Spring is right around the corner- and it can't come too quickly for most of us! One of my memories growing up was opening all of the windows on the first nice day of the year and pitching in with the spring cleaning. I recall the clean, crisp air and the welcome sunshine, and the scent of pine cleaner everywhere! Even though I have to admit that I don't do spring cleaning myself these days, I do open all of the windows and welcome in the fresh air. And when I do, the whole house seems lighter and re-energized.

As a practitioner, all of my healing work is energy based. And one of the things I truly enjoy providing for my clients is property clearing. In the beginning, I used to travel to the property I was hired to clear and do the clearing work on-site. But soon my work progressed to the point that I didn't need to physically go to the property to assess what was out of balance, or to do the clearing. I found that I could do the work just as effectively from a distance.

One client hired me to clear the home she had recently moved into, saying it just didn't feel comfortable even after she painted and moved all of her belongings in. There was a room she especially wanted to use but just wasn’t comfortable spending any time in. I assessed the situation and found that the original owner of the house was still residing there (as an Earthbound spirit). In fact, he had passed from this life in that very room, alone and depressed. I had a conversation with him and was able to assist him in crossing over. He even told me his name. I then cleared the house and property of any residual energetic disturbances and assisted the owner in bringing in the new energy she desired.

When we talked during the feedback session, she said she had no information on the previous owner of the house but was able to verify the information that I received from a neighbor later that day. She was able to feel the difference in the house and when I spoke to her later on, she said that she was completely at home in her new space.

Property clearings are not only for places in which you live, they are also helpful for workspaces and businesses. If you would like to book a property clearing, please email DrMary@twcny.rr.com or call (315) 449-0040. If your concerns are relatively minor and would like to clear your property yourself, then check out my Home and Office Blessing Kits They are inexpensive, fun to use, and highly effective! For more information on these kits, click on or go to  http://www.integratedenergyhealing.com/House_Blessing_Kit.html for the House Blessing Kit or http://www.integratedenergyhealing.com/Office_Blessing_Kit.html for the Office Blessing Kit. 

Blessings,
Mary
Mary E. Riposo, PhD
www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com

It's surprising that the school district has not researched the situation by now and found that peppermint oil is not a drug, and that is doesn't contain alcohol. They should be commended on their diligent efforts to fight the "war on drugs", but this does seem to be taking it a bit too far. Sara is not a child who has gotten in trouble in school -ever. Another complicating factor is that Sara has an educational disability. She has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which affords her certain rights within the school district.

Children with disabilities are afforded protection from discrimination within the school setting based on the educational law. For example, it is illegal to punish a child in the school setting for a behavior related to their disability (such as suspending a child who is emotionally disturbed for shouting at a teacher, or giving a child who can't understand school rules detention for breaking them). The same should hold true for a child such as Sara, who has ADD.

Individuals with ADD demonstrate impulsive behaviors, and even if Sara knew that it may not have been a good idea to share personal items with her classmates after they asked, she may have impulsively done it due to her condition. In that case, Sara should be afforded the rights that every other student with a disability has; specifically to not be punished for her disability. The Committee on Special Education has an obligation to uphold the educational law. My question is; where were they in all of this?

I welcome your feedback on this story. Please post a response if you would like to share your  thoughts or feelings on this one.

Blessings,
Mary
Mary E. Riposo, PhD
www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com 

Please print the intention below and use it to send Reiki healing by simply hold it in your hands and invoking Reiki. If you are a Level II practitioner or above, you can invoke the distance healing symbol and any other Reiki symbols you're guided to use. Please send Reiki for 15 minutes or longer. If the 4pm time doesn't work, send Reiki any time you can.

May all those who were adversely affected by the earthquake
in Haiti be deeply healed and guided to the resources and
help they need. May all those providing aid including food,
water, medical care and shelter and those involved in rebuilding
the infrastructure be filled with the love, strength, perseverance
and organizational skills needed to fulfill their purpose.

Please feel free to forward this email to all your Reiki Friends.

Blessings,
Mary
Mary E. Riposo
www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com

A friend sent this to me and I liked it so much I wanted to share it with you. I was unable to track down the identity of author to give them credit. If you know who originally wrote this, email me and I will give them proper credit.

A Worldwide Epidemic is spreading with enormous speed.

The 'WWO' (World-Wellness-Organization) foresees billions of people becoming infected within the coming decade!

Here are the most prominent symptoms of this wonderful enlivening 'disease':

1). The tendency to let yourself be guided by intuition instead of acting under pressure of fear, forced ideas and pre-conditioned behaviour.

2). A total loss of interest in judging others, convicting yourself and preoccupation with things that create conflict.

3). A complete loss of the capacity to worry. This is one of the most serious symptoms!

4). A continual pleasure in appreciating humans and things the way they are, which weakens one’s tendency to want to 'change' others.

5). The desire to change oneself so that innate thoughts, feelings, emotions and bodily matters are managed in ways that facilitate only Health, Creativity and Love.

6). Repetitive attacks of smiling - a smile that says “Thank You” and stimulates being at-one with all those around.

7). A growing openness towards childishness, simplicity, laughter and happiness.

8). More frequent moments of communication with one’s Soul in non-duality, that in turn creates the pleasant feeling of fulfilment and joy within.

9). Finding pleasure in acting as a Healer who spreads Joy and Light, instead of criticism and indifference.

10). The ability to effortlessly live alone, as a couple, with family, or in a community on the basis of equality, without any need to play the role of executioner (or wanting to be sacrificed!).

11). A feeling of responsibility and joy to share with the world one’s dreams of an abundant, harmonic and peaceful future for all.

12). Total acceptance of one’s own presence on Earth and the will to choose each moment only for what is gracious, good, truthful and alive!

Do you want to continue living in fear, dependency, conflict, dis-ease and conformism?

If not, then at all cost avoid people who display these symptoms; this disease is very contagious!

Medical treatment can temporarily repress the symptoms, although the progress of the disease has very often been inevitable.

There just isn’t an 'anti-happiness' Vaccine'!

Because this Happiness Pandemic causes a loss of fear of death, the central pillar upon which the beliefs of materialistic modern-day society rest, there is now a risk of societal turmoil with a complete loss of interest in warfare and the necessity to always be 'right'!

Gatherings of happy people who sing, dance and celebrate life, the emergence of people who celebrate their physical and spiritual healing, crises of extreme joy and even séances of collective emotional vent, are all now at hand!

Please infect others with 'HP101' where ever you go......


Please feel free to post a response, letting me know what you think of this article.
Blessings,
Mary
Mary E. Riposo, PhD
www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com

The story reads as follows:

The mother of a 10-year-old girl suspended from her school in
Commack (NY) for bringing in peppermint oil says she is
considering legal action if school officials don't apologize and
revoke her daughter's suspension. Sara Greiner, 10, a fifth grade
pupil, was suspended for one day after bringing organic peppermint
oil to school and putting several drops in her water bottle and in
the water of several classmates, said her mother, Corrine
Morton-Greiner, 46. "Peppermint oil is an unregulated over-the-counter
drug," the district said in a news release on its website. Morton-Greiner
said the oil, which she and her daughter use at home as a soothing
remedy to flavor their water, is organic and contains no alcohol. 

The story is important because it holds the possibility of bringing awareness to complementary therapies. I personally use organic essential oils, and recommend them to my clients. It should be noted that essential oils do not contain alcohol. They are plant based and many essential oils are food grade, meaning they are safe to ingest. Some which are not food grade are used on the skin or are diffused for inhalation purposes. All essential oils have a high vibration and are balancing and healing for the human body.

In my healing practice, I work with many clients (adults and children) who are very sensitive and who use plant based remedies for health maintenance as well as prevention of disease. In fact, many of my clients respond better to subtle vibrational and plant based remedies than they do to traditional Western medications.

I personally add essential oils to my water, tea, and food on a regular basis. I carry them with me wherever I go and have been known to take them out in a restaurant and add them to whatever I'm having. Usually that results in people asking about them and wanting to try them, just as in the story of Sara Greiner in Commack, NY. I hope that Sara continues to use essential oils and does not "shut down" as a result of the authorities in her life punishing her for using a natural remedy that can help her to enhance her immune system, focus better, digest her lunch, and cope with the stress of being a fifth grader in a school system that does not truly understand her on a daily basis. 

If you have a thought on this topic, please consider posting a comment to this blog. And please feel free to pass this on to anyone you know that may benefit from the information it contains.

Blessings,

Mary

www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com
www.AlternativeAutismSolutions.com 

Hi, I am a full time practicing board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon, Chief of Orthopedics at Chenango Memorial Hospital, Norwich, New York, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at SUNY Upstate Medical School, in Syracuse. I received my BS in Biology from The Citadel and am a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina (MD, PhD) and the University of Virginia Orthopedic Surgery Residency. I live in Oneonta, New York and have three children in college.

In addition to my orthopedic career, I began a musical career rather remarkably when I was struck by lightning in 1994, while speaking on a public telephone during a family reunion near Albany. That lightning strike resulted in a Near Death Experience(NDE) and Out of Body Experience(OBE) that would reshape my life. Shortly thereafter, I developed in insatiable desire to hear and to play the piano…even though I had no formal musical training. Around the same time, music started coming to me …first in a dream, some of which ultimately contributed to the original compositions featured on my programs and on my first CD released in 2008. I self-taught from 1995-1997 before starting formal music instruction with Sandra (Campbell) McKane in 1998.

As a result of this unusual introduction to the world of music, I was featured in the New Yorker Magazine article A Bolt from the Blue, by Oliver Sacks MD, as well as in Dr. Sacks’ book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. I have given mini-recitals at the Sonata Adult Piano Camp, in Bennington, Vermont, under the direction of Polly Van der Linde, where I played Chopin’s Military Polonaise, op. 40 (in 2002), Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu (in 2003), Brahms’ Rhapsody, op. 79, no. 2 (in 2005), Chopin’s Scherzo in B flat Minor, op. 31 (in 2006) and an early version of my own Lightning Sonata in 2007. January 29, 2008 marked a significant milestone in my musical career…my public debut at the Goodrich Theater in Oneonta, New York, presented by the Catskill Conservatory in association with the SUNY at Oneonta, assisted by a grant from the NYS Council on the Arts. This performance was recorded live by the BBC-1, Granada Media UK, and German National Television. Besides The New Yorker Magazine, I have been profiled in numerous magazines including, The Week, Financial Times UK, Superconsciousness Magazine, Orthopedics Today, and have had television presentations on Canada’s The Hour, BBC-1’s documentary Imagine, Granada Media’s documentary My Strange Brain, WSKG Expressions, Quarks and Company German Television, PBS’s “The Music Instinct: Science and Song” , and Nova’s “Musical Minds with Dr. Oliver Sacks”. I have also given numerous other public performances.

I recently released my original works in my first CD entitled, “Notes from an Accidental Pianist” through CD Baby.com. I am also working on several other solo piano pieces, a 4-hand/2-piano piece, a symphony based on a Brahms' Variation of a Schumann theme, a concerto, and am also writing a book detailing the origin of my musical experience and examination of my Near Death and Out of Body Experience in an attempt to “marry” mystic and scientific schools of thought. In the future, I look forward to integrating music in the healing of disease states. 

If you would like to nominate yourself or someone you know to be featured on my blog as a Healing Angel, email me at Mary@IntegratedEnergyHealing.com with "Healing Angels" in the subject line.

Blessings,

Mary

www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com

                                           Priceless Presents for the Holidays

The holiday season is in full swing and many of us are reexamining our patterns of gift giving. Whether you have been impacted by the economy and have less means for gift giving, or whether you simply wish to tread more lightly on the Earth and leave a smaller carbon footprint, you may be wondering how to give generous yet meaningful gifts this holiday season, while still having something left over.

When we understand gift giving through the lens of energy, we realize that gift giving is, in essence, an exchange of energy. We realize that we all have an unlimited supply of energy to tap into that we can then offer to others. This understanding frees us up to focus on the essence of giving, instead of mistakenly focusing on the monetary value of the gifts. Many gifts carry no price tag at all, yet are priceless. We all have the means to offer these type of gifts to others.

Consider the following "priceless presents"- which ones will you give this year?

The gift of time. Spending time with friends and family, doing something that you love, creates memories that you will have for the rest of your lives.

The gift of helping. Offering a helping hand to someone in need can be a wonderful gift; no matter how simple the gesture. Hold the door open for someone or let that stressed-out driver get into your lane. Being generous will help you feel good about yourself, and you will be helping someone else as well.

The gift of presence. When you are interacting with someone, try to remain completely present to the experience. Becoming still, opening your heart, smiling, and making good eye contact during conversations will help the other person feel as if they have been truly heard.

The gift of empathy. Try to put yourself in another person's shoes and understand their situation for a moment. Empathizing with someone for even a short time can be so validating. It's amazing how good it feels to be understood.

The gift of gratitude. Expressing your gratitude to others may seem like a small thing but a sincere "thank you" can be a gift in itself. Thank someone for doing something that has been taken for granted and see what how much the energy shifts (for both of you)!

I would love to hear what you think about these priceless presents. If you have a comment, or an idea to add to the list, please post a comment to this blog.

Blessings,

Mary

www.IntegratedEnergyHealing.com