it’s not simply fat intake.  Inflammation is the real culprit, and our system gets inflamed by non-nutritive foods like sugars, flours, starches – which is basically all packaged and processed foods. If it has a label with more than one ingredient, it is processed.  Here are highlights of the article (full link below) :  “The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.  These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease.  Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.”   Continue reading →

From Hialeah, FL? It’s been a day of Facebook flashing names from the past in front of me, then a friend from high school sent me this link to a Facebook group from our alma mater. I’ve been scrolling the member names and finding other classmates from back in the day. I sent a friend request to one familiar name and then recalled oh she always threatened to beat me up after school. Oh well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/110859192283345/

Just spoke with a friend who has always mentioned in conversation how he leaves his doors unlocked when he’s gone He got robbed and, surprise, he thinks it was a friend. I’m from Miami, I learned early to lock my doors and no one gets a key. I even lock my car inside my locked garage. I had burglar bars installed when my home was built, it’s a Miami thang, and am the only one in the neighborhood with them. But I figure it keeps honest people honest.

Sometimes your heart opens for one person and another falls into it. Always follow your heart, but have a conscious conversation to detach from the one before stepping into the other. Don’t leave her wondering what went wrong when just weeks before you were telling her she was the soul mate you’d been searching your whole life for.  People are stronger than you think. They can take the truth. You’ll be glad in the future that you didn’t burn that bridge.

I had a real memorable dream once about trusting.  In the dream I was flying over the ocean.  At first I was just flying, then I looked down and saw the earth below me.  Then I got closer and saw the ocean, although I didn’t recognize a continent.  As I descended, I began to get afraid because it was the middle of the ocean and I’m not a strong swimmer.  In the dream, I could feel real fear in my chest.  As I descended and felt scared, I was standing upright suddenly and could feel small waves splash at my feet.  I quickly said a prayer “help me deal with whatever is gonna happen” and I lifted my feet and I looked all around to see if I could see land.  Suddenly I could see land, but waaaay off in the distance.  I quickly said a prayer that I’d make it to land and suddenly a row of tiles begin appearing from me to the land. I was afraid I would be stranded and suddenly I felt the tile I was standing on begin to sink. The tiles were just barely a few inches beneath the water’s surface, and each one a long step apart from the next.  I was afraid to move off my one tile, kind of frozen there, not wanting to step over the ocean part to get to the next tile.   Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, my WordPress blog got hacked.  It happens.  I contacted my server to restore it and was told the backup file was also hacked.  I had no backup of my own.  As it turns out, I didn’t need one.  I had my magic wizard of a brother to the rescue!  I wasn’t worried about losing the info because I had the entire blog in a Word file.  I could pay someone to re-enter the data.  I’d lose my place in the search engines until Google could review the site once it was restored, but that was ok, too. I don’t depend on my website for income. I did have complex cross-linking of my meditation and creative visualization posts, so I’d have to relink them all, which would take some time.  But I didn’t feel like I’d need to. I didn’t feel like the entires were gone.  I just figured it was some little glitch that would be fixed soon enough and all would be fine.  I like living in the mystery.  In the mystery is where the magic happens.    Continue reading →

A friend was excited about being terminated from a job they were excited to be rid of and to have free time during the holidays.  Jane Delaford Taylor wrote “… that’s what I call the Wind Tunnel Effect – you know when two doors on opposite sides of the house are open and a gust of wind from one makes the other slam shut really hard! So now if an opportunity suddenly becomes closed to me I start looking for the other door, the one where the winds of change are blowing from!   I’m speaking from recent experience actually – and I can say with feeling I’m so GLAD that the other door blew shut! The one that was open is leading to some great changes for me!”

I like living in the mystery.  In the mystery is where all the magic happens. I don’t need to know the details of how something is going to work out.  I just need to have faith I will be guided to the next step.  I just need to believe it is possible and expect that it can happen for me in the wink of an eye.  And if it’s not happening? I’m simply taking score too soon. Perhaps I’m spending more than 51% of my time looking at evidence that it hasn’t happened yet.  As soon as I catch myself doing that, I remind myself that someone else’s experience doesn’t have to be mine, and that miracles happen all the time.  I can be one of them.  I often am.

Family bickering, coworkers whining, kids out of control and your partner nowhere to be found in every crisis? Why do you think you attracted that? We know HOW, but WHY? What message is your higher Self trying to get across? What might the first step be to begin changing your point of attraction? How can you show up as Love in each situation?