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Feature Article
Don’t Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle
How to Break Free of Negativity and Drama
by Doreen Virtue

ON THE COVER
Don’t Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle
How to Break Free of Negativity and Drama
by Doreen Virtue
Volume 13, Number 2
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Meditation for a Busy Lifestyle ..............................................19
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The Power of Story in the In-Between ....................................27
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N Expect The Unexpected Bringing Peace, Healing, And Hope ...32
Psychic Medium Bill Philipps
My Initiation Into Surrender .................................................35
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What If? Reflections On Hypothetical Thinking .......................51
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O Heaven Is Beautiful .............................................................53
Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore
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Don’t Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle
How to Break Free of Negativity and Drama
by Doreen Virtue
Preface...
I’m known as an author of spiritual books and card decks. Although I studied and practiced psychology for
years, I’ve been focused upon spirituality even longer.
This book doesn’t discuss spirituality, but it was born of a spiritual experience in which I received a surprising
inner message.
The inner message came when I was in San Francisco, as part of a book tour. After 25 years on the road, I
was feeling burned-out with travel. I loved teaching and meeting audiences, but getting to each city had become
a major drag. I’d grown highly sensitized to things like the intensity of airport security stations, urban traffic and
noise, air pollution, and staying on frantic travel schedules. In addition, it was difficult to maintain my self-care
routine on the road.
I wanted to stop touring, but it was the only way that I knew of to teach about my books. It was a career
habit. Still, I was stressed-out from traveling, and it was getting to me.
Then it happened: I hit bottom with the stress. I was at the airport on my way to San Francisco. I’d just
taught a workshop in Toronto during one of its snowy wintry weekends. I was feeling cold and tired.
When I checked in to the Toronto airport, the airline representative told me that I’d been randomly selected
for extra security-measure screenings. I’d have to go through a manual pat-down and additional x-ray screenings!
She handed me my boarding pass, which was prominently marked with the letters SSSS, a code for extra airport
screening.
I began to cry with frustration. Usually, I could muster up a positive way to
deal with airport security, such as prayer, engaging the security officers in conversa-
tion, or reminding myself that security was a measure to keep all passengers safe.
But unbeknownst to me at the time, my diet, life stress, and unresolved traumas
from my past had maxed me out to the point where I wasn’t able to access my
normal positive coping strategies.
The thought of doing additional security screening pushed me over the edge,
and I was in tears of extreme anguish. I loved writing and teaching, but the con-
stant travel felt like I was trapped on a treadmill with no way off.
When I arrived in San Francisco on what seemed to be an extra-long flight,
I decided that—no matter what the consequences—I had to stop traveling.
Then, the next day as I was walked along Post Street in Union Square, I
heard the inner message that is the basis of this book. It was one sentence, which
was so profound and rung so true that I was stopped in my tracks in front of the
Tiffany store so that I could write it down:
“The reason why you and so many people are experiencing life drama is because
you’re addicted to histamine.”
I heard this message as clearly as if another person was talking with me
(which is the usual way I’ve received spiritual messages since child-
hood). Now, lest you think I was having auditory hallucina-
tions, please know that my master’s program in
counseling psychology at Chapman
DON’T LET ANYTHING DULL
YOUR SPARKLE How to Break
Free of Negativity and Drama
by DOREEN VIRTUE
$19.99, ISBN13:9781401946272
EVOLVE!
University required all students to undergo a battery of psychological screening tests. Based upon my research, I began
I passed all of these tests and received my degree. working on healing. I followed every
recommendation for trauma healing
Researcher D. J. West gave this definition of the difference between a hal- you’ll read about in this book, and found
lucination and a true psychic experience: Pathological hallucinations tend to keep that it helped a lot.
to certain rather rigid patterns, to occur repeatedly during a manifest illness but
not at other times, and to be accompanied by other symptoms and particularly by At first, like a lot of trauma survi-
disturbances of consciousness and loss of awareness of the normal surroundings. vors, I was impatient and wanted im-
The spontaneous psychic [now often called “paranormal”] experience is more often mediate results. Once I caught myself
an isolated event disconnected from any illness or known disturbance and definitely in this behavior, I realized that patterns
not accompanied by any loss of contact with normal surroundings. (West 1960) take consistent commitment to heal.
After three or four months, I noticed a
Well, I definitely was in contact with my surroundings when I heard the huge positive shift within myself. I felt
message. I’ve also been 100 percent sober since 2003, so it wasn’t a product of a new level of happiness and content-
intoxication. ment that I didn’t even know existed. I
finally understood how my old trauma
Studies show that the difference between an auditory hallucination and a
patterns had attracted drama in my
true psychic experience is that the former is negative or ego-based, and the latter
present life. Once I saw this dynamic,
is positive. And this was a positive message.
I made a conscious decision to “Drama
There was an Aha! sensation accompanying this message, but I didn’t yet Detox,” and the patterns faded away.
know the scope of its impact. I was somewhat familiar with the physiology of
To my delight, the emotional
histamine. Intuitively, I felt that the words were pointing to my addictive cycle
detox healed me physically as well, as
with histamine produced by life stress and drama.
bloating and itchy skin symptoms I’d
So, I wrote down the message and even posted it in my daily blog on Facebook. experienced also disappeared. I could
But then I forgot about it, until happenstance (which felt like Divine intervention) see the cheekbones of my face again!
had the old quote I’d written on Facebook pop up one day. Following the methods you’ll read about
in this book also helped me transition
That’s when I began researching the addiction to histamine, and I was blown my career smoothly. Friends remarked
away by what I found! I realized that my meltdown at the Toronto airport was that I looked years younger, and I felt
largely a buildup of my eating a high-histamine diet, being overwhelmed with that way. A warm peacefulness in my
stress (which increases histamine levels), and not taking the time to face and heart replaced the gripping stress I’d
deal with past traumas I’d experienced. become accustomed to.
Ironically, as an addictions and eating disorder therapist, I’d studied and
treated trauma for decades. My doctoral dissertation was on the link between
child abuse and the development of addictions, which later became the basis for
my book about addiction and eating disorders called Losing Your Pounds of Pain.
I’d attended workshops given by the pioneers of trauma research, including Drs.
Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk.
I’d even remarked to a fellow psychotherapist that Dr. Levine’s descriptions
of trauma sounded like my own. My colleague promptly scolded me for even
considering that I might have experienced a trauma, since I hadn’t been to war
or been abused as a child (the two types of trauma most often connected to
post-traumatic stress disorder). He berated me for using the term trauma lightly.
So I shrunk into a shell of apologies (probably because of the trauma I’d ex-
perienced) and decided that he must have been right. Since my traumas didn’t
involve child abuse or combat, I dismissed them. I overlooked the impact that
these painful experiences had on my life.
After conducting the research for this book, though, I discovered that the
definition of trauma is quite broad, and it turns out to include any situation
where we feel horrified, helpless, or intensely fearful that we’ll lose our lives. My
experiences were traumatic by these definitions, and they did reorganize my body
and brain chemistry, as well as leave me with psychological scars. I wasn’t using
the term trauma lightly at all, according to the research I studied. This was real
trauma, for a lot of us.
I’m very excited to share what I’ve
This shows the level of denial that can block trauma recovery. Even with found with you, because I know it
my clinical background, I didn’t recognize my own post-trauma symptoms and will positively change your life, too!
had minimized the impact of what I’d endured. My colleague was also in denial,
perhaps because he wasn’t willing to face his own traumas. With love,
Doreen Virtue
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Transformational Astrology
for November-December
by Henry Seltzer
The astrology of November and December features Mars, Chiron, Saturn, Heading into the ending of this
Uranus, Pluto, and Eris. The astrology for the beginning of November climactic year, Pluto and Uranus
harks back to the mid-October New Moon that began the lunation cycle, are drawing nearer to being once
still active as the month begins, and over its first ten days. This New more in square with each other, just
Moon featured a strong presence of Pluto and Mars, as symbolized by the as they were at the beginning of
conjunction at that timing of Mars and Jupiter in a close trine with Pluto in 2015. We still therefore remain in
the middle of Capricorn. The implication is that while anger could surface, the transformational stew that is the
due to the active Mars-Pluto connection, there are also ameliorating factors hallmark of this powerful decade.
such as the strong presence of Saturn in these configurations of early fall, We are changing, at times slowly and
symbolizing a contrasting manner of studied and measured action. at times by means of the rapidity
of sudden epiphany concerning
The subsequent New Moon of November 11th continues with a strong our situation, as indicated by the
presence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, which has been powerfully powerful positioning of Uranus
active lately as well, and this month comes into even greater prominence. during this time of the turning of the
There could be undercurrents of activity below the surface layers of our year. We are enjoined by the cosmos
psyches that have to do with buried wounds, the residue of early trauma to do our best to stand and deliver,
that remain unresolved. We win when we pay the closest possible attention coming always closer to the deep soul
to everything that happens to us now, in terms of interpersonal connection, purpose that we hold inside ourselves,
and both within and below the surface layers of our personalities. as we can manage to discern it.
Saturn is greatly featured over the course of these two months, having
recently crossed into Sagittarius, thereby abandoning the depth
orientation of Scorpio, the sign that he occupied for the past two years
or more, in favor of the wild open spaces represented by this freedom-
loving Fire sign. Here his powers of contraction and limitation seem
somehow less darkly restrictive and more generously inclined toward
mentoring and the learning of important life lessons. Saturn is in
square with Venus in the timing of the Libra New Moon from mid-
October, and again in the subsequent New Moon and in the second
week of December. This puts activities in slow-motion, especially
with regard to our relationship interests, but yet has the virtue of
creating greater focus and concentration, allowing wisdom to sink in.
The trickster god represented by the astrological archetype of Uranus is
also featured in the November and December astrology, being aspected
by Sun and Moon in the Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius New Moons
of this two-and-a-half month period leading to the ending of the year,
and by Jupiter also at the beginning of November. The new planetary
archetype of Eris is similarly triggered, representing a feminine warrior
energy in support of deep soul intention. Saturn is also strongly
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Moon, and is squared by Neptune during early December, as Uranus
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