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How organic is organic?

Sandie — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:42:30 +0000

Lhamo La's vegetable garden - Dekeyling

Many people are showing great interest in organic products. This is being clearly demonstrated by the vast array of products ranging from fruits, vegetables, bread, tea, sugar, noodles, eggs, etc, appearing on supermarket and retail shelves; all labelled “Organic” in some way or another.

One major reason for so much interest in organic foods and products is simply due to the fact that organically grown foods are nutritionally more potent.

But how organic is organic? How do we know if the word “Organic” is used for marketing purposes or that they are genuinely organic? So how do we know exactly what we are buying? I used to determine the vegetable whether they are organic by the ‘worm holes’ on the vegetables or how ‘ugly’ looking they are but these days it’s hard to tell because they look just as great as their non-organic counterpart.

I normally buy my organic produce from individual organic outlets rather than from supermarkets.

Anyone has any share or thoughts on this?

Laughter the best medicine

Sandie — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:12:48 +0000

A picture of sunshine and all things merry

“We dont laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh”
William James – father of modern pyschology

According to some studies conducted, an average 5 year old laughs more than 350 times a day versus an average adult who laughs less than 20 times a day. People have forgotten how to laugh as they get caught in the rat race. Laughter helps elevate our moods, promotes creativity, gives us more positive energies and thus helps in healing illnesses and ailments. When you surround yourself with humour and laughter, you will create new awareness in your life and will begin to see the lighter side of things which will help lower your stress level.

Reconnect to your playful side and enjoy the wonders of a deep belly laugh!!!

Healing with attitude

Sandie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:33:02 +0000

Attitudinal healing is the process of letting go of painful feelings and thoughts which keep us stuck in emotional pain and guilt. As we release these fearful attitudes, we discover that we are able to live in the spontaneous, free, creative manner that is the essence of life.

When we are born, our mind may be likened to a clean slate upon which will be written the story of our life. We may have specific karma to work out from our other lives, or predestined lessons to experience. And each of us has our own innate personality style. Some people may be naturally more outgoing and gregarious, while others tend to be more shy and sensitive. Each personality has its own inherent strengths and weaknesses and during our life we have the opportunity to balance this.

As we grow, we accumulate many attitudes along the way which then become automatic, unconscious and habitual ways of reacting to our world. Many of our attitudes were formed early in life through learned patterns from our parents, teachers and other influential people. Others developed according to our individual responses to life’s circumstances.

The first step in healing our attitudes is to develop a conscious awareness of the thought process. What are we really thinking? What are the thoughts behind that feeling? As we develop a willingness to heal, we find we become more naturally attuned to what our thoughts are and where they came from. Each time we can identify, heal and then let go of a painful attitude, we experience becoming more connected with our true loving nature, our real self.

We can choose to relinquish thoughts of fear, conflict, judgement, anger, guilt, self-doubt, condemnation and vengeance, knowing the harmful effect they have upon us. Instead we can choose thoughts of love, peace, acceptance, compassion, self-loving and forgiveness. We realise that loving thoughts put us back in touch with our spiritual essence and have healing benefits to everyone

The myth about cholesterol in egg yolks

Sandie — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:06:03 +0000

There are scores of people out there who take their eggs without the yolk for fear of raising their cholesterol level. But little do they know that it is the yolk that is far more superior to the whites and is non-detrimental to their health. Dont believe me? Read this (click on link)

Psychic surgery – are they for real?

Sandie — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:23:23 +0000

Have any of you witnessed a live psychic surgery with bare hands?

I had the opportunity of witnessing 3 such surgeries in Manila arranged by Riza Regis, the crystal lady of the Philippines.

The “surgeon” is no other than the famed Orbitos. We were lucky to be able to catch Orbitos in town. His first patient was a Filipino lady who was residing in Australia. She returned to the Philippines to seek this alternative surgery before undergoing the real knife in Australia. We were fortunate that she granted us permission to observe this whole process.

She laid down on her back, said her prayers profusely – not knowing what to expect; then pulled her top up to her bra line, pulled her pants down to just above her panty line. Orbitos, with sleeves pulled up to this elbows, started to work on her with pure bare hands, rubbing on her belly area. In that quiet room we heard a soft pop sound and we then saw fresh red blood flowing out from her belly area. He worked on her for a minute or two, drawing out dark clotted blood from her abdomen with one or two walnut-like subtance that were dropped into the waste basket with a “thud” sound. He then ’sealed’ her up with just a swipe of his hand over the wound, wiped off the blood from her body with some wet cotton balls and up she came up from the bed, pulled her clothes decent and walked out of the surgery room.

Next on the bed was a dear friend. He took off his shirt, laid on his belly and Orbitos’ hands were immediately working on his neck and spinal area. He ‘punctured’ a hole at the nape of his neck and the whole process of cleansing and clearing was over within 2 minutes with no sign of any cuts or incision. Riza came on next lying on her back. She was ‘operated’ on her throat. He ‘dug’ a hole in her throat and as with the previous process she was sealed to perfection and was more than chatty after that.

I tried to find a reason to undergo this surgery but all he did was hold my head between both his hands and blessed me, mumbling an advice into my ears.

Are psychic surgeries for real? I don’t know

Reiki and meditation

Sandie — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:54:01 +0000

Reiki for kids

During Reiki courses, especially at the Masters Level we slot in meditation sessions in the early hours of the 3 mornings. But those meditations were stand alone sessions.

I have been doing Reiki for the past 15 years and have been diligent in doing my morning 1 hour session of self healing. And I have also experimented doing reiki with meditation during self healing as well as when giving treatments to friends. During such treatments one can be quite intuitive during the laying of hands.

Instead of the every 5 minute moving of hands, I laid them on for 20 minutes for each position, covering only 3 main positions. I started with Position 1 for 20 minutes then moved on to Position 3 for another 20 mintues and Position 5 for the last 20 minutes making it a total of an hour.

Moving of hands every 5 mintue is disruptive to the meditation process. With 20 minutes on Position 1 you will be able to focus on your breath steadily before moving on to the next position.

Reikians, give this a try. It is a whole brand new experience to Reikitation.

What is aromatherapy?

Sandie — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:41:53 +0000

Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils, the volatile extracts from plants, to promote and enhance the quality of health, beauty, body, mind and spirit. Essential oils, which have a consistency more like water than oil, are extremely concentrated, thus their beautiful, natural scents. For example, it takes more than 60,000 roses to make an ounce of oil, hence rose oil’s ethereal scent and the most outrageous price. It takes 6 tonnes of orange blossoms to yield one kilogram of neroli essential oil.

Essential oils can be blended to create your own signature blend of perfume. All essential oils have a volatility rate – that is, they all have different rates of how long and how strong the aroma is. Essential oils with a high volatility rate are light, airy and delicate. Examples of these are lemon, sweet orange, eucalyptus and peppermint. The medium volatility rates are more stable. They tend to anchor the high and low volatility rates. Those that fall into this category are lavender, cinamon leaf, tea tree and rose. And the low volatility group are deep, strong and heavy scented. Cedar wood, vanilla, ylang ylang are examples of these.

Often times you will see skincare products in stores labelled as “aromatherapy” when in fact they contain no essential oils, just fragrance oil. But what is the difference? As a rule, fragrances are synthetically produced, whereas essential oils are extracted from plant material either by steam distillations or chemical solvents. Because essential oils are plant extracts, they have specific therapeutic effects – ie, lavender is relaxing, sweet orange is uplifting etc. Fragrances do not have those effects, and therefore, are not considered to be aromatherapy products.

If you have to buy your products off the shelves, choose them wisely.

Pillow talk

Sandie — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:57 +0000

I have been having headaches as far back as when I was 9 years old and I must say It has been my best of pal. Simply because slightly below 5 decades down the road It is still with me. And I have learned to live with It harmoniously and have an agreement that It should not ‘eat’ too much into my life

About a year back It visited me more frequently, almost every other day. So I spoke to It and asked what was disturbing It. The feedback – It was complaining about the pillow. Yes, The Pillow.

To be exact I had 9 pillows and with my latest accumulation, it went up to 10. Out of the original 9, 7 of them were just ‘throw arounds’ as you would see in the any rumpus room. The other 2 were relatively good pillows, each costing me about RM100. So what was my friend complaining about.

I decided to take a break for some quietude after all the complaints. Guess what? My long time companion was totally happy. There were no complaints during that break. And I was convinced that my friend was right – The Pillow. This hotel uses down feather pillows.

When I got back into town I went shopping specifically looking for pillows. Depending on your budget, you can get a 100% down feather for RM399 and a 100% small goose feather for RM139 at Parkson sold under Friven brand. With that I only have occasional headaches now

No more tears …… so says Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo

No more soap powder …. says Dynamo

No more headaches ….. says The Pillow

Read the numbers on your fruit

Sandie — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:13 +0000

Fruit label

I have always wondered what the little sticker on a fruit is all about. And to think it’s such a nuisance to have to peel it off and wash off the gluey part of the fruit before you can sink your teeth in. Interestingly it carries vital information about the fruit as to whether its organically grown or they are genetically modified etc. Read

Cranberry Juice Healthy Heart And Constipation

Marcus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:29:04 +0000

A study published in the ‘Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry’ shows that drinking cranberry juice can lower blood pressure. (January 28 2010)

Oligometric Procyanidins in cranberries is the specific compound in cranberries identified which boosts the health of the blood vessels. Unpronounceable but this compound prevent blood vessel constriction and this helps prevents hearts disease.

It is good for constipation too.

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