And To Your Health

Its no secret that when I'm not writing about the tragedies of social despair or carving up against the odds love stories I have a thing with health.  It goes beyond the normal everyday oh Im going to try to eat better. I have cut foods out of my diet to cure me of heartburn and lessen my allergies. What I am going to do now is give you my top recommendations for your overall health and this is totally about consumption. So these changes you can make now without changing or adding an exercise regiment. I don't care what they say, if you are not eating the way you need to be that exercise regiment is not doing you any favors.  Health for me, like most things start with what you put in.  Literally.

Number 1: Local fruits, vegetables and natural meats

I''m not going to say go vegetarian or vegan.  Those are lifestyle choices that I know nothing about so I can't recommend beyond what I know. To aid in allergies eat local fruits and vegetables.  They usually have in their green and juicy goodness all of the natural antibodies you need to adapt to your environment.

Natural meats are becoming a scarce commodity. However they are not impossible to find. Websites like eatwild.com let you find natural game meat providers local to you. This is a definite don't knock it till you try it kind of thing.  For roughly over a year and half I ate nothing but local natural game meats and local fruits and vegetables from a fruit stand and not the grocery store and experienced some of the best overall health in my life.  While places like Whole Foods can give you a great outlet for vitamins and supplements many of the food products are overpriced and unnecessarily so. It sounds like eating this way would be expensive when it is actually more affordable than average grocery store prices for what is sometimes lesser in quality foods.

Number 2: Eat right for your blood type

This diet has been the subject of much scrutiny and disbelief. I think it is like all things, it works well for some and not for all.  We are not an exact science we are individuals.  All i know is that due to the suggestions from eat right for your blood type I removed chicken and tomatoes from my diet.  Please keep in mind that at this stage in my life I experienced terrible heartburn.  I was up to 2 to 3 Prilosecs twice a day. I removed these from my diet and perhaps three to four months later I was able to stop taking any heartburn medication and I haven't had to resume 2 years later.  With that being said no new dietary plan should be undertaken without research. . This is a good source to start with because it lists pros and cons to the system.  I say buy the book and choice for yourself.  It has improved my overall health. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/blood-type-diet/#axzz2sUz2oLAL

Number 3: The Less Prescription Drugs the better

I have this wonderful sister-in-law who like me has a far reaching concern with health.  Mostly in making sure she, my niece, nephew and brother live long healthy lives and I applaud her for it.  Because of my level of trust in her research and discernment I am recommending this blind.  I will in the near future begin to try this myself so It won't be long till I'm telling stories about how awesome it is. The product is called Young Living essential oils and it focuses on using natural remedies to cure illness. Like I said this is all about what you put in you.  People have a tendency to not recognize the potential long term effects of prescription drugs. My goal in life is to get to the point that I don't need prescription drugs anymore and this product puts you in line with a goal like that. I've read countless stories from my sister-in-law and people who have started using the oils that are no short of miraculous.  The latest being how she used them to stave off the flu from her son, my nephew. 

In her words:

As many of you know, I am very into natural healing and have been for about 6 years now. We have been able to fight and beat everything that we have caught naturally (with 2 exceptions) with no doctors visits, otc's or prescriptions in that 6 years. Everytime my kids get sick we fight it off quickly in 48 hours or less, but I always wonder what the illness really was (because we aren't going to a doctor for a diagnosis) and how long it would have taken them to recover on their own. I've had close friends and relatives say things like, "Well, maybe it wasn't really an ear infection" or "Chances are the fever was just a fluke and not really a cold." To be honest, I had my doubts as well. I knew my children were recovering quickly and LIKED to think it was because of all my alternative medicines, but couldn't be 100% without a diagnosis or a side by side comparison of some sort. 

Well, this weekend I got that comparison! My son had a playdate with a friend Friday after school and by Friday evening around 8 he was running a 101 fever, had a cough and complained of his stomach hurting. I rubbed him down with Thieves and gave him some elderberry syrup and put him to bed. He woke up in the middle of the night very hot and was coughing a lot. I put more thieves on him, set the diffuser up with more oil in his room and put him back to bed. The next day (Saturday) he was VERY lethargic, 102.8 temp, no appetite, cough, watery eyes, sneezing, dizzy......you name it. I feared it was the flu and almost felt in over my head. In the years we have treated things naturally I have not had any experiences that I thought to be the flu. I texted the mother of the child my son had played with Friday to see if he was sick and he was not......yet. I immediately mixed up a few essential oils with honey and started giving it to him every 3 hours. By 5 Saturday evening (not even 24 hours later) I was seeing some major improvement and his fever had broken. I checked on him that night in bed and he was warm again, but not burning up. As of yesterday morning he has been totally fever free and you would never know he had been so sick! I get a text yesterday morning from the little boy's mom saying he woke up with a fever, cough and nausea. Long story short, she took him to the Dr this morning because he had gotten worse and it is the FLU! All this to say we beat the freakin' flu in 24 hours!

For more information on this you can contact my sis-in-law who has become a distributor due to her belief in the product at jroccs23ataol.com

When Sandra met Charlotte

Excerpt from Sandra's Social:

“I bet you think you’re too good for me too.” Charlotte had one of those sexpot voices that was hoarse to the point that sometimes parts of words would fade out to only slightly be heard.  When she got angry or excited it would even squeak out in some places.  And always depending on her mood, slightly tinged with a Southern accent.

Sandra side-glanced her. “I don’t even know who you are”.

“Well I know who you are.  You’re one of those women that look at me, and see a fat girl.  You see a woman who isn’t worth your space.”  She began to weep. “A woman whose boyfriend you can take. That worthless piece of donkey dung, how dare he?”

“I’m sorry you’re having a rough time, but I’m not a boyfriend stealer. I do something else entirely.”

“What do you mean?” she muttered out between sobs as she patted dry her running face.

“Can I buy you a shot?”  Sandra offered out of the blue.

While they had been having their shots, Sandra in an effort to console Charlotte, had made her privy to her theory on men and love, and what she meant to do about it.  At the tender age of sixteen Sandra had already scientifically dissected the nature of every boy in a one-mile radius.  At 18 she had graduated with the knowledge of the social preoccupations of men within the country she was in.  By 21 she had entire nations of men charted and hypothesized for good measure.  Then her adventures with Athol had settled it for her.  She had to use this knowledge somehow.  They couldn’t be allowed to get away with it.

“You see Charlotte it’s very simple.”  She downed a beer.  “Men are predisposed to be cheaters.  Men are trained at a very early age to follow their instincts. Their instincts tell them to be fruitful and multiply with as many women as it takes to propagate the species.  This started thousands of years ago before technology made it unnecessary to make enough humans that nature wouldn’t just wipe out the species.”  She glanced up at the bartender, “Two more shots of Patron mon ami.  The problem is that the mental instincts and training has been continually taught because women have been placed somewhere behind cattle since the beginning of time and only what, 70, 80 years ago we actually started minding it, and doing something about it.  We are combating thousands of years of preprogramming in a span of time that it takes a life to gestate into fulfillment.  All of us girls were being told we’re equal, and we deserve the best, and not to be treated beneath cattle.  On the other side of the fence the boys are being told, ‘Don’t mind her boy, she’ll eventually realize where she belongs.’  And the training is continued.”

Charlotte gave Sandra a startled look of understanding.  “They don’t have to be jerks they’re still being taught that we’re beneath them by their fathers and grandfathers.” She toasted with Sandra, and they downed their shots of tequila.  “I never looked at it like that before.”

“Very few of us do, that’s why we’re in this situation.  We’re uninformed.  It’s in all walks of our life.  The trick is that since they can’t legally keep us in our place they find other ways to do it.  Look at our icons and superstars.  Men like Danny Devito are stars while women like Roseanne Barr are constantly trashed for not looking up to snuff.  Our American Hollywood rewards female actresses for playing whores, adulteresses, and loose women.  Think about your last 3 years of female Oscar winners. Male doctors blow off our symptoms as being ‘silly’ and label us ‘hypochondriacs’.  And guys leave decent caring women like yourself for the sake of barely literate eye candy like that whatever he left you for. Yet when a woman satisfies herself, and her sexual needs and desires she’s labeled a whore, and unfit for motherhood and marriage. The only things we are good for by the by.” She paused looking at their empty shot glasses. “Bartender, another round.” “Well I’m not gonna take it anymore. I have decided on a course of action, and it’s called W.A.R.M.”

“Warm?” She held up her shot to meet Sandra’s clank, and simultaneously down.

“Women Assisting the Reclamation of Man.  If we leave it up to them it’s never gonna happen. We have to take this one into our own hands just like we did with our equality. Not every good-looking girl is as dumb as a post.  Most of us have good heads on our shoulders, and know how to use them. If things are going to level out then this training will have to be accomplished by women, and it has to be done in a brutal, harsh, life-altering way to insure that they don’t revert as soon as the lesson is done. My idea is to gather a group of us, and we systematically start retraining men.” She glanced up, “Bartender,” pointing to their empty shot glasses, “Yo!”

“A group; like AA or something?”

“Yeah something like that I suppose.”  Sandra frowned. “I didn’t intend for it to be that big.”

“Why not?”  Charlotte’s odd blue-green eyes started to glint as her mind raced with the tequila, and the possibilities.  “How is this supposed to happen if you keep it on a small scale?  First thing we should do is get a website.”

“Charlotte, I don’t know—”

“Then we can have meetings, and when we get a membership too high for local meetings there will be seminars.”

“Charlotte, I don’t think—”

“And there has to be a fan club. You know for women who support us, but don’t have the balls to get out there and do it.”

“No fan clubs—”

“Whose gonna train all of these women?” She stared at Sandra. “It’s your ideal, so it should be you.  How does a woman reclaim a man anyway?  In a brutal and harsh fashion that is?”

Herself or Myself

I believe I wrote this when I was 18 almost 19 years old.  Young girl dealing with pain and the life she saw and what it meant to have compassion and empathy:

I heard you cryin the other night and didn’t know what to do

I felt every tear every sigh, pouring through me and rip me in two

Once again the world has turned its back on you

Once again I stand paralyzed not knowing what to do

I saw you praying the other night and decided to do the same

I didn’t know what you were asking for so I asked for mercy in your name

Hoping God hasn’t become cruel and uncaring to your pain

Hoping He still feels for you and loves you just the same

I noticed the way you walk around now with your head down

I do it now like I’ve lost something special never to be found

Keeping it up high is too hard when you’re around

Keeping it up when all I want to do is let it hang down

I know he beat you once again the other night

I didn’t see him do it but the bruises tell the story on sight

Loving him isn’t going to make it all right

Loving him won’t make him stop hitting you at night

I swear someone was saying the meanest thing about you the other day

I stopped her immediately, told her there’s no base for what you say

Telling her didn’t do one good thing for you

Telling her wasn’t the main thing you needed me to do

I understand now why you and I get along so well

I never had anyone to come to my world and make it anything but hell

Knowing you let’s me see myself clearly

Knowing you helps me to appreciate the pain I hold so dearly

I believe I know how I can help give you back your world

I have a tale on how I got mine back that would make your toes curl

Walking through hell is the only way to salvation I know

Walking away from him is like leaving the last circle of Dante’s inferno

I promised myself that you’d never be hurt again, or was that for me

I can’t seem to separate between us and decide which of us should be free

Staying together on this is important for us

Staying together is the only way we can do what we must

I decided that it was past time that this whole affair came to an end

I want you tot know that the pain has to stop so your heart can mend

Leaving your pain isn’t the answer to your question

Leaving the source of your pain is the way to your hearts protection

I need you to comprehend that this pain you must keep

I tell you it is the reminder you’ll need so this mistake you won’t repeat

Holding the pain will keep you alive as everything else goes cold

Holding the pain will be the spark to make sure you always keep fire in your soul

I stand here now before you with hope in my eyes and both hands held out

I offer you now the method in which to rid yourself of horror and doubt

Standing before you is the life that doesn’t belong to anyone else

Standing beside you is where together we will journey to find ourself.