I’m getting a lot of sleep lately. Sometimes I’ll go years with insomnia. Search the words sleep or insomnia at my blog and you’ll find my many posts about it, my thoughts, my perceptions and also the natural remedies I’ve found to work for me. I’m self employed from home the past 23 years, so I make my own schedule. That’s allowed me to fall into a natural sleep pattern of twice a day, usually between 4:00 — 9:00, both am and pm. When a cycle of insomnia ends, I go through a delightful time of being able to fall asleep anywhere, anytime and often do. It’s happened for enough years that I can tell where I am in the cycle. I know I’m good for the first 3-4 hours after I wake up, so that’s when I do all my running around, my errands and appointments. Any longer than that, I’m likely to snooze in your chair. It might just be 10 minutes, it might be an hour; we never know. Like the nuns used to say, “it’s a mystery.” I’ve learned to just be in a safe place and let it happen. I’ve been reading about the adrenal glands lately and sleep is very recuperative for the adrenal glands. Adrenal function affects sleep and energy. That means eat nutrient dense foods, avoid toxic foods and get plenty of sleep. Take vitamin D and cod liver oil, exercise and get real sunlight. Spending time outside at dawn and late afternoon helps regulate the pineal gland, which also affects sleep. That is why I take my walk as dawn is breaking, and at sunset I go outside to water the back property, where the light lingers longest.  Continue reading →

From Cecelia Avitable of The Herb Corner in Melbourne, FL:   We all get stressed every once in a while because our lives have become so hectic; but for some of us our stress is more emotionally related from worry, work, finances, anxiety, tension, grief, frustration, depression and anger. Stress can be due to illness, loss of a loved one, a job loss, family visits, over-work, travel or exposure to toxins. Anything that threatens the body physically or emotionally causes stress; over-time your body’s reaction to continual stress can cause conditions like high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers, headaches, insomnia or weight gain.  Fortunately herbs can help reduce the effects of stress. Adaptogenic herbs normalize the body so it can better cope with stressors; they support your immune system and nourish your adrenal glands.  Here’s a list:   Continue reading →

All these burning churches? I say thank you to every hater who has ever added kindling and wind to these massive bonfires.We will use them to light the world on fire, lighting the way for massive change.

We couldn’t have done it without you.

A fun road trip day to Orlando. We did some business then stopped at the Sam Ash Music store and looked at a whole bunch of equipment no one needed since they have a studio full of it. Afterward, we had an awesome lunch at Little Saigon http://www.littlesaigonrestaurant.com/ Vietnamese restaurant I had a crab and tofu Pho and the man had chicken, broccoli and scallions. This is where Dennis Hollin and I were having lunch a few years ago when I dropped my cell phone into my pho soup, and everything was saved on the phone, not the sim card. Which means nothing was saved. This happened two days before The Universal Lightworkers Conference in West Palm Beach and I lost everyone’s messages about when and where to connect. Gone. LOL It was a fun weekend, like a treasure hunt!

As I scroll through the Facebook newsfeed, I notice my mind is judging the fattening and unhealthy food pics that overweight friends are posting after having told me they want to lose weight and inflammation. So called low carb desserts made with flour and sugar and cheesy fried stuff. This is none of my business. Why should I care? Don’t I have enough going on in my own life? LOL The mind is a crazy thing, it will obsess over all sorts of stuff until I make the choice to choose a different pattern of thought.

I received a text message from Verizon yesterday telling me I’d used 50% of my data limit and that my billing cycle ends July 17. Today I get a text telling me I’ve used 75%  WTF?? I went into my app settings and made sure everything was set to download only when I’m on wi-fi, and it was.  ALSO:  Tap the symbol to the left of the home button, it says, “active apps” and there is an option to “close all” or just an “X” on some other phones.  I also did this  –>  When data usage is through the roof, the problem is that apps are using data downloads instead of Wi-Fi.
Go to Settings
Click on Data usage
Scroll down to where there is a list of applications. They are listed with the highest data user first. Facebook was on top for me.
Click on an application that is using a lot of data.
Scroll to Restrict background data and click on it. This instructs phone to download only via Wi-Fi.
Just above this it says “view app settings”. Click on this and click on Auto-update apps. Select Auto-update apps over Wi-Fi only.
Remember to turn Wi-Fi on.

I was reminded by a friend that I took many pics and videos Sunday and uploaded them while I was not on wi-fi. I most importantly learned I’d somehow turned my wi-fi off.  The good news is: with Verizon, if I go over data, it’s just $10 per gig.

At Wendy’s after a beach visit to buy a Frosty. The man didn’t have change and didn’t want to break a bill. My change was in the car. So he’s holding two $1.00 bills while asking the kid behind the counter the price (including tax) for the small and for the medium Frosty. The kid seems concerned for us buying only one and says “they’ve got cameras in here, otherwise I’d just give it to you.” Then he sees the man pull a $10 and a $5 bill out of his pocket and says, “look, you’ve got money!” and we laughed since when we said we didn’t have change, we meant we didn’t have coins and didn’t want to break bigger bills, not that we didn’t have money — and we only wanted one Frosty because I didn’t want one! How sweet of him to be concerned for us though — to him, we were two senior citizens angsting over a $2.11 purchase. How kind and compassionate that was!