Monday, January 31, 2011

Letter from Senator Tom Udall

I sent the following to Tom Udall...Senator from New Mexico:

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:


"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives;
and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United
States ."


Here is his reply (sorry I couldn't transfer the fancy stationery...use your imagination)..:

January 31, 2011

Dear Ms. Bianca,

Thank you for contacting me regarding benefits for Members of Congress. I appreciate hearing from you about issues that concern you, and I would like to address a few of the issues that were raised in your letter.

There are many common misconceptions about the benefits Members of Congress receive. Prior to 1984, Members of Congress and other federal employees did not pay into Social Security and did not receive benefits from that program. They participated in a separate program for civil servants, the Civil Service Retirement System. In 1984, Congress established the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) for those who entered the federal workforce after 1983. Members of Congress, like other Federal employees under FERS, pay 6.2% of their taxable wage base into Social Security, and an additional 1.3% into a supplemental program. FERS is similar to the retirement savings programs offered by many private employers.

Concerns also have been raised regarding Congressional pay. Since 1989, Congress' annual pay adjustments have been based on a formula that is supposed to reflect the average pay increase for private-sector employees in a given year. However, dating back to my service in the House of Representatives, I have voted each and every time against allowing the automatic Congressional pay raise to occur.

Even though I voted against it, the most recent pay raise given to members of Congress was a 2.8 percent increase in January 2009. However, a provision in the FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which I supported, prohibited the pay adjustment for 2010. Additionally, with my support, Congress passed S. 3244 on April 27, 2010. This legislation stipulated that Members of Congress would not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011.

You also raised the issue of term limits for Members of Congress. Currently, there is no mandatory limit on the number of terms or years Members of Congress may serve. There have been attempts in the recent past to change this by amending the United States Constitution to limit the number of terms that Congress may serve to three in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate. As an amendment to the Constitution, it would require a two-thirds majority vote approval in the House and Senate, and then must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Currently, there is no legislation in the 112th Congress that has been introduced to address term limits.

You also may be interested to know that on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, a bill that I voted for in the Senate on December 24, 2009. This marked an important step forward in providing much needed health security to New Mexico families and businesses. Although this law won't solve all of the problems we face as a nation regarding health care, I look forward to continuing our work together to perfect our healthcare system for all New Mexicans.

The new health insurance reform law will provide affordable coverage options for 434,000 New Mexicans who are uninsured and 98,000 New Mexicans who purchase health insurance through the individual market. This landmark law will not stop insurance companies from raising premiums, but it will reduce family health insurance premiums by between $1,380 and $1,970, compared to what premiums would have been by 2016 without health reform. The law also will help our small businesses; almost 23,000 New Mexico small businesses will be eligible for tax credits for their contribution to their employee's health insurance.

It is important to note, however, that Members of Congress and their staff members will be required to purchase their health insurance through the health exchanges, just as everyone else will be, when these provisions take effect in 2014.

Please know that I understand your frustrations with Congress and also am personally dissatisfied with the current state of the affairs. Yet, despite this frustration, I remain committed to reform. On January 5, 2010, at the beginning of the 112th Congress, I introduced Senate Resolution 10, a resolution to improve the debate and consideration of legislation and nominations in the Senate. Senate Resolution 10 includes a rules reform package that improves accountability and transparency, while preserving minority rights. With 25 additional cosponsors, there is already wide support for the resolution.

The full Senate returned on January 25, 2011, and the resolution was debated further. On January 27, 2011, after many hours of debate, Senate Resolution 10 failed to receive a majority of votes, but I am pleased that 44 Senators voted for the reform measure. I look forward to continuing this important debate in the 112th Congress.

Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with me. Please feel free to contact me with your concerns regarding any federal issue by visiting my website at www.tomudall.senate.gov. For more information, you may also visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Senator-Tom-Udall/106433512869 and receive up to the minute updates through my Twitter page at http://twitter.com/senatortomudall.

Very truly yours,

Tom Udall
United States Senator

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

MASTERY

You are no accident. Existence needs you. Without you, something will be missing in this universe and no one can replace it. This is what gives you dignity – that all of existence would miss you. When you open to this ultimate, it will pour into your life influencing everything you experience. Your insight will become the insight of the whole existence. No more separation, you have found your roots. Your consciousness will unfold in all directions and dimensions, yet the road to that unfolding is one. This beginning is mastery; an opening and awareness that we create what we want from our experiences. Use Rapid Eye to assist this unfolding.


Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trapped trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the event. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results. Clients report immediate benefits and feel relaxed, yet energized after a session. They gain a new perspective on life, feel self empowered and permanently change their life. Life Skills are the cornerstone of creating these results:

Thought – Thought is at the beginning of all creation. Change your thoughts and change your life.

Perception – Perception is how we understand our world based on our experiences filtered through our judgments.

Choice and Accountability means we choose how we feel about our experiences. We are always free to change our mind and choose again.

Cause and Effect multiplies our choice into either a positive or negative experience.
Abundance and Gratitude gives us an abundance of whatever we believe we deserve. What we choose to feed will grow.
Health and Healing is the process of becoming and maintaining a state of wholeness.

Harmony and Rhythm is how it all works together in complete harmony. We are part of life, moving with the flow.
Skills for Living appear to be seven separate laws, yet they operate as one. Our thoughts create, our perception of the thoughts and events give them reality, cause and effect recreates them and choice and accountability lets us change our thoughts, perceptions and actions at any time. Our choices result in either lack or abundance, and continuous “feeding” can affect our health on all levels. By consciously choosing the frequency of energy we align with, we can create discord and pain, or harmony and rhythm. Learn more at www.rapideyetechnology.com and download a FREE Life Skills Workbook.

Everything you put out in life comes back to you multiplied. Increase your awareness, learn, change your perceptions, and quickly move to a new view of the events… thus changing your life. We create whatever we set our mind to (intention). We are like a light bulb and spirit is the electricity that makes the light bulb work. Some light bulbs let in more of their source (higher wattage or vibration) and they have a brighter light. Focus on the endless possibilities, and provide an environment for positive change.

Claudia Bianca, MRET shares twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico offering private individual sessions, Immersion programs, Reiki Attunements and Rapid Eye Certifications and workshops. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Trust What YOU Know



How often do we look outside ourselves for answers? More than we want to admit. Looking outside yourself gives you a perspective which may or may not be helpful. It’s simply how someone else sees things going on in our lives. We are the final authority in our choices. The buck stops here.

Gavin DeBecker’s book The Gift of Fear states that many of us ignore our “inner warnings” even to the point of physical harm to ourselves. So how do we tune in to this inner wisdom to assist us in making the choices that give us the best that we want out of life? Simple – do our work. Doing our personal work keeps the cobwebs clear so we can recognize the internal chatter and differentiate when it is distracting and when it is directing. Like anything it takes a bit of practice.

The definition of insanity is “doing the same thing and expecting a different result”. Often we continually attract the same kind of “user” friends, unhealthy love relationships or stay in unfulfilling jobs just to avoid the fear of change or because we don’t feel there is any other way. Change is inevitable. Since the beginning of this article, cells in your body have changed, the light has moved, and your breathing has shifted. What if we could direct our lives through this change with tools that help us know what we want and then how to ask for it directly?

If you have unhealthy patterns that are repeating, then give yourself the gift of Rapid Eye Sessions to resolve and heal these patterns that direct us over and over to the same old choices with the same old results. They repeat in order to get your attention – they will increase in intensity and frequency until they have accomplished just that. When they have your attention, ask yourself “Is this what I really want to create in life?” Create resolution and learn skills to experience your own personal wisdom in life through RET sessions. Isn’t it time for you? True power comes from within and Rapid Eye makes the access available to everyone.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trapped trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the event. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results.

Clients report:
· immediate benefits
· a new perspective on life
· feeling relaxed, yet energized
· self empowerment
· permanently change your life

Visit http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/ to download a free Life Skills Workbook.

Claudia Bianca, MRET is a Master Rapid Eye Therapist/RET Trainer sharing twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com or visit http://www.claudiabianca.com/

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Conscious Intentions

Can having intentions that are positive create health in our lives? The answer is most definitely YES! Our consciousness directly affects our health and healing on all levels (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual). Our mind/body is set up to meet all our needs directly and spontaneously which is usually occurring without our conscious knowing.

As we become more awake and aware we gain fresh insight into situations – this is the creation of breakthrough moments which we can convert into positive learning and growing experiences. We are seeing many individuals (and corporations) who have slept through the wake-up calls and chosen instead to remain in their comfort zone. The message to shift or change will continue to repeat louder and louder until it gets our attention, the learning is absorbed and the shift happens. Change is inevitable.

Ignoring the “choice moments” is a coping strategy that seems to work in the moment. On the other hand, chronic sleepwalking through life can lead to major problems simply because we lock out teachable moments. It is not enough to simply go through the motions of life with our bodies in an upright position and our mind asleep to what is going on around us. Being part of the ‘walking dead’ is not only an unfulfilling way to experience life; it can be costly as well.

There are no victims in the world and no villains. We are not the victim of others choices. On some level, we have participated in the creations we detest – and having created it, we have chosen it and we can change it. Our choices paint a picture of who we are. Look at how States and Nations have painted such pictures. For most of our lives, we lived at the effect of our experiences or in reaction. Through conscious intention we are invited to live and walk in awareness creating health and healing in our lives.

Use a Rapid Eye session to clear the old patterns that keep our intentions ineffectual. Learn to tap into subtler levels of information you’ve been ignoring up to now and create your life, health and healing consciously. As you become aware of the flow of information and energy going to your body, you can choose positive intentions and immediately recognize the results. Life is a creation, not a discovery.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trapped trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the event. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results.

Clients report:
· immediate benefits
· a new perspective on life
· feeling relaxed, yet energized
· self empowerment
· permanently change your life


Claudia Bianca, MRET is a Master Rapid Eye Therapist/RET Trainer sharing twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com or visit http://www.claudiabianca.com/

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Self Empowerment

We are reviewing a time where profit came before people and planet – and the devastating result that has created. Our society thrived on stories of get rich quick, top dog, and the greed seemed to entice rather than repel us. We are now shifting to a more real way of being on the planet. Those that are still waiting for the knight in shining armor may find that an old, used-up knight in rusty armor shows up on a donkey. The time to empower ourselves is present. Empower means to give authority to. No one can give us authority, except ourselves.

Wholeness is a more a state of spirit rather than a state of mind. As a baby, we knew ourselves as perfect until others told us we weren’t. Today we must find the wholeness still within us and bring this latent joyful understanding into all we experience in life. We must learn to believe in and be guided by our inner knowing. Inner assurance is what will give us self assurance. Once we re-discover the joy we once knew, we truly can live an unlimited life.

There are three principles of manifestation that have been around since the dawn of time.


· The Principle of Creative Thought – we create what we believe.


· The Principle of Mental Clearing – we must clear our self-limiting beliefs to manifest new beliefs

· The Principle of Vision – we must have a clear vision of what we want to create to manifest it

Using Rapid Eye sessions to clear the self-limiting beliefs will allow our vision (of healthy relationships, prosperity, joy, inspiration) to sparkle and shine with a clarity that will surprise us. We cannot put a new belief in place until we clear the old incorrect belief that keeps us stuck in the same old, same old. We can all get away with being casual and careless for awhile, yet sooner or later it catches up to you. Leave your bills unpaid, your work undone, and your problems to everyone else and one day the walls will fall in. Our choices have a cumulative effect. They build on each other. Rapid Eye can clear these self-limiting beliefs and assist you in creating the life you truly want.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the trauma. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results.

Clients report:
· immediate benefits
· a new perspective on life
· feeling relaxed, yet energized
· self empowerment
· permanently change your life

Visit http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/ to download a free Life Skills Workbook.


Claudia Bianca, MRET shares twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico offering individual sessions, Immersion programs, Reiki Attunements and Rapid Eye Certifications and workshops. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com or visit http://www.claudiabianca.com/

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Wake UP Calls

Events, occurrences, conditions, happenings, circumstances – are all created out of some level of consciousness. Life gives us plenty of “wake up” calls that come along with choices. The choices we make create a result or effect, painting a portrait of who we are. When you are conscious about a wake up call and act on it, fresh insight creates a new level of increased awareness in your life.

We all have ‘stuff’ to work through in life. It can seem like a big mountain to climb to face our stuff, so many attempt to postpone it with self medication, busyness or hitting the snooze alarm to stay in our comfort zone. Life tries to deliver a message and our resistance causes us to stay asleep and ignore it. These messages will be delivered over and over again until we get the learning.

Hitting the snooze alarm is a coping mechanism and some people go through life in an upright position simply doing the motions with our mind asleep to what is really going on around us. These ‘walking dead’ pay a high price in an unfulfilling experience of life. Going for the breakthrough moments in life can give us positive growing and learning – creating excitement about just being here.

We all will be creating our life for the rest of our life – just as we’ve been doing since birth. The difference (choice) is whether we are creating it consciously or with the snooze alarm in full gear. We all live the effect of our experiences. What we’re discussing here is to be at the cause of them. That is what is known as conscious living and walking in awareness. Use a Rapid Eye session to tap into the subtle levels of information that life has been trying to deliver to you. Learn to listen to the messages you’ve been ignoring and create consciously your experience of life. Choice, not chance determines your destiny.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the trauma. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results.

Clients report:
• immediate benefits
• a new perspective on life
• feeling relaxed, yet energized
• self empowerment
• permanently change your life


Claudia Bianca, MRET shares twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico offering individual sessions, Immersion programs, Reiki Attunements and Rapid Eye Certifications and workshops. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com or visit http://www.claudiabianca.com/

Monday, March 1, 2010

Connection...Connection?#!*%

We all experience the frustration rising up when our connection to the internet is slow, our television is fuzzy, or the cell phone drops a call. When our connection to each other has interference, it feels just as frustrating. How important is connection? Without it we have little excitement about just being here and living day to day. We lose valuable information that can shape our perceptions of each other, events or relationships as well as add joy or struggle to our daily lives.

Just as in electricity you must have both sides of the plug (give and take) - connection and communication go hand in hand. Without one, the other struggles. This struggle creates a larger disconnection and we give up in exasperation. When we have lost the hope or desire to create connection, what is the answer? Forgiveness.

Everything and everyone in our lives is neutral (neither good nor bad) until we put in place a perception. To us, this perception is based on truth from our past experience in our world (our being the operative word here). Forgiveness gives the opportunity to rethink the thoughts we’re using as the lens of understanding our world or someone in it. Often we believe that forgiveness is a far too generous act for the individual when in actuality it is self-serving. When we have painful memories with a negative charge, it colors our world and how we see it. We suffer. When we forgive, we bring peace and calm to ourselves and the painful memories as well. Forgiveness results from clearing unwanted negative thoughts from our mind and stripping them of their negative charge through understanding. As we create understanding, we depersonalize events and see the humanity of others which allows us to be more compassionate and see the offending event in a positive light. We can re-perceive from a “He did it to me” category to just another example of what happens in life.

This skill to forgive is innate – in an emergency people easily forgive old resentments. If we can forget the past in an emergency, we can forgive and forget at will. We need only see that this action is possible and advantageous. When our perceptions are negatively charged, this view feels impossible to obtain. A session of Rapid Eye gives us the opportunity to release the negative charge and look again for the forgiveness as we reconnect to ourselves and others.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a safe, natural way to release stress and trauma leaving us empowered to live a happier, more productive life without reliving the trauma. RET gently simulates REM sleep, the body’s own natural discharge. Accessing the whole mind/body system while awake, allows you to be in control of your journey and in a powerful position to create your new reality. With new skills, ideas and experiences, you are less likely to repeat the “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten” pattern of stuck in your life. Identify and release nonproductive beliefs, negative thought forms, and emotions—all of which contribute to emotional stress. RET is a release and reframe technology unique in its approach and amazing in its results.

Claudia Bianca, MRET shares twenty-four years of experience with Rapid Eye Technology. She is located in beautiful Taos, New Mexico offering individual sessions, Immersion programs, Reiki Attunements and Rapid Eye Certifications and workshops. Email questions to seeublink@aol.com or visit http://www.claudiabianca.com/