Prayers really are magical. I Pray that you are receiving that magic, and that your Life is in a place of contentment.
Prayer will relax the mind, and provide more insight, more compassion and more positive intentions.
To find answers for the unending problems in Life, look in the Bible. The Holy Word of God uses thoughtful stories and illustrations from people in History, to show our need for Faith. . It guides us through the essential questions in Life, and leads to reasonable and compelling conclusions.
You can Live your Life a changed Person, and Live a Truly Great experience.
Your Precious Life can become the most Beautiful and moving ever you Dreamed of.
Spend a few moments touring around the Beautiful and Creative Mind you have been so Blessed with.
Feel the Beat of your own Sacred Heart, as your eyes walk around the ruins of the physical World inherited by greed, and hatred and sin.
Prayer will transport you to another Time and place.
Love, and Love alone, will move you to a Sacred Place in your Heart. . Your Love will play the most integral part in Life.
Giving Love, is as critical as receiving it in our quest for Happiness.
Your Love will lift your Spirit above all things ever found. . Love is the Masterpiece of God’s Creation, in an ageless place of Peace and reflection. . The Love in your Heart, is what Mankind is capable of doing for others. And it is beyond description.
Prayer is an astonishing Place, that touches the Heart, where your Dreams are Real and you discover the Reality of Love.
There is a Dream, that is you. And you can Dream it. . The material World can make it vanish. It is so fragile, that it may not survive.
“What we do in Life, echoes in Eternity.” – Maximus Meridius
With chaos happening all around, we need relaxing, meditative Prayer. Giving the Spiritual Dimension in our Time, makes Life even more special and relevant.
Our moment with God brings the feeling of warmth, Love and Peace.
As we reminisce about the Happy moments we have had, and Thank God for having them, we bring them Alive again.
Our childhood memories were the Happiest time of Life.
Go back to these days.
Become a Child again. . Nothing compares to the Joy of being a Child of God.
Goodnight.
A New Dimension to a Meaningful Life
Studies suggest that appreciating beauty in the everyday may be just as powerful as a sense of overarching purpose.
When we think about lives filled with meaning, we often focus on people whose grand contributions benefited humanity. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela surely felt they had a worthwhile Life. But how about us ordinary people, toiling away in a typical existence?
Many scholars agree that a subjectively meaningful existence oftenboils down to three factors: the feeling that one’s life is coherent and “makes sense,” the possession of clear and satisfying long-term goals and the belief that one’s Life matters in the grand scheme of things. Psychologists call these three things coherence, purpose and existential mattering.
But we believe there is another element to consider. Think about the first butterfly you stop to admire after a long winter or imagine the scenery atop a hill after a fresh hike. Sometimes existence delivers us small moments of beauty.When people are open to appreciating such experiences, these moments may enhance how they view their life. We call this element experiential appreciation. The phenomenon reflects the feeling of a deep connection to events as they transpire and the ability to extract value from that link. It represents the detection of and admiration for Life’s inherent Beauty.
We recently set out to better understand this form of appreciation in a series of studies, published inNature Human Behaviour, that involved more than 3,000 participants. Across these studies, we were interested in whether experiential appreciation was related to a person’s sense of meaning even when we accounted for the effects of the classic trio of coherence, purpose and existential mattering. If so, experiential appreciation could be a unique contributor to meaningfulness and not simply a product of these other variables.
As an initial test of our idea, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, we had participants rate their endorsement of different coping strategies to relieve their stress. We found that people who managed stress by focusing on their appreciation for Life’s Beauty also reported experiencing Life as highly meaningful.
In the next study, we asked participants to rate the extent to which they agreed with various statements, such as “I have a great appreciation for the beauty of life” and “I appreciate a wide variety of experiences,” as well as other statements that related to coherence, purpose, existential mattering and a general sense of meaning in life.
Our results showed that the more people indicated that they were “appreciating life” and its many experiences, the more they felt their existence was valuable. In fact, these two elements related strongly to each other even when we controlled for other aspects of a meaningful life. In subsequent studies, we further explored the connection between these concepts. For example, we found that participants asked to recall the most meaningful event of the past week generally reported high experiential appreciation in those moments.
Finally, we conducted a series of experiments in which we gave people specific tasks and, once more, asked them to report how strongly they identified with statements linked to purpose, mattering, et cetera.
In one case, we found that participants who watched an awe-inspiring video, such as the opening sequence of the BBC documentary Planet Earth, reported having a greater sense of experiential appreciation and meaning in life, compared with participants who watched more neutral videos, such as an instructional woodworking video.
Similarly, participants who wrote about a recent experience for which they were grateful had a greater sense of meaning and experiential appreciation afterward when compared with participants who simply wrote about a common place they had visited in the past week.
The results confirmed our original theory: appreciating small things can make Life feel more meaningful. But applying that insight can be difficult. Our modern, fast-paced, project-oriented lifestyles fill the day with targets and goals. We are on the go, and we attempt to maximize output both at work and at leisure. This focus on future outcomes makes it all too easy to miss what is happening right now. Yet Life happens in the present moment. We should slow down, let Life surprise us and embrace the significance in the everyday.
As former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in 1950, “We live in a wonderful world…. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Are you a scientist who specializes in neuroscience, cognitive science or psychology? And have you read a recent peer-reviewed paper that you would like to write about for Mind Matters? Please send suggestions to Scientific American’s Mind Matters editor Daisy Yuhas at pitchmindmatters@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Joshua Hicks studies the experience of meaning in life, authenticity and the true self. He is currently a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Missouri.
Frank Martela is a researcher specializing in both the psychology and philosophy of well-being and meaning in life. He is currently a university lecturer at Aalto University in Finland. He is the author of A Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence(Harper Design, 2020). He received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Helsinki in Finland and a Ph.D. in organizational research at Aalto University.
Your Childhood lies through your Memory, attitude and Imagination.
Knowledge is power and LIFE.
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Let us Thank God for the Holy Bible, for the Divinely Inspired Words of Truth. . Pray and Thank God our Father, who we came From, not through, for ALL that is Life.
The Precious Words of Scripture are far more than mere Words woven together in ancient Times. They are, the very Essence of Love, of God’s Love for you.
Place His Sacred Words in your Heart, and Know that ALL will be well, because You are Faithful in His Name.
Tenderness survives being trapped by the will.
Delicate words, not spoken in haste, make the subtle Heart swell, as everything becomes Perfected and wonderfully Created, and a Dreamy atmosphere is given Creation. . This is Beautiful.
“It’s the Heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance. It’s the Dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance. It’s the one who won’t be taken, who cannot seem to give. And the Soul afraid of dying, that never learns to Live. When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long And you think that Love is only for the lucky and the strong, Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows Lies the seed, that with the Sun’s Love in the Spring becomes the Rose.”
– Amanda McBroom
I Pray that you invite the Holy Spirit inside your precious Heart. . Turn to God. He will always Forgive. . “If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just and will Forgive us our sins and Purify us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:9
Look at Love and you may see, it weaves a web of Loving Mystery. Its threads can be torn apart, hiding Hope in a precious Heart. . But Hope has a place in every Heart. It whispers words that flow into the Ocean tides of Life and Living.
The intense feeling of Hope, is a Celebration of Life.
Close your mind and open your Heart. God is The Light you feel, your own Light, your own Love, your own.
Hope gives one more breath, one more word, one more beat of the Human Heart, so that our Dreams may give Life Wings.
Such Love is meant to be. . Hope has a Home. It sets the Heart free, so you can be you, and I can be me.
We journey so far on the road of Life, to let Love rise, and then we let Love depart.
But Hope has a place in every Heart.
So, look to Love so you may Dream. And give Love Wings. For Love is meant to be. . Love is Home and it sets the Heart free, to be.
Are you at a point where you’re second-guessing your path and your purpose?
You know you’re meant for more and you spend many days questioning how you ended up where you are and wondering how to change?
Most days you feel frustrated and fed-up! You wonder why things aren’t going the way you planned. You long to live a life of meaning but you’re unhappy in your career or you’re floundering in your business. You have this nagging feeling that you’re not on the right path. Your self-doubt and uncertainty is working overtime!
This happens to so many visionary, impact-driven women who long to make a difference in the world. They follow the path that they think they should be following instead of following the path that is meant for them.
Especially if it’s something that’s not common! Being different feels too scary. What if people judge you? What if your idea doesn’t work because it’s never been done before?Someone has to be the first. Why not you?
There are countless examples of innovators who have gone first.
YOUR FEAR AND DOUBT HAS YOU:
Hiding parts of you to fit in
Pushing to prove yourself and show people you’re good enough •
Saying yes when you really want to say no
Saying no when you really want to say yes
Struggling to find the words to communicate your needs
Feeling undeserving to receive gifts and compliments
You often don’t say what you want to say.
You sit silently when inside you feel desperate to say what you want to say, but the words just won’t come out.
You’re too worried about what people might think of you.
These are just a few symptoms of the fear of rejection and the fear of failure.
If any of these statements felt true for you, fear is is at the root of the challenges you’re experiencing.
Your fears and self-doubt have disconnected you from the True You.
They’ve disconnected you from your inner-peace and what brings you joy.
They disconnected you from your true purpose and what you’re meant to do in the world.
Knowledge is power and LIFE.
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If we only learn to Smile, to spark a Hope, to give of our abundance, to forward Kindness, and share our Happiness, we can begin to Truly Live Life.
You can be amazing, and your words deliver a message that will bring Joy into someone’s precious Life. Your Love will touch their Soul.
You can let others know that they are Loved, and they are needed.
Let us stop worrying about the Future and remember a Time in the past, when our thoughts were so Happy.
Relax and teleport your mind into a different World, a REAL World. Close your eyes and remember a Tomorrow that was Yesterday. You will be able to find Life’s meaning and purpose. It did exist, and can exist again.
You are special. Great things are coming to you. When you Pray, you can feel the Flow of God’s Energy.
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
Our conscious, Living Being responds more vigorously to our feelings, than our thoughts. So, let us speak in the Language of the Heart.
“Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.” – Philip Henry
Lose yourself in the energy of your feelings, your yearning to help another. . “The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.” – Benjamin Franklin
Your feeling is the Prayer. . “For the beauty of the Earth,For the beauty of the skiesFor the love which from our birthOver and around us liesOver and around us liesLord of all, to thee we raiseThis our joyful hymn of praiseFor the beauty of the hourOf the day and of the nightHill and vale and tree and flowerSun and moon and stars of lightSun and moon and stars of lightLord of all, to thee we raiseThis our joyful hymn of praiseFor the joy of human loveBrother, sister, parent, childFriends on earth and friends aboveFor all gentle thoughts and mildFor all gentle thoughts and mildLord of all, to thee we raiseThis our joyful hymn of praiseFor each perfect gift of thineTo our race so freely givenGraces Human and divineFlowers of earth and buds of heavenFlowers of earth and buds of heavenLord of all, to thee we raiseThis our joyful hymn, our joyful hymn of PraiseThis our joyful hymn of Praise.”
Let your Song join the One that never ends. Let the Sea of your imagination rush through your mind and Heart. Escape this reality. Hope lies just beyond the horizon of illusions that are Life. . Knowing comes from awareness that God is Real and that He Lives within.
To grasp Reality, go the Lord in Prayer.
The Stars in the Sky are a mirror. Listen to your Heart.
We can learn how to Love God, and draw closer to Him.
Amazing Love can fill your whole Being. Listen, Pray and Believe.
The Songs and the Stories of Love and Life are so emotional and so exquisite. Someday Love and Life will meet again. Someday it will be Spring again.
Let your Light shine everywhere, and let it Bless those in need.
God has been so good to you. Be Grateful. The Best Way to Praise the Lord and Express His Love is to invite Him into your Life and follow in His Path.
Healing is in the meditation of calming the mind and feeling the Infinite Energy that exists within. You can feel your mind, your Being and your Spirit in each Sacred Breath.
You can inspire others to share your passions with the World. And they will thank you for making this World a better place.
Life passes by and nothing is permanent. We Live each day, lost in the worries and troubles of the moment. We don’t notice Time passing by. Why did Time pass by so quickly? Perhaps it does not exist. Perhaps, it too is an illusion. . Our Hearts ache for simpler Times, for the days when we were Children. They exist in our precious memories. And YES, they can exist again.
Love is what darkness fears the most.
Close your eyes. You will see Peace. You Heart is ready to forgive and to forget and to send Love into the Lives of others all around you, and all over the World.
It is so inspiring to know that people all around this Beautiful World Love each other unconditionally. And through Love we are all connected. We are one.
The dark was never meant to rule the Earth. Our Destiny is the Light, and the Love, and the Peace of our Lord. . Let the Vibration of your Life be Kind to each other, be accepting of one another. The darkness wants to separate us. But the Light of Love, will bring us together.
Clear your mind. Let the Energy of Love flow into the Fiber of your Being through Prayer. You are Love, and you are a Divine Child of God. . With Faith you will become EVERYTHING God wants you to be. Believe in yourself, and Believe in God. This your moment.
Alicia Staley’s journey as 23+ year cancer survivor.
Today, we’re featuring a blog post by S. Adams. As many of you know, I’ve been interested in the environmental impacts that cause cancer. Today’s entry touches on one aspect of that. Thank you for contributing this very important perspective.
Developing cancer can be one of the most devastating things that can happen to a person. The instant your doctor utters the words, “You have cancer” your mind runs an emotional gamut. Fear, uncertainty, sadness, hope, love, anxiety, anger, despair. Cancer is the nightmare no one wishes to wake up with. The resolve to fight for your life, and live it to it’s fullest becomes your focus. There are many unknowns about cancer, and gradually scientists are learning more about what may cause cancer, and how to treat it. While a cure for cancer is still being researched, we as individuals must do what we can and avoid those things which we know can cause cancer.
Carcinogens are cancer causing chemicals. The most well known carcinogens are cigarette smoke, asbestos, benzene, and formaldehyde. These chemicals are found in everyday items such as building materials, glues, detergents, plastics, pesticides, lubricants, paper products, cosmetics, air deodorizers, carpets, and more. It may be hard to avoid items with these chemicals, as they are chemicals used in so many products, and you may not realize how much you are being exposed to them.
With what is known about causes of cancer, it will come as a shock that there are prescription drugs, commonly prescribed medicines, that have been shown to cause cancer in animals. Yet, they are still readily available. One reason they are likely still available is that the big drug makers, with their monetary ties to the FDA, insist more research has to be done on these medicines before they should be considered being labeled with extraneous warnings.
Millions of women experiencing menopause have taken HRT (hormone replacement therapy) to ease their symptoms. HRT boosts estrogen levels, which can promote both breast and uterine cancer development. How many women have used this to relieve their menopausal symptoms, only to develop some form of cancer as a result? We will never know.
Drugs that have been found to cause cancer in rats range from heartburn medications to blood pressure and cholesterol lowering drugs. Prilosec (heartburn), Aldactazine, Aldactone (both blood pressure meds), Zocor, Lopid, Mevacor, Lescol, and Pravachol(cholesterol lowering drugs) have all been found to be a cause of cancer in animals, and have been linked to increased occurrences of cancer by patients who have taken these drugs.
Do the benefits of these drugs outweigh the risk? The risk of developing cancer is not one to take lightly! The fact that there are even more prescription drugs being researched as being the causes of cancer is disgusting.
There is research being done after scientific research has determined pancreatic cancer to be a Januvia side effect. Januvia is a billion dollar money making diabetes drug produced by Merck, and being the big money maker that is, Merck defends the drug against naysayers, saying more research needs to be done to back up these claims. With similar diabetes drugs, Byetta and Victoza having been found to increase the risk of cancer, expedited research should be required. Are the manufacturers of these drugs hiding research results for the sake of increased profit? With so many drugs being questioned, this certainly seems, sadly, a possibility.
The FDA warns against using the topical eczema ointments Elidel and Protopic in children under two as these medicines are associated with lymphoma and skin cancers. The warning goes on to include that “the long term safety of these drugs is unknown.” As you can read here, the maker of the drug found no reason for a warning to be added to the medicines.
As a consumer, it is in your interest to know the risks associated with prescription drugs that you are taking. Sites like DrugNews.net issue safety alerts, FDA recalls, and important medical industry news that can keep buyers aware of news that may be happening outside mainstream media. Being informed about the side effects and risks associated with medicines is another way to be be prudent in avoiding health risks.
People taking medicine trust their doctors and they trust the makers of the drugs they are taking. It is absurd that so many medicines have been linked to increasing the risk of cancer development, and the FDA should require more research into these drugs, quantifying the risk, instead of asking consumers to ignore the risk completely. Cancer should not be a risk that should be given or taken so lightly.
Each of us is on our own Journey trying to find ourselves, find our True purpose in Life.
And as our minds flutter and falter and get anxious, we find it difficult to absorb all that becomes so incomprehensible.
My Dear Friends, our Faith is what we need to help us through. . God will abide with us and help us in these difficult Times. . “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my Righteous Right Hand.” – Isaiah 41:10
Let us share the Love and the Light. Sharing our Love with others brings such Joy and Happiness. You Truly make a difference in this fragile World by being patient and Kind and Loving. Be a Ray of Sunshine to Light the Path for others.
God has Blessed us with the wonderful Gift and Beautiful awareness that is you. . Being and Believing is finding the Pathway toward a New Horizon of understanding.
The Beautiful Work of Art you are, is filled with Love, the Love of God.
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive Soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe
You are a Blessing, a magnet to Higher vibrations of thought, a new behavioral pattern of Love and Light and Wisdom.
Please understand that YOU are a Beautiful Gift sent to this Earth to fulfill a Purpose, of sending positive energy to those around you. You are a Phoenix rising in the Sacred Heart of someone.
“You have 100% control over your thoughts, words and actions, and 0% control over everything else.” – Sara Y. Rigler
There is a better World and it does exist, and it is inside of us, if we Believe.
With our Prayer we are touched deeply, for there is no separation between man and GOD. It is the Communication of the Heavens for all Eternity. When you Pray, your mind becomes Peaceful and tranquil, and your thoughts are soothing and ascend to Higher Plane of Existence.
Listen to your Soul. You can finally come to realize how things that are material can cause a great damage to oneself. But, there is something that will allow you to feel both Alive and Real.
Be grateful that our Almighty God has given us one more chance to see the Beautiful rays of the Sun, the rays of a new Day, Today. Be glad for being Alive.
Prayer quiets the mind and brings Peace and relaxation. It allows us to connect with God. Our Heavenly Father longs for our Praise and Gratitude. Prayer is where you find all is quiet and Peaceful.
The Harmony between each other, Nature, and the sounds of Creation is a Harmonic Piece of God’s Heart. YOU are a Beautiful expression of the Creative Energy and the Love of God.
Scientists Transmit Thoughts from one Brain to Another
But are we close to reading other people’s minds?
By LEE DYE
An international team of scientists has succeeded in transmitting the thoughts of one individual into the brain of a second person, located thousands of miles away, combining some of the latest technological marvels with the long arm of the Internet.
This is thought to be the first time that two brains have communicated with each other directly over a long distance without the sender having to utter a single word.
Two greetings — “hola” and “ciao” — made the historic trip from India to France, where they were received and spoken by a researcher who was blindfolded and equipped with earplugs. The scientists wanted to ensure that the receiver knew what his colleague 5,000 miles away was thinking because of the brain-to-brain transmission, not because of some other cue.
The research, published in PLOS One, was conducted by scientists in Spain, India, France and the United States.
The scientists wanted to prove, even with technology that will likely seem arcane in the near future, that it’s possible for two human brains to communicate with each other directly, Alvaro Pascual-Leone of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, co-author of the study, said in a telephone interview.
Brain to brain transmission is a hot topic among scientists around the world, and last year researchers at the University of Washington claimed to be the first to carry it off when a student on one side of the campus moved a finger while a colleague thought about the command on the other side of the campus.
The Harvard team took that one step further with the first transmission of specific words.
But the breakthroughs also include a warning. This should be very valuable for medical applications, especially for patients with communication problems, but it could also be a source of devastating misuse. Does it pave the way for humans to read the minds of others, even without their consent?
“I always worry that as we do this initial step with healthy subjects, even under all the regulatory oversight, that it could lend itself to the fancy of people who just want to play with it,” Pascual-Leonesaid.
Or as the study concluded in its final line: “The widespread use of human brain-to-brain technologically mediated communication will create novel possibilities for human interrelation with broad social implications that will require new ethical and legislative responses.”
Or in plain language, this could be the start of something really, really big, or really, really bad.
It should be emphasized though that the current level of research poses no such threat.
Simply transmitting two words required both the “emitter” and the “receiver” to be hooked up to robots and sophisticated hardware that makes the participants look more like captives in a psycho ward than casual greeters. And the feat required the conscious cooperation of both participants, who had to be trained for the task.
An electroencephalogram captured the brain activity of the emitter in India, and converted the letters of the two words to binary code, which was sent to a nearby computer and then over the Internet to the receiver in France. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on the receiver’s end enhanced the electrical signals in a key part of the brain, making the receiver aware that a message would be coming through.
“TMS was basically a way to inject the information into the receiver’s brain,” Pascual-Leone said.
This technology is a noninvasive way to alter functions inside a brain. An electromagnetic coil attached to the skull emits magnetic pulses, which in turn generate electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the brain.
It doesn’t hurt, and bares no similarity to the shock treatments of yesteryear, and it holds promise for modifying emotions and neural activity.
It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2008 for use on patients who suffer from severe depression. But it is so new that it is authorized only for those who do not respond to traditional medications.
Other researchers are testing it for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders including migraine headaches and Parkinson’s disease.
The technology used for this research is obviously state of the art, but technology is advancing so rapidly that in a relatively short period of time this work will probably look clumsy. So the limitations of today could well be the opportunities of tomorrow, both for good and for bad.
Will it someday be possible to read another person’s mind, without his or her even knowing it? Will our innermost secrets belong to everyone? Or will we be able to alter antisocial behavior, transforming the criminally insane into responsible citizens?
“The rational for doing this type of research, at least for us, is to help patients,” Pascual-Leonesaid. “But could you use some form of noninvasive stimulation, even with people who are unaware, and insert a message into them?
“Not the way we have done it, not with technology that’s available now, but maybe that’s something that could eventually be developed,” he said.
The research is evidence that we’ve passed through the starting gate, but to where?
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“Why are you so afraid of silence, silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.” – Rumi
Life can havenewmeaning when we realize the Wonder that is Creation, and the Beauty that is found all around andwithinus. . It helps when we take the Time for reflection and give Thanks to God for such Immeasurable Love.
There is Magic is this moment.
All we need do is close our eyes and Pray, and we are transported to a Magical Place where there is no anxiety, worry, strife, or stress.
The mind can become restless and turbulent. It may be more difficult to control than the wind.
But we can sooth and fulfill our troubled minds and aching Hearts.
What we have in our Hearts, and in our Sacred Souls, must find a way out. The fact that you have been Created and are so very Beautiful is Truly a Blessing. There is nothing on Earth more Beautiful than a Child of God.
And this World is more Beautiful, if we live together in Peace.
Yes, we may reminded of the Beauty of this World that we are so abundantly Blessed with.
We need but close our eyes and listen and Pray, and we are transported to the World of our inner Being – as the Birds sing such Beautiful songs and the Flowers of calming thoughts Blossom, and the colorful leaves from the Beautiful Trees fall down like a snowflakes. We can listen to hear the Peaceful music of the Wind as it starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, gently flowing through the Trees and through our Minds.
And suddenly, awareness Dawns like a bright new day. Life with Love in our Hearts, is a Peaceful Dream, and the Dawn of a new Day.
The hue of colors illuminating ourawareness warms the Heart.
What an amazing moment. What a precious Blessing, to suddenly realize that you are a Precious Gift to the World, because you are you. . If you failed to see you, it wasn’t because you couldn’t be seen. You simply failed to close your eyes, so that you could see the Light in your Heart.
Yes, you are a precious GIFT to the World.
My Dear Friends, One step leads to a long Journey. One note leads to a Beautiful Song – a Beautiful Harmony we can all sing along. One day leads to one night, one darkness to Light. Everyone is Loved from the depths of someone’s Heart.
If we but listen and reflect, we can know that Time really is Love.
Time is a Gift from Above.
Love yourself. Embrace yourself and be your very best friend. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. The Spirit of your Heart can fly.
Life should read like a fairy tale book. Only the Beautiful and Magical here and there, with a lot of Dreaming in between. This is communicated from our Nature and Natural Consciousness.
Share your amazing Life and Love with this stressed out and distressed World. YOU make a big difference in the Hearts and minds and Souls of others.
The calming Music of Meditation, is like a windbreaker.
It enables you to fall in Love with your NaturalSelf, and with Nature so Beautifully Created all around you. You can feel every cell of your Body. You can be reborn here, in this Moment.
Nature and Music are two of the most soothing and fulfilling things for the Soul. They are truly Blessings. They can lift up your Spirit.
The mood of your Life will match the mood of the Music. Sweet and harmonious sounds are what your Heart desires, what your Heart needs.
God is everywhere. Be glad the World is filled with so much Beauty and Wonder. Blessings abound because God Loves you.
Let the Word of God and His Blessings renew you Life.
Goodnight.
Charlie Chaplin lived for 88 years. And, he left us with these Philosophical Observations:
1. Nothing is forever in this World, not even our problems.
2. I Love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears.
3. The most lost day in Life is the day we don’t laugh.
4. The six best Doctors in the World are 1. The sun 2. Rest 3. Exercise 4. Diet 5. Self-respect 6. Friends.
Stick to them at all stages of your Life and enjoy a healthy Life. If you see the Moon, you will see the Beauty of God. If you see the Sun, you will see the Power of God. If you see a mirror, you will see God’s best Creation.
ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
A Soothing Balm for Troubled Emotions by: Marcia West click here to read more . The Tools of Change were given to me at a time of emotional turmoil due to changes occurring in my own life and in the lives of people I knew. I will never forget the day I received the gift of this second Tool of Change. It was a year before my Dad passed. He had become seriously ill a couple of months prior and I knew that we could lose him at anytime. It really hit me one day, sitting at my desk at home. Cherished memories from childhood came flooding in – things we had done together that meant so much to me. I must have sat there for a couple of hours sobbing over the loss that I knew was coming. I finally told myself that he hadn’t been able to do those things for years (foolishly hoping that I could talk myself out of it!). But logic did nothing to sooth my broken heart. The floodgates were open.
I finally did what people tend to do when they feel utterly helpless. I audibly cried out to God for help, asking for SOMETHING that would ease my pain. The answer came with no delay. “Put your memories into Gratitude.” Hmmmm…..OK. I had helped many clients put their painful, hurtful memories into gratitude, assuring them that it would help them to truly forgive and reap the wisdom from those experiences. But it hadn’t occurred to me to do this for the gnawing ache of grief inside.
A memory surfaced of fishing with Dad. The spigot of tears reopened. I placed this memory into gratitude, and asked gratitude to envelope me. The surge of joy that filled my body was a complete surprise. My tears stopped and I could breathe again. Another memory surfaced, of racing to the house with him from the detached garage when he came home from work, wondering if I would ever be as fast as my Dad. More tears. I put that one into gratitude, and joy returned. Again and again that day, one after another, memories came to mind to be placed into gratitude. I wondered if it would ever end. Yet as the morning became afternoon, the minutes between them turned into hours. I knew it was working. By the end of the day and into the next I was emotionally and mentally lifted, sitting in joy and gratitude for all those wonderful times with my Dad.
Gratitude is the love essence of the Second Tool of Big-Hearted Change. It brings us out of the past and back into the present moment. This is true whether the past was glorious or gloomy. Memories and experiences can be painful. People have asked me, “How can I be grateful for something that brought me so much pain?” This is an excellent question. The answer lies in the heart, not the mind. We don’t have to “try” to be grateful, or convince ourselves of the value of anything. Gratitude is like Grace. It is an aspect of Divine Love that can be called upon to assist and fill us. It is a healing balm for regret, guilt, grief, anger, resentment, and nostalgia.
Gratitude is like forgiveness, in that it serves to release our emotional attachment to what has been. Yet it does even more than that. Gratitude also integrates the past into the whole of our life’s journey. My experience has been that, when I am willing to trust in Love, and ask for its help, not only does healing and movement occur, but I am also given understanding and a higher perspective that brings my mind along for the ride. That’s how these Tools of Big-Hearted Change work. They originate in the heart, and then understanding and solutions present themselves.
While the first Tool of Change – Grace – brings us back to the present from our fearful projections of the future, this second Tool of Change brings us back from the past. We have emotional attachments to so many things – people, places, things, memories, ideas, and ways of doing things. I want to emphasize the importance of feeling the whole range of our emotions. They are road signs. When they have done their job, gratitude helps us to release them. Letting go of the past is an important aspect of moving forward. True change can’t happen without it. We live and release. Live and release. This is living in the joy of the present moment. A hot air balloon must release its tethers before it can fly. Gratitude helps us to do the same.
Marcia West, founder of Bridges of Unity, is an agent of love-based change. An author of books and articles on Unity Consciousness, Wholeness and Harmony, Marcia co-creates templates that inspire and empower humanity to live in love. She is available for speaking engagements, consultations and workshops.
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“Love is something Eternal – the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in Love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and is a good one, but now it is shedding Light, too, and that is its real function.” – Vincent Van Gogh
Children can lose their sense of wonder, no longer keep their hunger for Life and Living and Love. Never take a single precious breath for granted. . God forbid Love ever leaves your Heart empty. But please remember, whenever one door closes, one more always opens. And, if you give Faith a fighting chance, you will Dance.
I Pray you Dance.
And, never fear. God is near.
The Path to Love means taking a chance, . But, your precious Heart will makeallthings possible.
Give God more than just a Passing Glance. And when you get the chance, dance.
I Pray you Dance. Don’t look back and wonder why have all the years gone asunder, appearing so briefly, like a bolt of thunder.
“My Mom died of a brain aneurysm when she was just 45-years-old. Well now 14 years later, I’ve stumbled back onto it and the feelings feel like I’m back in those moments of loss. Funny how music encapsulates so much. Last year I got to meet the wonderful woman who received my Mom’s Heart and was able to listen to my Mom’s Heart beating inside her with a stethoscope. It’s not closure, but it’s close. Please be an organ donor.” – Sarah Clark .
In restless dreams you need never walk alone.
Life always combines Joy and sorrow. And, it reminds us that we too, someday will only be a memory. Enjoy this Life and do good while you are still vibrant and alive and able.
Your precious Spirit can be so refreshing in a World gone mad. Yes, YOU can be absolutely amazing. The eyes of those around you will Thank You for the Beauty in your Heart. . Love every minute.
Life is a short but a Heartfelt note in the Song of Life. .
Thank God for the Gift of your precious Soul. One day He will take you out of your Body and release your Spirit into His Infinite World of Love.
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The answers to all of your questions dwell within the Eternal Word of God.
When Love is blind it is there inside you mind, not within your Heart.
. “Above all, keep fervent in your Love for one another, because Love covers a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
Love has no bounds or barriers.
Yes, it is crazy how fast Love touches the Heart and Soul. We are still learning so much about Life, and the ways of God’s Universe.
We can be so Happy. Every Beautiful Life is unique. The Love and the emotion you put into each day, is another way God hears you Pray.
Everything God does, He does for you.
Your Life should ALWAYS be a Gift to someone.
From this moment on your Dreams can come true, if you Love with all your Heart.
And, how deep is your Love?
Love is dimensionless, Eternal, and Spiritual. The Love hidden in your Heart has always been deeper and more Heartfelt, than Life bears meaning.
Yes, you will ALWAYS be a precious Gift to someone you Love. And more Today than any day that passed you by.
What is the difference between like and Love? When you like a Flower, you pluck it. But if you Love a Flower, you water it and look after it every day.
What an incredible thing, to reach out and care for the Flower of someone’s Life, and sing the Song of Life so Beautifully that you are awestruck by your compassion, and caring deeds and Loving words.
The rhythm of your Heart can never be undone. .. YOU can lift the Spirit of someone in need every time you meet, and much higher than you can Dream.
We are formed by God into the Flower of our Precious Being.
Our World is full of goodness, just search for it, and you will find it.
“When Life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show Life you have a thousand reasons to Smile.”
Yes, there is so much that Time simply cannot erase. As you wipe away all of your tears, remember Love
also creates a moment that will last forever.
How can a Love Story never die? . .“Love is the vital core of the Soul. And of all you see, only Love is infinite.” – Rumi
When we lose someone we Love we must learn not to Live without them, but to Live with the Love they left behind.
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Love always touches the Heart, and makes you fell like going someplace and you don’t know where it is, but it feels something like Home.
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“For all my days in many ways I’ll think of all I’ve lived to see. The mountains high, clouds in the sky I thank the Lord for sharing them with me. The summer’s glow, the winter’s snow Are not to me just scenery When tree tops sway I long to say Oh thank you Lord for sharing them with me Life I believe, Love we receive We shouldn’t take too casually For all my days in many ways I’ll thank the Lord for sharing them with me.” – Jack Fishman / Roy Budd click to hear this Beautiful song by Mary Hopkin
The Love of God in you, is Simple and Perfect.
Please share with others in need such GOD given Love. May you continue to be an inspiration to others. . GOD BLESS YOU!
Goodnight.
“Real Love takes you from limits of personal Love into the immeasurable domain of Universal Love. Human life is an inner journey from the head to the Heart – from separateness to Oneness.” – Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
Dr. Otto Warburg: The Man Who Discovered the Prime Cause of Cancer
by Alexander Light . Dr. Otto Warburg was a Nobel Prize-winning German scientist who dedicated his life to researching cancer and in the 1920’s discovered it’s prime cause.
Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.”
Like all breakthrough scientific discoveries and the scientists who’ve discovered them, they are often laughed at for decades before they are acknowledged as true.
This occurs not because their conclusions are unreasonable; it occurs because either their peers don’t understand their work or because industries profiting from the lie go to great efforts to prevent the truth from becoming widely known.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain was quoted as saying.
The highly-respected Nobel Laureate Dr. Otto Warburg was one such scientist.
Dr. Otto Warburg: ‘Cancer is a Metabolic Disease’
Born in Germany in 1883, Dr. Otto Warburg was a physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel Laureate who spent much of his life devoted to researching and understanding cancer.
During the first world war he served as an officer in the elite cavalry regiment and was awarded the iron cross (first class) for bravery. .
Warburg stood out among his peers as one of the most highly regarded scientists in the world. In 1931, he was the sole recipient of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Over the course of his career he was nominated for a nobel prize 47 times.
His work was published in a number of books including his keystone volume The Metabolism of Tumours in 1931. In a presentation to other Nobel Laureates in 1966 he made the following bold statement: .
“The cause of cancer is no longer a mystery; we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.” .
Warburg hypothesized that cancer cell growth was fuelled by tumor cells producing energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP) by the anaerobic breakdown or fermentation of glucose.
Whereas healthy cells generate energy primarily through a reaction between oxygen and glucose (they “oxidize” glucose) within the mitochondria of the cell, cancer cells produce energy through the fermentation of glucosein the absence of oxygen.
The end result of energy production by healthy cells is the production of carbon dioxide, which promotes health by serving as a potent antioxidant and by shuttling more oxygen into cells. .
Conversely, the end result of glucose fermentation by cancer cells is lactic acid or lactate, which can be consistently found in high levels within the bodies of people with cancer.
“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by fermentation of SUGAR.” – Dr. Otto Warburg .
Dr. Warburg made it clear that the root cause of cancer was oxygen deficiency caused by malfunctioning mitochondria.
But as highly-regarded as he was by his peers, none of them took his finding seriously: It was almost as if they saw him as an otherwise brilliant scientist with a single flaw.
Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.” .
It wasn’t until the past decade that Warburg’s work has begun experiencing a resurgence, and publishing activity of scientific papers worldwide has begun to soar.
It took almost 100 years, but scientists are finally beginning to acknowledge that Warburg had been right all along.
“All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception.” – Dr. Otto Warburg .
Modern Research Validates Otto Warburg’s Discovery
When a cell is deprived of oxygen, it undergoes a metabolic shift – from the oxidation of glucose to glucosefermentation – aptly titled The Warburg Effect. .
The second this shift in metabolism occurs is the moment it becomes a cancer cell. It’s also the moment that genomic instability and mutations begin to occur.
Warburg knew it – and in recent years, a myriad of other scientific studies from across the world have verified it: Only after a cell is deprived of oxygen (hypoxia) do genetic mutations begin to occur, or said differently, hypoxia is the primary driver of genetic mutations. .. Carlos Sonnenschein and Anna Soto of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachussets wrote in a study they published in 2000, “We argue that it is necessary to abandon the somatic mutation theory.”
That was 17 years ago, and the medical establishment is still pushing the outdated, fairytale (yet profitable) story that cancer is caused by genetic mutations.
(I hope this inspires you to stop believing in authority and to question everything you’re told.)
Thanks to the research of Dr. Otto Warburg and many others, we now know that cancer is a metabolic disease caused by oxygen deficiency – not a genetic disease caused by genomic mutations. .
Homing in on The Root Cause of All Disease
To broaden our understanding of the effects of hypoxia on cells, Dr. Arthur C. Guyton– author of one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world, The Textbook of Medical Physiology – made this extraordinary statement in 1976:
“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level.” – Dr. Arthur C. Guyton .
Suddenly, our quest to discover how to prevent and cure cancer, we’ve not only identified cancer’s prime cause, but in doing so we’ve come face-to-face with the possibility that what cures cancer, cures all diseases.
What this means is that cancer and all diseases are metabolic in nature, and remarkably, all can be reversed by restoring the efficient use of oxygen.
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Words are useless to describe the Beauty of this World.
My Dear Friends, the Sun and Moon rise inyour eyes.
If you reach out to speak tender words of understanding to someone in need of compassion, you will feel their Heart beat. The Love you give will be the Gift you give yourself.
Flowers ever open our Hearts, and give to us all of their Beauty. They feel the Light of Love beamed into their Being, and share this Love with you and me.
Traces of this Love are left within, majestically Flowering on powerful pathways to Higher realms of the Human Heart. Such benevolent Beauty provides a deep and lasting Communion with Creation.
A hushed feeling of Love mingles with the Light. God’s Love for us is proclaimed by each Sunrise.
The Light of God’s Love shines through His every Creation. Yes, it shines in you.
The Divine Light of God’s Love is everywhere, in every Time, and every space.
His Love is powerful and so very Beautiful. And our ability to Love, and the idea of knowing that we are Loved by others, is amazing.
God Loves you more in one moment than anyone could Love you in a lifetime.
Prayer and meditation are ways of nourishing and blossoming the Divine within you. They can ease your anxieties and the pain inside your precious Heart.
God understands our Prayers, even when we can’t find the words to say them.
Yes, the origin of our Love is God. “We Love because He first Loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
God is the reason Love exists. Our Love is feeble compared to the Love of God for us. His Love is Eternal.
“Nothing in or of this World measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you Love another, the gentleness you feel inside cannot be denied. The Gift of yourself is the Light that glows in the Hearts of those who know it is a Flame that warms and grows.
True Love will assume a place that Time cannot erase. With Faith in our Creator, Love will take us where we need to go. Reach out to every Living Creation with all the Love in your precious Heart, and feel the beat of God’s Heart. And Love will Never let you go.
You will never feel lonely or unloved again.
Love is the Gift you give yourself.
Goodnight.
The Sweetest Gift You Can Ever Give is the Gift of Yourself
One simple gift is the gift of listening. Listening is a silent form of flattery. Maybe it is listening to a small child who wants to show you a treasure they find absolutely fascinating. When my mother was in the nursing home, I learned how very much the residents treasured having someone really listen to them. Most people listen waiting for a gap in the conversation so they can speak or listen for just enough information to present their point of view. How many times do we really focus and listen. Are you ever guilty of stopping listening to your spouse because you have been together so long you think you already know what they are going to say?
Giving of our time and focused attention is one of the sweetest gifts we can ever give.
Another gift we can all give is writing a simple 2 line note. Walt Whitman was born in the early 1800’s and he was struggling to get anyone to pay any attention to his poetry. One day a little 2 line note arrived. It simply said, “I am not blind to the wit and wisdom of the Leaves of Grass. I greet you At the beginning of a great career.” Signed Ralph Waldo Emerson. I’ll bet Whitman kept that note. We all keep those special notes. Maybe we keep them in a scrapbook or drawer or even a box but we keep them. Leaves of Grass was published in 1855 when Whitman was 36 years old. 36 in 1855 was much later in life than our 36 in 2009. I greet you at the beginning of a great career.
Who is it in your life right now who deserves that little 2 line note from you? Write down the names of 3 people who deserve a note of encouragement, inspiration, or appreciation from you?
Giving of yourself to help others feel good is a gift of sharing Gods love. We are the children of a loving God. He is our father and he wants the best for us.
He sat in my soul and guided me as a single mother, many times with not enough money to feed the 3 of us. He gave me wisdom to share with those two adorable little boys which I had absolutely no way of knowing. My own childhood had been the total opposite of Ward and June Cleaver. How many of you remember the show Leave it to Beaver? I gave those boys love and encouragement and self confidence that I had never experienced. God did it for me. There is no other answer. They are wonderful men, great daddy’s and loving husbands. With Gods help the chain of abuse was broken. I am so deeply grateful.
It is said that the vibration in the room raised simply by having Mother Theresa walk into the room. Serotonin is the chemical in the brain which is the “feel good” chemical. It is a known fact that the serotonin increases in the brain of a person doing a kind deed for another. Not only that but the serotonin increases in the brain of the person receiving the act of kindness and it is even a known fact that it increases in the brains of people watching an act of kindness.
Do something good for someone today with the absolute knowing that they could never repay you. Spread Gods love by doing kind acts for others just for the joy of doing a kind act.
Giving is all about sharing the gifts God has given you.
We all have gifts. Whether it is art as in making cards or pictures, or cooking or music or reading or kind acts to other people. We all have gifts to share. The most cherished gift is a gift of the heart. A gift of yourself.
When I was a broke student secretary in college I worked for Dr. Reilly. Doc was brilliant beyond belief. He carried his Phi Beta Kappa key on his rosary every day. Docs honors filled several pages of a vita. With that many accolades, he could have been arrogant and egotistical but he was not. He was humble. When I went above and beyond my hours to do some special task for him, he knew I could not be paid. His hobby was growing long stem red roses. I knew after each of those tasks I would come in the next morning to a long stem red rose on my desk. He had his special way of saying thank you. I treasured those roses. A gift of appreciation and kindness.
There are so many ways we can give.
I truly believe God brought me here for a reason. I had every argument in the world why I could not make the move from Steamboat. He gently but firmly said “Castle Rock” for a year. Despite every reason why it should not have been possible, I am here in exactly the size house I wanted, the exact location, the exact price and the exact timing.
God opened to me a love for speaking and writing which I had never known or experienced. Apparently He was waiting for me to be ready to receive and share this gift. What gift is God waiting to open for you? What gift do you have to share? He gave each and every one of us gifts. It is like the talents in the Bible. He expects us to develop and multiply those gifts.
I am so blessed and so grateful for my life.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks for the abundance in your life and you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law. The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Give of yourself, give of your gifts and be grateful to God for all of your blessings.
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“When Life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show Life you have a thousand reasons to Smile.” – Gael Espino
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“Nothing can be Loved or hated unless it is first understood.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
God’s Love for you is deathless.
The Blessings of Blissful moments are Lived and Loved on the pathway to Happiness, as we struggle with all the misfortunes of this World, and Pray to God to shield us from harm.
In the brightest of days and the darkest of nights, amidst your Happiest moments and gloomiest hours, there can be a Soft Breeze flowing through your Life, the Breath of God, the Spirit of the Lord Passing By.
All that is needed is Prayer.
The Banner of our purpose for existence, for Love, for Life, floats calmly in this Gentle Breeze, of God’s Unbounded Love for us.
We may have unlimited confidence in the Love and Care God will have for His Precious Children of Faith.
Such Faith is simple and profound. It is the same Faith, that may be found in the Love your Children feel for you.
Feel gratified to God for the Beauty all around, found in every Leaf and every Tree, in everything that was, and is, and is to be. . The Hope in all our future years, theonlyHope there may be, resides in our Love for each other, the Love God has given to you and me.
The Love of our Lord is kept among even the dimmest memories of Childhood. In the Maternal Care we share, is the warmth and tender caress of all the Love that is there.
Yes, the Beauty ofall things can be beheld by you. This knowledge, this awareness, gives you Birth anew.
There are words Sacred in number that let us explore unfettered the Eternal Nature of God’s Love. They are here, they are real. And they reside within the Holy Word of God.
In the Eyes of God every teardrop is timeless, every smile remains in the Heart. You are Forever Eternal in the Love of God that Created you.
In every Flower we see, Blossoms the Love that Flows Eternally. In the Natural World, not built by you and me, is the Love of God, painted on every Living Thing that dwells in the Forest of His Heart, for you and for me.
The Holy Word of God is filled with His Promises to provide the rest we need. Our Precious Father in Heaven Above is an Endless Source of Peace and Strength.
Painted on every Living Thing.
And rest is important to our Spiritual Walk with the Lord. Mental and physical rest allows our mind and our body, and, importantly, our Spirit to renew and begin again each Blessed Gift of Day, with renewed strength and purpose.
My Dear Friends, during this precarious time of worry and stress, rest is importantto your physical Being, and your Spiritual Walk with the Lord.
Many people today don’t appreciate the true value of rest, physical and Spiritual. . God is an endless source of Peace and Strength.
“In order for God’s Strength to manifest and present in our Lives we must have Faith.” – Hebrews 11:1
Goodnight.
There is a fantastic book by Bill Kincaid: Wizard’s Gambit.
This is Bill’s first science fiction/fantasy book.
The central figure is Max Strider, the sole survivor of a mission to explore a distant planet classified as EVE (Earth Virtual Equivalent). But there are differences: like Fire-breathing Dragons & Wizards who shoot lightning bolts and work powerful magic.
Will Max’s knowledge of science and technology prevail against the dangers he will face?
.Bill is a Dear Friend and a wonderful author. He is also our school attorney and my former debate partner when we were students at Hardin-Simmons University.
Please consider : Wizard’s Gambit by Bill Kincaid and THANK YOU!
by Bill Kincaid Science and Technology vs. Magic and Wizardry Wizard’s Gambit
Although Bill Kincaid spent over 35 years practicing law in Texas, he started out as a writer and journalist whose articles and columns received several state-wide honors. Now that Bill is slowing down his legal practice, he finally has time to return to his writing roots, publishing two historical fiction books and one fractured fairy tale. Wizard’s Gambit is his first science fiction / fantasy novel. Bill and his wife of over forty years have three adult children.
Q. What books have influenced your Life the most? . A. I’ve been most influenced by The Bible and The Science of God. However, my favorite fiction includes White Fang, Hound of the Baskervilles, several of the Thoene books, and The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Jack Reacher, and Divergent series.
Q. Which actor/actress would you like to see playing the lead character from this book?
A. Probably someone like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, or a young version of either Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson.
Q. Tell us about the cover and the inspiration for it.
A. The cover depicts part of a battle between Wizard Malmortiken’s forces and those of King Kylandar.
Why is Coffee Good For You? Here Are 7 Reasons By Kris Gunnars To read the full article click here
In recent years and decades, scientists have studied the effects of coffee on various aspects of health and their results have been nothing short of amazing. Here are 7 reasons why coffee may actually be one of the healthiest beverages on the planet.
1. Coffee Can Make You Smarter
The active ingredient in coffee is caffeine, which is a stimulant and the most commonly consumed psychoactive substance in the world. Caffeine’s primary mechanism in the brain is blocking the effects of an inhibitory neurotransmitter called Adenosine. By blocking the inhibitory effects of Adenosine, caffeine actually increases neuronal firing in the brain and the release of other neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine.
Many controlled trials have examined the effects of caffeine on the brain, demonstrating that caffeine can improve mood, reaction time, memory, vigilance and general cognitive function.
2. Coffee Can Help You Burn Fat and Improves Physical Performance
There’s a good reason why you will find caffeine in most commercial fat burning supplements.
Caffeine raises metabolism and increases the oxidation of fatty acids.
3. Coffee May Drastically Lower Your Risk of Type II Diabetes
Type II diabetes is a lifestyle-related disease that has reached epidemic proportions, having increased 10-fold in a few decades and now afflicting about 300 million people.
In observational studies, coffee has been repeatedly associated with a lower risk of diabetes. The reduction in risk ranges from 23% all the way up to 67%.
A massive review article looked at 18 studies with a total of 457.922 participants. Each additional cup of coffee per day lowered the risk of diabetes by 7%.The more coffee people drank, the lower their risk.
4. Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Not only can coffee make you smarter in the short term, it may also protect your brain in old age.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world and a leading cause of dementia.
In prospective studies, coffee drinkers have up to a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by death of dopamine-generating neurons in the brain. Coffee may lower the risk of Parkinson’s by 32 – 60%.
5. Coffee May be Extremely Good For Your Liver
The liver is a remarkable organ that carries out hundreds of vital functions in the body.
It is very vulnerable to modern insults such as excess consumption of alcohol and fructose. Cirrhosisis the end stage of liver damage caused by diseases like alcoholism and hepatitis, where liver tissue has been largely replaced by scar tissue.
Multiple studies have shown that coffee can lower the risk of cirrhosis by as much as 80%, the strongest effect for those who drank 4 or more cups per day.
Coffee may also lower the risk of liver cancer by around 40%.
6. Coffee May Decrease Your Risk of Dying
In two very large prospective epidemiological studies, drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death by all causes.
This effect is particularly profound in type II diabetics, one study showing that coffee drinkers had a 30% lower risk of death during a 20 year period.
7. Coffee is Loaded With Nutrients and Antioxidants
Many of the nutrients in the coffee beans do make it into the final drink, which actually contains a decent amount of vitamins and minerals.
A cup of coffee contains:
6% of the RDA for Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5). 11% of the RDA for Riboflavin (Vitamin B2). 2% of the RDA for Niacin (B3) and Thiamine (B1). 3% of the RDA for Potassium and Manganese.
May not seem like much, but if you drink several cups of coffee per day then this quickly adds up.
But this isn’t all. Coffee also contains a massive amount of antioxidants.
In fact, coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet, outranking both fruits and vegetables combined.
Even though coffee in moderate amounts is good for you, drinking way too much of it can still be harmful.
To make sure to preserve the health benefits, don’t put sugar or anything nasty in your coffee!If it tends to affect your sleep, then don’t drink it after 2 p.m.
If anything, coffee may literally be the healthiest beverage on the planet.
And so, my friends, instead of allowing your children to drink deadly and addictive soft drinks, why not introduce them to something healthy? Yes, like coffee.
“An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.” – C. V. Wedgewood
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The motivation to learn, and to survive, lies through theHeart, not the mind. – Wm. C. Anderson
In frequent discortations with other educators, I found a highly con-substantial Love of what we call a relaxed and informal atmosphere, combined with a real commitment to academic freedom. If you are old enough, you may actually recall having teachers who were trusted enough to make decisions and conduct the business of counseling, motivating and teaching children. . Oh, these were the good old days! These were the generations of Educators that enabled the children of this Nation to make the United States the envy of other nations. These teachers empowered us to become the only remaining true superpower on earth, to acquire more than half the wealth of the World, while comprising only six percent of its population and to realize that not locating a Starbucks could be a significant, Life-altering dilemma. How does the saying go, “Only in America”!
We share an abhorrence of those things that distract children from academic andthoughtful pursuit. Their Love of reading meshes beautifully with our first Love. We forbid homework and ask our students instead, to spend this precious time establishing a Life-time habit and Love of reading – with a requirement that each child read or be read to, for at least one hour each evening.
As with the Finns, we believe that overly strict rules do not translate into dedicated scholars. We harbor only three rules: to be kind, to be kind and to be kind. And when you think deeply about it, that covers everything.
Moments that linger in the Heart excite us now and linger on in the mind. . Leave the Flowers of your precious Smiles at the entrance to each precious moment.
Without your Love, there is no day.
Health experts have been baffled by a rise in suicide among teens and young adults.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for older teens and young adults.
The suicide rate has been increasing from 2007.
The rate went from 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people to 10.6, according to the CDC report.
A reportTrusted Source from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the teen suicide rate in the United States has skyrocketed in recent years.
Suicide was recently ranked as the second-leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 24 years old.
Each year, about 7 out of 100,000 young adults between the ages of 15 and 19 die by suicide each year — and that number only seems to be growing. click here to read more
“Goodbye to you my trusted Friend We’ve known each other since we were nine or ten. Together we’ve climbed hills and trees Learned of Love and ABCs Skinned our Hearts and skinned our knees Goodbye my friend, it’s hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky.” – Terry Jacks click here to play the song
At the Anderson School visitors are sometimes mildly shocked to find such things as: barefoot boys (and girls) fluttering down the hall (they really do feel more relaxed and at home this way), or a child asleep during the school day (why fight Mother Nature – if you are tired, rest! After a nap, children are energized and ready again to learn and play) and a mild, low-grade level of chaos can naturally prevail.
Another Anderson School Scholar.
This is normalbehavior for the young and can become highly productive. It provides opportunity for the interplay of ideas and Hopes and Dreams as kids banter back and forth. . And there are intangibles that result: the modeling of Creative flux, improved self-esteem and self-confidence and the intrinsic motivation generated by the children themselves. Since our bright students are busy teaching and working with each other, the tendency is toward non-stop communication, as they group themselves according to interests, not age. Typically, you find a very young scholar teaching older types and excited to share knowledge.
At our school students keep the same teachers for many years. They actually get to know them and we treat each other like Family. Why not? . Are we not really related in many ways? . We promote self-reliance and autonomous learning, minimize competition, assail perfectionism, promote informality and a relaxed Ho Ho Ho Home-like atmosphere, remove the harmful and potentially devastating emphasis upon grades (nogrades or report cards are provided – scholars are expected to perform at a mastery level of 90% not 70%, without time constraints) and, importantly, we eliminate homework. As educators, we have had plenty of time during the day to get the job done.
Think about it! . Children NEED to be involved in many after school activities, such as Scouting (my favorite), Golf, Karate, Taekwondo baseball, piano lessons, and Choir. The list goes on and on.
A great after school activity helps children on many levels. Your child builds community connections, and makes a positive impact on something that’s important to him or her.. . Music should be an essential part of every child’s development. A great song can light up their Hearts, encourage them to move around and dance, and help instill a sense of confidence. We can enjoy the benefits of music from the moment we are born, but NOT if we are pestering our parents about homework, asking for help with things like Algebra, that one parent never took and the other one forgot decades ago.
And parents are essentially not qualified to teach at Home and do not have the time or patience. They worked hard all day and the boss did not assign them homework. Parents would not tolerate this. They would find another employer. But your children cannot simply find another teacher. They are riveted to a desk, with little Hope of finding the time they need to do the real work of Kids – they need to PLAY.
We also provide the freedom to do such things as: progress at your own pace, allow children to prepare their own meals and dine whenever they like (some “graze” throughout the day) and play whenever they complete morning or afternoon assignments (a few will work all weekend so they may play at school). This is real Academic Freedom and allows for the independent use of personal judgment. We want our children to practice making many, many decisions and mistakes, while they are young and under our guidance.
After all, they will be making every decision regarding their own lives, and our own lives, and in a few years. So be very kind to your children, for in the end, they will be all you have left.
And don’t be shocked if your children can’t survive on their own in the near future, if you did every thing for them and made their every decision. They may become so dependent that they NEVER survive. It happens.
Some schools are largely successful because they truly realize that, “Less is more”. To be less demanding equates to more time at home with Mom and Dad and more time to play and this always leads to a more psychologically healthy person – someone who really WANTS to go to school the next day (and more importantly, wants to Live and knows how to PLAY).
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” – Joshua Becker
Children need to be more relaxed, energized and ready to study, rather than being burned out, bored, fatigued and more deeply depressedthan they will ever say– which can result in their becoming anxious, obnoxious, angry, rebellious and unwilling to continue what has evolved into drudgery and a loathing of going to school.
And when you think about it, wouldn’t you rebel if you were stressed out, overly assessed, classified, compared, bored, structured, and selected and sorted ad nausium. . Why, revolutions have occurred for less – revolutions of the mind and of the Family. We see many children today who are dropping out mentally, socially, emotionally, physically and in other ways that more frequently become SELF destructive.
Is Truth Ever a Lie? What if you are Living a lie?
I have been asked why the educational systems are imploding? What’s broken and what can we, as parents and educators, do to fix it?
Essentially, our educational systems are imploding because:
1.Our schools are now devoid of essential academic Feedom, 2. They are saddled with the ineffective and truly oppressive No Child Left Behind Act and its sinfully negative byproducts and 3.Schools lack the fiery furnace of competition in the free market place.
The solutions are simple but, in our present static state of mind, unavailable. However, if ever we do decide to act we know what to do:
We need to provide each student, through their parents, the funds to purchase their schooling wherever they choose to go. The natural and highly beneficial effect of competition for this money would produce results similar to every other commodity in the marketplace.
Beautifully crafted, thoughtful and productive products in the form of innovative and dynamic curriculums and remarkable institutions of learning would be engineered by our gifted educators in competition with each other. But importantly, regardless of the outcome, they would serve to please our Parents and Children.
But we have become imprisoned to the precept that government can extrinsically motivate schools and teachers, utilizing the negative bias of assessment and with such harsh and punitive prerogatives as the loss of employment for teachers and administrators, virtually worthless and shameful labels, accusations, inevitably harmful performance evaluations and even the unthinkable closure of entire schools. Such closures are so severe that one can imagine less damage being inflicted to a school community even in time of war.
This punitive, FEAR based system shall never produce overall sustainable positiveresults, especially for those children most in need. This system is far beyond broken. It poses a very real-time danger to our society. This obviatedly biased bent toward negative reinforcement is a conceptualization rejected many years ago in the study of Child behavior.
Our boat is now sinking by the bow and no longer in sight of the shore. We seemingly cannot even identify the real problems with our schools. But we act like we do really know who or what is to blame. So we keep felling the trees all around us in order to glimpse a sliver of the light of understanding from above and do not even know there is a fragile and endangered forest all around us.
For our underpaid, overworked and unappreciated Educators should never have been marked and targeted. They are not to blame! And our children should never have been used as pawns in this unintelligible game.
We now find it virtually impossible to patch our Ship of State, in light of the large, gaping holes created by FEAR, a focus upon self-serving and selfish interests and an inability to locate words such as equitable, fair or open-mindedin any dictionary to be found in our capitals of government in Austin or Washington.
What can parents do to help children attain success and be the best they can be?
Well, if your child is truly suffering (and can you believe you are paying for this abuse with your taxes or tuition?) I recommend removing them from any oppressive and harmful environment immediately (that means today!).
Then, you may want to take them for refreshments to a fun place (they may actually remember having fun). . There you can apologize for not sheltering them from the storm, for not protecting them or truly being their advocate and being there for them when you were needed. It helps to let a child know you are Human and make mistakes.
It will also help if you let them know that you will now and forever more be there for them and notallow anyone else or any other school to make them so unhappy and miserable again. . After you wipe the tears from their eyes, take a moment to wipe away yours. And remember, if your child forgives you, it is in the past. It is over. Now you can go forward and forgive all those who transgressed against your Beloved Children.
Just don’t vote for them again. Have mercy on the next generation.
Now, plan the future. Let your Child help you. . Explore the many other avenues available (and there are many). Remind yourself how thankful we all are that Thomas Edison’s Mother removed him from such a schoolat a very early age. Now that’s what I call – seeing the Light! With over 1,100 patents to his name, we can all be thankful that she removed him from school, which now enables us to watch a great movie tonight, with sound and the ability to record it. A compassionate decision for one deeply Loved child, has led us all out of the dark and into the light. Thank you Mrs. Edison! So just follow her example and start by stopping the pain.
Next, you will need to examine what happened to our schools and to your child. And that is a complex journey fraught with unbelievable intrusions into the coliseums and colloquiums of academia.
Special interests, and notso special lawmakers, intruded into the Sacred spaces of our Children’s classrooms, their Home away from Home, assuming they knew more than highly trained and devoutly dedicated educators about what your children needed. When in fact, teachers were well qualified and simply needed to be left alone.
Lawmakers could have helped the wonderful, beautiful, caring and ever-giving Teachers by paying them a decent wage and providing more money for materials (many, many teachers have spent their own meager funds on your children and without you ever aware of it). But we, as individuals, elected people who obviously did not know how to educate children, and much more importantly, how fragile they are or how to care for them.
Their pride went before our fall.
Simplicity
I fondly remember many years ago my good friend, who was a State Representative, Homer Dear, a wonderful and Loving retired school teacher and administrator, calling to ask what should be done, in my opinion, legislatively.
My immediate response was mandate relief. The volumes of dictates from our zealous state agency and the legislature, were so voluminous that no one on this Planet even knew everything that was required of a school. . He then sponsored a bill to provide such relief. Naturally, it was defeated. No one is going to tell the legislature that much of what they did is actually too much and leading toward a dastardly day of self-destruction (this is the impending implosion). But in essence, Homer knew what needed to be done. And now you know.
Freedom
Simply stated: remove nearly all of the governmental laws, mandates (typically unfunded – thank you), guidelines and regulations relative to education, substantially realign and reduce the size, scope and budget of the state regulatory agency (eliminating well over a billion dollars that funds this unbelievable megalopoliptic and essentially counter – productive enterprise) and get every one, and I mean every one out of the teacher’s way and out of the teacher’s classroom. . On your way out, buy her (or him) a cup of well-earned coffee.
This can significantly contribute to the academic freedom that Dr. Reed Dawson, a beloved Baylor professor of mine, warned way back in 1973, was perilously close to death. He was right. The infamous and highly destructive Texas Assessment of Basic Skills test, and its destructive off-springs (T.E.A.M.S., T.A.K.S., etc.) was about to be unleashed upon our unsuspecting and naive populace.
Academic Freedom, as with all the productive and beneficial benefits that any freedom provides, was about to be targeted and totally destroyed. And it began with the blunt instrument of institutional sin in 1980. Simply stated, this oppressive test needs to be abolished and accompanied by an apology to all of its victims, and there are many.
Now, after you give back freedom to teachers to teach, come back in one year, and you and your child will be well on the road to being Happy. Trust me, teachers knew what to do all along. How many years did our educators spend in a College or University preparing to take an oath of poverty, so he or she could have the Honor of teaching your child?
Yes, the teacher can do the job. Just get everyone out of her (or his) way. Remember, in the successful schools, such as in Finland, less is more. And it always has been. Isn’t that in the Bible?
“Less is more and more is less.“ – Psalm 37:16-17
Simplicity must replace the absolute mess that we have today! By the way, the highest achieving schools in the entire World, value exactly this – simplicity.
Finance
Finland sets the example for us again, in providing roughly EQUAL per-pupil funding. The gap between the best and worst performing schools in Finland was the smallest tested.
So what happened to our free enterprise system and the competitive market place? . You know, the one we preach about from on high in every school in America. The system that created such wealth for us, that we have reached record levels of obesity, consumption and waste. Why is the competitive marketplace of our free enterprise system provided an exemption in the marketplace of knowledge? Do we not yet realize that competition is the primary catalyst for excellence in our economic society, that it is the engine that drives us to unsurpassed prosperity?
Or are we not willing to vote for people of courage and conscience or recruit those rare individuals to run for public office who are willing to sacrifice an innate defensiveness and desire for self-serving interests for the sake of what is most precious in our lives – our children.
To date we have not mustered enough courage or votes to really change anything. And my fear is that we may never do so! This boat full of unwilling and highly dependent people who will soon need to have everyone bailing the waters of indifference, and neglect. The perilous sea has already reached the water line and mighty Casey has struck out.
Stay tuned, the game will resume overseas. What’s that gurgling sound?
Can you even imagine educators from other countries observing that our system of public education strives to, “leave no child behind” while we post a drop out rate for Fort Worth I. S. D. of over 45 percent, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Resource Center.
Let’s compare that to less than 4 [that’s FOUR] percent for other countries.
My Dear Friends, we left halfof our children at the starting gate. And we did not just leave them behind, we abandoned them with no hope that they will ever truly flourish and prosper But, on the bright side, we meagerly raised the minimum wage with them in mind, didn’t we?
Ultimately, these lost children will never even be able to sustain themselves, much less impact this system that has been so neglectful to so many. And the system we created and perpetuate to this day will, one day soon, not be able to support them or their children. The weight of so much water will cause this listing ship to topple over. (Have you ever tried to live on the minimum wage?)
We left many of our children with little hope that they will ever truly thrive in our highly competitive economy. Our focus upon minimumskills for all has evolved into a minimum wage for many.
Our mediocrity has become merit to us, the mediocre. And our children did not deserve this! They are the victims of our now tired, cowardly, self-centered neglect.
It is a sad commentary that our fear to change what needs to be changed is now the driving force behind the fall of twenty-first century Rome.
Dr. William C. Anderson, Co-Director The Anderson Private School for the Gifted, Talented and Creative 817-448-8484 andersonschool.net
Barbara Saunders
submitted this comment on this post previously:
“I Love this post. My mother, a teacher and the daughter of a teacher who attended segregated public schools in the 1930s and 1940s, chose the private school to which she sent my sisters and I because, she said, “I could not stand the rigid desks and rows in the public schools. When I saw kids sprawled out in the halls, talking and laughing, that was the place I want you kids to go!
I have a hard time believing that “reformers” don’t notice that the schools for the intellectual and socioeconomic elite are more – not less – free, relaxed and playful.”
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” Autumn is a second Spring, when every Leaf is a Flower”. – Albert Camus
Yes. Leaves are the Flowers of Fall. They are transformed into Beautiful Colors cast against the Sky so blue, as they take flight in fields so bold of shade and hue. . And then, the withered Leaves collect at our feet and the Wind begins to move and moan. And the Beauty of the Leaves reminds us to forget, to no longer remember our troubles and travails, the toils and tribulations, and our longing for belonging takes flight anew.
For with every Leaf that falls, a Beautiful new Leaf will Spring forth from the Tree of Life.
How humble and thankful we should be, that we are so deeply Loved, we were never blinded by what we could not see.
The Light of awareness is the dawn of rebirth.
Rebirth and Renewal encompass us all the time. It is in every aspect of our Being and in everything that surrounds us. In the Natural World, it is the Natural Order of things. It is there to reminder us of our strength, our resilience, our rebirth, so that we can survive the storms of our Life and Blossom like Flowers once again.
And now in our knowing, we are miles away in another World, the REAL World. Sunshine fills our eyes and our Dreams are hung in the Heart near the Sky. And in our eyes we behold there is magic everywhere.
The Soul sets sail to a place in the Heart, and we are running through the pastures of the mind and laying among the Leaves under the magnificent Trees, thinking and Dreaming.
And Life becomes REAL again. What a wonderful place to be. May God teach us where our Home, and our Heart Truly is, and always has been. May your Sacred Heart once again be unified with Creation, and our Creator.
Philosopher René Descartes wondered whether the World we experience while awake might itself be a Dream. If the Dream World feels just as real as the waking one, how can we know for certain that we’re not Living in a Dream – a Dream from which we may one day wake up? click here to read more
“All that we see or seem is but a Dream within a Dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
If Life is the Dream, then deathis the end of that Dream. If we consider that the I we call consciousness, is the reason this body is alive, then yes.
Every Religion is mostly based around the idea that Life is a great Dream, and that deathis an awakening from that Dream into God’s Kingdom.
After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange World a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, death is an illusion.
My Dear Friends, we can be close to our Dear Lord, in feeling older and acting like a Child. Being like a Child, is being close to YOU. We are Children of God.
“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like Children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this Child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such Child in my name receives me.” – Matthew 18:1-35
And, the melody of the moment pierces the deepest chamber of the Heart.
As we behold such Beauty all around, it makes us want to cry. It enters our Lives, and overflows the Heart and turns into a calm quiet and Peace.
The Beauty of the Earth makes us feel like we have just been showered with stark new Reality that melts away the gray of yesterday, as it touches the Soul in a golden glow of Sunlight and Salvation.
Such Beauty has taught us to enjoy Creation. Life is the Colors of the Rainbow, a reflection of God’s Work of Art, the refraction of something called His Love.
The Story of our Life has new beginnings, and told endings. What awaits us all on this Journey we walk, is interpreted with delicacy and subtlety, or horror and war. . We ever have the chance, the choice, to see the World where we use to Live, for a time longer than we know of as Today.
For deep within every Being, is a Gardener, wanting to nurture the Garden of our Dreams, and hear the melodious sound of waves lapping upon the shores of Time and the Loving breeze that inspires every Living Thing to breathe.
My Dear Friends, another Day is dawning. Yes, a new day has begun. And the memories of this Day can include the Sun that rises in the Heart, if you let it touch you, and come to understand what Happiness is. . Look, soon it will be Morning. And as we wait for this Sun to rise, let us think of a new Life, a new Dawn, and new Memories that will begin.
If we cannot understand how Life goes on the way it does, perhaps we are not Truly alive. For we Live in vain, or we Live in each other’s Heart.
“I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. “ – Jeremiah 8:8.
Love is the Gift God allows you to give yourself, as you give to others. . Today, is a reflection of Life. But Tomorrow can be a reflection of Love.
One Day, can be a Lifetime of Serenity and Beauty nurturing the Garden of your Heart. It is so very Beautiful and compliments the Colors of the Rainbow that unfold after it rains tears of Thanksgiving.
Love is painted on the canvass of the Endless Blue Sky of your Heart. With Love, you find yourself drifting into such a Peaceful place, deep within your very Being. . Love is where the Music of this Sacred Moment takes you in your Heart.
Your thoughts may be gentle in reply. Deep gentleness can come when there is Wisdom. Let go of the things you punish yourself and others for. Walk into the Beautiful Fields of Peace, found only in the Sacred Sanctuary of your Heart.
What you have done may also be, what you have never done, when Forgiveness Blossoms like a Flower in the fertile field of your Heart.
You can finally find yourself and find where you belong. The True Meaning of your precious Life, is not you. . Your Life is written with our Heavenly Poet’s Pen. Your Wings can unfold and flight you will behold, when you whisper God’s Name, and you are told “I Love You”.
If we carefully look and Pray and behold our reflection in the water, we can see His Face rather than our own. We can come to realize God is truly within us, and as a Child of God, reflect Him and no longer ourselves. . When we have given ourselves to Him, we discover He IS Pure Love, and finally we know, WE are One.
Goodnight.
Drs. Oz & Roizen: New benefits of omega-3s discovered
The largest fish in the world is the 40-foot-long whale shark, which can weigh more than 40,000 pounds — all from ingesting plankton and small fish. But it’s the 4- to 15-inch-long anchovy and herring, along with tuna, that are common sources of the omega-3 fish oil that delivers oversized heart health benefits.
Now, a recent study reveals some new ways this essential fatty acid can keep your life going, well, swimmingly. For three years, researchers from Switzerland tracked older folks and found that those who had an active lifestyle and no preexisting conditions showed unexpected benefits from omega-3s.
If those participants took 1 gram of omega-3s a day, their overall risk of infection fell by 11%, upper respiratory infections specifically were reduced by 10% and the risk of a urinary tract infection decreased by 62%.
Interestingly, the research also found that for those folks, omega-3s did not protect against broken bones, strengthen muscle function or lessen memory problems — possibly, say the researchers, because the study participants were already doing well in those areas to begin with.
To make sure you’re getting the omega-3s you need to stay healthy, indulge in salmon, sea trout, anchovies and sardines. Flaxseed, chia seeds, avocados and walnuts also provide some, as can a fish or algal oil supplement.
But ask your doc about taking a daily supplement first, since it may interact with some medications, such as aspirin, blood thinners, blood pressure meds and certain chemotherapies.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.
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Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days (to be announced later) for In-service Training. Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net for updated information.
The School Calendar is subject to change.
There are no make-up days if school is closed due to inclement weather.
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