Category: self-care

Find Your Way

Sometimes it may feel like you have yet to find your path.  Don’t give up.  In this money crazed world, if your work isn’t generating millions, billions or trillions (see…money crazed) you may be disheartened. Look to what inspires you to action.  What lights you up? What brings a smile to your lips? What feels a bit too big for you? Don’t give up.  There are remedies, and flower essences that can assist you on your  journey.  But at times there is no other way than to plunge in (with grace).  This is the equivalent of a cold water plunge of life…infinitely more valuable than a plunge.  Life wants you to plunge, to journey, from wherever you stand.  Strong and smiling and powerful.  A step at a time.

Homeopathic Remedies are Non Addictive

When it comes to those seeking to improve their health and well being.  It is important to know that homeopathic remedies from a homeopathic pharmacy and used with the guidance of a  qualified practitioner can help one in the restoration of health and well being.

Constantly seeking quick fixes, social media “cures” ,”buzzes” of all kinds. whether uppers or downers will not cultivate health.  
The terms natural or organic or that something is from a plant are not informative enough to discern if a substance is healing and if it is what is needed.

It seems to me, that as a society we have been subtly trained to put most anything in our mouths without proper oversight.  Marketers want to sell a product and sadly certain drugs have been found harmful after a number of deaths. 

It is important to discern mindfully when you enter the marketplace;  teenagers with growing brains can be particularly susceptible, children too and even adults need to aware of what is being put into their bodies.  When we see people dying from various addictions, fatal car crashes from the use of certain substances and beverages  it teaches us to pause beforehand.

Some years ago (shows my age group) there were tv commercials stating that  the mind is a terrible thing to waste.  This is still true.

Typically, usually a plant, used for centuries by a culture in a whole form, becomes “discovered” by someone seeking a way to make money (ethics be damned).  It becomes addictive after it is transformed in a laboratory to extract certain chemical compounds which can affect certain receptors in the brain, causing it to become an addictive substance.  

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/08/06/kratom-7oh-addiction-fda/85451305007/

Aude sapere

 

 

Removing Pesticides — Veggie Wash

When we buy food we want it to be good for us.  One way to help ensure that is to wash your fruits and veggies.  This can improve your food quality by reducing your exposure to pesticides.
Rinsing produce removers grime and dirt, but does not reduce pesticide residue.
Even organic produce is helped with a rinse.  To check  how tainted with pesticides your chosen produce is check here.

Some good news, research out of the University of Amherst found that soaking apples in a baking soda solution for a minimum of two minutes helps to remove pesticide residue.  Two pesticides were used in the study  thiabendazole (a systemic pesticide) and  phosmet were tested. The sad truth is a wide array of pesticides are used in our food products.

FRUIT/VEGGIE WASH

Submerging apples in a baking soda solution for a minimum of two minutes and ideally for twelve to fifteen minutes helps to completely remove pesticides tested in the University study.

1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups of water (filtered or spring water)

and for delicate fruits (such as your blueberries or grapes)  a DIY spray:
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of baking soda
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
add the items to a spray bottle.
Spritz onto produce, allow to sit for 5 to 10 minutes, rinse and pat dry.

 

 

 

 

Music for your Brain

Professor Gordon Shaw, a physicist ( now deceased) helped to show  how music increases  relationships between different areas of the brain.  His research included having a group of college students listen to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major  which showed temporary increases in their I.Q.’s. This also led to the “craze” of the Mozart Effect.

As brain cells fire across the synapses between them, they bridge the gap and make the connection easier the next time.  Neuroscientists propose that as you listen to music, these connections form patterns that build themselves up to process information more efficiently, and so boost your cognitive powers.

 

References:
Tune Your Brain, Elizabeth Miles  ©1997

New York Times, May 3, 2005