Tamara 4/3/14 Tamara 4/3/14

The Story of True Hope for Mental Illness

My name is Tony Stephan, and this is the story
of how my family overcame mental illness, after devastating loss.

In 1994 I had been married to my beloved wife Debbie for 23 years. During that time, we lost her father to suicide. He had struggled with severe depression, and in 1978, fatally overdosed on medications to escape his suffering. Then, sixteen years later, my beloved wife Debbie succumbed to the same fate . . . suicide.

Debbie had been diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder 1 with Rapid Cycling. One day she simply ended it. The pain was unbearable. It was like somebody took a chalkboard eraser and wiped out the most precious part of my life.

It got worse. My son Joseph, fifteen years old, and his older sister, Autumn, were diagnosed with the same
illness. Joseph was getting more violent and dangerous. He was on 750 to 900 milligrams of Lithium or Carbo-lith per day, and he was just a lost soul.

There was one bright spot in this period, as I was blessed with a wonderful and supportive new wife, Barbara. Barbara sought assistance for Joseph from a noted psychiatrist. We went and met, praying for answers and hope. Instead the Doctor became upset with me and asked Barbara to take Joseph out in the waiting room. When the door closed it was like a shotgun going off in my face. This noted psychiatrist said, "Mr. Stephan you need a reality check. Don't you see it? What you see is what you've got. He's not going to get better."

My daughter, Autumn, was in and out of the psychiatric ward constantly. Drugs didn't work. Autumn was on five psychiatric med: Haldol, Rivotril, Epival, Ativan and Cogentin; and she was out of control: suicidal one minute, explosive the next - unable to care for herself... or her family.

WAS THERE REALLY AN ANSWER OUT THERE?

I started to pray. I started to fast. I started to search. I started to ask everyone, "Do you know anything about bipolar?" There just had to be an answer... somewhere!

One day it came. I was talking to a friend I was working with, and telling him about how bad it was in our family with Joseph's and Autumn's illnesses. He said that he didn't understand mental conditions, but he explained to me that he had spent twenty years in the agricultural industry. He said, "You know, I looked after hundreds of thousands of animals, and we used to see this in the hog pens... these animals would have this disorder, sometimes, called Ear-and Tail-Biting Syndrome. These animals would often become aggressive and hyper-irritable." My thoughts turned to Joseph and his violent rages.

As my friend told me how the animals become extremely irritable and enraged, and about the explosive behavior, he said, "You know, we learned very quickly from the agricultural literature, the scientific literature, that you could nutrate away the disorder with good nutrition." In that instant I had an epiphany. A burden was lifted and a sense of peace and light enveloped by mind. I knew that God has just given me the answer: Nutrition!

On January 17, 1996, almost two years to the day that my wife had committed suicide, we moved forward and starting loading micronutrients into Joseph. Within thirty days, my son no longer exhibited any symptoms whatsoever of bipolar disorder. It was gone!

I remember sitting on the couch with him after six weeks and him saying to me, "Dad! Dad! ... Where was I? What happened to me? Why was I so angry? Why was I so violent?" And I said, "Joe, it doesn't matter. That was another day. It wasn't you. It was the disorder." There wasn't anything that we could do alone to correct the disorder; but the answer came, and I've never looked back -- and neither has Joseph.

My daughter Autumn was next. Her husband had to work a graveyard shift so he dropped Autumn off at our home for a week as she could not be left alone. It was then that I placed her on the same nutrient program as Joseph. Within a few days she became calm... with dramatically fewer mood swings. She was able to care for herself and her young son.

Within 45 days she was clear of all of her five medications.

Both Autumn and Joseph have been well (as of 2013) for over eighteen years.

Autumn has written a best seller titled, A Promise of Hope, published in 2007 by Harper Collins and available on Amazon.com.

When Autumn and Joseph were made well, many people in the community started to come for help with their loved ones. After they tried the program and experienced the same results as my children, we started working with university researchers like world-renowned behavioral research scientist from the University of Calgary, Dr. Bonnie J. Kaplan. Dr. Kaplan's research was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in 2001, which is the largest psychiatric journal in the world. Soon there were other research studies and publications. The University of Calgary, Harvard University, Ohio State University - Department of Psychiatry, The University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and many others. There are now over 40 researchers from 15 Universities and 23 medical Journal publications who have studied its effects on disorders like:

ADHD
Autism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Bipolar affective disorder

PTSD
Addiction
Anxiety
Stress
Depression

It's about restoration. It's about hope...healing...and health.

Millions of bottles have been shared and over 100,000 souls have said, "Thank you" for this product.

I don't know if it will work for you or your loved ones, but it might... that is my true hope.

Try it now.

Tony Stephan

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~
Tamara adds: I no longer sell formulas from Q Sciences. I order Empowerplus and the new version EMP Lightning from the founder, Tony Stephan, at www.hope.renovaworldwide.com

My daughter knew the first week that this formula was working for her. Order your own bottle at my website above. I am happy to answer your questions. Give me a call or email me on my contact form on the right sidebar.

(In February of 2013, Tony licensed the product Empowerplus to Q Sciences to market globally. This was terminated Sep. 29, 2018. Tony started his own company Renova April 1, 2019, to take the the capsules and the new sublingual flavored powder version of it, EMP Lightning to the world.)

Tamara 4/2/14 Tamara 4/2/14

Turn a ‘Mess’ into a Message with the "Praise Principle”

“The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out [toward heaven],’ How could you do this to me?'

“Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied.

The Moral of This Story: It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.” (I wish I knew the author to credit them.)

That ‘islander’ had a paradigm shift about his little hut on fire. My feelings have also changed concerning two children’s chronic illnesses and other trials in my life. At first, I felt like my ill daughter was a victim of poor genetics. I even wondered at times if we were somehow forgotten by God. When one of my children was a victim of a violent crime, I really went down into despair.

Back then, I did not realize fully that the Atonement of Jesus Christ could reach out and bless my tender heart at that moment and the next day, and the next. Studying spiritual re-patterning, or energy healing has shown me that the atonement of Christ can help
mend broken hearts as well as other emotions felt in suffering life's difficulties.

“Some church members feel weighed down with discouragement about the circumstances of their personal lives, even when they are making sustained and admirable efforts,” said Elder Hafen. “Frequently, these feelings of self-disappointment come not from wrongdoing, but from stresses for which they may not be fully to blame. The atonement of Jesus Christ applies to all of life. The Savior’s atonement is thus portrayed as the healing power not only for sin, but also for carelessness, inadequacy, and all mortal bitterness. The Atonement is not just for sinners.” (Beauty for Ashes, Ensign, Apr 1997, 39) Since depression filled days of despair years ago, I have learned a variety of ways to access healing power from the Atonement. One method called the “Praise Principle” involves perspective, gratitude, prayer and praise.

Elder Maxwell encourages us to see our challenges and to pray with an eternal perspective. “If God chooses to teach us the things we most need to learn because he loves us, and if he seeks to tame our souls and gentle us in the way we most need to be tamed and most need to be gentled, it follows that he will customize the challenges he gives us and individualize them so that we will be prepared for life in a better world… We must pray, therefore, not that things be taken from us, but that God's will be accomplished through us. What, therefore, may seem now to be mere unconnected pieces of tile will someday, when we look back, take form and pattern, and we will realize that God was making a mosaic. For there is in each of our lives this kind of divine design, this pattern, this purpose that is in the process of becoming, which is continually before the Lord but which for us, looking forward, is sometimes perplexing…. “(But For a Small Moment”, Sep 1 1974, BYU Fireside, emphasis added)

Having the right perspective can calm our hearts. M. Catherine Thomas, a BYU professor and one of my favorite authors explains, "It is how we interpret what is happening to us that either liberates us or imprisons us. If we interpret what is happening as something that should not be happening, and we can’t change it, then we will suffer. If we can accept that which-cannot-be-changed as a reflection of what God would have unfold, then we can have peace.” (Light in the Wilderness, 23)

In addition to perspective, gratitude can help bring us peace. Focusing on what is going right, instead of dwelling on struggles is health advice according to mind-body medicine and scripture. “President Kimball told of giving a woman a priesthood blessing and telling her that she would be healed of a malady. A few weeks later, the woman came back, angry that she hadn’t yet been healed. President Kimball responded: ‘Now I understand why you have not been blessed. You must be patient, do your part, and express gratitude for the smallest improvement noted.’ She repented, did as he counseled and was eventually healed. We should express constant gratitude for even the smallest increment of blessing.” (Mary Jane Woolger, “What I Have Learned about Mighty Prayer,” Ensign, Dec. 2006, 54)

I was deeply affected by Elder Dallin H. Oak’s talk “Give Thanks in All Things” where he said, “The revelations, for which we are grateful, show that we should even give thanks for our afflictions because they turn our hearts to God and give us opportunities to prepare for what God would have us become.” (Ensign, May 2003) Paul says, ”For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasures in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” (2 Cor. 12: 9-10). It was difficult at first to even mouth words of thanks for heavy burdens, but I started thanking anyhow. In the beginning, I said the words but only half-heartedly believed them. It felt like “chewing on concrete.” I was missing part of the praise principle process that I use now.

James Cox teaches a recorded course on learning the Savior’s thought patterns and he explains the previous scripture in 2 Corinthians well. “As one expands his capacity to feel sorrow, he is also expanding his capacity to feel joy, and his capacity to feel God’s perfect love. As one takes this sorrow unto the spiritual word and is willing to go through it out of the love he feels for the Savior and Heavenly Father, the healing begins. . . . By thanking Heavenly Father for the adversity [it] changes our focus from the temporal [world.]… With a spiritual focus the Lord will ask if we are willing to go through this for Him. As we think of what the Savior went through for our sins, it helps us to be willing to go through [adversity] for Him. As we endure the pain and suffering for Him, we are transferring the pain to the spiritual world where the powers of heaven will help us to endure and overcome.” (James Cox, Becoming Spiritually Centered 76,79) Elder Maxwell said it may be true (in some way we don’t understand) that the cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be our receptacle for joy. (see “But For a Small Moment”, Sep 1 1974, BYU Fireside)

Marion G. Romney points out that God told the pioneers to praise Him when they were suffering the greatest! This is advice to us, too, though hard doctrine, until one has experienced its blessings. I am amazed by what heroes in the scriptures do when it seems ‘huts’ have gone up in flames or under in floods. They do things that would NOT come naturally without focusing on the Savior. James 1:2 admonishes, “Count it all joy when ye fall into many afflictions.” As Enoch saw the flood victims of Noah’s day he had bitterness of soul and said “I will refuse to be comforted.” The Lord’s advice to him at that point in time is revealing. It applies today. The Lord said to Enoch: “Lift up your heart, and be glad: and look.” Then He showed Enoch Christ’s atonement.

There are other examples in the scriptures. Paul and Silas were thrown into prison and locked up in chains. At midnight they weren’t looking for pity, they were singing praises to God - and the prison doors opened. Nephi was tied up on a ship by his own brothers for days until his wrists and ankles were very swollen. The account says, “I did look unto my God and I did praise him all the day long; and I did not murmur against the Lord because of mine afflictions.” (1 Nephi 18:16) The converted Lamanites praised God in the very act of perishing under the sword. (Alma 24:23) I ask, is there a pattern here?! I aspire to live more often in the attitude of forgiveness, gratitude and praise.

President Brigham Young taught, “Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic…. The Savior has offered to all of us a precious peace through his atonement, but this can come only as we are willing to cast out negative feelings of anger, spite, or revenge.” (Discourses of Brigham Young, ed John A. Widtsoe, (1954), 345. quoted in Ensign, April 2007, 68,69) I teach my clients that it is one thing to forgive past trials, but quite another to express gratitude for going through the most difficult times we have ever had. I believe that whenever God gives us a challenge, He also has a gift for us in its hands. It is up to us to find the silver lining, the precious lessons, in the storms of our lives.

The Holy Ghost prompted me to take a class about praise from Judy Dunston of Saratoga Springs, UT. Judy’s personal example of applying the Praise principle in various challenging times with her children were inspiring. She teaches 4 practical steps that enable a person to praise in all things. Judy gave me permission to share these in my book Healing Arts-A Gift from God. The principles she teaches are “1. Release judgment of what is going on currently. 2. See it as perfect for your learning. 3. Praise God for the event just as it is. 4. Turn this burden over to the Savior with gratitude for the learning.” I feel this is similar to a modern day apostle telling us, “The most profound relief waits to be claimed: our afflictions can be ‘swallowed up in the joy of Christ.’ Alma 31:38.” (Neal A. Maxwell, "If Thou Endure It Well," 3) I could finally see the wisdom in even our worst trials by praising God for them. Beyond forgiving the past, and being grateful for lessons we learned, I believe it is exhibiting even higher consciousness to praise God for those heart wrenching experiences. Praising God in all things is a very high level of consciousness. (see David Hawkins, Power Vs. Force which has a chart titled "The Map of Consciousness.")

Learning to better and more quickly live the Praise Principle over the last few years has given me hope when I felt hope was gone. It has saved me in very scary moments – the ones that take your breath (and life force/light of Christ/breath of life) away. At those times we can pray in faith, giving gratitude for the hard lesson upon us, and give our burden to the Savior. I have asked the Lord to take my burdens with gratitude and praise for the priceless learning I trust that I will gain with time. I learned that in those moments that challenge us most, we can rely on this principle to give us hope again.

My friend, Kathy Truman, took Cliff and Judy Dunston’s “Praise Principles” class at the 2013 LDS Holistic Living Conference. Kathy wrote down her difficult life experiences and then turned them around, giving praise to the Lord for them. I was deeply touched by reading the harsh life experiences she had turned into expressions of gratitude. I felt inspired by her example. Being a type 2 (4) (from Carol Tuttle’s It’s Just My Nature), I made a template of how my friend Kathy did that. Before I share that, let me introduce you to someone else I know. First, the ‘bad’ news, and then the good news.

This woman had a daughter who was riddled with excessive anxiety, chronic depression and a diagnosis of mental illness. Her daughter was cutting and repeatedly suicidal. For years there were 911 phone calls, police in her home, and trips to the emergency room. The mother tried to protect her other children from the worst chaos. However, the turmoil threatened to tear her family apart. Another teenage daughter moved out of the home for a time in order to bear threats to safety and the roller coaster of emotional outbreaks. Adding stress, particularly to the father, was the family’s health insurance which refused to pay a dime toward any of the ill daughter’s expensive hospitalizations,

As if the illness wasn’t enough, the ill teen was also the victim of a violent crime and suffered post traumatic stress from the abuse afterward.

Years later, one of her sons suddenly became ill and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. An Energy Medicine machine found Lyme frequencies in his body, but doctors scoffed and said chronic Lyme didn’t exist and that such infections were not obtained in the state of Utah. The family had trouble finding a doctor willing to test for Lyme disease. A clinical diagnosis was made and blood tests showed the co-infection Mycoplasma. For all the effort, the son still suffered in a recliner for over half a year without enough energy to even play a video game.

This nearly adult son finally admitted he had been exposed to something traumatic in grade school. The mother faced this sudden news and admitted addiction along with pained wonder at how the depth of emotional abuse he endured had escaped her observation. This son moved out and sought relief by experimenting with substance abuse which led to hospitalization.

The woman’s husband, the only breadwinner for the family, suddenly lost his job 3 times.

Not 1 of the woman’s 3 sons served a mission which was a heavy burden on her mother heart. One of her adult children was surrounded by an anti-Mormon environment from co-workers and left the religion that was so dear to her behind.

After 6 years of being off psychiatric meds, her daughter’s bipolar pattern resurfaced as post partum psychosis after childbirth. The adversary worked hard to convince this woman that such a setback was reason enough not to publish her stories sharing the integrative help they had found so beneficial for bipolar and other issues all those years previous.

Some people wondered if this woman was into something 'evil' because of her work in integrative health. Her mentor in energy healing was falsely accused of the same type of things and called into her ecclesiastical leaders offices for investigation. Other like minded friends who also experienced these kinds of complaints had experiences that did not always end as nicely as her mentor’s experience had with profuse apologies and heartfelt expressions of gratitude for dedicated, Christlike service.

This person is me. The reason I shared the bad news is to testify of the miracle of God’s hand in my little family’s life and of “THE good news” of the Savior, Jesus Christ. I am a witness of His love. I believe God is endeavoring to teach me that I can choose to experience and feel gratitude and even praise in all things.

A. Praise God that I had a daughter with bipolar because it brought me to my knees, seeking answers and fasting often to learn truth. I found out that God truly does know and love His children individually for answers came one line at a time to help that daughter. I praise God for this illness for it taught me that forgiveness is a healing principle that affects bodies physically and that we could use forgiveness purposefully for that intent. I praise God for experiencing bipolar in our home because it led us to energy healing which later taught me how to assist in relieving the emotional pain of my family and others. Unconventional answers in this field of medicine that surfaced to help one daughter, eventually blessed hundreds of other people’s lives! Praise God I learned to have gratitude in all things because of this illness. Praise God for bipolar because it opened my eyes to the reality of opposition in all things: God’s light was real and so was darkness from the adversary. Praise God I learned how powerful men and women can be against this darkness. I praise God for very difficult times that taught me by experience that faith is a mighty power! I am grateful this illness taught me I could help my daughter and others with spiritual re-patterning at a distance. Today this brings days of extreme joy helping others that I would have otherwise missed.

B. Praise God two of my children experienced abuse because it taught us deeply of the ability of Jesus Christ’s atonement to remove personal suffering and trapped trauma. Praise the Lord that we learned the power of having an eye of faith because of these trials. I learned that what I initially thought would be a useless process -- that of ‘mere’ imagery –- was actually very powerful. The imagery used was of being in a garden with the Savior and giving Him all of my deep grief, heartache and pain. That imagery work, in reality, brought waves of pulsing color and peaceful, forgiving feelings that have stayed with me ever since. Praise God that now I can testify that Christ truly does swallow up our sorrows in His love. Praise God for abuse because through it we learned the atonement is for far more than just sins alone! The atonement offers us ongoing rescue and respite from unwanted emotions, memories, feelings and thoughts. Because of trials, I have some beginning understandings of how my Savior’s light – the Light of Christ – is allowed more brightly in our lives. I've been so blessed by studying the integrative field of energy healing! It has educated me on the need to release trapped trauma and unresolved emotions from our bodies and differing methods on how to go about doing that. I am grateful that this complementary medicine also teaches a person to prevent the need for future "emotional release" by living at a high level of consciousness, so as to avoid creating similar patterns again.

C. Praise God my son dealt with Lyme disease because it taught us about even deeper levels of healing. It taught us to be grateful for energy medicine machines such as ASYRA which immediately found the frequency of Lyme in my son’s body when traditional medicine continued to be mystified. Praise God for Lyme because it taught us of the power of Constitutional Homeopathy and Radionics to rid his body of toxins and pathogens. We are grateful for another platform to share the marvelous blessings of energy medicine with others. Lyme taught us to express praise in the midst of hard things and shorten the time it took to see the Lord’s hand in our lives. This afforded us “aha” moments earlier on in trials. We praise the Lord for illnesses that better prepare us to meet Him again. Elder Hales said, “Sometimes we don’t understand death, illness, mental and physical disabilities, personal tragedies, war and other conflict. Some of them are a necessary part of our mortal probation. Others, as Enoch foresaw, are part of the preparation for the Savior’s Second Coming.” (Ensign, May 2003 p 18) I feel there is so much truth in that apostolic statement that I can trust it fully concerning mystifying illnesses like Lyme Disease and brain disorders labeled mental illness that afflict ever younger ages.

D. Praise God for issues with addiction for it taught my son to turn to the Savior in all things. I am grateful I had the learning experience of praying to experience mighty faith like Alma the Elder who prayed in faith for his son to be "brought to a knowledge of the truth." Having this experience taught me love versus judgment and increased empathy and humility. Praise God for the struggles of my children that taught me there is no disgrace in having suffered, in having been labeled, in having been addicted or heartbroken or sorrowful or misjudged. We are not our ‘stories.’ We are beloved children of the most High who are learning important lessons along our way. Praise God for addiction issues because I learned on a deeper level the power of spiritual gifts and a deeper level of trust in spiritual promptings and the wisdom of heeding them immediately. I am grateful this trial taught me about Maurice Harker’s book and work teaching Christ centered addiction prevention and recovery. Like my book, he teaches of the adversary’s involvement in modern day issues. Praise God I have learned that I allow the Savior’s love and light in a greater or lesser degree inside and around me by the words I speak and allow to repeat in my mind. What a blessing to have learned that when mindful and expressing higher consciousness, I feel a real difference in my body.

E. Praise God we lost our sole source of income repeatedly and had to live off of our food storage and savings more than once because it reinforced the importance of following the living prophet’s counsel to stay out of debt and store food and supplies to be prepared for the future. We are grateful to be able to live peacefully in troubled times and aspire to be the calm in the eye of the storm, even while chaos swirls all around.

F. Praise God my sons didn’t or couldn’t go on missions because it taught me to desire a new heart. It taught me not to judge others or their challenges. Praise be to God for allowing me these priceless learning lessons – for I understand now that we are more than our experiences. I praise the Lord for this opportunity to learn sensitivity and that there are all kinds of missions being served by valiant young people who might not wear outward name tags. Other servants of the Lord are tagged on the 'inside' by hearts written on by the spirit. Their missions are as diverse as their faces. Some have known the darkness and yet choose to stand and be warriors for Jesus Christ. Praise God that difficult parenting moments have helped me to develop a deep, abiding faith in God and trust in His plans and His timing, and a knowledge that my children have a powerful Savior who is more powerful than their problems and weaknesses.

G. Praise God one of my sons left the church because it affords me opportunities for spiritual growth. I've come to understand that my children’s choices do not reflect my ability as a parent, but agency. Praise God I am allowing my children their agency and putting my trust in the Savior for I have a covenant relationship with Him. God IS LOVE – and He loves in all things! He ALLOWS for agency and I can too while continuing to love my wayward son. Praise God for this opportunity to learn to extend invitations in love and to learn of love’s greater power than emotions tied more closely to force. Praise God for another chance to use the Praise Principle, to rely on the Savior to take this burden, and to envision the power of God working in my family. Praise God for trials which bring practice in assurance and confidence to trust in God – now, and during future prophesied calamities that will precede our Savior Jesus Christ’s return to this earth as King of Kings!

H. Praise God my daughter experienced a bipolar pattern again with postpartum psychosis after giving birth for it provided opportunities to be taught other paradigm shifting solutions for mental illness. We learned of another LDS family’s amazing, God-given insight into the brain, mental illness and also addictions! Praise God my daughter thought she could go without this other family's supplement (Empowerplus) for a time - for her choice taught all of us how powerful that inspired micronutrient for brain health really is. I praise God for a driving need to understand more about the physical body level, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, pro-biotics, and minerals connection to Chi. I'm grateful we learned how having confidence in both God and ourselves can affect the physical level through Vibrational Medicine and Radionics for I had marginalized energy work’s power to affect people physically and had mostly concentrated on its mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits.

I. Praise God that my mentor was hauled in to her Stake Presidents office for it stirred in me a great desire to seek and search in depth for truths regarding forms of healing arts. Without my mentor undergoing this extremely hard time, I may not have had the motivation to learn that there are examples of all sorts of alternative healing methods in the Bible and validation for them in modern scripture and the words of prophets. Praise God that I know today because of trials, of the healing arts – of energy healing and emotional release, hands-on-healing, long-distance healing, vibrational healing and generational healing… I think of all the families who lives would not have been blessed by energy work and phone sessions without my mentor’s sacrifice. Praise God her example has blessed a multitude of people’s lives today! In the end her trial brought more clarity!

I know the bitterness of life can be perceived this way for each of us through the marvelous Atonement of our Savior! Praising God in all things opens effectual doors to miracles in our lives. I have experienced them. Through the Atonement we can be made whole. With the Savior’s help, we can learn to be thankful even for our trials.

“Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience. Often we can’t see the Lord’s hand in our lives until long after trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are essential building blocks that form the foundation of our character and pave the way to future opportunity, understanding, and happiness.” (Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Continue in Patience," Ensign , May, 2010, 58) I have lived that and have also experienced understanding the blessings of trials in their midst by living the Praise Principle. Past unhappiness can reap future joys. I experience joy now because of the trials I went through.

I have had wonderful wounds to make me the person I am today. I aspire to praise the Lord for each one of them. Jesus Christ’s atonement offers incredible hope in our day to day lives. The Lord has already felt our pain and is willing to carry our burdens. I am blessed by using the praise principle’s practical steps to access the Savior’s rescue of me. I am grateful to have learned that my little hut “catching fire” really can be a signal that summons the grace of God. I testify of the miracles of God!

Only the Messiah can turn a Mess into a Message, A Test into a Testimony, A Victim into Victorious. Praise Him!

(Template included here.)

Let me introduce you to someone I know. She/he was (list trials).

A.___________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________.

B.___________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

C.___________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________.

D.___________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________.

E.____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

F.____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

This person is me.

Summarize or expound on each concept above. Realize how it made you a better person, (more empathetic, more apt to fall on your knees in prayer, strengthened your testimony...) taught you something, or provided an opportunity to develop a new quality. Discover what God's purpose may be for that event in your life.)

A. Praise God I was ________________________________________________________because

_____________________________________________________________________________.

B. Praise God I ____________________________________________________________because

_____________________________________________________________________________.

C. Praise God _____________________________________________________________because

_____________________________________________________________________________.

D. Praise God I was ________________________________________________________because

_____________________________________________________________________________.

E. Praise God I ____________________________________________________________because

_____________________________________________________________________________.

F. Praise God _____________________________________________________________because

____________________________________________________________________________.

Tamara 5/4/13 Tamara 5/4/13

Incredible Help for Bipolar, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, OCD,.. and other Brain Disorders

Let me tell you about what I learned after I wrote my book, Healing Arts- A Gift from God. I read a remarkable book about another daughter who had bipolar. It reminded me at times of our own experiences. That book is a great gift to the world! In it Autumn tells about her dedicated father in Canada who found a radically different approach to bipolar THAT WORKED! Autumn didn't believe it could work at first . . . but it did because the Lord was behind its inception. God's fingerprints are all over this family's incredible story that includes fasting and prayer.

"A Promise of Hope is the story of Autumn's flight from madness to wellness and an astonishing scientific account of a treatment that has also helped thousands of others. It is a powerful call for a new understanding of mental illness, its causes and its treatments. ©2007 Autumn Stringham; (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

The formulation produced by Autumn's father and the man he was led to, David Hardy, has blessed over 90,000 people with a wide variety of mood disorders! My daughter is one of them. She had problems beyond post partum depression after the birth of each of her children.

My daughter used the same high dose vitamins and balanced minerals treatment as Autumn, called EMPowerplus.

The very first week on this formula my daughter experienced much less anxiety. Then she noticed she had way less negative intrusive thoughts. Under her doctor's care she was able to significantly lower her psychiatric medications, replacing them with Empowerplus. My daughter is thrilled to be doing something natural and without any of the prescriptions' side effects. My son has also been able to largely replace a prescription for sleep with Empowerplus. Both of my adult children are using Empowerplus Advanced.

My clients report: better sleep, much less anxiousness, less negative intrusive thoughts, and a whole lot less mind racing. They feel much less "down", far more joy - and even energy. This proper ratio of high dose vitamins and minerals certainly helped my daughter recover from postpartum depression (along with the emotional release work she did in energy healing).

EMPowerplus has been proven effective in usage and clinical research for depression, stress, ADHD, Anxiety, PTSD, Autism, Bipolar disorder, OCD, Rage, Brain Injury, Trauma, ODD, Addictive Behaviors, and early Alzheimer's and Dementia.

I sell this product here:

https://hope.renovaworldwide.com

This approach, a nano chelated and micronized micronutrient, fits perfectly with what God woke me up at 4 am to learn of years ago: "Our cells make the sparks of Chi, but its flow is held by the minerals. . . . Minerals are not the entire story for Chi, but they are an important part." (Parris M. Kidd PhD quoted in Farley M. Anderson, Nature's Answer, 38) Apparently, when one is nutrient and mineral deficient, life force energy (the life-giving energy from Jesus Christ that is also a mental light) is not flowing through the body as it could be.

Harvard Psychiatrist Charles Popper, M.D. wrote in the afterword to Autumn Stringam’s book, A Promise of Hope:

“Autumn’s enthusiasm for her treatment is justified. By all accounts [it] changed her life more profoundly than conventional medications could. The success in her case is undeniable. And there are thousands more like her.

. . . Controlled scientific studies are in the works [and] the initial findings are particularly challenging to physicians because they do not fit easily into current psychiatric knowledge or theory on bipolar disorder. For patients and physicians alike, it would be a mistake to off-handedly dismiss it.

Charles Popper, M.D. Harvard Medical School Aug. 2007

I'm convinced that humble father, Tony Stephan, discovering a connection between micro-nutrient deficiency and mental health was much more than luck. In her book, Autumn wrote of her father speaking these words:

“We have won a new respect for the mentally ill. They are no longer hopeless if they find Truehope. They are no longer stigmatized if they go on to live a life like the one you are living now. . . . Liberty, Autumn, we won liberty for the captives! Are you trapped anymore? No. Are you afraid anymore? No."
[Then Autumn recounts] I can hear him pounding his steering wheel the way he used to thump the pulpit, before Mom died, before his life was changed forever. And it brings tears to my eyes. “We won a battle that we never even wanted to fight, and there has been a power behind this that goes way beyond our abilities... We won before the fight even started because this victory isn’t mine and it isn’t David’s. It’s an answer to prayer, Autumn. It’s a miracle. It’s a miracle. We have won the right for you to choose to be well, to help as many people as you want to, to help them find their way out of the darkness of mental illness. Autumn, Bonnie Kaplan said it years ago, and I believe it. This may be the most significant breakthrough in mental health since the beginning of time.” (Autumn Stringam, A Promise of Hope, 270)

Those words bring tears to my eyes, too. This is a breakthrough of epic proportion! The above words give me hope that someday, with the research getting to a mainstream audience, the stigma associated with so-called mental issues can vanish. This feeling is marked by Dr. Popper's words, "Make no mistake, this is an historically significant piece of work that is being done."

"Changes the way psychiatry will be practiced." Dr. Bonnie Kaplan (PhD University of Calgary, Pediatrics)

A psychiatrist, Julia Rucklidge, tells it like it is in this video:

God bless Tony Stephan's children! His wife did not die in vain! I count myself extremely blessed to benefit from their story, learning and sacrifices. My family's health is improving because of them and my heart is filled with gratitude.I feel it an honor to introduce this noble family's story to others. I am likewise grateful for David Hardy and his family.

Despite humble beginnings, this formula has netted over 30 medical journal publications and studies by 23 universities in 4 countries. Over 5000 doctors are promoting this product! Third party research continues (see www.micronutrientsupport.com).

There is hope! Optimize your mood naturally and quickly. Some people know in days if this product is working for them. Others need weeks before the benefits show.

I sell EMPowerplus & the new powdered form of it, EMP Lightning which bypasses the gut here:
https://hope.renovaworldwide.com

Contact Micronutrient Support Services to receive advice on a dosage specific to your needs. You do not want to be over medicated and have the mistaken idea that this supplement isn't working, when it is actually working too well and you require LESS of your Rx.

To read "The Story of True Hope - EMPowerplus" by Tony Stephan
CLICK HERE

This is a picture of Autumn Stringam and I at her book review in Lehi, UT. She is a delightful person!

My family and clients are experiencing great differences now that we understand mental clarity, calmness and focus are related not only to what I wrote about in my book (spiritual, emotional and generational aspects) but also to overcoming micronutrient deficiency. What a paradigm shift!

To your health!

Tamara

It is very interesting to me that scientist Dr. Yury Kronn says,

“The difference between the ability of mineralized and distilled waters to hold Subtle Energy patterns suggests that minerals are playing the role of "capacitors" or holders of Subtle Energy. It could very well be that minerals play the same role in the human body."

(Dr. Yury Kronn, PhD; Dr. Jeffrey Marrongelle, DC, CCN; Robert C. Eanes; “Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine: New Paradigms, New Technologies, New Possibilities”; www.pureenergyrx.com; white paper)

Tamara 1/31/13 Tamara 1/31/13

Letter from a Client - Mental Illness a WAR with THOUGHTS

email to author 1/31/13

"Hi Tamara,

I have been passing through lots of interesting experiences and I learned some things that I thought might be of help to your daughter. You mentioned awhile back that her bipolar was bothering her again.

This last week I passed through more pain and insanity than I did when I was in the mental hospital...but I learned some very helpful things.

I finally understand that this whole "bipolar" thing is about the WAR within my thoughts!!!!!!!!

The "negative energy" has used a very effective strategy to destroy my peace. As far as I have understood this is it...

1. They begin with the CONSTANT bombardment of negative thoughts in my own thought/voice. Like wood peckers trying to drill into my brain, these thoughts are constantly inviting me away from Gods Spirits thoughts.

Brother Fletcher call's these "thought viruses". The most effective ones seems to be "I am a victim",
(Etsuko told me that in her experience this "victim thought virus is always involved with a candida overgrowth in the body (which I am FULL of and have been all my life); blaming others,criticisms, etc. are other damning viruses.

Once one little thought chain is listened too, step 2 goes into effect...

2. Open the hole into the brain wider by quickly pouring in more negatively inspired evidence of whatever it was I chose to believe. Over time, depending on how long it takes them to convince me of the truth of their lies, like a chain getting thicker and thick with every accepted lie, and my mind getting darker and my feelings get more contentious and soon the Spirit is gone from my heart. Then they begin step #3.

3. Once I am at the point of angry irrational blindness, I quickly sink into despair (feeling their feelings perhaps + my own at loosing the Spirits companionship?) I have recognized by now that I don't have peace and am praying desperately to get it back but am in a very bad place and I can't see much light or have much hope...it sneaks up. If they can extinguish my hope I am defeated.

This last experience, as I had sunk into despair and could seen no light it felt like an eternity of the pains of hell. The words that seemed to keep me afloat were from the temple...repeating them over and over and pleading with the Lord to save me. I saw the shadowy outlines of 5 negative energy beings working frantically over me (I was lying on my bed, trying to sleep...it was late into the night). I saw them waist up, so they must have been kneeling or sitting through me somehow. They were feverishly working...the motion looked/felt something like whipping an egg. (I believe this must be some kind of energy work...like the motions of Reiki used for negative). Finally I felt the angels of God come and push off the negative energies but their damage hung on for a long time. I fell asleep but I know at least one guardian angel was there still in the morning. Some how they clean and repair during the night. I am so thankful.

Etsuko did distance energy work on me, taught me more about keeping myself more in constant light.

(So this is what I thought might help your daughter...

I've been flooding myself with light...especially my thoughts...

- Daily scriptures and prayer (and as needed...In the "crazy" when I would read the Book of

-M[ormon], Mormon Tab[ernacle] choir hymns CONSTANTLY floating in one ear. When I am monitoring how I am feeling, I can choose to tune in to the music of faith and short circuit the thought viruses.)

-Essential oils (the vitamins by DoTerra are great) especially frankincense on the top of my head, my 3rd eye chakra, my heart chakra, and navel.

-I use Wild Orange or OnGuard (by DoTerra) on the back of my neck, head, and shoulders when I feel the negative energies attack (do you know how they do this? How do they get through my aura? Oil immediately usually stops the pain.

-Healthy diet full of green veggies...word of wisdom...

- Learning to love myself (the EFT has been helpful in this and learning to love my body).

I think my sickness began because of my very damaged heart and the pain of negative emotional "slivers" coming out. I am trying to completely connect every chakra with Father, especially my heart. If He holds my heart, I hope it will feel safe enough to enable me to be a healthy mom and wife.

I know the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of our being are all connected and that I need to be strong in all of these to keep balanced to maintain peace. It seems like if I am weak in any of these areas, I am much more vulnerable to attack.

I stopped eating sugar and processed foods and am working to be free of candida.

I think because I have been so low, the "road way" in my brain is already established. I am quicker to fall, if I start down that path, but IF I DON'T START down the path, they have no power over me.

In summary,

1. I believe my bipolar learning opportunity is caused by negative energies.

2. I have lots of power to choose to stay in "light" places, especially when I know what I am dealing with.

3. This opportunity is being turned into a blessing ... to make me stronger, to give me experience, to motivate me to give my whole soul to my God.

This really is warfare! I hope something of this might be helpful for your daughter.

Do you have any thoughts about how to get my heart chakra healthy? Can someone with a broken/ unattached heart have the gift of Charity...which I think means I would always have the love to give my family?

How to do more cleansing of negative emotional triggers? What do you call what you did with me at Etsuko's house?

I have been free of my meds for 3 years but I think drug residues in my systems are still making me vulnerable. I hate presciption drugs! Do you have any drug cleansing ideas?

Hope you are well. Thank you for all you have taught.

Christy"

(Note: What I did with Christy "at Etsuko's house" was Deep Emotion Release. Brother Fletcher's work can be found at http://thoughtpatternmanagement.com/ )

Tamara 1/2/13 Tamara 1/2/13

Science and Charts on Energy Work

DR. WEST'S CHART

I listened to Dr. Kenneth West from South Africa lecture in the fall of 2012 in North Ogden, Utah. He gave me permission to share this power point slide of his publicly.

“Working with scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it became clear there is a hierarchy of function – the longer the wavelength, the more powerful it is. The longest wavelength measurable is called the Boson and, … it controls the hierarchy. Zero Point is at the top of the pyramid and the Boson creates the descending order of power all the way down to the structural level.

This illustrates why therapies using the waves higher up the pyramid (like energy work, prayer, sound healing) so often produce results superior to those at the bottom of the pyramid, where surgery and biochemical therapies reside. It is also interesting that the further down the pyramid you go, the greater the risk to the patient, the higher the cost and the more irreversible the changes.” (Dr. Kenneth West, “Stress Addiction,” Odyssey, Issue 2 2012, p 44)

I believe Dr. West explained that the techniques listed above the bottom level are examples of using the wavelengths in bold. The "Hierarchy of Function," portrayed in the pyramid above, summarizes some points in my book, Healing Arts - A Gift from God.

VIDEO - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ENERGY HEALING

Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University is the author of eight books and 250 scientific papers. He explains, “We now know that the body heals through frequency, vibration and resonance and it’s communicated through light.”

Here is a very short video of Dr. William Tiller, talking about the scientific research he has done 5 times on the healing modality Reconnective Healing by Dr Eric Pearl. Dr. Tiller mentions developing a device to measure the energy of the space where a workshop was held and how the energy measurably changed - quite drastically, in fact.

Dr. Tiller said, "It isn't an energy effect. It is an entropy effect. Information is being exchanged. Information is being created. When information is being created, entropy decreases...In the process of the Eric Pearl Reconnection (Reconnective) Healing, people are building infrastructure into themselves. Therefore information is growing in the universe. Which means the thermodynamic entropy is decreasing. Which means that nature is restoring itself...It heals the space. It heals our world."

(You can read about this research. "An Experimental Investigation of Some Reconnective-Healing Workshops via a Unique Subtle Energy Detector" is on White Paper XI by William A. Tiller, Ph.D. and Walter E. Dibble, Jr., Ph.D.)

A SIMILAR CHART

A similar chart to the one above that I've titled 5 Levels of Healing by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt is found below (and simplified in my first book on slide # 467. Both charts are in my second book).

Quoting Dr. Klinghardt, one author says:

"Health and illness are a reflection of the state of these 5 levels. ... Any health problem can originate on any of the 5 levels.... An imbalance on one level, if left untreated, spreads upward or downward to the other levels.... Unless upper level imbalances are addressed, restoring balance at the lower levels will not produce long-lasting effects.... Therapeutic intervention at the lower levels has a very slow, and little penetrating effect upwards.... But if you do an intervention on the 3rd or 4th level, it can correct the [block] on the 2nd level immediately, within seconds or minutes, [Dr. Klinghardt] notes." (Stephanie Marohn, The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, 59-60, 72, emphasis added)

Simply put, that sums up what a number of energy work modalities are doing! I believe these processes involve a sacred light, sound, and breath. The field of energy work often involves breathing techniques, unseen light in and around the body and various forms of sound waves. These underlying principles are spoken of in terms the world uses as well as by religious terms. My book Healing Arts - A Gift from God points out that Zero Point Energy, listed at the top of the pyramid above, is related to intelligence in the light of Christ which mentions other scriptural terms for sacred light, sound and breath. Interestingly, cutting edge scientists have found that healing involves vibration, frequency and resonance -- all communicated through light!

What a blessing that Dr. Klinghardt is world renowned for helping autistic patients as well as Lyme patients in his medical practice. I am deeply grateful for this pioneer who teaches other medical doctors his form of applied kinesiology muscle testing as well as how to release unresolved trauma from generations past and other energy healing techniques.

"Dr. Klinghardt estimates that about 70% of mental disorders across the board go back to systemic family issues that need to be treated. People try to treat them psychologically, on the 3rd level and it cannot work. This is not the right level. Similarly, focusing on the biochemistry is not going to fix the problem when the source is at the 4th level." (Stephanie Marohn, The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, 70)

The 4th level is where systemic family issues or generational problems reside. Clearing generational issues is an area that energy work addresses. What a difference this makes for people!

"Unresolved trauma does not appear to go away with death, but plays out in a variety of ways in later generations. Often, unresolved trauma from previous generations becomes the source, and the causative event of illness is later generations.... Most people overlook this and can never help their patients. I use this work for all autistic children that come to my practice.... When we resolve issues in the family history there is often magical improvement in these children. By healing the trauma of the past these children are healed in the present." (Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., "The 5 Levels of Healing" video, www.mercola.com, Tamara Laing's transcribed notes)

These and other quotes and scriptures on the subject of generational healing as well as religious validation for many underlying principles of energy healing are mentioned in my first book but delved into in my second book. Some of these quotes are in my DVD "What Else Is There?" Like Dr. Klinghardt, and a host of facilitators of energy work, we attest that changes in health and behavior can happen quickly today -- just like they did when facilitated by mortals in Bible times. Believing in these techniques is not a requirement for them to work, only a willingness to try is. Belief, however, adds even more to one's results. Faith is a literal power as "Thought" near the top of Dr. West's pyramid attests!

Another professional paper has a chart on 6 strengths that the field of Energy Medicine has. It is described here:

The current status of energy medicine and its increasing challenge to the biochemical paradigm that has dominated conventional medicine are reviewed. While energy medicine represents only a small fraction of one percent of the 2.2 trillion dollar health care industry, six properties of energy medicine give it strengths that could augment conventional health care models.

These include the ways energy medicine

1) can address biological processes at their energetic foundations (reach),

2) regulates biological processes with precision, speed, and flexibility (efficiency),

3) fosters healing and prevents illness with interventions that can be readily, economically, and non-invasively applied (practicality),

4) includes methods that can be utilized on an at-home, self-help basis, fostering a stronger patient and practitioner partnership in the healing process (patient empowerment),

5) adopts non-linear concepts consistent with distant healing, the healing impact of prayer, and the role of intention in healing (quantum compatibility), and

6) strengthens the integration of body, mind, and spirit, leading not only to a focus on healing, but to achieving greater well-being, peace, and passion for life (holistic orientation).”

David Feinstein, PhD and Donna Eden; “Six Pillars of Energy Medicine - Clinical Strengths of a Complementary Paradigm”

http://www.innersource.net/em/107-resources/publishedarticles/283-sixpillarsofem-dp1.html

The Story of True Hope for Mental Illness

Turn a ‘Mess’ into a Message with the "Praise Principle”

Incredible Help for Bipolar, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, OCD,.. and other Brain Disorders

Letter from a Client - Mental Illness a WAR with THOUGHTS

Science and Charts on Energy Work

CONTACT

FOLLOW US!