This one takes the cake!!

If you have ever used an ear candle, please make sure to read the entire article.


www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4790

The FDA has told 14 of the 15 known companies that manufacture ear candles to cease doing business immediately and are now regulating the candles as a medical device.

This is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

If you are as outraged as I am, please sign the petition at the bottom of the article.

We need to get this reversed.

Feeling Overwhelmed?

Keep Swimming !

Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl,
One was an optimistic soul;
But the other took the gloomy view,
"I shall drown," he cried, "and so will you."

So with a last despairing cry,
He closed his eyes and said, "Good-bye.
"But the other frog, with a merry grinSaid,
"I can't get out, but I won't give in!

I'll swim around till my strength is spent.
For having tried, I'll die content.
"Bravely he swam until it would seem
His struggles began to churn the cream.

On the top of the butter at last he stopped
And out of the bowl he happily hopped.
What is the moral? It's easily found.
If you can't get out -- keep swimming around!

-Author Unknown -

What is a Naturopath?

The term Naturopathy originated in the late 19th Century but the art had been traced back through Germany into Greece, to Hippocrates himself, and beyond. There have always been people who understood that healing will occur naturally in the human body, if it is given what it truly needs --- proper diet, pure water, fresh air, sunlight, exercise, and rest. For these people, the emphasis has not been on finding a disease and killing it, but rather on helping the body establish its own state of good health. In today’s world these people are known as naturopaths. True naturopaths recognize that allopathic health care is sometimes necessary. They also know that many people can achieve and maintain good health through the use of Naturopathy.

When determining the root cause of a client's issues, true naturopaths do not diagnose or treat disease, but instead focus on health and education. They teach clients how to create an environment that is conducive to good health, enabling their clients to make their own choices and be very proactive about their health and well-being.

Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year!

The Year of the Tiger is upon us.

Have a great time ringing in the new year.

Have your resolutions fallen by the wayside?

We didn't put any time frames on the changes we plan to make this year. Just day by day doing the best we can. Our main goal is our diet so we are using up the things that we want to eliminate (because we just can't waste) and hope to have our new "diet" phased in completely by March 1st.

We won't be following any one plan entirely but a collection of things based on our tastes and of course not making the shopping too difficult when we are unable to get to the mainland. The overview is this.

High quality protein
No starch - pasta - potatoes
No high sugar content vegetables
Phasing out coffee altogether

We plan to follow a strict pattern for a month and see how we feel. Eventually we will slowly add somethings back in to see if we notice any difference.

Not really a resolution... more like a science experiment!

Happy New Year

Well, all the hustle and bustle of the holiday's are over and hopefully everyone survived the chaos. We are lucky in that we can keep things very simple and so there isn't much in the way of stress during this time of the year.

If you have chosen to make any New Year's Resolutions I wish you all the best in keeping them!

Happy New Year!

So what about all those Christmas decorations?

With Thanksgiving just a memory it’s now time to clean the house so you can begin to decorate for Christmas. Every year at this time I have clients ask me if decorations are really clutter and can they “get in the way” of good chi? My answer is always the same. Yes and no. Way to clarify, right? Here’s how I arrived at that conclusion.

It has always been my experience that before we even take the decorations out of the closet the house gets a very thorough cleaning. In Feng Shui terms this is never a bad thing. It seems that even though cleaning isn’t my favorite thing to do, it does shift the mood in the house and that in itself will uplift the chi.

Ok, so the house is clean and the decorations are out of the closet. You start unpacking the boxes and everything just goes in the same spot it was placed in for the last 10 years. Good or bad? Well, both actually. If you like how it looks then, go ahead and keep it the same. That being said, if you are just decorating on automatic pilot then that might be a problem. If you are displaying something just because you always have and you don’t really like the item then you shouldn’t put it out. In fact if you really don’t like something you may want to get rid of it. One of the first rules of Feng Shui is to surround yourself with things you find beautiful. If you don’t like it or it doesn’t work as intended, get rid of it. Now of course there are the sentimental things and it goes without saying that everyone needs a few of those. But if you don’t like them and keep it only because it’s was your grandmothers then you may want to consider either passing it along to someone else or just leaving it in the box in the attic until one of your kids shows an interest. Don’t spend time worrying about this however because a sentimental item neatly packed in a box in the attic is not considered clutter.

Once I go through this with my clients then I am usually also asked if holiday decorating can be overdone. Absolutely! However if you take them down right after the New Year then I don’t feel as though any damage can be done that quickly. The entire Holiday season is generally very busy and with people running on high energy that usually means tons of good chi coming your way.