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Breathe, Love, Heal with Carolyn Harrington | Finding Joy By Feeling Great
Hosted by Carolyn Harrington - Holistic Health Practitioner, Medical Intuitive · EN
Breathe Love Heal podcast offers practical insights to help you live a healthier life. Each episode introduces fresh perspectives on health and wellness, answering common questions I've received over the years to help others along the way. It's not complicated—there are simple, natural steps you can take right now to feel better and start living a more vibrant, balanced life.
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A Healing That Came Out Of Nowhere
Dec 9, 202300:10:11Tap to summarizeThis episode is a true story that happened 20+ years ago. It illustrates how healing can come about from situations you never thought about. It also demonstrates that if you change your perspective sometimes, you may find miracles where you least expect them.
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12 Ways To Clean Up Your Cleaning
Oct 23, 202300:24:42Tap to summarizeIf you clean with toxic chemicals, is your house really clean? I have been asked many times lately what I do to clean my house, so I thought I would let you know. Here are my best practices for a clean, healthy home. Downloadable Show Notes Here.
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10 Things You Can Do Right Now For Better Brain Function
Jun 13, 202300:15:22Tap to summarizeThere are few things more important than a well functioning brain when it comes to living life happy and healthy. That's why the first episode of my new season is focused on brain health and things you can do right now to improve it.
Transcribe →Why a nutritionist may be what you need to live a happy, healthy, disease-free life.
Dec 20, 201800:43:12Tap to summarizeThink Your Eating Healthy? Laura Villanti, nutritionist and GAPS specialist discusses why a nutritionist may just be the thing you need if you want to live a happy, healthy disease free life.
Transcribe →Can Other People's Thoughts Affect Your Health?
Jun 22, 201800:20:04Tap to summarizeToday's podcast deals with other people's emotions and thoughts and how they affect your health. If you are doing all the right things to improve your health, but aren't seeing any progress, maybe it has something to do with the people around you. I explain how this can happen and what you can do about it.\ Episode Notes: [3:08] Story about Aubry and how he affected us in a positive way. [3:59] Two examples of how you may have felt other people's thoughts and emotions [5:23] Three principle ways that other peoples thoughts affect you. The first is projection. [8:18] A study explained the effects of projecting your thoughts in the form of a prayer. [8:37] A curse is explained and how it can affect your health. [10:18] Absorption explained as the second-way thoughts and emotions affect our health. [10:42] An example of how absorption affects your health with No Will To Live Energy. [12:25] Phenomena where pets absorb the energy of their owners [13:25] Attraction is explained as the third way other peoples thoughts and emotions affect our health. [15:06] Entrainment explained with grandfather clocks [16:28] Given the three principle ways our thoughts and emotions affect our health, what can we do about it?
Transcribe →Where Do Your Thoughts Come From?
Jun 11, 201800:19:56Tap to summarizeDo you know where your thoughts come from? They affect your health in so many ways. In this podcast, I share the secret of how your thoughts affect your well-being and what you can do to improve your health. I also share what I learned about something we all do every day that hugely increases our chances of getting allergies.
Transcribe →Your Emotions / Your Health.
May 30, 201800:23:07Tap to summarizeYour emotions can affect your health more than any diet or exercise regimen ever could. Find out what you can do to improve your thoughts to improve your health. Plus, you'll learn a healing hack for anxiety, insomnia and migraines and the safest way to dispose of batteries. Episode Notes: [3:08] Healing Hack For Anxiety, Insomnia, and Migraines [4:38] Don't Throw Away Your Batteries Until You Listen To This! [6:05] It's Not Always About What You Do To Improve Your Health, but the barriers to healing that affect your health. [7:20] Everything in our universe is energy. [10:20] Thoughts that energize, thoughts that drain you. [13:13] HeartMath Institute Studies On Emotions And Heart Rhythms [14:44] Finland Study Mapping Emotions To Part Of The Body [16:28] Emotions Create Surges Of Energy Inside Of You [18:00] Emotions Can Get Trapped Inside You [19:35] Ways To Unblock Negative Emotions On My Next Podcast: Episode #9 - We delve deeper into emotions and health and explain how your mind controls your emotions which control your health. It is very interesting, you won't want to miss it.
Transcribe →Is There A Way To Make Your Food Healthier With Your Energy?
May 14, 201800:20:15Tap to summarizeThere is so much conflicting information about healthy food and diets, who knows what to eat. Did you know there are things you can do to make any food you eat healthier for you? I'll share ways to make your food healthier for you to eat from an energy healing viewpoint. You won't want to miss it if you like to cook. Episode Notes: Hello and welcome to Episode #7 where we will be talking all about food. First though, I want to pose this question - Is there a way with energy healing to make the foods you eat healthier, no matter what you are eating. There is so much conflicting information about healthy food and diets, who knows what to eat anymore. But did you know there are things you can do to make any food you eat healthier for you? I'll share ways to do this with your energy. You won't want to miss it if you like to cook. But first, I want to tell you a cute story of what I did a few weeks ago that I loved. Who out there has stink bugs around their house. We had massive amounts of them all over our house. Even in the winter, a few would show up each day in the house, and I had to get rid of them. We figured we would get an exterminator to get rid of them once they really started showing up when it got warm. Last summer, they were all over the outside of our house so I didn't want this to happen again this year. So you know what I did. A few weeks ago, when the weather started changing, I started to see more of them around the house. And I was thinking to myself, what if I did a little healing on the house to get rid of those nasty bugs. Why not. It couldn't hurt. And that is the beauty of energy healing. It only takes a short amount of time, I didn't have to buy anything or go anywhere So I did a healing. Took literally five minutes. And you know what. We have no stink bugs around our house anymore. Maybe it was the healing, maybe not. I tend to think it was. But it sure didn't hurt anything, and might of helped. Oh, and after the stink bugs came, we started to get ants. Those little critters must have scared away by the stink bugs. But after I saw a few of them crawling around, I did another healing on the house for the ants. Voila, they were gone. That's pretty cool. Maybe in one of my next podcasts I will devote a whole segment on ways to get rid of pests with energy healing. I can't get enough of this stuff. I love it. But now, onto food. I want to change your relationship with food. If you do this, there is a healing affect. Change the way you look at food. In America, the media has ruined it for us when it comes to eating. Eat this, don't eat that, do this, don't do that. Combine your foods this way, don't eat foods that way.) Americans are so obsessed with food and diets.) And the funny thing is, we aren't any healthier than any other countries. In fact, more than a 1/3 of our population in the US are obese. Wow, that is terrible, and bad news for the children growing up. I don't know about you, but it is confusing out there with talk about food. It's information overload about what to eat, is it healthy for you, should you eat protein, fats, carbs, eat less, eat more, eat raw, so many options. From day to day I get conflicting information. Someone says eating all protein and meat is healthy for you, then someone else says go vegan. Who can keep up!! Now, I'm not advocating that you don't watch your diet. I think it is essential to living healthy. But I am not an expert nutritionist, so talking about foods is not my thing. I would say to customize your diet to fit your needs. Some people respond positively to high protein diet, that's great. Eat that. Someone else responds better to a vegan diet, that's great. Eat that way. Inherently, I think you know what to eat that makes you feel good or healthy. Keep eating that way. Your body will tell you if what you are eating is good for you or not. Do you feel logy after eating one type of meal? Do you feel hungry shortly after eating a meal? Do you have a lot of energy after eating this meal.? That would be good; you want this. Did you wake up feeling hungry or tired after a meal like the one you ate last night? Did you have aches or pains, or heartburn after a meal, or bloating? These are the types of questions to ask yourself after eating a meal to determine which foods to eat. Of course, in episode #2, I showed you a technique that can tap into your subconscious mind to ask questions about yourself. And what to eat is a great way to use this technique. You would be able to test for yourself which foods to eat. But I want to get beyond the diet, and being a student of energy medicine and energy healing, I look at things differently than a lot of other people. And really, this podcast isn't about what you should eat or shouldn't. I'll leave that to nutritional experts. I look at diet and eating from an energy standpoint and ask myself, is there anything I can do to my food to energize it for healing. Remember, you don't have to be sick to need healing. If you pay attention and keep healing each day, you hopefully won't ever get sick or at least not as much or as sever So is there something you can do to make your food more healthy? The answer I found is definitely yes! There are. Here's a little story. This is a true story. There was a shaman who was with a friend, and they were really hungry. The man didn't want to take his shaman friend to a burger joint, because he thought the shaman would think less of him eating a such an unhealthy place. But it was the only thing open and around at the time, so he said, Do you want a burger, thinking of all this heart attack food. The shaman said yes, it sounds good to him. So they go in, and the man said, "I'm surprise you eat this stuff. It's not good for you. Aren't you worried about the cheese and meat and bread?" The shaman said, not at all. He loves hot dogs and eats a chili dog every morning for breakfast. He said, it's not the food that is dangerous, It's what you think about the food that makes it vulnerable. He went on to explain that before he eats anything, he says I love you, I love you to his food. If there is anything I am bringing into this situation that would cause this food to be unhealthy, It's not the food; it's not even myself. It's something in my mind that is triggering this thought. And I let it go. Then he goes on to enjoy his food because now it is clean. When I read that many years ago, it really stuck with me. It changed the way I look at food. So then I started looking if there were other ways to make your food more healthy with energy. And I was amazed that there are things you can do with energy, which means you use your mind and life force to make your food better to eat. Granted, I'm not saying go and eat so unhealthy because you can change things with your mind. This guy was a shaman; he was experienced in mind control and energy healing. Wow, that would be great if our thoughts were that powerful too. But you know, they are. Unfortunately, here is the key. If you have a history of thinking things are one way, like hot dogs are bad for your health because you've been told that since you were young, it will be unhealthy for you. And it's not that easy undoing those beliefs. Those beliefs can be cemented into your subconscious mind. So you need to clean out that subconscious mind in its perception of food to change your relationship with your meals. And how do you clean out the subconscious mind, with repetition. The more you begin to change your thoughts about your food to a more positive image of it, the more you will squeeze out the bad images of your food in your subconscious mind. Eventually, your subconscious mind will be filled with healthy images of your food. And that brings me to my first point. Perception is reality. Your perception of food is so important, and the thoughts you project onto your food has a dramatic impact on the foods you eat. Your thoughts are powerful. Here is what I mean. When I eat a meal, I am not thinking about how terrible it is for me to the food. That would just project negative frequencies on to the food. From the moment you were born, your beliefs set the stage for the life ahead of you. Your beliefs get set from the things you hear around as you grow up. You were guided and instructed as to what to eat and this set the stage for your beliefs about food. I know its not fair that your past defines the healthiness of your food, but you can start to change that. You do this incrementally, with baby steps at first. So in a small way, you can treat every meal as if it is a gift. Don't keep thinking how unhealthy your food is. Think of the benefits of eating the food, the nourishing aspect of the food. Set intentions on your food to give you all the nourishment you need at that moment. Project good thoughts onto your food. Be thankful for your food. You know. In a symbolic and metaphoric sense, food is a gift from the heavens. Food is delicious. It's pleasurable. Food can make us feel good. Eating nourishing food, making nourishing food, feeding others, celebrating with others, if that's not love – then what is? Think of when a child is born, "love" to them is being held, the touch of their mother, the soothing voice of their mother, and the sucking of milk from their mother. Even if you fed from a bottle, you were still in your mother's arms feeling all that love. Babies ...
Transcribe →What Does The Healing Process Look Like?
Apr 30, 201800:24:21Tap to summarizeMost people don't think about their healing process much. But if you want to heal, there are certain things to consider that will help bring it on. In this podcast, I delve into that process and what exactly it looks like from a practical standpoint. Episode Notes: As a healer for more than 15 years, I have to admit, this is a frustrating subject for me! People say they want to be healed, but they don't even know what it looks like anymore. We have become so disconnected from ourselves, just following a life of distractions. Like mind-numbed robots living day by day distracted by technology, work, family, anything. People will say they want to be healed, but they think if they took ibuprofen for their headache, they're healed. But that's not true healing. In my quest to get myself and my daughter healthy many years ago, I learned from many intelligent people that our bodies have all it needs to heal from anything. People need to learn how to do it. You are a masterfully created being. You have everything you need within you for healing. You need to figure out how to tap into that inner healing power you possess to get the job done. And that is why I started this podcast. To get the word out that you can do it, you can heal. So I started with the previous episodes to help you begin to get in touch with your intuitive self and become aware of the energy inside you. We'll get more into that later on; I'll share with you some really cool things you can do. And I am going to be sharing with you in later podcasts things you can do all by yourself to help your healing along. But first, I want to let you know what true healing is. Because, as I said, I get frustrated. People have no patience for healing. So before we get to all the neat stuff, I want to give you my five pillars of healing. It's like setting the stage or laying the groundwork for healing. And the reason why I think it is necessary to do this is because energy healing is a bit different than what people are typically used to seeing. And unless you understand these pillars of healing, you may not appreciate the power energy healing has. So let's begin with my first pillar of healing. #1 - The first pillar is "Healing takes PATIENCE." I say this because everyone wants their healing done yesterday. I once had a woman who I was working with take a remedy from me and said, I can't wait, I'm going to take the medication the doctor gave me. This is taking too long. She told me this like three days after I gave her the remedy. And I'm thinking, really? Wow, you couldn't wait a few more days. Are you so ready to take those medications which can leave you with all kinds of side effects? I remember thinking, no worries, it's your life. I know I would want to heal, not be perpetually on meds all the time. But that's why they make vanilla and chocolate. To each his own. I wish people would want to truly heal, even if it takes a few weeks, a few months, or even a few years. Wouldn't getting healed be better. I love the word remission. Doctors say that a lot. You are in remission because they know they didn't heal you of anything, they just suppressed it until it surfaces again. So now you have to live life watching for this disease to rear it's ugly head again. I wouldn't want to constantly be watching over my shoulder for a disease. Everyone wants to be healed asap! When they get a headache, they take ibuprofen; when they get a rash, they take a steroid cream, constipated, they use a suppository. You get constipated and take a suppository, then you go. You're healed, right? I mean, come on. Really! Do you think that is healing? You may look like your healed because you went to the bathroom, your rash is gone, and your headache may be gone, but are you. Let's take steroids. You got the rash and put the steroid on, and the rash is gone. But according to the NIH, which is the government website, the steroid suppresses the inflammatory genes that are activated by the disease. In other words, the steroids suppress any inflammation that is going on. There is no healing taking place. Whatever caused the inflammation is still there. That's like saying, if there is a fire in your house, you can put it out by taking the battery out of your fire alarm. But not only that, you now have to ask yourself, if whatever was causing that rash in the first place is just being suppressed, where did it go. Think of it this way: Let's say you have two people outside at night enjoying themselves. Then the mosquitoes come and really start to bother them. The one person puts repellant on, and the mosquitoes quit bothering her. But did the mosquitoes go away? No, they will move to the next person and annoy them. So now that person has double the nuisance from the mosquitoes. That is what it is like with the steroids and most medications. There is no healing, it suppresses the inflammation, or suppresses the pain. It is really symptom based. So you might be asking, what's wrong with that. At least I don't feel bad. But there is a problem with that strategy. When you get a rash, let's say, then you can heal it right at its roots. If you suppress it, then whatever is causing the outbreak goes underground and can travel somewhere else in your body where it can wreak havoc there and continue to grow without you even knowing it. Let's take dandruff for instance. Something that may be a nuisance, but it is not serious. Right? Dandruff is usually caused by a fungus called Malassezia that lives on the scalp. This fungus feeds on the oils of the scalp and can dry it out if there is an overgrowth. But if you use shampoos and dandruff treatments that suppress the symptoms on the scalp, the reason why that fungus got out of control is still there. And that reason could produce other problems inside your body if left untreated. Would you want that fungal infection to go to your liver or kidneys? Or whatever the reason that fungus got out of control, let's say you are eating too many omega-6 fats, instead of the healthy fats, which is usually the reason for dandruff, then it will be problematic in another part of the body too. A different type of fungus might flourish and expand rapidly in another part of your body if you continue to keep eating so many omega-6s. At least on your scalp, you can see it and work to get rid of it. If it goes to an internal organ, you won't know it is there until one day you come down with a more serious condition or disease and wonder where it came from out of nowhere. But it didn't; it came from the fungal overgrowth that may have started from your scalp. See what I'm saying. Let's take ibuprofen or Advil. It works by decreasing the number and types of prostaglandins, which are just substances in your body that get produced when there is a need for inflammation. So if you sprained your ankle and your body needed to protect that area, it releases prostaglandins to signal your body to increase the inflammation. The ibuprofen did nothing to the actual healing of the ankle. It just reduced the signaling mechanism of the body. That's like saying, if you found a crack in the pipes in your house, it would get fixed quicker if you didn't tell anyone. Kept it a secret from the plumbers who could come and get the job done. That's sounds crazy doesn't it when you put it in those terms? You know, I joke about people like that woman, but really I am frustrated. Here's another example, If I tell someone that their body is calling for a supplement to help their situation or a diet change, they do whatever for a week and say, "That didn't work." Now what. Are you kidding me? If you are deficient in a nutrient, just supplementing for a week isn't going to do much. If you have a leak in the oil tank of your car, would putting some oil in each day for a week solve the problem. No. Until the leaky tank got fixed, you need to keep supplementing it with oil. Our bodies' are masterfully created machines! They know how to heal. It just takes time. You might have to supplement for a while, or maybe you need to make lifestyle changes, or detox for a while. But the reason it takes time to heal is because when you give your body what it needs, now it needs time to get the job done. If you were deficient in vitamin D let's say, well taking the vitamin D didn't solve the problem per se, the vitamin D allowed your body to do its job properly which includes healing. I can't tell you how many times I hear someone say they started to eat good but didn't see a change in their condition. They claim the diet didn't make a difference. But think about inside your body. Just because you quit feeding it garbage doesn't mean your body is in tip-top shape automatically. It probably took years to get to this condition. It's going to take a while to set your body straight and heal whatever is wrong inside. Your body only has so many resources within it to tap into for healing. If you are eating a complicated meal like lasagne, or a huge burger with greasy fries, it may have very little energy left over to do any healing. But if you give your body what it needs, it will do the healing; it just might not be immediate. If someone gave you supplies to clean your house, that doesn't mean you cleaned your house. You still have to take those supplies and do the cleaning. It is the same way with healing. Another problem with patience is that sometimes when people start healing, they get worse before they get better. This is called...
Transcribe →How To Use Your Life Force Energy For Healing
Apr 20, 201800:12:56Tap to summarizeIf every living thing has life force energy flowing through it all the time, then how can you use that energy for healing. In this episode, I'll show you the steps to harness the energy that flows through you and use it for healing. This is a basic technique used in energy medicine. You won't want to miss it. Episode Notes: Today I'm going to share with you how to use your life force energy for healing. In my last podcast, I showed you how to feel the energy within you and become more aware of your energy. And I also shared with you how you use your mind to concentrate and focus your thoughts to direct your energy. Were you able to do the exercises? Were you able to feel anything? How about quieting your mind? Were you able to do that? At first, we held a finger up and put our focus on it and felt the essence of energy around the finger. It was subtle, but it was there. It is there for everyone, so if you tried that experiment and didn't feel anything, then just keep trying. But remember, you must first quiet yourself without any distractions to work with your energy. If you're still having trouble feeling your energy after many attempts and first quieting yourself, then email me and maybe I can help. Now I want to show you how to use that energy you just harnessed for healing. But first, I want to tell you about a clever way I used my intuition, remember we learned how to do it in podcast #2, Learning to tap into your subconscious mind. It is also called the Sway Test. But basically, you ask a yes or no questions while in a mindful moment and see if you sway forward or backward. I use this technique all the time. However, I do it a little different. There is an infinite amount of ways to do it. The sway test is just one way, and it is one of the easiest ways, so people often learn this technique first. If you haven't learned how to do it, you can go back to episode #2 to learn how, because it is a real powerful technique. And here is how I used it outside of healing. You know, with energy healing, you learn to use your mind, your intuition because it is very powerful. They say, every answer to any question is already within you. You just have to learn how to get the information out. So I wanted to test this theory, and have a little fun doing it. I guess this is how I get my kicks each day! So one day I went to get a white shirt to wear, because I wear a lot of white, black, grey and brown. And I pulled out two white shirts but oh, no! They had stains on them. It was so frustrating because I tried many times to get those darn stains out, but no matter what I did, they were still there. I probably tried five separate times, but there was still a slight remnant of the stains right smack in the middle of the shirts. So I figured I would try one more time and use my intuition to guide me to a strategy that would work. If it didn't work, then I would throw the shirts out. But I hated throwing them out because I am not a big shopper and didn't' want to have to go out and get new ones. So this exercise was well worth it. So I used my intuition technique to see if there was anything more I could do. Here's how I did it. I asked if there was anything more I could do to get the stains out. I got the answer - YES! Okay, so I tested my intuition and said, would using bleach to get the stain out work? (I did this because I used bleach many times and the stain was still there. So if I was going to be told to use bleach, I would know this strategy wasn't working.) See how I test my intuition at times! So I got NO, using bleach wouldn't help. Okayyyyy, my trying to trick my intuition didn't work, that's good. So I asked if there was still another way to get the stains out. YES. Is it something in my laundry room? YES. Then I went thru the different detergents in the room and asked if the solution involved that product. I went to both the natural and synthetic products. When I got to the Oxyclean powder, I got a yes. So then I asked how to use it, just put it in the washing tub. NO. ( Which was good because I put Oxyclean in my wash many times and it didn't seem to get the stain out.) So after many questions, I finally got that I should make a paste with the powder and put it on the stain directly, and let it sit on the stain for a few minutes, then put it in the wash. Voila, the stains were gone. To me, that is a great way to use your intuition to make your life better. I guess this is healing my laundry! But it goes to show how powerful these techniques I am showing you are. We'll be getting in to many other ways to use energy healing techniques. But this one was interesting. So I thought I would share it. So now, on to using your energy for healing. In my last podcast, I showed you how to become aware of your energy by concentrating on your finger in front of you. If you haven't mastered that yet, or haven't been able to feel it, then keep trying. You'll get it because we all have the energy. If you want, you can go to my website and download the cheat sheet from Episode #4 to help you. After the finger exercise, I had you put your awareness on different parts of your body and then focus your thoughts, which is also your energy, to your hands. What I had you doing with those exercises is begin to use your mind to direct your energy. Your mind is very powerful; it has healing capability that we are only now beginning to understand and just touching the surface. But at the most basic level, you can direct your energy within you and point it on something with laser beam focus and use it for healing. Here are the steps to harnessing your energy for healing. STEP I: Feel Your Energy 1. Decide what you want to energize for healing. Do you want to heal a sore knee that is painful, or maybe your eyes are feeling tired and need healing, you can even heal one of your houseplants that has seen better days? It doesn't have to be a part of your body. It can be anything. 2. Sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor and eyes closed. 3. Ground Yourself. Remember always to ground yourself which includes quieting your mind and let all distractions drift away. Take 5 - 10 minutes and let your thoughts go, let them drift away. Try to think of nothing. Thump your chest three times and say "I love you." (Called thumping your thymus) This is not absolutely necessary, but helpful. STEP II: Let Your Energy Flow Imagine a flow of energy from the ground moving through your feet and into your legs, up through your body. Visualize it. The more you can visualize it, the more energy you will produce. Then imagine the energy moving through your legs, up your body to the top of your head. At the top of your head, imagine it going back down through your arms and out your hands. STEP III: Amplify Your Energy Keep imagining this while taking deep breaths. The deeper the breaths, the stronger the energy will become. Breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth. If you do this long enough, you might begin to feel a buzzing up your spine, or in your hands. It is a wild sensation if you amplify your energy plenty. STEP IV: Direct Your Energy Now put your hands on whatever object you want to heal, i.e., your knee. Keep it to something on your body at first so you can feel the energy. It makes it easier for you recognize the sensation and become aware of it if you can sense it. Then put your hands on either side of your knee and set them there, and relax them. It is important to stay relaxed, because your energy flows better when you are relaxed. If you tense up your hands, or your arms, the energy won't flow as easily. So keep them relaxed. As you imagine the energy from the ground, going through your body to the top of your head, and then back down through your arms out your hands, imagine it going into your knee. And keep this up for a good 15 minutes or as long as you can. The longer you can do this and imagine the energy going through your body and out your hands, the more energy you will produce. With the more energy you produce, the more powerful the healing energy will become. Then, to take it to the next level, and make it more useful, set an intention to your energy. If you have a sore knee, place an intention to let the soreness drift dissipate. If you are working on your eyes, set an intention that your eyes will relax and not be so tired as you put your hands on them while breathing. Your options for healing intentions are endless. Use yo...
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