A much healthier way to handle an ice cream craving Recipe created by Elizabeth Van Cleve
Mix 1 cup or more of nonfat Greek yogurt with several drops of vanilla liquid stevia. (Start with about 6-10 drops, then taste and add more as desired. When you have your desired sweetness, mix in 1/2-1 cup of frozen berries. (I used blueberries and raspberries here) The yogurt will freeze up as you mix in the berries. Top with a few more frozen berries and a small, 1-inch square of 85% organic cacao chocolate bar. Yep! It's that easy. Enjoy!
This morning I came across another awesome quote from Mahatma Gandhi which resonated so deeply within me:
If I have learned anything is this life, this has been my most profound and powerful lesson. I can honestly say that fear is the root of every prejudice, hatred, bully, war, insecurity, insanity- every ill will you can think of. Some people believe that the love of money is the root, or pride or the thirst for power; yet, these are all tentacles off the root of fear.
The love of money comes from a place of fearing we will not have enough, or we will have less than someone else, which may then be seen as we are less than others. Money induces a sense of security and control over our lives. Losing money makes one fear what might happen to them.
Pride comes from a place of fear; if you think about it, the reason someone appears prideful, is because they are afraid of being seen as weak or wrong. A fear of being wrong will sabotage a persons ability to see clearly.
The thirst for power comes from a fear of being overpowered, and possibly hurt by others.
It is not until we root up fear in our lives that we can have true peace, happiness and love.
It is written in the Bible, "Perfect love casts out fear for fear is tormenting." (1 John 4:18)
I have personally had to battle many fears throughout my life; and each fear I have overcome has led to bliss, greater faith in God, more hope for the sad conditions we see in the world, and a deeper love for all living beings.
All the things we are trying to attain to and to take hold of here slips away like sand through a sieve. Nothing ever remains except, "Faith hope and love, these three; and the greatest of these is LOVE!" (1 Cor. 13:13)
If you really give yourself time to meditate on this, you will see the truth of Gandhi's words. We hate what waters and feeds our deepest fears. The fastest way to all we have ever desired is to cast out fear. But that is easier said than done.
One way that has been helpful to me is what I call the Spiral Question and Challenge, an adaption from what I have learned from Teal Swan. I have found that emotions spiral, either up (higher vibes) or down (lower vibes). When your find them spiraling down, do not resist it but rather go with the flow asking the questions all the way down, "Is that true?" and "So what is so bad about that?"
Example:
Fear: "If (fill in the blank__________) I might lose my job!"
Is that true? yes!
So what is so bad about that? "Well, if I lose my job, then I wont have any money."
Is that true? "Yes!"
So what is so bad about that? "If I don't have any money, I will lose my home. My family will be on the streets."
Is that true? "Well...... maybe not in the streets but in a shelter."
So what is so bad about that? "Shelters are dirty and humiliating."
Is that true? If so, what is so bad about that? "We would get sick, and everyone will think I am a loser."
Is that true? "Well, we may get sick, and I guess not everyone would think that."
If both did come to pass. What is so bad about that? "We would die and our life would be for nothing."
Is that true? Absolutely not!
That is a socially-constructed belief. Everything we experience in this life has a purpose, a lesson and a reason.
Now lets spiral back up the same ladder....
We didn't get sick
Everyone didn't hate us, in fact, I was shocked at how many people cared and helped us out.
We never ended up in a shelter because we were offered other places to live, which we didn't need to take because I actually found another job that ended up being a much better fit for me and pays more and really not only did things not go bad, they ended up better.
My faith in humanity was restored.
The ladder we spiraled down was the FEAR ladder. The one we climbed back up was the HOPE, FAITH and LOVE ladder.
Try it, on whatever your current greatest fear might be.
Overcome your fears and start living a life of happiness, rooted in faith, hope and love.
This is the essence of the High Vibes Life!
Yesterday in my speech class, we were doing impromptu speeches and one of the young ladies got up to do her speech, but could not get past the first line. She just kept laughing hysterically and saying, "I don't even know why I'm laughing."
Soon the entire class was laughing, and none of us knew why either, only that her laughter was contagious and we had caught it! That's how genuine laughter is; it spreads from person to person.
My sisters and I have this malady whenever we get together as well and the more tired we are, the more intense the laughter becomes.
If your in need of some vibrational elevation, laughter is the grand-master key! Find a movie, a sitcom, a friend- anything that makes you laugh!
"Laughter is the fireworks of the soul"
"Laughter is timeless; imagination has no age; and dreams are forever"
~Walt Disney
"Life is better when you're laughing"
"Laughing will always be the best form of therapy"
My mother's day gift; I picked it out yesterday- a peach moonstone pendant! Said to be a stone of protection, gentle love, femininity and psychic abilities; it is known to help dissipate fear and worry and balance the hormones.
A very beautiful stone with the warmth of a breezy summer afternoon!
Recently a request was made to me that I would make available my persuasive speech on vaccinations.
Note: I am not for nor against vaccinations. I believe there is validity on both sides. I am completely against mandatory vaccinations, and the propaganda and bullying that goes on against people that choose not to vaccinate. Hence the emphasis of the speech are on the dangers of vaccinations.
About
a year ago we had a very minor outbreak of the measles which began at
Disneyland. 170 people ended up contracting the measles. This equals out to approximately
1 out of 2 million people in the state of California and 1 out of 188 million
people nationwide. How did this minute outbreak turn into a nationwide debate
on forcing parents to give up their right to consent? And why was the focus of
the outbreak’s presumed origin- a traveling foreigner- mitigated and the turned onto our
children attending school?
Right now, in California, moving at an aggressive and rapid pace, is a bill that would remove the right of parental consent to vaccinate their
children. This bill was written and proposed by several California state
senators, and there are currently twelve other states that are following suit.
Part of SB 277 will read as follows:
“This
bill would eliminate the exemption from immunization based upon personal
beliefs. . . This bill would require the governing board of a school district
to also include in the notifications provided to parents or guardians of minor
pupils at the beginning of the regular school term the immunization rates for
the school in which a pupil is enrolled for each required immunization. By
requiring school districts to notify parents or guardians of school
immunization rates, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.”
In light of substantial evidence, mandatory vaccination is nothing more than medical tyranny and a breach
on our freedom as American citizens. Unfortunately I have witnessed the people
of California, viciously pitted against each other concerning this bill, which
not only saddens me, but scares me. Because as the age old saying goes, “United
we stand; divided we fall.” I honestly believe that if this bill, along with
the federal bill currently being enacted to force all adults to be vaccinated
on a regularly scheduled basis, passes, it is going to backfire on everyone in
this country.
There are many areas of concern, more than this article can fully cover. So for now, I will briefly cover the following:
Vaccines
are not solely responsible for eradicating diseases
Vaccines
can be dangerous and lethal, and may very well be responsible for other forms
of illness and disease
Mandatory
vaccination is unethical
Finally, I
want to appeal to you to please consider taking a firm stand against SB 277
I.Vaccines
are not solely responsible for eradication disease:
A.This
chart taken from the Weston Price Foundation, shows us how, many diseases were already
disappearing before the introduction of the vaccine. Smallpox actually escalated after the first mandatory vaccination. Typhoid Fever disappeared without a vaccination. Other factors such as sanitation,
clean water, better nutrition, and improved living conditions had a far greater
impact on the control and eventual eradication of disease.
II.Vaccines
can be dangerous and lethal:
Most people assume that vaccines have been thoroughly
tested and studied, proving that they are safe and effective. Nothing can be
farther from the truth! There is no concrete evidence that vaccines even work. Despite the enormous numbers reported of serious vaccine damage, America has never invested in controlled studies between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. To the contrary, there is ample evidence that vaccinations can be
ineffective, harmful, and even deadly. The Global Vaccine Institute has
documented, scientific studies linking vaccinations to several diseases and between
the years 1991-2001, the Vaccine Adverse Reporting Systems (VAERS) documented
2,142 deaths, and 3,177 permanent disabilities due to vaccinations. Where is
the media hysteria over these numbers?
Consider
these findings:
According
to pubmed.gov, in 2010 California experienced its highest number of pertussis
cases in 60 years. There were 9000 cases, 809 hospitalizations, and 10 infant
deaths, infants being under 3 months. Only 9% of the pediatric cases were
unvaccinated. The rest had been full vaccinated.
On
April 7, 2015 Global Research News reported an outbreak of 19 cases of whooping
cough in Park City Utah- all the cases were found in vaccinated children,
bringing into question the given rate of 90-95% efficacy of the vaccine.
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/utah-whooping-cough-outbreak-pertussis-only-in-vaccinated-children/5441385)
In
2008 Dr. Roger Schlafly posted and article based on the study of smallpox
epidemics in the Philippines. He says
there were three smallpox epidemics after the U.S. took over the Islands. Prior to 1905 they did not vaccinate and smallpox
mortality was about 10%. After smallpox vaccination was well started there
was an epidemic in 1905-06 with a mortality range of 25-50%. Another epidemic broke out in 1918-19, with the Philippines almost universally immunized against smallpox
by vaccination, the mortality was over 65%! The highest percentage of
mortality, 65.3%, was in Manila, the most thoroughly vaccinated place in the
Islands; the lowest percentage of mortality, 11.4%, was in Mindanao, where,
owing to religious prejudices of the inhabitants, vaccination had not been
practiced as much as in most other parts of the Islands.” (figures referenced
by the Philippine Medical Health Commissioner)
Between
1963- 1999 millions of healthy American children received live, oral polio
vaccine. These children shed vaccine strained polio viruses in their body
fluids, infecting other children and adults who contracted the vaccine strain
polio paralysis and died, especially those with compromised immune systems. And
according to MedAlerts online search engine of the federal Vaccine Adverse
Events Reporting System (VAERS) database, as of July 2012, there have been more
than 24,000 adverse events reported following OPV (Polio vaccine) with 925
deaths (95% in children under age six) and 99 cases of paralysis. There have
been more than 35,000 reports of adverse events associated with IPV containing
vaccines with 710 deaths (95% in children under age six) and 53 cases of
paralysis. Furthermore, the FDA estimates that only between 1% and 10% of
serious vaccine reactions are ever reported. And out of those, most are
dismissed by doctors and coincidental.
There are so many heartbreaking
stories out there, if you just take time to google, “my vaccination story,” or
“the dangers of vaccinations” you will find thousands upon thousands of the
irreversible vaccination tragedies.
Stephen Rubin is a research
computer scientist with over 45 years of experience in programming. He is also
the director of vaccine research analytics for the National Vaccine Information
Center. Within a testimony he gave to the State Health Committee Hearing, on
April 8, 2015, he said,
"Vaccines
are pharmaceutical products that injure and kill children every year. This is
not an opinion, this is a fact, as evidenced by the governments own reporting
system . . . parents deserve informed choice in their children’s vaccine
schedules.”
Vaccines contain many questionable and knowingly harmful
ingredients such as aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, monkey kidney
tissue, inorganic salts, rabbit and chicken embryos, and even aborted fetus
tissues. This brings me to my next point . . .
No matter how you feel about vaccinations, it remains the right of the individual to choose his path to health. John Gruelle, the creator of the famous Raggedy Ann, lost his only child to vaccinations that were given to her at school, unbeknownst to him. This happened before the right to parental consent for medical treatment came into play. We have these laws in place for a very good reason! If SB 277 and others like it are allowed to pass, the government will be able to override any common sense, gut feeling, personal beliefs you may have about the affects of vaccinations upon your health and the health of your children. They will have the power to force however many vaccinations on you they deem necessary. If you think this is a grand statement, consider the chilling words of CA senator Wieckowski from last week's SB277 judiciary committee hearing:
"The police power of the state has absolute authority to force that person (even adults) to get the vaccination....We undervalue our power--the state police power. If we believe that children are being harmed, we go into this domain of family rights, which are not absolute, and my question is: maybe we are not going far enough?"
This war is about a lot more than vaccination.
“If
the state can tag, track down and force you against your will to be injected
with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no
limits on which other freedoms the state can take away in the name of the
greater good " tomorrow.” ~Senator Anderson
The big argument for pro SB 277 is that the unvaccinated are posing danger for the spread of disease,
yet they have no evidence to support this whatsoever, and instead, they evade
and discredit every piece of evidence that shows how dangerous vaccines can be.
Before we begin forcing people to take
vaccinations, we ought to be forcing the producers of them to have clear
scientific background study and proof that they indeed are safe.
Medical tyranny has already got a strong foothold in
America, especially when the media can persuade the majority of the citizens to believe
the lie; they will become the bullies that push the rest of us into a corner.
This is already been happening. . .
Already many professional workers can lose their jobs unless
they receive the flu vaccination every year. Teachers, medical workers, fire
fighters and more are being forced into taking into their bodies these risky injections.
IV.Please
join in the fight against SB 277
Up until now the California law has allowed for an exemption
on immunizations for children, allowing parents to retain the freedom to
investigate and make an informed decision of what they deem is best for their
children. And thus far, this current exemption has not posed any threat whatsoever
to the unvaccinated children in our schools, which make up only 3% of families. The fact is those that receive live virus vaccinations can and have spread the disease. They are a greater threat than any supposed assumption of a child who has not been vaccinated. Why then is there so much
passionate hostility being forged against the unvaccinated? Here are a few
things to consider:
A.If
SB 277 passes, you will have no more rights over your child’s health and
eventually over your own body. John Gruella lost his daughter due to
vaccinations being given at her school unbeknownst to him. This was before the
laws of parental consent before medical treatment were enacted. Will your child
become another Raggedy Ann legend some day?
B.Many
parents choose not to immunize but rather use holistic ways of living as a
means to greater health for their children. Some parents opt to wait until
their child is older and more developed before they begin their immunizations.
This bill will take away those options.
C. The government has seized an opportunity to dictate what can
and cannot be done towards maintaining your personal health. Even if you are
fully vaccinated today, if this bill gets a foothold, you are on your way to
not having a choice of receiving every new vaccination the government deems
necessary for there is a federal bill coming to mandate all adults to vaccine
as well. There are currently over 100 new vaccinations in the making. Do you seriously want 100 shots of disease mandated for you and your
child and you have no say whatsoever in it? Even if at your gut level and from
what you have observed you believe it could harm them? You would have no voice
in that decision.
In the end, I have shown you that vaccines do not guarantee
immunity against disease. Vaccines can be harmful and even fatal. Mandatory
vaccinations are clearly unethical and I have shared the importance in getting
behind the “Kill the Bill” rally for SB 277.
I do not take lightly disease and some of the horrible suffering and consequences people have experienced as a result of contracting one. But neither do I take lightly the blotched science and evaded statistics of the dangers that vaccinations pose as well. This is never a light decision. I encourage you to thoroughly investigate both sides of the equation. But more importantly, hold precious the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE your own path to health!
I would like to end this speech with another quote by
Senator Anderson:
“Industry
and government have refused to fund good science to better understand the
biological mechanisms for vaccine injury and death and whether there are
important health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated people; and whether increase vaccine use during the
past 30 years is a major cofactor in the unexplained chronic disease and
disability epidemic plaguing America. ... Eliminating non-medical vaccine
exemptions, will guarantee that scientific evaluation of health outcome
differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated people in America will never be
done. The future of health and freedom in America is in our hands, it is in
your hands; it’s your health, your choice."
Borne, Lynn. Vaccinations: Parents’ Informed Choice.
The Weston A. Price Foundation. Web. 7 Nov. 2005
Lunoe, Sandy. Vaccines Will Be Made From Human Cancer
Tumors.VacTruth. Web. 30 Nov. 2014
SB 277
Introduced. Senators Pan and Allen. Web. 19 Feb. 2015
Schlafly, Roger
PhD. Was Smallpox Vaccine Really A Great
Success? Mercola. Web. 2 Jan. 2008
Winters, Robert.
Statement by Steven M. Rubin. Online Video Clip. Testimony with Senate Health
Committee hearing, April 8, 2015. Youtube. 2 May, 2015. Web. 6 May, 2015
Vaccinations are like playing Russian Roulette with the needle- you never know if your baby will be the next victim! INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU VACCINATE! You can read the story here: Two infants dead after receiving vaccinations Warning to Californians- SB 277 will tie your hands on making an informed, conscientious choice of whether or not to vaccinate your child. If the law passes, you will be FORCED to have your baby injected at least 69 times before he/she is 18. You will have NO SAY in it WHATSOEVER. Are you willing to give government that much control over your own children. PLEASE! Act now! There are only three more weeks before the senate votes and it appears at this point it is going to pass despite OVERWHELMING evidence by way of testimonial from many credible sources to the very real dangers in vaccinations. CALL YOUR SENATORS and ask them to VOTE NO on SB 277 Mandatory vaccination is UNETHICAL!
The other day in one my speech class, a young woman brought her speech on photo shopping women in the media and how it gives us an unrealistic image to live up too. She showed us video where you would watch in real-time the women as they started out and then how the stretching of necks and waists, the trimming of thighs and curving of butts. The handsome young man sitting in front of me, looked back at me, shook his head snickering to himself at the ridiculousness of it all and commented, "That is what I find beautiful about a woman- her flaws!"
Today on my way to school, on a certain stretch of highway, I noticed two Canadian geese sitting together. Normally I see them flying overhead in flocks, so just two of them together stood out to me. Believing this held some significance for me, I took a mental note and went about my day. On my way home from school, on this same certain stretch of road, having completely forgotten about the incident, suddenly flying straight across my path, so close I was afraid I would hit them with my car, were two beautiful Canadian geese. The same ones? Who can know. But one thing for sure, I knew they had a special message for me. Tonight I came across this familiar poem, and hidden within its golden words were the gifts of those beautiful geese. I am illuminated!
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
Yesterday I picked up a fun book on the fairy realm. It's and easy read with real stories of people experiencing fairies and tips on attracting and connecting with them. I also found a lovely scented essential oil for connecting with spirit guides.
Tonight is the blood moon eclipse and it is supposed to have the energy force of three full moons. Perfect night for setting out your gemstones for a supercharge! I carefully arranged mine on an old wood-carved tray.
This week I picked up a moldavite stone. I asked for one a couple weeks ago, and it was manifested quickly, so I believe this stone is right for my needs right now. The moldavite is a very high-vibration stone, known to open up the top three chakras, especially the heart chakra, and to have a powerful life-transforming energy. Its one of the oldest gemstones, traced as far back as 14.7 million years. It is believed to have been formed as a result of a meteor hitting the earth, and so it also known as an extraterrestrial stone. Moldavite is only found in Czechoslovakia.
