 when two University of Pennsylvania researchers analyzed Gallup poll data from around the world. They showed, in contrast to Easterlin’s work, that people in wealthier countries are happier in general. The two studies were not directly comparable in method, however. And Easterlin points out that the new study may be flawed by cultural bias, as people from different countries may have different ways of answering questions about wealth and happiness.

Youth. Being young and physically attractive has little or no bearing on happiness. In a study published by Richard Easterlin in 2006 in the
Journal of Economic Psychology, not only did being young fail to contribute to happiness, but adults grew steadily happier as they moved into and through middle age. After that, happiness levels began to decline slowly as health problems and other life problems emerged.

Children. Children can be a tremendous source of joy and fulfillment, but their day-to-day care is quite demanding and can increase stress, financial pressures, and marital strife. When ranking their happiness during daily activities, mothers report being more happy eating, exercising,
shopping, napping, or watching TV than when spending time with their children. In several studies, marital satisfaction declines after the first child is born and only recovers after the last child leaves home. Personal relationships of all types are important, however. In studies, being married, having more friends, and having sexual intercourse more often are all moderately or strongly associated with happiness.

How do you know if you’re in flow?

You lose awareness of time. You aren’t watching the clock, and hours can pass like minutes. As filmmaker George Lucas puts it, talent is “a
combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in — something that you can start at 9 o’clock, look up from your work and it’s 10 o’clock at night … .”

You aren’t thinking about yourself. You aren’t focused on your comfort, and you aren’t wondering how you look or how your actions will be perceived by others. Your awareness of yourself is only in relation to the activity itself, such as your fingers on a piano keyboard, or the way you position a knife to cut vegetables, or the balance of your body parts as you ski or surf.

You aren’t interrupted by extraneous thoughts. You aren’t thinking about such mundane matters as your shopping list or what to wear tomorrow.

You are active. Flow activities aren’t passive, and you have some control over what you are doing.

You work effortlessly. Flow activities require effort (usually more effort than involved in typical daily experience). Although you may be working
harder than usual, at flow moments everything is “clicking” and feels almost effortless.

Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and personal strength

Positive emotions have been linked with better health, longer life, and greater well-being in numerous scientific studies. On the other hand, chronic anger, worry, and hostility increase the risk of developing heart disease, as people react to these feelings with raised blood pressure and stiffening of blood vessels. But it isn’t easy to maintain a healthy, positive emotional state. People often misjudge what will make them happy and content.

This report was prepared by the editors of Harvard Health Publications in consultation with Ronald D. Siegel, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and clinical psychologist Steven M. Allison, Psy.D. 37 pages. (2011)

Source: Harvard Medical School 

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Miracles, Magic and Limitless Love

The mountains of Scuol, Switzerland

“When you control the external influences out of which your thought-habits are built, and re-pattern into only positive thought-habits, you are not mastered by earthly destinies, but are the creator of your earthly destinies.” Donald Rubbo

This summer’s teaching  tour in Europe was all that we imagined, and more. Magical, inspirational,  transformative, and so much fun!

We are grateful to all  of our students, those returning and those who are brand-new, in Switzerland  and Romania, for helping us to create a safe, nurturing, exciting environment  in which everyone could gain the most benefit possible.

Our deepest thanks to our  heart-students Petra and Cory Martinet, Frank and Elaine Hediger, and Liliana  Constantinescu, for helping us to bring this wisdom to so many. Their  generosity helps us to change lives and make this a better world for everyone.

The underlying theme, in  the retreat and the workshops, was empowering people to live authentic lives,  based on gratitude, integrity, love and generosity, through the magic of controlling and directing their own minds, and setting this deeply into body, mind and spirit with mindfulness, movement, breathwork and formswork.  By showing our students how to tap into their individual limitless potential, miracles were occurring for them on a daily basis!

For our annual Swiss Rubbo Art of Energy Retreat, we returned to picturesque Scuol, in the canton of Graubünden. Scuol, a health and fitness destination for centuries, is surrounded by the Lower Engadine Dolomites and Piz Pisoc, the highest mountain in the Swiss National Park. This location is perfect on all levels, the power and majestic beauty of the Swiss Alps (from the roaring streams to the towering forests to the green,
green meadows, to the craggy peaks) facilitates deep restorative healing and a profound connection to the universal energies of nature.

MIRACLE: One of our students, a wonderful older woman who traveled from the Bay Area to attend the retreat, was in treatment for cancer. The first day of the retreat her white blood count was about 200, and she was not producing any more blood cells. She went to see a local oncologist for daily blood tests. She insisted on participating in all of the activities, resting when she felt the need. We gave her extra attention, special practices, encouragement and healing energy, and on the last day she proudly announced that her white blood count was at 5,000, a normal range. She
said her doctor wanted to throw a party for her, he said whatever she was doing, to not stop! She thanked us profusely and credited our work for this remarkable healing.

We are so very grateful that this incredible natural environment supported not just us in transmitting these profound teachings, but also supported each of the participants in their own transformational journeys. We are excited that Frank and Elaine have asked us to return next summer, from July 22nd to 27th, 2012.

We encourage all who wish to transcend the mundane and move into a more fulfilling life experience to join us, to play with us, in this crisp, pure, high alpine air. If you think you would love to attend this, then you will. Remember the universe provides us with all that we desire, those who’ve received our teachings on ‘limitless potential’ will realize this! So start now visualizing yourself sharing this profound experience with us in the Swiss Alps, and you shall!

MIRACLE: One of our first-time retreat attendees told us that she learned the Extraordinary Breath at the retreat, she taught it to her partner. He had reduced lung function due to a disease and had to take an inhalant on a daily basis. After practicing the Extraordinary Breath for a week or so, he was able to reduce his medication and breathe in a more normal way.

We had such a great group of phenomenal dedicated students, exceptional Romanians with open hearts and receptive minds, for our Primordial Qigong Workshop in Bucharest.  The workshop was magical, fun, inspiring and deeply profound! We chose to not hold very much
back from our students, honoring their dedication to this form, and we gave outer, inner and (just a few!) secret teachings. We noticed that the women were too shy to ask questions during the question and answer periods, so toward the end of the workshop Cheryl Lynne asked a question and asked only the women to respond. She asked for their insights on the obvious and hidden patterns of movement, which typically women notice first, and sure enough, once they were encouraged to speak, they were spot on!

For our Qigong Tuina for TCM practitioners in Basel, Switzerland, we presented methods and techniques most Tuina practitioners seem to be unaware of. We believe that Tuina (literally ‘Push, Pull’) is a fine, highly developed art, one which can reveal information from the deepest parts of the patients’ bodies and minds for those who have trained themselves to listen with all of their senses: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, touch, and most importantly, their hearts.  Extreme joint, bone, muscle and sinew manipulation can work for those with less skill, but the results we’ve gotten in our decades of work show that the methods and techniques we employ give safe, fast, pain-free and permanent relief.

AND!!! Our deepest thanks to our beloved student Martine Foureur, during the Qigong Tuina workshop she handed us such a precious gift:
she had translated our free digital eBook ‘Extraordinary Breath’ into French! We now have this eBook in seven languages!! As soon as Frank Hediger and Helena Zwaiuer finish the proofreading, we’ll post it on www.ExtraordinaryBreath.com.

MIRACLE: One of our students was deeply worried about money, so worried that it was affecting her on a physical level. Our teaching to her was for her to have absolute confidence that her financial situation would get better, we gave her suggestions on how to achieve her desired goals and encouraged her to control and direct her own mind. Two days later, she called to say that the suggestions we gave to her seemed to appear
out of thin air, and that her financial situation had improved almost immediately.

The second annual World Takes a Breath Day is approaching rapidly! Be sure to join us on November 11, 2011, at 11:11 am (in YOUR time zone, wherever you are in the world), to breathe in joy, gratitude, healing and peace, for yourselves, your loved ones, your community and for the world.

We are all in this together, as one of the great forefathers in American history once stated, Benjamin Franklin, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

These troubled times call for extraordinary love and gratitude, to transcend the fear and misery that is cloaking our world, and to allow peace a chance to take root in our lives and in the lives of our fellow humans.

Imagine peace.

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