Dearest You,
Please:
(1) Go to Google Alerts at http://www.google.com/alerts .
(2) Fill in the blanks as shown below.
Check out what comes into your inbox as you have time to. It will consist of a variety of postings, new writings, ideas, things to contemplate that lead one towards greater understanding of oneself and others, but not limited.
These are writings, thoughts and ideas in which the author have taken the time to think about and write about something and have used the phrase "allow yourself to feel" in their writing as a way to express their idea to others.
Needless to say, but I will, this is a phrase used when one person tries to help another.
There will be some things that you relate to, and some that you do not. That is ok. Those that you don't relate to directly, you may one day, either through your own experience or the trials of another you would be able to lend support to.
We are human beings. We are born, we live and try to figure it out (because it is our nature). We suffer, we suffer, we suffer because we have the need and the ability to feel. But we need not live in the suffering. Feel it, yes, feel it. But allow yourself to feel it, accept it, and open yourself up to feeling that which is good and wonderful too.
We have the opportunity to live fully no matter who we are, no matter where we are.
I believe this. I want this for everyone.
Take wonderful care,
Laughing Down Lonely Canyons
Fear corrodes my dreams tonight and mist has greyed
my hills,
Mountains seem too tall to climb, December winds
are chill.
There's no comfort on the earth, I am a child
abandoned,
Till I feel your hand in mine
And laugh down lonely canyons.
Snow has bent the trees in grief, my summer dreams
are dead,
Flowers are but ghostly stalks, the clouds drift
dull as lead.
There's no solace in the sky, I am a child abandoned,
Till we chase the dancing moon
And laugh down lonely canyons.
Birds have all gone south too soon and frogs refuse to
sing,
Deer lie hidden in the woods, the trout asleep till
spring.
There's no wisdom in the wind, I am a child
abandoned,
Till we race across the fields
And laugh down lonely canyons.
Darkness comes too soon tonight, the trees are silent
scars,
Rivers rage against the rocks and snow conceals the
stars.
There's no music in the air, I am a child abandoned,
Till I feel my hand in yours
And laugh down lonely canyons.
- James Kavanaugh
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"We are meant to have our joy, and find it." - Richard Kobertz
"Grant yourself a moment of peace and you will understand how
foolishly you have scurried about. Learn to be silent and you will
notice that you have talked too much. Be kind and you will realize
that your judgment of others was too severe." -Tschen Tschi Ju
*"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you're in deep trouble.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.
On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones. If all ideas have equal validity then you are lost, because then, it seems to me, no ideas have any validity at all.
Some ideas are better than others. The machinery for distinguishing them is an essential tool in dealing with the world and especially in dealing with the future. And it is precisely the mix of these two modes of thought that is central to the success of science."
*from "The Burden Of Skepticism" by Carl Sagan
I am currently reading Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. He credits
Carl Sagan's lecture "The Burden Of Skepticism" as a beacon for
him. This quote is at the beginning of the book, and I found it to ring
true as guidance for people living in a world of theories presented as facts
and facts misinterpreted and presented as truths. These guide our
everyday beliefs and affect the choices we make when it comes to our health and
what we believe about ourselves, our society, and other societies. In
fact, we are inundated with them.
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by
the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
It's become apparent to me, from reading a variety of sources, that an entire generation (and more) are being bamboozled by a fleecing of their pocketbooks by the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the government agencies that exist 'to protect us' in the guise of healthy standards. Standards that actually doom many of us to a shortened lifespan of ill health if those recommended standards are followed.
I am not writing this, or placing links below for any profit, and I won't write a post that attempts to explain what so many have studied and written about already. But I will tell you what I have read, and where online (if it is published online) to read this information so that you may decide for yourselves. In fact, don't let anyone, (me, other people, the media, government, well-meaning but misinformed medical experts) tell you how to interpret this information, and by all means don't take one source as gospel.
You'll notice a common thread among all of these readings, as I did. You'll take from these readings something that can work for you, in your lifestyle, with your own personal chemistry.
If anything at all, please keep this statement in mind, when you are reading about diet and health, diet and disease.
"For the general population:
Disease and obesity are symptoms that coexist when there is a physiological imbalance in the body. For anyone to tell you or to publish that obesity is the initial cause of any disease is making assumptions that do not belong in any science and harm us when they are promoted as FACT in medical science."
Correcting these imbalances through diet (F-O-O-D, the stuff you can buy or grow) not (D-I-E-T-S, usually causing imbalances themselves!) is both prevention and for many with diet related diseases, cure.
And you won't have to buy or eat anything weird, like Guana and Silicone Smoothies. (I made that up folks, as if I had to tell you.)
Studies are finally being done and older studies finally being accepted that promote other than the widely accepted and promoted low-fat low-calorie diet. We as a society will catch up, our kids and grandkids will know better. (I certainly hope). But let's not continue to live as the generation that has to suffer through an epidemic of obesity and diabetes and hypertension and heart disease because we didn't think for ourselves, as if we didn't have a world of information at our fingertips and every chance to inform ourselves beyond the headlines, beyond the old-school medicine and the same old NEW Food Pyramid.
So many words already, so few facts. Pep Talk Over. Links, below updated as I find them.
Remember, no one source is the be all and end all, these are just a collection of informative resources.
Please start here at Blood Sugar 101 . Don't turn away from this information thinking that it doesn't matter because you don't have diabetes. Blood sugar levels are at the very heart of all you will be learning if you have decided to begin this informational journey to better and longer health.
Recommended Book #1: Ultrametabolism by Mark Hyman, MD
- Search for this book at Amazon.com to preview it.
- Visit the author's website at Ultrametabolism.com to request a free preview chapter by email.
- Borrow it from your public library. (I did, along with 15 other books!)
- Buy it if you like. It's one of those books I would buy for my friends.
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