Holiday Stress: 6 Ways To Deal With Difficult Family Members During The Holidays

by Therese Borchard
www.thereseborchard.com

Make it a point to watch comedy

on Netflix, or better yet go see 
live stand-up, as part of lifelong 
laughter therapy ...a life without 
 laughter is no life at all.

        The late comedian, George Burns, once said: "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family...in another city!"  So that would explain why the holidays are so stressful.  Those dear relatives who live in San Francisco suddenly are lingering in front of your refrigerator in Cincinnati, Ohio and you have to figure out a socially acceptable way of setting the table together, resisting the urge to re-expose the childhood wounds that you've learned to protect.

        Here are a few tips I use in interacting with those family members who tend to wake my grumpy inner child, triggering an ugly tantrum right about the time Santa shows up with his loot.

Dr. Steven Greer and the Extraterrestrial Disclosure Project

Part I
Dr. Greer meets with the producers of New Paradigm Films, based in Norway.  He explains his background, and the experience with extraterrestrial contact in his early life that initiated his lifelong interest in this topic.  He explains the purpose, goals and methods of the organizations he founded [see links below]. 

Then he addresses the questions:
* How did you get [high profile military and governmental] people to come forward with their stories publicly?  (@6min)
* How did you reach the officials in government?  (@9min)
* Why the secrecy [and motivation behind repressing the information]? (@11:30min)

Click below to see Parts II, III and IV...

The Energy of Relationships: Hold on Loosely!

Relationship Containers

       An astrologer friend of mine, Chris, and I were chatting once and he described relationships as "containers" of energy.  He said the energy of couplehood is like a separate entity, that it has its own life, personality, strong points and weaknesses.  He pointed out we would do well to honor that space, as it's all too easy to take it for granted.  When the newness and intensity starts wearing off, what was once the magic of walking side by side with another soul becomes a prison.

        Coincidentally, sometime before that, I had heard Robert Ohotto, a popular "intuitive astrologer" with an internet podcast show, explaining in one of his shows that the "bottle" of relationship-energy needs to stay "open," that fresh, positive energy needs to freely circulate into and out of it.  This means the parties involved need to feel free to explore their respective souls, free to express and grow their authentic selves.  If not, it's like an energetic stopper is "bottle-necking" the relationship.  At that trajectory, the couple's individual spirits will start suffocating, and they will inadvertently start asphyxiating the little mutual "relationship energy body" they've created together.  Before long, it will just die. 

        Chris and Robert are right.  I remember when I did my first "relationship reading," I discovered that relationship-energy clairvoyantly looks like an altogether separate entity, an independent third party.  It even has its own chakra system!  So, I could psychically read this "relationship energy body" just could read any individual's energy.  Energy dynamics are amazing.

6 Symptoms Men Should Never Ignore

By Bill Phillips
& Editors of Men's Health magazine
Nov. 18, 2011
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/6-pains-you-should-never-ignore
Original title, "6 Symptoms You Should Never Ignore"

Men, this article is not to make you paranoid, but to remind you to take your health seriously.  Nothing else says "I love you" to your loved ones more than your doing that.  It's more important than the money you make, the bills you are able to pay, the material things you are able to buy, etc.



       One of Men’s Health’s top experts, T.E. Holt, M.D., a physician in North Carolina, tells this story about one of his patients:

A man came in, dragged by his daughter because, she explained, he had been steadily losing weight and was covered in big lumps. The lumps had been growing for 2 years, maybe more, she said.  I had no doubt, from the moment I saw him, that this man was dying.  He had lumps as big as my fist on his forehead and his back, and as I came closer and moved around him, more came into view.  When I pressed deeply into his belly, I felt a solid rock where there should have been yielding space.  It was metastatic sarcoma, a rare cancer of the connective tissue.  Four months later, the man was dead.