29. (Eng.) Dealing with Corona Issues

mei 20, 2020mei 24, 2020 ~ Maj Ridder ~ Plaats een reactie

I wrote this blog in Dutch at the end of March. However, I think, it still can be of importance to readers at the end of May.

Never before has mankind had the opportunity, in such large numbers, to ascend to a higher, more luminous level, where the qualities derived from spirituality can manifest themselves. Because the COVID-19 pandemic appeals to those qualities, every human being on Earth can take a step in the spiritual direction.

The corona crisis has made it clear that it is not true that we are isolated individuals who can lead our own private lives. There is an invisible cohesion and connection between people, primarily through the tiny virus itself.

Of course, I hope my readers are healthy and have not (yet) fallen ill to the virus. There are good ways to support your immune system in order to cope with a viral infection and achieve a swift recovery.

Recently Lynne McTaggart (see blog 25) described in her blog (https://lynnemctaggart.com/beating-the-coronavirus-as-simple-as-a-b-c/) which remedies can help minimize symptoms of future viral infections, including Covid-19. She quoted doctors from the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine who insist on taking certain supplements, namely:
Vitamin C: 3000 mg daily, divided over different doses.
Vitamin D3: 2000 IU daily (start with 5000 IU for two weeks)
Magnesium: 400 mg daily
Zinc: 20 mg daily
Selenium: 100 mcg daily.

All these vitamins and minerals have been proven to strengthen the immune system against viruses. Recently, in China high doses of vitamin C have been used in the treatment of corona patients. Read more about this on Lynne McTaggart’s website: https://lynnemctaggart.com/a-cheap-cure-for-the-coronavirus/.

What else could you do? Don’t forget what you can bring about with your thinking power, for yourself and for others. On the one hand, your thoughts can strengthen your own physical system (blog 28). On the other hand, you could ask for help from ‘the field’, on behalf of both yourself and others (blog 27).

To avoid infection, or to strengthen your immune system when you are infected, you can do a meditation, as follows.

Sit or lie down and start to relax by concentrating on your breathing. Become aware of your whole body. First, focus on the parts that are sick or feel uncomfortable, then bring to your attention those parts of your body that feel healthy or at least okay. Then move your attention to your heart and form a picture of yourself in perfect health. Take your time for this – pay attention to all the details as you review how good you feel when you are healthy, and evoke those sensations.

Then focus on your heart again. You might have made contact with your higher self. Does that reassure and encourage you? Or do you still find a smaller self, confronted with its own fear?

This should not be surprising. As people are scared to be infected by Covid-19, a collective field of fear has arisen. Fear is everywhere in the air and is even more contagious than the virus itself.
Just as you have to work on the immune system of your physical body, it is necessary to strengthen your resistance to fear, to that collective fear, in an individual process.

That is the challenge. Each of us is triggered by something that can, will or must lead to one or more steps further in exploring what life is essentially about. In short: this challenge leads to spiritual growth.

But what if you’re actually sick? Then it may be difficult to concentrate on the above meditation, for are you still able to look at yourself from a distance, without fear?
Then it becomes important to surrender and trust in the strength of your body and your soul – no matter what the outcome of the illness may be. You can be apprehensive or anxious, but you don’t have to be afraid…

As you will notice: not only the virus and the fear are contagious; the love that is present on Earth and beyond is also contagious!

29. Corona praktisch

maart 30, 2020maart 31, 2020 ~ Maj Ridder ~ 1 reactie

Niet eerder heeft de mensheid de gelegenheid gehad gezamenlijk op te trekken naar een lichter niveau, waar de van spiritualiteit afgeleide kwaliteiten zich kunnen manifesteren. Omdat de COVID-19 pandemie een beroep doet op die kwaliteiten, kan elk mens op aarde een stapje zetten in spirituele richting.

Door de coronacrisis is duidelijk geworden dat het niet klopt dat wij op zichzelf staande individuen zouden zijn, die hun eigen particuliere leventje kunnen leiden. Er bestaat een onzichtbare samenhang en verbinding tussen mensen, in de eerste plaats door het minuscule virus zelf.

Natuurlijk hoop ik dat mijn lezers gezond zijn en (nog) niet geveld door het coronavirus. Er bestaan goede manieren om je immuunsysteem te ondersteunen, teneinde een virusinfectie aan te kunnen, met als doel een (snelle) genezing.

Kort geleden beschreef Lynne McTaggart (blog 25) in haar blog https://lynnemctaggart.com/beating-the-coronavirus-as-simple-as-a-b-c/ welke middelen kunnen helpen symptomen te minimaliseren van toekomstige virale infecties, inclusief corona . Zij citeerde daarbij artsen van de International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, die erop aandringen bepaalde supplementen in te nemen, namelijk:
Vitamine C: 3000 mg dagelijks, verdeeld over verschillende doses
Vitamine D3: 2000 IE’s dagelijks (begin met 5000 IE’s gedurende twee weken)
Magnesium: 400 mg dagelijks
Zink: 20 mg dagelijks
Selenium: 100 mcg dagelijks.

Van al deze vitamines en mineralen is bewezen dat zij het immuunsysteem versterken tegen virussen. Onlangs zijn ook in China hoge doses vitamine C ingezet bij de behandeling van corona-patiënten. Zie daarover van Lynne McTaggart: https://lynnemctaggart.com/a-cheap-cure-for-the-coronavirus/.

Wat kun je nog meer doen? Vlak niet uit wat je teweeg kunt brengen met je gedachtekracht, bij jezelf en bij anderen. Enerzijds kunnen je gedachten je eigen fysieke systeem versterken (blog 28). Anderzijds kun je ’het veld’ te hulp roepen, zowel voor jezelf als voor anderen (blog 27).

Ter vermijding van besmetting, of ter versterking van je immuunsysteem wanneer je besmet bent, zou je als volgt een meditatie kunnen doen.
Ga zitten of liggen – kom tot rust door je te concentreren op je ademhaling – word je bewust van je hele lichaam – neem eerst de plekken waar die ziek zijn of onprettig voelen – neem dan in je aandacht de plekken van je lichaam die gezond zijn of tenminste oké – ga vervolgens met je aandacht naar je hart en maak je een voorstelling van jezelf in blakende gezondheid – neem daar rustig de tijd voor – laat alle details de revue passeren van hoe weldadig je je voelt als je gezond bent – en roep die sensaties op.

Richt je dan weer op je hart. Heb je misschien contact gemaakt met je hogere zelf, dat je gerust stelt en bemoedigt? Of tref je toch nog een kleiner zelf aan dat de eigen angst in de ogen kijkt?

Dat is niet zo verwonderlijk. Doordat mensen bang zijn ziek te worden van een corona-besmetting, is er een collectief veld van angst ontstaan. Angst hangt overal in de lucht en is nog besmettelijker dan het virus zelf.
Zoals je moet werken aan het immuunsysteem van je fysieke lichaam, is het ook noodzakelijk je weerstand te versterken tegen angst, tegen die collectieve angst, in een individueel proces.

Dát is de uitdaging. Bij ieder van ons wordt iets getriggerd dat kan, zal of moet leiden naar een of meer stappen verder in de bewustwording van waar het in het leven wezenlijk om gaat. Kortom: deze uitdaging leidt tot spirituele groei.

Maar wat nu als je écht ziek bent? Dan kan bovenstaande meditatie wel eens lastig zijn om uit te voeren, want kun je nog wel onbevreesd afstand nemen van je situatie?
Het wordt dan zaak je daaraan over te geven en te vertrouwen op de kracht van je lichaam en je ziel – wat de afloop van de ziekte ook zal zijn. Je kunt wel bang zijn, maar je hoeft geen angst te hebben …

Want je zult merken: niet alleen het virus en de angst zijn besmettelijk, ook de liefde op aarde én aan gene zijde is aanstekelijk!

25 (Eng.) Lynne McTaggart

oktober 21, 2019maart 31, 2020 ~ Maj Ridder ~ Plaats een reactie

March 30, 2019

How to deal with polarizing forces? That question came up in blog 22, The Time Spirit. A famous journalist who excels in giving an answer is Lynne McTaggart. She says, with regard to both the spiritual and the practical: focus on the essence of people, start from their good will, and you have won a world of goodwill and growing mutual understanding. On a small scale, as well as a large scale, she puts that vision into practice.

Lynne McTaggart, born in America and living in London, has a unique outlook. She brings together ideas about focus and thinking that have also guided my own life. Moreover, through her and for her, I have recently become part of an “intention group” that meets virtually every week online, to my pleasure and inspiration.

The purpose of an intention group (in this case a group of 11 women from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands) is to jointly “send out” intentions to group members and their friends and family. Focused mental power can bring about major changes in the areas of health, relationships, living conditions, work goals and e.g. your life’s purpose. This was shown in numerous intention experiments undertaken by McTaggart since 2000, worldwide via the internet and in groups during seminars.

In the intention experiments, groups of individual people concentrated together on a positive outcome for another person or to achieve an important goal, such as peace. Lynne MT received feedback from countless people that participating in the experiments had had a positive impact on themselves. To some of them, even a true miracle occurred. Initially, Lynne MT could not understand this at all. Read her latest book “The Power of Eight : Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World” (2018).

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While many spiritual teachers still aim at the personal development of an individual, Lynne MT aims at group development. Experiencing oneself as belonging to, involved in a group, evokes an energy that transcends the personal development of its members. “The group is more than the sum of its members.” Groups of eight to twelve people have the best results, she found.

Her last book was preceded by three books: –> ‘The Field : The search for the secret power of the universe’ (2001), –> ‘The Intention Experiment : Can your thoughts change the world?’ (2007) and –> ‘ The Bond: Become aware of the field in which you live’ (2011). These are all comprehensive works, in which she extensively reports on the contacts with, and findings of numerous scientists around the world, in the areas of consciousness, energetic healing, and related topics. (See also her website https://lynnemctaggart.com.)

In essence these books tell about the long inquiry – that Lynne MT already announced at the beginning of her book The Field – into possible connections between science and spirituality.

Thanks to her journalistic expertise and her scientific interests and insights, she has been able to report on explanations of phenomena considered unbelievable until recently. The intuition of many people in the field of spirituality and practice with healing and reading, is confirmed and proven by scientists. It’s nice when one’s beliefs turn out to be founded on scientific truth …

The clarification is at stake of phenomena usually considered unreal and irrelevant for daily life. According to Lynne MT the new knowledge is not only important for science, but also for daily life. Become aware that all things happen within a framework of invisible forces. When you are aware of these energetic forces, you may learn to influence them. That is the ultimate goal of Lynne MacTaggart’s “Power of Eight” intention groups!