TSM 17-51 The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences

Their Stroy Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Dr. Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh, on air from December 19th

Dr Penny Sartori (Near-Death Experience expert and academic), and NDE experiencer Kelly Walsh share in this interview about their unique double perspectives on NDEs in their groundbreaking new book: The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences: How the Messages of NDEs Positively Impact the World.

Penny and Kelly have brought together powerful stories from people from around the world, and across a vast range of backgrounds, all of whom have had their lives transformed for the better in some way after their NDEs, including Kelly herself. After years of trauma, Kelly tried to take her own life in 2009. She then had a near-death experience in which she felt divine love and connection, and heard the words ‘like-minded souls will collaborate to change the world’. This showed her how valuable her life is and how much she can do to benefit the world. Since then, she has been devoted to positivity and to helping children in need, most notably through her charity she founded (where all profits from the book will be donated). 

This book brings together the best elements of questions about consciousness, life after death, and the cracks in our health and mental health care systems, alongside the personal, powerful, and ultimately positive real-life stories of ordinary people and their extraordinary experiences. 

As a society, we are all taught to fear death, yet for those who have touched it, and returned to tell the tale, the message they’ve brought back is drastically different. Unconditional love, divine understanding, and true universal connection await us on the other side. We can all benefit from this message, without nearly having to die first; all we have to do is listen to what those who have had an NDE are trying to convey.
NDEs are often transformative, not only on an individual level, but on a collective level too. In The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences, NDE expert Dr. Penny Sartori and near death experiencer Kelly Walsh brings together a selection of inspiring stories from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences. These have changed the course of their lives, empowered them to be their true selves, and show each and every one of them the power of love and acceptance.
The contributors range in their ages, backgrounds, beliefs, creeds, and careers, yet what ties them together is the remarkable metamorphoses in their lives after their NDEs. Some struggled to integrate back into regular life, and repressed their NDEs, whereas others felt so much love and joy during their NDEs that they actively wanted to experience another. Some had their marriages dissolve as their partners couldn’t understand what they had been through, and others found their soulmates having been empowered to finally believe that they deserve love. From
setting up support groups for other NDEers, to founding charities and programmes across the world, the unconditional love and interconnectedness experienced by all these people has led to them putting more positivity into the world.
Drawing extensively on her career as an intensive care nurse and on the results of her doctoral research into NDEs, Dr. Sartori examines the NDEs from an academic perspective, whilst Kelly Walsh draws on the knowledge of her own NDE from a spiritual perspective, offering a balanced viewpoint on this phenomenon. With their combined wisdom we learn about NDEs, and from them. With forewords by Dr. Mick Collins and Neale Donald Walsch, and contributions from esteemed medical professionals such as Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD, this book offers expert insight and credibility, alongside the heart-warming accounts by people from all walks of life who experienced life transformations after their NDEs.
The book describes how NDEs have helped some contributors overcome suicidal feelings, has led another to come to terms with their transgender identity, and it reveals the inadequacy of our health system that can wrongly perceive NDEs as mental health problems. While recent years have seen a dramatic change of attitude towards NDEs, they are still widely misunderstood, understudied, and not adequately acknowledged. This is a huge detriment, to those
who don’t receive proper support, and to the wider world, who are missing out on their beautiful messages of peace, love, and respect; Everyone is interconnected, and nobody has to fear death.
This book is crucial in transforming the way we perceive NDEs, consciousness, life after death, palliative care, a more compassionate healthcare system, and our universal human connection. It inspires people of all cultures and faiths to see how the love experienced during an NDE has the capacity to heal minds, bodies, and souls.


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Dr Penny Sartori PhD, RGN is an expert in NDEs,
having been an intensive care nurse for 17 years and having undertaken the UK’s first long-term prospective study on them, for which she was awarded a PhD. She wrote the bestseller The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (2014),
which was serialised in the Daily Mail, as well as What is A Near-Death Experience? She has had her work featured, and been interviewed, across national and international press and radio. She lectures across the world, and currently teaches at
Swansea University.

Kelly Walsh is the founder of the Positivity Power
Movement and Love Care Share charitable foundation.
Her life’s work has been inspired by an NDE she had in 2009 following a suicide attempt, and subsequent spiritual experiences she has had since. The words she shouted out following her experience- ‘like-minded souls would collaborate to change the world’- have been the driving force for the creation of this book and the work she now does. Her experience also inspired her to create a children’s character, Positivity Princess from Planet Positavia, who is on a mission to create a
more loving, caring, sharing world. The royalties from The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences will go towards supporting projects aimed at making a positive difference in children’s lives through the work of their charitable foundation.

Penny: http://www.drpennysartori.com/index.html

Kelly: http://www.kellymichellewalsh.com

This book was co- written with Dr Penny Sartori in collaboration with twenty-two other contributors from around the world is available to buy from AMAZONBARNES AND NOBLE, WHSMITHSTHE BOOK DEPOSITORY, WATERSTONES.

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TBT 17-50 Neo and LauraBeth on Never Giving Up

“Thoughts Become Things: International”  with Neomaya Davila aka Neo Positivity and his guest LauraBeth Ryan, on air from December 12th

 Overcoming our biggest pain and despair with the right thoughts and the love of God. Join Neo and LauraBeth as she shares her amazing journey of recovery and trust in life and God and in her self-recovery.
LauraBeth Ryan is the owner of Cheerful Hearts where their motto is “A Cheerful Heart is Good Medicine”  She knows well the adversities life can present and has overcome tremendous hurdles to get where she is today.  A mother to four sons, at the age of 28 she became debilitated due to a spinal injury which left her bedridden for over ten years.

Perseverance, pressing firmly into her faith and finding purpose through the pain propelled her to create a company that inspires, encourages, empowers and educates!  She does this through her speciality greeting card and gift line with words that speak to the soul!  As a Transformational Life Coach, supporting those who are feeling stuck, stressed out, unfulfilled, lacking joy and who want to succeed with exponential results in both business and life!  And as a speaker she shares her story that powerfully impacts her audience to overcome any obstacle that they face, leaving them with a sense of possibility and a knowing that they, too, can go out and live their own inspired life!


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Lemons have so many natural cures.

The majority of you are familiar with the traditional uses of lemon, and use it to alleviate a sore throat, or to give a specific flavour to meals. However, the diversity of lemon’s favourable properties far exceeds general knowledge. After reading them all, you will never leave your kitchen without a few lemons.

  1. High Blood Pressure

The potassium in lemon controls high blood pressure and reduces the effect of nausea and dizziness.

  1. Refresh Cutting Boards

Normally, you use it to chop onions, crush garlic, and prepare fish, so your cutting board has intense smell. To get rid of the smell and help sanitize it, rub it all over with the cut side of half a lemon or wash it in undiluted juice straight from the bottle.

  1. Make a Room Scent/Humidifier

Make your own room scent that also doubles as a humidifier and freshen and moisturize the air in your home on dry winter days.

If you have a wood-burning stove, place an enamelled cast-iron pot or bowl on top, fill it with water, and add lemon peels, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and apple skins. If you do not possess a stove of this kind, use your stovetop instead and just simmer the water periodically.

  1. Remove Fridge Smell

Lemon can help you remove refrigerator odours with ease. Dab lemon juice on a cotton ball or sponge and leave it in the fridge for several hours. Make sure to get rid of any malodorous items that might be causing the bad smell.

  1. Clean and Whiten Nails

Add the juice of 1/2 lemon to 1 cup warm water and soak your fingertips in the mixture for 5 minutes. After pushing back the cuticles, rub some lemon peel back and forth against the nail.

  1. Respiratory Problems

Lemon is beneficial in cases of asthma, can also help you breathe properly and can reduce phlegm.

  1. Replace Your Dry Cleaner

This homegrown trick can help you ditch the expensive dry-cleaning bills (and harsh chemicals). Simply scrub the stained area on shirts and blouses with equal parts lemon juice and water.

  1. Boost Laundry Detergent

Lemon will turn out your clothes brighter and will also make them smelling lemon-fresh. For more powerful cleaning action, pour 1 cup lemon juice into the washer during the wash cycle. The natural bleaching action of the juice will zap stains and remove rust and mineral discolorations from cotton T-shirts and briefs and will leave your clothes smelling fresh.

  1. Prevents Kidney Stones

Regular consumption of the refreshing drink, or even lemon juice mixed with water, may increase the production of urinary citrate. It is a chemical in the urine that prevents the formation of crystals that may build up into kidney stones.

  1. Keep Insects Out of the Kitchen

The lemon treatment can substitute insecticides or ant traps to ant-proof your kitchen. Initially squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills. Then, squeeze lemon juice into any holes or cracks where the ants are getting in.

Finally, scatter small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor entrance. This will send a message to ants that they are not welcome. Lemons are also effective against roaches and fleas: Simply mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 2 litres water and wash your floors with it; then watch the fleas and roaches flee.

  1. Treating Arthritis and Rheumatism

Another remarkable property of lemon is that it can act as a diuretic, for it assists in the production of urine. This helps you to reduce inflammation by flushing out toxins and bacteria while also giving you relief from arthritis and rheumatism.

  1. Anti-Aging

Lemon water is calorie free and an antioxidant. Lemon water reduces the production of free radicals which are responsible for ageing skin and skin damage.

  1. Deodorize a Humidifier

When smelling funky, deodorize you humidifier with ease: Just pour 3 or 4 teaspoons lemon juice into the water. It will not only remove the off odour but will replace it with a lemon-fresh fragrance. This procedure can be repeated every couple of weeks to keep the odour away.

  1. Reduce Asthma Symptoms

2 tablespoons of lemon juice before each meal, and before retiring, in addition to a general detoxifying diet, can reduce asthma symptoms.

  1. Treat Infections

Lemon water can fight throat infections thanks to its antibacterial property. Try lime and water for gargling.

  1. Deodorize Your Garbage Can

If your garbage is beginning to smell yucky, here’s an easy way to deodorize it: Save leftover lemon and orange peels and toss them at the base under the bag. For gaining a fresh effect, repeat once every couple of weeks.

  1. Purges Blood

Daily consumption of lemon water helps to purify the blood. We consume a lot of junk food or food with a lot of preservatives and artificial flavours, which builds up a lot of toxins in the blood and body, so this purification is really important.

  1. Keep Guacamole Green

The solution for the guacamole turned brown on top can be easy using lemon: Sprinkle a liberal amount of fresh lemon juice over it and it will stay fresh and green. The flavour of the lemon juice is a natural complement to the avocados in the guacamole. I squeeze some lemon juice onto the apple slices, they’ll stay snowy white, which will help you make the fruit salad hours in advance.

  1. Wash with Fruits and Vegetables

To wash your groceries from pesticides or dirt which may be lurking on the skin, slice your lemon and squeeze out one tablespoon of lemon juice into your spray bottle. The lemon juice is a natural disinfectant and will leave your fruits and vegetables smelling nice too.

  1. Make Soggy Lettuce Crisp

With the help of a little lemon juice, you can toss the soggy lettuce in a salad. Add the juice of half a lemon to a bowl of cold water. Then put the soggy lettuce in it and refrigerate for 1 hour. Dry the leaves completely before putting them into salads or sandwiches.

  1. Oral Health

Lemon juice also stops bleeding gums and reduces toothaches.

  1. Vaginal Hygiene

Preserve your vaginal health using lemon juice. Diluted lemon juice makes a safe and sane method of vaginal hygiene. Though it is a powerful antiseptic it is nevertheless free from irritating drugs in bought products for this aim.

  1. Forget Moth Balls

Learn a popular French custom to keep closets free from moths.  Take ripe lemons and stick them with cloves all over the skin. The heavily studded lemons slowly dry with their cloves, leaving an excellent odour.

  1. Age Spots Lightening

Lemon juice is a safe and effective skin-lightening agent. To lighten liver spots or freckles, try applying lemon juice directly to the area. Let it sit for 15 minutes and then rinse.

  1. Stomach Health

Digestive problems are the most common ailments but warm water and lime juice is the solution to most digestive problems. Lemon juice helps to purify the blood, reduces your chances of indigestion, constipation, eliminates toxins from the body, aids digestion and reduces phlegm.

  1. Remove Warts

Next time you try to banish warts, apply a dab of lemon juice directly to the wart using a cotton swab. Repeat for several days until the acids in the lemon juice dissolve the wart completely.

  1. Create Blonde Highlights

For salon-worthy highlights, add 1/4 cup lemon juice to 3/4 cup water and rinse your hair with the mixture. Then, sit in the sun until your hair dries. For optimal results, repeat once daily for up to a week.

  1. Cleanse Your Face

Lemon water is a cooling agent, it represents the best way to beat the heat. You can also wash your face with lemon juice for a natural cleanse and exfoliation. Zap zits naturally by dabbing lemon juice on blackheads to draw them out during the day. Your skin should improve after several days of treatment.

  1. Flaky Dandruff Treatment

Just massage two tablespoons lemon juice into your scalp and rinse with water. Then stir one teaspoon lemon juice into one cup water and rinse your hair with it. This procedure is repeated on a daily basis.

  1. Freshen Your Breath

The citric acid in the juice alters the pH level in your mouth, killing bacteria that cause bad breath. Wash your mouth by rinsing with lemon juice straight from the bottle. Swallow for longer-lasting fresh breath. Long-term exposure to the acid in lemons can harm tooth enamel, so rinse after a few minutes.

  1. Eliminate Tough Stains on Marble

Marble is really petrified calcium, also known as old seashells. That is the reason why it is so porous and easily stained and damaged. Those stains can be hard to remove. For this purpose, try the following method: Cut a lemon in half, dip the exposed flesh into some table salt, and rub it vigorously on the stain. Acid can damage marble, so do this after you have tried different options only. Rinse well.

  1. Remove Berry Stains

Berry juice stains on the fingers won’t come off no matter how much you scrub with soap and water. Try washing your hands with undiluted lemon juice, then wait a few minutes and wash with warm, soapy water. Repeat until they are completely away.

  1. Chills and Fevers

Spanish physicians regard lemon as an infallible friend. Chills and fevers may be due to a variety of causes, but lemon is always a helpful remedy.

  1. Prevent Cauliflower From Turning Brown

You can make sure the white vegetables stay white by squeezing a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice on them before heating.

  1. Mental Health

Lemon water can also keep you in a good mood and relieve you from depression and stress. Explorers, walkers and long distance walkers are extremely grateful for lemon and its benefits. When fatigue begins, a lemon is sucked through a hole in the top. It gives almost unbelievable refreshments.

  1. Make Your Dry, Scaly Elbows Soft

Itchy elbows give a bad feeling and look terrible. For better-looking elbows, mix baking soda and lemon juice to make an abrasive paste, then rub it into your elbows for a soothing, smoothing, and exfoliating treatment. Rinse with a mixture with a 1:1 lemon juice and water ratio. Afterwards, massage with olive oil and dab dry with a soft cloth.

  1. Headaches

For those who suffer from hangover headaches–and from headaches due to many other causes, lemon juice with a few teaspoons of hot tea added is the treatment which makes miracles. A sophisticated New York bartender converts his customers to this regime and weans them away from drug remedies completely.

  1. Diphtheria

Lemon juice is one of the most powerful antiseptics and the strong digestive qualities of lemon are admired around the world. Every hour or two, and at the same time, 1/2 to 1 tablespoons should be swallowed. This routine cuts loose the false membrane in the throat and permits it to come out.

  1. Soothe Poison Ivy Rash

You won’t need an ocean of calamine lotion the next time you experience poison ivy rash. Simply apply lemon juice directly to the affected area to soothe itching and alleviate the rash.

  1. Clean Tarnished Brass and Polish Chrome

Get rid of tarnish on brass, copper, or stainless steel using a paste of lemon juice and salt (or substitute baking soda or cream of tartar for the salt). Coat the affected area with it. Let it stay on for 5 minutes. Then wash in warm water, rinse, and polish dry.

Use the same mixture to clean metal kitchen sinks too. Apply the paste, scrub gently, and rinse. Get rid of mineral deposits and polish chrome faucets and other tarnished chrome. Simply rub lemon rind over the chrome and watch it shine! Rinse well and dry with a soft cloth.

  1. Rid Clothes of Mildew

Have you ever unpacked clothes you stored all winter and discovered some are stained with mildew? To get rid of it, make a paste of lemon juice and salt and rub it on the affected area, then dry the clothes in sunlight. Repeat the process until the stain is gone.

  1. Bleach Delicate Fabrics

Soak your delicates in a mixture of lemon juice and baking soda for at least half an hour before washing. Avoid additional bleach stains by swapping ordinary household chlorine bleach with lemon juice. This mixture is milder but no less effective.

  1. Disinfect Cuts and Scrapes

Pour a few drops of lemon juice directly on the cut to stop bleeding and disinfect minor cuts and scrapes. You can also apply the juice with a cotton ball and hold firmly in place for one minute.

  1. Eliminate Fireplace Odor

Simply burn some lemon peels along with your firewood as a preventive measure, or next time you have a fire that sends a stench into the room, try throwing a few lemon peels into the flames

  1. Neutralize Odor in Cat- Box

Just cut a couple of lemons in half and place them, cut side up, in a dish in the room, and the air will soon smell lemon-fresh. You don’t have to use an aerosol spray to neutralize foul-smelling cat-box odours or to freshen the air in your bathroom anymore.

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C17-50 “The Forever Letter” with Elana Zaiman

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Elana Zaiman, on air from December 12th

Elana Zaiman (1)I believe that we each want to better understand ourselves; make ourselves known to the people who matter to us most; deepen our relationships, and heal what may be broken between us.

                                        We can do this by writing Forever Letters.

Forever Letters share our values and wisdom; asks for forgiveness and offers forgiveness; expresses our gratitude and love. They are transformative, taking us to our ultimate truth, our authentic self. They enable us to live with the intention of being our best self. They are a gift of support and connection.

You can write to your parents, children, siblings, other family members, friends, colleagues, teachers, students, mentors … anyone who matters to you.


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My Path to Becoming a Rabbi and a Writer

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island in a family of six: my mom and dad, me, my sister, Sarina, and my two brothers Ari and Rafi. All I knew growing up was that women could not be rabbis, at least not in the Orthodox synagogue where my grandfather served as the rabbi, not at the Orthodox elementary school I attended and not in the traditional Conservative synagogue where I belonged, and where my father was the rabbi.

History records the first woman rabbi to be Regina Jonas of East Berlin, Germany who was ordained in 1935. In 1972, when I was 10, Sally Priesand became the first woman rabbi ordained in America’s Reform movement. l knew nothing about these women until much later in my life, and though I had no childhood aspiration to become a rabbi, I did imitate my father on the rare Sabbath mornings I did not go to synagogue. I convened a congregation of my stuffed animals. I sat them in a circle on my bedroom floor, placed prayer books in front of their faces, kippot on some of their heads, and I became both rabbi and cantor, leading services, chanting traditional melodies, announcing pages and, I believe, delivering an occasional sermon

My mission in my work, writing, and life is to bring people together; to enable all people (especially children, elders, and those who feel marginalized in our society) to be heard; to guide people to find meaning in their lives and to live into this meaning; to question the wrongs we encounter and to have the courage to change them; to do our best to right the wrongs we ourselves create; and to appreciate how each one of us is a precious and necessary gift that contributes to the larger whole of our world.

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WJ 17-49 Pursuing an EXTRAordinary Life In Mid-Life-

The Wellness Journey with Lynnis Woods-Mullins and her guest Clifton West, on air from December 5th.

 Getting Our Groove Back and Finishing Strong

 

clintClifton West has led an extraordinary life disguised as an ordinary man.  Life has afforded him a wonderful childhood, an exciting world-class track career that put him on the path to the Olympics, a successful and thriving business and the opportunity to travel throughout the world.   One would think that all of this success would change a person, perhaps cause them to feel that they are somehow “better” than others.  For Clifton West that could not be further from the truth.

In his book “Of Life and Time” Clifton West chronicles his life and what was going on in the world during these times.  A child of the late fifties, a teenager of the 60’s and a young adult of the 70’s, Clifton’s book is rich with memories of those times and the lessons learned while growing up.  He shares with how he came to learn that a life rich in love and peace is much more precious than attaining worldly success.  Clifton’s book shares the soul-substance of an extraordinary life lived by an ordinary person. It attempts to provide a personal yet inclusive testimony of a spiritual journey that has brought him to discover his true life’s purpose.  Clifton describes how this living and breathing phenomenon called ‘life’ moving within this ever-advancing entity called ‘time’ provides for us all a profound introduction to our life’s purpose.

Through an improbable labyrinth of incredible experiences, Clifton has gained much wisdom and he shares that wisdom in his book.  Clifton’s consistent message is that it’s not so much about his life’s achievements or the riveting anecdotes he shares, but what he learned along the way that has brought him a strong sense of clarity and purpose.

Clifton with us these key learnings and how he wants to encourage others to be encouraged, to stay engaged, continue to show up in our lives and pursue our lives purpose to finish strong!


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Clifton West attended and graduated from UC Berkeley. In 1972 he made it to the 24740595_10210719164636260_590741527_nOlympic Trials. After graduating from UC Berkeley, he embarked on a business career, first at IBM and then, in 1976, he became one of the first black owners of a computer software firm. He later restarted his running career, this time as a sprinter – almost unheard of in track, a miler turned 100- and 200-meter specialist – and made the 1977 U.S. 4×400-meter relay team that competed on the world track circuit. He also coached track at Cal, MIT and, for a spell, Sacramento’s Christian Brothers High School. The author is Clifton L. West III, the firstborn of Clifton L. West, Jr. and Irene Bias West. He is the older brother to Dr Cornel R. West, Cynthia R. West-McDaniel, and Cheryl L. West. He is the father of two children (Erika Lynn and Cornel Jamine), stepfather to one child (Brianna Denise), grandfather to four children (Deja Marie, Roni Rachel, Cadence and Corrin), and great-grandfather to two children (Kaden Kameron) and the husband to Leticia Leonor Mendez.

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