by Cynthia Bischoff | Mar 21, 2015 | Heartliving
We came into this world to learn to love and to know that we are love, and nothing is perhaps more powerful than heart connections. Yet intimate relationships can be complex and require attention if two people are to grow together into more intimate union and love.
Delve deeper into relationships by attending a new one-day Heartliving workshop, “Power & Love.” During this wonderful and powerful day we’ll cover topics including:
- Relationship dynamics and types of partners
- Elemental love styles
- Why we often choose whom we do
- Issues of co-dependency
- How our wounds and coping mechanisms are formed
- Boundary setting
- Asking for what we need in a relationship
This incredible “eye-opening” material is a must for understanding yourself in all your relationships!
“Power and Love,” taught by Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, will be held on May 30, 2015, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center on the Chesapeake Bay!
Ready to Live and Love more deeply? Register Now!
by Cynthia Bischoff | Mar 14, 2015 | Heartliving
Are you at ease in your body? It is believed that the more at ease you are in your body–that is, the more you treat it with respect and care–the more at ease you’ll be in your life. The state of your body and your connection to movement and peace often closely reflect the state of your life.
How can you ensure a healthy relationship to your body? Paying attention to the language of your symptoms, honoring a relationship to movement, loving your body and honoring your spirit are a few ways to connect with your body. Here are other pointers:
Your body reflects what is happening in your life, and you body tends to get sick more easily when you are not present in it.
- A commonly held perspective in integrative medicine is that the body gets sick to get your attention, and your symptoms provide a type of language about what is going on with your spirit.
- Healthy people usually have a loving relationship with their bodies and often feel inspired.
- Life is movement, so when you’re feeling in pain or in some way disconnected from your body and spirit, one of the most effective integration tools is through movement.
- Movement releases and helps energize the body, creating a new sense of aliveness in the body and mind.
- The body, mind, and emotions are interrelated, and deeply negative emotional states can cause enormous stress in the body–contributing to disease.
- The body is a living, breathing organism in which every cell is aware of every other cell—constantly conveying information through numerous communication pathways.
- It can be healing to engage in bodywork and meditation, particularly to practice “listening” to your body.
Want to learn more about mind-body connection and healing? Then enroll in Heartliving’s March 21st Seminar: “Healing through Body-Mind Awareness.”
This wonderful workshop will inform and inspire you with information, exercises and tools related to your body-mind connection. You will learn:
- Basic Ideas and Principles of Body-Mind Connection
- How Your Body Speaks Your Mind
- Eastern and Western Views on the Body-Mind and Healing
- The Body Beautiful: Parts of the Body and Their Meanings
- The Energetics of Healing & Symptoms and their Intuitive Meanings
- Research Facts about the Body and Healing
- What a Person Can Do to Heal
“Healing through Mind-Body Awareness”, a one day workshop taught by Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, will be held on March 21, 2015, at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center, Virginia Beach, VA (on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay)!
Workshop Fee: $140.00
Program Fee includes: Course Materials and Lunch
CEU’s—Continuing Education Units—are available through Old Dominion University for this program.
The workshop is just 1 week away– Register Now!
by Cynthia Bischoff | Mar 7, 2015 | Heartliving
The world abounds with symbols. Some are universal and others unique to certain cultures. Symbols are profound expressions of our intellect, emotions, and spirit. A symbol can represent deep intuitive wisdom that eludes direct expression, and symbols can be found in our dreams certainly, but also in our waking state. It is helpful to observe the symbols in your life in your waking day, allowing the universe to speak to you through its symbolic language.
Throughout the centuries, symbols in their infinite forms have enriched people’s lives. Cultures in all parts of the world have built upon a universal understanding of symbols to better understand well-being of mind, body, and spirit. Often in deep spiritual work, we are asked to identify and focus on symbols that appear in our dreams and in our waking lives. These symbols may, for example, appear in our drawings and over time become highly personalized, take on deeper levels of meaning, and come to help us express aspects of the psyche that may be difficult to put into words.
We find symbols in our daily life and in our dreams. Here are some common examples defined:
Did you know?
THE RIVER
Seen as a life-source, rivers carry potent meanings. They can represent the boundaries between life and death. In Hindu belief, rivers symbolize purification.
ICE AND SNOW
Ice symbolizes coldness, rigidity, and stillness, both in humans and in nature. Therefore, snow as a form of “softer” ice often expresses the return of life. Snow can stand for truth and individuality.
MOUNTAIN
The meeting place of heaven and earth, the mountain symbolizes eternity and our ascent on our life’s journey.
FIRE
Symbolizing passion and energy, fire can represent deep emotion, such as love, or alchemical transformation.
TREE
Wholeness, harmony, and family are reflected in the tree image.
CAVE
When a cave is found in a dream state, it may mean that this is a time of initiation, truth, wisdom, or readiness for going deeper.
DOORWAY or WINDOW
Is the door or window open or closed? Doorways and windows symbolize opportunity, opening, luck, and progress. Have you heard the phrase–“a window of opportunity” or “the door to success”?
Pay attention to the symbols that occur in your dream state and also in your daily life. Record patterns, spend some time journaling, and meditate on their significance as messengers in your life right now!
by Cynthia Bischoff | Feb 28, 2015 | Heartliving
The word “angel” is derived from the Latin “angelus” and the Greek “angelos” meaning “one going” or “one sent,” also “messenger.”
The belief that God sends a spirit to watch over every individual was common in ancient Greek philosophy. In the Middle Ages it was believed that the heavens and the stars and all of the cosmos were alive, full of angels and God. In numerous faiths, angels are mentioned.
Since the beginning of time, angels have delivered God’s messages to humankind. From a spiritual, academic standpoint, angelic messages were primarily intended to provide:
- warnings of impending danger
- instructions as to what to do in a particular situation
- information that angels are there to protect
- joyful announcements.
In metaphysics, angels are said to have great power and long to be made use of, desiring us to call on them to request assistance. So in addition to requesting assistance from the angels, how might we know signs from them?
Signs that the angels are drawing close or making contact include:
- unexpected, intuitive knowledge that comes to you
- an instant feeling of well being or love
- a fragrance in the air like a presence
- a movement of material or physical matter (something is missing and then found)
- a dream in which an important feeling or message is given.
According to some angelologists, the most angelic signature of an angel, however, is the white feather!
Want to learn more about angels, angelic energy and functions, and your guardian angel in particular? Then tune into my radio show, Heartliving with Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, March 1st, 2015 (tomorrow) at 7:00 pm EST, on radio station 1510 am WMEX Boston, or later next week on Dreamvisions 7 Radio.
by Cynthia Bischoff | Feb 21, 2015 | Heartliving
Self-esteem can be seen as the combination of how you perceive yourself and the value you place on the self you see.
You have core self-esteem which is the value you place on yourself at your core, and situational self-esteem which is the value you place on yourself determined by situational factors (work situation at the moment, weight at the moment).
Certain researchers say that core self-esteem is in place by age 4 and is determined by how your caregivers responded to you. No matter what, it is exciting to know that your core self-esteem can be improved. How?
- If you suffer from any thoughts of being a victim, expand your awareness so that you are able to decide that victim consciousness or self-blame is simply toxic now. Let it go.
- Make a nonjudgmental inventory of your talents and strengths and set goals for accepting them and continuing to improve yourself.
- Stop neglecting your own needs to take care of others. Be compassionate and loving, but not disrespecting of yourself.
- Do your very best at any given moment (it will vary depending upon what your circumstances are).
- Remember that positive self-esteem is not created by “all or none” thinking. Allow yourself to risk-take and realize that even seeming “mistakes” can help you grow!
- Let go of the cultural standards of beauty and FEEL your beauty from WITHIN. Offer that as a gift to yourself and everyone around you. People are drawn to others who feel good about themselves.
- Learn to speak about yourself with directness and honesty. Express your integrity through the harmony of what you say and do.
Above all, celebrate your risk-taking and your successes!
