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Blessed Tuesday!
I hope this post finds you all well and happy :)

I was emailed this video and I thought it worth passing along. We never know what situations we may find ourselves in and who may hang in the balance. This is a new technique for preforming CPR on an adult. It makes more sense in my opinion.

May we never have need of this knowledge.

Link to YouTube Video if you’re unable to see the embedded video.

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I’m delighted beyond belief to report that I’m feeling SOOO much better today.

Really, I was feeling much better by supper time last night, so I ended up eating a little oatmeal with raisins and honey.  I drank a smaller glass of soda water on my way to bed last night because your bladder holds its contents the longest through the night, giving the alkalizing soda the most time to work.

This morning, the world was a cool, calm, happy place :)

No more soda for me today.  One day was enough.  Today I’m just drinking water.  Not in excess either!  When you flood your bladder with water, you wash away the protective lining in it.  The goal is to drink a full 10 glasses (8oz each).  That’s 2 quarts and a pint.  Broken up and consumed throughout the day.   My goal is to flush my system, not to flood it. Nothing is good in excess.  Balance is key.

I did have a minor side effect drinking the soda water and that is that it gave me a little bit of the trots. Frankly, it was totally worth it in my personal opinion.  I drank 16oz water w/1 TBSP baking soda @ 10am and 4pm and then about half that @ 11pm.  I drank about 5-6 8oz glasses of water, and (2) 12oz cups of herbal tea w/ raw honey in between.

So, that’s it!  Hopefully you’re not a person who experiences kidney stones or urinary tract infections.  That’s the obvious preference.

But if you ARE one of us, and you’re looking for a more natural way to snuff out the flame… this has been my experience, as an overall healthy, 30 yr old female on no medication, and with normal blood pressure.

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The following is my experience and should NOT be taken as medical advice.  Don’t follow what I do, get a serious infection, and then try to say it’s my fault basically. This is just handy knowledge for anyone who’s into natural remedies as I am. Know for certain that whatever you read here is practiced in my house, but use your own head please and do other research as well. After all, everyone is different, inside and out.

I avoid western medicine when possible. I’m not neglectful of my and my family’s health, but seeing an actual MD is a last resort in our household. I am the healer in my home.

Right now I’m having a small issue with either a kidney stone or a UTI or both. I don’t have a fever or chills and if I develop either, I would go to a doctor. Just so we’re clear.

A kidney stone is painful as hell. If you’ve had a baby and can identify what contractions feel like, it’s almost like THAT. Seriously. It’s wicked painful. And it comes on slowly. You can actually FEEL the pain build in your lower abdomen, groin, lower to mid back. All those areas or any combination of them.

It will reach a point that makes you sweat… really. I had a kidney stone once before and I was actually breathing through the pain like contractions. I kid you not.

If you DO go to the doctor at this point, you will likely be told, “Okay Mr./Ms. So-And-So, you have a kidney stone. Go home, lots of water, take Advil, if you start pissing blood or don’t feel better in the next 48 hours, come on back in.” Really. That’s their solution.

Unless of course you want them to shove a tube up your urethra and into your kidney to break up the stones with sound waves… while you’re awake…

And urinary tract infections aren’t much more fun. I wouldn’t say the pain is really less… it’s just different. Less of a charlie horse cramp and MORE of a “gee it really sucks that my business is currently burning like I’ve got a lit match stuck in it” kind of pain. An intense burn that makes your body compulsively insist upon trying to urinate which is a vicious cycle because the act of urinating just intensifies the burning.

Going to the doctor for this would entail me coming home with a prescription for antibiotics that will end up making me JUST as miserable as the infection when they kill ALL the bacteria in my system, good AND bad, and set me up for a miserable yeast infection.

And to all the MEN out there who just cringed… just so you know… yeast infections ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO WOMEN! Men get them to. Funny thing is men get them all over. Mouth, anus, penis… so there will be NO stone (kidney or non) throwing here. The state of your body and health is YOUR responsibility.

Knowledge is power my friends.

So here’s my solution. Here is what I’m actually doing, in real life, for my problem with this, right now, even as I type this post.

Today I will be on a liquid diet. Water, organic broths, herbal tea with a little honey only… and the miracle. NO JUICES! Fruit or other.

Here’s why:

• There’s a reason you’re often not hungry while ill. It’s your body’s way of focusing it’s energy into your healing. When you eat food, much of your person energy goes immediately to your digestion. After all, your digestion is a process that lasts for a few hours and involves every single organ you possess.Fasting on a liquid diet allows your body the calories and nutrition it requires with minimal digestion and energy loss.
• Your body needs liquid most when it’s down. Staying hydrated makes all the difference in how fast you flush out an illness or infection.
• Stay away from juices, even the 100% juice, no sugar added varieties. When you have a stone or UTI, there are bacteria present. Bacteria eat sugar. By flushing your system with sugar, even natural ones, you’re basically sending your infection an engraved invitation to stay and expand.
• I am drinking a specific herbal tea. Any herbal tea would be fine. I am drinking Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Extra with honey I add. The reason I’m drinking this tea specifically is because it has Valerian root in it and chamomile and I add the honey.In homeopathy, chamomile is used for things hot, angry, red, temper-mental, welted. If those things don’t describe how you feel with a UTI, I don’t know what does.

  Valerian root is commonly associated with help sleeping. I can’t vouch for YOUR reaction to it, but I don’t get sleepy unless I’m tired. If I drink this tea at night before bed, it helps me off to sleep. However, Valerian root is really for promoting relaxation. And drinking it @ noon simply has a relaxing, calming effect on me.

  I can use some relaxation right now :(

  The honey, raw and unfiltered, has immense healing properties in it. It’s anti bacterial, anti microbial, and anti viral. I like really HOT beverages personally, but when I use honey, I don’t add it to boiling hot water. Cooking the honey kills it.

Here’s the miracle that seals the deal. This is an amazing trick that Ash told me about, and I’ve used it once before now, and am happy to have it in my little medical bag now. I wouldn’t recommend doing it often because it would likely screw up your entire inner balance, but it’ll kick the crap out of a UTI if you do it for a day or 2.

1 TBSP Baking soda in 16oz of water. Drink it and repeat 2-3 times a day for 2 days.

In addition to the other liquid you’re drinking. Expect to feel a bit bloated. I sure do. But I’ll tell ya what… I was ON FIRE and I drank down 16oz and about 45 minutes later… the burn had subsided. As soon as it reached your bladder, it relieves some of the pain.

According to Ash (because frankly, I haven’t a clue) it creates an alkaline environment in your bladder that the bacteria cannot thrive or live in and therefore they are flushed away. True? *shrug* No clue. Does it work? Hell yeah it does. It’s amazing.

So that’s me and my day today. I sure hope your day is going well and the only thing burning for you is desire and passion! LOL

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This is what I’ve decided to construct. Not a Book of Shadows. I know that the name of that book is part of the witches tradition, but that is the beauty of being a Solitary and making your own traditions in my humble opinion.

I thought about constructing a Book of Shadows and was giving thought to what I’d want to include and the more I thought about it, the more I thought of things I would include. Then the more things I listed to include, the more the similarity of the nature of those things seemed.

The nature of all of the things I would include in my Book of Shadows are things related to energy and healing and life and creation and joy and love. Those are not things of shadow. Those are things of light.

I also believe that working around some of the seemingly darker aspects of “witchcraft” will help me to reach a broader audience and be more readily accepted if not understood. And it’s not that I’m seeking anyone’s acceptance, but more that I believe that if I can bridge the gap between myself and someone else simply by altering my language, why shouldn’t I?

Besides, I find the idea of a Book of Light so much more appealing.
I know witches are said to/to have kept information regarding their magic in their Book of Shadows, but I see it like this.

My LIFE is my magic! Everything in my life, I have created… manifested. Everything I am interested in and am pursuing is under my spell and part of my magic. And my LIFE and my interests and pursuits center specifically around my home and family and health and Spiritual growth.

Maybe it’s… non-traditional, but I went and got myself a 3 ring binder. If I read something online I want to include in my personal book, I print it, punch it and include it. I’m free to use my trusty highlighter and make notes in every margin to my heart’s content! I even have section separators and folders. It organized so many things for me. I had information floating all over about all kinds of things and now I have a single location for all of it!

This translates over to everyone! You don’t have to be a witch to have your own book. Especially for the homemaker or mother. There’s so much we do and are responsible for. It really is wonderful to have a place to put it and a place to find it later! I even include a journal, calendar and my own personal “Tame the House” cleaning schedule/routine that helps me to conquer the chaos of life with boys!

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I heard on the radio a few weeks ago that local medical facilities are no longer testing specifically for the H1N1 virus.

Now, I’m not one to care. I didn’t get vaccinated and neither did my children or anyone in my extended family. I’ve been of the belief that this whole H1N1 things is just a big fat lie, frankly. That’s not to say that I don’t think the virus is real, but it sure isn’t the great, big, scary deal that the government and media would have us believe it is.

So, a few weeks ago, when I heard that the CDC (Center for Disease Control), who’s in charge of everything, had formally told doctors to cease checking for H1N1 specifically and just assume it’s all H1N1… I was a little… miffed… at yet amused.

I was in my van with my oldest son, making the trip to take him home after his weekend at our house when we heard it on the radio. I laughed the sarcastic chuckle of someone in disbelief at the pure stupidity of the people who are supposed to be running this country. My son, who is old enough to understand at 15 and studies these things in social studies, inquired as to why I found this announcement so amusing.

I replied by explaining it this way:

Say 100 people in our state get REALLY sick. Eighty of them have a really bad cold that is likely to turn into an upper respiratory infection. Fifteen of them have the plain old seasonal flu that rampages the country for a few months a year. Five of them have H1N1.

Of the eighty who get upper respiratory infections, sixty of them die from breathing complications due to the fact that they were over 70 yrs old or under 4 yrs old. Of the fifteen with the regular flu, ten die. Of the five with H1N1, none die and they make a full recovery after 5-7 days.

They’re STILL going to get on the news, in hysterics, screaming that 70 more people have died from the H1N1 virus!!! When in fact, no one actually died from H1N1 and there’s really nothing to be so afraid of.

He completely understood where I was coming from and agreed with everything I’d said when I finished. I love when that happens :)

So anyway, I’ve been ignoring all the H1N1 hype. The health department came to our schools and vaccinated all the children with permission slips. Mine were not in that group of course. I’ve been keeping up with their daily multi vitamins, extra C, and extra D3. A power house of immune health if ever there was one.

Today, I found a link to these videos on Facebook. One of my fantastic friends had it posted on her wall, so I wanted to take a minute to write a little about what I thought and then post the videos for you all to watch. I don’t know how many of you subscribe to or are even familiar with Dr. Mercola, but he’s a wonderfully intelligent doctor with a natural health website and newsletter. I really can’t recommend him highly enough!

Here’s a link to his site: http://www.mercola.com/

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Here is video 1 of 4. You will be able to get to the other 3 videos through the below screen.
In these videos, Mr. Mercola is interviewing a journalist who went to every state inquiring about H1N1 and found out just how little H1N1 is actually out there, proving yet again that it’s all a great, big scare tactic.

Here is a link to the video on youtube for anyone who can’t see it above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJs3mZlACgM

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The US government is still trying to scare the crap out of us with words like “swine flu” and “pandemic”. They’re setting up this bullshit thing in my kids’ school to give everyone these vaccines.

I told my boys, “No matter what anyone says to you, you ARE NOT getting a flu vaccine. If anyone says anything different to you, you call me immediately.”

I hate to feel all “conspiracy theory” but frankly, our government does F*d up things.

But anyway, I love Doc Mercola. If you don’t know who he is, you should totally check out his website. He’s a medical doctor whose all about EFT and energy systems and living as naturally as possible. He has weekly newsletters with a plethora of incredible information.

This morning, I was reading an article of his about the swine flu vaccine. There was also a video from Fox news. If you’re even considering getting a swine fly vaccine for yourself or someone you love, please watch this video first. This expert talks about the levels of mercury in these vaccines to be 25,000 times the level that would be considered POISONOUS if it were in food or water.

25,000 TIMES!!

I guess the big rich guys in the government need a little more money. I’ll be DAMNED if moving to France doesn’t look better every freaking day.

Happy Monday Everyone!
My house is so darn quiet this fine afternoon. I love my husband and boys but MAN am I glad when they all go back to their schedules on Monday mornings!! I’m hard pressed to find 5 minutes of quiet solitude between 4pm Friday and 9am Monday.

Hello Quiet Solitude! LOL

I’ve been very interested in energy healing and bodily energy systems for about a year now, however, most of my knowledge on the topics has only come in the past 6 months. It was about a year ago that I received some pretty serious burns on my hand and through energy movement during meditation, I completely healed myself in 3 days.

I wasn’t aware at the time that I was healing myself. I’d simply been practicing a new meditation technique I’d heard about, at night while in bed. Then, each morning I would marvel at the burns on my hand and how they were almost gone and I was feeling NO pain.

Then, on the third night as I laid in bed and started to feel the tingle of the energy moving in my hands, it suddenly hit me. I sat right up in bed. I knew, without a doubt that I had healed my hand by doing that meditation.

So began my curiosity about energy healing.

I’ve used this little trick a few times since. You’d think I’d use it when I get a cold or something, but it just doesn’t occur to me at the time. I’ve recently intended to use it more. Maybe a couple months ago. I haven’t had an occasion arise until this past Saturday.

Early Saturday afternoon, while rough-housing with my dogs, I REALLY hurt my right elbow. My right elbow had been bothering me a little here and there all week, but Saturday was not good. I was roughin’ up Bandit and Abby came up behind me and my elbow came back and hit her right in the mouth.

I immediately spun around to see if she was okay, even as the sharp pain shot like lightning all the way to the tips of all five fingers and up to where the base of my neck meets my shoulder. She seemed fine. No worse for the wear. My elbow was already swelling. I looked at it in the mirror and there was a dark purple splotch forming with two red marks at the center where her teeth hit me. The skin was broken, but just enough to say it was broken. The bruise is was concerned me. That and the pain that covered my ENTIRE arm.

I walked around the rest of the day with my arm in “sling” position so I wouldn’t bump it and I was moving very slowly. The entire bony tip of my elbow was too sensitive to touch and I gently held ice on it a couple times.

That night, as I was nearly dozing in my chair, I had the thought strike me that I should heal my elbow. So I did. Totally.

I know, I didn’t believe it either. LOL I went to bed and spent a little time relaxing and then I put all of my total awareness into my elbow. I could FEEL the bones and the way they fit together in the join. I could FEEL the swollen tissue and I had an odd sensing of “darkness” in one area of the bone, so I went into that spot and focused “healing” into it.

I worked on it consciously for maybe 10 minutes before I nodded off into sleep. I remember waking once in the night and after lying awake for a few minutes, I remembered my elbow and “went into it” until I was sleeping again moments later.

Sunday morning I woke up fresh as dew. Abby cuddled with me for a few minutes as she does every morning and then I shooed her off and tried to get my robe on before Bandit licked me to death in his “Good Morning Assault!” LOL As I headed down the hallway with my entourage pulling up the rear, I stretched my arms up and ran my fingers through my hair and WHACKED my right elbow on the doorway of the bathroom.

It almost seemed to happen in slow motion. I knew what was going to happen a mere fraction of a second before it did. I knew soon enough though that I recoiled and grabbed my elbow in anticipation of the agony I expected immediately at contact. To my utter astonishment, there was no pain.

I slowly bent and straightened my elbow a few times very gently. Then I poked at it not so gently with my left hand. THERE WAS NO PAIN! When I’d gone to bed the night before, my finger tips had hurt. They were tingly and achy and just didn’t feel good. Same with my entire shoulder and upper arm. I was wondering if I hadn’t broken my elbow and had pretty much decided to have it looked at if it was still radiating pain so far the next day.

That will not be necessary. Not only is it pain free now, but the bruise AND teeth marks are completely gone also. I wish I’d taken a picture of it when it happened and I intend to remember for next time!

Today, I went over to K’s house and we went through a weight lifting routine we’ve been working on. I was bench pressing and curling just fine. Even the irritation that was in my elbow previously has disappeared.

I feel right as rain! I’m going to continue putting healing energy into it for the rest of the week. I don’t want to jump the gun and re-injure myself later. I’d rather feed it all the energy it needs to mend correctly the first time.

I was previously interested in possibly obtaining formal training in energy healing, but I don’t think I’m going to go that route now. I think I’m going to practice on my family and see if I can harness this on my own. If it’s half as easy to transfer this energy to others as it is to heal myself, I will be able to use RESULTS as my “qualifications”. Personally, I’d rather work with somebody who can give me results than somebody who can show me paperwork.

I’m so very excited about this!

So, that’s my latest development. I’ve had some more little psychic pops recently also, including seeing the window my Hubby was working on, fall out of its frame, out of the corner of my eye, about an hour before it actually happened. Now we’re debating psychic pop vs conscious creation. Did I see it before it happened or did I make it happen by visualizing it? I think I saw it first because in my conscious experience, when I’m creating, it’s more of a FEELING. I’m not a natural visualizer. Seeing these pictures is new to me, as is having psychic pops. They came at the same time.

Who knows?! I’m learning more about myself and my reality ever day so I refuse to speculate. The answer will come :)

I hope your Monday isn’t stereotypical. If you’re finding it is, it’s time to change your mind about it! Make sure you do something pleasurable, just for you today. You’ll thank you later.♥

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