As an addition to the posts, Hygiene and Prevention and Airport Safety, one more area of focus would be gas pumps. I wear gloves, but buttons and handles can also be easily wiped down with disinfectant wipes before use.
Prevent and Protect 🌟
Dream CatcherA friend recently taught me how to make a Dream Catcher and I finally finished it! At first, it looked like a ill-formed mess of nothingness – but then it grew to have shape and meaning. It’s kind of like life sometimes… how we can take what seems to be a mess, what looks like ashes, and keep working with it until we find the meaning and beauty.
Thank you Dory 😊
Dream Catcher
I loved this post from Beth @ I Didn’t Have My Glasses On
Yesterday was heavy. Put it down.
— image credit: diego rivera, untitled (a heavy load) 1948
At times, as I’ve aimed the camera, I think I know what I’ve captured… then looking later, I know I didn’t truly see at all. Not then.
Tidal force is what causes high and low tides. It is the side closest to the moon that pushes the inflows and draws the outflows with the moon’s gravitational pull. Just as, with each planet, there is an energetic effect. I have always been interested in how this affects us as people. More, I wondered if there were mantras for the planets 🪐 which help us navigate the energetic currents that tug at our own lives.
Mercury has been the talk of late, being in retrograde (appearing to move backwards). I find that working in Mercury’s energy (which has been associated with communications of all kinds) with my voice and words, has been interesting to me. It is intentional thought, throat chakra in action, words and sound – all combined – focused towards those very things: Mercury and communications. The idea is, that these types of mantras help to sooth or smooth-out the natural energies that are at play in our lives. It is helpful to know your birth chart if you’d like to pin-point a specific issue along with its planetary associations.
You can chant with mala beads 108 times. Or perhaps, set aside a certain amount of time and make it a part of your meditation practice.
Om Budhaya Namaha
Om Bood-hah-yah Nahm-ah-ha
In his book, “Mantra, Sacred Words of Power”, Thomas Ashley-Farrand says, “Attention is energy. Intention qualifies attention.”
Whether you pray, dance, sing, drum, or chant mantras… what kind of attention is your intention qualifying?
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Querent and Seer
Spoken and unspoken words
Sent out, sent up – heard!
Words whispered by candle’s glow
Answers shuffled like cards, draw
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Seeker and Finder
Listen close and look within
What is seen and heard?
Observation paints this tale
Clarity rests like dew drops
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This week’s theme prompt is “Finding Clarity” chosen by Ken Gierke.
Cover photo by Martin Adams
I had not tried all of these uses for baking soda and didn’t realize it was used for so many things. I think my most memorable use of baking soda was with our calf many years ago. When he would get bloated, I would put some baking soda into his formula. After he drank it, I would take him for a walk and pretty soon, he was all better again.
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A few uses:
ASN – BAKING SODA: FOR COOKING, CLEANING, AND KIDNEY HEALTH?
Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
Early in 2019, I was struggling with energy and I came across a product called TianChi. It makes a drink which you take on an empty stomach in the morning. I took this every morning (It didn’t take this long to see the effects, but I continued taking it!) for a month and a half, and I was off and running again with as much energy as I’d ever had. The adaptogens found in this formula are: Shizandra, Rhodiola, Reishi Mushroom, Ashwaganda and Eluthero.
This formula was created by Master Tonic Chinese Herbalist, Roger Drummer and his formula can be found at HerbWorks.com
Image Credit © Ritu Bhathal
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Both lights
Rule my night
True north
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Both lights
Rule my heart
Soul glow
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Both lights
E.T. points
Phone home
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Above
And below
Lighthouse
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Dr. Kenneth Seaton Ph.D. coined the phrase, “Germs don’t fly; they hitchhike.” Of course, we know that germs do fly – however, this was the outcome of some of his research: ten healthy people were put into a room for eight hours with ten people infected by viruses. The rule was, no physical contact. Two people got sick.
Then, ten healthy people were put into a room for eight hours with ten sick people, except this time, there was physical contact. All ten became sick. That works out to be 20% risk factor without physical contact and 100% risk factor with physical contact.
Jordan Rubin writes in “The Great Physician’s Rx” , “If we are to stave off colds, allergies, or the flu, particular attention must be paid to five areas of the body – the hands, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.”
Andrew Cavanagh writes in “How Important is Hygiene?“, “Over ninety percent of germs, viruses and allergens on the hands are harboured under the fingernails and thumbnails.”
Hand washing in very warm water, working the soap under your fingernails and around the entire hand for 15-30 seconds is great prevention. After your hands are clean you can also do a face wash. Rubin recommends hand and face washing in the morning and evening with a soft soap (which can get under fingernails) that is not antibacterial. In public places, use a towel to not only turn the faucet off, but also to open the door. And, when washing isn’t available, have your sanitizer with you!
From Facebook:
“If you carry one thing with you today, let it be this: you are brave, you are beautiful (or handsome) , you are strong, you are smart, you are loved.”
-unknown
Happy Love Day 💕
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