As I've written before on this blog, I have opposed the health insurance mandate in the health care bill because I feel it removes our freedom of choice to spend our health care dollars on alternative medicine.

While I've had some say to me, "but you can get some health insurance plans that cover alternative health," these plans will never cover more esoteric things such as Reiki or other types of energy healing. (Never mind that I don't want the health insurance industry to start encroaching on my Reiki business.)

The health care bill as it stands will mean that in 2014, all Americans will have to buy health insurance, whether they want it or not. Tax credits aren't going to help you each month when you have a hefty bill to pay. From one analyst's calculations, the anticipated cost for an individual will be around $15,000/year, and you will not be able to get a catastrophic policy anymore:

It is always strange to see yourself on TV...but here I am, teaching a past life regression workshop at RakSa in Culver City, Los Angeles:

I have just started offering healing, hypnosis and coaching sessions at RakSa, a beautiful new space in Culver City (West Los Angeles). I am offering free 1/2 introductory Reiki or Angel Healing sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10 am and 3 pm until February 4, 2010.

To schedule, call 310.559.7200

http://raksasala.com

Finally, after much agonizing, I have pretty much finished the new site design for Feel Good Girl. I kept the basic color scheme and added some girlie touches (woo hoo!). There are still lots of little details to take care of but I hope this makes the site easier to use.

Part of my intention behind the site update was to make this site to function more as an online magazine with news and information about holistic health, energy healing and more.

If you like the site and would like to support it, please consider sending a small donation:

http://feelgoodgirl.com/donate

If you check the donation page, you'll see there are some nice bonuses...things that are cheaper than if you paid for them elsewhere. I'll leave that as a teaser in hopes you'll at least click on the link! ;-)

More to come...namaste!
Stephanie

Thank you to everyone who has sent in kind comments about my website. I am looking to upgrade and enhance it - more content, more news, more holistic resources, more frequent updates. Perhaps not quite as overflowing with content as, say, NaturalNews.com...but covering a lot of alternative health issues and adding more spirit to the mix.

Embarking on such a project takes either time or money. Or time that can be spent making more money. Both of which I am in somewhat short supply of. Therefore, if you have enjoyed my site in some small way, and would like to ease my burden just a tad, a small donation would be greatly appreciated. $5-10 would be great, but even $1 would do:

http://feelgoodgirl.com/donate

However, I would not turn down the help of a magic donor who gives me a lot more. :-)

This economy is kind of sucking for a lot of us, so your generosity is appreciated. If money you do not have, then send good wishes.

Thanks and namaste,
Stephanie

I'll be finishing up Xen Healing Level 3 this weekend. As a special pre-order package, you can order all levels of the Xen Healing audio courses (Levels 1, 2 and 3) for the discounted price of $100 until Monday, August 17, 2009.

You will receive:

Xen Healing Level 1 audio course
Xen Healing Level 2 audio course
Xen Healing Level 3 audio course (to be delivered Monday, August 17)
Personal evaluation and certification for each level (valued at $25 per level)

More information on each level can be found here:
http://elementalreiki.com/xenhealing

If you have already ordered Xen Healing Levels 1 and/or 2, you are welcome to order this discounted package and I will give you a Xen Healing "Works" distance healing session for each level you have already purchased, value $100 (see http://xenhealing.com/distancehealing.html). You can use this healing for yourself or another.

You can get the courses here:
http://elementalreiki.com/xenhealingpackage

Since my post about Amma, the Hugging Saint, I have had quite a bit of activity in the comments section. For the longest time I simply moderated all my comments to deal with spam. This, however, can take up a lot of time when people are getting into heated discussions over controversial gurus.

I also found the comments were getting confusing, because quite a lot of people were posting as "anonymous" and this was not accurately reflecting the diversity (or sometimes lack thereof) in the posters.

So I've changed the comments set-up here in a variety of ways:

1. People must register for an account to post comments. This will probably reduce the number of commenters unfortunately, but it's the only way to distinguish one commenter from another. You can still be anonymous, you just need to pick a screen name for yourself.

I have created a home-study course in how to heal using "virtual" flower essences. No prior healing experience required. If you are interested in learning more, you can check out the course info page here:

http://virtualfloweressences.com/certifiedpractitioner