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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Golly, go figure, that big shiny ball in the sky is there for our GOOD…and yet many of us avoid it like the plague because “they” tell us it’s bad for us.  But so many of us aren’t intentionally avoiding it, we’re just working and sleeping a bit with little time in between for much else, including getting a healthy dose of sunshine. 

I’ve been getting intuitively for several years that a key factor to curing my ills is getting in the sun.  It’s not something I want to fully elaborate upon, but I get almost no sun…  If I could manifest something instantly it would be me living in the country with the opportunity to get at least 2 hours of healthy sunshine every single day, in a secluded area (clothing optional) …  That’s my dream :)   I’m greatly concerned for my health with each day that passes that I am unable to get a good dose of sunshine (as well as that healthy connection to Nature)…  It appears living our lives without much sun is a strong contributor to very serious disease (see link below).

It would seem most of us don’t get our needed sun — and I just came upon some information that really shakes me up.   It seems the vitamin D in that blecky milk from the regular grocery store is not only NOT beneficial, it could actually be contributing to disease.  That’s one point in my favor though, thankfully I haven’t drank that stuff in a lot of years…

Wouldn’t it be something…if someday we realize that we aren’t such defective beings as to need a gazillion hospitals and docs — with all those “required” check-ups and such, but that we simply need to live our lives aligned with Nature — not housed in concrete and steel, swallowing toxic crap on multiple levels, everyday, all day long…  Hmm, almost seems like common sense, eh? :)

Peace,
Dove

Here’s an excerpt from an enlightening article on this topic.

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All Vitamin D Supplements are Not the Same

“I’m not certain what type of vitamin D was studied in the report above, however the abstract mentions the vitamin D that’s added to milk and cereals. Well, the vitamin D that’s added to milk is synthetic vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and is not something that you should be taking anyway.

Only vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), the type of vitamin D found naturally in foods like eggs, organ meats, animal fat, cod liver oil, and fish, is appropriate for supplementation. Do NOT use the highly inferior vitamin D2.

There have been no clinical trials to date demonstrating conclusively that D2 prevents fractures, yet every clinical trial of D3 has shown it does. Further, vitamin D2 has a shorter shelf life, and its metabolites bind with protein poorly, making it less effective.

Studies have even concluded that vitamin D2 should no longer be regarded as a nutrient appropriate for supplementation or fortification of foods (though it continues to be used).

So if you choose to use vitamin D supplements make sure it is in the form of vitamin D3. And remember that if you are relying on your “fortified” milk to supply you with vitamin D, it is NOT giving you the healthy type of vitamin D that has been associated with all the benefits that you read about on this site and in the media.

If you do choose to supplement with oral vitamin D you will need to carefully monitor your levels to avoid overdosing. The only time you don’t need to worry about whether or not you’re getting too much, or too little, vitamin D is when your body makes it naturally from the sun.”

Read more here…

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/12/why-vitamin-d-supplements-are-not-the-same-as-sunlight.aspx

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Here’s another current and worthy article on this topic — more info, and no purchase required :)

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“The Nebraska 4-year placebo-controlled study has revealed that the group receiving the calcium and vitamin D supplements showed at least 60 percent decrease in cancers. Note that these astonishing effects were achieved on what many nutritionists consider to be a low dose of vitamin D. Exposure to sunlight, which creates even more vitamin D in the body, was not tested or considered, and the quality of the calcium supplements was likely not as high as it could have been (it was probably calcium carbonate and not high-grade calcium aspartate, oratate or citrate).”

Source:  http://www.naturalnews.com/022889.html

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By Dove, www.TarowithLove.com   Quite the synchronicity with this one… 
Yesterday I read my friend Tawny’s post on her experience with being hit by lightning (!) …  it ties in amazingly to all this Tower stuff (and my getting that number 16 so much ) lately. 

Then this morning, I casually did a Google search with the phrase “too much adrenaline.”  I clicked on a link and freakily enough, I began reading about a “therapy” for CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) called the “Lightning Process” :)  But I don’t get it, all it seems to encompass, for the most part, is stopping our negative thinking. 

It ties in with the mind-body connection (and the “Secret” — it’s all our energy, that’s where the power is.  That is the real “secret.”).  But it seems to be a very determined, repetitive effort — and I like the cards part :)  Excellent.  I just don’t see why we can’t do this for ourselves at home, rather than zipping off to Wales :)  But I think it’s awesome that many are being healed with this “Lightning Process.”  Ah, it’s exciting, just a matter of time before so many more of us get it — that we have the pow-uh! :)

Here’s an excerpt (and the gist of it) from the article (see link below to read the rest of the article) on the “Lightning Process.”

Peace,
Dove

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The first step is to recognise the thoughts that trigger the stress reaction, such as: ‘I’m worried that I’m not going to be well enough to go out shopping,’ or ‘I’m never going to get my school work finished.’

To stop the triggering thought, the ME sufferer must firmly say: ‘Stop,’ to themselves half way through the thought. This physically ‘cuts off’ the stress response to stop it from progressing.

The next step is to create new, more positive thought patterns to replace the negative ones. For example, instead of worrying about not being able to do something because you will feel ill, you are taught to imagine feeling well and being able to do that activity.

The theory is that this creates new connections in the brain, which then stimulate the production of endorphins - feel-good brain chemicals - rather than stress hormones such as adrenaline.

The patient has to continue using the process repeatedly until their ME symptoms have abated. To help the process, special cards with key words - such as ‘the present moment’, and ’stop’ - are placed in a pattern on the floor. The idea is that stepping on the cards reinforces the thought process.

You start with the ‘present moment’ card (which represents the need to stay in the here and now, and not dwell on fears about the future), then move on to the ’stop’ card to cut off the triggering thoughts. As you perfect the technique, you no longer need to step on the cards but can visualise them until it becomes second nature.

‘It sounded a bit weird at first,’ says Leonie, ‘but after practising over the weekend, it really worked.’

Within two days of her treatment, she was walking unaided along the beach with her mother. ‘I telephoned my father and said: “Guess what I’m doing?” He was so gobsmacked he couldn’t speak for five minutes,’ she says. She then folded up her wheelchair and told her mother: ‘I will never use this again.’ One year on, Leonie is still feeling great.

Three months after his sister’s recovery, Adam also made the trip to Wales. He is now back at college and learning to drive.

But the Lightning Process does not work for everyone. As well as the success stories, ME chatrooms feature the ‘failures’ for whom the approach has not been effective.

Mary-Jane Willows, chief executive of the UK Association of Young People with ME, believes it’s important to exercise caution before embarking on unproven treatments.

‘While we have heard of members who have been helped by undertaking the Lightning Process and are thrilled for them, we are aware of others for whom the outcome was less than positive. We cannot recommend this therapy or others for children where there is no clinical data or research available.’

Dr Neil Abbot, director of operations at ME Research UK, is sceptical about adrenaline playing a role in the condition. ‘We should like to see some evidence that there is an adrenaline rise in ME sufferers, and if there is, whether lowering adrenaline induces a “lightning” cure,’ he says.

‘The only thing that will create general acceptance of the principles and treatment techniques applied by the Lightning Process will be large-scale tests.’

But while the jury is still out in the medical world, among those for whom it has worked there is absolutely no doubt.

Source:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=427537&in_page_id=1774

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Hmmm, it makes me wonder … if any or all of these guys below knew just how literally true these declarations were/are.

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“We become what we think about all day long”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We tend to get what we expect”
Norman Vincent Peale

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right”
Henry Ford

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations”
Henry David Thoreau 

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Colloidal Silver, it’s a good thing :)  The blue guy was taking quarts of his own homemade stuff for years (stupid), and that ridiculous use of the silver (something that’s been used effectively for thousands of years) is why he’s now blue (note, not dead, just blue, heh), and according to NaturalNews (formerly NewsTarget), even his blue-ness is reversible.

Dove

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Read the article here…

http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  The other day my eyes started fogging up — something was bothering my eyes.  It was a windy day and I tend to have allergies, but it’s never affected my eyes like that before.  All this icky stuff swimming around in my eyes, and making ’em itchy.  When I woke up the next day, my eyes were pasted closed.  Scary.  But it cleared up after a day or so.  I thought it must have been something that had blown into my eyes and irritated them. 

Later I realized it had cleared up after having not worn make-up for a few days, and it returned upon wearing make-up again.  So I decided to ask my Tarot about my eye make-up.  I gathered up the four main items (nearest to my eyes), two eyeshadows, eyeliner pencil and mascara.  I shuffled my cards and asked to be shown a card that would give me a hint as to which of the items was causing this problem.  I had already suspected that it was either the eye pencil or the mascara. 

I drew the Empress card.  In the Goddess Tarot, this image is a woman standing in the desert.  One of the cactuses (cacti?) caught my eye — ha, that just came to me, CACT-EYE! ;)  But that little gem didn’t occur to me in the moment that I drew the card, just the shape of the cactus…  It brought to mind the shape of the mascara…and then I was drawn to the really dark hair of the woman, color of mascara.  From that, I deduced that the cards were pointing to the mascara.  See how cool the Tarot is? :)  It stokes our own intuition with these wonderful little things.  It’s all about those things we are drawn to.  Always know there is a significant reason we are drawn to (or repelled by) things…and people. 

So, yes, it was the mascara.  Very grateful to have discovered the solution was so simple.  Tossed the mascara, no more eye infection.  I’d never had such a reaction before to eye make-up.  But I’m thinking a contributing factor, besides having used the mascara way past its prime (which I’ve always done), was that I hadn’t been outdoors in weeks.  Been very hermit-like lately…  And back to the Empress card, the picture of the woman in the desert…clearly under a very bright sun :)  Yeah, I think this was backing up my thinking that it had kinda weakened the resistance of my eyes, having not gotten enough sun in the last several weeks.  And I admit that I generally don’t get enough (even worse than most people, with our constant indoor stuff), but even worse during this recent time.  So many things we’re doing, going against Nature, it’s no wonder we’re all so ill…

And you also have to look at the symbolism of it, invariably multiple layers of meaning.  The Sun in the Tarot represents joy in a big way, that which brings us joy.  Over those same weeks, I’d been getting a lot of work done, which is a kind of joy (satisfying), but not the really joyful kinda joy…  And I know that our not getting that really joyful joy on a regular basis weakens our immune system as well.  All work and no play, makes ya’ dull and all that ;)

I’m also thinking about my eyes being pasted shut.  Ugh, not good symbolism there.  Not seeing something clearly?  Looking away from something I need to be looking at?  Oh, and I learned the coolest new thing about one of the Tarot cards.  The Two of Swords, which I generally see as a card about peace or indecision…  But one day when I was testing the eye make-up theory per the eye infection, I had not worn eye make-up to work.  My eyes were still recovering… And I drew this Tarot spread online.  It showed me as the Two of Swords.  I was stunned to see a part about the eyes in the interpretation.  I’ve read a ton of books on the Tarot, and bunches of website’s with a lot of different interpretations, but in all these years I had never seen (or noticed) anything about the eyes with this card.  It actually said this card might indicate a problem with the eyes.  How specific is that 0h-ye-skeptical ones? ;)  And this card was in a position in the spread representing me. 

And when I thought about the imagery of this card, Two of Swords, it made sense.  The image is most often an individual wearing a blindfold, hence a possible symbol for problems with the eyes, or problems with seeing.  I loved that I discovered that about this card.  When I ask myself what I’m not seeing clearly at this time, a certain individual comes to mind.  I bounce around from seeing him with my head to seeing him with my heart…and back again.  At one point (very long time ago) believing he was just the sweetest guy, to more recently believing the total opposite.  It’s rough on the heart, the body, the immune system when we aren’t allowed closure.  Really good communication (not just superficial BS) is so important in our relationships, both personal and professional…

So, the moral is…  Toss old mascara, get your daily sun, endeavor to have truly good communication with the people in our lives, and remember we can learn cool things even from the “bad” stuff, like those icky eye infections :)

Peace,
Dove

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For healthy breasts… 

http://www.brafree.org/bffaqssportsbras.htm

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/rebounder.htm

And get out in the wonderful, beautiful SUNSHINE daily!
Plants lean to it, and it’s there in the sky for a good reason :)

Also, love your body, for gawd’s sake.  NEVER whine (or have negative thoughts) about your breast size or anything this world might tell you is imperfect about you or your body. 

Love, truly love, your body just the way it is, even as you might endeavor to make it more to your liking.  Just remember, your body is alive with energy, your thoughts GREATLY affect it.  Think about the positive or ill effects in talking to plants (read that cool part in “The Celestine Prophecy”), pets, babies…  Same thing.  Your body is alive with energy, energy that your thought energy greatly affects (mind-body connection). 

Touch your breasts.  Often :)  They love that, lol ;)  Yeah, it makes ‘em happy, you can tell ’cause it feels good.  You won’t go to “hell” for doing so, you’ll go to “heaven” :)  In fact, self-massage and related :) is super healthy for the whole body.  Note, a good rule of thumb is, if it feels good, if it brings you much joy, and it’s clearly not unhealthy, THEN IT’S HEALTHY.  Get over the religion-induced fear/sin of pleasure.  That’s a lethal lie.  A lie that kills and harms sooo many of us…  JOY IS GOOD.

And please reconsider allowing that wicked machinated breast smooshing.

Send love/compassionate energy even to unhealthy parts of yourself — not hate/fear energy (thoughts/feelings).  Think about it, do you really think sending hate (negative thoughts, put-downs) to your body is a positive healing kinda thing?  No, so stop hating your dis-ease or your supposed imperfections.  Just love ‘em into being/staying radiant with health and beauty. 

And whatever size your breasts are, they’re perfect :)   Truth:  “Believe and it shall be so.”  (Believing = powerful feelings, love/joy or fear + thoughts, continual focus, affirmations)

Peace,
Dove

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Well, I just spent so much time on a comment on another thread that I decided I’d post it here for the benefit of whomever might come upon it :)   This comment was spurred by my blog friend, Muse, speaking of my article,  “Words + Emotions = Power”

Dove

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Hey, thanks for reading my article, Muse Actually, I didn’t develop that process with my emotions, I learned it from a therapist I was going to in southern Oregon. And I immediately saw the value in it, but I had (and still have) such a strong block to my healing. It’s such a challenge to get myself to do all the things I have seen the value in. I can let myself get to a point where I can’t make myself do anything, just morbidly depressed. And if I finally sit down and “talk/write” to “Jack,” … let him do his raging on paper, even for just a few minutes, I can get up and immediately feel a change for the better — alive and ready to go about the business of living again I can’t emphasize enough how valuable it is…if we can just get ourselves to do it.

And I couldn’t fully elaborate in that article about it…or my wonderful initial experience with it. But I don’t name them, they name themselves

My first experience (with the therapist) was amazing. I know this sounds weird, but they are actually like little beings inside of us, and they can teach us things if we’ll just listen. Not only did they tell me their names, they told me their ages and WHERE THEY LIVE IN MY BODY. Jack is in my stomach (see my pic of “Fire in the Belly”).  Jack is just 17 — he holds back nothing

I connected with these six parts of me, each told me their name (under “hypnosis,” which felt no different than meditating), age and location in the body. And then the therapist asked them questions, and the answers were so beneficial… These six are, Anger, Hurt, Shame, Depression, Fear, and Sentinel.

Again, so many cool things I learned from doing this. But I’ll share just one more. I wasn’t making these names up. And there were several indicators as to the truth of that. The “Hurt” part of me said “Tom” when asked its name, located in my heart. But I remember feeling like it was a girl. Later I found out that it is a girl, a sweet little girl “Tom” was short for “Tomboy,” which I used to be I call her “Tommie” now I feel a rush of emotion just speaking of her…

Okay one more The only other male is my depression, “Jake.” It was interesting… He said he was in my “colo-rectal area.” I repeated back “rectal”? He then strongly emphasized “colo-rectal.” Alrighty then I couldn’t help noticing that both anger (stomach) and depression (colo-rectal) are male. And that the their names are very similar. What’s in the stomach travels to the colo-rectal area, no? Interesting, eh?

Oh, also, I have a basket of books that the Universe has nudged me toward for years, and I haven’t yet really gotten into them. But one book that’s come up strongly is “Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma” by Peter A. Levine. I’ve read bits and pieces of it, and that’s where I learned how animals shake their fear out. I really should read and study that book.

One final thing Ya’ know how we “accidentally” break something or say something we wish we hadn’t or continue to do something we so don’t want to do, that’s coming from one of them It really is like having little ones within us. We either give them attention, or they’ll “act out” in our lives — hence, the “chaos” we so often experience in our lives. Just like with actual children that haven’t been tended to and cared for properly. It’s kind of unnerving when ya’ think about it, how “they” can momentarily take control of our lives and shake things up and it feels beyond our control…

Dove

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Rediscovering sauerkraut.  I love me some kraut, lol  I’ve loved it since I was a kid, but then started thinking it was too salty (per the myth that all salt is the same…and unhealthful), so I stopped eating it…  But since now I know REAL salt (sea salt) is good for us, I’m back to enjoying kraut!  Yay! :)  I just had a luscious mound of it (healthfood brand, Eden, organic cabbage and SEA SALT).  Ah man, I had so missed that wonderful flavor.   

 And look at how good this stuff is for us.  Just came upon this elaboration (I’ve bolded my fav parts) of all the health benefits it provides our lovely bods. 

Yay, kraut’s awesome! :)

 Dove

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Sauerkrauts Specific Health Benefits

Sauerkraut as immune booster

One of the not so secret benefits of sauerkraut is the boost it gives to immune systems. Packed with vitamins and minerals, sauerkraut has been used as a lay immune booster for centuries.  Sauerkraut contains phytochemicals which are created during the fermentation process. These naturally occurring, beneficial by products of sauerkraut help boost the immune system which leads to a decrease in a number of health problems. The common cold, skin problems, weight gain and tainted blood are all fixed by a healthy functioning immune system.

Sauerkraut as cancer fighter

The most recent evidence of sauerkraut’s status as a Superfood is found in numerous studies on the cruciferous wonder’s cancer fighting properties. The results of a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry concluded that sauerkraut is a cancer inhibitor. The study discovered that the fermentation of cabbage produced a substance called isothiocynates, which prevents cancer growth, particularly in the breast, colon, lung and liver. Although raw cabbage is normally rich in a compound called glucosinolate, the researchers found that during the fermentation process enzymes are released that completely decompose the compound into several breakdown products. The majority of these products are cancer-fighting isothiocyanates. The University of New Mexico published a study linking sauerkraut consumption by adolescent females to a reduced risk for breast cancer earlier studies indicate sauerkraut may reduce the risk for other forms of cancer including lung, colon, prostate, and liver We are finding that fermented cabbage could be healthier than raw or cooked cabbage, especially for fighting cancer, says Eeva-Liisa Ryhanen, Ph.D., research manager of MTT Agrifood Research Finland, located in Jokioinen, Finland. A recent study by the American Center for Cancer Research has found that sauerkraut has a profound effect in preventing and healing breast cancer. Based on reports that breast cancer rates amongst polish women in the United States were much higher than those in Poland researchers set out to find out why. Their answer; the women who still lived in Poland ate significantly larger amounts of sauerkraut especially important while they were in adolescence. The research found that the women who immigrated Americanized’ their diets and stopped eating as much of the super food that is sauerkraut thus increasing their rates of breast cancer.

Digestive Aid

Eating sauerkraut is a great way to protect the balance of bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract. Sauerkraut is one of the few foods that contain the bacterium Lactobacilli plantarum. L. planatarum is a very dominant strain of healthful bacteria which helps your digestive system in the following ways: boost the immune system by increasing antibodies that fight infectious disease help inhibit pathogenic organisms including E.coli, salmonella and unhealthy overgrowth of candida (yeast) create antioxidants (glutathione and superoxide dismustase) that scavenge free radicals which are a cancer precursor transforms hard-to-digest lactose from milk to the more easily digested lactic acid. It neutralizes the antinutrients found in many foods including the phytic acid found in all grains and the trypsin-inhibitors in soy generates new nutrients including omega-3 fatty acids, digestive aids and the trace mineral GTF chromium. These various properties are the best scientific reasons given for what has been known by loyal users for millennia, sauerkraut cures an upset stomach and is the best natural physic there is. Many sources say raw fermented foods are beneficial to the digestive system by increasing the healthy flora in the intestinal tract or creating the type of environment for them to flourish. Sauerkraut and its juice are traditional folk remedies for constipation. Fermentation actually increases nutrient values in the cabbage, especially vitamin C. Fermented foods are also said to facilitate the breakdown and assimilation of proteins. They have a soothing effect on the nervous system. The benefits of sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice have been recognized for generations. In some families of southern Germany, the children are fed raw sauerkraut twice weekly to support their intestines. Today it is thought that these benefits may relate to a high proportion of lactic acid in sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice that naturally supports the digestive processes, maintain intestinal flora, and increase the feeling of well-being.

Flu Fighter

With the spread of Avian Flu spreading across the globe, one enterprising Korean scientist, Kang Sa-Ouk of Seoul National University, took 13 chickens infected with avian flu virus and a couple of other diseases, fed them Kim chi extract and found that 11 of the birds recovered. Experts think the vital bacteria are created during the fermenting process and this gives the dish its health-boosting qualities.

 Source:  http://www.sauerkraut.com/benefits.htm

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Not “table salt.”  Real salt, as nature intended.  Sea salt.  We need salt, people.  If you’re having health issues and you’re not using salt, try adding a quality sea salt back to your diet.  YOU NEED SALT.  Real salt, not the egomaniac humanoid’s version of salt, “refined,” “table salt.”  That crap is crap :)  And that’s what you should avoid like the plague — it will kill ya’.

We’ve been avoiding all these things for years — salt, red meat, chocolate, dairy — because we were told they are unhealthful.  I’m discovering that it’s all BS.  Those foods, in their natural form (not “refined” “pasteurized” and otherwise screwed with), are wonderful healthful foods.  But definitely avoid them if they’ve been tampered with.  Nature, it knows best :)

Here’s some info on REAL SALT and why we need it, all the good it does for the body.  Read the rest at the curezone website, link below. 

Dove

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Excerpt from website:

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Vital Functions of Salt in the Body

1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, Contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure - in conjunction with water. Naturally the proportions are critical. 2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics.4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body. It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy need by the cells.

http://www.newstarget.com/019680.html

http://www.eco-natural.com/greysalt/saltquiz.html
 

Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite websites, www.newstarget.com, on the big “C” industry and their total disregard for the lives and health of women.  I love pink, but those pink ribbons are a wicked sham…

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While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy — a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs.

Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry seems interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake here, and the cancer industry is banking on the continuation of this disease among the population.

That’s why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D, which has recently been shown to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of ALL cancers!) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below.

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The real answers to breast cancer prevention

Here, for the benefit of women everywhere, is a partial list of the things that cause cancer and things that don’t. You’re not going to find full descriptions and citations here, as that would require an entire book all by itself, but this is a very useful reference list that tells the truth about what causes or prevents cancer in the human body.

18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order)

• Smoking cigarettes
• Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms
• Chemotherapy and radiation
• Perfumes and fragrance products
• Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products
• Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc.
• Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products
• Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids - See Poison In the Food or articles on hydrogenated oils
• Plastic food containers - includes plastic lining inside food cans
• Sodium nitrite - found in most processed meats, see articles on sodium nitrite
• Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals
• Acrylamides (formed during high-heat food processing such as frying)
• Watching television / lack of exercise
• Severe emotional distress or relationship stress
• Refined sugars / refined grains
• Dry cleaning chemicals
• Hair color chemicals
• Nail polish remover

22 things that PREVENT cancer:

• Vitamin D and sunshine - see the Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D
• Anti-cancer foods - see articles about anti-cancer foods
• Medicinal mushrooms - reishi, shiitake, agaricus blazei, etc. See www.MushroomScience.com or www.DragonHerbs.com
• Green tea - see articles about green tea
• Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables - see articles about broccoli
• Lycopene and tomatoes
• Infra-red saunas and sweat lodges - because sweating expels toxins
• Chlorella - see articles on chlorella, or check out a recommended chlorella product: Rejuvenate! From IntegratedHealth.com (product to be launched soon)
• Pomegranate seeds - see artiles on pomegranate or http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=32
• Omega-3 oils / chia seeds - available from GoodCauseWellness.com
• Rainforest herbs - There are many anti-cancer rainforest herbs, including graviola and Cat’s Claw (Una de Gato). Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor
• Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona
• Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body’s energy)
• Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers)
• Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker.
• Deep breathing / oxygenation / stress reduction - Best product is called Stress Eraser (highly recommended)
• Yoga, Tai Chi or Pilates - These all boost lymph circulation
• Cacao - (real chocolate) - Good sources are NavitasNaturals.com or Superfoods.com
• Therapeutic massage - helps move lymph, boost circulation
• Mint - grow your own (the easiest plant to grow)
• Apricot pits / laetrile / vitamin B17 - View this World Without Cancer video featuring G. Edward Griffin
• Blackberries - Most berries contain some form of anti-cancer medicine

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I did this pic a few days ago, but I didn’t post it because I wasn’t sure what it wanted to be called.  What I learned from it was a good lesson as to how nothing is really “bad” or “negative,” that something “good” seems to grow from everything. 

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“Righteous Rends” by Dove, October 2007 

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I’ve said it before, if we always made the supposed “right” decisions and everything was always “positive” and hunky-dory (lol), would we really be getting anything from that?  Aren’t we drawing much joy from the growth via our rocky times?  It just seems we’d have no depth without those rocky times.  How could we ever truly know and enjoy the “good” if we’d never known the “bad.”  Look at Paris Hilton, the girl is fluff, she doesn’t have a clue…even after her harrowing stint in jail, lol ;)  Ya’ can’t help but feel sorry for the girl, because she “has it all” and yet she has nothing, she hasn’t a clue…she’s blind to the blessings of prosperity…because she’s known nothing else.  And so she actually doesn’t truly have it, it doesn’t reach her, it doesn’t bless her with an abundance of gratitude… 

Anyway, a bit of rocky-ness at work the other day spurred me to create this image above.  I’m seeing that the images that come through me when I’m mega-angry are, oddly enough, the best ones in my opinion.  I like them all, but the ones that come from that fresh and raw anger, seem to really grab me, I love them :)  And think about artists who have and do create the most wonderful artworks and songs from those so-called “negative” emotions, depression, deep sadness, anger…  If such beauty can come from these things, how can we feel they are of no value, and be so ready to dispose of them — deny and dishonor them?

Again, I had a hard time coming up with the name for this image that came from my recent anger – a lot of things came to me, but I didn’t feel sure.  I did some Google searches on the “X” and other things I see in it, drew some Tarot cards on it…  Some of the things that came up with this were referencing this image as  Tic-Tac-Toe, and “The Game of Life.”  I saw strategy and love in the x’s (a recent blog elaborating on love symbols and referenced the rune “X” as one of them).  The tear in the middle seems to have been brought about by the spiral, given that it seems “active,” right in the center, and right there by the jagged opening.  I saw that as a spiritual/emotional thing. 

The spiral can represent the female form of “God” or “Goddess.”  It can represent the unending journey of life, growth and development.  The spiral seems to be a potent symbol for me, I find it in many of my creations, and have seen it in visions and dreams…

I kinda feel this pic is saying these “rends” in life are a good thing, we grow and learn from them.  All I know is what came from my “righteous anger” created good things at my job, the end of a situation where I was allowing someone to treat me in an unacceptable way… something I’d been “swallowing” for a year.  And something that “being nice” simply fueled.  But the outcome of this situation, of me allowing my anger to be, of not fearing it, of honoring it — by not destroying someone with it, but showing them my “power” in it…it showed me that I can face my fear, walk through the fire of it, and still be okay — and even better — on the other side of it.  I love my anger and all my other precious emotions.  I have them for a reason, and I am very grateful for them, for all that I am :)

Both health issues (directly attributed to anger by those in-the-know on the correlation between health issues and dis-ease) and life issues have begun to rectify themselves in my life because I have begun to allow my anger, to honor it, as it should be.  It is not a wicked thing, it is part of this amazing human-spiritual experience. 

I feel compelled to interject that I am not advocating going around being angry all the time.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Ironically, people who are always talking about how bad these “negative” emotions are, are actually holding onto to them in their denying/hating them, in their futile efforts to MAKE themselves be happy, lol  It doesn’t work that way.  We aren’t all “sweetness and light” no matter how much we try to FORCE ourselves to be. The genuine “happy” comes from allowing all of our emotions to be, feeling them, honoring them, appreciating/loving them, and then letting them pass.  You will know you are not fully or properly doing this if you tend to have a lot of aches and pains … and assorted other health issues.  For example, backaches often represent worrying about money.  Yes, we need to replace that fear with “faith” and positive thoughts about our money situation, but first we have to face the fear, allow it to be, honor it, release it and then begin to think/feel that wonderful “faith,” that “knowing” that all will turn out well.

Above all, let it be okay that you are human, love your “human-ness” and all that you are.  That’s a good thing :)

Peace, 
Dove

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