Mother Earth Is More Fragile Than You May Think
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When you think of all the small things that make up Mother Earth, you realize how truly amazing and truly fragile “she” is. A match can destroy a forest, a colony of animals, and insects that are vital to our food chain. An oil spill can harm our delicate eco-system, and greenhouse gases can tear apart our atmosphere.
Chaotic weather, climate change, extinction of animals, demise of “her” natural beauty… they’re all signs it’s time for us to be more careful.
Think of Mother Earth the same way you think of your own home. Treat her with kindness and respect; it’s a good way to become more aware of how one person (multiplied by millions) can affect her health and wellness, in good ways and bad. So far she’s been pretty forgiving. Now it’s time to pay her back. Appreciate her beauty, thank her for her wonders, and treat her with the same respect you would show your most loved.
~Amanda~
What Do You Want from Your Relationships?
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Most people think that how someone treats them is simply how that other person is, and then they base their beliefs about that person on that. It’s actually the other way around: your vibration about someone is what creates how that person is with you. That means that even though your brother, spouse, sister, mother, father, friend, colleague or boss may not physically hear you when you talk about them, what you say does create exactly what your future interactions will look like.
We all have some people in our lives who maybe don’t feel as good to be around as others, right? Here are two points to think about, from the perspective of Law of Attraction:
1. Follow your path of bliss, do what you love, find ways to feel good and appreciate, and the people whose personalities don’t jive with that level of joy just won’t hang around you – as long as you don’t give them any energy. The minute you start complaining or trying to change them, they will be around more.
2. Sometimes someone shows up and is just grumpy/irritable/nasty/icky from the start. Everyone has the potential to shine, and there is at least one person who loves any one person. So… that means there are lovable aspects of that person’s personality you could focus on, to create a relationship that feels good. Focus on what you DO WANT from your friend – instead of what you don’t like.
A related thought: If you react to circumstances, it will always seem hard. If you start imagining your circumstances and creating them ahead of time, it will be easy.
Jennifer Hough
How to Live Joyfully
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Here’s the secret to living a life filled with joy:
• Be tenaciously expecting what you desire.
• Get some key people excited about your desires.
• Go play with as many aspects of your life as you can.
• Appreciate your blessings.
• Make people smile.
• Laugh out loud like no one is watching.
• Use your imagination to make up new dreams/friends/places to go.
• Have so much fun that you only need six hours of sleep because you can’t wait to get up in the morning.
• Ignore grumpy people.
• If someone steals your toys… just find something else to play with.
Doesn’t this sound a lot like how we were when we were three?! When we were children, everything was possible! We lose so much intelligence along the way. So maybe there’s no secret to living joyfully… maybe we just forgot!
Today, why not start getting back on track again? There’s no time like the present to remember that your life can go in a whole new direction at any moment - like now, if you choose!
Jennifer Hough
Rule #10 in Dr. Ritchason’s Golden Rules of Health
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The last Golden Rule from Dr. Ritchason — Hering’s Law of Cure — is a tricky one to understand, but one that is fundamental to how healing naturally occurs.
Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), the father of American homeopathy, lived in a time before the drugs of modern medicine. He observed several patterns of healing:
• Natural healing occurs from the inside out, meaning that the body works on healing the important internal organs first, pushing the dis-ease to the less critical external parts of the body (the skin and extremeties).
• Healing progresses from the top down. For example, a person with a skin rash over the whole body would more likely see relief in the upper torso first before the lower part.
• As a person becomes well through herbs/supplements/homeopathic remedies, symptoms appear and disappear in the reverse order that the person originally experienced them. In other words, as a person’s health declined, he or she might have experienced a sequence of symptoms that came and went. Then as the person gets better, he or she might experience those same symptoms, but in the reverse order.
As an herbalist, I always had a difficult time explaining these patterns to my clients, but when they “got it”, they really understood their natural healing process.
Wendy
China: World’s Top Polluter?
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The magnitude of China’s growth as an economic power can be seen through the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions. In 1950, China’s greenhouse gas emissions were about 1% of the global total. But in 2006, a Dutch study said that China overtook the United States as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter.
Historically, China has been present at climate change discussions but has been exempted from targets because of its status as a developing country. With all of the new attention being paid to it as the world’s largest atmospheric polluter, China is becoming sensitive to its global profile as an environmental citizen.
Anyhow, like the U.S. and current Canadian governments, the Chinese regime admits that climate change is serious and real, but refuses to take committed global leadership. China’s National Climate Change Programme (their first) was released in June 2007; it proposes “carbon intensity” reductions as well as investing in new technologies and reforestation, but doesn’t indicate any hard targets.
Just to keep track of things, the country gets over two thirds of its energy through coal.
Since third world poverty still affects a few hundred million people in the country, meeting economic goals with environmental realities is going to require some radical new thinking.
See www.ccchina.gov.cn
Martine
Nobel Nods at Gore, IPCC on Climate Change
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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
With the award, Gore, former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the USA, and subsequent winner of an Emmy (Current TV) and an Oscar (An Inconvenient Truth), has earned the international spotlight that few former politicians have.
For a man who could not defeat George W. Bush in a television debate in 2000, it’s an interesting transformation. In the United States many Democrats are now calling on him to make a bid for President in 2008, but as this would position him as a rival to Hillary Clinton, the current leading Democrat contender, it may be a fight that he does not want to fight. Gore’s opportunities for influence and to take the lead on climate change may be far greater outside of office. We shall see.
Co-winner IPCC is also a significant choice. Now 20 years old, the IPCC involves hundreds of scientists from across the planet who have worked on assessing and measuring the impacts of global climate change. Their science is the baseline from which all global atmosphere treaties have been and will be based on.
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901. Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and an armaments manufacturer who left his fortune to reward more constructive pursuits.
Find out more at www.nobelprize.org
Martine
Eco-Entrepreneur Passes On
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Anita Roddick, the gutsy entrepreneur who mothered the global success known as The Body Shop, died in September from a sudden brain hemorrhage. She was 64 years old.
Roddick was one of the first eco-entrepreneurs, and one of the first to move big onto a global stage. In 1976, she started The Body Shop in Brighton, England next door to an undertaker. That little “hippie” niche shop grew into a global chain, with 2,000 stores in 50 countries and grosses of over $1.5 billion.
The Body Shop pioneered all natural body care products and Roddick was a persistent retail crusader for causes and ideals. She fought for a multitude of issues including cruelty-free products, human rights, oil drilling in Nigeria, climate change, hemp, fair trade, organics and social justice. As has been said, Roddick’s career and life came down to helping people feel good and to do good.
Learn more at www.anitaroddick.com
Martine
Is Breast Thermography Safe?
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Yes. Thermography is FDA-approved in the United States and has been used there and in Europe for over 20 years. Thermography is a non-invasive test. This means that nothing is sent into your body. It is simply creating an image of your breasts by measuring your heat. There is no contact of any kind, nor is there any pain or radiation.
Breat thermography can be used effectively and safely for all women including pregnant or nursing women, women with dense breast tissue, and women with breast implants.
It’s important to note that thermography does not diagnose breast cancer; like mammography, it is a screening tool. Thermography identifies abnormal physiological changes in your breasts that may be cancerous. Mammography, a type of x-ray, identifies certain structures in the breast that can potentially be cancer. With both mammography and thermography, definitive diagnosis is done by other procedures such as a biopsy or lumpectomy. Many of our patients come in after their doctors have decided “Let’s watch this area” due to an abnormal mammography. We correlate the area to be watched with a thermographic image of the same area. If the thermography shows an issue in the same area, the patient will have more information with which to make an informed decision.
We recommend that thermography be used together with mammography for the most comprehensive screening and the earliest possible detection.
Dr. Alex Mostovoy
Miraculous YOU
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What if the Universe, in that minute you were born, that split second, could have chosen to make a milky way, a galaxy or a shooting star… but instead thought it would be much more miraculous to make you? Would you wonder about your worthiness anymore?
Today, remember who you are. Believe the Universe’s truth about you, instead of anyone who told you different.
Jennifer Hough
Finding Your True Holiday Spirit
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The holidays are a time to slow yourself down and take a moment to make new memories and cherish old traditions. However, each year the “spirit of the season” seems to drift away in a sea of material items and commercialization. I can’t help but wonder if this is why the holidays have become so stressful for so many. It seems we’ve completely lost touch with the true meaning of the holiday spirit.
In order to get back to the roots of it all, we must first define what makes the holidays special to us. When I look back, the things that first come to mind aren’t the food or the gifts or the parties. Although I’m very grateful and lucky to have those things, the things I really cherish the most are the moments, the memories, the traditions. Like going for a late-night walk in the snow… and all I hear is the world standing still. Like playing card games with relatives while sipping on hot cocoa… and all I hear is stories and laughs. Like taking one full day for myself to read or festively decorate my home… and all I feel is inner peace.
The little things, whatever they may be, are what truly make the holidays memorable and joyous. So… what does your holiday spirit look like?
~Amanda~
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