Do you know about TED? Check out ted.com for awesome, inspirational, creative, educational, enlightening videos. Why watch a sitcom, when you could listen to someone who moves you?
"TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. "
The internet isn't just for porn anymore. It is about collaborating for the greater good.
Here's the latest one I've watched. Drew Dudley on "Leading with Lollipops."
Happy exploring!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Intention and Ingestion
I find that I hold many beliefs about what I ingest. My Darling caught me in a negative one this morning: sugar suppresses my immune system. I caught the other negative one: pills make me sick.
I am sick at the moment. I've been sick for about 3 weeks now with a sinus infection. The symptoms kept changing, I kept treating them and they'd get better. Only to have another symptom appear. So finally I went to the doctor (which was a tangle of interesting coincidences) and they gave me an antibiotic.
And the antibiotic makes me sick. As I sit here, nauseous and green, I started reading about the side effects of doxycycline, the main one is nausea. I learned that for this pill, I drank the wrong liquid, with the wrong food, and my stomach doesn't like it. Crap.
My first reaction was resentful resistance. No WAY I'm taking this pill if it's going to make me sick and I don't want to get a new drug and pay more money for it. Grrrrrr.....
Then I caught myself. I am a powerful creator. I am allowed to feel well. I can use my intention to allow the antibiotic to work without harm to my stomach or the rest of my body. Time to get out of the way.
I got still and started asking my body what it needed to feel better. I started by drinking some water because water would dilute the drug in my stomach. Though I wasn't hungry, my body said that more food would help to minimize the irritation. Thinking of what would be absorbent and quick to fix, I muscle tested and came up with oatmeal as the best food to make me feel better.
No time for my fancy oatmeal, so I threw in things that didn't need to be chopped and I nuked it. Instead of the butter, I grabbed coconut oil, some cinnamon, a few craisins, and all the honey I could get out of the jar. I could've added brown sugar instead, I could've skipped the sweetness all together, but I was determined that I needed honey, though we're almost out.
I was telling him about my choices, quite proud of making healthy choices that would heal me. And he points out, "If you think so." And he's right, of course.
If I believe my oatmeal is medicinal and will make me feel better, then it will.
He tends to be of the belief that a person could eat nothing but Twinkies and thrive, if they believed that these magic Twinkies gave their body everything it needed. (The magic must be in the rocks! lol )
Whereas, my belief is that Twinkies are full of "bad stuff" (HFCS, saturated fats, preservatives, and food colorings) that will make, me, the eater of this pseudofood suffer at some point.
We have an opinion about everything that we put into our bodies, our food, drugs, vitamins, smoke, alcohol. And when we ingest things that we have a negative opinion about, we believe it affects us adversely. Which is why it would be wisest to ingest with positive intention every single time AND do regular maintenance of my shields because I don't need anyone else's negative opinions either.
I'm forgiving myself for sabotaging my healing a bit and moving forward. I'll be meditating on this, getting my head right about my treatment with antibiotics. Treating my body kindly, doing a bit of yoga to get some energy flowing, and tapping to remove & replace some beliefs that aren't serving me.
I'm intending and appreciating my return to optimal health and functioning.
And I seriously doubt that I will be eating any Twinkies!
I am sick at the moment. I've been sick for about 3 weeks now with a sinus infection. The symptoms kept changing, I kept treating them and they'd get better. Only to have another symptom appear. So finally I went to the doctor (which was a tangle of interesting coincidences) and they gave me an antibiotic.
And the antibiotic makes me sick. As I sit here, nauseous and green, I started reading about the side effects of doxycycline, the main one is nausea. I learned that for this pill, I drank the wrong liquid, with the wrong food, and my stomach doesn't like it. Crap.
My first reaction was resentful resistance. No WAY I'm taking this pill if it's going to make me sick and I don't want to get a new drug and pay more money for it. Grrrrrr.....
Then I caught myself. I am a powerful creator. I am allowed to feel well. I can use my intention to allow the antibiotic to work without harm to my stomach or the rest of my body. Time to get out of the way.
I got still and started asking my body what it needed to feel better. I started by drinking some water because water would dilute the drug in my stomach. Though I wasn't hungry, my body said that more food would help to minimize the irritation. Thinking of what would be absorbent and quick to fix, I muscle tested and came up with oatmeal as the best food to make me feel better.
No time for my fancy oatmeal, so I threw in things that didn't need to be chopped and I nuked it. Instead of the butter, I grabbed coconut oil, some cinnamon, a few craisins, and all the honey I could get out of the jar. I could've added brown sugar instead, I could've skipped the sweetness all together, but I was determined that I needed honey, though we're almost out.
I was telling him about my choices, quite proud of making healthy choices that would heal me. And he points out, "If you think so." And he's right, of course.
If I believe my oatmeal is medicinal and will make me feel better, then it will.
He tends to be of the belief that a person could eat nothing but Twinkies and thrive, if they believed that these magic Twinkies gave their body everything it needed. (The magic must be in the rocks! lol )
Whereas, my belief is that Twinkies are full of "bad stuff" (HFCS, saturated fats, preservatives, and food colorings) that will make, me, the eater of this pseudofood suffer at some point.
We have an opinion about everything that we put into our bodies, our food, drugs, vitamins, smoke, alcohol. And when we ingest things that we have a negative opinion about, we believe it affects us adversely. Which is why it would be wisest to ingest with positive intention every single time AND do regular maintenance of my shields because I don't need anyone else's negative opinions either.
I'm forgiving myself for sabotaging my healing a bit and moving forward. I'll be meditating on this, getting my head right about my treatment with antibiotics. Treating my body kindly, doing a bit of yoga to get some energy flowing, and tapping to remove & replace some beliefs that aren't serving me.
I'm intending and appreciating my return to optimal health and functioning.
And I seriously doubt that I will be eating any Twinkies!
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