KS&L 301 Clearing Items of Negative Energy Part 2

What tools do you use to clean negative energy from anything? The tools listed below are designed to be helpful, useful and practical. Remember, as you are clearing an object, be sure to state your intention with prayer and visualize the light of God permeating the object.

• Dragon’s Blood, Frankincense, Benzoin and Myrrh are types of resins from Sumatra, which you burn in a small black rounded out charcoal ‘holder’. You buy them in either bricks and break it down, or you can buy them in small pieces. You will need a Pyrex bowl to place the heated pieces in. Heat the charcoal holder with tongs, until it is glowing, and then place the dragon’s blood and one or all of the rest of the resin pieces on top of the charcoal. A white smoke will immediately come up and it is this white smoke that actually clears the negativity of an object. You will want to use the real resin, not incense because incense will not work the same as the smoke from these resins.

These resins will work on houses, cars, furniture, clothing, books, rugs, jewelry, a person, and the general atmosphere of a location. Depending on the object, you will want to move the smoky pyrex holder all around the piece, the house, car or even yourself, if you have been in a profoundly negative place. Be sure to leave a window open when you do this, so that he negative energy can leave your location. Remember, Dragon’s blood incense does not work the same way.

Frankly, those of us who study this, find the use of these resins to be the best way to clear large things. Sage just isn’t powerful enough to permanently remove negativity and even these powerful resins only work to a certain degree and that degree is predicated on the amount of negativity an object holds.

• Essential oil of Pennyroyal is exceptionally powerful tool to use to clear negative energy. However, Pennyroyal is toxic when you touch it, so be sure to wear gloves. Wash the piece of jewelry in warm soapy water. Dry it well. Place the piece of jewelry to be cleared in a zip lock bag. Place several drops of the pennyroyal in the bag and rub the piece with the oil through the sealed bag. Place the bag in bright sunlight for one to three weeks, depending on how negative the item is. Remove the item, wash again in warm soapy water, and dry. See how you feel.

• Salt is a powerful clearing tool. Wrap an object in dry salt and aluminum foil, shiny side in. This contains the energy and will also help to clear it. Be very careful about certain pieces of jewelry, not all of them will tolerate salt. Leave in the salt one to 15 days, depending on the severity of the negativity. Never wash opals or pearls in salt.

• Bach flower remedies can be used on a specific piece of jewelry, or other large object or clothes. You can put Rescue Remedy or whatever essence you like in a spray bottle and spray the object, garment or piece of furniture. This is especially helpful if you happen to know that the object was connected to a trauma. You may have to do this several times to fully clear it.

• Other essential oils also can be used to clear jewelry and other objects. Sweet orange oil, Frankincense, Eucalyptus, cedar, lemon, rose, peppermint and sage are but a few of the wonderful ones to try. Get a sense of what feels right to you and then put 10-15 drops of the essence you chose in a small spray bottle and fill the rest of the bottle with spring water. Bless the water and/or say a prayer over the bottle and then use this essence to clean a space, or an object. This is a great tool to clear hotel rooms when traveling.

• Other ways to clear washable jewelry [be careful with pearls, tanzanite, and opals] and crystals include:

• washing in warm soapy water, rinsing and then placing the object in the sun for up to several weeks.

• wash the object and then bury it in the ground or in a pot with a seedling in it. Again leave several weeks. Be sure to mark where you put something in the ground with a little flag.

• diamonds respond beautifully when soaked in salt water for 24 hours or longer.

• put the pieces in a fine mesh bag and lay them in a rushing river or stream for an hour or more. Often the continual fresh water will really wash negative energy away.

• Do the same as above, only go to the ocean and allow the salt water to wash the pieces. The power of the ocean in clearing objects is amazing.

• Holding the piece under running water will clear energy from a stone; metal is cleared by contact with the earth.

Part 3 will discuss difficulties in clearing some things.

KS&L 300 Clearing Items of Negative Energy Part 1

You often hear someone discuss the fact that they can feel energy. Sometimes, a very sensitive person may become uncomfortable in an antique store, sensing the various energy signatures [vibrations] coming from everything from the silverware to the furniture. Perhaps what they are feeling is predecessor energy. This is the energy that has been imbedded in an item that was owned by another person. Some people love how old antique furniture feels, others find it quite uncomfortable.

Other people can become exceptionally uncomfortable in homes were someone died a violent death, there was terrible fighting as a precursor to a divorce or terrible physical, mental, emotional or spiritual abuse took place over a long period of time. Those sensitive people probably will not be able to purchase a house like this unless they use the tools provided below, to actually clear that terrible energy and heal that house. Other people will not specifically feel it, but will find themselves affected by this powerful predecessor energy.

Can predecessor energy affect you? Absolutely, of course the energy of other people can affect you. The classic example is the person who buys a house and feels like it is haunted, as if something happened in those rooms that cannot be explained. He or she can feel it. Ask any seasoned real estate agent and he or she will tell you that the darkness that exists in some homes can definitely be felt. One agent would not stay inside a listed home during an open house because it felt so haunted to her.

Some people love antique jewelry, they love the design, the old fashioned jewels and the fact that each piece is unique. Great, but what if the previous owner of that jewelry was murdered, or died a tragic death, or was wearing it when something terrible happened to them? What if they wore it while several things happened to them? What if the memory of the difficulties of that person’s life was so great that even family members did not want to own it? That is precisely why it ended on consignment with a fine jeweler, so that it could be sold to someone else.

You enter the shop and see this lovely bracelet, or ring or pendant. It looks so lovely on you that you purchase it. Probably, you never even washed it in warm soapy water before you used it. The jeweler may have brightened up the gold and the stones and that would have been it. Over time, as you wear it occasionally, you do not notice that various difficulties begin to happen to you while you are wearing that piece of jewelry. You may or may not ever make the connection between the piece of jewelry and your difficulties. This happened to a lady who purchased a gorgeous emerald and diamond ring. It took 10 years to figure out how toxic that ring had become for her.

You buy a piece of furniture from someone who lost everything they owned because they went bankrupt. You get a really good deal. You never notice that from that day forward, you have increasing difficulties financially. Probably, you would not have ‘washed’ the furniture or desk, or chair, or energetically cleaned it in any way.

This can happen to cars as well. All kinds of things happen to cars and happen inside cars. Get a feel for the car on every level before you purchase it and then work on cleaning that vehicle physically and energetically.

Millions of people inherit things from positive and negative family members. People buy used items and people buy items made from recycled things. The issue of clearing any item of negative energy is exceptionally important. This is not to make anyone feel paranoid, but you wash your hands, your food and your body because of the negativity you pick up in one day of living. Imagine what a piece of jewelry, furniture, car or house would have picked up in decades of use. When do these things get really, really cleaned physically and spiritually?

The next question is, how do you clean items as large as a house or as tiny as a ring? Part 2 will address this important question.

Clearing a Negative House

Dear Friends,
This particular chapter of the Karmic Savings and Loan, this week and next, were created at the request of my friend Lisa DeClemente, a very sensitive lady indeed! While in the process of purchasing a house, she was surprised to encounter a wide range of emotions in the houses she was visiting, especially the homes were a foreclosure took place. In these times, it is good to understand how predecessor energy can affect you and how to heal a sad house that may otherwise become a charming and loving home. Perhaps the information provided above will be of some service to anyone reading this blog.

New Info on The Wedding Gown that Made History

Dear Friends,

Helen Zegerman Schwimmer is the author of the The Wedding Gown that Made HIstory. It was originally published in The Jewish Press Magazine, here is the link:

www.thejewishpress.com/pageroute.do/37658

Helen Zegerman Schwimmer is the author of the acclaimed anthology, "Like the Stars of the Heavens." To learn more go to: helenschwiimmer.com

The Wedding Gown That Made History

by Helen Zegerman Schwimmer

Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him.

For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person's camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs?

Fate would intervene in the guise of a former German pilot who walked into the food distribution center where Ludwig worked, eager to make a trade for his worthless parachute. In exchange for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes Lilly would have her wedding gown.

For two weeks Miriam the seamstress worked under the curious eyes of her fellow DPs, carefully fashioning the six parachute panels into a simple, long sleeved gown with a rolled collar and a fitted waist that tied in the back with a bow. When the dress was completed she sewed the leftover material into a matching shirt for the groom.

A white wedding gown may have seemed like a frivolous request in the surreal environment of the camps, but for Lilly the dress symbolized the innocent, normal life she and her family had once led before the world descended into madness. Lilly and her siblings were raised in a Torah observant home in the small town of Zarica, Czechoslovakia where her father was a melamed, respected and well liked by the young yeshiva students he taught in nearby Irsheva.

He and his two sons were marked for extermination immediately upon arriving at Auschwitz . For Lilly and her sisters it was only their first stop on their long journey of persecution, which included Plashof, Neustadt, Gross Rosen and finally Bergen Belsen .

Lilly Friedman and her parachute dress on display in the Bergen Belsen Museum

Four hundred people marched 15 miles in the snow to the town of Celle on January 27, 1946 to attend Lilly and Ludwig's wedding. The town synagogue, damaged and desecrated, had been lovingly renovated by the DPs with the meager materials available to them. When a Sefer Torah arrived from England they converted an old kitchen cabinet into a makeshift Aron Kodesh.

"My sisters and I lost everything - our parents, our two brothers, our homes. The most important thing was to build a new home." Six months later, Lilly's sister Ilona wore the dress when she married Max Traeger. After that came Cousin Rosie. How many brides wore Lilly's dress? "I stopped counting after 17." With the camps experiencing the highest marriage rate in the world, Lilly's gown was in great demand.

In 1948 when President Harry Truman finally permitted the 100,000 Jews who had been languishing in DP camps since the end of the war to emigrate, the gown accompanied Lilly across the ocean to America . Unable to part with her dress, it lay at the bottom of her bedroom closet for the next 50 years, "not even good enough for a garage sale. I was happy when it found such a good home."

Home was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C. When Lily's niece, a volunteer, told museum officials about her aunt's dress, they immediately recognized its historical significance and displayed the gown in a specially designed showcase, guaranteed to preserve it for 500 years

But Lilly Friedman's dress had one more journey to make. Bergen Belsen , the museum, opened its doors on October 28, 2007. The German government invited Lilly and her sisters to be their guests for the grand opening. They initially declined, but finally traveled to Hanover the following year with their children, their grandchildren and extended families to view the extraordinary exhibit created for the wedding dress made from a parachute.

Lilly's family, who were all familiar with the stories about the wedding in Celle , were eager to visit the synagogue. They found the building had been completely renovated and modernized. But when they pulled aside the handsome curtain they were astounded to find that the Aron Kodesh, made from a kitchen cabinet, had remained untouched as a testament to the profound faith of the survivors. As Lilly stood on the bimah once again she beckoned to her granddaughter, Jackie, to stand beside her where she was once a kallah. "It was an emotional trip. We cried a lot."

Two weeks later, the woman who had once stood trembling before the selective eyes of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele returned home and witnessed the marriage of her granddaughter.

The three Lax sisters - Lilly, Ilona and Eva, who together survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and Bergen Belsen - have remained close and today live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn. As mere teenagers, they managed to outwit and outlive a monstrous killing machine, then went on to marry, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and were ultimately honored by the country that had earmarked them for extinction.

As young brides, they had stood underneath the chuppah and recited the blessings that their ancestors had been saying for thousands of years. In doing so, they chose to honor the legacy of those who had perished by choosing life.

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In Memoriam

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

Radio Appearance

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KS&L 299 If You Can’t Have the One You Love . . .

We have all heard the phrase: If you can’t have the one you love, love the one you’re with! Many people think that has to do with not having the love of your life, your partner or soul mate by your side. Perhaps they believe it means to find someone to take that person’s place until the person they truly love returns, or re-enters their life.

But what if there is a slightly different take on it? What if it means to embrace an entirely new book of learning and loving? Every sojourn on the Earth plane is an opportunity to learn all the astounding facets of love. Why else would we be here? Maybe a better question would be to ponder why can’t we learn all of these lessons in the heaven world, why do we have to learn these lessons on Earth?

We have to learn these lessons on Earth because life on Earth gives us the linear time and the physical space to have a complete and focused experience. Love, just takes linear time to experience in all of its facets. Few people just ‘love’ instantly. We have to learn how to love, what love feels like and how to give and receive love.

So lets go back to our catch phrase. Lets look at some scenarios we expect and the more subtle ones we don’t expect:

• The love of your life, is the love of someone else’s life and simply cannot see you, and isn’t meant to be with you. You now have to figure out how to love who you are with, and where you can, love the experience of being with that person for whatever the reason/lesson.

• The person you are with is abusive and you have to learn how to love yourself enough to release yourself from the unpleasant lesson of learning what love isn’t. Perhaps the lesson here is to realize that you are not loving yourself when you are with this abusive person and that leaving him or her will enable you to now see yourself as a loving and lovable person.

• The one you love travels and/or is deployed all the time. If you have the good fortune to be able to have a loving relationship with this person, then you have to embrace the lesson that this type of here and gone relationship offers. You have to learn that you and you alone are responsible for your happiness and that happiness can be found in the wonderful faces of all the loving people around you.

• Someone you adore, dies and you will never ‘get to have that person’ again in this lifetime. This person could be a spouse, lover, child, parent, or best friend. The powerful lesson here is to learn to love all of the people who are still with you in this lifetime. Karma is always going to open another door when one very powerful door closes. Your job is to find the door, open it, and then to walk through it in loving grace.

• As a parent, you have done a great job of loving your children and fostering their independence. You just didn’t expect it to be so wrenching when they went off to college, married, or left home. You miss them more than you imagined you would. You have to grieve and yet celebrate their transition to adulthood and independence. This means that you have to learn to love the ones who are still with you with perhaps with a new and different focus.

Ultimately, the phrase love the one(s) you are with, means to look around you and decide that you really are not alone, that there is an ocean of great people out there to love. When you are grieving, unhappy, or lonely, you will find that you are in resonance with grieving, unhappy and lonely people. When you change, when you transform yourself into the kind of person you want to attract into your life, you go into resonance with happy, loving, healing personalities. There are lots of wonderful people out there, fascinating people with all kinds of interesting stories to tell who will willingly embrace you.

So, can’t have the one you love? Well, perhaps this lesson of love is to become the one everyone loves to be with!