Sometimes when we embark on a new diet, exercise or yoga routine, some interesting, unexpected results come up.
There was once a lady who refused to do Yoga because she said that it always made her throw-up. She had started numerous times had been diligent in her work, but no matter how she tried it, she ended up vomiting.
There is another story of a two different very elderly ladies, both [in their late 80’s], extremely thin, who received physical therapy to help them with aching, stiff and sore joints. They felt that physical therapy would help to provide them with increased mobility. It really worked; physical therapy for the elderly is tremendous and can relieve much pain. However, for both women, as they did this muscle work, they found themselves crying, feeling somewhat blue even though they were physically feeling better. They didn’t want to stop the work, but they could not understand their sadness. Sometimes it also seemed to make them feel nauseated.
Several people mentioned that when they exercise they feel blue. Some of them are able to push past this, but some stop because they just can’t get beyond that emotionally icky feeling.
The US Navy discovered that the sailors they sent to the “fat farm” as the Navy so ungraciously called it, ended up having bizarre drug reactions. They searched the enlistment papers and could not find the reason for the reactions they were seeing - as if these sailors had taken LSD or other prohibited drugs. Then, they made an amazing discovery. The Navy discovered that [in addition to the fact that these sailors had lied on their enlistment papers regarding prior drug use], all kinds of things live in fat cells. Later they were to discover that all kinds of things live in muscle tissue as well. What are these things? These things are often stored emotions and chemical drug residue.
Cells have membranes. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist, these membranes are actually a storehouse of all kinds of things and actually function as cellular “brains” or “membrains” for the body. This emotional reaction many not necessarily happen every time someone exercises or diets, but it happens often enough that people dismiss it as something else. If you are losing weight, and you feel as if you are on an emotional roller coaster, the bad news and the good news is that you are releasing emotional toxins along with your weight. Emotional toxins live within our bodies. One of the interesting aspects of doing spiritual work is releasing these emotional toxins. These toxins can also live in the colon or anywhere in the body. Storage in fat cells is one of the most prevalent places - which ironically could explain why so many people try so many diets and eventually reacquire the pounds - they did no fully shed the emotional weight.
Often weight is used to emotionally protect us - which again could be at least part of the reason that a leaner diet and modest exercise are just difficult to achieve for a large segment of the population.
Another individual discovered while working out that the anti-depressant she gave up four months prior, all of a sudden started functioning in her body, causing again, an emotional roller coaster. Once she understood what it was, she took steps to help herself clean up the physical and emotional body.
So, what can you do if you are exercising, dieting, or doing physical therapy and you begin to feel blue? Start by getting yourself a really good blood cleanser. This can be NingXia Red™ by Young Living Essential Oils, or it can be Mangosteen or Noni Juice. Add it to your water, drink it every day and watch these emotions stabilize. Also, at the Health Food store is something called Holy Basil. Use this twice a day for a week and then once a day - your emotions will be more stable. It is wonderful to have them released, just release them in a deliberate manner so that you understand what is occurring. Most affects should last about a week depending on what you are doing to access those old emotions. You may also find that these juices act as a colon cleanse as well. Lots of old emotions live in the colon.
You can also use the release of those emotions as a way to deal with the past. This is surely a healing opportunity.
So, the next time you embark on a new diet, exercise or yoga routine, or even dance for that matter, don’t be surprised if some old emotions come up. Wash them out, embrace the experience and congratulate yourself for all of your success
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
KS&L 65 & 66: Fathers
Parenting has often been discussed. What is means to be a mom seems to be more universally understood than what it means to be a dad. There are far more “how to” books for mothering than for fathering, as if somehow, fathering was not quite as important.
Each of us has our own definition of what a father is, or is not supposed to be based on our own unique experience. In today’s world, intact families are the unusual anomaly, no longer the norm. My daughter once remarked that she was the only one among her friends with original parents in a healthy marriage.
Is this state of affairs of separated families a good or a bad thing? It isn’t good or bad, it just is how it is right now. Often, because it seems that karma is being speeded up, many things have to be resolved in this lifetime regarding relationships - at a much greater speed than in the past. What that means is that couples lead more complicated lives and it is often not as easy or as time affordable to work things out between couples - which means that there are more and more families without dads. Sometimes it seems that there is more karma being created on the negative side in divorces than can be resolved in one lifetime. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Some divorce situations are so filled with rage and anger that kids feel disloyal if they try to maintain their love for both parents. Some parents use their kids as pawns to punish their partners. No one ever wins this pissing contest: everyone just gets really stinky.
Perhaps the greatest loss to families is the concept of the involved dad, the dad who helps as an equal partner and respects the mom and remains in an active partnership with the mom, balanced discipline for the kids. Parents who support one another are often quite rare.
Many women who grow up without dads never really understand men and often take on their mother’s hatred of men, which then deprives the daughter of a loving relationship with a good husband. Many boys grow up with dads who hate and abuse women and the same situation is the result. These things work both ways.
We need dads. Moms always operate from a mom’s perspective. The reason we have two parents is the balance and wisdom a child receives from both a male and female perspective.
We need dads to be teachers to their kids, to be examples of what moral values stand for and for teaching that kindness backed with strength of character are the foundations for a successful life. We need dads who keep their word and are fair in all their dealings.
But the problem is that men and women who don’t have positive role models often have no idea how to be that kind of parent. They fumble and seldom ask for help. Often they say well, it was ok for me, why isn’t it ok for my child? Because it isn’t, that’s why. Because each of us has to do a better job of parenting than was done for us and if we had great parenting, build on that foundation.
Having identified that dads are important, and since there are so many single mom’s out there trying to fulfill both roles perhaps it is a good idea to identify what good dads bring to the family.
A really good dad is a teacher for all his children, offering them the benefit of his wisdom when it comes to people, politics, career guidance, sportsmanship, building things, tools, and life in general.
The dad who just sits in front of the TV and never spends time reading or holding his little kids misses out on an incredible opportunity to teach his children something. When you teach them, it means you are spending time with them. One of my sons noted that some of his happiest times were when he was in the garage working on something with his Dad - the give and take, the patience of learning how tools work. There were the times when they built gigantic Lego projects together and the guidance received at those times, enabled our son had to build Lego models on his on as a practice for following written directions.
Dads teach balance in a marriage: doing chores, washing dishes, sharing in the cleaning, yard work and errand running.
Dads teach consideration when shopping for birthdays, mother’s day and holidays for moms and siblings.
Dads teach politics when they discuss their jobs with their sons and daughters so that they can understand how the real world functions from a man’s perspective.
Children learn what marriage is like ONLY from watching their parents. Kids will do what their parents do unless they are very, very savvy and can differentiate from what was great about their parents and what required improvement.
Boys learn how to treat women with respect, from watching their dad interact with their mom. If the dad is kind and considerate, then sons learn this. Girls learn how women are to be treated from their dad’s attitude toward their mom. The abusive father creates abusive kids and abusive adults. The disrespectful father creates disrespectful kids. The physically and verbally violent dad creates horrific trauma for kids literally for generations to come.
It is always better to have a single mom family than have a violent family with an abusive dad. The kids never really forgive the mom for continuing to allow the abuse much less the dad for abusing all of them. Why didn’t she just leave him, they ask themselves for the rest of their lives, until they end up in the same type of marriage. It takes quite a bit of courage to leave that life.
So dads are incredibly valuable and families need dads for love and for balance. Families don’t need dads who are never there or who abuse.
Like everything else in human relationships, the father connection is very complicated and incredibly important. Let us hope that more men decide to be really great dads because they are incredibly important in everyone’s life.
So, on Father’s Day, let us honor all those dads who do represent the best of fathering and let us say a prayer for all those dads who do not in the hopes that some day, they may come to understand the tremendous importance of the father’s role in a child’s life.
Each of us has our own definition of what a father is, or is not supposed to be based on our own unique experience. In today’s world, intact families are the unusual anomaly, no longer the norm. My daughter once remarked that she was the only one among her friends with original parents in a healthy marriage.
Is this state of affairs of separated families a good or a bad thing? It isn’t good or bad, it just is how it is right now. Often, because it seems that karma is being speeded up, many things have to be resolved in this lifetime regarding relationships - at a much greater speed than in the past. What that means is that couples lead more complicated lives and it is often not as easy or as time affordable to work things out between couples - which means that there are more and more families without dads. Sometimes it seems that there is more karma being created on the negative side in divorces than can be resolved in one lifetime. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Some divorce situations are so filled with rage and anger that kids feel disloyal if they try to maintain their love for both parents. Some parents use their kids as pawns to punish their partners. No one ever wins this pissing contest: everyone just gets really stinky.
Perhaps the greatest loss to families is the concept of the involved dad, the dad who helps as an equal partner and respects the mom and remains in an active partnership with the mom, balanced discipline for the kids. Parents who support one another are often quite rare.
Many women who grow up without dads never really understand men and often take on their mother’s hatred of men, which then deprives the daughter of a loving relationship with a good husband. Many boys grow up with dads who hate and abuse women and the same situation is the result. These things work both ways.
We need dads. Moms always operate from a mom’s perspective. The reason we have two parents is the balance and wisdom a child receives from both a male and female perspective.
We need dads to be teachers to their kids, to be examples of what moral values stand for and for teaching that kindness backed with strength of character are the foundations for a successful life. We need dads who keep their word and are fair in all their dealings.
But the problem is that men and women who don’t have positive role models often have no idea how to be that kind of parent. They fumble and seldom ask for help. Often they say well, it was ok for me, why isn’t it ok for my child? Because it isn’t, that’s why. Because each of us has to do a better job of parenting than was done for us and if we had great parenting, build on that foundation.
Having identified that dads are important, and since there are so many single mom’s out there trying to fulfill both roles perhaps it is a good idea to identify what good dads bring to the family.
A really good dad is a teacher for all his children, offering them the benefit of his wisdom when it comes to people, politics, career guidance, sportsmanship, building things, tools, and life in general.
The dad who just sits in front of the TV and never spends time reading or holding his little kids misses out on an incredible opportunity to teach his children something. When you teach them, it means you are spending time with them. One of my sons noted that some of his happiest times were when he was in the garage working on something with his Dad - the give and take, the patience of learning how tools work. There were the times when they built gigantic Lego projects together and the guidance received at those times, enabled our son had to build Lego models on his on as a practice for following written directions.
Dads teach balance in a marriage: doing chores, washing dishes, sharing in the cleaning, yard work and errand running.
Dads teach consideration when shopping for birthdays, mother’s day and holidays for moms and siblings.
Dads teach politics when they discuss their jobs with their sons and daughters so that they can understand how the real world functions from a man’s perspective.
Children learn what marriage is like ONLY from watching their parents. Kids will do what their parents do unless they are very, very savvy and can differentiate from what was great about their parents and what required improvement.
Boys learn how to treat women with respect, from watching their dad interact with their mom. If the dad is kind and considerate, then sons learn this. Girls learn how women are to be treated from their dad’s attitude toward their mom. The abusive father creates abusive kids and abusive adults. The disrespectful father creates disrespectful kids. The physically and verbally violent dad creates horrific trauma for kids literally for generations to come.
It is always better to have a single mom family than have a violent family with an abusive dad. The kids never really forgive the mom for continuing to allow the abuse much less the dad for abusing all of them. Why didn’t she just leave him, they ask themselves for the rest of their lives, until they end up in the same type of marriage. It takes quite a bit of courage to leave that life.
So dads are incredibly valuable and families need dads for love and for balance. Families don’t need dads who are never there or who abuse.
Like everything else in human relationships, the father connection is very complicated and incredibly important. Let us hope that more men decide to be really great dads because they are incredibly important in everyone’s life.
So, on Father’s Day, let us honor all those dads who do represent the best of fathering and let us say a prayer for all those dads who do not in the hopes that some day, they may come to understand the tremendous importance of the father’s role in a child’s life.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
KS&L 325 Can We Be Too Clean?
There is a new product called a Nano-Steamer. This newest ‘nano’ device literally goes beyond clean. It cleans your facial pores to the ‘nano’ level. This device is for those souls who have decided that you cannot be too clean and want to take it to the extreme level.
It is important to understand the meaning of the word ‘nano.’ Nanotechnology means that something is built from the molecular/atomic level up. It is important to consider that a molecule is so tiny that it cannot be seen. It is smaller than a virus or a bit of bacteria. This is the coming technology. So, back to our device: the point of this device is to clean down to the molecular level – which gives new meaning to the obsessive/compulsive need to be clean.
Can we be too clean? This may seem like an odd question when we consider that cleanliness is next to Godliness because it is a key element in removing negativity. However, it also begs the question about focusing on the minutia of life and missing the big flick altogether. Even Feng Shui discusses the need for cleanliness within balanced limits. Western culture values having things clean. This is a good thing. But again, does this issue beg the question: have we become too obsessed with being clean?
Advertising has caused to be fearful of every germ, every nano particle around us. We use thousands of products to keeps us as utterly immaculate as possible. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? It is both --- and neither. Some people literally bath two to three times a day. That may be reasonable if you are a Yoga instructor and it is your job to become hot and sweaty several times a day, but for a regular person not in a hot steamy environment, bathing over 1-2 times a day may be seen as obsessive or excessive. Some new parents are terrified of all germs and keep such an immaculate house that you could do surgery on every surface. Usually that attitude changes after the second child. Reality is a practical teacher.
Back to our question: can we be too clean? What are the consequences of being super clean? Consider the following examples:
• Feng Shui discusses the concept associated with infertility. In Chinese metaphysics, a couple must have a certain amount of 'ling' under the bed. 'Ling' translates to an 'ignored bit of ordinary dust.' Couples who have a bit of that dust under their bed usually have no trouble getting pregnant. However, to more sophisticated Feng Shui practitioners this isn't just dust under the bed, it is the settling of life force, of understanding that there is nothing that is perfect and a bit of dust here and there is OK. Life force in this concept has to have a place to be. People who have no 'ling' under their bed, because it is perfect, immaculate to the point of obsessive have a terrible time getting pregnant. So, the more immaculate the location, the lower the birth rate. The higher the amounts of dust under the bed, the higher the birth rate. Third world countries are a classic example of this. We have become so focused on perfection of the immaterial, that we have forgotten to focus on literally the down to earth elements of the greater good, the balance in all things.
• Illnesses are another great example. If we are utterly immaculate on every conceivable level, we never give our immune systems an opportunity to operate. It is rather like having a Ferrari in the garage, but never driving it. However, when you need it to go, it will not work well because it has never been driven, the pipes, valves and mechanisms have not had a chance to go into action. In that scenario, our bodies can be utterly bombarded by something powerfully foreign because these bodies never had a chance to work in a normal, non-super clean world.
• “Out dammed spot!” is a focus on trying to clean an emotional problem by physically cleaning our surroundings. Like Macbeth’s wife who could not wash the blood off of her hands, we may be trying to wash away guilt, hurt, pain and anger instead of facing it directly. If our focus is perfection, we may be forgetting to have fun, enjoy our friends and family members and live a happier life. Sometimes excessive cleaning may be an issue of reconstructing the hole in the donut: meaning we are completely unable to see the larger picture.
• Children have to ‘get dirty,’ to have a normal childhood. Part of childhood is playing outside: getting sweaty, grimy, getting grass stains on our clothes and dirt on our faces. Dirt is part of having fun. We can clean up later. However, if we are never allowed to ‘be a bit dirty’ in the normal day-to-day of life, we never get to feel that supreme pleasure of enjoying childhood. The irony is that those times of getting dirty were times when our young immune systems were learning how to deal with dirt, germs, bacteria and viruses. If we grow up with our bodies never learning how to deal with those things, how will our bodies know how to keep us well?
Let us be clean, by all means, but let us also be wise and not become alarmed with a bit of dust here and there. Balance in all things – wait – let us be ‘nano-balanced’ in all things: balanced right down to our very molecular/subatomic level.
It is important to understand the meaning of the word ‘nano.’ Nanotechnology means that something is built from the molecular/atomic level up. It is important to consider that a molecule is so tiny that it cannot be seen. It is smaller than a virus or a bit of bacteria. This is the coming technology. So, back to our device: the point of this device is to clean down to the molecular level – which gives new meaning to the obsessive/compulsive need to be clean.
Can we be too clean? This may seem like an odd question when we consider that cleanliness is next to Godliness because it is a key element in removing negativity. However, it also begs the question about focusing on the minutia of life and missing the big flick altogether. Even Feng Shui discusses the need for cleanliness within balanced limits. Western culture values having things clean. This is a good thing. But again, does this issue beg the question: have we become too obsessed with being clean?
Advertising has caused to be fearful of every germ, every nano particle around us. We use thousands of products to keeps us as utterly immaculate as possible. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? It is both --- and neither. Some people literally bath two to three times a day. That may be reasonable if you are a Yoga instructor and it is your job to become hot and sweaty several times a day, but for a regular person not in a hot steamy environment, bathing over 1-2 times a day may be seen as obsessive or excessive. Some new parents are terrified of all germs and keep such an immaculate house that you could do surgery on every surface. Usually that attitude changes after the second child. Reality is a practical teacher.
Back to our question: can we be too clean? What are the consequences of being super clean? Consider the following examples:
• Feng Shui discusses the concept associated with infertility. In Chinese metaphysics, a couple must have a certain amount of 'ling' under the bed. 'Ling' translates to an 'ignored bit of ordinary dust.' Couples who have a bit of that dust under their bed usually have no trouble getting pregnant. However, to more sophisticated Feng Shui practitioners this isn't just dust under the bed, it is the settling of life force, of understanding that there is nothing that is perfect and a bit of dust here and there is OK. Life force in this concept has to have a place to be. People who have no 'ling' under their bed, because it is perfect, immaculate to the point of obsessive have a terrible time getting pregnant. So, the more immaculate the location, the lower the birth rate. The higher the amounts of dust under the bed, the higher the birth rate. Third world countries are a classic example of this. We have become so focused on perfection of the immaterial, that we have forgotten to focus on literally the down to earth elements of the greater good, the balance in all things.
• Illnesses are another great example. If we are utterly immaculate on every conceivable level, we never give our immune systems an opportunity to operate. It is rather like having a Ferrari in the garage, but never driving it. However, when you need it to go, it will not work well because it has never been driven, the pipes, valves and mechanisms have not had a chance to go into action. In that scenario, our bodies can be utterly bombarded by something powerfully foreign because these bodies never had a chance to work in a normal, non-super clean world.
• “Out dammed spot!” is a focus on trying to clean an emotional problem by physically cleaning our surroundings. Like Macbeth’s wife who could not wash the blood off of her hands, we may be trying to wash away guilt, hurt, pain and anger instead of facing it directly. If our focus is perfection, we may be forgetting to have fun, enjoy our friends and family members and live a happier life. Sometimes excessive cleaning may be an issue of reconstructing the hole in the donut: meaning we are completely unable to see the larger picture.
• Children have to ‘get dirty,’ to have a normal childhood. Part of childhood is playing outside: getting sweaty, grimy, getting grass stains on our clothes and dirt on our faces. Dirt is part of having fun. We can clean up later. However, if we are never allowed to ‘be a bit dirty’ in the normal day-to-day of life, we never get to feel that supreme pleasure of enjoying childhood. The irony is that those times of getting dirty were times when our young immune systems were learning how to deal with dirt, germs, bacteria and viruses. If we grow up with our bodies never learning how to deal with those things, how will our bodies know how to keep us well?
Let us be clean, by all means, but let us also be wise and not become alarmed with a bit of dust here and there. Balance in all things – wait – let us be ‘nano-balanced’ in all things: balanced right down to our very molecular/subatomic level.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Using Essential Oils for SunScreen
The following information comes from Rainbow Forever Trust [healthy-wealthy@att.net]. Jay sells Young Living Essential Oils, so the products listed are from that company. Some of the other comments are from Jay's down line. I thought that the information was very valuable and worth sharing.
Something to keep in mind when using coconut oil for tanning - remember to wet down your body before applying the oil. Put the oil on only after making the surface of the body wet. The oil needs the water in order to penetrate the skin to the maximum and provide proper protection. I'll bet that most of the folks who are saying that they tried the oil as a suntan
lotion but it did not work, did not put water on their body before applying the coconut oil.
I have had wonderful results with Patchouli. After I wash my face, I use 2-3 drops of Patchouli. In the Higley's it says it may help acne, protects against UV radiation, tightens loose skin, prevents wrinkles, heals chapped skin and so on. My face has never looked better. I receive compliments frequently. Plus, this summer my face never burned in the sun. This is a great oil for both men and women. Enjoying the sun, Barb
. . . and if you don't want to use any oil or sun screen, you can always wear a hat and a long sleeved shirt!
I was just reading in David Stewart's book that Myrrh was used traditionally in Egypt as a sunscreen. It is a mystery oil, because it SHOULD be phototoxic, but it isn't. Instead, it acts as a sunscreen.
I am as white as the snow and burn after just a few moments in the sun. I thought I would lie in the sun for a short period to put some color in my newly shaved head and snow white skin. I fell asleep. An hour and a half later I awoke. I did not feel any pain at first. Then a little while later, the redness appeared and I could tell that I was in for a restless night. I had brought LavaDerm Cooling Mist with me, but had never had a reason to try it. I misted my entire face/head and body where red was
beginning to show. The pain disappeared in a matter of seconds! AMAZING PRODUCT! About an hour later some of the pain started coming back, more LavaDerm; again, the pain subsided. I continued this therapy for a few hours. I slept like a baby. Today I feel nothing. It is as if I was never in the sun at all! Literally! I did get a sun blister on my lip. I have been applying Lavender on it but other than that, what could have been a very painful time for me was not.
I saw so many people on the beach using various tanning products. I have often thought, "Is it really the sun that causes skin cancer or could it be the propylene glycol and other chemical additives found in the numerous sunscreens and tanning lotions/oils?" Think about it. If you were to place
straight antifreeze on the skin and then lie in the sun, what would happen? Nobody would be silly enough to try it, but this is what thousands do daily. LavaDerm, get some for your Summer Vacation! Jay
Something to keep in mind when using coconut oil for tanning - remember to wet down your body before applying the oil. Put the oil on only after making the surface of the body wet. The oil needs the water in order to penetrate the skin to the maximum and provide proper protection. I'll bet that most of the folks who are saying that they tried the oil as a suntan
lotion but it did not work, did not put water on their body before applying the coconut oil.
I have had wonderful results with Patchouli. After I wash my face, I use 2-3 drops of Patchouli. In the Higley's it says it may help acne, protects against UV radiation, tightens loose skin, prevents wrinkles, heals chapped skin and so on. My face has never looked better. I receive compliments frequently. Plus, this summer my face never burned in the sun. This is a great oil for both men and women. Enjoying the sun, Barb
. . . and if you don't want to use any oil or sun screen, you can always wear a hat and a long sleeved shirt!
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