I invite you to walk through my morning with me. The weather has warmed up, the sun is up earlier in the morning, everything outside my window is green and growing.
My husband and I have discovered the first hours of the new day when the cool of the night is still in the air to be our favorite. The best time of day to work on our yard and garden projects.
Each morning we slip from our bed, dawn our gardening clothes and head for the back door. Once outside the cool air and bright morning sun invigorate, ensuring we will be returning each morning for another healing dose of Nature’s Vitality.
Following a good hour or two working out in the garden we collect our morning teas and head for our offices. Nothing begins the day better than time spent in the crisp morning air.
The morning is my favorite time of day. My energy is up and I have a whole day full of hours to work on my current projects. Consuming a heavy meal early in the day will make me feel sluggish and bog down my brain.
My main meal of the day is taken sometime between 1pm and 4 pm. This is what works for me. In the morning I get plenty of fluid down with my tonics and teas.
A bad bowel day can happen to anyone. Watch my video below on how to do a Vitamin C Flush. It is a quick easy way to clear the bowels when they have failed to empty for whatever reason.
Today we are going to discuss a program for clearing impacted or inflamed sinuses. This past week I realized the program I have suggested for several members over the years has never been put in writing. The Suggestions provided have worked wonderfully to clear even impacted sinuses.
The herbal supports you will need to have on hand are:
Snuff
Herbal Antibiotic
Echinacea
Bowel Cleansing Routines: LBF #1 & LBF #2
Bowel Cleansing
When the sinuses are so blocked no air can move through them it is necessary to pry them open just a bit so the herbal Snuff can be inhaled and begin its work of softening and removing the blockage from the area. Here are a couple suggestions that never fail to get that small opening into the sinuses which will enable to herbals to be inhaled into the blocked up sinus cavity.
Suggestion #1: Cut up several onions. In Cases where the blockage is not too severe the vapors from the onions will be enough to get the eyes watering, the nose running. Please do not discount this simple suggestion, it can be highly effective for a stopped up head. Once air can be pulled through the nose begin to inhale the Herbal Snuff into the Sinuses. Keep drawing it up until you can taste the bitter Goldenseal herb in the back of your throat. As the herb begins to work you will need to blow your nose several times as the backed up waste is melted from the head.
Suggestion #2: Blend Fresh Horseradish Root with Apple Cider Vinegar to an apple sauce consistency. Hold ¼ to ½ tsp between your tongue and the top of your mouth. The oils and vapors from the horseradish are an amazingly effective for opening the air ways in the sinuses. Once air can be moved through the sinuses begin inhaling the Herbal Snuff, as described in Suggestion #1, to clear the packed up waste from the sinuses cavity.
Suggestion #3: Use your Wasabi paste, (Japanese Horseradish). It is a powerful highly effective aid for opening the sinuses. A word of caution for those who have never experienced Wasabi, it can be painful for those not used to the effect. I would suggest starting slowly with a good Wasabi paste. It will not physically hurt you but the effects can be uncomfortable for those new to this type of food. Again once you are able to pull air in through your nose you can begin to inhale the Herbal Snuff into the sinus cavity.
What to expect when snorting this herbal mix into the sinuses: Some people will experience a warm feeling in the sinuses, along with watering of the eyes. Shortly after the herbal powder is pulled up into the sinuses the nose will begin to drip. To me it feels like the waste is being melted out. The hard packed waste in the cavity will begin to soften and move with the pull of gravity to be expelled through the nose. I heard the testimony of one woman who pulled ropes of hardened mucus from her nose, effectively clearing the sinuses in her head.
The Snuff can be used freely. When I have needed to clear my head I have taken the time to inhale this mixture repeatedly until my head felt clear. Please note I have never suffered from blocked sinuses beyond the effects of a bad head cold. For those working to clear impacted sinuses the herbs will need more time to do the work of softening and clearing the waste.
Additional Aids for Clearing Congestion from the Head are:
Eye Health Class
Flushing the eyes with the Eyebright Formula: this will bring good circulation to the areas surrounding the eyes as well as clear waste from the eyes themselves. With the sinuses impacted or inflamed it would not be a surprise to discover the eyes are being affected and the circulation to them is also blocked up.
Hearing Loss Routine: Following this routine as found on our Hearing Loss Info Sheet, will aid in clearing the vertigo issues that often accompany impacted sinuses. The head can also become off balance causing occasional dizziness to occur when the sinuses are full of waste. The hearing can also become affected, remember the entire head is impacted because of the large amount of waste being held in the sinuses. Clearing the waste from the ears and supporting better circulation in this area of the head will also aid in clearing the sinuses. It is all connected.
Following the Herbal Infection Routines will prove helpful in aiding the body to remove the toxic waste you will be draining from your sinuses. A good infection program would be to follow the suggestions provided in our Infection Information Sheet. Depending on how long the issues have been allowed to remain unchallenged in the body will determine how long the infection work should be continued. There will be no harm in continuing to use the Infection formulas for several weeks to several months. Let your body tell you when enough is enough.
Finding my balance has been my goal this year. Discovering what works and what will not. Since beginning the latest part of this healing journey that is my life, the personal revelations just keep coming. To quickly recap the past few years. In August 2017 I began the perfect weight loss program for me. By January 2019, my weight had dropped 220 pounds. At that point I began a new journey. I have been trying out all different types of food programs, looking for what is right for me. The balance has been found; I am finally comfortable with my food program.
I am ready to share what is working. There are so many diet books out there but one I recently came across, “How not to Diet” has validated so many of the parts that are working for me. In his book, Dr. Michael Greger MD, pulls all the research together to prove what is truth. With the science to back up my choices life have gotten much easier.
So here is what works for me.
I get on the scales twice a day, first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Knowing I will be weighing before bed encourages me not to eat in the evening.
My day begins with a trip to the walking trail or a walk on my treadmill before I eat or drink anything. After my morning workout I consume three drinks over the next hour. 4 tablespoons of Superfood in water, psyllium husk fiber in a glass of water, Hot Lemon Aid drink (1 tsp. Cayenne, ½ oz Apple Cider Vinegar, Lemon juice to taste in water)
My one meal for the day is sometime between 2pm & 4 pm
The weight watcher points program is perfect gage to keep my portions and amount of food right.
A Vegan/Vegetarian food program provides all I need. I tried adding animal products last year and it just did not work. After reading “How not to Diet” I understand why the Keto food program failed to take my weight down. I was able to maintain my weight on the Keto program but did not lose. He has a whole chapter on the Keto diet and explains exactly what it does and why it will not work.
After work in the late afternoon, when weather permits, Michael and I enjoy a walk on the local walking trail.
Food Program: No Sugar, No white flour. Using Honey, or Maple Syrup is fine. All other fruits, Veggies, grains, nuts, etc. are fine.
Finding what will work and what did not has taken two years. The emotional growth and faith in myself that I will continue to be able to make the good choices has not come easily. Along with feeling more balanced than I think I ever have I can see the weight dropping again. One day soon the final pound will fall off and I will have unwrapped the woman God created me to be.
The ability, staying power to continue on my current healing journey has been one long learning curve. I’ve learned to allow myself to relax. I’ve learned to trust myself to continue to choose well. I don’t have to be perfect only consistently moving forward. Growing into the ability to be consistently joyful knowing I deserve and am worthy of all the goodness. The need to sabotage my life is over. I can and will do this thing. I’m learning to embrace each day with all it brings. Slipping out of site behind all those layers of emotional padding is no longer where I want to be. I’m ready to take my place in the sun.
I’ve been on my current journey since the last week of August 2017, a little more than eighteen months. During the first six months I strictly water fasted three to five days each week, on the days I did consume food I kept my carbs intake to less than 15 carbs a day. The weight loss during the first six months was an amazing 140 pounds. As the weight dropped I was better able to move around but did not add any daily exercise program. Doing a strong exercise program while water fasting was beyond me at the time.
In February 2018, six months into my journey, the stress of water fasting was beginning to take an emotional toll. Food is such a big part of our lives, an enjoyable part. I missed eating. My water fasting was cut to 2 or 3 days a week which, of course, slowed my weight loss considerably. Eight months later my weight loss was at 200 pounds.
In February 2019 I began a daily exercise program. Using my treadmill to build endurance and muscle. I’ve been maintaining at 225 lbs. off since the first of the year. As of today I have decided to do a stronger program again, a push to reach my goal. Not sure where that will be yet but I feel this rest period is done. I want to be at or close to my goal by the time we take our cruise in October. I can do this!! So onward and downward.
Several weeks ago Denise, introduced me to Jun Kombucha. During a visit she offered me a sample from her jar. Explaining the great probiotic effect the drink was providing her I decided to give the stuff a test. Here is what happened and why I’m sold on this great brew.
My weight loss journey is anything but over. Since dropping 240 lbs. my new goal is to discover how best to feed this body I know have. The joy I’ve discovered in my daily exercise is reward enough for all the work that went into this project. The downside is the constant battle to stabilize my weight.
The weight watcher points program has provided the best simple guideline for the vegetarian/vegan food program I most enjoy. That said, I do best on one meal a day with fresh raw veggie snacks in the evening. Most days I eat my one meal sometime between 2 & 4pm. Even small amounts of nuts, grains, or beans will cause my weight to tick up. Keeping within my daily points dose not seem to make a difference. One of the worst offenders is beans of any kind. Even the smallest serving of beans, which I love, and my weight will bounce up.
That is how it all stood the day Denise offered me my first taste of Jun Kombucha. I was on an upswing needing to have a raw food day or two to drop the 5 pounds that had crept on over the past week. After sampling the Jun and finding it delicious Denise and I enjoyed our time together cooking in her kitchen. She put out a lovely light meal we all enjoyed. I declined her offer of a starter for the Jun kombucha not knowing how it would react in my body.
Later that afternoon I had one of the best clearing of my bowels I’d experienced in ages. It was not liquid or uncomfortable, just a healthy clearing of every bit of waste in me. That evening I used my normal amount of the LBF #1. Upon rising my regular morning movement was fantastic. Again I want to say, it was a healthy clearing of waste not the least uncomfortable. After my morning sprint on my treadmill I stepped on the scales and was floored to discover I was down 5 lbs.
My body let go of everything it had been holding, those 5 lbs. I was needing to drop to maintain were gone. I would have been on Denise’s doorstep with my cup in hand if she did not live a whole hour away. It would be the weekend again before we would be able to make a return visit. During the week even with extended effort on the treadmill, walking on the trail ect my weight still was trying to tick back up those five pounds. By Wednesday I had not choice but to do my raw food day and easily dropped back down.
Saturday we secured my SCOBY along with directions for making Jun. I’d watched a few videos online during the week so was ready to get started.
After several weeks of Jun my gut health has never been better. I even enjoyed a bowel of chili with beans and lost 1.5 lbs. the next day. This was a first for beans. My issues now are to not overeat while I experiment on the food I can now eat. I’m using about 6 oz of Jun a day. Not really sure how much I need to use but with a full cup of Honey in each jar I’m a bit careful not to overuse the stuff. It is also sooo nummy. There is a nice fizzy effect that is such a treat. The warmer weather is allowing the mix to be ready in 4 or 5 days. Denise had told me that in the colder winter months it could be 10 to 15 days to get a good brew ready.
Over the years I have use some of the most expensive probiotics on the market in an attempt to repair my gut health. One dose of Jun Kombucha proved more of a benefit that months on the probiotic capsules. Once you secure your starter SCOBY you will be on your way. I’ve seen several places online where they are selling the SCOBY. Try a Google search. Do share your experiences with me, I’d love to hear if you find the Jun as helpful.
For whatever it is worth I decided to put in writing what I have said to several of our members. Take time to be Joyful & Happy, your health depends on it.
Maintaining a healthy, infection free body means each of us must find an appropriate way to deal with all the emotional upset humanity is facing each day. Over the past few months I have had to counsel several of our female members through their first painful bladder infections. The cases of hives or other skin outbreaks is also on the rise. The reason for an increase in these issues is not a surprise. The whole body is impacted, becomes acid, when the strong negative emotions of anger, hate, or fear are allowed to flow through us. Strong negative reactions when allowed to rule the heart and mind equate to drinking poison.
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22
The impact of all this societal upset can have a powerful and hurtful effect on our physical health. An emotional gut punch, or a strong burst of anger will effectively wipe out your immune system. To state this as plainly as possible, you will have no ability to fight off any invaders that choose to enter your body. Whatever is floating around will find a welcoming home in your body.
The immune system is not the only one effected by strong negative emotional upset. For women, the hormone levels are depleted, is some cases completely wiped out. Hormonal imbalance will bring on hot flashes, irregular cycles, mood swings, ect. Abnormal weight gain can also be brought on when the body’s hormone levels are compromised.
Our reaction to the events surrounding our lives is a choice we can and should control. Choosing to surrender to anger or fear is the same as choosing to drink a glass of slow acting poison. The Father has promised to never leave or forsake His children. Rest in the truth that is His love for you. The world may fall apart but the child of the Father need never be afraid or angry. His never failing love is your protection, He has your back, front, and both sides. You are surrounded, safe, secure, all is well.
We are our choices. What makes us who we are is the choices we have made since we entered this world. The effect of our choices on our personalities and temperaments make up our character. Repeated choices become habits and habits become a character. Each time we choose to do something new and better we make it easier to make that choice again. Building new pathways in our minds enabling the new habit to come more easily each time we choose and do our new thing.
This is also how to rid ourselves of bad or useless habits. Every time the inclination surfaces to choose to do our useless or bad habits we deliberately choose to do something else. Consistently choosing to do a better thing until it is the natural inclination, what you do without thinking. You have created a new habit, become a different person.
As a friend told me years ago “You fake it till you make it.” “Put on the woman you want to be no matter our fake it feels until she is who you truly are.”
Three time in my life I have “put on the woman”, persona I wanted to become. Each time I felt like a fraud in the beginning. Acting in a way that felt foreign and uncomfortable. After a time I realized this was who I truly was all along. I was being unwrapped and revealed, becoming the woman God always intended I would be.
Trials are gifts & teachers
Life’s trials and tribulations provide us a chance to grow. No matter how much I would like to think otherwise I accept that everything touching my life is drawn to me by who I am, my attitudes and choices are a magnet for both the positive and negative events that affect my life.
I have learned to Embrace the hard times, so I can grow beyond these lessons. It is my goal to draw every bit of learning and growth from life’s trials.
It is human nature to want to blame others for the hard times, and take complete credit for the good. Truth is, the credit for both is mine. My choices, attitudes and actions effect circumstances around me creating all the events that make up my life.
I choose to look at my life through the eyes of a victor not a victim. The trials and tribulations that nipped at my heels throughout my growing years and young adult life needed to be owned and embraced. They bring with them the lessons I missed or had no opportunity to learn. It is all good, the Father allows only what I need to into my life so I can become the woman he always intended me to be.
Only life worth living is the other focused life.
The Christ centered life or Other focused life is often spoken of but until recently I had no idea what it really was. How it looked in action. At the heart level what is other focused living. Dose this mean you do not take care of yourself, allow everyone to take advantage of you. No, allowing others to treat you badly is failing to respect them or yourself. Living an other focused life is truly caring for those in your spear of influence. Understanding that unless you are in the best health, emotionally, mentally and physically you will not be able to do your best for those who rely on your care. Becoming a burden to those around you through neglect or laziness is selfishness in action. Forcing those who care for you to accept responsibility for your life. Other focused living is accepting responsibility for yourself, living in a way that allows others to be blessed by your influence. Passing through the world you leave it a bit better than it was before you entered.
There is much satisfaction and joy in knowing you have been a blessing to someone else. Holding all you have in an open hand to the Father so he is able to use you to be a blessing in the lives of others.
After achieving a major goal in my life people are constantly asking, “What did I do?” or “How did I do it?” My first reaction is to give a detailed description of what I’ve been doing. I have come to realize most are wanting to know the answer to the question “Why did I do it” What was the driving force that kept me moving forward through the long months, sticking to my goal until I am now able to view the results of the new me in my mirror.
As of the 1st of January, I’ve lost a total of 221 lbs. The changes to my life are huge. Daily chores are a joy. I’ve always been a bit of a neat-freak but was unable to physically do what my mind would want. My body gave out long before my daily chores were completed. I feel like I’m 22 years again, getting up early and moving through the house and office all day doing all the little things I had to let go for so many years. Life is a joy again.
Why did I stick to my goal, why am I still working to complete the last of this journey? The simplest answer is: Because it is making me happy. I love seeing the pride in my husbands eyes and hearing it in his voice when he speaks of my progress. We have shared the dreams I have, things we both are hoping to do now that I’m no longer handicapped by my weight. The driving reason I started this journey was because it was finally time. The past no longer has any hold over my life. I’m no longer the little girl forced to submit to the cruel, selfish, adults who should have been my protectors. People, who I now understand, were emotionally broken. It has taken many long years to get it all in prospective and let it all go. None of it was my fault, I was a child. The actions of my middle years were a consequence of the early abuse. Acting out of the pain I had yet to understand.
The more years I live the more I understand about myself and the adults who decided to take advantage of an innocent child for their own selfish pleasure. Life is all about choices, no matter what was done to me I can still choose my reaction. That choice, the choice to react is always mine. When I decided to forgive, others and myself, I earned the freedom to move on. The ability to choose to do good for myself. The inner strength to daily decide to do whatever is necessary to let the emotional padding covering my body go. The strength to stand up and live my life is now within me.
The dark winter season of my life is now over. The Spring is blooming with such beauty, all the dreams and longings of the girl I was are now before me.
Why does a God of Love allow the innocent ones to be abused and hurt? Why doesn’t the Father step in to stop the abuse of those so unable to defend themselves? For years I tried but could not resolve this question, so I accepted with Paul the Apostle that, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1Co:13:12.
As I have matured in my walk with the Father I have discovered answers that have satisfied my soul. I believe the Father has given each of us free will. We can choose to be evil if we like. We can choose to hurt others. We live in a world of sin, by allowing free choice the Father has permitted that evil, pain and suffering will exist in this world. Knowing this would have to be our Father of love also designed that our trials would be our teachers. Our biggest hurts our biggest gifts.
Trials Are Gods Tools for Refining Us. Trials are the gifts the Father allows into our lives to enable us to become more than we ever dreamed we could be. A Trial can either refine and ennoble or ruin a soul. How we accept or reject life’s trials determine the work these events will exert in our lives. I have learned that when I thank the Father for every event that touches my life I realize the gifts these events leave in their wake. I begin to understand the wisdom that allows evil to sometimes appear to be in control. I believe every act has a purpose, every intention is loving. I know that my vision is very small. I do not see the whole picture as God does.
My Gift. The Men, who came so selfishly into my young life stealing my childhood while they ripped my young soul to shreds, will have to stand before the Judgment Bar of the Almighty One and face the wrongs they have done. But for me, their acts, when filtered through the love of my Father, have become a wonderful gift.
It has taken years to grow into and open this gift. Years of confusion, and pain. Years of being misunderstood by everyone including myself. The Father alone understood the path I was walking. He continued to enable me to go the way I had to go. Throughout the years of confusion and pain he was filling me with this wonderful gift. It was being delivered to my soul piece by piece, being delivered and set up. Waiting for the time I would be able to open it up and become the woman God intended me to be.
I am still a work in progress, no one ever arrives, in this life, at a place where it can be said, “This is it, I have attained it all, I have reached as high as a human can go.” In this life as we emotionally mature and grow experiences that were once beyond our grasp become plain. We can grown into our early experiences and begin to unwrap the gifts God has ordained for our growth.
Discover & Open your Gifts. To find your gift you must have a faith filled heart. Learn to thank the Lord truly for every experience that has touched your life. If you cannot think of a blessing that has come from them just say, “For whatever good may come of them.” and mean it.
When you believe you release a power into your life that is able to transform the most devastating experience into your greatest blessing. You will be able to say honestly that you would not choose to return and change these things. That because of the gifts they carry you would choose this road again. The Father is able to make all that has touched your life good. He will give you back all that was taken and so much more besides. All he asks is that you trust him.
In my life the Father has allowed me to be stretched beyond what I believed could be endured. I have overcome it all in his strength. I am no longer afraid. I have acknowledged, and accepted my past experiences as gifts from the Father. I acknowledge and accept the affect these experiences have had in my life. My world has been blown, I am not who I was. I have found that acceptance unwraps the gift, blending all parts of me into the excellence that has become my life. I have discover that I am more.
All of heaven is just waiting for a heart to open in praise and faith. The bright morning of all your tomorrow’s is only a praise away. Open the gift you have in your hands. Open it and find all your hopes and dreams are stored safely there. You already have the gifts, now praise the Lord for the growth and wisdom they brought into your life, for the depths of hurt you found you could endure. You have been emotionally, mentally, and spiritually stretched by life’s trials and pains. Praise the Lord for the growth. You are more for having passed through the fire.
If you are still in the midst of the trial and don’t yet know the out come. Praise the Lord for the opportunity to grow that is being provided. Tell him you trust him and know if you could see and understand it all as he does you are sure you would choose this road too. He will enable you to accept the gift he is giving. He will hold your world together.
To know you are safe in the Fathers care where nothing can touch you, is to be sheltered under his wings. He calls you to his high tower to enter and be safe. To Enter you must fully believe that all things come from him. When you know this without a doubt, then you will find that you are dwelling in safety under his wings. The Evil winds may blow but you will never again be blown, you are now grounded to the Rock. “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.” Psalms:18:2
