13 Things Your Burglar Won't Tell You

1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.

2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my return a little easier.

3. Love those flowers. That tells me you have taste ... and taste means there are nice things inside. Those yard toys your kids leave out always make me wonder what type of gaming system they have.

4. Yes, I really do look for newspapers piled up on the driveway. And I might leave a pizza flyer in your front door to see how long it takes you to remove it.

5. If it snows while you're out of town, get a neighbor to create car and foot tracks into the house. Virgin drifts in the driveway are a dead giveaway.

6. If decorative glass is part of your front entrance, don't let your alarm company install the control pad where I can see if it's set. That makes it too easy.

7. A good security company alarms the window over the sink. And the windows on the second floor, which often access the master bedroom-and your jewelry. It's not a bad idea to put motion detectors up there too.

8. It's raining, you're fumbling with your umbrella, and you forget to lock your door-understandable. But understand this: I don't take a day off because of bad weather.

9. I always knock first. If you answer, I'll ask for directions somewhere or offer to clean your gutters. (Don't take me up on it.)

10. Do you really think I won't look in your sock drawer? I always check dresser drawers, the bedside table, and the medicine cabinet.

11. Helpful hint: I almost never go into kids' rooms.

12. You're right: I won't have enough time to break into that safe where you keep your valuables. But if it's not bolted down, I'll take it with me.

1. A loud TV or radio can be a better deterrent than the best alarm system.. If you're reluctant to leave your TV on while you're out of town, you can buy a $35 device that works on a timer and simulates the flickering glow of a real television.

8 MORE THINGS A BURGLAR WON'T TELL YOU:

1. Sometimes, I carry a clipboard. Sometimes, I dress like a lawn guy and carry a rake. I do my best to never, ever look like a crook.

2. The two things I hate most: loud dogs and nosy neighbors.

3. I'll break a window to get in, even if it makes a little noise. If your neighbor hears one loud sound, he'll stop what he's doing and wait to hear it again. If he doesn't hear it again, he'll just go back to what he was doing. It's human nature.

4. I'm not complaining, but why would you pay all that money for a fancy alarm system and leave your house without setting it?

5. I love looking in your windows. I'm looking for signs that you're home, and for flat screen TVs or gaming systems I'd like. I'll drive or walk through your neighborhood at night, before you close the blinds, just to pick my targets.

6. Avoid announcing your vacation on your Facebook page. It's easier than you think to look up your address.

7. To you, leaving that window open just a crack during the day is a way to let in a little fresh air. To me, it's an invitation.

8. If you don't answer when I knock, I try the door. Occasionally, I hit the jackpot and walk right in.

Sources: Convicted burglars in North Carolina , Oregon , California , and Kentucky; security consultant Chris McGoey, who runs crimedoctor.com; and Richard T. Wright, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who interviewed 105 burglars for his book Burglars on the Job.

Protection Tips for you and your home

If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to wreck someone's evil plans for you:

Wasp Spray

A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn't attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection... Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

Wasp And Hornet Spray

On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.

Place a can of wasp and hornet spray near your door or bed. This is better than anything I can teach them. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet; so if someone tries to break into your home, "spray the culprit in the eyes". "That's going to give you a chance to call the police; maybe get out."

Mind-body Medicine and Shamanic Energetics

Psychoneuroimmunology ( a Medical model) is the study of how the mind affects the body. "Psycho" refers to your thinking, emotions and mood states. "Neuro" refers to the neurological and neuroendocrine systems in your body. "Immunology" refers to your cellular structures and immune system. Mind-body medicine explores the influence of your mind and emotions on your body and immune system, and vice versa.

Mind-body specialists are typically social workers, psychologists or other mental health professionals who examine the affects of your mind, thoughts, attitudes and beliefs on physical health and well-being. Specialists use a variety of techniques aimed to promote health, such as deep breathing, guided imagery, relaxation therapy, meditation and energy work. Using these techniques, mind-body medicine helps you direct your energies toward healing and health.

Shamanic Energetics ( Spiritual model) is not a "thing" to be defined - it is, instead, a pathway to transformation. This transformation takes place by communicating at the quantum level with the wave fronts (energy and information) that create all of reality. It is not a technique but a consciousness shift. Using an energy field and a consciousness, like a standing wave that is all around us. SE is very much about transforming your beliefs concerning healing, disease and the structure of reality. This new paradigm gives you instant access to new states of awareness which make it possible to interact with the material world and transform it - to affect change connected to past traumas, injuries and emotional patterns.

Shamanic Energetics shows how we can consciously choose to observe in a different way. As a natural extension of changing your way of perceiving, your old reality collapses and new possibilities materialize instantly. Physical and emotional conditions can be resolved with the speed of thought. People affect verifiable, observable changes instantly. Often you

will see and feel a wave like motion when Shamanic Energetics is applied, as the person being worked on experiences a smooth wave of transformation. What seems to be happening is that the unconsciousness and the biological physical field matrix is rearranging itself.

"Healing is ultimately a mystical experience and not one that is generated by the force or determination of the power of the mind. "Mystical," is referring to experiences that require grace in order to transcend the barriers of our minds, which are so often weighed down by the need to know why things happen as they do in our lives." Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity

Shamanic Energetics is a transformative healing system that can create transformation on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It works by modifying a person's matrix of reality at the quantum level of existence -- the state where we all exist as "wave fronts" of light, information and consciousness.

Shamanic Energetics can transform your reality concerning:

-- your body -- your beliefs
-- health challenges -- relationships
-- finances -- any other aspect of your life

Like many things that are founded on feelings and sensations, it is generally much easier to experience Shamanic Energetics than to try to understand it. SE is powered by intent, which has a physical and observable effects every time. The power of focused intent, builds into a new and joy-filled state that can affect life changes.

Contact Charlene through her web site to make an appointment to experience Shamanic Energetics.

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Healing Matrix

It's been known for some time that many illnesses are at least partly caused by psychological or emotional issues. We also know that people have enormous self-healing potential, given the right conditions simply because they believe that they will be healed. Medical science has come to recognize that the mind can have a very beneficial influence on the body's ability to heal. Case in point, the documentary "The Secret" addresses this as well as the minds ability to change one's life circumstances.

If the unconscious mind can accomplish such feats of self-healing, then it is likely what in part goes on with 'psychic healing' can be somewhat like a placebo effect. Some people in the scientific community want to know, if psychic healing is just self-healing, then all they need to do in order to encourage such self-healing, is to understand the psychological and interpersonal factors that trigger it. On the other hand, if the healer really 'does' something to the patient, then they would want to understand how to enhance or amplify that healing 'power.'

If there is some telepathic rapport between the two persons, then one (the patient) may simply be acting as a 'receiver' in a telepathy experiment, unconsciously picking up information from the 'sender' and then inducing slight shifts in his or her own physiology. In this case, we are back to a form of self-induced healing - a telepathically induced placebo effect!

What's the difference between telepathically triggered self-healing, vs. a healing truly based on another person's influence, i.e., based on psychokinesis (mind-over-matter)? There are several theoretical issues here; but there's also at least one important practical concern. In real instances of illness or disease, a patient may not have the resources, mentally, psychologically or physically, to induce self-healings, even given the kinds of suggestions, which usually trigger placebo effects. By contrast, if healing - and not just healing suggestions - really comes from an external source, then a vital, confident healer could still input positive 'energy' into the patient's organism and restore health.

People who come to a healer may be desperate; they may have abandoned hope with conventional treatment methods. To many, it might feel like the healer is their last hope. Others, having developed a solid distrust of allopathic medicine, may feel that mental or psychic means of treatment are the only way to go. Either way, many coming into a healing session have high hopes and expectations, or are in a hyper-suggestible state. If, coupled with this receptive state of mind, and a healer who the patient resonates with --then the situation may be just right to trigger a self-healing process, leading to alleviation of symptoms or even a cure.

Many, anecdotes and testimonies about miraculous healings, don't permit us to infer what kind of mechanisms are involved -- whether the healing was based on 'normal' psychophysiology, or whether it involved a truly 'paranormal' element. Generally, it is very difficult to distinguish psychic healing from self-healing.

The theoretical or metaphysical implications, of healing are mind-boggling (that's one of the reasons there's so much resistance to accepting paranormal phenomena in general).

Perhaps healing can take place on many levels. First, at the soul level, second the intention of the patient to be healed, and thirdly by the healer's intentions, thoughts, and energy as a conduit for healing of these social and psychological factors. Does it matter if healing is a fully internal process, the 'healer' being just a convenient trigger of self-healing, or if it is a genuinely paranormal process.

Either way, many coming into a healing session have high hopes and expectations, or are in a hyper-suggestible state. If, coupled with this receptive state of mind, we have a healer who we resonate with --then the situation may be just right to trigger a self-healing process, leading to alleviation of symptoms or even a cure.

Bottom line, I believe that all healing takes place in the Healing Matrix of God, and that none of us are separate from this source. If it is our destiny to be healed, it is done one way or the other. If not, our ultimate healing may mean leaving this reality and entering another. When it is our time, we return to the Matrix. Where something is developed, birthed - a point of origin.

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