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Mindful Moment
Ripples … Finding Sanctuary in the Moment
Georgia Swamplands
This place doesn’t mind being forgot.
It cares not.
Time moves forward here without being pushed. It’s the natural way to move so subtle and slow.
Letting it flow.
No greeding or hoarding of supplies to survive. Without thought…
It lives to thrive.
No wonder we step away to remember again, there’s more to us than the rush and the fuss.
A space to contemplate, instead of cuss.
Leave it all in this moment we find. Then rejoin your life,
With a clearer mind.
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A Friend in Me
Making music in the down-time!
My son played this for us a few months ago, but for those of us who enjoy applying our musical skills to spin out well-known tunes on various instruments, or appreciate those who do… it’s a nice way to use our creativity while we are away from work or away from our regular activities with others. Despite the distance for many of us, we are close in heart and spirit!
“You got a Friend in Me” art from Pinterest
Music played by Micah from “Toy Story”
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Nature Ride
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) – A Powerful Immune Booster
ALA is a vitamin-like chemical (naturally occurring fatty acid) known as an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect our cells from damaging free-radical cells which are caused by such things as environmental toxins, aging, inflammation and stress.
While our bodies naturally make a small amount of ALA – which helps turn glucose into energy (thereby helping with diabetes), it can also be found in vegetables such as spinach, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, beets, broccoli, peas, carrots, tomatoes, and in foods such as brewers yeast, potatoes, and organ meats like liver and kidney.
As we age, our bodies make less of this antioxidant, and so supplementing can be very beneficial. It is easily absorbed and is water soluble.
One of the most powerful antioxidants in our body is called glutathione and ALA helps boost this protective antioxidant as well.
Some of the Benefits:
- Helps to detoxify the liver
- Helps with energy production
- Lowers blood sugar
- Treats nerve pain from diabetes
- Boosts the immune system
- Good for heart and brain function
- Powerful antioxidant!
- It works with your B, C, & E vitamins
- Slows down aging
- Boosts glutathione!
- Helps with HIV
- Helps with MS
- Helps with weight loss
- Helps with insulin resistance
- Boosts T-cells
- Inhibits Influenza and flu viruses
- Helps with Neuropathy
- Lowers blood pressure (when taken with L carnitine)
- Anti inflammatory
- Helps with retinopathy
- Crosses the blood-brain barrier
- Good for skin
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Case Study Reviews on ALA and Dosage Recommendations by Dr. Paul Haider
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What we do for Pictures… Laying with the Daffodils
Buttercup dreams…
Happy weekend! 🌟 Stay well and stay safe!
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The Crystal Palace
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Colloidal Silver
Colloidal silver can help reduce bacterial infections in your lungs and reduces a virus’ ability to replicate. It can be put into humidifiers and sprayed onto face masks – which we are now doing at work with our masks.
For more information, check out:
Protect and Prevent 🌟
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Hand-Made Face Mask 2
This is another idea for a hand-made face mask which was made for us at work. It has a pocket on the inside where you can add a 4×4 filter.
Thank you B! 😊😷☺️
Protect and Prevent 🌟
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Ten Things That Make Me Happy Tag
I want to thank Mr. Holliman from A Happy Life for tagging me in this happy tag. I am thankful and honored. If you have a few minutes, check out his blog for great recipes and inspiration.
Ten things that make me happy tag rules:
1. List 10 things that make you happy. (Linking to them, sharing pictures, writing poems about them, telling jokes, etc. are all encouraged but not required.)
2. Tag some people who make you happy (and notify them of their tag).
10 things that make me happy:
1. A healthy diet
Food is our first, most basic medicine. It just feels good to eat good food!
Photo by Anna Pelzer
2. Good Rest
Adequate sleep is good for your immune system.
Photo by Kate Stone Matheson
3. Vitamin-C
Since I started taking vitamin c regularly, I have been 10-years free of chronic tonsillitis and sore throats.
Photo by Freestocks
4. Reiki
A Japanese stress-relieving therapy that aids the body’s natural healing abilities and helps with mood regulation. Photo by Ravi Roshan
5. Meditation
It’s the variety! There are probably as many ways to meditate as there are people!
Photo by Tim Goedhart
6. Reading
Reading is a great therapy. It is stepping away into a different space … an emptying of sorts. Then, anchoring and filling the mind with a new focus for a time. Hey, it sounds a bit like meditation!
Photo by Aaron Burden
7. Mantras
What do you think about while chanting mantras? The words you are saying and the intention behind them I hope! It is having a focused mind with a specific intent – while speaking in the language of energy. Hmmm, sounds meditative. And effective!
Photo by Zoltan Tasi
8. Transporting Disabled Veterans
It feels like such a small thing at times, but it’s pretty big for those who can’t get to the doctor on their own. In its own way, it touches lives – and not just theirs. It brings some wild stories and wild rides – with a huge assortment of unforgettable memories, names and faces.
Photo by Zhen Hu
9. Blogging
My feelings on blogging have been very diverse. They have ranged from:
- How do people do this every day?
- It seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Do I have to?
- I just made 50 straight days of posting, how about that!
- I think I like this!
- Just keep posting, just keep posting, swimming, swimming… (oh that’s Dory) posting!
- This has become a “thing”
- Who would I be if I didn’t blog?
It will be my one-year anniversary blogging in April and it’s been quite a journey … it has been its own Pilgrimage.
Photo by Launchpresso
10. Tribe
It’s a different way of being and thinking for some. It’s about so many things done in the spirit of togetherness… it’s never an option to step away for too long. Separateness is only by circumstance, and togetherness is always the goal.
Photo by Hannah Busing
For those who’d like to participate – the people for this tag are:
1. PurpleRays – https://purplerays.wordpress.com
2. The Mysterious Blogger – http://getthemysteriousblogger.com
3. Lauravent69– http://lavent69.blog
4. Paul Militaru – http://photopaulm.com
5. Pene’ Pasta for the Soul – https://justpene.com
6. Michael Jordahl – https://michaeljordahl.wordpress.com/
Thank you again Mr. Holliman for the tag!
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