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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
Teaching
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.
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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
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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/
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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 - 8:55am
I just saw this article and wanted to share it with everyone:
Looking for an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water? According to a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, sunlight and a twist of lime might do the trick. Researchers found that adding lime juice to water that is treated with a solar disinfection method removed detectable levels of harmful bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) significantly faster than solar disinfection alone. The results are featured in the April 2012 issue of American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
"For many countries, access to clean drinking water is still a major concern. Previous studies estimate that globally, half of all hospital beds are occupied by people suffering from a water-related illness," said Kellogg Schwab, PhD, MS, senior author of the study, director of the Johns Hopkins University Global Water Program and a professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences. "The preliminary results of this study show solar disinfection of water combined with citrus could be effective at greatly reducing E. coli levels in just 30 minutes, a treatment time on par with boiling and other household water treatment methods. In addition, the 30 milliliters of juice per 2 liters of water amounts to about one-half Persian lime per bottle, a quantity that will likely not be prohibitively expensive or create an unpleasant flavor."
In low-income regions, solar disinfection of water is one of several household water treatment methods to effectively reduce the incidence of diarrheal illness. One method of using sunlight to disinfect water that is recommended by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is known as SODIS (Solar water Disinfection). The SODIS method requires filling 1 or 2 L polyethylene terephthalate (PET plastic) bottles with water and then exposing them to sunlight for at least 6 hours. In cloudy weather, longer exposure times of up to 48 hours may be necessary to achieve adequate disinfection. To determine if one of the active constituents in limes known as psoralenes could enhance solar disinfection of water, Schwab and Alexander Harding, lead author of the study and a medical student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, looked at microbial reductions after exposure to both sunlight and simulated sunlight. The researchers filled PET plastic bottles with dechlorinated tap water and then added lime juice, lime slurry, or synthetic psoralen and either E. coli, MS2 bacteriophage or murine norovirus. Researchers found that lower levels of both E. coli and MS2 bacteriophage were statistically significant following solar disinfection when either lime juice or lime slurry was added to the water compared to solar disinfection alone. They did find however, that noroviruses were not dramatically reduced using this technique, indicating it is not a perfect solution.
"Many cultures already practice treatment with citrus juice, perhaps indicating that this treatment method will be more appealing to potential SODIS users than other additives such as TiO2 [titanium dioxide] or H2O2[hydrogen peroxide]," suggest the authors of the study. However, they caution, "additional research should be done to evaluate the use of lemon or other acidic fruits, as Persian limes may be difficult to obtain in certain regions."
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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
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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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20 Apr 2012 - 2:48pm
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says there is no excuse for GPs administering banned vaccines
amid data showing children were given the controversial flu shot, Fluvax.
The Federal Health Department has confirmed the CSL product was given to a handful of children under the
age of five, causing one confirmed adverse reaction, with two other suspected cases.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) banned the use of Fluvax for young children two years ago
because it caused seizures.
It and the Chief Medical Officer sent very clear instructions to GPs to use one of the other approved
and readily available vaccines.
Data from the National Childhood Immunisation Register revealed that a small number of children
received Fluvax.
Officials followed up the cases and found about 70 per cent of the cases were actually data-entry errors,
but the Health Department says a small number of children did receive the vaccine.
The chairman of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, Professor Terry Nolan, says
the use of Fluvax in young children is disappointing and "completely inappropriate".
Professor Nolan says practitioners have had very clear advice through a number of channels not to use
Fluvax in children under 10.
"It is not licensed for use in children under the age of five and there are plentiful supplies of other
manufacturers' vaccines for use in that age group," he said.
"It is completely inappropriate; it shouldn't have happened. Exactly why it has been provided to families
and been administered to children, I don't know."
Guesswork
Professor Nolan says he is also worried about how the vaccine was administered because Fluvax
Junior has been discontinued.
The current version of Fluvax has twice Fluvax Junior's dosage and there is no easy way to measure
smaller amounts.
Professor Nolan wonders whether some doctors have simply guessed how much of the vaccine
they were giving to children.
"It can't have been what used to be called Fluvax Junior because it is just not available anymore,
so unless that formulation somehow or other has been retained in fridges by practitioners well
beyond its use-by date ... because that was withdrawn two years ago now," he said.
"It is hard to imagine it could have been available."
AMA president Steve Hambleton says the case has highlighted the need to make sure important
messages are communicated clearly to health experts.
"We do need to look at why this has happened and make sure it doesn't happen again," he said.
"There needs to be a process put in place at all levels whether it be labelling, whether it be labelling
individual vials, markings on the box, a process that has got to be in place at medical practices.
"In my own practice we have a double-check system or indeed a specific label on that box saying
not suitable for under five.
"Obviously the case in 2010 was highly publicised and that resulted in a warning on the outside of
the box but we obviously need to do more."
The Health Department says it has now established a process review with immunisation providers
on the delivery of flu vaccines to young children.
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Teaching
19 Apr 2012 - 12:55am
Masturbation is not a good idea. I do not care what any psychologist or doctor says about it. It depletes a man or woman’s sexual fluid and this is never a good idea. The best idea is to skip it altogether. If you have been masturbating, then you must eat an 8-ounce hamburger every day for at least three months to replenish some of the vitamins and minerals that are lost when you masturbate. Instead of a hamburger, once or twice weekly you may substitute lamb or another cut of beef such as roast beef or beef stew meat, but you must eat 8 ounces of some kind of beef or some lamb daily.
This article presents a view of masturbation that focuses on its physical effects on the body and how to cope with it. To repeat, masturbating once a month or less is okay. However, it is a problem when done more than once a month or so, and especially when it becomes habit.
End the habit, which is slow suicide and like raping yourself gently. Do not be too ashamed or embarrassed about it, however. Just move on. Masturbation is not a healthful habit for a number of reasons discussed below. However, becoming ashamed and embarrassed is not that helpful. Much more helpful is to simply become informed about it, and stop doing it for that reason. Here are reasons to stop masturbating:
SYMPTOMS THAT CAN RESULT FROM A MASTURBATION HABIT
Rapid aging and an early death. This is a horrible syndrome in which one’s vitality goes down and one may feel exhausted, even as a teenager, or as a young man or woman. The hair may turn gray, the body may become thin and lose muscle, and one feels old. This is why masturbation, which some feel is okay, is really a form of slow death or suicide.
Irritability and unsteadiness. The most common symptom is a kind of irritability, emotional unsteadiness, low self-esteem, loss of willpower, and a certain type of weakness of the mind and the body. One also often becomes more lazy, and thinking is definitely impaired. Both the speed of the mind, and the memory are impaired when sexual fluids are depleted. Most people notice this even after regular sex. They often mistakenly think it is a sign of ‘love’, or ‘relaxation’. However, it is the same type of ‘relaxation’ one gets from using drugs or alcohol. It is more like a type of deep fatigue, mild stupor or trance state, and is not the same as real relaxation.
Sexual fluid craving. Women, in particular, who lose a lot of sexual fluids, all develop Sexual Fluid Craving. Please read about this, ladies, as it is a very important article on this website. Men can develop this condition, also, craving male or even occasionally female fluids, but it is not as common. Women may say that they re-absorb their sexual fluids, so it is not a problem. This is true to some degree, and is the reason that women can handle occasional masturbation better than most men. However, frequent sex, vegetarian diets, junk food diets and rapes, in particular, deplete women terribly of precious sexual fluids. Often the nutrients are never replaced and the woman suffers fatigue, depression, brain fog and other problems for the rest of her life.
Loss of vigor. Electrically, the body is discharged and the person loses his or her vigor. This is a very critical effect. Also, the sodium/potassium ratio tends to decrease, which is another sign of loss of vitality in some subtle way.
Other. These range from skin diseases such as acne and dermatitis, to hair loss, connective tissue problems, headaches, prostate enlargement and prostate cancer, possibly, in men, and other possible health problems. some women gain weight in the hips for some reason, perhaps because regular sex and masturbation are a type of trauma, in fact, to that area. This does not mean to avoid sex. It means to be moderate.
Masturbation does not affect everyone equally. Some men, in particular, lose much more sexual fluid than others during ejaculation, especially if it continues for more than a few seconds. Extending it is the worst thing to do, men. Get it over with and move on.
Boys and men that lose more fluid, for whatever reason, are much more affected by masturbation or by regular sexual intercourse, for that matter, and will usually feel much more tired and experience all the symptoms listed above. Women, generally, do not have as much variability in the amount of sexual fluids they lose, except during rapes, which can be of varying intensity. For much more on this topic, read Rape on this website, an insightful article, though not pleasant to contemplate.
METABOLIC EFFECTS OF MASTURBATION
1. Zinc and other nutrient loss. Masturbation depletes the body of zinc, selenium, B-complex vitamins, as well as many other vital nutrients. Male and female sexual fluids are particularly rich in certain forms of zinc and selenium that are hard to replace with food and impossible to replace with supplements, as far as I know. Some herbs help, but are somewhat toxic.
Anyone who masturbates often, and even those who have sex more than once a week, will lose a significant amount of zinc and other nutrients that are difficult to replace. For this reason, sexual fluid should be treated as very sacred and never ever wasted. It is more important for men, by the way, but important for women as well.
2. Etheric loss. Etheric energy is also sometimes called "vital energy" or "vital force". Masturbation causes a depletion of this special type of subtle energy each of us was born with that is required in order to live a long, healthy life. One can regenerate this energy, at least to some degree, so all is not lost. But it should never be wasted, ever, and regaining the energy takes months of sexual abstinence, in most cases, and eating red meat daily or almost daily. It is fine to hug and kiss, but orgasms must be avoided or limited to regenerate the etheric energy.
3. Subtle energetic effects of masturbation. Masturbation and sexual intercourse, even more so, tend to spin the seven main energy centers of the body backwards. This may sound strange, but it is a big reason that orgasm causes pleasure in the body. This is a bit esoteric, but I am told it is the truth and important to know about.
Spinning the energy centers backwards feels good for a few seconds, and subtly weakens the entire aura or energy field of the body. In effect, it uses up a certain amount of vital force or adaptive energy that leaves the person with less energy and less vitality afterwards. This can help explain some of the symptoms of masturbation such as faster aging, irritability, and others.
4. Encouraging the mind in unhealthy thought patterns. This means that stimulating the genital organs tends to cause a certain type of thinking and feeling that is generally harmful for a person. It is much worse if one does it often, and the same applies to sexual intercourse more than about once a week. It also applies to viewing pornography, in any amount. This problem, by the way, is often more harmful for women, as it can attract them to the wrong kinds of men, and attract a rape, for example.
This is a more complex topic that has to do with the type of energy that resides in the lower part of the body, as compared with the type of energies that reside in the upper part of one’s body.
The symptoms of this problem include difficulty concentrating, attention deficit or ADD, ADHD, irritability, superficiality in your thinking, lack of intelligence, lack of follow through ability, impaired school or work performance, and other difficulties in thinking clearly and forcefully.
5. Pornography and masturbation. Another consequence of masturbation in some people is a strange attraction to pornography. By this I mean attraction to photos, movies, written material such as racy sexy novels, and other things that discuss, illustrate, or demonstrate sexual acts, sexual organs of the body, and things related to this area.
Attraction to pornography easily becomes a habit and an addiction. It is one of the worst, in fact, and leads to unhappy relationships, rapes, murders, and is at the very least a total waste of one’s time, energy and often money as well. If you are involved with pornography in any way, I suggest you stop it immediately and do not compromise with yourself. This may be difficult, at first, and there may be groups and other resources available to help, but it is important to stop this silly habit that often accompanies masturbation.
6. An anti-social behavior that reverses the mind in some way. Masturbation tends to make one self-centered in a serious way. It is a selfish habit, and while a little now and then is fine, if repeated often, it tends to turn a person too inward and anti-social in some way.
It is also a reversal of nature’s natural process to procreate the species. By this I mean that the vital sexual fluid is designed to impregnate or fertilize an egg and produce a new human being. When orgasm occurs in other contexts, such as rape and masturbation, it is a type of mental reversal that is confusing to a healthy mind and has a detrimental effect.
Similar to depletion after sex. Some men and women feel depleted after sex due to fluid loss or etheric energy loss. However, other factors also cause this feeling in men and women after sex. These are discussed in the article on this website entitled Energy Vampirism.
OFFSETTING THE EFFECTS OF MASTURBATION
This section is divided into 1) what to do if you have a problem with masturbation, and 2) how to overcome the negative effects if you had a problem with masturbation and now you are trying to recover your health and your energy.
To overcome a masturbation habit:
1. Eat at least 8 ounces of beef every single day for several months, at least.
2. Do not stimulate yourself with pornography or pornographic thoughts. This is also quite important. Get rid of the girlie photos, magazines, website, and friends who talk about it, also. Ladies, this applies to some of you, as well. Stop talking dirty, stop staring at boy’s and men’s bodies, and stop flirting with your dress, looks, behavior, etc. All of this perpetuates the problem, and can set a woman up for rape very easily.
3. Follow a complete nutritional balancing program.
4. Read about addictions. A masturbation habit is a types of sexual addiction. It causes a slight ‘high’, like some drugs, and this is why people like it. Some experience this more than others. The high is always followed by a low, however. For more on how all types of addictions work, read Addiction on this website.
5. Meditate using the modified Roy Masters exercise. A secret of this exercise is moving energy downward from the head to the feet as hard as you can. You can do the exercise as much as you wish. Avoid most other meditations, which will not have the same effect and may make things worse. The Masters exercise may seem boring, but it works. For more on this, read Meditation on this website. My new CD on this subject is the best one to explain how to do it. It is $9. plus $2.50 for shipping.
6. Distract yourself with other activities and increase your interest in other things. For example, go out, be with friends or family, watch non-sexual TV or movies, eat at healthful restaurants instead of home alone by yourself if this is when you masturbate, take short showers instead of long ones if this is where you masturbate. Perhaps you can find a healthy sexual relationship instead of fantasizing.
7. If needed and if helpful, get help from a counselor. Know, however, that many counselors actually condone masturbation and think it is just fine. Stay away from these counselors, as they are wrong, in my opinion.
8. Be sure to eat enough high zinc foods. The main one for this purpose is hamburger meat, and ground chuck is the best of them. Lamb is also good, but not as good for this purpose as ground chuck every day – about 8 ounces for a few months, perhaps. Totally avoid vegetarian diets.
9. A good spice to use every day is mustard. You can buy just regular mustard at the store. Put a little mustard on everything and it will help you move along faster with your healing.
10. The less ejaculation or orgasms, the better. Explain this to your partner, who may not understand at all. For example, many women do not understand that men must conserve their sexual fluid. In fact, many women crave male sexual fluid, so they want their male partners to ejaculate or “it doesn’t count as sex”. This is not true. You can have fun together, but don’t ejaculate. This takes some practice, I know, and it is better to keep the sex to a minimum if you end up ejaculating each time. Women lose less fluid when they have an orgasm, but too much sex is still not wise for women, either. Limiting orgasms can will allow your etheric energy to regenerate as fast as possible. You can kiss and hug with a partner, but don't ejaculate.
11. For men, possibly, an “orchic glandular product” may be helpful for a while. Orchic glandular means animal testicles, and they have been used for this purpose for millennia. However, this is not a substitute for eight ounces of hamburger or other red meat daily.
12. Avoid most herbs that are used as aphrodisiacs and sexual potency. Stay away from yohimbe, ginseng, licorice, and most other sexual herbs. These are stimulating and not good at all in the long run. Avena sativa or common oats are fine, however, and may be helpful to rebuild vitality.
13. To increase your absorption of etheric energy from the environment, eat well, sleep a lot, drink a good quality spring water, keep warm, and avoid all distractions and wastes of energy.
14. Oxygen therapy. Breathing extra oxygen or taking it in other ways is also helpful. If possible, live in a rural area with a higher oxygen content. Try to avoid spending a lot of time in closed-in spaces with a lot of other people such as crowded theatres that are not well-ventilated.
An ozonation/ionizer air purifier in your bedroom is also very helpful. For more on this topic read, The Ozonator/Ionizer Machine.
15. Other procedures. Lesser, but often excellent effects come from doing coffee enemas daily and using a near infrared lamp sauna, and not other saunas, every day.
CAUSES FOR MASTURBATION
These vary. Some children accidentally discover the little pleasurable feelings they get from touching themselves. It becomes a fun habit, but one that should be discouraged, always. Other times, a parent stimulates the child too much while changing diapers, perhaps, or a child may learn masturbation from a friend or even from a parent.
Too much female energy in the home of a young boy, especially if he is unhappy or feeling frustrated, can lead to masturbation in boys. This is more common than one may imagine. The boy feels somehow emasculated, and masturbation is a type of social anxiety disorder response. It is related to depression, in this sense.
A rape or some other trauma can lead to masturbation in girls, as can too much emphasis on sex, sexy clothes, sexy talk, doing your hair and so on. This can also happen to boys and men, but it is much less commonly the cause.
Another common cause is unhappiness or boredom, especially among boys, but occasionally among girls as well.
Another cause is loneliness, extreme shyness and/or embarrassment or awkwardness, especially with the opposite sex. This is also a type of social anxiety disorder in which the person withdraws into self-pleasuring instead of participating in society.
For a man, masturbation offers a way to avoid dealing with a woman, and a way to avoid risking a pregnancy or risking spreading or picking up sexually transmitted disease. For a lady, masturbation is also much “safer” than regular sex in many ways, and this is certainly true.
However, masturbation is still not a healthful habit. Regardless of the cause, the problem is best handled by distracting yourself, finding new hobbies and other things to do, and realizing it is not a healthful habit at all, no matter what a doctor or psychologist says. So end it now, and permanently.
Blog entry
19 Apr 2012 - 12:49am
This is for all people who masterbate, and for everyone to know about its extremely harmful effects, pass it on. I myself experienced most of the symptoms and long term effects of this article.
http://drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/MASTURBATION.htm
People need to know this because this is weakening our spiritual powers, and keeping us enslaved to a control system and results in long term suffering. Popular belief is that masterbation is healthy and normal which is nowhere near truth. Those who are sensitive and those who have done it for a very long time will know exactly what I mean.
Masterbation also weakens your kidneys and eventually results in lower back pain which many young people have nowadays. Masterbation weakens your whole mental emotional and physical system and leads to poor posture and lack of strength. Your Creative sexual power is the greatest power to take you to spiritual and physical heights!
Blog entry
18 Apr 2012 - 11:35am
This HAS to be of interest to everyone... FINALLY!!! News from the medical world that makes sense!!!
A VERY INTERESTING READ............................
Johns Hopkins Update - This is an extremely good article. - Everyone should read it.
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD)
TO ELIMINATE CANCER,JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer
cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients
that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and
forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,changing
diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day
and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells
in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can
cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars
and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often
reduce tumor size.
However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result
in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either
compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb
to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.
Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made
with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute
would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small
amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in
color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and
substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,
like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones
and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into
an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked
food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live
enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw
vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer
fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap
water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes
to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the
body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,
EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy
cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known
to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior
be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put
the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to
have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to
get more oxygen down to the cellular level.
Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave..
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in
them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program
Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about
dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave
using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination
of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.
You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups,
etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know
what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while
ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem
is one of the reasons.
Please share this with your whole email list.........................
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be
cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out
of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life...
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17 Apr 2012 - 10:59am
Spiritual Nutrition: Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Spirit
http://www.thelivingcentre.com
"Spiritual Nutrition transcends all cultural borders. It is a part of the original spiritual teachings in every country in the world; in every faith…all the way back to the ancient Essenes and the wisdom of the Rishis masters of India, regardless of our creed or culture. It was given to all of us as a tool, a step on the path to Enlightenment." ~ W.Kacera
For millions of people food instead of being a source of nourishment it has become an area of conflict and confusion- endless weight-loss dramas, eating disorders, cravings, addictions, body image obsessions, and never-ending searches for the 'best' nutritional system.
With the hectic pace of everyday life, most of us have lost our spiritual connection to food. Food has been reduced to "fuel"- a listing of nutritional "value." But the human body is not a machine, and many of the food-related issues that plague us, can be traced to our lack of awareness of the relationship between body and spirit.
No matter how much we work on ourselves spiritually, our diet also plays a very significant role in how we feel. A heavy, chemical-ladened diet can actually make even the lightest spirit feel heavy. On the other hand, certain other types of meals can rapidly boost someone's spirit, mind, and heart. Many spiritually minded people receive intuitive messages to delete certain foods or beverages from their diet. Others on the spiritual path lose their tolerance for low-frequency substances such as coffee or sugar. They develop sudden adverse reactions to ingesting these substances.
SPIRIT: THE MISSING INGREDIENT IN FOOD Food is a dynamic force which interacts with humans on the physical body level, the mind-emotional level, and also the energetic and spiritual level. The study of spiritual living nutrition is the study of the interaction and assimilation of the dynamic forces of food by the dynamic forces of our total being.
We need to explore the fully range of our relationship of nutrition spiritual life, to expand beyond the present definition of nutrition that includes subtle energetic principles.
A FEW QUESTIONS FOR US TO EXPLORE:
What is the purpose of nutrition?
What is it we call nutrition?
What is assimilated?
What is that which is assimilating?
What is the relationship between the nutrient assimilated and spiritual unfolding?
REFLECTIONS & CONTEMPLATIONS
How does your relationship to food obstruct awareness of your spiritual nature?
How can food serve as a reminder of your spiritual nature?
If you had only one week to live, how would your relationship to food and your body change?
If you were reborn tomorrow, what advice would you give yourself about your relationship to food and nourishment?
There are four aspects of food: biological, psychological, spiritual, and social nutrition.
Biological Nourishment: the nutrients in optimal foods have the power to heal and balance physical health.
Psychological Nourishment: food influences mood; conversely, mood, emotions, and feelings often affect food choices
Social Nourishment: dining with others in a pleasant atmosphere affects well-being.
Spiritual Nourishment: eating with an awareness of the mystery of life in food and connecting with it via mindfulness, appreciation, and a loving consciousness may enhance health.
Since the beginning of time food has nourished us multi-dimensionally; it feeds not only the body, but also mind, soul, and social well-being. They are secrets because this understanding has been part of humankind's relationship to food for thousands of years, but in the last century, most of us have lost and forgotten about them.
In North American we got so off track with our relationship to food quiet awhile ago. First, in the 19th century, chemist Wilbur Olin Atwater told us that food is fuel, the body is a machine. About the same time, the industrial revolution gave us refined, processed food. In the late 1800s, Puritan values still predominated in America, which meant that food was often perceived as sinful, or as good and bad; in other words, we projected moral values onto food. Today, we relate to food mostly in terms of how it can be objectively measured. The meaning in food has been stripped away along with its nutrients during processing. Every time you look at a label in the supermarket and you see numbers next to nutrients, you are witnessing the affect of Newtonian science in action.
The best to eat way depends on an individual's personal health and nutritional goals. The way to use nutritional science effectively and optimally is to ask yourself, do you need (or choose) to eat to prevent a health problem for which you are at high risk, to manage an existing health problem, or to reverse an ailment.
Optimal health depends not only on what we eat, but also on how we eat. What we eat has been the singular focus of nutritional science, but how we eat also affects our health and well-being. One healing secret tells us what to eat for optimal health; and the other healing secrets show us how to eat for health and well-being. The healing secrets tell us about how to eat include: feelings, mindfulness, appreciation, connection (love), and socializing. Here is an example of how, let's say, eating mindfully influences health. So many Americans eat while task-stacking: in front of the computer, watching television, driving, and walking down the street, but eating mindfully, being present in the moment with your food, may actually affect the way the food is metabolized and ultimately, your health and well-being. When physician Donald Morse of Temple University did research with female students, he asked them to meditate for 5 minutes before eating, then also to do mental arithmetic for 5 minutes before eating. When the students meditated, they produced 22% more of an enzyme in saliva called alpha-amylase, which helps you break down carbohydrates and B vitamins in food. This suggests that if you eat in a relaxed, mindful, present state of mind, you'll absorb more nutrients, and in this way, may improve health.
MOTIONS, MOOD & FOOD
In the 1970s, Drs. Judith and Richard Wurtman discovered that when animals consumed the carbohydrate-dense foods of potatoes and sugar they released a naturally occurring hormone called serotonin, which calms and relaxes you. Other examples of carbohydrate-rich foods are pasta and bread. On the other hand, low-fat, high-protein foods (such as nonfat yogurt) release another hormone called norepinephrine, which keeps you mentally alert. It's not a stimulant; rather, it simply makes you more alert. The key concept with food mood research, is what is commonly referred to as psychological nutrition, is that food influences emotions, and inversely, that our emotions and feelings often influence our food choices.
SPIRITUAL NUTRITION
Spiritual nutrition is about the mystery of life inherent in both food and human beings. All food contains and gives life, and we human beings are also life giving and life containing. Also, both food and human beings depend on the elements, the sun, the earth and soil, water, and air to live and thrive. Spiritual nutrition acknowledges the interdependence and connection among plants, animals, human beings, and the mystery of life, and connecting to this life force. The way to access and derive the health benefits of spiritual nutrition is to implement the three healing secrets of spiritual nutrition: mindfulness, appreciation, and love, each time you eat.
KEY CONCEPTS
The key concept for optimal health and optimal eating is that what and how you eat hold the keys to physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being.
INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION
Integrative nutrition merges Western nutritional science with Eastern healing systems that include nutrition (such as Ayurveda), and also timeless food wisdom (from world religions and cultural traditions). Integrative nutrition is about holistic eating and total nutrition, a relationship with food that is capable of healing body, mind, and soul.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ANCIENT WISDOM & MODERN SCIENCE
Humankind for millennia has turned to food to nourish physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being.
KEY POINTS
We are more than just a physical body; we are a spiritual source.
By nourishing the body, we nourish the spark of life within the body.
The body is Sacred and therefore, the nutrition of the body is Sacred.
A truly evolved nutritional approach takes us fully into the body and beyond the body,
Our relationship to food teaches us a great deal about who we are and how we live.
"To receive the most subtle particles in the food, you must be fully conscious,
wide awake, and full of love.
If the entire system is ready to receive food in that perfect way,
then the food is moved to pour out its hidden riches…when food opens itself,
it gives you all that it has in the way of pure, divine energies."
-O. M. Aivanbov
"When we look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself."
~ Deepak Chopra., M.D.
Peace Be With You!
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16 Apr 2012 - 5:08pm
Spiritual Clearing and Healing: The Removal of Dark Forces and Spiritual Attachments
By Peter Vincent Michael
Did you know that spirit attachment is the most common form of energetic sickness that affects more then 75% of the population in the USA?
Spirit attachment is the attachment of non-physical energetic beings which attach to the human energy field (aura).
These spirit attachments are human souls who have died and not crossed over to the next world. Because they did not cross over they became stuck on earth as either whole souls or parts of souls. These earthbound human souls and soul parts attach to humans to continue their life on earth, to live from the energy from humans and to maintain some type of control and power over humans.
The majority of people with spirit attachments usually will never know it and will live out their entire lives with these attached entities.
Another type of attachment is called "Dark Force Attachment".
Dark force attachment is the attachment of non-human dark energy (negative and fear) based beings who are tasked or sent to this planet with the intent of causing harm, misery, and pain, and to steal the energy and power of humans. Dark forces are a much more darker and negative form of energy then spirits and they cause deeper and more serious issues in the people they possess. Both Dark forces and spirits cause a host of problems mostly related to emotional, mental and energy level issues.
This invisible energy and power battle has been on earth since the beginning of human existence, although it has been mostly unknown and misunderstood due to the lack of truthful information surrounding non-physical energy.
These dark force and spirits attachments attach to people through cuts and holes in the energy field(aura). The energy field (aura) is an invisible layer of energy which emanates from every person. Cuts and holes develop in the energy field from weak emotions and a loss of personal power. Personal power is lost through the use of drugs and/or alcohol, fear and Soul Loss.
-Weak emotions such as fear, anger, and other fear based emotions create weak and lower level energetic openings in the energy field and it is these energetic openings which allow the entry of these spirit and dark force attachments.
-Drugs and alcohol also create openings in the energy field because they weaken the energy field and energy and power of humans.
-Soul Loss is the loss of personal power and energy from traumatic experiences.
From a shamanic view point, the human soul is an energy and form of personal power which can become lost, stolen and separated from trauma. Whenever we suffer an emotional or physical trauma a part of our soul leaves the body as a way to survive the traumatic experience.
In shamanic healing terms, this loss of soul or energy is called "Soul Loss". 99% of people will have some sort of soul loss in their life unless they manage to live completely happy lives for their entire life. The more traumatic experiences you have in life the more soul parts you will lose and the bigger the cuts and holes will become in your energy field.
The more cuts and holes that develop in the energy field the easier you will become vulnerable to possession of dark forces and spirits. A shamanic healer (energy healer) will perform an ancient healing method called "Soul Retrieval" which restores the lost and separated soul parts and closes any cuts and holes in the energy field. It is this healing method combined with a "spiritual Clearing" which restores personal power, energy, clarity of mind and emotional health. A spiritual clearing is an energy healing method of removing any attached dark forces and/or spirits.
The most common causes of soul loss are:
Prolonged pain, Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse as a child or adult, Domination by another person or a group (everything from peer pressure to religious cults), Allowing your soul to be stolen by another or others, Substance abuse and other addictions, Not being true to oneself; disowning or disallowing parts of oneself, Death of a child, parent, or close friend, Loss of a husband, wife, or lover, Sudden and unexpected loss of a meaningful job or career, A sudden accident resulting in physical trauma like car accidents, or sudden onset of a debilitating disease, Exposure to shocking or extremely stressful physical or psychological conditions or events - for example, witnessing a murder, serving in a war, undergoing chemical or radiation therapy,and Co-dependent relationships - where one has unconsciously given a part of one's soul to another - say, in a parent/child or intimate relationship.
People that have dark forces and/or spirits attached to them may have been misdiagnosed with psychiatric problems or other emotionally or mentally related problems. But also people who have very stable or successful lives have dark forces and/or spirit attachments. Even people who are considered "spiritually advanced" such as healers, psychics, light workers, spiritual teachers, priests, etc., have been known to have spiritual attachments. It is not uncommon for the average person to have spiritual attachments. It does not matter what you have chosen to believe or what your religious preference or personality type or intelligence level is. If you have a damaged energy field you are vulnerable to them, if you create a "Doorway" to them you are vulnerable to them, if you are in a low vibration you are vulnerable to them and if you have soul parts missing you are vulnerable to them.
Dark forces and spirits are a major cause of:
emotional pain, depression, low energy levels (tiredness), constant fatigue, suicidal thoughts and/or attempts, drug and/or alcohol addictions, unhealthy addictions, over eating, hearing voices in the mind, strange or weird thoughts that don't seem your own, being directed by an inner voice, most mental illness, mental or emotional instability, poor concentration, mood swings, multiple personalities, confusion, deep anger/aggressiveness, nightmares or any negative/terrifying dreams/day dreams, sleep paralysis, anxiety, paranoia, constant negative or fear based thoughts and/or emotions, waking up tired after a full night's rest, criminal and/or violent behaviors, sexual abuse, mental noise (unclear thinking), dark thoughts and/or impulses, unexplained physical pain or problems without any known cause, constantly sabotaging yourself or others, negative beliefs, religious fanaticism, abusing or attacking others either emotionally, physically etc., energy stealing among people (psychic vampires), limited/lower consciousness, feelings of giving everything up, feeling your life is being controlled by something outside of yourself, constantly trying to control or have power over others, loss of your purpose/path in life, loss of your power/soul and more.
To learn more about spiritual clearing work visit:
http://WWW.SPIRITUALCLEARING.INFO
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Vincent_Michael
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12 Apr 2012 - 8:57am
This is based on research and information from divine sources...
Vitamin C is an antioxidant which goes under the names ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate among other things. It quenches unwanted and
toxic byproducts of body metabolism. It is designed to partner with (and is similar to in molecular form) glucose according to the council of 12,
however the ability to make it was manipulated from us, mutating one of the genes required, some other animals were also hit but
most can produce their own. As our bodies structure changes the speed can be hindered by lack of antioxidants due to the ammount of
bi-products, also vitamin C seems to be a component in the actual physical process but i cannot recall how...
Having plenty of vitamin C will help this process greatly, either by having foods high in vitamin C, or supplementing it (do not use pills with sweetners in, go for either sugar-sweetened chewable, non-chewable. Sainsburys vitamin C if you are in the UK is a good start.
If your body tells you to have some, then do. For starters, 1 pill or glass of orange juice or an orange in the morning and same at lunch and in the evening, if you are using 500mg pills will equal to 1.5g of vitamin C. If you are having too much vitamin C (for me over 10 grams will do this) you may get diarhea as the body just flushes out the excess, which is non toxic unlike some other vitamins can be if taken in excess. So for this reason use vitamin C containing pill only. If you feel like taking more than the 3 pills a day, take more. Do as your body asks, consult your guidance if unsure. You might get a day where you don't feel you need any, or a day where you feel you need 3 - 4 grams worth... listen to your body. Vitamin C in large ammounts is very good for colds and other infections as it enables the body to fight them more effecently by removing unwanted byproducts. Personally i sometimes take around 5 - 8 grams, sometimes only 2.
Now this is only to protect myself but this information is used at your own personal risk. I am not responsible for any injury which may occour from using this advice and if in doubt, consult a doctor before proceeding.
^^ Do not want to sound doom and gloom but ive got to protect myself! Many I know who have tried this have come to no harm and have had a better quality of life :)
Do some research, this vitamin will help alot! :)
for starters i dont advise you to take too much, do the 3 pills a day for starters, or even a glass of orange juice in the morning and evening or an orange in the morning, lunch and evening, you dont have to use vitamin C pills. Listen to your body. A large orange can contain as much as 500mg or more of vitamin C. the same as a 500mg pill.
Do not try 'megadosing' with other vitamins or multivitamin pills, some vitamins are toxic when taken in excess.
You can find information on the internet about vitamin C megadosing.
Feel free to comment :)
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11 Apr 2012 - 11:07am
Psychological First Aid: Fostering Child Mental Health in Times of Disaster
Young children benefit when parents receive psychological first aid.
by Jean Mercer, Ph.D.
www.psychologytoday.com
The term "psychological first aid" has appeared more and more frequently since the terrifying events of September 11, 2001. Soon after 9/11, the National Institute of Mental Health called together two conferences that considered the evidence for use of various approaches to large groups of traumatized people. The New York Times this morning referred to "psychological first aid" in discussing the plight of Haitian earthquake survivors.
One important concern in the development of "psychological first aid" (PFA) is that it is possible for mishandling of survivors' concerns to do harm-- to intensify distress and to create symptoms that last longer and cause more problems than they need to. This was evident in the days following 9/11, when would-be helpers streamed into New York City, not all of whom knew what they were doing. A special problem arises when people who want to help believe that trauma is relieved by catharsis-- the re-experiencing and expression of feeling about fearful events. As Jill Littrell's research has shown, this is not the case unless there is also help in processing disturbing memories.
Properly done, PFA is of great use to families of young children. Older infants, toddlers, and preschoolers may have very little understanding of a catastrophe, but they respond in age-associated ways to the event. Many of those ways have to do with observing their parents' psychological reactions. In normal circumstances, young children literally look to their parents for cues that will explain whether an unusual event is "all right" or "scary". This process, called social referencing, involves the child glancing at the parent's face to see whether the parent looks relaxed or frightened as he or she encounters something strange to the child. If the parent's face is happy and relaxed, the child approaches and explores the new situation; if the parent looks frightened, the child backs off, looking serious. This has even been shown experimentally in research that presented to crawling babies a transparent Plexiglas surface which they had to crawl over to get to a parent on the other side. (It looked to the babies as if there was a considerable drop they would have to cross to get there.) Parents were trained either to look fearful or to smile and look relaxed. When the baby approached the "drop", he or she looked at the parent's face; if the parent looked frightened, the baby did not try to cross, but if the parent smiled, the baby crawled right onto the transparent surface.
Social referencing occurs in everyday life, especially when there are new and strange experiences. But traumatized parents may not be able to give the referencing child the cues she is looking for. An expression of terror, a "thousand-yard stare", or an inability to respond to the child's bids for engagement all make it vastly more difficult for the child to cope with frightening circumstances.
These facts suggest that when children are with their families, they are likely to be helped most when the older members of the family receive PFA. PFA to young children as individuals may be difficult to deliver, and in addition may not be of help when the child is constantly being signaled by his parents' or others' faces that something is terribly wrong.
PFA as it is presently used by the American Red Cross was recently described by Dr. Heather Shibley in the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter. Dr. Shibley noted the need for good preparation of PFA teams, including an understanding of the local culture, of ethnic diversity, and of the damage that has caused psychological distress. When entering the area, the PFA team would approach people, give them food and drink, and use this contact to decide whether individuals were overwhelmed emotionally. Further work with the emotionally overwhelmed would involve taking them to a private area before discussing their situation.
An important technique of PFA is the use of grounding techniques. Survivors may be experiencing flashbacks, intrusive thoughts about the disaster, and a sense of shock. Grounding techniques attempt to fight these preoccupations and bring the individual to awareness of the present moment-- a time when the disaster is no longer occurring (although its aftereffects may be present in abundance). Examples of grounding techniques would be asking survivors to describe things present in their environment, or to hold something sensorily intense, like an ice cube. With respect to families with children, we might expect that grounding techniques would help parents to notice young children's communications and respond to them appropriately, rather than having the child's sounds and expression "blanked out" by overwhelming memories and thoughts.
Among other techniques, PFA workers try to facilitate the coping abilities of parents and others who take care of children. One aspect of this approach is to educate adults on the normality of children's responses to disaster, such as separation anxiety, nightmares, and "regressive" behaviors like loss of toilet habits. Such education helps allay adult concerns that their children are permanently damaged by their experiences, feelings that would be traumatizing in themselves.
I hope readers will notice that none of these evidence-based techniques involve urging survivors of any age to re-experience the disaster, or to cry or rage in order to "get rid of" feelings that are disturbing them. Instead, as Dr. Shibley has noted, the effort is to create "a sense of calmness, hope, connection, safety, and self-efficacy" to replace the feeling of chaos, despair, and helplessness. Seeking this outcome for parents is probably the best way to assure the recovery of infants and young children.
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3 Apr 2012 - 4:25am
No, I'm not talking about ecstasy, cocaine, some designer drug, or even cannabis. I'm talking about Oxytocin, a hormone that we all have, that has been called the hormone of love and bonding.
A powerful chemical that causes uterine contractions, oxytocin is typically known for being produced in high quantities during the labor and birth process. Anyone who has ever had a baby can attest to the powerful and painful uterine effort that is required to push an irregularly shaped 8 pound object through the tortuous birth canal. For those that don't go into labor spontaneously, synthetic oxytocin, or Pitocin, is given intravenously to induce labor. Later on, after the birth is over, oxytocin is responsible for successful breastfeeding and mother-infant bonding.
Recent studies have shown that oxytocin has some amazing positive effects on physical, mental, and emotional health. It decreases blood pressure and cortisol (a hormone produced in mass quantities while under stress), and even improves wound healing by decreasing chemicals that cause inflammation. It increases one's pain threshold and helps us forget the pain of birth, a handy feature for the laboring woman. This along with its ability to reduce the amount of fear one feels is probably the single most important factor in ensuring the propagation of our species! It improves the symptoms of anxiety and depression, and even increases feelings of generosity and trust.
Oxytocin has even been shown to improve the symptoms of autism, while an inability to secrete oxytocin and feel empathy has been associated with sociopathic, psychopathic, narcissistic, and manipulative behavior.
How Can We Get More of It?
Oxytocin is not just the privilege of the birthing or nursing mother. It turns out that oxytocin is produced naturally in high levels, by both men and women, during many of the activities that make us feel good. For example, smelling, eating, viewing, or even just thinking about "comfort foods" produces oxytocin. Listening to soothing music has been shown to increase levels. Touching and being touched produces oxytocin in both the giver and receiver, as does orgasm. It is no surprise that massage is a great way to boost oxytocin levels. Even just thinking positively about your significant other can produce a rise in oxytocin.
If you have a pet, you may intuitively know that you just feel better when you are around them. This is because oxytocin levels increase in both of you when you have friendly interactions. Simple eye contact with a dog boosts your oxytocin levels, as does the happily wagging tail (WAG MORE, BARK LESS). The vibration of your cat's purr affects oxytocin levels in both you and your cat, which may be why some cats purr when they are in pain. Stroking or petting a dog or cat (also shown in rats, monkeys, and sheep) increases levels in both parties.
Nature has provided us with many opportunities to give ourselves a boost of this love drug, whenever we need it. If you live alone, consider getting a pet. Even if you can't take on the responsibilities of having a pet, you can visit your local dog park and enjoy eye contact with someone else's dog. Just make sure it is a friendly gaze, and not an aggressive stare! Take walks in nature whenever possible, as she provides her own soothing music, played just for you.
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31 Mar 2012 - 10:32am
Use Rosemary As a Nerve Tonic And Stress Buster
By Kim Evans
www.inlightimes.com
We’ve all had times when stress and nerves have gotten the best of us. In fact, with today’s job demands and fast-paced lifestyles, chronic stress that just won’t go away is quite common. Unfortunately, this can take quite a toll on our physical and emotional health, so if you’re there or anywhere close, the herb rosemary might be just what you need.
Rosemary is known to calm the nerves and relax the muscles. Rosemary also boosts blood flow to the brain which helps us think more clearly while improving memory. Just smelling the herb has been found to lower cortisol levels - and high cortisol levels are associated with stress. Specifically, elevated cortisol kicks in our “fight or flight” response and by bringing down cortisol levels, we’re able to move into relaxation mode.
Rosemary is also thought to stimulate our adrenal glands to provide energy while lifting moods and relieving stress. What a great little herb - it drops stress levels while giving us the energy and clear head to tackle whatever it is that’s stressing us out. A compound in rosemary, carnosic acid, has also been found to simulate nerve growth; this is a protein vital for the growth and maintenance of nerve tissue. This means that rosemary helps build and repair our nervous system so that going forward, we’re better able to handle stressful situations. In fact, this natural compound in rosemary is so effective that a chemical company has patented a derivative of it for use with Alzheimer’s patients. Other research has found that carnosic acid offers protection in the brain from common agricultural pesticides implicated in Parkinson’s disease.
Rosemary is often made into a tea for medicinal effects. To make a raw rosemary tea (because herbs are more powerful raw) just take three inches of fresh rosemary and blend it for a couple of minutes with a cup of water. Then, strain and add a bit of stevia for sweetness.
If you’re really on edge, you might also want to use fresh rosemary in a liver cleansing coffee enema. The before and after differences in stress levels can be amazing. To do this, blend a sprig of fresh rosemary with three cups of water, then strain and add the liquid to a cooled one gallon coffee enema. Then, retain the mixture in your body for several minutes, and release and repeat until you’ve used all of your solution. Of course, you’ll always want to replenish your healthy bacteria immediately after doing any enemas.
Because many common chemicals damage our nervous systems and make us feel nervous and anxious in general, using fresh rosemary in a coffee enema performs double duty by removing some of those poisons while relaxing us and relieving stress at the same time. The best part: with this method you’ll often feel the relaxation benefits instantly - especially with chronic stress.
For on-going nervous system building, you can get into the habit of chopping and adding a teaspoon of fresh rosemary to your salads, baked potatoes, and soups. You don’t want to overdo rosemary though. Two cups of the tea a day should be more than enough and it’s best to use the rosemary coffee enema only twice a week for a month before taking a break. Rosemary is also a powerful antioxidant with potent antibacterial, antifungal and anticancer properties.
Rosemary, however, shouldn’t be taken in quantity by pregnant women.
Kim Evans is a natural health writer and author of “Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse”. Deep cleansing has helped her, personally, eliminate over a dozen problems in her own body - including several that medical professionals had said there were no solutions for, except long-term drugs.
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29 Mar 2012 - 11:12am
...but for what?
Why sell hope to gain faith on concepts which have no true relevance to our lives until they MIGHT happen?
Where is the direct development and evoluation of us so-called 'spiritual people'? Where is the building, teaching, sharing, learning of spiritual sciences, where we are the tools used to measure these elements? Where is the community based around our own advancement of knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and personal growth? Where is the culture based on the expression of our spiritual realizations and experiences?
Are these not critical in our growth?
Now is the time of...
Now is the era of...
This is the prophecy of...
Then everything goes back to normal...
Why must our food be this hope?
They say knowledge is power, yet if you know a lion has the capacity to kill you, walking into its territory with the knowledge alone, your demise will surely be met.
Can our food not be what is gained from direct experience - that can be shared, perceived, and built upon?
Lack experience? Share, learn and discover new methods to walk through the worlds...
Just an expression.
Peace
Blog entry
27 Mar 2012 - 11:08pm
Encyclopedia Brittanica, the 244 year old company that started in Scotland, has announced that it is ceasing publication of its print edition, all 32 volumes, weighing 129lbs. This isn't the first the Internet has threatened to make irrelevant - and - extinct - the old-fashioned ink-on-paper way of learning. We can only hope demand for this venerable collection will surge before the last book is bound and an information institute is lost forever.
Article found in April 2012 edition of Macleans magazine
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21 Mar 2012 - 8:19am
Just letting everyone know who does vaccinate their babies and young children ~
In Australia there has been a growing number of whooping cough virus in vaccinated babies!
A health official just stated that a new strain of the virus has developed and 'breaking through'
the present whooping cough vaccination. They need to develop a stronger vaccine, he stated.
More than 9,000 cases of whooping cough were diagnosed in Queensland last year.
Namaste ~ Love to All.
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17 Mar 2012 - 6:57pm
The Australian
HONEY, I KILLED THE SUPERBUG
by: John Stapleton
AUSTRALIAN researchers have been astonished to discover a cure-all right under their noses -- a honey sold in health food shops as a natural medicine.
Far from being an obscure health food with dubious healing qualities, new research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at it, including the antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" plaguing hospitals and killing patients around the world.
Some bacteria have become resistant to every commonly prescribed antibacterial drug. But scientists found that Manuka honey, as it is known in New Zealand, or jelly bush honey, as it is known in Australia, killed every bacteria or pathogen it was tested on.
It is applied externally and acts on skin infections, bites and cuts.
The honey is distinctive in that it comes only from bees feeding off tea trees native to Australia and New Zealand, said Dee Carter, from the University of Sydney's School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences.
The findings are likely to have a major impact on modern medicine and could lead to a range of honey-based products to replace antibiotic and antiseptic creams.
Professor Carter's two sons, Marty, 8 and Nicky, 6, think it's funny the way their mother puts honey on their sores. But she swears by it, telling stories of how quickly it cures any infection.
"Honey sounds very homey and unscientific, which is why we needed the science to validate the claims made for it," she said.
The curative properties of various types of honey have been known to indigenous cultures for thousands of years, and dressing wounds with honey was common before the advent of antibiotics.
"Most bacteria that cause infections in hospitals are resistant to at least one antibiotic, and there is an urgent need for new ways to treat and control surface infections," Professor Carter said.
"New antibiotics tend to have short shelf lives, as the bacteria they attack quickly become resistant. Many large pharmaceutical companies have abandoned antibiotic production because of the difficulty of recovering costs. Developing effective alternatives could therefore save many lives."
Professor Carter said the fascinating thing was that none of the bacteria researchers used to test the honey, including superbugs such as flesh-eating bacteria, built up any immunity.
She said a compound in the honey called methylglyoxal -- toxic on its own -- combined in unknown ways with other unidentified compounds in the honey to cause "multi-system failure" in the bacteria.
The results of the research project are published in this month's European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Blog entry
16 Mar 2012 - 4:24pm
In my dream last night someone was trying to kill me and I was running. Maybe I am not as well adjusted as I thought.
There was no place to run and hide from the guy. He had men everywhere. He would find me. Even if I tried to swim across the ocean, which I did, he'd be there waiting.
I tried to disguise myself, have a protector, hide in the middle of thick plants but he just kept coming. I don't know why I was involved with him. I was not “me.” I was a younger woman. I was with a man who was also on the run with me at first. I think we were involved with the killer somehow but then decided we were going to try to escape from him and not work for him any longer.
The killer was death, I can see that. I must have been more worried than I thought last night.
Today I have heart pain. I think I have been having this all along from time to time but today it is bothering me and I am not just brushing it off. It is like a couple of years ago when I was seeing the cardiologist and they were thinking the worst. I think it is angina. I definitely have a murmur, a leaky valve, and high cholesterol. There were other things they thought I had and only after a whole lot of ascension work did those things not turn up again on the tests.
All that is not my point at all. Why I am writing this is because it occurs to me that I am in a repeat.
This week after the initial solar flare symptoms, I went back into an old pattern of stress. This type of stress is probably exactly what caused my heart issues in the first place. Now I am having the same heart pain I used to have. Come to think of it, I even had a really bad flare up of the old leg injury this week, too.
Yesterday I was reviewing this time of my life and now today it is repeating.
I am not in a panic attack like I used to get into. I am handling it much better.
I am fasting but I am hesitant to work out again. I am not sure how safe it is for me right now. Maybe we'll do a walk later.
One thing this sense of danger does for me is it allows me to live better. It allows me to really act as if this day could be my last. There is a calm in this, not a panic like before. It is gentle. It feels like a natural valium.
So, the other day I wrote, “If today is a test, I failed.” Today I feel the opposite. If today is a test I pass. With the worst fears in front of me, I am able to still get into the now. Because right now I am alive. Right now I am here. And now is all there is.
Last time I went through this I was in pure panic. I was so afraid of death. I was so afraid of what might happen if I was not here controlling everything. That is all ego. I am not saying I have transcended ego or that I have no fear of death. According to last night's dream, I still do, of course, but I have made some big strides.
It is a good measuring device, the repeat. Now I can see why I have them so often and why the same thing will happen over and over. It is a way to measure growth, a way to observe your own change.
I don't think God (substitute any other name here) does this to me. Source does not wish to punish or test us. According to Source, we are perfect just as we are. There is no judgment or measurement. I do this to myself. It is very much my personality to do so. I have always liked testing myself academically, emotionally, and physically so of course I would do so spiritually as well.
There is a pole in our basement at the bottom of the stairs. It is a real eyesore actually except for the fact that my husband uses it to measure the kids. He has no specific date he does it, he just does it when it occurs to him to do so. He'll mark their height and the date with a sharpee marker so they can see how much they've grown. And we get a kick out of it, too. We can't believe they used to be so small.
Part of me has always wanted to be old. I don't know why. I don't want the health problems or the stigma people have about the elderly, but as a kid when I saw older people on cruise ships, or on the beaches down in Florida working on their tans, or even when I watched daytime TV with the commercials and TV shows geared to them, I wanted their life.
That's an odd thing to realize and say, huh?
I guess it's that they are retired and free. Kids never feel free because they are under the control of their parents. Parents are under the control of their bosses or their own concepts of what they “have to” do. When you get older you can let go of that. You can finally be happy to just be alive every day. You take it easy because you have to take it easy. You watch things unfold, you allow yourself to unfold with them, and to accept things as they are.
I was reading a site about how to deal with cardiac disease and how to recover from heart attacks. It made me feel better. I don't know why exactly but reading that I need to take it easy, take my walks, eat my veggies, limit my stressoes, and not over do it just felt good all over to read. The article was geared towards older people. Pictures of them smiling on the page made me smile, too.
I had such a huge fear of death before. It started when I was about 4 and my 19 year old uncle died. Then I repressed it a while, believed I was invincible, which is easy to believe when you are young, but then it came back worse than ever after I had kids. When you birth you predecessors you realize your own mortality. Turning 30 seems to do it too at least to a lot of my friends.
I did not and would not accept that I would die. Part of the appeal of ascension was that I used to think it would make us immortal in THIS incarnation. My body is not going to become immortal. This body will die. And I am okay with that, at least to a certain extent. I'd like to grow old with my husband. I'd like to be together when the stresses of everyday life slow down. I'd like to be a grandma. But I am okay with knowing death will come.
On the pole, I think that would put me up at least 6-8 inches.
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15 Mar 2012 - 6:08pm
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Time to Get Serious
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ASHTAR
Channeled Through Janisel
My Dearest Friends.... I come to assure you that things are as they should be. There are great amounts of energy bombarding your Earth at this time and everything is being greatly accelerated. NOW is the time for 'focus'. You who are the bridges between Heaven and Earth are the 'hands and feet' of the Command, so to speak. It is through you that much of our work is done. As I said, much has been accelerated and, although we wish you to remain in a state of joy and lightheartedness, it is now time to put your 'work' in its proper perspective and concentrate on the mission at hand. We are working very diligently to gather the Lightworkers together in order to prepare the general population for what is to come.
This means that each and every one of you are needed at this time to make a commitment in your own heart as to what role you will play in this. In other words, it is time to get serious. We are not asking you to give your lives over to the Ashtar Command exclusively, for you each have many missions and sub-missions that you are here to accomplish. What we are asking, however, is that for those of you who feel your connection to us to band together, so to speak, in order to establish and implement certain 'activities' towards the goals which have been set before us. You have shown that you can do this numerous times, such as in the planting of the crystals and the activation of the grid. This was an excellent example of the Unity we wish for you to achieve, and our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who have participated in this project. Rest assured there will be other projects we will ask you to work on. For the time being, we are asking you to continue in this Unity, and stay focused on the tasks at hand.
Do not let yourselves become 'bogged down' in the mundane affairs of your day-to-day activities. We wish for those of you who are aligned with the Command and its work to use this wonderful email forum to interact with each other in manifesting this bond of Unity. You are held within the gentle hand of All That Is and encircled with the energy of Unconditional Love of such depths that your present consciousness can not truly comprehend its magnitude. We of the Command and the Spiritual Hierarchy are working most diligently to help you and all mankind reach their full potential. As a 'return energy exchange', we ask each of you to now search your hearts and decide what it is that you are capable and willing to do in partnership with us. For you see, we are truly in a partnership in which each and every one must play their part. NOW is the time to begin. NOW is the time to decide your focus.
NOW is the time to dedicate yourselves to the work at hand. We need your hands, we need your feet, we need your voice, we ask your commitment. To paraphrase the words of The Most Radiant One, spoken so long ago, "it is time to be about the Father's business". There is no longer the luxury of time to be spent in petty pursuits, bickering, judgment, or anger. Your time, which we have worked towards for eons, is at hand. Know that, even though you may not see us in your skies, we are most definitely close to you, and send you our deepest blessings and love.
Your Friend and Brother,
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12 Mar 2012 - 5:50pm
Since I have studied Hypnosis and have learned some interesting facts about it, and quite a few people in the general public have misconceptions about it, I thought that I would help to clear up those misconceptions, because Hypnosis is a very powerful tool in overcoming many of life's challenges.
According to Certified Hypnotherapist, Heather Williams, the following are some common misconceptions about Hypnosis:
1. It is often thought that Hypnosis is sleep, because your eyes are closed during a Hypnosis session. Hypnosis is NOT sleep. You are awake during Hypnosis. Your mind is actually in a heightened state of awareness during Hypnosis. In fact, you are able to access information from your subconscious mind and your higher mind through Hypnosis that you generally do not have access to.
2. People often fear that they might not be able to awaken from Hypnosis. You are NOT asleep during Hypnosis. There has never been a documented case of someone who has not come out of Hypnosis.
3. It is often thought that Hypnosis is dangerous and can harm your mind. Hypnosis is similar to when you are watching a movie and are engrossed in it or when you are engrossed in a book that you are reading. We go into a similar state several times throughout the day naturally. It actually strengthens your mind and concentration.
4. People often think that Hypnosis is related to the Occult and Dark Arts. This is totally false. Hypnosis is a SCIENCE that is practiced by many reputable professions. Its use in medicine was approved by the British Medical Association in 1955 and by the American Medical Association in 1958. It is also approved and endorsed by the American Dental Association and the American Psychological Association.
5. People often think that they cannot be hypnotized. Actually, there are only 4 types of people who cannot be hypnotized, and they are:
- Mentally challenged people
- Small children with short attention spans
- People who are under the influence of alcohol
- People who think that they cannot be hypnotized or do not want to be hypnotized.
I have used Self-Hypnosis for everything from healing myself and others, exploring my past lives, astral travel, visiting loved ones who have passed away, accessing my Akashic Records, meeting my spirit guide, to holding meetings with the Archangels and Ascended Masters, and for many other issues.
According to Clinical Care Network in Warren, Michigan, the following are some of the most common issues that Hypnosis has been successfully used for:
- Stopping smoking
- Losing weight and weight management
- Controlling and eliminating pain
- Eliminating fears and phobias
- Improving self esteem
- Controlling and eliminating stress and anxiety
- Accelerating learning (easy learning, test taking, and memory recall, etc.)
- Improving sports performance
- Improving creativity
- Changing unwanted behaviors
- Past Life Regression
According to Clinical Care Network, the following are some other areas in which Hypnosis is used successfully:
- To help people get comfortable during M.R.I. procedures
- To help people feel comfortable about getting blood work done
- To minimize and/or alleviate side effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation
- To alleviate anxiety and comfort before and after surgery
- Hypno-birthing (To help mothers have a comfortable pregnancy)
- Hypnodontics (To help people eliminate fear, pain, etc. while at the dentist office)
Hypnosis has been used successfully in many more ways than this. This is only a small list. You may seek out a professional Hypnotherapist to help you with your issues, or you can do Self-Hypnosis. You can learn Self-Hypnosis through Hypnosis schools. Some require you to attend classes in a classroom, but there are also home study courses available. There are also many CD's and downloads available for specific issues that you may try.
Hypnosis is a valuable tool and a very beneficial healing modality that can improve our lives and bring awareness to us. It is simply a method of using relaxation and our mind to overcome issues. As they say, "mind over matter".
Copyright 2012, http://www.beyond3dbooks.com/hypnosis (the website that this material came from)
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8 Mar 2012 - 6:30pm
(I am speechless)
Artificial hamburger meat successfully grown in vat of bovine fetal cells; You want some fries with that?
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035020_artificial_meat_test_tube_hamburger.html#ixzz1oYFLLZiv
(NaturalNews) I'm not sure which is the more offensive way to create meat. There's the current "factory farm" method where masses of hormone-jacked, antibiotics-injected cows are kept confined in what can only be called bovine concentration camps while they're fed genetically modified corn, then slaughtered without compassion and subjected to diabolical meat-harvesting machinery that turns a cow carcass into corporate profits. On the other hand, there's the new method being touted across the media: Test tube hamburgers made from thin strips of meat grown in a nutrient vat laced with bovine fetus stem cells. Yumm!
The test tube meat strips actually pulsate and twitch during their laboratory growth phase, by the way, and they're ultimately ground up with strips of test tube fat grown in a similar way to produce a fatty hamburger-like substance. This has been accomplished by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who announced his team's results at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) yesterday.
Test tube meat is here to save the world!
"In October we are going to provide a proof of concept showing out of stem cells we can make a product that looks, feels and hopefully tastes like meat," says Mark Post at the announcement (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9091628/Test-tube-ham...). Of course, what does processed meat actually taste like anyway? MSG, sodium nitrite and processed salt, for the most part. So making lab-grown meat taste like today's factory-processed meat only requires the injection of a few additives into the growth culture. Imagine growing meat patties with MSG inside every cell!
Creating one hamburger will require 3,000 strips of meat, each just half a millimeter thick and grown in laboratory vats. Unlike a cow, which requires roughly two years to grow to the point of slaughter, a test tube burger can be produced in just six weeks.
The "benefits" of test tube hamburger production are being touted as substantial, including:
• More efficient conversion of plants to meat.
• Less environmental damage.
• More humane than killing animals.
• Is the only feasible way to feed more meat to the world.
Of course, they also said that GMOs would "feed the world." Bill Gates calls genetically modified foods "high-tech agriculture" now, with the strong implication that technology is always superior to Mother Nature (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=1EE22C52BA26FA296CFC8A0361571555). But I'm not so sure about that. In fact, this whole thing sounds more than a little creepy to me.
Test tube meat to feed the masses? Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
I'm skeptical any time technology claims to out-perform nature. Look what they've done with GMOs, chemical pesticides, vaccines, or nuclear power. In almost every case where "scientific progress" is touted as the solution for humankind, it ends up creating a nightmare that's far worse than the problem it was trying to solve.
For the record, I choose not to eat cow meat. I'm not a vegetarian, but I've been around lots of cows on farms, and I see cows as conscious, aware mammals who have memories, emotions, families and social structure. They are every bit as intelligent as horses, and most people would cringe at the idea of eating a horse burger.
However, in a survival situation, I would have no hesitation eating grass-fed beef if it were from a healthy farm source. In fact, my personal supply of preparedness foods consists of several bags of USDA organic grass-fed beef jerky made without MSG or sodium nitrite.
But when it comes to growing hamburgers out of stem cells in a petri dish, the whole thing just smacks a little too much of soylent green. How are we to know what they really put in the nutrient solution? Maybe it contains growth hormones to speed production. Maybe it's loaded with synthetic chemical vitamins instead of natural vitamins. Maybe it's contaminated with Prozac or fluoride to make us all feel happy and oblivious while we eat synthetic meat. How are we to know what they do with it?
Artificial meat monstrosity
And then, of course, it's only a matter of time before they start to genetically modify the test tube meat, perhaps using selected genes from the human genetic code to make the end product is more compatible with human biology while avoiding any risk of allergies. So then what do we have? Hybrid bovine / human meat.
...and a world full of cannibals who are eating something that's partially human flesh.
See, modern science has already proven itself to be a pathetic collection of truly insane megalomaniacs who will gladly splice the genes of animals and insects into crops so that they can create vaccine crops, or vaccine-carrying mosquitoes, or goats that produce spider silk, or some other kind of monstrosity that serves the power-tripping globalists.
And the marvel of modern-day fast food has already proven that people will eat anything marketed to them as food. Case in point? Chicken McNuggets. That's a hodge podge of industrial chemicals and so-called mechanically-separated chicken, which itself is a meat processing freak show. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032820_Chicken_McNuggets_ingredients.html)
So I guess if you set up a test tube meat lab, splice together a bunch of genes from various species (humans, cows, dogs, insects, ogres, possums and Janet Napolitano) and then grow a vat of some sort of convulsing fibrous tissue that can be made into a 99-cent hamburger, then the great masses will eat it! Who cares what the tissues are floating in, right? As long as it's offered with a combo meal that includes French fries and an aspartame-laced Diet Coke, people will chug it straight down while watching NBA games and declaring, "We're winning!"
No doubt test tube hamburger makers will tout their meat as being "Cruelty Free" by saying "No animals were killed in the harvesting of this meat." Maybe not, but how many humans will be killed in the consumption of it?
A mysterious financial supporter backs the entire thing
By the way, this whole freak show of artificial meat production is being financed by an "...anonymous and extremely wealthy benefactor who Prof Post claims is a household name with a reputation for 'turning everything into gold'."
I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that Bill Gates was behind it -- or someone similarly motivated by a global depopulation agenda.
Bottom line: Artificial meat may be an extraordinary idea, but given the total lack of ethics found in the scientific community today, I wouldn't trust these people any farther than I could hurl a cow chip.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035020_artificial_meat_test_tube_hamburger.html#ixzz1oYFFGkEg
http://www.naturalnews.com/035020_artificial_meat_test_tube_hamburger.html
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4 Mar 2012 - 12:57am
Uploaded by TheHealthRanger on 3 Feb 2012
The Health Ranger, Mike Adams, explains how studies in cell research have demonstrated the mechanism by which micro RNA from genetically engineered foods may alter organ function in humans.
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28 Feb 2012 - 5:13pm
i found this vid very interesting for anyone who has suffered from dp/dr. FOr me it has been chronic since i was a child and im always looking to find a better understanding. I overcame much of the fear during a kundalini awakening a few years ago.. and so i can relate to what she is saying about it being for testing of the soul.. This is just one point of view.. as i feel dp/dr has many reasons for its existence... :) hope it helps anyone who might have gone through dp/dr or is going through it. It is becoming more common... especially in teens.
Blog entry
23 Feb 2012 - 12:09pm
What are the most well known steps to better health?
Eat well.
Exercise.
Get more sleep.
Sound familiar?
How about Touch the earth?
Wait a second you say. Unless I have this whole gravity thing all wrong, I thought I was touching the earth.
Well you are, but not like you should be. It just so happens that humans are actually meant to touch the earth with our bare skin, and that doing so may be as fundamentally healthy for us as any other health promoting habits you’ve learned about along the way.
This fact may come as a surprise to most but traditional healthcare systems like Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine have promoted the health benefits of skin-to-skin contact with the earth for thousands of years. Now a growing body of evidence-based research is proving what those wise physicians knew all along.
When you touch the earth with your skin or through material that does not insulate you from its energy field (grounding or “Earthing”), you literally absorb electrons from its surface into your body. This process has many powerful effects on you, the details of which we have only recently begun to understand.
Here are three of the most important reasons why reconnecting with the earth everyday also keeps the doctor away...
1. Touching the earth is calming, reduces the effects of stress and can help you sleep.
Have you ever arrived at your favorite park or beach, taken your shoes off and felt a seemingly instantaneous sense of calm overtake you? You’ve probably never even thought twice about it. Being at the beach or in a park is just nice, so of course you feel calmer right? Well, there may be something more to it than that.
Recent research into the effects of grounding is showing that it leads to an increase in parasympathetic (calming) nervous system activity, and reduces sympathetic (stress-response) activity. The end result of this effect is that your entire body (not just your mind) calms down.
Beyond that, additional research into other parameters of stress has shown that grounding normalizes both cortisol secretion, a hallmark of stress activity in the body, and melatonin secretion, which is crucial for a good night’s sleep.
2. Touching the earth is anti-inflammatory.
Chronic inflammation is now understood to be a primary, causative factor in seven of the top ten leading causes of mortality in the United States. It is beyond the scope of this article to review the details of chronic inflammation, how and why it happens, but it is important to realize that chronic inflammation is not a good thing, and grounding yourself may be a simple way to reduce it, whatever the cause may be.
An inflammatory response in your body begins with the production of free radicals (electrically charged particles) in an injured area, which help prevent infection and stimulate the healing process. However, when an inflammatory response becomes chronic, the excessive free radical activity begins to damage healthy tissue in the surrounding area. Depending on the tissue in question, this process could result in cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis or one of many other types of chronic disease.
Grounding yourself, which saturates the healthy tissue in your body with negative electrons, creates a barrier through which these free radicals cannot pass, in turn protecting you from the outlying damage they would otherwise cause.
3. Touching the earth helps keep your blood flowing.
For blood to flow well through your veins, arteries and capillaries, the cells need to move freely amongst each other, and not get stuck together. To aid in this process the surface of your red blood cells all have a negative charge to them, known as a zeta potential, literally causing them to repel each other. The greater the negative charge is around your blood cells, the greater the zeta potential, and the better your blood will flow. The electrons you absorb from the earth’s surface are negatively charged and lead to a greater zeta potential, which is why touching the earth helps naturally thin your blood. This discovery has far-reaching implications for the field of cardiology, and some of the most cutting edge, brightest minds in it have begun to take notice.
Microscopic views of red blood cells before and after grounding (source):
Conclusion
There are many more reasons why reconnecting with the earth is good for you, some of which I’m sure have yet to even be discovered. Perhaps the most obvious explanation, however, is that it is simply natural.
With our technologically advanced world changing at such an astoundingly fast pace, it is easy to forget where we have come from and what our bodies are adapted to. I theorize in my own work with chronically ill people that many of them have become that way specifically because of how unnatural their lives have become. Time and again I see proof that, if they are willing and able to reintroduce simple, natural necessities like whole food, movement, sleep and reconnection with the earth into their lives, they get better.
So put your bare feet on the ground and reconnect, or find something similar that works for you.
Your body will thank you for it.
Published februari 17, by Dr. Daniel Chong
Source: Mindbodygreen.com
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16 Feb 2012 - 10:09pm
For our latest mission we constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, "Say Something Nice." The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. We wanted to see what would happen if New Yorkers were given the opportunity to amplify their voices to "say something nice." This project was produced by Improv Everywhere as part of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition stillspotting nyc.
http://improveverywhere.com/2011/08/22/say-something-nice/
Blog entry
5 Feb 2012 - 4:49am
I am aspiring to be a in the medical profession of naturopathic medicine,
and was hoping if anyone here would like to give me tips, advices, opinions...:)
it would greatly be appreciated ^_^
thankyou so much for your time :)
making the world a better place...aspiring to my dreams ^_^
Love you all,
namaste...Pai :D
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31 Jan 2012 - 7:36am
Gardening is where our hearts root within the soil of Earth. When one takes the path of the gardener there are many different paths that can be found while digging within the Earth. One path that my mother and I have found great joy in, is the ability to be able to take the oils from the plants and make lotions and salves and many other interesting things to add the healing properties from plants and flowers to our human journey. Gardening and studying the Essential Oils of plants and how they can help us in our everyday lives is something that every human should have the knowledge and ability to understand. We are sharing our knowledge and research with all our family and friends here.
I have been gardening with my parents my whole life and i have been exploring the area of how plants and herbs help your mind body and even your soul. Our journey is full of ups and downs and i feel that we all should have knowledge of our plant kingdom and the magic in which they share with us. Come and take a peaceful stroll in our virtual garden full of pathways of helpful plants that are waiting to offer their assistance.
Thanks for the support Shelly <3 <3 <3
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Blog entry
17 Jan 2012 - 1:33pm
I have had vertigo for three days. Can't sleep. Today EXTREME HEADACHE. Get really dizzy when I stand and feel very sick.
Anyone else having vertigo?
Sofeia
Blog entry
13 Jan 2012 - 9:42am
Sorry this is a bit long,but it makes you realise just how well Mother Nature looks after us XX
A sliced CARROT looks like the human eye - the pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...
and science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and functioning of
the eyes ....
A TOMATO has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers.
All the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food....
GRAPES hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like
a blood cell and research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and
blood vitalizing food ...
A WALNUT looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrum and
lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex.
We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function....
KIDNEY BEANS actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes,
they look exactly like the human kidneys....
CELERY,BOK CHOI and RHUBARB look just like bones.
These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium.
If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak.
These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.....
EGGPLANT,AVOCADO and PEARS target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female -
they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week,
it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers.
And how about this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to
ripened fruit.....
FIGS are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow.
Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm cells
to overcome male sterility.....
SWEET POTATOES look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics....
OLIVES assist the health and function of the ovaries....
GRAPEFRUITS,ORANGES and OTHER CITRUS FRUITS look just like the mammary glands
of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of
Lymph in and out of the breasts .....
ONIONS look like body cells........ Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes...
So now we know exactly what we SHOULD be eating and why!! X
HAPPY HEALTHY WEEKEND EVERYONE ! ~
Blog entry
13 Jan 2012 - 6:49am
Hey dearest friends,
Do you think that sometimes you are going insane - or are you experiencing a 'Spiritual Emergency'??? The following video may shed some light on this question - and define the difference between the two. Like me, I think many of you will be relieved to hear this information lol.
Much love to you all
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Blog entry
22 Dec 2011 - 3:44pm
“This is a human form in which every divine entity, every divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest.... Do not allow doubt to distract you; if you only install, in the altar of your heart, steady faith in my Divinity, you can win the vision of my Reality. Instead, if you swing like the pendulum of a clock, one moment towards devotion and another towards doubt, you can never succeed in comprehending the truth and win that bliss. You are very fortunate that you have a chance to experience the bliss of the vision of the Sarvadaivathwa swaroopam (the form that is all forms of the Gods) now, in this life itself.”
- Bhagawan Baba’s Discourse on 17th May 1968 in Mumbai
On the occasion of the World Conference of
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organizations.
Reference: “Sathya Sai Speaks”, Vol.- VIII. Chapter – 19. Page: 99-100
Blog entry
16 Dec 2011 - 10:10am
Monday my beautiful wife said she'd tweaked her back. Monday night was spent moaning, screaming, some cussing. WE went to the chiropractor on tuesday and the xray revealed a kidney stone. Wednesday to the nurse practicioner to get some DRUGS (muscle relaxers, pain med)--well that helped some.
Anyway, our diagnosis is kidney stone all the way. At this point, it's either pass it or go in for some "proceedure."
Besides all that powerful lightworker stuff (energy, prayers, love) I could use some firsthand advice on how to ease this process for her.
She got sick to her stomach last night, and we were worried it may be indicative of blockage, BUT we ceased on the pain med, she is keeping some toast and green tea down. YES, I have the cranberry juice, tons of water, love.
I just thought I would throw this out to see if any of you have experiential knowledge of this process. I would so much rather feel that pain than have to sit with her as she goes through it.
Thank you, in advance.
Shine Bright.
Blog entry
1 Dec 2011 - 8:45pm
Consumer Reports: Arsenic in fruit juices
http://www.9news.com/news/article/233051/188/Consumer-Reports-Arsenic-in-fruit-juices
http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/magazine-articles/January%202012/Consumer%20Reports%20Arsenic%20Test%20Results%20January%202012.pdf
KUSA - Arsenic has long been recognized as a poison and a contaminant in drinking water, but now concerns are growing about arsenic in foods, especially in fruit juices that are a mainstay for children.
Controversy over arsenic in apple juice made headlines as the school year began when Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of "The Dr. Oz Show," told viewers that tests he'd commissioned found 10 of three dozen apple-juice samples with total arsenic levels exceeding 10 parts per billion (ppb). There's no federal arsenic threshold for juice or most foods, though the limit for bottled and public water is 10 ppb. The Food and Drug Administration, trying to reassure consumers about the safety of apple juice, claimed that most arsenic in juices and other foods is of the organic type that is "essentially harmless."
But an investigation by Consumer Reports shows otherwise. Our study, including tests of apple and grape juice (download a PDF of our complete test results), a scientific analysis of federal health data, a consumer poll, and interviews with doctors and other experts, finds the following:
•Roughly 10 percent of our juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen.
•One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA's bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice.
•Apple and grape juice constitute a significant source of dietary exposure to arsenic, according to our analysis of federal health data from 2003 through 2008.
•Children drink a lot of juice. Thirty-five percent of children 5 and younger drink juice in quantities exceeding pediatricians' recommendations, our poll of parents shows.
•Mounting scientific evidence suggests that chronic exposure to arsenic and lead even at levels below water standards can result in serious health problems.
•Inorganic arsenic has been detected at disturbing levels in other foods, too, which suggests that more must be done to reduce overall dietary exposure.
•Our findings have prompted Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, to urge the FDA to set arsenic and lead standards for apple and grape juice. Our scientists believe that juice should at least meet the 5 ppb lead limit for bottled water. They recommend an even lower arsenic limit for juice: 3 ppb.
"People sometimes say, 'If arsenic exposure is so bad, why don't you see more people sick or dying from it?' But the many diseases likely to be increased by exposure even at relatively low levels are so common already that its effects are overlooked simply because no one has looked carefully for the connection," says Joshua Hamilton, Ph.D., a toxicologist specializing in arsenic research and the chief academic and scientific officer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
As our investigation found, when scientists and doctors do look, the connections they've found underscore the need to protect public health by reducing Americans' exposure to this potent toxin.
Many sources of exposure
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that can contaminate groundwater used for drinking and irrigation in areas where it's abundant, such as parts of New England, the Midwest, and the Southwest. See the map from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showing test results of arsenic levels in groundwater throughout the United States.
The public's exposure to arsenic extends beyond those areas because since 1910, the United States has used roughly 1.6 million tons of it for agricultural and other industrial uses. About half of that cumulative total has been used since only the mid-1960s. Lead-arsenate insecticides were widely used in cotton fields, orchards, and vineyards until their use was banned in the 1980s. But residues in the soil can still contaminate crops.
For decades, arsenic was also used in a preservative for pressure-treated lumber commonly used for decks and playground equipment. In 2003 that use was banned, (as was most residential use) but the wood can contribute to arsenic in groundwater when it's recycled as mulch.
Other sources of exposure include coal-fired power plants and smelters that heat arsenic-containing ores to process copper or lead. Today the quantity of arsenic released into the environment in the United States by human activities is three times more than that released from natural sources, says the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
The form of arsenic in the examples above is inorganic arsenic. It's a carcinogen known to cause bladder, lung, and skin cancer in people and to increase risks of cardiovascular disease, immunodeficiencies, and type 2 diabetes.
The other form that arsenic takes is organic arsenic, created when arsenic binds to molecules containing carbon. Fish can contain an organic form of arsenic called arsenobetaine, generally considered nontoxic to humans. But questions have been raised about the human health effects of other types of organic arsenic in foods, including juice.
Use of organic arsenic in agricultural products has also caused concern. For instance, the EPA in 2006 took steps to stop the use of herbicides containing organic arsenic because of their potential to turn into inorganic arsenic in soil and contaminate drinking water. And in 2011, working with the FDA, drug company Alpharma agreed to suspend the sale of Roxarsone, a poultry-feed additive, because it contained an organic form of arsenic that could convert into inorganic arsenic inside the bird, potentially contaminating the meat. Or it could contaminate soil when chicken droppings are used as fertilizer. Other arsenic feed additives are still being used.
What our tests found
We went shopping in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York in August and September, buying 28 apple juices and three grape juices. Our samples came from ready-to-drink bottles, juice boxes, and cans of concentrate. For most juices, we bought three different lot numbers to assess variability. (For some juices, we couldn't find three lots, so we tested one or two.) In all, we tested 88 samples.
Five samples of apple juice and four of grape juice had total arsenic levels exceeding the 10 ppb federal limit for bottled and drinking water. Levels in the apple juices ranged from 1.1 to 13.9 ppb, and grape-juice levels were even higher, 5.9 to 24.7 ppb. Most of the total arsenic in our samples was inorganic, our tests showed.
As for lead, about one fourth of all juice samples had levels at or above the 5-ppb limit for bottled water. The top lead level for apple juice was 13.6 ppb; for grape juice, 15.9 ppb.
The following brands had at least one sample of apple juice that exceeded 10 ppb: Apple & Eve, Great Value (Walmart), and Mott's. For grape juice, at least one sample from Walgreens and Welch's exceeded that threshold. And these brands had one or more samples of apple juice that exceeded 5 ppb of lead: America's Choice (A&P), Gerber, Gold Emblem (CVS), Great Value, Joe's Kids (Trader Joe's), Minute Maid, Seneca, and Walgreens. At least one sample of grape juice exceeding 5 ppb of lead came from Gold Emblem, Walgreens, and Welch's. Our findings provide a spot check of a number of local juice aisles, but they can't be used to draw general conclusions about arsenic or lead levels in any particular brand. Even within a single tested brand, levels of arsenic and lead sometimes varied widely. To see our complete test results for all 88 samples, download this PDF.
Arsenic-tainted soil in U.S. orchards is a likely source of contamination for apples, and finding lead with arsenic in juices that we tested is not surprising. Even with a ban on lead-arsenate insecticides, "we are finding problems with some Washington state apples, not because of irresponsible farming practices now but because lead-arsenate pesticides that were used here decades ago remain in the soil," says Denise Wilson, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Washington who has tested apple juices and discovered elevated arsenic levels even in brands labeled organic.
Over the years, a shift has occurred in how juice sold in America is produced. To make apple juice, manufacturers often blend water with apple-juice concentrate from multiple sources. For the past decade, most concentrate has come from China (PDF). Concerns have been raised about the possible continuing use of arsenical pesticides there, and several Chinese provinces that are primary apple-growing regions are known to have high arsenic concentrations in groundwater.
A much bigger test than ours would be needed to establish any correlation between elevated arsenic or lead levels and the juice concentrate's country of origin. Samples we tested included some made from concentrate from multiple countries including Argentina, China, New Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey; others came from a single country. A few samples solely from the United States had elevated levels of lead or arsenic, and others did not. The same was true for samples containing only Chinese concentrate.
The FDA has been collecting its own data to see whether it should set guidelines to continue to ensure the safety of apple juice, a spokeswoman told us.
The Juice Products Association said, "We are committed to providing nutritious and safe fruit juices to consumers and will comply with limits established by the agency."
Answering a crucial question
We also wanted to know whether people who drink juice end up being exposed to more arsenic than those who don't.
So we commissioned an analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics. Information is collected on the health and nutrition of a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population, based on interviews and physical exams that may include a blood or urine test. Officials and researchers often use the data to determine risk factors for major diseases and develop public health policy. In fact, data on lead in the blood of NHANES participants were instrumental in developing policies that have successfully resulted in lead being removed from gasoline.
Our analysis was led by Richard Stahlhut, M.D., M.P.H., an environmental health researcher at the University of Rochester with expertise in NHANES data, working with Consumer Reports statisticians. Ana Navas-Acien, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, also provided guidance. She was the lead author of a 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (PDF) that first linked low-level arsenic exposure with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the United States.
Stahlhut reviewed NHANES data from 2003 through 2008 from participants tested for total urinary arsenic who reported their food and drink consumption for 24 hours the day before their NHANES visit. Because most ingested arsenic is excreted in urine, the best measure of recent exposure is a urine test.
Following Navas-Acien's advice, we excluded from our NHANES analysis anyone with results showing detectable levels of arsenobetaine, the organic arsenic in seafood. That made the results we analyzed more likely to represent inorganic arsenic, of greatest concern in terms of potential health risks.
The resulting analysis of almost 3,000 study participants found that those reporting apple-juice consumption had on average 19 percent greater levels of total urinary arsenic than those subjects who did not, and those who reported drinking grape juice had 20 percent higher levels. The results might understate the correlation between juice consumption and urinary arsenic levels because NHANES urinary data exclude children younger than 6, who tend to be big juice drinkers.
"The current analysis suggests that these juices may be an important contributor to dietary arsenic exposure," says Keeve Nachman, Ph.D., a risk scientist at the Center for a Livable Future and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, both at Johns Hopkins University. "It would be prudent to pursue measures to understand and limit young children's exposures to arsenic in juice."
Robert Wright, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard University who specializes in research on the effect of heavy-metals exposure in children, says that findings from our juice tests and database analysis concern him: "Because of their small size, a child drinking a box of juice would consume a larger per-body-weight dose of arsenic than an adult drinking the exact same box of juice. Those brands with elevated arsenic should investigate the source and eliminate it."
A chronic problem
Arsenic has been notoriously used as a poison since ancient times. A fatal poisoning would require a single dose of inorganic arsenic about the weight of a postage stamp. But chronic toxicity can result from long-term exposure to much lower levels in food, and even to water that meets the 10-ppb drinking-water limit.
A 2004 study of children in Bangladesh (PDF) suggested diminished intelligence based on test scores in children exposed to arsenic in drinking water at levels above 5 ppb, says study author Joseph Graziano, Ph.D., a professor of environmental health sciences and pharmacology at Columbia University. He's now conducting similar research with children living in New Hampshire and Maine, where arsenic levels of 10 to 100 ppb are commonly found in well water, to determine whether better nutrition in the United States affects the results.
People with private wells may face greater risks than those on public systems because they're responsible for testing and treating their own water. In Maine, where almost half the population relies on private wells, the USGS found arsenic levels in well water as high as 3,100 ppb.
And a study published in 2011 (PDF) in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examined the long-term effects of low-level exposure on more than 300 rural Texans whose groundwater was estimated to have arsenic at median levels below the federal drinking-water standard. It found that exposure was related to poor scores in language, memory, and other brain functions.
Chronic arsenic exposure can initially cause gastrointestinal problems and skin discoloration or lesions. Exposure over time, which the World Health Organization says could be five to 20 years, could increase the risk of various cancers and high blood pressure, diabetes, and reproductive problems.
Signs of chronic low-level arsenic exposure can be mistaken for other ailments such as chronic fatigue syndrome. Usually the connection to arsenic exposure is not made immediately, as Sharyn Duffy of Geneseo, N.Y., discovered. She visited a doctor in 2007 about pain and skin changes on the sole of her left foot. She was referred to a podiatrist and eventually received a diagnosis of hyperkeratosis, in which lesions develop or thick skin forms on the palms or soles of the feet. It can be among the earliest symptoms of chronic arsenic poisoning. But she says it was roughly two years before she was finally referred to a neurologist, who suggested testing for arsenic. She had double the typical levels.
"Testing for arsenic isn't part of a routine checkup," says Duffy, a retiree. "When you come in with symptoms like I had, ordering that kind of test probably wouldn't even occur to most doctors."
Michael Harbut, M.D., chief of the environmental cancer program at Karmanos Institute in Detroit, says, "Given what we know about the wide range of arsenic exposure sources we have in this country, I suspect there is an awful lot of chronic, low-level arsenic poisoning going on that's never properly diagnosed."
Emerging research suggests that when arsenic exposure occurs in the womb or in early childhood, it not only increases cancer risks later in life but also can cause lasting harm to children's developing brains and endocrine and immune systems, leading to other diseases, too.
Case in point: From 1958 through 1970, residents of Antofagasta, Chile, were exposed to naturally occurring arsenic in drinking water (PDF) that peaked at almost 1,000 ppb before an arsenic removal plant was installed. Studies led by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that people born during that period who had probable exposure in the womb and during early childhood had a lung-cancer death rate six times higher than those in their age group elsewhere in Chile. Their rate of death in their 30s and 40s from another form of lung disease was almost 50 times higher than for people without that arsenic exposure.
"Recent studies have shown that early-childhood exposure to arsenic carries the most serious long-term risk," says Joshua Hamilton of the Marine Biological Laboratory. "So even though reducing arsenic exposure is important for everyone, we need to pay special attention to protecting pregnant moms, babies, and young kids."
Other dietary exposures
In addition to juice, foods including chicken, rice, and even baby food have been found to contain arsenic-sometimes at higher levels than the amounts found in juice. Brian Jackson, Ph.D., an analytical chemist and research associate professor at Dartmouth College, presented his findings at a June 2011 scientific conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. He reported finding up to 23 ppb of arsenic in lab tests of name-brand jars of baby food, with inorganic arsenic representing 70 to 90 percent of those total amounts.
Similar results turned up in a 2004 study conducted by FDA scientists in Cincinnati, who found arsenic levels of up to 24 ppb in baby food, with sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, and peaches containing only the inorganic form. A United Kingdom study published in 2008 (PDF) found that the levels of inorganic arsenic in 20-ounce packets of dried infant rice cereals ranged from 60 to 160 ppb. Rice-based infant cereals are often the first solid food that babies eat.
Rice frequently contains high levels of inorganic arsenic because it is among plants that are unusually efficient at taking up arsenic from the soil and incorporating it in the grains people eat. Moreover, much of the rice produced in the U.S. is grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas, on land formerly used to grow cotton, where arsenical pesticides were used for decades.
"Initially, in some regions rice planted there produced little grain due to these arsenical pesticides, but farmers then bred a type of rice specifically designed to produce high yields on the contaminated soil," says Andrew Meharg, professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland. Meharg studies human exposures to arsenic in the environment. His research over the past six years has shown that U.S. rice has among the highest average inorganic arsenic levels in the world-almost three times higher than levels in Basmati rice imported from low-arsenic areas of Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Rice from Egypt has the lowest levels of all.
Infant rice cereal for the U.S. market is generally made from U.S. rice, Meharg says, but labeling usually doesn't specify country of origin. He says exposure to arsenic through infant rice cereals could be reduced greatly if cereal makers used techniques that don't require growing rice in water-flooded paddies or if they obtained rice from low-arsenic areas. His 2007 study (PDF) found that median arsenic levels in California rice were 41 percent lower than levels in rice from the south-central U.S.
Setting federal standards
Evidence of arsenic's ability to cause cancer and other life-threatening illnesses has surged because some of the diseases linked to it have latency periods of several decades. Only recently have scientists been able to more fully measure the effects in populations that were exposed to elevated levels of arsenic in drinking water many years ago.
The Environmental Protection Agency periodically revises its assessment of the toxicity of various chemicals to offer guidance on drinking-water standards. Based on such a review, the agency changed the water standard for arsenic to 10 ppb, effective in 2006, from the 50-ppb limit it set in 1975. The EPA had proposed a 5-ppb limit in 2000, so the current limit is a compromise that came only after years of haggling over the costs of removing arsenic. Since 2006, New Jersey has had a 5-ppb threshold, advising residents that water with arsenic levels above that shouldn't be used for drinking or cooking.
For known human carcinogens such as inorganic arsenic, the EPA assumes there's actually no "safe" level of exposure, so it normally sets exposure limits that include a margin of safety to ideally allow for only one additional case of cancer in a million people, or at worst, no more than one in 10,000. For water with 10 ppb of arsenic, the excess cancer risk is one in 500.
Debate over that standard is likely to begin anew. The agency's latest draft report, from February 2010, proposes that the number used to calculate the cancer risk posed by ingesting inorganic arsenic be increased 17-fold to reflect arsenic's role in causing bladder and lung cancer. The proposal "suggests that arsenic's carcinogenic properties have been underestimated for a long time and that the federal drinking-water standard is underprotective based on current science," says Keeve Nachman, the Johns Hopkins scientist.
Each year the FDA tests a variety of foods and beverages for arsenic and other contaminants. It also started a program in 2005 to test for specific toxins such as arsenic and lead in domestic and imported products. As of late November, that program had published results for 160 samples of apple juice and concentrate. And the agency can alert inspectors at U.S. ports to conduct increased surveillance for products suspected to pose risks. Currently there's an alert for increased surveillance of apple concentrate from China and six other countries "where we have a suspicion there may be high levels of arsenic in their products," says FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao. But in fiscal 2010, the agency conducted physical inspections of only 2 percent of imported food shipments. For more about the FDA's tests, read our update and download a PDF of our complete test results.
Consumers Union urges federal officials to set a standard for total arsenic in apple and grape juice. Our research suggests that the standard should be 3 ppb. Concerning lead, juice should at least meet the bottled-water standard of 5 ppb. Such standards would better protect children, who are most vulnerable to the effects of arsenic and lead. And they're achievable levels: 41 percent of the samples we tested met both thresholds.
Moreover, the EPA should impose stricter drinking-water standards for arsenic, Consumers Union believes. (The drinking-water threshold for lead is 15 ppb, which acknowledges that many older homes have water pipes or solder with lead.) Officials should also ban arsenic in pesticides, animal-feed additives, and fertilizers.
As our tests show, sources of lead haven't been eliminated, but dramatic progress has been made: Since the 1970s, average blood lead levels in children younger than 6 have dropped by about 90 percent, thanks to a federal ban on lead in house paint and gas. The U.S. should be equally aggressive with arsenic, suggests Joseph Graziano at Columbia University. "We tackled every source, from gasoline to paint to solder in food cans," he says, "and we should be just as vigilant in preventing arsenic from entering our food and water because the consequences of exposure are enormous for adults as well as children."
How much juice do children drink?
Too many children drink too much juice, according to our poll of parents. One in four toddlers 2 and younger and 45 percent of children ages 3 to 5 drink 7 or more ounces of juice a day. The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions that to help prevent obesity and tooth decay, children younger than 6 should drink no more than 6 ounces a day, about the size of a juice box. (Infants younger than 6 months shouldn't drink any.) The possible presence of arsenic or lead in juices is all the more reason to stick with those nutrition-based limits.
Our findings are from 555 telephone interviews in October with parents, who were asked about children's juice consumption the previous day.
Find out how much arsenic is in your groundwater
Arsenic can contaminate groundwater used for drinking and irrigation in areas where it is geologically abundant and in other areas where chemical conditions are likely to cause it to dissolve into water. Levels can vary widely throughout the United States, as illustrated in the map at right showing arsenic measurements for groundwater samples from about 31,000 wells and springs in 49 states compiled by the USGS.
Orange or red symbols on the map indicate areas where samples contained arsenic at levels exceeding the federal limit of 10 micrograms per liter, or 10 parts per billion (ppb) for public drinking water.
Public-water-supply systems are required to treat water that tests high in arsenic so that it meets federal limits before delivering it to consumers. And in New Jersey, public water systems must meet an even stricter limit of 5 ppb. But if you have a private well rather than a public system, you are responsible for testing and treating it.
To learn more about why it's so important to reduce your exposure to even relatively low levels of arsenic in your drinking water, check out this helpful video produced by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program. And for tips on how to get your water tested and how to select a home treatment system, read "Ways to Reduce Your Family's Risk."
The 31,000 groundwater samples represented in this map were collected for studies on potable groundwater resources by the USGS, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Texas Water Development Commission, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the six New England states. Estimation of the arsenic concentration in groundwater in any specific area must consider the following limitations and sources of variability:
•The data include a variety of well types, including private wells, public-supply wells, and monitoring wells not used for water supply.
•These groundwater samples do not represent drinking water served by public-water-supply systems because these utilities may treat or mix groundwater with high arsenic concentrations from individual wells with water containing lower arsenic levels in order to meet drinking water standards before delivering it to consumers.
•The appearance of the arsenic distribution is influenced by the order in which wells are plotted. In this map, wells with higher concentrations are drawn on top of those with more moderate concentrations. This overplotting may exaggerate the frequency of high values in areas where wells are close together. But given the risks posed by arsenic exposure, we opted in favor of making areas with elevated arsenic visible whenever possible to encourage private well owners in those areas to test and treat their water to reduce exposure risks.
•Arsenic concentration may vary with depth within the same aquifer, or between aquifers that are stacked vertically-for example, a shallow sand and gravel aquifer can overlie a deeper bedrock aquifer. The map does not show the vertical distribution of arsenic.
•Many of the wells were sampled more than once, but evaluation of the data indicates that there is no relation between arsenic concentration and time tested for most of the wells.
With these qualifications in mind, the data above provides an estimate of arsenic occurrence in the groundwater resource in general. Visit the USGS for additional information on the studies behind the map, along with more detailed maps for various portions of the country.
Ways to reduce your family's risk
Test your water. If your home or a home you're considering buying isn't on a public water system, have the home's water tested for arsenic and lead. To find a certified lab, contact your local health department or call the federal Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791. You can get information for your public-water system from the EPA.
Limit children's juice consumption. Nutrition guidelines set by the American Academy of Pediatrics can help. The academy recommends that infants younger than 6 months shouldn't drink juice; children up to 6 years old should consume no more than four to six ounces a day and older children, no more than 8 to 12 ounces a day. Diluting juice with distilled or purified water can help meet those goals.
Consider your food. Buying certified organic chicken makes sense because organic standards don't allow the use of chicken feed containing arsenic. But for juice and other foods, it's not so certain. Organic standards prohibit the use of synthetic fertilizers and most pesticides, but organic juices still may contain arsenic if they're made from fruit grown in soil where arsenical insecticides were used.
Need a home-treatment system? Contact NSF International (800-673-8010) for info on systems certified to lower arsenic levels to no more than 10 ppb. The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension discusses treatment technologies; click on "Removal of Arsenic from Household Water."
If you're concerned, get tested. Ask your doctor for a urine test for you or your child to determine arsenic levels. Don't eat seafood for 48 to 72 hours before being tested to avoid misleadingly high levels from "fish arsenic." For a medical toxicologist in your area who can interpret results, call the American Association of Poison Control Centers at 800-222-1222.
(Copyright © 2011 Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
Blog entry
1 Dec 2011 - 2:59am
"Here's another swish you wish I'd swallow." ~Fiona Apple
Someone made a comment about how white my teeth are after I posted the last blog about hearing commercials in my dreams. If you want to support the corporate beast then by Sunflower Oil. Eventually we will all stop doing things that cause imbalance in the first place and warrant a cure. The body heals itself, it just needs help depending upon how badly we screw it up.
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Swish a tablespoon of Sunflower or Sesame oil in the morning before breakfast between your teeth and all through your mouth, with you saliva. This will draw toxins out activating enzymes that draw toxins out of the blood. It fastens loose teeth and whitens them. DO NOT SWALLOW. Spit it out when it is thin and white in appearance rinsing with water.
"According to Dr. Kurich, A Ukrainian physician. . . this treatment will achieve remarkable results with illnesses like migraine headaches, bronchitis, diseased teeth, arterio thrombosis, chronic blood disorders such as leukemia, arthritis and related illnesses, neuro physiological paralysis, eczema, gastro enteritis, peritonitis, heart disease, kidney disease, meningitis, and women’s hormonal disorders are completely eliminated from the organism. The benefit of Dr. Karach's method is that the oil therapy heals the whole body in perpetuity. In terminal diseases such as cancer, aids and chronic infections this treatment method has been shown to achieve astonishing results."
Blog entry
24 Nov 2011 - 10:14am
~Seeing Through The Eyes Of A Rapist And Going Into The Mind Of An Online Predator~
Several months ago I began to converse with someone by the name of agnostos theos aka John Joel White and I did not have any idea what it would bring. It began as any random online connection . The first three times we spoke it was great. I saw it as a budding romance. But it quickly turned into something else. As a guide of enlightenment I know when the universe is asking me serve as a conduit of the divine . As he opened up to me he trusted me. He told me about his use of drugs, mainly marijuana. I saw this as something I did not want to be around and quickly pushed the block button .
However remembering my own past I realized there was a deeper meaning and perhaps my message could shed some light on to this man. So a month later I unblocked him and as I let down my own walls I soon experienced how many I would have to let down and all the great healings I would go through learning of this mans inner hell. I have to admit at times I was “sucked in”. my guard was down and at the same time up.
He was charming and mysterious and gave the “impression” he would grow and change. As I delved deeper I knew he was “enthralled” with me. He would say things like ‘I knew you were coming”. he told me that when we first spoke. He tried “have” me “ believe” I was destined for him. He would use every tactic. He “used” my spirituality to get close to me at first. He said “ you’re my female mirror”. He would make me “believe” he was truly interested.
But he had no idea I was studying his every move and at the same time learning what he truly was. Building wisdom and empowerment. As weeks went on he opened up more. One night he admitted his deepest darkest side. He admitted he was a “rapist”. after he admitted this I took a deep reality check and asked myself ,”do I still want to converse with this man?”
The answer was , “yes”. why? You may ask. Because for the first time in me I was given a chance to confront my own inner demon. I found healing and release through showing this, worst of all beasts in my eyes. “love” and “acceptance”.
He showed remorse. However examined was the tendency was still there and I learned how better to keep your demon in control then facing it . I fell in love with it. I grew to love to understand what I was once repulsed by.
This man was a the figment of every horror I lived and every eternal summer I had now been served. I had been served inner peace and release. I had manifested within myself no fear of men. I had manifested my inner goddess .
As months went on after that I blocked him again because I felt he had served his purpose in my life and mine in his. However I was wrong. In late august I again opened the door to this man . As from learning months earlier I studied his every detail . I learned he loved porn. He Was unemployed and severely rejected in the past. Bi-polar and flew into intense rage when confronted with rejection. He stalked me ,called constantly those first months. He would also assume the role of the “victim”. I conclude in my experience he did this because he knew women would feel compassion for him and being the loving being I am I was not aware then or didn’t see it. This enticed him more.
He once asked me when we first spoke what I look for in a man . I told him . He would then “assume” the identity of my “ideal”. he would play on that “ideal” to be “ideal” in my eyes. I conclude he assumed this role to build rapport to further “try” to take it deeper making it harder to “break away”. He knew what he was doing and though at the time I did not I soon would. He would use that approach and play on those personal preferences to try and “bond” even closer.
But if you look at the flip side which now is completely visible. This man had no identity of his own, low self esteem and a “longing” for closeness to a women and in his head he was so desperate from being rejected in a past relationship he had fallen and would now go to any selfish means that please only him to get what he “wanted”. so I came to see he had no “remorse” for his actions. He was “spiritually impotent”. I then witnessed a diabolical spirit.
I then became clever myself. I kept him at bay. One night he spoke, ”your good at keeping stalkers at bay”. fully aware I knew I had one I didn’t run. I embraced it . I was eager to understand the mind of a rapist and see through the eyes of this, an online predator. He had no idea. Brewing memories from the past would arise but I gave no heed to these because i had already found my peace within and was ready to confront the rapist itself ,I wanted to learn more how they operate to share this with other women and bring further awareness so other women to can spot one and know what to do and the proper actions to take to avoid getting involved. As I took a while to put the puzzle together. But this is it. After taking this experience on I can now share with other women what to look for in “unsuitable” male choices. I also came to realize it is okay to accept to reject someone when they are this type of person.
He would use guilt after I blocked him making me “feel bad” for doing so. Trying to play on every inner personal trigger. He enjoys that . He will learn your weaknesses and try to play on them. But I have to say the more he would play in my weaknesses as he knew them it only made me stronger because by taking pro-active growth in my self and learning not to let those weaknesses get to me they disappear and then he could no longer play on them.
So it became more difficult for him . He called it “a labor of love” trying to keep up with me. In the end I exhausted him because the he could no longer use guilt, my weight, my spirit or my jealousy . But that last jealousy attempt was the most funny of all. Because it showed me his “true” face.
A few recent weeks ago a lady who shall remain nameless out of respect willingly messaged me. I never asked her to. She told me how he was going around saying he was her boyfriend”. she said he was lying and I have no reason to doubt this women after she willingly came to me to tell me. She told me he used tried to tell her husband would kill her if she didn’t leave her abusive relationship. Be it that is probably right. But there’s no point going from one abuse to another. From observance he clearly used fear to try to get her to “come’ to him. Another thing he plays on with women to tries and he truly snapped when this anonymous women rejected him. He flipped into fantasy mode and tried to use me as a conduit to dramatize his fantasy into it being true to him. That is his fantasy of “her coming to him”.
He even went as far to use family in for thanksgiving to give “life” to his fantasy to try to have me believe’ it was true. From his actions I examined the following in his modus operandi.
He tries to play on the jealousy I no longer have as his modus operandi to have “power reassurance” and “confirm” his fantasy. without having that he is powerless .
He tries to exert power over his intended victim by thinking he can play on their insecurities . He is bored and feeling helpless deep inside hurt from rejection and needs to “feel” he has power so he plays out his dramatization by calling me to try and get a “rush” of having control to “feel” he is not helpless to the rejection . Instead of redirecting his anger at the actual perpetrator he goes after the one he “thinks” will be most vulnerable by trying to full fill a “rejection feeling” in his “target“. The one who delivered his rejection originally does not give heed to his dramatizations. So he uses other women as conduits to his drama to make his fantasy seem “real” .
His newest “target” quickly catches on . She then takes the following approach being armed with studying his mind and behavior for months the following character is drawn.
Witnessed is he plays out his delusion to the “target” dramatizing that he is with a mate or his original rejecter and she is there in physical with him together. He then calls on the phone , he is “trying” to “ring” in his target because at this point his rejection is killing him and he needs “validation “ of his own “personal power “ and “inner control”. at that point the needs that “validation” because he is feeling ‘helpless” to the rejection he originally got .
to counteract his need for control simply ignore him giving him no power over me and letting him know he does not rule me. this fives me empowerment. in return rendering him to face his reality. eventually he will snap and go to rage because he can't full fill his need for power. calls will be more frequent . he stalk online . he will go crazy and all because his need to exert power over his intended victim was not full filled. in return he will eventually learn he holds no power over me and learn I don't buy his delusion and never will rendering him then to finally face his rejection. he is borderline personality disorder .
A normal man when with a women move son having no need to rehearse his drama because he is in reality. This man pretends to have a partner ,but it is not real because she is not with him in the physical. He cannot accept her rejection. So plays out his drama . For if the women he says had not rejected him he would have no need to call and play out his need for power by trying to antagonize and create jealousy upon me. So that’s we con conclude he is alone and desperate for control over a situation he feels out of control from.
He loves to try and torture his victim into submission for control and power. He will play on jealousy, personal insecurities , and has a driving hatred too for women who act as ”sluts”. he is driven and exited by those who show ”unwillingness”. the “unwilling” drives him mad. He is a stalker. He will follow his victim until he gets desired results “fulfilling” his fantasy for control. He tries to be charming. Other stories told from also those concerned for me have told me he has gone as far to drive a one girl so deep into depression she killed herself. The man who knew her personally told me.
This man and “admitted” rapist would go in chat rooms with extremely young girls some seventeen. He himself is thirty one. Talking to me he would exhibit the personality of someone clean and spiritually evolving and when undercover I saw a man raw with sexual deviance who glorified use of drugs and cocaine and weed. He has no remorse ,no care and no empathy. He glorifies living by apathy and indifference. He is a loner and extremely depressed. He constantly drinks.
This man is seriously ill and needs psychological help.
The night before last I was a channel for medium through his subconscious and it spoke volumes . He is deeply disconnected and my last attempt to awake him to see his delusion failed.
But all I have 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 a anytime feel uncomfortable feel free to cut off communication and clear ties . After personally being friends and taking this journey into the mind of a rapist and online predator this is what it is like to see through the eyes of a rapist and get into the mind of an online predator. Women be strong and never be afraid to SPEAK UP. I have and now what follows will be the work of gods intention in the matter.
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21 Nov 2011 - 12:51am
At a time when childhood obesity is epidemic and government wants
to hold parents responsible, congress slipped in a little provision
to a huge government spending bill that will declare pizza and
french fries as 'vegetables'.
Why? Well it's certainly not for the benefit of your children's
health. They're doing it to subvert school lunch program guidelines
to protect frozen 'food' sellers and allow them to continue selling
garbage to school cafeterias nationwide.
Of course, it's the parents who will still be held responsible for
childhood obesity...
House protects pizza as a vegetable
(Reuters) - The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza's status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children.
The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after the deep-pocketed food, beverage and restaurant industries successfully weakened government proposals for voluntary food marketing guidelines to children.
"It's an important victory," said Corey Henry, spokesman for the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI). That trade association lobbied Congress on behalf of frozen pizza sellers like ConAgra Foods Inc and Schwan Food Co and French
fry makers McCain Foods Ltd and J.R. Simplot Co, the latter best known as a supplier to fast-food company McDonald's Corp.
"Our concern is that the standards would force companies in many respects to change their products in a way that would make them unpalatable to students," Henry said.
Other AFFI members include H.J. Heinz Co, General Mills Inc and Kraft Foods Inc.
The school lunch provisions were a small part of a mammoth bill that provides money for all parts of the federal government. The House sent the bill to the Senate for final Congressional approval.
"They started out with French fries and now they have moved on to pizza," said Jared Polis, Colorado Democrat, who lamented the government's subsidy of unhealthy diets through school meals. "Pizza alone (without side dishes) ... common sense, it's not a vegetable."
read more:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-usa-lunch-idUSTRE7AH00020111118
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20 Nov 2011 - 9:06am
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In the 1990s, BBC showed a marvelous documentary on homeopathy.
It's an honest look at the topic and addresses the claim that it can't work because it's too implausible.
Then, it contrasts the claim with evidence that it does work, including studies performed by a doctor who had attempted to disprove it.
The film was recognized by the British Medical Association as being of such high quality that they gave it their "Medicine in Media" Gold Award, the highest they offer. The naysayers make claims that completely ignore the evidence, rather humorously debunking their own claims to being evidence-based.
Homeopaths would certainly agree that medicine must be evidence-based. This film shows why.
http://gaia-health.com/articles501/000506-homeopathy-medicine-magic.shtml
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It's just thinking not in molecules, but in energy.
Much love,
Johanna
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19 Nov 2011 - 9:16pm
I've learned that homeopathy works in treating anxiety disorders, depression, ADD, ADHD and more.
I was diagnosed with anxiety dosorder long time ago. I've tried Chinese herbal medicine for anxiety and depression from which I had psychosis and psychotic symptoms and inability to think clearly because the people who were prescriving those herbs did not have experience practicing it. I was hospitalized.
I decided to go and try Homeopathic medicine for treating anxiety. Lukily I found somebody in my area in Massachusettes that specialized in teating Anxiety with homeopatic medicine. They are FDA approved not that it makes a whole lot of difference but for those that are interested it is so. It does not work just for occasional anxiety but for anxiety all together. The problem with anxiety medications is that they make people tired, groggy and sleepy. I don't know if homeopatic medicine works for psychotic disorders, psychosis anxiety, schizoeffective disorder or schizofrenia, but if the need was arising I would try Naturopathic Medicine for those disorders becuase of the negative side effects of the traditional medicine. I just want to be able to work and function. Traditional medicine messes with my mind in such a way that I either sleep all day or can't sleep at all. It is important not to get off the traditional medicine on your own but have the doctor take you off given you have the alternative option in place. I think it would be good to speak with former patients of the alternative medicine doctor if he would ask permission to speak with them to see if there was success in doing so.
Hope this helped.
I am switching to all Homeopathic and Naturopathic Medicine from now on. Nevermind that its expensive. I'd probably make more money being healthy and able to work in the first place. All i know is that I have Faith and Confidence in it and that there is Hope. I certainly don't wan't to see the light at the end of the Tunnel after taking serotonin altering medications. It has been an instance of more then one time where medications took at least 7 months more and less for me to recover from side effects of the Traditional Medicine. All I know is that at this point I can not afford to gamble with life like this. The homeopathic practiotioner that I am yet to go to said that there is nothing that Homeopathy can not heal. It is a part of the Traditional Health care system in the United Kingdom. Think about it.
Here is a website that offers directories of naturopathic doctors in the alternative section. It doesn't have homeopathists. http://www.cchrint.org/alternatives/
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15 Nov 2011 - 11:02am
I practice the ancient art of healing - I am a Naturopath, a native American and a woman and mother. I do my work with joy and great honor for the service it provides to those interested in learning this art. I was crucified by a mentally ill client who used her illness to call attention to her plight and in the offing included me, as she was angry with me refusing to continue to work with her and her unwilling nature. She claimed I tried to kill her with my advice as it made her suicidal. AGAIN.
I went to court as a Naturopath, an aura reader and so forth to defend my work and my beliefs, it took all my strength and courage and money and I WON A MILLION DOLLARS!
Point of story - they are now finally listening!! We who have endeavored to be heard, to be included, now are getting what we have prayed for and dreamed of. As they described me - I am and always have been on the fringe. YUP, that's true, way out there, so to speak. Yet when we were finished the judge himself asked that I read his aura!!
To all of us here as Lightworkers and Angels and Et's and any one else here for the new Eden, stand up and speak your truth now, you are in the right place and this IS the right time!! Thanks Dr. Su
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5 Nov 2011 - 2:24pm
In this short quote from William LePar's spiritual source, The Council, they give some insight into what happens within the brain of someone who is about to have a psychic experience. Perhaps those of you who have had this kind of experience yourselves can elaborate on what The Council presents here.
Questioner: In Trance #12 you state that "psychic abilities are mere mechanical actions of the body." Can you explain how this is a mere physical action? What's the triggering device, etc.?
The quote is, "The psychic ability of an individual is a mere mechanical action of the body as is being discovered presently." And we wanted to know can you explain how this is a mere physical action and what is the triggering device, etc.?
The Council: The bringing into play of the psychic ability is brought about through, shall we say, what is called a short-circuiting of the two lobes of the brain. This is a physical action. If those that have the ability to investigate such things were to attempt to search this out they would begin to see this is a happening that is consistent. Now the short-circuiting which is the mechanical function is brought about not by the physical itself but is brought about by the attitude that is instigated. So then the triggering is nothing but being a physical action that is in reference to the short-circuiting of the right and left lobe of the brain. This short-circuiting is initiated by the attitude of the entity in question or the entity that wishes to manifest the psychic abilities. If one could truly understand the process involved, if one could truly explain it in words that would be understandable, if one would truly try to think out a psychic experience, what one would discover would be a, quick flash of the desire to do something psychically. Then there would be the short-circuiting of the two lobes of the brain that would then attune and sensitize the physical for reception. And if one could be so sensitive as to follow this whole process, there would be an instantaneous thought which would trigger the short-circuiting which would become apparent through a, shall we say, snap in the head or an intense expansion feeling and then the information would begin to flow.
Questioner: But why can't everyone do this? I've wanted and tried and nothing ever happens.
The Council: Some have chosen not to really use these natural abilities of the soul. And just because you physically feel that you want to do this, does not necessarily mean that deep within your soul you want to.
For more information about William LePar and The Council please view www.WilliamLePar.com
video
26 Oct 2011 - 5:22pm
Water is the most amazing yet least studied substance. From times immemorial, scientists, philosophers and theologians tried to understand its explicit and implicit properties, which are phenomenal, beyond the common physical laws of nature. The arguments expound upon unexpected and challenging assumptions enlightening many years of research to open humankind to new horizons, such as the applications of structured water in agriculture, or the use of water in treatment for the most serious diseases and more.
Water is so unique, and so profound, its miraculous properties are still awaiting to be discovered.
http://dreamsandrubies.blogspot.com/2011/10/water-great-mystery.html
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25 Oct 2011 - 2:21am
There was a blog posted today about urine therapy. I had never heard of this and so have been doing some reading on it. I found an article that says urine is 95% water and tht it is "structured water" at room temperature. Does anyone have any input to offer? They say it can cleanse the blood among a ton of other things and that even dark, cloudy, smelly urine will be "clean" within a few days. It can decrease blood clots too, again, among a hundred other things. Let me know what you think, Karen
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13 Oct 2011 - 6:26pm
Science and Spirituality eventually merge! German researches found out after the years of survey that cancer and other "fatal" ilnesses are reaction to stress amd conflict, and moreover -organim's a natural way to overcome stress and heal from shock. Death from cancer and other fatal diseases are cuased by FEAR, chemotherapy and medications! Here is the link: http://www.learninggnm.com
Remarkable quote from site:
<...>German New Medicine is a new paradigm of medicine, but it is also a new paradigm of consciousness. It is the awareness that our organism possesses an inexhaustible creativity and remarkable self-healing capabilities. It is also the recognition that each cell of our body is endowed with a biological wisdom we share with all living creatures.
For generations, the medical authorities have enslaved and imprisoned the human mind with a fear of diseases. The Five Biological Laws allow us to re-connect with Nature and to regain our trust in her creative and intelligent force. Thanks to Dr. Hamer's unfailing integrity and his dedicated research over the past three decades, we have now the key to become free of that fear.<...>
It could also mean,in my opinion, that any difficult situation in our lives is a process of healing.
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12 Oct 2011 - 1:37pm
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
By Steve Silberman 08.24.09
Photo: Nick Veasey
Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were about to expire, which would allow cheaper generics to flood the market. The company hadn't introduced a truly new product in three years, and its stock price was plummeting.
In interviews with the press, Edward Scolnick, Merck's research director, laid out his battle plan to restore the firm to preeminence. Key to his strategy was expanding the company's reach into the antidepressant market, where Merck had lagged while competitors like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline created some of the best-selling drugs in the world. "To remain dominant in the future," he told Forbes, "we need to dominate the central nervous system."
His plan hinged on the success of an experimental antidepressant codenamed MK-869. Still in clinical trials, it looked like every pharma executive's dream: a new kind of medication that exploited brain chemistry in innovative ways to promote feelings of well-being. The drug tested brilliantly early on, with minimal side effects, and Merck touted its game-changing potential at a meeting of 300 securities analysts.
Behind the scenes, however, MK-869 was starting to unravel. True, many test subjects treated with the medication felt their hopelessness and anxiety lift. But so did nearly the same number who took a placebo, a look-alike pill made of milk sugar or another inert substance given to groups of volunteers in clinical trials to gauge how much more effective the real drug is by comparison. The fact that taking a faux drug can powerfully improve some people's health—the so-called placebo effect—has long been considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology.
Ultimately, Merck's foray into the antidepressant market failed. In subsequent tests, MK-869 turned out to be no more effective than a placebo. In the jargon of the industry, the trials crossed the futility boundary.
MK-869 wasn't the only highly anticipated medical breakthrough to be undone in recent years by the placebo effect. From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo. Despite historic levels of industry investment in R&D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills.
The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and more financial woes for the beleaguered pharmaceutical industry. Last November, a new type of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, championed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, was abruptly withdrawn from Phase II trials after unexpectedly tanking against placebo. A stem-cell startup called Osiris Therapeutics got a drubbing on Wall Street in March, when it suspended trials of its pill for Crohn's disease, an intestinal ailment, citing an "unusually high" response to placebo. Two days later, Eli Lilly broke off testing of a much-touted new drug for schizophrenia when volunteers showed double the expected level of placebo response.
It's not only trials of new drugs that are crossing the futility boundary. Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late '90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them. Two comprehensive analyses of antidepressant trials have uncovered a dramatic increase in placebo response since the 1980s. One estimated that the so-called effect size (a measure of statistical significance) in placebo groups had nearly doubled over that time.
It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.
The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis. The stakes could hardly be higher. In today's economy, the fate of a long-established company can hang on the outcome of a handful of tests.
Why are inert pills suddenly overwhelming promising new drugs and established medicines alike? The reasons are only just beginning to be understood. A network of independent researchers is doggedly uncovering the inner workings—and potential therapeutic applications—of the placebo effect. At the same time, drugmakers are realizing they need to fully understand the mechanisms behind it so they can design trials that differentiate more clearly between the beneficial effects of their products and the body's innate ability to heal itself. A special task force of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health is seeking to stem the crisis by quietly undertaking one of the most ambitious data-sharing efforts in the history of the drug industry. After decades in the jungles of fringe science, the placebo effect has become the elephant in the boardroom.
The roots of the placebo problem can be traced to a lie told by an Army nurse during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of southern Italy. The nurse was assisting an anesthetist named Henry Beecher, who was tending to US troops under heavy German bombardment. When the morphine supply ran low, the nurse assured a wounded soldier that he was getting a shot of potent painkiller, though her syringe contained only salt water. Amazingly, the bogus injection relieved the soldier's agony and prevented the onset of shock.
Returning to his post at Harvard after the war, Beecher became one of the nation's leading medical reformers. Inspired by the nurse's healing act of deception, he launched a crusade to promote a method of testing new medicines to find out whether they were truly effective. At the time, the process for vetting drugs was sloppy at best: Pharmaceutical companies would simply dose volunteers with an experimental agent until the side effects swamped the presumed benefits. Beecher proposed that if test subjects could be compared to a group that received a placebo, health officials would finally have an impartial way to determine whether a medicine was actually responsible for making a patient better.
In a 1955 paper titled "The Powerful Placebo," published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Beecher described how the placebo effect had undermined the results of more than a dozen trials by causing improvement that was mistakenly attributed to the drugs being tested. He demonstrated that trial volunteers who got real medication were also subject to placebo effects; the act of taking a pill was itself somehow therapeutic, boosting the curative power of the medicine. Only by subtracting the improvement in a placebo control group could the actual value of the drug be calculated.
The article caused a sensation. By 1962, reeling from news of birth defects caused by a drug called thalidomide, Congress amended the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, requiring trials to include enhanced safety testing and placebo control groups. Volunteers would be assigned randomly to receive either medicine or a sugar pill, and neither doctor nor patient would know the difference until the trial was over. Beecher's double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial—or RCT—was enshrined as the gold standard of the emerging pharmaceutical industry. Today, to win FDA approval, a new medication must beat placebo in at least two authenticated trials.
Beecher's prescription helped cure the medical establishment of outright quackery, but it had an insidious side effect. By casting placebo as the villain in RCTs, he ended up stigmatizing one of his most important discoveries. The fact that even dummy capsules can kick-start the body's recovery engine became a problem for drug developers to overcome, rather than a phenomenon that could guide doctors toward a better understanding of the healing process and how to drive it most effectively.
In his eagerness to promote his template for clinical trials, Beecher also overreached by seeing the placebo effect at work in curing ailments like the common cold, which wane with no intervention at all. But the triumph of Beecher's gold standard was a generation of safer medications that worked for nearly everyone. Anthracyclines don't require an oncologist with a genial bedside manner to slow the growth of tumors.
What Beecher didn't foresee, however, was the explosive growth of the pharmaceutical industry. The blockbuster success of mood drugs in the '80s and '90s emboldened Big Pharma to promote remedies for a growing panoply of disorders that are intimately related to higher brain function. By attempting to dominate the central nervous system, Big Pharma gambled its future on treating ailments that have turned out to be particularly susceptible to the placebo effect.
The tall, rusty-haired son of a country doctor, William Potter, 64, has spent most of his life treating mental illness—first as a psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and then as a drug developer. A decade ago, he took a job at Lilly's neuroscience labs. There, working on new antidepressants and antianxiety meds, he became one of the first researchers to glimpse the approaching storm.
To test products internally, pharmaceutical companies routinely run trials in which a long-established medication and an experimental one compete against each other as well as against a placebo. As head of Lilly's early-stage psychiatric drug development in the late '90s, Potter saw that even durable warhorses like Prozac, which had been on the market for years, were being overtaken by dummy pills in more recent tests. The company's next-generation antidepressants were faring badly, too, doing no better than placebo in seven out of 10 trials.
As a psychiatrist, Potter knew that some patients really do seem to get healthier for reasons that have more to do with a doctor's empathy than with the contents of a pill. But it baffled him that drugs he'd been prescribing for years seemed to be struggling to prove their effectiveness. Thinking that something crucial may have been overlooked, Potter tapped an IT geek named David DeBrota to help him comb through the Lilly database of published and unpublished trials—including those that the company had kept secret because of high placebo response. They aggregated the findings from decades of antidepressant trials, looking for patterns and trying to see what was changing over time. What they found challenged some of the industry's basic assumptions about its drug-vetting process.
Assumption number one was that if a trial were managed correctly, a medication would perform as well or badly in a Phoenix hospital as in a Bangalore clinic. Potter discovered, however, that geographic location alone could determine whether a drug bested placebo or crossed the futility boundary. By the late '90s, for example, the classic antianxiety drug diazepam (also known as Valium) was still beating placebo in France and Belgium. But when the drug was tested in the US, it was likely to fail. Conversely, Prozac performed better in America than it did in western Europe and South Africa. It was an unsettling prospect: FDA approval could hinge on where the company chose to conduct a trial.
Mistaken assumption number two was that the standard tests used to gauge volunteers' improvement in trials yielded consistent results. Potter and his colleagues discovered that ratings by trial observers varied significantly from one testing site to another. It was like finding out that the judges in a tight race each had a different idea about the placement of the finish line.
Potter and DeBrota's data-mining also revealed that even superbly managed trials were subject to runaway placebo effects. But exactly why any of this was happening remained elusive. "We were able to identify many of the core issues in play," Potter says. "But there was no clear answer to the problem." Convinced that what Lilly was facing was too complex for any one pharmaceutical house to unravel on its own, he came up with a plan to break down the firewalls between researchers across the industry, enabling them to share data in "pre-competitive space."
After prodding by Potter and others, the NIH focused on the issue in 2000, hosting a three-day conference in Washington. For the first time in medical history, more than 500 drug developers, doctors, academics, and trial designers put their heads together to examine the role of the placebo effect in clinical trials and healing in general.
Potter's ambitious plan for a collaborative approach to the problem eventually ran into its own futility boundary: No one would pay for it. And drug companies don't share data, they hoard it. But the NIH conference launched a new wave of placebo research in academic labs in the US and Italy that would make significant progress toward solving the mystery of what was happening in clinical trials.
Visitors to Fabrizio Benedetti's clinic at the University of Turin are asked never to say the P-word around the med students who sign up for his experiments. For all the volunteers know, the trim, soft-spoken neuroscientist is hard at work concocting analgesic skin creams and methods for enhancing athletic performance.
One recent afternoon in his lab, a young soccer player grimaced with exertion while doing leg curls on a weight machine. Benedetti and his colleagues were exploring the potential of using Pavlovian conditioning to give athletes a competitive edge undetectable by anti-doping authorities. A player would receive doses of a performance-enhancing drug for weeks and then a jolt of placebo just before competition.
Benedetti, 53, first became interested in placebos in the mid-'90s, while researching pain. He was surprised that some of the test subjects in his placebo groups seemed to suffer less than those on active drugs. But scientific interest in this phenomenon, and the money to research it, were hard to come by. "The placebo effect was considered little more than a nuisance," he recalls. "Drug companies, physicians, and clinicians were not interested in understanding its mechanisms. They were concerned only with figuring out whether their drugs worked better."
Part of the problem was that response to placebo was considered a psychological trait related to neurosis and gullibility rather than a physiological phenomenon that could be scrutinized in the lab and manipulated for therapeutic benefit. But then Benedetti came across a study, done years earlier, that suggested the placebo effect had a neurological foundation. US scientists had found that a drug called naloxone blocks the pain-relieving power of placebo treatments. The brain produces its own analgesic compounds called opioids, released under conditions of stress, and naloxone blocks the action of these natural painkillers and their synthetic analogs. The study gave Benedetti the lead he needed to pursue his own research while running small clinical trials for drug companies.
Now, after 15 years of experimentation, he has succeeded in mapping many of the biochemical reactions responsible for the placebo effect, uncovering a broad repertoire of self-healing responses. Placebo-activated opioids, for example, not only relieve pain; they also modulate heart rate and respiration. The neurotransmitter dopamine, when released by placebo treatment, helps improve motor function in Parkinson's patients. Mechanisms like these can elevate mood, sharpen cognitive ability, alleviate digestive disorders, relieve insomnia, and limit the secretion of stress-related hormones like insulin and cortisol.
In one study, Benedetti found that Alzheimer's patients with impaired cognitive function get less pain relief from analgesic drugs than normal volunteers do. Using advanced methods of EEG analysis, he discovered that the connections between the patients' prefrontal lobes and their opioid systems had been damaged. Healthy volunteers feel the benefit of medication plus a placebo boost. Patients who are unable to formulate ideas about the future because of cortical deficits, however, feel only the effect of the drug itself. The experiment suggests that because Alzheimer's patients don't get the benefits of anticipating the treatment, they require higher doses of painkillers to experience normal levels of relief.
Benedetti often uses the phrase "placebo response" instead of placebo effect. By definition, inert pills have no effect, but under the right conditions they can act as a catalyst for what he calls the body's "endogenous health care system." Like any other internal network, the placebo response has limits. It can ease the discomfort of chemotherapy, but it won't stop the growth of tumors. It also works in reverse to produce the placebo's evil twin, the nocebo effect. For example, men taking a commonly prescribed prostate drug who were informed that the medication may cause sexual dysfunction were twice as likely to become impotent.
Further research by Benedetti and others showed that the promise of treatment activates areas of the brain involved in weighing the significance of events and the seriousness of threats. "If a fire alarm goes off and you see smoke, you know something bad is going to happen and you get ready to escape," explains Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University. "Expectations about pain and pain relief work in a similar way. Placebo treatments tap into this system and orchestrate the responses in your brain and body accordingly."
In other words, one way that placebo aids recovery is by hacking the mind's ability to predict the future. We are constantly parsing the reactions of those around us—such as the tone a doctor uses to deliver a diagnosis—to generate more-accurate estimations of our fate. One of the most powerful placebogenic triggers is watching someone else experience the benefits of an alleged drug. Researchers call these social aspects of medicine the therapeutic ritual.
In a study last year, Harvard Medical School researcher Ted Kaptchuk devised a clever strategy for testing his volunteers' response to varying levels of therapeutic ritual. The study focused on irritable bowel syndrome, a painful disorder that costs more than $40 billion a year worldwide to treat. First the volunteers were placed randomly in one of three groups. One group was simply put on a waiting list; researchers know that some patients get better just because they sign up for a trial. Another group received placebo treatment from a clinician who declined to engage in small talk. Volunteers in the third group got the same sham treatment from a clinician who asked them questions about symptoms, outlined the causes of IBS, and displayed optimism about their condition.
Rx for Success
What turns a dummy pill into a catalyst for relieving pain, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, or the tremors of Parkinson's disease? The brain's own healing mechanisms, unleashed by the belief that a phony medication is the real thing. The most important ingredient in any placebo is the doctor's bedside manner, but according to research, the color of a tablet can boost the effectiveness even of genuine meds—or help convince a patient that a placebo is a potent remedy.—Steve Silberman
Yellow pills
make the most effective antidepressants, like little doses of pharmaceutical sunshine.
Red pills
can give you a more stimulating kick. Wake up, Neo.
The color green
reduces anxiety, adding more chill to the pill.
White tablets—
particularly those labeled "antacid"—are superior for soothing ulcers, even when they contain nothing but lactose.
More is better,
scientists say. Placebos taken four times a day deliver greater relief than those taken twice daily.
Branding matters.
Placebos stamped or packaged with widely recognized trademarks are more effective than "generic" placebos.
Clever names
can add a placebo boost to the physiological punch in real drugs. Viagra implies both vitality and an unstoppable Niagara of sexy.
Not surprisingly, the health of those in the third group improved most. In fact, just by participating in the trial, volunteers in this high-interaction group got as much relief as did people taking the two leading prescription drugs for IBS. And the benefits of their bogus treatment persisted for weeks afterward, contrary to the belief—widespread in the pharmaceutical industry—that the placebo response is short-lived.
Studies like this open the door to hybrid treatment strategies that exploit the placebo effect to make real drugs safer and more effective. Cancer patients undergoing rounds of chemotherapy often suffer from debilitating nocebo effects—such as anticipatory nausea—conditioned by their past experiences with the drugs. A team of German researchers has shown that these associations can be unlearned through the administration of placebo, making chemo easier to bear.
Meanwhile, the classic use of placebos in medicine—to boost the confidence of anxious patients—has been employed tacitly for ages. Nearly half of the doctors polled in a 2007 survey in Chicago admitted to prescribing medications they knew were ineffective for a patient's condition—or prescribing effective drugs in doses too low to produce actual benefit—in order to provoke a placebo response.
The main objections to more widespread placebo use in clinical practice are ethical, but the solutions to these conundrums can be surprisingly simple. Investigators told volunteers in one placebo study that the pills they were taking were "known to significantly reduce pain in some patients." The researchers weren't lying.
These new findings tell us that the body's response to certain types of medication is in constant flux, affected by expectations of treatment, conditioning, beliefs, and social cues.
For instance, the geographic variations in trial outcome that Potter uncovered begin to make sense in light of discoveries that the placebo response is highly sensitive to cultural differences. Anthropologist Daniel Moerman found that Germans are high placebo reactors in trials of ulcer drugs but low in trials of drugs for hypertension—an undertreated condition in Germany, where many people pop pills for herzinsuffizienz, or low blood pressure. Moreover, a pill's shape, size, branding, and price all influence its effects on the body. Soothing blue capsules make more effective tranquilizers than angry red ones, except among Italian men, for whom the color blue is associated with their national soccer team—Forza Azzurri!
But why would the placebo effect seem to be getting stronger worldwide? Part of the answer may be found in the drug industry's own success in marketing its products.
Potential trial volunteers in the US have been deluged with ads for prescription medications since 1997, when the FDA amended its policy on direct-to-consumer advertising. The secret of running an effective campaign, Saatchi & Saatchi's Jim Joseph told a trade journal last year, is associating a particular brand-name medication with other aspects of life that promote peace of mind: "Is it time with your children? Is it a good book curled up on the couch? Is it your favorite television show? Is it a little purple pill that helps you get rid of acid reflux?" By evoking such uplifting associations, researchers say, the ads set up the kind of expectations that induce a formidable placebo response.
The success of those ads in selling blockbuster drugs like antidepressants and statins also pushed trials offshore as therapeutic virgins—potential volunteers who were not already medicated with one or another drug—became harder to find. The contractors that manage trials for Big Pharma have moved aggressively into Africa, India, China, and the former Soviet Union. In these places, however, cultural dynamics can boost the placebo response in other ways. Doctors in these countries are paid to fill up trial rosters quickly, which may motivate them to recruit patients with milder forms of illness that yield more readily to placebo treatment. Furthermore, a patient's hope of getting better and expectation of expert care—the primary placebo triggers in the brain—are particularly acute in societies where volunteers are clamoring to gain access to the most basic forms of medicine. "The quality of care that placebo patients get in trials is far superior to the best insurance you get in America," says psychiatrist Arif Khan, principal investigator in hundreds of trials for companies like Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. "It's basically luxury care."
Big Pharma faces additional problems in beating placebo when it comes to psychiatric drugs. One is to accurately define the nature of mental illness. The litmus test of drug efficacy in antidepressant trials is a questionnaire called the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. The HAM-D was created nearly 50 years ago based on a study of major depressive disorder in patients confined to asylums. Few trial volunteers now suffer from that level of illness. In fact, many experts are starting to wonder if what drug companies now call depression is even the same disease that the HAM-D was designed to diagnose.
Existing tests also may not be appropriate for diagnosing disorders like social anxiety and premenstrual dysphoria—the very types of chronic, fuzzily defined conditions that the drug industry started targeting in the '90s, when the placebo problem began escalating. The neurological foundation of these illnesses is still being debated, making it even harder for drug companies to come up with effective treatments.
What all of these disorders have in common, however, is that they engage the higher cortical centers that generate beliefs and expectations, interpret social cues, and anticipate rewards. So do chronic pain, sexual dysfunction, Parkinson's, and many other ailments that respond robustly to placebo treatment. To avoid investing in failure, researchers say, pharmaceutical companies will need to adopt new ways of vetting drugs that route around the brain's own centralized network for healing.
Ten years and billions of R&D dollars after William Potter first sounded the alarm about the placebo effect, his message has finally gotten through. In the spring, Potter, who is now a VP at Merck, helped rev up a massive data-gathering effort called the Placebo Response Drug Trials Survey.
Under the auspices of the FNIH1, Potter and his colleagues are acquiring decades of trial data—including blood and DNA samples—to determine which variables are responsible for the apparent rise in the placebo effect. Merck, Lilly, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, and other major firms are funding the study, and the process of scrubbing volunteers' names and other personal information from the database is about to begin.
In typically secretive industry fashion, the existence of the project itself is being kept under wraps. FNIH staffers2 are willing to talk about it only anonymously, concerned about offending the companies paying for it.
For Potter, who used to ride along with his father on house calls in Indiana, the significance of the survey goes beyond Big Pharma's finally admitting it has a placebo problem. It also marks the twilight of an era when the drug industry was confident that its products were strong enough to cure illness by themselves.
"Before I routinely prescribed antidepressants, I would do more psychotherapy for mildly depressed patients," says the veteran of hundreds of drug trials. "Today we would say I was trying to engage components of the placebo response—and those patients got better. To really do the best for your patients, you want the best placebo response plus the best drug response."
The pharma crisis has also finally brought together the two parallel streams of placebo research—academic and industrial. Pfizer has asked Fabrizio Benedetti to help the company figure out why two of its pain drugs keep failing. Ted Kaptchuk is developing ways to distinguish drug response more clearly from placebo response for another pharma house that he declines to name. Both are exploring innovative trial models that treat the placebo effect as more than just statistical noise competing with the active drug.
Benedetti has helped design a protocol for minimizing volunteers' expectations that he calls "open/hidden." In standard trials, the act of taking a pill or receiving an injection activates the placebo response. In open/hidden trials, drugs and placebos are given to some test subjects in the usual way and to others at random intervals through an IV line controlled by a concealed computer. Drugs that work only when the patient knows they're being administered are placebos themselves.
Ironically, Big Pharma's attempt to dominate the central nervous system has ended up revealing how powerful the brain really is. The placebo response doesn't care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That's potent medicine.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Teaching
23 Sep 2011 - 1:17am
I can't help but grow concerned about a lot of messages that I hear and see, someone claiming them for their own when I have, myself, hear it somewhere else before. For me, this is a sacred issue because this is how stolen idenity happens, fraud...etc. Plagiarism is when someone steals credit for someone else's works. You can see it if someone comes up to you and claims to be your parent, but you get a test done only to prove that was a lie. You can see it when you write a story, draw a picture and then you find it on a website or being sold in stores without your permission. These people/ beings are master manipulators. That is why the Bible warns of the Being masqueraded as an Angel of Light. That is plagiarism at its finest. Some people call it being fake, not real, unreal, stupid, gay, masquerading, tamper, imitation, etc. Whatever you may call it, it is all the same. I hear all these messages of if it does not resonate love, then it is evil or fake. And while I agree with it, what about the many people who have not experienced REAL LOVE in this reality? I have noticed over the years that different people define what they see as love...Differently of course. But the common demoninator that is found, that many people can agree on (IN MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE)is the Creator, God, Allah, Almighty, the father...whatever you call that energy or consiousness, is this being's love is UNCONDITIONAL. Zip, Zero, Zilch, nada, NONE...ABSOLUTELY NO CONDITIONS WHATSOEVER.
Now, I'm going to Test the readers this message may get, What are conditions to you? In the bible...What is the ONLY THING THAT DENIES YOU OF HEAVEN? Here I'll give you all a hint, Denial. Denial of what though? Okay I can't hold back; CHRIST! THE SON! Christ teaches of love, that is all. And to get into heaven you must accept those teachings...But not only accept them but to give credit to the right being who brought those teachings to this little planet. To NOT DENY HIM and might I add and take the credit for yourself. Now when I talk about Christ I personally am referring to that energy of Love. The one who did come down for us. I am not referring to the stereotypical version, I mean the real one. And if you understand what I mean, then you and I are on the same page, the same vibration, the same wave length, etc. I do not know what his real name is and nor will I ever claim to know, but I am on a personal quest to find out using the way and the grace that was given to me by the creator.
Now can it really be called plagiarism if you give credit to the source you got it from? No not really but only if they are okay with it. If they are not okay with it then it can POSSIBLY be considered plagiarizing if they are that stingy about it (in my view). Let's take many holy books around the world but lets focus on the easiest one; the Bible. There are stories in that book that have been told hundreds of years before hand but they are claimed as only "gospel truth" if they are used by Christians. All others are fakes...according to these "Holy Leaders". There are some people who research, dream, talk, witness, etc many topics regarding any and everything and do so for a long time. But then claim to know all of it as if they themselves are the arbitor of it. That the only way to get accurate information is through them.
When someone has that energy of they are the only ones with Knowledge of anything and they show it off by bragging about it like they themselves is GOD, like they are the only ones that own it, like they are God's gift to the universe (Superiority complex)...That is when you have to question that beings motives. Someone who is truly humble will tell you what they believe/know themselves and then tell you to research it for your self in the way that you can. You can learn the ways of the "Wise old man" (like in movies), but you can never truly understand/appreciate until you test your skills, going beyond your self perceived "comfort zone". They will not tell you to research and then blast you out for "not believing them". In fact they will be thrilled that you finally understand, not upset. That is from my view of my personal experiences anyway.
So this is what I tell you, Look for yourself. Find whatever it is you are looking for. I can tell you for a fact that these Beings such as Angels, E.T.'s, spirits, etc will NOT act like how the majority of "humanity" is acting now. Here's an example let's say there is a settlement you need to settle with the courts for some reason or another. You meet your lawyer, you shake hands, you feel that cold chill go down your spine making your neck hairs rise. ....That's not normally a good feeing. (Real quick theres a difference between a good feeling and the feeling good.) That is LOVE telling you to be careful and cautious, that this person is not who they seem...Which goes back to PLAGIARISM. And if you happen to get fooled the first time there is a saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Now of course writing this message I am writing to the people who will listen, to the people who are REAL. And I encourage you to look for yourself, find yourself, and just stay true to yourself. Don't ever take one person's word for Gold; back it up not with proof but with Wisdom. Don't get caught plagiarizing...the fate of a plagiarizer is not a happy one and unfortunately I, myself, have seen the works of a plagiarizer and it makes me terribly, horribly sad. And it's even more heart wrenching when it's someone you know.
Blog entry
19 Sep 2011 - 5:11pm
Namaste all you beautiful souls.. it's been a while since I blogged.. I'm sorry if I haven't been very active here lately.. I seem to come and go in cycles.. but I always try to find time to keep up with at least a few blogs or channellings a week..
I wanted to ask you all about under active chakras, particularly the Root and Solar Plexus chakras.. I took a chakra test online and though these probably aren't 100% reliable this one was pretty thorough and I answered it as honestly as possible. It came up with the answers i was expecting too. My root and solar plexus are underactive.. im aware of this.. the root far more underactive than the solar plexus, which seems to be slowly on the rise as I get older.. Yellow and red are also the colours I wear least of! Red being the one I am practically never drawn to!! I do buy the odd yellow thing.. but never red really..
I am aware that the root is all about grounding. I'm also aware that I regularly feel completely ungrounded.. However much less so than the past five years! If I was -25% this time I must have been about -75% last time I took the test :S I often feel spacey a bit dizzy or disorientated, not secure, just not in my body.. I faint easily too because I guess I'm not as stuck in there as I could be! Do you guys have any tips and ways to ground? I am aware of certain crystals and the meditation where you imagine a root going down through your feet and a light through your crown right down.. And obviously wearing the colour red!
As for the solar plexus I am slightly self-concious and shy, not confident in myself as much as I could be..
I would really really like to improve these two energy centers in my body because I feel it will make me feel healthy in every way including physically.. Apperently my throat and third eye chakras are over active in order to make up for the root and solar! so I expect once I improve on those two everything will balance out! The heart, naval and crown were fine :) Which is good as my heart used to be over-active..
Would really love to hear your tips, advice, and your about your own strengths and weaknesses!
I have much more to blog about soon! And I will!
Love to you all
Dawn xXx
Blog entry
7 Sep 2011 - 12:46pm
Several years ago a friend lent me a book to read called Detox or Die. It was a real eye opener as I learned about all the chemicals and poisons we are exposed to on a daily basis- from our product, our air our food. And while these toxins may be in tiny quantities, their accumulate effects have a devastating impact on our physical health.
The following is a series of weekly tips to detox your life
TIP#1 Clear out Household Cleaners
Many detergents and disinfectants used in the home contain harmful ingredients including formaldehyde, chlorine and ammonia. These ingredients are not only inhaled as you use them, but they can linger in your home for dyes or weeks after you have used them. You can detox your house by putting non toxic cleaning products on your shopping list. Better yet, why not save money by making your own all purpose cleaners sign safer ingredients such as the ones listed below:
Very few substances are needed to clean our houses safely
The basic cleaning kit needs only:
•Vinegar
•Baking soda
•Cornstarch
•Castile soap
•Borax
•Lemon juice
Did you know?
Dishwashing detergents usually contain naphtha (a central nervous system depressant), diethanolsamine (a possible liver toxin) and chlorophenylphenol (a toxic metabolic stimulant).
Did you know?
Fabric softeners are some of the most toxic products made for daily household use. They contain chemicals such as chloroform, benzyl acetate and pentane, which are known to cause cancer and/or damage to the lungs, brain, and nervous system. When clothes are heated in a clothes dryer or during ironing, the chemicals are even more dangerous. Toxic fumes fill our homes and go into neighborhood air. Fabric softener chemicals are designed to stay in clothes and to slowly release over a long period of time. This slow release into the air affects the health of those wearing the clothes and of the people around them
One solution - Check out this consumers guide to less toxic products http://lesstoxicguide.ca/index.asp?fetch=household
Read all labels and choose wisely!
Blessings
Dawn
www.raiseyourvibration.ca
author, Raise Your Vibration, Transform Your Life
available on amazon.com, amazon.uk, Ingram, Barnes & Noble
Blog entry
1 Sep 2011 - 8:30pm
I have, as far as I can remember, seen these floating dots. Sometimes only small dots, sometimes many, sometimes they organize in formations. Some flash and move faster, whereas most just float down endlessly, a bit like a slow-mo matrix code in black and transparent.
Ophtalmologist, doctors, family and friends have told me various things. The most common one was that it was something to do with a liver disorder. Right... Now, I am looking for a spiritual answer to these things, so, if you happen to have any idea of what these things are, or what they mean, or well, just about abything on the subjet will be quite appreciated!
Blog entry
20 Aug 2011 - 8:21pm
Featuring Chill EB - Psycho/pharma spends billions of dollars a year marketing mental 'disorders' & drugs for kids -- yet these drugs are documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause mania, psychosis, hallucinations, suicide, violence, homicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and death. What's more, they are being prescribed for psychiatric disorders that are simply a checklist of behaviors. Get the facts here http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/
Teaching
18 Aug 2011 - 9:41pm
I am not the teacher here, I am only the messenger. However, as a student of alchemy, and the Hermetic Sciences and Philosphy in general, I find this VERY interesting - as the alchemical secrets of the philopher's stone is one of, if not the most, gaurded secret on the planet.
Someone, who remains anonymous, has released a free PDF of the alchemical secrets of, and the process to create, the Philosopher's Stone. There is also an online forum to ask the anonymous author questions.
Access the PDF and the forum here: http://bookofaquarius.forgottenbooks.org
Below is the Introduction and Forward:
1. The Book of Aquarius
The purpose of this book is to release one particular secret, which has been kept hidden for the last 12,000
years. The Philosophers' Stone, Elixir of Life, Fountain of Youth, Ambrosia, Soma, Amrita, Nectar of
Immortality. These are different names for the same thing.
Throughout history this secret has been used by a very few to extend their lives hundreds of years in
perfect health, with access to unlimited wealth, among many other miraculous properties. Some kept the
secret because they understood that the time was not right for the secret to be free for all people, but most
kept the secret out of their own jealousy, ignorance, egotism and corruption.
The Stone's history and the history of the human race up until this day is a strange story full of secret
societies, hooded cloaks, and mystical symbols. Such theatrics are childish and shallow. It's pointless to look
for the light in the shadows.
The Philosophers' Stone operates and is made by entirely natural and scientific means. Truth is always
simple, beautiful and easy to understand.
The Philosophers' Stone is real; you can make it at home. The Stone makes old people young, heals all
forms of sickness and disease, extends your life, turns any metal into gold, and more, as you will learn. This
isn't a myth or a metaphor, it's a fact.
Don't judge this book before you've read it. This is not one of those airy fairy books written in all kinds of
mystical language, filling pages with words that makes sentences but not sense. This book will make more
sense than anything you've ever read before.
The age of secrets is over. I'm writing this book in common English. There's no need for mystical language
or metaphor. This book contains no hidden meaning or codes; everything is stated plainly and directly, in
the shortest and simplest of words necessary to convey the meaning.
Chapter 1 is the Introduction.
Chapter 2 is the Foreword.
Chapters 3 - 18 cover the theory of alchemy.
Chapters 19 - 30 cover the practical instructions for making the Stone.
Chapters 31 - 33 cover further information on the Stone.
Chapters 34 - 49 cover the history of the Stone.
Chapters 50 - 51 cover some more philosophical topics.
Chapter 52 is the alchemists' prophecy.
Chapter 53 is the Afterword.
Chapter 54 is a request for your help in the distribution of this book.
Chapter 55 is a list of answers to questions asked since initial release.
Chapter 56 is the Bibliography.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
by Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
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Foreword
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I am a friend of Socrates and Plato, but still more so of Truth.
A Dialogue, by Alexander von Suchten, 16th - 17th Cen. (?)
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Give this book to everyone you know. If you have a web site, upload it there. If you have a mailing list,
mail it to everyone. If you work in the media, report on or publish this book. Translate it into different
languages. Do everything you can to get this book to as many people as possible. You can distribute this
book in any way. I am not reserving any copyright. This book is public domain and royalty-free. I advise
you to print this book, as computers may not be so reliable in the future.
Do you know any secrets? Now is the time to release them. Forget any promises you made or vows you
took. This is all corruption. If someone makes you promise to jump off a cliff it doesn't mean you have to.
There is no such thing as "government", "society", "company", "organization", these are just vague
concepts, they are not real, they don't have feelings. People are real. Your loyalty is to people and to
Nature.
Please do not try to find out who I (the author) am. Please do not help anyone else find out who I am. I'm
giving this book out freely, at great risk to myself, so please appreciate that and don't put me in danger. If
you think you know who I am, don't try to contact me about it or ever mention it. Don't talk about me with
other people over telephone or email.
This book is full of quotes. You can look up the full text of the source of these quotes by searching for any
sentence from the quote on Google. Search for it in speech marks.
All of the quotes are from sources which are accessible to read for free online. The sources of all the
alchemical books I have quoted from are these sites: sacred-texts.com, forgottenbooks.org,
rexresearch.com, alchemywebsite.com. The latter three sites include alchemical imagery on their sites or in
their books, but unfortunately none of them realized the true significance of alchemy. However, all these
sites and ramsdigital.com (which is not free) have done a great service to the world by publishing
alchemical literature on the Internet.
The key for the below SHA-1 hash is a poem I wrote, written in a language which is not necessarily
English. Below is the hash value returned when the SHA-1 algorithm is performed on the poem. If I wish to
communicate anymore information I will include the poem which will prove that the new information came
from me. Also, if anyone else tries to write and pretend to be me, they will not have the key, so don't
believe them. If anyone presents a poem as the key, be sure to check it returns the below value with the
SHA-1 algorithm.
80f0ff3fe5d1d64fa1ed32796b92aff404914edc
One week after initial release, forgottenbooks.org offered free hosting for this book. A forum has been set
up so if you wish to ask any questions to me (the author) you can now do so. This book will be regularly
updated with the answers to any good questions posed. To access the forum and download the latest version
of this book, please visit:
http://bookofaquarius.forgottenbooks.org
Blessings and Namaste
Blog entry
13 Aug 2011 - 3:24pm
Thank you for coming here.. I have created a video and wanted to share it here with you ♥
It was created in an effort to help people that are facing illnesses and more and shed some new light so their healing can start taking place. ♥
You may view the video here http://lightworkers.org/node/136398
"Disease cannot exist at the highest frequencies of energy, because illness vibrates at very low frequencies" ♥
Love & Healing,
Selin'Adjana
Spirituality in Cyprus: A New Consciousness
video
7 Aug 2011 - 8:13pm
"When we learn to raise our vibration, we not only improve our health and raise consciousness, we also help raise the frequency of our planet... I invite you to remember the art of raising your vibration..learn more at www.raiseyourvibration.ca"
~Dawn James
author of RAISE YOUR VIBRATION, TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
Blog entry
7 Aug 2011 - 6:07pm
[The INTENT of this sharing is INFORMATIONAL. Please note the deleterious effects of FLUORIDE on your physical body,
including your brain. Worst of all, it calcifies your PINEAL GLAND -- your principal "antenna" to other dimensions. Have shared info RE this previously. ~ES]
FLUORIDE AWARENESS WEEK - Aug. 7 - 13
~Dr. Mercola
Did you know there's an "invisible" drug that a majority of Americans consume on a daily basis—a drug so harmful it's been proven to cause serious health issues, including damage to your bones and teeth, as well as your kidneys, thyroid, pineal gland, and even your brain. This drug is so pervasive that over 40 percent of all American teens between the ages of 12 and 15 show visible signs of having been overexposed to it, and, shockingly, recent international studies indicate that even small doses of this drug can lower the IQ in children.
What is this drug?
Fluoride.
You are Being Drugged Without Your Consent…
Many do not realize that fluoride is indeed a drug. In fact, if you decided you wanted to take it, you'd have to get a prescription for it. Yet it's added to municipal water supplies reaching more than 180 million Americans, including infants and the elderly. This is a significant problem, because once you add it to the water supply, you have no way of gauging how much of the drug any particular person will consume on any given day.
Consider this: It is illegal and unethical for a medical doctor to give you a drug without specifying dosage, and to fail to monitor your health for side effects from the drug. Yet, your water authority is not only allowed, but encouraged to add a toxic drug—fluoride—to your drinking water without your consent and without any way of knowing who in your household is drinking it, how much, and the effect it is having.
The Science Incontrovertibly Opposes Water Fluoridation
Water fluoridation began in the mid 1940's as a solution to fluoride pollution generated by the Atomic Bomb Program and the aluminum industry, but it was cleverly "sold" to dentists and the general masses as a preventive strategy for reducing tooth decay... It has been heralded as one of the top 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.
Alas, it may actually be more accurate to describe it as one of the greatest mass poisonings in our history. Sodium fluoride, which is a far simpler toxin than the fluoride compounds used for most water fluoridation, has been used for rat and cockroach poisons, so there is no question that fluoride is highly toxic.
In a sane world, public health policy would be based on sound and conclusive science. Unfortunately, that is not the case when it comes to water fluoridation. In fact, despite overwhelming evidence demonstrating that fluoride is not an effective preventive strategy against tooth decay and may be causing significant health problems in many individuals, the practice of adding fluoride to municipal water supplies continues unabated. A majority, 64 percent, of all drinking water in the United States still receives this ill-advised treatment.
Why does this practice continue when it flies in the face of all the current research?
The answer to this question is just one of the countless shocking revelations featured in Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation. The film, which features a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, scientists, dentists, medical doctors, and leading researchers in the field, reveals the science behind fluoridation, the effects it has on your health, and why there is no logical or rational reason to continue fluoridating ANY water supply.
Would You Drink Shampoo to Clean Your Hair?
The only science that mildly supports the use of pharmaceutical-grade fluoride as a preventive against dental caries is topical use of fluoride (although even that is debatable, based on more recent findings). There is really no scientific basis at all for ingesting fluoride to protect your teeth! In fact, when fluoride is taken internally, it actually damages your teeth, causing a condition known as dental fluorosis; the pitting and discoloration of teeth. Today, 41 percent of American children between the ages of 12 and 14 have dental fluorosis. But that's not all. When you swallow, fluoride it can also cause:
Weakened bones, and fatal bone cancer (osteosarcoma) Impaired mental development, lowered IQ, and dementia Gastrointestinal problems
Hyperactivity and/or lethargy Arthritic symptoms Kidney issues
Lowered thyroid function Chronic fatigue Disrupted immune system
This is what the science is telling us about the ramifications of fluoride ingestion. And, yet, rather than taking the precautionary approach and stopping fluoridation until we know more, our policymakers continue to blindly forge ahead; refusing to give the scientific evidence the attention it deserves.
The CDC and ADA Advise Against Fluoridated Water for Infants
In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) sent out an email to alert its members of their recommendation to parents to not use fluoridated tap water to make infant formula.
Why?
Because an average glass of treated water contains 250 times more fluoride than breast milk. A few days later, the CDC followed suit. But neither of them openly informed the public!
As a result, millions of parents are still using tap water to make up formula, completely oblivious of the fact that the agencies that promote fluoridation in this country have also issued a specific warning against using fluoridated water for this purpose. Not only that, but by fluoridating the municipal water supply, you doom many low income families to fail to protect their young children from this dangerous drug, even if they have this information.
The evidence suggests that minorities and low-income families are being disproportionately harmed by water fluoridation, and two Atlanta Civil Rights leaders, Andrew Young and Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, recently requested that Georgia legislators repeal the state's mandatory water fluoridation law based on this fact.
African American children have been found to consume significantly more total fluids and plain water, and thus receive more fluoride than white children. African American mothers are also less likely to breastfeed than most other racial groups, and since breast milk contains very low levels of fluoride, babies fed formula made with fluoridated water could receive up to 200 times more fluoride than a breast-fed baby. Thus African American children have a higher risk of being overexposed to fluoride from infancy on.
Get Informed; Get the Facts…
Knowledge is power, and you have the power to not only protect yourself, but also to help protect others once you know the truth. The United States is one of the few remaining developed countries in the world that still fluoridates a majority of its water supply.
Don't you agree that it's time for our policymakers to stop putting your and your family's health at risk? I strongly recommend viewing Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation. We can eliminate this harmful practice, but it's going to take people like you to make it happen—so please watch the film to get the cold hard facts, and share it with everyone you know.
How You Can Help END Water Fluoridation
FAN Advocacy PosterThe Fluoride Action Network has a game plan to end water fluoridation in both Canada and the United States, and this Fluoride Awareness Week will hopefully bring us a lot closer to that goal by spreading mass awareness. Our fluoride initiative will primarily focus on Canada since 60 percent of Canada is already non-fluoridated. A few weeks ago the city of Calgary stopped fluoridating over a million people and last October the citizens of Waterloo, Ontario voted it out in a referendum. If we can get the rest of Canada to stop fluoridating their water, we believe the U.S. will be forced to follow. Please, join the anti-fluoride movement in Canada and United States by contacting the representative for your area below.
Contact Information for Canadian Communities:
If you live in Ontario, Canada, please join the ongoing effort by contacting Diane Sprules at diane.sprules@cogeco.ca.
The point-of-contact for Toronto, Canada is Aliss Terpstra. You may email her at aliss@nutrimom.ca.
Contact Information for American Communities:
We're also going to address three US communities: New York City, Austin, and San Diego:
New York City, NY: With the recent victory in Calgary, New York City is the next big emphasis. The anti-fluoridation movement has a great champion in New York City councilor Peter Vallone, Jr. who introduced legislation on January 18 "prohibiting the addition of fluoride to the water supply." A victory there could signal the beginning of the end of fluoridation in the U.S. If you live in the New York area I beg you to participate in this effort as your contribution could have a MAJOR difference. Remember that one person can make a difference. The point person for this area is Carol Kopf, at the New York Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Email her at NYSCOF@aol.com . Please contact her if you're interested in helping with this effort.
Austin, Texas: Join the effort by contacting Rae Nadler-Olenick at either: info@fluoridefreeaustin.com or fluoride.info@yahoo.com, or telephone: (512) 371-3786
San Diego, California: Contact Patty Ducey-Brooks, publisher of the Presidio Sentinel at pbrooks936@aol.com.
In addition, you can:
Tell the EPA you expect them to uphold their duty to protect you and your children from this toxic food fumigant.
Make a generous tax-deductible donation to the Fluoride Action Network, to help them fight for your rights to fluoride-free food and water.
Check out FAN's Action Page, as they are working on multiple fronts to rid our food and water supplies of fluoride.
For timely updates, join the Fluoride Action Network Facebook page.
Blog entry
2 Aug 2011 - 12:41am
Between healing, resting and eating well, it's easy to loose sight of that one thing our bodies are made for doing. Hint: it's not typing. In honour of Lauren C. Gorgo's latest planetary update, I was reminded to post a piece on exercising which I wrote when I finally figured out "how to do it". Yay!
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Is it just me or does the world of sports and exercise have something very out-to-prove and agressively square about it? I used to think that doing sports was supposed to feel stressful to your body. That getting in shape was about setting targets and trying hard. That it was about being confronted with your limitations head-on and pushing through resistance. Now, I'm discovering a whole new way to work out. One that, unfortunately, isn't advertised much.
A lot of it has to do with being female and being HSP no doubt. Being HSP means being more sensitive to pain. So classical work-out regimes never really felt very good to me. And then, being a woman meant being torn between competitive and agressive sports with focus and determination versus pink-tutu style chatty girlishness (which never seemed to go anywhere to me, no offense). Neither really appealed, but having to choose...I went for the male approach. It worked in a way, until I got fed up. I got fed up with having to push myself and force myself. I got fed up with not being able to naturally excel at something which seemed to come so naturally to men. I didn't care about being sporty anymore. I just wanted to feel good in my body, and I wanted a new workout that would be relaxing, that is, truly enjoyable.
I discovered that my biggest impediment to a healthy body and being was stress. So, obviously, stress would be the thing to avoid in a work-out. I still didn't like typically girly stuff like ballet and aerobics either, and for a while it seemed there was nothing out there for me at all.
Yet, determined to find a way, I started with tai-chi. Of all the movement 'stuff' out there, tai-chi has relaxation as its prime goal. I started hatha yoga, which is about strength and stretching. I tried different kinds of dance: zumba (because it's fun) and bellydance ( because it's different). None of these was quite what I was searching for but they all had elements of what felt right. (sorting that out took a while)
In the end, my work-out has become a mix of all of these. In bellydance, there are great isolation-routines in which you exercise very specific muscles. Not unimportantly, bellydance is specifically designed for the female body. (that's not to say men don't bellydance, but there is a difference). Bellydance has helped me strengthen and become aware of muscles I never consciously felt before. The trick for me was finding a style and bellydance music that I find inspiring (for again, there are many frilly styles that I personally abhor). The most important thing though is that, it is so easy to relax into and enjoy! Hurray! And I feel like a natural woman doing it :)
Tai-chi has taught me the mind-set to work-out in a conscious and relaxing way. It has taught me focus, good breathing, taking your time and the (health)benefit of doing anything slowly. The whole theory on which it is built is inspiring and helpful. However, too much tai-chi makes me feel like an old chinese man (especially with some of the typical tai-chi music, ugh!) so I limit tai-chi to once a week.
Yoga taught me to accept and breathe through pain in a gentle way. Yet, a purely yoga work-out is very boring and uninspiring to me and quite frankly, too taxing on my body.
So, at home, I do a simple yoga warm-up and cooldown and then practice bellydance and various other dances as I feel like it. I use dvd's cause then I get to decide what to do and what not to do and I don't have to think while I'm doing it. I also avoid the extra stress of getting to a class in time, having to fit into the group tempo...and on dvd, I get to replay the instruction as much as I need. No need to push myself, no social pressure, noone is watching. Inbetween I can get a drink, go to the loo, pet the cat, whatever. Finally, a work-out that's all about me!
I could never manage all that with any more stressful workout, but seeing that I found something my body loves, well, not doing it is actually harder.
Here's what I learned:
-I like not having to think about what I do too much. So a good teacher that talks me through the exercise is necessary.
-Initially, when learning something completely new I need a live teacher to correct me and give me personal tips. Once I've got the basics, I can pretty much teach myself as long as I have good instructions.
- When learning something new or doing a work-out all kinds of distractions get in my way, so I prefer a peaceful setting.
- I need detailed and precise instruction, otherwise I get frustrated
- Getting to a class adds stress to my life
- A pleasant room, smell, light, music etc are all essential to how a work-out feels to me.
- I get nervous and self-conscious when someone watches me, so I perform best when alone
- I work-out for me, and not to socialize (although socializing is an added bonus)
- I like to do work-outs that don't require special clothing
- I like work-outs that have a goal other than just "working-out", there needs to be a playful element
- My daily needed balance between wanting to learn new things and following a familiar routine varies
The work-out I like in the morning is very different (usually less creative) than what I'd need at the end of the day (when I like to improvise and do new things)
- On hot days I need a mild work-out, on cold days a more vigorous one.
- I get the most benefit from working out almost daily, so that I don't feel like it's a drag or an obligation, yet that it is often enough to feel the benefits and slip into a certain ease and grace.
What are the things you need? Do different things you do have helpful elements that you'd like to make into something new? Something just for you? With enough self-knowledge and the willingness to look around, you'll find what works for you! There might already be people out there who built the exercise program that's just right for you. Or there might not be and building your own could inspire others. Either way, knowing what you need will help you recognize your solution when it shows up in your life. (it will show up, one way or the other)
Too many work-outs sell themselves based on mysterious averages. No one fits the average. Trying to fit the average ideal doesn't do justice to you or your body. A workout should be inspiring, relaxing, invigorating and whatever you need it to be! Enjoy :)
by Caroline van Kimmenade
This piece was first published on http://thehappysensitive.blogspot.com/2011/07/women-and-movement.html Feel free to share with others without modifications and with proper reference to the author and website. Thank you.
Blog entry
31 Jul 2011 - 8:14am
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Near Death Experience - the extraterrestrial connection
What happens when we die?
If we just focus on the scientific aspects of cardiac arrests or deaths, what do we discover?
Scientists have focused for decades to find the answers to these questions.
What they are uncovering now is astonishing.
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Scientists universally find that some (approximately 20%) individuals remember the near death experiences. Why does the rest 80% people who are revived do not remember the near death experience?
All those who remember the near death experience more or less describe similar experiences. In terms of strict biomedical science, nowadays it is really a proven fact the mind or consciousness really continues at least one hour beyond the cardiac arrest or objective death when the brain is cut off from blood supply.
Those who experience near death experiences describe a white light. They see their relatives, in specific their parents or some other close relatives. They see tunnels and a quick reflection of their life and impact of their actions in their life. Above all, the experiences are pleasant and people who come back from near death experiences are not afraid to die and become less materialistic in their life.
Scientist these days are explaining all these phenomena in terms of physics and biomedical sciences. Interestingly the contemporary plasma physics describe the white light in the near death experience as an electromagnetic flux pointer in a higher dimension of the hyperspace. Simply put, it is the projection of our own zero point energy that continues to live even when we are in the earth making our short journey of life. The crossover that these folks talk about from life to death is the movement through a black hole into the hyperspace. The tunnel is the tunnel of singularity guiding into the hyperspace that brings the continuity into the hyperspace civilization that we belong to.
Dr. Sam Parnia of the Weill Cornell Medical Center, a prominent near death experience researcher found an astonishing thing. A three year old had a cardiac arrest and experienced near death experience. He was brought back to life, thanks to the recent miracles of biomedical science. After that he started drawing picture of a white light with a chord that connects to himself. This is significant. That really shows that we are actually connected to that white light (our own real self) all the time. At death we just merge into that flux of energy. The relatives that come to greet us in near death experiences are the guides from the parallel universe in the hyperspace where we really belong. Our family, people who we know all are real in the hyperspace and continues to exist eternally.
The zero point energy centers around the consciousness that continues into the hyperspace beyond the nearest black hole tunnel of singularity. The quantum vacuum in the hyperspace provides the pleasant experience in near death experience by enabling the quantum level of the zero point energy to leap into a higher level.
READ MORE :
http://indiadaily.com/editorial/22048.asp
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Blog entry
26 Jul 2011 - 7:07pm
Life Processes - The New Science of Health and Longevity
Weekend Courses in Leitrim , Cork City and London
Doesn’t it sound like a fairytale: Once upon a time there was a society that forgot the meaning of divine unity through body, mind and soul. They forgot the universal laws of life, the true meaning of health, and they forgot that disease as such does not exist. They started to believe in sicknesses, in “conditions”, and started to accept that they have an illness and that they need to go to specialists. They had forgotten that god created life simple and that all life on earth follows the same universal laws. They had forgotten his laws because they had created their own science that excluded divinity from their lives. They gave all their responsibility away, ate toxic food and forgot the sacredness of life which is reflected in the way we deal with our land and our bodies. They also did not understand to create a living space that can heal them, so they lived in houses that weakened them and made things even worse.
When did this all happen? It is happening now – this is the fairytale of our contemporary western society. We live in a reality where most of humanity suffers from serious illnesses during their lives, entirely through self-inflicted causes of life-style and nutrition – due to lack of awareness, unwillingness to change and misleading information from mainstream health services and media. Most of us are still stuck in wrong belief patterns when it comes to understanding our health and how our body works.
We live in a time of transformation. Old structures, patterns and belief systems are destroyed to make space for the light of divine consciousness to manifest in all areas of life. Traditional and conservative understanding of Health and Disease also falls apart and needs to be replaced like all other rigid forms in life and society. A higher consciousness can lead us to a comprehension that gives light to total healing, rejuvenation and possibilities of longevity that have not been known in past decades.
In my weekend courses “Life Processes – The Principles of Life”, I give inspiration to deepen your insight that you can heal yourself from any disease and even go further to reverse the decay of the body – without the help of conventional doctors, dangerous drugs and a profit driven medical system. In reality incurable diseases do not exist. It is only our misunderstanding about the biochemical and biophysical aspects of the human system and our unwillingness to address causes and make necessary changes in our life, which prevents the healing of serious illnesses.
The common concept about Health and Disease which is presented to us through the media and our health system is unsatisfactory and even false. It is based on a scientifically wrong paradigm and a worldview that does not integrate the energetic and spiritual levels of existence. We need a new science based on the understanding of the sacredness of all life. Life Processes – this term includes all laws, principles and processes that are the basis for all life on earth. All processes within living organisms are subject to the same laws, whether it concerns plant, animal or humans. Life processes – the principles of life are as old as life itself. Unfortunately today they are not known to us anymore, although they are divinely encoded within each living organism and thus, could be discovered, decoded and understood. We have lost the ability to think about life in a holistic, all inclusive way – instead we try to specialize and loose the context of understanding life’s principles.
Life processes – the biophysical, biochemical and spiritual laws of life are simple and complex at the same time, they are obvious and hidden, they are physical, energetic and spiritual, harmonic and rhythmic like music – they are colorful and alive like life itself. If we would succeed to understand and use these laws again, it would have profound and healing consequences – not just for all those who are ill and suffering but for all life on planet earth. If we are interested in healing ourselves and the earth, our first step is to gain knowledge about the laws of life and health. What could help us better than an in debt, loving understanding of all those principles of life on this planet? An understanding that permits us to re-establish health and harmony with simple means – within us and around us. A comprehension that helps us to treat all those diseases successfully which are today falsely classified as incurable. An understanding that permits us to interact with nature to bring about not only an unbelievable abundance of agricultural yields but also stable ecological systems and a regeneration of the physical, energetic and spiritual systems in nature. All this is possible and it is at our hands.
In my weekend courses I explain Life processes in the human system and how healing and rejuvenation is possible for everyone who applies this knowledge in daily life. I do also explain why contemporary western medicine seems to never get to the point of healing and curing a disease.
There are 3 categories of causes that apply for all civilization diseases and they seem to be always interlinked:
1.The Internal Environmental – the human Bio-terrain.
This is the environment in which all life processes within the human body work.
2.The External Environmental – the place where you live.
You might be astonished but indeed the energy in your house and especially of your sleeping place has a serious effect on your health and is almost always involved as a cause of disease. This refers especially to the factors of electromagnetic and geopathic stress but also toxins from building materials and mattresses.
3.The Soul – this aspect is commonly called psychosomatic but in reality it includes karma from past lives, the chakras, our energy system and much more.
The so called Bio-terrain is the inner environment of the body. In almost 99% of the population we find an over acidic bio-terrain. The more acidic it is, the faster the decay of our health. I am sure most of you have heard about this fact, but maybe not yet understood the full extend of its importance. An acid is aggressive, it is causing corrosion. Some of you might have experienced a drop of sulphuric acid from a car battery burns a hole in any tissue. We have similar acids in thousands of combinations in our body. They transform our living substances (our mineral deposits, the pillars of our health and beauty) into dead substances (acidic salts or impurities which form the biological terrain for any disease to develop).
This is the process of ageing and the start for all degenerative diseases. This dilemma which often ends up in terrible suffering and disease can be absolutely regulated by our lifestyle, awareness, by eating a vegetarian whole food diet and drinking toxin free water. However there are many factors that the individual is likely not aware of. The impact of parasites (especially from vegetables but also from pets and water), electromagnetic and geopathic stress, toxins and heavy metals need to be understood and dealt with – every person in a western society suffers from one or more of these factors and the earlier they are identified and dealt with, the better for the health and for prevention of diseases. These factors can be identified with Bio-Resonance or Radionic testing which I offer in my clinic. The tests can also be conducted remotely without the person present.
In my two day weekend course I deal with many of those details and show solutions for all of them. Even the worst diseases can be healed if we find out and address the causes successfully. The environment where we live is as important for our health as the nutrition that we take in. Our houses are overloaded with electromagnetic fields from devices, wiring and radiation that enter our houses from mobile phone and WIFI masts (which have a biological impact within 20 kilometre range). It only takes a few hours of browsing through the web to find out that high frequency radiation from WIFI, wireless phones and mobile phones is seriously compromising our health. In our age of convenience our houses are full of harmful devices to make our lives easier – and significantly shorter and more painful. Sometimes worse then the devices in our homes is the impact of the radiation from mobile phone or WIFI masts which are spread in a dense network all around the country. As a rule of thumb, if you get mobile phone or WIFI reception in your house, you should take action and protect your living space from these health decreasing energies.
There is no reason for fear or resentment about these things: Where man creates problems he is always able to find solutions as well. Through many years of bio-physical and geo – biological research I have been able to find amazing solutions to clear houses from electromagnetic pollution and geopathic stress. In my courses I explain in detail how electromagnetic and geopathic stress influences our health and how it can be neutralised. For more information on helpful devices please check my website.
The third category which has a strong influence on our health is the state of our soul. To call this influence psychosomatic doesn’t hit the point exactly. It helps to be aware that we had many lives before this one and that each soul comes into this life with karma. Karma is not a sort of punishment but simply the result of past actions that has an influence on our life on the physical, energetic and spiritual level. Our soul communicates with our physical structure through the chakras. The seven chakras can be understood as seven interfaces of body and soul. The area of the body where a health problem develops shows where our weakest chakra is located. For example if you have difficulties to set goals in your life and follow them or if you have difficulties to relate to people in a fulfilling way, your solar plexus chakra is probably weak and wont supply enough energy for your digestive system to work properly. This then will be the area in your body where toxins will predominantly accumulate, resulting in metabolic disturbances and eventually in a disease – depending on your nutritional and life-style choices. The “Life Processes” weekend course goes in detail about how the chakra system reflects 7 areas of our soul: the meaning of them and the learning process that is connected with it.
I strongly believe that we need to re-evaluate our value systems – globally and personally: as long as convenience and material gain is far more valued then health and morality it will be impossible to create a happy and healthy society. Through networking we can try to spread important information which may help for global and personal transformation. We urgently need to replace our political, economical and health system to create a society based on truth and co-creativity. It is vital to create an alternative health system that serves those of us that want to take self responsibility and that addresses the causes of diseases. The only way to create such a system is by the power of the people, because governments work hand in hand with the multinational companies.
I believe the first step to create a new, holistic health system is to spread awareness about causes of diseases and how our body actually functions. We should face the truth and understand that the pharmaceutical approach aims to long term medicate a person, which guarantees most profit. There is no interest to healing people and treat causes of a disease. Why not boycott pills and go on a fulfilling journey of self discovery through mastering your health problems?
For actual dates please email info@thelife.ie Please do also get in contact with me if you like to organize a course for a group of people – I do also travel and give talks on the subject.
Frank Albrecht is a holistic health researcher, spiritual counsellor, bio- resonance practitioner and Feng Shui consultant. He aims to help individuals to improve their health or find possible causes for diseases and treatment alternatives. To achieve this he uses individual bio-resonance (remote) testing and his skills of dowsing and Feng Shui to harmonise the living space as well. For more information please visit the websites: http://stopageing.wordpress.com, www.stopageing.com or www.thelifewellness.com or email me on info@thelife.ie
Blog entry
24 Jul 2011 - 5:08pm
I really think this is important,
The missing bees have been playing on my mind for some weeks now, I found this site today and see that there are many ways that we can be active in saving & repopulating our bees. here is a direct link to "Save Our Bee Populations" section of site save them,
Our whole eco system depends upon their survival because their survival will ensure our survival. They are the reason we have food on our plates and clothes on our backs.
There are many campaigns which are on-going to help save them, however, the majority of people believe that there is nowhere near enough funding and they are disappearing fast!
Missing Bees are Something You Never Wish to Experience!
Missing bees, disappearing bees and dying bees! What are the theories?
What are the implications?
What will happen if this continues and they disappear completely?
What Would Happen if All
the Bees Became Missing Bees?
Before our bees became inhabitants of the world as we know it some 200,000,000 years ago the world looked very different.
Of course there were trees and plants, nowhere near as many as there are now of course and these were pollinated by the wind and anything else around at that time that could fly.
There were no beautiful honey bee gardens, very little green pastures, not many animals and no human life at all. Be aware the world could look much the same again if missing bees became or becomes a reality.
Here is the site home page & link to Source of this information http://www.health-benefits-of-honey.com/index.html
Blessings
Carl
Blog entry
21 Jul 2011 - 12:13pm
I live in Southern Ontario. It has the ability to rise in unhealthy temperatures that include a high humidity level also. Before I lived in Toronto and it was hot there also, but I think the weather is different now, you know with the pole shifts and all all that.
I never found out until yesterday that I have always had Eczema but beyond the slight heat rash I would get, I never knew. My daughter has it. For her, it is triggered by food that she is allergic to. Now I know why she has it, because it carried from me to her.
Where we are living, we are in the middle of a heat wave. Yesterday it peaked 110F and today its supposed to surpass that. I never knew it could be triggered by the environment like change in weather that includes high humidity. Our little home has no a/c. I cannot afford a small one right now. And to buy fans for each and every room becomes expensive. I have agreed to help from an organization that is now trying to help me find a small apartment size a/c.
Besides the topical stuff like cortisone (what my doctor advised), what can I do that is economical and plant based?
I use Canadula ointment for nearly everything. My daughter calls it, "Mommy's miracle cream". It has the consistency like petroleum jelly but its the extract from the plant. I wonder if this would be good? I am thinking out loud here.
Blog entry
21 Jul 2011 - 4:02am
Queen Sōferia’s Obama Report: Table Flip #2, The First Lady's First Table Flip
Queen Sōferia here, with another Obama Report. Welcome to my dream!
As I said in my earlier blog, “Coming Soon! Obama’s Table Flip #2,” President Obama is really busy today (you can see his schedule in that blog, and his day is not over yet!). He wanted me to let people know there are many people helping him with this divine table flipping mission. His wonderful wife is doing her part, so today, Table Flip #2 is credited to her hard, dedicated, loving work!
Yes, the First Lady, Michelle Obama is getting involved with our table flips. This issue of no REAL FOOD in many, many neighborhoods across the U.S. is very real and causes a complex of problems that you find with inadequate nutrition, high fat, high sodium, high chemical foods that are sold at the local corporate-owned little quick markets. This is especially prevalent in poor neighborhoods in cities, but it is also prevalent in rural communitites.
I live in a rural community and there is NO GROCERY STORE! Why is this? We have a gas station with a mini-mart that sells only junk food that is not even edible. The population in my community would easily support a small grocery store. And this would create jobs! I like this plan! Also included, will be more improvements to school lunches.
As she states in the video, “Make no mistake about it!” There will be some MAJOR CHANGES implemented under a new paradigm. Thank you First Lady, Michelle Obama!
Moving forward! Watch for the next Obama Table Flip right here!
Brought to you with Love,
Queen Sōferia
DREAMOUT!!!!
Blog entry
19 Jul 2011 - 6:03pm
I am sharing this article today, because this 4th most abundant mineral in the body is involved in more than 300
biochemical reactions, of which (1)PRODUCTION & TRANSPORT OF ENERGY & (2)PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN are prominent.
With the re-configuration of our DNA in the ascension process, adequate protein generation & energy production are vital.
Dietary magnesium comes from from vegetables such as dark, leafy greens & avocados; fruits such as bananas; nuts such
as almonds & cashews; peas & beans [legumes] & seeds & whole grains.
Be well-- SELF-CARE of mind/BODY/spirit helps us come through these transitional times with more EASE...& hopefully, GRACE!:) ~ES]
MAGNESIUM: THE LAMP OF LIFE - Extract - [my format &caps]
by Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
(NaturalNews) INSIDE CHLOROPHYLL is the LAMP OF LIFE and that lamp is MAGNESIUM.
THE CAPTURE OF LIGHT ENERGY FROM THE SUN IS MAGNESIUM DEPENDENT..
Magnesium is bound as the central atom of the porphyrin ring of the green plant pigment CHLOROPHYLL.
Magnesium is the element that causes plants to be able to convert light into energy
and chlorophyll is identical to hemoglobin except the magnesium atom at the center has been taken out and iron put in.
The WHOLE BASIS OF LIFE and the food chain is seen in the SUNLIGHT-CHLOROPHYLL-MAGNESIUM CHAIN.
Since animals and humans obtain their food supply by eating plants, magnesium can be said to be THE SOURCE OF LIFE
for it is at the heart of chlorophyll and the process of photosynthesis.
A huge step forward for early life was the development of CHLOFOPHYLL, a molecule that CAPTURES LIGHT ENERGY FROM THE SUN in a process called PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Chlorophyll systems convert energy from visible light into small energy-rich molecules easy for cells to use. The harnessing of the energy of visible light led to a vast expansion of early life-forms. Fossilized layers, three and half billion years old, have been found with evidence of blue-green algae that lived on top of tidal rocks.
Magnesium is needed by plants to form chlorophyll which is the substance that makes plants green. Without magnesium sitting inside the heart of chlorophyll, plants would not be able to take nutrition from the sun because the process of photosynthesis would not go on. When magnesium is deficient things begin to die. In reality one cannot take a breath, move a muscle, or think a thought without enough magnesium in our cells. Because magnesium is contained in chlorophyll it is considered an essential plant mineral salt.
Without chlorophyll, plants are unable
to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide.
There is no life without magnesium.
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15 Jul 2011 - 5:13pm
Disease cannot exist at the highest frequencies of energy, because illness vibrates at very low frequencies.
High vibrations come from thoughts & emotions that emit love, joy, passion and love of life. The state for the frequency of disease is hating oneself, which attacks on every possible level, especially from within...
Negative feelings such as anger, depression, sadness, despair etc lower ones vibration, and in effect weaken the immune system further to produce illness and more negativity...
To hate anything is to hate life itself, because hate is against life and love, and it is just plain destruction..
"A truly loving person never has any kind of pain"
Behind many illnesses is an underlying metaphysical cause. An illness will result if you have failed to deal with spiritual, emotional, mental or physical issues. Our health very well depends on how we live our life whether in this life or in a previous incarnation.
Diseases happen when you put that precious body of yours at DIS-ease
is likely to result in the manifestation of illness or dis-ease in the body. Deep down most of us know that there is a link between how how we live our lives and our health.
This video was created for the love of humanity to create an awareness that our minds and bodies are interlinked.
Our physical and emotional ability to resist illness is directly correlated to our spiritual strength. A strong positive mental attitude and powerful immune system will be the result of a healthy spiritual, physical and emotional state. It is only when we ignore our bodies or our spiritual welbeing that illness is able to overcome our own bodies natural defenses.
Love & Healing,
Selin'Adjana
Spirituality in Cyprus: A New Consciousness
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14 Jul 2011 - 2:56pm
Greetings beloved ones
I wanted to share this video on Monoatomic Gold and Ka energy. I have a book I have been reading and resonating with named " 2012 the Galactic Center and the Return of the Great Mother" is soo interesting all the topics that presents in terms of human evolution and spirit.
Monoatomic Gold is mentioned in this book and how it triggers the Phyneal Gland and releases what it is called the Exilir of Life. But it is also advice to not only feed correctly our physical body but also our energy body by attuning to Ka energy.
(Ka) Light
Ka is basically light from the higher dimensions. Above the dimensions of Astral Substance there are many dimensions of light. The light at the highest dimensions has the fastest vibration and is the brightest and as we come down in dimension the light becomes less bright until we reach Astral Substance which is the least bright but much more dense. The main difference between ka and Astral Substance, although they are both essentially light, is that Astral Substance has a density which allows it to crystallize, and crystallized Astral Substance tends to block and distort the light. The ka cannot crystallize like Astral Substance as it is vibrating too fast. Anything in the dimensions of ka is an expression of the consciousness that created it.
We all have Light Bodies which are made of the light from these higher dimensions. While in your light body you are in touch with your true self and most essential nature as it has not been distorted by the lens of the astral body or the physical body. You know who and what you are and are at one with the Universe. You can travel to almost any dimension in your light body.
We all have this Light Body so where is it? It is waiting for you for when you leave your physical body. When you die and your astral body shatters, the consciousness and light that you incarnated during the life will remerge with the rest of your light body. At this point all veils will be gone and you will remember everything. What is important to understand is that there is a Light Body along with many of your higher selves waiting for you after each life and you will remerge with these parts. I say many higher selves because there is more than one level of your Higher Self. While on Earth you could become aware of your Higher Self and even partially incarnate it. You would then realize that there is still another Higher Self than this one and so on. You have higher selves in many dimensions with many different perspectives and views of the Universe and even of your life here on earth.
Most people when referring to the Higher Self are talking about the lowest one. I would like to clarify that by higher I do not mean better. All of creation is equal, nothing more holy than anything else. Higher just refers to the dimension where the consciousness resides. The higher the dimension, the more expansive the consciousness, the larger the view and the greater the powers of vision, knowledge, wisdom and love. Your own Higher Self in the very high dimensions is nothing short of a god. It has many parts of itself incarnated all over the Universe, including you. Well if you go high enough you'll probably find that there is only one Higher Self at the top and it is all that is. The point here is that the parts of yourself that you are aware of are only a tiny portion of who you really are.
The work of spiritual transformation and incarnation is basically the clearing of what is not you (astral crystallization or ego structure) and the incarnation of more and more of your self (higher dimensional forces of light and consciousness). Another important part is the strengthening of the physical and etheric body’s vibration. For your body to be able to incarnate higher forces the physical vibration must be increased. The raising of sexual energy is essential here along with the clearing of the meridian system.
Back to the ka; quite simply ka is higher-dimensional light. The body of light is somewhat like the astral body in that it contains different types of light which are mixed in together. The mixture is determined by your spirit (higher consciousness) and is put together in accordance with what the spirit wants to do. Just like choosing the astral mixture before incarnating on Earth your spirit chose a mixture of light in the formation of its light body. This Light Body was formed for the spirit's purposes in this Universe. I will talk about spirit further in the next section.
The light body includes the chakras, Column and the MerKaBa along with other structures of light which will be described later. The Light Body is partly here and incarnated but it is very blocked and is not functioning properly which leads to the state of consciousness of the normal individual. Because of the way we have incarnated into such dense matter, the dualistic nature of the 3rd dimension and the purposes for which we have done this, our bodies are all out-of-whack. In a nutshell the goal is to purify the astral layer, clear and raise the vibration of the etheric and physical bodies, incarnate more of the light body and get its structures and energy centers balanced and functioning properly. Through this the spirit is able to incarnate into matter.
I hope you find this piece of information a beginning to search for yourselves even more and find your own conclusions that will resonate right for you!!!
Enjoy and thank you for reading my blog.
Deep blessings!!!
Gabriela
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11 Jul 2011 - 9:51am
There is this bit of beauraucratic news...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-marijuana-20110709,0,1346255.story
And here is the discussed document...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-08/pdf/2011-16994.pdf
Your honor, I will not waste too much of your attention. I intend to be so brief as to allow the considerations of the court to be directed to much weightier matters.
I will stipulate my bias in the matter, I am a user of the discussed substance. That is in no way a legal confession of a crime your honor.
The document is from the Federal Register dated Friday, July 8, 2011, and is titled "Denial of Petition to Reschedule Marijuana."
I quote: The substance is so related in its action
to a substance already listed as having a
potential for abuse to make it likely that it
will have the same potential for abuse as
such substance, thus making it reasonable to
assume that there may be significant
diversions from legitimate channels,
significant use contrary to or without
medical advice, or that it has a substantial
capability of creating hazards to the health
of the user or to the safety of the community.
Really?
And this from page 1, column 2 (at the bottom):
as well as psychic addiction or
dependence.
"Psychic" addiction? I am not sure what that is? I love God, bunches. Golly I try to keep God in my system 24/7. Could I be Psychically addicted? I am pretty sure there is an issue with "psychological addiction" but hey, isn't that life?
Page two, top of column 2
The term ‘‘abuse’’ is not defined in the
CSA. [Controlled Substances Act of 1970]
Why not just define it already? INSTEAD the document uses the precedent of government agencies and appointees from the last 30 years. WRONG premise, maybe, with all respect your immense holinesses?
AND, if I may address the court. You Massive obsfuctators of elucidation of inclarity, what is the meaning of "significant diversion?" Is that an "interstate commerce issue?"
ONE more, your supreme ennuinesses, this phrase from the evaluation of the nondefined abuse:
Individuals are taking the substance on
their own initiative rather than on the basis
of medical advice from a practitioner
licensed by law to administer such
substances.
Is that like the commercial which advises "ask your doctor if you're healthy enough for sexual activity.:...? I throw myself on the mercy of the court, I don't have a doctor. I am an insurgent in that, I make the choices for my own health. Nice to meetcha Alan Kaeeeeda, you can call me Al.
YOUR supreme superfluousnesses, I will suggest a recess. For you. I don't need one cause I play all the time. NOW I am gonna smokeabowl.
Shine Bright.
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11 Jul 2011 - 7:47am
I would rather not have an opinion. Seems burdensome, and there's always another defensible position. That is really what opinions are--aren't they? A defensible position? I will assert X, someone else can assert "not X" --inevitably someone more evolved will come along and point out "hey, Y!"
I prefer choices. One of my very favorite quotes is "To know and not to do, is truly not to know." Opinions seem to stem from reflection, even--dare I say it--idleness.
When I worked at the barbeque joint, we would spend the quiet times playing "the hypothetical game." It is a simple game to learn, but hard to master. A hypothetical situation is presented: "If person A came in and did event X to person B--what would you do?" The crippled imagination answers in the most reasoned and direct way possible. That person thinks that they are deciding in advance what to do...nothing could be further from the truth. We're playing a game!
The liberated mind will add to the creation that the hypothetical structures: "It depends...is person A wearing a hat? Does person B sing during the episode?" See? there is a co-creation happening. Instead of necking the discussion down to a point, we're broadening the field of possibilities. The way to win in the hypothetical is the same as thriving in the tangible: Expand that consciousness, include the potentials you've not considered.
That game, the opinions, maybe they're our freewill twitching because we have stunted the choices. Maybe we've let the deception of the world teach us instead of our hearts healing that deception. We may think, "I must work or I will die." BUT until we've tried both working and not working and find out that we survive BOTH--well we're only operating on the opinion, the idle thought.
"If person A comes in and does X to person B..." We don't know what will happen in any particular now. So making those decisions in advance seems like we're hobbling ourselves. I may hug person A or whack them with a stick, who knows?
AND what is the opportunity cost of talking about, giving our energy to a hypothetical? Which reality are we ignoring in favor of the discussion?
Have you ever seen a neighborhood that has a strong authoritarian home owners association? Beige. Tan. All colors inoffensive and within the hump of the statistical bell curve. Everyone playing for the resale, no joy allowed.
The whole thing of value judgements is similar to opinions, better to have less--IN MY OPINION!! LMAO.
Shine Bright.
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8 Jul 2011 - 1:47pm
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Fatal Cocktail of Common Drugs Putting Elderly at Risk.
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Hundreds of thousands of older people are being put at increased risk of death or developing dementia by taking combinations of common medicines to treat routine illnesses, according to a new study.
Well-known brands of hay fever tablets, painkillers and sleeping pills pose a previously unknown threat to people’s health when taken together, British scientists claim.
Many are available over the counter at pharmacies as well as being prescribed by GPs, nurses and chemists.
Today the scientists behind the study call for doctors to recognise how dangerous these drug combinations can be and to prescribe harmless alternatives instead.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia and the University of Kent identified 80 widely used medications that, when used in combination, were found to increase the risk of serious health problems.
The drugs, including common allergy treatments Piriton and Zantac, as well as Seroxat, an anti-depressant, are thought to be used by half of the 10 million over-65s in Britain.
Many of the drugs, when taken in combination, were found to more than treble an elderly patient’s chance of dying within two years.
Common bladder medications, heart drugs, eye drops and asthma treatments were also among those found to pose a risk.
Read more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8594677/Fatal-cocktail-of-common-drugs-putting-elderly-at-risk.html
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6 Jul 2011 - 7:45pm
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What does the number on a fruit sticker mean?
Price Look-Up codes, commonly called PLU codes, PLU numbers or PLUs, are identification numbers affixed to produce and other products in grocery stores and supermarkets to make check-out and inventory control easier, faster, and more accurate.
The code is a four or five-digit number, identifying the type of bulk produce, usually including the variety.
Organic produce is denoted by a five-digit number whose first digit is 9 (e.g. 94011 for organic yellow bananas); an 8 prefix indicates genetically modified food.
The codes have been in use since 1990. Currently, there are over 1300 universal PLU codes assigned.
Use of PLU codes eliminates the need for grocery store checkers to identify each variety of produce visually. This advantage is especially important with the growth of the organic produce market; organic and conventional oranges, for example, may look the same but have very different prices.
http://www.fruitsticker.com/
Price look-up codes are generally printed on small stickers or tags.
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29 Jun 2011 - 5:32am
I write this due to my own struggle with keeping my teeth healthy. It seems every year I have few more cavities, but this year it's a whole whopping different story. And I know the culprit - or at least until few weeks ago I thought I knew!
Sugar, since Christmas I have been a sugar addict, and it's not something I admit lightly or in humoristic way as it is not humorous in any way. We all know sugar is bad for us, not just teeth but the body, natural energy levels and production of natural balance of feel good chemicals by the brain.
Sugar is an addiction, as strong as one to heroine ( some experts say, read here HERE ) though with not quite the withdrawal symptoms.
I kicked sugar four weeks ago for good, deciding to not let myself slip the coming Christmas like I did last, where this begun.
The first two weeks were literally very hard - I do not know if you have tried to cut sugar off after almost daily indulgence for several weeks, but it is hard. I kept purposefully away from the candy isles, but wanted to go them so bad, same with anything else that had sugar, pastries, snack bars, soft drinks...
But I held my ground, with will power, and conscious choices, and it took just like last time 2 WEEKS to get rid of the sugar cravings. 2 weeks! If you think about it that is a long time, people!
Sugar has 2 week purge time, the artificial sugar leaves the body in 2 weeks, after which the craving top have more more more is diminished almost fully.
Now - It was also that 4 weeks ago that I started searching for information on healthy dental care, and ran across this guy Ramiel Nagal who seems to have a holistic, conscious view on tooth care with his book Cure Toot Decay.
"Eating healthy is not just about eating fruits and vegetables. It is about eating mineral dense food sources, regularly, as in twice per day or more." ~Ramiel Nagal
Also right at this time I had my 2 year check up at the dentist appointment.
I immediately liked my doctor a very young woman, who I felt was kind, she talked to me and showed me my scans and told me in a way that I could not deny that I needed to start flossing and begin to use Xylitol after every meal. I took her word and got the things needed at the store afterwards, then at home I ran into Cure Tooth Decay website and begin to do healing work on my teeth.
After reading Mr. Nagal's first free chapter I buy calcium tablets as I eat very little yogurt and milk, phosphorus I discover you have to get from food, and hence buy All Bran Cereal for breakfast, getting my hit of phosphorus every morning. Calcium and phosphorus produce a substance called hydroxyapatite to the saliva which is demineralizing, in other words creates stronger teeth by strengthening the dentil and enamel.
Now I cannot say I yet fully believe in all he talks about, phyctic acid being one, where whole grains and nuts and corn are bad for you.
There is very much contradicting information, but I do believe that as little invasive action on teeth is the best way to go, I am sure we all know about the amalgam fillings are no good and that the best filling these days is ceramic.
This is why before I headed out to camping I made a deal with my teeth and the universe that if it was in the highest good, I would reform my diet and my teeth in return would allow themselves to be healed with Reiki by me. This worked wonders on my sore tooth that my dentist had said most likely had pulpitis and that if the pain continued or worsened I was to have root canal on it. Well the pain went away almost immediately as I begun healing my teeth.
I felt the glands produce hydroxyapatite rich saliva to strengthen the dentin and enamel, making my teeth white inside out, and felt the energies of Reiki impact all my teeth, healing them, showering them with love and light. Helping the enamel's beginning cavities just fade away. And be replaced by strength and health.
On the physical side I brush my teeth morning and evening and floss every evening.
I also use Xylitol gum or tablets after every meal as this is what I learned from Xylitol.
"Most of the early studies on xylitol consumption and tooth decay were carried out with xylitol gum. Since chewing gum elicits an increase in salivation, it was uncertain if the xylitol or the stimulated saliva flow accounted for the decrease in decay rate. Increased salivation does exert a cleansing influence on teeth, has a buffering effect on the bacterial acids, and results in an increase of calcium and phosphate, which causes a healing or hardening of tooth enamel. This question was answered when chewing gums sweetened with different sweeteners were compared in a field study of 4th-grade students in Central America. The highest decay rate was found in children who chewed sugar-containing gum, even higher than those children who did not chew gum. Sugar-free gum did lower the decay rate, but the most dramatic drop in the decay rate was observed in children chewing 100%-sweetened xylitol gum."
Read the whole article here: http://www.tidewaterwomen.com/back-issues/2011-issues/aromatherapy/item/175-xylitol-sweet-answer-to-healthy-teeth?tmpl=component&print=1 and see if you want to be doing the same routine.
Wither I believe that regular dental care is right or alternative is right, I see no harm in following them both as best as I can. I firmly believe what we eat effects our health so why wouldn't it affect our dental health.
I believe my whole grain, as organic as possible diet of the vegetarian and non-alcoholic kind will help my teeth be stronger.
As I continue with this journey to find tools and advice on the best dental care I am about to leave for my first dental appointment to fix what needs to be fixed, knowing my healing work has worked it's wonder and what still needs to be done is in the highest good of me.
If you feel so, feel free to send healing to me and my teeth as we continue on our search for the right solutions.
( original entry at my blog @ http://niinac.blogspot.com/2011/06/healthy-teeth-myriad-of-information-to.html )
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24 Jun 2011 - 10:30pm
FLUORIDE CAN DAMAGE THE BRAIN
[What is not mentioned in article is that fluoride calcifies the center of the PINEAL GLAND - your interface with other dimensions. Note that fluoride can cross the blood-brain barrier.~ES]
NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The prolonged ingestion of fluoride may cause significant damage to health and particularly to the nervous system," concludes a review of studies by researchers Valdez-Jimenez, et al. published in Neurologia (June 2011), reports New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).
The research team reports, "It is important to be aware of this serious problem and avoid the use of toothpaste and items that contain fluoride, particularly in children as they are more susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride." (1)
"Fluoride can be toxic by ingesting one part per million (ppm), and the effects are not immediate, as they can take 20 years or more to become evident," they write.
Most fluoridating U.S. public drinking water suppliers add fluoride chemicals to deliver 1 ppm fluoride (equal to about 1 milligram per quart) intending to benefit teeth and not to purify the water.
"Fluoridation clearly jeopardizes our children and must be stopped," says attorney Paul Beeber, President, NYSCOF. "We can actually see how fluoride has damaged children's teeth with dental fluorosis; but we can't see the harm it's doing to their brains and other organs. No U.S. researcher is even looking," says Beeber.
Valdez-Jimenez, et al. describe studies that show fluoride induces changes in the brain's physical structure and biochemistry which affects the neurological and mental development of individuals including cognitive processes, such as learning and memory.
"Fluoride is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, which may cause biochemical and functional changes in the nervous system during pregnancy, since the fluoride accumulates in brain tissue before birth," they write.*
Animal studies show fluoride's toxic brain effects include classic brain abnormalities found in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Valdez-Jimenez's team reports.
A different research team (Tang et al.) reported in 2008 that "A qualitative review of the studies found a consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ." (Biological Trace Element Research) (2)
In 2006, the U.S. National Research Council's (NRC) expert fluoride panel reviewed fluoride toxicology and concluded, "It's apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain." And, "Fluorides also increase the production of free radicals in the brain through several different biological pathways. These changes have a bearing on the possibility that fluorides act to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease." (3)
On April 12, 2010, Time magazine listed fluoride as one of the "Top Ten Common Household Toxins" and described fluoride as both "neurotoxic and potentially tumorigenic if swallowed." (4)
Phyllis Mullenix, Ph.D., was the first U.S. scientist to find evidence that fluoride damages the brain. She published her animal study in a respected peer-reviewed scientific journal in 1995 (5) and then was fired for doing so.(6)
Vyvyan Howard, M.D., Ph.D., a prominent fetal toxicologist and past-President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, said that current brain/fluoride research convinces him that we should stop water fluoridation.
Many communities have stopped or rejected fluoridation in the past several years – the most recent is Fairbanks, Alaska. This year, seven New York City Council Members co-sponsored legislation to stop fluoridation in NYC.
*Translated from Spanish using Google Translation
References: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/fluoridation-news-releases/rD7pCONMcLw/discussion
Contact: Paul Beeber, JD, 516-433-8882 nyscof@aol.com
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
http://www.fluoridation.webs.com
SOURCE NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
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24 Jun 2011 - 9:04am
In a recently published book, Blinded by Science, the author Matthew Silverstone, proves scientifically that trees improve many health issues such as; mental illnesses, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), concentration levels, reaction times, depression and the ability to alleviate headaches.
Countless studies have shown that children show significant psychological and physiological effects in terms of their health and well being when they interact with plants. They demonstrate that children function better cognitively and emotionally in green environments and have more creative play in green areas.
A large public health report that investigated the association between green spaces and mental health concluded that "access to nature can significantly contribute to our mental capital and wellbeing".
So what is it about nature that can have these significant effects? Up until now it has been thought to be the open green spaces that cause this effect. However, Matthew Silverstone, shows that it is nothing to do with this by proving scientifically that it is the vibrational properties of trees and plants that give us the health benefits and not the open green spaces.
The answer to how plants and trees affect us physiologically turns out to be very simple. It is all to do with the fact that everything vibrates, and different vibrations affect biological behaviours. It has been proven that if you drink a glass of water that has been treated with a 10Hz vibration your blood coagulation rates will change immediately on ingesting the treated water. It is the same with trees, when touching a tree its different vibrational pattern will affect various biological behaviours within your body.
This vibrational idea is backed up throughout the book by hundreds of scientific studies to provide overwhelming proof that tree hugging after all is not such a crazy idea. Not only is it good for our health but it can also save the Government a lot of money by offering an alternative form of treatment that is free.
One report concluded with the following: "safe, green spaces may be as effective as prescription drugs in treating some forms of mental illnesses".
Wouldn't it be nice to hear from now on that doctors treat some forms of illnesses by suggesting a walk in the park rather than taking a packet full of pills.
Source: Naturalnews.com
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23 Jun 2011 - 2:40pm
On March 6th 2011 I wrote a blog entry called THE HAIR, THE HEAD AND THE BLOOD STREAM where I wrote:
On that note I am considering stopping dyeing my hair - which is a much bigger issue of vanity ( can't imagine I know a lady who would disagree that dyeing is done due to vanity ) and much harder to do. I recall I spend four months not dyeing my hair until I couldn't take it any longer and gave in.
Of course there is the organic way and brands, but how is that any different when you get down to the point of vanity and altering your looks?
Why do I need to look different, or specifically be a certain tone of brunette?
Spiritually speaking I do not see any need for that.
Vanity's point of view is different of course! Finns are known to have this interesting hair color in the shade of ash. Yep - not really pretty under the current standards, where colors are pure and dark and hair needs to be glossy. I recall a hairdresser telling me how my normal hair color was a pretty brown but just dull and not glossy. I didn't think much of it then, and agreed - but I bloody well want to like my own hair! If it happens to be the color of field mouse then be it, it doesn't change anything about me, doesn't change who I AM.
Alright I dare you, Niina, to not dye your hair for a year. To use organic shampoo & conditioner and not spray your head with chemicals.
I would like to not dumb myself down with product of vanity, not lose interest and to be lighter just by knowing I am doing the right thing by my body. I'm ready to enjoy this adventure of a life organically, just as my body was created without messing with the basics. Now a nice shirt or pair of shoes is enough of a decoration!
Now it has been few days till 4 months since I stopped dying my hair, and I feel so different, not just look but feel as well.
I recently took up the organic herbal shampoo and conditioner as well, and that has made a huge difference, I felt it first wash on. So the picture on the right there that is my current hair color, though sun is pretty much bleaching my roots now - I love it and I feel much better.
I did though have a rough time with it the first 2 months, it was driving me mad by looking like I constantly had greasy hair due to my roots being lighter than my hair.
I recommend this to all who dye their hair, go without its great and gives you a clearer head ;)
( original entry at my blog @ http://niinac.blogspot.com/2011/06/hair-dye-challenge-month-4.html )
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16 Jun 2011 - 5:15pm
This is so revealing I am surprised this is not on TV daily to wake people up to this TRUTH>.. and true it is! ;-)
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15 Jun 2011 - 6:31pm
Not sure where this is posted or... but seek truth. Still confused and vascillating but I suppose that is part of the growing pains. I have come a long way in waking thanks to the help of whoever... I don't know much for sure other than there are unseen entities here on earth, sure there are a bunch of lies as well. unsure who is good or bad, right or wrong and thinking that may part of the personal journey. Just going to ponder from the lost gospel of Thomas
"Let those who seek continue seeking until they find.
When they find, they will become troubled.
When they become troubled,they will be astonished.
Recognize what is in your sight,and that which is hidden
from you will become plain to you."
Yeah, I relate to this. This is true
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9 Jun 2011 - 2:38am
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Weaponized e. Coli Found to Contain Plague DNA
Dr. Rima Reports on the extraordinary breaking story: Plague DNA Inserted into the Super e. Coli! What are we to make of this? General Bert’s eyebrows went up when he heard. “Weaponized disease… again…” is all he has said so far. But Dr. Rima reports, clearly, another data point has been stored in his mind… What to do? Dr. Rima recommends, and explains below, Nano Silver.
They tell us the “Super bug E. coli 0104:H” is terrorizing Germany, causing otherwise healthy people to develop Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome (HUS) in which their kidneys fail, their red blood cells explode and then, tragically, they die.
Germ sleuths and clinicians alike have been even more horrified than the average Spanish cucumber eater (the vegetable pinned with the blame for the lethal outbreak). The general public just wants the disaster to go away. The doctors want to know why, what and, now, WHO is responsible.
E. coli is found in the guts of every mammal and is generally harmless. In fact, it is present in massive quantities: half of the volume of the normal bowel excretion is made up of their huge numbers. But when a good germ goes wrong, it can cause disease in the host or anyone who picks it up through contamination or lack of hygiene.
And E. coli 0104:H4 has gone very, very wrong, with, it would appear, quite a bit of help from its friends.
Mike Adams, the intrepid Health Ranger, revealed to the English speaking world that this extraordinarily aggressive E. coli (from a family of bugs which are normally passive and non-aggressive in the extreme) had been systematically genetically altered through laboratory manipulation, to be totally resistant to 8 classes of antibiotics.
Natural News Article Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/032623_ecoli_fresh_vegetables.html
“European health authorities are leaping at the opportunity to spread fear about organic foods while ignoring the obvious true cause of the contamination in the first place — the widespread abuse of antibiotics in animal farming operations… The e.coli blame game has become a circus of musical chairs. First, they blamed the Spaniards as a form of retaliation for Spain’s resistance to accepting GMOs. This act drove Spanish farmers into bankruptcy through a savage campaign of rumor-mongering. After ravaging the Spanish vegetable farmers, they began to randomly instill widespread fear about a variety of vegetables: First it was cucumbers, then lettuce and then finally tomatoes. And now, the blame has come full circle and is now being cast upon organic sprout growers in Germany!”
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032623_ecoli_fresh_vegetables.html#ixzz1OjU2qjYz
He pointed out, quite correctly, that without sustained and careful laboratory manipulation there would be no way for this organism to acquire total resistance to these drugs since the drugs are not used in agriculture and the bacteria would not encounter all eight of them in nature.
The only reasonable conclusion is that colonies of normal E. coli had been intentionally, systematically exposed to each of the antibiotics in turn and the surviving colonies had been propagated and then exposed to the next antibiotic. The surviving germs were now resistant to both of the antibiotics to which they had been exposed. The process was repeated until a super bug was created which would not yield to any of the antibiotics that doctors would customarily use to treat the infection.
This is the only rational conclusion to which the evidence points.
Of course, by who, and why, the altered organism was deployed has not yet been established. A psychotic graduate student with aspirations to be a mass murderer? A corporate ploy to discredit independent agriculture and force the total industrialization of food to keep it “safe” from contamination (that is, the organized intentional contamination of all food by the folks who make the agrochemicals and GMOs which allow more of them to poison us and the drugs that you take when you get sick from the food)? A dedicated globalist loyally pursuing the “great culling” of us “useless eaters”?
NO Food Control Action Item: http://tinurl.com/nofoodcontrol
So what we knew was that a forced natural selection had been used to create killer super-super bugs. Now we know that genetic manipulation of the GMO sort has been used, as well. Truly, a weaponized bug if there ever was one…
Helge Karch, the director of the Robert Koch Institute (Germany’s CDC). who heads a consulting laboratory at the Münster University Hospital in Germany says that he has discovered that the super killer contains DNA from E. coli, which is what he expected. It also contains (unexpectedly for those who don’t expect such genocidal manipulations) DNA from the organism that causes plague, responsible for wiping out a quarter of Europe’s population during the Black Death (1348-1351).
Please pay attention here: we are talking about the Black Death. Seriously.
Bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis and is one of the most feared of all disorders. So when Dr. Karch blithely assured the German population that there is little danger of an outbreak of plague from this organism, he is clearly whistling through his Spanish cucumber.
Although we all love to be reassured, there is no one on planet Earth who can reassure us that we are not already facing a new plague. This one, however, rather than resulting from an unplanned, but wildly toxic combination of rats, lice and history, would be the intentional outcome of an unnatural selection process and a high-tech genetic manipulation to create a death bug. A weaponized bug.
Deny the genocidal agenda at your peril. I, for one, can see no reasonable option to the conclusion that the mad [wo]men at the helm of the realm are consummate murderers, killing randomly for their own unspeakable ends.
A bright note, however: there is no way in which any organism can become resistant to nano silver. None. Faced with the presence of a plague, a weaponized super plague, an ordinary infection or a genocidal assault through organisms of death, I want nano silver on hand, lots of it. Nano-silver is a nutrient that supports normal immune system function.
Ah, yes, nano silver was declared illegal in Europe on January 1, 2011. Can’t use an illegal substance, now can we. The good people of Europe are expected to be good citizens of the New World Order and… just die.
Civil disobedience, anyone? Or perhaps the people are ready to fight for their silver!
I get mine, which is called “Silver Sol” at www.Nutronix.com/NaturalSolutions. You should, too.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima – www.DrRima.net
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation
Blog entry
7 Jun 2011 - 1:23am
Is anyone suffering from restless leg syndrome out there? This and the migraines are almost constant lately.
Blog entry
5 Jun 2011 - 11:53am
I find this a big step forward in "discovering" how consciousness "works"
and can be understood by a in 3D incarnated Human.
Love~, SiNeh~
Blog entry
30 May 2011 - 10:54pm
An Interview With Doctor, Specialist in Fertility Issues and Master of Holistic, Ayurvedic, Chinese and Shamanic Medicine, Shiva.
Ashley: are woman more sensible while on their monthly?? To energy and everything….. i mean
Shiva: Yes women have a hormonal reaction during the time of the period or Menstruation. Though this can manifest itself differently in different people, especially once the woman has aligned herself with the moon cycles, she will experience a much different menstruation experience
Ashley: I’ve noticed everything is heightened
Shiva: Yes, the large fluctuations of hormones will affect the glands. This is why women may be seen getting over emotional or if they have been affected more heavily due to social pressures and educational and media manipulation will react by getting physical pains and large attitudes. (innocent smile)
Ashley: How do I align myself with the moon??
Shiva: When you are able to go back and clean out the negative emotions you have hidden you will then be able to start the process of aligning yourself to the moon. As for now, keep staying happy. There are some specific practices and tonics that can be used and taken to help make this natural connection pass smoother and quicker. Since all people are slightly different, each case is different. If concerned about this, you can contact me personally.
Also, When you are menstruating you should avoid as much activity as possible.
Ashley: So no running and working out 0.o?
Shiva: Hah, No. Only WorkOut Should Be Silent Meditation. This time of the month is actually a very divine time. The menstruation is as divine as the male semen but in their own ways.
Ashley: I knew it!!! I knew that there is something very special about it..divine.
Shiva: Yes, As a man who ejaculates too often will not have the spiritual energy to integrate higher connection with spirit, a women who works during her menstruation will not either.
Ashley: Ahh I see.
Shiva: The stupidity of our culture has made most women think it is a bother and a poor aspect of being a women. When it is in fact completely the opposite!
Ashley: Yes they have. I used to never get cramps…now I get very very small ones once in a while…if at all.
Shiva: You should be devoted to the passing of your egg and as you age, you will remain with eggs as powerful as the eggs before. A woman who works during her menstruation will have weaker eggs as she grows older. This Creates a Potential For Complications in The Child Birth and gene pool connections.
Ashley: what should be my focus? Should I meditate on something specifically?
Shiva: Your focus should be on the root chakra. All meditations Should visualize the color Red and give thanks to having been given another chance to hold the potential for infinite life within your body.
During this time many women try to avoid the feelings. But using this time to let go of old, staggering emotions, through the root chakra, can work very effectively. In the Menstruation one is letting go of the small piece of infinite potential that could expand into who knows how many generations of life.
One egg we do not look at as very much. But a few thousand human eggs eventually led to nearly 7 billion people on the planet. Each egg is very sacred, whether the egg is fertilized or not, its sacredness lives in its potential.
Ashley: What is the best thing to eat… or drink because I just asked mom that? This is want the woman want to know.
Shiva: Foods should be very clean and cleansing. The body has also spent the past month preparing the uterus for a baby. Since the baby has not come the inside blood and mucus is actually semi fermented and slightly toxic.
However, it is no crime for a woman to listen to her bodies cravings at this time. I will say “If You Crave it, Its Safe to Say You Should Probably Take it.” There certainly exist many foods that your hormonal elevation could react positively too. Chocolate or better Raw Cacao Smoothie, Banana or Serotonin elevated fruits. You may have your own comfort food, connected with a memory or recurring experience. This is good.
However, do avoid fats, milks, oils and anything that would slow the expulsion process down. And if your “Good Times” Craving is something not such a good find for the body, follow up with sufficient water and maybe a carrot and beet juice extraxt.
Ashley: I’m not on any pill or depot shot…because I don’t think that’s very healthy or nice at all. What’s your input on that?
Shiva: The pill is very bad. Or anything else that may mess with the regularity of the menstruation cycle. Sex really should be a 3rd and 4th dimensional activity, but most people desire it and make it a 2nd and 3rd. Not getting into morals, the pills throws off the natural movement of the egg, which even if not connected with the lunar cycle should be regular and consistent.
Ashley: Then that’s good I havent done it in a long time, and don’t plan to… do tell what happens when a woman messes with herself and how that effects it?
Shiva: When the menstruation becomes irregular it begins to compound toxins in ovarian walls. These toxins will affect future eggs and more so if a woman waits to get pregnant until she is older as most women are these days, it has significant risk at increasing the potential for an unhealthy mixture of the genetics.
If the women never plans to have babies, it will still negatively affect her entire blood supply, leading to very unpredictable and erratic illnesses.
It is the potential of the egg that the (FASTEST) Sperm can fulfill. Now that means the mans job is to keep as much speed as possible down there, the womans…. as much potential. if the harmony of the menstruation is not respected this potential is significantly decreased.
Eric is a certified Yoga Teacher as well as Ayurvedic Therapist. After Studying Western Medicine for 2 years in University He went to India to to develop a more complete understanding of health and wellness. For the Past 5 years he as been working with, teaching and studying with ancient western traditions as well as Eastern traditions, including Mayan and Inca Shamanism. Holistically Awesome, very few traditions escape the grasp of his understanding.
Eric is a certified Yoga Teacher, Mayan Cosmologist, Chinese acupuncturist as well as Ayurvedic Therapist. After Studying Western Medicine for 2 years in University He went to India to to develop a more complete understanding of health and wellness. For the Past 7 years he as been working with, teaching and studying with ancient western traditions as well as Eastern traditions, including Mayan and Inca Shamanism, the vedas, chinese Medicine and Alchemy. Holistically Awesome, very few traditions escape the grasp of his understanding.
*Spread This As You Wish, SAY SHIVA TOLD YA
Shaman (md.) Eric The Jade Buddha Budd
Blog entry
30 May 2011 - 8:38am
I am off on a little road trip this morning, going to help a friend. So the blog experiment becomes a challenge.
You know, I went to church consistently as a child, Sunday school, too. It wasn't a choice I made, it was a choice my parents made. Like much of adult life, I was subjected to it, but didn't understand it. There were other routines and choices I was subjected to that were much less pleasant.
I always liked the singing. Mom and Dad would hold one hymnal and my sister and I would share one. I would always try to make her laugh by pronouncing the words phonetically.
Sunday school was wonderful, no homework, great subjects of universal interest. When I was in my teens, I went to MYF (Methodist youth fellowship) and had quite a social life there. I was in musicals: Music Man, Bye bye Birdie, Annie Get your gun, and The king and I. I feel really fortunate for the experience.
I could be that I recieved some good foundational instruction in those days. BUT faith isn't taught, it's found.
It seems like we find it only when we need it. There are many Near Death Experiencers here on LWs. Some people develop their faith as a means of controlling addiction. I think the twelve step formula that the anonymous ones use is wonderful. As are many of thier "meetings" which I equate with something holy.
I did 90 meetings in 90 days at one point, in the same way I am doing these blogs. I went to a noon meeting in the basement of a baptist church. Simple formula: Group prayer, followed by sharing without judgement, another prayer, hit the road. It's powerful stuff. Each person gets to see themselves in each other. Everyone counts.
I wish I had a good "born again" story. BUT my faith creeped in with experience. The world didn't work like it was described by the television, or by teachers. Hard work was my fathers mantra. My easy going nature was always hard for him.
I can work hard. But I never did see that as a reason to be. My old man was always making himself miserable by noticing how much harder he was working than anyone else. What was he working so hard at? Why on earth was accounting so time consuming? AND Irritating apparently.
So, my experience was different than his. The longer I lived, the harder I worked, the shittier the world seemed. I don't know if I have ever been suicidal but I sure looked at it. For around three months in there, I would wake up and sit with a loaded shotgun in my mouth, finding a reason to live another day. Sans the firearms, it's a good practice. AND there are myriad wonderful reasons to embrace life on planet earth, it turns out that a life of misery in labor was not my way.
I was first to the shrinks when I was 19, I learned there were many folks in much worse shape than I was. In many cases these folks were the shrinks...They told me to divorce my family. Huh.
My time in the psyche ward didn't make me unappealing to the Navy. I joined in 1980, went nuclear power, submarines. I really needed to accomplish something hard. I really didn't know if I had it in me to see that sort of thing through. It was important to me, I didn't want to be a quitter.
Turns out that I DID have some focus in me. I kicked the Navy nuclear power school right between the legs. The military is like camp, they never give you too much free time. There is always a peer group. Regular meals, something to do.
BUT it wasn't summer camp. It was a big military waste machine. I got to be on a crew that was going to refuel a prototype power plant. I prepared a list of tools we would need. When I went to requisition, I was told to double my amount so that "everyone can steal what they want and we'll still have what we need to do the job." :0 Geeee
Dissatisfaction returned after the six years in the service. I was still trying to find something in the world of my father. Everything was about money, I just could never get excited about it. When I ended up back with the shrinks, I started taking the Meds. "OH, it's all a chemical imbalance..." I went from Prozac to lithium to paxil to wellbutrin to tegretol to effexor to lexapro to something else...
"Let's try this..." And I would have to schedule my life around taking the pill and getting the blood test. I was still wretched.
At one point I decided I was going to attack my problem with a threefold method: Chemistry (the pills), Psychology (I love the talking therapy), and spirituality. Thing is, no one who does it for money can talk about God. About spirit.
I learned a meditation practice, I read, I journaled. Nothing succeeds like success. IN my three-pronged attack, it was the spiritual that was coming to the fore. The emphasis on spirit wasn't solving my problems, it was allowing me to see them differently. NOT a life that was inadequate but one that was RICH. I am a skeptic. MY faith is strong because I have tested it, probably irritated God along the way.
IT was on every bumpersticker and greeting card, but so few around me had availed themselves of it. Each tentative step I took into the world of the ineffable, was rewarded. Not those material rewards that I had been programmed to seek. Peace. Contentment. Dare I say, "happiness"?
The more energy I put into my spirit, the less the other two prongs seemed to work. I found my therapist was telling me his concerns about his own life. The pills seemed silly and a risk to my kidney. One prong emerged. Proving to my analytical mind that ours is a spiritual existence and the material is little more than stage props.
I had grown up in a place, in a culture that really dug the duckets. So, in giving that up, I gave up a lot of my history. Most of the friends of my youth can't really understand. They never had a blessing to take them out of it, their path is different.
My tendency here is to compare and contrast my spiritual evolution to those who were once my peers. BUT that's lame-o too. There is only one life that I can be an expert on--my own.
I get so excited about it. I want everyone to be okay the same way. I make my self a fool with exuberance. I allow the denegration of those without eyes to see. Call me a fool while you pop another xanax to take the edge off of your success.
I am terribly defensive aren't I? I find myself posting like I was writing for the board of a corporation rather than a group of like minded individuals. Preaching to the choir.
It feels like fifty years behind enemy lines and sometimes it's hard for me to believe that I am in friendly territory. (There! enough with the war analogies!)
Well, with dawn comes a ride down the interstate river. My next missive will be from somewhere...else.
AND now the (purely optional) video:
Shine Bright.
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24 May 2011 - 8:28pm
http://www.orgonelab.org http://www.naturalenergyworks.net
Over many years Dr. Wilhelm Reich's work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation, being verified and confirmed in their major aspects, even while his malicious critics continue to ignore or distort this record of accomplishment and discovery. This video gives a short introduction, and provides reference books and websites by which the interested viewer can obtain facts and accurate information. Comments are active, but sorry I won't approve of typical skeptic-comments, or other words which are questionably unclear, off-target, or distort or make ridicule of Reich. There's plenty of that already on internet, and those websites never allow honest facts about Reich and orgonomy to emerge.
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video
19 May 2011 - 12:56pm
In Dying To Have Known, filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy -- a long-suppressed natural cancer cure. His travels take him across both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, from upstate New York to San Diego to Alaska, from Japan and Holland to Spain and Mexico. In the end, he presents the testimonies of patients, scientists, surgeons and nutritionists who testify to the therapy's efficacy in curing cancer and other degenerative diseases, and presents the hard scientific proof to back up their claims. You will hear from a Japanese medical school professor who cured himself of liver cancer over 15 years ago, a lymphoma patient who was diagnosed as terminal over 50 years ago as well as noted critics of this world-renowned healing method who dismiss it out of hand as "pure quackery." So the question that remains is, "Why is this powerful curative therapy still suppressed, more than 75 years after it was clearly proven to cure degenerative disease?" The viewers are left to decide for themselves.
Blog entry
17 May 2011 - 11:50pm
Watch what you eat. Look at the ingredients. Anything that usually contains chemicals are a cause for cancer.
Ill name some of them
Chewing Gum(Double Bubble Has BHT in it)
Dont eat canned foods that contain BHT
whatever that contains BHT dont eat it period. Its not natural.
Aspartame (Artificial Sweetener) avoid that, most gums have aspartame in it.
The water you drink contains chlorine, government chlorinates the water to kill bacteria and prevent bacteria, but it is also harmful to your body.
Government claims they use little amounts, but it is actually alot when you drink more water. Use a water filter and take a shower, then you will see the difference chlorine makes and chlorine filtered water makes. Chlorine basically dries ur skin, basically burns it in small amounts. I had major experiences with this. Your hair and skin will start to get better.
Chlorine is not good for you period. Not good at all.
Avoid using fluoride toothpaste, dentists reccommend it, but they add fluoride. Ofcourse some people say fluoride comes naturally in water in some parts of the world, thats fine, but watever that is added is not normal or natural. Be as natural as possible.
Do you know the artificial hand lotion, face lotion, SOAP, all have chemicals in it which can cause cancer.
Stop using chemical Air Fresheners.
Use natural oils, and fruits or watever to create your own cream. Natural oils like jojoba oil is the best for skin care. Remember to find oils without any added chemical to it.
STOP USING SUNSCREEN UV LOTION(YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO), the chemicals in sunscreen actually cause cancer go do ur research. LET THE SUN HEAL YOU , and RAISE YOU IN CONSCIOUSNESS. MEDITATE WITH THE SUN FOR A BIT AND YOU WILL SEE THE BENEFITS. DONT fall into fear. Nature has not been created to kill you but to nourish you.
WATCH what you put into your head while showering, dont use chemcial shampoos. It may seem like its not going to do anything because its on the outside..but your brain is the most important, and those chemicals can go through ur hair follicles. So watch what you put into your head. If you cant find natural shampoo then just wash your head with water.
Avoid using Gel on your hair, and vaseline for your skin. (Gel can cause headaches, and yes it contains chemicals to cause you know). ( I noticed the subtle effects of gel, when i used to feel all tired depressed, with headaches).
Learn to keep your body naturally healthy, stay away from medicine as much as possible and always always always find a NATURAL way to heal yourself. Medicine only cures surface problems, and cause other side effects. Dont take multivitamins because you are only artificially putting in multivitamins and you may put in too much all at once even if you feel better, JUST EAT FRUITS. EAT VEGETABLES. RAW, DONT COOK because that kills all the enzymes and vitamins.
Dont eat Fully burnt food, because that is carcinogens, carcinogens cause cancer
AVOID SULPHITES, that can cause allergic reactions, has link towards cancer.
STAY IN NATURE ALOT, nature heals, pure air, pure vibrations, calm less noise. When it is peaceful outside, it can also slowly give you peace of mind which in turn heals your body.
Find the best water with the least chlorine in it, and try to filter out fluoride if you can as well.
Dont use hand sanitizer, thats basically chemicals going into ur skin, use water, and natural soap and keep your immune system always healthy.
Best advice i can ever give all of you is, AVOID all chemicals that you eat and USE on your body, even breathe. Put chemicals in ur body that it cannot handle thats where the problem comes in. So avoid it as best as you can. Even if you cant avoid all of them atleast most of them will heal your body tremendously. Be as Natural as you can.
Cellphones also have some radiation. Go check it out (My personal experience is that when I use cellphones, i can feel some weird feeling in my ears after I use it for a while)
Nail polish, make-up, all the cosmetics that contain chemicals cause this. (Get natural stuff to put on your body)
All medicine and cure will only cure the surface problem, keep your body healthy, watch what you eat, and use. these are the best ways to prevent cancer and many other problems. Humans keep looking for cures all around, but have many ways to prevent all this.
There is so much more ways to prevent cancer, but now i told you to avoid all that contains chemicals, thats basically it. Thats all you need to know. Now you have to be aware of everything that you do.
And last But not least, the most important of all is to keep your Mind healthy, stay positive, stay happy, stay confident, trust in the divine, MEDITATE, this will all cure your body fast. Exercise this will activate your immune system. If you eat the right food and keep your mind healthy and confident, you will not even catch a cold. Drink lots of water. All I can say is, return to natural ways, and you will get the best type of health and life.
And above all, forget what cancer is, shun it, dont be afraid of it, and trust in the divine that it will always protect you and heal you Until you have ascended into higher realities.
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17 May 2011 - 8:02pm
http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.
This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.
Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?
In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.
The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.
With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.
Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.
You can access the original research for this cancer here.
This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.
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15 May 2011 - 3:39am
THE SILICA CONNECTION
"Next to oxygen, silica is the most abundant mineral on our planet, making up more than 25% of the earth's crust! After all the evidence of what DE does for animals, wouldn't it do the same for humans? The evidence we are beginning to see says yes!"
On land, the basic food for all animals is grass. Those animals that do not eat grass, eat the animals that do eat grass. The silica content of all living organisms is linked with the diet. Silica is highest for the pure plant eaters and lowest for the pure meat eaters.
Medical researchers suspect silica may be nutritionally important but its function in the human body is poorly understood owing to very little research. For most people, awareness of silica is limited to computer chips and breast implants, despite the fact it is found widely in sand, quartz and clay, and even in gemstones of amethyst, jasper and opal.
This noncrystalline silica (food-grade) is not a hazard as the human body apparently can dissolve it. "Silicosis refers to lung contamination and irritation by crystalline or free silica (SiO2). Crystalline describes the orientation of the SiO2 molecules which occur in a fixed pattern in contrast to the nonperiodic, random molecular arrangement defined as amorphous.
Fossil Shell Flour Diatomaceous Earth consists of amorphous silica. Silica transmits electricity, light and heat. Diatomaceous earth (DE), a white, cornstarch-like powder of finely ground fossilized algae consists of about 79% silica and at least 14 other valuable minerals.
Silica is necessary for the formation of collagen, for bones and connective tissue, for healthy nails, skin and hair, and for calcium absorption.
"Silica is essential to animal health. Absence of silica results in bone and collagen abnormalities. Further, research on humans shows silica increases the thickness and strength of skin, diminishes wrinkles and gives hair and nails a healthier appearance. All of these benefits accrue without any apparent negative side effects."
Other beneficial effects of Amorphous Silica:
Stimulates cell metabolism and cell formation
Inhibits the aging process in tissues
Necessary for the structure and functioning of connective tissue
Strengthens and stimulates the immune system
Silica is important for the development of healthy nails and hair and regular intake can stop unnecessary hair loss
Strengthens and stimulates the vascular system; lowers blood pressure and improves the condition called arteriosclerosis
Increase elasticity and firmness of the blood vessels
Silica is indispensable for the elasticity of lung tissue and, therefore, is a basic therapy for lung and respiratory disorders
Has anti-inflammatory disinfecting, absorbing and odor binding effects
Some of the disorders that benefit from regular silica intake include:
Disorders of the throat, nose, ears and teeth, disorder of the digestive and secretive organs, bone injuries and problems, skin problems and injuries including itching, rashes, abscesses, boils, acne, callouses, warts, eczemas, burns, frostbite, benign skin sores, insect bites and bed sores, female illnesses and as a base therapy for cancer treatment.*
*Cancer occurs mainly in middle and older ages at a time when the human body contain less silica. Silica especially influences the degenerated white blood cells of cancer patients, activates the regeneration of normal protein and increases the immune system against cancer. Silica helps support the healing process.
Some Human Studies: "In this study, a potential influence of food grade diatomaceous earth to lower blood cholesterol was investigated. During 12 weeks we monitored serum lipid concentrations in 19 healthy individuals with a history of moderate hypercholesterinemia. Individuals administered orally 250 mg. Diatomaceous earth three times daily during an 8 weeks observation period. Serum concentrations of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides levels were measured before study entry, every second week during the period of diatomaceous earth intake and 4 weeks after stop of intake.
Diatomaceous earth intake was associated with a significant reduction of serum cholesterol at any time point, reaching a minimum on week 6. Also low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels decreased. Four weeks after intake of diatomaceous earth was stopped, serum cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides still remained low and also the increase of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol became significant."
Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
In this study a potential influence of diatomaceous earth to lower blood cholesterol was investigated. During 12 weeks we monitored serum lipid concentrations in 19 healthy individuals with a history of moderate hypercholesterolemia (9 females, 10 males, age 35-67 years). Individuals administered orally 250 mg diatomaceous earth three-times daily during an 8 weeks observation period. Serum concentrations of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides levels were measured before study entry, every second week during the period of diatomaceous earth intake and 4 weeks after stop of intake.
Compared to baseline (285.8 +/- 37.5 mg/dl = 7.40 +/- 0.97 mM) diatomaceous earth was associated with a significant reduction of serum cholesterol at any time point, reaching a minimum on week 6 (248.1 mg/dl = 6.43 mM, -13.2% from baseline; p<0.001). Also low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (week 4: p<0.05) and triglycerides levels decreased (week 2: p<0.05, week 4: p<0.01). Four weeks after intake of diatomaceous earth was stopped, serum cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides still remained low and also the increase of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol became significant (p<0.05). Diatomaceous earth, a byproduct, is capable of reducing blood cholesterol and positively influencing lipid metabolism in humans. Placebo-controlled studies will be necessary to confirm our findings.
"Diatomaceous earth is capable of reducing blood cholesterol and positively influencing lipid metabolism in humans."
"E. coli are our friends: living in our intestines, they help digest our food and supply us with vitamin K. But there is an ugly strain of E. coli,that kills more than 200 people each year in the United States. These bacteria normally reside in the intestines of cattle; they reach humans through contaminated beef - as in the case of the outbreak that killed four people in Seattle in January 1993. (The source of infection was traced to a single fast-food chain.) The bacteria seeps through the damaged lining into the bloodstream. Kidney failute occurs within four to five days. Antibiotics are ineffective: they work by rupturing the bacteria, which only accelerate the spread of the toxin.
The University of Alberta has devised a way to stop the toxin in its tracks. They have created a decoy that holds off the toxin until the body can build up anti bodies to the bacteria, which takes about a week. Armstrong's decoys are made of sugar molecules. Each decoy is joined to a bit of diatomaceous earth porous sand that consists of the tiny skeletons of diatoms, which are a type of plankton. When the patient drinks the gritty fluid containing the decoys, the toxin molecules bind to the decoys and are then excreted along with the indigestible (diatomaceous) sand particles.
The decoy has already been tested on healthy volunteers with no ill effects. In clinical trials now under way in Canada, it is being used to treat children infected with toxic E. coli. (Children are particularly vulnerable to the toxin, apparently because their kidney cells carry more receptors for it than do the kidney cells of adults.)
I got it from deoutwest@yahoo.ca
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11 May 2011 - 1:22pm
Please read the entire article at http://www.in5d.com/spontaneous-evolution-has-arrived.html
David Sereda has been working diligently in this area of science. According to Sereda, since 2006, scientists have been noticing a difference in the decay rates in nuclear particles, which had been consistently reliable in previous years.
What does this mean? It isn't typical to see such a drastic change in these decay rates. Scientists are seeing a change of 1/10th of 1% in these particles, which was previously unheard of and is unexplainable at this moment. When a particle speeds up, it means it's radiating more energy. This includes the energy and particles within our own bodies. Studies on DNA have indicated that even very weak changes in the energy field can cause profound changes in our DNA.
Blog entry
10 May 2011 - 6:34pm
Om,
Purportedly with the advent of the solar eclipse (find following) of February 26, 1998 our "son universe" is/was/will be recreated by/with non polarized light (abba nartoomid:) if you like and your Spirit directs watch the eclipse and with your hands forming a triangle infront of your heart intone: "Abba Nartoomid.," abba nartoomid., abba nartoomid., abba nartoomid., abba nartoomid.... Shekhina Esh.
B the change.
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-On February 26, 1998, a total solar eclipse darkened skies in a swath stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, across the Caribbean. From the island of Aruba, an Exploratorium team presented a live Webcast of this celestial event.
At the time, Webcasting technology was in its infancy, and this first live Webcast ever of a solar eclipse broke existing records for the number of viewers. Watch the archived Webcast here, or just click on the images below for still photos of eclipse highlights.
br /> Total Solar Eclipse from Aruba: February 26, 1998
Webcast Archive: http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/ramfiles/eclipse2.ram
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Solar Eclipse
Stories From The Path of Totality
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/index.html
Find also:
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Arlene Kramer - Uranian Astrologer
Total Solar Eclipse
February 26, 1998
"In -a previous article, I advised... "
- http://www.arlenekramer.net/astrology36.asp
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?? -As the planet moves towards Zero Point, our brains and nervous systems are beginning to function on non-polarised Light. New circuits and etheric structures are developing in and around the brain...
Chaos in electro-magnetic fields of the planet, and electromagnetic pollution are also making this mutation more difficult...
Place two fingers on the ajna Center (front) and two fingers on the jade pillow (back). Pulse energy from the front to the back, through the Center of the brain, while chanting "Abba Nartoomid". (Hebrew for “Father of eternal (Infinite) light)
Do this for about a minute. Pulse energy from the back to the front, through the Center of the brain, while chanting "Shekhina Esh". (Hebrew for Divine Mother) Do this for about a minute.
Now pulse back and forth, alternating "Abba Nartoomid" (front to back) and "Shekhina Esh" (back to front). Do this for about a minute. This technique helps to activate and balance the new non-polarised Light circuits.
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HIKARI ELIXIR
[http://www.alchemicalmage.com/potions/Hikari.htm]
Blog entry
9 May 2011 - 2:51pm
by Gregg Prescott, M.S.
www.in5d.com
www.maya12-21-2012.com
Spontaneous evolution has occurred in history at specific increments in time. What causes these changes? How do these changes affect us on a cellular level? What is happening to our DNA right NOW?
Scientific Evidence
David Sereda has been working diligently in this area of science. According to Sereda, since 2006, scientists have been noticing a difference in the decay rates in nuclear particles, which had been consistently reliable in previous years.
What does this mean? It isn’t typical to see such a drastic change in these decay rates. Scientists are seeing a change of 1/10th of 1% in these particles, which was previously unheard of and is unexplainable at this moment. When a particle speeds up, it means it’s radiating more energy. This includes the energy and particles within our own bodies. Studies on DNA have indicated that even very weak changes in the energy field can cause profound changes in our DNA.
Sereda went on to state that because our children are in a rapid growth stage, they are going to receive more of this change than the adults.
There is a drastic climate change event happening on every planet in our solar system. Planets are becoming more luminous, have higher energy fields and have thicker atmospheres.
What is causing these dramatic changes?
Our Sun will reach a solar maximum in 2013. In the meanwhile, it is emitting high energy photons that can literally affect our consciousness, as evidenced by the global awakening that’s going on right now. It’s certainly not a coincidence that these energies are bringing in a wave of spiritual consciousness that demands truth and desires the best for humanity.
There is some evidence that points to the photon belt as being a prime catalyst for cellular change, but this is more speculation than factual science.
We are exiting the Age of Pisces and are entering the Age of Aquarius. As I noted in a previous article, each age has an energy signature associated with it. The energy signature of Aquarius is one that promotes Divine Order, truthfulness and all that is in the best interests of humanity. This is why the current, worldwide political corruption will come to an end soon, so it’s important not to focus too much of your own energy on their issues, because that’s the only energy that’s feeding them at this point in time.
All of the planets in our galaxy are undergoing dramatic climate changes. For example, there is a newly discovered ice cap on Mars, chemical changes on Jupiter, new weather patterns on Venus, a vortex on the south pole of Saturn, etc…
There is an energy field at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy that’s described as a ribbon. "This is a shocking new result for us and one that is not entirely understood," said David McComas, the lead scientist on a NASA mission called IBEX.
This “ribbon” is a long band of high-energy particle emissions that could feasibly alter our DNA.
Is it possible that these changes are related to our location to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as we near the galactic alignment? Do the changes in our Sun have any relevance to the changes in our solar system? How do these changes affect us on a cellular level?
It’s so true: As above, so below!
Here on Earth, we have witnessed many changes, including massive land cracks, volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, mass animal die offs, etc… Something is causing these changes to occur. While we can point our fingers at chemtrails and H.A.A.R.P. as the reasons for some of these occurrences, most of these changes would have happened anyways. Why? Because other planets aren’t affected by chemtrails and HAARP, yet they’re still going through dramatic climate changes.
DNA changes are happening right now! Look at some of these indigo children who were born with a total recall of their past lives.
To those who may dismiss this theory, a child was recently born with a 3 strand DNA in England.
Brave toddler Alfie Clamp stuns doctors after being born with extra strand of DNA
A British toddler has become the first person in the world to be born with an extra strand in his DNA, in a condition so rare doctors don't even know its name.
Alfie Clamp, from Warwickshire, northern England, has a seventh chromosome which has an extra arm.
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Don’t stare at the sun!
There is a gentleman who goes by the initials, HRM, who has existed solely on sunlight and water since 1996. That’s right, he has not eaten solid food in 12 years. He has been studied by various researchers, such as the Thomas Jefferson University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Not only have they found his claims to be true, but medical evidence suggests this man is healthier than a normal person of his age. He is approaching 80 years old.
HRM practices sungazing daily. Doctors stated that his neurons were active, and not dying. His pineal gland is actually growing, not shrinking, which is very unusual in someone over the age of fifty. The greatest average in someone over fifty, is a pineal size of 6×6 mm, HRM’s is 8×11 mm.
The reason I bring this up is because we’ve been taught that it’s harmful to directly stare into the sun. While I’m not advocating sun gazing (although I do it, myself), if one decides to do it, then please research this topic thoroughly.
Perhaps there is a reason why we’re being told not to look directly into the sun?
You can easily access this information on YouTube or click HERE for more information on sungazing.
The end of a 75,000 year cycle
According to the Law of One, we’re at the end of a 75,000 year cycle, comprised of three 25,000 year cycles:
The timing of these cycles is a measurement equal to a portion of intelligent energy. This intelligent energy offers a type of clock. The cycles move as precisely as a clock strikes your hour. Thus, the gateway from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity opens regardless of circumstance on the striking of the hour.
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Scientific evidence has concluded that since 2006, we have entered into a new energy field which can literally change our DNA. This may explain why there are so many chemtrails in our sky, as to deflect these incoming energies. As more and more of these new energies enter our solar system and our atmosphere, we will continue to see changes within our DNA.
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