Bead Lounge will host Spring Wellness fair

LONGMONT — Alternative spiritual healers will gather at the Bead Lounge in Longmont later this month for a Spring Wellness Holistic Fair.

The event is intended to help participants achieve “wellness of body, mind and spirit,” said Christina Morales, a Louisville transpersonal hypnotherapist who is coordinating this year’s fair.

“It’s really getting in touch with who you are — who you really are — and not all the stories we tell ourselves or the community and people around us tell us we are,” she said. “It’s really connecting with who you are, your authentic being, connecting to your heart, what gives you meaning.”

Bead Lounge owner Janis Holler opens her downtown beading supplies store to metaphysical events year-round. She hosted a similar holistic fair last spring.

“I’ve come to appreciate the folks that do this, even though I’m skeptical to a certain extent,” she said. “My goal when I bought this store (in September 2008) was to make the Bead Lounge into kind of a mecca for creativity and extend that not just to beadwork, but to all kinds of creativity. And the metaphysical seemed to fit into that.”

The Bead Lounge has hosted crystal healing therapy classes, tarot card sessions and presentations from life coaches, Native American singer-songwriters and alternative therapy authors. In summer 2008, Sufi saint Maulana Zainulabedin Kazmi spoke at the store.

“We’re always on the lookout for different things than you would normally find in Longmont,” Holler said.

This year’s fair on April 24 will feature 10 practitioners who will offer tarot card readings, emotional release work and spiritual healing, Morales said. Admission is free, but practitioners may charge for services, she said. Read on......................................

Meditation

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In the final series of BBC TWO's recently aired programme, Alternative Therapies, professor Kathy Sykes explores MEDITATION

I personally found the complete series interesting but also rather frustrating. I guess that's due to the basic structure of this series being based on a scientific approach to alternative therapies!

Why watch it you may ask? purely to establish whether the general scientific approach to this subject has changed now we have entered the 21st century

I understand the problems conveying any viewpoint, in particular the problems concerned with filming and editing so my comments are made from being aware of the usual constraints imposed on any programme maker, i.e. entertainment value etc. etc.

What I am amazed at is the lack of sound premises used by any scientific professional. Apparantly if any subject is to be studied by a scientist then they have to develop controlled tests, measure the outcome and then produce numerous papers on the results. Scientifically accurate premises I imagine but oh so STUPID!
I am questioning the general methods used today in the 21st century. During Ms Sykes travels in the pursuit of knowledge she met Buddhists monks who practice meditation, met doctors who use this alternative method of relaxation in their treatment programmes, and by the way have measured the results!! and met a community who base their complete lifestyle on Transcendental Meditation. She was actually personally involved in one experiment that measured her physical reaction to a period of meditation and the results were that the meditation period had extreme positive effects on her physical being
Move forward to the summation of the programme and she still has doubts about the whole practice and process involved because she could not find enough written reports to support what she had experienced first hand- come on Kathy - WAKE UP!
If all scientists are as completely closed off as Kathy then no wonder science has not caught up with the millions of human beings who have being practicing alternative therapies of one kind or another since time began. The only method of "testing" that these individuals have used is by THE RESULTS
If alternative practices work then why question them? I realise we are not now living in the "dark ages" and we are all conditioned to live in a perpetual state of extreme gratitude for the "enlightenment period" but why waste precious time and money critically analising systems when we have the choice to use them or not

I imagine the scientific community sleep well at night having duped themselves and the masses into believing that prescription drugs are completely safe and acceptable and of course I'd be a complete idiot to believe that this rigorous system of testing is not required
All I'm saying is that there have been many drugs over time that have been labelled as safe that have later been labelled as dangerous. What one can say about alternative therapies is that they cannot be dangerous!

Further reading : The programme
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