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On Infinite Love and Gratitude
An Interview with
Darren Weissman, D.C.

By Andrea Mathews, with Mary Grace McCord

Chicago native Darren Weissman is an internationally renowned chiropractor, author, and developer of The LifeLine Technique™. Weissman’s first book, Infinite Love and Gratitude, An Evolutionary Journey to Awakening Your Spirit, was published by Hay House and widely endorsed by the self-health matriarch herself, Louise Hay. Dr. Weissman is a gifted healer who established a holistic health practice, “The Way to Optimal Health,” in 1999. He is now writing a second book in the field of energy medicine.

After earning his B.S. in Human Biology at the University of Kansas and his Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine at the National College of Chiropractic, Weissman trained in acupuncture, homeopathy, Applied Kinesiology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and many other forms of energy medicine.

Weissman’s LifeLine Technique™ is an advanced holistic system of treating the core imbalances and symptoms of stress. This innovative technique integrates 14 modalities of natural healing into one unified system. Along with his private practice, he trains others in the use of LifeLine and the healing power of infinite love and gratitude.

	During this holiday season and throughout the New Year, Darren Weissman and AIHT wish for all people the simply divine blessings of infinite love and gratitude.

Below are excerpts from his recent internet radio interview for Authentic Living, hosted by AIHT faculty member Andrea Mathews, D.D. and L.P.C.

Mathews: One message in your book and in your seminars is, “If you can feel, you can heal.” However, so many of us have been silenced by those who say not to feel, not to emote.

Weissman: Feeling has to do with a heart-based rhythm of life—how emotions are flowing through us, and how we are flowing through life. There are many distracters, which can cause the heart to start dying. But once we realize that, then our finite body no longer defines us.

Our body and life are the vehicles for our spirit to awaken and shine in the truth of who we are, authentically. We begin to operate under a new paradigm and a new view: i.e., from the stress of a diagnosis to what is possible and what are the optimal abilities.

When we allow fear to resonate, the heart closes. It’s okay to feel scared at times, as this just means a part of us strayed from our Authentic Self. When we realize that, then we can come home to a whole new paradigm and view. Perhaps we were labeled with a diagnosis and thus the parameters of what is and isn’t possible. Instead of being limited by negative energies, we can refocus on our core healing ability, through Infinite Love and Gratitude.

Mathews: So, is that how LifeLine works?

Weissman: We can set the stage by asking, “What is the subconscious mind?” It’s an infinite mind that controls every one of our 100,000 trillion cells that protect a network of homeostatic balance. We don’t have to decide to regulate the endocrine system, lungs, or blood flow. But the subconscious mind is designed to harvest our old memories.

LifeLine is a system that includes muscle testing to connect with reflexes. LifeLine includes a flow chart of what the body is expressing: pain, such as infection, panic, or the inability to recognize mutant cells. LifeLine helps us reconnect through the client’s intention to identify an exact point of conflict. Then we harmonize patterns that are held in certain organs, meridians, chakras. A Vietnam veteran who felt he couldn’t escape from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome was able to learn a new pattern that detours old emotions away from fear and negativity.

Mathews: I’m often amazed that, with at all that allopathic approaches can do, still it doesn’t address something as important as the mind/body connection.

Weissman: Clinicians aren’t educated to address anything subconscious. We’re not geared to recognize “the gift in strange wrapping paper,” which may resemble a mysterious and even dangerous code. But when someone reacts from their subconscious, it signals that he or she isn’t living in the now. Instead, it’s from a much younger perspective that is reactionary. The brain and body don’t know the difference between what’s real and imagined. The harmonizing piece allows us to reconnect with something that’s more real, more current.

Mathews: Intuition can give us information on how to heal our self. But how do we know we’ve gotten the right message?

Weissman: In stressful times of fear or pain, you can see that any or all of that is an S.O.S. message to reconnect with spirit. Observe that pain and fear are the languages of illusion. When we decide to use pain, fear or stress as a language that we can dialog with, then we can also decide to respond with infinite love and gratitude.

Becoming aware that I’m aware, then I’ll always choose to feel happy and not fearful. We wouldn’t consciously choose anything negative, but the repetition has been asking us to reconnect away from the fight or flight sensation. It’s not what you think or feel, but how you respond. Then you’ll know it’s the right message, according to your response.

Choose the mantra “infinite love and gratitude” and place your hand on your heart to transform painful, scary thoughts. The good news is that fate and destiny are two different things.

Mathews: You’ve said that everything in the Universe is emotion. Please explain.

Weissman: It’s the energy that moves us, a universe of quantum energy—tiny flashes of light, moving fast, that seem to connect everything in the space between, the “love goo” or energy potential that enables the universe to open unto itself. Your cells and organs are a reaction to emotional choices, and emotion is how we connect to Infinite Mind. Observe how an emotional state impacts the will, as stepping-stones on a path to create and reveal our actions in light.

Mathews: When we anticipate there will be light on the path, we project the faith that there’s enough light to see at least the next step. It’s a conscious dialog, giving encouragement back to the body.

Weissman: Recognize that dialog is a delicate process. Listen more than talk; understand that there is an interactive conversation going on. For real and true dialog, use the motto that “I’m not taking anything personally because if I do, then I’m defined and limited by it.”

But I do take it seriously...it’s meaningful, from small slivers to huge crescendos. So now, I’m viewing it spiritually. Seen with heart of spirit, in the witness/observer mode, you and I can hear and connect with each other. We can agree or even agree to disagree, which is another way to reconnect to our power. The body’s pain dialog isn’t personal. It’s not victimization. It enables us to be in our power—and now we’re using an amazingly powerful and eloquent language.

Don’t “wouldacouldashoulda” or engage the feeling of shame about why we aren’t enough, because that turns off healing. Instead, we need to comfort our self! The body is made of 70-90% water, which responds to vibrations of feelings, thoughts, love, and music. When waves are broken, the flow of conductivity either breaks down or floods.

When you know that any moment is a blessing, you’re healing and shifting. It’s a moment of inspiration, of blessing. Sometimes life isn’t fair and people are fearful—of health or the economy, whatever. So just begin with where you are. Discover something that you’re grateful for, and then bridge each moment of gratitude together. The more we awaken to gratitude, the more easily we can shift.

For more information: www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com

Mirroring All That Is

Many of my heroes (and she-roes) can be found within the pages of Vibrations. In 2007, a one-hour LifeLine session with Darren Weissman was a tipping point that changed my life. This year, as I turn 50 at Christmastime, I reflect on 2008 as a year of infinite love and gratitude.

This is the year that I crossed a five-year threshold of freedom from cancer. I celebrated by joining a grassroots health caucus at the LiveStrong Summit. Like the mythical phoenix who soared above destruction, my tender feet still ache from hopping over white-hot ashes—including some burning drama of my own making. But oh, the lessons that life will deliver!

This year our family hosted more than a dozen international teachers, artists, and healers. In our “home salon,” we often discussed the world-healing work of Louise Hay, Norman Shealy, and other light bringers.

Sometimes we danced, but more often we prayed: for world peace and ethical leadership, for forces majeure to power down, and for personal health to power up.

In 2008, I also walked my first half-marathon. But alongside my own daily steps toward regaining health, two other young friends went the other way. Maintaining the discipline of walking meditation has quelled many of my vague, dark fears as I choose to step into the morning light and to see things differently.

As one literal example, our school planned to host a reunion in Arizona this fall, as we did last spring in Illinois. However, the national economy led us to table that idea—just for now—and reinvision this Spirit Gathering at a later date. Sometimes plans must change; a notion that seems less alarming when we open our imagination to the amazing opportunities that a “Plan B” may present.

Being human means that we must move through disappointment, in others and in our self. Nevertheless, my own issues feel less intense when I practice the self-kindness of an octogenarian and former model who suggests that we “Look into the mirror deeply. Intentionally gaze into your eyes daily and say ‘Thank you, I love you.’ If it feels uncomfortable, this simply means we need to do it even more.”

Listening to Louise Hay’s CDs, I hear the kind sensibility of a beloved aunt. I hear a heart intelligence that energizes our belief that faith is the victory that conquers. And as we believe, with gratitude we receive.

Mary Grace McCord