The Talk School is beginning. Many of you have written to ask me what our family “Back to School” traditions are. If I haven’t responded, it’s because I stared at those questions and thought: CRAP. I’m supposed to have Back to School traditions??? If any, I suppose our traditions are getting crazy excited (Craig and I, not the kids), cursing through Target on the hunt for specific brands of scissors, and MAKING LUNCHES again. Why is making lunches SO hard? Also, this: The Talk. Please don’t forget to have The Talk. One way is to copy and paste this letter, change Chase to your kid’s name, and read it together. Love You So. Carry On, Warriors. Love, G originally published on august 28, 2011 Dear Chase, Hey, baby. Tomorrow is a big day. Chase – When I was in third grade, there was a little boy in my class named Adam. Adam looked a little different and he wore funny clothes and sometimes he even smelled a little bit. And I never talked to Adam, not once. I still think about Adam every day. Love, Mama
Do Hidden Opiates In Our Food Explain Food Addictions? By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Food addictions are not strictly “psychological” problems, but have a hard-wired, organic component. Many of the most commonly consumed foods in Western culture actually contain narcotic properties associated with the presence of psychoactive chemicals that bind to opioid receptors in the nervous system. These peptides are so powerful that researchers block their action with a drug known as naloxone and which is used to treat addiction among heroin abusers, and can even prevent death from heroin overdose. These “food opiates” are heavily concentrated in wheat and dairy products, especially cow’s milk. * Gluten exorphin A5: H-Gly-Tyr-Tyr-Pro-Thr-OH* Gluten exorphin B4: H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Trp-OH* Gluten exorphin B5: H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Trp-Leu-OH* Gluten exorphin C: H-Tyr-Pro-Ile-Ser-Leu-OH* Gliadorphin: Tyr-Pro-Gln-Pro-Gln-Pro-Phe Food opiates are widely distributed throughout our diet, and are found in many unsuspecting places. About the Author
Your left side is your best side: Our left cheek shows more emotion, which observers find more aesthetically pleasing Your best side may be your left cheek, according to a new study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo from Wake Forest University in the US. Their work shows that images of the left side of the face are perceived and rated as more pleasant than pictures of the right side of the face, possibly due to the fact that we present a greater intensity of emotion on the left side of our face. Their work is published online in Springer's journal Experimental Brain Research. Others can judge human emotions in large part from facial expressions. Blackburn and Schirillo investigated whether there are differences in the perception of the left and right sides of the face in real-life photographs of individuals. The authors explain: "Our results suggest that posers' left cheeks tend to exhibit a greater intensity of emotion, which observers find more aesthetically pleasing. "Participants were asked to rate the pleasantness of both sides of male and female faces on gray-scale photographs.
The China Study by Dr. Colin Campbell | GreenSmoothieGirl Product Description Robyn’s Review Dr. Colin Campbell’s The China Study, the largest and most comprehensive nutrition study in history conducted jointly by Oxford and Cornell, the most empirical evidence ever gathered validating a plant-based diet. Colin Campbell is a professor of nutrition at Cornell University and has sat on the highest nutrition governing boards in the U.S. He found just the opposite: the wealthier children with good access to meat/milk were dying of liver cancer, not the poor children who could afford only plant food. The rodent studies are fascinating: two groups of mice are put on 5% animal protein pellets (casein, from milk) and 20% animal protein pellets, respectively. Even more fascinating is how the researchers could SWITCH the groups’ diets. Campbell went on to conduct the largest, most longitudinal, most comprehensive nutrition study in human beings, in history, yielding hundreds of statistically significant correlations.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Maslow wanted to understand what motivates people. He believed that individuals possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires. Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fullfil the next one, and so on. The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow's (1943, 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. This five stage model can be divided into basic (or deficiency) needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization). The deficiency, or basic needs are said to motivate people when they are unmet. One must satisfy lower level basic needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs. Every person is capable and has the desire to move up the hierarchy toward a level of self-actualization. The original hierarchy of needs five-stage model includes: 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Healing Addictions - PostFeminine When “Willpower” Does Not Work – How Do We Heal Addictions? One of many things I do in my powerful 15-Week Miracle Coaching program is help people let go of their addictions. Recently, one of my 15-Week Miracle Coaching program clients was able to let go of his addiction to pornography that had plagued him for years. So in Holistic Belief Reprogramming, we don’t even try to use “willpower” to overcome an addiction. Interestingly enough, I was not “trying” to cut back on drinking alcohol because it’s never been a “problem” in my life. Lately though, I’ve noticed some changes. Then there were also sporadic time periods during the past year when I would not feel like drinking for a week or so. Now I realize something bigger than that is happening. How did this happen? Some of the disconnection patterns are very sneaky. 1. 2. 4. 5. Healing addictions with Holistic Belief Reprogramming does not happen overnight. Love, Erika Awakening, High Priestess of Miracles here at TAPsmarter
Uncommon Act of Design: Fake Bus Stop Helps Alzheimer's Patients One of the most pernicious symptoms of Alzheimer's is that patients, in a fit of confusion, feel suddenly disoriented from their surroundings and wracked with a need to just get home. As a result, Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes often escape--wandering at large, with no memory of who they are, oblivious to danger. The obvious (and common) solution is to lock up Alzheimer's wards. Via Radiolab's podcast comes a remarkable story of how the Benrath Senior Center in Dusseldorf, Germany, found an alternative solution. So they built a fake bus stop, right in front of the clinic. That's a brilliant act of design, in the same manner as the "@" sign: The idea's inventor, an adviser to the senior center, managed to re-appropriate the common bus stop--and everything it symbolizes--in a way that essentially hacks the mind. Check out the full story at Radiolab--it's a tearjerker. [Image by emrank]
The Eighteen Wonders of Wheatgrass To an untrained eye, the blades of wheatgrass may look similar to the blades of any common lawn grass. Wheatgrass is grown from the wheat berry, which is the whole kernel of the wheat grain, and the superior quality and variety of its nutrients are what set it apart from other grasses. Here are some facts about this amazing food. Based on our research and observation, wheatgrass is one of the richest sources of vitamins A and C contains a full, balanced spectrum of readily assimilated B vitamins, including laetrile (B17), which has been credited with selectively destroying certain cancer cells without affecting normal cells. Because wheatgrass acts as a powerful cleanser inside the human body, you may feel nauseous soon after ingesting it. Once juiced, wheatgrass is not stable and tends to go rancid quickly.
Are You Looking For A Relationship To Complete Yourself? (Why Singlehood is Not a Disease) by Celes on Feb 13, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post “To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I’.”- Ayn Rand (in The Fountainhead)“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.” – Jo Courdert Love. Soulmate. There are several topics in life which attract a lot of desperation. I know it because I’m single, and I have a lot of single friends. Singlehood = Incomplete? Somehow, the mainstream society seems to be hovering at the belief that we are only complete when we have found our life partner – our soulmate. Personally as a girl, I’m a true blue romantic at heart. But the society seems to have portrayed singlehood as some sort of a disease, rather than a perfectly fine state in itself. Desperation and Singlehood This leads to anxiety and desperation surrounding the topic, which leads to many pulling their hairs out trying to find ‘the one’. Myself as a Single 1. 2.
Is Fructose as Addictive as Drugs and Alcohol? By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Fructose, which literally means “fruit sugar,”* sounds so sweet and innocent. And indeed, when incorporated into the diet in moderate amounts in the form of fruit – always organic and raw, when possible – it’s about as pure and wholesome as as a nutrient can get. Not so for industrially processed fructose in isolate form, which may be as addictive as alcohol [i] and perhaps even morphine [ii] [iii] and which according to USDA research published in 2008 into major trends in U.S. food consumption patterns, 1970-2005, we now consume at the rate of at least 50 lbs a year — the 800 ounce gorilla in the room. Because high-fructose corn syrup contains free-form monosaccharides of fructose and glucose, it cannot be considered biologically equivalent to sucrose, which has a glycosidic bond that links the fructose and glucose together, and which slows its break down in the body. To view them all, you can visit our Fructose-Induced Toxicity page.
Rewriting the Mind – We Are What We Think - Evolving Beings | Consciousness Expansion and Heart-Centered Living The conscious mind is the part we are aware of – the part that does the thinking, worrying, planning and creating. It is a tiny part of the structure; it is the subconscious that is the looming bulwark, a massive entity with incredible powers and potentials. Its unique characteristic is that it can create anything that we command it to create, by virtue of the thoughts we think. If you believe that you cannot achieve something, if you believe that you cannot have something, the subconscious will create conditions, so that your beliefs are proved. Thus the negative thoughts that create our negative conditioning, can be overthrown by affirming their opposite. To transform your life you must have a picture of yourself as you wish to be. The Power of the Subconscious Mind Awareness of the incredible power of the subconscious, conveyed by writers such as Joseph Murphy, author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, is behind the New Age deployment of affirmations to change oneself. 1. 2. 3.
A Review of the 7 Key Healthy Eating Principles as You Enter the New Year With a New Year just around the corner most of us are making New Year's resolutions, with weight loss and better health often leading the list. This coming year, how about a focus on creating health AND boosting your youthful energy, vitality and immunity? The Body Ecology system of health and healing goes beyond other diet and nutrition programs by creating a roadmap to youthful longevity. Make your resolution a commitment to your health and weight with the widely proven Body Ecology Diet! Energy, vitality and longevity can be achieved at any age, and with the 7 Healing Principles of the Body Ecology Diet you can achieve a New Year -- and a lifetime - of looking and feeling your best! Resolve to Restore YOUR Body Ecology! The Body Ecology program will help you establish the "missing piece" that others have never taught before…that the inner ecosystem is key to health. Beneficial bacteria (also known as microflora) digest the foods you are eating. The 7 Healing Body Ecology Principles
Quick Stress Relief: Fast and Effective Ways to Rapidly Reduce Stress We often hear from people who feel overwhelmed by stress, family, work and relationship problems, health challenges, and painful emotions. They’ve tried many approaches to help themselves feel better, but they just can’t seem to follow through, or what they’ve done hasn't helped them enough. If this sounds familiar, you know that it’s all too easy to become discouraged when you’re stuck. The problem is not willpower—all the willpower in the world won’t matter if you can’t manage stress or keep your emotions in balance. The good news: you can learn these important emotional skills, no matter your age or the obstacles you face. That’s what this free online program teaches. Skill building, like any learning, takes time and effort.
The Ultimate Craving - How Industry Designs Food to be as Addictive as Narcotics By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World It’s not surprising that processed foods are designed to foster addictive behavior — robbing us of our health, serenity and hard-earned cash. Even though the average American does not view junk food as an addiction, researchers have discovered unhealthy food can actually seize the brain in the same way nicotine, cocaine and other drugs do — leaving us at the mercy of cravings and binges. Processed food – The devil is in the details Picture for a moment two pieces of chocolate. Consider “sensory-specific satiety.” “The biggest hits – be they Coca-Cola or Doritos – owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don’t have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.” Interestingly, nicotine andnarcotic addictions hijack the brain in a similar fashion. Irresistible allure of engineered edibles Kenny continues, “what happens in addiction is lethally simple.