Peace 1 day 21 Sept

Daily Affirmations

Saturday, September 1, 2007
I awake each morning to the magic of life’s gifts and blessings. I savor the sweetness of sacred time in soulful communion with Spirit and creation.

Sunday, September 2, 2007
I enter into a heightened state of awareness of the healing power of listening.

Monday, September 3, 2007
With great joy, I open to the practice of simplicity and sufficiency in my life.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
I deepen into my practice of expressing appreciation and gratitude.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I am reminded of the goodness of life by taking in daily doses of inspiration

Thursday, September 6, 2007
I joyfully let the rhythms in my body, mind and soul be unleashed. I feel the power of dynamic movement expressed everywhere in my life.

Friday, September 7, 2007
I am a transparency for divine love. Everyone I encounter and hold dear in my heart is embraced in the unconditional, unwavering love that heals.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Musings

Food Definitions for the 21st Century
Or
Atlantis Revisited

By Brit Elders

We have to alter our identification of foods and expand our
vocabulary to incorporate terms that may seem un-foodlike.
The problem is defining what these 21st century terms really
mean. Food meanings and the undercurrent emotions they illicit
are dependent on which side of the fence you are on regarding
the serious topic of genetic engineering.

GMO - If you work for Monsanto GMO means money. If you are a
normal human being GMO stands for genetically modified organism.
This is a plant or animal that has been genetically engineered.
Many industries support the development and use of GMOs while
many consumers and organizations question their safety and have
called for adequate and independent testing of GMO products.

Transgenic - Sounds fancy, huh? Often, the label GMO and the
term "transgenic" are used to refer to organisms that have
acquired novel genes from other organisms by laboratory
"gene transfer" methods... at least according to the US Department
of Agriculture. It's an organism which has a foreign gene
(a transgene) incorporated into its genome. In other words
it has something in it that Nature didn't put there.

GM - It no longer stands for the car company. It now refers
to all human-designed changes in a plant or animal, whether
done through traditional breeding or genetic engineering.
Genetically modified and genetically engineered are sometimes
used interchangeably.

GE - This GE you won't see on a TV set. This is often an
interchangeable term with the labels listed above. So when
you hear GM, GMO, or transgenic food, you need to know that
it is produced using the genetic engineering process.

Monsanto - Monsanto Company is a multinational agricultural
biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer
of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as its flagship product,
Roundup. Numerous studies have shown that glyphosate is an
endocrine disruptor. Monsanto is also by far the leading
producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed, holding 70% of a
100% market share for various crops. Agracetus, owned by Monsanto,
exclusively produces Roundup Ready soybean seed for the
commercial market.

Roundup Ready Seeds - These are seeds that have been
genetically altered. Their DNA now incorporates one of the
world's most deadly and popular herbicides. Roundup Ready
Seeds were engineered so that farmers could spray their fields
with Monsanto's Roundup and the plant would survive while
the weeds died. There are only a few tiny problems with this...
When the plant grows up every cell contains Roundup. And in
order to get the Roundup into the plant the wall of the cell
had to be broken and a carrier used so that the cell would
not reject the Roundup. Guess what they use as the carrier?
They use viruses such as e-coli as the carriers. And they top
that of with a healthy dose of antibiotics. And that goes
on to dinner tables?

BT corn - A corn plant that has been developed though
biotechnology so that the plant tissues express a protein
derived from a bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, which is
toxic to some insects but non-toxic to humans and other
mammals. But how would they know? It hasn't been tested!
A recent study from Cornell University in New York was
recently published in the science journal Nature and suggests
that pollen from Bt corn may have toxic effects on larvae of
the monarch butterfly. The caterpillar, or larval stage, of
this insect feeds on milkweed.

This and other GM foods are being carefully considered as the
source for the demise of the honeybee. Studies are underway;
no doubt the big 'Pharma' corporations that produce the GMOs
will conduct much of the 'fact based research'.

Irradiated food - There are several types of radiant energy
used to sterilize foods. Gamma irradiation is commonly used
to sterilize laboratory animal feeds. The amount of
irradiating energy is controlled to kill all microorganisms,
without affecting the quality of the food. The treat fresh
or processed foods with ionizing radiation that inactivates
biological contaminants (insects, molds, parasites, or bacteria),
rendering foods safe to consume and extending their storage
lifetime. Or so they say. Personally, I don't want people
irradiating my food with any form of energy other than Nature's.

The big problem in all of this is that you don't have a choice
of what you consume or even the knowledge of what product is a
genetically altered crop because there are no laws requiring
labels on GMOs. Congress won’t step up to the plate and demand
that we know what we consume. The FDA, EPA, USDA, and even the
Justice Department are so infiltrated with former Monsanto
employees that they should have a revolving door between those
organizations and the big biotech corporation. Bio Agriculture
is horrid under this administration, but it didn’t start there.
It goes back to Reagan and was floated by Bush/Quayle and then
by President Clinton, who spoke at the BIO conference last year
and said, "The biotech industry has a job do to."
Well, President Clinton, they are doing it... on us.

In his and other's views, biotech is critical to the survival
of the planet. I don't buy it. That's propaganda in it's
finest form, especially now with the world thinking green
and eco friendly. We are being used as laboratory rats. When
one examines the potential consequences to the health of the
planet and the health of mankind GMOs should be banned from
distribution until they have been independently tested and
shown to be safe. In fact, scientists at the FDA strongly
recommended that these studies be conducted before the altered
foods were shipped around the world. That hasn't happened.

There is one way to make certain you aren't a lab rat and
potentially damaging your health and the environment...
eat organic. Nature spent eons perfecting our food and keeping
it safe from cross contamination. In nature fish DNA didn't find
it's way into a tomato and human DNA didn't naturally occur in
rice, but they do now after the mad scientists altered DNA.
(Next time you have a tomato think about the fish you are eating,
too.)

So what is missing in this high-tech, 21st Century food chain?
How about a little tiny word with a great big meaning? God.

I don't usually editorialize in my newsletters, but I can't
help but wonder if this isn't the same thing that happened in
Atlantis when the scientists decided they were smarter than God.
We sure don't learn our lessons well and seem to have a
propensity to revisit them again and again.

As the old saying goes, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

insanity
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Musings

I'll be away for 10 days at Unicorn Camp- so activity on here will cease! enjoy flicking through old posts...and the sun shine, love Rachael

www.rachaelhertogs.co.uk

It Is Insanity

Yours is a culture that has long used physical pain as a punishment for unwanted behavior not only in children, but in adults. You actually kill people to get people to stop killing people. It is insanity to use the energy that created a problem to seek to solve the problem. It is insanity to repeat the behaviors you want to stop in order to stop them. It is insanity to model behaviors all over your society that you say you do not want your offspring to copy. And the highest insanity is pretending that none of this is happening, then wondering why your children are acting insane.

Friendship with God Neale Donald Walsch Pages 129-130

insprations
Mood:  bright
Topic: Musings

I Love You

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are [children] of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-American artist, poet, writer

$250 biscuit recipe
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Positive News!!

> Biscuit Recipe
>
> Please forward when you finish reading!
>
> A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is a VERY expensive shop; i.e. they sell a typical $8.00 t-shirt for $50.00.
>
>
> THIS IS A TRUE STORY
>
> My daughter and I had just finished lunch at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas. Because both of us are such biscuit lovers, we decided to try
> the "Neiman-Marcus cookie". It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe. The waitress said with a small frown, "I'm
> afraid not, but you can BUY the recipe." I asked how much, and she responded; "Only two fifty - it's a great deal!"
>
> I agreed to that, and told her to add it to my bill.Thirty days later, I got my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge was $285.00. I
> looked at it again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two sandwiches and about $20.00 for a scarf. At the bottom of the
> statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe-$250.00". That was outrageous!
>
>
> I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress had said it was "two fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and
> fifty dollars" by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
>
> Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money because, according to them; "What the waitress told you is not our
> problem.You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money."
>
> I explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the state of Texas. I threatened
> to report them to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office.
>
> I was basically told: Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of
> your money back"
>
> I said, OK, you've got my $250, and now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun." I told her that I was going to see to it that
> every cookie lover in the world with an e-mail account gets a $250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus... for free. She replied,
> "I wish you wouldn't do that." I said, "Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you RIPPED ME OFF!" and
> slammed down the phone.
>
> So here it is!
>
> Please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make
> another penny from this recipe!
>
> NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
>
> 2 (500 ml) cups butter
>
> 24 oz. (680 g) chocolate chips
>
> 4 (1000 ml) cups flour
>
> 2 (500 ml) cups brown sugar
>
> 2 tsp. (10 ml) (Bicarb) soda
>
> 1 tsp. (5 ml) salt
>
> 2 (500 ml) cups sugar
>
> 18 oz. (500 g) Hershey Bar (grated). (Cadbury chocolate for England)
>
> 5 (1250 ml) cups blended oatmeal
>
> 4 eggs
>
> 2 tsp. (10 ml) baking powder
>
> 2 tsp. (10 ml) vanilla
>
> 3 cups (375 ml) chopped nuts ( optional )
>
> Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
>
> Cream the butter and both sugars.
>
> Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and Bicarb (soda).
>
> Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts.
>
> Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
>
> Bake for 10 minutes at (180 °C ) 375 degrees.
>
> The above quantities make ± 112 cookies.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> PLEASE KEEP THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!

Trust in Nature
Mood:  bright
Topic: Musings
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared.
He
sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to
force its
body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any
progress.
It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no
further.

So to help the butterfly, he took a pair of scissors and snipped off
the
remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it
had a
swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the

butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would
enlarge
and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in
time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of it's life
crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was
able
to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that
the
restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get
through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the
body of
the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once
it
achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If we were
to go
through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would
not
be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

Daily Affirmations
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Positive News!!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Today I open my heart, mind and soul to the revealing presence of God. I trust that God assists me in seeing the world and others with purified senses.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Today I choose to tune into God. I know that I have within me the power to fill my world with divine melodies.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Today I look at my own life to discover the diamonds before me. I see beyond the illusion that the grass is greener somewhere else. Instead I look at my life to see the bounty of God.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Today I aim at putting into practice what I already know will serve my life. I celebrate my oneness with God.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Today I choose to love myself. I engage in activities that honor the spark of divinity that I am.

Monday, July 30, 2007
In the love of God I realize my life is blessed. I give thanks for this, and so it is.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Today I adjust my attitude to be in accord with circumstances beyond my control. I claim my freedom and do not let situations in my life overwhelm me.

Being Alone
Mood:  happy
Topic: Musings
Being Alone
A Relationship With Self

The most important relationship we have in our lives is with our selves. And even though we are the only ones who are present at every moment of our lives—from birth onward—this relationship can be the most difficult one to cultivate. This may be because society places such emphasis on the importance of being in a romantic partnership, even teaching us to set aside our own needs for the needs of another. Until we know ourselves, however, we cannot possibly choose the right relationship to support our mutual growth toward our highest potential. By allowing ourselves to be comfortable with being alone, we can become the people with whom we want to have a relationship.

Perhaps at no other time in history has it been possible for people to survive, and even thrive, while living alone. We can now support ourselves financially, socially, and emotionally without needing a spouse for survival in any of these realms. With this freedom, we can pursue our own interests and create fulfilling partnerships with friends, business partners, creative cohorts, and neighbors. Once we’ve satisfied our needs and created our support system, a mate then becomes someone with whom we can share the bounty of all we’ve created and the beauty we’ve discovered within ourselves.

As we move away from tradition and fall into more natural cycles of being in the world today, we may find that there are times where being alone nourishes us and other periods in which a partnership is best for our growth. We may need to learn to create spaces to be alone within relationships. When we can shift our expectations of our relationships with ourselves and others to opportunities for discovery, we open ourselves to forge new paths and encounter uncharted territory. Being willing to know and love ourselves, and to find what truly makes us feel deeply and strongly, gives us the advantage of being able to attract and choose the right people with whom to share ourselves, whether those relationships fall into recognizable roles or not. Choosing to enjoy being alone allows us to fully explore our most important relationship—the one with our true selves.

The Whale
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Positive News!!
The Whale

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.

She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, t he only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her .

a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed gently around --- she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate ..to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

I pass this on to you in the same spirit.