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Are you considering hormone replacement therapy? Think again! Those medications are far from natural, and if you google it, you’ll find long lists of possible side effects! So why do people get on HRT? Mainly two reasons, hotflashes and fear of osteoporosis. However, the HRT itself can compromise your health, too.

HRT works by suppressing your natural cycles of hormones so that your hotflashes can get under control. But, suppression never cures anything. Whatever you push down, must come back up, it is as simple as that! I have heard about women who have been on HRT for over 10 years, and as soon as they quit, the hotflashes are back!!!

But, I wasn’t going to talk about hotflashes. (By the way, they can easily be dealt with with homeopathy – send me an email if you would like a consultation). I was actually going to talk about the possibility of osteoporosis. Evidently, lack of minerals can cause the bones to become brittle, which causes them to break easily. Well, that can also be fixed with natural remedies.

Susun Weed (famous herbalist) recommends drinking infusions of raspberry leaf and nettle leaf. An infusion is what you get when you pour a quart of water over 2 handfuls of herb and let it sit for 2-3 hours before drinking it. It tastes horrible, but supposedly, it works really well.

Another thing I came across today was the use of apple cider vinegar to avoid brittle bones. Very interesting article. CLICK HERE to read more! Evidently, drinking a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar daily (mixed with honey if you wish), will prevent osteoporosis! So, we don’t need any HRT – apple cider vinegar will do…

Tags: alternative to HRT, apple cider vinegar

One of the woes of menopause is the fact that we put on weight. I have always been as skinny as a flagpole until I hit mid thirties. Then I had a couple of babies, and now, going through menopause, I have a feeling I could live on almost no food at all, since almost anything makes me put on weight.

A couple of years ago, I spent 1 1/2 years living on raw food, but my husband lost too much weight without cooked food, and my children didn’t like it either. Anyway, the first 6 months on raw food I didn’t even lose an ounce! Then the weight slowly started coming off, but now that we are back on cooked food, there is no way I will ever see my belly flat again. Now I’ve got belly, hips and boobs, and I’m tired of fighting the weight increase. It seems that my body weight is naturally settling somewhere about 10 pounds more than I used to be, and it doesn’t matter if I skip both breakfast and lunch, I’m not losing any weight no matter what!

So, maybe menopause is about becoming a goddess, with a goddess body! Nice and round and curvy. The only thing is, with a curvy body, we have to dress in a different way than we used to. Go through your closets and just throw away any kind of skin tight, skimpy stuff. Now, we need clothes that can show off curves, like tailored jackets or drapey jackets, pencil skirts, long skirts and pants with wide legs and longer tops with scarfs and necklaces. Forget about mini skirts, they just look silly on menopausal goddesses. Think “goddess” and you’ll empower yourself! Appreciate your curves, and dress in a flattering way. Don’t try to hide them in baggy clothing.

Life has many stages, and when you hit menopause, it is time to become a goddess! You have given birth to your children and taken care of them until they could take care of themselves. Now, the time has come for us to give birth to ourselves! It is time to find out why we are here, and what our potentials are, and to let our creativity flow!

Tags: goddess, life stages, menopause

When babies are born, their chakras are wide open and people who can see the colors of the chakras say that they are clear and bright. As we get older, and start collecting emotional sludge, the colors of the chakras get more and more muddy and murky looking. And, when we are dying, the chakras are more or less non-functioning.

Not only do the colors of the chakras change, but the energy flow is affected, too. If we look at the wording we use in relationships, we say things like: “I got my feelings hurt, so I shut down.” What exactly did we shut down? We actually shut down our chakras in the area affected, and if you check them with a pendulum, you’ll see that they are either spinning in odd ways, or not spinning at all.

If the chakras don’t spin properly, (clockwise in a 4″ circle), it means that we are no longer receiving the energy needed to keep that part of the body functioning properly.

Different parts of the body respond to different types of emotional issues. For example:
1st chakra: survival issues, affects bowels, lower spine
2nd chakra: money, power, relationships, betrayals, rape, etc., affects hips, lumbar, sex organs
3rd chakra: freedom and responsibility issues, ego, why am I here, emotional discomfort, affects stomach, digestion, panchreas, liver.
4th chakra: hurt feelings, emotional pain, affects heart and lungs
5th chakra: will, surrender, communication issues, decision making, affects thyroid, mouth, ears, nose
6th chakra: going beyond duality, affects eyes
7th chakra: connection to source

So, what happens when our chakras shut down? It creates stagnancy and imbalance. For example, if your second chakra shuts down, the stagnancy creates fibroids, cycsts, yeast infections, etc. If it happens at the third chakra, you can get a stomach ulcer, diabetes or hepatitis. At the fourth chakra, it will give you a heart attack, or pneumonia, and so on.

So, how do we clean them? Very easy. Put all your fingertips together and hold them over one chakra at a time. I usually start with the lowest chakra. Move the fingertips counterclockwise a few times, then wait a minute or two for the emotional sludge to drain away. After a minute or two, spin the chakra in a clockwise direction (don’t forget this bit, it is very important). Do this with every chakra at least once a week. This is the simplest way to prevent sickness, since sickness is always caused by clogged chakras. And if you are already sick, cleaning the chakras are the best way to get your healing energy to flow again.

Tags: chakras

So, if life and death are natural cycles, and if God is simply divine energy expressing itself through our bodies, then God is actually in each one of us. That is why, when we look within through meditation, we can find our connection to God, or Source, as some call it.

Because God is pure energy, there has to be an energetic connection between the body and Source, and there is. In India they have long known about these energetic connections to source. The energy is connected to our physical bodies through energy centers called chakras.

The seven biggest chakras are centered along our spines. The root chakra is at the bottom of the spine, the second chakra is above the pubic bone, the third chakra is just below the ribs, the fourth is at the chest level, the fifth is at the throat, the sixth is on the forehead between the two eyes and the seventh is at the top of the head.

The chakras spin in a clockwise fashion when they work properly. This creates an energetic spiral that brings energy into the body. If we want to stay healthy, we must clean the chakras and make sure they spin and stay open. More about this in the next post.

Tags: chakras

Since I’m reflecting on life and death, I might as well get myself into real trouble and take it one step further – GOD! What or who is God?
Christians has the least mature idea of God – they believe that God is a person in the sky who created the world in 7 days…

First of all, that would make him a very very old person by now. And if he was such a creative being, why did he create the world in 7 days, and then stop creating? Any creative person knows that that isn’t how creativity works. If you are creative, it means that everything inspires you into thinking in new ways and your creativity keeps flowing.

The American Indians have a much more mature idea of God – to them, God is referred to as “the great spirit.” Now, that makes more sense. A great spirit that is free from body (form), can easily live forever because the spirit never dies. Only form dies.

The Hindus also have a mature view of God – they have 100 names for the different aspects of the divine, such as love, beauty, truth, creativity etc. These names are describing different qualities of God, not as a person, but more as energy.

Personally, I see God as life energy. When life energy embodies form, the form becomes alive. Form without life energy is simply dead form, and it will deteriorate over time. This life energy, also called chi or prana, expresses itself through the body. Therefore, we must allow this expression of life energy.

Every person is born with unique talents. Somebody may be good at singing, another good at cooking, drawing, dancing and so on. So, it is important to find out what we are good at, and what comes to us easily, and to allow this expression. Therefore, we should spend some time contemplating over this issue. How does the energy of God want to express itself through your hands, or through your heart or mind? It is in this expression that your individuality lies, so be playful…

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Life and death are just natural cycles. In our dimension, life expresses itself through form, but because form is temporary (it eventually breaks down and becomes uninhabitable), the form has to change from time to time.
To the mind, life and death looks like two sides of duality, even though they both complement each other, and both are needed. Because we are here to transcend duality, it is important not to choose only one side. Anytime we choose one side of duality, we become imbalanced and dysfunctional. Therefore, we must accept that both are needed. We must realize that life goes on, beyond the form, we must be grateful for the time we get to spend in the form and all the experiences we get to have before we move on, and we must never ask for more time than what we are given.
If we can do this, change will no longer destroy us, even if the change may be undesirable. Acceptance and surrender to what is, is the key to resilience, and gratefulness heals all the scars that we pick up on the way.

Tags: death, duality, gratefulness, Life, surrender

When I was about 20 years old, I almost froze to death in the mountains of Norway. This was an experience I will never forget. I went skiing with some friends, and if anyone of you has seen the Bridget Jones movies, I was like Bridget Jones. I wasn’t good at skiing, I didn’t have the right equipment or clothes for the trip, and I was lagging behind everyone else. Truth be told, I didn’t even want to go out that day, it was just too cold. But I went anyway. After walking for a while, the weather turned. Out of nowhere a blizzard appeared, and everyone turned around and started running back to the cabin. I was running, too, but somehow, my skis didn’t slide as fast as the other’s, and I was getting further and further behind. I was so cold, so I stopped and looked in my backpack for more clothes, but of course, there was none. The skin on my face started freezing up, and my movements became slower and slower.

Normally, when the brain sends a message to move, we don’t even notice this. We just move. But, in my case, my brain would try to move, but my arms and legs had a harder and harder time doing it.

Anyway, I finally stopped freezing, thank God, and everything was going into slow motion. Then, something amazing happened – everything around me became luminous. The snowflakes looked like luminous stars, the snow around me looked like soft glowing down comforters, everything became so beautiful that I was in a state of complete awe! I could feel my body not working any more, and at the same time, I could feel myself as “me” being absolutely crystal clear, more clear than I had ever been before. The separation between the real me, and my body was so clear, and I remember thinking “my body is dying, and it’s ok…”

I just wanted to lie down and eat that beautiful snow, and I knew that if I did that, my body would be finished, but it didn’t matter. I knew that I would still be ok, because at that point, I had already experienced that I am not my body. So, I layed down in the snow and surrendered.

At this point, one of my friends turned around and saw me collapsed, and they ran back and managed somehow to drag/push me home. I had no interest in going home at this point because I was so blissed out by the whole experience. But they did get me home, so I lived to tell the tale.

However, one thing always stuck with me from this experience – I am not my body. I live in the body, but when the body is finished, I simply move on. Life can not be destroyed – it simply changes form. In other words, what we call death, is simply a delusion. It is not real. It is only a transition between forms, that’s all…

Tags: death

Children are so much more natural than we are, and we have so much to learn from the way they live their lives. Recently, my husband’s brother died at 46. He came to visit us a couple of months ago, and I immediately knew that he was dying. So, I told both my kids that I sensed what was coming, and that I had to share it with them because I don’t believe in lying or hiding the truth from children, and I thought it would be better for them to be prepared. They were both sad at first, but then we talked about the cycle of life and death, and I told them that death has to be accepted as well as life, and that we must never ask for more time than we are given because that is not in the nature of things. When the time is up, we go – it is as simple as that.

My daughter loved her uncle – he was her favorite person ever, so I was worried about how she would handle it when he passed. But, I had no reason to worry! When it actually happened, I went to my daughter and told her I had something to tell her. She looked at me and said “my uncle Pete passed away, didn’t he?” Yes, he did. Good thing it happened so fast. I know how horrible it is to be sick. If his body was too broken to be fixed, it is better he moved on. Can I go back and play now? Sure…

It blew me away. Even though she loved him and wanted him to hang around forever, she was happy for him that his suffering was over. How mature is that of a 9 year old??? Amazing…

I knew that it would probably take some time for the facts to sink in, and I was right. That evening, we snuggled up on her bed, and she cried and remembered and talked about all the things that she remembered, and things they had done together. Then, she remembered the toys her uncle had given to her, and she wanted to sleep with her toy seal so that she could connect to her uncle through her seal. The next day she took her seal with her to school, and she told everyone why she was carrying her seal around.

It so happened that it was “drug free week” at school, and her uncle had basically died so early because he was using too many prescription drugs given to him by his doctor. So, she got to tell everyone the story of her uncle’s death from using drugs. Everyone listened to her story, and she felt great when she got home from school.

Today, I noticed that the seal had gotten a new name – it is now named Pete, and Pete went to school with her today. So, there is no need to feel disconnected, even though Pete left his body. Pete is with her still!!! So simple and so beautiful! I’m so proud of her!

This is how simple life can be when we don’t carry any old emotional sludge with us that drags us down. We have to learn to become like children again. They are so innocent, and that innocence allows them to deal with anything that happens in their lives in a totally natural way….

Tags: grief in children, processing grief

We live in a society that is filled with rules and regulations. There are boards all over the place, interfering, meddling and controlling, telling everyone what they can and can’t do, and basically taking away the indivicual’s rights to decide for themselves what they want. Why is that?

There are two reasons for this – one is that freedom only works with responsibility. It is like two wings of a bird. If you want to fly, you have to have both. Having only freedom, and refusing to take responsibility will create nothing but trouble and eventually result in anarchy and chaos. Having only responsibility and no freedom, gives your life a stagnant, joyless quality. The solution is to embrace both freedom and responsibility, and let your awareness guide your actions.

The problem is, most people don’t have enough awareness to embrace both sides of duality. They’ll choose either freedom, or responsibility, and these two sides will start fighting among themselves.

The side that chooses responsibility, becomes so over responsible that it isn’t enough for them to just be responsible for themselves – they have to tell everyone else what to do as well because they are on a mission to kill people’s freedom. Why should you enjoy your freedom if they live a joyless life full of seriousness and responsibility? You need to grow up and become serious, too, and if you don’t want to, they’ll make you.

These are all second chakra issues. In India they talk about 7 chakras, which are energy centers that are situated in different areas of the body. The first chakra has to do with basic survival. The second chakra has to do with power, money and sexual relationships, and unfortunately, humanity resonnates with only the first and second chakra so far. Even though human beings have been on the earth for thousands of years, our mass consciousness has only reached the second chakra.

The first chakra has to do with tribal issues – do as the tribe tells you, don’t think for yourself, follow traditions and tribal laws, etc. This is where we find military, courts, traditional religions, etc.

On the second chakra level we find politicians and law makers. Because second chakra perception of reality is all about who is in power over who, our country is, unfortunately, ruled by people with very little insight, or consciousness, and you can’t expect to find any love or compassion here, since these qualities belong to the fourth chakra, which they haven’t reached yet. These people love to regulate and make others obey to preserve their power, and, of course, they get paid extremely well, since love equals money on the second chakra level. Basicallly, the amount of money made is what makes their lives worth living. (That explains the expectations of bonuses etc – it is the only kind of love they know, and everybody wants some kind of love, whatever it means to them).

Too bad humanity hasn’t gotten any further in its expansion of consciousness! Nothing has changed much since Jesus chased the money changers out of the temple over 2000 years ago! And if people don’t start “getting it” soon, nothing will change in the next 2000 years either.

The people who are in power don’t easily give up their power. The more people want freedom, the more the politicians and lawmakers clamp down with rules and regulations to keep people from rebelling. But, they can’t stop a rebellion of consciousness from happening. We must hold the vision of a better world, and promote rebellion (with responsibility) any way we can. We must work on ourselves to break free from old useless patterns that we carry from the past, and we must, most of all, teach our young ones to stand up for themselves, and to become authentic beings instead of obedient zombies. The time has come to WAKE UP!
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Tags: consciousness, freedom, politicians, second chakra