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Gluten free bread choices: Udi’s and Joseph’s

Joseph's Oat Bran Pita

I asked on Facebook: What happens when you eat gluten and your body cannot tolerate it?  and got interesting responses. Then I asked: If you eat gluten free: what kind and brand of bread do you eat? I know I can Google what’s on the market, I’m asking you particularly what gluten free breads you eat.

This post is from the Facebook thread. I almost didn’t ask the question and no one asked me to ask the question but I found out today that this info is very relevant to someone I know in real life. See? I just followed my guidance system and did what I felt happily compelled to do and it was helpful. Neat how that works, huh? Continue reading →

My Ouija Board Story and 5 Tips for Using the Ouija

Take care who you sit with

Take care who you sit with

I’m careful who I ouija with, since we’re opening doors to astral nonsense that can freak out people unfamiliar with it. Plus so many fake it, not trusting in their own abilities to draw communication forth.  Once I sat with people I trusted. I asked the ouija board to give me one DO and one DON’T to give to everyone I came in contact with.  At the time I was talking to 40-60 clients a day working the Psychic Friends Network.  Stop laughing.  I told it I wanted something I could give to everyone. It spelled out “meditate daily cease criticism.”  Well done!  Wait, that wasn’t too freaky.  What’s so scary about the ouija board?  Why do people get freaked out about it?  This is what happens when you sit to use the board, and it happens whether you believe it or not.  The ouija is a strong mental and emotional focal point for the group of people present. By sitting to use it, you are doing so with intention and inviting communication from the nonphysical realm. You will attract that which is a vibrational match to the combination of people present.  The nonphysical realm closest  to us is the astral realm, which is where our emotions lie.  Our astral body — and the inhabitants of the astral plane — get an addictive charge out of making the emotions rise and fall. When these nonphysicals show up, we call them spirits or ghosts or entities or guides or messengers.  You can also think of them as a thoughtform or thoughtbank that has access to your memories and your emotions.  “They” speak to you through spelling out words on the board and they also speak to you via your emotions.     Continue reading →

“Is it your face that adorns this garden? Is it your fragrance that intoxicates this garden? Is it your Spirit that has made this brook a river of wine? Hundreds have looked for You, and died searching in this garden, where You hide behind the scenes. But this pain is not for those who come as lovers. You are easy to find here. You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.” ~ Rumi

I get eye strain and get to look like a movie star

Too funny… I came in the office to research eye strain and am kinda snow blinded by the monitor. I’ve got my big dark sunglasses on and look like a movie star. But please, no photos. I will find an opthmalogist first thing Tuesday morning and have it looked at. Today I will hang out in the dark and rest my eyes — here it tells me what to do.   This must be why I like red bulbs in my nightlights and why I wish they had red lit keyboards for night time use. Like the instrumental panel of a boat at night. “Blue light is short-wavelength visible light that is associated with more eye strain than longer wavelength hues, such as orange and red.”  I’d posted that on Facebook and Karen was helpful when she wrote: I had Uveitis last year.  It took 3 weeks to go away.  I had to put foil on all the windows.  I had cat vision in the dark.  But it went away. My lesson was not wanting to see what was right in my face.  Not saying that about you.  That was what I had to learn.

 

What happens when you eat gluten and your body cannot tolerate it?

A friend with Celiac’s disease cannot tolerate gluten and has become very visually impaired because of it.  I asked on Facebook:  “Several people tell me they no longer eat gluten — but I don’t know what happens when you eat gluten and cannot tolerate it.  If you eat a gluten-free diet, tell me the answer ok?”  I don’t have a gluten intolerance but was so surprised by the answers that I wanted to share it here with you.  Basically, if you feel low energy and sickish with tummy issues, try eating no gluten for 30 days and see if it doesn’t clear right up.  Continue reading →

No over the counter antacids for me, here’s why

I’ve learned if I’m getting indigestion or heartburn on a regular basis, that doesn’t mean stock up on the Tums and Prilosec.   Antacids weaken stomach acids for about an hour, which relieves the symptoms.  They often cause rebound heartburn  as the stomach works overtime to try to make up for the stomach acid it doesn’t have. In the long run, antacids will make heartburn and indigestion worse. They can contain trace elements that block mineral absorption and can cause harm to the nervous system.  They can produce vitamin and mineral deficiencies and irreparable harm to your organs and bones.  The good news is there are many natural remedies for indigestion and heartburn.  The first is changing your diet to eliminate problem foods.  Period.  Yep, you have to do it.  In the meantime, take 2 tablespoons of organic, unpasturized apple cider vinegar (with the Mother) added to 8oz of water thirty minutes before meals.  I take one Vitacost Mega Digestive Enzymes with Pancreatin 10X before every meal I eat. Continue reading →

What to do When you Can’t Stomach It by by Jesse Stoff, MD

Digestive problems can occur for numerous reasons and many a book has been penned about them. These problems may occur from physiological changes, infections, inflammatory processes or more severe pathology.  As usual, any problem that is new, severe, of rapid onset or accompanied by pain or blood in the stool should be checked out by your physician. Fortunately, most problems are of a functional nature.  As we age, many things commonly happen to our digestive tract as our physiology changes. Things tend to slow down as our muscle mass and muscle tone decreases, so we need more roughage/fiber and water to compensate for these changes and keep things rolling along. Also, as we age, our stomach’s production of hydrochloric acid decreases as does our production of digestive enzymes by our pancreas. As a result we can develop symptoms of gas, bloating and indigestion as the good bacteria in our digestive tract are thrown out of balance by their changing environment. If we don’t digest our food well, it tends to putrefy and this will lead to a variety of systemic symptoms ranging from fatigue to achiness and headaches to say the least! Continue reading →

Songwriters – want to record your songs? It’s affordable!

Jeffery Allen Spence

Are you a songwriter? Have you written songs you want to see recorded? I can help your dream become reality!  Hi, my name is Jeff Spence and I am a sought after keyboardist/producer working with Pat Bautz (Three Dog Night) here on the Space Coast.    Also, singers, want to record a friend’s song?  Contact me to see your musical dreams come true! 504.715.0659 email  jeff@gratituderadiostations.com

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Dr Joe Dispenza on Creating Each Day

Dr. Joe Dispenza

“So, if we’re consciously designing our destiny, if we’re consciously, from a spiritual standpoint, throwing in the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life, because reality equals life…, then, I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say to myself, I’m taking this time to create my day, and I’m infecting the Quantum Field. Now, if it is in fact [infecting my/the energy feld], the Observer’s watching me the whole time that I’m doing this, and there is a spiritual aspect to myself. Then, show me a sign today, that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won’t expect.”  ~ Dr Joe Dispenza, featured expert, People v. The State of Illusion