Flower Photography

How pretty are these roses? I noticed that these pink ones last the longest. It’s also helpful to trim the stems and change the water every few days.

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It is essential to know who you are, what you are doing, and when you are doing it. To know the natural being, one must simply relax and surrender to the universal flow.

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Photo by Lily 🙂

Peaceful Sleep & Homeopathy

Herbs like Lavender, Valerian Root, Chamomile, St. John’s-wort as well as magnesium, meditation, reading a book, gentle stretching exercise- all work gently to help one relax. Homeopathy pictured below, also works really well.

Positive energy is important in the process of healing, therefore visualizations can help. For example picturing laying inside a rose and the smooth petals are blankets. The rose energy helps calm the mind and homeopathy helps with the physical symptoms. It is also important to relax in daily meditation and deep breathing for at least 20 minutes a day.

Homeopathy instructions say that you should not touch the pellets with your hands. Take it at least 15 minutes away from food and beverages. And avoid strong smells like peppermint and eucalyptus at least an hour before and after taking homeopathy. Drhomeo has good information about many types of homeopathy and how to. use it.

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How to Get Children Eating Healthy?

A lot of parents struggle because their child only eats pasta and other unhealthy things but refuses the vegetables when offered. First of all, if you offer vegetables next to a pizza, of course a child is going to fill themselves up with pizza and not have room for the salad. I believe that the main reason children refuse to eat proper food is because they are addicted to high glycemic items. Parents introduced their small child to something unhealthy and the child became addicted to it. I frequency see photos of children on their 1st birthday being fed cake. Then this addiction continues with ice cream, candy, cookies, etc. If parents started feeding a child with all kinds of starches but then later gave the child vegetables, chances are the addicted to starches and sugar child will not be interested in low glycemic foods. That is why it is crucial to not introduce a child to these “foods” because it will ruin their nervous system. However if a parent had an awakening and realized what a proper diet should be for a human being and decided to make changes, the best recommendation is to be patient and kind. There may be a period of testing and tantrums, but in the end the child will eat what you give them. This is something a nutritionist told me.

Moreover, small children do not like spicy things and they also seem to like simple things. Many children want the food to look nice, so don’t give them some weird looking food. It’s also important to detoxify yourself and your husband before conception. If an unexpected blessing happens that is fine, but if you have time to prepare it is best to quit and be free from alcohol and drugs for at least a year. Also while pregnant eating only organic fresh healthy foods that are low glycemic and drinking pure water. Pregnancy is when you are first introducing things to the baby. How can you expect the child to eat healthy when you ate cookies and processed food during pregnancy and continue to eat it in front of the baby? You are the babies greatest role model and you are an example for them. In a worse case scenario, if you need to binge on pizza and cookies because you have an eating disorder and addictions to food, don’t do it in front of your child, and when you all sit down for dinner make sure you eat healthy with them. If a child is acting disrespectful, which is usually learned from parents or teachers, or someone in the family, you need to give them a time out.

There is a science to time outs:

When a child is acting out like yelling or throwing food, get down to their level, don’t hover over them, that is intimidating for them and will create fear and resistance. Get on their level, look them in the eyes, and say in a firm and serious voice. “Please stop this behavior, use your indoor voice, hands are not for hitting, etc. This is your warning.” Giving them a warning is key. Do not give consequences to a child before the warning. You need to give them an opportunity to make a decision. If the child continues the negative behavior, do not negotiate, do not yell, and for God’s sake never hit. Pick up the child, take them by the hand and walk them over to a time out spot. It can be a step or a special designated area, away from toys and other fun things. You again get down to their level, look them in the eyes, and say in a firm voice, “I am giving you a time out because you did this or that.” And then you walk away. Do not negotiate or argue, just walk away. Set a timer. If a child is 4 give them 4 minutes time out. If a child is 7, give them 7 minutes time out. If a child gets out of their time out before the time is up, reset the timer and put them back without saying anything. Quietly walk them back to the time out spot. Do not talk to them during this time, do not reward with communication. This may take a few tries and this may take a few hours, but it gets easier and a child learns.  Once the child achieved their time out, come back, again get down to their level and repeat, “I put you in time out because of so and so. I would like an apology.” Then when the child says a genuine sorry you should hug and make up, no grudges. If a child does not want to hug right away, that is okay, give them space, but they need to say ‘I am sorry’ before you let them off the time out spot. With this technique you are teaching them positive discipline, self control, and respect that will help them greatly in their life. I learned this time out technique from a woman named Jo Frost who had a popular show called the SupperNanny. You can find episodes on youtube.

Do not give your children any processed food. It is filled with chemicals that mess up their brain and body. If you want to give them a treat, give them fruit. By teaching them the importance of proper nutrition, you will be helping them for the rest of their lives. This was not as big of an issue in past generations because processed food was not as available. Now it is everywhere. Cereals, boxed meals, candy.  Also beware, even if the box says organic does not mean it is healthy. Reading labels is key. Some products only require 70% to be organic ingredients and the rest junk. I always say, stay away from packaged food. Parents need to take charge and stop being lazy. If you don’t know how to cook, learn. It is not hard to cook. No one is asking you to roast a stuffed turkey. Making eggs and salad is easy. Keep in mind that most of our food has been hybridized and messed with for a long time, even if they say it’s organic. A real banana is tiny compared to what you see in a store. 1 or 2 fruit per day should be the maximum sugar dose. Too much sugar from fruit is also over stimulating. Many parents feed children all kinds of strange sugary foods and then stress out when a child is hyper and can’t relax. Parent’s try to bribe children by giving them something sweet and expect them to behave. You think they will listen to you when you give them so much sugar mixed in with strange artificial and synthetic ingredients?

Unhealthy diet is linked to hormone imbalance and much more. The only place somewhat beneficial place in a grocery store is the fresh produce isle. Create your simple  meals based on what they have available. Sometimes it can be zucchini, or brussels sprouts, or cauliflower. Steaming those and adding ghee or coconut oil are a good way to prepare those. Properly wash fresh raw vegetables like arugula, radishes, cucumbers, lettuce, etc., season vegetables with olive oil and fresh lime or lemon juice, and good quality salt. Make it yourself. Don’t be lazy. Avoid nitrates, preservatives, and GMOs. A healthy body is a vital instrument for spiritual evolution. Podcast clip to why it is important to wash produce and cook animal products fully. 

See more tips in this blog post called Parenting 101 

It’s important how you fuel your body and your children’s bodies. Moreover, you are voting with your dollars, so purchase things that are ethical, pure, humane, organic, and healthy. In the photo below I reused bottles to make camomile tea from fresh flowers. I got them at the farmers market but you can also grow some yourself. I love making tea with peppermint and lavender too. Yum!

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Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy

Pregnant women should protect themselves from wifi. Wear EMF absorbent crystals like Tourmaline, Shungite, Amazonite, and Sodalite. Put Shungite pyramids in corners of rooms where you spend the most time. Limit your time on a cell phone. Get a Shungite tile to place your phone on to avoid direct contact with your phone while holding it. Get an ethernet cable for your home computer. Throw away the microwave. Get or make EMF blocking curtains for your windows, especially bedroom windows. Spend more time outdoors and go on peaceful walks in nature. Get enough iodine. Check out this blog post on Iodine. Lugol’s Iodine drops are a good supplement. According to the book by Lynn Farrow called “The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Life,” studies show that pregnant women who had proper iodine levels while pregnant gave birth to healthier children with higher IQs. Here is an informative podcast with Dr. Brownstein about Iodine deficiency and benefits. 

 

Parenting 101

I watched a bunch of super nanny episodes, and many are really educational. Here are some of the common techniques:

1. Spending quality fun time with your children is key. Parenting is not only about putting food on the table and making sure they don’t get hurt, it is also about spending happy times together every day.

2. Routine is key! Also make house rules and communicate calmly what behaviors are not okay. Children need boundaries and discipline, it makes children feel safe.

3. Be an example, if you don’t want your child to yell, then you don’t yell either. Never hit a child, it is stone age ignorant discipline that causes various levels of emotional trauma depending on how the child interprets the situation. Use respectful communication and time outs to discipline and teach. 

Time- Out Technique 

-If children misbehave, first ask them to correct the behavior kindly OR refocus them on something else.

-If they ignore you and and continue the harmful behavior, give them a warning in a CALM and low voice. Also after giving the warming, ask the child “Do you understand me?”

If they continue the behavior after the warming, send them to a time out chair or a time out room, time-out-bench, time-out-step, time- out-spot, etc or put older children into the reflection room. (Before proceeding with putting them in a time out always give a child time to make a decision in between the time when you ask to stop and the warning). 

-Always follow through with your warnings. Do not argue or go into long discussions. Be stern but do not yell or act aggressively. Always stay emotionally balanced and respectful. 

-If they are 3 years old, keep them in time out for 3 minutes. If they are 8 years old, keep them in time out for 8 minutes, and so on. 

-When you put them into time-out, kneel to their level and explain to them why they are in time-out. If they come out of their time-out before the time ends, restart the time.

-When you take them out of time out, again tell them why they were sent to time out. And ask for an apology, say, “Look at me and say I’m sorry.” Always explain why you put them there.

– Hugs and kisses after time-out has been properly completed by the child. The situation is resolved for the time being, do not hold on to grudges.

-This may take many attempts but no one said raising children is fast and easy. You made a choice to have a family now invest quality time. 

By spending fun and loving quality time together and using the time-out technique properly, things will get better. There was a mom that had to spend 2 hours putting her child in time out because he was not listening. But investing 2 hours for a few weeks is well worth it in the long run. Eventually the child learns the rules and will respect you and others. Make sure you are respectful and the child will be too.

Discipline is a very important component of successful parenting. Children need and crave boundaries and loving parents who are in charge When talking to children for this technique, remember to always get down to their level and have them look you in the face.

Recap

  1. Ask for the behavior to stop
  2. Give them warning
  3. Time out with explanation
  4. Walk away (mins)
  5. Come back, repeat explanation. Get an apology.
  6. Hugs and Kisses

There is also a great book called Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child. This book has many helpful tips on how to be a kind and respectful parent to the little ones. For example, if a child makes a mistakes parents can unintentionally humiliate them by laughing at them and saying something what seems to be a harmless joke, “oh you little clumsy silly goose.” Depending on a child, one can brush it off and the other one can take it very personal. It is best not to criticize the character of a child and if discipline is needed address the negative action instead. This should be a required reading for all parents.

Gottman shares an important perspective on emotions in his book. A parent needs to help children understand what they are feeling. Time-out is good for behavior correction but not for emotional suppression. If a child is upset, a parent needs to sympathize with a child and label the emotion they are feeling. If a child is crying about a toy breaking, a parent should say something, “I bet you are feeling really sad that your favorite toy is damaged.” And maybe share a similar story when you (the parent) also felt sad in a similar situation.

Parental Responsibility 

I was recently listening to a guy on a podcast talking about his wife and how being a mom is already an intense full time job. Which is definitely true. Families that want to raise healthy high consciousness children need to have a full time mom around. Anyways, he was saying that moms have all kinds of tricks to manage little children, one major one is snacks. And here this is where the problem arises in society, which majority of parents fail to understand. No matter what type of snack you give a child, you are teaching them that every time they are upset, or restless, or impatient just give them food to calm down. It is teaching them dependency on food to manage emotions, instead of letting them feel the emotion and figure out a way to calm from within. What is worse is that children are fed with very addictive substances like sugar. Sugar comes in all forms, not just candy. It is grains, lactose in cheese, fruit, etc. Too much sugar overstimulates the nervous system. That is why later in life majority of people become dependent on other stimulants or depressants like nicotine, alcohol, etc. And in the current generation there is a new insanity where parents give children a black screen to distract them. So now children are radiated with non ionizing radiation and are addicted to the meta. Of course many of them will think it is cool to implant a chip in their brain to have the ability to turn on the coffee machine with their mind. Currently parents are turning human being into cyborgs. So basically for generations parents have been raising addicts in the name of love and distraction from something unpleasant. 

No one teaches how to be an effective parent. People have children due to some primitive urge. But when the child is born, they don’t know what to do. Instead of taking responsibility for their creation and teaching them emotional management, parents just distract children with addictive things or use aggression to control behavior. Don’t blame the politicians and corporations. To solve the majority of problems people need to look within and evaluate what they have done to contribute to this degradation of society.

The problem with outsourcing childcare

It is best for children to grow up at home with their parents not in daycare or with a nanny. The healthiest children are those who grow up with their patient and loving mothers who stay at home with her children while the father provides financially. If children are in daycare, they learn emotional regulation from other children instead of adults. The child adult ration in daycare is imbalanced and there are simply not enough adults to attend to each child and precisely teach them how to emotionally regulate. Since children do not know proper emotional regulation, learning/copying other children is not going to be the a successful way to learn emotional balance and emotional health. Moreover, it is alarming how many caretakers in daycare facilities abuse children. A smart parent would not trust anyone to raise their child, especially during the delicate years of 0 months -7 years. This a vital time when the brain is developing and registering reality. If someone in that reality is abusive, it disrupts the child’s nervous system and sets them up for a much more difficult adulthood. Unfortunately many adults are like children in adult bodies these days, because they have never learned proper emotional regulation. That is why it is important for parents to re-parent themselves, if they wish to stop the cycle of ignorance and trauma. This transmission called GrowingUP – The Root Of Mental Disorders, Addictions & Broken Relationships from Jivanmukti is beneficial to begin the journey of self healing and dissolving the cycle of ancestral trauma. 

6 Signs Someone has Low Emotional Intelligence. 

Moreover, diet is also very important in a child’s development. Society has accepted that it is normal and even necessary to feed children sugar and artificial food. Link to a perspective and tips on how to encourage children to eat healthy.The majority does not seem to realize or care about the harm such “foods” do to a child’s nervous system. That is why wise parents protect their children from the madness of mainstream society and are aware of what kind of environments the child attends. I’ve seen a mother who decided not to feed her child candy yet when she left her child with his grandmother to babysit, the grandmother (although knowing about the no candy rule) gave the child candy behind the mother’s back. Similar to if a child attends birthday parties with other children who are fed cake with damaging synthetic ingredients. Such diets promote parasitic and fungal overgrowths that lead to many diseases. Parasites are very easy to contract and many get them from unwashed produce and pets. It is nearly impossible to keep pets free of parasites and these animals transmit the parasites to humans. Almost all humans are infected with parasites and may be asymptomatic yet the damage is still quietly being done and aging accelerated. There have even been studies which argue that a combination of synthetic/heavy metals in vaccines plus parasitic infections cause autism. And now more and more children are getting diagnosed with cancer. Parasites thrive in a host that is fed sugar and grains, and the longer this continues the more established the parasites become in the body and the more difficult it becomes to get rid of them. Since sugar overstimulates the nervous system, it also creates a risk for the child to become addicted to drugs/alcohol later in life. Sugar is the first drug, and if one understands substance abuse they know that an addict eventually needs more drugs and drugs that are more potent, to sustain their need for maintaining an overstimulated nervous system, that they have been used to since early childhood. 

Raising children in the modern day is difficult for those who want to do it right, but it is possible. Jivanmukti shines a wise perspective on how the majority of mothers express their love in a video called SPIRITUAL ROLE Of A MOTHER & HEALTHY PARENTING

Thanksgiving Earth Friendly

archangel_gabriel_oc_cards_page_15_0Thanksgiving is not just a third Thursday every November. It should not be the only day we appreciate and give thanks. However, the Thanksgiving holiday is kind of like the beginning of the holiday season cheer. Light up winter with joy and sparkly lights! I think the Archangel Gabriel is teaching and/or reminding us to appreciate what we have now and stay present. Once we are in contentment we open the doors for more meaningful gifts will come. By appreciating what you already have is a great way to go. When it comes to gift giving, you can get creative with the gift wrap, (maybe a page from a magazine you no longer need) give away good quality things that you no longer need. Let someone else put them to use and appreciate  instead of these objects generating clutter in your home. Support ethical companies, keep beautiful Earth in mind, re-gift, re-use, recycle. Say Thank you.