Autism need not be a life sentence

Autism, what is it, why does it occur, how to avoid it and if your child has been diagnosed with ASD, how can your child be helped?

It was the middle of the twentieth century when there was  a name given for a disorder that now appears to affect an estimated 3.4 % of  every 1,000 children aged 3-10, a disorder that can cause enormous  disruption in families and unfulfilled lives for many children. [It is interesting to note that Autism was not recognised nor did it appear to be prolific until after the end of the Second World War, WW2]

In 1943 Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospitalstudied a group of 11 children and introduced the label early infantile autism into the English language. At the same time a German scientist, Dr. Hans Asperger, described a milder form of the disorder that became known as Asperger syndrome. Thus these two disorders were described and are today listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR [fourth edition, text revision] as two of the five pervasive developmental disorders [PDD], more often referred to today as ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders’ [ASD]. All these disorders are characterized by varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.

The ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders’ can often be reliably detected and diagnosed by the time the child is 3 years of age and in some cases as early as 18 months. Studies suggest that many children eventually may be accurately identified by the age of 1 year or even younger. The appearance of any of the warning signs of ASD is reason to have a child evaluated by a professional specializing in these disorders.

Parents are usually the first to notice unusual behaviours in their child. In some cases, the baby seemed “different” from birth, unresponsive to people or focusing intently on one item for long periods of time. The first signs of ASD can also appear in children who seem to have been developing normally. When an engaging, babbling toddler suddenly becomes silent, withdrawn, self-abusive, or indifferent to social overtures, then something is wrong. Research has shown that parents are usually correct about noticing developmental problems, although they may not realize the specific nature or degree of the problem.

The pervasive developmental disorders, or ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders’, range from a severe form, called autistic disorder, to a milder form, Asperger syndrome. If a child has symptoms of either of these disorders, but does not meet the specific criteria for either, the diagnosis is called pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified [PDD-NOS]. Other rare, very severe disorders that are included in the ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders’ are Rett syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder.

So why is it that so many children are debilitated by these  dreadful conditions?  Autism and its associated diagnoses has long been a passion of mine and I will be releasing a new and updated program shortly through the Sounds from Source sites.

This week we support Autism Week

Peace Love and Light

Sheila

I was literally thousands of kilometres away, and in a hospital – a fact that I hadn’t yet shared with my children.  Explaining briefly to my son that I couldnt get to Melbourne  as I was having tests and that I would do what I could to assist from a distance.

I made some telephone calls  to  wonderful friends and fellow therapists and practitioners, and worked from my hospital bed to send love and healing energy to two beautiful children.

We are blessed in that they both recovered, and without any adverse affects.

For me, Well its just as well that I have a sense of humour, not one but three , yes [3] Colonoscopies over four days of the new year period. Overkill?? one could think so.

Its not just the case of the anaesthetic and the after effects of the proceedure, it really is the to me vile ‘liquid bowel cleanse’ that I needed to drink copious amounts of first.

Not once, three times basically in a row, over 4 days did I swallow down the ‘dreaded potion’. to cleanse the bowel.

The night that the poem below was written, I  had just finished writing  when my body reacted to the medicine presumably,  with some incredible pain in my right hand side and an urgent 3 am call to the ‘on duty Doctor’ as my blood pressure dropped alarmingly.

A half hour wait to see what happened next , before a further call to the Doctor and his instruction of giving me some ‘heavy duty’ pain relief,. [ Also guaranteed to drop my blood pressure', as my body has a morphine sensitivity]

just as well I had finished the poem first.

The Colonoscopy Poem

I am too late to sms

Even those that I love best

Surrounded by nurses and patients too

How is it that I feel blue

How insignificant am I then

In the plan of life and man

Two things are certain, death and taxes

Just as the moon it wanes and waxes

2/1/2011 the date today

Where is yesterday it’s gone away

The doors that bang and phones that ring

Buzzes that do nurses bring

All in a hurry much todo

They care for me and care for you

They are distracted set in a space

Does it separate them from our race?

Grief and dying, pain and more

All walk in the hospitals door

1.30am another cup of tea

A smiling nurse she brings to me

Up for a while she knows I’ll be

Might as well enjoy my nice hot tea

The buckets emptied to the loo

Still not clear at ten to two

A bulky pad white hospital gown

Neither are comfortable as I sit down

Aches and spasms body and hip

Put me in mind of a shuddering ship

Its engines roaring bows to sea

Starting on its own journey

For me I said an offer there would be

And June she said come and stay with me

Till you are well then we shall see

Just where inQueenslandwill you be

For in my insight I put trust

Yes for me it is a must

And I knew though I could not see

That NSW it would be for me

2.30am and its New Idea

That my friend Jane she brought me here

For the nurses say it’s not time to rest

We need that bowel cleaned to its best

Peace Love and Light

Sheila

Oh, this and that…………

So again, ‘what are you doing with what you have created’?

Well….ll , still doing case studies and testing the new programs, I like to know I have covered all of the bases before we release something.

‘Ok, so when are you going to stop being selfish’?

Err?? …….

“Do you realise just how many people there are out there who need what you have to offer, it doesn’t have to be perfect, you can refine it as you go along”

Or words to that effect………

So where did the questions come from?

This afternoon I went to visit my friend Kim; we do not get to catch up very often so it was a pretty special time for me. While I was visiting, her children arrived home from school with their father.

Great to see him, we haven’t caught up in around five or so years. Possibly not so great when he asked the ‘tough questions’,

However……..

He gave me food for thought, when is enough, enough?

Do I really have to be a perfectionist, an over achiever?

How much of that need to have it right is a throw back to my early family life, parents, and grandparents?

So thank you to a wise and entrepreneurial man, who got me to look at life from a different perspective.

I am grateful Daniel !

Peace Love and Light

I remember her music, and her outstanding voice.

What I believe I will remember more though is the impact that her passing had on dear friends of mine, both of whom commented on being visibly affected.

When Susan and I spoke today, Whitney Houston came up in the conversation, and Susan mentioned to me on the singers passing having had a huge impact on her. yesterday

They were the same age, and Susan made reference to a life cut short and ‘what a waste’.

My comment in return was that we do not know what another person’s soul contract may be, I agree she had not lived three score years and ten that many anticipate give or take a year or two will be ‘their lot’.

Yet had she in some way fulfilled the ‘journey’ she came to take and experience? Was this ‘her time? Had she in sharing her voice and her music with the world fulfilled her ‘sacred contract’?

Susan went on to query could a ‘soul contract be changed’. i.e. can we move the goal posts, rewrite the fine print, recreate the ‘use by date.

We spoke on this subject briefly today, and plan on exploring it further as time permits.

I wrote this poem some twelve years ago, it is as fitting now as it was then.

Do not stand at my grave and weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not here I shall not sleep

Do not stand at my grave and sigh

Dry your eyes there’s no need to cry

Many times here I have been

In many more I shall be seen

Do not stand at my grave my friend

Live the messages that I send

Love and wisdom there will be

In messages that come from me

Do not mourn for days gone by

For I will be with you by and by

In the many lifetimes we have known

Love and trust they have been sown

So do not stand at my grave and weep

For I watch oe’r you while you sleep

Live not in sorrow soul so true

With God and guides I watch over you

So do not stand at my grave and mourn

In God’s good time I am reborn

Peace Love and Light

Sheila

Thinking that it had been the cat who is known for her often crazy antics I followed more slowly behind him.

Far from being  Little Puss, it was a visitor of the feathered variety, and not a small visitor by any means, what I am presuming is some species of Hawk.

As Jack is my self appointed ‘watchdog/ protector, [he thinks he's a big dog] I needed to get him out of the way before the bird either ate him, or he had a mouthful of feathers.

Easier said than done when you are working around four chairs and a set of table legs, and a bird attempting to get out through a window.

Eventually after opening the second half of the french doors,  some gentle persuasion and a plastic garden rake,  ’freedom’ for my feathered visitor was achieved. He / She flew off into the huge gum tree directly in line with the doors.

Now to come in those doors, or the one of them that was open,  the ‘hawk’ had to come under a twelve foot wide veranda, and negotiate a less than two foot doorway, so for those who think metric that’s around 3.6 metres of veranda and a 60cm door opening. Not an easy task with the wing span I saw it take off with.

Having assisted with its release, I had a well deserved cup of coffee, or at least I thought it was well deserved!

Walking outside about half an hour later my friendly visitor swooped low over my head and flew off out of sight.  So why did it visit?

Attributes & symbolic meanings of the hawk:

• Attention
• Vision
• Power
• Energy
• Leadership
• Intensity

The Alignment sounds were specifically created to be a gift to humanity. There are many people speaking of changes in their physical mental spiritual and emotional beings at this time and often these changes are linked to the Ascension process which humanity believes it is going through.

As the Sounds from Source vibrational sound programs are gifted to us, we specifically requested a sound which would be of assistance in these instances. The Alignment sound is what we were given.
May it assist you in the alignment of your body and its processes.
Peace Love and Light
Sheila and Susan

Now if I was to have a pet gripe it is probably the word ‘cure’…..I am sure that the word CURE is one of the most overused and misrepresented in the English language.

My pereception on this is that you can CURE a ham for example for Christmas, eg you take a piece of ‘dead meat’, pickle it in brine or smoke it with exotic flavours and it is ‘less likely to deteriorate any further  and less likely to ‘go off’.

So where does any of this relate to “Curing’ the human body and or any of its ills?

The body is a self healing intelligent organism which given the correct information and the correct substances is well able to ‘heal itself’.

Sure we can offer a helping hand along the way, improve the bodies  hydration, its absorption of minerals trace elements and vitamins, keep it clean and protected, and work to improve its performance.

Yet how do we take the credit for ‘Curing’ an ailment or a disease? and how many ‘Cures’ are there that have been suppressed, shoved under the carpet or the funding pulled on because ‘some one ‘ in a position of power preferred the information not to to be available to the ‘world at large’

I personally will not financially support many of the well know ‘Raise money  for this that or the other  Cures’  as I am aware in many instances that the knowledge is already available  and has been for a long time.

Do other people agree with me?? Well some do and some do not, that is personal choice.

Peace Love and Light

Sheila

Ouch said the body, that hurt for a while

Forget said the brain, see let yourself smile

For it was only a pain true

It wasn’t meant to make you blue

Just a way of reminding you

That there are things you need to do

Like take your tablets when their due

Without us needing to remind you

Today I read a post on Facebook : and I commented to it on my https://www.facebook.com/SheilaKennedyTheCatalystforChange page with the comment below. I decided to share it on the Sounds from Source site also as to me it is quite profound:

The following comment attributed to Robert Brault was posted by a dear friend of mine on a picture of some Autumn leaves.

I wish to die
knowing that I took
a fleeting instant of
eternity and
fashioned from it a
lifetime

My response to my friend was that ‘I have too much living to do to make death wishes ? ‘

However if we look at the quotation from a different perspective what are we actually saying to ourselves. ‘I wish to die’ when surely Life is about living?
Often referred to as the ‘Wordsmith’ over the years I have a fascination with words and the way in which they are processed and accepted in the mind. This has led to a program titled ‘The Power of Words’ which we offer on our Sounds from Source Academy web site as a webinar/ teleconference.

So in using kinesiological questioning of the statement above it has to me a value of 2 if we evaluate it out of 10, with 0 being the lowest and 10 the highest. Often a negative word in a sentence will ‘dissipate’ the value of a positive one.

So what changes could be made to the statement to improve its worth?

At the moment of my death
I will know that
I took a fleeting instant of eternity
And fashioned from it a lifetime

And that ladies and gentlemen is a 10

Peace Love and Light
Sheila

The dictionary gives us a number of versions on what ascension may be, these cover the religious, spiritual, and  metaphysical, through to references to geographic areas, literature, music and games.

The term Ascension from a religious, spiritual and metaphysical perspective may refer to:

• the belief in some religions that there are certain rare individuals that have ascended into Heaven directly without dying first
• Ascension of Jesus, the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven
• • The Feast of the Ascension, an annual feast commemorating Jesus’ ascension; a public holiday in several countries
• The ascension of Muhammad known as Isra and Mi’raj
• Ascension to heaven of Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
• Spiritual enlightenment
• Ascended master the title or description given to some one who has left the earth plane and who’s teachings and communication are still available
• In some New Age teachings the spiritual transformation of the Earth and or its inhabitants.