Feeling off balance, thinking fuzzy, uncoordinated upon rising?  You likely have an energy crossover problem. Our bodies are like self winding clocks.  Our natural movements of babies crawling, or us walking and swinging our arms is more than just exercise.  The motions help synchronize both hemispheres of the brain so we have more brainpower.  This is how the Universe designed it.  When babies don’t get to crawl, when they are instead in baby walkers most of the time, they don’t get this motion.  This can delay development.  If, while we go for our daily walk, we carry a shoulder bag, or hold a phone or iPod in one hand, anything instead of swinging both arms naturally as we walk, we don’t get the motion.  We need this motion for optimum brain hemisphere synchronization and if we don’t get it naturally, there is a short and easy exercise we can do on our own that doesn’t cost a thing.  It’s called –> The Cross Crawl in Energy Medicine.

The left hemisphere of your brain sends information to the right side of your body and the right hemisphere sends info to the left side. If energy from the left or right is not adequately crossing over to the opposite side of your body, you cannot utilize your brain’s full capacity or your body’s full intelligence. Donna Eden in Energy Medicine.  Continue reading →

I wrote in Pain control and dumbing down the consciousness that I’d taken one 7.5 Mobic for two days to help with some wrist pain.  It made me feel kind of dumbed down, but it gave me some vivid dreams.  In one, I was sitting with  my mom, who died in 1996, she in her blue nylon nightgown and me in pjs, and we were each drinking a glass of red wine.  Which in real life we never did.  We were just talking about ordinary things.  I woke up feeling I’d visited with her.  It was very cool.

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I’d been having a bout with an old carpal tunnel injury and wrote on Facebook earlier this week: “Wow, I gave in and took one 7.5mg Mobic for my aching paw at 1:00pm and just now woke up at 10:00pm. Well, my hand hasn’t hurt since then, I’ll say that. This is why I don’t like to take drugs.” A Facebook friend wrote: “We call them Frog Pills because they make you feel like a pithed frog.”  She wasn’t exaggerating.  I did it two days in a row, since it was the perfect time to stay off the computer.  It shut down the ache, but it also shut down my brain.  It made me feel… stupid.  And not in a fluffy, stoned, la la la way.  Just… inert.  I did not feel particularly intuitive.  And for someone whose livelihood depends upon my intuition, that’s no small thing.  It also affected my meditation, it was like driving through a fog trying to stay focused.  I so seldom take anything – even aspirin kinds of things – that I forget one side affect is dumbing down the consciousness.  I’ll have to see if it’s worth it.

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Natural Carpal Tunnel Relief

A Three Sisters Garden

The Three Sisters all work together. Critters will find it harder to invade your garden by interplanting your corn, beans and squash. The corn stalk serves as a pole for the beans, the beans help to add the nitrogen to the soil that the corn needs, and the squash provides a ground cover of shade that helps the soil retain moisture.

What is a Three Sisters Garden?  It is an ancient method of gardening using an intercropping system which grows corn, beans, and squash crops simultaneously in the same growing area that is typically a rounded mound of soil, often called a hill. Continue reading →

I love my Toro 20332 – Recycler lawn mower. It creates its own mulch as I go along. Good for my yard since I get a lot of pine needles and oak leaves. And twigs, that I just run right over.  My pal Denise has the same mower. She showed me how to change the filter the other day.  It really needed it after 2 years.  It stopped self propelling a couple of months ago. I drained the gas out into a pan and tipped the mower over and checked the front drive underneath. I had a mile of grapevine tangled around the drive rod, so I cut it off then I was good to go.  9-28-17 Update, cleared drive rod again but self propeller still didn’t work. I’ll take it in to be checked and report back. This mower is 10 years old!

I love search engines.  If a thought comes to me that I want to know more about, I Google it. A movie coming on that I want to know more about?  I Google it.  When someone on Facebook posts an interesting quote, I Google the author’s name and see what else they’ve written that might interest me.  I love to research and learn, and Facebook lets me keep up with whatever my friends are interested in.  Facebook, that’s another reason I spend more time on the computer.  Since 2008, Facebook has been my social life and that’s one reason I spend so much time on it.  I can take a few moments here and there during my work day, to pop in and say hi and see what my Facebook friends are doing.  Several dozen are my real life friends who live locally, and if I had more free time, I’d hang out with them in person.  Facebook helps me feel connected even when my schedule doesn’t allow me to attend many events. Continue reading →

To begin living a different life, you need to CHANGE SOMETHING.  Anything.  Go somewhere new, see different sights so you can put different thoughts in your head.  The only thing that ever needs to change is my perception.  Sometimes I need to do and see new stuff for that to happen.  Sometimes my imagination is enough.  Saturday morning I awoke with the thought that I wanted to drive out and do something different.  I had an unexpected day off! I’m always glad when a client cancels because it means I have the choice to take a spontaneous goof off day – or fill the time with appointments that have been waiting months for a cancellation.  I checked the Horizons calendar of events, then signed on to Facebook to see what everyone in town was doing.  I was looking for something to peak my interest and draw me to it.  Nothing really did.  I thought of driving down to the boardwalk in Indialantic for a surf check, but when I stepped outside, I thought I should do some watering first while it was cool.  At 8:00am, it was 80 degrees and 90% humidity, with a light breeze, not bad.  I sprayed Avon’s Skin So Soft on my legs and arms for the misquitoes and headed outside. Continue reading →

It had been a few days since I had hummus or eggplant and I was jonesing, so last night’s dinner was oven fried eggplant wrapped in a pita with hummus, tahina sauce and mediterranean pickles.  Into the toaster oven for 10 minutes wrapped loosely in foil. Add lettuce and tomato before eating.  I had to make this blog post so I could find the recipe again.

Usually I saute the eggplant but I wanted to oven-fry it this time to give it a crispy crust.
1. Preheat a 425 degree oven
2. Cut eggplant into 1/2″ rounds
3. Dip in Eggbeaters
4. Coat with seasoned panko or Italian breadcrumbs
5. 15 minutes in a metal pan (sprayed with olive oil Pam) on a lower rack in the oven.
6. Then spray the tops with more Pam, turn and let brown another 10-15 minutes. I’m a 25 minute gal.

This was really good, it was the first time I’d done eggplant that way. It put like a fried chicken kinda crust on it, and the eggplant doesn’t get mooshy. This would also make a good sandwich on a sub roll with sauteed bell peppers and onions.  The eggplant takes on a meaty-ish texture when done like this.  If you don’t care about low fat, brush the eggplant rounds with olive oil as they bake.

I’ve also added 1 tsp each crushed coriander seeds and fennel seeds to the panko/breadcrumbs and it is delicious.  Buy the mediterranean pickles .

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I had an interesting thing happen yesterday.  I was backing my car out of the driveway just as another car was driving down the street.  We get very few cars and I know most of them, but this was a white sedan I’d not seen before.  I didn’t think much of it.  They passed and I backed out of my driveway and closed the garage door.  Then I saw a little dog sitting behind the tire of a truck parked at the side of the road.  I didn’t know the truck, but I immediately knew this dog belonged to the people in the white car and they were looking for him.  I didn’t see which way they went but they couldn’t have gotten far.  I quickly drove around a few blocks but did not see them.  Then I saw a house with a silver sedan in the driveway.  I knew it was theirs.  My mind reasoned with me that the car I saw pass was white.  Then I reasoned maybe that was a ploy to get me to this house and the white car was not otherwise involved. I didn’t want to park behind the silver car and was looking for a spot to park on the road when the white car pulled into the driveway right in front of me.  Problem solved!  I asked if they were looking for a dog, they were, they followed me the few blocks home and their dog was still sitting behind the truck tire.  I love when that happens.

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