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22 May 2013 - 11:59am
Brahmi - Agreat herb for meditation!
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Peace :)
The plant is known to grow under varying soil and climatic conditions. It grows exceptionally well in poorly drained soils and waterlogged areas under sub-tropical conditions. The plants grow faster at high temperatures (33-400 C) and humidity (65-80%) and should be cultivated as summer-rainy season crop.
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20 May 2013 - 6:43pm
THE RESULS OF HOLDING ONTO ANGER IN THE BODY
~ Heather Carlini
www.carliniinstitute.com
When you are feeling, irritated, frustrated, angry and emotionally upset most of the time, this puts your SYMPATHETIC nervous system into overdrive.
When you are under this kind of stress, it is like driving a car with one foot on the pedal (SYMPATHETIC nervous system)
and the other foot on the brake (PARASYMPATHETIC nervous system) at the same time.
This causes extra wear and tear on the body and on the nervous system. It depletes your energy and affects your ability to think
The brain creates a pharmacy of chemicals and when you continually run anger, you can literally become addicted to this chemistry —
just as you would any other drug.
This happens because the rush of CORTISOL from feeling angry creates a rush of constant stimulation and this creates your emotional set-point.
( Each emotion creates its own body chemistry.)
Chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous system makes it harder to get calm, and or slow down when you need to.
This creates the risk of heart problems or deveoping Fybromyalgia.
When persistent emotional upset keeps your sympathetic nervous system in overdrive, it can lead to nervous system exhaustion.
It can also cause hormonal imbalances, such as chronic elevation in CORTISOL, the stress hormone, and a reduction in DHEA, the “vitality” or “anti-aging” hormone.
Over time, a chronic elevation of cortisol resets the body’s thermostat to keep producing cortisol even when you are no longer angry.
Too much cortisol production over a long period of time also creates
*excessive build-up of fat around the middle of the body,
*impairs immune function,
*decreases bone and muscle mass,
*impairs memory and learning and destroys brain cells.
This material is copyrighted. © 2010,2011 Heather Carlini www.carliniinstitute.com
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20 May 2013 - 12:05pm
Life-long disease: About 120,000 Australians have
type 1 diabetes (Source: iStockphoto)
March 20, 2013
Dani Cooper ABC
A protein that could be harnessed to prevent or reverse the onset of type 1 diabetes has been identified by Australian researchers.
The researchers found the protein - CD52 - plays a key role in protecting the body against excessive immune responses, and could be used to treat other autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Study leader, Professor Len Harrison, of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, says the team has already found CD52 prevents type 1 diabetes in mouse models and is confident of moving "quickly to clinical trials".
The findings, published today in Nature Immunology, focuses on the role CD52 plays in suppressing the body's immune response to the specific antigens that drive autoimmune disease.
Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, develop when the immune system begins to attack the body's own tissues.
The protein CD52 appears to play a dominant role in controlling or suppressing immune activity in the early stages of the immune response, Harrison says.
Harrison and colleagues' findings follow on from their earlier discovery T cells, specialised immune cells, that regulate the activity of other T cells.
Harrison says this latest paper outlines the mechanism by which these regulatory T cells work.
Works like a brake
The researchers found T cells that carry high levels of CD52 release the CD52 to "dampen down or put a brake on" the growth of T cells being activated by the disease-causing antigens.
Harrison says their work shows people with type 1 diabetes are less able to generate CD52 cells and therefore lose this protection.
They were able to demonstrate the link with the onset of the autoimmune disease as the removal of the CD52-producing immune cells in mouse models led to the rapid development of diabetes.
"The data we have so far indicates CD52 is an effective immune-suppressing agent so we are excited about its therapeutic potential," says Harrison.
The discovery of the protective mechanism could also provide a tool to identify people at risk of developing autoimmune diseases.
Harrison says he and colleagues have been able to measure a deficiency of this mechanism in laboratory tests and hope to ultimately screen for CD52 deficiency to pinpoint people at risk of specific autoimmune diseases.
He says boosting the levels of CD52 in people at risk may be one approach to developing a treatment for diabetes.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/05/20/3762496.htm#.UZoPjdi0bTo
(this news is highly significant for long-term Type 1 diabetics like myself - 48yrs of insulin injections
and subsequent other autoimmune diseases have folowed. Fingers crossed...XX )
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18 May 2013 - 8:59pm
today's blog is about conventional mainstream medicine.the reality and many of truths is that they are poison that's all.i mean if they are really made from nature why do they have so many damn side effects?nature would not harm us because nature really cares for us.if something is really natural and from nature then it would be truly safe to consume in a medicinal method and ways.anyway they are poison that's it.i mean sure they help you in the area or areas that you need help and curing and all.but it silently harms you in other areas that you don't even know its affecting you.it helps but harms you at the same time.i truly do believe that its harmful than good way more harmful.not only that i also believe and heard over and over again that they lower our vibrational levels and even shut down some if not all our DNA not just humans but star seeds and light workers alike.call me crazy or paranoid whatever you want but it does not change what i said.i am not the only one nor will i be the last.i say this because even doctors say this they might not say the part of our vibrations of course because they are not awaken themselves or are trapped and blind to this stuff.the doctors themselves don't even know the whole truth or many truth's because the ones that train them lie to them as well.so don't blame the doctors although some of them are to blame in my opinion the ones that know the many truths and don't say anything.i always say go for alternative natural remedies cures and practices instead of conventional doctors.but no nobody ever listens and only goes to alternative doctors and etc that practice safe natural remedies from nature herself till its too late.and if you expect the makers or FDA to come clean and tell you the truth about this dream on they won't not till its way too late and soul is trapped in this 3rd dimensional world and material world.also if you keep consuming their drugs they will shut down your DNA and etc.the choice is yours!choose well and wisely and very carefully!!!the FDA is just like any other business its all about money first then comes your health second.to them your nothing but a money making machine that's it.
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11 May 2013 - 5:07pm
New Level of Quickening .. moving into 5-13D Body...a great article to share
8 September 2012 - 5:09am | sierra
humansarefree.com/2011/04/amazing-scientists-our-dna-is-mutating.html
The changes are not known publicly, because the scientific community feels it would frighten the population. However, people are changing at the cellular level. I am working with three children right now who have three DNA helixes. Most people know and feel this. Many religions have talked about the change and know it will come about in different ways. We know it is a positive mutation even though physically, mentally, and emotionally it can be misunderstood and frightening.
PR: Are these children displaying any characteristics different from other children?
BF: These are children who can move objects across the room just by concentrating on them, or they can fill glasses of water just by looking at them. They're telepathic. You would almost think by knowing these children that they are half angelic or superhuman, but they're not. I think they are what we are growing into during the next few decades.
Extracted from an article 'The Bigger Picture' by Susanna Thorpe-Clark.:
We are being changed physically from carbon-based beings with 2 strands of DNA into crystalline beings with 1,024 strands of DNA (eventually, in time), because only crystalline substances can exist on higher dimensional levels. But the immediate changes are from 2 to 3 DNA strands, and later into 12.
It is speculated that the human beings already had 12 DNA strands hundreds of thousands of years ago, but someone or something interfered in our evolution, downgrading us to only 2.
It is not just we humans who are changing, but all life forms on Earth are becoming crystalline. All the fish in the sea, the flowers and trees in your garden, the birds in the sky, even your pet dog or cat. Everything is changing. Nothing will die or be destroyed, for we are all moving together into A NEW STATE OF BEING. This new state of being requires therefore that we physically, mentally and emotionally let go of 3rd dimensional concepts.
Just as in death, the letting go is a major part of the change process, for one cannot take the old values and way of being into a new completely different afterlife. So the progression through changes compels us to let go of current relationships, jobs, careers, homes, possessions, and so on, if they are unable to support our new way of being.
Is it any wonder therefore, that there is a great deal of anxiety and fear being felt because these changes are already in progress, even though most people are not conscious of it. Also, the changes to our physiological makeup are currently speeding up and there are MANY TEMPORARY PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS that are occurring in our bodies as a consequence of this.
Flu-like symptoms - high temperatures, sweating, aching bones and joints etc, but which do not respond to antibiotics.
Migraine headaches - severe pain that is not relieved with pain killers.
Occasional diarrhoea.
Occasional runny nose - with sneezing which lasts 24 hours and is not a cold or hayfever.
Dizziness
Ringing in the ears
Heart palpitations
Feeling the whole body vibrate - especially at ni ght when one is in a relaxed state.
Intense muscle spasms - plus pain in the body, often the back.
Tingling - in arms, hands, legs or feet.
Loss of muscular power - in hands, caused by changes in circulation system.
Occasional breathing difficulties - and/or noticing stronger or louder breathing when in a relaxed state.
Immune system changes
Lymphatic system changes
Feeling tired - or exhausted from minor exertion.
Wanting to sleep - longer and more often than normal.
Toe nails and hair growing quicker than normal.
Bouts of depression for no real reason.
Delving into the past - and looking at relationships, gaining clarity on personal issues.
Feeling of a huge purge
Tension, anxiety and high stress levels - because one feels that something is going on but doesn't know what it is.
Some of these symptoms are being felt by a great many people. Many are rushing off in panic to their doctor, chiropractor, herbalist, etc. and are usually told that there is nothing wrong with them. And this is the truth. For all these symptoms are just temporary and simply indicate that these physiological changes are occurring.
Some of the RECOMMENDED RELIEF REMEDIES for the above are: Go with the flow, don't fight it. If you feel tired and exhausted, rest and get plenty of sleep. Drink lots of water for you are detoxifying and dehydrating quicker than usual. To relieve emotional tension and stress levels take Valerian. Fenugreek relieves stress on the lymphatic system and helps the detoxification.
To relieve muscle spasm take Valerian and try mud baths or a long, hot soak in a bath to which you add a cup of Epsom salts.
Do this daily. Rocognise that even if you are having heart palpitations or breathing difficulties that it is the heart chakra or the throat chakra.that is unblocking and that the symptoms are temporary. You aren't dying, just changing! However, don't just take my word for it. Seek medical guidance if you are unsure. If you don't know where to get Valerian or Fenugreek, try a health food store or better still, simply say the name in your head when you need relief.
All healing energies are transmitted via the sound of the name and are just as effective said in the mind or aloud, as in physically taking them. Try it and see. Ask your angel guides to help relieve any pain. They are just waiting to be asked ! Most symptoms seem to last a couple of weeks, then clear up. Some symptoms may recur from time to time. These changes are not necessarily being experienced by everyone concurrently. A very small percentage of adults have already completed the entire change into crystalline form and now embody 1,024 strands of DNA.
One report is of a woman who has grown 3 inches taller and a footsize larger. All children under the age of 7 have also now completed the change, or will shortly do so. Babies born in the past 2 years have all been born with the full set of DNA. Some people are only just starting to move through these changes, and many others have yet to start. This process of change is known as the Awakening, or as the Ascension process, or known as achieving the Merkabah, or light body.
We need to transcend our fears and learn about love, real love, which has to start with the self. Because, until we can love and trust ourself, We cannot truly love or trust anything or anybody else.
To Read Full article :
http://humansarefree.com/2011/04/amazing-scientists-our-dna-is-mutating.html
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8 May 2013 - 8:44pm
Science & Technology
New bird flu strains created in lab
Posted on Tuesday, 7 May, 2013 | Comment icon 55 comments | News tip by: sean6
Image credit: stockxpert
Scientists in China have come under fire for producing more than 100 new mutations of the deadly virus.
Researchers at China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory have combined avian and human forms of the flu virus to create a host of new and potentially deadly strains. The rationale behind the work is that the new strains will help them develop treatments and to better understand how the virus is passed between humans and animals. The potential for disaster however has sparked outrage among the international science community.
"They claim they are doing this to help develop vaccines and such like. In fact the real reason is that they are driven by blind ambition with no common sense whatsoever," said zoologist Lord Robert May. "The record of containment in labs like this is not reassuring. They are taking it upon themselves to create human-to-human transmission of very dangerous viruses. It’s appallingly irresponsible."
China is on alert after a new strain of bird flu, H7N9, was passed from birds to humans, infecting 127 people so far. Scientists were critical this week of research from a Chinese lab that combined human and avian strains of flu to produce over 100 new mutations of the virus.
View: Full article | Source: New York Daily News
Discuss: View comments (55)very important to realize and know of many truths
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7 May 2013 - 10:14pm
why are Vaccines bad in general and poison to us?when i mean us i refer to all.well the answer is simple.it's meant to poison our bodies and lower our vibrations and keep our souls trapped in this false reality as well and trapped in this physical body.it calcifies us believe me.Vaccines are dangerous to begin with.our immune systems are already strong and a very complex protection system already by its self.you know what we need to do all of us those that care what goes inside our bodies is reject these so called vaccines and say no we won't take your crap.but nope what to people do instead they go an pretty much say how much do you charge to poison my body?they pay money for them to inject their poison that entrapped their soul in the physical body and lower our vibrations to their levels where they can harm us.look people,star seeds and etc we just need to take care of our immune system by eating the right foods and really healthy that's all.well what is eating healthy some might say.well here's some advice and tips.eat fruits and vegetables as much as possible and prefer and choose organic if you can't afford it.here's another tip and advice you could also plant and grow your own organic food and etc.these vaccines entrap our souls in this dimension and the physical body and it calcifies us and brings us down to their level and low vibrating world and materials and etc.they are also made from the very poison that they themselves create in the labs.they contain mercury and other chemicals not found in our bodies and not native to our bodies as well.our bodies have their own natural defense chemicals and etc that our bodies already produce itself.that's if people would to truly eat healthy food and organic as much as possible.when i say healthy i mean don't eat meats,process sugar in factories and etc.yes this includes sugary drinks like sodas,store fruit juices and etc.this includes fast food places like taco bell,burger king and etc as well these contain some sugar as well.the truth is that vaccines are meant and were created to keep us trapped in this world or realm to say the least.its another plan of theirs from preventing us from finding out our real selves and from waking up and activating their DNA and to trap once again our soul.now i haven't gotten a single vaccine ever since i woken up and knew the truth about them.her's a source that might help you discover what other things are in there its called www.anti-ignorance.org look click where it says weapons and look for "vaccine".i have fell victim to this before when i was younger and not aware and not awaken either.i really did they were created to really help us and protects us wow was really wrong!good thing i woke up in time.my dogs don't even get their vaccines now for the very same reasons they never have gotten rabies or etc.why would i pay to poison them when i wouldn't do the same to me especially when one knows the real truth or one of many truths.
Teaching
3 May 2013 - 8:35pm
REPOSTED from The Healers Journal | The Art Of Spiritual Healing In The New Age
NEW STUDY SHOWS YOGA AND MEDITATION INDUCE CHANGES AT THE GENETIC LEVEL
~by admin
If you ever needed objective proof that yoga, meditation and mindfulness work, this is it.
~ By Truth | The Healers Journal
www.the healersjournal.com
Meditation, Yoga and the Buddhist practice of mindfulness have long been heralded as having a wide range of immediate and long term benefits and as science delves deeper into the mechanics of the metaphysical, evidence continues to build in their favor. These practices have been shown to reduce stress, increase happiness, enhance learning, memory, and cognition and even enhance immune system function and reduce risk of heart diseases. However, the understanding of exactly how these changes take place in the mind and body has been somewhat elusive.
Ask anyone who regularly practices either of these artforms if they work (meaning that they benefit in some tangible way) and you'll get an emphatic 'yes!' -- but when you ask them exactly how they work, the answers tend to become a bit more subjective and abstract -- that is, until now. A recent study published this week in the prestigious journal PLOS One suggests that the benefits associated with regular practice of Yoga, Mediation and other related relaxation techniques may indeed come from deep inside our DNA.
Researchers at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center trained 26 adult subjects without prior experience in various relaxation techniques such as meditation, mantra (the repetition of 'sacred' sounds) and mindfulness practice. Participants were given blood tests immediately preceeding and immediately following 20 minutes of self directed practice. By looking at 22,000 different gene sequences, researchers were able to identify and measure any changes that occurred during/after practicing various relaxation techniques (meditation, mantra, mindfulness).
The results were nothing short of remarkable. All of the 26 participants showed measurable changes in the genes that researchers have identified as being responsible for or related to relaxation (reduced cell energy production), aging, metabolism and even insulin response. These changes were shown to be indicative of a reduced stress response and initiated activity in telomere maintenance genes, meaning that the meditation, mantra and mindfulness practice may have actually initiated changes in the body that led to repair of DNA.
Importantly, this study demonstrates that during one session of RR [relaxation response] practice rapid changes in gene expression (on the order of minutes) are induced that are linked to a select set of biological pathways among both long-term and short-term practitioners that might explain the health benefits of RR practices. These genes have been linked to pathways responsible for energy metabolism, electron transport chain, biological oxidation and insulin secretion. These pathways play central roles in mitochondrial energy mechanics, oxidative phosphorylation and cell aging [48], [51]. We hypothesized that upregulation of biological oxidation gene sets may enhance efficiency of oxidation-reduction reactions and thereby reduce oxidative stress.
Furthermore, the changes were not only observed in novice practitioners. The study also used a group of advanced meditators as a control group, measuring their blood both before and after practice as well. The results demonstrated the the experienced practitioners experienced even more pronounced and immediate results than the novice group. The researchers also noted that advanced practitioners also had unique genetic patterns of expression compared to the amateur group, suggesting that long term practice has different effects than it does initially, although both groups had plenty of overlap.
Analysis of the transcriptome data revealed that temporal modulation of gene expression occurred in both short- (N2) and long-term (M) practitioners as compared to novices (N1). Long-term RR practitioners exhibited more pronounced and consistent immediate gene expression changes as compared to short-term practitioners. Some genes were modified only in long-term practitioners (Long-term patterns), whereas others were modified in both short- and long-term practitioners with a greater intensity in the latter (Progressive patterns).
Although the study was focused specifically on meditation and mindfulness, its not hard to make the jump that related practices such as Yoga and Tai Chi, will also induce the same effect. After all, Yoga and Tai Chi are, at their essence, moving meditations.
References
"Relaxation Response Induces Temporal Transcriptome Changes in Energy Metabolism, Insulin Secretion and Inflammatory Pathways", PLOS ONE.
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28 Apr 2013 - 12:16pm
Hypertension: A Lifestyle Disorder Needs a Lifetime of Attention
By Deepak Chopra
https://www.deepakchopra.com/blog/view/125/hypertension:_a_lifestyle_disorder_needs_a_lifetime_of_attention
The term “lifestyle disorder” had to be invented to describe hypertension. Almost no aspect of daily life – diet, sleep, exercise, work, and stress – can be implicated. Your blood pressure responds to these things quite sensitively. This implies an optimistic attitude, because for many sufferers, a change in lifestyle serves as good prevention. But optimism is lost if lifestyle changes are not kept up for a lifetime. For millions of patients, the arrival of high blood pressure as they get older comes at a stage when prevention may be too little, too late.
It took a while before lifestyle disorders were recognized for what they are, a product of “normal” living that turns out not to be normal so far as the body is concerned. To previous generations of doctors, a creeping rise in blood pressure, for example, was considered normal with each decade of life. It was overlooked, or shrugged off, that hypertension needs a long span of years to cause damage and that even marginal hypertension – blood pressure on the border of being high – threatens the body almost as much as the full-blown disorder.
Because every cell is affected by the fluid pressure inside your body, let’s look at how a necessary condition turns damaging. Hypertension is publicized as the “silent killer” for its absence of symptoms detected by the afflicted person. The condition may go unnoticed for years, with few if any signs of discomfort – unlike the cartoon character sending his blood pressure through the roof, steam doesn’t come out of your ears, your face doesn’t turn red, and you don’t swell up. Generally speaking, nothing hurts.
Hypertension often isn’t seen as the culprit until a serious medical problem appears. It is a dangerous disease in its own right, however, with multiple complications. Hypertension can permanently damage the eyes, lungs, heart, or kidneys. Malignant (i.e., highly elevated) blood pressure is deadly: without treatment fewer than 10% of people with malignant hypertension survive for more than 1-2 years.
As to its frequency, high blood pressure is extremely common in the US and throughout the developed world. About 30% of adults aged 18 or older in the US have hypertension, about the same percentage as in other developed nations. African Americans have higher levels (42%) than non-Hispanic whites (29%) and Mexican Americans (26%). With the rise in childhood obesity, lack of exercise, and poor diet, the age at which blood pressure begins to rise has gotten younger. (There isn't a simple target blood pressure reading that indicates high blood pressure in children, because what's considered normal blood pressure changes as children grow.) About half of adults with hypertension don’t have their blood pressure under control.
Blood pressure is the force of circulating blood against the inner walls of blood vessels. The amount of pressure is determined by how much blood your heart pumps, how forcefully your heart is pumping, and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. Arteries are flexible, capable of narrowing or expanding. This isn’t the same, however, as the flexibility of a plastic hose, which responds mechanically to pressure inside it. Arteries are living tissue, and they can expand or contract due to stress or changing emotional states. Blood pressure isn’t steady, either; it normally fluctuates throughout the day. Hypertension is diagnosed as persistently high pressure in the arteries.
Measurement
Blood pressure is generally expressed as two numbers. The first or top number represents the pressure when your heart contracts: the systolic pressure. The second or bottom number represents the pressure when your heart rests between beats: the diastolic pressure. A single high reading isn’t enough for a diagnosis of hypertension. Healthcare practitioners will generally take a number of readings over several different days before making a diagnosis. Normal blood pressure is considered to be <120 systolic and <80 diastolic. Prehypertension is 120-139 systolic or 80-89 diastolic. High blood pressure, stage 1, is 140-159 systolic or 90-99 diastolic. Stage 2 is >160 systolic or >100 diastolic. Pressure of >180 diastolic or >120 systolic is a hypertensive emergency. This level of hypertension can permanently damage organs, so medical help must be sought immediately.
Three types of hypertension
Before considering prevention and treatment, one has to look at the three types of hypertension that exist, since they aren’t all alike. Primary, or essential, hypertension accounts for 90-95% of all cases and doesn’t have a specific medical cause. This is the type almost all of us must pay attention to in our lifestyle choices. Secondary hypertension, on the other hand, is caused by an underlying condition, for instance kidney disease. If the underlying condition is corrected, blood pressure usually returns to normal. A third type, pregnancy-related hypertension, may occur in pregnant women who already have a predisposition to hypertension.
Primary hypertension may have no specific cause, but still there are a number of factors that put you more at risk for developing it. Most can be managed while a few cannot.
Risk factors that can be managed include:
• Obesity (a primary risk factor)
• Smoking or using tobacco in any form
• Drinking too much alcohol
• Lack of exercise
• High levels of fat and cholesterol in your blood
• Too much salt (sodium) in your diet
• Too little potassium in your diet
• Too little vitamin D in your diet
• Oral contraceptives
• Stress
• Certain chronic conditions, like diabetes and sleep apnea
These risks all imply positive changes to reverse them. Before going into that area, let me finish with the medical details.
Risk factors that can’t be managed include:
• Age. The risk of hypertension increases as you age.
• Race. Hypertension is more common among African Americans.
• Genetics. High blood pressure tends to run in families.
Hypertension and atherosclerosis are intimately related. Hypertension can cause atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, when the walls of the arteries try to defend themselves against high blood pressure by becoming stiffer, thicker, and narrower. On the flip side, atherosclerosis can raise blood pressure when arteries become stiff and choked by plaques, impeding blood flow.
The complications of atherosclerosis are many, and they can be very serious.
• Heart disease. Reduced blood flow to the heart can cause angina (chest pain). Heart attacks can result when coronary arteries are completely blocked. Uncontrolled hypertension is one of the major risk factors for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US.
• Stroke. People with even prehypertension have a greatly increased risk of stroke. Atherosclerosis can cause blockage in the arteries that feed the brains as well as weakening of the smaller blood vessels of the brain.
• Enlarged heart. Narrowed arteries make it difficult for the heart to move blood through them. The heart overworks and in doing so becomes both larger and weaker. This can lead to congestive heart failure.
Among other complications, hypertension damages tiny capillaries as well as arteries. This can cause:
• Kidney disease. The kidneys are densely packed with millions of capillaries whose job it is to filter waste from the blood. Hypertension gradually destroys these capillaries, which are replaced by scar tissue.
• Vision damage. Hypertension can cause the capillaries in your eye’s retina to rupture and also damage the capillaries that supply it with blood to your retina. The results may be blurred vision and even blindness.
Lifestyle change
Doctors should advise patients with rising blood pressure to make healthy changes in their lifestyle before prescribing any medicine. Many times these changes are all that is needed to bring pressure down to a normal level. But the key is to make them yourself before symptoms arise or pressures elevate. A conscientious doctor may give you an early warning, but realistically, the responsibility lies with you, and the earlier you adopt a positive lifestyle, the greater the benefits decades from now. Last-minute intervention is the worst choice, since it usually sentences a patient to prescription drugs for the rest of his life.
Exercise
Exercise, and particularly aerobic exercise, lowers hypertension as much as some medications. Exercising regularly, for a minimum of 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, lowers pressure by an average of 5-10 mm Hg. This can allow you to lower the amount of medication you take or even do without it altogether.
Being physically active:
• Strengthens the heart so it pumps more efficiently and with less force
• Increases production of nitric oxide, a naturally occurring substance that induces arteries to dilate
• Reduces inflammation, a major cause of artery-hardening plaque
• Improves cholesterol and triglyceride levels
• Reduces stress
Remember, exercise doesn’t necessarily mean running on a treadmill or swimming laps. Anything that increases your respiration and heart rate counts, from raking leaves to going up and down stairs.
Diet
Lowering your salt intake and eating whole foods that are high in nutrients and antioxidants are seen as keys to lowering your blood pressure through diet. But you should pay specific attention, because most people, up to 80% are not salt sensitive; that is, their salt intake doesn’t immediately translate into higher blood pressure. That’s not the same as saying that our national habit of overdoing on salt is healthy, since other considerations, such as putting stress on the kidneys, come into play. There is no “blood pressure diet” that resolves hypertension specifically, as long as you aren’t gaining excess weight or eating too many fats.
DO EAT
The following foods are rich in inflammation-fighting antioxidants, fiber, and essential nutrients:
• Whole grains, such as oatmeal, whole wheat, and quinoa
• Colorful vegetables, like dark leafy greens, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots
• Dark-skinned fruits, including black grapes, cherries, and plums
• Lean protein, such as fish, chicken, and vegetable protein
• Nuts, seeds, and legumes
• Canola oil and extra-virgin olive oil
AVOID
• Salt. Sodium (salt) causes some people to hold extra water, putting additional stress on their heart and blood vessels and causing blood pressure to rise. Watch out for processed food and restaurant food, especially fast food, which tend to be high in salt.
• Alcohol. Having more than two drinks a day raises the risk of hypertension by 1.5-2 times. The more alcohol your drink, the greater the risk.
• Caffeine. Caffeine can cause brief but dramatic increases in blood pressure.
• Sugar. There’s growing evidence that eating a diet high in sweets may lead to hypertension.
Quit smoking
If you smoke, quit. Smoking raises your blood pressure from 5-10 mm Hg or more every time you light up. Quitting smoking reduces inflammation and greatly decreases the chances of having a heart attack and stroke.
Reduce stress
Unmanaged stress increases blood pressure because stress elevates levels of corticosteroids, the “stress hormones.” Corticosteroids increase blood pressure, among other physiological effects.
Lose weight
Being overweight or obese makes hypertension worse. As your body weight increases, your blood pressure goes up, too.
The reverse also holds true: as you lose weight, your blood pressure goes down. Losing as little as 5 lbs. can reduce hypertension. The more weight you lose, the lower your blood pressure can go. In one study of over 1,200 people, those who lost 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) or more had reductions in diastolic and systolic blood pressure of, on average, 5.0 mm Hg and 7.0 mm Hg.
Get enough sleep
There’s a link between hypertension and not getting enough sleep. In a recent study, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure were higher in people who slept less than 8 hours a night. Sleep helps to regulate stress hormones and maintains the health of the nervous system. It’s possible that stress hormones that are unregulated due to lack of sleep could contribute to hypertension.
Treatment with medication
If lifestyle measures don’t lower blood pressure sufficiently, one or more medications may be prescribed.
• Thiazide diuretics dilate blood vessels and decrease fluid volume.
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors dilate blood vessels.
• Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), like ACE inhibitors, dilate blood vessels.
• Beta-blockers slow heart rate, decrease cardiac output, lessen the force with which the heart muscle contracts, and dilate blood vessels.
• Calcium channel blockers decrease the pumping strength of the heart, slow the heart rate, and relax blood vessels and muscles.
• Renin inhibitors cause blood vessels to dilate.
Self-monitoring
It’s a reasonable idea to self-monitor your blood pressure, keeping track of your readings in a blood pressure diary. Self-monitoring shows you if your treatment is working and how well your hypertension is being controlled. But be aware that your readings will go up and down, with daily highs and lows along with weekly variations. That means monitoring your blood pressure at various times during the day so that you can see if there are times when your pressure spikes.
Ask your healthcare practitioner when and how often you should check your blood pressure. In general, it’s the low number that is significant since it shows the pressure of a body at rest, which is the pressure your cells and organs must live with. The higher number fluctuates, usually over a short period - only if it is persistently high, along with a bad reading of the low number, should you consider yourself at risk. Also, “white coat syndrome,” which causes many people to get an abnormally high spike because of the stress of visiting a doctor, can extend to home monitoring. Worrying about your blood pressure tends to make hypertension worse, so if self-monitoring is an extension of worry, reconsider how good it is for you.
There is no escaping that high blood pressure, like every lifestyle disorder, poses two choices that many people find unpalatable: live with positive habits or resign yourself to taking medication as you grow older. We live at a time when prevention has proven itself over and over, while the general population becomes more sedentary and obese. In the end, all lifestyle options are a matter of personal choice. Moving in the right direction doesn’t need to be drastic if you start early enough. Stay in your comfort zone while reassuring yourself that the zone can expand until you reach your ideal goal.
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21 Apr 2013 - 7:51am
Last updated on March 28, 2013 at 12:00 am EDT by in5d Alternative News
by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Green smoothies are all the rage these days with many people consuming them every day or at least several times a week in an attempt to get healthy and 'alkalize' the body.
Whenever I visit the cafe of my local healthfood store, there are usually several people in gym clothes lined up to order a green smoothie to sip after their workout.
Green smoothies are made by blending large amounts of raw leafy green vegetables with fruit to soften and sweeten the taste. Typical vegetables included in green smoothies are kale, spinach, swiss chard, collard greens, celery, broccoli, and parsley.
Is the green smoothie fad a truly healthy habit over the long term or can consumption of these seemingly healthy drinks in fact contribute to serious health problems?
Raw Leafy Greens Contain High Oxalate Levels
Frequent consumption of large quantities of raw, leafy green vegetables as occurs when a person drinks green smoothies can be deceiving at first as a person will probably initially feel great after adopting this habit particularly if he or she is coming off a highly processed, nutrient poor diet.
The vegetables used in green smoothies are almost without exception high oxalate foods. Over time, a high oxalate diet can contribute to some very serious health problems particularly if you are one of the 20% of people (1 in 5) that have a genetic tendency to produce oxalates or if you suffer from candida or other fungal challenge. In those cases, a high oxalate diet can deal a devastating blow to health.
Oxalate Toxicity Not a New Problem
Humans have suffered the effects of oxalate toxicity since ancient times. A 2000 year old mummy from Chile was discovered through x-ray analysis to have an oxalate kidney stone about the size of a golf ball!
Oxalates can be deposited almost anywhere in the body and wherever they land, pain or worse is the result.
75-90% of kidney stones are oxalate related with 10-15% of Americans afflicted at some point during their lives. As the star shaped crystalline stones pass from the kidney, they cause pressure and pain in the bladder and urethra and can actually tear up the walls of the urinary tract.
Oxalate Stones Can Form in Any Tissue
Oxalate stones can show up in any body tissue including the brain and even the heart.
Oxalate crystals resembling shards of glass which become lodged in the heart cause tiny tears and damage to this vital muscle with every single contraction pumping life giving blood to the rest of the body.
Oxalate crystals which end up in the thyroid can cause thyroid disease by damaging thyroid tissue.
A frequent location for oxalates to end up is skeletal muscle which will cause pain with even normal movement and make exercise nearly impossible. Dr. William Shaw, Director of The Great Plains Laboratory for Health, Nutrition and Metabolism who has studied oxalates extensively, is convinced that oxalate toxicity is a factor in fibromyalgia the pain of which can absolutely devastate a person’s life.
Oxalates Are Fungal in Origin
A surprising finding is that oxalates are produced in large amounts by fungus. Large stones have been found in the sinuses and lungs of people suffering from systemic fungal infections such as candida or Aspergillus.
Therefore, anyone who suffers from any sort of candida or other fungal challenge like fungus nails or dandruff would be wise to be very concerned about oxalate intake via the diet.
Consumption of green smoothies would not in any way contribute to improvement of health in these situations. Given that the majority of people today suffer from gut imbalance/fungal issues caused by antibiotic and prescription drug use along with consumption of processed foods, a high oxalate diet which includes green smoothies is an unwise practice for virtually everyone.
Does Cooking Destroy Oxalates?
Would it be safe to prepare green smoothies with leafy greens that have been lightly steamed first?
Not really, because oxalates are extremely stable and while cooking high oxalate foods like leafy greens (and discarding the cooking water) does reduce the oxalate level, it remains quite high.
Since green smoothies are consumed so frequently by those who swear by them, a light steaming of the veggies first would not make a significant difference over the long term.
Healthier Alternatives to Green Smoothies
The best course of action for health, then, is to opt out of the green smoothie fad.
If you enjoy green leafy vegetables, enjoy them in moderation in salads or cook them and carefully drain and discard all the cooking water – never use it in soups and sauces! Be sure to serve cooked leafy greens with a healthy, traditional fat like butter (not margarine or anything factory synthesized with vegetable oils) for maximum absorption of minerals.
Another option is to drink raw cultured vegetable juice or eat raw cultured vegetables. Not only will you get enhanced nutrition from the culturing process which adds enzymes and nutrients, but you will also get a beneficial and therapeutic dose of probiotics to help balance gut function and improve digestion.
If you already are suffering from some of the ailments described in this article and suspect a high oxalate diet which includes green smoothies or a daily spinach salad may be the cause, stop this practice immediately and consult with a holistic physician who can guide you on the road to recovery and how to best rid your body of the oxalate crystals that are potentially irritating one or more of your body tissues.
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For more info. on this subject go to: http://in5d.com/green-smoothies-can-devastate-your-health.html
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19 Apr 2013 - 10:11am
I was searching for Stevie Wonder's album entitled, 'Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants', which i used to enjoy listening to many years ago, whilst reading :-)...
Anyway, i came across the film for which this Stevie Wonder album was the soundtrack :-)...
Which, perhaps, is a Blessing - but that, of course, is for the viewer to decide :-)
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13 Apr 2013 - 4:38am
Seven Foods That Fight Inflammation & Belly Fat
By Erin Palinski-Wade from Belly Fat Diet For Dummies
When eaten on a regular basis, foods with anti-inflammatory properties can help reduce inflammation in the body, helping to prevent the long-term health consequences associated with it — but only if you also eliminate the foods that cause inflammation. When inflammation is under control, not only will you have more energy and feel better overall, but you’ll also find that weight loss and reduction of belly fat both become easier!
Try adding anti-inflammatory foods into your meal plan on a daily basis. The more often you eat these foods, the less inflammation that will be present in your body. The following foods and nutrients can fight inflammation:
1. Fruits and vegetables
All fruits and vegetables, due to their rich nutrient and fiber content, help to combat chronic inflammation,
so make sure to include adequate amounts of these foods daily. Some types of fresh produce, however,
are even more potent than others.
Some terrific anti-inflammatory fruits and vegetables to include in your meal plan include apples,
berries, broccoli, mushrooms, papaya, pineapple, and spinach.
2. Green tea
This mild beverage is great for helping shrink your waistline as well as for decreasing inflammation.
The flavonoids in this tea have natural anti-inflammatory properties. And the compound EGCG in green
tea has been shown to help reduce body fat.
3. Monounsaturated fats
These heart-healthy fats help raise your healthy HDL cholesterol levels and reduce overall inflammation.
Great sources include olive oil, almonds, and avocado.
4. Omega-3 fatty acids
Research has shown that a diet with a high percentage of omega-3 fatty acids and a low percentage of omega-6
fatty acids has been linked with decreased inflammation. Food sources of omega-3s include walnuts, flaxseed,
and fish, such as wild Alaskan salmon.
5. Spices
Certain spices, including garlic, turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, and chili peppers, have potent inflammation-reducing
capabilities, so try adding them to meals as often as possible.
6. Water
Staying hydrated is essential to flushing inflammation-causing toxins out of your body. Aim for 64 ounces of water
per day. Remember: Add an additional 8 ounces of water for every 30 minutes of exercise as well.
7. Whole grains
Rich in fiber, whole grains help control the insulin response in your body. The high B vitamin content of whole
grains also helps reduce the inflammatory hormone homocystine in the body.
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http://www.cityofshamballa.net/group/healthy-living-and-healthy-eating/forum/topics/seven-foods-that-fight-inflammation-and-belly-fat
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8 Apr 2013 - 10:22pm
Thanks to Rose that posted this on one of the BOLE BRIDGES
SiNeh~
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Read the information below and you will see why I have been sending out emails nonstop, warning my friends about the dangers of radio frequency radiation. Now to be fair to the iPad, if the WiFi is turned off, then there is no danger. However, most people do not know this and simply use the unit with the WiFi activated all the time.
On another note, I went to a person's home the other day to provide EMF remediation and consultation for them. The lady was telling me, "I am dying, I am dying, something is killing me!" The doctors could not find anything, but she had high blood pressure, ringing in her ears, could not sleep at night, and other symptoms.
The moment I turned on my RF Meter, I showed her how she was poisoning herself with cordless phone she worked right next to. I also showed her how her wireless modem was blasting through her house and her bedroom. We unplugged the cordless phone and the readings went down dramatically. I switched her internet connection to ethernet cords for both her computers, and disabled the wireless, and her house was totally quiet in terms of radio frequency radiation.
The lady was sitting on the couch, while I was working, saying "The ringing in my ears is stopping, wow, it feels so calm in here now." I just smiled and said "I am sure you will start feeling a lot better from now on."
Please share with other Parents and Teachers!
iPad User Manual's Safety Warning and Disclaimer. Have You Read It?
Apple: "Read all safety information below and operating instructions before using iPad to avoid injury."
Printed copy of the safety information is provided with purchase. However, the manual is a small booklet of 3 1/4" x 5". The text is so small that they are practically illegible without magnifying glasses. For a legible copy, consumers have to look it up on the internet.
Most parents and teachers never read it.
Here's what the manual says:
Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy iPad contains radio transmitters and receivers. When on, iPad sends and receives radio frequency (RF) energy through its antenna. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® antennas are located behind the screen to the left of the Home button, and behind the Apple logo. iPad has been tested and meets the SAR exposure requirements for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth operation.
A cellular antenna is located at the top edge of iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, when oriented with the Home button at the bottom. For optimal mobile device performance and to be sure that human exposure to RF energy does not exceed the FCC, IC, and European Union guidelines, always follow these instructions and precautions: Orient the device in portrait mode with the Home button at the bottom of the display, or in landscape mode with the cellular antenna (located under the black edge at the top of the device) away from your body or other objects...
If you are still concerned about exposure to RF energy, you can further limit your exposure by limiting the amount of time using iPad Wi-Fi + 3G in wireless mode, since time is a factor in how much exposure a person receives, and by placing more distance between your body and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, since exposure level drops off dramatically with distance.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPad_Important_Product_Information_Guide.pdf
The manual warns that if a user does not handle the iPad exactly as instructed, the radiation level will exceed governments' exposure limits.
Children are targeted for the marketing of such devices, but the safety warning is buried inside an online manual. Without awareness of the warning, parents let children handle the iPads as below. The iPad is often placed on the children's laps, against their reproductive organs, or in their hands which are touching the antennas.
Instead of treating the iPads as radiofrequency transmitters and receivers as declared in the user manual, parents and children treat them as toys.
As explained in a previous post, iPad exposure should be handled with the same caution as cellphone exposure. SAR (specific absorption rate) between cellphone and iPad are similar. Furthermore, peak level radiation of iPad is many times higher than peak level radiation of cellphone.
http://www.safeinschool.org/2013/03/health-canadas-wifi-myth.html
Similar to what's admitted in the iPad's user manual, the World Health Organization's "Base stations and wireless technologies Fact sheet" states that exposure near the "source" of the radiation "may exceed international exposure limits."
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs304/en/index.html
Offering a child an iPad for hours a day - with WiFi on, regardless whether the internet is accessed or not - is similar to giving a child an actively-transmitting cellphone (as during voice calls) to handle for hours a day.
Pushing for the use of iPads in long duration = pushing for similar health consequences as seen from heavy cellphone use, except that it's now on younger and more vulnerable brains and bodies.
The literature from the WHO and Health Canada, on the "safety" of WiFi, only covers low-level background signals of routers "from a distance". It has no provision for near-field exposure to WiFi-enabled devices such as tablets and laptops. This is explicitly stated in the wording of their advice.
WiFi microwave signal, be it from a router or from a mobile device, does not stop until the router is disabled or the WiFi function of the device is turned off. It does not matter if the user is browsing the internet or not. Parents or teachers often leave the WiFi function on for convenience and hand the tablet or smartphone to children for games and apps that do not require internet connection, not knowing that the radiation continues while the child is just playing games on the device.
Also, as seen in the user manual, there are multiple antennas embedded at the back of the iPad. Children or adults definitely should not place it on their laps.*
Please take a look at the following videos:
iPad WiFi Radiation with Wireless Router On
http://youtu.be/snt2uaQd_Ps
Radiation of iPad with WiFi ON but no Internet Connection
http://youtu.be/ANH6PEyQSZY
iPad iPhone Laptop Radiation Measurements
http://www.safeinschool.org/2012/01/ipad-iphone-wi-fi-radiation-and.html
* As shown in one of the videos at the above webpage, the measurement of magnetic fields at the back of the iPad (free of WiFi's RF signals) shows that even when the iPad is not on wireless mode, it's not advisable to place the unit on the lap.
21st Century Learning: Higher Radiation from iPads on WiFithan Cellphones that are Actively Transmitting
http://www.safeinschool.org/2013/03/health-canadas-wifi-myth.html
Posted by: SafeinSchool.Org
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6 Apr 2013 - 7:08pm
Discover Why You Should Use Emu Oil!
http://www.uniquelyemu.com/whyemuoil.htm
Since ancient times man has looked to nature for remedies to relieve their aliments. Many years ago the Australian Aborigines discovered a powerful remedy with a broad range of applications. It was natural Emu Oil.
The ancient Australian Aborigines utilized penetrating Emu Oil as a remedy for skin that was injured, dry, sunburned, or wind parched and to relieve aching muscles and joints. Emu oil was used as a folk remedy to treat various skin conditions, muscles and joint pain, even that associated with Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Now the ancient wisdom of EMU OIL is being developed by modern science.
What Are The Benefits Of Using Emu Oil?
Emu oil has wonderful skin care benefits. It can be used as a moisturizer and as a skin nourishing treatment. Many are turning to pure emu oil for treating fine lines and wrinkles as well. Skin conditions tend to respond well to the anti-inflammatory properties which soothe the skin and help relieve inflammation. When Emu Oil was tested, it proved to be very hypo-allergenic and to have an extremely high purity level. Emu Oil was found to be a safe product with no known harmful side effects.
Emu Oil is a modern alternative method for helping relieve the discomfort of pain and inflammation caused by injured tissues and joints. Studies and research are ongoing. Modern research has documented that Emu Oil possesses numerous beneficial qualities. Laboratory experiments and analysis of Emu Oil both in Australia and in the U.S. have confirmed that Emu Oil has the ability to reduce inflammation of the joints. Emu Oil contains high levels of linolenic acid... a substance known to temporarily ease joint pain, and oleic acid... a substance that has a local anti-inflammatory effect on dermal tissues.
From each drop you will receive multiple benefits. Since it is a powerful transdermal agent that can penetrate deep into the skin its benefits don't just effect the surface layers. The healthy benefits of emu oil actually aid the body at all levels. For these reason and more you will find that emu oil can be effective for a wide range of applications. Below you will find a list of a few of emu oils more popular uses.
Anti-Aging Effect
Emu Oil is unsurpassed for its moisturizing properties. Studies found that dry aging skin increased in thickness by 2-3 times when treated with Emu Oil. Age spots and wrinkles diminished noticeably.
Stretch Marks & Scars
Emu Oil is being used as a natural treatment for stretch marks and scars.
Arthritis
Emu Oil comforts stiff muscles and joints, and helps reduce the inflammation and swelling of arthritic joints. When used regularly, it acts much like an analgesic without the side effects.
Chronic Injuries - Massage
Muscle strains, sprains, injured ligaments and even heel spurs that are experienced by athletes and other sports enthusiasts are responding well to treatment with Emu Oil resulting in up to 50% faster healing. Many professional sports teams are now using Emu Oil for massages in their training rooms.
Cuts & Scrapes
Emu Oil relieves the pain and inflammation of cuts and scrapes without stinging or burning plus aids in the healing process.
Burns
Emu Oil has been found to be very effective on burns of all types including sunburn, 1st and 2nd degree burns, and radiation burns. It alleviates pain and dramatically reduces scarring and blistering.
Psoriasis & Eczema
Emu Oil acts like a therapeutic balm by moisturizing the skin and reducing the itching, redness, cracking, peeling and scaling associated with many stubborn skin conditions.
Hair Care
Emu Oil acts as a fortifying agent for limp dry hair, helps to eliminate split ends and restores a natural healthy shine to the hair. In some cases, there have even been reports of new hair growth.
I use an Arthritic Cream that is made with Emu Oil that is made at the metaphysical store in the city which I live. I use it for lower back pain and other muscular aches when needed. It works best when after applied, a warm bath comes next. Even though while in the water the cream will eventually come off, the healing effect and the warm water creates a penetrating healing into the sore and tired muscle.
14 Ways to Cleanse the Body from Chemtrails, GMOS, Flouridated Water, and other Environmental Toxins
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4 Apr 2013 - 7:59am
14 Ways to Cleanse the Body from Chemtrails, GMOS, Flouridated Water, and other Environmental Toxins
by Christina Sarich, 29 March 2013
From the chemtrails being sprayed over our neighborhoods to the poisons killing our bees and making our food toxic ‘medicine’ we need a way to purge the deadly elixirs of a greedy government, owned and run by corporate interests. For the sake of keeping your attention, I won’t go on ad nauseum about fluoridated water, oil spills, and contaminated air and water due to fracking and mining.
As research since the early 1900s suggests, our bodies simply cannot handle the level of toxicity in our environment without some help, though it was originally designed to cure itself from every conceivable toxin – from heavy metals to the common cold. We have simply burdened the mechanism so profoundly, that the intelligence of the human form is being strained to its acme. We either learn to adapt to the toxic environment that our governments so blatantly support, or we die. We can’t wait for congress or the senate to do the right thing. It’s time to get radical. It’s time to tell your friends about this, even if it is absolutely rabble-rousing.
For some time we have been able to simply ignore, or turn an apathetic ear toward warnings about our food, air and soil being polluted, but when the EPA and FDA, arguably puppet institutions meant to placate farmers and citizens into thinking that their concerns over our war-time and consumer-based lifestyles are benign, states that yes, pesticides ‘are harmful to human health,’ then its time to pay attention. That kind of confession is like telling us the sky is blue. If they didn’t at least state the painfully obvious, it would be very difficult to maintain even a modicum of respect in social and political circles. Most people are already laughing them out of the room.
Our Blood and Bones Contain Over 85,000 Different Toxins
We are a toxic world. Our blood and bones now contain over 85,000 different chemical pollutants. Depleted uranium from bombs, and nuclear energy sites like Fukushima, as well as chemicals as sinister as Agent Orange and toxic mold are now part of our genetic make up. There are too many other toxins to name here. Their names and devastating health effects could fill books. These toxins have seeped into our cells, causing cancer, depression and even insanity.
These pollutants are making our children less intelligent and slowly breaking down our immune systems until they can’t even fight a simple virus. Our hormonal systems are so out of whack from these toxins that both boys and girls are starting puberty way too soon, and fetuses are not developing properly. ADHD, ADD, and Autism are on the rise like never before. Our bodies are fat and tired too, because a toxic body can’t metabolize fats and proteins properly.
Channels of Toxic Elimination
Under better conditions our bodies can get rid of toxins through numerous natural channels:
· Hair
· Finger and Toe Nails
· Skin
· Bowels
· Sweat
· Blood
· Bile
· Urine
In lab tests, extremely high levels of toxins can be found in a single strand of hair, even in people who think they live a ‘healthy’ lifestyle – they workout, don’t smoke, try to eat their vegetables, etc. Hair is actually one of the most telling when testing toxicity levels. It even contains remnants of LSD and cocaine in people who used drugs more than six months prior to testing. It also shows traces of aluminum, mercury, bismuth, lead, arsenic, tin, titanium, silver, asbestos, chlorine, tar, uranium and antimony, just to name a few toxins.
If any of the channels of toxin elimination are compromised, it can make the body very ill and eventually cause it to die. Our liver works diligently to eliminate toxins through bile production. Our skin, one of the largest detoxifying channels, is constantly shedding skin cells to rid itself of poison. Our bowels and digestive organs including the bladder and kidneys, large and small intestines also work very hard at keeping us toxin free. The lymph system keeps T-lymphocyte cells circulating to help kill foreign invaders like viruses that come from mold exposure.
Recycling of Toxins Leads to Disease
The problem is that once the body tries to get rid of a toxin, repeatedly trying to make it water soluble, for example, (though this is just one way of eradicating a toxic poison from our systems) so that it can be excreted, then it starts to recycle that toxin in an effort to find some channel, any channel that can expel it properly. This is how disease starts to happen. A Russian scientists and naturopath named Eli Metchnik did extensive research on this phenomenon in 1904.
In Ayurvedic medicine this is called the ‘multiply and localize’ stages of disease development. A toxin starts to move through blood plasma, and into the reproductive cycle of cells and tissues, so wherever you are weakest in your body, you are likely to develop disease. A disease is ‘born’ in the physical body when genetic predisopositions for disease give way to environmental stress – i.e. toxicity.
What Can I do to Detoxify My Body?
Fortunately, there are inexpensive ways to start to cleanse the bowels, hair, skin, lungs, liver, kidneys, and even the cells, but it starts with realizing we are toxic. Then we must take action.
· Install a HEPA filter or a High Quality Air Purifier. You can also spend time in nature, since trees and flowers act as natural air purifiers.
· Start by throwing out all the toxic cleaners we use to spruce up our homes. Turn to vinegar, baking soda and citrus, particularly lemon juice, and sunlight. These four items can clean our houses (and sometimes us) from top to bottom without causing depression, hormone disruption, cancer, and a host of other diseases caused by the carcinogenic and toxic substances in household cleaners, like diethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA) just to start.
· Sweat. Indian sweat lodges aren’t just for inducing a vision quest. While many people attain spiritual insights from participating in a sweat lodge, they also help to clear the mind and body of toxins, so we naturally become more lucid. You can also use a dry-heat sauna for the same effect.
· Fast. Most of us don’t want to skip even a single meal, but just taking one day off form eating to allow the body to purge toxins stored in fatty tissue can make a world of difference. Fasting has been practiced by different cultures and religions around the world for centuries as an effective way to detoxify. Nutritional cleansing programs like the Isogenics cleanse include periods of intermittent fasting (alternating periods of fasting and non-fasting).
· Purge. There are ancient yogic teachings, which cleanse the mouth, tongue, trachea, stomach and intestines by drinking sea-salted water and then eliminating it. Much like a natural enema, Shankhaprakshalana helps to clean out the entire intestinal tract. The term is actually a Sanskrit word meaning Conch, as in the shell, and it refers to the circular and winding shape of our internal cavity – from mouth to anus.
· Use the six Shat kriyas or Shat Karmas practiced in Hatha Yoga. These Sanskrit words refer to six ancient cleansing techniques. Shankhaprakshalana is just one of them. Some like, Nauli, or stomach churning are difficult for beginning students, but Jala Neti, nasal irrigation is easy for almost anyone to practice.
· Drink more water, but only if its purified. Many toxins are water soluble, so if you drink clean, purified water, you can help to remove them. Just make sure you aren’t drinking unpurified municipal water, it is often full of hundreds of toxins.
· Bathe in hot then cold water. Bathing in the ocean was practiced by the Kumu Hula (master teachers) as a means of purification, but not everyone has ocean front property, so bathing is a great purification ritual. It is also practiced all over Japan, Turkey, India, Africa, and Australia, just to name a few countries with bathing purification traditions or rituals. Bathing in first hot water, expands the blood vessels, and helps the ‘brown’ fat cells work more efficiently to reduce fat and toxins from the body. The cold water allows multiple dips, and also allows us to remain in the hot water longer. If you live near a hot springs or untainted, natural underground water source, many of these pools have excellent nutrients in them, which help to draw toxins out of the body. Also, just warming the body improves the lymph system and immune function. Epson salt baths can help if you don’t have a natural hot springs or the Dead Sea near you (but even the Dead Sea is becoming toxic!)
· Try one of the myriad natural cleansing products available on the market today. There are lots of products that are affordable and help to cleanse everything from the bowels to the liver.
· Eat Detoxifying Foods. You can detoxify with green tea, coffee enemas, and cilantro even. Turmeric is great for detoxifying the body, as is sour sop fruit. Apple Cider Vinegar is wonderful and so is lemon juice and ginger.
· Use Shaolin Clay to Draw Impurities From the Skin. Shaolin Monks used a special clay to help draw impurities from their bodies and to heal more rapidly from injuries received practicing martial arts. It was made into a paste with several herbs and placed on the skin, or ground into powders and taken with herbs (like Dan Gui, Nan Xing, Bai Zhu, etc.) as an oral herbal treatment. Clay baths are especially effective at removing heavy metals and mercury or lead.
· Take Milk Thistle, or Dandelion Root to Detox the Liver. This important organ removes toxins from our blood stream. These two herbs can greatly help the liver process toxins before they ever reach the bloodstream, so that they can be purged from the body via the feces or urine.
· Increase Your Vitamin C. Several studies pointed to a simple Vitamin C supplement in higher doses (which are safe since Vitamin C is water soluble) as a very effective means of detoxiing from Nuclear Fallout.
· Consider Aboriginal Kanwa Minerals are extracted from bubbling pools deep in the desert areas of Australia that are full of hundreds of trace minerals that can help detox the body. Also known as Calcium Montmorillonite Clay, this special ‘mud’ can do everything from absorb bad bacteria to reverse bone decay. Only because this soil had been untouched for millions of years, is it filled with important minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, silica and manganese, as well as other trace elements that help restore a toxic body.
Even though companies like Monsanto, Bayer, Pfizer, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and the military industrial complex want to keep pouring toxins into our world and us, we can detox with some simple remedies to make living a healthy possible in a contaminated world. We may not be living in a pure environment, but we can still treat our bodies as temples, and purify them of the spoils of war and a fast food, pharmaceutical empire.
About the Author
Christina Sarich is a musician, yogi, humanitarian and freelance writer who channels many hours of studying Lao Tzu, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rob Brezny, Miles Davis, and Tom Robbins into interesting tidbits to help you Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World.
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86572/IRAQ-War-remnants-pollution-behind-rise-in-cancer-deaths
http://floridadetox.com/tag/mold-toxicity-causing-schizophrenia/
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1 Apr 2013 - 7:06pm
Green Mental Health: An Alternative to Toxic Psychiatric Drugs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBN2Zjz4W-0
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25 Mar 2013 - 4:22pm
Aloha Dear ONE(s).............
Touched by The Magnificence of The Golden Rays of The SOUL....
My Body awakens..................~*
The warm, tingling pulses of energy moves through the body....
At times the Heart~BEAT just roams around, pulsating parts of the body....
There are two main ways that we receive intuitive guidance and information. One is through the top of the head (the crown chakra) which receives energy and information directly from our guides and from the Universe. This is one of the ways that we receive ideas and inspiration. When the crown chakra is opening, there can be a feeling of tingling at the top of the head, or pressure, or heat; headaches at the top of the head can occur when information is trying to come through but the crown chakra is closed, so it is best to take deep breaths and imagine the crown opening and receiving beams of light.
The second way that we receive intuitive information is through the third eye or brow chakra. This allows us to receive and perceive information in our world about other people, places, things, and energies. This is one of the ways that we receive warnings, or that we perceive other people's true intentions or "true colors".
The Microcosm (the cell) is matching itself and aligning with the Macrocosm (the universal energies)............~*
Each and every one of the trillions of cells within your amazing body has the potential to hold and utilize light in the form of bio photons, subatomic particles of light. When a cell is illuminated, the DNA within that cell is also illuminated, giving you access to the universal wisdom that is held within its matrix.
We need to have our vehicle / body / altar / temple in a state of heightened receptiveness in order to take full advantage of these macrocosmic shifts. We need to be open in our cells and in our mind.
every time we go outside ourselves to seek our wisdom, it immediately becomes someone else’s wisdom and not our own. We are not able to contribute our own uniqueness, our own wisdom, to the universal picture, to the greater whole. And we need to live our uniqueness because this is what creates the order of the greater whole. As soon as we cease to look inside and instead look outside, there is mediocrity, standardization and control across the globe.
The answer to any question you might ask is to be found within you. The truth is not ‘out there’ but inside your own amazing being, for you are much more than you could possibly imagine. We are not separate, isolated individuals but multidimensional, interconnected beings of light living in an interconnected universe. What unfolds around us has a direct and tangible influence on our body, and likewise how we live has a direct effect on the universe. We are vibrational beings living in a vibrational universe that at its most fundamental level is composed of a combination of energy and consciousness. We each create our own reality through our consciousness, but it is the body that is the vehicle for that consciousness. If the body is not balanced, then consciousness cannot be fully expressed. As a result, we become more contracted and in turn our world becomes more contracted to us.
A list of things for health and “cellular awakening”:
- Hydrate your body
- Consume raw essential fatty acids together with protein
- Write your case history
- De-stress
- Have a simple, natural diet
- Ensure your diet is high in potassium and magnesium
- Ensure your diet is NOT too high in sodium and calcium
- Live according to the natural rhythms (day/night cycle, lunar cycle, seasons, etc.)
- Support the endocrine glands and ensure they are in balance
- Alkalizing diet to have the correct body pH
- Take sulphur-rich amino acids together with essential fatty acids (EFA’s)
- Detoxify and keep the body’s routes of elimination fully open and flowing
- Fast, especially during equinoxes, the full and new moons, and during solar eclipses
- Do not allow stagnation to occur in your being at any level – this includes stagnated thoughts, as well as dehydration
LOVE I AM, in The Making..........
~ * Jyothis Zarene.
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20 Mar 2013 - 8:19pm
Greetings fellow beings of light. I come to you now as the energy of the equinox opens a portal that bridges our realms.
I come to speak of the concept of the mind. The mind is what brought you here, now, to this message. The mind is an infinite concept, and when the mind begins to enter into infinite time awareness within a space of self discovery, a great change begins to occur. The minds eye begins to see that, time does not create mind, rather it is mind that creates time, and space. It could be compared to an evolutionary leap from an esoteric perspective. It is like discovering a long lost treasure in the sea, one begins to go beyond the great barrier of three dimensional perceptions and thought forms of time and space. This is simply the next step in the great work of ages, it is like opening pandoras box, the wonder, the awe, the risk, infinite possibility. One treasure reveals the journey to the next!
Thus begins the journey of the seeker. The seeker is now in an entirely new world, everything around them has changed, even within them, the mind has changed. So one begins to see that to change within, is to change without as well. That which is above, is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above.
The mind is like a child, in this new world and conscious awareness. The child is pure, untainted by most dogma. However like a child, the mind seeks to learn, can be easily influenced through indoctrination. When one expands their consciousness into infinity, all things become possible, all great things, all terrible things. The mind is most vulnerable in this new consciousness! It can be easily swayed, influenced, through what the mind has not yet experienced, by means of technology, alchemy or magick. Other mind senses must be developed such as discernment, ESP, and intuition. Meditation can help one to expand these other mind senses. Health is very important as well. The mind functions only as well as the temple it is within, so if the body is well, the mind is well, and thus will function more efficiently.
The concept of memory is bound directly to the concept of mind. This is why it is called the minds eye, you can "see" the memories you have. This is one of the greatest blessings of humanity, to have this sacred and infinite ability. It is the line between adamic and pre adamic man. The great leap of evolution that humanity is taking this time, is into infinite time awareness. The minds eye is open now the wings shall spread! When the temple and the mind work together, and all energetic chakra centers are flowing together in unity and health, the wings take flight! What this means is you will begin to remember more as your memory becomes more adept, possibly from past life experiences and thus will begin to open up much more from a multidimensional perspective!
This is why the Caduceus is seen as a sign of health, it is balance and well being. The sphere atop the Caduceus wand is a sign of the minds eye being open. When the minds eye is opened, you begin to fly!
Metaphor becomes a key aspect in your thought forms, and you begin to comprehend many things that previously you simply could not. Infinity is now your home, you are not bound by time, or space, you will obtain knowledge of how to reach the stars, of how to create your own experiences. This is why you must keep your mind strong, do not be limited in your thinking, do not take a label or a code of morals and ethics, create your own! There are no limits to infinite time! Interact with your reality, play with it, as a child would.
May you have the purity of the child, the knowledge of a scholar and the wisdom of a sage! In infinite love, I am looking at you this way, blessings in light!
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19 Mar 2013 - 5:17am
An interview with Peter Woodbury from Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) on how the immense depth and breadth of the Cayce readings can be applied to our planetary civilization's present day and future.
Plus, what is the A.R.E.'s stance on David Wilcock's claim to be the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?
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17 Mar 2013 - 11:31am
Food shortages is the current topic of major global concern, particularly in relation to feeding the escalating estimated world population of 9 billion people by the year 2050.
Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines a traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plains in water) in a symbiotic environment,. In aquaculture, effluents accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity for the fish. This water is led to a hydroponic system where the by-produes from the aquaculture are broken down by nitrogen fixing bacteria, then filtered out by the plants as vital nutrients, after which the cleansed water is recirculated back to the animals.
This method of farming has been used for thousands of years by the Aztecs and the Chinese. It is easy to assemble and promotes practicle natural self sustainability (no chemicals).
Aquaponics is rapidly becoming the method of choice for most self sustainable organic farmers here in Australia.
For more information see Youtube or Google Aquaponics.
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10 Mar 2013 - 11:10am
Green Coffee Beans Health Benefits
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The extract of green coffee beans has recently become an important ingredient in weight loss supplements. This extract is taken from the green beans of Arabica plants. They have a natural anti-oxidant that is beneficial for weight loss. Apart from weight loss, green coffee beans have several wonderful health benefits and some of them are discussed below.
High Level of Antioxidants
The extract of green coffee beans is famous for the high level of anti-oxidants it contains. They are helpful in repairing the damage caused by free radicals. It was discovered that raw and untreated green coffee beans contain a pure extract of CGA or chlorogenic acid. This is the main caffeic acid that has all the benefits and properties to enhance overall health. They help in controlling blood-sugar levels in the body.
Metabolism Booster
Green Coffee beans are considered as one of the best products for boosting metabolism. The presence of chloregenic acid in the supplements of the Green coffee beans increases the metabolism rate, thereby increasing the burning capacity and contributing to weight loss. On the other hand, the presence of kelp in green coffee beans which is a rich source of vitamins and minerals aids the body to maintain the essential nutrients. In addition, it also improves the body's burning metabolism to burn the excess calories and fat quickly.
Burning of stored fat
An ingredient of green coffee beans extract has proven to be most effective in burning excess fat laden calories. The presence of chloregenic acid increases the metabolism rate of the body and prevents the liver to discharge more glucose in to the blood stream. If there is a lack of glucose in the blood stream, the body will burn the fat cells to release its stored glucose in to the blood stream. This will be converted in to energy later in the metabolic process.
Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol
Green coffee bean extract helps in reducing the blood pressure level. As we all know, bad cholesterol is the major reason for cardiac arrest. Also, high level bad ldl cholesterol in the body can lead to various cardio vascular problems. But with the help of green coffee beans, you can keep the ldl cholesterol levels in check. Therefore, green coffee beans are not only useful for losing weight but also helpful in preventing cardio vascular problems.
Powerful appetite suppressant
One of the prime benefits of the green coffee bean is its ability to reduce the cravings on food. Since the major focus is to prevent overeating, the body can work towards eliminating the stored fatty acids and calories.
Improved Heart Health
Some studies have revealed that green coffee bean extract has an active ingredient that is as powerful as aspirin in keeping blood-platelets fro clumping together. This action will improve the circulation of blood all over the body and also prevent hardening of arteries. Thus, drinking green coffee keeps many heart ailments like cardiac arrest, strokes, blood pressure, etc at bay.
Improved mental alertness
Drinking Green Coffee can keep you alert and awake. Moreover, it helps in boosting your concentration power; thereby you can become better at recollecting things very easily. A number of studies have proven that green coffee beans help a lot in improving learning abilities as well as the power of reasoning. It also aids in reducing the cognitive errors outside the workplace.
Detoxifying liver
Cleansing your liver is one of the necessary processes to be done in order to maintain your overall health. This is nothing but inducing the liver to purge fats, bad cholesterols and some other toxic chemicals. Green coffee helps a lot in detoxifying the liver. It also helps in maintaining optimal metabolic function.
Enhanced energy levels
Green Coffee beans contains contain caffeine which is helpful in keeping you alert and able to react any challenges that might come your way. It also boosts your body's overall energy level to keep you active all through the day.
As you can see, there are tons of benefits associated with green coffee beans. To relish all the benefits of green coffee beans, you should make sure that you buy only top quality green coffee beans.
More information regarding Green Coffee and its health benefits can be found here: http://greencoffeebeanonline.com
I discovered Green Coffee through a new drink that has recently been introduced here in Canada by Starbucks. It is a bit pricey so I will not be buying it daily, but I will keep a look out for the extract.
Teaching
10 Mar 2013 - 10:23am
Unlocking the neurology of the God experience
by Kevin Nelson, M.D.
Are Out-of-Body Experiences Always Spiritual?
Nearly everyone is familiar with the out-of body experience that sometimes comes as death approaches. Going through a tunnel, being enveloped by “the light”, and floating above one’s body are so often portrayed in the media that near-death and out-of-body experiences are almost stereotypes.
It turns out that solid scientific evidence reveals that millions of Americans have had an out-of body experience, and it’s probably safe to say that many consider these experiences evidence that an afterlife exists and that our consciousness or soul can separate from our body.
Yet if a neurologist, like myself, is going to examine how the brain works during spiritual experience then we must ask: Does this apparent parting of consciousness and brain always impart a spiritual essence?
Before we can probe that question we must first find out what is meant by spiritual, and for that we turn to the great American psychologist and philosopher, William James. In The Principles of Psychology, James helped lay the foundation of modern psychology and launch the study of the self. But it was in The Varieties of Religious Experience that James presented his comprehensive ideas that remain the starting point for neuroscientists today when they look into science and spirituality.
So what is it that makes an experience spiritual? For James this quality encompasses “the feelings, acts, and experiences” of people who in their solitude understand that they have touched “whatever they may consider the divine”. This is a pliable definition lacking many specifics, so to flesh it out James studied case histories focusing on individual’s “original experiences that were the pattern-setters” to rigorously define the features of spiritual experiences. Now lets take a look at a few case studies of our own and view out-of-body experience through the lens of modern neuroscience to see what these experiences can tell us.
Patrick was a patient of mine for many years before he told me of his out-of-body experience. While driving an ambulance as an emergency medical technician, he suffered a heart attack and was taken to the local emergency room where they knew him well. As his heart began to fail, he became paralyzed and slowly levitated above the gurney. Higher and higher he rose until he could survey the entire emergency room and his body below. It wasn’t long until Patrick gently descended back onto the gurney. When I asked how he felt about levitating and seeing his body beneath his consciousness he said he was about to “meet my maker”.
Undoubtedly James would agree that Patrick’s experience was a spiritual one. Patrick considered his maker, whom he was about to greet, divine by any measure. But would James see Karen’s experience in the same way?
Karen is my psychiatry colleague and shares the story of her out-of-body experience. She had just moved to rural Kentucky, when a state trooper living in the next apartment discharged his gun under suspicious circumstances, almost shooting his wife. That night feeling very unsettled, Karen lay in bed halfway between being awake and asleep. Without any premonition, she began floating a few feet above her bed, and turned to see herself and husband lying side by side beneath the quilt she crafted when a newlywed. After drifting about the room for a few astonishing moments, the next thing she remembers is waking up the next morning.
Karen had a much different take than Patrick. She felt this experience was simply odd. So odd, that she told very few people about it, after all “what would people think?” She didn’t touch anything she considered divine or beyond herself. What would James think?
One crucial quality of Karen’s brain she later told me about was her occasionally awakening from sleep completely paralyzed. Sleep paralysis as it is called, happens when the brain is caught in the borderlands between waking and REM consciousness. During the REM sleep we have each night and when we do most of our dreaming, spinal paralysis sets in so we can’t act out our dreams-that would be hazardous. Features of REM, like the paralysis, can intrude into our fully awake brain. Visual hallucinations and probably out-of-body experiences are among the other aspects of REM that can come upon us while awake. And this brings us to Matt.
Matt is one of my research subjects who is twenty-seven years old and suffers from narcolepsy. In addition to sleep attacks, he has frequent sleep paralysis and near weekly out-of-body experiences while lying in bed. But things much eerier also come to him at night. During his sleep paralysis not only can he leave his body he can also have hallucinations like a basketball becoming “the head of a rotting corpse”. Often shadowy presences lie down next to him when he is incapable of twitching the smallest muscle, and they whisper deathly threats into his ear. Matt does not consider these hallucinations or monsters divine in anyway, and it is only afterwards in the morning that he knows they are not real. His out-of-body experiences are so common they are now a mere curiosity to him. Imagine if he lived in medieval times!
There is no scientific debate that out-of-body experiences can come during REM consciousness. How does it come about? We know from the work of neurologist Olf Blanke in Switzerland that a flicker of electricity, one hundred times less than the current drawn by a sixty watt light bulb, in just the right part of the brain will cause out-of-body experiences at the flip of a switch. That part of brain is the temporoparietal region and the current that Dr. Blanke applies disrupts our sensations allowing us to know where we are in space. The temporoparietal region that helps bind our sensations to consciousness, is also turned off during REM. This explains why out-of-body experience so often happens during REM.
Patrick and many others show us that out-of-body experience can be spiritual, yet it is just as clear that the parting of mind and brain does not always speak to the holy. Understanding the neuroscience behind this parting tells us how the brain works during spiritual experience. Experiences outside the brain are an illusion created by the brain itself-but why? Certainly the person who feels out of their body understands this experience based on what prompted it as well as in terms of their own psychology, culture and life experiences.
This brings us to another important question: Are there other experiences that are always spiritual? Yes there are such things, and William James considered them the “root and center” for all spiritual experience. Next we will examine how the brain works during experiences that “founders of every church owed their power…”
Dr. Nelson is the author of “The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain” to be released December 30th, 2010. More information can be obtained at thespiritualdoorway.org. If you wish to confidentially share your spiritual experience, Dr. Nelson can be contacted by email; Kevin@thespiritualdoorway.org.
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10 Mar 2013 - 10:18am
Are Egg whites really good for you??
We are told misleading information.. Egg whites are good for you, full of protein, no fat!
As a vegetarian I constantly look for creative ways to add protein in my diet, and I started making this raw meringue desert thinking it was perfectly healthy. I was having bad reactions after I ate it so did some research. Unable to find useful information on the internet I went through a great vegetarian book- The Complete Vegetarian by Peggy Carlson, MD.
Egg whites contain a protein inhibitor called Avidin which stops absorption of Biotin, an important B vitamin. We are told egg yolks are bad for you when in fact they contain the highest concentration of biotin in nature.
Eating raw egg whites alone will lead to biotin deficiency which has detrimental affects such as depression, hair loss etc.
So watch out all you body builders- your better off eating the whole cooked egg or discarding the white! Goodbye egg white omelette, you will be missed x
SOme additional info:
http://thehealthscience.com/archive/index.php/t-171145.html
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5 Mar 2013 - 4:57pm
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2 Mar 2013 - 9:51pm
Perhaps a reason that some people feel there is no critical analysis of the spiritual sphere that we are all engaing in, on various levels. Along with a bountiful exchange of practical knowledge and experience. It may simply be because the majority have aligned with incorrect concepts, perspectives, and practices. This results in a lack of experiences which hold true depth, and thus are actually rooted in reality - whereas the concepts and ideas they have become familiar with are rooted in the mind, lacking certain power and grasp of "reality". Just because something appears in your mind, that doesn't make it some incredible revelation 'just because'. It must be tested, repeated, shared, analysed and properly understood.
However, perhaps there is a hidden fear that people share. This fear may be that what they are experiencing is in fact false, making it seems their endevours were wasted, causing them not to risk revealing the truth about their knowledge/wisdom/practice.
Just because it can be said: "reality is what you make it"... this doesn't mean if you think that you're a piece of fudge cake you will be one... maybe conceptually in your mind, but not what is displayed in the shared world we call reality...
You who is readint his blog, would you say you have the ability to critically analyse and assess your spiritual experiences? The ability to cross-reference different perspectives across multiple scenarios? Can you even truly question your self? Are you able to observe your self with the absence of your identity?
I for one certainly know how easy it is to fall into false beliefs and concepts, and to truly believe they are real.
Be brave and challenge reality.
Peace.
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1 Mar 2013 - 11:49pm
Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Manel Baucells (Author), Rakesh Sarin (Author)
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Ships of Song: Resonant Energy, Reciprocal Response
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23 Feb 2013 - 5:02pm
"Airy and Light" - At the Request of Eros
We are back into “clues for YouTube” for learning! I love the game and Eros, my teacher, knows I will never get tired of it. Anyway, he suggested that I just post something “airy and light” on LWs, so here we go!
Three great videos came up!
This first one is a dance lesson! He and I LOVE dancing and wish earthlings would learn to dance better. I guess that's one reason he provided it. (Have you ever tried "dialogical dancing"?? OMG that is SO MUCH FUN!)
"Airy and Light" Take 1
Light and Airy
"Airy and Light" Take 2
This is some TALENTED “karaoke”! Wow; puts most Karaokers to shame.
Fuwa Fuwa ♪ ふわふわ Airy and Light Yui Makino 牧野由依 PV MV music karaoke
Light and Airy Take 3 – I want one of these flying lights! This SO COOL!
Well, that’s it today! My quick lessons from Eros, my Great Master Teacher from the Cosmos. He’s open for providing tutoring to new students; just ask for Eros, the God of Love. I am SO BLESSED! I don’t even have to call on him.
Oh, and if you would like to follow the Eros and Psyche Story, there is ALWAYS something new going on with their “Code Blue Earth Mission.” Check back often so you don’t miss anything. Things are about to go from “hot” to “firestorm!”
Have a Happy Weekend.
Soferia, aka Psyche
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21 Feb 2013 - 7:59am
Effective thinking and good problem solving skills are key to overcoming adversity.
Effective thinking and good problem solving skills are key to overcoming adversity.
Our thoughts greatly impact our mood and behavior, says Baycrest clinical psychologist, Dr. Nasreen Khatri.
Everyone has negative and positive thoughts but most people have a balance between the two that allows them to think realistically and problem-solve effectively to meet life’s challenges. Research has shown that people who are depressed or anxious think differently than those who are well.
An expert in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Dr. Khatri explains that it’s not just a matter of turning negative thinking into positive thinking, rather we need to perceive and understand difficulties when they arise and then apply good problem solving skills to get through them. This is especially true for clinically depressed or anxious people, but anyone can use the basic premise of CBT to help them think more adaptively to get through a difficult time.
“In CBT we try to break the negative thought cycle,” she says. “The first step is to become aware of your thinking and the next step is to change it and make it more adaptive. In time, people become better equipped and confident in their ability to solve problems, which in turn, makes them more positive.”
Effective thinking and good problem solving skills are key to overcoming adversity.
Our thoughts greatly impact our mood and behavior, says Baycrest clinical psychologist, Dr. Nasreen Khatri.
Everyone has negative and positive thoughts but most people have a balance between the two that allows them to think realistically and problem-solve effectively to meet life’s challenges. Research has shown that people who are depressed or anxious think differently than those who are well.
An expert in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Dr. Khatri explains that it’s not just a matter of turning negative thinking into positive thinking, rather we need to perceive and understand difficulties when they arise and then apply good problem solving skills to get through them. This is especially true for clinically depressed or anxious people, but anyone can use the basic premise of CBT to help them think more adaptively to get through a difficult time.
“In CBT we try to break the negative thought cycle,” she says. “The first step is to become aware of your thinking and the next step is to change it and make it more adaptive. In time, people become better equipped and confident in their ability to solve problems, which in turn, makes them more positive.”
“Anyone can be taught to think more effectively. Effective thinking gives a person a confident sense of self, which leads to a good attitude in life.”
“Clear thinking also helps a person build a coherent life, a life of meaning,” adds Dr. Khatri. “This is particularly important as we age, whether it’s what we accomplished throughout our lifetime or what we are doing on a day-to-day basis.”
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http://www.beliefnet.com/OvercomingDepression/Articles/Can-What-You-Think-Affect-How-You-Feel.
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21 Feb 2013 - 12:37am
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Sage Visvamitra's Manthram on Bhagawan
http://www.saibaba.ws/avatar/visvamitra.htm
Bhootha Bhavya Bhavath prabho
sri Prasanthisai
Bhoothathma,dharmathma
sri dhanvathari amsa,
sathyasai mama prarthana
uthishta sokssankata, dukhanivarana
Mahakrupakataksha
Pahimam, Pahimam, Pahi
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19 Feb 2013 - 9:41pm
One of the best vaccine slammers I’ve seen. It’s just amazing how unquestioning mankind has become about supposed authority, including its health care, largely due to a fear-mongering fascist medical system.
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7 Feb 2013 - 7:31pm
What you eat has a direct relationship to the way you think, as well as your mental and physical health. I challenge you today to eat health for two weeks. In two weeks just by eating healthy you can increase you energy, alleviate depression, increase you memory...etc. A simple step to becoming a better you.
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7 Feb 2013 - 12:04pm
The PH Miracle!
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The Larger Picture of Health.
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4 Feb 2013 - 12:54am
5 WAYS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
~ by Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society - Jan 31, 2013
www.naturalsociety.com
It’s flu season, and even if you don’t fall ill like Piers Morgan after publicly receiving a flu shot from Dr. Oz, you still run the risk of getting sick.
Particularly in the colder months, when we are sitting inside more often, our houses are closed up, and we stay in close quarters—it’s the perfect time for illness to thrive.
But, when you take precautions to keep your immune system running on high, you can skip the tissues and even natural cold remedies, and coast through winter without a second thought.
Here are 5 ways to supercharge and strengthen your immune system.
1. Strengthen Your Immune System - Eliminate Sugar
There are many ways to boost your immune system, but eliminating sugar is one of the first steps. Sugar puts a serious damper on your immune system, in addition to increasing your risk of disease. When the recommended daily sugar intake is 25 grams and a single bottle of Coke contains as much as 60 grams, we know the modern diet is way too immersed in the sweet stuff.
If you want to seriously boost your health and reduce your risk of numerous health issues like obesity and diabetes, seriously consider reducing sugar intake. Opt for a bit of honey or a natural sweetener like Stevia instead.
2. Herbal Teas
Many people get out herbal tea when they are already feeling ill. But many herbs can do wonders for boosting immune function before you’re hit with sickness. Try Echinacea, elderberry, peppermint tea, green tea, and even ginger throughout the day and before going to bed.
3. Green Smoothies and Juicing
Have a produce-packed smoothie once daily to up your overall intake of plant foods and provide a healthy dose of nutrients for your immune system. Include at least one leafy green vegetable (spinach, kale) and one good source of vitamin C (a little orange juice, pineapple, or lime). These aren’t only good for you, they are fun to make.
4. Expose Yourself to Germs
When your body is exposed to germs, it learns how to better fight them of and protect itself, ultimately boosting immunity. This is part of the problem with the overabundance of antibacterial soaps, gels, and lotions. Use plain soap and forgo antibacterial gels unless absolutely necessary. Breathe the same air as other people and don’t be afraid to touch a doorknob once in a while. Or, play in the dirt!
5. Eat Garlic
Garlic is an amazingly wonderful immune-boosting food that no one should ignore. The food has anti-cancer properties, fights inflammation, is great for detoxing, and possesses anti-infection, antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-fungal properties. Don’t just cook with garlic though—eat it raw if you can. Coating it in raw honey can help make the pungent root more palatable.
[Easiest RE raw garlic: finely chop garlic or put in a garlic press & add to your favorite salad dressing -- esp. good in vinaigrettes. ~ES]
Do you know about all of these solutions to strengthen your immune system, but never actually partake in them?!
In order to stay healthy, you have to have healthy habits. Tis the season for colds and flu, but you don’t have to be a statistic this year.
Eat right, get active, and keep your immune system functioning as it should.
If you do get sick, get plenty of rest, drink lots of water, and consume some immune-boosting foods.
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31 Jan 2013 - 9:49pm
Published on Jan 31, 2013
From InfomaticFilms.com and sponsored by NaturalNews.com, this new animated cartoon covers all the basics on why GMOs are dangerous.
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31 Jan 2013 - 8:36am
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27 Jan 2013 - 4:09am
I know this is old news for many, yet......so worth to repeat !
Hip Hooray.....after listening now to the amped up
24/7, 365 days a year, "advertisements for flu shots" within drug/grocery stores, I am happy to see someone else going PUBLIC
to Continue to inform the US public Again. Most Americans aren't getting it...THIS message that is. Looks like Dr Oz didn't either.
I canvassed my whole community when these all began, and got mostly a deaf ear, rolling eyes, or "that conspiracy theory thing"- except for the natural foods store, and my kids.
Seems Americans are far too trusting , ignoring any personal investigation....despite all the red flags ! The week after cnn aired the bad 2013 flu season,
record sales...hmmmm. If you do get sick, rest & take care > there is lots of natural "help" available, and that lets your body build its own immunity.
The treatment, Taniflu, tho it may help, doesn't let your body do that for itSelf.
Piers Morgan Falls ill Days After Public Flu Shot with Dr. Oz
by Anthony Gucciardi
January 24th, 2013 | Updated 01/24/2013 at 1:28 pm
Just two days after it was reported that GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine has actually caused a whopping 800 cases of narcolepsy in children according to Reuters, a major publicity stunt for the efficacy of the flu shot as presented by CNN has crashed and burned. After receiving his very first flu shot live on air from vaccine advocate Dr. Oz in attempt to showcase the ‘safety and effectiveness of the shot’, Piers Morgan has now developed flu-like symptoms that even he and his guest have attributed to the reception of the shot.
In the January 23 interview with country music celebrity Dwight Yoakam, Piers and Dwight discuss the connection between the recent shot and his new sickness. In the interview, which can be seen below, Piers asks “…As you can tell, things are deteriorating. Is there any advice you can give me?”
Yoakam replies with a simple “Don’t ever take a flu shot again,” sparking further discussion surrounding the public injection that ultimately turned into a PR nightmare for Big Pharma. In a surprising reply, Piers says ““We’re both doing the math, so I mean, we both saw him put that thing in my arm and within 10 days I’m struck down.” It was Piers’ first flu shot in his life, according to his own testimony.
You can watch this segment below:
http://youtu.be/X5SQPPvR-JA
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As pointed out by Adan Salazar, the sickness is also highly ironic as Piers actually questioned Dr. Oz about the so-called ‘myths’ surrounding the shot before it was administered. One such ‘myth’ was whether or not the shot could actually lead to the flu. In dialogue with Dr. Oz, Piers nervously asked:
“So the myth about these, and I’m told it’s a myth, is that you can actually get flu or flu-like symptoms simply by having the shot. Is that true?”
Dr. Oz, of course, regurgitated information provided by the CDC in stating that such an event is impossible due to the fact that the flu shot contains the dead flu virus. Dr. Oz also fails to mention that even the FDA’s own website admits that vaccines contain toxic additives like:
Antibiotics: Linked to the development of mental illness, obesity, and serious gut imbalance due to the depletion of beneficial bacteria in the gut, superbug-spawning antibiotics are used in vaccinations as an ‘additive’ as admitted by the FDA.
Formaldehyde: This of course is the known carcinogen used in the preservation of corpses by funeral homes and elsewhere. Even Cancer.gov admits that formaldehyde is a serious cancer-causing chemical, stating “Formaldehyde has been classified as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer…” So why is this cancer-causing substance being used an additive for vaccinations?
Aluminum: Popularly associated with Alzheimer’s disease and a bunch of other brain disorders, aluminum is used as a vaccine additive to ‘stimulate a response’ from the body.
Thimerosal: One of the most widely known additives, thimerosal is a mercury-containing substance that is unsafe at any dose. Your doctor is likely entirely misinformed on this additive, stating there is no mercury-containing thimerosal in a vaccine when even the FDA and CDC plainly state this. As stated by Dr. David Wallinga from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, mercury is ‘toxic in all its forms.”
Instead of giving Piers a vaccination full of these toxic additives, Dr. Oz could have simply recommended that Piers begin supplementing with high quality, inexpensive vitamin D3 — or simply take a walk around outside in a warmer climate. Even in considerably low doses, vitamin D3 has been found to flash the risk of flu development by nearly half – a much great success rate than the flu shot.
About Anthony Gucciardi:
Google Plus Profile Anthony is an accomplished investigative journalist whose articles have appeared on top news sites and have been read by millions worldwide. Anthony's articles have been featured on top health & political websites such as Reuters, Yahoo News, MSNBC, and Bloomberg. Anthony is also a founding member of Natural Attitude, a leading developer of super high quality spagyric formulations.
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21 Jan 2013 - 3:28am
Hey Lighty friends,
In order to transcend the ego, I believe one must fully understand what the ego really is and how it affects everything in our lives.
After completing a degree in Criminology in 2008, I became employed as an criminal intelligence officer within the state police service. During the course of my engagment within law enforcement (Child Protection)- in consultation and under the direction of a Forensic Psychologist, part of my duties involve the profiling of current and identifying potential sexual offenders. I have had the misfortune to encounter many child sexual offenders and sexual offenders who have been afflicted with deep psychological issues and obvious personality disorders. The most common one being NPD - Narcissisic Personality Disorder.
This is a very complex and difficult disorder to diagnose, because everybody (and I mean everybody) has certain characteristics of NPD. There a nine definate traits that are indicators of NPD. On a scale of one to nine - nine being the most severe and destructive manifestation of this disorder. It is an extremely rare occurrence to find any one person with all nine indicators, however they are out there.
Believe me - evil is real and it can exist right under our very noses and we may not even be aware of it. The narcissist has the ability to be the perfect predator.
The following video is a prime example of the NPD ego and will explain what I am referring to. Hopefully, it will give you a clearer insight into the extreme nature of this disorder and how to identify those who may have NPD. FYIO.
WARNING: Some of the content may distress some viewers. Discretion is advised.
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20 Jan 2013 - 11:01am
18 Ways to Boost Your Health in 2013
Michelle Schoffro Cook
January 17, 2013
Let’s face it: most of us start out the New Year with the best intentions, but soon we are back to our old habits. Here are 21 ways to help you get your health on track in 2013:
1. Eat a large green salad. Greens are full of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients like chlorophyll that give our body a huge boost. Chlorophyll, in particular, helps build healthy and strong blood.
2. Drink more water. Water fuels every cell in our body. Insufficient water spells the breakdown of cellular process that can eventually cause illness.
3. Eat two or three pieces or servings of fruit (count ½ cup of fruit like grapes, blueberries, cherries, etc. as a serving) daily. It’s easy enough to choose fruit instead of a less-healthy dessert.
4. Go for a brisk walk. Walking gets your heart pumping, improves circulation, and gets your lymphatic system (the system that eliminates toxic build-up from your tissues) working more effectively.
5. Better yet, take your brisk walk in nature. Breath in the rich oxygenated air from the trees and enjoy the peace and quiet nature offers.
6. Drink a freshly made juice preferably with green veggies. Ideally, dilute your juice 1:1 with pure water. Fresh juices are an easy way to cleanse your body and give it a huge amount of nutrients. Some people spend a fortune on superfoods (which is fine if you have the money) but fresh juices also tend to be rich in antioxidants and other critical nutrients and are much cheaper.
7. Think of at least 10 things for which you are grateful each day. Better yet, start a gratitude journal. Just the act of appreciating what you have can help you feel happier and better about your life.
8. Hug someone you love (make sure it is someone who actually wants a hug).
9. Soak in a warm bath with Epsom salts. The magnesium in Epsom salts is readily absorbed through your skin to relax your muscles and ease tension. Many experts estimate that about 80% of the population is magnesium deficient. This is a delightful way to boost your magnesium levels. Try to stay in the water for at least 20 minutes for maximum benefits.
10. Meditate. The act of calming your mind can relax the nervous system, which tends to be in stress mode due to our high-stress, fast-paced lives.
11. Deep breathe for at least 5 minutes, as often as you can. Research shows that breathing deeply can reduce the amount of the stress hormone cortisol that is released from the adrenal glands. Simply reducing this hormone can reduce anxiety, stress, and even help with weight loss.
12. Dry skin brush. Brush your skin using a natural-bristled brush. Start with the legs and brush upwards toward the heart. Then brush the trunk of the body also toward the heart (avoiding the breasts), and then brush the arms toward the heart. This gets the lymphatic system moving to eliminate toxins more effectively. Take a couple of minutes before hopping in the shower.
13. Snack between meals on healthy snacks like almonds, veggie crudite, hummus and whole grain pitas. Snacking every few hours helps keep blood sugar levels stable, which is critical to reduce mood swings, depression, balance energy and to lose weight.
14. Stop and smell the flowers. It’s okay to slow down to a pace that you actually enjoy life more.
15. Eliminate at least one item from your life that contains toxic chemicals (dryer sheets, most types of commercial laundry soap, dish soap, “air fresheners,” etc.). Choose a natural option from your health food store instead.
16. Eat at least 5 servings of vegetables. We know we should eat our vegetables but it’s difficult to remember sometimes. Add mashed sweet potatoes as a side dish, or saute some greens with freshly chopped garlic and toss with a little fresh lemon juice and sea salt. Even people who don’t like greens tend to love this way of preparing them. Check out my book Healing Recipes if you need more ideas for creating delicious vegetable dishes.
17. Dust off that piece of exercise equipment you’ve owned for years and put it in front of your television. If you’re watching TV, exercise on the commercials. No equipment? Do pushups, sit-ups, crunches, or other exercises on the commercials. It’s easy and it adds up. Soon, you’ll be surprised how fit you are.
18. Do something nice for someone. It just feels good to do something nice for someone else. Usually we reap the greatest benefits out of paying good deeds forward. A positive attitude is contagious.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/18-ways-to-boost-your-health-in-2013
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16 Jan 2013 - 5:57am
Brewing a healthy drink: Tea made from coffee leaves
TNN Jan 15, 2013, 06.26AM
LONDON: Scientists have discovered a 'super brew' — tea made from coffee leaves — which they claim is
healthier than both of the drinks.
The coffee leaf tea, which is said to have an 'earthy' taste that is less bitter than tea and not as strong as coffee,
boasts high levels of compounds which lower the risk of diabetes and heart disease, experts said. It also carries
far less caffeine than traditional tea or coffee and contains antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties,
the 'Daily Mail' reported.
The coffee leaves were analysed by researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, South-West London,
together with researchers in Montpellier, France. They believe the drink — from the leaves of the coffea plant —
has thus far been overlooked because of the preoccupation with the plant's seeds, coffee beans, which are
nowhere near as healthy.
While there is evidence coffee leaf tea is drunk in places such as Ethiopia, South Sudan and Indonesia, previous
attempts to import it into Britain from as early as the 1800s have been unsuccessful.
After analysing 23 species of coffee plant and finding many health benefits, the researchers now hope the coffee
tea could rival the well established types of coffee and black and green teas in Britain.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-15/science/36351989_1_green-teas-coffee-healthy-drink
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15 Jan 2013 - 11:24pm
ENHANCE SPIRITUAL, MENTAL & PHYSICAL WELL-BEING WITH A PINEAL GLAND DETOX
~The Watchers, www.thewatchers.adorraeli.com
Source: NaturalNews
~ By Carolanne Wright
A tiny gland in the center of the brain named the pineal may seem insignificant, but researchers have found it to be vital for physical, mental and, many believe, spiritual health. Through poor diet, exposure to toxins, stress and modern lifestyle choices, the pineal gland becomes hardened, calcified and shuts down. To awaken this gland from its slumber, detoxification is necessary using diet and herbs, sunlight and pure water.
An important pea-sized gland
Pinecone shaped, the size of a pea and resting in the center of the brain, the pineal gland is small but powerful. It secretes melatonin, which regulates sleep/wake cycles, and serotonin, a neurotransmitter that fosters happy and balanced states of mind. Not only crucial for a good night’s rest, melatonin also slows aging and is a potent antioxidant. It helps to protect against electromagnetic pollution as well. Moreover, individuals have reported heightened feelings of empathy while supplementing with melatonin — leading to more harmonious interpersonal relationships.
Scientists suspect that N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is also produced by the pineal gland. This is the substance that gives shamanic botanicals like Psychotria viridis its hallucinatory kick. Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT, The Spirit Molecule, believes that the pineal gland produces DMT during mystical experiences as well as at birth and death. DMT is also associated with lucid dreaming, peak experiences, creativity and the ability to visualize.
Why the pineal gland becomes sluggish
As a result of the aging process and exposure to toxins, the pineal gland begins to calcify. Sodium fluoride is the number one enemy of a healthy pineal gland. This toxin is lurking in the water supply, conventionally grown food and toothpaste. Dietary hormones, mercury, processed foods, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and refined sugars cause calcification as well. Radiation fields, like those found with cell phones and wi-fi networks, are damaging too. Avoiding these hazards is the preliminary step to healing this gland. The second course of action involves removing existing calcification.
How to revive optimal function
According to the Decalcify Pineal Gland website, the following foods and supplements are helpful for detoxifying the pineal gland and restoring vitality:
1. Organic blue ice skate fish oil
2. MSM
3. Raw chocolate
4. Citric acid
5. Garlic
6. Raw apple cider vinegar
7. Oregano oil and Neem extract
8. Activator X (vitamin K1/K2)
9. Boron
10. Melatonin
11. Iodine
12. Tamarind
13. Distilled water
Holly Paige of Food for Consciousness, also offers a number of suggestions to help jump-start the pineal gland. “Happy Tea” is one. A mixture of passion-flower and St. John’s wort, the tea contains pinoline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). When MAOIs are freely circulating within the system, more naturally occurring DMT is available to the brain — encouraging creative and bright mental states.
Another pineal revitalizing brew is ayahuasca. Small ‘tastes’ of this preparation (one tablespoon per day) will help to elevate mood, creativity and inspiration. Ayahuasca can be made by boiling Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis (chakruna) with orange juice for a few hours. In large doses, it can substantially alter perception and trigger visions. In small amounts, it refreshes the mind. Please note: Extracting DMT from any plant, including Psychotria viridis, is illegal in the United States.
Sunlight is also considered ‘food’ for the pineal gland. At least 10 minutes of sunlight exposure is recommended each day. Meditation, chanting and pranayama breathing practices are beneficial to the pineal gland as well.
Sources for this article include:
“The Pineal Gland — The Bridge to Divine Consciousness” Scott Mowry, Miracles and Inspiration. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.miraclesandinspiration.com/pinealgland.html
“Pineal Gland” Regina Bailey. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://biology.about.com/od/anatomy/p/pineal-gland.htm
“Reactivating the Pineal Gland” Food for Consciousness. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://foodforconsciousness.blogspot.com
“Psychotria viridis – Chacruna” Botanical Spirit Shop. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.botanicalspirit.com/psychotria-viridis-products
“How to Detox Fluorides from Your Body” Paul Fassa, Natural News, July 13, 2009. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.naturalnews.com/026605_fluoride_fluorides_detox.html
Decalcify Pineal Gland. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://decalcifypinealgland.com
“How to Decalcify and Detoxify the Pineal Gland” Waking Times. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.wakingtimes.com
“A Fluoride-Free Pineal Gland is More Important than Ever” Paul Fassa, Wake Up World. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://wakeup-world.com
“Professor talks DMT research, its effects on you – and possibly your faith” Clayton Crockett, Legacy Magazine, November 13, 2012. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.lsureveille.com
“Wi-Fi Health Dangers & Radiation Health Effects”, Safe Space Protection. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.safespaceprotection.com
“How to Exhale in Pranayama” Sudha Carolyn Lundeen” Yoga Journal. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/561
“Melatonin and Meditation” Cathy Wong, About.com Alternative Medicine, January 18, 2008. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/mindbody/a/Melatonin.htm
“Ayahuasca: A Plant for Healing the Soul” Chris Kilham, Medicine Hunter, Fox News, January 5, 2011. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/05/ayahuasca-plant-healing-soul/
“An introduction to METAtonin, the pineal gland secretion that helps us access higher understanding” METAtonin Research. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://metatoninresearch.org
“Indolethylamine N-methyltransferase expression in primate nervous tissue” Nicholas V. Cozzi, Timur A. Mavlyutov, Michael A. Thompson, Arnold E. Ruoho, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved on December 18, 2012 from: http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu
About the author:
Carolanne enthusiastically believes if we want to see change in the world, we need to be the change. As a nutritionist, natural foods chef and wellness coach, Carolanne has encouraged others to embrace a healthy lifestyle of organic living, gratefulness and joyful orientation for over 13 years. Through her website www.Thrive-Living.net she looks forward to connecting with other like-minded folks who share a similar vision.
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12 Jan 2013 - 1:29am
5 STEPS FOR AVOIDING & DETOXING THE BT-TOXIN FOUND IN GMO CROPS
~ by Elizabeth Renter
The Natural Society Newsletter, January 7th, 2013
www.naturalsociety.com
“It will make agriculture more efficient,” they claim. “It won’t hurt anyone but the bugs,” they say. But despite all of their promises, Big Agriculture has a vested interest in “selling” us the benefits of their frankenfoods. After all, this is how they make their millions and billions. Regardless of what they tell us, however, the vast majority of people are waking up to the game and recognizing the current big agricultural system for what it is: a capitalistic machine devoid of moral concerns.
Just one example of their disregard for human health is in the use of Bacillus thuringiensis, also known as the Bt-toxin. This bacterial toxin has been used for decades as an insecticide, sprayed directly on crops to kill off problem bugs. The toxin works by literally exploding the stomachs of the bugs who ingest it. Nice, huh?
Well, Big Ag had the evil-genius idea of actually splicing the Bt gene with that of crops, creating corn, soybeans and cotton that already had the Bt built in. They said it would increase crop yields. They said it would decrease pesticide use. But, on both accounts, they were wrong. In addition to failing on both of these fronts, Bt crops have been found to cause both known and unknown damage to human health.
In example, some research has shown that Monsanto’s ‘biopesticide’ known as Bt is killing human kidney cells. Scientists found that the Bt pesticide, in addition to Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, exhibit direct toxicity to human cells even in low doses.
While research is ongoing, there is growing evidence that Bt triggers an immune response in humans and animals. It elevates antibodies associated with allergies, infections, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer, just to name a few. Even more frightening, it can now be found in the majority of people on traditional Western diets—both in them and their unborn fetuses.
While it would be great if the industry would recognize these problems and stop using the Bt-crops, we know that won’t happen. Nor will our government step in and regulate it (they side with Big Ag on this one too). So, as with most things, it’s our responsibility to reduce our exposure and decrease the potential damage on our own bodies.
Straight to the Point – Avoiding and Detoxing
How can we detox the toxin? Simple – here are 5 steps to help you begin:
* Buy organic, GMO-free foods. Simple.
* Consume probiotics and fermented foods - By ensuring your gut bacteria is in good health, your body is better able to combat invaders like the toxic pesticide chemicals.
* Consume fiber-rich foods - The more fiber you eat, the faster things move through your body. And good sources of natural fiber (i.e. organic fruits and vegetables) don’t only take the food waste with them. Fiber helps clean the toxins from your body as well. This is lesser known among the health benefits of fiber.
* Sweat - Through sweating, waste is removed through pores on the skin. Aim to sweat at least fifteen minutes every day. You may even consider brushing your skin from head to toe with a boar bristle brush to remove dead skin cells that clog the pores.
* Filter your water – By using s high quality water filtration system, such as a reverse osmosis unit, pesticides and other contaminates can be removed from your everyday drinking supply.
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11 Jan 2013 - 6:48am
*~* Twelve Myths of Health and Fitness *~*
DailyOm
http://www.dailyom.com
The running champion Jim Fixx is mainly remembered as the genius who started the fitness revolution back in the 1970s with his best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. Fixx sadly died at the age of 52 from a heart attack. His arteries were plugged with too much cholesterol. Although Fixx trumpeted the health benefits of running and jogging, this high-impact exercise without any consideration of cholesterol resulted in some of the problems he thought he was preventing.
SEPARATING MYTH FROM FACT
Fixx’s story highlights one of the challenges in making choices about health, fitness and stress reduction. The barrage of often conflicting information from entertainment, health and diet magazines and, of course, advertising steers us toward practices that may not be effective or right for us. We try different exercises, diets, pills, and machines, and we keep moving along a smorgasbord of fads and quick fixes that do little in the long term. To add insult to injury, myths and misinformation about health and fitness are common in Virtually all media. It is no wonder we jump from one promise to another, consciously or subconsciously adopting beliefs in programs that have little merit over time. The Chi Revolution is about life transformation. To get there, you must shift your priorities toward the life inside you. Let’s take a few of the most common yet absurd paradigms of our modern age and see if any have taken hold of you.
Myth #1: If my body looks good, I must be healthy.
Fact: Health has little to do with a beautiful body.
Like a new car, you can look good on the outside and internally have parts that are weak and malfunctioning. You can appear fit and beautiful and not be healthy. You might already suffer from ulcers, allergies, asthma or diabetes. You might get colds often and recover progressively less quickly. You might be able to run five miles and do a hundred push-ups and still feel anxious, stressed and dragged out most of the time. Your joints might ache and you might have lower back pain that the chiropractors can’t seem to fix.
By appealing to our vanity and fear of aging, Westerners shell out billions of dollars every year on cosmetics and beauty products, super butt and abdominal thinners and other exercise contraptions, get-thin and better-sex pills, breast enlargements and the clothes to go with them. Truly being healthy—energetic fitness—is not about how you look; it’s about how you feel. It’s about making your body, mind and spirit work together as a team.
Myth #2: Life is better for the young and slim.
Fact: Life is better when you feel good.
If you believe this myth, you have been sucker-punched by a multibillion-dollar industry that promotes the cult of youth and slimness. However youthful and slim a person may look, he/she is increasingly feeling the burdens of low self-esteem, chronic illnesses, stress, attention deficit and depression just the same as everyone else.
Sadly, this myth is incredibly powerful. In today’s culture, we idolize youth and make youthful appearance our highest good, our religion, our mystery cult. People approaching their forties—or even their thirties—are panicked about getting older. Baby boomers are spending billions on re-sculpting their appearances and the elderly are shunned by the young as pariahs of what they think they want to avoid.
When you don’t feel good, life sucks. And when you don’t feel good, the really great gifts in life—health, love, happiness, relaxation, spontaneity, laughter, joy—seem as distant and legendary as Timbuktu. How do you get to feeling good on the inside? Try tai chi, chi gung or any other chi practice. It will give you all these gifts for the price of one.
Myth #3: Aging is about decline and losing the ability to “get it up”!
Fact: You can obtain health, vibrancy and sexual vitality well into your old age.
I remember when my own beliefs about aging changed. I went to Taiwan to meet Wang Shu Jin, a renowned master of the Taoist martial arts of ba gua and tai chi, who was in his late sixties at the time. I was a hotshot nineteen-year-old with black belts in karate and other Japanese martial arts with an attitude to match. My first view of Wang was of an older, overweight, round-looking man casually strolling to the park swinging two bird cages. As soon as I introduced myself, he told me that karate was for fighting old women and children. “I can eat more than you. I can have more sex than you and I can fight better than you. Yet you call yourself healthy. Well, young man, there is a lot more to being healthy than being young, and it all comes down to how much chi you have,” he said. Then Wang proved it by bruising more than my ego as he effortlessly knocked me around at will. I couldn’t get near him let alone defend myself. It was the first time I understood that youth did not always mean power and vitality, and aging did not always mean decline!
Chi practices such as tai chi, chi gung and TAO yoga have worked to keep people young in body and mind for thousands of years. They are often called longevity exercises because they are effective at restoring the flexibility, sexual vitality and stamina of youth.
Myth #4: Six-pack abs are good for you.
Fact: Tight abs can mess up your internal organs.
The billion-dollar industry that has you believing you need flat abs is part of the “young and slim” cult. What is under the skin of those oh-so-tight, flat and perfect abs can lead to big problems. Sucking and pinching in the abdominal muscles can foreshorten the ligaments that hold your liver, spleen and kidneys together. Eventually they could touch, especially when you move and twist, cutting off the blood supply where they impinge on each other. And those areas become just like the stagnant backwater pools where the river does not flow, a little putrid and disease prone. If you put stress and anxiety into the mix, those abdominal muscles squeeze even harder on those delicate internal organs. And guess where disease commonly strikes? Right in the internal organs.
Chi practices are about your internal health. They are renowned for improving the health of your internal organs.
Myth #5: Obese people are unhealthy.
Fact: Obese people can be healthy.
Health has to do with what is going on inside your body, not with how much you weigh. In our culture, obesity is becoming a norm. According to health researchers, eight out of ten people over the age of twenty-five and one out of five people under the age of nineteen are obese. The increase in obesity is being matched by increases in such diseases as type II diabetes and heart problems.
The good news is that obesity per se does not have to lead to ill health. You can be obese, dumpy, frail and weak but still have healthy internal organs, be free of pain and illness, enjoy a full sex life and handle immense amounts of stress in a relaxed manner. Our kids can be healthy too. Indeed, there are increased health risks associated with obesity; however, the larger issue is that seventy-eight percent of the American population is not meeting basic activity levels. That’s a more shocking statistic than how many people are overweight. Weight is not the problem: the lack of movement is—not keeping fit, healthy and relaxed.
Low-impact chi practices are renowned for helping obese people stay fit inside their bodies.
Myth #6: No pain, no gain.
Fact: The more you push and strain, the more stress reigns.
“No pain, no gain” is the mantra of bodybuilders, salespeople, athletes and workaholics. Do you honestly believe that achievement is only gained by hardship and strain? This myth has been fostered from youth, when you first started becoming goal oriented and measuring results by grades, competitions, status and the pressure from parents and teachers to “try harder.”
Going for broke uses up your chi reserves, adds to your stress levels and incrementally weakens your body. By pushing to succeed, you increasingly strain your nervous system and depend more and more on adrenalin to keep going. Not only is this stressful, but it is very similar to the nature of addictions. You push yourself toward the next hit, the next high, the biggest adrenalin rush, the newest acquisition, the next of whatever hides behind the push. Strain is literally killing you.
Energetic fitness is based on moderation, increasing your chi reserves and giving you the stamina and vitality for most everything you do. Supercharging your chi can turn you into a super performer, no straining necessary. Today, many executives are learning chi practices because they help them decrease their stress while increasing their ability to maintain a high rate of productivity. Likewise, many athletes who commonly suffer from high stress and high rates of injury are learning that chi practices help them stay in the zone longer and keep them stronger. Getting more energy is about relaxing—not pushing and going for broke.
Myth #7: Circulation is best improved by doing aerobic exercise.
Fact: Chi exercises, done slowly and in a relaxed manner, are an equally powerful method for improving circulation.
Western medical studies show that the circulation boost for people who spend twenty minutes doing chi exercise is as effective as spending the same twenty minutes doing aerobic exercise. Although aerobics pump up the heart rate, forcing blood through constricted areas and flooding blood vessels, it is not enough. It is the equivalent of increasing the pressure to run water through constricted and kinked pipes. And if you add stress into this mix, they burst, just like poor Jim Fixx!
Chi exercises work differently. They increase the pressure within the blood vessels, thereby improving their elasticity, which leads to a flooding of the capillary beds. There is no pressure on the heart to work harder to boost circulation. Chi exercises have some cardiovascular benefits that aerobic exercises commonly do not. Besides reducing blood pressure, chi exercises relax the nervous system, which also helps all the fluids in your body to flow more easily. You exercise your whole body, so that everything inside you is equally strengthened.
Myth #8: Relaxation is about zoning out and escaping.
Fact: Relaxation is about tuning into your body and letting go.
Few Westerners have ever experienced deep relaxation. Because they feel stressed most of the time, they are psychologically unprepared for the fact that relaxation can become a norm in life, not an aberration. It is even more difficult for people to realize that the more relaxed they are, the more energy, stamina, awareness, clarity and strength they will have.
Energetic fitness enables the progressive release of tension and anxiety so that it becomes a living reality. It involves tuning in to your body and letting go of all your physical, emotional, mental, karmic, psychic and spiritual tension. Letting go means releasing chi blockages. Ultimately it means relaxing the nervous system so chi can strongly flow. Relaxation allows love, happiness and compassion to flourish.
Myth #9: Nonmovement exercises will not make you fit.
Fact: Breathing, standing and meditating are some of the most effective health and fitness practices you can adopt.
When I trained in karate, judo and jujitsu, I spent almost ten years vigorously learning to punch, throw and kick. I can remember my complete surprise during early phases of internal martial arts training in China when several masters said that the most effective exercise I could do for strength, speed and stamina was to stand. They all agreed that standing practice would enable me to get in touch with what was not relaxed in my body so I could release it. The basics for learning to stand will be introduced in the Chi Rev Workout inthe last section of this book.
During my training as a chi gung healer in China, I learned that one of the most effective methods for improving the health of my patients was to teach them Longevity Breathing, discussed in detail in Chapter 16. In later stages of my training in China, I learned that in order to become a superior martial artist, I had to practice TAO meditation to release my deepest and most terrifying inner fears, angers, aggression and sadness. Not only did these methods make me strong and relaxed, they made it possible for me to recover from a devastating form of hepatitis and the car accident that injured my back. Over time I became incredibly healthy. The same chi practices have helped millions of people get fit, healthy and relaxed, and recover the sense of spontaneity and joy they had as children. They can do the same for you.
Myth #10: I already know how to breathe; after all, I’m not dead!
Fact: Most people do not breathe well.
According to medical and health associations, ninety percent of people are shallow breathers and forty percent use less than the full capacity of their lungs. As shallow breathers age, their lungs become weaker and they may experience shortness of breath, a precursor to ill health, weakness and depression. Although most people notice when they eat or sleep poorly, relatively few pay attention to their breathing. They are not aware that when they become angry or highly focused on their work, they hold their breath. Lack of oxygen to the brain revs up their nervous systems, making them tense and stressed. Learning the simple breathing exercises that are part of the Chi Rev Workout in this book will help you discover your breathing patterns and help you change and improve them.
Myth #11: Breathing is primarily about oxygenating the body.
Fact: Breathing is primarily about getting the nervous system to relax while gently massaging the internal organs.
Breathing helps unravel the deadening effects of tension and anxiety. Every time we clutch, get uptight or have an adrenalin rush, stress locks into the nervous system and over time becomes habitual. As this happens, tension and constriction occur in the tissues, muscles, ligaments and tendons, cutting off some of the available oxygen and flow of blood in your body, particularly in your internal organs.
Longevity Breathing practices train you to focus on the negative breathing patterns you have and reverse them. They train you to calm down and relax. As you breathe fully and strongly, your internal organs get a gentle massage, which improves the circulation of fluids in and around them and makes them healthier. And, last but not least, you will also oxygenate your body better twenty-four hours a day. Focused, relaxed breathing is fundamental to all meditation practices.
Myth #12: You have to have a special gift to feel chi.
Fact: Anyone can learn to feel chi.
Chi is not some mysterious process that is only available to a few elite. In China, you can see small children holding and playing with imaginary balls. They are being trained to feel chi. Many people in China as well as the West cannot feel the insides of their bodies. They do not understand the relationship between the body and mind, and they certainly have not been trained to feel chi. Not only can chi practices help you feel your chi, but they can also help you recognize where it is blocked, as well as how to free, activate and strengthen it. Chi practices are not just about visualizing your chi mentally. They help you develop your physicalsensitivity to how chi actually flows inside your body. Eventually you will become strong, feel well and eliminate your tension and anxieties.
From Habitual to Rhythmic
Maybe you have been frustrated with many of the health and fitness programs you have tried and you agree with many of the facts presented in this chapter. Myths have a great deal of power. That’s why advertising is so effective at making us spend money on stuff that we probably don’t need, doesn’t work, may be dangerous for us and often doesn’t deliver what is promised. The challenge of the Chi Revolution is not just persuading you to try these chi practices for yourself, but inspiring you to stick with them and integrate them into your daily rhythm. Otherwise they become just another “tasting” of the cornucopia of health and exercise systems out there. Knowing something is good for you is not the same as changing your habits to make them congruent with that knowledge. We are addicted to our habits, many of them conditioned and constantly reinforced by marketing mythology. Activating and balancing chi has improved the health and wellness of tens of millions of people. They understand that energetic fitness affects their health as much as their diet, sleep habits and level of physical activity. You can become energetically fit too.
Excerpts taken from
The Chi Revolution [book]
by Bruce Frantzis
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5 Jan 2013 - 6:17pm
4 SIMPLE STEPS TO DETOXIFYING YOUR GUT AFTER THE HOLIDAYS
~ by Elizabeth Renter - Jan 1. 2013
www.naturalsociety.com
Many people use the holiday season to indulge in foods they wouldn’t normally eat. Even those who ascribe to a natural diet may find themselves crossing lines they wouldn’t typically cross when encountered with foods from their childhood or old favorites while among family and friends. Indulging during the holidays is OK! Don’t feel bad! But remember to get back on track. Here are 4 solutions that might help.
1. Water
First off, get to hydrating. Flushing the remnants of the holiday foods out begins with the most natural consumable substance out there—water. The effectiveness of each of your body’s systems (digestive, circulatory, etc.) depends on proper hydration. And many foods we associate with the holidays can actually dehydrate us. Up your water intake and eat foods with high water contents (fruits and vegetables) to help get your hydration back to proper levels. Of course it is preferable to filter your water through a high quality water filtration system.
2. Garlic
In addition to staying hydrated, you need to rebalance your gut bacteria. There are many foods out there to avoid and consume to promote a healthy gut, but just one of those foods is garlic. Garlic is a powerful food and, when raw, can be extremely effect in solving your health woes. Chewing a piece of raw garlic releases its effective enzymes. Once in the digestive system, these enzymes work to eliminate destructive gut bacteria while keeping the “good bacteria” alive. In some studies, garlic has been found to be even more effective than penicillin, and without annihilating the millions of good bacteria in your gut.
If raw garlic doesn’t sound appetizing, try making it more palatable with honey. Peel and separate garlic cloves. Cover with local, raw honey in a mason jar and allow to sit for a few weeks. The health benefits of honey and garlic are astounding, but this garlic-honey combo is a great cure-all, effective for treating colds, preventing infection, and of course, detoxifying the gut.
3. Apples
Add apples to your diet. Apples contain a flavonoid called Phlorizidin which helps regulate the production of bile in the liver. Bile assists the liver in removing toxins from the body. In addition, apples are an excellent source of fiber which can help flush the intestines.
4. Exercise
Exercise is another important, and often overlooked, aspect of detoxing. In an active body, every internal system works more efficiently. An inactive body is sort of like a car sitting on blocks—the gas doesn’t get used and the parts begin to get rusty and stiff. When the car is maintained and used regularly, it goes through a steady diet of fuel and uses that fuel more efficiently. Also, working up a sweat can help rid the body of toxins through the skin. Try a brisk walk in the sunshine to boost vitamin D production (another important detox component).
Detoxing after the holidays doesn’t have to be difficult. Just pick up where you left off—with healthy practices—and your body will rebound accordingly.
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2 Jan 2013 - 6:34pm
HOLD ON TO THE SUNLIGHT
By Sandy Jensen
www.MyoneSource.com
I have been thinking about the sun and how we are impacted by it on this earth.
It is actually a PHYSICAL NEED we have in our life to keep us healthy and strong. The energy from the rays effectively replenishes us with growth in our bones,
and rejuvenation in our minds. Our skin actually needs daily doses of it. We literally need to soak up rays to see improvement in our moods.
It even helps protect from certain cancers such as prostrate and breast cancer; and some believe colon cancer as well.
MORNING LIGHT exposure includes the BLUE RAYS of light. Exposure to those rays helps our sleeping patterns. Studies have shown that people, especially night owls,
are effected because they lack morning light. This is called blue light and the lack of it affects our biological need creating eating and sleeping disorders.
When we do not expose ourselves to those rays we naturally stay up later. This in turn effects our biological clocks and therefore our eating habits as well.
Like most things in life, the harm comes in over exposure. A healthy dose is up to 30 minutes a day on our skin without sunscreen.
Our skin needs to soak up the ultra violet rays to build up vitamin D in our bodies at least twice a week. In some northern areas people have to work at achieving this
to fight depression because cloudy days, and pollution in the air actually steal those rays needed to produce the vitamin D our body requires. And, there are very few foods
that give this much needed vitamin to our bodies.
So, while we need the beneficial rays from the sun we can actually cause more harm to our existence by applying sunscreen and staying outside for hours in the sun.
We are given the false expectation that we are safe while using sunscreen. While the longer protected time is actually harmful to us and the real cause of skin cancers.
It is interesting to me that we have a free source that is always available to us in the natural environment. There are no man made lights that can feed our bodies
or enhance growth the way the sun does. No other light source or heat source is as efficient or safe to us or our foods as the natural light the sun provides us with.
Most of us live in in a daily environment where we totally miss even that one hour of sun a week. So, it isn’t surprising that it is hard to keep our “sunny dispositions”. It is easy to see
why so many of us are susceptible to depression and clouded thinking so often. Fortunately it is easy to turn that dilemma around and change that with an easy fix.
In our work lives we are missing out on this one essential link in each day. I notice that the longer I am under mandatory hours of fluorescent lighting, the more craving there is
for the warmth and healing properties that my natural instincts know I am missing and needing. So, it is no wonder when we finally are able to be in the LIFE GIVING RAYS
that we don’t want to leave them.
It is easy to see how ancient Egypt and Greece and many agricultural societies came to worship and believe in sun gods. They recognized the life giving source our creator placed here.
They appreciated the benefits they were given by the sun. They greeted it with a thankful heart and recognized their need for it’s energy. It is amazing that our Creator
gave us a rejuvenating, never ending source of light and energy.
He placed it just far enough away from our planet that it would not burn us up; and close enough for us to gain it’s maximum benefits. We have inklings that there may be
other planets with this same perfect balance. But, at this time we have found no other with just such a perfect balance as the one we have been given.
It always amazes me when I research, how even the sun, if it is used as it is intended, is beneficial to our natural being. Instead of prescriptions for anti-depressants
and sleeping pills, and lathering on sunscreen, and mega doses of vitamin D replacements in our food it could be so simple.
Walk outside, rest your mind, turn your face upward and just “soak up a few rays”. They are replenished everyday. They are free. And the benefits they give rejuvenate us quickly.
Just thirty minutes of our time twice a week.
So, hold on to the sunlight. I want to type smiley faces here because that is the inspiration I see just imagining us all with our faces turned towards this
FREE, LIFE-GIVING SOURCE our Maker has provided for us. The simplicity in itself is enlightening.
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28 Nov 2012 - 2:23am
I have a question about flouride. So I have read that flouride is the cause for the scale buildup on the pineal gland that prevents humans from using the third eye. Should we be avoiding flouride? It is in the water, and in the toothpaste that I use. I have been wondering if drinking tap water and brushing my teeth is building scale on my pineal as fast as I manage to boil it off? Anyone have any thoughts about flouride?
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19 Nov 2012 - 12:26pm
Children of the New Dream
Interview with Drunvalo Melchizedek By Diane Cooper
Diane: So Drunvalo…who are these “Children of the New Dream” that you are so excited about?
Drunvalo: Well there are 3 different kinds of children emerging in the world today that I have been able to identify. The first are called the “Super Psychic Children of China.” The second are called the “Indigo Children” and the third are called the “Children of AIDS.”
….It is the third group that I am most interested in–the “Children of AIDS.” About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn’t test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever! He was taken to UCLA to see what was going on and those tests showed that he didn’t have normal human DNA.
In the human DNA we have 4 nucleic acids that combine in sets of 3 producing 64 different patterns that are called codons. Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off, except for 3 which are the stop and start codes, much like a computer. Science always assumed that the ones that were turned off were old programs from our past. I’ve always seen them like application programs in a computer. Anyway…this boy had 24 codons turned on — 4 more than any other human being. Then they tested these kids to see how strong his immune system was. They took a very lethal dose of AIDS in a Petri dish and mixed it with some of his cells and his cells remained completely unaffected. They kept raising the lethalness of the composition and finally went up to 3,000 times more than what was necessary to infect a human being and his cells stayed completely disease free.
Then they started testing his blood with other things like cancer and discovered that this kid was immune to everything! Then they found another kid with these codons turned on–then another one then another one–then 10,000, then 100,000, and then a million of them and at this point, UCLA, by watching world-wide DNA testing, estimates that 1% of the world has this new DNA. That breaks down to approximately 60 million people who are not human by the old criteria.
Diane: Is this new codon activation found only in newborn children?
Drunvalo: Well, it’s mostly children, but now they are finding adults with it too–just like the hundredth monkey theory. Now all kinds of people are being affected by it and its spreading fast.
Remember, it started just 5 years ago with almost no one and now it’s spreading–just like a disease. It’s like an outbreak and this is only the beginning.
The other part of this concerns the new book entitled “Cracking the Bible Code”–which has to do with running the Hebrew Books of the Bible through a specialized computer program. If you go to page 164 of this book, it shows where these researchers put the word AIDS into the program to see what would happen. When they did, the program translation provided words like “HIV,” “in the blood,” “the immune system,” “death” — all the things you would think youd s’ee around the word AIDS, but down in the corner was this sentence that they didn’t understand and it said — “the end of disease,” and that is what I believe is happening here.
“Science has stated that there are so many people showing up with this new alien DNA that they now believe that a new human race is being born on the earth today and apparently they can’t get sick.”
Now what is really incredible — they believe that it is a very specific emotional, mental body response — a waveform coming off the body that is causing the DNA to mutate in a certain way. I’ve sat with Gregg Braden who was one of the first persons to write about this and what we believe is that there are 3 parts to this phenomenon.
“The first part is the mind that sees Unity.” It sees the Flower of Life. It sees everything interconnected in all ways. It doesn’t see anything as separate. And the “second part is being centered in the heart–to be Loving.” And the “third thing is to step out of polarity–to no longer judge the world.” As long as we are judging the world as good or bad, then we are inside polarity and remain in the fallen state. I believe these people (with the new DNA) have somehow stepped out of judging and are in a state where they see everything as one and feeling Love. Whatever they are doing within themselves is producing a waveform that when seen on computer screens looks almost identical to the DNA molecule. So the researchers think that by the very expression of their life that these people are mapping with the DNA — resonating it — and are changing these 4 codons and in so doing become immune to the disease. What they don’t know and this is where a lot of research gets to happen is so maybe they are immune, but is there anything else? They might be immortal, who knows. Maybe there are other characteristics that we haven’t even dreamed of. I often wonder if they are all linked together. Is there some form of telepathic connection that goes on?
Diane: Have you met any of these people? Are they accessible?
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve known about this for over two years and I have personally followed this path and I think I’ve moved into what they are doing. I have gone into the merkabah and asked my subconscious mind to change my codons in the same way and ever since I began to do this over two years ago, I haven’t been able to get sick. I don’t know if I’ve been able to change them or not. I guess the only way I’d know is with a DNA test. However, I’ve been exposed to all kinds of things and when someone gets sick I purposely get close to them and try to get it. I’ve been trying to get sick — and I can’t feel something come on — it will last maybe an hour and then it’s gone. What is interesting is that hardly any of this new DNA is found in the Super Psychic Children of China — almost zero. It is, however, being found in Russia and the U.S. There seems to be pockets of it and if what we are thinking is right — it has to do with a very specific response which is where most people in the New Age are headed for.
Diane: Do you think these people are creating the DNA changes
unconsciously?
Drunvalo: I think someone has made the path — one child did it
somewhere. Then he put it into the grids and it is now in the subconscious of the earth and is accessible to anyone. Once that happened I think somehow or another other people have connected to this on a subconscious level in deep meditation and prayer and made the change. A new race is being born and it is one of the most remarkable phenomenon that has happened on the planet! It’s incredible that no one seems to know about this until now!
Diane: Well, you are the only one I’ve ever heard speak about this.
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve been tracking this for about 2 years and I’ve waited to say anything because I wanted to make sure it was real. In the book called “The Indigo Children” there has been extensive research on these children. There are websites you can go to if you’re a parent where they begin to interview you about exactly what’s going on with your child. Like I said earlier, these kids know exactly what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking
. You can’t hide anything from them. It’s really amazing! I see it as a phenomenon like the ETs except they aren’t coming here in spaceship form–they are coming here in spirit form making it personal by coming into the earth’s evolutionary cycle and joining with us. I’ve often thought that when spirits come in on the right side of the planet–Japan, China, and Tibet for instance, the incarnating being takes on the psychic characteristics (of those people), and if they come in on the western side–the logical side (i.e., physical characteristics)–then the DNA comes in changed. But that’s just speculation on my part. I’m just looking at this and trying to understand what is occurring. At the workshops I’m going to do, I’m going to bring everything I’ve learned together and teach people to actually access this and make the change. I think I know–or I’m very close.
Diane: And that has to do with putting yourself in a certain state of consciousness?
Drunvalo: Yes, a very specific state of consciousness produces a change in your DNA–and I think it’s just the beginning of much more than that. The fact that it could be the end of disease is just a tiny bit of the total picture.
Diane: How would this particular kind of work and discovery affect the DNA activation work that seems to be popping up all over?
Drunvalo: Well, if you know your light body and you know how psychic energy works and if you understand the connection of the subconscious to all life on this planet, then you can go in and ask your subconscious. “Your subconscious knows exactly which codons those kids have changed and if you ask for those things to happen through your light body and in the presence of God,” it should occur. “[/b]It also requires dropping polarity–no longer thinking in terms of good or bad but seeing the wholeness and completion and perfection of life.”
It is a very definite mind, emotional and body response. The body response is the one where your body simply does not acknowledge good or bad but sees that there is a higher purpose behind it all. We all know this stuff–everyone from Jesus to Krishna to Sai Baba has been talking about this for a long time, but this is the first I’m aware of where something actually is changing in the outer environment. People’s DNA is really changing. There have been many of us who have talked about this–but none of this had been seen by science. Now it has been seen, and it has been documented.
Diane: So, if that’s the case, then what significance does that have on our lives today?
Drunvalo: I believe that all of us have the choice to follow this particular pattern that the children have set up or not. It is said that “the children will lead the way.” If we wish to and we trust these children, as I do, one of the side effects is the immunity to disease.
Diane: There are a lot of us who are choosing immortality. However, some people would say that to be immune to disease is also to upset the life/death cycle which has supposedly helped to keep the planet in balance. How would you answer that?
Drunvalo: Well, I just don’t judge it. This is happening and if it is going to upset the cycle and it probably will in some way–everything that is occurring in life has a reason and purpose for it. Perhaps these people who don’t get sick anymoreerhaps they won’t even die anymore and maybe their consciousness is so aligned with the original purpose of earth that ultimately it would mean an earth that is whole and complete and not one that is polluted and deadly and overtaxed. We could easily live with 6 billion people or 20 billion…if…we live differently.
There is plenty of space, and it’s just that we are using our resources in ways that are killing the planet. If we were to choose to live in different ways, that might change. Maybe through these people the answers might become apparent. For someone to move into a state where they are immune to disease is a very powerful indication that they are definitely in harmony with life somehow. We can equate this process with the mutation of bacteria and viruses. We attack their systems with pollutants such as penicillin for instance, and it kills them all except for a few. Those few get stronger. Now what’s happening is that these bacteria are getting to the place where they are immune to the poisons we are giving them. And have we not done the same thing?
We are mutating to a point where we are not affected by pollution or viruses or by disease. And you know, there is another thing that happened last year — AIDS dropped something like 47% — the largest drop of a single disease in the history of the world. I believe that it had a lot to do with this very thing we are talking about.
Diane: That’s exciting!
Drunvalo: Yes, it is. I just let the earth prompt me where to go. Of course, it is important to know our light bodies and how to use them, but the children are very carefully saying–come this way–and see where this leads.
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16 Nov 2012 - 1:06am
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12 Nov 2012 - 9:03pm
LIVING CELLS ARE ELECTROMAGNETIC UNITS
By Dr. Riejo Makela, M. D.
Reprinted from Earthpulse Flashpoints, Series 1 Number 1.
Source: www.ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com
Publishers Note: This article is being reprinted with minor edits for clarification. It remains technically difficult for many. However, the importance of this information cannot be understated. This material will be amplified in the future in these and other publications. Earthpulse press will be publishing the work of Dr. Makela when English translations are made available. This article holds the keys to Dr. Makela’s work. The first version of this article was originally published in 1976. Unfortunately, even after twenty years the mainstream medical community is only now beginning to awaken to these important matters.
By using the closed circuit systems when studying living cells, the scientists of today reject the obligatory existence of magnetic fields with electric fields. Electricity and magnetism cannot be separated but are aspects of the one phenomenon of electromagnetism. The fact changing electric fields produce magnetic fields, and changing magnetic fields produce electric fields has been forgotten by the scientists studying living cells, thus the electromagnetic character of all living cells – human, animal, plants – is not understood. Wrong theories in biochemistry have caused the wrong conclusions resulting in normal physiological phenomena remaining “mysterious”.
Some of the applications of these “mysteries” should be mentioned here briefly.
ARM WORK:
The ratio of nerve cells to muscle cells is higher in the arms than in the legs. Thus the maximal oxygen uptake in arm muscles must be higher than in legs. Test of Makela (TM-index test), a cardiovascular fitness test is based on this fact, the publication of this test has led various scientists to confirm this simple finding.
CANCER:
By studying the activity of electrolytes, properties of protein/amino acids as current carriers, effects of enzymes as proteins catalysts, by studying the electromagnetic effects of all electromagnetic and sound waves, heavy atoms, paramagnetic and diamagnetic atoms and molecules, impurities of the environment on the living cells, it can be theoretically and experimentally shown that cancer is caused by increased electromagnetic activity of the cells. This means that by understanding the cause we can create a cure.
SUDDEN DEATH AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:
Decreases in intracellular electrolytes and decreases in potassium capacity will permit the accumulation of fat droplets in the cell membrane. Sudden increases in electromagnetic radiation or sound waves in the environment can cause sudden death if the intracellular electrolytes are decreased (like in aging) in all the cell of the body, not only in myocardia. By decreasing the temperature of the hypothalamus the activity of the other cells can be decreased, there is less need of oxygen.
Oxygen uptake depends on the electromagnetic activity of the cells and intracellular amounts of electrolytes. Maximal heart rate can be increased by diet and electromagnetic treatment. ST-segment depression in ECG is firstly a sign of decreased oxygen uptake. The so called skin potential is in fact the change of electromagnetic phenomenon in all cells of the body transmitted over the gap junction following the electromagnetic laws. What this means simply is these problems can also be solved following the simple laws of physics as they apply to living things.
SODIUM/POTASSIUM PUMP: There are no specific pumps in the cells but normal electrolyte movements in and out of the cells with double layer. The movements follow normal electromagnetic laws.
STRONG>NERVE SYSTEM:
The transmission of nerve impulses is not electrochemical but electromagnetic. The transport of impulses over the gap junctions from one nerve cell into the other is caused by the magnetic field. When an electricity-conducting body moves (hormones, “neurotransmitters”) in a magnetic field electric current is induced. The changes of agonist-molecules to antagonist-molecules can be caused by electromagnetic treatment. The chirality of enzymes, hormones, viruses, bacteria, vitamins determine their interaction with other molecules. Acupuncture and electromagnetic treatment will cause the changes mentioned above. A new system being used in Finland combines low intensity lasers with electric current which are administered through the acupuncture points. The system has been used in treating over 12,000 patients with great success.
Genetic engineering is electromagnetic in its character. Environmental factors – light and other electromagnetic radiation like radiation heat, noise, all kind of pollution – will cause electromagnetic changes in DNA. RNA is not only a messenger towards DNA. Of the chromosomal proteins the histones are highly alkaline while the nonhistone proteins are acidic. The compounding of adenine to thymine and cytocine to guanine is governed by electromagnetic laws. The electrical charge of the AP3 fraction of the nonhistone proteins determines the bonding of the complex of hormone and receptor to the cromatin at an acceptor site in the nucleus. This means that artificial wombs and children can be created in laboratory conditions if the electro-magnetic character of the living cells is observed.
SMELL:
Actually it is assumed that smell is perceived when the molecules, aromatic substances having a definite size and corresponding to the shade of smell, get into the appropriate holes of the mucous membrane of the nose. Wrong. The writer has shown that an odor is the electromagnetic radiation of the molecules and atoms, which will change the electromagnetic state of the receiving mucous membrane. This change in electromagnetic activity will be transmitted to the corresponding center in the brain. Some dogs can “smell” the infrasounds which can be measured in seawater before a storm. – “Odor analyzers” can be used as an early diagnosis of many illnesses.
OPTIC SYSTEM:
The fibers of the optic nerves cross over on their way to the brain. The connections between the visual cortex and cerebellum are part of massive fibre system that includes output fibers from almost every region of the cerebral cortex. Even the smallest changes in the electromagnetic state of the cell everywhere in the human body will be transmitted to the brain over the gap junctions following electromagnetic laws. Thus some subjects can read and see without eyes and identify colors through their skin. The so called blind animals in caves transmit electromagnetic waves from the objects through their skin to their brain centers, thus they can see without eyes. In humans, “snow blindness” is caused by a sudden increase in electromagnetic radiation in the environment, the extracellular potassium in distal retina within the eyes) will increase, thus the electromagnetic wave propagation in optic nerves is disturbed. Many of the eye illnesses could be cured by electromagnetic treatment.
The memory can be shown to be a normal electromagnetic phenomenon in brain cells. Amino acids have very high potential for altering dielectric constants. Each individual cell membrane is a small part of the complex memory bank where the numerous states of electrons around the nucleus in different atoms are registered. Each state differs from all the others in its characteristic nature, which can be categorized by its internal angular momentum or spin. Each of these states and their combinations can be switched on and off. Knowledge from one species into another can be vaccinated with memory bank cells from a donor brain. Memory and mental activity can be manipulated by hypnotism or other electromagnetic treatment.
The capacity of mammals, fishes, birds and insects to recognize their own species form others, to orient themselves and many other activities are based on electromagnetic information toward the species in question. In paramagnetic materials of the living cells the individual atoms possess net nonzeros magnetic moments even in the absence of an applied field. An applied magnetic field (from other living cells, objects, atoms, the magnetic field lines of the Earth etc.) have the influence of exerting torques on the permanent atomic magnetic dipoles to convert the initially random alignment into partially coherent one along the field thereby inducing a net magnetization which results in an enhancement of the applied field. Atomic magnets are limited to having a magnetic field in a given direction. There is a well defined energy difference between these orientations. This energy difference is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic field in which proton finds itself. It is this electromagnetic interaction which explains much about all living creatures and can lead to cures for many disorders.
(Venous) blood return is governed by electromagnetic factors. The charge of polyelectrolytes depends on the ionization of its polar groups. Proteins, containing acid and alkali groups, can change their charge depending on the level of the hydrogen ions concentrations of the solution (pH) and the isoelectric point of the moving molecule. (Positive at low pH, negative at high pH). Even when the average net charge is zero there is non zero mean square charge. The blood flow can be regulated by electromagnetic treatment (e.g. by acupuncture). The blood will clot at the positive electrode, positive ions have the same effect on the blood. Excessive amounts of negative ions will cause cell mitosis.
-Because the electromagnetic “force” between two charged particles declines as the square of the distance between them increases, the interactions among the 19 electrons of a K-atom are so great that they affect the order of the energy level.
-By electrical stimulation or physical training the protein content of cell membranes can be increased, which will cause an increase in potassium capacity; thus there will be an increase in maximal oxygen uptake and actin-myocin filament tension.
-The electromagnetic contacts and effects between two electromagnetic fields of different levels can be seen in a woman who is pregnant and the fetus. Exposure to intense sound, light, all forms of radiation, the use of tranquilizers or any other drugs during pregnancy can cause various congenital malformations, especially in the brain of the child. Sudden increases in the level of noise or other environmental radiations can immediately increase the heart rate of the fetus, etc. Cell division is affected by drugs, pH, irradiation, temperature changes and hydrostatic pressure.
-The contraction of muscles cells – the sliding interaction between microfilaments, the movement of contractile proteins actin and myocin – obey electromagnetic laws.
-Endocrine, metabolic, cardiovascular and biochemical-neurochemical changes in living cells are caused by the changes in the electromagnetic properties of the cell and its environment.
-The hypothalamus is the electromagnetic computer which will regulate phenomena in cells, in animals it will, regulate hibernation. This computer can be manipulated by affecting the input of electromagnetic radiation. The presynaptic and postsynaptic cells are separated by a synaptic cleft which is filled with a dense granular material, which responds to the changes in magnetic fields.
- The spin angular momentum and the “statistics” of electrons are the main determinants in immunology. Any particle carrying a given quantum number, or electric charge, generates a long range field, the strength of which is proportional to the quantum number. By carrying in itself a quantum number, a field acts as a source in itself. A particle’s state of rotation, when particles are brought together in a bound system, determines the behavior of the particles.
-Epidemics are related to solar activity. Increases in solar radiation (sunspots) will increase the electromagnetic activity of living cells and can cause death in subjects suffering from cardiovascular disease. Increased solar radiation will increase the electromagnetic activity in mitochondria, the specific electric power plant of live cells, there will be a marked increase in endocrine function etc.
-By mental concentration the activity of the hypothalamus can be decreased thus there will be a net decrease in total electromagnetic activity. Thus the “soul” and body can be separated. “Cooling helmets” should be used in the treatment of cardiovascular illnesses. The list of applications of this “new” hypothesis are too long to be published in a single article, but have been published in numerous other documents authored by this writer.
Einstein has shown us that the most long-standing theories may be open to improvement, even radical change. Open criticism is the lifeblood of progress both in science and culture at large.
http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=7&subcatid=4
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20 Oct 2012 - 4:13pm
Not a flower shop: Exploring breast cancer risk and gender bias
... in the automotive plastic parts industry in Ontario
By Mary-Louise Leidl
July 17, 2012
Canadian Women's Health Network
http://www.cwhn.ca
“Well I know firsthand when you go and you’re first diagnosed with cancer, they never asked where you worked. They want to know if you smoked, if you had stress in your life, if you drink… they don’t ask me where I live… they never asked me where I worked all those years.” – National Network on Environments and Women’s Health (NNEWH) focus group participant
The contours of Windsor-Essex County resemble the shape of a tightly closed fist. The most southerly county in Ontario, it lies at the heart of the Great Lakes Basin, almost completely surrounded by water. The Detroit River separates the county’s metropolitan centre, the City of Windsor, from its American cousin, Detroit (a.k.a. Motor City, U.S.A.), Michigan. To the south stretches the vastness of Lake Erie, and to the north, the shallow and much smaller Lake St. Clair, itself a mere 65 kilometres downriver from the industrial city of Sarnia and Ontario’s aptly named “Chemical Valley.”
Windsor-Essex County is a study of contrasts. Known as the “Smog Capital of Canada,” Windsor also has days when its skies show off the deepest blue. Freighters chug up and down the waterways, ensuring a steady exchange of goods between Canada, the United States, and other global markets, while smaller pleasure craft drift with the breeze. Industry hugs the shorelines, yet the flat and fertile county boasts not only the highest concentration of greenhouses on the continent but also the greatest number of tool and die manufacturers in the country—it is both the tomato capital andthe automotive capital of Canada.
Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith have studied occupational and environmental health, specifically the links between cancer risk and occupation, for more than three decades. They are the former executive director and former research coordinator, respectively, of the Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) of Sarnia-Lambton, and are currently adjunct professors at the University of Windsor. Their research, advocacy and publishing activities are extensive, helping us to better understand how hazardous substances are affecting the health and well-being of women and men working in industrial and other settings.
In 2012, UBC Press will publish Consuming Chemicals: Law, Science and Policy for Women's Health, edited by D.N. Scott. Much of the material used in this article is drawn from the chapter entitled “Plastics Industry Workers and Breast Cancer Risk: Are We Heeding the Warnings?” written by Brophy, Keith, and fellow researchers Robert DeMatteo, Michael Gilbertson, Andrew Watterson and Matthias Beck. As well, Brophy and Keith have teamed up with the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health (NNEWH), a Canadian projects-based research centre, to complete and disseminate their work. Quotations are drawn from a recent interview with Brophy and Keith and their work with a NNEWH-funded focus group study.
Keith and Brophy’s earlier research suggests that women working in the areas of automotive manufacturing, farming and health care are experiencing increased rates of breast cancer—in some cases more than triple the risk. But the scientific and medical communities have shown too little interest to definitively link the disease with occupational hazards, despite these and other earlier studies.
“There has been very, very little research done in this area of occupationally related breast cancer. There have been a few researchers who have written about the fact that women have been excluded from so many occupational health studies. Women are still somehow not considered to be an important workplace population to study, and so we don’t know enough about their risks.” –Margaret Keith
But with their latest findings Brophy and Keith hope to change all that. Engaged activist researchers in the health and safety movement since the late 1970s, the Windsor-based couple continues to listen to and advocate for women who work in some of the unhealthiest occupational environments in the country. Their current research focuses on the links between breast cancer and the working conditions of the blue-collar women who handle one of the most toxic arrays of man-made substances in the world: plastics. Their research takes them to the centre of Canada’s automotive industry, Windsor-Essex County, Ontario.
“We have the life histories of almost 2,200 women that live in Essex County, and it’s an unbelievable story that they have to tell. We need to listen to the populations at risk and not just dismiss their comments. The general public is far ahead of the cancer establishment, which seems to feel perfectly comfortable about the seemingly benign role of the environment, and its effects, while the average person says ‘Of course this is having an impact.’” – Jim Brophy
Car culture
The global auto industry is growing. In 2010, well over 77 million vehicles were built worldwide, a 26 per cent increase over the previous year. Ranking eleventh in the world, Canada’s auto industry produced more than 2,070,000 motor vehicles in 2010, a 39 per cent increase over 2009 levels. Essex County alone is home to over 500 manufacturing plants, directly and indirectly feeding the auto industry.
The average automobile today contains from 120 to 150 kilograms of plastic parts. The plastics industry in Canada is also growing, generating almost $21 billion every year and employing over 90,000 workers. Women make up 37 per cent of the plastics workforce, more than in any other manufacturing industry. Of the plastics industry overall, about 18 per cent is devoted to manufacturing auto parts. Despite this, there is a downtrend in plastics auto parts manufacturing in Canada.
“In the last five to 10 years there has been tremendous de-industrialization going on in Canada, particularly in Ontario, the heartland of manufacturing in this country, where hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs have left. And these workers are left literally in fear. They face the insecurities of precarious employment. They just don’t know from one minute to the next whether their jobs are there or not, and that makes health and safety seem like a luxury that nobody can afford. We don’t agree with that, but we understand that it’s the real experience that they are having.” – Jim Brophy
In Essex County alone, there are over 20 plastic auto parts plants, most of them small to medium-sized firms. Of its workforce, 60 to 80 per cent are women. These women are part of a skilled labour force; many of them have worked in the plastics industry for years, and hold a wide range of jobs, yet they have little to no union representation. Working conditions reflect this fact—the automotive plastics plants are often described by workers as hot, smelly and smoky, producing a “toxic soup” of chemicals that spew, drift and plume from the various processes required to make the numerous plastic components needed to build a new vehicle.
And women are getting sick: asthma, headaches, nausea, nosebleeds, vertigo, and the list goes on. More distressingly, women are experiencing reproductive disorders, miscarriages and cancer, particularly breast cancer.
Rising “C” rates
Since the late 1960s, the incidence of breast cancer has risen steadily in Canada. Although women are more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in this country. According to Statistics Canada, breast cancers account for 30 per cent of all new cases (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) with the highest rates among women 60 years and older, but it is also now the most common form of cancer diagnosed in young adults and the leading cause of cancer deaths in this population.
About 23,400 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and over 5,000 women will die from it. In Ontario 9,000 women will be diagnosed with this disease and 1,950 will not survive. Canada has the second highest rate of breast cancer in the world, after the United States. It is an epidemic by anyone’s definition.
“I worked in the plastic plant for five years and then developed breast cancer when I was 32. There are six or seven breast cancers that we know of. They are all younger than 50.” –NNEWH-funded focus group participant
The cancer establishment (the current medical, governmental and corporate complex) would have the public believe that the increasing rates of breast cancer are to be blamed on genetics or what are called lifestyle choices: poor diet, the excessive consumption of alcohol, smoking and a lack of exercise. However, U.S. government reports from as early as the late 1970s suggest that at the time up to 40 per cent of cancers could be related to exposure to six substances in the workplace. Yet regulatory agencies, then as now, continue to turn a blind eye while cancer agencies focus on what are called “modifiable lifestyle factors,” placing the onus of prevention on individuals.
“I think that the results from our breast cancer studies should add weight to the fact that we can’t wait any longer to regulate and control these exposures. In fact, we should have banned these substances and we need to revisit all government regulations based on their effect to mimic the hormone system. This is going on in Europe.” – Jim Brophy
The chemical connection
But research on the history of breast cancer’s rise and the rate of women entering the workforce reveals a more compelling picture. Since the 1970s, and for a brief period during the Second World War, women left the confines of the home to find work in the public sphere. As well, many women took on jobs in plants and factories, settings formerly dominated by men. Coinciding with this shift, from the 1940s on, science and industry began introducing thousands of new chemicals into the environment.
Today, more than 90,000 man-made chemicals contaminate the planet’s air, water and soil, our homes and workplaces, and our bodies. The majority of these substances have never been tested. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. organization set up to protect the health of American citizens and the environment, has banned only five chemicals in the last 25 years. A 2007 report compiled by the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute identifies at least 216 chemicals associated with an increase in mammary gland tumours. Meanwhile, breast cancer has doubled in one generation, and the list of chemicals just keeps growing.
Plastics are chemical substances derived from petroleum. Like gasoline, diesel fuel, and asphalt, the raw materials needed to produce plastics are the end products of the distillation of crude oil. Refineries both distill and separate crude into various components, or fractions, which are used to make more than 2,500 substances and chemicals used in home and industry. Acrylonitrile, styrene and vinyl chloride are just three chemicals used in the plastics industry. They are made up of repeating chains of monomers (units of molecules) that are joined together in a process that transforms them into polymer resins, such as acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), polystyrene (PS), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
But plastics are not benign substances. Many of them are known carcinogens, mutagens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), substances that interfere with the normal functions of hormones throughout the body and contribute to the development of breast cancer as well as neurological and reproductive disorders. EDCs can have an effect at extremely low doses, in some cases as low as parts per trillion.
“These chemicals that mimic estrogen or other hormones have the biggest effect not at high levels, but at the very lowest levels. If the timing is right, the exposure can be very small, and have the most dramatic effects. None of that has been accounted for at all in these substances, so it’s not just that women in the plastics industry are getting exposed to polyvinyl chloride or acrylonitrile or styrene, which have been shown to be mammary carcinogens in animal studies, it’s that they are getting exposed to chemicals that also mimic estrogen.” – Margaret Keith
The changing lists of ingredients used to manufacture plastics also make it very difficult to know what specifically increases breast cancer risk. Additives, some of which have been historically included in plastics making, metals such as lead and cadmium, plasticizers such as di-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), and flame retardants such as polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and diphenyl ethers (PBDE), are but a few of the chemicals classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as either known or possible carcinogens and as endocrine disruptors. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), formaldehyde, and solvents such as benzene and toluene are other chemicals that may also initiate breast cancer and mimic estrogen. Not only that, but the synergistic affect of these chemicals on health in general, and breast cancer in particular, is unknown and could be enormous.
“We have found that so often when we are doing these talks, and even when we’ve been doing focus groups we get people saying ‘Oh my gosh I had no idea that the stuff could be so dangerous. I knew people were getting sick, I knew I had headaches, but I didn’t know it could increase my risk of breast cancer. I didn’t know that these things were estrogenic.’” – Margaret Keith
A plastic world
Plastics fall into two main categories: thermoplastic resins that can be repeatedly softened and reshaped using heat and pressure, and thermoset resins that can be permanently set using a chemical reaction. Both are heavily used in the auto parts industry and undergo various processes to make the dozens of items found in a car, such as seats, dashboards, bumpers, and numerous engine components. These substances arrive at the auto plastics plants in the form of powders, pellets and liquids.
Workers are handling these substances over and over again, absorbing, inhaling and ingesting them via skin, lung and mouth. On any given day a worker may pour these chemicals from bag to container, blend and mix additives, melt resins, and/or force the heated resins into various shapes using processes such as injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding, compression moulding and calendering. All these processes expose workers to a range of compounds in the form of fumes and gases, smoke and vapours, dust and particulate matter.
“There would be lots of fumes. The safety alarms were shut off. We ran polyvinyl chloride, lead and chromium and silica—all designated substances. And we had no control program… that is why we wanted ventilation. We were told, ‘You don’t work in a flower shop.’” – NNEWH-funded focus group participant
Is it no wonder then that we are seeing an epidemic in breast and other cancers? Women are especially vulnerable to chemical exposure due to their smaller body size, greater amounts of fatty tissue (where toxins tend to accumulate), the sensitivity of their unique hormonal and reproductive systems, and heart function. Women in the plastics plants are putting their health, and lives, at risk.
“We heard about so much more than just breast cancer. There were lots of concerns about breathing problems, and reproductive issues, about miscarriages or infertility. So many of them talked about headaches and sore throats and feeling dizzy or faint. A lot of them talked about how terrible the smell and the smoke was, and sometimes they would have to go running outside to get fresh air if there was some malfunction, which would happen frequently in the process of heating plastics.” – Margaret Keith
New studies connect the dots
Having reviewed the scientific literature on occupation and cancer incidence to date, Brophy and Keith are conducting primary research using worker- and community-based research techniques, including the use of focus groups (where participants describe their personal stories) and hazard mapping (a technique of mapping workplace settings that show how they contribute to disease and other health conditions).
“We got a very good education through this last study… We came to understand even better what the process is. We now know what a plastics plant looks like, what the machines are like, what they do, whether there’s the potential for exposure to different parts of the plastics components, where the dust and vapors and glues are… it’s been a real eye opener.” –Margaret Keith
The workplace can be particularly hazardous in the auto industry and the manufacturing of plastic parts is no exception. Brophy and Keith reviewed industry and government hygiene inspection reports, noting the reliance on air monitoring to prove safety. But air sampling the plant’s work areas does not tell the real story of what workers are being exposed to. In fact, earlier studies indicate through blood and urine samples that the body burden (the total amount of a toxic substance that can be detected in the body at any given time) of workers exposed to chemicals such as acrylonitrile, styrene, phthalates, brominated fire retardants and bisphenol A, all used in the plastic auto parts industry, is far greater than in the general population.
Monitoring air quality does not protect workers. Rather, so-called “safe” levels are set according to what is economically viable for industry. As well, a lack of material safety data sheets (the information sheets that accompany chemical substances) when they are available, are either incomplete or unintelligible, according to workers. Machine malfunction and equipment failure are common and contribute to workplace hazards, as do inadequate safety gear and lack of proper ventilation. For example, according to the forthcoming book, Consuming Chemicals: Law, Science and Policy for Women's Health, an industrial hygiene report of 1990 stated that: “Exposures to volatile organic compounds from spray glue operations are high and workers will require respiratory protection when working in east booth. Currently the exit for the booth exhaust fan is inside the plant and the air is re-circulated.”
Gender and class consciousness
Brophy and Keith suggest that gender bias plays a role in whether women workers are protected from the myriad substances and processes they are exposed to while on the job. In the plastics industry, women tend to dominate the machine operating and decorating divisions while men work primarily in maintenance and skilled trades. According to participants of the NNEWH-funded focus group study, the one plastics plant that had a predominately male workforce also had a state-of-the-art ventilation system. Class discrimination may also play a part—the population of Windsor-Essex County is primarily a blue-collar one, and working class women are seemingly invisible when it comes to safeguarding their health and well-being in high-risk occupations.
“It’s this horrendous social class bias that dominates public health research and policy. We have pesticide bylaws for urban populations, for instance, because of the harm of pesticide exposure, particularly for children, but not a word about the more highly exposed agricultural community. They have far more exposures that we have… Why is this ignored? Because once you start to explore the working environment, you’re ultimately challenging the power relations in our society and vested interests that dominate and control government policy and cancer investigations, and regulations. So the risks in the workplace are kept off the public’s radar.” – Jim Brophy
Despite some union activism, over the decades little has changed for women working in the plastic auto parts industry. But if women and future generations are to be protected, then there must be a concerted and collective effort on the part of government, industry, unions and workers to bring these changes about. Testing protocols need to be improved, regulatory standards and guidelines need to be re-evaluated, and further research on the synergistic effect of chemical mixtures on the human body need to be conducted. According to Brophy and Keith’s research, no plastics worker ever received compensation for developing breast cancer. From a public policy standpoint, they ask: What should we do in the face of scientific uncertainty and incomplete knowledge?
“We’ve got to stop these exposures, put two and two together. We do know that there are carcinogens, and some of them are mammary carcinogens, as well as endocrine disruptors in these workplaces. We know that people are being exposed through these various work processes, that’s very clear. And if you follow the precautionary principle you would say ‘Okay, there is every reason to suspect that these people are at risk from these exposures, so we need to do something to minimize or eliminate these exposures.’ And that’s where you need the public pressure because it isn't going to happen without it.” – Margaret Keith
It is the union activists of Windsor-Essex County, as well as its advocacy researchers, who have put the issue of occupational health on the map in Canada. Many factors have shaped and influenced Windsor activists, such as their proximity to industrial Detroit and roots that go back to the first French settlers. There is also a long history of labour and civil rights actions, from the historic Ford Motor Company strike to involvement with the Underground Railway. Brophy says, “It is this group and not the medical or health professionals that has identified the adverse health impacts of workplace exposures and demanded that these conditions be changed.”
During the 1980s and 1990s, Windsor was one of the centres in Canada of occupational health organizing in general and cancer prevention in particular. So it is not surprising that the first place in Canada to have a local cancer treatment centre gather the occupational histories of its cancer patients was in Windsor.
Brophy and Keith are currently compiling their most recent research for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Says Keith, “We are hoping that our findings will add weight to the mounting evidence of harm from workplace exposures, particularly in the area of breast cancer.”
Mary-Louise Leidl is a Vancouver Island-based freelance writer with a wide range of interests that include health and the environment, food, travel and photography.
video
12 Oct 2012 - 2:05am
When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible—a journey to the afterlife.
Dr. Eben Alexander says he's not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
Modern physics tells us that the universe is a unity—that it is undivided. Though we seem to live in a world of separation and difference, physics tells us that beneath the surface, every object and event in the universe is completely woven up with every other object and event. There is no true separation.
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Blog entry
8 Oct 2012 - 12:19am
Natural Society
4 Ancient Superfoods and their Timeless Benefits
~ Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society, October 3, 2012
Though the term “super food” has only been in circulation in recent years, the idea of super-nutritious and life giving foods have been around since the beginning of time.
As a matter of fact, it’s likely that ancient man had a far better idea of what true superfoods are than what we gather as we wade through aisles of cans and boxes,
seeking out those things that are in their most natural forms. Still, today anyone can compile a hefty superfoods list for the next shopping day.
Ancient Superfoods for Your Superfoods List
There are foods that have been around for centuries, even millennia. And many of these foods are just as good now as they were then.
So which foods should be on your superfoods list? Here are some timeless superfoods that you should include in your diet today:
Quinoa -
You’ve likely heard of it because it’s experienced a growing resurgence in the past few years. But, quinoa has been around for ages. The Incas of South America refer to this food as chisaya mama, or the mother of all grains. It’s high in protein, calcium, and iron, and is very versatile. Cook with herbs and diced veggies or form with legumes and seasonings into veggie patties. Due to it’s high protein content, it is great to help makeup a high protein vegetarian diet, and can be used with natural remedies for hair loss and hair thinning.
Spirulina -
Spirulina is an algae that is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is said to be one of the oldest life forms on earth and has been eaten as long ago as the 9th century in the Kanem Empire of Chad. It’s good for your eyes, your skin, allergies, and stabilizing blood sugar.
Sacha Inchi -
This food is a little more obscure, but has been consumed in the Amazon jungle for ages. It’s considered a superfood of the ancient Incas and is reported to contain concentrated Omega-3 fats. It’s also rich in iodine, and vitamins A and E.
Maca -
Another ancient Incan superfood, Maca can be found in the mountains of Peru. It’s said to be an excellent all-natural energy source and also contains numerous plant sterols, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and iodine.
And let’s not forget other amazing superfoods like turmeric, ginger, honey, garlic and much more. These are foods that fight cancer and protect you against countless diseases.
How can you prepare these foods?
While quinoa is easy to find and super easy to cook, the others may be more of a challenge. Both spirulina and maca supplements can be found at most health food stores. Sacha Inchi can be found in an oil form and can be used as you would use olive oil on salads.
The ancients knew a thing or two about natural living, and their foods were the original superfoods you should add to your modern superfoods list.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/ancient-superfoods-list-and-their-timeless-benefits/#ixzz28f60WrXN
Blog entry
3 Oct 2012 - 10:27pm
I’ve recently gotten into the art of enhancing my meditations and spiritual practices with crystals, the gifts from the Earth. I’ve always been drawn to gemstones, even as a child I would spend hours flipping through the pages of my Guide to Gemstones book with wide eyes, glazed by the wonder of their beauty. There is no denying the fact that crystals produce energy as most of today’s technology involves their use and power. As I began my growing obsession with collecting these ancient messengers it became clear to me that incorporating them into my everyday life provided what I’d been searching for since the dawning of my spiritual enlightenment. These stones became the tangible keys to unlock my higher self and create a solid connection between Mother Nature and myself. I resonated powerfully with Quartz, Selenite, and many others that I’ll discuss in later entries. I mentioned before that these are “gifts from the Earth”, well today I’m going to discuss my personal experience with one that isn’t, Moldavite.
Moldavite is classified as a tektite. A quick internet search will reveal many articles that outline its power and extraterrestrial history. After hearing stories of others’ experiences, mainly tales that would fall into the genre of drama, horror, and sci-fi, with this fifteen-million year old specimen, my curious Scorpio nature had to try it out first hand. I soon found my eyes locking on a tiny piece during a crystal-shopping spree one week ago. I asked the woman behind the counter if I could look at the pricy green spec. As I looked into the textures on the surface of this obviously alien glass, my eyes glazed over like I was a child once again. I carried on small talk with the woman as I tried to decide whether or not to buy it, but this small talk quickly turned serious as she said the words “Moldavite is, well, freaky”. I knew exactly why she chose this word because of my extensive prior research. Of course, I chose to take this warning, along with the words “must use with grounding stone” on the identification card with a grain of salt. As if put into a trance by my battling curiosity and skepticism, the next thing I knew I had purchased it and was walking out of the store with a rather steep hole in my wallet. The woman suggested I spend one full week using this stone by itself so I could notice its individual effect on me, so I kept it hidden in my bag and in my mind until the following day.
Since I had the next day off I solely dedicated the time to working with my new “friend”. Even though I had researched that Moldavite didn’t need to be cleansed or recharged, I thought I’d try and program it for me to help tune into its frequency. I lit some White Sage and tried to hold it over the rising smoke, but the smoke seemed to avoid the Moldavite. I tried charging it out in the Sun with my other stoned, but it didn’t respond. Activation with my Selenite wand seemed useless also. When I attempted attaching the piece to a pendant, it kept unraveling itself from the hemp. It took three different knots until this stubborn Moldavite piece finally gave in and held in place. Once I completed my necklace, I put it on. I felt slight warmth as it aligned on my chest with my heart center, but I was still skeptical. I saw all this as coincidence and a placebo effect, so I carried on about my day as usual.
As night fell that evening, the Moon was incredibly bright. I felt a little strange, as if something was watching me from the other side of my house’s darkened windows. I connected this feeling with wearing the Moldavite, I seemed to be experiencing the same awareness of conscious energies in everything around me like I did as a child. Childlike fears sparked in me as well; the darkness, loud noises, and even my favourite relaxing songs were overwhelming my senses now. My dog begged to be let outside and I joined her in fear of being alone in the house. The moonlight beamed down onto me as my dog ran into the shadows of a nearby tree. Suddenly, I felt a huge rush from the Moldavite and my aura expanded with green energy that was waving and morphing around me. My whole body became warm, and as I concentrated on this sensation, visions of “the big picture” swarmed my mind. My aura shot into the Heavens like a beacon and I instantly fell into a deep meditation as I looked towards the stars. I felt like I was just about to receive an important message, when suddenly my dog barked and ran out of the shadows towards my house. I was jerked back into reality in a panic, and paranoid of what she may have been running from, I ran inside.
The next day my Soul Sibling, Anna, called me to discuss her concerns about Moldavite, she was the one who introduced me to its existence and had bought a piece about a week before me. She claimed to be overwhelmed by what it was bringing to the surface. Her dream state was enhancing with negativity and frightening chaotic visions, and her waking state was becoming intense as well. We agreed that it seemed to open us up to energies, both positive and negative, and already being sensitive Empaths, it was at an alarming rate. She spoke of physical symptoms that I had read about known as the “Moldavite Flush”, causing warming sensations and an elevated heart rate. Since I hadn’t experienced it yet, I continued wearing mine 24/7.
Exactly one week later, I was forced to take off my pendant and put it away. During the passing days things seemed to be getting tense in my emotional and physical bodies. Time felt like it was speeding up, I became anxious, irritated and impatient, had bitter fits of rage bubble up out of nowhere, I couldn’t concentrate, lost my apatite, and my energy was zapped. It felt like a ticking time bomb in my stomach that could explode at any moment. Strange things started happening as well. It’s as if I became magnetized to temptation, like I was being put to a test in every situation. My perspective on life became unbalanced, swerving to pessimistic ideals and human interaction became pointless, confusing. The weirdest part was, I was in complete denial that is could be caused by this tiny piece of space rock. This doubt seemed to lock up my conscious warning signs somewhere in the back of my mind. Like I was on autopilot and my radar was unplugged, leading me to smash blindly into every possible obstacle. After a week of building tension and disturbed sleep, I was thrown into a state of confusion, depression, and twisted delusions. I began to cry hysterically, I felt like my head was going to explode, and I was so hot I thought I would literally burst into flames. My tears came out hot and they felt like acids running down my face. I struggled to call my partner on the phone but it wouldn’t turn on. I concluded that I was cursed and tore apart my room looking for the culprit. Was it my new crystal ball? Maybe it was because I moved my protection grid in my room? Was I just getting sick?
My phone rang, my partner was on the line, and he calmed me down and told me to use my grounding stones. Then he asked, “What was that new stone you got? Molda-something? Maybe you should put it away for now”. He pointed out my escalating change since I came into possession with it, and my denial seemed to vanish. This conversation had such an impact on me since, in our relationship, he is the Dana Scully to my Fox Mulder. I looked down, and there it was, hanging around my neck. I reached around and removed my Moldavite pendant and I immediately began to cool down.
I put away this, indeed, “freaky” Moldavite specimen, lit some White Sage in my room, and created a huge Selenite protection grid around my bed to lay in overnight.
Waking up today I feel a lot better, though not yet 100%. It’s very possible that the Moldavite was bringing all my negativity and suppressed emotions to the surface in purpose of cleansing; I do believe that to be true. But I suppose I’m simply not yet ready for that to happen, at least not at that speed. We spend our whole lives collecting energies like a sponge, both good and bad, but if we try to squeeze out all the negativity too fast we’ll quickly dry out. For now, Moldavite will be a “special occasion” tool, and I’ll only use it with strong grounding stones. I see it today as a [large] bump in the road, but at least I’m now on the decline.
I'll have more Crystal Journey entries coming soon. Felt like this was the most important to post first since it was such a strong and fast experience. Not trying to scare anyone away from Moldavite, it's a fascinating gem! I'm just putting out a friendly warning to use it with r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
Love and Light everyone <3
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2 Oct 2012 - 5:18pm
THINK TWICE: HOW THE GUT'S 'SECOND BRAIN' INFLUENCES MOOD AND WELL-BEING
By Adam Hadhazy , SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | Friday, February 12, 2010
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-brain
GUT CHECK: A complex, independent nervous system lines the gastrointestinal tract that has been dubbed the "second brain".The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat
As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of "butterflies" in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our "second brain".
A deeper understanding of this mass of neural tissue, filled with important neurotransmitters, is revealing that it does much more than merely handle digestion or inflict the occasional nervous pang. The little brain in our innards, in connection with the big one in our skulls, partly determines our mental state and plays key roles in certain diseases throughout the body.
Although its influence is far-reaching, the second brain is not the seat of any conscious thoughts or decision-making.
"The second brain doesn't help with the great thought processes…religion, philosophy and poetry is left to the brain in the head," says Michael Gershon, chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, an expert in the nascent field of neurogastroenterology and author of the 1998 book The Second Brain (HarperCollins).
Technically known as the enteric nervous system, the second brain consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of the long tube of our gut, or alimentary canal, which measures about nine meters end to end from the esophagus to the anus. The second brain contains some 100 million neurons, more than in either the spinal cord or the peripheral nervous system, Gershon says.
This multitude of neurons in the enteric nervous system enables us to "feel" the inner world of our gut and its contents. Much of this neural firepower comes to bear in the elaborate daily grind of digestion. Breaking down food, absorbing nutrients, and expelling of waste requires chemical processing, mechanical mixing and rhythmic muscle contractions that move everything on down the line.
Thus equipped with its own reflexes and senses, the second brain can control gut behavior independently of the brain, Gershon says. We likely evolved this intricate web of nerves to perform digestion and excretion "on site," rather than remotely from our brains through the middleman of the spinal cord. "The brain in the head doesn't need to get its hands dirty with the messy business of digestion, which is delegated to the brain in the gut," Gershon says. He and other researchers explain, however, that the second brain's complexity likely cannot be interpreted through this process alone.
"The system is way too complicated to have evolved only to make sure things move out of your colon," says Emeran Mayer, professor of physiology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). For example, scientists were shocked to learn that about 90 percent of the fibers in the primary visceral nerve, the vagus, carry information from the gut to the brain and not the other way around. "Some of that info is decidedly unpleasant," Gershon says.
The second brain informs our state of mind in other more obscure ways, as well. "A big part of our emotions are probably influenced by the nerves in our gut," Mayer says. Butterflies in the stomach—signaling in the gut as part of our physiological stress response, Gershon says—is but one example. Although gastrointestinal (GI) turmoil can sour one's moods, everyday emotional well-being may rely on messages from the brain below to the brain above. For example, electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve—a useful treatment for depression—may mimic these signals, Gershon says.
Given the two brains' commonalities, other depression treatments that target the mind can unintentionally impact the gut. The enteric nervous system uses more than 30 neurotransmitters, just like the brain, and in fact 95 percent of the body's serotonin is found in the bowels. Because antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) increase serotonin levels, it's little wonder that meds meant to cause chemical changes in the mind often provoke GI issues as a side effect. Irritable bowel syndrome—which afflicts more than two million Americans—also arises in part from too much serotonin in our entrails, and could perhaps be regarded as a "mental illness" of the second brain.
Scientists are learning that the serotonin made by the enteric nervous system might also play a role in more surprising diseases: In a new Nature Medicine study published online February 7, a drug that inhibited the release of serotonin from the gut counteracted the bone-deteriorating disease osteoporosis in postmenopausal rodents. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) "It was totally unexpected that the gut would regulate bone mass to the extent that one could use this regulation to cure—at least in rodents—osteoporosis," says Gerard Karsenty, lead author of the study and chair of the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University Medical Center.
Serotonin seeping from the second brain might even play some part in autism, the developmental disorder often first noticed in early childhood. Gershon has discovered that the same genes involved in synapse formation between neurons in the brain are involved in the alimentary synapse formation. "If these genes are affected in autism," he says, "it could explain why so many kids with autism have GI motor abnormalities" in addition to elevated levels of gut-produced serotonin in their blood.
Down the road, the blossoming field of neurogastroenterology will likely offer some new insight into the workings of the second brain—and its impact on the body and mind. "We have never systematically looked at [the enteric nervous system] in relating lesions in it to diseases like they have for the" central nervous system, Gershon says. One day, perhaps there will be well-known connections between diseases and lesions in the gut's nervous system as some in the brain and spinal cord today indicate multiple sclerosis.
Cutting-edge research is currently investigating how the second brain mediates the body's immune response; after all, at least 70 percent of our immune system is aimed at the gut to expel and kill foreign invaders.
U.C.L.A.'s Mayer is doing work on how the trillions of bacteria in the gut "communicate" with enteric nervous system cells (which they greatly outnumber). His work with the gut's nervous system has led him to think that in coming years psychiatry will need to expand to treat the second brain in addition to the one atop the shoulders.
So for those physically skilled and mentally strong enough to compete in the Olympic Games—as well as those watching at home—it may well behoove us all to pay more heed to our so-called "gut feelings" in the future.
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2 Oct 2012 - 12:25am
HOW TO INCREASE DOPAMINE LEVELS: FOODS TO EAT & WHAT TO DO TO FEEL GOOD
~ Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society
www.naturalsociety.com
Dopamine is the brain’s feel good chemical, sending feelings of well-being and pleasure into your body.
In addition to simply making you feel good, dopamine helps control weight, energy levels, and supports brain and heart health.
Without it, we would be more fat, unhappy, and tired.
But if you know how to increase dopamine levels, you can take advantage of this feel good chemical on command.
The best part? You can increase dopamine levels just by eating certain foods.
Fat, unhappy, and tired—those words seem to fit many Americans quite well.
Fortunately, boosting dopamine production levels could help.
The right amount of dopamine could lift you from depression, help you lose weight, and put some life back into your life.
How to Increase Dopamine Levels Through Foods and Activity
But, how can you boost dopamine levels naturally?
Since dopamine is synthesized from tyrosine, you can simply consume foods rich in tyrosine to boost dopamine production.
Certain foods help balance dopamine levels, including:
Fish – Evidence suggest Omega 3 fats may be linked to dopamine production
Eggs - Contains tyrosine
Spirulina – Contains tyrosine
Red beets – Contain betaine, acting as an antidepressant, and tyrosine
Apples – Contain quercetin, to prevent neurodegeneration and boost dopamine
Kale – Rich in folate, to trigger dopamine production
Oregano Oil – Has promising effects on mood swings and cravings by increasing dopamine levels
Bananas – Including the amino acid tyrosine, which boosts dopamine
Strawberries and blueberries – Include tyrosine, like bananas
Green tea – Contains polyphenols, good for brain and heart function, as well as dopamine production
Herbs like ginkgo biloba, nettles, dandelion, and ginseng
Another solution for how to increase dopamine levels and flood your brain with this feel-good chemical is exercise.
When you exercise, the cells in your brain (and the rest of your body) start firing, becoming more energized.
You also produce more serotonin and dopamine—both crucial in mood elevation.
Some credit these chemicals with what’s known as the “runner’s high”, common in endurance athletes.
But we do know they make you feel good, and a sense of wellbeing and happiness can increase your physical health in turn.
Alternatively, you could also take supplements to boost dopamine, although foods and exercise may be the two best and most beneficial options.
Some of the supplements options to increase dopamine levels are:
Ginkgo Biloba – Ginkgo can increase dopamine while enhancing oxygen flow and blood flow to the brain – promoting healthy transmission of nerve impulses.
Phenylalnine – This essential amino acid can convert in the body to tyrosine, which is sued to synthesize dopamine.
Tyrosine – What people often want in food to boost dopamine, tyrosine can also be taken as a supplement. Tyrosine is converted from phenylalnine.
What you put in your body and how you use your body determines how you feel.
While a medical doctor would be quick to prescribe an anti-depressant if he felt you had a depression chemical imbalance (which some experts say doesn’t exist) like dopamine deficiency,
that prescription would likely be completely unnecessary.
Instead, through a healthy, whole foods diet and regular exercise, you can boost your mood and attain overall wellness.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/how-to-increase-dopamine-levels-foods/#ixzz2861bP7rX
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21 Sep 2012 - 5:16pm
TOP 10 GMO FOODS TO AVOID
~Elizabeth Renter
NaturalSociety
July 28, 2012
Genetically modified foods have been shown to cause harm to humans, animals, and the environment, and despite growing opposition, more and more foods continue to be genetically altered. It’s important to note that steering clear of these foods completely may be difficult, and you should merely try to find other sources than your big chain grocer. If produce is certified USDA-organic, it’s non-GMO (or supposed to be!) Also, seek out local farmers and booths at farmer’s markets where you can be ensured that the crops aren’t GMO. Even better, if you are so inclined: Start organic gardening and grow them yourself. Until then, here are the top 10 worst GMO foods for your “do not eat” GMO foods list.
Top 10 Worst GMO Foods for Your GMO Foods List
1. Corn: This is a no-brainer. If you’ve watched any food documentary, you know corn is highly modified. “As many as half of all U.S. farms growing corn for Monsanto are using genetically modified corn,” and much of it is intended for human consumption. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been tied to numerous health issues, including weight gain and organ disruption.
2. Soy: Found in tofu, vegetarian products, soybean oil, soy flour, and numerous other products, soy is also modified to resist herbicides. As of now, biotech giant Monsanto still has a tight grasp on the soybean market, with approximately 90 percent of soy being genetically engineered to resist Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. In one single year, 2006, there was 96.7 million pounds of glyphosate sprayed on soybeans alone.
3. Sugar: According to NaturalNews, genetically-modified sugar beets were introduced to the U.S. market in 2009. Like others, they’ve been modified by Monsanto to resist herbicides. Monsanto has even had USDA and court-related issues with the planting of it’s sugarbeets, being ordered to remove seeds from the soil due to illegal approval.
4. Aspartame: Aspartame is a toxic additive used in numerous food products, and should be avoided for numerous reasons, including the fact that it is created with genetically modified bacteria.
5. Papayas: This one may come as a surprise to all of you tropical-fruit lovers. GMO papayas have been grown in Hawaii for consumption since 1999. Though they can’t be sold to countries in the European Union, they are welcome with open arms in the U.S. and Canada.
6. Canola: One of the most chemically altered foods in the U.S. diet, canola oil is obtained from rapeseed through a series of chemical actions.
7. Cotton: Found in cotton oil, cotton originating in India and China in particular has serious risks.
8. Dairy: Your dairy products may contain growth hormones, since as many as one-fifth of all dairy cows in America are pumped with these hormones. In fact, Monasnto’s health-hazardous rBGH has been banned in 27 countries, but is still in most US cows. If you must drink milk, buy organic.
9. and 10. Zucchini and Yellow Squash: Closely related, these two squash varieties are modified to resist viruses.
The dangers of some of these foods are well-known. The Bt toxin being used in GMO corn, for example, was recently detected in the blood of pregnant women and their babies. But perhaps more frightening are the risks that are still unknown.
With little regulation and safety tests performed by the companies doing the genetic modifications themselves, we have no way of knowing for certain what risks these lab-created foods pose to us outside of what we already know.
The best advice: steer clear of them altogether.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/top-10-worst-gmo-foods-list/#ixzz277q0D1yW
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21 Sep 2012 - 5:09pm
GMO STUDY: RATS FED LIFETIME OF GM DEVELOP MASS TUMORS, DIE EARLY
~Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
September 19, 2012
A new GMO study may very well change the way that the world looks at GMOs once and for all. Complete with shocking and very disturbing photos of rats with tumors larger than a golf ball in size, a new French GMO study has concluded that rats fed a lifelong diet consisting of Roundup-containing genetically modified corn suffered serious consequences. While the onset of tumors was the most obvious and damaging effect, the researchers reveal that the rats also received heavy amounts of damage to multiple organs.
As a result of the mass tumors, liver and kidney damage, it was concluded that around 50% of the males and 70% of the females died prematurely as a result of eating only Roundup tolerant seed or drinking water with Roundup as approved levels set by the United States government. In comparison, only 30% of males and 20% of females died prematurely while consuming traditional alternatives. The San Francisco Chronicle rightly states that the study ‘rocks the GMO debate’. NaturalNews, one of the first alternative news websites to report the study, explained just what this means for you and your family:
“This is the same corn that’s in your corn-based breakfast cereal, corn tortillas and corn snack chips.”
The news comes just days after France decided to ban the last remaining GMO currently allowed in Europe, Monsanto’s GM maize crop.
The study is now under assault by pro-GMO scientists and corporations despite being labeled ”the most thorough research ever published into the health effects of GM food crops and the herbicide Roundup on rats.” It also happens that this is actually the first study to examine the key aspect of lifelong GMO consumption and its effects. You may be surprised to hear this, as it seems logical that one would be done before GMOs were unleashed on the public.
Unfortunately, Monsanto and other GMO companies do their absolute best to prohibit the full study of GM products in many cases through the use of patent protection laws and other legal red tape. French researchers were likely able to avoid many of these issues by being out of the United States. And as you can imagine, the pictures alone from this study are very telling. Monsanto and other vested biotech organizations are simply not happy that this has gotten out.
Led by Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen in France, Seralini and his colleagues used a Monsanto seed variety known as NK603. Made tolerant to the company’s own Roundup, an herbicide linked to DNA damage and infertility, researchers say the consumption of the GMO crops ultimately led to mammary tumors and severe damage to the liver and kidney. As researcher and molecular biologist Dr. Michael Antoniou explained, even the scientists themselves were shocked by the aggressive tumor development:
“This research shows an extraordinary number of tumors developing earlier and more aggressively – particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts,” he said.
The study was published in The Food & Chemical Toxicology Journal and presented in London during a news conference. Titled ”A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health,” you can view the study abstract for yourself at the International Journal of Biological Sciences website.
It is already known that genetically altering the very makeup of an organism is problematic, with no real knowledge of the true long-term effects (over decades) that may occur even beyond the short term damages that we are aware of. It is essential that not only are GMOs labeled around the world for public consumption, but ultimately banned. Over time, the food supply will continually be engulfed with genetically modified strains with the very real threat of contamination. Studies like these show a more graphic side of the debate, which many are not ready to accept.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-study-rats-fed-lifetime-of-gm-develop-mass-tumors-die-early/#ixzz277nd5wmj
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21 Sep 2012 - 4:45pm
Today we are racing ahead of time, are under constant stress of achieving more and bigger things. The aspiration to acquire things never ends and it seems like one endless battle for more and more and more! We have forgotten what our scriptures have thought us! If our ancestors were alive today what advice would they give us to recover from our constant battle with disease and stress?
In Sushruta Samita (Ayurvedic compilation), a healthy person is defined as
“Sama Dosha Sama Agni Cha Sama Dhatu Mala Kriya I
Prasanna Atma Indriya Manaha Swastha Thi II “
Hence a person is in the state of perfect health when he has all the Doshas (various energies that govern all the functions of the body – Vata, Pitta and Khapha) are in balance. The mind is blissful and happy and our senses are in control.
To truly live a life without disease and fear one must aspire to achieve perfect health in mind, body and spirit.
Ever wondered about all the things we thing about and ponder about every single day we live. The random thoughts that just seem to be there, even while we appear to be absorbed in our day-to-day activities. We never seem to realize the power of our thoughts and how these thoughts than translate into our actions towards others. Good or bad, these thoughts do manifest into real things. Did you all know that all diseases- be it high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, overweight, chronic fatigue, depression, burnt-out syndrome and psychiatric illness – manifest from the mind?
Swami Sivananda rightly said, “A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.” There has been significant scientific research, which directs us to this fact. For instance, ulcers happen to people who are compulsive and obsessive in nature. Impotence and sexual problems are almost always due to performance anxiety and accidents happen most often to people who are habitually prone to them because they are absent minded. One must then thus conclude that if we could control our mind or even make an attempt to be aware of our thoughts or thinking pattern, we can change our overall wellbeing.
“Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthy in body and mind’.” Swami Sivananda .
You may now ask how can I control the mind… the answer is meditate, think good positive thoughts and visualize positive things and events. Your positive thoughts will manifest into positive actions and feeling towards others and you will naturally gravitate towards or attract like-minded kind souls that mean well into your life. Be compassionate, generous and have empathy for people in need. Set aside some time everyday to sit in silence and thank for all that you have in your life and focus on your natural breath. In time as you sit into meditation, the racing thoughts will subside and you will feel light and have a feeling of bliss.
http://integrativehealthjournal.com/2010/12/20/mindful-health/#more-549
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16 Sep 2012 - 2:01pm
Recently there was a episode on CBS talking about Alzheimer's disease. Many years ago William LePar's spiritual source, The Council, addressed this issue. I realize that this may be at odds with conventional thinking of medical science but I am offering for you reading because we have found that their information has never failed in its accuracy.
Questioner: There is such an increase in this disease called Alzheimer's. Is this related in anyway to the hormones they are giving animals?
The Council: Look more to a metal product.
Questioner Aluminum?
The Council: Yes. You are taking in more aluminum into the body than you have ever in the past.
Questioner: Through cookware and what else?
The Council: Through cookware, through body preparations.
Questioner: Such as deodorants?
The Council: Yes.
Questioner: The aluminum chlorhydrate in deodorants?
The Council: Yes, you are spraying such things directly on the skin. It is being absorbed by the skin and taken into the system. It is collecting in the brain tissue itself.
Questioner: I have a question about the aluminum. What about the blood-brain barrier and what about the fact that within a family that lives together, eats together, has the same diet, one will have Alzheimer's and five won't?
The Council: Well, it depends on the individual system, first of all. There are blanket statements that can be made as a point or an example, "let's look." Do you understand? But each individual will have its own tolerant level or level of tolerance, and each individual then will be able to deal with whatever conditions establish a disease according to their own level or on an individual basis. Do you understand?
Questioner: Yes, I understand all that, but what I am getting at, is there some reason that aluminum will cross the blood-brain barrier in some people and not in others? Or doesn't that have anything to do with it?
The Council: Let us put it this way, the aluminum has an affinity for brain tissue. If you take a look at the composition of brain tissue, you will find a strong draw between the molecular structure of aluminum and the structure of brain tissue. Not only that, it being of a heavier nature or a more dense nature, it does not wash out of the system as readily. It is not as instantaneously destructive as other heavy metals, such as mercury or lead or what have you. They can do their damage in other organs of the body and do it quicker where the aluminum is an element that works slower and it works on a cumulative basis, up to a point. So you must look at these situations and what is the affinity of certain elements to the body, to the structure of the body. If you can find that relationship, it would be very easy then to be able to produce a serum that would negate that relationship, thereby eliminating the problem, but you would also then have to backup that with care in seeing that such a product would not be introduced in the system in some other way or continue introduction into the system.
If you consider the, how can we put it, the activity of the amino acid on the transference of hormones from the brain to the body. Do you understand what we are talking about?
Questioner: No, but keep going, maybe I'll catch up.
The Council: If you understand how amino acids can cause a transference or activate hormonal changes from the brain to the blood system. If you can understand that, the aluminum oxide, if you would understand better, it will be transferred in a similar method. There is a need for carriers. So if you think along those lines and consider then possibly some sort of vaccine that would break that attraction, you would be able to eliminate to a certain degree the accumulation of the aluminum. Further challenges or investigation could come up with a leaching of that aluminum out of the brain tissue. Before a certain amount of damage is done, if this were instigated, then the final effects of the Alzheimer's disease could be eliminated.
For more on William LePar and The Council please view www.WilliamLePar.com
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14 Sep 2012 - 6:57am
As a vegetarian that loves animals and wants to be healthly I'm always struggling with why I'm not yet taking the step to becoming vegan. This video has had enough of an impact on me that I'm seriously researching a vegan life so that I can hopefully make a clean transition as soon as possible. But regardless this video is incredibley inspiring on so many levels that I would be doing anyone who hasn't seen it a disservice by not sharing it.
Can I just say that I'm posting this for anyone that is interested and resonates with this lifestyle and moral choice, primarily. But I hope that anyone who's open enough to look at another way would also give this a view. I fully appreciate that there are die hard meat and animal produce fans (good luck to you)and this may in the end not be of any interest to you. Please don't get upset with my opinions and choices and lose sight of the issue by acting contrary just because....pass on by.
And for anyone who cares to please join me in regular prayer for our vulnerable extended family.....
May all that is light and bright forgive us all for the evil we've arrogantly done and continue to do and permit to our animal brothers and sisters. May there be a special place of peace and safety for each one that is murdered to transition to, far from deluded men. And may each one that is currently held in captivity and subjected to cruel torture be held in love until they are free. May the light lift the veil of darkness that blinds men to their wickedness and convinces them that they are right to be so unkind, especially to those that are defenceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4
For anyone who wants to keep youtube videos that doesn't know how ....there are online download sites like Keepvid.com where you paste the URL into the search section and begin downloading.
Or you can download software to your hard drive like 'youtube grabber' and do it that way. You can do a net search for 'downloading youtube videos' and thousands of results will come up.
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10 Sep 2012 - 9:20pm
The Keshe Foundation is an independent non-profit and non-religious organization founded by nuclear engineer M.T. Keshe that aims to develop new scientific knowledge, new technologies and new solutions to major global problems like famine, water shortage, lack of electrical power supply, climate change, and disease, through the use of specially developed plasma reactors which will also give Mankind the real freedom to travel in deep Space.
http://keshefoundation.org/en/
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3 Sep 2012 - 1:06pm
Published on Sep 3, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
Tao Porchon-Lynch says the ancient eastern practice of yoga is keeping her fit and healthy. The 93-year-old has been practicing yoga since she was eight years old, and was recently named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records. Porchon-Lynch has taught hundreds of students around the world for over 45 years, and is now using her skills to help stressed-out New Yorkers discover the secrets to a lifelong spiritual journey. Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey met her, as part of our series: Still Going Strong.
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2 Sep 2012 - 10:24am
Effective thinking and good problem solving skills are key to overcoming adversity.
Our thoughts greatly impact our mood and behavior, says Baycrest clinical psychologist, Dr. Nasreen Khatri.
Everyone has negative and positive thoughts but most people have a balance between the two that allows them to think realistically and problem-solve effectively to meet life’s challenges. Research has shown that people who are depressed or anxious think differently than those who are well.
An expert in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Dr. Khatri explains that it’s not just a matter of turning negative thinking into positive thinking, rather we need to perceive and understand difficulties when they arise and then apply good problem solving skills to get through them. This is especially true for clinically depressed or anxious people, but anyone can use the basic premise of CBT to help them think more adaptively to get through a difficult time.
“In CBT we try to break the negative thought cycle,” she says. “The first step is to become aware of your thinking and the next step is to change it and make it more adaptive. In time, people become better equipped and confident in their ability to solve problems, which in turn, makes them more positive.”
“In terms of how ones thinking affects outcomes during difficult times such as illness, the effects of CBT are clear,” adds Dr. Khatri. “For example, if someone is diagnosed with diabetes, how they think can greatly affect how they feel and function, in terms of managing the chronic illness.
Since diabetes is impacted by self-management, if your thoughts are that you can’t do it, can’t manage, you will be less effective in staying on top of your blood sugar levels through diet, exercise and medications. But if your thought is that it’s not great news but you will put your energy into doing what you need to stay healthy, then the outcome is more likely to be better.”
Clear thinking key to overcoming adversity
“When people feel good about their ability to solve problems, they bring that attitude to whatever adversity comes their way. When they hit a bump in the road, they will usually do something healthy such as exercise, rest, call someone or plan a social activity. They re-channel in a positive way,” says Dr. Khatri.“Anyone can be taught to think more effectively. Effective thinking gives a person a confident sense of self, which leads to a good attitude in life.”
“Clear thinking also helps a person build a coherent life, a life of meaning,” adds Dr. Khatri. “This is particularly important as we age, whether it’s what we accomplished throughout our lifetime or what we are doing on a day-to-day basis.”
Courtesy of 50PLUS.com, where you’ll find thousands of articles on health, money, travel, lifestyle, work, relationships and more!
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31 Aug 2012 - 9:13am
if you've undergone the "dark night of the soul" please add a comment saying you have with a single "X". You don't have to include details as i know this can be too private a matter.
If you've undergone the "dark night of the soul" but no longer need to communicate with your guide, add the comment "XO".
If you've undergone and still communicate with your guide, add an "XX"
If you haven't undergone dark night of the soul and are communicating with your guide freely, add a "V"
This is purely for my own research, and i'll admit i feel a bit coerced as well as invasive to ask this of you. if you don't want to answer any of these, just keep calm and carry on.
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21 Aug 2012 - 8:11pm
Excerpts from various Byron Katie videos
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21 Aug 2012 - 2:03am
Resolution of Power ~ Perisanna ~ Gold Ring Series 28/5 ~
RYSA - The Goldring Game of Enlightenment www.youtube.com/watch
~ I speak to you, as a Teacher of Light and a Wayshower, and I am a Follower. I am a follower of the way. I follow the way that leads on this great journey. This journey is something that we follow, and it is a journey that we lead others upon. It is something that we have known and promised to do....
~ In the coming days, weeks, months, years, there is great changes that come forth for this world. And in this position, as a Teacher of Light, a Wayshower and a Follower, you are here to bring about this change. It is your responsibility to find a way to get grounded, to get clear, to get strong, to get healthy, to be wealthy, wise and joyous, to have fun along the way, and to bring your friends into the Family of Light....
~ This is a message that I bring, and it is a message that is being brought by you as well. It is a message that needs to be brought forth, so that the Family of Light and all of humanity can live in peace, and bring this world into the heaven that it is....
~ Over the course of the past years we have played The GoldRing. The Gold Ring was designed so that you could awaken to a higher potential. That you would want to have Enlightenment, to know yourself, to understand the elements of things that seemed difficult in some ways, conflicted in others, dangerous, exciting, happy, wonderful, constantly new and different, mysterious, mystical, transforming, educational, entertaining....
~ And in this time, it was also there to bring you to a healing, to reach into your soul, and to find you, and to say you are here with a purpose, and that purpose is to wake up the others that are coming forth very, very quickly....
~ And to Wake them up in such a way that they can come forth and speak their Truth, and listen to their inner teachers and awaken to the Christ energy, and the energy of the great religions, the energy of spirituality, the energy of humanitarianism, the energy of enlightenment, that which seeks to know the answers, the philosophical questions, understanding the nature of life, being in harmony with the ecology, and following a path of humanism, and in relationships where you are morally and ethically bound to a higher way of being....
~ Now this is a path that is the one that you have already been on, and have been on for your whole life. And at certain times there have been situations that may have been compromising, because of the pressures and the demands that have happened. And in those time periods, you have looked at things and wondered, "How can I go on, because I am faced with the difficulties that are being brought to me? And I have to... have this or that, or be in this or that way or I need to follow these rules or be careful of those rules...."
~ And in all these cases, you have become less involved in understanding who you are. It is natural for those to seek the mystical, the transcendent, the advanced, the new... that which excites you and enthuses you into the spirit of being a new person, that which brings you pleasure, that which brings you joy....
~ And in the same respect, you wish for comfort, safety and the quiet pleasures of knowing that you are protected, and that your life has continuity and a certain amount of stability that you can rely upon....
~ In all these things, we are looking for a way to hold our own power, to be our own sovereign self. Because from the inner side of your being you are sovereign. You are omni-centric. You are within your own center....
~ Everyone in this universe lives within their own center of being. This is the natural state of who you are. When you move outside of that center, that is when you become diseased. That's when you become lost from knowledge of your own being and lose your self confidence, where you lose your faith in yourself....
~ In that case, you become disassociated with your own being, and therefore cannot operate within a natural in a natural condition of being part of a greater family....
~ So this message is to you, to understand that we are all one together in this transforming time....
~ And we have a promise to fulfill to the ones coming forth....
~ And it is time that we take our power, so that we can open the door for them, and be the stewards of the ones who will transform the world into the new age....
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15 Aug 2012 - 9:01am
Published on Aug 14, 2012 by OfficialSkullVEVO
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14 Aug 2012 - 7:25pm
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15 Jul 2012 - 3:22am
~Quantum Psychological Case Study Of An Online Bipolar Sociopath ~
Have you ever had someone out to destroy themselves and used you as a conduit? Have you ever had an obsessed stalker? Ever come across someone online so vile and wretched their actions made you sick to your stomach? Ever wanted to study that person and wonder why they do what they do? The observer of this story did. Why can only be answered with what the case study revealed itself .
The case study himself was an adult male, 31,Caucasian and american. Early on in the case study he exhibited behaviors of a strong capacity for need for “control”. He was observed to be bored ,agoraphobic and very helpless. This became a light work mission . It was revealed for the observer that none should be depraved of a guide on the path of oneness and that all as we are one deserve that same chance you would want for yourself to another .
Witnessed by the observer was his action exhibited playing out his delusion or “idea” to the “target” dramatizing that he is with a mate or his original rejecter “ this being a root” of his current dramatization from the story in his head programmed by that root.
Case study exhibited she is there in physical with him together. In his mind each new ‘target” is still that “original root”. He then continues to dramatize that root and his upbringing root from a “controlling father combined with that root of original first rejection and unfaithfullness to each new “target”.
To counteract his need for control it was observed to simply ignore him giving him no energy in return rendering him to face his reality and “roots“.
Further on in the case study it was revealed by the male that he was an admitted rapist. Case study then exhibited to rebuke this contraction he had admitted and it is not known whether there are physical targets or not.
A long case study in it’s experiential works. This is the story of an online bipolar sociopath , bipolar defined as those in fight or flight syndrome. A sociopath as one who is affected with a personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior. Those being the following as exhibited in observation by the observer through the case study himself.
-Glibness and Superficial Charm
-Manipulative and Conning
-They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their target as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their targets.
`Grandiose Sense of Self
-Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
-Pathological Lying
-Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis.
Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own self.
-Extremely convincing.
-Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Shallow Emotions
-When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
-Incapacity for Love.
-Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their targets.
-attention seekers, playing role of victim for attention to grab new targets ,having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. Using the rescuer and then turning into an attempter of mind control and emotional manipulation.
-Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature ,playing abused and abuser, alternating with small expressions of love and approval in vicious cycle as they play out roots programmed on them through the early developmental stages of life.
-Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed and choices made that were all their own, for they have only themselves to blame.
-Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity.
-Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle.
This is not to say these things can’t be changed ,but that’s up to the individual to do through transmutation. But as in multidimensional integration anything is possible and can be transmuted and balanced and cleared.
Interpersonal connection observations revealed the following.
A normal man when with a women moves on having no need to rehearse his drama,but in this case study was exhbited separation anxiety from oneness . Basically, he suffered in his attempts to put himself back together and that is what he is trying to do when he is projecting his roots and dramatizations as did by the case study.
Case study exhibited to be in himself is triggered by confident women and immediately feels insecure . His true persona is visible to him . Case study exhibited a tendency for “apathy”.
Case study also exhibited reactions in his fight mechanism manifesting enormous dramatizations of attention seeking where he plays ’the victim”, using these manifestations to exploit his target through public embaressment and harassment in the online community.
Exhibited by the case study was a lover of lifestyle recklessness ,a user of drugs such as marijuana and cloves and when the observer went undercover online was witness to hearing use of cocaine.
Exhibited by the case study was a behavior He will try and torture his target into submission for control and power. He will play on roots of the target once they are known to him such as jealousy, personal insecurities , and has a driving hatred too for women who act as ”sluts”, in his mind . His idea of a “slut” is defined as his roots of infidelity from his experiences with a past relationship in which the women was ,“unfaithful”. exhibited further and observed was a case study of his roots which show inability to trust women ,which in retrospect, serve as the catalysts for his behavior . Further revealed case study exhibited to feel “worthless” and in his mind he is “the slut”.
Observed further in his actions exhibited was the following.
Case study is driven and excited by those who show ”unwillingness”. The “unwilling” drives him very to jealous rageful fits, which then drive him to exploit his target when they do not ”cooperate”.
Case study was observed to show actions of a stalker, and predatory animal. He will follow his “target” until he gets desired results “fulfilling” his fantasy for control. He tries to be charming. Other observations brought about one event a few years prior where case study was said to have “driven his target to suicide “, as he played out his roots to her in order to full fill his need for “control” . in other words that target was “believing “ his projections of his own “idea” and feel to entanglement mentally and emotionally through his projection.
Case study exhibited the following through his projection ,a sufferer of attention seeking with personality disorder of factitious disorder by proxy.
Insecure and emotionally immature people often exhibit bullying behaviours, especially manipulation and deception. These are necessary in order to obtain attention which would not otherwise be forthcoming. Bullies and harassers have the emotional age of a young child and will exhibit temper tantrums, deceit, lying and manipulation to avoid exposure of their true nature and to evade accountability and sanction as case study did in observers view.
He plays this The mind-poisoner: adept at poisoning peoples' minds by manipulating the perceptions of others, especially against a current target. And The rescuer: he's the one who will dash in and "rescue" people whenever the moment is opportune - to himself, that is. he then gains gratification from basking in the glory of his humanitarian actions.
He will prey on any person suffering misfortune, , illness, injury, or anyone who has a vulnerability. The act of rescue and thus the opportunities for gaining attention can be enhanced if others are excluded from the act of rescue; this helps create a dependency relationship between the rescuer and rescued which can be exploited for further acts of rescue (and attention) later.
When not in rescue mode, the rescuer exhibited to be resentful, even contemptuous, of the person he is rescuing. He tries to mind poison you and then rescue you from it .This was exhibited from the case study as a vicious circle of roots dramatized upon him from childhood in which he now dramatizes and projects upon female interpersonal connections. He exhibited behavior to belittle his target ,then attempt to pick her up .
Exhibited by the case study was a web creation of mental,emotional and spiritual entanglement where he will try to draw one in to that web.
This is the story of his mind. Dramatizing every insecurity he has at the target to take it off himself in malicious deceptive mind and then plays the loving man as he tries to control a target to his level and will stop at no level doing so just so he feels in control, secure and gratified to take focus off his own very scared self, insecure and an inability to gain control over himself. He is unable to be trusted and in doing so with others shows he does not trust himself. So he uses online cyber bullying as his smoke screen to himself.
Case study exhibited behavior to the observer as like the btk . Not in essence a serial killer or capable, more very incapable, but bind ,torture and kill ”attempted” upon his proposed targets spirit and in way of mentality and emotionally . But as mentioned above regarding case study ,key word here was “attempt”. For if the target of this case studies intention is “unwilling” to “believe “ his dramatic cries for attention and projection he was observed to be very hostile and angry and then feels a sense of “failure”.
Case study exhibited a “retreat mentality” action when he feels this sense of “failure”. For in essence after he feels this “failure from control or domination over his target he is then only left with his roots and own insecurities he tried to project, for then they have no place to go, but back to him.
For where there is no evolutional energy given life will cease and disperse. Case study was observed as a being who is highly capable of transmutation ,but lacks “willingness” of spirit within to transmute ,for opposite all this the case study also carries within and is home to the same non-utilitarian love we all are as one .
Case study further exhibited mental ”ideas” as feeling worthless about himself, and breaks trust because he feels worthless and cant trust his own heart in himself .Until he has that in himself he is not capable of having intimate interpersonal connection with females . Case study also exhibited a strong bisexual impulse but with roots of “hesitation” is incapable of fulfilling his “bisexual” fantasies for reason of his “inferiority complex” among males, stemming from roots of childhood upbringing due to a “controlling” male father figure.
That seed of a “controlling male father figure” is his deepest stem of reason for his dramatization of projection upon his targets. For when the case study transmutes this vestige he will no longer exhibit a spiritual impotence of the heart and no longer be bound to this root .
Case study subject also showed jealousy in interpersonal connections with women when they were in contact with other men . Subject displayed extreme jealousy and would revert to using alternate identities to have a channel for dramatization of these extreme jealousies . In this dramatization subject also displayed signs of multiple personality disorder.
Subject exhibited tactless and clumsy to the observer in dramatization. To an untrained eye it would have seen two different subjects. But easy connection of dots through statements, personality display and dramatization let the observer witness it was indeed the same subject.
These dots were connected through statements the subject would state ranging from astral rape to physical sodomy at his targets connected to his roots of trauma reliving the anger and torture put upon him from his past.
Subject also exhibited an extreme jealousy of others secure and confident showing subject has a severe inferiority complex among women secure and confident in themselves. Subjects dramatizations toward them ranged from as above degrading statements of rape to actions of “attempting” to control their minds and thoughts.
Subject displayed charm and would “attempt” to gain their trust this way . Key word being “attempt”. It was observed that giving the subjects “attempts” no energy let them cease and no control could be had over one’s mind by way of the subject of this case study rendering him powerless and back to his own thoughts and realities.
The subject exhibited women are only instruments to use at his disposal for gratification of his own ego and sexuality using methods of tantra to “attempt” to convince his targets it was of spiritual significance to engage with him in online sexual acts. Subjects tantra tool was simply another tool used where subject displayed no compassion showing selfishness.
Subject displayed strong obsessive compulsive tendencies with female interpersonal connections.
The subject also displayed a strong liking for using computer hacking as a means to “attempt” to destroy strong and secure women he was in connection with. This being another dramatization of his roots of a father of domination over him and combined with a relationship that left him unable to trust women. Subject then in turn plays out these roots continuously in an effort to take focus off himself and focus off his own pain from past roots.
The case study is bound to himself and restrained by his own ‘ideas “ and “roots” producing an instant inner duality which will remain for as long as this case study resists his own heart and inner evolution keeping himself in separation and in the hold of the matrix illusion under the shroud of the veil.
But all observed by this case study the observer has come to learn from this is taking a stand for women everywhere and the things they can notice when getting to know men online and if he exhibits things like this to be aware and if at anytime feel uncomfortable feel free to cut off communication and clear ties . After personally taking this journey the observer feels it is part of dharma as a light worker to share what is out there and why it is important to be aware of the interpersonal connections made online, or out in the world.
In conclusion of this case study it brought into retrospect that when you know someone is not trustworthy its best to say goodbye permanently.
It shows you how much in the end you love you and loving you means not letting others project their “ideas” or “their story” upon your being. It means de-teaching and not making it personal to you ,when it is their story, not yours. For if the love is not within you and alive flowing as per this case study .
When you have that love for you , you are able to then share it with another. It begins with you being the key to the portal of divine through you. Further then extending out around you as you manifest that love within yourself for you .
Case study revealed for observer that allowing them to be your friend when you know they have gone behind your back and betrayed your trust is no longer an option. These can be deemed as ’healthy lifestyle preferences”. But it did reveal that forgiven is best from a heart that is non-utilitarian, but letting go and letting be is best as along side a healthy preference as is multi dimensional integration . This shows no resentment and lets things “just be” as you go forward on your journey.
It’s healthy to forgive ,holding no resentment and letting go and shows non-utilitarian love for you and the other . It also prevents it from awareness to never happen again . For experience is our teacher and guide and all the wisdom we carry in our hearts comes from that experience.
For it is as the suns sets on the old ,so one rises to a new dawn golden and free basking in the golden dawn of triumph in freedom from release of the old .
This has been a very long case study but well worth the invested time and reminded Spiritually to witness we are all one ,but in essence its only another who can do their inner work. We can not do it for them. The largest realization taken from all this, another’s story is just that, a story through the eyes of the experiencer of that story and each experience will be one’s own truth. This concludes the story of an online bipolar sociopath case study from the eyes of the observer.
By Quantum Goddess Of Light
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15 Jul 2012 - 3:21am
~Quantum Psychological Case Study Of An Online Bipolar Sociopath ~
Have you ever had someone out to destroy themselves and used you as a conduit? Have you ever had an obsessed stalker? Ever come across someone online so vile and wretched their actions made you sick to your stomach? Ever wanted to study that person and wonder why they do what they do? The observer of this story did. Why can only be answered with what the case study revealed itself .
The case study himself was an adult male, 31,Caucasian and american. Early on in the case study he exhibited behaviors of a strong capacity for need for “control”. He was observed to be bored ,agoraphobic and very helpless. This became a light work mission . It was revealed for the observer that none should be depraved of a guide on the path of oneness and that all as we are one deserve that same chance you would want for yourself to another .
Witnessed by the observer was his action exhibited playing out his delusion or “idea” to the “target” dramatizing that he is with a mate or his original rejecter “ this being a root” of his current dramatization from the story in his head programmed by that root.
Case study exhibited she is there in physical with him together. In his mind each new ‘target” is still that “original root”. He then continues to dramatize that root and his upbringing root from a “controlling father combined with that root of original first rejection and unfaithfullness to each new “target”.
To counteract his need for control it was observed to simply ignore him giving him no energy in return rendering him to face his reality and “roots“.
Further on in the case study it was revealed by the male that he was an admitted rapist. Case study then exhibited to rebuke this contraction he had admitted and it is not known whether there are physical targets or not.
A long case study in it’s experiential works. This is the story of an online bipolar sociopath , bipolar defined as those in fight or flight syndrome. A sociopath as one who is affected with a personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior. Those being the following as exhibited in observation by the observer through the case study himself.
-Glibness and Superficial Charm
-Manipulative and Conning
-They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their target as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their targets.
`Grandiose Sense of Self
-Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
-Pathological Lying
-Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis.
Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own self.
-Extremely convincing.
-Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Shallow Emotions
-When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
-Incapacity for Love.
-Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their targets.
-attention seekers, playing role of victim for attention to grab new targets ,having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. Using the rescuer and then turning into an attempter of mind control and emotional manipulation.
-Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature ,playing abused and abuser, alternating with small expressions of love and approval in vicious cycle as they play out roots programmed on them through the early developmental stages of life.
-Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed and choices made that were all their own, for they have only themselves to blame.
-Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity.
-Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle.
This is not to say these things can’t be changed ,but that’s up to the individual to do through transmutation. But as in multidimensional integration anything is possible and can be transmuted and balanced and cleared.
Interpersonal connection observations revealed the following.
A normal man when with a women moves on having no need to rehearse his drama,but in this case study was exhbited separation anxiety from oneness . Basically, he suffered in his attempts to put himself back together and that is what he is trying to do when he is projecting his roots and dramatizations as did by the case study.
Case study exhibited to be in himself is triggered by confident women and immediately feels insecure . His true persona is visible to him . Case study exhibited a tendency for “apathy”.
Case study also exhibited reactions in his fight mechanism manifesting enormous dramatizations of attention seeking where he plays ’the victim”, using these manifestations to exploit his target through public embaressment and harassment in the online community.
Exhibited by the case study was a lover of lifestyle recklessness ,a user of drugs such as marijuana and cloves and when the observer went undercover online was witness to hearing use of cocaine.
Exhibited by the case study was a behavior He will try and torture his target into submission for control and power. He will play on roots of the target once they are known to him such as jealousy, personal insecurities , and has a driving hatred too for women who act as ”sluts”, in his mind . His idea of a “slut” is defined as his roots of infidelity from his experiences with a past relationship in which the women was ,“unfaithful”. exhibited further and observed was a case study of his roots which show inability to trust women ,which in retrospect, serve as the catalysts for his behavior . Further revealed case study exhibited to feel “worthless” and in his mind he is “the slut”.
Observed further in his actions exhibited was the following.
Case study is driven and excited by those who show ”unwillingness”. The “unwilling” drives him very to jealous rageful fits, which then drive him to exploit his target when they do not ”cooperate”.
Case study was observed to show actions of a stalker, and predatory animal. He will follow his “target” until he gets desired results “fulfilling” his fantasy for control. He tries to be charming. Other observations brought about one event a few years prior where case study was said to have “driven his target to suicide “, as he played out his roots to her in order to full fill his need for “control” . in other words that target was “believing “ his projections of his own “idea” and feel to entanglement mentally and emotionally through his projection.
Case study exhibited the following through his projection ,a sufferer of attention seeking with personality disorder of factitious disorder by proxy.
Insecure and emotionally immature people often exhibit bullying behaviours, especially manipulation and deception. These are necessary in order to obtain attention which would not otherwise be forthcoming. Bullies and harassers have the emotional age of a young child and will exhibit temper tantrums, deceit, lying and manipulation to avoid exposure of their true nature and to evade accountability and sanction as case study did in observers view.
He plays this The mind-poisoner: adept at poisoning peoples' minds by manipulating the perceptions of others, especially against a current target. And The rescuer: he's the one who will dash in and "rescue" people whenever the moment is opportune - to himself, that is. he then gains gratification from basking in the glory of his humanitarian actions.
He will prey on any person suffering misfortune, , illness, injury, or anyone who has a vulnerability. The act of rescue and thus the opportunities for gaining attention can be enhanced if others are excluded from the act of rescue; this helps create a dependency relationship between the rescuer and rescued which can be exploited for further acts of rescue (and attention) later.
When not in rescue mode, the rescuer exhibited to be resentful, even contemptuous, of the person he is rescuing. He tries to mind poison you and then rescue you from it .This was exhibited from the case study as a vicious circle of roots dramatized upon him from childhood in which he now dramatizes and projects upon female interpersonal connections. He exhibited behavior to belittle his target ,then attempt to pick her up .
Exhibited by the case study was a web creation of mental,emotional and spiritual entanglement where he will try to draw one in to that web.
This is the story of his mind. Dramatizing every insecurity he has at the target to take it off himself in malicious deceptive mind and then plays the loving man as he tries to control a target to his level and will stop at no level doing so just so he feels in control, secure and gratified to take focus off his own very scared self, insecure and an inability to gain control over himself. He is unable to be trusted and in doing so with others shows he does not trust himself. So he uses online cyber bullying as his smoke screen to himself.
Case study exhibited behavior to the observer as like the btk . Not in essence a serial killer or capable, more very incapable, but bind ,torture and kill ”attempted” upon his proposed targets spirit and in way of mentality and emotionally . But as mentioned above regarding case study ,key word here was “attempt”. For if the target of this case studies intention is “unwilling” to “believe “ his dramatic cries for attention and projection he was observed to be very hostile and angry and then feels a sense of “failure”.
Case study exhibited a “retreat mentality” action when he feels this sense of “failure”. For in essence after he feels this “failure from control or domination over his target he is then only left with his roots and own insecurities he tried to project, for then they have no place to go, but back to him.
For where there is no evolutional energy given life will cease and disperse. Case study was observed as a being who is highly capable of transmutation ,but lacks “willingness” of spirit within to transmute ,for opposite all this the case study also carries within and is home to the same non-utilitarian love we all are as one .
Case study further exhibited mental ”ideas” as feeling worthless about himself, and breaks trust because he feels worthless and cant trust his own heart in himself .Until he has that in himself he is not capable of having intimate interpersonal connection with females . Case study also exhibited a strong bisexual impulse but with roots of “hesitation” is incapable of fulfilling his “bisexual” fantasies for reason of his “inferiority complex” among males, stemming from roots of childhood upbringing due to a “controlling” male father figure.
That seed of a “controlling male father figure” is his deepest stem of reason for his dramatization of projection upon his targets. For when the case study transmutes this vestige he will no longer exhibit a spiritual impotence of the heart and no longer be bound to this root .
Case study subject also showed jealousy in interpersonal connections with women when they were in contact with other men . Subject displayed extreme jealousy and would revert to using alternate identities to have a channel for dramatization of these extreme jealousies . In this dramatization subject also displayed signs of multiple personality disorder.
Subject exhibited tactless and clumsy to the observer in dramatization. To an untrained eye it would have seen two different subjects. But easy connection of dots through statements, personality display and dramatization let the observer witness it was indeed the same subject.
These dots were connected through statements the subject would state ranging from astral rape to physical sodomy at his targets connected to his roots of trauma reliving the anger and torture put upon him from his past.
Subject also exhibited an extreme jealousy of others secure and confident showing subject has a severe inferiority complex among women secure and confident in themselves. Subjects dramatizations toward them ranged from as above degrading statements of rape to actions of “attempting” to control their minds and thoughts.
Subject displayed charm and would “attempt” to gain their trust this way . Key word being “attempt”. It was observed that giving the subjects “attempts” no energy let them cease and no control could be had over one’s mind by way of the subject of this case study rendering him powerless and back to his own thoughts and realities.
The subject exhibited women are only instruments to use at his disposal for gratification of his own ego and sexuality using methods of tantra to “attempt” to convince his targets it was of spiritual significance to engage with him in online sexual acts. Subjects tantra tool was simply another tool used where subject displayed no compassion showing selfishness.
Subject displayed strong obsessive compulsive tendencies with female interpersonal connections.
The subject also displayed a strong liking for using computer hacking as a means to “attempt” to destroy strong and secure women he was in connection with. This being another dramatization of his roots of a father of domination over him and combined with a relationship that left him unable to trust women. Subject then in turn plays out these roots continuously in an effort to take focus off himself and focus off his own pain from past roots.
The case study is bound to himself and restrained by his own ‘ideas “ and “roots” producing an instant inner duality which will remain for as long as this case study resists his own heart and inner evolution keeping himself in separation and in the hold of the matrix illusion under the shroud of the veil.
But all observed by this case study the observer has come to learn from this is taking a stand for women everywhere and the things they can notice when getting to know men online and if he exhibits things like this to be aware and if at anytime feel uncomfortable feel free to cut off communication and clear ties . After personally taking this journey the observer feels it is part of dharma as a light worker to share what is out there and why it is important to be aware of the interpersonal connections made online, or out in the world.
In conclusion of this case study it brought into retrospect that when you know someone is not trustworthy its best to say goodbye permanently.
It shows you how much in the end you love you and loving you means not letting others project their “ideas” or “their story” upon your being. It means de-teaching and not making it personal to you ,when it is their story, not yours. For if the love is not within you and alive flowing as per this case study .
When you have that love for you , you are able to then share it with another. It begins with you being the key to the portal of divine through you. Further then extending out around you as you manifest that love within yourself for you .
Case study revealed for observer that allowing them to be your friend when you know they have gone behind your back and betrayed your trust is no longer an option. These can be deemed as ’healthy lifestyle preferences”. But it did reveal that forgiven is best from a heart that is non-utilitarian, but letting go and letting be is best as along side a healthy preference as is multi dimensional integration . This shows no resentment and lets things “just be” as you go forward on your journey.
It’s healthy to forgive ,holding no resentment and letting go and shows non-utilitarian love for you and the other . It also prevents it from awareness to never happen again . For experience is our teacher and guide and all the wisdom we carry in our hearts comes from that experience.
For it is as the suns sets on the old ,so one rises to a new dawn golden and free basking in the golden dawn of triumph in freedom from release of the old .
This has been a very long case study but well worth the invested time and reminded Spiritually to witness we are all one ,but in essence its only another who can do their inner work. We can not do it for them. The largest realization taken from all this, another’s story is just that, a story through the eyes of the experiencer of that story and each experience will be one’s own truth. This concludes the story of an online bipolar sociopath case study from the eyes of the observer.
By Quantum Goddess Of Light
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15 Jul 2012 - 3:19am
~Quantum Psychological Case Study Of Online Bipolar Sociopath ~
This a quantum psychological case study of an individual through the eyes of the observer. The following synopsis was taken through the case study here for psychological study to share . The case study is of a bipolar sociopath and based on experience and through third dimensional labeling of psychological clinical definitions. this is my first case study posting . Enjoy .Ty.
By Quantum Goddess Of Light
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14 Jul 2012 - 1:35pm
Max Igan - Surviving The Matrix - July, 13th, 2012
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12 Jul 2012 - 7:12pm
AN AVOCADO A DAY..…
Anna Hunt, Contributing Writer
Waking Times
If you ask your friends if an avocado is a fruit or vegetable they may not know, but they’ll probably be able to tell you that avocados are high in fat. This fact about the mild-flavored green fruit (yes, avocados are fruits, or more specifically large berries) has given avocados a bad rap as a contributor to obesity, but is this really the case?
Avocados are a very healthy and nutritious food. They are rich in 13 vitamins (A, C, D, E, K, E and 8 types of B vitamins including B-6, B-12 and folate), and are packed full of other nutrients such as potassium, lutein, monosaturated fats and antioxidants. And since avocados can be eaten raw, baked, made into delicious dips and soups, or even blended into your morning green smoothie, avocados really are a tasty and versatile way to boost your health.
Here is a short list of just some of the benefits of regularly including avocados in your diet:
The abundance of monounsaturated fats in avocados help lower cholesterol. This is the ‘good kind of fat.’
With 30% more potassium than bananas, avocados help regulate blood pressure and prevent circulatory disease.
Avocados are high in florine, which is used by the body to create hard surfaces on teeth and in bones. Florine also helps protect the body from viruses and germs.
The lutein content of avocados will aid in eye health, protecting the eyes from oxidative stress, macular degeneration (loss of central vision) and cataracts.
Studies have shown that eating avocados can inhibit growth of cancerous cells, such as ones leading to oral cancer. Avocados contain phytonutrients that are beneficial in preventing prostate cancer, as well as oleic acid that is effective in preventing breast cancer.
Avocados are effective in stopping bad breath!
Rich in antioxidants such as glutathione, avocadoes encourage a healthy nervous system and boost the immune support system.
The high folate content of avocadoes aids in brain and tissue development, especially during stages of rapid cell growth. This makes them an ideal food for pregnant women. Being high in folate but low in complex carbohydrates makes avocados also good for infants 6 months or older.
Vitamin E in avocados helps protect the skin from free radicals.
The nutrients and enzymes of avocados ease digestion issues by soothing the lining of the stomach and small intestines, and thus allowing the body to absorb carotenoids and nutrients from our food.
Avocado is a yin fruit. It helps build red-blood cells as it is rich in copper. It also harmonizes several organs, including the liver, lungs and intestines.
So what about this business avocados being fattening?
Yes, it is true that avocados have a high fat content of about 30 grams of fat in a medium size avocado (similar fat content to a regular fast food burger). But there’s good news! Avocados contain the “good” monounsaturated fat that is easily digested and assimilated into the human body. Since our bodies know what to do with monounsaturated fat, it is quickly turned into raw energy and used efficiently by the body. And for a touch of irony, avocados also contain the enzyme lipase, which is complimentary to weight loss because it breaks down fat that is already stored in the body.
So next time someone mentions to you that avocados are fattening, share what you know about this magical fruit. Enjoy tasty avocado meals often, and your body will thank you for it.
Also, have a look at some of these fantastic avocado products!
Avocado oil
Avocado oil potato chips
California avocados gift box
Sources:
Pitchford, Paul. Healing with Whole Foods – Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition. 2002.
www.avocado.org
www.greenparenthood.com
About the Author
Anna Hunt is an entrepreneur, writer and yoga instructor. Her company Pura Vida Yoga Vacations organizes Yoga retreats in Costa Rica.
This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.
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4 Jul 2012 - 2:28am
How many times have you looked at yourself in the mirror and thought: "Oh no!! The horror! My thighs are huge! I should be called Thunder Thighs!, my butt is too flat!!, my boobs are not big enough!" I am willing to bet that almost everybody at one point or other have looked in the mirror and have found something to complain about. I am also willing to bet that only very few individuals look at themselves in the mirror and feel 100% happy with their appearance. I will elaborate more...but in a nut shell the reason why we struggle with weight is becuase we haven't found a way to appreciate and love ourselves. And you may ask what in the world does loving myself have to do with my cottage cheese thighs? Well, everything!! Love is the answer to ALL of our problems!! Think of a problem, and then think of adding love to that problem and you tell me if the problem doesn't seem less menacing to you. So now imagine what giving love to yourself can do for your body!!! Have you ever really stopped and contemplate this concept of loving yourself? I must confess that to me this concept felt not only ridiculous but also awkward and a tad vein. But one day I decided to really explore this concept. I thought about it so hard I think I herniated my brain!! That's how far removed I was from this concept. But after a while my body started reacting to my thoughts of love towards my self. It was almost like a tingly feeling in my stomach, some people describe this feeling as butterflies in your stomach. Now I want to share with you how it feels to love yourself and then I will tell you how to lose weight once and for all!! When you love yourself there is a feeling of warmth in your heart. To get this feeling you have to consciously set the intention. You have to say to your self: "OK, Today in this moment, I am gonna show ME love". Then do whatever comes to mind. You can pedicure your feet, you can give a different shape to your beard, you can prepare a nutritios meal with all your favorite ingredients, you can pasionately kiss your spouse or significant other, you can go do something good for a total stranger. Do ANYTHING THAT comes to mind that is going to make you feel good inside. Once you have capture the feeling, keep the feeling there and turn to the mirror and say: "My dear and loyal body, Thank you so very much for always being there! Without you I could not experience anything in my life. Thank you for being strong and thank you for carrying me through the day regardless of all the verbal abuse you take from me. Starting today, everyday I will thank you for all the wonderful things you allow me to experience. I love you forever". And that's it! this is how to lose weight and stop struggling. Treat your body like best friend, like the one and only true friend you have. Align the reasons why you want to lose weight with love. Wanting to lose weight becuase you want others to think you are attractive and want to fit in "cute" clothes is not a powerful enough reason for your body to react and lose the weight. Your body knows better and it will rebel. Your body knows that it deserves to be loved and cared for regardless of its shape. And anything that is not in alignment with that concept will make your body rebel and manifest more weight. Because we all know that what you resit will persist. So turn off the TV, stop reading gossip magazines, stop comparing yourself to "better looking" people. That's how you lose weight. Is that easy! All you have to do is focus all the love that you are capable amassing within your being and give that love to yourself. No one will ever love you as passionatly and as purely as YOU can. It is time to realize that our bodies are more than just a vessel. They are our homes, our temples!! It is my desire to help you see that YOU ARE ALREADY PERFECT just the way you are, extra pounds or not. So go love yourselves and lose weight in the process.
Namaste, Brenda with love.
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21 Jun 2012 - 7:41am
Practicing Positive Character Traits Could Boost Well-Being
Practicing positive character traits like optimism, curiosity and humor could boost your well-being, a new study suggests.
A study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies shows that when you purposely train a positive character trait, it is linked with a higher reportage of well-being, evidenced by a being in a good mood or being cheerful more often.
The study included 178 adults, who were split up into three groups. The first group was told to practice character traits of curiosity, optimism, gratitude, humor and enthusiasm, while the second group was told to practice creativity, kindness, foresight, appreciating beauty and love of learning. The third group wasn't told to practice any character traits.
The study participants practiced their assigned traits by doing things like writing thank-you cards to people to practice gratitude, or by recognizing a beautiful object or situation in order to train appreciation for beauty.
Life satisfaction was highest among the first group, though both the first and second groups did experience an increase in well-being, researchers found.
Recently, an AARP study of more than 4,000 adults showed that health, relationships, pleasures and accomplishment are some of the biggest factors in happiness.
*~*~* Solstice Blessings to Every-One *~*~*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/18/practice-character-traits-
optimism-humor-positive_n_1606707.html?ref=topbar
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3 Jun 2012 - 6:29am
pH test for the top bottled waters and sports drinks. Discover how Alkaline water can offset the acidity of bottled water.
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30 May 2012 - 2:20pm
We are being burdened with a hardship of times. Particularly in the United States we are at war for healthy food. As all light workers,indigo's,crystals,and rainbows get more in tune and realign their chakra's we are awakening to wanting healthier more nourishing foods to lift our vibrations.According to our previous lives for example someone of the Native American descent would have trouble being a vegetarian. Someone of a Mayan descents cling to more ocean found and birds and could do without any vegetables as well.. while other Eastern descents prefer manly vegetarian or Raw Diets. With the world being at risk with oil spills,Radiation poisoning,Genetically Modified Vegetables and take into consideration that these are not natural and the world is one are our bodies are the temples to our heart and we need to make conscious and logical decisions in our realities about the food we eat! Especially,If you have Children because our children are the future and deserve to feel their maximum vibration as well.
Avoiding Genetically Modified Foods: SoyBean and Corn. ALL processed food with corn,corn syrup, corn starch,Soy leche. Are to star with. This IS GLOBAL. Only eats what is in season. If it is dead in the middle of winter and their is abundance of Tomatoes and 2 for $5 dollar strawberries. The Tomatoes are picked green,shipped, then injected to turn ripe and red after being in crates for long journeys.
Read your Labels: Because it says it's natural doesn't mean that it is. Whole grain bread is legally allowed to be labeled whole grained even if it just has 1 cup of grains in it.Read the ingredients. The first things labeled is the majority of the product. I have also notice in the stores the new form of NATURAL is "No Preservatives" That just mean the product goes bad that it is not actually natural. How could bacon be "natural" because it has no preservatives. it's still hormone ridden bacon just goes bad a lil quicker,and makes its way to the shelf a little faster. The FDA Approves of these Lies on our foods so it is really important to pay attention.
Eating Veggies:
Eating Organic can be pretty costly,I've found that shopping at Farmer's Markets are much more cheaper than most grocery stores.Finding Farmer's Market in your area is crucial.. I have also taken up Gardening but many of don't have the time to cater to gardens.If you have problems trying to find a Farmer's Market in your are please Reach out to me I will try to help you.
Eating Meats & milk: for those of you not aware of what the meat industry looks like and are interested in what exactly you are eating I suggest you watch a video called "Food Inc."Available free on youtube,and netflix. Eating Grass-fed beef and milk is the answer and so is Hormone ,and antibiotic free chicken & eggs.
Eating SaltWater Fish & seafood-The ocean is all connected..Between oil spills in the golf and radiation poison in Japan. It doesn't matter if you caught the seafood yourself you don't know what you caught,and what it's been through. Don't eat ANYTHING from the Pacific or from the Gulf of Mexico. Just Don't eat any of it leave the ocean to heal in these times. Consuming these products is like feeding your body diesel when you need gas. Just avoid it at all costs. Even the farm raised seafood is feed GMO corn. It's rotten.
Fast Food-The Original fast food was fruit,remember that.
The Children of today need to be protected from these foods.Their bodies are growing and these children deserve to be happy and healthy! Take charge of the your Health. If anyone has questions and answers on anything ..Feel free to reach out to me!!
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30 May 2012 - 6:15am
Some basic and interesting info on different areas in the electrochemical organ that is our brain and how meditation and awareness might effect them.
Teaching
26 May 2012 - 11:05am
How Mindfulness Meditation Alters the Brain
Mindfulness quiets brain regions responsible for our sense of self
by Sian Beilock, Ph.D.
It's no secret that the age-old practice of meditation has gained mass appeal. Meditative practices are no longer just for health gurus and Yogis, they are now embraced by politicians, celebrities, athletes and even those of us who don't make the cover of US Weekly.
Meditation techniques has been shown to help alleviate anxiety, chronic pain, and even reduce symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Given these stress-reducing benefits, it's no wonder they are becoming so popular. Yet, despite meditation's broad appeal, we still don't have a complete grasp of why it works.
Take Mindfulness training as an example. Mindfulness is defined as a heightened awareness of the present moment that comes about through attending to your thoughts intentionally and non-judgmentally. People learn to think about their thoughts and emotions as passing events, rather than judging them or attributing importance to them. Doing so has been shown to have positive effects for chronic anxiety and depression. In short Mindfulness training reduces vulnerability to emotional distress.
But, how?
A new paper published June 2011 in the journal Social Neuroscience provides some answers to this question. Researchers at the University Cape Town in South Africa asked people who had undergone an 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention to perform a 12 minute mindfulness meditation while their brains were scanned using fMRI. During the meditation, people were asked to open their awareness to present-moment bodily sensations, thoughts and emotions without judging or reacting to these mental and physical events.
When the researchers compared brain activation during mindfulness meditation to brain activation during a control task where the meditators randomly generate numbers in their head, they found that several brain areas associated with the monitoring of bodily states - including the insula and the prefrontal cortex - were actually less active during meditation. Interestingly, damage to the insula has been linked to less intense emotional reactions. Less activity in the insula during meditation, then, likely translates into less reactivity. And, as I have blogged about before, the prefrontal cortex is instrumental in supporting heightened self-consciousness. Less activity means reduced self-focus.
Up until now, there has been very little work done that characterizes how the brain changes during practices such as Mindfulness to induce an altered sense of self. As it happens, Mindfulness changes the brain in ways that lead us to distance ourselves from, well, our self.
"Mindfulness" is a capacity for heightened present-moment awareness that we all possess to a greater or lesser extent. Training this capacity seems to have a quieting effect on brain areas associated with our subjective appraisal of our self. By considering thoughts and feelings as transitory mental events that occur, but are separate from the self, people are able to lessen their hold on their worries and positive mental health outcomes follow.
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Sian Beilock, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago and an expert on the brain science behind “choking under pressure” and the many factors influencing all types of performance: from test-taking to public speaking to your golf swing. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education and her work is routinely covered in the media (e.g., CNN, New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal).
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23 May 2012 - 4:14am
Beware of Plastic Eating Fungus... Landfills of Plastic Bottles :0)
The best news I have heard in sometime now. Check out this site http://mashable.com/2012/03/07/plastic-eating-fungi/
All I am imagining is landfills full of plastic bottles and other such plastic items being exposed to the plastic eating fungus. LOL! Enough of the plastic world, plastic waste, plastic in our oceans, plastic every where! Sure its great for some things, not sure what at the moment, I guess TV’s, Computers, Printers, and some appliances, etc... as long as its not heated and we are not in contact with it physically(internally and externally) when its warm or hot. Having to be careful using plastic is a must and caring for the world we live in is a must too.
God Bless,
Sarah :0)
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18 May 2012 - 6:53am
by Hedley Galt
24 Apr 2012
If you feel guilty about taking time for yourself – don’t. Your health depends on it.
Try these 12 tips to squeeze more ‘me time’ into your day.
1 Outsource Whether it’s walking the dog or ironing shirts, if you need something done, the odds are there is
someone who has made a business out of doing it for others. Make a list of all the activities you have to do
each week, and then decide which can be outsourced to specialists.
2 Prioritise As the old saying goes, you’ll never hear someone on their death-bed say that they wished they had
spent more time at the office. Write down all the different aspects your life, such as family, partner, work, friends,
sport, in order of importance. Next to each, write the estimated percentage of your time each week that you
spend on that person or activity. If there is a discrepancy between something that’s important to you and how
much time you actually spend on it, take action to realign your efforts with your core values.
3 Say no Your partner calls to ask you to pick up the dry-cleaning. Your boss drops a last-minute project on your
desk at 5.30. Being courteous and helpful doesn’t mean being a doormat. Learn to say no politely but firmly and
encourage others to take responsibility for organising their activities.
4 Meditate Starting the day with 15 minutes of quiet contemplation is a marvellous way to prepare for the day
ahead. Set the alarm for 15 minutes earlier. You’ll be surprised at how much more focused and relaxed you are.
5 Manage interruptions Phone calls and email demand our immediate attention. Rather than being controlled
by external events, manage them by scheduling time to respond when it is more convenient.
6 Avoid techno traps Ipods. Blackberrys. Bluetooth. They have strange names and are capable of keeping us stuck
in ‘busy-ness’ mode 24-7. Dedicate time each day to a ‘technology free zone’ and turn off anything that rings, beeps
or buzzes.
7 Schedule it You book in client meetings, medical appointments and soccer practice for the kids - why not do the
same for yourself? Schedule quality one-on-one time with yourself and do something special like visit a lookout
or rent a laugh-out-loud DVD.
8 Share responsibilities Delegation is the one-way ticket to more me time, yet women stubbornly hold onto the idea
that we are the only ones who can do the job right. What activity is it time for your children to do by themselves?
What can your spouse do more of around the house?
9 Ask the question How often do you find yourself in the middle of a task only to realise it’s a waste of time?
Avoid this situation by asking, “Is this action likely to produce the result I want?” If yes, keep going. If no, dump it.
10 Be constructively selfish To give your family, friends and colleagues the best of yourself, you first have to be able
to give it to yourself. Being constructively selfish means putting yourself at the top of your to-do list.
11 Set goals List all the things that you want for yourself, both personally and professionally. When you are clear
about what you want out of life, it’s easier to decide what’s important to do today and what can wait until tomorrow.
12 Take a break Book a weekend away and just go. Give yourself 48 hours of uninterrupted ‘me’ time to read, sleep,
eat, dream and dawdle. Find the hobby that best suits you – whether it's scrapbooking or Sudoko, this is ‘me time’
at its best. It’s amazing how the world keeps turning.
Hedley Galt is a corporate facilitator, coach and writer. http://www.hedleygalt.com/
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15 May 2012 - 8:14pm
~Enlightenment Extras~
A little awareness on key subjects such as sexual awareness for teens, and adults,male and female, including when a short description of std's awareness no matter age,gender or ethnicity. Knowing it's alright to say no and deciding when your ready . Also a section on marijuana addiction and living freely from addiction and realizing everything is a seed of evolution. We live in a world with so much change,make the changes that let you grow and prosper,and enjoy living ,loving and laughing. the change begins with you. Your inner voice like mine has something to say too, open up and speak,and if it's a change you wish to make ,make it,but only you can make that change. Change begins with you! Nothing can be forced. but flowing with the changes in your experience will let you grow and stop a possibly deadly lifestyle or lifestyle practice.
By Quantum Goddess Of Light
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15 May 2012 - 8:13pm
~Enlightenment Extras~
A little awareness on key subjects such as sexual awareness for teens, and adults,male and female, including when a short description of std's awareness no matter age,gender or ethnicity. Knowing it's alright to say no and deciding when your ready . Also a section on marijuana addiction and living freely from addiction and realizing everything is a seed of evolution. We live in a world with so much change,make the changes that let you grow and prosper,and enjoy living ,loving and laughing. the change begins with you. Your inner voice like mine has something to say too, open up and speak,and if it's a change you wish to make ,make it,but only you can make that change. Change begins with you! Nothing can be forced. but flowing with the changes in your experience will let you grow and stop a possibly deadly lifestyle or lifestyle practice.
By Quantum Goddess Of Light
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14 May 2012 - 9:22am
The other night I had a profound experience which helped clarify a lot of speculated ideas that are common among us. I was reading my book at night and it had this yantra symbol:
Upon looking at the symbol I felt very emotional and a feeling swept through me. Next I began to just observe the way the eyes try to adjust to the pattern and how they continuously reconfigure their arrangement upon shifting focus. Now I began to notice something. It seems like the inner rows of sqaures were spinning but this was not the case, because as I blurred my eyes slightly and used my thid eye vision technique I began to see a swirling mass of particles emanating from the center - following the structure of this pattern. The more I focused, the stronger the visual became of these spinning particles. I then proceeded to close my left eye and relax my mind so that the blacknes from closing my eye and the visuals from my open eye overlapped. This caused this spiralling particles to appear vividly in my minds eye (imagine seeing what you 'see' when your eyes closed; being the dark space overlapping with what is visible outside).
So, the longer I looked the stronger the visual became and the spiralling particles began to form what looks like an 'electric mist' that clearly followed the structure of the pattern. This had a strong effect on my third eye and my body as I felt light and empty--free flowing. As I proceeded to sleep, I seemed to be more in-tune with the etheric layer of frequency and was seeing the aura of everything, along with what appeared to be spirits of some description.
The following day I was glued to my bed, I just didn't feel the urge to get up. Normally I would get bored after laying in bed for so long but this feeling of comfortability and emptiness was too nice. As I went into work, I felt very spacey and zoned out. I assume it was due to the effects observing the particles had on my consciousness and thus my mind.
This to me, simply proves how much the various 'symbols' in our environment have an immediate or subtle impact on our consciousness. It pays off to be aware of this and to know the effects of various symbols. The world symbol can be applied to lights, sounds, textures, arrangements of objects, visuals, and their emissions, along with the juxtaposition between these different things. All of these have an impact of our consciousness. It can be thought of as 'micro astrology' as we know the profound effect the planetary bodies have on our personality and behaviour, the same can also apply to the smaller things situated in our immediate environment.
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12 May 2012 - 2:42pm
I just wanted to share this very valuable website which gives great insight into your own astrology chart and a daily update on platery positions and how it affects us currently.
It is very important to be aware of our astrology because often not every single thing resides within us. An example is one day you wake up feeling volatile and grumpy, it may not be anyones fault, but simply the planetary position bringing about a certain energy/frequency.
Detailed Astrology Birth Chart:
http://alabe.com/freechart/
Updated Planetary Positions:
http://alabe.com/cgi-bin/chart/astrobot.cgi?PARAM=YVR&INPUT5=Brewster,MA
Peace :)
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10 May 2012 - 4:27am
Regarding the theme of a previous blog of mine about creating a new paradigm, I came across this online article that I thought was fantastic news. If you would like to read the article the link is below.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/opinion/sachs-global-childrens-health/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
"(CNN) -- There is a hidden revolution at work that can transform the lives of a billion of the poorest people on the planet.
"The dream of health for all, even the poorest of the poor, can become a reality because of recent breakthroughs in technology and health systems. Scientific results that our Millennium Project team published this week in The Lancet, coupled with broader trends around the world, should be a wake-up call: We can end the deaths of millions of young children and mothers each year by building on recent innovations."
The article states that the big picture is thrilling, that globally, the deaths of children are falling, funding for primary health care in the poorest countries had been rising (but is now kind of stagnating, yet it is still high compared with years ago), and with advances in medicine and ways of distributing it so many more lives can be saved....
The consciousness for the ending of "survival mode" is here! And the beginning of a new paradigm is becoming a reality. Such incredible news! We have such power to make change happen in global ways.
Blog entry
8 May 2012 - 10:41am
Spirituality in Mental Health and Chronic Disease
by Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM
(American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine)
Conventional health care has ignored spirituality for far too long. Integrative medicine acknowledges
the crucial importance of our spiritual beliefs and the dramatic influence they exert in our health and
well-being. The foundation of holistic medicine and it’s newer cousin, integrative medicine, builds on
the concept of interconnected body-mind-spirit. What this means is that our body, our mind and our
spirit are indivisible and inter connected. Conventional health care suffers because it wrongly
assumes that one can provide comprehensive health care to the body without recognition given to the
influence of mind and spirit. Likewise, modern psychiatry has become increasingly ineffective and
narrow by ignoring the power of spirit to steer our mental health-in both positive and negative directions.
I will provide some definitions before I explore the benefits of an active spiritual path. The term spirituality
covers the innate drive that we share to explore our connection to something greater that us. This often
involves a search for meaning in our life. Spirituality typically includes a sense of connection to others,
nature and a higher power. This can be contrasted with religion. Religions are human institutions that
incorporate a formal path to explore spirituality and worship a higher power. Religions generally carry
formal philosophy, guidelines and dogma-set belief systems. Religion also includes community,
charity and rituals.
Think of religion and spirituality as two different overlapping circles. For most people there is an almost
complete overlap between the two. Some individuals explore their spiritual path without a formal religion.
It is personal, unique and active. Others find solace in the institution of religion without ever really
exploring their personal beliefs or meaning. Two different terms. Everyone has an innate spirituality that
carries power and value if explored. Some people embrace a religion.
Research highlights the power of the human spirit to improve our health. When surveyed, 96% of Family
Practitioners agree that spiritual well-being is a factor in health. One study of 5,000 adults over 28 years
found that religious engagement reduced their mortality by 23% even when adjusted for social connections,
education, age, baseline health status and health practices. One massive meta-analysis of nearly 126,000
people involved in 42 studies found that highly religious individuals had a 29% higher odds of survival when
compared to less religious folks. It even helps in our job satisfaction-physicians with an active spiritual life
are 25% happier in their work. Your odds of surviving open-heart surgery are significantly elevated if you
have an active spiritual path. Clearly, our science supports the health value of an active spiritual and religious life.
Chronic illnesses are not easy to live with. They can create suffering that challenges our view of the world and
a higher power. In my experience, the longer that a person has suffered from a chronic illness (especially pain,
depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder) the more that spiritual issues become central. As healers we must
recognize this distress and address it. The evolving science of resiliency tells us that much of this suffering can
be overcome by a positive belief system that emphasizes a positive mental attitude and a sense of purpose
among other things. Viktor Frankl, the father of existential therapy and a concentration camp survivor, captures
the profound power of this in his landmark classic, Man’s Search for Meaning. All of this material points to the
crucial importance of our beliefs and how we find meaning in our lives. This is the essence of our spiritual task:
find meaning and purpose that can sustain and propel in a life worthy of celebration.
Recently, I gave a talk on spirituality in health care at the second Colorado Integrative Medicine Conference is
Estes Park-July 15th to 17th. It covers many of these topics in greater depth. (A link to that talk will soon be
available at www.wholeness.com). I gave this particular talk in the place of my good friend Lee Lipsenthal, MD.
He has suffered a debilitating recurrence of esophageal cancer. The very circumstances of this presentation
challenged me to find deeper meaning in this painful event. All of life’s events can carry this same implication:
our spiritual path may be the most crucial element of our long-term health as we face life’s big questions.
http://www.abihm.org/spirituality-in-mental-health
Blog entry
5 May 2012 - 2:10pm
Spotlight on BRCA: A Filmmaker Turns the Lens on Herself
Once, Joanna Rudnick could barely bring herself to tell anyone she had the BRCA gene mutation. Today, she’s reaching out to other women, and telling her story.
By Sherry Baker
www.mamm.com
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Joanna Rudnick’s first reaction upon finding out she had the BRCA1 gene mutation was to slip into a self-protective state of denial and secrecy. She confided only in family members and a couple of close friends, then stopped talking about it. But inwardly, her mind was a muddle of information, decisions and fear.
Having the genetic mutation gave Joanna, who was 27 at the time, a 36 to 85 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime and a 16 to 60 percent chance of having ovarian cancer. Stories about BRCA usually compare it to a ticking time bomb. Suddenly, she felt isolated, especially from other friends her age. Who could possibly understand what she was going through? Most young women don’t have doctors and genetic counselors talking to them about having their breasts and ovaries removed. They can date without feeling the pressure to find Mr. Right in time to start a family, and they don’t have to worry about passing on a dangerous health legacy to their children. She barely understood it all herself.
That was then. Today, during a phone interview, you can almost see Joanna’s warm brown eyes sparkling as she enthusiastically talks about her life and her desire to help other women. Directing In the Family, a documentary about BRCA that features her own story, was an act of liberation. “One of the greatest gifts I received from making this film was being able to talk about it, talking very openly about my own fears about getting ovarian and breast cancer,” she says. “This generation is the first to have this information, and I wanted to normalize it.”
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“A deleterious mutation”
Everyone carries two copies of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which help keep cells from growing out of control. However, a small percentage of the population is born with mutations on one of these genes, which come with a higher-than-normal risk of developing cancer, particularly at an early age. (Between 5 and 10 percent of all breast cancer cases are BRCA-related.) What’s more, women and men who carry the mutation have a 50 percent chance of passing it on to their children.
Joanna, her sister and her brother grew up under the shadow of illness: Their grandmother and great-grandmother had had breast cancer, and their mother, Cookie, had been treated for ovarian cancer at 44. Not surprisingly, Joanna got her degree in science journalism, and her sister, Lisa, became a radiologist specializing in mammography. “I doubt it was a coincidence,” Joanna says. “Preventive medicine was always part of our family conversations. We grew up with a lot of difficult health situations—our father has heart disease—so we wanted to educate ourselves.”
When the scientific community discovered the strong link between BRCA mutations and cancer, Lisa began wondering whether her family’s cancer history might be hereditary, especially given their Ashkenazi Jewish background. “She and my mother were skeptical that we had this link because nobody in my family had had breast cancer before 50, but they still wanted to find out,” Joanna says.
She had just returned from an exhilarating trip to Nepal and India when Lisa called to say that she didn’t have the mutation. But Cookie did—which meant there was a good chance Joanna did too. She went for the test, knowing in her heart what the results would be. “My mother and I are spitting images of each other,” she says. “I know that doesn’t mean anything, but it’s a natural connection, so I suspected I would test positive.”
Joanna's sister Lisa, a
radiologist, teaches
Joanna how to read a
mammogram
A month later, with Cookie at her side, Joanna returned to the genetic counselor’s office and got the answer she’d expected: “Positive for a deleterious mutation.”
Looking back now, Joanna doesn’t regret finding out at such a young age, but if she had to do it again, she would have prepared herself better. “I would have spent more time having conversations with family members and seeing what it would mean to test positive,” she says. “I would have taken some time to reflect and consider the implication on my own life.”
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Ready for her close-up
A healthy woman with a BRCA mutation can choose to go for frequent checkups to catch any signs of cancer early, perhaps taking drugs like tamoxifen to reduce her risks. This choice leaves room for surgical choices later on, but it also means living with a lot of “what ifs?” and worry over every ache and lump.
Her other option is to have surgery to remove her breasts, ovaries or entire reproductive system. This doesn’t eliminate her cancer risk entirely, but cuts it to less than that of the general population. At first glance, it may seem like an obvious solution—who wouldn’t want to keep from getting sick?—but for a young and single woman, the prospect of altering her body and losing her fertility can be devastating.
At the time she found out her status, Joanna was working as a film producer for PBS’ American Mastersseries in New York. She eventually moved back to Chicago and took a job with Kartemquin Films, a nonprofit company whose productions often air on cable and on PBS’ P.O.V. In between jobs, she came up with the idea of making a documentary about women and the BRCA test. She worked up a proposal for Kartemquin co-founder and artistic director Gordon Quinn, who green-lighted it and served as executive producer. “In a strange way, developing the proposal was in a sense something I was doing for myself,” she says.
Though Joanna hadn’t planned to appear in the film, Quinn encouraged her to tell her story to the camera. “He showed me that this was the most honest way to do it,” she says. “Losing all that anonymity—it’s not the way I was brought up, but it was a filmmaking change for me and a growth change.”
In the Family follows Joanna everywhere from doctors’ offices to Capitol Hill to the lab that manufactures and processes the BRCA test. She visits a plastic surgeon to learn about breast reconstruction, laughing as she tucks silicone implant samples under her shirt. She watches women in Mardi Gras masks posing topless for a calendar to be distributed by FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered), an advocacy group for people affected by hereditary cancer. The “models,” all FORCE members, have had mastectomies—with or without reconstruction—and Joanna admires their self-confidence and sexiness.
Also bared for the camera is Joanna’s relationship with her boyfriend Jimmy. They’d begun dating after she started filming, and he found out about her BRCA status and her work by Googling her name. At first things seem to be going well—Jimmy moves into her apartment and sits by her side at doctors’ visits—but the long discussions about cancer risks, surgery and the future are clearly draining for both of them. Toward the end of the film, Joanna’s eyes brim over as she quietly announces, “Jimmy and I broke up.”
Her BRCA status, Joanna says, wasn’t to blame for the split. “There’s a tendency to want to make it about the gene, but to say it was would certainly not be true,” she says. “The constant conversation about children and genes would put a strain on any relationship, but if we were right, I don’t think that would have prevented us from being together. We were just two people who were not meant to be.”
The Co-Stars
The other stories told in Joanna’s film illustrate the broad range of ages, ethnicities and genders affected by BRCA. Martha, a single mom with metastatic breast cancer, works to make other African-American women aware of their risks. Olga, a Latina singer from Tucson with a strong family history of cancer, gets tested, worried as much for her young daughter as for herself.
Cousins Rich and Jeff joke about being men with the BRCA mutation, even as they worry about passing it to their own children one day. (Tragically, Rich was killed in an accident less than a year after filming.) Stacy, Rachael and Corrin are close-knit young sisters who take the test together. Rachael, the only one without the mutation, cries out of guilt, relief and sorrow.
Linda, only 10 when her mother died of ovarian cancer, considered having her breasts and ovaries removed after she had her two children, but in the bustle of her career and family life, those plans were set aside. At 42, she developed ovarian cancer, followed two years later by breast cancer that quickly metastasized. Linda and her siblings are all BRCA carriers. “In retrospect, if I could have turned the clock back, I would have had all those surgeries,” she says as Joanna nods reflectively. “It may not be the life that you want, but it’s life. You don’t mess with that.”
She died shortly after that interview.
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Playboy and Previvors
Two other women play an important role in Joanna’s documentary. Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh and head of The Playboy Foundation, helped support the film with a postproduction grant and sponsored screenings last year in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Hefner sees no irony in Playboy’s involvement in the film. “Playboy has always promoted open, honest communication about issues related to sexual health for both men and women,” she says. “We also have worked to leverage our readers’ interest in the women of Playboy to raise their awareness of women’s health issues.” She also points out that the foundation has a long history of supporting breast cancer initiatives.
Sue Friedman, DVM, founder and executive director of FORCE, applauds Joanna’s efforts to bring BRCA into public awareness. FORCE offers information and advocacy to those who have hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, those with strong family histories and also to “previvors”—people like Joanna who haven’t had cancer but are at elevated risk. “We face some very tough issues, and Joanna Rudnick’s film brought them out in the open,” Friedman says. “We don’t promote surgery or any one option over another; we support informed decision-making. And the most important thing, in my opinion, is to connect people to the cancer genetics experts who will share the latest information.”
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Vigilance is a choice
Toward the end of In the Family, Linda’s husband, Luis, urges Joanna not to wait too long before having surgery. Having just buried his wife, he doesn’t want to see another young woman’s future cut short.
But making the film has reinforced Joanna’s conviction that for her, the right choice is to keep going for her breast MRIs and vaginal ultrasounds. She also takes birth control pills to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer. The term “watch and wait” sets her teeth on edge, because it suggests that she’s not being proactive about her health. “I’ve decided on surgery,” she emphasizes. “I just haven’t done it yet.”
She’ll have her ovaries removed by age 40; if she hasn’t had children by then, she may look into options like freezing her eggs. The mastectomy will happen “when it’s right for me,” she says, adding that her mother’s experience has made her feel more comfortable with the idea. Last fall, Cookie had a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction after being diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. “Even though she removed her ovaries, she got breast cancer later in life, which is definitely proof of the gene’s power,” Joanna says. “But she’s doing what she can to protect herself, and that tells me, wow, I can do this when the time is right.”
Her directorial debut helped Joanna let go of the “fantasy” of having a husband and family before a self-imposed deadline. “I’d still like to have children, and I’m hopeful I’ll meet a man who knows I have this genetic mutation and will be totally okay with it,” she says. “You can’t rush a relationship. It doesn’t mean I want children any less, but I’d rather be with the right person.” She’s upfront about her genetic history with the men she dates, but she doesn’t go into great detail until they ask.
Joanna wants to see a day when no one will feel stigmatized by their genetic history. She praises the efforts of FORCE and others who educate the public about hereditary cancer. Most recently, actress Christina Applegate joined the ranks by publicly discussing her BRCA mutation, breast cancer and prophylactic double mastectomy. “People talk to me and say they worry others will reject them,” Joanna says. “It’s not anything any of us did wrong, and we shouldn’t be judged for it—it’s just something we inherited. It’s an incredible freedom to realize that.”
For more information about Joanna’s film, or to purchase a copy, visit InTheFamilyFilm.com orPbs.org/pov/pov2008/inthefamily/index.html. Images from the film courtesy of Kartemquin Films: Chicago. To learn more about FORCE and hereditary cancer, visit Facingourrisk.org.
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2 May 2012 - 5:09pm
Garlic: Ingredient '100 times more powerful at fighting food poisoning than antibiotics'
By Daily Mail Reporter
GARLIC: A POWERFUL, NATURAL ANTIBIOTIC
A key ingredient in garlic is 100 times more powerful than two popular antibiotics at fighting a leading cause of food poisoning, scientists have found.
Tests discovered that the compound, diallyl sulphide, can easily breach a slimy protective biofilm employed by the bug to make it harder to destroy.
Not only is it a lot more powerful than antibiotics erythromycin and ciprofloxacin, it also takes a fraction of the time to work.
The discovery, published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, could open the door to new treatments for raw and processed meats, and food preparation surfaces, that would reduce the toll of Campylobacter food poisoning.
Dr Michael Konkel, from Washington State University, said: 'This work is very exciting because it shows this compound has the potential to reduce disease- causing bacteria in the environment and in our food supply.
'Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause of food-borne illness in the United States and probably the world.'
Symptoms of the infection include diarrhoea, cramping, abdominal pain and fever.
The bacteria also triggers nearly a third of cases of a rare paralysing disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Campylobacter infection symptoms include diarrhoea, cramping, abdominal pain and fever
Most Campylobacter infections stem from eating raw or undercooked poultry or foods that have been cross-contaminated via dirty surfaces and utensils.
It is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency, and was responsible for 88 deaths in England and Wales in 2009.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2137934/How-garlic-prevent-dicky-tummy-Ingredient-100-times-powerful-fighting-food-poisoning-antibiotics.html#ixzz1tjUdLPhK
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2 May 2012 - 10:32am
Mike Barrett
NaturalSociety
March 28, 2012
Mind, body, and health are all interconnected. It doesn’t take scientific research or surveys to
determine how the way we think, perceive, and taking in events is both directly and indirectly
related to the quality of life and health, but recent research has done just that anyway.
The survey found that those who perceive past, present, and future experiences in a negative
way tend to succumb to the hardships brought on by illness and disease.
Negative Outlook Leads to More Illness and Disease
The study performed by researchers from the University of Granada found that perception of experiences
and occurrences across a lifetime did in fact influence perception on their own health and quality of life.
Assessing 50 people, 25 of which were men, the researchers assigned a questionnaire and time
orientation tests which described their attitudes toward the past, present, and future. In addition,
the participants filled out a survey to measure mental and physical health.
Co-author Cristian Oyanadel states:
“According to what we have observed in our study, the most influencing dimension is the perception
of the past. A negative view of the past is highly related to worse health indicators. Furthermore, they
[those who tend to be negative] generally tend to be depressive, anxious and present behavioural changes.”
So is it that an unhealthy mental state breeds unhappiness? The way you perceive past experiences,
handle current situations, and hope for the future has everything to do with how healthy and happy you are.
Those who view circumstances as negative tend to struggle through the day while consistently accumulative
health problems, when in fact the negative experiences aren’t negative at all — at least they don’t have to be.
An experience is only as negative as one perceives it.
So how can you alter your perception of all these occurrences? First you must recognize that you have
incredible power in the way situations make you feel based on how you view them. After this realization,
don’t hesitate to master the art of re-framing, a trick to instantly make any bad situation better while moving
up on the emotional scale. Re-framing applies to every single event and action that occurs, whether it be
a flat tire, a mistake made in your business, or a problem with your spouse. These events are viewed as
problems, but re-framing each occurrence so that they simply become challenges or opportunities
completely shifts the way you feel.
The way you think is truly the cornerstone of reaching your health goals and ultimate happiness.
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http://naturalsociety.com/negative-outlook-leads-to-more-illness-and-disease/
Blog entry
2 May 2012 - 6:56am
A mind-blowing and Life changing videowww.youtube.com/watch
I absolutely love this video and information it's given.
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28 Apr 2012 - 1:21am
Namaste again beautiful people..
I'm laying in bed, packed and ready for a weekend in my favourite spiritual town (GLastonbury) but before I sleep I am wondering.. Is anyone else experiencing strange allergy-like symptoms? Namely rashes/hives?
I do have a couple of allergies (cats and pennicilin) but I have rarely ever had itchy rashes until around two weeks ago. I did visit the doctor who diagnosed it as heat urticaria (heat hives) as I mainly get them when I'm hot. He said I may never know why they have come on. At the moment it's not always when I'm boiling hot, I've been keeping my baths cooler and it will still happen on occassion. Then some days, for a even a few days at a time I wont get any at all and I'll completely forget about it! I'm cutting out things one by one to see if it could be a sudden allergy.. I wanted to cut out bad foods and chemicals in cosmetics anyway so it's a good excuse. It's so strange.. They fade within an hour and there's no sign they were ever there. It doesn't feel like my body! I have never had anything like this before! It's definately irritated by something or confused! Very very strange.. As soon as I think I might have stumbled across the allergen my theory gets blown out the water!
I recently pulled a card from the divine guidance deck that told me not to worry about strange things happening in my body at this time, that they will soon be gone and are part of the process.. Ascension in a body appears to have some straaaaange symptoms! :S
Today was a strange day and a tonight was a strange night.. I went from insanely happy and excited, notat all tired from an 11 hour shift at work that ended on a really good note. Excited about the weekend's adventure's with my oldest and closest friend. To suddenly becoming extremely anxious! Worried about my body and health mainly! That often seems to happen to me, excitement turns to or gets interpreted as anxiety by my body! I am probably over tired due to lack of sleep and a long day and so was less able to reason with it all..
I saw someone had posted an invocation to St John of God.. so I went ahead and invoked him.. I just would like some peace from my thoughts sometimes! I'm hoping I wake up with a knowing and a comfort that everything is ok and going to plan and that my future on earth in this most wonderful of times, is beautiful and long and more exciting than I could ever imagine! Because that is what I truly want. I love life! I just need to let myself actually live it more and stop worrying about what might stop me having it!!!
ahhh!
Sorry! I seem to only blog here when I need to vent or am worried or wondering if anyone else is experiencing similar to me. For that I apologise and I aim to share anything useful I come across here from now on as well, happy things :D To be fair I have actually felt SO much better in 2012 than I have in a while, so that really is something. The majority of the time I amazed by life at the moment and how everything is falling into place! Now and then it all just gets a bit overwhelming..
PS I will have a new painting to share with you all soon!
In other news the weather here is CRAZY! Non-stop rain pretty much! I'm going to be willing the sun out from behind the clouds for us this weekend! Better get my manifestation cap on! :p
I better sleep, and prepare myself to stay in that beautiful healing, mystical, magical town! Just what I need :) I just hope I can lay on the grass in the sun whilst I'm there.. mmmmm
Sweetdreams all and much love to you <3 <3 <3 xxxxxxxxxx
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24 Apr 2012 - 12:50am
Posted: 04/22/2012 11:11 am
Review Finds :
Walking is effective in helping to decrease depressive symptoms, according to a new review of studies.
Research published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity shows that
"walking has a statistically significant, large effect on the symptoms of depression in some populations."
The review showed that walking works as well as other kinds of exercise in helping lower depressive
symptoms.
The review included eight studies, evaluating a total of 341 people, which all showed that walking is able
to lessen symptoms of depression. But the researchers cautioned that the ways the studies were conducted --
like how long the people walked, at what pace, and how often -- were different from study to study, so more
research is needed to find what is the most effective.
"The beauty of walking is that everybody does it," Adrian Taylor, a professor at the University of Exeter who
studies depression, addiction and stress, told BBC News.
The Mayo Clinic explained that exercise may help fight depression by prompting the release of chemicals in
the brain that are linked with feeling happy, and could also help to calm the body by raising body temperature.
It could also help by serving as a distraction, boosting confidence and social interaction, and serving as a
"substitute" for more unhealthy coping practices like drinking alcohol.
If you're prone to being obese, spending just one hour going for a brisk walk may reduce your genetic influence
by half. That's the finding from a Harvard School of Public Health Study that was recently presented at the
American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism
2012 Scientific Sessions.
"In our study, a brisk one-hour daily walk reduced the genetic influence towards obesity, measured by
differences in BMI by half," study researcher Qibin Qi, Ph.D. said in a statement. "On the other hand, a
sedentary lifestyle marked by watching television four hours a day increased the genetic influence by
50 percent."
Not only is it helpful to get moving from behind your desk -- it might be harmful to stay slumped over
your computer instead.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/walking-depression_n_1429003.html?ref=mostpopular
Blog entry
20 Apr 2012 - 2:58pm
This story, friends, could really make you think twice before buying fast food for your kids or yourself.
This young girl's life is changed forever by a 'simple' snack!
A Sydney father who claimed his daughter was left severely brain damaged from salmonella poisoning
after eating a KFC 'Twister' has won a court battle against the fast-food chain.
The family of Monika Samaan brought a multimillion-dollar compensation bid against KFC in the NSW
Supreme Court, claiming the then seven-year-old became ill after eating the chicken wrap in Sydney's
west in 2005.
KFC denied the claim but on Friday afternoon Justice Stephen Rothman found in favour of the family in
the NSW Supreme Court.
KFC has vowed to appeal the ruling.
In a statement, the restaurant said the case was clearly tragic but they were "deeply disappointed and
surprised" by Judge Rothman's decision.
"We believe the evidence showed KFC did not cause this tragedy and, after reviewing the judgment and
seeking further advice from our lawyers, we have decided to appeal Justice Rothman's decision,"
KFC Australia's chief corporate affairs officer Sally Glover said.
"We feel deeply for Monika and the Samaan family, however, we also have a responsibility to defend
KFC's reputation as a provider of safe, high-quality food."
In their statement, KFC did not refer to the judge having made any assessment yet of the damages
to be awarded to the family.
During a four-week trial in 2010, Monika's father Amanwial Samaan told the court he and his wife
Hanna, son Abanou and Monika all fell ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after sharing the Twister.
Monika, who was in a coma for six months and in hospital for seven, is effectively now a quadriplegic
and severely brain damaged.
She took the NSW Supreme Court action through her father.
KFC's lawyer, Ian Barker QC, argued there "never was a shared Twister" because there was no sales
data to prove the family purchased it.
"You did not tell anyone at the hospital, when you were there between October 27 and 29, that you had
shared a KFC Twister that Monday," Mr Barker said in the NSW Supreme Court in July 2010.
"Because there was no direct question at me," Mr Samaan replied.
He also accused Mr Samaan of thinking KFC "might be an easy target".
But the family's barrister, Anthony Bartley SC, presented evidence about KFC food practices that were
"disturbing and unsettling".
"If the store was particularly busy, then even if chicken dropped on the floor... it was on some occasions
simply put back into the burger station from where it had fallen," he said.
He told the court Monika, who had been a bright girl, could now feed herself to a limited extent but wears
a nappy and goes to a special school.
Her father had given up his job as a forklift driver so he could help look after her.
The judgment was not listed for delivery at the NSW Supreme Court for Friday but a decision was handed
down unexpectedly at around 4.30pm, a KFC spokesperson said.
KFC said it would not comment further on the matter as it is now on appeal.
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