Vitamin D3 deficiency has been implicated in low mood, psychiatric and neurologic disorder.  Vitamin D3 improves cognition and immune health, bone health and the health of the musculoskeletal system. Vitamin D3 deficiency is associated with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, age-related macular degeneration, some cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, musculoskeletal disorders and  chronic low back pain. Patients with low back pain had significantly lower Vitamin D3 levels.   Vitamin D3 deficiency precipitates and exacerbates bone disease and muscle weakness.

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According to a study, 500 mg of holy basil capsules taken two times a day after meals can significantly lower the intensity of generalized anxiety disorder. Some animal studies have also indicated that holy basil extracts have the ability to attenuate depression and anxiety in laboratory animals. Managing anxiety and depression may, in turn, help treat insomnia. Continue reading →

Go on a cruise, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

True Valentine’s Day story.  I had a 3 day weekend one President’s Day in the early 80’s and decided to go on a cruise out of Miami to Nassau.  I didn’t even consider that it was also Valentine’s Day weekend.  The entire cruise was couples, with very few solo.  The Greek crew members all paid special attention to the single women and it was quite a fiasco, since I like hanging out alone.  It wasn’t a great experience and I learned I don’t care for cruises. I got seasick for the first time ever, after having been on small boats my whole life.  I don’t drink or gamble but wanted something different to do and cruises out of Miami, where I lived, were so cheap. The sleeping rooms were very small.  The food was good, it wasn’t heavy, the dining times staggered to accommodate so many people.  Walking on deck I was aware we were all bound to a small piece of plastic in a gigantic ocean miles deep. I couldn’t just jump in my car and drive back home if I didn’t like it. I learned cruises are not for me. The highlight of the weekend was when I went into Nassau and I saw my father and his wife on the cover of The Sunday Miami Herald when I’d not been prepared for the story. It was quite the memorable Valentine Day weekend. Here’s a pdf of the article I saw –> Hermits Face Disruptions in Big Cypress Hideaway.

I have to shake my head every time someone tells me they went to a highly ranked psychic and got a disappointingly generic and unremarkable reading.  When asked where she got the name from, it turns out she saw an ad naming the person as “The Country’s No. x Psychic.”  When asked how she got her title, it was as a result of a survey given to several hundred subscribers to a newsletter.  Those eligible for nomination were advertisers in the newsletter and they created a contest for it. Continue reading →

Synchronicity! I couldn’t stand it any longer and called my bratty Cousin to see how Uncle is doing after his stent surgery. They were rolling him into the room right as I called.  Perfect that it is heart chakra time 3:43 (4th chakra, 3 above, 3 below) — there are no accidents!  Earlier today, I posted on Facebook  “Shouting out for some prayers for Uncle Jimmy, having another stent put in today, after two last month.  If you grew up smoking, eating bacon and fried chicken — please — for your loved ones, cut that sh*t out. Really. They are cutting open someone I love today because we did not know then what we know now.  Please.” Continue reading →

At Publix in the checkout, I’m in workout gear and so is the woman ahead of me.  She’s buying Lean Cuisine meals and I’m buying chicken thighs, a pint of vinegar and a white potato.  I remark, “Hey, ima buy what you’re buying if I get to have a body like that.  I was going to buy a 3 Musketeers bar until seeing you. Thanks for the inspiration.”  We laugh.  When her total comes up, the cashier says, “if you buy $1.37 more, you get a $10 gift certificate (for $100 purchase.)”  She looks around  to see what’s near she can buy for $1.37.  I told her “A 3 Musketeers bar is just $1.59.”  She said “I’ll buy you one.” I said “Oh no you won’t, buy my vinegar instead.”

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Try to love one another right now

Do you notice how when you’re fully connected to your inner guidance, you see the world and everything in it just fine as it is?  You don’t worry about what the news says or what the complainers say, because you’re filled — maybe just for a few moments — with that feeling that it’s all under control and that everything happens for a Divine purpose?  That no matter what wacky whatever is going on around you, you know that it will all work out, that somehow you will be guided to it.   Then there are those times you’re reminded you’re a business person competing for dollars in a world of just so many customers.  That’s when you know you’ve gone off your guidance signal, since when you’re feeling competitive with anyone, if you think anything anyone does  against you can prevent you from attracting what you are meant to attract, you’re simply not connected to guidance.  If you think anything anyone says about you can prevent you from attracting the good that is meant for you, you are temporarily disconnected from guidance. Continue reading →

Ok, so my only job this weekend was to get my bookkeeping and billing done, neither of which happened.  Instead I played in my yard, moved furniture around and put the February Horizons Magazine online.  I also had a weekend festival of sleep, culminating in my last sleep segment being from 5am-9am this morning.   For me that is unusual, going to bed when it’s dark outside and then waking after sunrise to get into my day.   When I have phone appointments at night, I usually start winding down to sleep – darkening the rooms and muting the sounds – about 3pm so I can be up by 9pm.  If I don’t have calls, then I’m up at 4:00am for morning meditation and usually just go right into the office after that.  It’s remarkable how much better I think and feel when I get real sleep.  Real sleep as in not waking every 30 minutes to check the clock to see when 3-4 hours have passed so I can finally just get up and have it over with. I run myself ragged and don’t know I’ve done it. Nice to have a wake up call to it and a break from it. Continue reading →

I”m fairly mellow, so anxiety is something I only infrequently experience. Friends say it’s related to the solar flares we’re having right now.  Call it what you will, but I figure, like that great sage Roseanne Roseannadana, said, “It’s always something.”   After a few days of personal anxiety (I wrote about it here I get relief from my acute anxiety and here Another Mother of a Shakti Crash,)  I wrote yesterday on Facebook:   “Sigh, it’s only 9:00am on Wednesday, can all my bipolar pals please stop bonking out all at once, I am of no use to you today, trust me.”  Continue reading →

I wrote this week that after having some acute anxiety,  I for the first time in years made a medical appointment.  I wrote at the end of How Timely: Another Mother of a Shakti Crash that I attribute the anxiety of the shakti crash I am experiencing now to a few incidents last week where I was concerned with dear friends in health crises.  I clearly let my mind run away with worry.  My wake up call was  Sunday when a close friend began having classic heart attack symptoms and we called 911.   The paramedics  arrived just in time they said and he was transported to the emergency room.  I followed and hung with him while they did all the poking and prodding and gave him a ride home many hours later.  Except for the almost dying part, it was fun once he was stabilized.  When he mentioned on Facebook that I’d hung with him in the emergency room, I posted, “I couldn’t resist hanging with a handsome dude all tied down to a bed is all 🙂  I tried tickling his ear to make the numbers on the monitor thingy go up but it didn’t work…Glad you’re still around to torment some more.” Continue reading →