2015 Books for the Body, Mind and Spirit

JJ & SeDona Glastonbury, UK 2010

I’m often asked by friends, family, clients and fans what books do I read or recommend for reading. At least twice a year, I publish my Books for the Body, Mind and Spirit List. This 2005 list is very special because the majority of the books are about Universal transformation, brain wellness and the marriage between science and spirituality. Don’t hesitate to read a book because of its scientific title. Most are written for the layperson with the goal of helping humanity to understand the transformation that is occurring on our planet right now and how it affects our body, mind and environment. There are some titles that have been on previous lists. They are that good and need to be revisited. So, enjoy.

Book-list

Dispenza, Joe You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

Buhlum, William Secret of the Soul

Chandler, Wayne Ancient Future

Gikandi, David Cameron A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Infinite Wealth & Abundance

Grout, Pam E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting  Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig

Hawkins, David Power vs Force

Hoffman, Bob Your flourishing Brain: How to Reboot Your Brain and Live Your Best Life Now

Hurtak, J.J. Consciousness, Energy and Future Science

Kaku, Michio The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

Lipton, Bruce Biology of Belief

Michael, J.J. Path to Truth: A Spiritual Memoir

Morley, Charlie Dreams of Awakening

Three Initiates   Kybalion

Calendar Year 2015 is the Divine Number 8

Crop Circle Devizes, UK

Numerology helps us to remember who we are, where we have been, and more importantly, where we are headed. Just in case you aren’t familiar with numerology let me clarify a few facts. In numerology, the calendar year is called a universal year. Numerologists determine the numerical vibration for the calendar year by adding all the numbers, for example, 2+0+1+5=8. Except for Master numbers, (11,22,33,44,etc.) all numbers are reduced to a single digit. Each number is an energy form having its own specific rate of vibration. The Hermetic Law states, everything is in motion. Nothing is at rest. Everything has a vibration.

The year 2015 will be about humanity vibrating with a higher frequency of love and balance. We will be given the choice of staying bound to the material world reality as it is today or choosing a different reality of love and oneness.  It sounds very much like Neo in the Matrix choosing the red pill and awakening to a new reality. For more information about the Consciousness Movement, I suggest you check out some of my past blogs, my book, Path to Truth and Lisa Young's article, Choose Your Reality! Connecting to a New Consciousness.

What makes the number 8 vibration so powerful? Lay the number 8 on its side, and it’s the lemniscate, which most people know as the infinity sign-eternity. Infinity means without limits, which is a perfect description for our minds. We are only limited by our thoughts and beliefs. Spiritual teachers have been telling us for years how to use mental transmutation to vibrate at higher levels of consciousness. Due to superstition and fear of anything metaphysical or spiritual, I fear most people have not been listening. The new science, Quantum Physics/Mechanics is verifying we live in a mental world, governed by an Infinite Intelligence (God) and the Laws of Nature or Hermetic Principles.
  

The 8 composed of two zeros, one on top of the other represents degeneration and regeneration. According to the Hermetic Law of Gender, everything is masculine and feminine. The double zeros of an 8 signify the equilibrium between the masculine and feminine energies. 2015 is the year to bring back balance and equilibrium. Men and women are co-creators. The number 8 vibration is associated with the Hermetic Law of Cause and Effect-karma. Nothing happens by chance. Everything happens according to the Law of Nature.  Is the United States the reincarnation of the lost continent of Atlantis? Sounds crazy, I know. But stay with me on this. If this is true, are we following the same destructive path that destroyed Atlantis? The misuse of power by authority figures. Think of all the crisis of the last several years: financial and housing crisis, oil shortages, three wars, inflation, racial tension, etc. The way to prevent this catastrophe is to increase our vibration for the good of all.

Find your individual personal year number and discover how it works with the 8 Universal Year. Add the month, day and universal year together. A quick lesson in learning how to calculate your Life Path and Personal Year Number, using President Barack Obama's birth date of August 4, 1961.     

            8/4/1961

            8+4+1+9+6+1=29/11/2 Life Path

            8/4/2015

            8+4+2+0+1+5 =20/2 Personal Year Number

For this blog, I am focusing on the Personal Year Number. However, I decided to add President Obama’s Life Path number because it matches his Personal Year Number, indicating an intense and powerful year for him. More than any other year during his time in office and politics, this year will be the most memorable one. The energies favor him in the area of leadership, if he takes the right action in accordance to the Laws of Nature or Hermetic Principles. His strong skill of gentle persuasion, harmony, balance and patience should persevere. He is on the right track, listening to his soul. 

             

Find your Personal year (add the month, day and 2015) and see the major challenge and success below.

Personal Year 1

Challenge: Know thyself; be flexible; Mind over matter.

Success: Confidence and faith in one’s self and a Higher Power. Self-empowerment.

Personal Year 2

Challenge: Take charge; be decisive.

Success: Praise and kudos. 

Personal Year 3* (half of an 8)

Challenge: Act on ideas; build a community

Success: Happiness and connection.

Personal Year 4

Challenge: Step out the box.

Success: Expansion and freedom

Personal Year 5

Challenge: Seeking guidance within and trusting Higher Self.

Success: Empowerment and accomplishments

Personal Year 6

Challenge: Opening the heart chakra.

Success: Unconditional love.

Personal Year 7

Challenge: Finding a balance between the Spirit world and Material world.

Success: Peace and higher frequency.

Personal Year 8

Challenge: Leaning how to manifest spiritual ideas in the material world.

Success:  Master of your mind, emotions and feelings.Mind over matter.

Personal year 9

Challenge: Giving and receiving.

Success: Financial security.

Octagon 8 pointed star

I have a New Year special. Buy 2 of my books, eBooks or paperbacks, and receive a free 30 minute personalized numerology reading. Contact me for more information jjmichael444@gmail.com.

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What the Bleep Does Neuroplasticity Have to Do With Me?

I became aware of Neuroplasticity when I was involved with Luminosity.com, a website that promotes brain wellness by playing scientific brain games. It captured my interest because of my experience with my son, Antoine Aparicio (1984-2001). Anti, as family and friends called him, was born with severe Hydrocephalus, fluid on the brain. While in the womb, fluid had destroyed a region of Anti’s brain called the cerebellum, which plays an important part in motor control and some cognitive functions.  The neonatal physicians and neurosurgeons gave him three months to live, and if he did live past that time, he would be a vegetable.

He lived until he was sixteen and was an extraordinary spiritual being. I write a lot about Anti in my blogs, because his life demonstrated that he was, indeed, a Master teacher. You can read more about Anti’s story in my book, Path to Truth: a Spiritual Memoir.

In the early stages of Anti’s life, I was immersed in the New Thought Movement. One of the basic beliefs of the movement is you can heal yourself with your thoughts. Years before a cure for Tuberculosis was discovered, Myrtle Fillmore, a co-founder of Unity Church, healed herself of this dreadful disease. As I read more healing testimonies, I was convinced that Anti could be healed in spite of the negative prognosis from his neurosurgeons.  Since Anti verbally couldn’t tell me what he was thinking. I relied on his feelings. Was he happy or sad?  As I read his non-verbal cues, I discovered he also read mine. I would recite healing and gratitude affirmations to him as he met  developmental milestones. Now Neuroscientists are confirming that the brain can create new neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment, thinking and emotions throughout our lifetime.

The environment plays a big part in our health. We can't access the region of the brain governing creativity when we are trapped in high levels of stress. There is a global Neurological epidemic  happening right now.  Diseases such as Alzheimer and Dementia are starting at younger ages, due to the fast-paced, high-tech, high-stress lifestyles we are living.

This is the time to slow down and become an observer of  our environment by becoming aware of our thoughts and feelings. Thoughts become hardwired programs of the brain and emotions the feelings of the body. They both create reality.  Ancient esoteric teachers  have always stated- focus on what you want and not what you don't want. Now Quantum physicists are saying- wherever you put your attention, energy flows. The message is the same, to think positive thoughts.

The idea is to stop the negative thought before it becomes hardwired into your brain and produce an unwanted energy form. Oh yeah, thoughts are energy waves, waiting for you to notice them so they can materialize.  You can break negative thinking by  shouting out "Stop" in your mind.  I hum the song, Let It Go

So, what the bleep does Neuroplasticity has to do with us? A lot.  The new science is helping us to become aware, understand and learn how to cope with the changing environment of technological stresses.

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An Iroquois Prayer for Thanksgiving

Dear readers,

JJ Michael in Crop Circle, Devizes, UK

Thank you for subscribing to my blog and supporting my writing dreams.  May your life be full of coherence, wholeness, love and gratitude.

An Iroquois Prayer:

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, with sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters, the beans and squash, which give us life. We return thanks to the bushes and trees, which provide us with fruit. We return thanks to the wind, which, moving the air, has banished diseases. We return thanks to the moon and the stars, which have given us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to our grandfather He-no, .., who has given to us his rain. We return thanks to the sun, that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of his children.
                                                        

Can You Use Your Mind to Create Your Reality?

Can you use your mind to create your reality? The answer is yes. We do it all the time, creating a world full of adventures, emotions, challenges, and successes. In the previous blog - It's not Enough to Dream, You Have to Take Action posted on 9/30/14- I ended with a question.  What do you do when your book goes from being on top of the bestseller list to not being on it? The answer to that question is directly related to your state of being. 

There are many spiritual and man-made laws governing our world. I wrote about them in my book, Path to Truth: a Spiritual Memoir. Click here. Most people know about the Law of Attraction, pulling to you anything, person or place with a similar energy frequency.  But your negative or positive thoughts and feelings determine the attraction. The Law of Mind states that the thoughts you select with your conscious mind are manifested into form by the action of your subconscious mind.

Recently, I attended the World Congress of Quantum Medicine conference in Hawaii. The discussion by noted scientists and physicians centered around the new science, Quantum physics that confirms what spiritual teachers have been saying for aeons: your thoughts create your world. Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Click here, states, "We are part of a vast invisible field of energy, which contains all possible realities and respond to our thoughts ad feelings.

If your creative project is not where you want it to be on the ladder of success, I suggest you observe your thoughts and feelings before you blame outside forces, pay more money to promote your book, or spend a lot of time on social media.There will come a time when you can tweak your promotional plan, but for now start with your thoughts, feelings, and belief patterns.

Three ways you can do this: journaling, talking to a trusted friend or doing mind mapping. I will use all three to look at cognitive behavior, but I especially like mind-mapping. I learn about it from Michael Gelb's book, How to Think Like Leonard da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. Click Here.  According to Wikipedia, A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the center concept, and other ideas branch out from those. (Wikipedia.rg/wiki/Mind_map)

I use a tree as my center image. My thoughts and feelings are attached to the branches and leaves. I always write the first word or image that comes to mind. Hours or a day later when I review my map, I often see the negative patterns and relationships between thoughts and feelings. It is these toxic, habitual patterns that produce negative results in your reality. For example, if you don't value yourself,  how can you value your creative project? Everything is energy. With a negative feeling about yourself, you are streaming out negative energy touching everything you are involved with. 

Mystics and now quantum physicists are saying change your thoughts, change your life. When you change what you think, feel, or do, you can influence an event or situation in your reality.  In the next blog, we will explore this more in depth and learn other strategies to create the reality you desire.

I would like to hear from you. Let me know if these articles are helping you and how you are doing accomplishing your chief aim.


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