tag:ipmnation.com,2005:/blogs/dr-kevinDr. Kevin2019-03-18T01:45:45-04:00ipmNation.comfalsetag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/56839092019-03-18T01:45:45-04:002019-03-18T01:45:45-04:00Ghosts: Myth and Reality<p>By Dr. Kevin</p>
<p>Ghosts - Myth and Reality</p>
<p>For years, death has been looked upon as either the last stop or the transition to some sort of afterlife. In more cases than not, the latter holds true. From those working as healers over the last thirty years, however, one thing has become abundantly clear: the truth is not always so well defined. Sometimes those who have died become trapped and need to be healed, healed so they may move to the other side, so they may examine their old life and so they may begin their planning for a new one. We call these trapped souls "ghosts." </p>
<p>Those of us who work as healers often receive calls to perform ghost clearings. Over the years, separately and as partners, the souls we have helped move to the other side number in the hundreds. During these experiences, many unfortunate thought patterns on the subject of ghosts have come to our attention. Ghosts have gotten a particularly bad reputation over the last 50-75 years. Between Hollywood and television, ghosts have been portrayed as ill-tempered, spiteful, vindictive, and generally "not very nice." The last few years have seen a limited number of more positive incidences from Hollywood, but the prevailing picture remains a negative one. To help heal this unfortunate imbalance, we would like to address a few of the more pervasive negative myths about ghosts: </p>
<p>MYTH: Ghosts are carrying out a grudge and are trying to be scary and vengeful. </p>
<p>TRUTH: Ghosts, for the most part, are disoriented and do not know why they are trapped. They manifest confusion in their behavior because they do not understand how to pass out of this reality to the other side. The trapped soul will see time going by but not truly comprehend the changes. Like being stuck behind a glass wall, they will watch the world go by without the power to interact with that world. </p>
<p>MYTH: Ghosts will harm you. </p>
<p>TRUTH: Ghosts want to get your attention, not harm you. They are trying to give you clues that they exist in the hopes that you might notice them and help them escape their limbo state. Often, they will attempt to reveal or replay the events that trapped them. The ghost generally has no self-interest in harming you. In our experience, a very few isolated spirits have harmful intent, but the percentage is negligible. </p>
<p>MYTH: Ghosts are evil. </p>
<p>TRUTH: There are things that carry a great deal of negative or darker energy in this world - many embodied (particularly during an election year) and others not embodied. These are not ghosts but energy patterns. You do not exorcize ghosts, you release them. Remember energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If a great deal of negative energy repeatedly patterns in a specific location, you may pick up on that negativity. Similar energies will be drawn together. If a person has a great deal of personal negativity, they may draw upon similar negative energies in a geographic location. This attraction may manifest in physical patterns such as the movement of objects, but these are not ghosts. An exorcism releases energy patterns. A ghost clearing releases actual trapped souls. </p>
<p>MYTH: Only those that believe in ghosts will see them. </p>
<p>TRUTH: Being able to detect the presence of ghosts is like tuning to the right radio station by finding the correct frequency. Some people are more sensitive than others at picking up these frequencies. Children, because of their general willingness to be open, traverse through many different frequencies, and are much more likely to pick them up. Mildly sensitive people who do not believe in spirits will often ignore repeated attempts to contact them, treating unexplained incidents as imagination or another equally "rational" explanation. In one class, we asked if anyone had lived in a haunted house. When a 13 year old girl raised a hand, her mother looked startled. Their previous house had been haunted and all the things the daughter pointed out were things the mother remembered but had just rationalized away. In retrospect, the mother agreed that they had lived in a haunted house. She realized she had seen all the evidence of the ghost but at the time simply did not want to believe that ghosts existed. </p>
<p>MYTH: Ghosts have been dead for a long time, they are not the newly dead. </p>
<p>TRUTH: There have been an increasing number of ghost healings that I have had to do over the last ten years that involve souls that died in an altered enough state, often times overdoses) that don’t even know that there dead. That have been stuck in their high or are trapped within the trip that killed them. And until they can not, only be brought into awareness of their own death, but crossed over they are stuck and can not continue on their souls journey. </p>
<p>MYTH: Sprinkle some holy water or burn a little sage and all will be well. </p>
<p>TRUTH: You may detach a ghost from a place that it is “haunting” and send it out into the world but you have not crossed it over without communications and understandings of why the ghost is trapped. And often times in dealing with a ghost there is almost a childlike or mentality compromised state that they are traveling in, so before you send them out wandering- disconnecting them from all that they recognize or do know- ask yourself if this were a small child would you throw them out on the street to fend for themselves or would you help them to get “home”? </p>
<p>Many fallacies and myths exist about the nature of ghosts, some that we have covered here. Do not believe all the stereotypes. If a ghost is drawn to communicate with you it may be because you shared the lifetime within which that spirit became trapped. You passed on and reincarnated, but they did not. Whatever the case, remember that ghosts are merely souls that are trapped on this side. They need our love, support and healing so that they can look to the other side and travel to the light.</p>
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<p><span class="font_regular">Best Selling Author, International Speaker and popular radio & TV show host, Dr. Kevin has been using his psychic gifts and talents to empower people, worldwide, through his teaching, work as a Spiritual Coach, counselor & catalyst, healer, mentor and spiritual advisor and consultant. After doing psychic/intuitive/ healing work for over 40 years he had joined up with Spectrali to create Spectrali.US (www.spectrali.us )and online holistic spiritual community connecting Spiritual practitioners and seekers worldwide! Join Dr. Kevin on his weekly live call-in radio show every Thursday night, 6 PM EST : "The Dr. Kevin Show" @ i<a contents="pmNation.com/live2" data-link-label="live2" data-link-type="page" href="/live2" target="_blank">pmNation.com/live2</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Learn more about Dr. Kevin at <a contents="MyDrKevin.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://MyDrKevin.com" target="_blank">MyDrKevin.com</a> or <a contents="WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">WebOfLight.com</a>. Contact Dr. Kevin at <a contents="DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">DrKevin@WebOfLight.com</a>. </span></p>
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<p>Since I began doing professional psychic work in the 70’s, this is a question, in some form or variation, that I have been asked countless times…”Why see a psychic because…” </p>
<p>They might tell me bad things? <br>If they are really psychic then I can’t change it anyways so why bother? <br>My religion tells me it’s bad or wrong? <br>How will I know what they tell is the truth? <br>What if they tell me something bad, how do I know that I didn’t just make it happen because they told me so? <br>Psychic abilities don’t exist? <br>I don’t want to give my power away? </p>
<p>So, let’s look at my responses (more or less because there is always a little intuitive flair going on in any interaction of this kind) </p>
<p>First and foremost the future is not in granite, if it were then it would mean there is no free will. So if I looked at the most likely scenario as to what was going to happen in an area of your life, and it was something that you didn’t want to have happen, and there were things that you could do to shift and change it, why would you not want to know so that you could? Perchance (yes I do use that word in conversation) it is something that involves someone around you and you don’t have the ability to shift it, and it were bad, wouldn’t you like to have the opportunity to be better prepared for it? Just as if something good were happening on the periphery of your awareness and that something good could become something great, if you were made aware of it, why wouldn’t you want that additional insight? </p>
<p>If your religion is the issue know that whatever religion it is, it has some reference to psychic gifts as being gifts from God. In the religious framework they often don’t want those gifts to be recognized unless the church has control over the messenger and the message and the ability to edit or shift to always be in alignment with church teachings- it’s a power and control thing when you think about it. In religious language they are called charisms. Let’s look at a few. </p>
<p>The Charism of Knowledge empowers a Christian to be a channel of God's truth through diligent study and intellectual activity that enables us to better understand God, ourselves, and the universe. </p>
<p>The Charism of Healing empowers a Christian to be a channel of God's love through whom God cures illness and restores health when healing is unlikely to occur quickly or to happen at all. </p>
<p>The Charism of Prophecy empowers a Christian to be a channel of divine truth and wisdom by communicating a word or call of God to individuals or a group through inspired words or actions. </p>
<p>The Charism of Wisdom empowers a Christian to be a channel of God's goodness through remarkable insight that enables him or her to come up with creative solutions to specific problems and make good decisions. </p>
<p>The Charism of Writing empowers a Christian to be a channel of God's creativity by using words to create works of truth or beauty that reflect the fullness of human experience and bring glory to God. </p>
<p>I choose these because these all relate to psychic gifts ( still gifts from God) that I have been teaching globally, for almost 30 years, in my Psychic development courses. </p>
<p>The more you have developed your own psychic abilities and will listen to your own inner guidance the more you will recognize true messages being delivered to you and you’ll know what resonates. </p>
<p>Every major religion supports gifts that could be easily classified as psychic abilities. Science studies them, even governments have invested monies into how to better develop and control them. Anyone who spends five minutes researching will find too much evidence to not support their existence. In that same five minutes you can also find any number of abuses, scams and disreputable behaviors that have the label psychic involved. Sometimes people are just scam artists other times they are moderately to even very psychic and know how to capitalize off of it. Psychic is an energy, which is neither positive or negative, it just is. It’s who is using the gift that decides whether it’s being used for the good or for bad. </p>
<p>As far as giving your power away; never give your power away. Not to your doctor, not to your minister, priest or rabbi, not to your religion, your government, your parents, your children or your friends. Don’t give your power away to your psychic, your astrologer or your therapist. Don’t give your power away to what you see on the internet, watch on TV or read in a magazine. Use all these things as more information with which to make better decisions. Develop your own psychic abilities so they can guide you to see what good solid input is, advice and thought process and what is simply a load of crap. </p>
<p>We all have psychic abilities, we can all develop those psychic abilities and we can all use them, whether it is from our own to someone else’s, to have a better, more empowered and happier life. </p>
<p>So, in conclusion, getting insight through a psychic lens, just gives you more information, with which, to make better decisions. No different than getting information from a doctor, lawyer, engineer, priest, rabbi, or minister- even your spouse! And I would hope in getting those pieces of information that not only would you not have given your power away to an authority figure (yes, some people see psychic healers and teachers as authority figures) but that you would have done your due diligence. And above all else learn to trust your own intuitive.</p>
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<p><span class="font_regular">Best Selling Author, International Speaker and popular radio & TV show host, Dr. Kevin has been using his psychic gifts and talents to empower people, worldwide, through his teaching, work as a Spiritual Coach, counselor & catalyst, healer, mentor and spiritual advisor and consultant. After doing psychic/intuitive/ healing work for over 40 years he had joined up with Spectrali to create Spectrali.US (www.spectrali.us )and online holistic spiritual community connecting Spiritual practitioners and seekers worldwide! Join Dr. Kevin on his weekly live call-in radio show every Thursday night, 6 PM EST : "The Dr. Kevin Show" @ i<a contents="pmNation.com/live2" data-link-label="live2" data-link-type="page" href="/live2" target="_blank">pmNation.com/live2</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Learn more about Dr. Kevin at <a contents="MyDrKevin.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://MyDrKevin.com" target="_blank">MyDrKevin.com</a> or <a contents="WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">WebOfLight.com</a>. Contact Dr. Kevin at <a contents="DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">DrKevin@WebOfLight.com</a>. </span></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/54912/e4b43872e5c1e4d24e34b7a18e9a9fe519b5a210/original/dr-kevin.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" />Power </p>
<p>In the recognizing and the weaving together of our passions, we see unfold a clearer vision of our purpose. As we step into that clearer vision, our purpose continues to unfold and guide us. Upon this pathway, we can finally realize the true meaning of power, of our power. Our power is at it’s greatest when we are in our place of authentic self. </p>
<p>The more self-awareness we chose to participate in and the more we push ourselves to grow, the greater power we have. </p>
<p>Power derived from a single place of understanding and actualization is not a form of power that we can wield throughout all areas of our lives. To use the power of intellect when the power of the heart is what is needed can be disastrous. To use the power of emotions when the power of one’s intellect is called for can be an equally unfortunate choice. Being strong physically does not give us permission to be mentally lazy and undeveloped. To have a strong spiritual understanding of the world does not condone the avoidance of developing practical worldly skills that are necessary for living a successful life. </p>
<p>Power in any underutilized area of your life develops through awareness, discipline, and a desire to achieve your potential in that area. Power doesn’t transfer from an area where you have stepped into your power to an area where you have not developed or recognized your power. Just because you have become an accomplished manger of people, being a powerful manager does not automatically make you a powerful leader of people. The journey to becoming a powerful manager may help your journey to becoming a powerful leader, but there is still a journey. To be a powerful speaker does not necessarily mean you are a powerful listener. To reach a level of accomplishment and power in the eyes of the world does not mean one has become accomplished or powerful in the eyes of their soul. Power is achieved through the recognition of ones potential in all areas of their life and, then the constant striving to achieve that full potential. </p>
<p>To know and acknowledge where one has no obvious talents or desires can be a power, in of itself. There is power in recognizing and expressing one’s fears. Persisting regardless of your fears, when the goal is important enough gives one access to a different kind of power. </p>
<p>There is a difference between someone who has access to a power and someone who is powerful as a person. In fact we are constantly being exposed to people in power, who use that power poorly because they are unhealthy in their own power as a person. This results in their ultimately using their power as a weapon. </p>
<p>A person can inherit many kinds of power, such as wealth, position or even status. However, that power is not theirs unless they have also traveled the journey of embracing their power of self within the exerting of that power. Sometimes an inherited or limitedly developed power in one area allows people to be put in a position of power where their lack of development of their greater self is woefully evident. Often times, people who may have inherited power (money, connections) and can powerfully touch a group of people who feel disenfranchised can rise to a place of power and leadership, where that power is abused or disastrously mishandled. Never confuse someone who has access to being able to exercise great power as powerful themselves. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon that someone who has inherited or been given access to great power becomes arrogant, resists the recognition of their own shortcomings and internally is being chased by their own demons of inadequacy and low self-worth, making them very dangerous indeed during their reign of power. </p>
<p>We associate dictators of second or third world countries with this kind of power. Recently, however, this country had the unfortunate experience of eight years of this kind of leadership. We moved into the position of world leader a person who had access to power, who had inherited power and who delivered the right message at the right time to seize power, but incompetently handled that power. Former President Bush had not the intellect, insight nor humility to play out his role as a leader on the world stage. His power, after the first election, was based in the ability to manipulate the message and play upon the fears generated because of 9/11. His media machine was brilliant in the fear and scare tactics using terms like patriot and patriotic in the same way similar words and messages were used by McCarthy in the fifties and Hitler in the thirties. To whip up frenzied and fanatical support, we were fueled with an “us vs them” rhetoric. Hypnotizing, to the best of the media machines ability, the public mentality was pushed into a fear and distrust of all things (people) that were different. Labeling all dissenters as unpatriotic, just like McCarthy labeled them all communist in the fifties. </p>
<p>However if you were to ask if President Bush was a powerful man, the answer sadly is no. He was a man in power whose belligerence and arrogance was merely a cover for his numerous inadequacies and deficiencies that became increasingly obvious (missing word here?) because of being elected to a job beyond his capabilities. </p>
<p>Often times, people want to still lash out at the messes left on the table by our former president, want to make him out as Anti-Christ and though there are none who fit the description of anti-Christ better than fanatical, zealot fundamental Christians, I can not see him in that light. He did not have the personal power necessary to fill such a role. No, I merely see him as a sad indication of how successful a hate-based campaign can still be in 21st century America. For I truly believe that President Bush had the best of intentions, and I feel sad for his lack of self-awareness, and can only believe that by this time, no matter how much he pretends, he is aware within himself how much damage he did through false pride and his lack of abilities. If there is anger, frustration or even outrage expressed about those eight years, directed it at the apathetic, the ones who gave into the hate based manipulations and the hypocrites, who would not stand up in fear of the backlash. </p>
<p>We must also recognize the difference between the abuse of power and feeling abused because someone is exercising their power in a healthy way. </p>
<p>Abuse of power may occur so the culprit can increase their own power, for the thrill of domination, as a twisted way to seek revenge or simply as a way to avoid their own self-doubts or negative beliefs about themselves. These people have power but are not in their power. People who are truly in their power do not intentionally or consciously use their power in these ways. </p>
<p>It’s easy to come up with examples of situations that occur where the abuser holds the power of position (business, religious, social, familial, even age), the boss, the priest, the family elder, the teacher. The subtle abuses of power, which happen because a difference in intellect, emotional or mental instability or even a disparity of life experiences, are likely to go more unnoticed. The person(s) who moves an agenda forward by seeking out intellectually weaker, mentally or emotionally less stable or even less articulate individuals to fence with in situations where they can have an audience, garner support, and look good. These individuals avoid conflicts with people of equal or better skill levels, especially in the case of zealots, whose impassioned appeals may not stand up in debate with a person of stronger intellect and confidence of who they are. They make themselves look stronger by verbally decimating someone of a lesser skill level. People can be abusive through the power of their passion, their ideology, their verbal or written skill level. </p>
<p>What about the other side of the coin? How about when someone feels abused through another person’s healthy use of power, is that abuse or is it not? </p>
<p>Unfortunately, we have become a culture of victims to the point that we allow and justify victims becoming victimizers as both legitimate and correct, because they wear their victim shirts while doing it. So when a person who is both in a position of power and in their own power makes discernment to not accept or support “a victim mentality based” reality, they can be portrayed of uncompassionate, or as one of the bad guys. It may feel abusive the party or parties who are not getting what they want. </p>
<p>Everyone is entitled to ask, just as everyone asked is entitled to say no. However, no one is entitled to demand and receive everything asked for because of their race, gender, background or disability. Yet in this day an age, it is often seen as those who are better off, even if they are so because they did the work to achieve not only their personal power but worldly power as well, are obligated to provide to the less fortunate without any requirement or evidence that the less fortunate are doing anything to help themselves. </p>
<p>In the end, being in your greatest power is being in your fullest potential in all areas of your life. Having that power be most actualized in the world is the awareness of all the different forms of power you possess, not shying away from them or playing them down, but using those powers in ways that support humanity itself to become more powerful on the whole. </p>
<p>When Lord Acton said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” he was talking about those who rise in or seize power. For in the recognizing, developing and claiming the power of you, there is no corruption. Corruption of power happens when the power you receive (or take) in the outside world is not balanced by the same or a greater level of personal power. Personal power developed through self-awareness and the consistent striving of the achieving one’s potential. Because when one who is in power, is not in their own power, that power oftentimes runs amuck as a way to avoid or compensate for their weak internal structure. </p>
<p>As this trilogy of articles closes on Passion, Purpose and Power, I ask you to remember this. Our passions lead us to our purpose, and in living our purpose, we can recognize and embrace our power. And lastly, it is the people who truly stand, live and move through the world in their full power and potential who bring the world to a better place. Will you stand up and be one of those people?</p>
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<p><span class="font_regular">Best Selling Author, International Speaker and popular radio & TV show host, Dr. Kevin has been using his psychic gifts and talents to empower people, worldwide, through his teaching, work as a Spiritual Coach, counselor & catalyst, healer, mentor and spiritual advisor and consultant. After doing psychic/intuitive/ healing work for over 40 years he had joined up with Spectrali to create Spectrali.US (www.spectrali.us )and online holistic spiritual community connecting Spiritual practitioners and seekers worldwide! Join Dr. Kevin on his weekly live call-in radio show every Thursday night, 6 PM EST : "The Dr. Kevin Show" @ i<a contents="pmNation.com/live2" data-link-label="live2" data-link-type="page" href="/live2" target="_blank">pmNation.com/live2</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Learn more about Dr. Kevin at <a contents="MyDrKevin.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://MyDrKevin.com" target="_blank">MyDrKevin.com</a> or <a contents="WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">WebOfLight.com</a>. Contact Dr. Kevin at <a contents="DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:DrKevin@WebOfLight.com" target="_blank">DrKevin@WebOfLight.com</a>. </span></p>
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<p>The Box </p>
<p>Many of us in the U.S. are familiar with ADD, so bear with me while I break it down one more time—ADD, ADHD, or ADD/HD as I call it, is a disability that causes individuals to engage in hyperactive, impulsive behaviors, rendering them unable to focus. Or, as defined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine: </p>
<p>Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a problem of not being able to focus, being overactive, not being able control behavior, or a combination of these. For these problems to be diagnosed as ADHD, they must be out of the normal range for a person's age and development. </p>
<p>According to “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” published by the American Psychiatric Association, ADHD is characterized by a pattern of behavior—present in multiple environments, such as school or in the home—that result in performance issues in social, educational, or work settings. These behaviors include failure to pay close attention to details, difficulty organizing tasks and activities, excessive talking, fidgeting, or an inability to remain seated in appropriate situations. </p>
<p>Basically, the box is: these kids and adults are disabled; they can't focus, can't function and need to be medicated in increasing quantities. Once again, America has been saved by tireless, selfless pharmaceutical companies that, out of the goodness of their hearts (they are nonprofits, right?), will save our children (and now adults) from this epidemic. </p>
<p>Epidemic? </p>
<p>The last decade saw a 67% increase in diagnosis of children with ADHD, making it the second largest childhood diagnosis following asthma. Why the increase? Some claim it's due to “improved education and awareness.” </p>
<p>The National Institute of Health (NIH) rates the misdiagnosis at 20%, one of the highest out there. Why? Because it's an observational diagnosis, and too easy to label, disable, and continually medicate. Those who are diagnosed are never “cured;” instead, more labels are added. What is and is not ADHD becomes diluted and confusing. Some of this is the doctor's fault, but not all. School systems demand testing, and parents—struggling with their roles—research the issue and bring their child to the office with a diagnosis in hand, wanting confirmation. If the diagnosis is observational in nature, and the parent says all the right things, what is the doctor to do? </p>
<p>Solution in a Box (or Pill Bottle) </p>
<p>Labeling ADD/HD as a disability mentions nothing about a lack in parenting, or environment or diet as contributing factors, or the current condition of the nation's educational systems; apparently, none of the exterior factors are at fault here. Whatever they are fed, how they are raised or educated, has nothing to do with it. Once ADD/HD is labeled as a disability, we can pity the child and feel bad for the parents, but don't even think about seriously addressing educational issues or paying attention to the toxic poisoning of children through diet. The best and most convenient solution is to medicate. Yes, the inside the box solution is to label, disable and medicate, so everyone can continue their lives uninterrupted. </p>
<p>Let's Look Outside the Box, Shall We? </p>
<p>I refer to ADD as a gift, as part of the evolutionary process, and those individuals are the architects of our age. My first book Managing the Gift: Alternative Approaches for Attention Deficit Disorder stated that we should call it CIS—Cultural Inconvenience Syndrome—instead of ADD, or Attention Deficit Disorder. That label, in and of itself, is a misnomer, because individuals with ADD can be hyper-focused and are able to multi-task. CIS was what the mad dash to label, disable and medicate children was really about—the need to herd free-thinking individuals back in with the rest of the sheep. When engaged in something of interest, they are scarily brilliant; when trying to fit them into an educational box that is the wrong shape, they flounder. You can't teach a fish to climb a tree. You're better off helping them into the right stream, river, lake, or ocean. </p>
<p>Each person has unique traits and talents. Our society, however, recognizes only those traits perceived as “normal,” which makes it difficult for children with ADD/HD to “fit in.” Regardless, unique traits can be utilized as opportunities to achieve great things. </p>
<p>An abbreviated list of the gifts of ADD/HD: </p>
<p>◦ Love to learn </p>
<p>◦ Highly energetic </p>
<p>◦ Brilliant </p>
<p>◦ Creative </p>
<p>◦ Outside-the-box thinking </p>
<p>◦ Non-linear thought patterns </p>
<p>◦ Ability to hyper focus </p>
<p>◦ Able to absorb a great deal of information in short time periods </p>
<p>◦ Child-like nature </p>
<p>◦ Empathetic </p>
<p>◦ Justice-oriented </p>
<p>◦ Naturally rebellious </p>
<p>Children with ADD/HD are often labeled as spoiled brats or troublemakers. The U.S. National Library of Medicine suggests that long-term expectations of untreated ADHD may lead to “trouble with the law.” Sounds like we're doomed, right? Sadly, this deluded label has gained strength over the years through confirmation bias, leading many to consider ADD/HD as a parent or teacher's worst nightmare. How can parents and children cope with such a common misconception? Although it may be a difficult path, simply taking a look at those who now live (or have lived) successful, full lives with ADD/HD can give one hope. Many people haven't let a diagnosis stand in their way, and those with ADD/HD are not alone. </p>
<p>Of the many things that make people with ADD/HD stand out, the best gifts—when harnessed—are creativity, intuitiveness, artistic ability, inventive aptitude, visionary thinking and exuberant attitudes. Many famous people have used those traits to achieve their full potential, such as: Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, and Ernest Hemingway, whose written works stand the test of time; Steven Spielberg, who delights the eyes with flashy cinematography and effects; Beethoven and Mozart, whose melodious notes are still loved by many; John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and George Bush, whose lives grace history books across the globe; Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Galileo, who revolutionized the world with their observations and discoveries. Many of those mentioned were reportedly gifted with ADD/HD. And the list goes on. Amidst behaviors that are thought to lead to failure, individuals have achieved incredible feats. </p>
<p>ADD/HD: Gift or Curse? </p>
<p>Is ADD/HD a gift? Absolutely Can it be turned into a curse? Absolutely. There are people, companies, organizations, and politicians who don't care about a child's best interest, only about them as a cash cow. </p>
<p>Billions of dollars are spent by drug companies on advertisements, lobbying legislates, and funding (read: controlling) of the majority of research studies. Meanwhile, the number of things that exacerbate the gifted child's (and adult's) behaviors—which seemingly need medication—are on the rise: toxic diets, overstressed and underfunded schools, the mandatory testing in “every child left behind,” and less presence parenting coinciding with an inconsistent multitude of adults involved in shaping, molding and raising children at even younger ages. How can you have a series of paid adults of varying quality raise your child and then wonder how they turned out so poorly? </p>
<p>Why is the rate of misdiagnosis that I reviewed earlier important in understanding the gifts of ADD/HD? People struggle to see the gifts because of the dilution of the diagnosis and the misinformation provided by those who benefit from medicating and disabling children. Children who are gifted—highly intelligent, creative, outside the box thinkers and problem solvers, energetic, justice-oriented, natural born rebels, empathetic and intuitive. The degrees of these gifts vary, but if a child is truly ADD/HD, a majority of those positive labels will fit. I created a scale called the Dr Kevin Rainbow on my app, on which there are 64 unique shades to portray the multiple variations of how ADD/HD plays out. </p>
<p>FACTS </p>
<p>Fact: The same criteria to identify ADD/HD individuals was passed around thirty years prior to identify gifted kids, in order to create special programs for them. When the government didn't want to pour money into these programs, the criteria was repurposed to identify ADD kids—which is a money maker. </p>
<p>Fact: The U.S. ranks 17th in education around the world, dropping 0.4% last year, according to the Pearson Report. The five highest ranking countries have much lower ADHD diagnosis and rarely medicate. </p>
<p>Fact: The U.S. spends more per student than most countries, but this does not translate to better performance. For example, the Slovak Republic spends around $53,000 USD per student and the U.S. spends over $115,000 per student. The countries rank the same on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) findings. </p>
<p>Fact: The overall message to parents with ADD/HD children is that they will only perform well if medicated. </p>
<p>Fact: Drug and pharmaceutical companies were the number one lobbyist industry in Washington DC last year, spending over $280 million ($100 million more than the number two industry, insurance) to ensure their agenda receives support from lawmakers. From 1998 to 2018, the industry spent over three billion dollars on lobbying, over a billion more than the insurance lobby. </p>
<p>Fact: Studies done outside the US—not funded or influenced by drug companies—have differing conclusions from US-based studies. First, studies focused on the fact that children on ADHD medications were better with memorization, while downplaying that there was no actual increase in comprehension. Then, studies that were largely ignored stated that comprehension may have even declined in students. Then, studies said that over a 2-3 year period, the non-medicated ADD/HD child catches up and performs as well, if not better than the medicated child. Then, a US-based study states that ADHD students perform better with medication (according to what criteria?). Then, the Quebec Study—conducted over eleven years with four thousand students, more than twice as long as almost all of the US studies and including a much larger number of participants—reveals that ADHD non-medicated boys perform better and medicated ADHD girls show more mental and emotional issues than their non-medicated counterparts. </p>
<p>Fact: The disability lies not in the child. </p>
<p>Conclusion </p>
<p>In the box: </p>
<p>Labeling ADD/HD as a disability mentions nothing about a lack in parenting, or environment or diet as contributing factors, or the current condition of the nation's educational systems; apparently, none of the exterior factors are at fault here. Whatever they are fed has nothing to do with it. Once ADD/HD is labeled as a disability, we can pity the child and feel bad for the parents, but don't even think about seriously addressing educational issues or pay attention to the toxic poisoning of children through diet. The best, most convenient solution is to medicate. Yes, the inside the box solution is to label, disable and medicate, so everyone can continue their lives uninterrupted. </p>
<p>Outside the box: </p>
<p>We must accept there are many players in the creation of ADD/HD as a curse, instead of the gift that some of the aforementioned individuals made it out to be. These factors are such things as: </p>
<p>◦ Diet </p>
<p>◦ Inappropriate educational models </p>
<p>◦ Lack of engagement with critical thinking skills </p>
<p>◦ Lack of time to release energy </p>
<p>◦ Parenting performed by a variety of inconsistent adults </p>
<p>◦ Exposure to toxic environments </p>
<p>◦ Labeling as disabling; consistently telling someone they're disabled eventually disables them </p>
<p>◦ Focusing on what they're not, rather than what they are and need </p>
<p>◦ No Child Left Behind Act, aka “every child left behind” </p>
<p>Whether we like it or not, our educational system is mediocre at best—especially compared to the rest of the world. Whether we like it or not, our government is much more sensitive and responsive to the needs of those served by lobbyist dollars that run Washington—or to the big spenders that fund campaigns—than to an individual child or adult. Whether we like it or not, our children are being poisoned—negatively effected by the diet we feed them and the environment around them at increasing rates. Whether we like it or not, we can not trust information from authority figures who are directly or indirectly compensated, or profit off of what we do with that information. Whether we like it or not, our life is our responsibility, our children's life is our responsibility, and in this day and age being gifted or having a gifted child that doesn't fit inside the box is not easy. Whether we like it or not. </p>
<p>Dr. Kevin Ross Emery is a sought-after leader, innovator, author, teacher, synergetic catalyst, speaker, and an expert in the ADD/HD field. He has worked with American Express, Dartmouth College, Hilton, and Sheraton, and has been a driving force for the creation and implementation of training programs in banking, retail, food and financial service industries for decades. Dr. Kevin's approach to ADD/HD reveals it as a gift that, when properly managed, contains potential for formidable levels of creativity, innovation, multitasking and more. As an international speaker on the subject, Dr. Kevin was among the first to publicly acknowledge ADD as a step forward in the evolution of humanity, eventually allowing us to reach new feats of achievement. Join Dr. Kevin on his weekly live call-in radio show every Thursday night, 6 PM EST : "The Dr. Kevin Show"<span class="font_regular"> @ i<a contents="pmNation.com/live2" data-link-label="live2" data-link-type="page" href="/live2" target="_blank">pmNation.com/live2</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_regular">Good health is like the perfect circle. It means that you have balance in all your bodies. Your physical body, your mental body, your emotional body, and your spiritual body. Working for total health can be accomplished by entering at any point on the circle. Whether through the modality that is about your spiritual life or the one that is about your emotional life. You might decide to enter it through your intellectual quadrant, but if you are like most people you will enter concerns about your health from your physical quadrant. This is because a physical imbalance tends to be harder for most people to ignore and will often get addresses quicker than the others. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Take 4 piece of paper and draw four circles, one on each filling up the paper as much as possible. . They don’t have to be perfect circles, or a pretty circle. Just circles. If you must, get a saucer and trace it. Identify each of the circles with one of the four labels – Physical, Intellectual, Emotion, and Spiritual. Now divide each of the circles up by making an “X” over it, leaving four pretty evenly distributed sections. Write Feeds You at the top of each circle and underneath the circle write; Drains You. On the left side of the circle write; Optional and on the right side Mandatory. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Now envision these four Circles as tires, and just like the tires on your car, these are the tires of your life journey with you being the vehicle that is taking that journey. Let’s take a look at the condition of each tire and whether the tires are aligned and in balance with each other or are misaligned causing you to be steering your life in the wrong direction. Perhaps are some soft even almost flat and others overinflated causing for a much h more arduous and difficult journey than is necessary. Causing you to be off kilter. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Now either within each section of a circle or if it is easier on a separate piece of paper make the list corresponding with that section. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">The first list might be mandatory but drains you the second list might be mandatory but feed you the third list could be optional drains you in the fourth list could be optional feed you. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">So, let’s say you chose the physical circle and you make the list I have mandatory physical things you need to do when your life which train you. Now not only do you want to look at how much time that eats up, but you want to question which of those things on the list is actually mandatory in reality or were just mandatory in your head. Is there any way to shift something from the mandatory drains you to The optional drains you? Or is there a way that you can take something that as it exists now, that is mandatory, and that drains you and shifted in a way that it could feed you? The ultimate goal of making these lists and each of these circles is to see when you add everything up is it like a full healthy well-balanced tire, in good alignment with the other tires, or is it like a slightly soft tire, almost flat tire or even an over inflated one? </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">DO this exercise for all four tires. Even while you are doing it and trying to see where you can shift things , don’t be afraid to ask for other people’s input, sometimes when we are the driver’s, we can lose focus on the reality of the journey. Here are some question to keep in mind when you are going through this exercise: </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Is everything I identify as mandatory really mandatory or are they things I or someone else has made mandatory in my life? </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">If something actually is mandatory and drains me, what are different ways in which I may work with it that and either make t drain me less or less often or can I shift it and have it feed me or at least become a neutral? </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">If a tire is underfed- how can I work in more daily activities to make that a tire that feeds me, instead of drains me. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">But if you would like to have 360 degrees of good health and a healthy tire that doesn’t keep going flat on you than look at the whole tire when it starts to go flat or wobble. Maybe you can start with the physical, going to a chiropractor, or a massage therapist, or an energy worker, but now draw a line, in either direction from that point you made earlier, to see what else on the wheel is out of balance. For I have never found that it is just the physical, or intellectual, or emotional, or physical. See where the leak – the energy leak started that began this process. Was it an emotional situation or relationship that you are avoiding dealing with, is it an intellectual patterning that has brought this imbalance into your wheel. Or perhaps it is the avoidance of dealing with changes that are occurring in your spiritual nature, does your old spirituality seem to not cut it in your ever-changing life? </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Whatever it is, and quite often there will be small leaks that have been caused in all areas that need to be addressed, find the root problem and once you have worked with that and got all the areas functioning again, you will find your wheel will be up and running! And with four healthy wheels you will be able to get the best mileage and the best experience possible no matter where ever your journey takes you. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Best Selling Author, International Speaker and popular radio & TV show host, Dr. Kevin has been using his psychic gifts and talents to empower people, worldwide, through his teaching, work as a Spiritual Coach, counselor & catalyst, healer, mentor and spiritual advisor and consultant. After doing psychic/intuitive/ healing work for over 40 years he had joined up with Spectrali to create Spectrali.US (www.spectrali.us )and online holistic spiritual community connecting Spiritual practitioners and seekers worldwide! Join Dr. Kevin on his weekly live call-in radio show every Thursday night, 6 PM EST : "The Dr. Kevin Show" @ i<a contents="pmNation.com/live2" data-link-label="live2" data-link-type="page" href="/live2" target="_blank">pmNation.com/live2</a>.</span></p>
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