Rocks and Water by Paty Jager

 

I've always been interested in how people discover that certain herbs work for different illnesses or injuries, or how some stones/gems can have certain effects on a person. 

I'm currently listening to Leighann Dobbs "The Blackmore Sisters" Mystery box set and have found it intriguing how the characters in it use herbs for healing and stones/gems for healing. Which makes me want to pull out a couple of rock and gem books I have and my Native American Herbal book and sit down and devour them to learn more.  I hope to put some of the herbs into an upcoming book but I'll have to see how that will work into the story. 

Rocks have always fascinated me. I have my eyes on the ground when I walk, scouting for a unique or interesting-looking rock. I have tumbled rocks a friend gave me that he'd picked up while in our area, and I have rocks that a deceased relative left me. I like holding them in my hands and studying them.

But what really makes me curious is a couple of years ago while browsing through stores with some friends we went into a rock and gem store and I came out with an egg-sized, but flatter, smooth purple swirled with white stone that is amethyst. It is for calming. At night when I can't fall asleep, I hold it in my hand and slip off to sleep. 

And on my trip last year to Hawaii, I purchased a labradorite pendant and have found when I wear it I do feel more creative. 

Now whether this is all in my head, who knows but I have to say they work for me. 

And I wore a lot of turquoise over the weekend while visiting a friend and selling books. It has healing and calming effects. 

I'm not sure what all of this has to do with the fact I was contacted by a legitimate person from a UK (United Kingdom) reader magazine and asked if I'd be open to having them do an interview with me for the magazine. 

Of course! I'm not sure if it was all the stones I've brought into my life or the fact I changed the cover of the book they asked to promote but I will never turn down a free chance to talk about books and writing. 

The book that I changed the cover on is Double Duplicity book 1 in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery series. This is the new cover:

Instead of a body slumped in a chair with a bloody blouse, I went for the art theme that is part of the story.  

To continue with my good fortune, I have a new release in my Spotted Pony Casino Mystery series and it is getting some good reviews. 

The Pinch

Book 5

Dela Alvaro, head of security for the Spotted Pony Casino, is asked to do a security check of a casino on the Oregon Coast. She no sooner starts her rounds at the casino and a child of a dubious couple is kidnapped. Special Agent Quinn Pierce of the FBI has been out to get the father for some time.

One of Dela’s best friends from the Army is also at the casino and they catch up. The next morning, Dela finds her friend strangled. As Dela struggles with the violent death of yet another best friend, Tribal Officer Heath Seaver arrives and the two begin untangling the lies, kidnapping, and murder. 

As Heath carries the kidnapped child to safety, Dela must face a cunning killer alone.

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This book is set in one of my favorite places, the Oregon Coast. It is my place where I reenergize. The ocean and water in general have always been where I'd go when things felt off or I needed to boost my morale. As a kid, I'd sit on the strip of land that was between the Lostine River and the Sheep Ridge ditch. I'd sit on the damp earth with my back against a cottonwood tree and either read, write, or draw as I listened to the water. There was a fish ladder upstream from where I'd sit and when the river was high you could hear the water roaring over the top of the cement forms built to slow the flow and allow the salmon to navigate upstream. 

I would have to say rocks and water have always been my calming elements and as I learn more I understand why.  

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 55 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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The Magic of Love Energy

by Madelle Morgan

In this post I reveal a magic formula that may change your life! It changed mine.

A year ago I attended a free workshop given by Qi Gong master James Foo, a brilliant man who can see and manipulate energy. Based in Toronto, Canada, he has lived in the U.K. and Hong Kong. I have since become his avid student. I'm a believer! Learn more about him at www.JamesFoo.ca

Laughter Raises Your Vibration

Of the many advances that Sifu (Teacher) James Foo has made in the field of energy healing, he has studied and adapted the work of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., author of Power vs Force. In that ground-breaking book, Dr. Hawkins describes energy frequencies. Everything in the world — plants, minerals, animals, humans — is comprised of energy that vibrates at a specific frequency. The higher the frequency, the more spiritual the energy.

James Foo has determined that Earth (the planet) currently vibrates at a frequency of 207. Most people vibrate at that frequency as well, unless one is ill. In that case, the frequency may be lower. Have you heard the expression "Laughter is the best medicine"? That's because laughter raises one's frequency, facilitating healing. Have you watched the movie Patch Adams, based on the biography of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, the American physician? He was the first to recommend humor to enable healing.

Love Energy

According to James Foo, love energy vibrates at a frequency of 528. So, how does a person raise his or her energy to the frequency of 528? That's where the magic formula comes in. James Foo's approach is so simple, yet so effective.

You can raise your personal frequency to 528, and feel the evidence of the change!

James Foo's 5 2 8 Procedure

1. Stay very still. Hold your palms facing each other about a foot apart.

2. Slowly move your palms together. Stop when you feel a slight increase in air pressure when your palms are a few inches apart. This is the outer limit of your natural aura, aka energy field. If you do not feel the very subtle difference in pressure, don't worry. It comes with practice.

3. Repeat 5 2 8 at least five times. Important: say (or think) the number 5, then 2, then 8, not five hundred twenty-eight.

4. Hold your palms at least two feet apart, and slowly move your palms together.
Do you feel the slight increase in pressure when your hands are further apart than in Step 2? If so, that is evidence that your energy field has expanded and your frequency is higher!

Your body will remain at the higher frequency until you move. To keep your frequency high, continue to repeat 5 2 8.

Once you are a believer, you don't need to use your palms to verify your expanded energy field. You may simply repeat 5 2 8 five times, and your frequency will increase.

Healing with 5 2 8 

At a frequency of 528, James Foo says that a person can "command" energy for healing. In other words, a person can direct love energy to heal one's own body, or direct that energy to someone else.

He teaches the Qi Gong "no me" principle. For self-healing, do not use the words "me" or "my". 

Try these suggestions when you are at the 528 frequency. Remember to stay very still. Focus for a minute or so. Repeat daily.

1. Fill body with healing energy (intending that it be your own body).

2. Clear anger in body related to ____________ (issue).

3. Clear sorrow in heart related to ____________ (issue).

4. Heal source of pain in ____________ (part of body).

5. Send love energy to ____________ (name).

6. Fill ___________'s body with healing energy.

You may of course modify these suggestions to suit. If there is a loving, healing intent, 528 will work.

Please let me know about your experiences!

About Madelle Morgan

Madelle believes in laughter and love energy. 

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