A good friend and wise woman sent me this article, I wanted to share a bit of it with you,enjoy……….
oh! and by the way ” Happy New Year Everyone”.
I often spend the season of Lent in a hermitage, where I live alone for the whole 40 days. The more I am alone with the Alone, [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Paradoxes Don’t Scare Me Anymore: !
Posted in cultural exchange, healing, relationship, spiritual on December 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Oasis for the Soul: all traditions honored
Posted in cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies, relationship, spiritual on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Aralia nudicaulis
Walking a spiritual path is a process of self-liberation, and that is a process that frightens established authority. I think one of the reasons our society fears altered states of awareness is because those realizations may inspire or engender a loss of control.
Long before the bearded patriarchal male gods, there was the goddess- [...]
Quest for Beauty: goat’s milk, baked clay and amimal grease!
Posted in food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies on December 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The quest for beauty has certainly spanned the history of humanity.
40,000 years ago cultures painted their faces with red ocher crayons to look attractive.
In the Mesolithic Era castor oil and animal grease were popular agents to soften the skin.
Lipsticks were hot about 5,000 years ago in Ur.
Beauty seekers smoothed and beautified their bodies with [...]
Winter Diet: the kidneys rule!
Posted in cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies, relationship on December 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Winter Diet
The Kidneys are the rulers over winter; their condition is disclosed in the bones and head hair.
As we move into winter, there is a need to adjust our diets. The weather is colder, and the body needs a diet that will produce more heat at its core. With shorter days we don’t [...]
Therapeutic Remedy for Human Ailments: antibiotic vs probiotic
Posted in cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies, relationship on December 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Herbs are a natural and primary therapeutic remedy for human ailments. Therefore, human beings have relied upon plants for healing for 1,000’s of years.
Pharmaceuticals are poor substitutes for plants. They may be helpful for short-term or acute conditions, but their long-term actions often deplete the primary life-force of a person because of [...]
Seven Quick Fixes To Feel Better: getting back to wellness
Posted in food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies on December 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The signals our bodies use to tell us we need to cleanse ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally are multifaceted and often mirror symptoms we associate with illness. If we heed these signs, we not only feel better quickly but also stave off poor health before it can start. These quick fixes for common ailments can [...]
Christmas, Christ or Winter Solstice: its all good!
Posted in Blogroll, cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies, relationship, spiritual on December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
On this darkest night when all is at its stillest point let us remember the ancient ones who knew how to honor the natural world around them as they became one in the wild lands that supported and nourished them……
Imagine……..
It is just before sunrise on a cold December day some three thousand years before [...]
Embracing Life: thoughts of bahia, brazil
Posted in cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies, relationship on December 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I am sitting on my porch this morning, watching the sunrise. The sun’s rays move across the grass and melt the frost that clings there, frozen crystals sparkle and dance in the pale light of the dawn.
I watch the steam rise from my mug of hot cocoa, taking a sip, my mind begins [...]
Sensual Pleasure: a reason to be passionate
Posted in food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies on December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Intensely dark, rich and sweet chocolate is pure sensual pleasure. Its blissful taste inspires feelings of satisfaction and comfort, and now new scientific research gives us even more reason to be passionate about chocolate: it’s a source of some terrific nutritional benefits when enjoyed as part of a varied, balanced diet.
Chocolate is an antioxidant, eating [...]
Sacred Herbal Healing Beer: native plants / ecovillages
Posted in cultural exchange, food as medicine, healing, health, herbal remedies on December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Just as the life force of an animal is contained in its blood, so are fermented beverages infused with the life force of the plants from which they are made. Those plants that are more important to the survival of man, or which have stimulating psychological effects upon him are in tribal and early [...]
