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The evening intro started with a crowd of bright shiny faces new to Access Consciousness™.

A minute later, my cell phone rang.

“It’s your husband, do you want to take the call?” my organizer asked.  Since the intro had hardly begun, I said yes.

He was calling to tell me that he’d just received a notice that a friend of mine since high school had passed away, from colon cancer, the same thing that my mother died of many years ago.  He had waited to call me until after class was over, forgetting that I also had an event that evening.  I thanked him for letting me know, and continued to evening as planned.

It was a lively and enjoyable evening for me, and hopefully for everyone.  When I asked others the next day if they had noticed even a hiccup in my universe, they were surprised to hear I had received what could have been such traumatic news.

This was an amazing experience for me.  It was a demonstration that not only do the Access Consciousness™ tools like “interesting point of view” work, but also a demonstration of how my very being has changed as a result of what must now be thousands of Access Bars™ sessions and clearing statements.

I had known about my friend’s illness and knew that it was quite likely she would die.  What was so interesting to me is that there was no sadness.

At the same time, I was aware of the points of view of this reality.  This woman had been my friend since high school! Should I excuse myself for a few moments?  Should I have a cry? Should I share the sadness I was supposed to have with the group? It was so interesting to watch the things that would be expected of me from this reality without having to engage in any of them.

In the days that followed, of course I thought about my friend.  What floated into my awareness were memories of the many good times we’d had together, despite living 6000 miles apart on different continents.  We’d explored Michelin starred restaurants in her home country of Belgium.  My husband David had picked up her son by his feet when he was a skinny kid of about 10, and turned him upside down on a street corner in Haight Ashbury when they visited us.  I recalled her amazement at the vast dark silence of the forests of Oregon, where we lived when they visited.

But still no sadness!  How could this be?  The only emotion I could contact was gratitude for having known her, for her contributions to my life, for the beauty and color of those happy memories.   When I saw the death announcement that the family sent out, I kept it on my desk.  On the cover was a lovely color picture of my friend, and every time I look at it, I feel happy to have known her.  The fact that there will be no more of those happy adventures with her, in her body, does not fade in the least the happiness and gratitude I have for everything we did share.

If she had told me she was going to Timbuktu and not returning, and I heard that she’d made the journey, I would have been happy that she’d achieved her goal.   She had told me through her reactions and her choices that she was choosing to not continue living, although she could not admit this even to herself. When she arrived at the destination she had chosen, I could only be happy she’d gotten what she desired.

Many years ago, Access Consciousness™ Founder and best selling author Gary Douglas, who was channeling at the time, received this information:

When do you celebrate death? Do you celebrate it, do you honor it, and do you see it as the joy, the joy of transition?  When the tree dies, does the forest mourn or do the worms go “Yay, meal time”?  The forest doesn’t mourn the passing of a tree.  It celebrates the beginning of new life.

Death is the transition from the limitation of this lifetime and the defined roles that one has created here and the defined reality, the destiny that they have written in stone for themselves.  It is the opportunity for them to create something entirely new.  Honor the dying and the passing as you honor the birth, there is no difference, one is the other side of the coin, but it is the same coin, it is the same place in which beauty exists.

If you will honor the dying instead of mourning them, what you will create is the memory, in the person who passes, of their past life happening with ease in their next life so that they can choose how to rewrite what they come to accomplish and they won’t have to struggle to know who they are, they won’t have to fight to have awareness, they won’t have to sift through the gray matter of their brain to know.  Honoring death gives awareness to the being and improves the possibility of knowing in each lifetime.  That is the gift you give to the spirit when you honor death.

How could I wish less than that for my friend, if I were truly her friend?

I have taken Gary’s statement to heart and it has changed my point of view about death totally.  This is just another way that Access Consciousness™ functions from a different reality than most people espouse.  I must say I’m finding it much easier to deal with my friend’s passing from the Access Consciousness™ reality than from the one others live in.  I am so grateful for the freedom and ease of this experience!

In contrast, most people in this reality have the totally polarized view that life is good and death is bad and to be avoided at all costs.  Even my late friend had this point of view.  When I wrote after hearing her diagnosis, expressing my gratitude to her and asking to visit her to say goodbye, she asked me not to come because she wished only to be surrounded by “positive people.”  Acknowledging her choice was clearly not positive, from her point of view.

Her point of view clearly aligns with most people in this reality.  When my husband David’s friend and boss of 10 years died 6 weeks before his 50^th birthday, his widow arranged a memorial cruise on San Francisco Bay in honor of what would have been his 50^th birthday.  David noticed that on that entire boatload of people, there was perhaps one other person who had the awareness that his boss’s seemingly premature death was a choice.  To everyone else, it was a tragedy and reason to mourn.

But who are we mourning when we mourn?  Even someone who has left their body is still an infinite being.  We can no longer hug them or speak to their physical body, but they still exist, and they are not worse off than they were here on earth.  Indeed, as Gary’s piece demonstrates, they are actually better off because they have gotten free of limitations of being here in the only way they knew to do it.

So whom do we mourn, our loved ones or ourselves?  Gary recalls crying when his father died when Gary was 17, and knowing even then that he was crying not for his father but because of how his life would change following his father’s death.

The death announcement created by my friend’s family includes a poem that says, “Nothing will ever be the same.”  Is that not an acknowledgement of our loved one’s contribution to our lives?  Should we not wish them the best?

If we truly wished the best for our loved ones who leave their bodies, would we not celebrate?  It’s just an interesting point of view.

Are you still looking for “the one” that you can settle down and live happily ever after with?  Is marriage or a non-formalized equivalent thereof part of that plan?  It might not be your best choice, says Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness™ and best selling author.  His latest book is Divorceless Relationship, which debunks this myth and many more.

The ideal of marriage you have been dreaming about?  It was a product of the church and it was originally designed to make sure your progeny would inherit your wealth.  Of course, it means a lot more than that to most people right now, and therein lies the rub.  “When it becomes ‘meaningful,’” says Douglas, “then it becomes something that drives you crazy.”

We desire marriage because we have been programmed to desire it.  “The whole thing of shooting for marriage or relationship is usually about programming,” says Douglas.  “You are programmed to go from childhood to getting a job to getting married, and that is not choice.”

Douglas has a different idea.  “Would you really like to stay with the same person for long periods of time?  Is there anybody you want to spend all your time with?” he asks.

Because most of the creative people he works with cannot truthfully answer yes to those questions, he proposes relationship that you commit to for only 8 weeks.  “Here is another way you could do relationship,” he says.  “You could go to the other person and say, ‘I’d really like to have a relationship with you.  Can I move in with you for 8 weeks and after that we’ll know if we want to be together longer, but plan on me leaving in 8 weeks.’”

That 56 night stand (8 weeks times 7 days/week, get it?) is short enough that most people can maintain their gratitude for it. It’s the business that sets in after that that doesn’t interest them.  “You like the romance but you don’t like the washing clothes and washing dishes part,” notes Douglas.

Eight weeks is the length of time most people can maintain total presence, Douglas says. After that the pheromones stop and so does the sex.  “Don’t stay after 8 weeks because you think you will get sex continuously,” he warns.  “After 8 weeks the sex will quit.  That’s just the way it works.  An infinite being would have a long-term relationship for what reason?”

A psychology professor once asked his classes to estimate how much of their time they would like to spend with someone they were madly in love with.  The majority of answers were in the neighborhood of 75 per cent or more.

“Do you really want to spend 18 hours a day with anyone?” asks Douglas.  “How many of your work colleagues, who you spend most of your day with, do you see after work?” Douglas asks.  “In reality, 2 ½ hours a day is enough to spend with anybody.”  Could it be the programming Douglas refers to that’s creating this illusion of what we’re really looking for?

If you really wish to have a marriage that works, or a long-term partnership, Douglas recommends being willing to change every day.  In most relationships, people try to stay in the box of what they think the other person wants.”  This gets boring after about 2 days, Douglas observes.

In contrast to that, “Partners who are continuously willing to change have amazing communion together.”

“These are people who are always willing to change, always willing to see what else they can conquer, what else they can change, and what else they can be.  These people are fun to be with because at the end of the day they are different people.  Who you wake up with and who you go to bed with are two different people.”

If you don’t have a partnership with someone like this, Douglas warns, someone will be leaving.  If you try to keep the person you’re with from leaving you, then the person who will leave the relationship is you.

The “eight week relationship” and many other unique approaches to successful relationships are featured in Gary Douglas’s latest book, The Divorceless Relationship, available from amazon.com and the shop on his website, www.accessconsciousness.com.  He will soon be offering teleclasses exclusively for both men and women on what you can do to create relationships that really work.

Are your relationships giving you a headache?  There is an alternative to holding your head in your hands in despair!  It’s called the Bars™.

Does this mean you should be heading to your local bar for a good stiff drink?  Not exactly!  “The Bars™” are a set of 32 points on your head which, when gently held, release your negativity—your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, decisions, judgments—on any topic. The Bars™ are one of the many tools of Access Consciousness™, a 25 year old approach to awareness developed by best-selling author Gary Douglas of Santa Barbara, CA.

If you’re finding your thinking and your actions in any area of your life to be in a rut, Bars™ can smooth out the rut so that you can see other points of view that never would have occurred to you before.  One of the things that people receiving a Bars™ session for the first time often notice is that situations and people that used to upset them become far less annoying, almost as if by magic.

Relationships are one of the areas that can change dramatically with just one Bars™ session.  This includes relationship challenges of all kinds.  One little boy who was famous for being a bully in school was so changed after just one Bars™ session that the school actually called his mother to let her know how much he changed the day after the session.  His mother, used to dreading daily calls from school complaining about her son, was astonished to hear good news from his school.

In adult relationships, how much of the conflict and unhappiness many people experience comes from partners’ inability to receive who and how their partner is?  And how much frustration occurs when your partner cannot or will not receive you?  The Bars™ can offer a lot of relief in this area of relationship stress because they open the doors to receiving in a way which is rarely possible on this planet.

One 60 year old woman whose friend offered to gift her a Bars™ session asked what she should do.  “Just lie down and receive,” answered the friend.

“No one has ever told me to do that before!” commented the woman.  Isn’t that a rather sad commentary on how much gifting and receiving actually occurs in a lifetime of relationships?

Access Consciousness™ refers to “gifting” rather than giving, because so little of what is called a gift in this reality is really gift.  The gifting that occurs during a Bars™ session, and the nurturing that is possible for the recipient to receive, is a step out of the “give and take program” of this reality into an experience of the simultaneity of gifting and receiving.

When you receive a Bars™ session, whatever problem or conflict you had when the session started becomes so hard to hold onto that it’s quite likely you’ll forget it altogether by the time the session is over. Because just one session of the Bars™ can erase as much as 10,000 years of accumulated negativity, even the insurmountable issues in a relationship can seem to melt away.  Options that never even occurred to you before can suddenly appear and seem possible and desirable.  If you could change your relationship simply by lying on a massage table and allowing someone to gently touch your head for an hour, wouldn’t you do so?

If there’s someone who really really bugs you, you can even use the Bars™ to clear up all that dislike between you.  When you clash with someone, there’s a good chance it’s your judgments conflicting with their judgments.  Whenever you run someone’s Bars™, everything that they let go of during a session is cleared from your universe as well. When you run the Bars™ of someone you’ve been having difficulty with, or they run yours, massive changes in your relationship can occur.

One of the reasons that relationships which start out with a sense of joy and expansion gradually become more and more limiting for the people in them is that the judgments partners have of each other accumulate like giant dust bunnies that never get cleaned away.  Having your “Bars™ run” by your partner or anyone else can clear away much of this with amazing ease.

Receiving the Bars™ is an effortless process.  Your Bars™ gifter merely touches specific points on the head over the course of about an hour.  They don’t put anything into you, they merely invite your body to release garbage it no longer needs.  The Bars™ have only been known on planet earth for 25 years.  While they use energy like Reiki, they appear to have more far reaching effects on the lives of both gifter and receiver.  Likewise, while they may touch on acupuncture points or cranial-sacral positions, the effect they have in changing lives seems to go far beyond these methods.

If you don’t yet know this amazing technique to transform relationships, no worries.  It’s taught in an easy, fun 1-day class by some 750 Bars Facilitators in over 25 countries world wide.  Chances are excellent you can find a Bars™ Facilitator near you by searching the website, www.bars.accessconsciousness.com.

Pain is something that seems to be a fact of life, but how much suffering does it cause?  How much money is spent on drugs and at what cost, not only financially but also in the side effects caused? Side effects of painkillers (non-steroidal anti-flammatories or NSAIDs) cause more deaths than Parkinson’s disease or AIDs in the US.

Back pain alone has been around as long as people have been walking upright.  Some 80% of the population will suffer from it in their lifetime, and it’s one of the biggest causes of time lost from work.  Yet doctors and science still cannot explain its true causes, and every decade there is a new theory about what causes it, none of which gets the results many people are seeking.

One of the ways to change pain, which has not often been proposed by medicine and researchers, is consciousness itself.  Gary Douglas, best selling author and founder of Access Consciousness™, however, has asked questions about how consciousness can affect pain.

“Pain is actually a construct,” he says.  “It’s something we made up.  It is not real.”  What we judge and mis-identify as pain is actually awareness we are refusing to acknowledge.

Nice theory, but if you’re suffering from intense pain, what might this have to do with you?  It could be everything.  One tool Douglas offers is to ask your body, “Body, what are you trying to tell me with this intensity?”  Merely identifying what you’ve misidentified as pain, as the intensity it really is, can shift your experience of pain dramatically.  One of the reasons for this is that any lie you buy sticks you; it creates a situation you can’t ever change.  By changing it to truth by asking questions you allow more change to occur.

Our bodies are sensory organisms.  Douglas compares them to the cat’s whiskers.  They are giving us information all the time about what’s going on in other bodies around us.  How can our bodies communicate this to us? Much as we might like it, they’re not likely to send us a SMS on our cell phones.  They tell us about the pain in the bodies of people around us most often by evoking an intensity that we call pain in our own bodies.  This may sound like an assertion that ranks high on the “woo woo scale,” but it can have dramatic instant results.

One of Douglas’s clients was in a grocery store when an older woman asked him to pick up a box of detergent from the bottom shelf because she couldn’t lift it up due to back pain.  “Who does that belong to?” blurted the client.

“My husband!” the woman responded instantly, as she bent over and lifted the box of detergent without assistance.

This demonstrates the dramatic effects, which can be created by asking questions about what you perceive as pain.  “Who does this belong to?” and “Is this mine?” are great questions to start with.  If you ask those questions and you feel lighter, that’s a good indication that the pain you’ve been believing is in YOUR body actually is merely an awareness your body has of suffering in someone else’s body or bodies.

When you ask the question about who your pain (or the pain you’ve identified as yours) really belongs to, or if you ask if it’s yours, a subtle lightening up of your energy is a good indication it’s not your pain in the first place.  If it’s not yours, no therapy on it is likely to work. Since all drugs have side effects, how smart is it to take pain for a problem that isn’t even yours?

If you suffer from pain on a regular or intermittent basis, how could you use these tools to change it, without drugs?  The first step is to ask if the pain is even yours in the first place.  If it’s not, there’s a great chance it will lighten up quite soon after you ask that question, just like the old lady in the grocery store.

If you’re sure the pain is actually yours—if it doesn’t lighten up at all, even for a nanosecond—then you can proceed to the next question, “Body, what are you trying to tell me with this intensity?”

Common mistakes that people learning to use these tools often make are assuming that if the pain is very intense it must be theirs since they feel it so intensely.  Not true.  Yes, it may be intense, but that doesn’t make it any more likely to be yours.

Another common misconception is to believe that it’s yours if it comes back after initially lightening up when you asked the question.  Its returning does not mean it’s yours; it merely means you have bought the lie that it is yours.  The way to handle this is to destroy and uncreate all your decisions to buy the pain as yours when it wasn’t.  If the pain lightens up even for a nanosecond when you ask the question if it’s yours or who it belongs to, it isn’t yours.

Another cause of pain can be capacities, talents and abilities that you haven’t acknowledged.  Talents, abilities and capacities are not limited to singing or tap-dancing.  They can include unexpected capacities like the ability to remove the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation from another person’s body, for example.

One woman was feeling intense debilitating pain that kept her from having any quality of life. The medical doctors had done imaging to determine it was not a kidney stone, and all other medical tests could identify “nothing wrong.”  They concluded it was “all in her head.” Her pain had started suddenly the day after a family party to celebrate the christening of her son.  Nothing strenuous or stressful had occurred during this sit down dinner.  Yet her pain started this day and persisted for months.

Intense questioning by several Access Consciousness™ facilitators revealed that this woman had the capacity to take both pain and life-threatening illness out of other peoples’ bodies, and that she had done this at the party right before her pain started.  When she acknowledged this and used some verbal Access Consciousness™ clearing tools, her pain disappeared in less than a week.

Access™ Founder Gary Douglas injured himself over the holidays, cleverly managing to fall upstairs while carrying 4 bottles of expensive champagne.  The resulting torqueing of his body caused excruciating pain.  He found that asking himself “What capacity am I not acknowledging that is actualizing as pain?” over and over again created a dramatic reduction overnight in the pain from his injury.  This is another tool you can use if you’d like to shift pain you’ve been suffering from.

What if changing pain through changing your point of view were as easy as popping an aspirin?  What would you choose then?

Have you noticed a little confusion in your universe on matters concerning sex?

(Have you noticed you’re not alone in this?)

“If what’s showing up in your life is not what you would like, you might take a close look at what you say and what you think,” says best selling author and Access Consciousness™ founder Gary Douglas.  “What you say and what you think is exactly what will show up.”

One of the areas where Douglas recommends changing the way we speak and think is in the area of sex and relationships.  Currently the words “sex” and “sexuality” are used to refer to everything from flirting to rape and everything in between.  Is it any wonder that this is an area of great confusion to many people, when we’re not even clear what we’re talking about?

Always pragmatic, Douglas has a remedy for this.  He suggests using six different words to describe different aspects of what we tend to refer to as sex and sexuality.

Those words are sensuality, sex, sexuality, sexualness, copulation, and orgasm.  In Douglas’s view, each of these has a specific and different meaning, and speaking about sex using words with the appropriate meaning can contribute to creating clarity where not much currently exists.

Sensuality refers to the nurturing and touching that bodies love.  Being touched is a basic human need.  Babies in orphanages who are cared for but not held and touched have a close to 100 per cent mortality rate—that’s how critical human touch is to human beings.

Unfortunately, this touching is often confined to the sex act (what Douglas refers to as copulation), so much so that the two are often assumed to be one and the same.  Police in liberal Marin County, California, so confuse these two concepts that they have been known to suspect practitioners of therapeutic massage as being a front for prostitution.

How much nurturing touch that could actually soothe and heal our bodies have we been deprived of because those doing the touch confused sensualness with copulation?

What Douglas refers to as sex is what occurs when “you’re looking good, feeling good, and strutting your stuff.”  You become an invitation for others to flow sexual energy towards you.  This is a feeling that everyone—those doing the flow and those receiving it—can enjoy once the assumption that it must lead to copulation is questioned.

Sexuality in itself, in Douglas’s view, is a limitation.  It is how we define who we will and will not receive the flows of sexual energy from.  How much is a woman who defines herself as a lesbian willing to receive from men?  What if she had the freedom to flirt and have fun with them without having to go to bed with them?  Might the fun and receiving in her universe expand?  How much do straight men block themselves from receiving the flow of sexualness and even sensuality from gay men, for fear that receiving that will define them as homosexual as well?

Sexualness as Douglas defines it is the energy of life itself.  It’s the energy of caring, nurturing, joy, healing, the creativity, the excitement, the expansiveness, and the orgasmic quality of living. Of course it can lead to copulation—but it doesn’t have to.  You can experience sexualness while eating a great meal, participating in a favorite sport, being in nature or walking down the street of your favorite city.

Douglas’s definition of copulation matches the dictionary’s definition:  it is the act of sexual intercourse or, as Douglas puts it, “putting the body parts together.”  Bill Clinton was exploiting our lack of clarity in this area when he declared, “I did not have sex with that woman!”   Depending on your definition of intercourse, he could have been lying or telling the truth.  Douglas’s definition neatly eliminates this ambiguity.

One good reason to use the word copulation in describing and thinking about “having sex” with someone is the amount of clarity it can create when copulation is no longer confused with the other aspects of what we refer to as sex.  If sensualness were acknowledged for the nurturing it was without assuming it had to lead to sex, how much more nurturing touch could occur in families and schools?  If we were freer to enjoy sensualness, sexualness, and sex more, would as many forced incidents of copulation (as in rape) occur?

A common misidentification with copulation is to confuse it with intimacy, as in, “Now that we’ve had sex, we’re intimate.”  This is another misconception that creates additional confusion, says Douglas.  “Copulation is not intimacy,” he asserts.  “It just means you’ve put the body parts together.”

And of course no definition of sex would be complete without the inclusion of orgasm—which is orgasm as experienced during copulation, but also any other experience of extreme intense joy in your body.  It’s the energy that creates life itself, and the energy that creates and nourishes your body.  What if you were to allow your body to have more of that?

“Competition keeps America strong.”

“In order to succeed you have to stay ahead of your competition.”

“It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.”

How often have you found yourself thinking this, or being told this and similar points of view by others?

Gary Douglas, a 70 year old facilitator of consciousness workshops and founder of the international business Access Consciousness™, has found over his life that “everything I believed was true has turned out to be a lie or an implant.”  What he has discovered about competition using the tools of consciousness definitely places it in the category of topics we all buy lies about.

Douglas defines competition as the “need to win or not lose.” Always needing to be right is another manifestation of this.  To many people, not losing can be more important than winning.  If you’re truly functioning from the freedom of no competition, it doesn’t matter if you win or lose.  It’s not about winning or losing; it’s about the contribution that you can be.

People in business do not realize that by competing, they are killing their business, Douglas notes. “You need to be the best you can be and provide the best you can at all times,” he advises.  “You’re not going to get that excellence if you need to be right or wrong or win or not lose.”

What attempting to use competition in business creates, Douglas has found, is instituting what has always been and being sure it never changes.  In these times of rapid and surprising change, is that really a viable business strategy?

Buying into the idea that we must compete requires buying into a number of lies.   One of these lies is that competition is even possible.  As an infinite being, are you not unique?  How could you actually compete with anyone?  Can an apple compete with a kiwi?  Of course not! The idea is absurd.  Each has completely unique properties although both fit into the category of “fruit.”

For an infinite being who is acknowledging they are an infinite being, competition is meaningless. (Unfortunately most of us do not function as infinite beings most of the time.  What would it take to change that?)  Competition is meaningless because of our very uniqueness.  The concept of a “level playing field” cannot exist when you realize your uniqueness as an infinite being.

Even in the realm of a competitive sport such as gymnastics, are the “competitors” really competing against “their opponents,” or are they competing against themselves?  If their competitor had a lousy day or injury and they won a meet they wouldn’t otherwise have won, would that be sweet?   Or is what they are striving for actually their own personal best, creating during the meet the absolute best performance they can create?

As the singer Celine Dion put it, “I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.”

Douglas puts it, “You are the only person you can truly compete with.”

Another observation Douglas has made in his travels to meet with clients and present seminars world-wide is that whatever people are trying to prove, they actually believe the opposite.  If you look at competition as trying to prove you are the best, what does it indicate you actually believe about yourself or your business?  That you are worthless.  If you really knew you were as great as you’re trying to prove you are, would you have to prove it?  Competition when seen from this point of view is a constant choosing against yourself.  Might that make your business more of a struggle?

Have you ever met someone who gives you heartfelt convincing speeches about how great, worthwhile as a hire they are, how tidy they will be as a roommate? While their spiel may be initially convincing, haven’t you learned not to trust these one-sided assertions?  The one who will really contribute and be worth their paycheck doesn’t have to prove it—they’re not competing against their own inner belief in their own mediocrity.

Someone who knows the contribution they are to others will not have to prove anything; others can have any point of view about them; and their awareness of their own value will not change.  That’s a place where you can be free of competition and really soar with the unique contributions you have to make to the world.  And isn’t that the reason you went into business in the first place?

Conversely, if you’re in a situation where you find someone is competing with you, it’s because you have the point of view that you are not a contribution. If you acknowledge the contribution you are, then others must acknowledge it as well.

When really examined, competition can be found where you least expect it.  Even in unusual places, it is still a demonstration that the person doing the competing fails to see their own value.  Is that really where you wish to put your energy?

Here’s an example.  Have you ever been in a group sharing small talk?  The topic veers towards car accidents.  You tell your dramatic car accident story.  The next person tells theirs, which is even more dramatic.  That’s competition!

Douglas was speaking with a colleague about her tendency towards competitiveness.  “I don’t perceive I am competitive!” she said, ending the conversation.

“That alone proves you are competitive!” Douglas reminded her.  The very requirement to get the last word in is competition in action.  It’s a variation on the theme of needing to be right.

Competing with yourself is still competition.  It’s based on judgment that you are not enough and less than. There is also an element in it that includes the desire to be a contribution. Douglas suggests shifting this by asking yourself this question, “How can I use this need to be a contribution to take advantage of everything, to contribute to everything, and to make that an advantage in life?”

What contribution might stepping away from competition be to your life and your business? What if not only did you have nothing to lose, but losing were impossible?  What could be created for you and your business then?

Are you suffering from a past trauma that you can’t seem to get free of? Do you see your life as before that traumatic event and after it?  If there were a tool that could get you free of it, would you be interested?

Gary Douglas, best selling author and founder of Access Consciousness™, has discovered a tool which can unlock you from this.  It applies not only to psychic and emotional trauma, but also to physical trauma such as accidents as well.

Douglas has discovered the phenomenon of “trifold sequencing systems, shock trauma systems, and vibrational wave length systems” which has the effect of keeping some or most of our energy locked into past trauma.  People suffering from this tend to repeat the story of their trauma over and over again; unable to escape it no matter how much they repeat the tale.

Fortunately for them and those around them, clearing this is as easy as using the Access Consciousness™ clearing statement.   How does it get even better than that?

Douglas discovered the way to unlock this phenomenon many years ago when a man in his class presented with a most unusual problem. As a young soldier in World War II, he stumbled into some door that the U.S. military did not wish him to enter.  Ever since that time, when he was under stress he dropped down on all fours and barked like a dog.

Using his technique of asking questions, Douglas discovered these processes with this veteran.  After that, the man’s days as a dog were finished, much to the relief of him and his surely long-suffering wife.  These methods have since been used on anyone who has suffered from a trauma from which they date their life, as in “before the divorce” and “after the divorce,” or “before my sister died” and “after my sister died.”

Many years later, the aspect of trifold sequencing systems as a hands-on process was discovered.  Dr. Kacie Crisp, now a Body Class Facilitator, called Douglas asking how to use the tools of Access™ to assist a friend of hers who was going to be in her Foundation class. This friend had been legally blind since a car accident 6 years previously.  Though she had some vision, damage to her cranial nerve resulted in her focus shifting from long range to close up randomly, making it impossible for her to drive or read.

“Do trifold sequencing systems as a hands-on process,” Douglas told her.

Crisp recalls, “I had never heard of that as a hands-on process.  I didn’t know how to do it, but I figured I could just put my hands on her head and ask for the energy.”  After this was done on the woman for half an hour in class, she went home from class and read a chapter in a book for the first time in six years.

Many other people have used it as a hands-on process, and it is now included in the manual of the Access Consciousness™ 3-day Body Class.  Facilitators of one day Body Process Classes can also teach you to use it.  Its use is most appropriate when the receiver has suffered a trauma, which so changed their life, that they date events in their life as before the accident and after the accident.  If a trauma is psychological or emotional without involving physical trauma, such as a divorce or the death of a loved one, doing trifold sequencing as a hands-on process may not be required.  For emotional trauma, insanity, and past drug use, it can be combined with the Bars™ for more potent clearing.

One woman, who had been injured when she fell off a steep icy platform at work onto the parking lot below, landing with part of her body on the pavement and part of it against the bumpers of parked cars, walked with a cane and qualified for a disabled parking sticker.  Not only was her back injured and painful, but she suffered rapid deterioration and multiple surgeries on both hips as well.  Both her back and both hips were quite painful.  Medical doctors had called one of her hips “terminal” on this otherwise healthy 60 year old.

Using trifold sequencing systems as a hands on process on her created so much change that she was able to forget her cane and actually took up dancing at Access™ classes she attended.

If past trauma were not something that you had to hold onto, how much more would be possible in your life?

One of the brilliant creations of the collaboration of Access Consciousness™ Founder Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer is an amazing assortment of body processes.  These are taught world-wide by four facilitators of the 3 day Access Consciousness™ Body Class, as well as in evening and day long classes by 150 facilitators of Body Process classes.

Not surprisingly, many of these processes deal with handling pain from injury, diseases such as arthritis, and other malfunctions of the body.  What you might not expect is that they have discovered body processes that can actually make your relationships work better.  While all Access Consciousness™ body processes bring more consciousness to your body and allow for greater receiving, several of them specifically address relationship issues directly.

The first one of these was discovered while Access Consciousness™ founder and best-selling author Gary Douglas was doing body processes on Heer.  The television happened to be on while they were running this process.   Douglas observed in Heer’s body the energy of intense attraction to a sexy-looking woman who appeared on television.  Despite her appearance, Douglas could also tell that there was no nurturing or sexualness (the nurturing, caring, creative energy of life—not what is taken to look good or “sexy” in this reality) in this woman’s universe.  Yet there was an attraction to her in Heer’s body.

Douglas developed a hands-on process to handle this.  It’s called the Magnetic Attraction to the Repulsion of all Sexual Energies Embodied and the Restoration of All Generative Sexual Energies Embodied.  As the name suggests, it includes two kinds of energy—reducing the body’s tendency to be attracted to judgmental non-nurturing sexual energies, as well as restoring the body’s ability and tendency to be attracted to sexual energies which are nurturing.

One of the “never ending stories” of Douglas’s life is consulting with people entering into disastrous relationships despite the fact that they should have been able to see the disaster coming and avoid it.  He hopes that it would free people to be more aware of the future as he can see it.

A second relationship related process has just been added to the 3-Day Body Class book.  It’s called “Elimination & Eradication of Auto‐Responder Systems of Sex and Relationship.”  It’s reputed to be “a real cooker,” meaning the energy that is released is on the intense side.  For those wishing to get free in this area, that could be perceived as a good thing!

If your relationship is going well and you’d like to add more to it, there are lots of processes in the classes that can do just that.  Almost any process freeing you from this reality, from the limitations of human embodiment, from any limitations on the joy of embodiment will contribute to the joy in your relationship.

The Advanced Body class facilitated only by Gary Douglas is aimed specifically at going beyond all pain and complaints and discovering what else is possible for the greatness of embodiment.  Attending two 3-day Body Classes is the pre-requisite for this class.  There’s still time for you to do this before Gary next offers this class in Corte Madera May 26-28 and Mooloolaba, Australia, June 15-17.

There’s new hope for children struggling with school failure on the Spanish island of Mallorca, thanks to the efforts of chiropractor and Bars Facilitator Dr. David Biddle.

Biddle became aware of the tremendous problem of school failure that plagues the Spanish school system through a conversation with his own daughter.  In her class of 25, there were only 3 or 4 children who hadn’t failed any classes, and failing 5 or 6 out of the 8 offered is quite common.

The only alternative schools offer is additional tutoring to students, which means the kids have to sit for an additional 2 hours after 7 hours of sitting every day.

“How can we help these kids adapt better to school?” wondered Biddle.  He came up with offering Bars to allow kids’ brains to function better and make it easier for them to learn and retain information.

He and 7 other Bars Facilitators teemed up to offer 5 free Bars sessions to kids struggling in school.  A large spread in the local newspaper created so much awareness of the event that 50 kids showed up to have their Bars run in Biddle’s chiropractic office.  Seven Bars Facilitators showed up to run half hour sessions, spending 3-4 hours each running Bars on a volunteer basis.

Some of the positive changes the parents have noted have been amazing.  One little boy who was very rough in school and well known for beating everybody up, changed overnight.  After his first bars session, he changed so much that the school phoned his mother.  She thought, “Oh, another problem with my son.”

To her surprise, the school was calling to tell her,  “We don’t know what you did, but your kid is totally different.  He’s being nice to everybody.”

Another little boy went from regularly getting 1s and 2s (the lowest scores) in math to getting 10s.  A little girl who swims competitively noticed her swimming times improved, which pleased her and her mother.  A little boy with chronic headaches now reports they’re gone.

One boy who could hardly lie on the table on the first session now comes into the room, lies down, and relaxes.  His parents are amazed.  “My kid never relaxes!” they say, “yet he does now that he’s getting his bars done.”

Parents report that overall, their children are more centered, easier to deal with at home, and doing better in school.

Originally Biddle had planned to offer the Bars sessions side by side with sessions for the parents, but the response to the free offer for children was so overwhelming there simply wasn’t time.    Now several parents have taken the Bars Class and are doing Bars on their children at home.

While Biddle had the advantage of having a large open space with a number of tables as well as secretarial support, none of this is required.  It could be duplicated anywhere, and where are children not suffering because the schools are unable to meet their needs?

“Open up the space and let it happen,” suggests Biddle.  “The kids need it so badly!”  What are the infinite possibilities?