Experience BodyTalk

As many of you know, I've been studying the BodyTalk System since May 2013 and certified as a practitioner in January 2014 and as part of my BodyTalk practice I am excited to share with you a couple of great opportunities coming to the Edmonton area this month.

BodyTalk is WholeHealthcare™

Every system, cell and atom of the body is in constant communication with every other. BodyTalk is a simple and effective holistic therapy that re-synchronizes your body's internal communication systems to be re-synchronized so that all systems of the body can operate more efficiently, and more effectively respond to injury and stress.

As WholeHealthcare™, the BodyTalk System seeks to address the "whole person." This means that no aspect of your health or life can be over-looked. Each scar, laugh line and injury has a unique story and a history. Every choice, and every experience in your life, has contributed to your current state of dis-ease or health. Instead of focusing on eliminating symptoms, BodyTalk addresses the underlying causes of illness by connecting with the whole-person and your whole-story. Your life-style, genetics and history are all drawn upon to establish a personalized approach to Healthcare that brings about lasting changes.

BodyTalk is designed to integrate all fields of healthcare to create a complete approach to health and wellbeing, so students and practitioners of all backgrounds can benefit from BodyTalk personally and as a compliment to their current practice. BodyTalk is also designed to empower students with the perspective and skills to heal themselves. Non-invasive, completely safe and easily integrated into other healthcare regimes, BodyTalk can change the way you look at healthcare forever!

People from all over the world have discovered BodyTalk. Now you have the opportunity to learn more about the benefits of this powerful WholeHealthcare system! Please join me and other local Edmonton area BodyTalk practitioners, and Certified BodyTalk Instructor Sherry Gilbert for a FREE public presentation on Friday April 17th from 7 - 9 pm at Healing Connections Wellness Centre located at 10548 - 115 Street.

Sherry will lead a brief presentation and answer your questions about BodyTalk, provide a demonstration of a BodyTalk session, and teach you a technique that brings clarity to the brain and can helps manage pain and stress very easily. There will be door prizes and promotional offers available to all that attend!

 For more information please contact me at 780-686-8626 or jasonkmiller@telus.net or visit https://www.bodytalksystem.com/seminars/details.cfm?id=24506

On Facebook, view our event at https://www.facebook.com/events/640948246048902/

Life in the River

I remember hearing someone teach on the verse in Revelation 4, where God invites John to "come up here!" The teacher suggested that as people who live by the Spirit should not just try to "come up here" when they're thinking about God, but to also "stay up here" and attain to live life with spiritual awareness. For years now, I've realized that the Spirit of God is always present - we never have to 'invite Him' to be with us, He's never distant or far away. He's closer than our next breath... ALWAYS. I've spent a good portion of my days over the last several months learning about how important and powerful it is to focus. And, one of the main things I've been focusing on is that fact that the Spirit of God is ALWAYS near - even within and empowering me. I am fully confident that God empowers me and uses me on a daily basis to encourage others and helps me attain my dreams and desires. Scripture tells me that God has placed these desires in me - He's wired me to love what I love - so, I can be assured that the things that I aim for are worthwhile. I am confident to chase my dreams because, I know I'm working toward a great purpose! Anyway... focus! God's Spirit has been described as a river - flowing everywhere, bringing life to everything He touches. There have been several times in my life where I found that if I focused and prayed long enough, I'd drop myself into this river and feel... electric, hot, overjoyed... basically overall wonderful! Lately, since I've been learning about the power of focus, I've found that I can plop myself into this river, pretty much any time I want. Take this morning, for example: I was recounting this past Sunday when I was praying for a couple - specifically, the woman - to experience more of God's Spirit. This month at church some leaders are teaching about life in the Spirit, and how we, as Christians, can 'live in the Spirit' on an ongoing basis. After the sermon, a group of us were invited to pray for people who wanted to be 'filled with the Spirit'. I'm so glad that I was part of that group because, I was on fire! I'd been focusing on the hot points of the sermon and soaking up all that the Spirit would allow. During that prayer time, those of us gathered definitely felt this river flowing. A couple of us were so 'in the river' or 'being filled by the Spirit' that we began to tremble - it was great! As I was recounting this, I put myself into the river again, and was feeling an overwhelming joy! Though, I have to temper myself b/c it's not a great idea to burst out into uncontrollable laughter while driving 100kph down the freeway! I'm feeling that river flow right now, as I sit in my living room, typing. He really is everywhere, ALWAYS! I don't have to spend a significant time in prayer, anymore. Those days were probably important for tuning my spirit to be able to feel His, but I love that He's ALWAYS here! I think the key to the Christian life - any life, really - is to learn to hear or detect the presence of God's Spirit. I've been finding that the more time I focus on God's presence, the easier it is to learn new ideas and concepts - there seems to be an innate wisdom I'm tapping into. I can easily and clearly communicate with people about God and spiritual concepts, regardless of their spiritual background. I am able to communicate new ideas at work, and relationships between once feuding departments have never been better! I've been told countless times how great of a boss/supervisor/co-worker/employee I am. And, my dreams and goals all seem to be coming true in due time! Is it all peaches and sunshine? Of course not! Life happens. But, I find, it's what we choose to focus on is what determines how 'hard' life becomes. My wife and I don't always see eye to eye, for example, but the things that would put our marriage into a funk a few years ago, are dealt with and overcome in no time at all! We choose to realize the River of God's Spirit is flowing all around me and through me ALWAYS. I LOVE IT!

http://www.thepoachedegg.net/the-poached-egg/2010/09/bono-interview-grace-over-karma.html

A friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. Bono gives a great depiction of God and Christ and how Grace trumps Karma!

http://www.thepoachedegg.net/the-poached-egg/2010/09/bono-interview-grace-over-karma.html

Where Sin Abides

I watched most of an episode of "American Masters" last night. It's a show that profiles someone famous, and last night I watched Jeff Bridges. I don't know how, but his seemingly most famous role is in The Big Labowski, and one of the famous lines quoted by Sam Elliot is, "The Dude Abides..." It's so famous, and penitrating, that when Jeff Bridges formed a band after his role in "Crazy Heart", he decided to call it The Abiders.
I have to admit, I quite enjoy that movie. I love The Dude.

That show I watched, along with a great FB conversation I've been having with a friend have inspired me to write again. It's not the BIG thing I'd been camping on a while ago that I'd alluded to, but I think it's still worthy of an "Odd Thought".


I LOVE JESUS!

It's no secret that I'm a Christian. It is also no secret that I enjoy 'the drink'. Most who know me also know that I am lazy - not just lazy by Christian standards (but, who can live up to Christian - the religious ones, I mean - standards, anyway???), but when compared to many, I'm pretty lazy. I love to do what I want to do, WHEN I want to do it. I'm so passive in my doing that my sister has often told people that I have horseshoes up my ass b/c I don't do anything, yet I still succeed. Call it my Spiritual gift... the only way I can explain it is b/c God blesses me! :)

You know, I want to be perfect. I really want to live up to what the Bible says I CAN be. But, truthfully, I cannot MAKE any of that happen. When I TRY to be effective or efficient, I get depressed. Those around me suffer. I can't count how many times I've failed in business or relationships when TRYING to do something other than what I AM. Of course, there are many times that I don't do what I want to do, when I want to do it; and, of course, I get depressed, and those around me suffer, too (I guess there's being lazy, then there's being LAZY!). But, I guess my point is, that I've got to be who I AM.
While "The Dude" was not someone any of us aspire to be like, The Big Labowski really makes a point of being true to one's self. Though, I know I'm not perfect (yet, aspire to be... kinda), I know that I AM Beloved. Jesus' death and resurrection has conquered sin. It's because of that LOVE that I know I can stand before GOD ALMIGHTY and know that I am PERFECT in His eyes. I have no fear of His anger or disapproval. He has made a WAY, that even though 'sin abides' in my life (laziness, drinking, among others), He can and DOES love me completely.
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-40)

I know I'm cool with HIM!

"You have 20 minutes..."

"You have 20 minutes to make things right, or I'm leaving you behind!"

That's what God told me in a dream, just before the alarm went off this morning. In the dream, I frantically call the people closest to me, praying I get Voice Mail because I know if they pick up, I'll never get to everyone I need to talk to. I leave messages for my wife and son, for my mother and father and for my Grandma on the island (which is kind of weird because I don't see or talk to her often at all). I look at my watch and start freaking out because it's been 23 minutes! "What does this mean??!! God! It's been more than 20 minutes! I'm still here! What does this mean??!!"
You see, right after I heard those words from God, I started to protest; but, He cut me off and said, "No, you have 20 minutes to make things right, or I'm leaving you behind."

I woke up from the dream and just pondered for a bit. I felt at peace, but still there's a sense of urgency. I have my iPod on my bedside table because I like to fall asleep to music. Last night, I just let everything on there play at random and left it playing when I fell asleep. This morning, I put the headphones and a session from IHOP-KC's (not the pancake place, the prayer place) Joseph Company - their business training track - from 2004 and Chris Dupre was sharing about a friend of his who's so focused when in leadership that he cuts people out and leaves them behind. Chris said to his friend, "God gave you that gift of focus, but do you realize that because you've put locks on that door, you have no options at that moment?" Chris asks his friend, "How many people have left your company because of the nature of your 'personality'?"
Chris goes on to say that we feel justified being 'in mode' because, like the Blues Brothers, "We're on a mission from God."


Here, in the span of about half an hour, I get 2 clear messages that we are called to Love more than ourselves. The calls I made to my family in the dream were to tell them how much I loved and appreciated them and share with them what was on my heart. In the Joseph Company Session, Chris tells his friend to find practical ways to Love the people he hires.

Life is so busy. How in Heaven's Name are we supposed to live the way the Bible describes that we're meant to, and not neglect those things which are a vital part of our lives? It's what I struggle with every day. I am trying to be involved with things that I know I'm called to, yet at the same time I want to have deeper, more meaningful relationships.
Shortly before my son was born, someone I'd known for over 10 years told me that I was a bad friend and was going to be a poor father. Now, I really don't take much stock in what they said, it was a hard time for both of us; but, every once in a while I remember what they said and think that part of what they said about friendship has merit (they really have no clue at how great a father I turned out to be!!), but I usually chalk it up as part of my personality and my close friends realize that and love be in spite of my flaws. But, these days, it seems that God has put his thumb on a certain lack of friendliness I often have when life gets busy. I need to find a way to tell those I cherish that they are important to me, and that I do need them in my life.

I need to make time for them. We need to make time for our loved ones. Our loved ones are what make life worth living - not our jobs, our stuff, or even our 'Calling'... it's our loved ones.

Jenn, Mom, Dad, Cori, Adrianne, Lee, Dave... anyone else who's close to me and reads this blog, (as tears roll down my cheeks at 8:30 in the morning on my day off) I love you. I cherish you in my life. I want to see you more. Pray that God helps us make a way.

Random Encounters

Have you ever had a Random Divine Encounter? You know, some time when God makes Himself undeniably evident out of the blue?

I want to share a time when this happened to me several years ago.

I was at a conference at our church and when it was wrapped up, my best friend and I decided to head to one of our favorite Whyte ave haunts. We had to park a bit away and on the walk to the restaurant a man stopped us asking for money - a common occurance on a Friday night in that area. Of course, we did what most people do and said, "Sorry, I don't have any change."
About 3 steps past I was arrested by God. I had this overwhelming sense that He was saying, "You have money! Give him some!" All I had was a stack of 20's... you don't give a beggar $20! But, the voice inside was loud and clear.
So, I stopped, told my friend to hold on, and called to the guy. I gave him a 20 and he held his hand out to shake mine to say "Thanks."

This is where the Encounter happened....

He pulled me into a hug and said over and over again, "Love her; just love her."
Walking back to my friend, he says, "What was that?!"
I asked what he saw (he has an ability to see things in the spiritual realm) and he said he saw a beam of light shine from the sky and explode around the guy and myself as he hugged me.

I believe an angel stepped into that beggar to deliver a message from God that would forever change the course of my life. And, change my life it did....

That night, I decided I'd marry my wife.



In my experience, there is no greater thing than knowing that God is near - active and interested in my life. To deny your spirit is to deny the greatest aspect of Life itself. Whenever I hear the song at the top by Burton Cummings, I hope and pray that people everywhere will have a Divine Encounter, and experience the Love of God. There is nothing better!

Who lays out Pharmacy Isles?

Today, I was waiting to get a prescription and had nothing to do but kill time. I walked up and down the isles in the pharmacy and had to stop in one isle and take a double take... actually, I stopped and almost laughed out loud.

First off, it's the isle with the "Family Planning" materials. Hidden at the top corner was a... wait for it.... wait for it....

A SINGLE USE VIBRATOR! For 20min, ladies can pleasure themselves at $20 a pop!

I want make this clear. You can buy a vibrator - yes, a female sex toy - at SAVE-On-FOODS!


But wait! It gets better!


Lower down in the same isle was a product called ANUSOL! In the same isle you can pick up a female pleasure tool and a product called ANUSOL! ALL AT A GROCERY STORE!!

Granted, the Anusol is an Hemroid ointment, but I just think they could have done a little better planning... or maybe the Pharmacist has a great sense of humor!