To Sunscreen or not to Sunscreen

The jury is still out on this one, but surely sense must prevail. How mixing inorganic ingredients like zinc oxide or titanium oxide that reflect or scatter ultraviolet (UV) radiation and then mixing it with organic ingredients like (OMC) octyl methoxycinnamate - an endocrine disruptor with estrogenic activity, and oxybenzone - also known as Benzophenone-3, can be good for the body is beyond me.

Oxybenzone just by itself has been linked to a myriad of health ailments including allergies and again, hormone disruption. There are numerous studies confirming this physically, but one must surely "awaken the senses and feel the suffocation experienced by the biggest breathing organ of the body - the skin". How using products that contain these ingredients is good for the body is surely beyond belief.

As you can gather, I am not an avid supporter of sun screens, particularly when they are excessively or routinely used on children. Much confusion and damage can be felt by the body when the body's natural ability to absorb Vitamin D (the vitamin we receive when we are bathed in sunshine) is blocked. This disruption to the body's natural response to "absorb light - light living" promotes by association, the increasingly growing symptom we commonly call depression "dark living".

The best sunscreen to use is literally Common Sense!!!

Wearing a thin cotton or hemp shirt that covers the skin, a wide-brimmed hat, and staying out of the sun during the hottest times of the day is the worlds best sunscreen... It's common sense, not rocket science!

If by some chance there was a desire to get that beautiful golden tan that helps the body radiate a lighter side of glowing health, set your Vitamin D absorption clock to the morning or late afternoon hours when the suns ultraviolet rays are at a minimum.

To make your own suntan oil that helps nourish your skin whilst you are absorbing the suns rays, add 4000mg of Vitamin E oil and 100,000IU of Vitamin A oil to 100ml of pure Jojoba oil. This will help to prevent the cross linking of collagen that can lead to skin damage.

I personally take up to 6 Megahydrate capsules (I open a couple of capsules and put the contents into my water bottle as well) whilst I am in the sun and hydrate my body with plenty of water. There is no doubt that this practice helps my body repair any potential damage from free radicals caused by stress or excess ultraviolet light.

By the way, I drink smaller amounts more regularly rather than a big drink irregularly. A couple of mouthfuls every 10 or 15 minutes.

The giving to yourself of good water, sunshine and the fruits of the soil, will return to you both physical and spiritual wealth.

Encouragement

By Charles Swindoll

When you stop to analyze the concept, "encourage" takes on new meaning. It's the act of inspiring others with renewed courage, spirit, or hope. When we encourage others we spur them on, we stimulate and affirm them.

I do not care how influential or secure or mature a person may appear to be, genuine encouragement never fails to help. Most of us need massive doses of it as we slug it out in the trenches. But we are usually too proud to admit it. Unfortunately, this pride is as prevalent among members of God's family as it is on the streets of the world.

It is helpful to remember the distinction between appreciation and affirmation. We appreciate what a person does, but we affirm who a person is. Appreciation comes and goes because it is usually related to something someone accomplishes. Affirmation goes deeper. It is directed to the person himself or herself. While encouragement would encompass both, the rarer of the two is affirmation.

All of us need encouragement---somebody to believe in us. To reassure and reinforce us. To help us pick up the pieces and go on. To provide us with increased determination in spite of the odds.

Life May Not Be What We Think It Is!

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us.

But it is impossible to organise things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organised.

Shunryu Suzuki (Japanese Zen Master)

Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself. .

The Birth of the Fridge

If you're over the age of 30, think back when you were at school. How many of your friends had allergies, how many had asthma, how many were over weight? Not that many if you can remember one at all. So what's changed?

Well two things immediately come to mind.

One - Environmental toxins in the form of heavy metals and pesticides.

Two - The Birth of the Fridge!

And you would probably answer, "the heavy metals and pesticides I can understand but the fridge! The fridge has been around for more than 30 years." But what hasn't been around for that long is what we put into the fridge.

You see 50 years ago - 100 years ago we ate lots food grown in our own gardens (pesticide free). And we couldn't slaughter a cow, sheep, or pig every day. For one, how do you store it and secondly, how do you eat that much flesh?

In a nut shell, people in today's world are eating too much refined foods (grown with too many pesticides in mineral deficient soils) and too much meat. Let's take the meat bit for example. Before the fridge came about the only way you could store meat was to salt it. Beef jerky etc. If you've ever tasted beef jerky you would know that beef jerky doesn't taste that good (you wouldn't want to eat it everyday). But what was good about the beef jerky was the way it was preserved. It was preserved with unrefined salt.

One of the main reasons our diet is having such a detrimental effect on the vitality and health of the modern day human body is unfortunately, the by product of eating too much meat. This by product is the accumulation of acids; but when you include unrefined salt with the meat (such as the beef jerky), the salt helps the body maintain a healthy alkaline state. You see sodium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium are all alkaline buffers. No salts - the body doesn't get its alkaline buffers and becomes more acidic. And as a result of this acidic build up, the body goes into survival mode. What does the body do when it goes into survival mode?

The body must create fat to store the acidic and toxic build up. The simplistic reason for this is the body must protect the vital organs! The vital organs cannot deal with poisons, they have enough work to do keeping the body vital. So what to do about it?

First of all have a read of Thinking Vitality - Think COWS.
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Then test your pH levels.
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Then check the water you drink. Check the tap water. Check the water that comes out of your filter. Check the bottled water you drink. How acidic is it really?
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And most definately, CLEAR YOUR BODY OF HEAVY METALS AND TOXINS. No matter what supplements or nutrition you give your body, if the body is poisoned, you must remove the poisons to get the benefits of your supplements and nutrition.
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As usual, the only thing stopping vitality and health in your life is what you do about it.

Be like a postage stamp

Be like a postage stamp – stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings -

Voluptuous (Goddess of Pleasure)

In order that the unborn might still be born, nature had inspired men with the wild delusion that the bodily companionship of the lover was desirable above all things, and so, by the false show of pleasure, the human race was chained to the eternal thirst for the non-existent.

Comes the Dawn

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.
And you learn that love doesn't require leaning and company doesn't presume security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats with your head held high and your eyes wide open, with the grace and strength of a man or woman, not the fragility of a child.
And you learn to build your roads on today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain, for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can indure; that you really are strong and you really do have worth.

And you learn and you learn....................with every hello and good-bye.... you learn.

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