Child Vaccines

The concern over child vaccines is growing among health conscious parents. In a new study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers found that 49 percent of children ages 2-24 months did not receive all recommended vaccinations or did not get vaccinated according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices schedule.

Researchers analyzed immunization records of 323,247 children born from 2004-2008 and found that the number of under-vaccinated children increased significantly during those four years. In fact, researchers found that 1 in 8 under-vaccinated children’s parents intentionally chose not to adhere to immunization guidelines.

Parents are waking up to the dangers of vaccines
The lead author of the study, Jason Glanz PhD states: “While a large majority of parents in the U.S. choose to vaccinate their children, a growing number of parents are concerned about vaccine safety and choose to vaccinate their children according to alternative immunization schedules. The medical community doesn’t have a lot of data on these alternative schedules, so we are hoping the results from this study will open the door to more opportunities to examine their safety and efficacy.”

The mainstream media reported this news and state that parents may be putting their children at risk by delaying vaccinations, some news organizations are incorrectly stating that the study showed that children who were under-vaccinated had more emergency department visits than those who were vaccinated, but this is not what the study stated. The authors actually concluded that children who were under-vaccinated because of parental choice had significantly lower utilization rates of emergency department visits and outpatient settings – both overall and for specific acute illnesses – than children who were vaccinated on time.

The mainstream media attacks health-conscious parents
Another assumption made by the media was that the under-vaccinated children belonged to parents who do not believe in vaccines and did not visit their pediatricians for well-care visits, but this is not the case. This study was conducted by Kaiser Permanente and the authors stated that in order to be included in the study, a child would need to be part of one of eight ‘managed care organizations’ and that they needed to have at least 1 outpatient visit by 12 months of age and the child would be eliminated from the study if the child’s enrollment in the managed care organization was discontinued. For an abstract on the study, please visit: http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1558057.

Some parents have been delaying vaccines or following alternatives for years and in 2011, Pediatrics reported that 77 percent of Washington stated pediatricians report that they are sometimes or frequently asked to provide alternative childhood vaccine schedules for their patients. Researchers also found that 61 percent of these pediatricians are comfortable using an alternative schedule when asked by a parent. In particular, they felt most comfortable delaying three vaccinations; DTaP, Hib and PCV.

According to the New York Times, following an alternative vaccination scheduled makes it difficult for the AAP and the IOM to monitor vaccine safety. According to Dr. Jackson, Division Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy Hospital of Kansas City, Mo: “We want to drill down as far as we can, and make vaccines as safe as we can. We’re not going find the one-in-a-million serious adverse event if you have thousands of different vaccine schedules out there.”

Dr. Jackson cited a withdrawal of the rotavirus vaccine in 1999, by the CDC, as an example. “We want a vaccine that’s as safe as possible. We realized, as that rotavirus vaccine came back, that in order to pick up that very rare side effect, we have to be able to look at tens of thousands of children. If we have all these different vaccine schedules, we’re going to miss things like that.”

About the author: Sima Ash of Healing 4 Soul is a clinical and classical homeopath and certified clinical nutritionist who utilizes a unique approach pioneered by Tinus Smits, M.D. called CEASE therapy. The aim of CEASE treatment is systematic detoxification of the causes of illness, leading to step by step improvement and restoration of health in the individual. For additional information, please visit – Healing4Soul.com. You can follow Sima on Facebook at ‘Cease Therapy California’ and through her weekly blog on NaturalHealth365.com

Green juice

Green Juice breakfast

Ingredients: All organic
22 baby carrots
1.5 cucumbers
1 head of romaine heart
1 zucchini
1 fuji apple
1/2 red bell pepper
handful of baby spinach

Chop all veggies and fruit

 juice all veggies - mixing it up

 strain ready juice one more time into glass

Enjoy a healthy fresh juice!

Oil Pulling

I personally recommend using raw coconut oil for oil pulling. To dispose of it I recommend a small zip lock bag, as it solidifies in temps under room temperature, not something you want to send down the pipes and drains.

Fluoride protection

   Seven ways to naturally protect yourself against fluoride toxicity 

More than 200 million Americans today are forcibly exposed to toxic fluoride through their public water supplies, and many more are exposed through the general food supply, much of which is made and processed with fluoridated water. And aside from installing a whole-house reverse osmosis water filtration system and growing all your own food at home, there is little that can be done to avoid fluoride exposure in some capacity.

The good news; however, is that there are practical steps you can take to detoxify your body of fluoride naturally, despite the fact that the chemical ion is relatively difficult to eliminate from the body. Here are seven ways you can naturally protect yourself against fluoride toxicity on a regular basis:

1) Tamarind. A tropical fruit tree native to eastern Africa, tamarind is a powerful weapon against fluoride toxicity. A 2002 study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the sour, acidic fruit possesses a unique ability to capture and flush fluoride poisons from the body. In children, tamarind consumption was found to significantly increase the amount of fluoride excreted via the urine, as well as decrease the amount of magnesium and zinc excreted from the body. (http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v56/n1/full/1601287a.html)

Another study published in the journal Research in Veterinary Science in 2011 arrived at similar results, having found that extracts of tamarind fruit pulp helped prevent sodium fluoride from accumulating in the blood, urine, and bones of rats. Compared to rats not receiving tamarind, tamarind-fed rats had far lower concentrations of fluoride throughout their bodies, illustrating the powerful fluoride-cleansing benefits of tamarind. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20980037)

2) Magnesium. If you regularly supplement with the mineral magnesium, or eat plenty of foods that are naturally rich in magnesium, chances are you have lower-than-average concentrations of fluoride in your body. This is due to magnesium's unique ability to block the absorption of fluoride into cells. Conversely, chronic exposure to fluoride via water, food, and other sources actually depletes the body of magnesium, which means magnesium supplementation is typically needed simply to maintain adequate levels of this important, cleansing nutrient. (http://www.fluoridationfacts.com)

3) Iodine. The cells throughout the body contain special receptors that are intended for iodine, but that become occupied instead by fluoride as a result of excess fluoride exposure. As a result, the body develops iodine deficiency, which can lead to thyroid disease, infertility, mental retardation, early mortality, and a host of other illnesses. Because of this, it is important to regularly supplement with a high-quality iodine supplement such a Lugol's or Detoxadine's Nascent Atomic Iodine. (http://www.vrp.com)

"Iodine intake immediately increases the excretion of bromide, fluoride, and some heavy metals including mercury and lead," explains Dr. Mark Sircus in a recent GreenMedInfo.com article. "Bromide and fluoride are not removed by any other chelator or detoxifying technique," he adds, noting how important iodine is for fluoride detoxification. (http://www.greenmedinfo.com)

4) Coffee enemas, liver cleanses. The liver is the body's repository for toxins, which means it is another common source of fluoride toxicity. Liver cleanses, and particularly coffee enemas, are important for chelating not only fluoride, but also other toxins and heavy metals that can build up in an overburdened liver and cause disease. HealthGuardians.com has created a helpful paper on coffee enemas and how to do them, which you can access here:
http://www.healthguardians.com/pdf/THE%20COFFEE%20ENEMA%20NOW.pdf

5) Infrared sauna therapy. An increasingly popular natural method for eliminating toxins from the body, infrared sauna therapy is another approach you can take to excrete fluoride from your body. Infrared sauna therapy uses energy to penetrate bodily tissue and release bound-up toxins, which are then flushed out through the skin by resultant sweating. Among these expelled toxins are heavy metals, chemicals, viruses and pathogens, and fluoride. (http://drlwilson.com/articles/sauna_therapy.htm)

6) Vitamin C. Therapeutic doses of natural vitamin C, that is vitamin C obtained through food-based sources, is another way to flush fluoride from your system, especially when taken alongside non-GM (genetically-modified) soy or sunflower lecithin. Some of the best sources of natural vitamin C include camu camu berry and acerola cherry, and to a lesser extent citrus fruits, berries, and green vegetables. (http://drlwilson.com/articles/sauna_therapy.htm)

You can also try making liposomal encapsulated vitamin C, which delivers mega-doses of bioavailable vitamin C directly into the bloodstream for maximum benefits. (http://www.naturalnews.com/034591_vitamin_C_mega-dose_healing.html)

7) Fulvic acid. Naturally produced by soil-based microorganisms for the purpose of making minerals and other nutrients assimilable by plants, fulvic acid is one of nature's most powerful organic electrolytes. Fulvic acid works to achieve and maintain an appropriate chemical balance in cells, which includes ridding them of fluoride and other toxins. One of the most powerful free radical scavengers and antioxidants known to man, fulvic acid will not only help eliminate internal fluorides, but also replace them with trace minerals and other nutrients. (http://www.supremefulvic.com/documents/html/fulvic_acid.php)

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

A recently-published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.
In a 32-page report that can be downloaded free of charge from Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers said:

A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) concluded that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory ...
To summarize the available literature, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies on increased fluoride exposure in drinking water and neurodevelopmental delays. We specifically targeted studies carried out in rural China that have not been widely disseminated, thus complementing the studies that have been included in previous reviews and risk assessment reports ...

Findings from our meta-analyses of 27 studies published over 22 years suggest an inverse association between high fluoride exposure and children's intelligence ... The results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant that affects brain development at exposures much below those that can cause toxicity in adults ...

Serum-fluoride concentrations associated with high intakes from drinking-water may exceed 1 mg/L, or 50 Smol/L, thus more than 1000-times the levels of some other neurotoxicants that cause neurodevelopmental damage. Supporting the plausibility of our findings, rats exposed to 1 ppm (50 Smol/L) of water-fluoride for one year showed morphological alterations in the brain and increased levels of aluminum in brain tissue compared with controls ...
In conclusion, our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children's neurodevelopment. Future research should formally evaluate dose-response relations based on individual-level measures of exposure over time, including more precise prenatal exposure assessment and more extensive standardized measures of neurobehavioral performance, in addition to improving assessment and control of potential confounders.

Studies Have Repeatedly Linked Fluoride to Reduced IQ and Brain Damage
There are so many scientific studies showing the direct, toxic effects of fluoride on your body, it's truly remarkable that it's NOT considered a scientific consensus by now. Despite the evidence against it, fluoride is still added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies. 

It amazes me that the medical (and dental) communities are so stubbornly resistant to connect the dots when it comes to the skyrocketing increase of cognitive decline in adults and behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD, depression and learning disabilities of all kinds). In fact, there have been more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage. Fluoride can also increase manganese absorption, compounding problems, since manganese in drinking water has also been linked to lower IQ in children. 

Reported effects of fluoride on your brain include:
• Reduction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
• Damage to your hippocampus
• Formation of beta-amyloid plaques (the classic brain abnormality in Alzheimer's disease)
• Reduction in lipid content
• Damage to purkinje cells
• Exacerbation of lesions induced by iodine deficiency
• Impaired antioxidant defense systems
• Increased uptake of aluminum
• Accumulation of fluoride in your pineal gland
Six Facts You Need to Know About Water Fluoridation

Harmful Effects Have Been Known for Half a Century
What is perhaps most surprising is that the harmful effects of fluoride have been known by conventional medical organizations for over half a century. For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated in their Sept. 18, 1943 issue that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes. And, an editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Association on Oct. 1, 1944, stated:

Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for good.

Part of the problem is that it's an accumulative toxin that, over time, can lead to significant health problems that are not immediately linked to fluoride over-exposure. In a 2005 paper entitled "Fluoride -- A Modern Toxic Waste," Lita Lee, Ph.D. writes:

Yiamouyiannis' book, Fluoride, The Aging Factor, documents the cumulative effect of tissue damage by fluoride, commonly seen as aging (collagen damage), skin rashes and acne, gastrointestinal disorders, and many other conditions, including osteoporosis. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and the Safe Water Foundation reported that 30,000 to 50,000 excess deaths occur in the United States each year in areas in which the water contains only one ppm fluoride ...
Fluoride suppresses the immune system: Fluoride inhibits the movement of white blood cells by 70 percent, thereby decreasing their ability to reach their target. Yiamouyiannis cites 15 references in his pamphlet, Lifesavers Guide to Fluoridation, that document immunosuppressive effects of as little as 10 percent of the amount of fluoride used in fluoridated water ... Immunosuppressive effects run the gamut, from a cold that won't go away to increased risk of cancer and other infectious diseases.

Studies have shown that fluoride toxicity can lead to a wide variety of health problems, including:
• Increased lead absorption
• Disrupts synthesis of collagen
• Hyperactivity and/or lethargy
• Muscle disorders
• Thyroid disease
• Arthritis
• Dementia
• Bone fractures
• Lowered thyroid function
• Bone cancer (osteosarcoma)
• Inactivates 62 enzymes and inhibits more than 100
• Inhibited formation of antibodies
• Genetic damage and cell death
• Increased tumor and cancer rate
• Disrupted immune system
• Damaged sperm and increased infertility

Suppressed Science: Fluoride Link to Cancer
Long-lost research linking fluoride to cancer has resurfaced in a Dutch film clip featuring Dr. Dean Burk, who in 1937 cofounded the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and headed its cytochemistry department for more than 30 years. In the taped interview, he equates water fluoridation to "public murder," referring to a study that had been done on the 10 largest U.S. cities with fluoridation compared to the 10 largest without it. The study demonstrated that deaths from cancer abruptly rose in as little as a year or two after fluoridation began. This and other studies linking fluoride to cancer were government-ordered but were quickly buried once fluoride was found to be linked to dramatic increases in cancer.

Grounding - Earthing

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By Dr. Mercola

Dr. James Oschman is an expert in the field of energy medicine, with a Bachelor's Degree in Biophysics and a PhD in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.

As an author of a number of books, he is widely recognized as an authority in the biophysics of energy medicine. In this interview he discusses the practice of "earthing," or grounding.

Every modern school of alternative medicine talks about "energy," although they may use a variety of words to describe it. But what is this fundamental "energy" you keep hearing about?

As Dr. Oschman went about to investigate, he found there is very good science that can help demystify this nebulous term. He wrote a number of articles for a journal published by Churchill Livingstone on the subject, and after some encouragement from the publisher, those articles eventually resulted in two books: Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basisⁱ, and Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performanceⁱⁱ.

Dr. Oschman was also introduced to earthing, or grounding, and his research in this area has turned up some very interesting and compelling information about how the energy from the Earth can help you live a healthier life. He has recently written the Foreword for a new book by Clinton Ober, Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra and M. Zucker, entitled Earthing: the most important health discovery ever?ⁱⁱⁱ published in 2010 (Basic Health Publications, Inc., Laguna Beach, CA.).
If you're like most people, you probably wear shoes with rubber or plastic soles for the better part of each day. Read on to learn why shoes might be one of the banes of modern existence.

The Emergence of "Earthing"

The concept of earthing, also known as grounding, was initially developed by Clint Ober. Stated in the simplest terms possible, earthing is simply walking barefoot; grounding your body to the Earth. Oschman was introduced to Ober via Jeff Spencer, the chiropractor for Lance Armstrong's cycling team and an expert in treating professional athletes. 

"When Clint described the earthing phenomenon to Jeff, Jeff immediately called me and had me fly out to California to meet Clint and talk about what kind of research could be done to find out what is going on," Oschman explains.

"People have known for a long time that walking barefoot feels good. There are places in the world like Germany and Austria and Switzerland with communities where there is a tradition of getting up in the morning and going barefoot."

My own introduction to the concept of earthing was also through Jeff Spencer, some five or six years ago. I found it very intriguing, although I initially approached it with some skepticism. As you will soon see, it's a simple concept—to some it may appear too simple.

Fortunately, Dr. Oschman is now able to provide the scientific groundwork for understanding what actually occurs. In fact, his team has now published about a dozen papers on this topic.

What Happens to You When You Walk Barefoot?

Your skin in general is a very good conductor. You can connect any part of your skin to the Earth, but if you compare various parts there is one that is especially potent, and that's right in the middle of the ball of your foot; a point known to acupuncturists as Kidney 1 (K1). It's a well-known point that conductively connects to all of the acupuncture meridians and essentially connects to every nook and cranny of your body. Interestingly, grounding—or rather the lack thereof—has a lot to do with the rise of modern diseases.
How is this?

Well, Dr. Oschman's research into grounding has led him to better understand inflammation. I've discussed before, chronic inflammation is a primary cause of virtually all disease, from diabetes to cancer. And by looking at what happens during grounding, the answer to why chronic inflammation is so prevalent, and what is needed to prevent it, is becoming better understood.
When you're grounded there's a transfer of free electrons from the Earth into your body. And these free electrons are probably the most potent antioxidants known to man.

These antioxidants are responsible for the clinical observations from grounding experiments, such as:

• Beneficial changes in heart rate
• Decreased skin resistance
• Decreased levels of inflammation

To better understand the science behind what happens during grounding and how it impacts the inflammatory response, Dr. Oschman begins by explaining what happens when you experience an injury.

"Even the slightest bump, if you bump the door, your immune system immediately responds by sending white blood cells (neutrophils) to the place of injury…

The neutrophils secrete a Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)… called free radicals, in what's referred to as an oxidative burst... These are like Pac-Man. They are very important molecules that tear things apart. If bacteria have gotten through your skin, these free radicals will destroy the bacteria very quickly. If you have damaged cells, the free radicals will break them apart so that there is a space for healthy cells to move in and repair the tissues.
That's known as the inflammatory response.

What we have discovered that is truly profound is this: we now understand why you get the inflammatory response, which has five characteristics: pain, redness, heat, loss of range of motion, and swelling. All of those are the five hallmarks of inflammation and it turns out that that doesn't have to happen.

Inflammation, which in medicine is considered an important part of the healing process, is really an artifact caused by lack of electrons in your tissues. What happens is, the neutrophils deliver the Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) to the site of injury, but in so doing, some of those free radicals can leak into the surrounding tissue and damage healthy tissue. That's what creates the inflammatory response".

Interestingly, grounding research has now discovered that if you place your feet on the ground after an injury (or on a grounded sheet, or place grounding patches on the balls of your feet), electrons will migrate into your body and spread through your tissues. Any free radicals that leak into the healthy tissue will immediately be electrically neutralized. This occurs because the electrons are negative, while the free radicals are positive, so they cancel each other out.

"So really what is happening with grounding or earthing is that you're protecting your body from -- I call it, collateral damage," Dr. Oschman says. "Damage that was not intended to take place but does take place because we have disconnected ourselves from the Earth by putting rubber and plastic on the bottoms of our shoes."

Earthing as an Anti-Aging Strategy

One of dominant theories on aging is the free radical theory, which is that aging occurs because of accumulative damage to your body caused by free radicals. You get free radicals when you have an injury or chronic inflammation, from breathing, and from the food you eat, among other things. While you don't want to completely eliminate ALL free radicals, you do want to maintain a healthy balance of antioxidant electrons in your body to ensure the damage from free radicals doesn't' get out of hand.

Earthing can help accomplish this delicate balance. There are three kinds of sub-models of the aging process caused by free radicals.

1. DNA damage and mutation due to free radical damage
2. The mitochondrial theory. Mitochondria in every cell in your body carry out oxidative metabolism and a byproduct is free radicals. Eventually the mitochondria wear out or self-destruct due to excess free radicals
3. The protein cross linking theory, which explains why you get wrinkles in your skin. The proteins stick to each other, reducing the efficiency of enzymes

"It looks to me, from my study of biophysics and cell biology, like the body is designed with a semi-conductive fabric that connects everything in the body, including inside of every cell," Dr. Oschman says.

"I refer to this system as the living matrix. Those electrons that enter the bottom of your foot can move anywhere in your body. Any place where a free radical forms, there are electrons nearby that can neutralize that free radical and prevent any of those processes: mitochondrial damage, cross linking of proteins, and mutation or genetic damage.

So the whole fabric is basically an antioxidant defense system that is in every part of our body.

We have this material called ground substance which is part of the connective tissue. It goes everywhere in the body. It's a gel material and it stores electrons. So that if you go barefoot, you will take in electrons and your body will store them, and they will be available at any point where you might have an injury, or any point where a free radical might form..."

How Grounding Affects Your Blood

Another very important discovery, and one of the most recent, is that grounding thins your blood, making it less viscous. This discovery can have a profound impact on cardiovascular disease, which is now the number one killer in the world. Virtually every aspect of cardiovascular disease has been correlated with elevated blood viscosity. Dr. Sinatra has been coaching Dr. Oschman's team in how to measure blood viscosity using a method called zeta potential. It measures the potential on your red blood cells by determining how fast they migrate in an electrical field.

It turns out that when you ground to the earth, your zeta potential quickly rises, which means your red blood cells have more charge on their surface, which forces them apart from each other. This action causes your blood to thin and flow easier. It also causes your blood pressure to drop.

Another obvious implication of this is that by repelling each other, your red blood cells are less inclined to stick together and form a clot. Blood clots don't have to be very big to form like a pulmonary embolus that would kill you instantly, so this is a significant benefit. Additionally, if your zeta potential is high, which grounding can facilitate, you not only decrease your heart disease risk but also your risk of multi-infarct dementias, where you start losing brain tissue due to micro-clotting in your brain.

The Best Surfaces for Grounding

Clearly, the simplest way to ground is to walk barefoot outside when safe to do so. But what about urban or city dwellers who are surrounded by asphalt and concrete? Can you ground on those?  And what about natural surfaces—which ones are the most effective? There are indeed significant differences between various surfaces.

The ideal location for walking barefoot is the beach, close to or in the water, as sea water is a great conductor. Your body also contains mostly water, so it creates a good connection.

A close second would be a grassy area, especially if it's covered with dew, which is what you'd find if you walk early in the morning. According to Dr. Oschman, concrete is a good conductor as long as it hasn't been sealed. Painted concrete does not allow electrons to pass through very well. Materials like asphalt, wood, and typical insulators like plastic or the soles of your shoes, will not allow electrons to pass through and are not suitable for barefoot grounding.

Why Living in a High-Rise Could be Detrimental to Your Health

Additionally, there's a major difference between standing outside in your bare feet and standing outside in shoes. And, how high up you are, off the surface of the Earth, without being grounded also matters. Why is this?
Dr. Oschman explains:

"The Earth's surface is electrically charged and can push electrons up in your body. So from the top of your head to the Earth, there is a potential, which you don't feel because it doesn't cause any any particular current to flow, even though it can be a couple of hundred volts. If it did, it would give you a shock.

What happens is when the weather changes is that the potential can go up enormously. It can go from a hundred volts per meter to 10,000 volts per meter. That's pre lightning. We're talking about the potential that causes lightning to come to the earth. That voltage is well known and well understood…

This is the potential between the surface of the earth and the ionosphere, hundreds of miles up, which is very electrically active; charged by the solar wind, the charged particles that come from the sun. Those charged particles eventually reach the Earth by lightning and electrify the entire surface of the Earth so that anywhere you touch the Earth, there are electrons. They come originally from the sun, to the ionosphere, to the earth.
There is no lightning happening right here right now but somewhere there is lightning, a constant current flow from the ionosphere to the earth. Those are the electrons that your body needs for your immune system to function properly."

What this means is that the higher up you are, separated from the surface of the Earth, the higher this potential would be, and the worse the implications for your health if you're not grounded. For example, if you live on the 20^th floor of a high-rise and you're not grounded (using grounding technology, of course), the consequences to your health will be more significant than if you lived on the first floor. Likewise, when you wear rubber- or plastic-soled shoes, you are effectively shielding yourself from this beneficial influx of electrons from the Earth. For optimal immune function, you want these electrons to enter your body, so make sure you take your shoes off now and then!

Easy Ways to Incorporate Grounding Into Your Daily Life

Exercising barefoot outdoors is one of the most wonderful, inexpensive and powerful ways of incorporating earthing into your daily life and will also help speed up tissue repair and ease muscle pain due to strenuous exercise.

MS, Vitamin D & Viruses

http://www.DrKrupka.com Dr. Krupka gives a detailed account of how Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is affected by vitamin D levels and Viral history. This is some serious content and worth watching more than once. If you have an autoimmune disease or know someone who does, grab your pen and paper to take notes and change your life!

For the Joy of Living

One of the things I finally come to realize is how very much I like things that go FAST.  Ever notice how fast talk? Yeah, faster than that. It makes my body happy and makes my whole being  go Who-Hooooo!
I now have a new fast friend: a motorcycle.
Oh! I can hear some of you go: “Eeeeeek!” in your head. That’s perfect and that’s exactly what I will address in this video I’m sharing with you today. The reaction we have all created around some things in our life that stop us from the JOY that we could truly have.

How many points of view do you have that have nothing to do with what is actually true for you?

What’s stopping you from adding more joy to your life? Are you willing to have the intensity of joy in your life?

If you’re willing to look at this, here’s the series on going beyond judgment to create more joy in our lives:

Here’s the Tool for Today: What is it that you would do just for the joy of it, that because nobody else does it for the joy of it, you won’t even consider it or have stopped doing it? And, start doing it!

Stop Defending and Start Living

 I am back with part two of my Motorcycle Diaries... This time, we're going to dive a bit deeper into that judgment thing...

Let's start with just the word RIDING. Nice little word with a god zillion connotations...

For example, if say that "I am going to ride my motorcycle" does that create a different energy than if I say "I am going to ride my horse"? Especially if I add that I am going to "ride my white horse" ---- no even better "ride my white stallion".

Notice that those few words push one or two buttons? And create something in your mind?

However rosy and glittery or bitter and blasé that creation is----- that is judgment! And any judgment, positive or negative, stops you from knowing what is true for you and what is actually possible!

Ready to start getting out of that?

Who or what are you defending for or against that if you didn't would allow you to have all of you, as you always desired to BE?

PS. You know, I actually have a white stallion, named Gitano. :-) You can meet him in this little video if you like: 

 Have you had one of those moments when you're completely present and fully ALIVE and totally grateful? Of course. What would it be like if that was what your living looked like? Every day?

This greeting is from one of those moments for me, in the midst of a sunny California Winters Day.

I thought of you all and wanted to convey the energy of that, the space of that and a question that may, if you're willing, open up for EVEN MORE of that in your life.

Did you watch it?

Now, go and find a phone! I know I did, as soon as I got home.

What else is possible this year that has never been possible before?

The Five Steps to Changing Anything

 So here we go! Here is the third and last part of my Motorcycle Diaries, with the FIVE STEPS to actually start changing what doesn't work for you and start creating YOUR REALITY.

Yes, YOUR reality. It is actually different from almost everyone else's....

So you really should not watch this video. I mean, things could start changing. Things could get easier. You could become as different as you truly be. You could start creating the life you always desired and...your future.

That would be bad. Really bad.

Did you watch? Even though I warned you?
Yes! What else is possible now?

Here’s the tool: The Five Steps to Change Anything
1) First – Make a DEMAND
2) Next – Ask a  QUESTION
3) Third – Wave the MAGIC wand (POC & POD)
4) Now CHOOSE – and ACT! ( you have to DO something – take some action)
5) Finally, RECEIVE everything
What can inspire you today that  you haven’t ever acknowledged?
Sunny regards,
Dain

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POC and POD...whaat?

If you watched the videos on the last blog you may be wondering what that weird phrase that was is, and what it means. If you are familiar with Access Consciousness, and their clearing statement tools you will be familiar with what it's about, but if not, below is a quick explination.

This phrase is said after "garbage" so to speak comes up, any unpleasant thoughts,  feelings, judgements that arise in your mind, limiting you from your full potential.
“Right and Wrong, Good and Bad, POC and POD, All 9, Shorts, Boys and Beyonds.”

Right and Wrong, Good and Bad is shorthand for:
What’s good, perfect and correct about this?
What’s wrong, mean, vicious, terrible, bad, and awful about this?
What’s right and wrong, good and bad?

POC
Is the point of creation of the thoughts, feelings and emotions immediately preceding whatever you decided.

POD
Is the point of destruction immediately following whatever you decided. It’s like pulling the bottom card out of a house of cards. The whole thing falls down.

All 9
Stands for nine layers of crap that we're taking out. You know that somewhere in those nine layers, there’s got to be a pony because you couldn’t put that much crap in one place without having a pony in there. It’s crap that you’re generating yourself, which is the bad part. The good part is because you created it, you can change it.

Shorts
Is the short version of: What’s meaningful about this? What’s meaningless about this? What’s the punishment for this? What’s the reward for this?

Boys
Stands for nucleated spheres.  Have you ever been told you have to peel the layers of the onion to get to the core of an issue?  Well, this is it—except it’s not an onion.  It’s an energetic structure that looks like one.   These are pre-verbal. Have you ever seen one of those kids’ bubble pipes? Blow here and you create a mass of bubbles on the other end of the pipe? As you pop one bubble it fills back in. Basically these have to do with those areas of our life where we’ve tried to change something continuously with no effect.  This is what keeps something repeating ad infinitum…

Beyonds
Are feelings or sensations you get that stop your heart, stop your breath, or stop your willingness to look at possibilities. It’s like when your business is in the red and you get another final notice and you say argh! You weren’t expecting that right now.