10 Ways To Naturally Avoid Colds and Flu (...And What To Do When They Come Knocking!)

Traditional Naturopath and Master Herbalist, Christine Agro shares her insight on using natural remedies to avoid colds and flu and offers tips and recipes to help you speed your recovery, should you get sick. She shares information for both you and your child because as mom to a now 8 year old, she understands the importance of keeping everyone healthy.

50 Ways to Live Life Conscious: 8 Tools and 42 Concepts to Help You Wake-Up and Live

"Life is a journey. Spiritual evolution is a spiral. Living a conscious life puts you in the driver’s seat of your own magnificently spiraling journey." Christine Agro We've been asleep at the wheel of our lives and the time is now to wake-up and start steering! In this inspirational book, metaphysical expert Christine Agro shares 8 simple yet powerful tools, life changing insight into why we are here and how our lives work, as well as 42 concepts that encourage and support conscious living.

Delhi and Connecticut; Is There a Connection?

As individuals we can refuse to heed the gentle messages being sent to us from a higher source that our lives are moving in the wrong direction or are out of alignment with our true life plan. That higher source for you may be God, The Universe or as in my belief, your own Spirit. If we refuse to listen to these gentle messages, the messages get louder and louder until we can’t ignore them. The loudest messages have a ‘rip the rug out from under you’ dynamic. They are messages that tell us that change not only needs to happen, but will happen.

January 1st, 2013 - Ring in The New Year Energetically With ChristineAgro - Tele-Event

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January 1, 2013 at 9AM ET

Join Christine Agro for her annual 'Ring in The New Year Energetically' event.

Christine shares her insight into what the year ahead holds for us energetically and will walk you through an energetic experience to clear out the past and set the stage for your year ahead.

Participants from past years agree, this is a great way to start the New Year.

Register by December 27, 2012

(This event is part of Journey of a Thousand Women 2012/13- if you are in this course, you do not need to register for this event, just please note there is only one class on January 1st and it is at 9:00 AM ET, not 9:30.)

Motivate Your Self-Worth: Tele-Course

Our self-worth is a factor in every relationship we have and since every interaction we have constitutes a relationship, our self-worth is key in living the life we desire.

We have a relationship with our selves. We have a relationship with family, with friends, with loved ones, with co-workers, with our boss. We have a relationship with money, with love and with time.

Every interaction forms a relationship and our self-worth will impact whether these relationships are good, bad, challenging, easy, health or unhealthy.

Self-worth becomes one of the ‘buzz’ words that can mean very little. You may be thinking ‘but I like myself’ so why do I struggle with some of my relationships. Because self-worth is not just about liking your self, self-worth is about valuing yourself, it’s about trusting yourself, it’s about honoring yourself, it’s about believing in your self.

In this powerful 12 week course we will delve deep into our self-worth to release, heal, honor, embrace, and ignite our self-worth.

You will do the work. You will gain insight and learn tools to help you improve your self-worth.

In addition to class time, please plan on investing an hour a day to practice.  You will also need a hands-free headset.

This course is taught via tele-conference.

There are no pre-requirements for this course.

This course is broken into two six weeks sessions.

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"Tools To Live By" 6 week Tele-Course begins Monday, June 4th

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We have tools for building, tools for gardening, tools for effective communication, and tools for managing our business. Why? Because it allows us to be in the driver seat, to manage our experiences, and to generate more form our experiences and efforts.

Tools To Live By (TM) offers you simple tools that when used daily can and will change your life. We understand the need to manage externally, now it's time to understand and gain the benefits of learning to manage internally.

In this class you will learn to manage your energy, your space, your emotions, your experiences and your relationships.

You'll learn six simple tools that when combined create a powerful space from which you can create positive change in your life.

Tools To Live By (TM) is a six week course that meets once a week. There are two sessions (Mondays at 11 AMT ET or 8 pm ET) making it easier for people with different needs to attend the class that works with their timezone and personal life demands.

This class is experiential, like all of Christine's work, which means you won't be simply listening, you will be learning tools and exploring them in each and every class.

This is not a magic potion though. What you gain from this class will be directly connected to your desire to shift and grow, and your commitment to use the tools daily for up to an hour, once we get into the class.

So, if you are ready to learn how to manage from the inside out, ready to get your life flowing and ready to create conscious change in your life sign-up for the next Tools To Live By (TM) course now!

All classes are taught via Tele-Conference.  You can call-in or Skype in.  Cellphones are not recommended.  Your regular long-distance charges will apply. It is highly recommended that you use a headset (not ear buds with the teeny tiny cellphone mic)  for this class.  It enables your hands to be free, your body to be comfortable and your voice to be heard and it tends to eliminate echos on the line.

This class is recommended if you plan on taking Christine's 12 Month Clairvoyant and Conscious Living Program in the Fall of 2012.

BONUS - Sign-up for Tools to Live By and receive a complimentary 6 month membership in The Conscious Living Guide membership site (weekly meditations, monthly ASK Christine on-line chats and more...) And get 50 Ways To Live Life Consciously as a gift!

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Why I'm Broken Up About LEGO

LEGO  has been in the news a lot since they unveiled LEGO FREINDS at the beginning of 2012. LEGO FRIENDS are made specifically with girls in mind. Many people are saying ‘what’s the big deal? They’re toys.” or “I don’t see anything wrong with them?” I find many things wrong with LEGO FRIENDS, but many of these same things we can find in so many other toys – subtle messages that tell our girls who they are, what they are capable of and what opportunities are available. That’s why some people feel like ‘so what?’ We are so conditioned to accept programming in our lives, that the action of speaking out about something is increasingly foreign to us.

In an opinion piece by David Horsey in the LA Times entitled “Are Lego Friends the Enemy of American Girls?” he basically says – 'hey they aren’t so bad, I’ve even checked with my feminist daughter who doesn’t seem to mind them.’ (I paraphrase) He goes on to say in his opinion, this isn’t one of the things we should be focused on.  I whole-heartedly disagree with him and here's why.

You Can Run For Election, You Can Vote...If You Can Get There

You Can Run For Election, You Can Vote...If You Can Get There
By Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

When I read the news that women in Saudi Arabia had been given the right to both run for election and vote without the approval of a male guardian, I was at first excited and then I felt like I was revisiting that famous Seinfeld episode with the rental car. “You know how to take the reservation. You just don’t know how to hold the reservation.”

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has lifted the ban on women being able to run for election as well as the ban on women voting, but women are still not allowed to travel, work, study abroad, marry, get divorced or gain admittance to a public hospital without permission from a male guardian.

Hence my Seinfeldian experience. Unless the woman who runs for office actually has the support of the men in her life she can run, but how will she actually hold office? She can’t drive, travel or work for that matter. And Saudi Arabian women have been given the right to vote, but if voting takes place a step outside their doors, unless a man gives permission to travel, they will not be able to exercise this right.

The King might as well have given women the right to fly to the moon. I’m all for ‘something is better than nothing’ but I just can’t see the silver lining in this. King Abdullah has pushed for changes in women’s right, but this seems like a hollow gesture, unless he has a master-mind plan of easing women’s rights slowly into their culture so that it creates limited friction among the ultra conservative.  Maybe the case as the lifting of the ban doesn't go into effect until 2015.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime – congratulations to the women of Saudia Arabia for winning the right to run for office as well as winning the right to vote. I hope you can freely exercise both.

Redefining Resolution

Redefining Resolution
By Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

It’s that time of year again – New Year’s Resolution time. Although studies vary, with a range between 75% and 98%, the general consensus is the majority of us fail at fulfilling our New Year’s Resolutions. The same studies lay blame on process, intention, self-help gurus, but maybe the reason we don’t succeed has nothing to do with any of these things. Maybe, our inability to stick with our resolutions has to do with the word itself.

The world resolve has two meanings. As a verb it means to settle or find a solution to a distasteful situation. As a noun it means to have a firm determination to do something. As someone who is always interested in the energy behind words – if you ‘RESOLVE’ (in its verb form) you are sitting in some pretty negative energy. You are resolving to find a solution to an otherwise unpleasant situation. If you have a RESOLVE (in its noun form) to accomplish something – it’s a much more powerful energy. You are committed even determined to manifest what you have set out to do.

So you see, there are two totally different energies for the exact same word. When I hear someone speak of New Year’s Resolutions – almost always what I hear is “I’m resigned that this will always be like this.” Rarely do I hear people speak of resolutions with an impassioned determination to create change in their life. When I do, they undoubtedly succeed.

As with all change in our life, it doesn’t come easy or free. We have to want it and demonstrate that we are willing to do the work to get it. Creating change in our lives is connected to conscious living. If you live unconsciously you eat unconsciously, you speak unconsciously, you work unconsciously and your statements of resolution are words not intentions.  When you live consciously everything you do from the food you choose to the words you use to the friends you surround yourself with, everything, becomes a conscious choice.

As we sit at the brink of a new year, what are you determined to change? What do you have a RESOLVE to do this year?

Join Christine Agro For A New Year's Day Meditation

Set The Stage 

2012 Meditation

Join Christine Agro on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 9 am ET for an hour long meditation and energy work session to help you set the stage for the year ahead.

Christine will incorporate the information she has gathered about the year ahead, to help you move into the new year in harmony and alignment.

Meeting via Tele-conference.  After you register you will receive information about how to join the call.

Your regular long-distance charges will apply.

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Live Your Life – Sometimes Easy To Say, But Not To Do

As women we can be confronted with many blocks to living a fully empowered life and please remember I’m not just talking about women in North America. This is women around the world. Laws, religion, culture, society and family all offer blocks for women to live their own life. I call these blocks ‘symptoms of our dis-empowerment’. They are the situations, experiences and beliefs that keep us from truly living our life.

Take a woman living in India - her culture, her family even her religion may say her role, her purpose is to marry. Take a woman living in Jerusalem -her society, her religion tells her she must sit at the back of the bus. Take a woman living in Egypt -her society and laws tell her she cannot vote. Take a woman living in Saudi Arabia - her society and laws say she cannot drive.

Yet in each of these countries woman are claiming their right to live their lives. How do I define ‘right’? I define it as our ability to see within ourselves and within others innate personal value. The ability to not buy into a notion of less, lacking or limit based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. To see that laws, rules, guidelines and acceptable mores are subjective based on the influence of those who ultimately benefit by what is established and followed as the truth.

Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment: Comment Is Prime Example

Recently I launched a project called "Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment" by posting a YouTube video as an introduction.

Someone with a username "Shmiggen" left this enlightening comment:

The reason why young girls are beginning to fight one another is because they are being told they can be too many things at once: powerful, slutty, ambitious, etc etc. We all know that women's best attributes are when they are in charge of a small, nuclear family, where they can be home-makers and wives.

I'd like to thank Shmiggen for offering case-in-point the messages of dis-empowerment that exist in this world.  All though it wasn't his intention - his comment may become a focal point for this project.

If you'd like to contribute to Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment please visit the website, read the "how to contribute" page and register as a contributor. You will then be able to upload your contribution for review.

Fertility: Is it percentages or something else? A Metaphysical Look AtConception, Pregnancy and Parenthood

On Today Health I found this article, Fertility math? Most women flunk, survey finds -Basic conception stats masked by glamorous over-40 mommies like Mariah written by JoNell Aleccia.  Where it is an excellent and relevant article from a physiological perspective, it allows me to share my Metaphysical insight into conception and pregnancy.

As with everyone in our lives, conception, at the Spiritual level, comes down to an agreement.  In this case between baby, Mom and Dad (that's in it's simplest form - if donors, surrogates and adoption are added in then you have more guests in the agreement party, but for ease of discussion we'll look at Baby, Mom and Dad). An agreement is the contract between Spirits that details the how, why and whatfore we will be in each others lives.  If you've worked with me or listen to my radio show you know I speak often about the core purpose we are all here - which is to learn, heal and grow as Spiritual beings.  It is through our relationships that we explore this purpose and it is through our agreements that the stage gets set for us to encounter the lessons that will help us learn, heal and grow.

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Thoughts From My Shower: On Money and Manifesting

Today's "Thoughts From My Shower" focuses on money and manifesting. This month, as in many months, I found myself, not worrying, but definitely not flowing around and within my money space. Toward the end of the month as I again got to the bottom of my checking account I energetically threw my hands up and said "fine, I'm done worrying about this. I'm either where I'm supposed to be or I am not." The minute I did that, I felt the energy shift in my space and wouldn't you know it...money flowed.

Fully Empowered Radio: Can We Have Different Realities? Postponed

 

Do to technical upgrades at SQR.FM, Fully Empowered with Christine Agro will be on a random broadcast for the next few weeks.

When I return - I will return with "Can We Have Different Realities?"

Is your 'Here and Now' the same as my 'Here and Now'?

I happened upon a scientist's blog who was incensed by the 'new age' reference of creating one's own reality.  He was adamant that there is only 'one' reality. Let's talk about this! What does it mean to your to create your own reality?  Leave your comments here or call in to the show to discuss.  I'll share my metaphysical thoughts as well!

Fully Empowered Radio: Wednesday October 12th - Creative Vision Mentor Day

 

Every second Wednesday of the month, join Christine Agro as she welcomes a listener looking for guidance, direction and insight into furthering their passion and purpose.This Wednesday Christine welcomes Amy Sophiella founder of Journey Gems.  Amy handcrafts amazing and powerful jewelry designed to inspire, encourage and support women on their journeys.

Tune in to find out what Amy is working on and what insight Christine has to help Amy spiral out even more into the amazing life she is creating for herself.

Welcome to My Über AHA moment'!

By Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

Throughout the years I have had many  'aha' moments - you know, an 'aha' moment is when you seemingly, suddenly have this awareness about something in your life or some life question suddenly has a clarity to it.

Well for me, some 'aha' moments are more poignant the others, somehow, more clear, more life changing. I call these 'Über Aha' moments

This morning I had one of those über moments of clarity.

For you to get the true signfigance of this moment, I need to rewind and give you the back story on this.

Almost 11 years ago exactly, I enrolled in a month long yoga teacher training program which would have me venture off to live at an ashram for the month of October and immerse myself in my passion for yoga.  I have an innate love of yoga.  I love seeing what my body can do, the way I feel when I practice yoga and the benefits it gives to my body.

After the training program I opened my own wellness center in Boulder, Colorado and I personally was teaching 11 classes a week and loving it.  I was in the best physical shape of my life.  I felt great and I looked great.

My center was open for just under a year when 9/11 happened and for the days and weeks after I began feeling a pull to move to NYC.  There was no question on an energetic level I was being asked to come to the city.  It made sense, the city required a lot of healing and healers were answering the call.  I too choose to answer the call so I closed my center and began my meandering move to NYC.  I put most of my belongings in a storage unit.  Then packed up my JEEP with two bags of clothes, two file boxes of client files, my desktop computer and my two dogs Pebbles and Miranda and left Colorado. This trek consisted of staying with friends, sleeping on couches - although I knew in my heart I was headed to NYC, I wasn't ready just yet.  I first landed in Montreal for a brief stay. Then made my way to Lake Placid where I set up shop for a short period.  I taught my Tools to Live By class, a Female Uniqueness class, and offered an intro to Yoga class.  Yoga was still very much a daily part of my life and I was still completely in love with what it offered my body.

Then one day I did a reading for a woman.  She had been a Yoga teacher and after an injury was unable to not only teach Yoga but she also was unable to do Yoga any more.  I remember seeing in the reading how much her EGO was wrapped up in her approach to Yoga.  Did I see my own matching picture...nope! Instead I thought to myself "I can't imagine not being able to teach or do Yoga."   A month later I had a cyst rupture on my ovary.  A 'normal' person would have gone to the hospital the pain was that bad as were the fever and chills.  But not me, I pulled out my natural healing tool box and nursed myself back to a functioning state.

Around the same time, my now husband who was living in NYC emailed me and invited me down to for a visit.  We had dated, briefly, years before when I was an undergraduate at SUNY Buffalo Art school and he was a graduate student. The May before the Towers fell, I had been in NYC and he and I reconnected and spent a lovely day walking around the city.  So when he emailed with his invitation for a visit I accepted.  When I arrived it was clear to him that I wasn't well and he spent the weekend taking care of me, which I have to say was nice.  Within a month my dogs and I were packed up and moving to NYC.  I was finally there, where I had been called to.  It took me eight months to get there, but I was there.  As I began to navigate the city, I could only go out for about 15 to 20 minutes at a time.  The city exhausted me.  If I got too close to Ground Zero I got a splitting headache and nauseous.  The city itself gave me an amazing opportunity to learn how to manage my energy on a whole new level.  A true gift as I came to say "If you can manage your energy here, you can manage your energy anywhere!"

As my body continued to heal, I tried to return to Yoga, but each and every time, something would happen that knocked me back.  More fatigue, more ovary issues.  Eventually I let it go and concentrated on the energetics of my Spiritual journey.  I began exploring mantras and mudras and the power of sacred geometry, all the while continuing my hourly meditation practice.  It was within my meditation space that I was given the information about allowing our Spirit to guide us and the benefits of aligning all the aspects of our being with our own Spirit.  When I got pregnant in 2003, Yoga returned as a way to support my gestating son.  I did daily yoga, breathing exercises and continued my hourly meditation practice.  But once my son was born in 2004, Yoga disappeared from my life again.

After another three-years of a yoga-less life, I found a way to go to an early morning yoga class.  One that allowed me to get up and out of the house and back before my son needed to get his own day going.  So I was once again immersed in Yoga and loving it.  My beloved shape and flexibility was returning to my body and I was excelling in advance Asanas.  I was looking and feeling great.

And then it happened, the ovary, again!  I couldn't believe it.  I was so angry, yet I knew this had something to do with my EGO body.  It had something to do with the way in which I was using Yoga, seeing Yoga, and engaging in Yoga.  So I gave myself time to heal and left Yoga behind one more time.

Skip ahead two more years, and right, almost, next-door to us in Brooklyn, a Pilates studio opened.   The timing of the classes were perfect.  The classes themselves were less than an hour long - perfect again.  So I signed up.  Within weeks I was a die-hard Pilates student.  I loved it.  My body was shaping up, I was losing weight and I felt great.  Until one day, I found that I couldn't use my wrist.  I was unable to type it was so painful.  When I went to class I explained to my teacher what was happening.  She watched me through my workout and there was nothing indicating it was from Pilates.  As I continued with classes my wrist got worse and worse and only got better when I didn't take class.  So, I begrudgingly stopped going to Pilates.

Again I found myself looking at this and knowing that in someway this was connected to my EGO Body.  But I aside from knowing that, I really wasn't seeing why I couldn't be excited about my body and excited to look good and feel good.  By this point I was fully into aligning with Spirit and living in alignment - wasn't I?

Skip ahead to today.  The journey I have been on is very much about living fully and completely as Spirit with a body and in living this way, creating a state of being where no aspect of myself (mental, emotional, ego) overrides or stands apart from living as a Spirit.  By living in this way, I fully embody the power of my Spirit and it is the mental, emotional and ego aspects of myself that manifest the intentions of Spirit in the physical world.  The mind's job is to know Spirit, the emotion's role is the feel Spirit and the ego's role is the manifest the intention of Spirit.  Aligning with our Spirit is not about doing away with these aspects, it is about understanding their roles and allowing our Spirit to guide and direct us.

So today, as I was driving home from dropping my now 7 year old son off at school, I finally get why I kept getting pushed out of activities that led me to 'love' the way my body looked and felt.  Although I thought I was in alignment, it is clear to me now that I was not and just as with any other time that an aspect of me steps out of alignment, I am alerted.  These physical manifestations were the way in which I was being alerted to this out of alignment in my EGO.  I knew this.  I knew this each and every time I got derailed that it had to do with my EGO. The difference today was that I experienced a whole being 'aha' awareness of how, why and in what way I step out of alignment when I focus on my body.  I could see it all so clearly.

The insight that came with the 'aha' was invaluable and it will change the way I approach so many seemingly inconsequential activities.  It gives me the opportunity to even more fully live in Spiritual alignment.  This is what I call the 'Über-Aha moment'!

I am constantly enthralled with this journey and with the ways in which we are given information and insight to help and support us.  Now, here's hoping I can get back to Yoga as a fully aligned being.  I do miss it so.

 

Christine Agro is The Metaphysical Feminist, offering a unique perspective on being a woman.  Christine has been working with women around the world helping them to live in the Feminine Principle and create fully empowered lives.  Christine is the host of Fully Empowered with Christine Agro on www.SQRadio.FM , posts FEMNEWS daily on her website FullyEmpowere.net, via twitter and facebook and she is a frequent guest on radio shows around the world.

Fully Empowered Radio: September 21st - Suppressed History of Women in Power

 



 



Join Christine with her special guest Max Dashú, teacher of global women's history and heritages through images. Christine and Max will be speaking about Max's DVD "Women's Power in Global Perspective" which details the lost history of women in power throughout the ages.This is sure to be a fascinating conversation!

Max Dashú teaches global women's history and heritages through images. She founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research female spheres of power, goddess

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veneration, shamanic arts, mother-right, patriarchy and the history of domination. Drawing on a collection of over 20,000 images, she has created over one hundred visual presentations, and presented them at universities around North America, and at community centers, conferences, festivals, prisons, libraries, and schools. (See http://www.suppressedhistories.net)

Dashú has spoken at many universities and at international conferences in Germany, Bulgaria, and Britain. Her articles have appeared in Goddesses in World Culture (Praeger, 2010) and various journals and anthologies. She teaches online courses and webinars, maintains a blog (http://www.sourcememory.net/veleda/ ) and has published several posters of female iconography in archaeology. Her acclaimed dvd Women's Power in Global Perspective was released in 2008, and a second movie, Woman Shaman: the Ancients, is now in production.

Fully Empowered Radio: September 14th - Creative Vision Mentor Day

 

Do you know when you are getting a message from Spirit or are you hitting blocks and resistance energy?  This month's Creative Vision Mentor Guest is asking just that question.

Join Christine and her Creative Vision Mentor guest Coleen.

Coleen is a healer and a massage therapist and she is on her own journey to discover more about herself.  Tune in to find out if Coleen is receiving messages from Spirit, or hitting resistance energy around what she thinks she should be doing.  It's something we all experience at one time or another - is it a message? or is it a block?