Ancient medicine: Frankincense, Galbanum, Hyssop and Myrrh The magi bringing their gifts of frankincense and myrrh. Painting: Adoration of the magi, by Abraham Bloemaert, from the central museum of Utrecht I first spoke about frankincense in July last year. It is now believed that the frankincense and myrrh presented to the baby Jesus were sourced from the southern Arabian peninsula; the area known today as Oman and Yemen. The oils galbanum and hyssop are less known to people but they likewise are also referenced in the Old Testament. So let’s now have a look at the uses for these four oils in our day and age. Frankincense (Boswellia Sacra and Boswellia Carteri). (For more information on frankincense, see these previous posts: 15 essential oils for stress relief , Essential oils for the spirit and Frankincense – worth its weight in gold.) Some uses: Galbanum (Ferula gummosa). Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis). It makes a good oil to clear the room of negative energies, charged-up emotions and depression. Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha). Till next time!
How To Build An Outdoor Cob Oven For $20 Technology has brought the art of making food to a new level which may in fact ruin someone on the long term if they don’t have the necessary knowledge of dealing without the appliances and devices at our disposal nowadays. Try baking something without fossil fuels or electricity for a week and you’ll find out how really hard that is. But if you’re lucky enough to have the space for a cob oven, you can make it just fine. For building the oven from scratch, you will need some hard work, positioning the stones for the foundation, continuing with filling with clay mortar, making the arch doorway and cob dome, and finishing with clay or sand mortar between the bricks. It could take you days, but with recycled materials, you would only spend some 20 $ on the entire structure.
5 Things You Should Know About Letting Go Email “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ―C. JoyBell C. Even after you let go, the past is still part of who you are. Every one of us lives in the present and makes choices based on some part of the past. All forms of learning rely on your ability to continually reference the past. But when you start behaving ineffectively because you think, “this is the way it has always been,” problems arise. We talk about letting go of the past and moving on, but what do we really need to leave behind? Here are some things I have learned that have helped me: 1. When an experience in your life has emotional significance, it gets tagged in your brain as being important. For example: A muscular man assaulted you, so now you find it hard to trust all muscular men.An old boss verbally harassed you, so now you have trouble respecting a totally new boss or different authoritative figure.Etc. 2. Why? If you think about it, we are all like elephants. Here are two things to consider: 3. 4. 5.
The One Thing Everyone Should Do In Their Lifetime Everyone on planet earth has a bucket list. We all have dreams to skydive the Swiss Alps, to drive Ferraris, to even have a threesome. A bucket list is comprised of the things that we want to do in our lifetime, it’s made of the moments that we hope to make memorable because they are fun and exciting and are unique. They grant us stories to tell and they make not only us, but also our lives, a bit more interesting than everyone else’s. You as a person have been blessed with and granted life. It’s the moments that we explore and the things that we do that we enjoy most, and the time that we spend in the way we want to is what makes life most enjoyable. Our bucket lists shouldn’t be about skydiving or try to f*ck a celebrity. There is so much fear and people equate traveling with risk. We are lucky enough to live in a world that possesses many different places with different cultures and a vast majority of potential experiences. Where should you go? Preston Waters | Elite.
How to Get Smarter, Increase Your IQ & Become Limitless | TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com “Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower.” -Brian Tracy Reading time: 10-15 minutes Do yo ever wish you were just a bit smarter? Me too. Why? Getting good grades and holding my own in intellectual conversations was never particularly hard, but there’s always been a few people a step ahead of me. And to be honest, I was a bit jealous. But I’ve always figured there wasn’t too much I could do about it. Today, I’m going to share with you something extremely powerful, something I’ve discovered recently and haven’t shared with anyone yet: Intelligence is not a set thing. How It All Started: Watching Limitless This whole adventure started a few months ago, when I decided to watch the movie Limitless . “You know they say we can only access 20% of our brain? As I watched that movie, something switched on inside me. I decided right there & then that I had to find a way to make this happen in real-life. So I got busy.
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common." The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists.
IL CODICE DELLA BIBBIA | Visione Alchemica Mentre file di teologi hanno studiato il significato letterale delle frasi bibliche e i fatti storici relativi, producendo un flusso infinito di interpretazioni, gli scienziati hanno studiato le scritture e hanno scoperto un significato scientifico nascosto in esse. Assieme alla nostra rapida evoluzione scientifica, la nostra comprensione delle antiche scritture come i Veda e le Upanishad, sta crescendo. Ora non stiamo solo riscoprendo il significato scientifico della spiritualità Orientale, ma anche quello della Bibbia! Sono emersi fatti affascinanti in merito alla Bibbia, spesso scartati o ignorati dalla Chiesa Cattolica Romana, perchè queste scoperte non rientrano nel dogma stabilito. Comunque a differenza delle discussioni teologiche, i fatti scientifici non possono essere ignorati o dibattuti, possono essere veri o falsi, non c’è una via di mezzo. IL LIBRO DELLA GENESI Forse uno dei libri meno compresi del passato antico è il libro della Genesi, il primo libro della Sacra Bibbia.
Two-Ingredient Biscuits Did you know that you can make homemade biscuits from scratch with only two ingredients? And no, they don't involve Bisquick. We discovered this old recipe while searching for a very, very quick dinner bread. We had just about half an hour, and we had forgotten to start a loaf of No-Knead the night before. Well, the reviews were almost uniformly positive: cooks loved them! What were the secret ingredients? Yep, just stir these together, pat out the dough, and you have biscuits ready in 15 minutes flat. We did adapt this slightly - partly to make the recipe quicker, and partly to help the biscuits rise more. These turned out to be a big hit at our dinner party; they're great with soup, too! Two-Ingredient BiscuitsAdapted from Diane Hixon at AllRecipes Makes 1 dozen biscuits 3 cups self-rising flour, such as White Lily1.5 cups buttermilk or regular milk1 tablespoon sugar, optional4 tablespoons butter, melted, optional Heat the oven to 450°F. Related: Touch-of-Grace Biscuits
» The 8 Habits of Healthy Living ‘The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.’ ~Epicurus Post written by Leo Babauta. I don’t have health insurance, so I have a big investment in staying healthy. And so I did a little research today — I found the top causes of death, then created a spreadsheet for the controllable risk factors for each. Some things can’t be controlled (your age, family history of diseases, gender). It’s interesting, though, how all of the major diseases are caused by the same things: smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol and stress. Below I’ll list the top habits you can change, and a simple method for changing them. The 8 Habits of Healthy Living 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. How to Form the Habits This might seem like a lot to change, if you’re not already doing these things, but let me share something with you: I changed all of these in the last 6 years. In 2005, I was incredibly unhealthy. I did it, and so can you. Here’s how to change these habits: Change only one habit at a time. These work.
Introduction | The Moneyless Manifesto Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau We were crunching our way through the fresh January snow one blue-skied afternoon, my little hand in hers, when my mum gently told me that Santa Claus wasn’t real. She was being kind of course, a pinch of tough love to save me the ignominy of telling the more streetwise kids what he had brought me that Christmas. But I was seven and a half, and I had already begun questioning the credibility of this rather portly gift economist for myself. Up until then, Santa gave to me unconditionally, just like my own mother’s breast had once done, regardless of whether I was naughty or nice. Despite my strong suspicions, I remember experiencing various emotions as mum confirmed my doubts. Feelings of hurt quickly abounded. Like all big girls and boys, deep down I wanted to know the truth, as disconcerting as it was. Just like money. It was this last truth I wanted to face up to in my late twenties.