Chi Bracelets getting a re-design!

Our popular Chi Bracelets, and the companion Chi Necklace, are getting a re-design by the talented Rosemary Beam! Rosemary has been invaluable in providing advice about the bracelets, and has come up with a new design that is more attractive, sturdier, and has a quantum leap in energy.

If you would like to reserve any of these, check out ChakraJewelry.subtleenergysolutions.com, pick out the one(s) you want, and email us. When they are available, we'll contact you.

The price may change (won't go up), and we're expecting them sometime in January.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Dear Readers, Dec. 16, 2008

I've been fascinated recently with some mind-body research that has been going on. Although it seems like the simplest of common sense, researchers at the Univ. of Calif. in San Diego did a study of 4700 persons over a 30-year period and concluded that happiness is contagious. They noted that if a social contact of yours is happy, you have a 15% greater chance of being happy. The most interesting thing is that if a third-degree contact (a friend of a friend) is happy, you have a 6% greater chance to be happy.

In another study--one of several--done at Ohio State University, researchers concluded that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression. Now that seems like a no-brainer--if you have no hope, isn't that somewhere in the definition of depression? Well probably, but the researchers point out that hope is something that can be taught, and can be developed in many people with depression. So, teaching hope becomes a clinically valid method for addressing depression.

My suspicion is that hope is also contagious, simply because happy people have hope. Boyd and I were reminding ourselves today that dwelling on negative outcomes, and carrying around gloom and dissatisfaction with the "way things are," does nothing to change anything. It may be, in fact, creating the very conditions for further negativity.

So, as the old saw goes, "Don't worry, be happy" --and I'd add, be hopeful and get busy. In this way, everyone around you is lifted up and that wave spreads around the world.

On a little bit of a different note, my new project for the coming year is a series of interviews and articles about psychology and spirituality of food. I'll explore why we eat what we eat, and how we eat, with several very interesting people I've met through my experiences at the Optimum Health Institute. Food and eating can be a spiritually nourishing activity, or a source of addiction and ill health, and I believe it to be a very timely subject that affects everyone. So stay tuned for that! Meanwhile, click on the cartoon below for some holiday humor!


Until next time...

In vibrant health,


Shay Arave
President
Subtle Energy Solutions

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