Wellness Coaching: The Benefits of Upper Cervical Care

In 1995, I was introduced to a specific type of chiropractic care known as "upper cervical care". At that time, X-rays were taken by a chiropractic physician of my skull and upper spine and it was revealed that I had developed an abnormal curvature of my top vertebrae known as a vertebral subluxation. I was then shown an X-ray of a normal, healthy spine and the difference was dramatic.


My doctor explained that the fatigue, dizziness, and TMJ syndrome that I had been enduring for so many years was no doubt caused by the two auto accidents I had when I was a teenager. He said that car accidents are one of the major causes of vertebral subluxations, but even a fall or slight trauma to the head or back could be enough to contribute to a misalignment of the upper curvature of the spine.


The brain facilitates communication via trillions of nerve fibers to every part of the body via the spinal cord. In between the spinal cord and the brain is a bundle of nerves called the brain stem. This brain stem acts as the control center for functions of the body such as breathing, heartbeat, motor function, equilibrium, and the regulation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Because of the important neural structures concentrated in this small portion of the nervous system, the slightest of damage to this area may have dramatic effects.


The brain stem is sheathed by the atlas (C1) and axis (C2) vertebrae and when completely aligned and freed of nerve interference (from upper cervical care adjustments), the rest of the spine and skeleton will automatically realign itself (like a domino effect), thus restoring the nervous system to its optimally healthy state. As a result of this vertebral realignment, the body is allowed to reclaim its anabolic state where it will regenerate tissue, repair cellular damage and heal.


Upper cervical care is gentle and non-invasive. It is completely painless and you barely feel anything when adjusted. You simply lie down on your side and the chiropractic physician makes the adjustment on the upper cervical area, just below the atlas. It is this inter-relationship between the upper cervical spine (neck) the central nervous system, and the brain stem, that affects every aspect of human function, including touch, hearing, sight, mental processing, regulation of hormones, motor control, and immune system regulation. But perhaps most importantly, when properly aligned, it helps the body maintain an anabolic state of repair and renewal. The main goal of NUCCA (National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association) is to maximize the human health potential associated with the reduction of the Atlas Subluxation Complex (ASC).


The re-alignment of bones takes time (kinda like straightening teeth). The chronic dizziness that I endured for over five years slowly dissipated and healed within two years of upper cervical care. And my overall energy and health has improved quite dramatically over the years, especially since I have been living in a pain-, stress, anxiety-free mode. I've learned that living a life without stress significantly accelerates the healing process and contributes greatly to your sense of well-being.


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Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, astrology readings, and spiritual counseling.

Wellness Coaching: The Importance of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

The health benefits of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids were discovered in the 1970s by researchers studying the Greenland Intuit Tribe. The Greenland Inuit people consumed large amounts of fat from seafood, but displayed virtually no heart disease. The high intake of omega-3 fatty acids by the Inuit actually showed to reduce heart rate, triglycerides, blood pressure, and atherosclerosis.

Since 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the “qualified health claim” status to EPA and DHA omega−3 fatty acids, stating that “supportive but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA [omega−3] fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.” Healthy ratios of omega-3 to omega-6 are between 1:1 to 1:4. In the modern American diet, the ratio is problematic 1:20. Studies have suggested that the evolutionary paleo human diet, rich in game animals, seafood, and other sources of omega−3, may have provided such a close ratio to omega-6.

Beware of products that promote their healthy “omega-3” content but contain ALA, not DHA or EPA. The body must convert ALA (found in plant oils) into DHA or EPA, and are therefore less effective. DHA and EPA are manufactured by marine algae and are consumed by fish who accumulate it in their internal organs. Great sources of omega-3 fatty acids are: flaxseed oil, arctic krill, sardines, and salmon.
Other benefits of EPA and DHA consumption include the reduction of circulatory problems, such as varicose veins, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiac arrhythmia. There is also evidence to suggest that EPA supplementation is helpful with depression and anxiety. Furthermore, research suggests that increased fish oil intake may reduce the risk of stroke and many studies used significantly higher doses without any major side effects (for example: 4.4 grams EPA/2.2 grams DHA in a 2003 study).

Several studies have reported possible anti-cancer effects of omega−3 fatty acids in breast, colon, and prostate cancer. Omega-3 reduced prostate tumor growth and increased survival rate among mice. Neither long-chain nor short-chain forms of omega-3 fatty acids have been associated with breast cancer risk. High levels of DHA were associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer. A 2007, a study of omega-3 fatty acids and cachexia found evidence that oral omega-3 supplements benefit cancer patients, improving appetite, weight, and quality of life. A 2009 trial found that a supplement of EPA helped cancer patients retain muscle mass.

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Personal Life Coaching - Fulfilling Your True Life’s Purpose

Are you presently doing what you absolutely love to do every day of your life? If you could choose anything you’d like to do everyday, and be passionate about it, what would that be? What would motivate you into action and what would make you jump out of bed every morning with excitement and joy? When it comes to determining your true life’s purpose, you have to stretch out with your feelings. As Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss.”

You are the universe and the universe is you. When it comes to realizing your true life’s purpose, one of the first things I teach to my clients is the truth in this statement. Your connection to everything is more profound than you probably realize. When you become aware of how interactive the universe is, your fear, doubt, and disbelief about what you can accomplish will begin to dissolve. The truth is, the entire universe is inside you. There is no “out there.” It’s all inside your mind, or, if you’re spiritually enlightened — inside your heart.

So, the first step is to ruminate on this truth. Serendipity, synchronicity, and what appears to be coincidence in your life is the universe’s attempt at communicating this to you. Look for the “god winks” in your daily life for verification of this truth. They may come in very subtle ways. For example, creative thoughts may come into your awareness and the words that are communicated to you may be “echoed” in the television, radio, or by someone else in the room. Another example is when numbers on a clock reflect your birth date whenever your thoughts ruminate on your true vocation.

The second step toward realizing your true life’s purpose is to understand that the universe is your friend. It is constantly conspiring in your favor. It can’t grow without your input. So, instead of believing that you are merely a biological meat-sack that only takes up space and burns through valuable resources, start shifting your consciousness to understanding that you are needed, in fact, required for the universe to continue to enrich itself and prosper.

Most people fail at actualizing their true potential because of one word; belief. This is the third and final step toward self realization. Most people simply don’t believe that they are worthy of their own divinity. If you can unlearn, recondition, and deprogram your mind from what you’ve taught by the current system of control, then you will be truly free and will be living your life in a constant state of peace, bliss, and wonderment. And what could be better than that?

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, astrology readings, and spiritual counseling.

Spiritual Counseling: Are We Living in the Matrix?

In Latin, the word holographus is derived from late Greek holographos. The root “holos” is defined as “whole or complete.” The holographic principle is a property of quantum physics and string theory which states that all the information in this three-dimensional universe that we call our reality is stored as a two-dimensional hologram.

One of the world’s most respected quantum physicists and former protege of Einstein, David Bohm, as well as the esteemed neuroscientist, Karl Pribram, believed that the universe is a hologram, a construct of sorts, created by the human mind. Sound familiar? If you think this sounds a lot like the storyline behind “The Matrix Trilogy,” then you would be right. No doubt, its creators, Larry and Andy Wachowski derived many of their concepts for their movie trilogy from the holographic theories of Bohm and Pribram.

Interestingly enough, this revolutionary new way of perceiving the universe explains not only many of the unsolved problems of physics, but also the unsolved supernatural mysteries such as telekinesis, telepathy, levitation, remote viewing, teleportation, near-death experiences (NDE’s), out of body experiences (OBE’s), kundalini awakenings, and other experiences of miraculous healings and cosmic (unity) consciousness.

Within a black hole, the rules and laws of our three-dimensional reality dissolve completely. I propose that the black hole singularity is, in fact, a portal to this two-dimensional reality which is much like a data bank where all of information of our holographic universe is stored. I also propose that what the ancient Hindu Vedic texts refer to as “the unmanifest,” or “source,” is also describing the black hole (whole) singularity.This 2D unmanifested reality can also be interpreted as a “reality potential” or where information is compacted and stored efficiently without any hint of form.

The holographic principle states that the sum total of everything that exists, either known or unknown, real or unreal, detectable or undetectable, is an illusory reality. Our brains act as some sort of quantum computer that constructs this reality based on frequencies from a two-dimensional realm. What we perceive through the five senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and sound are simply electrical impulses interpreted by our quantum computer brain. The two-dimensional realm is a patterned primary reality that transcends time and space. The 2D realm preceded the 3D realm. We came from it — not the reverse. This is the true purpose of the black hole. In other words, the brain is a holographic construct translating data from a two-dimensional reality (via the black hole) into a much larger construct (holographic universe) that we define as our three-dimensional reality.

Bohm suggested that if we were to observe the universe without the lenses that outfit our telescopes, it would appear to us as a hologram. Pribram expanded this idea by stating that if we were to view our three-dimensional reality with out the lenses that outfit our eyes, it would also appear as a hologram. After looking closely at what these modern physicists have to say about the nature of our universe, it would seem that modern science is finally catching up with ancient wisdom.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, astrology readings, and spiritual counseling.

Spiritual Counseling: The Seven Perceptions of God

The concept of God varies from soul to soul depending on each individual’s stage of evolutionary growth. When the soul is in its “infant stage,” it views God as a parent who looks after it, protects it and nurtures it. Our very own existence depends upon our faith in this God to take care of us and when someone else does not follow our God, our fight-or-flight mechanism is activated, threatening our very sense of survival.

As the soul matures into its “toddler stage,” the soul begins to develop its ego. At this point, a new God emerges, and this one is all powerful and mighty. We worship this God because we need to compete, achieve, and succeed in life. We need to feel superior to those around us and our God mirrors this need. He rewards those who are faithful to him and follow his commandments.

When the soul reaches “preadolescence,” we need to feel peace amongst a world that is hostile. This peace is only found when we turn to a God that provides love and comfort for us during times of great stress, anxiety, and chaos. He is a God who brings us peace of mind because we pray to him and follow the rituals of his doctrine.

The adolescent soul begins to understand that “being good” and “doing the right thing” has a greater reward than merely following the whims of the selfish ego. It’s accessing its intuition now and needs to learn understanding, forgiveness, and right action. It turns to a God who reflects these same inner, intuitive, and moral attributes of the Self. This God validates that we need to be a good person, practice high ethics, and exude strong moral values.

As the soul becomes a “teenager” its creative abilities evolve. New thoughts about the world emerge as we turn to a God who exemplifies our own creativity. We become inspired and motivated to become independent, rebel, follow our own path, and create something from nothing. Subsequently, we become devoted to a God who reflects these same qualities.

In the adult stage of the soul, we commune with a source of awareness or consciousness that feels like pure joy and bliss. This source is not of this world, but of a place beyond what we can see, smell, taste, hear, or touch. We turn to a God who performs miracles for us. We begin to notice serendipity and synchronicity in our lives. Our God is now genderless, yet is still perceived as a personality. This God allows for the supernatural to exist simultaneously with the ordinary and mundane.

In the final stage of the soul, or what I call the “butterfly stage,” the soul transcends its perception of the prior six stages completely. It is ready to become conscious of it Self. This is the stage of the sage, mystic, shaman, or yogi. When we reach this level of evolutionary consciousness, we understand that life is merely a reflection of our inner being. And that being is inseparable from God. Our concept of God broadens beyond the world of form to a place of the unmanifested no-thing-ness. This God is one with the all and in no way can ever be separate from any sum of its parts. This God reflects our own unconditional love for all of humanity. This butterfly stage is also the stage of the Next Human.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, astrology readings, and spiritual counseling.

Health Counseling - Going Gluten-Free

Currently, autoimmune disorders are the number three killer, behind heart disease and cancer, in the United States. A study published in the peer-reviewed Gastroenterology found a 400% increase celiac disease from just fifty years ago. Today it effects 1 in 105 people in the U.S. and since most people who have it are unaware of the fact that they have it, these figures are probably much greater. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease of the small intestine that is caused from a reaction to prolamin, a gluten protein found in wheat and other similar grains such as barley and rye. Upon exposure to gliadin, the enzyme tissue transglutanminase modifies the protein, and the immune system cross-reacts with the small bowel tissue, causing a highly inflammatory reaction.

Symptoms of celiac disease (caused by gluten sensitivity) include irritable bowel syndrome (diarrhea, gas, bloating, constipation), greasy stools, lactose intolerance, and abdominal pain. But the symptoms are not limited to the digestive system. Celiac disease can also effect other organs including the brain, heart, and kidneys. Brain symptoms include the impedance of blood flow the frontal and prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain allows us to focus, manage emotional states, plan and organize, and short-term memory. This hypoperfusion is associated with conditions such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

The inflammatory reaction from gluten exposure also activates the brain’s microglial cells, which can take many months before it begins to subside. The damage  that this can cause over time, together with the effect of generating overarousal of the fight-or-flight response, can be significant.

A potent cross-reactivity to casein (the protein found in milk products) has also been demonstrated to be similar to an immunologic reactivity to gluten. Going gluten-free means not just avoiding foods containing gluten, but foods that the body may identify as gluten, even if it’s not. Cross-reactivity is when the body associates other substances that are genetically similar to gluten and reacts to them as if they were gluten. This can lead to multiple food sensitivities. According to Cyrex Labs, some of the most common cross-reactive food sources to gluten are: milk (and milk products), cheese, spelt, kamut, rye, barley, and coffee.

The best way to avoid celiac disease or gluten sensitivity is to eliminate starch and milk from your diet completely. This will also decrease your susceptibility to metabolic syndrome, candidiasis, and type 2 diabetes. Going gluten-free means replacing your daily cereal, pastry, bread, muffins, bagels, chips, and crackers, with nutrient-dense, above ground, antioxidant rich, fibrous vegetables (raw, steamed, or stir-fried). Not only will it help to repair your body’s digestive system, but you’ll lose those unwanted pounds and your energy levels will go through the roof!

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Personal Life Coaching: The Now is All There Is

One thing is for certain (besides death and taxes), life is always now. Whatever you experience, whatever happens, whatever you feel, think, or do — it’s still now. When I write this, it is now. When you read this, it is now. When things happen tomorrow or next week, it will still be now. Nothing happens outside of the Now. So, you can’t argue with the simple truth: Now is all there is.

Unfortunately, the dysfunctional behavior of most of humanity results from ignoring this seemingly obvious truth. The current human state of consciousness does not enjoy living in the Now. In fact, it does mostly everything it can to avoid the Now altogether. Who has time? Well, the ego certainly doesn’t. People are too concerned about what’s about to happen, has happened, or something that may or may not happen, rather than what is happening now. You’ve seen them. They are the ones who are constantly on their mobile smart phones, texting away, sending little glyphs to someone who, like them, is also ignoring the Now. And all of this goes on in a desperate, exhausting, and counterproductive attempt to reduce the Now to a means to an end.

When you are not living in the Now, you tend to miss the entire essence of your life. You become stuck in a dreamworld of images, concepts, perceptions, judgments, and opinions that, summed up, define a story. And this story becomes you. All the drama and negative emotions that go along with your story are also perceived as who you are. And so you become disconnected from the joy of life that resides only in the present moment. The mind races forward and backward about this situation, that person, what he said, what she said, what might happen if he does this or she does that, and none of this can tell you who you are. And 99.99% of the time, if you did absolutely nothing, all your perceived “problems” would completely dissolve if you could just learn to be still, and pay attention to what is happening right now.

Most people, when asked, “How may problems do you have right now?” will respond with a rant describing all their problems. Little do they realize, however, that very few problems ever exist in the Now. Why? Because problems are convoluted and have lots of stuff attached to them. They have stories behind them. If you’ve ever had to listen to someone tell you about their problems, it’s never a short story. It’s always “complicated.” The truth is, unless you’re being attacked by a wild Boar in the forest, or an alligator in the swamp, then you too, have no problems right now. None. And if you’ve convinced yourself that you do, then your consciousness is rooted in the egoic mind, which means you’re living in the past and future — neither of which exist.

So, instead of avoiding the Now, begin inviting presence into your life a little more each day. When you do, you will  stop struggling to reach a point in the future where there is greater security, aliveness, abundance, love, or joy, and will become aware that those things make up the essence of who you already are.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Spiritual Counseling - Our Purpose is Peace

The concept of becoming “spiritually enlightened” to the average human seems like too much effort, too much work, and therefore, it gets placed on the back burner. It’s as if the ego says, “I’ll get to it when I have the time.” And, of course, that time never comes. But how can you ever have time unless you take time?

The mind has more “important” things to do than to become spiritually enlightened, which can also be defined as attaining inner peace. And only from inner peace can we attain world peace. Unfortunately, the current state of human consciousness doesn’t put any priority to peace because maintaining its own survival is at the top of the “to do list.” And that means making money, paying the bills, and going deeper into debt in an effort to “keep up with the Jones’s.” Lots of enduring, but not a whole lot of enjoying.

As a species, most of humanity has been doing little more than surviving and suffering for the last 5,000 years. In this long history, it has been mostly a replay of one war after another, one plague after another, and an ongoing hierarchical theme where the Pharaoh’s ruled the slaves, the monarchs ruled the peasants, and today, you could just say the corporations ruling the rest of us. But those days are numbered.

As we approach the end of the Mayan Calendar on December 22, 2012, we are starting a new cycle of human evolution. We are headed in a new direction and on our way toward transcending the limiting, separating thinking that we’ve been conditioned to accept in the past. The Next Human will be a living example of what the spiritual teachers are now calling “unity consciousness.” This will be a time of great purification. This means discarding what no longer works for us, and filtering out what is stunting our spiritual growth.

On July 3rd, the Jerusalem Hug in Israel was a demonstration of peace and love that exemplified what our collective soul is moving toward. In the Egyptian revolution last winter, we were shown a picture of one woman holding the Christian cross in one hand and the Islamic Koran in the other. Acceptance, tolerance, and unconditional love will describe our new cultural theme in the decades ahead, rather than a perpetuation of our current social structure that allows the “have’s” to rule over the “have-not’s.”

For the last decade we have seen the evidence of a cold civil war in America. Since the election of 2001, America has been deeply divided on its political views and this has played itself out in the political arena with Congressmen and Senators creating one filibuster after another. Deadlock has become the norm — so much so — that America’s credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in its history.

When we become still, live in the Now, and begin dwelling in the heart instead of the mind, we suddenly realize that disagreements and differences of opinion are not excuses for gridlock, emotional violence, conflict, or war. This is not why we are here. Our purpose here on Earth at this time is to learn how to get along with one another in a state of peace, cooperation, and harmony. Our children and their children depend on this one thing. It all begins with the Self.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Spiritual Life Coaching - Suffering is Medicine for the Soul

The Next Human will have already transcended the realm of suffering. But in order to get there, suffering is necessary to force you within. When you suffer, the self becomes diminished. Now, I’m not referring to the true Self or the higher Self here. What I’m talking about is the ego or also what the spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle calls the “phantom self.” So suffering in any form is, from a higher perspective, very good medicine for the soul.

Physical illness, for example, makes you feel smaller, no longer in control of your life, helpless. You may become more dependent on others and this may lead to guilt or feelings of worthlessness. But part of learning how to love is also learning how to let others love you — allowing them take care of you. Many people are uncomfortable with this but I can assure you, it is only their pride that keeps them in this state of mind. Spiritual growth includes learning how to receive love as well as learning how to give love.

Some people feel guilty when others do things for them because they feel self-diminished. This is a symptom of deeper feelings of unworthiness. If you don’t feel worthy of someone else’s generosity, then you probably won’t feel comfortable with having to depend on them for their help. The spiritual teacher, Neale Donald Walsch recently admitted, that because of his pride, he was afraid to ask his father for assistance when he lost his job and became homeless. Neale said that his father would have loved to have helped him but that he just couldn’t bring himself to do it.

We are a species that needs one another. When we were infants and small children, we needed the help of our parents to take care of us, to provide for our shelter, clothe us, bathe us, and give us nourishment. We didn’t know guilt as children. It is something we learn. And as it was in the beginning of our lives, it will be the same in the end. When we become too elderly to take care of ourselves, we will need to rely upon the assistance of others to help us. This is simply the natural ebb and flow of life.

When you suffer from a loss, whether it be the loss of a loved one, loss of a spouse through divorce, loss of income or status from being laid off from work, or loss of a house from foreclosure, your sense of self will alter dramatically. But this sense of self is only an image or perception of who you are in your mind. It is ultimately an illusion and has nothing to say about the real you. That image is fleeting and always changing. Your mind makes it into something real and permanent but it is not. The only thing that is real is the awareness behind the mind, behind that perceived “little me.”

A dissolution of the ego occurs during these times of self-diminishment after a loss or during a chronic illness. In a sense, it is symbolic of the shedding of an egoic carcass that is decaying and no longer needed. It is a sign that role-playing, neediness, co-dependency, insecurity, and selfishness are coming to an end. This is the beginning of your higher Self-realization, a transformation of the ego/caterpillar to the soul/butterfly.

This evolutionary leap forward that humanity is currently experiencing will eventually transcend all forms of suffering in the physical, mental, and spiritual sheaths. This is the realm that Jesus called eternal life or what the Buddha called nirvana. Form comes and goes. Your ego and your body will eventually decay and die. But this is necessary before you can merge with your higher Self. Know that when you suffer you are paving the way for a new evolutionary cycle of the soul. And that’s with this is all about after all. Like the dinosaur, the ego has had its time. The future belongs to the Next Human.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Spiritual Life Coaching - Suffering Leads to Awakening

If you are living a nightmarish life then your chances for a spiritual awakening are pretty good. More often than not, awakenings occur during or after times of great grief, crisis, or turmoil where inner and outer structures are shattered. What we used to rely or depend on are no longer available for us and so we are forced to fall back onto our own devices, our own personal resources to survive. This could be indicative of a death in the family, a divorce, or a financial loss. The rug is pulled out from underneath us — so to speak — and we’re left feeling confused, stressed, and helpless.

For me, I experienced a loss of status and income (job), loss of a spouse (divorce), and the loss of my father all within the same year. Shortly afterward I experienced the loss of my health when I became physically debilitated by chronic fatigue syndrome. All of these factors contributed to my eventual awakening but it certainly didn’t happen overnight. In fact, it took about twenty years for the cycle to complete. During that time, I suffered severely on many levels. Looking back, I am extremely grateful for my suffering because without it I would have remained lost. My life would have been an uneasy truce.

So it wasn’t until everything came crashing down around me that I awakened to what was truly real. As a result, my values changed dramatically. The meaning I had placed on meaningless things seemed ludicrous and absurd. I was no longer ruled or controlled by my possessions or status. That part of me, the part that identified my sense of self with my accomplishments, how much money I made, or material things I owned, had to die. This death allowed for a new sense of Self to emerge. A higher and infinitely more powerful Self.

For many people, loss is also experienced as a loss of meaning or purpose. A mental fog settles in because life no longer makes any sense. It seems random, chaotic, hostile. Loss of health makes you feel this way because it strips you of all sense of control. You begin to realize your own mortality. For me, I couldn’t attract the right healers to me until I learned how to surrender myself to the illness. In other words, I had to stop fighting it and begin accepting it. When this shift in consciousness occurred, I began attracting the right healing methods to me within a very short period of time.

I also realized that my health was the most important thing in my life. I began to put my health first. Not just my physical health. I’m also talking about my mental health. In fact, my physically body never could truly heal until I healed my emotional body, my pain-body first. And that required a herculean effort accompanied by lots of courage and faith. It also took many years of seeking guidance, inner work, and paying attention to everything life was trying to teach me. Eventually, I began to see myself in a totally different light. I understood that my preconditioned thoughts, beliefs, and behavior had created the suffering in the first place and because of that, I was, in fact, perpetuating it. After that, I realized that if I created the suffering, it must also mean that I had the power to end it. And all that was required of me was to wake up to that underlying truth.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Personal Life Coaching - The Awakened State of Consciousness

The term “awakening” has been used as a metaphor since ancient times to describe the evolution of human consciousness. The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, which means “to be awake.” Buddha is not the name of a person but rather a state of consciousness. This, of course, implies that the normal “awakened state” of most humans is, spiritually speaking, equivalent to an unawakened, sleeping, or dreaming state of consciousness. Some spiritual teachings refer to this as a “shared hallucination” to describe this normal state of human existence. The spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, calls these individuals “dream-walkers.”

Being spiritually awake is sometimes misunderstood. The possession of supernatural abilities, such as channeling, healing, clairvoyance, and other paranormal powers does not necessarily qualify as an awakened state. The individual may or may not be. So then, what actually determines a spiritual awakening? When you stop identifying with your thoughts. A separation of consciousness occurs within the core of your awareness and you realize that there is something much more expansive than your thoughts, mind, and body.

The mind controls the physiological state of the body. When thoughts of fear are released by the mind, the fight-or-flight, sympathetic nervous system responds by the release of adrenalin, cortisol, dopamine, and the contraction of muscles. Stress is created because the body believes what the mind is saying. Fifty thousand years ago, when we were evading saber toothed tigers, this survival mechanism in the body was most effective at keeping us alive. However, in modern humans, this primitive response is largely unnecessary, unless you’re a soldier in a combat zone.

When you don’t allow things to be as they are — the mind forms judgments, opinions, and distortions about a situation or event based on preconditioned, reactive patterns. When you so completely identify with your own compulsive thoughts about what is happening around you, your sense of survival becomes dependent upon how well you can resolve your perceived problem. Subsequently, your entire sense of self — your whole existence — is reduced to the level of your drama, conflict, or personal problem. Your story becomes who and what you are, what you perceive yourself to be. And when this happens, all sense of inner peace and tranquility is replaced with panic, anxiety, and a fear of impending doom.

The Buddha state of consciousness, on the other hand, is when you do not identify the Self with what is happening around you. This is the awakened or enlightened state of being. Situations occur. They are acknowledged, accepted, and addressed, in that order. They are not ignored, nor are they blown out of proportion. There is no reaction, resistance, or emotional violence to our daily challenges. As a result, they are not turned into problems. When you are awake, the Self comes first. This means that no thing (nothing) that happens to you is allowed to control, dictate, define, or reduce the Self in any way, whatsoever. The awakened Self remains in a place of peace, balance, and non-suffering.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Wellness Coaching - The Dangers of Soy

The soybean is one of the most recent additions to the human diet. Less than .01% of its 200,000-year-old history has been soy-free. And along with this new addition to our diet has come a long list of physical ailments, allergies, and sensitivities to it. The ancients considered it as completely unfit for human consumption, but modern processing methods resulting from multibillion-dollar corporate interests have allowed soy products such as tofu, protein powder, soy milk, and soy burger to be marketed as a “health food.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

Numerous independent studies have revealed the truth about soy products that contradict the health claims promoted by the soy industry. According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, high levels of phytic acid in soy reduce the assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, and zinc in the body, contributing to growth problems in children. Vitamin B12 in soy is not absorbed into the body and because of soy, more Vitamin D is required.  Soy contains a high level of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys. Recent studies suggest a link between soy consumption and kidney stones.

Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women. Soy phytoestrogens have been shown to cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. Soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease in infants. The processing of soy protein results in toxins and carcinogens such as lysinoalanine and nitrosamines.

And here’s something that you may find shocking: Soy has never been given the “Generally Recognized as Safe” status by the Food and Drug Administration. In fact,  it has been shown to disrupt and inhibit thyroid peroxidase, a necessary enzyme for the synthesis of the thyroid’s T3 and T4 hormones. Effects include hypothyroidism symptoms such as obesity, dry skin and hair, low blood pressure, slow pulse rate, depressed muscular activity, intolerance to cold, goiter, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Because of the high estrogen levels in soy, it increases the risk of breast cancer in women. A study in 1997 showed that genistein, a soy isoflavone, caused breast cancer cells to become malignant, as well as contributing to hormonal dysregulation. Babies on soy infant formula have estradiol levels 13,000 to 22,000 times greater than babies on milk-based formula. In 1998, C.H. Irvine reported that “Infants exclusively fed soy infant formula receive the estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control pills a day.”

Now, as if that wasn’t all bad enough, here’s more: Soybeans contain hemagglutinin which causes red blood cells to clump. Under the guise of “natural flavors” added, MSG, a neurotoxin, is added to soy in the protein powder processing stage. And probably the worst thing about soy: All soybeans are soaked in vats of hexane to assist in the extraction of protein and oils. An independent lab found hexane residue in soy-based foods, but the FDA still does not require any testing for hexane, even in baby foods! The soy industry uses it because it’s cheap and, of course, because they can get away with it. The soy industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on lobbying, marketing, and promoting their “health benefits” to high level officials. The Environmental Protection Agency lists hexane as hazardous waste product and in studies it has shown to have “neurotoxic effects,” causing central nervous system symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and headaches in humans.

Now for the good news: The Japanese understand that soy must be fermented before it can be consumed. The fermentation process neutralizes trypsin inhibitors and phytic acid. Only fermented soy such as miso, natto, and tempeh, are okay to eat. Soy sauce that is organic, sugar-free, and gluten-free is also okay. But the rest of it should be avoided like the plague.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Wellness Coaching - Getting Alkaline for Cancer Prevention

According to the holistic physician and expert on curing cancer, Dr. Leonard Coldwell, chemotherapy never cured anyone and never will cure anyone. He calls it “assault with a deadly weapon.” Chemotherapy was created in World War I to kill soldiers on the battlefield. After World War II, they had an excess surplus of it and needed to dispose of it, which was costly because it is a toxic waste. And so, they needed a way to get rid of it cheaply — so they decided to use it on humans to kill cancer. Unfortunately, in the process of killing the cancer, it also destroys the body’s immune system, violating the Hippocratic Oath that every physician takes: do not bring harm to the patient.
So how effective is chemotherapy? A 2004 study published by the journal Clinical Oncology reported that it has a 5-year survvial success rate in just over 2% of cases. Furthermore, once you get chemotherapy, you can no longer be a blood or organ donor. What does that  tell you?


Biopsies are increasing the cancer rates according to Dr. Coldwell, who claims an amazing 92.3% cancer cure rate. In his experience, he says of the people who have cancer and do nothing, the body cures itself of cancer 27% of the time.  Dr. Coldwell also says that cancer biopsies actually help the cancer spread throughout the body. Because the center of every tumor is extremely toxic, by inserting a needle into it will only increase the risk of tumor growth.

The truth is, everyone gets cancer and everyone has cancer (in one form or another) in their body nearly 100% of the time. If the body is healthy, i.e. in a slightly alkaline state, then it can keep the cancer cells in check. In 1931, Dr. Otto H. Warburg won a nobel prize for his research on oxygen in the body and its effects on cancer cells. Dr. Warburg showed in his research that cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment. He also showed conclusively that cancer loves sugar. Subsequently, the more sugar you consume, the greater risk you have of developing cancerous tumors at some point in your life. Sugar lowers the pH level of the blood and creates an environment that is ideal for fungi, candida, and cancer to grow and thrive.

I recommend to my clients to go out and purchase some pH strips from the drug store and take some saliva tests. Your ideal pH is between 7.35 to 7.45. Any lower, and your increasing your risk for cancer. Drink plenty of distilled water with dash of sea salt. The sodium raises the pH level to slightly alkaline.  If your pH is really low (say below 6.0), then I recommend taking a teaspoonful of baking soda in 8 oz. of lemon water, three times daily until your saliva becomes alkaline.

In addition, make sure you eat plenty of raw and steamed vegetables every day. Stop eating so much sugar and starch. Starchy foods, such as corn, beans, rice, soy, and grains, always turn to sugar (glucose) in the body. Replace your cereals and breads with nutrient-rich, fibrous vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, kale, cucumbers, and peppers, which are all loaded with much needed vitamins, anti-oxidants and are very alkaline forming in the body. Eat as much of them as you like! Not only will you lose those excess pounds, as your body’s pH rises, the fungi, candida, and cancer risks dissolve. You will begin sleeping more soundly and will have abundant energy throughout the day. It’s just that simple.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Online Life Coaching - Transcending the Polarity of Life

The more unconscious you are, the more you tend to identify with form. You will be emotionally entangled within your own situations, problems, experiences, and thoughts. If you are an opinionated person, and someone threatens that belief system, your entire sense of physical survival will depend on your ability to defend those beliefs. This is what I call an "egoic opinion." And this identification with your own opinions will only serve to cement your clouded state of unconsciousness. The ego, as a result, becomes a prison for your mind.

Duality or polarity is sharpened by the ego because this aspect of the mind so closely identifies the "self" with a concept. The more closely you identify with an idea or ideology, the more polarized and difficult life becomes. And the more we suffer. As long as we're living in a polarized reality (hot/cold, up/down, good/evil) we cannot discard polarity altogether. We can, however, transcend it to the extent where polarity is softened and allowed to be benign. Subsequently, life becomes more benevolent and cooperative.

On this planet, you have plenty of people who are currently living in an inner state of disharmony. There lives are filled with drama, conflict, stress, and discord. They unknowingly perpetuate this chaotic existence because they so closely identify with their own polarized perspective of the universe. It's as if the ego says, "The world is a hostile place and therefore I've declared it as my enemy." They have been conditioned to look upon the world with a "me vs. them" perspective. But this lens is seriously distorted.

At the same time you have so many people who are living in hell on this planet, there are also many people who live in a state of inner peace, joy, and tranquility. This is because they have learned how to surrender to the polarity of life. This acceptance to life, no matter what happens, manifests as a state of inner serenity. And inner serenity leads to outer serenity. The outer reality is always a reflection of your inner state. As this transformation occurs, life is no longer viewed as hostile. Contrarily, it is viewed as protective, helpful, and nurturing. We no longer are asking the question, "Why does this keep happening to me?" Instead, we are asking, "What have I done to create this reality?" This is the shift in consciousness that all the spiritual teachers are talking about these days. It all begins with surrender.

When you live in a place of constant surrender, you become a channel for a higher purpose from a place of higher purpose. You may call this your higher Self, God, the Universe, Consciousness, or Divine Intelligence. Whatever you call it, it is beyond this world, beyond this realm of duality. This is the ultimate transcendence.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Spiritual Counseling - It is Consciousness that Unites Us

Ego transcendence does not mean that ego should be seen as something bad, evil, or as a separate entity that needs to be discarded or nullified in order for you to evolve. Transcending the ego means "moving beyond" or "rising above" the ego. Even when ego transcendence is accomplished, you'll probably still retain some degree of self-identification or ego within your personality. And that's perfectly fine. Our evolutionary end goal, therefore, should not be ego transcendence in and of itself, but rather a much more heightened and expansive level of Self awareness.

The reptilian-brained reactions or "counter strikes" to threats from "the other" against the tribe that we belong has perpetuated our obsession with solving disputes with violence since the dawn of man. When you study human history for the last five millennia, you quickly come to realize that we are, unmistakably, a war-like species. Not one century has gone by without some tribe, group, or nation picking up armaments, locking and loading, and firing some sort of ammunition against a perceived enemy. A blurry-lined, over-identification with our concepts and ideologies has greatly contributed to this ongoing comatose, paranoid, and narcissistic stage of evolutionary consciousness.

Not one individual has a separate "consciousness" from another individual. We may have separate egos, separate brains, or separate "states" of consciousness. But Self awareness is the one thing that binds and unites us. This is because consciousness is who we are at our core. From this perspective, we all are One.

On the level of unity consciousness, we cannot separate ourselves from each other no matter how much we try. Just because others may disagree with our opinions, it doesn't necessarily follow that they are our enemy. Something as simple as respecting the other's opinion is, in truth, probably the most important thing we can do to accelerate our evolutionary impulse.

The Next Human will embody a level of Self awareness that will enable him or her to see the sacred Self in the other. Therefore, when someone expresses an opposing opinion, politically, religiously, or otherwise, the opinion is honored and respected. People (a.k.a. Souls), no matter what they say or do, will not be attacked, declared the enemy, or fired upon for any reason. Revenge will no longer be an excuse for violence of any kind. The ability to resolve our disagreements through diplomacy, mediation, and healthy debate rather than resorting to violence will be understood as a necessary prerequisite for establishing tribal, national, and global peace. And establishing world peace is at the top of the "to do list" for the Next Human.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Personal Life Coaching: Resonate what you want to attract.

The key to the law of manifesting is to acclimate yourself to a specific vibration and allow the universe to orchestrate matching vibrations. That is how the universe/life works. The universe has always been responding to your specific resonance or vibration. It resonates to you.

People who are constantly complaining, criticizing, condemning, and blaming others and/or circumstances for their personal failures have firmly established a beacon of frequency that emits from their core outward -- into the ethers. The ethers collect that frequency and then mirrors it back to them in the form of what we call “reality.” The dismal reality of one failure after another is manifested by these individuals who are unknowingly sabotaging their own success by their own thoughts, speech, and attitude.

On the flip side, when you accept things as they are, rather than resisting or reacting to them with severe judgment, you won’t allow them to have a negative effect on future events. You don’t become “stuck” in the past by recreating it, over and over, as was depicted in the movie, “Groundhog Day.” Remember that you are always projecting a frequency to the universe based on your own thoughts about a thing, subject, situation, person, or event in your daily life.

Most individuals don’t believe that you can easily attain your goals without stress, conflict, or drama. They say, “Life is stress.” In truth, life is not stress, but it is the reaction or resistance that we give to it that creates the stress in our bodies. People who go through life constantly stressed out about this drama or that problem are causing tremendous harm to their body’s immune system, hormonal regulation, and ability to repair and rebuild tissue and cells. They are on their way to a chronic state of dis-ease. That’s simply the way the body’s divine intelligence works.

When you learn to stop reacting to every challenge that comes your way, you’ll soon realize that the problems that you are accustomed to having will stop being created -- by you. That’s right. All problems are created by ourselves, not others, and certainly not by life. Life is not designed to be one long series of problem solving, combined with stress, anxiety, and disappointment.

One of the most common statements I hear from people who attract failure to them is: “It’s always something.” This statement is frequently repeated by those who frequently fail at everything they set out to accomplish. But little do they realize that it is they who are ensuring their own failure because their resonance is completely aligned with the truth of their own divine power of manifestation. And that negative frequency continues to attract to them the same "like frequency." Thus, their failures continue to manifest as their reality.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.

Personal Life Coaching: Stop Fixing and Start Allowing

One of the main errors most people make when attempting to manifest their desires using the law of attraction, is that they set out to "fix" everything in their paths. They begin their journey of personal creation from a judgmental place of harsh criticism. It's as if they say, "This is wrong, therefore, it must be fixed." Then they proceed to use the brain's power of intention (rather than the heart's) to go out and make the necessary corrections in life, as well as in other people.

This mode of behavior can work, at least for a while. But usually what ends up happening is their reality becomes polarized. This is because the brain is polarized. In other words, not only do they get what they want, they also get what they don't want. Opposition swells. Obstacles form. Challenges arise. And while all these scary things are happening, these "life-fixers" are becoming more and more stressed out. Tempers flare and drama ensues.

There are plenty of "positive people" out there who do very well -- at least financially -- at manifesting their dreams and desires. But as long as their intention is egoic, their results will consistently bring to them more problems that they can handle -- right along with the mansion and Mercedes. Many of them become chronically ill because they allow their businesses take priority to their health and well-being. Some never get a chance to enjoy the fruits of their endeavors because they get cancer and die.

The key to implementing the law of attraction for personal creation is to manifest from a place of completeness or wholeness, not a place of neediness. People who set out to fix their lives do so because they judge their lives as being "wrong" or "incomplete." The same thing goes with relationships. Instead of co-dependently looking for another human to be with, however, they are co-dependently looking for a bank account to make them whole. But no amount of money, status, or accomplishment can complete you. This is like chasing a mirage in the desert. When you get there, it's gone.

So, begin your journey of manifestation from a place of wholeness. Instead of setting out to fix everything in your path, begin from a selfless, heart-based place of allowing things to change on their own time, in their own way. Only then will you naturally attract the "ready-made" situations, help, people, and circumstances that will set the stage for your dreams becoming a reality -- without the consequences of stress, drama, conflict, and the failing health to go with it.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.